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Figure 12 from Simonsen and Roe (2009). Morphological scale brush character distributions within Dioryctria. A solid box indicates a unique apomorphy, while an open box represents either homoplasy or reversal. Numbers above and below the boxes represent the character and character state respectively. Relationships were determined using maximum parsimony for all available COI+II sequences. A pruned strict consensus of the phylogenetic relationships among Dioryctria species examined for scale brush morphology. Numbers above the branches indicate bootstrap supports greater than 50%.