New species and phylogenetic relationships of the spider genus Coptoprepes using morphological and sequence data (Araneae: Anyphaenidae)

To assist with the
matching of sexes in somatically similar species of Coptoprepes and in the absence of sequence data, we performed a
dual cladistic analysis as proposed by Platnick & Shadab (1978), scoring
the male and female as separate terminals in the morphological phylogenetic
dataset (named split matrix). If they
were the same species, the expectation is that they are grouped together or
nearby in the tree. Once the sexes were matched, the final matrix was composed
merging the scorings of male and female (named merge matrix).