Mycophagous rove beetles highlight diverse mushrooms in the Cretaceous [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2017 Agarics (gilled mushrooms) are rarely preserved as fossils, which has obscured their evolutionary history. Here, the authors describe new forms of agarics as well as new species of rove beetles with morphological specializations for mushroom feeding ...
Chenyang Cai +4 more
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Darwin’s legacy to rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae): A new genus and a new species, including materials collected on the Beagle’s voyage [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2014 A species of xanthopygine rove beetles is described and figured here as Darwinilus sedarisi gen. n. and sp. n. The holotype was collected by Charles Darwin in Bahía Blanca, Argentina on the Beagle’s voyage.
Stylianos Chatzimanolis
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Rove Beetles of Florida, Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)
EDIS, 2010 Revised! EENY115, a 13-page illustrated fact sheet by J. Howard Frank and Michael C. Thomas, is part of the Featured Creatures collection. It introduces the Florida representatives of this large, diverse, and important family of beetles — description ...
J. Howard Frank, Michael C. Thomas
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Evidence for social parasitism of early insect societies by Cretaceous rove beetles. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2016 The evolution of eusociality in ants and termites propelled both insect groups to their modern ecological dominance. Yet, eusociality also fostered the evolution of social parasitism—an adverse symbiosis, in which the superorganismal colonies formed by ...
Yamamoto S, Maruyama M, Parker J.
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Assessment of the DNA barcode libraries for the study of the poorly-known rove beetle (Staphylinidae) fauna of West Siberia [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2023 Staphylinidae, or rove beetles, are one of the mega-diverse and abundant families of the ground-living terrestrial arthropods that is taxonomically poorly known even in the regions adjacent to Europe where the fauna has been investigated for the longest ...
Valeria Krivosheeva +5 more
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Termite nest evolution fostered social parasitism by termitophilous rove beetles. [PDF]
Evolution, 2022 Colonies of social insects contain large amounts of resources often exploited by specialized social parasites. Although some termite species host numerous parasitic arthropod species, called termitophiles, others host none. The reason for this large variability remains unknown.
Mizumoto N, Bourguignon T, Kanao T.
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Asymmetric hindwing foldings in rove beetles. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2014 Significance Rove beetles are known to fold their wings in the most complicated and sophisticated ways that have right–left asymmetric patterns. This asymmetric folding can confer both high deployment capability and high storage efficiency, and therefore has a great deal of potential for engineering applications. However, the detailed folding
Saito K +3 more
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Rove beetles respond heterogeneously to urbanization [PDF]
Journal of Insect Conservation, 2017 Effects of urbanization on rove beetles were studied along a rural-suburban-urban forested gradient characterized by increasing human disturbance in and around Debrecen city (Hungary). Three classical and six novel hypotheses regarding the response of species to urbanization were tested.
Magura, Tibor +2 more
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Possible Fossil Larvae of Staphylinidae from Kachin Amber and a Quantitative Morphological Comparison Indicate That Rove Beetle Larvae Partly Replaced Lacewing Larvae [PDF]
InsectsThe highly diverse group of rove beetles, Staphylinidae, displays a great morphological variety across both adult and larval stages. However, due to the often cryptic habitats of their larvae, comprehensive descriptions of larval morphologies across ...
Joachim T. Haug +3 more
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Limited congruence in phylogeographic patterns observed for riverine predacious beetles sharing distribution along the mountain rivers [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Riverine predacious beetles (RPB) (Carabidae, Staphylinidae) are highly diverse and numerous elements of riverine ecosystems. Their historical and contemporary distribution and diversity are highly dependent on natural flow regimes and topography of ...
Łukasz Kajtoch +5 more
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