An Extraordinary Case of Elytra Loss in Coleoptera (Elateroidea: Lycidae): Discovery and Placement of the First Anelytrous Adult Male Beetle

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad026" target="_blank" >10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad026</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

An Extraordinary Case of Elytra Loss in Coleoptera (Elateroidea: Lycidae): Discovery and Placement of the First Anelytrous Adult Male Beetle

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Insects are one of the few groups of animals that developed the ability of active flight. Such mobility allowed the group to successfully explore and thrive in nearly all kinds of ecological niches. At the same time, during the evolutionary history of insects, due to high costs of wing development, flight was lost independently in many groups. In beetles, the reduction or complete loss of hind wings has been reported in multiple lineages, especially in several extreme paedomorphic and larviform females, mainly in Elateroidea, in which not only hind wings but also the elytra are lost. However, the complete absence of elytra in adult males was hitherto unknown, despite the nearly half a million of described species in Coleoptera. In this study, we report the discovery of Xenomorphon baranowskii gen. et sp. nov., the first completely anelytrous and wingless adult male beetle, belonging to the family Lycidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea). Xenomorphon baranowskii is illustrated, described, and provisionally placed in Calopterini, based on our morphology-based phylogenetic analyses. We discuss the possible scenarios that could lead to such a rare event, when a beetle loses its elytra, and its evolutionary consequences.

Název v anglickém jazyce

An Extraordinary Case of Elytra Loss in Coleoptera (Elateroidea: Lycidae): Discovery and Placement of the First Anelytrous Adult Male Beetle

Popis výsledku anglicky

Insects are one of the few groups of animals that developed the ability of active flight. Such mobility allowed the group to successfully explore and thrive in nearly all kinds of ecological niches. At the same time, during the evolutionary history of insects, due to high costs of wing development, flight was lost independently in many groups. In beetles, the reduction or complete loss of hind wings has been reported in multiple lineages, especially in several extreme paedomorphic and larviform females, mainly in Elateroidea, in which not only hind wings but also the elytra are lost. However, the complete absence of elytra in adult males was hitherto unknown, despite the nearly half a million of described species in Coleoptera. In this study, we report the discovery of Xenomorphon baranowskii gen. et sp. nov., the first completely anelytrous and wingless adult male beetle, belonging to the family Lycidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea). Xenomorphon baranowskii is illustrated, described, and provisionally placed in Calopterini, based on our morphology-based phylogenetic analyses. We discuss the possible scenarios that could lead to such a rare event, when a beetle loses its elytra, and its evolutionary consequences.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10613 - Zoology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

ISSN

0024-4082

e-ISSN

1096-3642

Svazek periodika

199

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

553-566

Kód UT WoS článku

001019639800001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85174724469