Illustrations of the 14 morphological characters of Ament et al. (2021) dealing with quantitative scenarios. These characters were evaluated using different coding strategies in this study. A Character 9, shape of the first flagellomere of the antenna, including the states globular, conical, and conical elongated (respectively illustrated from left to right). B Different conditions of the character 10, number of elongated setae on the foretibia (left to right, two, four and three, respectively). C Character 1, Width/length of the foremetatarsus. D Character 2, Width/length of the foretarsomere 2. E Character 4, length of the costal vein in relation to wing length, and Character 5, distance between CuA1 and M2/distance between M2 and M1. F Characters 7–8, 12–14, curvatures of the wing veins M1, M2 and CuA1 measured through morphometric analyses. G Character 3, hind femur height/length ratio. H Character 11, distribution of the basal group of strong setulae of the hind femur. Figure modified from Ament et al. (2021).