Reply to: "Insects with 100 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Feathers are not Ectoparasites" and "Crawlers of the Scale Insect Mesophthirus (Homoptera Xylococcidae) on Feathers in Burmese Amber-Wind Transport or Phoresy on Dinosaurs?"

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	Reply to: "Insects with 100 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Feathers are not Ectoparasites" and "Crawlers of the Scale Insect Mesophthirus (Homoptera Xylococcidae) on Feathers in Burmese Amber-Wind Transport or Phoresy on Dinosaurs?"
	Gao, TP; Yin, XC; Shih, CK; Rasnitsyn, AP; Emeljanov, AF; Xu, X; Chen, S; Wang, C; Ren, D
	2022
发表期刊	PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL
卷号	56 期号:3 页码:333
摘要	We described ten nymph specimens of an insect, Mesophthirus engeli (incertae sedis), from the mid-Cretaceous Myanmar (Burmese) amber, preserved together with partially damaged dinosaur feathers. Based on the ectoparasitic morphological characters of these tiny insect nymphs, we concluded that Mesophthirus engeli was the earliest known feather-feeding insect and that integument-feeding behaviors of insects appeared during or before the mid-Cretaceous along with the radiations of feathered dinosaurs including birds. Grimaldi and Vea raised some concerns about these feather-feeding insects and supposed that the nymphs of Mesophthirus engeli were crawlers of scale insects, i.e. nymphal stages of Coccoidea, coincidentally co-occurring with damaged feathers. Shcherbakov (2022, this issue) accepted and developed the argumentation of Grimaldi and Vea (2021). We would like to address their concerns here.
收录类别	SCIE
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://210.75.249.4/handle/363003/61194
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	Gao, TP,Yin, XC,Shih, CK,et al. Reply to: "Insects with 100 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Feathers are not Ectoparasites" and "Crawlers of the Scale Insect Mesophthirus (Homoptera Xylococcidae) on Feathers in Burmese Amber-Wind Transport or Phoresy on Dinosaurs?"[J]. PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL,2022,56(3):333.
APA	Gao, TP.,Yin, XC.,Shih, CK.,Rasnitsyn, AP.,Emeljanov, AF.,...&Ren, D.(2022).Reply to: "Insects with 100 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Feathers are not Ectoparasites" and "Crawlers of the Scale Insect Mesophthirus (Homoptera Xylococcidae) on Feathers in Burmese Amber-Wind Transport or Phoresy on Dinosaurs?".PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL,56(3),333.
MLA	Gao, TP,et al."Reply to: "Insects with 100 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Feathers are not Ectoparasites" and "Crawlers of the Scale Insect Mesophthirus (Homoptera Xylococcidae) on Feathers in Burmese Amber-Wind Transport or Phoresy on Dinosaurs?"".PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL 56.3(2022):333.