Insect mimicry of plants dates back to the Permian
Romain Garrouste, Sylvain Hugel, Lauriane Jacquelin and 4 more
Nature Communications · 2016
doi:10.1038/ncomms13735 (opens in a new tab)
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Abstract
Many insects mimic plants in order to avoid detection by predators. Here, Garrouste and colleagues describe a katydid fossil that extends the record of leaf mimicry to the Middle Permian, more than 100 million years earlier than previously known fossil specimens of plant mimicry.
Abstract licence: CC BY-NC-ND
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