The order Hymenoptera (wasps, ants, sawflies, and bees) represents one of the most
diverse animal lineages, but whether specific key innovations have contributed to its …

Highlights•There are more parasitoid wasps than any other group of parasitoid insects.•The
parasitoid lifestyle arose in Hymenoptera only once, at least 200 Ma ago. The ancestral …

The recent advances in sequencing technologies, phylogenomics and divergence dating
methods call for an integrative review of the current state of Hymenoptera systematics. We …

Phylogenomic approaches have recently helped elucidate various insect relationships, but
large-scale comprehensive analyses on relationships within sawflies and woodwasps are …

Many herbivorous insect species are capable of hijacking plant development to induce
novel plant organs called galls. In most groups of galling insects, the insect organs and …

Molecular identification is increasingly used to speed up biodiversity surveys and laboratory
experiments. However, many groups of organisms cannot be reliably identified using …

Beetles are arguably the most diverse group of animals on Earth with over 400 000
described species. Yet the timing of main diversification events among these insects …

Cryptic species diversity is a major challenge regarding the species‐rich community of
parasitoids attacking oak gall wasps due to a high degree of sexual dimorphism …

ABSTRACT Gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) specializing on live oaks in the genus
Quercus (subsection Virentes) are a relatively diverse and well‐studied community with 14 …

Previous phylogenetic studies of the tribe Synergini were focused on Palaearctic material, in
which the genus Synergus was recovered as monophyletic, despite evidence of non …