Niche diversity of pollinating insects plays a vital role in maintaining extant terrestrial
ecosystems. A key dimension of pollination niches refers to the insect proboscis length that …

Many insects with long-proboscid mouthparts are among the pollinators of seed plants.
Several cases of the long-proboscid pollination mode are known between fossil insects (eg …

Mid-Mesozoic kalligrammatid lacewings (Neuroptera) entered the fossil record 165 million
years ago (Ma) and disappeared 45 Ma later. Extant papilionoid butterflies (Lepidoptera) …

Despite the crucial importance of flower-visiting insects in modern ecosystems, there is little
fossil evidence on the origins of angiosperm pollination. Most reports of pollination in the …

Mesozoic long-proboscid scorpionflies (Mesopsychoidea) provide important clues to ancient
plant-pollinator interactions. Among them, the family Aneuretopsychidae is especially …

Insect pollination of flowering plants (angiosperms) is responsible for the majority of the
world's flowering plant diversity and is key to the Cretaceous radiation of angiosperms …

In the course of evolution, mutualism between pollinators and plants was likely first
developed between insects and gymnosperms, since the occurrence of long-proboscid …

Three new species of Jeholopsyche Ren, Shih et Labandeira in the family
Aneuretopsychidae, Jeholopsyche completa sp. nov., J. bella sp. nov. and J. maxima sp …

Background Fossil species that can be conclusively identified as stem-relatives of stick-and
leaf-insects (Phasmatodea) are extremely rare, especially for the Mesozoic era. This dearth …

Butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) are one of the major superradiations of insects,
comprising nearly 160,000 described extant species. As herbivores, pollinators, and prey …