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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Main Authors: Yu-Lingzi Zhou, Adam Ślipiński, Dong Ren, Joseph Parker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2019-04-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/44985