A needle in a haystack: Mesozoic origin of parasitism in Strepsiptera revealed by first definite Cretaceous primary larva (Insecta)

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F18%3A10386230" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/18:10386230 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://peerj.com/articles/5943/" target="_blank" >https://peerj.com/articles/5943/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5943" target="_blank" >10.7717/peerj.5943</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A needle in a haystack: Mesozoic origin of parasitism in Strepsiptera revealed by first definite Cretaceous primary larva (Insecta)

Original language description

Twisted winged insects (Strepsiptera) are a highly specialized small order of parasitic insects. Whether parasitism developed at an early or late stage in the evolution of the group was unknown. Here we record and describe the first definite Mesozoic strepsipteran primary larva embedded in Burmese amber (similar to 99 million years ago). This extends the origin of parasitism back by at least similar to 50 million years, and reveals that this specialized life style has evolved in the Mesozoic or even earlier in the group. The extremely small first instar displays all diagnostic characters of strepsipteran immatures of this stage and is nearly identical with those of Mengenillidae, one of the most &quot;ancestral&quot; extant strepsipteran taxa. This demonstrates a remarkable evolutionary stasis over 100 million years. The new finding strongly weakens the case of small larvae embedded in Cretaceous amber interpreted as strepsipteran immatures. They differ in many structural features from extant strepsipteran primary larvae and are very likely parasitic beetle larvae.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10613 - Zoology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PeerJ

ISSN

2167-8359

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

November

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000452450700002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85055552780