Fig. 7

Simplified phylogenies of Astigmata and Isoptera correlated on a geological time scale with marked termite-mite associations and a reconstruction of the described termite-mite association. For a full list of Astigmata/termite associations see Table 1 in supplementary materials. Red dots indicate the herein described mite/termite association and grey boxes the other (extant) associations. Each association is indicated by a number. Grey scale bars reveal occurrence of the clade based on molecular data, while red lines indicate fossil calibrations. Note that the phylogeny of Astigmata is morphologically based and superfamilies appear to be non-monophyletic. Therefore, their origin based on molecular data might differ somewhat in reality. Data for Astigmata phylogeny is used from Seeman & Walter [5] and for Isoptera phylogeny from Jouault et al. [51]. The reconstruction was made by Júlia Káčerová