Morphological Phylogeny of New Cretaceous Fossils Elucidates the Early History of Soil Dwelling Among Bugs

被引:5
作者
Du, Sile [1 ,2 ,4 ]
Gu, Lei [1 ,4 ]
Engel, Michael S. [3 ,5 ]
Ren, Dong [1 ,4 ]
Yao, Yunzhi [1 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Capital Normal Univ, Coll Life Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
[2] Sci & Technol Res Ctr China Customs, Anim Quarantine Intitute, Beijing, Peoples R China
[3] Univ Kansas, Div Entomol, Nat Hist Museum, Lawrence, KS USA
[4] Capital Normal Univ, Acad Multidisciplinary Studies, Beijing, Peoples R China
[5] Univ Kansas, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Lawrence, KS USA
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
fossorial insect; Pentatomomorpha; Ficus; Moraceae; angiosperm; modification of head and fore legs; HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA; CYDNIDAE HEMIPTERA; DALLAS HEMIPTERA; PENTATOMOIDEA;
D O I
10.3389/fevo.2022.908044
中图分类号
Q14 [生态学(生物生态学)];
学科分类号
071012 ; 0713 ;
摘要
Burrowing bugs are distinctive, beetle-like insects of the pentatomoid family Cydnidae, noteworthy for their morphological specializations for digging and a hemiedaphic life history. However, less is known about their biological significance and the early origin of soil dwelling. Direct fossil evidence illuminating the evolutionary history of soil dwelling in cydnids is extremely rare. In this study, we report four new species of the burrowing bug subfamily Amnestinae from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, including two exhibiting specialized bulldozing and digging morphological traits on the anterior of the head and forelegs. Associated morphological features and phylogenetic placement indicate that Acanthamnestus represents the earliest unequivocal soil-dwelling cydnids and pushes back the geological record of hemiedaphic true bugs to 99 Ma. Environmental evidence, the distribution of host plants, and the fossils provide a new window for understanding the early origin of soil habits in Amnestinae and may be linked to the appearance of Moraceae.
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