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 SITE-100 project: Site-based biodiversity genomics for species discovery, community ecology, and a global tree-of-life

X Bian, BH Garner, H Liu, AP Vogler - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Most insect communities are composed of evolutionarily diverse lineages, but detailed
phylogenetic analyses of whole communities are lacking, in particular in species-rich …

[PDF][PDF] The peril of dating beetles

EFA Toussaint, M Seidel, E Arriaga-Varela… - Systematic …, 2017 - researchgate.net
Recently, McKenna et al., 2015 (MCK15 hereafter) investigated the higher level
phylogenetic relationships of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) using the most comprehensive …

Multilevel fine-scale diversity challenges the 'cryptic species' concept

T Korshunova, B Picton, G Furfaro, P Mariottini… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract 'Cryptic'species are an emerging biological problem that is broadly discussed in the
present study. Recently, a cryptic species definition was suggested for those species which …

Untangling the evolution of soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) and the evaluation of the morphological phylogenetic signal in a soft‐bodied elateroid lineage

M Motyka, D Kusy, G Biffi, M Geiser, SV Kazantsev… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study addresses the long‐standing uncertainty about the internal classification of
soldier beetles (Elateroidea: Cantharidae). Four datasets were compiled and analysed: 66 …

Comprehensive phylogeny of the Cleroidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)

ML Gimmel, M Bocakova, NL Gunter… - Systematic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The first thorough molecular phylogeny of the superfamily Cleroidea, represented by 377
taxa, and the first with an emphasis on Trogossitidae, was undertaken. Maximum likelihood …

The hind wing of Coleoptera (Insecta): morphology, nomenclature and phylogenetic significance. Part 1. General discussion and Archostemata–Elateroidea

JF Lawrence, YL Zhou, C Lemann, B Sinclair… - Annales Zoologici, 2021 - BioOne
The hind wings of all known families and most subfamilies of Coleoptera are illustrated,
annotated and discussed utilising the terminology of Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence, with a …

Phylogenomic relationships of bioluminescent elateroids define the 'lampyroid'clade with clicking Sinopyrophoridae as its earliest member

D Kusy, JW He, SM Bybee, M Motyka… - Systematic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bioluminescence has been hypothesized as aposematic signalling, intersexual
communication and a predatory strategy, but origins and relationships among …

Mitogenomic data elucidate the phylogeny and evolution of life strategies in Dermestidae (Coleoptera)

M Motyka, D Kusy, J Háva, E Jahodářová… - Systematic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dermestidae (Bostrichoidea) exploit diverse food sources including fungal mycelia, but
notably they as saprophagous, feeding on decomposing and dried flesh and keratin of …

Habitat suitability of neotenic net‐winged beetles (Coleoptera: Lycidae) in China using combined ecological models, with implications for biological conservation

T Liu, H Liu, J Tong, Y Yang - Diversity and Distributions, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim China has dozens of well‐recognized biodiversity hotspots, but many more potential
areas have not been estimated thoroughly, which is unfavourable for biodiversity …