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A fossil biting midge (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from early Eocene Indian amber with a complex pheromone evaporator

The life-like fidelity of organisms captured in amber is unique among all kinds of fossilization and represents an invaluable source for different fields of palaeontological and biological research. One of the most challenging aspects in amber research is the study of traits related to behaviour. He...

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Autores principales: Stebner, Frauke, Szadziewski, Ryszard, Rühr, Peter T., Singh, Hukam, Hammel, Jörg U., Kvifte, Gunnar Mikalsen, Rust, Jes
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5048152/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27698490
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep34352
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author Stebner, Frauke
Szadziewski, Ryszard
Rühr, Peter T.
Singh, Hukam
Hammel, Jörg U.
Kvifte, Gunnar Mikalsen
Rust, Jes
author_facet Stebner, Frauke
Szadziewski, Ryszard
Rühr, Peter T.
Singh, Hukam
Hammel, Jörg U.
Kvifte, Gunnar Mikalsen
Rust, Jes
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description The life-like fidelity of organisms captured in amber is unique among all kinds of fossilization and represents an invaluable source for different fields of palaeontological and biological research. One of the most challenging aspects in amber research is the study of traits related to behaviour. Here, indirect evidence for pheromone-mediated mating behaviour is recorded from a biting midge (Ceratopogonidae) in 54 million-year-old Indian amber. Camptopterohelea odora n. sp. exhibits a complex, pocket shaped structure on the wings, which resembles the wing folds of certain moth flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) and scent organs that are only known from butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) so far. Our studies suggests that pheromone releasing structures on the wings have evolved independently in biting midges and might be much more widespread in fossil as well as modern insects than known so far.
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spelling pubmed-50481522016-10-11 A fossil biting midge (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from early Eocene Indian amber with a complex pheromone evaporator Stebner, Frauke Szadziewski, Ryszard Rühr, Peter T. Singh, Hukam Hammel, Jörg U. Kvifte, Gunnar Mikalsen Rust, Jes Sci Rep Article The life-like fidelity of organisms captured in amber is unique among all kinds of fossilization and represents an invaluable source for different fields of palaeontological and biological research. One of the most challenging aspects in amber research is the study of traits related to behaviour. Here, indirect evidence for pheromone-mediated mating behaviour is recorded from a biting midge (Ceratopogonidae) in 54 million-year-old Indian amber. Camptopterohelea odora n. sp. exhibits a complex, pocket shaped structure on the wings, which resembles the wing folds of certain moth flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) and scent organs that are only known from butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) so far. Our studies suggests that pheromone releasing structures on the wings have evolved independently in biting midges and might be much more widespread in fossil as well as modern insects than known so far. Nature Publishing Group 2016-10-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5048152/ /pubmed/27698490 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep34352 Text en Copyright © 2016, The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Stebner, Frauke
Szadziewski, Ryszard
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Singh, Hukam
Hammel, Jörg U.
Kvifte, Gunnar Mikalsen
Rust, Jes
A fossil biting midge (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from early Eocene Indian amber with a complex pheromone evaporator
title A fossil biting midge (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from early Eocene Indian amber with a complex pheromone evaporator
title_full A fossil biting midge (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from early Eocene Indian amber with a complex pheromone evaporator
title_fullStr A fossil biting midge (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from early Eocene Indian amber with a complex pheromone evaporator
title_full_unstemmed A fossil biting midge (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from early Eocene Indian amber with a complex pheromone evaporator
title_short A fossil biting midge (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from early Eocene Indian amber with a complex pheromone evaporator
title_sort fossil biting midge (diptera: ceratopogonidae) from early eocene indian amber with a complex pheromone evaporator
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5048152/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27698490
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep34352
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