Ninety million years of chasing mites by ant-like stone beetles
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DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2017.04.002
Abstract: Abstract Among insects, the largest group of the Animal Kingdom, rove beetles (Staphylinidae) have undergone an enormous adaptive radiation that resulted in over 62,000 extant species showing diverse body forms, structures and feeding specializations combining… read more here.
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Transitional fossils illuminate early evolution of the ant-like stone beetle tribe Leptomastacini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
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DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2019.1584924
Abstract: The ant-like stone beetle supertribe Mastigitae (Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) comprises nine extant and five extinct genera that exhibit unusual morphological specializations and ecological adaptions. Recent discoveries of mastigite fossils from Upper Cretaceous–middle Eocene deposits have significantly… read more here.
Keywords: stone beetle; like stone; leptomastacini; ant like ... See more keywords