Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Diverse Cretaceous larvae reveal the evolutionary and behavioural history of antlions and lacewings

  • Davide Badano,
  • Michael S. Engel,
  • Andrea Basso,
  • Bo Wang,
  • Pierfilippo Cerretti

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05484-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Larvae of the Myrmeleontiformia, which include antlions, are not well preserved in much of the fossil record. Here, Badano et al. describe a collection of predatory myrmeleontiform larvae from Cretaceous amber, resolving their evolutionary relationships and inferring their ecology.