A team of Japanese researchers has successfully demonstrated that loss of flight has been the major driving force for beetle diversification. Carrion beetles: winged species Necrophila brunnicollis at left and wingless species Silpha longicornis at right (Insects.jp / Shuhei Nomura) Insects are an enormously species-rich group representing more than half of all described species. One of the most important events for the insect diversification is the...
