The first <i>Curiosivespa</i> Rasnitsyn, 1975 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato formation (Brazil)

Jouault, Corentin; Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P.; Pouillon, Jean-Marc; Nel, André

doi:10.1080/00379271.2021.1976672

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“…2018), overturning the morphology-based Euparagiinae-sistergroup hypothesis (Carpenter 1981, 1988). Recently, Jouault et al . (2021a) described a species attributed to † Curiosivespa from the Crato formation and discussed the placement of this genus in Euparagiinae.…”

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Evolution and systematics of the Aculeata and kin (Hymenoptera), with emphasis on the ants (Formicoidea: †@@@idae fam. nov., Formicidae)

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Khouri

Richter

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Fossils not only provide unique opportunity to understand the "tempo and mode" of evolution but are essential for modeling lineage-contingent diversification histories. Here, we interrogate the Mesozoic fossil record of the Aculeata, with emphasis on the ants (Formicidae), and conduct an extended series of ancestral state estimation exercises on distributions of tip-dated combined-evidence phylogenies. We developed and illustrated from ground-up a set of 576 morphological characters which we scored for 144 extant and 431 fossil taxa; we used average posterior probability support to filter this to a target matrix of 303 taxa, for which we integrated strongly filtered ultraconserved element (UCE) data for 115 living species. We also implemented reversible jump MCMC (rjMCMC) and hidden state methods to model complex behavioral characters to test hypotheses about the pathway to obligate eusociality. In addition to revising the higher classification of all sampled groups to family or subfamily level using estimated character polarities to diagnose nodes across the phylogeny, we find that the mid-Cretaceous genera †Camelomecia and †Camelosphecia form a clade which is robustly supported as sister to the total clade Formicidae. For this reason, we name this extinct clade as †@@@idae fam. nov. and provide a definition for the expanded Formicoidea. Based on our results, we recognize three major phases in the early evolution of the ants: (1) origin of ants as running-adapted huntresses during the Late Jurassic in the "stinging aggressor" guild (Aculeata) among various lineages of "sneaking parasitoids" (non-aculeate Vespina); (2) the first formicoid radiation during the Early Cretaceous, by the end of which all major extant ant linages had originated; and (3) turnover of the Formicoidea at the end-Cretaceous leading to the second formicoid radiation, i.e., the Cenozoic formicid diversification. We conclude with a concentrated series of considerations for future directions of study with this dataset and beyond.

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Evolution and systematics of the Aculeata and kin (Hymenoptera), with emphasis on the ants (Formicoidea: †@@@idae fam. nov., Formicidae)

Boudinot

Khouri

Richter

et al. 2022

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“…Lu et al, 2019;Ngô-Muller et al, 2020) and other genera of Hymenoptera are shared between the two deposits (e.g. Curiosivespa in Jouault et al, 2021b), it can therefore be expected that similar discoveries will be made soon for the Rachiberothidae. These discoveries highlight that a paleofaunal link between WWB and Gondwana has existed and that origin of part of the WWB fauna was supplemented by fauna from the Gondwana.…”

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A new species of thorny lacewing (Neuroptera: Rhachiberothidae: Paraberothinae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber with novel raptorial foreleg structure

Jouault

2022

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

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“…However, several land masses such as India, Africa or Burmese Block lack evidence for a colonization by Antarctoperlaria at that time (e.g., Jouault et al 2022). This is rather surprising given that the biome homogeneity in central Gondwana could have facilitated wide dispersion between South America and Africa during the Early Cretaceous (Jouault et al 2021b, Nel andJouault 2021) and by extension up to the Burma Terrane (Jouault et al 2021c). Similarly, Antarctica may have served as an exchange route between Australia and South America when a large expanse of temperate rainforests was present on the continent (Klages et al 2020) and until the opening of the Drake Passage around 41 Ma (Scher andMartin 2006, Letsch et al 2021).…”

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Estimating the Drivers of Diversification of Stoneflies Through Time and the Limits of Their Fossil Record

Jouault

Nel

Legendre

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Insect Systematics and Diversity

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Deciphering the timing of lineage diversification and extinction has greatly benefited in the last decade from methodological developments in fossil-based analyses. If these advances are increasingly used to study the past dynamics of vertebrates, other taxa such as insects remain relatively neglected. Our understanding of how insect clades waxed and waned or of the impact of major paleoenvironmental changes during their periods of diversification and extinction (mass extinction) are rarely investigated. Here, we compile and analyze the fossil record of Plecoptera (1,742 vetted occurrences) to investigate their genus-level diversification and diversity dynamics using a Bayesian process-based model that incorporates temporal preservation biases. We found that the Permian-Triassic mass extinction has drastically impacted Plecoptera, while the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution corresponds with a turnover of plecopteran fauna. We also unveiled three major gaps in the plecopteran fossil record: the Carboniferous-Permian transition, the late Early Cretaceous, and the late Cenomanian to Bartonian, which will need to be further investigated. Based on the life history of extant Plecoptera, we investigate the correlations between their past dynamic and a series of biotic (Red Queen hypothesis) and abiotic (Court Jester hypothesis) factors. These analyses highlight the major role of continental fragmentation in the evolutionary history of stoneflies, which is in line with phylogeny-based biogeographic analyses showing how vicariance drove their diversification. Our study advocates analyzing the fossil record with caution, while attempting to unveil the diversification and extinction periods plus the likely triggers of these past dynamics of diversification.

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The first Curiosivespa Rasnitsyn, 1975 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato formation (Brazil)

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Evolution and systematics of the Aculeata and kin (Hymenoptera), with emphasis on the ants (Formicoidea: †@@@idae fam. nov., Formicidae)

Evolution and systematics of the Aculeata and kin (Hymenoptera), with emphasis on the ants (Formicoidea: †@@@idae fam. nov., Formicidae)

A new species of thorny lacewing (Neuroptera: Rhachiberothidae: Paraberothinae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber with novel raptorial foreleg structure

Estimating the Drivers of Diversification of Stoneflies Through Time and the Limits of Their Fossil Record

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