New findings on the sperm structure of Tenebrionoidea (Insecta, Coleoptera)

G Dias, D Mercati, PH Rezende, J Lino-Neto… - Insects, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Tenebrionoidea, with more than 30,000 described species and 30
currently recognized families, is a superfamily of difficult taxonomy. The aim of this work is to …

The hind wing of Coleoptera (Insecta): morphology, nomenclature and phylogenetic significance: Part 2. Further discussion, Histeroidea, Bostrichoidea to …

JF Lawrence, YL Zhou, C Lemann, B Sinclair… - Annales Zoologici, 2022 - BioOne
Part 2 of this work includes a review of morphological and systematic work on Histeridae
(G07, revision), Bostrichoidea (G15), Coccinelloidea (G16), Lymexyloidea+ Tenebrionoidea …

A remarkable diversity of parasitoid beetles (Ripiphoridae) in Cretaceous amber, with a summary of the Mesozoic record of Tenebrionoidea

J Batelka, MS Engel, J Prokop - Cretaceous Research, 2018 - Elsevier
A diversity of new wedge-shaped beetles (Coleoptera: Ripiphoridae) are described and
figured from Burmese amber, representing three new genera and five new species in two …

Mordellidae (Coleoptera) Research: A Review Based on the Zoological Record from 1864 through 2013

Y Liu, TL Erwin, X Yang - Insects, 2018 - mdpi.com
Mordellidae (tumbling flower beetles) is a globally distributed family of Coleoptera; it is
among the most species-rich families (containing 115 genera and 2308 species described) …

Highly specialized Cretaceous beetle parasitoids (Ripiphoridae) identified with optimized visualization of microstructures

J Batelka, J Prokop, H Pohl, M Bai… - Systematic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Extremely miniaturized longipedes insects (body length c. 0.3 mm) embedded in two pieces
of Cretaceous amber from Myanmar are described and interpreted. Using inverted …

Systematic position of Ptilophorus dufourii inferred from its primary larva, with notes on Ptilophorinae (Coleoptera: Ripiphoridae)

J Batelka, J Prokop, RG Beutel - Annales Zoologici, 2022 - BioOne
Since the description of Ptilophorus dufourii (Latreille, 1818), the unknown immature stages
and biology of Ptilophorinae is one of the longest persisting gap in the research of the …

[PDF][PDF] Legacy molecular phylogenetics suggests restricting the concept of Melandryidae and resurrecting Osphyidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea)

V Cosandey, O Konvička… - Arthropod …, 2024 - arthropod-systematics.arphahub …
The superfamily Tenebrionoidea is one of the most challenging clades in the beetle tree-of-
life owing to its vast species richness and complex taxonomic history. Within this group, the …

[HTML][HTML] Taxonomic notes of the genus Ripiphorus Bosc d'Antic (Coleoptera: Ripiphoridae: Ripiphorinae) from China, with description of a new species

LX Jiang, SP Wang, Z Pan - Zootaxa, 2024 - mapress.com
The Chinese species of the ripiphoride genus Ripiphorus Bosc d'Antic, 1791 are
taxonomically reviewed. A new species, R. curvispinus Pan, sp. nov., is discovered from …

An Enigmatic Cretaceous Beetle in Kachin Amber With Tentative Affinities to Pythidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea)

YD Li, DA Pollock, MA Johnston… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Tenebrionoids are not uncommon in late Mesozoic ambers, but their paleodiversity remains
poorly explored, partly due to the insufficiently defined families of the extant fauna. Here, we …

New ripiphorid beetles in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Coleoptera: Ripiphoridae): first Pelecotominae and possible Mesozoic aggregative behaviour in …

J Batelka, J Prokop, MS Engel - Cretaceous Research, 2016 - Elsevier
New fossil material of ripiphorid beetles (Tenebrionoidea: Ripiphoridae) is described and
figured in lowermost Cenomanian amber from the Hukawng Valley of northern Myanmar …