When a key innovation becomes redundant: Patterns, drivers and consequences of elytral reduction in Coleoptera

J Goczał, RG Beutel, ML Gimmel… - Systematic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The transformation of the fore wings into strongly sclerotized protective covers (elytra) is
considered a fundamental evolutionary innovation of the megadiverse order Coleoptera …

The second extinct microhisterid species (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Bacaniini) described from the Eocene Rovno amber using X-Ray microtomography

AV Sokolov, MV Nabozhenko, EV Sadyrin… - Historical …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The third fossil species of the tribe Bacaniini (Coleoptera, Histeridae), Bacanius caterinoi
Sokolov et Perkovsky, sp. nov., is described from the Eocene Rovno amber. Previous two …

First fossil eleusinin rove beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae: Eleusinini) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber of northern Myanmar and its evolutionary …

S Yamamoto - Palaeoworld, 2024 - Elsevier
Eleusinini is the smallest osoriine tribe, consisting of 221 species in three genera. No fossil
Eleusinini has been found until now. Here, I describe the first extinct representative of …

[PDF][PDF] Under the Cretaceous bark: Fossil evidence for the ancient origin of subcortical lifestyle of clown beetles (Coleoptera: Histeridae)

JS Pražák, M Fikáček, J Prokop… - Arthropod …, 2023 - arthropod-systematics.arphahub …
We describe three new genera and four new species of the Histeridae (Coleoptera) from the
mid-Cretaceous amber in Myanmar. Platycretus muscularis Simon Pražák & Lackner gen. & …

Facultative commensalism of gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Neoponera verenae Forel, 1922 (Formicidae: Ponerinae) nests

M Dias-Soares, IM Correia, JT Santos, JHC Delabie… - Insectes Sociaux, 2024 - Springer
Ants are a ubiquitous, diverse, and ecologically dominant group that uses different types of
substrates for nesting. These nests provide protection and food in a temperature-and …

New onthophiline fossil species (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Onthophilinae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

MS Caterino, S Yamamoto - The Coleopterists Bulletin, 2023 - BioOne
Three new species are described in the extinct Cretaceous histerid genera Phasmister
Caterino (Phasmister hkamticus Caterino and Yamamoto, new species and Phasmister …