The History of Insect Parasitism and the Mid-Mesozoic Parasitoid Revolution

Labandeira, Conrad C.; Li, Longfeng

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“…13). This transition corresponded with wide-scale parallel evolution of parasitism across the Pterygota, potentially resulting in shift from bottom-up to top-down food webs during the first phase of the “mid-Mesozoic parasitoid revolution” (Labandeira & Li 2021). The diversity of life histories among extant Apocrita (Gauld & Bolton 1988) and the Mid-Jurassic preservation of †Bethylonymidae suggests that two guilds had emerged during this revolution: the “sneaking parasitoids” and “stinging aggressors”, with the former encompassing the parasitican grade and the latter the clade Aculeata (Fig.…”

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Evolution and systematics of the Aculeata and kin (Hymenoptera), with emphasis on the ants (Formicoidea: †@@@idae fam. nov., Formicidae)

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Fossils not only provide unique opportunity to understand the "tempo and mode" of evolution but are essential for modeling lineage-contingent diversification histories. Here, we interrogate the Mesozoic fossil record of the Aculeata, with emphasis on the ants (Formicidae), and conduct an extended series of ancestral state estimation exercises on distributions of tip-dated combined-evidence phylogenies. We developed and illustrated from ground-up a set of 576 morphological characters which we scored for 144 extant and 431 fossil taxa; we used average posterior probability support to filter this to a target matrix of 303 taxa, for which we integrated strongly filtered ultraconserved element (UCE) data for 115 living species. We also implemented reversible jump MCMC (rjMCMC) and hidden state methods to model complex behavioral characters to test hypotheses about the pathway to obligate eusociality. In addition to revising the higher classification of all sampled groups to family or subfamily level using estimated character polarities to diagnose nodes across the phylogeny, we find that the mid-Cretaceous genera †Camelomecia and †Camelosphecia form a clade which is robustly supported as sister to the total clade Formicidae. For this reason, we name this extinct clade as †@@@idae fam. nov. and provide a definition for the expanded Formicoidea. Based on our results, we recognize three major phases in the early evolution of the ants: (1) origin of ants as running-adapted huntresses during the Late Jurassic in the "stinging aggressor" guild (Aculeata) among various lineages of "sneaking parasitoids" (non-aculeate Vespina); (2) the first formicoid radiation during the Early Cretaceous, by the end of which all major extant ant linages had originated; and (3) turnover of the Formicoidea at the end-Cretaceous leading to the second formicoid radiation, i.e., the Cenozoic formicid diversification. We conclude with a concentrated series of considerations for future directions of study with this dataset and beyond.

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Evolution and systematics of the Aculeata and kin (Hymenoptera), with emphasis on the ants (Formicoidea: †@@@idae fam. nov., Formicidae)

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Khouri

Richter

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“…As examples, angiosperms today support the great diversity of herbivorous beetles, primarily Phytophaga, some 130 000 species (Farrell, 1998; McKenna et al ., 2019), as well as Hymenoptera, > 117 000 species of wasps and bees that are closely associated with one or more angiosperm species (Peters et al ., 2017). These in turn have their predators, including other insects such as the hyperdiverse parasitoid wasps (Labandeira & Li, 2021), a key element in structuring the ATR, along with reptiles, birds and mammals. Specialized insect–angiosperm pollination associations are known from fossils in the Cretaceous (Grimaldi & Engel, 2005; Hu et al ., 2008; Bao et al ., 2019; Tihelka et al ., 2021; Xiao et al ., 2021), confirming phylogenetic studies, including that insect pollination might have been present in ancestors of angiosperms (van der Niet & Johnson, 2012; Gervasi & Schiestl, 2017) as strongly suggested by fossil evidence from extinct gymnosperms (Labandeira, 2010).…”

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The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution and the origins of modern biodiversity

