Reply to: "Insects with 100 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Feathers are not Ectoparasites" and "Crawlers of the Scale Insect Mesophthirus (Homoptera Xylococcidae) on Feathers in Burmese Amber-Wind Transport or Phoresy on Dinosaurs?"

	Reply to: "Insects with 100 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Feathers are not Ectoparasites" and "Crawlers of the Scale Insect Mesophthirus (Homoptera Xylococcidae) on Feathers in Burmese Amber-Wind Transport or Phoresy on Dinosaurs?"
	Gao, TP; Yin, XC; Shih, CK; Rasnitsyn, AP; Emeljanov, AF; Xu, X; Chen, S; Wang, C; Ren, D
刊名	PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL
	2022
卷号	56 期号:3 页码:333
英文摘要	We described ten nymph specimens of an insect, Mesophthirus engeli (incertae sedis), from the mid-Cretaceous Myanmar (Burmese) amber, preserved together with partially damaged dinosaur feathers. Based on the ectoparasitic morphological characters of these tiny insect nymphs, we concluded that Mesophthirus engeli was the earliest known feather-feeding insect and that integument-feeding behaviors of insects appeared during or before the mid-Cretaceous along with the radiations of feathered dinosaurs including birds. Grimaldi and Vea raised some concerns about these feather-feeding insects and supposed that the nymphs of Mesophthirus engeli were crawlers of scale insects, i.e. nymphal stages of Coccoidea, coincidentally co-occurring with damaged feathers. Shcherbakov (2022, this issue) accepted and developed the argumentation of Grimaldi and Vea (2021). We would like to address their concerns here.
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://210.75.249.4/handle/363003/61194]
专题	西北高原生物研究所_中国科学院西北高原生物研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gao, TP,Yin, XC,Shih, CK,et al. Reply to: "Insects with 100 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Feathers are not Ectoparasites" and "Crawlers of the Scale Insect Mesophthirus (Homoptera Xylococcidae) on Feathers in Burmese Amber-Wind Transport or Phoresy on Dinosaurs?"[J]. PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL,2022,56(3):333.
APA	Gao, TP.,Yin, XC.,Shih, CK.,Rasnitsyn, AP.,Emeljanov, AF.,...&Ren, D.(2022).Reply to: "Insects with 100 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Feathers are not Ectoparasites" and "Crawlers of the Scale Insect Mesophthirus (Homoptera Xylococcidae) on Feathers in Burmese Amber-Wind Transport or Phoresy on Dinosaurs?".PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL,56(3),333.
MLA	Gao, TP,et al."Reply to: "Insects with 100 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Feathers are not Ectoparasites" and "Crawlers of the Scale Insect Mesophthirus (Homoptera Xylococcidae) on Feathers in Burmese Amber-Wind Transport or Phoresy on Dinosaurs?"".PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL 56.3(2022):333.