Reproductive mode
The majority of the analysed populations were identified as most likely
(at least facultatively) parthenogenetic (72; 57% populations), whereas
dioecious populations added up to 13% (17 populations) and they were
scattered along all the clades. Moreover, there were two cases of
species with both dioecious and putatively parthenogenetic populations:M. eurystomum (GL.045, NO.398 and GL.043, GL.048, GL.052, GB.005,
respectively) and an undescribed species from Africa and Tanzania
(ZA.204 and TZ.075, ZA.180, ZA.218, respectively). In the remaining 38
populations (30%) where no males were found, the number of specimens
were too low to reliably assess the reproduction mode.