Untangling the evolution of soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) and the evaluation of the morphological phylogenetic signal in a soft‐bodied elateroid lineage

M Motyka, D Kusy, G Biffi, M Geiser, SV Kazantsev… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study addresses the long‐standing uncertainty about the internal classification of
soldier beetles (Elateroidea: Cantharidae). Four datasets were compiled and analysed: 66 …

Habitat suitability of neotenic net‐winged beetles (Coleoptera: Lycidae) in China using combined ecological models, with implications for biological conservation

T Liu, H Liu, J Tong, Y Yang - Diversity and Distributions, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim China has dozens of well‐recognized biodiversity hotspots, but many more potential
areas have not been estimated thoroughly, which is unfavourable for biodiversity …

Lessons from a museum's cabinet: DNA barcoding and collections-based life stage associations reveals a hidden diversity in the Puerto Rican bank paedomorphic …

VS Ferreira, MA Ivie - Insect Systematics and Diversity, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The Leptolycini are a group of Lycidae endemic to the West Indies. Leptolycini adult females
have been hypothesized to be extreme paedomorphic (ie, larviform), however, females and …

Phylogenomic analysis resolves the relationships among net‐winged beetles (Coleoptera: Lycidae) and reveals the parallel evolution of morphological traits

D Kusy, M Motyka, M Bocek, M Masek… - Systematic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Net‐winged beetles (Coleoptera: Lycidae) are a diverse group of elateroids known
for aposematism and neoteny. Phylogenetic analyses of morphological and molecular data …

Conspicuousness, phylogenetic structure, and origins of Müllerian mimicry in 4000 lycid beetles from all zoogeographic regions

M Motyka, D Kusy, M Masek, M Bocek, Y Li… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Biologists have reported on the chemical defences and the phenetic similarity of net-winged
beetles (Coleoptera: Lycidae) and their co-mimics. Nevertheless, our knowledge has …

Structure and composition of a canopy-beetle community (Coleoptera) in a Neotropical lowland rainforest in southern Venezuela

S Kirmse - Royal Society Open Science, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Species richness, community structure and taxonomic composition are important
characteristics of biodiversity. Beetle communities show distinct diversity patterns according …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring fish freshness with pH-sensitive hydrogel films containing quercetin or eucalyptol

A Mirzaei, G Mirzaei, Z Nezafat, S Javanshir… - Food Chemistry: X, 2024 - Elsevier
This research developed pH-sensitive smart films using carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) and
collagen (COL), combined with either quercetin (QCT) or eucalyptol (EUC), to prevent fish …

Phylogenomic and mitogenomic data can accelerate inventorying of tropical beetles during the current biodiversity crisis

M Motyka, D Kusy, M Bocek, R Bilkova, L Bocak - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Conservation efforts must be evidence-based, so rapid and economically feasible methods
should be used to quantify diversity and distribution patterns. We have attempted to …

[PDF][PDF] A morphometric approach to the comparative morphology of aedeagi shapes in net-winged beetles: A case study on the Macrolycus dotatus species group …

HY Liu, RL Du, W Zhao… - Arthropod …, 2023 - arthropod-systematics.arphahub …
Insect male genitalia show an evolutionarily variable morphology that is valuable for both
species identification and phylogenetic analyses. However, we often encounter some …

Sexually dimorphic characters and shared aposematic patterns mislead the morphology-based classification of the Lycini (Coleoptera: Lycidae)

D Kusy, M Motyka, L Fusek, Y Li… - Zoological Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Lycini (Elateroidea: Lycidae) contains> 400 species placed in four typologically
based genera and numerous subgenera. We assembled a mito-ribosomal dataset …