Data from: Anchored hybrid enrichment provides new insights into the phylogeny and evolution of longhorned beetles (Cerambycidae)

Cerambycidae is a species-rich family of mostly wood-feeding (xylophagous)
beetles containing nearly 35 000 known species. The higher-level phylogeny
of Cerambycidae has never been robustly reconstructed using molecular
phylogenetic data or a comprehensive sample of higher taxa, and its
internal relationships and evolutionary history remain the subjects of
ongoing debate. We reconstructed the higher-level phylogeny of
Cerambycidae using phylogenomic data from 522 single copy nuclear genes,
generated via anchored hybrid enrichment. Our taxon sample (31
Chrysomeloidea, four outgroup taxa: two Curculionoidea and two Cucujoidea)
included exemplars of all families and 23 of 30 subfamilies of
Chrysomeloidea (18 of 19 non-chrysomelid Chrysomeloidea), with a focus on
the large family Cerambycidae. Our results reveal a monophyletic
Cerambycidae s.s. in all but one analysis, and a polyphyletic Cerambycidae
s.l. When monophyletic, Cerambycidae s.s. was sister to the family
Disteniidae. Relationships among the subfamilies of Cerambycidae s.s. were
also recovered with strong statistical support except for Cerambycinae
being made paraphyletic by Dorcasomus Audinet-Serville (Dorcasominae) in
the nucleotide (but not amino acid) trees. Most other chrysomeloid
families represented by more than one terminal taxon – Chrysomelidae,
Disteniidae, Vesperidae and Orsodacnidae – were monophyletic, but
Megalopodidae was rendered paraphyletic by Cheloderus Gray (Oxypeltidae).
Our study corroborates some relationships within Chrysomeloidea that were
previously inferred from morphological data, while also reporting several
novel relationships. The present work thus provides a robust framework for
future, more deeply taxon-sampled, phylogenetic and evolutionary studies
of the families and subfamilies of Cerambycidae s.l. and other
Chrysomeloidea.