Entomologische Abhandlungen 61 (2):(2) 119–172 © Museum für Tierkunde Dresden, ISSN 0373-8981, 10.12.2003 Proceedings of the 1st Dresden Meeting on Insect Phylogeny: “Phylogenetic Relationships within the Insect Orders” (Dresden, September 19–21, 2003) Edited by KLAUS-DIETER KLASS Staatliche Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Museum für Tierkunde, Königsbrücker Landstrasse 159, 01109 Dresden, Germany [
[email protected]] Foreword KLAUS-DIETER KLASS1, NIELS PEDER KRISTENSEN2 & MATTHIAS NUSS1 1 Staatliche Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Museum für Tierkunde, Königsbrücker Landstrasse 159, 01109 Dresden, Germany [
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[email protected]] Recent years have seen remarkable progress in reconstruc- In the talks, evidence from both the morphological and the ting the phylogenetic relationships of the Insecta, based on molecular field was included according to the availability a flood of new morphological and molecular evidence and of data, and partly results from the two fields were presen- rapid development of analytical methods. Whereas the rela- ted in separate talks by speakers specialized on the evalua- tionships among the different ‘orders’ are still far from tion of the one or the other kind of data; conflicts between being robustly resolved, hypotheses about the basal relati- different data sets were indicated; and it was explained onships within a number of these ‘orders’ are now appro- which phylogenetic hypothesis is presently considered to aching maturity. Still, this is true to a very different extent have the strongest support. A particularly impressive aspect for the various orders, and it does not mean that there are no was that due to the rapid development of sequencing and longer disputes about diametrically conflicting hypotheses.