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Antiquity and Evolution of Prosternal Horns in Baridine Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Steven R. Davis  and
Michael S. Engel
Steven R. Davis
Affiliation:
Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 1501 Crestline Drive, Suite 140, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66049-2811,
Michael S. Engel
Affiliation:
Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 1501 Crestline Drive, Suite 140, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66049-2811,
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Abstract

Among weevils of the subfamily Baridinae (548 extant genera and ca. 9,000 species), unique prosternal horns and associated sheaths have evolved independently multiple times. These structures are utilized in a unique form of male-male aggression in which males push, rather than overturn as in most other horned beetles, their competitor. Herein we report the first fossils of male Baridinae exhibiting such prosternal horns. Two males recovered from the middle Eocene Green River Formation in northwestern Colorado serve to provide a minimum age (at ca. 47 million years old) for both the origin of horns and its associated form of male-male combat in Baridinae.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 84 , Issue 5 , September 2010 , pp. 918 - 926
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