Extreme adaptations for aquatic ectoparasitism in a Jurassic fly larva
The reconstruction of ancient insect ectoparasitism is challenging, mostly because of the extreme ellakai scarcity of fossils with obvious ectoparasitic features such as sucking-piercing mouthparts and specialized attachment organs.Here we describe a bizarre fly larva (Diptera), Qiyia jurassica gen.et sp.nov., from the Jurassic of China, that repre