Advanced morphology and behaviour of extinct earwig-like cockroaches (Blattida: Fuziidae fam. nov.)

Vršanský, Peter; Liang, Junhui; Ren, Dong

doi:10.2478/v10096-009-0033-0

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“…For example, a Paleozoic origin of Mantodea was proposed based on features of the forewing venation described in Carboniferous and Permian strephocladid (Polyneoptera) insects (Béthoux & Wieland, 2009;Béthoux et al, 2010); whereas others suggested a late Carboniferous origin stemming from blattoids (Kukalová-Peck, 1991). Such hypotheses have been strongly opposed by other authors, who have maintained that basal mantises show a well defined transition from the Liberiblattinidae, implying that the origin of Mantodea could not have occurred earlier than the Mesozoic, and also, that they stemmed from ancient cockroaches (Vršanský et al, 2009;Vršanský, 2010;Gorochov & Γopoxov, 2013). Other studies in which cockroaches with long ovipositors were considered to be crown-Dictyoptera, yielded the latest Carboniferous (∼300 mya) age estimate for the split between Mantodea and Blattodea (Svenson & Whiting, 2009), and either a Triassic/Jurassic (∼200 mya) or Late Jurassic (∼150 mya; Legendre et al, 2015) appearance of crown-Mantodea.…”

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Earliest record of fossil insect oothecae confirms the presence of crown‐dictyopteran taxa in the Late Triassic

Cariglino

Lara

Zavattieri

2020

Systematic Entomology

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Although dissimilar in their overall appearance and life habits, the praying mantises (Mantodea) and cockroaches (Blattodea, including their eusocial relatives, the termites [Isoptera]) are grouped within the clade Dictyoptera, based on – among other significant characteristics – the laying of eggs in a compound structure called an ootheca. The origin of the Dictyoptera and the currently recognized taxa within is, however, a controversial topic among entomologists. This has resulted from disparities in the divergence age estimates obtained from phylogenetic analyses based on molecular data together with the limited and controversial fossil evidence attributable to these groups. Here, we report two new oothecae ichnospecies found in a Carnian (237 to 227 mya. lowermost Upper Triassic) deposit from Argentina. Morphological comparisons and Scanning Electron Microscope and X‐ray Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy analyses of fossil and extant oothecae of mantises and cockroaches were performed in an attempt to solve their systematic placement within Dictyoptera and fossil allies, such as †Alienoptera. In addition to being the earliest known record of oothecae, this discovery moves the origin of this specialized reproductive strategy back by 100 million years. As direct fossil evidence, these specimens provide an important calibration and reference point that can inform future research on the origins and timing of diversification of the Dictyoptera.

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Earliest record of fossil insect oothecae confirms the presence of crown‐dictyopteran taxa in the Late Triassic

Cariglino

Lara

Zavattieri

2020

Systematic Entomology

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“…Roachoids’ such as Q. namurensis were roach-like insects abundant in the Paleozoic and some of the earliest winged insects in the fossil record. While some authors consider Paleozoic roachoids as close to extant Blattodea 90 , they are excluded from crown Blattodea and Mantodea by wing venation character and most notably by the presence of long external ovipositors in females 91 . Previous analyses have shown that excluding Carboniferous roachids from molecular clock analyses leads to underestimates of polyneopteran timescale of diversification 11 .…”

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Compositional phylogenomic modelling resolves the ‘Zoraptera problem’: Zoraptera are sister to all other polyneopteran insects

Tihelka

Engel

Lozano‐Fernandez

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The evolution of wings propelled insects to their present mega-diversity. However, interordinal relationships of early-diverging winged insects and the timescale of their evolution are difficult to resolve, in part due to uncertainties in the placement of the enigmatic and species-poor order Zoraptera. The 'Zoraptera problem' has remained a contentious issue in insect evolution since its discovery more than a century ago. This is a key issue because different placements of Zoraptera imply dramatically different scenarios of diversification and character evolution among polyneopteran. Here, we investigate the systematic placement of Zoraptera using the largest protein-coding gene dataset available to date, deploying methods to mitigate common sources of error in phylogenomic inference, and testing historically proposed hypotheses of zorapteran evolution. We recover Zoraptera as the earliest-diverging polyneopteran order, while earwigs (Dermaptera) and stoneflies (Plecoptera) form a monophyletic clade (Dermoplectopterida) sister to the remainder of Polyneoptera. The morphology and palaeobiology of stem-zorapterans are informed by Mesozoic fossils. The gut content and mouthparts of a male specimen of Zorotypus nascimbenei from Kachin amber (Cretaceous) reveal a fungivorous diet of Mesozoic zorapterans, akin to extant species. Based on a set of 42 justified fossil and stratigraphic calibrations, we recover a Devonian origin of winged insects and Polyneoptera, suggesting that these groups coincided with the rise of arborescence during the diversification of early terrestrial plants, fungi, and animals. Our results provide a robust framework for understanding the pattern and timescale of early winged insect diversification.

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“…The cockroach assemblage of the Lower Cretaceous in Montsec (Spain) is dominated by blattulids and meso blattinids (Vršanský and Ansorge 2001). The lack of the family Fuziidae (Vršanský et al 2009) in the Crato Formation supports an endemic status of the family in Inner Mongolia (China, Daohugou).…”

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Taxonomic diversity of cockroach assemblages (Blattaria, Insecta) of the Aptian Crato Formation (Cretaceous, NE Brazil)

Lee¹

2016

Geologica Carpathica

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A comprehensive revision of 981 specimens of fossil cockroaches from the Lower Cretaceous laminated limestones of the Crato Formation of Northeast Brazil shows that they belong to eleven taxa, including Piniblattella limai, P. magna sp. n., Perlucipecta santanensis. sp. n., Raptoblatta waddingtonae; Ocelloblattula santanensis sp. n., Elisama brevis (= E. americana, syn.n.), E. hindwingnii sp. n., Ponopterix axelrodi (= P. maxima syn.n.), Umenopterix burkhardi comb. n., and Cratovitisma oldreadi (Umenocoleidae = Cratovitismidae syn.n. = Ponopterixidae syn.n.). The family Ectobiidae is numerically most abundant in the assemblage of cockroaches of the Crato Formation (83 % of cockroaches), followed by Blattulidae (13 %) and Umenocoleidae (4 %). 79.2 % of specimens are complete and fully articulated. Members of the family Alienopteridae are probably also present. Representatives of a relatively common Mesozoic superfamily Caloblattinoidea are missing. With the exception of the endemic genera Cratovitisma and Raptoblatta and the exclusively Gondwanan genus Ocelloblattula, all other genera were cosmopolitan. Taxonomic richness of cockroaches of the Crato Formation is thus rather low, and consists of geologically longranging and geographically-widespread genera, genera restricted to Gondwana, and short-ranging endemic genera found in the Crato Formation only.

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Advanced morphology and behaviour of extinct earwig-like cockroaches (Blattida: Fuziidae fam. nov.)

Cited by 29 publications

References 22 publications

Earliest record of fossil insect oothecae confirms the presence of crown‐dictyopteran taxa in the Late Triassic

Earliest record of fossil insect oothecae confirms the presence of crown‐dictyopteran taxa in the Late Triassic

Compositional phylogenomic modelling resolves the ‘Zoraptera problem’: Zoraptera are sister to all other polyneopteran insects

Taxonomic diversity of cockroach assemblages (Blattaria, Insecta) of the Aptian Crato Formation (Cretaceous, NE Brazil)

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