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 is one of the hallmarks of flowering plants. 1 Bees, moths, flies, and some
other pollinators evolved elongate siphonate mouthparts for sucking concealed nectar and …

Recent fossil discoveries suggest that the coevolution of insect pollinators and
gymnosperms started long before the appearance of flowering plants. One of the keys to …

One of the most important trophic interactions today is that between insects and their floral
hosts. This biotic association is believed to have been critical to the radiation of flowering …

The Mesozoic history of Lepidoptera and Trichoptera is reviewed and their phylogeny traced
back to early Mesozoic specialized Permochoristidae Mecoptera. Queensland emerges as …

Brachyphyllophagus phasma A. Rasnitsyn, gen. et sp. nov. and B. phantasus A. Rasnitsyn,
sp. nov. are described from the Upper Jurassic of Kazakhstan. They are insects of uncertain …

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 …

MOSTOVSKI, MB & MARTINEZ-DELCLOS, X. 2000. New Nemestrinoidea (Diptera:
Brachycera) from the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous of Eurasia, taxonomy and …

Morphological insect-insect mimicry is known from few Cretaceous cockroaches and a
beetle. Formicamendax vrsanskyi gen. et sp. n.(Blattaria, Alienopteridae) shows …

The great evolutionary success of angiosperms has traditionally been explained, in part, by
the partnership of these plants with insect pollinators [1–6]. The main approach to …