New fossil ephialtitids elucidating the origin and transformation of the propodeal-metasomal articulation in Apocrita (Hymenoptera).
New fossil ephialtitids elucidating the origin and transformation of the propodeal-metasomal articulation in Apocrita (Hymenoptera).
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新化石 ephialtitids 阐明了 Apocrita(膜翅目)原代-交代体关节的起源和转变
DOI:
10.1186/s12862-015-0317-1
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发表时间:
2015-03-13
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Ren D
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作者:
Li L;Shih C;Rasnitsyn AP;Ren D
BackgroundApocrita has a special structure that its first abdominal segment has been incorporated into the thorax as the propodeum. The remaining abdomen, metasoma, is connected to this hybrid region via a narrow propodeal-metasomal articulation forming a “wasp waist”, which serves an important function of providing maneuverability, flexibility and posture for oviposition. However, the origin and transformation of the propodeal-metasomal articulation are still vague. Ephialtitidae, as the basal group of Apocrita from the Early Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous, have shown various types of propodeal-metasomal articulations.ResultsThis study describes and illustrates two new genera with three new species,Acephialtitia colossagen. et sp. nov.,Proephialtitia acanthigen. et sp. nov. andP. tenuatasp. nov., collected respectively from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation at Liutiaogou and the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation at Daohugou, both in Inner Mongolia, China. These genera are assigned to the Ephialtitidae based on their complete wing venation, e.g. 2r-rs, 2r-m, 3r-m and 2 m-cu always present in the forewings and Rs, M and Cu in the hind wings. These new fossil ephialtitids have well-preserved propodeal-metasomal articulations indicating metasoma is broadly attached to propodeum.ConclusionThe broad articulation between the propodeum and metasoma in basal Ephialtitidae, likely passed on from a still more basal family Karatavitidae, suggests three separate pathways of the transformation of the “wasp waist” in three different derived lineages leading from Ephialtitidae to: (i) Kuafuidae and further to the remaining Apocrita, (ii) Stephanidae, and (iii) Evanioidea. In addition, the demise of ephialtitid wasps lagging behind the flourishing of angiosperms suggests that ephialtitid extinction might have been mainly driven by competition with numerous new taxa (eg. the abundant Cretaceous xylophilous Baissinae and Ichneumonoidea) appeared just before or/and soon after the J/K boundary.
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影响因子:
3.7
作者:
Li L;Rasnitsyn AP;Shih C;Ren D
通讯作者:
Ren D
影响因子:
2.1
作者:
Haichun, Z;Rasnitsyn, AP;Junfeng, Z
通讯作者:
Junfeng, Z
影响因子:
1.9
作者:
Leng, Q;Friis, EM
通讯作者:
Friis, EM
影响因子:
3.3
作者:
Li Longfeng;Shih Chungkun;Ren Dong
通讯作者:
Ren Dong
DOI:
10.1098/rstb.2009.0227
发表时间:
2010-02-12
影响因子:
6.3
作者:
Friis, Else Marie;Pedersen, Kaj Raunsgaard;Crane, Peter R.
通讯作者:
Crane, Peter R.