Utilization of ferns by phytophagous insects is widely considered to be less common and
less specialized compared to the phytophagous insect community feeding on angiosperms …

The Diptera are one of the four major and dominant orders of holometabolous insects whose
larval and adult stages have invaded virtually every available terrestrial and freshwater …

Insects (and their close relatives) comprise over 50% of all described species. Insects are
extremely successful animals today, and are the largest living group on Earth (Grimaldi and …

Plant–arthropod interactions are generally recognized as a major force under the
evolutionary developments in both plants and arthropods, as well as of the terrestrial …

Recent progress in beetle palaeontology has incited us to re‐address the evolutionary
history of the group. The Permian† Tshekardocoleidae had elytra that covered the posterior …

The habit of mining within leaves has evolved convergently in numerous plant-feeding
insect taxa. Many leaf-mining groups contain a large number of species with distinct feeding …

The evolutionary history of phytophagous insects and mites and of their food-plants is traced
in the conservative preferences of modern-day insects for plants. Based on UK data in the …

Insect–plant interactions are important to understanding the evolutionary mechanisms
responsible for most of the diverse plant‐feeding insects. We aggregated data on sawfly …

The insect order Hymenoptera originated during the Permian nearly 300 Mya. Ancestrally
herbivorous hymenopteran lineages today make up the paraphyletic suborder 'Symphyta' …

Dermestidae (Bostrichoidea) exploit diverse food sources including fungal mycelia, but
notably they as saprophagous, feeding on decomposing and dried flesh and keratin of …