Most species on Earth are insects and thus, understanding their evolutionary relationships is
key to understanding the evolution of life. Insect relationships are increasingly well …

Attachment devices are essential adaptations for climbing animals and valuable models for
synthetic adhesives. A major unresolved question for both natural and bioinspired …

This three-volume series represents a comprehensive treatment of the beetles of Australia, a
relatively under-studied fauna that includes many unusual and unique lineages found …

Polyneoptera represents one of the major lineages of winged insects, comprising around
40,000 extant species in 10 traditional orders, including grasshoppers, roaches, and …

Background Despite considerable progress in systematics, a comprehensive scenario of the
evolution of phenotypic characters in the mega-diverse Holometabola based on a solid …

Organismal functions are size-dependent whenever body surfaces supply body volumes.
Larger organisms can develop strongly folded internal surfaces for enhanced diffusion, but …

Many attempts to resolve the phylogenetic relationships of higher groups of insects have
been made based on both morphological and molecular evidence; nonetheless, most of the …

Two different patterns of wing venation are currently supposed to be present in each of the
three orders of Paraneoptera. This is unlikely compared with the situation in other insects …

We present the largest morphological character set ever compiled for Holometabola. This
was made possible through an optimized acquisition of data. Based on our analyses and …

Until the advent of phylogenomics, the atypical morphology of extant representatives of the
insect orders Grylloblattodea (ice‐crawlers) and Mantophasmatodea (gladiators) had …