Fossil Beetles From Cretaceous Amber Show New Insights Into Early Plant-Insect Relationships
Beetles are currently among the most important pollinators of flowering plants, especially basal angiosperms. They are also among the earliest insect visitors and pollinators of angiosperms since the flourish of angiosperms in the Early Cretaceous, which had a huge impact on their nutrient selection. However, the evolutionary dynamics of their diverse feeding strategies still need more explanations. Recently, the newly found fossil species from lower Cenomanian (99 Ma) amber of Myanmar provide key resources to explain the point. The works were conducted by Tong Bao and colleagues from Poland, US and China, published in Cretaceous Research and featured by Science Trends.
New family Apotomouridae fam. nov. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from lower Cenomanian amber of Myanmar
Cretaceous Research
2018-11 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2018.05.007Part of ISSN: 0195-6671
The first true Mordellidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from lower Cenomanian amber of Myanmar
Cretaceous Research
2019-01 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2018.09.008
