Insect Fluid-Feeding on Upper Pennsylvanian Tree Ferns (Palaeodictyoptera, Marattiales) and the Early History of the Piercing-and-Sucking Functional Feeding Group

Labandeira, Conrad C.; Phillips, Tom

doi:10.1093/aesa/89.2.157

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“…Also, the recognition of both mycorrhizal (135) and saprophytic (133) fungi in the Rhynie Chert strongly supports arguments that fungi played an important mediating role allowing plants to accommodate to the rigors of terrestrial life (97,116). When its diverse carnivorous and phytophagous arthropods (74) and representatives of the embryophyte sister group, the aquatic charophytes (134), are also considered, the Chert graphically illustrates that understanding the origin and early diversification of the land flora requires consideration of relationships among kingdoms, as well as relationships among classes and orders within Plantae.…”

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confidence: 53%

“…Recent paleosol studies revealed evidence for prototype "forests" as early as the Middle Devonian from waterlogged soils of New York State (31) and even in well-drained habitats from Antarctica (103). Lowland wetland macrofossil assemblages also demonstrate increasing plant-animal interactions; the evolution of terrestrial arthropods was proceeding rapidly and may have included herbivory (74,117).…”

Section: Early and Middle Devonianmentioning

confidence: 99%

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EARLY EVOLUTION OF LAND PLANTS: Phylogeny, Physiology, and Ecology of the Primary Terrestrial Radiation

Bateman

Crane

DiMichele

et al. 1998

Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst.

308

217

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The Siluro-Devonian primary radiation of land biotas is the terrestrial equivalent of the much-debated Cambrian "explosion" of marine faunas. Both show the hallmarks of novelty radiations (phenotypic diversity increases much more rapidly than species diversity across an ecologically undersaturated and thus low-competition landscape), and both ended with the formation of evolutionary and ecological frameworks analogous to those of modem ecosystems. Profound improvements in understanding early land plant evolution reflect recent liberations from several research constraints: Cladistic techniques plus DNA sequence data from extant relatives have prompted revolutionary reinterpretations of land plant phylogeny, and thus of systematics and character-state acquisition patterns. Biomechanical and physiological experimental techniques developed for extant 263 0066-4162/98/1120-0263$08.00 264 BATEMAN ET AL plants have been extrapolated to fossil species, with interpretations both aided and complicated by the recent knowledge that global landmass positions, currents, climates, and atmospheric compositions have been profoundly variable (and thus nonuniformitarian) through the Phanerozoic. Combining phylogenetic and paleoecological data offers potential insights into the identity and function of key innovations, though current evidence suggests the importance of accumulating within lineages a critical mass of phenotypic character. Challenges to further progress include the lack of sequence data and paucity of phenotypic features among the early land plant clades, and a fossil record still inadequate to date accurately certain crucial evolutionary and ecological events.

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Section: Early and Middle Devonianmentioning

confidence: 99%

EARLY EVOLUTION OF LAND PLANTS: Phylogeny, Physiology, and Ecology of the Primary Terrestrial Radiation

Bateman

Crane

DiMichele

et al. 1998

Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst.

308

217

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“…Collembola) that feed on living plant tissue are rare, whereas approximately 85% of extant insect species are phytophagous at some stage in their life cycle (151). Most tellingly, the fossil record confirms feeding on plants by insects in the Upper Carboniferous and early Permian (152)(153)(154).…”

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The Evolutionary Physiology of Animal Flight: Paleobiological and Present Perspectives

Dudley

2000

Annu. Rev. Physiol.

