A specialized prey-capture apparatus in mid-Cretaceous rove beetles

Chenyang Cai; Dave J Clarke; Ziwei Yin; Yanzhe Fu; Diying Huang

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.01.002

A specialized prey-capture apparatus in mid-Cretaceous rove beetles

Curr Biol. 2019 Feb 18;29(4):R116-R117. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.01.002.

Authors

Chenyang Cai¹, Dave J Clarke², Ziwei Yin³, Yanzhe Fu⁴, Diying Huang⁴

Affiliations

¹ CAS Key Laboratory of Economic Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK. Electronic address: cycai@nigpas.ac.cn.
² Department of Biological Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA.
³ College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China.
⁴ State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China.

PMID: 30779896
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.01.002

Abstract

Cai et al. report specialized prey-capture structures in two species of the stenine rove beetles from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. The discovery provides critical information about the origin and early evolution of both the novel predatory structure and of the subfamily Steninae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae).

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Amber
Animals
Biological Evolution*
Coleoptera / anatomy & histology*
Coleoptera / classification
Coleoptera / physiology
Fossils / anatomy & histology*
Mouth / anatomy & histology
Myanmar
Predatory Behavior

Substances

Amber