Conversion of forewings into hardened covers, elytra, was a ground-breaking morphological
adaptation that has contributed to the extraordinary evolutionary success of beetles …

▪ Abstract There are three major classes of insect genetic systems: those with diploid males
(diplodiploidy), those with effectively haploid males (haplodiploidy), and those without males …

Beetles constitute the most biodiverse animal order with over 380 000 described species
and possibly several million more yet unnamed. Recent phylogenomic studies have arrived …

Beetles (Coleoptera) are the most diverse and species-rich group of insects, and a robust,
time-calibrated phylogeny is fundamental to understanding macroevolutionary processes …

Here we present a phylogeny of beetles (I nsecta: C oleoptera) based on DNA sequence
data from eight nuclear genes, including six single‐copy nuclear protein‐coding genes, for …

In order to infer phylogenetic relationships within the extraordinarily speciesrich order
Coleoptera, a cladistic analysis is performed, in which 516 adult and larval morphological …

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 …

In 1974 when I published my book, Biological Mechanism of Attachment, not many pages
were required to report on the attachment devices of insect cuticles. As in most fields of …

The species representation of public databases is growing rapidly and permits increasingly
detailed phylogenetic inferences. We present a supermatrix based on all gene sequences of …

Attachment devices of representatives of most higher taxa of hexapods were examined.
Short descriptions of tibial, tarsal and pretarsal adhesive structures for each order are …