Specialization to extreme environments is often considered an evolutionary dead-end, leading to irreversible adaptations and reduced evolvability. There is, however, mixed evidence for this macroevolutionary pattern, and limited data from speciose lineages. Here, we tested the effect of habitat specialization...
Twenty years ago, Keith Miller, David Bilton and Hans Fery (1997) published a checklist of Hydradephaga from Cyprus. There have been no updates since then, and there are also no recent checklists of other families of water beetles from the island. In …