Livro:
Grimaldi, D. & Engel, M. S. 2005. Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Artigos:
Gómez-Zurita. J.; Hunt, T.; Kopliku, F. & Vogler, A. P. 2007. Recalibrated Tree of Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) Indicates Independent Diversification of Angiosperms and Their Insect Herbivores. PLoS ONE 2(4): e360.
Hunt, T. et al. 2007. A Comprehensive Phylogeny of Beetles Reveals the Evolutionary Origins of a Superradiation. Science, 318: 1913-1916.
Disponível em: www.sciencemag.org/content/318/5858/1913.full.pdf
Mayhew, P. J. 2007. Why are there so many insect species? Perspectives from fossils and phylogenies. Biol. Rev. Camb. Philos. Soc., 82(3): 425-54.
Disponível em: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-185X.2007.00018.x/pdf
McPeek, M. A. & Brown, J. M. 2007. Clade Age and Not Diversification Rate Explains Species Richness among Animal Taxa" The American Naturalist, 169: E97-E106.Disponível em: http://www.bio-nica.info/biblioteca/McPeak2007CladeAgeNotDiversification.pdf
Vermeij, G. J. & Grosberg, R. K. 2010. The Great Divergence: When Did Diversity on Land Exceed That in the Sea? Integrative and Comparative Biology, 50 (4): 675–682.
Disponível em: http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/content/50/4/675.full.pdf+html
