With~ 14,000 extant species, ants are ubiquitous and of tremendous ecological importance.
They have undergone remarkable diversification throughout their evolutionary history …

Fossils provide unique opportunity to understand the tempo and mode of evolution and are
essential for modeling the history of lineage diversification. Here, we interrogate the …

Studying the historical biogeography and life history transitions from eusocial colony life to
social parasitism contributes to our understanding of the evolutionary mechanisms …

The Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) is one of the most important Cenozoic
climatic events shaping modern biodiversity, yet reconstructions of its palaeobiomes remain …

The speciose family Tenthredinidae has a scarce fossil record (Nel et al., 2022a, b), despite
recent molecular-based phylogenetic analyses suggesting a Cretaceous age for the origin …

Pristaulacus jarzembowskii sp. nov., oldest fossil of the crown group Aulacidae, is described
from the Paleocene of Menat (France). The previously oldest fossil crown-aulacid was …

The new tenthredinid Palaeocaiina menatensis gen. et sp. nov. is described and illustrated
from the Paleocene of Menat (Puy-de-Dôme, France). Although its preservation complicates …

A new species of the extinct genus Eocenostenus Cai, Clarke, Huang & Nel, 2014, is
described from the middle Paleocene (Selandian) of Menat (France). Eocenostenus vanja …

Discussion The presence of a strong elongate anterior projection and spine on fore tibia and
the venation with a simple Rs indicate that this fossil belongs to the family Bibionidae, to the …

Discussion At first glance, these small attacks would resemble to endophytic oviposition
marks of damselflies (damage type Dt100 'lenticular-ovoidal foliar scars in compact clusters …