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Generalist Pollen-Feeding Beetles during the Mid-Cretaceous

iScience, 2020
Summary: The Cretaceous fossil record of amber provides a variety of evidence that is essential for greater understanding of early pollination strategies. Here, we describe four pieces of ca.
David Peris, Conrad C. Labandeira, Eduardo Barrón, Xavier Delclòs, Jes Rust, Bo Wang   +5 more
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An insect †Archaeopteryx: Cretaceous amber fossil elucidates the evolution of complex host detection and ovipositor mechanisms in parasitoid woodwasps (Hymenoptera: Orussoidea)

Systematic Entomology, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 630-645, July 2025.
We describe †Cretovelona orussopteryx n. gen. & sp. from Kachin amber. The fossil is examined with synchrotron scanning and integrated into an existing morphological data set for Orussoidea. This fossil parasitoid wasp displays a unique character combination demonstrating intermediate conditions in evolving the complex features employed in echo ...
Lars Vilhelmsen, Brendon E. Boudinot, Jörg U. Hammel, Hiroshi Nakamine, Shûhei Yamamoto   +4 more
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A new species of the family Praeaulacidae (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber

International audienceA new praeaulacid species, Habraulacus splendidus sp. nov., is described and illustrated based on a male specimen from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber.
Jouault, Corentin, Huang, Di-Ying
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Figure 27. Priscaleclercera kani Jiang & Li in Twenty new spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from Late Cretaceous Kachin amber (Myanmar)

, 2022
Figure 27. Priscaleclercera kani Jiang & Li, sp. nov., holotype male (IZCAS-Ar42692Fo), left palp, retrolateral view. Scale bar = 0.10 mm.Published as part of Xin, Yafei, Jiang, Tongyao, Yao, Zhiyuan & Li, Shuqiang, 2022, Twenty new spider species ...
Li, Shuqiang, Xin, Yafei, Jiang, Tongyao, Yao, Zhiyuan   +3 more
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Hodotermopsid termites from the mid-Cretaceous Hkamti and Kachin ambers (Isoptera: Hodotermopsidae)

Palaeoentomology
The past diversity of Isoptera stands in stark contrast to their extant diversity as the number of fossil termite species is relatively low. Many early-diverging families are unknown from the Cretaceous, a crucial period encompassing the origins of many extant lineages. Therefore, the study of their past diversity dynamics, leading to their present-day
MICHAEL S. ENGEL, CORENTIN JOUAULT
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Taxonomic additions to the genus †Megacoxa Brazidec et al., 2024 (Hymenoptera: Megalyridae) from Kachin amber

The extinct genus Megacoxa was recently described from Kachin amber and currently includes six formally recognized species. Despite the recent addition of three new species, additional, yet-undescribed specimens continue to be discovered in both ...
Jouault, Corentin
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Gaps in the Protection of the Reptiles of Myanmar—Threat Status, Endemism, Protected Area Coverage, and One Plan Approach Conservation 缅甸爬行动物保护中的空白——受威胁状况、稀缺性、保护区覆盖及“一体化保护计划”方法

Integrative Conservation, Volume 4, Issue 2, Page 165-187, June 2025.
Upper left: Cyrtodactylus myintkyawthurai, upper right: Hemiphyllodactylus montawaensis, and bottom left: Gyiophis salweenensis, just recently described, microendemic taxa not yet covered by any protective measures. Bottom right: Geochelone platynota offspring from Cologne Zoo, an example for successful ex situ keeping and conservation breeding of ...
Carolin Scholten, Aurelia Richter, Aung Lin, Myint Kyaw Thura, Anna Rauhaus, Lee Grismer, Thomas Ziegler, Dennis Rödder   +7 more
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Patterns of morphological evolution in the raptorial appendages of praying mantises

Insect Science, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 1061-1079, June 2025.
This study traces changes in the morphology of the forelegs across fossil and extant dictyopterans to understand their evolution from cursorial limbs to the raptorial morphologies of mantodeans. Two new mantodean specimens preserved in amber are described herein.
Alejandro Izquierdo‐López, Christine Kiesmüller, Carsten Gröhn, Joachim T. Haug, Carolin Haug, Marie K. Hörnig   +5 more
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Eocene and modern entomofauna differ—a Cretaceous‐like larva in Rovno amber

Insect Science, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 712-718, April 2025.
We report a 35 million‐year‐old lacewing larva from Ukrainian amber. This insect larva has a morphology up to now only known from 100 million‐year‐old amber. Therefore, this morphology survived more than 60 million years longer than previously assumed. Our find contradicts the common notion that the fauna 35 million years ago was already very modern.
Joachim T. Haug, Simon Linhart, Viktor Baranov, Carolin Haug   +3 more
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MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION OF LONG-LEGGED VELVET MITE LARVAE IN DEEP TIME

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia
Parasitengona, an ingroup of Trombidiformes, is characterised by a complex life cycle, in which the larval stage is parasitic on animals. Larvae of erythraeoideans or long-legged velvet mites, one ingroup of Parasitengona, parasitise euarthropodan hosts
Sofía Arce, FLORIAN BRAIG, SIMON J. LINHART, JÉHAN LE CADRE, OLYMPIA SALVAMOSER, PATRICK MÜLLER, CAROLIN HAUG, JOACHIM T. HAUG   +7 more
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