Highlights•There are more parasitoid wasps than any other group of parasitoid insects.•The
parasitoid lifestyle arose in Hymenoptera only once, at least 200 Ma ago. The ancestral …

The past decade has seen the availability of insect genomic data explode, with
mitochondrial (mt) genome data seeing the greatest growth. The widespread adoption of …

Interactions with angiosperms have been hypothesised to play a crucial role in driving
diversification among insects, with a particular emphasis on pollinator insects. However …

Chalcidoidea are mostly parasitoid wasps that include as many as 500 000 estimated
species. Capturing phylogenetic signal from such a massive radiation can be daunting …

Phylogenomic approaches have recently helped elucidate various insect relationships, but
large-scale comprehensive analyses on relationships within sawflies and woodwasps are …

Abstract Long-horned bees (Apidae, Eucerini) are found in different biomes worldwide and
include some important crop pollinators. In the Western Hemisphere, Eucerini received …

The telomerase mechanism and telomeric motifs are vital for maintaining chromosome
integrity. Their functions are conserved in eukaryotic organisms; therefore, it is not surprising …

Parasitoids—insects that parasitize other insects—have fascinating biologies that have
made them darlings of the science fiction genre, owing to their wide array of innovative and …

The processes of forming lineages undergoing widespread radiations remain a knowledge
gap that is fundamental to our understanding of the geographic distributions of species …

Based on host specificity and distribution data, it has been hypothesized that Ganaspis
brasiliensis (Ihering, 1905), a natural enemy of the horticultural pest spotted-wing …