The oldest aleocharine rove beetle (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) in Cretaceous Burmese amber and its implications for the early evolution of the basal group of hyper-diverse Aleocharinae

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 1579-1584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenyang Cai ◽  
Diying Huang
Keyword(s):  
Early Evolution ◽  
Burmese Amber ◽  
Rove Beetle ◽  
Basal Group

The first fossil record of the rove beetle subfamily Protopselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 104416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuchu Liu ◽  
Erik Tihelka ◽  
Shûhei Yamamoto ◽  
Ziwei Yin ◽  
Diying Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Record ◽  
Burmese Amber ◽  
Rove Beetle

Mesopassandrinae subfam. nov., a basal group of parasitic flat beetle (Coleoptera: Passandridae) from Cretaceous Burmese amber

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (22) ◽  
pp. 1947-1956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengjie Jin ◽  
Adam Ślipiński ◽  
Yu-Lingzi Zhou ◽  
Hong Pang
Keyword(s):  
Burmese Amber ◽  
Basal Group

Sinanthobium daohugouense, a tiny new omaliine rove beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from the Middle Jurassic of China

2013 ◽  
Vol 145 (5) ◽  
pp. 496-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen-Yang Cai ◽  
Di-Ying Huang
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Early Evolution ◽  
Rove Beetle ◽  
Jiulongshan Formation

AbstractA new rove beetle, Sinanthobium daohugouense, new genus, new species, is described and illustrated on the basis of a tiny impression fossil from the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation at Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China. The new genus is placed in the subfamily Omaliinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), tentatively in the Recent tribe Anthophagini. The first find of a definitive omaliine beetle from the Middle Jurassic of China provides direct evidence on the origin and early evolution of Omaliinae.

scholarly journals Specialized proteinine rove beetles shed light on insect–fungal associations in the Cretaceous

2016 ◽  
Vol 283 (1845) ◽  
pp. 20161439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenyang Cai ◽  
Alfred F. Newton ◽  
Margaret K. Thayer ◽  
Richard A. B. Leschen ◽  
Diying Huang
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Plant Tissues ◽  
Burmese Amber ◽  
Rove Beetles ◽  
Rove Beetle ◽  
Slime Moulds ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fungal Associations ◽  
Specialized Structure ◽  
Shed Light

Insects and fungi have a long history of association in shared habitats. Fungus-feeding, or mycophagy, is remarkably widespread in beetles (Coleoptera) and appears to be a primitive feeding habit that preceded feeding on plant tissues. Numerous Mesozoic beetles belonging to extant fungus-associated families are known, but direct fossil evidence elucidating mycophagy in insects has remained elusive. Here, we report a remarkable genus and species, Vetuproteinus cretaceus gen. et sp. nov., belonging to a new tribe (Vetuproteinini trib. nov.) of the extant rove beetle subfamily Proteininae (Staphylinidae) in Mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. The mouthparts of this beetle have a markedly enlarged protruding galea bearing an apparent spore brush, a specialized structure we infer was used to scrape spores off surfaces and direct them into the mouth, as in multiple modern spore-feeding beetles. Considering the long evolutionary history of Fungi, the Mid-Cretaceous beetles likely fed on ancient Basidiomycota and/or Ascomycota fungi or spore-producing organisms such as slime moulds (Myxomycetes). The discovery of the first Mesozoic proteinine illustrates the antiquity of the subfamily, and suggests that ancestral Proteininae were already diverse and widespread in Pangaea before the supercontinent broke up.

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