Figure 3: Simplified phylogenetic tree used in independent contrast analysis.
From: The spinning apparatus of webspinners – functional-morphology, morphometrics and spinning behaviour
See Methods for details of source of branching pattern. Icons represent basic lifestyles of the seven species, whereby (at top) the tree with a white patch shows more copious, sheet-like silk domicles, the tree (second from top) with distinct white lines represents arboreal species that line crevices in the bark with silk, the combination of tree, leaves and rocks (third down) reflects an opportuntistic lifestyle of O. nigra, and finally, the ground habitats of under rocks, within leaf litter, or underground represents the two more cryptic Haploembia species. Artwork © J.S Edgerly.