2021

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Biodiversity today has the unusual property that 85% of plant and animal species live on land rather than in the sea, and half of these live in tropical rainforests. An explosive boost to terrestrial diversity occurred from c. 100-50 million years ago, the Late Cretaceous and early Palaeogene. During this interval, the Earth-life system on land was reset, and the biosphere expanded to a new level of productivity, enhancing the capacity and species diversity of terrestrial environments. This boost in terrestrial biodiversity coincided with innovations in flowering plant biology and evolutionary ecology, including their flowers and efficiencies in reproduction; coevolution with animals, especially pollinators and herbivores; photosynthetic capacities; adaptability; and ability to modify habitats. The rise of angiosperms triggered a macroecological revolution on land and drove modern biodiversity in a secular, prolonged shift to new, high levels, a series of processes we name here the Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution.

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“…Because of the much greater efficiency of parasitoids than predators in controlling herbivores (Lafferty et al ., 2006), the MMPR had a major effect on terrestrial ecosystems by trophic restructuring of food webs. Control of herbivores from previous resource‐driven (bottom‐up) links were supplanted by much more efficient parasitoid driven (top‐down) links (Labandeira & Li, 2021). The effect of the MMPR is well documented for the 35 million‐year‐younger Turonian Gerofit plant assemblage of the Ora Formation in southern Israel (Krassilov et al ., 2008), which shows small oviposition marks adjacent to larger leaf mines and exit holes on galls indicating parasitoid targeting of susceptible galler larvae, consistent with phase 3 of the MMPR (Labandeira & Li, 2021).…”

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Insect herbivory immediately before the eclipse of the gymnosperms: The Dawangzhangzi plant assemblage of Northeastern China

2022

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The Early Cretaceous terrestrial revolution involved global shifts from gymnosperm‐ to angiosperm‐dominated floras. However, responses of insect herbivores to these changes remain unexamined. We evaluated 2 176 highly sampled plant specimens representing 62 species/morphotypes from the 126 Ma Dawangzhangzi plant assemblage of Northeastern China. Our study consisted of horsetails, ferns, ginkgoaleans, czekanowskialeans, conifers, and an angiosperm. Their herbivory was evaluated by the functional feeding groups of hole feeding, margin feeding, and surface feeding (ectophytic feeders); piercer and suckers, and ovipositing insects (ectoendophytic feeders); mining, galling, and borings (endophytic feeders); and pathogens, collectively constituting 65 damage types (DTs). The plant assemblage was assessed for herbivory richness by DT richness, component community structure, and DT specialization on plant hosts; for herbivory intensity, it was evaluated for DT frequency, herbivorized surface area, and feeding event occurrences. Using feeding event occurrences, the data supported seven species/morphotypes as most intensely herbivorized: Liaoningocladus boii (76.6%), Czekanowskia sp. 1 (8.4%), Czekanowskia rigida (4.10%), Lindleycladus lanceolatus (3.5%), Ginkgoites sp. 2 (2.0%), Podozamites sp. 1 (1.1%), and Solenites sp. 1 (0.9%). The most herbivorized taxa were pinaleans (conifers), then czekanowskialeans, and lastly ginkgoaleans; the monodominant component community was the conifer Liaoningocladus boii. DT host specialization levels were low. The plant assemblage had an overall low 0.86% of foliage removed by herbivores, explained by physical and chemical antiherbivore defenses, and parasitoid attack. Although Paleozoic, gymnosperm‐dominated assemblages had greater herbivory, component community structure of the three most herbivorized taxa are more similar to modern bracken fern and willow than modern gymnosperm taxa.

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The History of Insect Parasitism and the Mid-Mesozoic Parasitoid Revolution

Cited by 30 publications

References 454 publications

Evolution and systematics of the Aculeata and kin (Hymenoptera), with emphasis on the ants (Formicoidea: †@@@idae fam. nov., Formicidae)

Evolution and systematics of the Aculeata and kin (Hymenoptera), with emphasis on the ants (Formicoidea: †@@@idae fam. nov., Formicidae)

The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution and the origins of modern biodiversity

Insect herbivory immediately before the eclipse of the gymnosperms: The Dawangzhangzi plant assemblage of Northeastern China

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