This study provides a comprehensive review of historical morphological nomenclature used
for praying mantis (Mantodea) morphology, which includes citations, original use, and …

Acoustic communication is enabled by the evolution of specialised hearing and sound
producing organs. In this study, we performed a large-scale macroevolutionary study to …

Behaviors are challenging to reconstruct for extinct species, particularly the nature and
origins of acoustic communication. Here we unravel the song of Archaboilus musicus Gu …

The first and last occurrences of hexapod families in the fossil record are compiled from
publications up to end-2009. The major features of these data are compared with those of …

Titanopterans are spectacular, giant, predatory insects mainly known from the Triassic, but
they are known from a few localities in Central Asia (including European Russia) and …

Palaeo-loess and silty aeolian-marine strata are well recognized across the Carboniferous–
Permian of equatorial Pangaea. Aeolian-transported dust and loess appear in the Late …

The Mantophasmatodea is the most recently discovered insect order. The fossil records of
all other 'polyneopteran'orders extend far in the past, but the current absence of pre …

Homologies of the forewing venation pattern of the order Mantodea (Insecta: Dictyoptera)
consistent with the accepted insect wing venation groundplan are proposed. A comparative …

Longzhua loculata n. gen. n. sp., a new Pennsylvanian Archaeorthoptera (ie, stem-
Orthoptera), is described from the Tupo Formation based on 64 specimens, including an …

We re-investigated the fossil species tenera Oppel, 1862, an achelatan lobster (traditionally
named Palinurina tenera) found in 150 million years old limestones of southern Germany …