Cretaceous winged stick insects clarify the early evolution of Phasmatodea

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	Cretaceous winged stick insects clarify the early evolution of Phasmatodea
	Yang, Hongru; Yin, Xiangchu; Lin, Xiaodan; Wang, Chen; Shih, Chungkun; Zhang, Weiwei; Ren, Dong; Gao, Taiping
	2019
发表期刊	PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷号	286
摘要	Wingless and shorter winged stick insects are very common today, but most known extinct stick insects had fully developed wings, leading to contentious affinities among the extinct winged and extant groups. We report herein three male winged stick insects, assigned to Pterophasmatidae fam. nov., from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar (Burmese) amber. Pterophasmatidae fam. nov. are regarded as transitional taxa from extinct winged to modern wingless and shorter winged stick insects based on their similar tegmina venation with extinct Susumanioidea and some body features the same as extant Phasmatodea. However, their symmetric phallic organs comprising two consistent phallomeres are different from those of all living groups. Phylogenetic analyses suggest that the extinct winged taxa, including the new family, are the stem groups of modern stick and leaf insects, and all of them constitute the clade of Phasmatodea. New findings indicate winged and wingless stick insects' morphologies diversified significantly during or before the mid-Cretaceous.
关键词	Pterophasmatidae morphology phylogeny synapomorphy male genitalia
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://210.75.249.4/handle/363003/59721
专题	中国科学院西北高原生物研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yang, Hongru,Yin, Xiangchu,Lin, Xiaodan,et al. Cretaceous winged stick insects clarify the early evolution of Phasmatodea[J]. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,2019,286.
APA	Yang, Hongru.,Yin, Xiangchu.,Lin, Xiaodan.,Wang, Chen.,Shih, Chungkun.,...&Gao, Taiping.(2019).Cretaceous winged stick insects clarify the early evolution of Phasmatodea.PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,286.
MLA	Yang, Hongru,et al."Cretaceous winged stick insects clarify the early evolution of Phasmatodea".PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 286(2019).