Data from: The first phylogeny of Australasian Lamiinae longhorn beetles

We used phylogenomic data and information from the beetle fossil record to
reconstruct the phylogeny and historical biogeography of Australasian
longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae) in the subfamily Lamiinae. We further
focused our study on the distribution of proposed diagnostic morphological
characters in Lamiinae, and on the phylogeny of Rhytiphora
Audinet-Serville, Australia’s most species-rich genus of longhorn beetles.
Lamiinae was monophyletic, but the majority of tribes were poly- or
paraphyletic. Within Lamiinae, we recovered four main clades, including
one clade mostly comprised of Australian endemic genera of probable
Gondwanan origin. This clade also contained taxa that dispersed from
Australia to New Zealand and experienced multiple independent instances of
wing loss. Another of the four clades contained Australian genera that
colonised the region from Asia, including Rhytiphora. The defining feature
of Rhytiphora, the setose “sex patches” on the male abdomen, was shared
with many other Asian lamiine genera recovered in the same clade. Our
results shed new light on the geographic and temporal origins of
Australian Lamiinae, revealing an unexpected mixture of both ancient
Gondwanan and recent Asian origins. Moreover, we confirmed rampant
non-monophyly at the tribal level among the Australasian genera of
Lamiinae. Based on our results, we move 17 genera into Lamiinae incertae
sedis and six genera into the tribe Ancitini Aurivillius. We also
reinstate the tribe Niphonini Pascoe for part of the Asian-Australian
Pteropliini Thomson and synonymise Achriotypa Pascoe with Rhytiphora.