Five Pennsylvanian eumetabolan fossils

Small-bodied fossils sample several eumetabolan branches before the better-known post-Permian crown radiations.

Represented range315–299 Ma

RegionsMoscovian and Gzhelian fossil localities in France and Russia

CladesEumetabola · Holometabola · Hemiptera · Psocodea

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Five Moscovian-to-Gzhelian insect fossils document a stem coleopterid, a holometabolous larva, a stem hymenopterid, early Hemiptera and Psocodea, expanding sampled Pennsylvanian Eumetabola without proving synchronous origins or later crown-order first appearances.

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References

The earliest known holometabolous insectsNel, A.; Roques, P.; Nel, P.; Prokin, A.A.; Bourgoin, T.; Prokop, J.; et al. · 2013 · DOI 10.1038/nature12629

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