• A study on the recovery of insect herbivores after the
Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event as indicated by insect-feeding damage on fossil leaves from the
Maastrichtian and
Danian localities in
Patagonia (
Argentina) is published by Donovan
et al. (2016). • A study of the
morphology of the surface microstructure of the wings, head and abdomen of the
Carboniferous megasecopteran
Brodioptera sinensis is published by Prokop, Pecharová & Ren (2016). • A study on the anatomy of the
respiratory and
alimentary systems of
Saurophthirus longipes is published by Strelnikova & Rasnitsyn (2016). • New anatomical data on the fossil beetle
Onthophilus intermedius, obtained by using X-ray computed tomography, is published by Schwermann
et al. (2016). •
Setae comparable with setae of extant
dermestid beetle larvae are described from the
Cretaceous Burmese amber by Poinar & Poinar (2016). • A second specimen of the Cretaceous
mosquito Burmaculex antiquus is described by Borkent &
Grimaldi (2016). • A study of well-preserved
kalligrammatid fossils from Middle Jurassic and Early Cretaceous sites in northeastern China, indicating that kalligrammatids
convergently evolved some of the anatomical traits also present in butterflies, is published by Labandeira
et al. (2016). • Fossilized termite nests with preserved fungus gardens within them are described from the Oligocene Songwe Member of the
Nsungwe Formation in the Rukwa Rift Basin (
Tanzania) by Roberts
et al. (2016). •
Chrysopoid larvae,
myrmeleontoid (
owlfly and
nymphid) larvae and
reduviid nymphs preserved
carrying debris for
camouflage are described from the Cretaceous Burmese, French and Lebanese ambers by Wang
et al. (2016). • A fossilized
bee nest is described from the Buxton-Norlim Limeworks in
South Africa by Parker, Hopley & Kuhn (2016). ==References==