Resolving the phylogenetic position of Hygrobiidae (Coleoptera: Adephaga) requires objective statistical tests and exhaustive phylogenetic methodology: a response to Cai et al. (2020)

Affiliations

• ¹ Center for Molecular Biodiversity Research, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, 53121 Bonn, Germany. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 66045 KS, USA.
• ³ Department of Entomology, SNSB-Bavarian State Collections of Zoology, 81247 Munich, Germany.
• ⁴ Department of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Institute of Biology I (Zoology), Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
• ⁵ Institut für Zoologie und Evolutionsforschung, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany.
• ⁶ Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, 53121 Bonn, Germany.