A bonanza of Cretaceous fossils provides insights into the evolution of antennal protection in clown beetles (Coleoptera: Histeridae)
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023272%3A_____%2F24%3A10136721" target="_blank" >RIV/00023272:_____/24:10136721 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/24:10488279
Result on the web
<a href="https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/202/3/zlae137/7905239" target="_blank" >https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/202/3/zlae137/7905239</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae137" target="_blank" >10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae137</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A bonanza of Cretaceous fossils provides insights into the evolution of antennal protection in clown beetles (Coleoptera: Histeridae)
Original language description
Species in the beetle family Histeridae exhibit numerous defensive adaptations, from a generally compact and spheroid body shape to retractable tarsi, legs, heads, and antennae. Modes of antennal concealment are particularly variable, underscoring the importance of protecting these essential sensory structures. Understanding the evolution of these morphological features has been hindered by a weak understanding of the family's basal phylogeny, and corresponding patterns of niche-use and morphological evolution. Cretaceous amber fossils have been proliferating, filling in important morphological gaps right around the time of the family's explosive radiation. Here we describe 10 new species from Cretaceous Burmese ambers, six of them representing new genera: Palaeabraeus glabrus gen. nov. et sp. nov. (Abraeinae); Pseudacritus extinctus gen. nov. et sp. nov. (Abraeinae); Miculissima excavata gen. nov. et sp. nov. (unplaced); Placatister cascus gen. nov. et sp. nov. (unplaced); Cretomalus tibiodentatus gen. nov. et sp. nov. (Dendrophilinae); Prodigister tricostatus gen. nov. et sp. nov. (unplaced to subfamily); Anapleus punctulatus sp. nov. (Dendrophilinae); Pantostictus hirsutus sp. nov. (Abraeinae); Phasmister kraliceki sp. nov.; and Phasmister planatus sp. nov. (Onthophilinae). A revised phylogenetic analysis that includes these taxa supports that inquilinous forms were prevalent and diverse during the Cretaceous. These results also support the contention that pressures in these environments to protect the critically important sensory apparatus, the antenna, were strong, driving multiple origins of two of the more protective configurations among extant taxa. Some of the new genera remain unplaced to subfamily, underscoring the gaps that still remain in the early fossil record for the family, and the continued need for more comprehensive analyses of combined data from extant taxa, along with additional extinct forms that we may assume will continue to be discovered.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10616 - Entomology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA24-11498S" target="_blank" >GA24-11498S: Wings in deep time: form, structure and function in the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic insects</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
ISSN
0024-4082
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
202
Issue of the periodical within the volume
20 November 2024
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
28
Pages from-to
1-28
UT code for WoS article
001360361100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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