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Recent geophysical analyses suggest the presence of a late Paleozoic oxygen pulse beginning in the late Devonian and continuing through to the late Carboniferous. During this period, plant terrestrialization and global carbon deposition resulted in a dramatic increase in atmospheric oxygen levels, ultimately yielding concentrations potentially as high as 35% relative to the contemporary value of 21%. Such hyperoxia of the late Paleozoic atmosphere may have physiologically facilitated the initial evolution of insect flight metabolism. Widespread gigantism in late Paleozoic insects and other arthropods is also consistent with enhanced oxygen flux within diffusion-limited tracheal systems. Because total atmospheric pressure increases with increased oxygen partial pressure, concurrently hyperdense conditions would have augmented aerodynamic force production in early forms of flying insects. By the late Permian, evolution of decompositional microbial and fungal communities, together with disequilibrium in rates of carbon deposition, gradually reduced oxygen concentrations to values possibly as low as 15%. The disappearance of giant insects by the end of the Permian is consistent with extinction of these taxa for reasons of asphyxiation on a geological time scale. As with winged insects, the multiple historical origins of vertebrate flight in the late Jurassic and Cretaceous correlate temporally with periods of elevated atmospheric oxygen. Much discussion of flight performance in Archaeopteryx assumes a contemporary atmospheric composition. Elevated oxygen levels in the mid-to late Mesozoic would, however, have facilitated aerodynamic force production and enhanced muscle power output for ancestral birds, as well as for precursors to bats and pterosaurs.

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“…Specialized sucking mouthparts characterize a supra-ordinal clade, the Condylognatha (Thysanoptera plus Hemiptera), which also represents the second major insect group to acquire novel sucking mouthparts in insect phylogeny , that was preceded only by the very diverse Palaeodictyopteroidea (Labandeira & Phillips 1996). Hemiptera (aphids, cicadas, plant hoppers and true bugs) are by far the most diversified extant order among hemimetabolous insects, and are the fifth largest order of insects .…”

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Bridging the gap between chewing and sucking in the hemipteroid insects: <br />new insights from Cretaceous amber

Yoshizawa

Lienhard

2016

Zootaxa

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The diversity of feeding apparatuses in insects far exceeds that observed in any other animal group. Consequently, tracking mouthpart innovation in insects is one of the keys toward understanding their diversification. In hemipteroid insects (clade Paraneoptera or Acercaria: lice, thrips, aphids, cicadas, bugs, etc.), the transition from chewing to piercing-and-sucking mouthparts is widely regarded as the turning point that enabled hyperdiversification of the Hemiptera, the fifth largest insect order. However, the transitional process from chewing to piercing-and-sucking in the Paraneoptera was hitherto completely unknown. In this paper, we report a well preserved mid Cretaceous amber fossil of the paraneopteran insect family Archipsyllidae and describe it as Mydiognathus eviohlhoffae gen. et sp. n. This species has elongate mandibles and styliform laciniae similar to Hemiptera but retains functional chewing mouthparts. A number of morphological characters place the Archipsyllidae as the sister group of the thrips plus hemipterans, which strongly suggests that the mouthparts of M. eviohlhoffae represent a transitional condition from primitive chewing to derived piercing-and-sucking mouthparts. The clade composed of Archipsyllidae, thrips, and hemipterans is here named Pancondylognatha, a new supra-ordinal taxon. Based on newly obtained information, we also assess the monophyly of the Paraneoptera, which was called into question by recent phylogenomic analyses. A phylogenetic analysis that includes Mydiognathus strongly supports the monophyly of the Paraneoptera.

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Insect Fluid-Feeding on Upper Pennsylvanian Tree Ferns (Palaeodictyoptera, Marattiales) and the Early History of the Piercing-and-Sucking Functional Feeding Group

Cited by 103 publications

References 99 publications

EARLY EVOLUTION OF LAND PLANTS: Phylogeny, Physiology, and Ecology of the Primary Terrestrial Radiation

EARLY EVOLUTION OF LAND PLANTS: Phylogeny, Physiology, and Ecology of the Primary Terrestrial Radiation

The Evolutionary Physiology of Animal Flight: Paleobiological and Present Perspectives

Bridging the gap between chewing and sucking in the hemipteroid insects: <br />new insights from Cretaceous amber

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