Chemical communication is a fundamental, highly complex component of social insect
societies. Ants in particular employ a remarkable diversity of chemical signals to maintain …

Highlights•Paussus are among the most integrated parasites of social insects.•Both
immatures and adults feed on ant hemolymph and possibly via trophallaxis.•Immatures and …

The first record of the tribe Paussini Latreille is reported based on a specimen from late
Eocene Rovno amber. It is the first known close relative of the genus Eohomopterus …

A basic expectation of evolution by natural selection is that species morphologies will adapt
to their ecological niche. In social organisms, this may include selective pressure from the …

Ant-nest beetles (Paussus) are the quintessential Trojan horses of the insect world. They
hack the complex communication system of ants, allowing them to blend into the ant society …

Ants use various communication channels to regulate their social organisation. The main
channel that drives almost all the ants' activities and behaviours is the chemical one, but it is …

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

Communication in ants is based to a great extent on chemical compounds. Recognition of
intruders is primarily based on cuticular hydrocarbon (CHC) profile matching but is prone to …

Stridulatory organs in the myrmecophilous carabid beetle tribe Paussini have long been
recognized and used as a defining character of some genera and higher level taxa, however …

Ant nest beetles (P aussus L.) are ecologically fascinating and phenotypically bizarre.
Obligate myrmecophiles, P aussus have undergone extreme adaptations for life with ants …