[HTML][HTML] Rosaceae, Brassicaceae and pollen beetles: exploring relationships and evolution in an anthophilous beetle lineage (Nitidulidae, Meligethes-complex of …

M Liu, M Huang, AR Cline, E Mancini, A Scaramuzzi… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - Springer
Background Meligethes are pollen-beetles associated with flowers of Rosaceae as larvae.
This genus currently consists of 63 known species in two subgenera, Meligethes and …

Morphological, genetic and host-plant diversification in pollen-beetles of the Brassicogethes coracinus group (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Meligethinae)

E Mancini, A De Biase, AR Cline, G Antonini… - Rendiconti Lincei, 2016 - Springer
The 17 known members of the mostly Western Palaearctic Brassicogethes coracinus
species group (highly specialized pollen beetles associated with flowers of Brassicaceae) …

Re-examination of the genus-level taxonomy of the pollen beetle subfamily Meligethinae–part 1. Sagittogethes Audisio & Cline 2009 and allied genera; with …

M Liu, M Huang, AR Cline, P Cardoli… - Fragmenta …, 2020 - iris.uniroma1.it
Recent molecular and morphological data derived from members of the pollen-beetle
subfamily Meligethinae suggest the need to separate the genus Sagittogethes Audisio & …

A new species of the pollen-beetle genus Meligethes (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) of the M. aeneus group from Greece, with review of the M. subaeneus complex

P Audisio, E Mancini, A de Biase - Zootaxa, 2006 - mapress.com
A morphological analysis was performed, combined with field data on insect/host-plant
associations to clarify the taxonomic scenario of the Palaearctic Meligethes subaeneus …

Discordant patterns in the genetic, ecological, and morphological diversification of a recently radiated phytophagous beetle clade (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae …

A De Biase, G Antonini, E Mancini, M Trizzino, A Cline… - Rendiconti Lincei, 2012 - Springer
Molecular analyses on the Brassicogethes coracinus species complex (pollen beetles
associated with Brassicaceae) were performed to explore genetic and ecological …

Four new Palaearctic Brassicogethes (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae, Meligethinae), and phylogenetic inference on the B. coracinus group

P Audisio, AR Cline, E Mancini, M Trizzino, SS Avgin… - Rendiconti Lincei, 2011 - Springer
Combined morphological and ecological data, together with molecular evidence from a
companion paper, are presented to clarify the taxonomic position of four problematic …

Molecular taxonomic analysis of the plant associations of adult pollen beetles (Nitidulidae: Meligethinae), and the population structure of Brassicogethes aeneus

P Ouvrard, DM Hicks, M Mouland, JA Nicholls… - …, 2016 - cdnsciencepub.com
Pollen beetles (Nitidulidae: Meligethinae) are among the most abundant flower-visiting
insects in Europe. While some species damage millions of hectares of crops annually, the …

Beetles as floral visitors in the Magnoliaceae: An evolutionary perspective

G Hernandez-Vera, JL Navarrete-Heredia… - Arthropod-Plant …, 2021 - Springer
Due to its ancient origin in the Permian and the high proportion of beetle-pollinated taxa
within ancestral magnoliid lineages, it has been hypothesized that beetles were among the …

Molecular taxonomy of two sympatric sibling species of the pollenbeetle genus Meligethes (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)

A DE BIASE, G Antonini, E Mancini, P AUDISIO - Zootaxa, 2003 - biotaxa.org
A molecular analysis was performed, combined with field data on insect/host-plant
associations, in order to clarify taxonomic relationships within the W-Palaearctic Meligethes …

A new species of Meligethes (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Meligethinae) of the M. lugubris complex from Sardinia

P Audisio, A De Biase, M Trizzino, E Mancini… - Zootaxa, 2009 - biotaxa.org
A combined morphological and bionomical analysis was performed to clarify the position of
a problematic species of the Meligethes lugubris group from Sardinia and Corsica …