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Annual Review of Entomology

Volume 66, 2021

Behaviors and Interactions of Insects in Mid-Mesozoic Ecosystems of Northeastern China

Abstract

During the past 20 years, more than 1,600 species of well-preserved fossil insects, including members of over 270 families within 24 orders, have been described from the Middle Jurassic Yanliao Entomofauna and Early Cretaceous Jehol Entomofauna in Northeastern China. Diversified fossil insects not only document the origin, systematics, and early evolution of many lineages, but also reveal these lineages’ behaviors and interactions with coexisting plants, vertebrates, and other insects in their ecosystems. Fossil evidence has been documented, for example, regarding insects’ feeding and pollination mutualism with gymnosperms; ectoparasitic feeding on blood of vertebrates; camouflage, mimicry of gymnosperm plants, and eyespot warning; sound stridulation for attracting potential mates; and sexual display, mating, egg-laying, and parental care. In this article, we review the diverse taxonomy of mid-Mesozoic insects of Northeastern China and elucidate their behaviors and interactions within their ecosystems, which have impacted their early evolution and development into extant insects.

Keyword(s): coevolution, fossil insects, Jehol Entomofauna, paleoentomology, Yanliao Entomofauna
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Behaviors and Interactions of Insects in Mid-Mesozoic Ecosystems of Northeastern China
Annual Review of Entomology 66, 337 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-072720-095043
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