The Mesozoic is a key era for the rise of the modern insect fauna. Among the most important
evolutionary events in Mesozoic insects are the radiation of holometabolous insects, the …

The paper overviews the fossil record of insects with long mouthparts and rostra adapted to
feeding on floral nectar and pollination drops of extinct gymnosperms. The presence of …

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 …

Simple Summary The larvae of green lacewings and brown lacewings are called
'aphidlions', as they consume aphids. They play also an economic role as biological pest …

Simple Summary The larvae of owlflies and antlions (here shortly embraced by the term
“owllions”) are ambush predators. Their mouthparts are transformed into teeth-bearing …

The Cretaceous fossil record of amber provides a variety of evidence that is essential for
greater understanding of early pollination strategies. Here, we describe four pieces of ca. 99 …

The palaeodiversity of Neuropterida was extraordinarily rich during the Cretaceous in
northern Myanmar. Owing to the sharply increased studies on the Myanmar amber …

Abstract The Early Cretaceous terrestrial revolution involved global shifts from gymnosperm‐
to angiosperm‐dominated floras. However, responses of insect herbivores to these changes …

Alienopteridae are among the most perplexing fossil insects and once conspicuous
members of Cretaceous Dictyoptera (now including cockroaches, termites and mantises) …

The Neuroptera are highly heterogeneous endopterygote insects. While their relatives
Megaloptera and Raphidioptera have biting mouthparts also in their larval stage, the larvae …