<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Taiping Gao</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Xiangchu Yin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chungkun Shih</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rasnitsyn,Alexander P.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A. F. Emeljanov</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Xing Xu</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sha Chen</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chen Wang</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dong Ren</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Reply to: “Insects with 100 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Feathers are not Ectoparasites” and “Crawlers of the Scale Insect Mesophthirus (Homoptera Xylococcidae) on Feathers in Burmese Amber—Wind Transport or Phoresy on Dinosaurs?”</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Paleontological Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ectoparasitic insect</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">feather-feeding</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fossil</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mesophthirus</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mid-Cretaceous</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Myanmar amber</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2022</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jun-01-2022</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0031030122030054</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">56</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">333-337</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;We described ten nymph specimens of an insect, Mesophthirus engeli (incertae sedis), from the mid-Cretaceous Myanmar (Burmese) amber, preserved together with partially damaged dinosaur feathers. Based on the ectoparasitic morphological characters of these tiny insect nymphs, we concluded that Mesophthirus engeli was the earliest known feather-feeding insect and that integument-feeding behaviors of insects appeared during or before the mid-Cretaceous along with the radiations of feathered dinosaurs including birds. Grimaldi and Vea raised some concerns about these feather-feeding insects and supposed that the nymphs of Mesophthirus engeli were crawlers of scale insects, i.e. nymphal stages of Coccoidea, coincidentally co-occurring with damaged feathers. Shcherbakov (2022, this issue) accepted and developed the argumentation of Grimaldi and Vea (2021). We would like to address their concerns here.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Original paper of Gao et al (2019) see http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13516-4 or https://phthiraptera.myspecies.info/node/94822&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Paper by Grimaldi and Vera (2021) see http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21751-x or https://phthiraptera.myspecies.info/node/95375&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Paper by Shcherbakov (2022) see https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0031030122030121 or https://phthiraptera.myspecies.info/node/95672&lt;/p&gt;
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