Fig. 2

Phylogenetic tree highlighting the position of the tabanid species identified in the present study compared to other sequences available on GenBank. The evolutionary history, based on the cox1 gene, was inferred using the neighbour-joining method. The evolutionary distances were computed using the Tamura-Nei method and are in units of the number of base substitutions per site. The differences in the composition bias among sequences were considered in evolutionary comparisons. The analysis involved 30 nucleotide sequences. All positions containing gaps and missing data were eliminated. There were a total of 655 positions in the final dataset