During the past 20 years, more than 1,600 species of well-preserved fossil insects, including
members of over 270 families within 24 orders, have been described from the Middle …

Abstract The northeastern Chinese Yanliao Biota (sometimes called the Daohugou Biota)
comprises numerous, frequently spectacular fossils of non‐marine organisms, occurring in …

Insect parasites and parasitoids are a major component of terrestrial food webs. For
parasitoids, categorization is whether feeding activity is located inside or outside its host, if …

Fleas (order Siphonaptera) are highly-specialized, diverse blood-feeding ectoparasites of
mammals and birds with an enigmatic evolutionary history and obscure origin. We here …

Deciphering the timing and tempo of lineage diversification of organisms has greatly
benefited from advances in Bayesian phylogenetic analyses using morphological data …

Parasites are common in many ecosystems, yet because of their nature, they do not fossilise
readily and are very rare in the geological record. This makes it challenging to study the …

Fleas are a group of highly specialized blood-feeding ectoparasites whose early
evolutionary history is poorly known [1, 2]. Although several recent discoveries have shed …

Parasites are ubiquitous in extant ecosystems and vertebrate animals often harbour rich
parasite communities. However, the geological record of parasites is extremely sparse as …

The Yanliao entomofauna, first established by Hong in 1983, refers to a Middle Jurassic
insect assemblage widely distributed in northern China. The fossil insects are primarily …

A strange wingless female parasitic wasp from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber is described
as Aptenoperissus burmanicus sp. et gen. nov. in the new family Aptenoperissidae …