Insects comprise over half of all described animal species. Together with the Protura
(coneheads), Collembola (springtails) and Diplura (two-pronged bristletails), insects form …

Chelicerata constitutes an ancient, biodiverse, and ecologically significant group of
Arthropoda. The study of chelicerate evolution has undergone a renaissance in the past …

Hemiptera, the largest non-holometabolous order of insects, represents approximately 7% of
metazoan diversity. With extraordinary life histories and highly specialized morphological …

Mitochondrial genomes are readily sequenced with recent technology and thus evolutionary
lineages can be densely sampled. This permits better phylogenetic estimates and …

Complete mitochondrial genomes have been shown to be reliable markers for phylogeny
reconstruction among diverse animal groups. However, the relative difficulty and high cost …

Neuroptera (lacewings) and allied orders Megaloptera (dobsonflies, alderflies) and
Raphidioptera (snakeflies) are predatory insects and together make up the clade …

The higher‐level phylogeny of Pentatomomorpha, the second largest infraorder of true bugs
(Hemiptera: Heteroptera), which includes many important agriculture and forestry pests, has …

After decades of debate, a mostly satisfactory resolution of relationships among the 11
recognized holometabolan orders of insects has been reached based on nuclear genes …

Mitochondrial (mt) genome data have been proven to be informative for animal phylogenetic
studies but may also suffer from systematic errors, due to the effects of accelerated …

Mitochondrial phylogenomics is often controversial, in particular for inferring deep
relationships. The recent rapid increase of mitochondrial genome data provides …