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Sep 22, 2014 · These beetles feed on leaves, flowers and pollen as adults, and on living roots, soil humus or decaying wood in the larval stages. The Scarabaeoidea also include the dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae, Aphodiinae), that together comprise ca 8300 species . Scarab dung beetles and pleurosticts are considered to be sister lineages . Their ...
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These beetles feed on leaves, flowers and pollen as adults,...
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The evolution of scarab beetles tracks the sequential rise...
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Sep 22, 2014 · The clear time lag between the origins of herbivores and coprophages suggests an evolutionary path driven by the angiosperms that first favoured the herbivore fauna (mammals and insects) followed by the secondary radiation of the dung feeders. This finding makes it less likely that extant dung beetle lineages initially fed on dinosaur ...
- Dirk Ahrens, Julia Schwarzer, Alfried P. Vogler
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Jun 23, 2023 · While the diversification of many insects, and especially that of beetles, was directly or indirectly fostered by that of angiosperms (Ahrens et al., 2014; Hunt et al., 2007; McKenna et al. 2019), the evolutionary mechanisms and timescales of angiosperm-dependent radiations have remained poorly understood, as the phylogenetic relationships of ...
Scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae) are a diverse and ecologically important group of angiosperm-associated insects. As conventionally understood, scarab beetles comprise two major lineages: dung beetles and the phytophagous Pleurosticti. However, previous phylogenetic analyses have not been able to convincingly answer the question whether
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Jan 1, 2013 · Abstract. The scarab beetle tribe Cyclocephalini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) is the second larg-est tribe of rhinoceros beetles, with nearly 500 described species. This diverse group is most closely associated with early diverging angiosperm groups (the family Nymphaeaceae, magnoliid clade, and monocots), where they feed, mate, and ...
Jan 22, 2024 · B Representation of the transition from gymnosperm-associated insect families to angiosperms-associated insect ... Ahrens, D., Schwarzer, J. & Vogler, A. P. The evolution of scarab beetles tracks ...
