2012
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205517109
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Abstract: A near-perfect mimetic association between a mecopteran insect species and a ginkgoalean plant species from the late Middle Jurassic of northeastern China recently has been discovered. The association stems from a case of mixed identity between a particular plant and an insect in the laboratory and the field. This confusion is explained as a case of leaf mimesis, wherein the appearance of the multilobed leaf of Yimaia capituliformis (the ginkgoalean model) was accurately replicated by the wings and abdomen of … Show more

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“…One reason, based on evidence from this report, is that an expectation of elevated insect diversification during the angiosperm radiation that would range from diffuse to intimate coevolution ), needs to be balanced by evidence indicating equally high associational diversity between insects and gymnosperms prior to the angiosperm radiation. Given recent developments in understanding the associational diversity between gymnosperms and insects prior to and during the angiosperm radiation (e.g., Ratzel et al 2001;Ren 1998;Ren et al 2009;Labandeira 2010;Wang et al 2012b;Peñalver et al 2012;Ding et al 2014), it is highly likely that gymnosperm-insect interactions preceding the angiosperm radiation were almost or just as diverse as angiosperm interactions that followed the event.…”
Section: Reasons For the Mid-mesozoic Constancy Of Insectmentioning
confidence: 98%
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“…One reason, based on evidence from this report, is that an expectation of elevated insect diversification during the angiosperm radiation that would range from diffuse to intimate coevolution ), needs to be balanced by evidence indicating equally high associational diversity between insects and gymnosperms prior to the angiosperm radiation. Given recent developments in understanding the associational diversity between gymnosperms and insects prior to and during the angiosperm radiation (e.g., Ratzel et al 2001;Ren 1998;Ren et al 2009;Labandeira 2010;Wang et al 2012b;Peñalver et al 2012;Ding et al 2014), it is highly likely that gymnosperm-insect interactions preceding the angiosperm radiation were almost or just as diverse as angiosperm interactions that followed the event.…”
Section: Reasons For the Mid-mesozoic Constancy Of Insectmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Examples include strong resemblance of wings from one neuropteran species to a particular fern pinnule (Wang et al 2010); or the entire body of another neuropteran species to a particular ginkgophyte leaf (Wang et al 2012b). …”
Section: Establishing Feeding Guild Functional Feeding Group and Plamentioning
confidence: 98%
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“…This date corresponds to the Callovian-Oxfordian boundary interval of the latest Middle Jurassic, using the most recent, standard international time scale [28]. The deposit contain beautifully preserved fossils of insects and other animals [29][30][31][32][33]. After comparison of these fossils to other Mesozoic lepidopteran specimens, we recognized below eleven new genera and fourteen new species, assigned to the three families, the Eolepidopterigidae, the Mesokristenseniidae, and the Ascololepidopterigidae fam.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%