[HTML][HTML] A remarkable new fossil species of Amplectister with peculiar hindleg modifications (Coleoptera: Histeridae): further evidence for myrmecophily in Cretaceous …

S Yamamoto, MS Caterino - Palaeoworld, 2023 - Elsevier
Myrmecophily is a phenomenon of the symbiosis of organisms that depend on various ant
(Formicidae) societies. Such interspecies associations are found in several unrelated …

Parasitic cockroaches indicate complex states of earliest proved ants

P Vršanský, L Šmídová, H Sendi, P Barna, P Mueller… - Biologia, 2019 - Springer
Myrmecophilous and termitophilous interactions likely contributed to the competitive
advantage and evolutionary success of eusocial insects, but how these commensal and …

Specialized myrmecophily at the ecological dawn of modern ants

J Parker, DA Grimaldi - Current biology, 2014 - cell.com
Myrmecophiles—species that depend on ant societies—include some of the most
morphologically and behaviorally specialized animals known [1]. Remarkable adaptive …

A Mesozoic clown beetle myrmecophile (Coleoptera: Histeridae)

YL Zhou, A Ślipiński, D Ren, J Parker - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Complex interspecies relationships are widespread among metazoans, but the evolutionary
history of these lifestyles is poorly understood. We describe a fossil beetle in 99-million-year …

Discovery of the first Onthophilus species from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Histeridae)

R Jiang, W Song, H Yang, C Shi, S Wang - Cretaceous Research, 2020 - Elsevier
For the first time, the histerid genus Onthophilus Leach, 1817 is found from the mid-
Cretaceous Burmese amber with a new species Onthophilus yingae sp. nov. The new …

[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. & …

The mid-Cretaceous †Lepiceratus Gen. nov. and the Evolution of the Relict Beetle Family Lepiceridae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Myxophaga)

P Jałoszyński, XZ Luo, JU Hammel… - Journal of Systematic …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
A newly discovered adult beetle† Lepiceratus ankylosaurus gen. & sp. nov.(mid-Cretaceous
Myanmar amber) is the first extinct member of the suborder Myxophaga to reveal fine …

[HTML][HTML] An early and mysterious histerid inquiline from Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera, Histeridae)

MS Caterino, DR Maddison - ZooKeys, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We describe a new genus and species of Histeridae from Upper Cretaceous Burmese
amber, Amplectister tenax Caterino & Maddison, gen. & sp. n. This species represents the …

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 …

Emergence of a superradiation: pselaphine rove beetles in mid‐Cretaceous amber from Myanmar and their evolutionary implications

J Parker - Systematic Entomology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Pselaphinae is an exceptionally species‐rich, globally distributed subfamily of minute rove
beetles (Staphylinidae), many of which are inquilines of social insects. Deducing the factors …