Recent progress in beetle palaeontology has incited us to re‐address the evolutionary
history of the group. The Permian† Tshekardocoleidae had elytra that covered the posterior …

Systematic bias is one of the major phylogenetic issues arising over the last two decades.
Using methods designed to reduce compositional and rate heterogeneity, hence systematic …

Abstract Aim Although Antarctica hosted a diverse fauna and flora in the past, its modern
climate is too extreme for many lineages: their recent extinction makes it difficult to include …

Elmidae, riffle beetles, have both adult and immature stages that show specializations for
water environments. Fossils of adults of Elmidae are already known from amber, however a …

A new net-winged beetle, Burmolycus compactus gen. et sp. nov.(Coleoptera, Elateroidea,
Lycidae), is described from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber and the new tribe Burmolycini …

Aim Antarctica today is too hostile to be inhabited by most organisms and is therefore
excluded from biogeographical analyses, despite hosting diverse fauna and flora in the …