Diying Huang

A giant Jurassic hunter: the earliest dipluran and its implications for hexapod body pattern evolution

Abstract Hexapoda comprises the hyperdiverse insects and three cryptic, early-diverging lineages, Protura, Collembola, and Diplura, that are key to understanding the hexapod body pattern but remain extremely rare as fossils. Here, we report the earliest dipluran, Sinojapyx gigant...