The head and mouthpart structures of 11 species of Eurasian scorpionflies represent three
extinct and closely related families during a 62-million-year interval from the late Middle …

Background Despite considerable progress in systematics, a comprehensive scenario of the
evolution of phenotypic characters in the mega-diverse Holometabola based on a solid …

We present the largest morphological character set ever compiled for Holometabola. This
was made possible through an optimized acquisition of data. Based on our analyses and …

Species tree reconstruction from genome-wide data is increasingly being attempted, in most
cases using a two-step approach of first estimating individual gene trees and then …

External and internal features of the head of adults of Merope tuber were examined and
described in detail. The results were compared to conditions found in other members of …

We analyzed patterns of complexity and simplicity in holometabolan insects using
parsimony and maximum‐likelihood. By contrast with other groups of arthropods (and most …

Holometabolous larvae are often diverse morphologically, and the driving forces for this
diversity are often not well elucidated. In this study, the larvae of two species of Panorpidae …

Published research on the diversity and evolutionary history of Arthropoda sets a high
standard for data collection and the integration of novel methods. New phylogenetic …

Characters of the thorax of 30 representatives of all endopterygote orders and four
hemimetabolous outgroup taxa were examined. In total, 126 characters potentially useful for …

We report well-preserved coprolites in the ground tissue of the permineralized stem of
Psaronius housuoensis D'Rozario et al., from the Upper Permian deposits of Yunnan …