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Fossil amber reveals springtails’ longstanding dispersal by social insects

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019
Background Dispersal is essential for terrestrial organisms living in disjunct habitats and constitutes a significant challenge for the evolution of wingless taxa.
Ninon Robin, Cyrille D’Haese, Phillip Barden   +2 more
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A Peculiar New Genus of Bibionomorpha (Diptera) with Brachycera-Like Modification of Antennae from Mid-Cretaceous Amber of Myanmar

Insects, 2021
A new fossil genus of Bibionidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha), Burmahesperinus gen. nov., from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, is described and illustrated (type species Burmahesperinus antennatus sp. nov., the other two species included are B. conicus sp.
Jan Ševčík, John Skartveit, Wiesław Krzemiński, Kornelia Skibińska   +3 more
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Taphonomy of pigmentary colours in fossil insects

, 2020
Extant insects are renowned for the striking colouration displayed in their cuticles. Although fossil insects are abundant and the patternings in their cuticles highly resemble those found in extant insects, these are commonly monotonal, especially in ...
Álvarez Armada, Nidia
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Fossils Shed a New Light on the Diversity and Disparity of the Family Limoniidae (Diptera, Nematocera)

Insects, 2021
A new subfamily Drinosinae (Diptera, Limoniidae) is established with two fossil genera, Drinosa and Decessia gen. nov. with one new species, Decessia podenasi gen. et sp. nov. from Cretaceous Burmese amber.
Wiesław Krzemiński, Iwona Kania-Kłosok, Ewa Krzemińska, Jan Ševčík, Agnieszka Soszyńska-Maj   +4 more
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Brood care in a 100-million-year-old scale insect

eLife, 2015
Behavior of extinct organisms can be inferred only indirectly, but occasionally rare fossils document particular behaviors directly. Brood care, a remarkable behavior promoting the survival of the next generation, has evolved independently numerous times
Bo Wang, Fangyuan Xia, Torsten Wappler, Ewa Simon, Haichun Zhang, Edmund A Jarzembowski, Jacek Szwedo   +6 more
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British fossil insects

Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 1915
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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A New Subgenus and Species of Priochirus from Mid-Cretaceous Kachin Amber (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae)

Insects, 2022
As one of the largest families of beetles (Coleoptera), the Staphylinidae (rove beetles and their relatives) are rich not only in extant species but also in a comparatively robust fossil record.
Yuan Peng, Rixin Jiang, Chao Shi, Xiaoxuan Long, Michael S. Engel, Shuo Wang   +5 more
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Diversity of the Fossil Genus Palaeoglaesum Wagner (Diptera, Psychodidae) in the Upper Cretaceous Amber of Myanmar

Insects, 2021
Cretaceous Myanmar amber is abundant in inclusions belonging to the genus Palaeoglaesum. In addition, a significant morphological diversity among representatives of Palaeoglaesum can be observed.
Kornelia Skibińska, Marzena Albrycht, Qingqing Zhang, Wojciech Giłka, Marta Zakrzewska, Wiesław Krzemiński   +5 more
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First 3D reconstruction of a forewing of a fossil Orthoptera: Interpreting the venation pattern in the smallest known cricket with a stridulatory apparatus, †Picogryllus carentonensis (Orthoptera, Grylloidea, Oecanthidae) [PDF]

Fossil Record
Fossil insects are valuable indicators of the evolutionary history of the clades to which they belong. According to their state of preservation, fossil insects are often partially described for key morphological characters, such as forewing venation in ...
Jules Ferreira, Hugo Josse, Lucas Denadai de Campos, André Nel, Laure Desutter-Grandcolas   +4 more
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Extant Genus in the Mesozoic: Paleoplatyura Meunier (Diptera: Keroplatidae) Found in the Cretaceous Amber of Myanmar

Insects, 2021
Three new species of Paleoplatyura Meunier, 1899, i.e., Paleoplatyura agnieszkae sp. nov., P. miae sp. nov., and P. magnifica sp. nov., are described and figured. The concept of the genus is briefly discussed, and its systematic position is clarified.
Jan Ševčík, Wiesław Krzemiński, Kornelia Skibińska   +2 more
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