The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution and the origins of modern biodiversity

MJ Benton, P Wilf, H Sauquet - New Phytologist, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity today has the unusual property that 85% of plant and animal species live on
land rather than in the sea, and half of these live in tropical rainforests. An explosive boost to …

Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles

C Cai, E Tihelka, M Giacomelli… - Royal Society …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Beetles constitute the most biodiverse animal order with over 380 000 described species
and possibly several million more yet unnamed. Recent phylogenomic studies have arrived …

Phylogenetic review of the tribal system of Aleocharinae, a mega‐lineage of terrestrial arthropods in need of reclassification

I Orlov, AF Newton… - Journal of Zoological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recently published molecular and total evidence phylogenies of the mega‐diverse rove
beetle subfamily Aleocharinae defined a backbone for the greatly needed further detailed …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondrial phylogenomics provides insights into the phylogeny and evolution of spiders (Arthropoda: Araneae)

M Li, WT Chen, QL Zhang, M Liu, CW Xing… - Zoological …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Spiders are among the most varied terrestrial predators, with highly diverse morphology,
ecology, and behavior. Morphological and molecular data have greatly contributed to …

Can immature stages be ignored in studies of forest leaf litter arthropod diversity? A test using Oxford Nanopore DNA barcoding

M Fikáček, FS Hu, MH Le… - Insect Conservation and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Forest soil and leaf litter support diverse arthropod mesofauna for which diversity dynamics
is challenging to study due to the high number of species and specimens, small body size …

Tachyporinae revisited: phylogeny, evolution, and higher classification based on morphology, with recognition of a new rove beetle subfamily (Coleoptera …

S Yamamoto - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The rove beetle subfamily Tachyporinae has been suggested to be
polyphyletic for the last half century but there are no previous studies conducting …

The earliest fossil record of the extant rove beetle genus Phloeocharis from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber of northern Myanmar and its biogeographic implications …

S Yamamoto, AF Newton - Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, 2023 - Elsevier
Phloeocharis Mannerheim is the largest genus within the problematic rove beetle subfamily
Phloeocharinae, with a single extinct and 44 recent species recorded from the Holarctic …

Diversification of myrmecophilous Clavigeritae beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) and their radiation in New Caledonia

P Hlavá č, J Parker, M Maruyama… - Systematic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Clavigeritae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) comprise a supertribe of
specialized myrmecophile rove beetles that display numerous behavioural, chemical and …

The hind wing of Coleoptera (Insecta): morphology, nomenclature and phylogenetic significance: Part 2. Further discussion, Histeroidea, Bostrichoidea to …

JF Lawrence, YL Zhou, C Lemann, B Sinclair… - Annales Zoologici, 2022 - BioOne
Part 2 of this work includes a review of morphological and systematic work on Histeridae
(G07, revision), Bostrichoidea (G15), Coccinelloidea (G16), Lymexyloidea+ Tenebrionoidea …