A Mesozoic clown beetle myrmecophile (Coleoptera: Histeridae)
Complex interspecies relationships are widespread among metazoans, but the evolutionary history of these lifestyles is poorly understood. We describe a fossil beetle in 99-million-year-old Burmese amber that we infer to have been a social impostor of the earliest-known ant colonies. Promyrmister kis...
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Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2019-04-01
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Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/44985 |