Liu Xingyue, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Ph.D. supervisor. Vice Chairman of the State Key Laboratory of Animal Diversity Conservation and Harmful Animal Prevention and Control, Institute of Zoology.

2025 - now, Research Fellow, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2008 - 2025, Lecturer, Associate Professor, and Professor, China Agricultural University

2008 - 2010, Post-doc, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Overseas Special Researcher)

2003 - 2008, Ph.D. in Agriculture, China Agricultural University

1999 - 2003, B.S. in Agriculture, China Agricultural University

Till now, as the first or corresponding author, I have published over 280 papers, including Systematic Biology, Nature Communications, Current Biology, Cladistics, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, and Systematic Entomology, etc. I have also edited and published 3 academic monographs related to insect taxonomy as the chief editor.

Insect Classification and Phylogenetic Evolution: By comprehensively adopting the paradigms of classical taxonomy and integrative systematics, this research direction systematically investigates faunistic classification, phylogenetic evolution, and the mechanisms underlying biodiversity formation.

Current research focuses include:

1. Taxonomic revision, species cataloging, and biodiversity distribution patterns of representative groups such as Neuropterida, Psocoptera and Dermaptera in China or worldwide.
2. Exploring the patterns, dynamics, and drivers of deep-time macroevolution of Neuropterida by integrating extant and fossil evidence, based on the reconstruction of morphological and genomic phylogenetic frameworks.
3. Regulatory mechanisms of the evolution of key traits in Neuropterida based on multi-omics data.

2025, Zhou Yao Entomological Taxonomy Fund Award (first prize)

2019, Chang Jiang Scholars Program - Young Scholar, Ministry of Education

2015, Young Teacher Award, Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation

2011, Fifth Youth Science and Technology Award, Entomological Society of China

2010, National Top 100 Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation, Ministry of Education

Presided over projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), including the Young Scientists Fund Project, General Program, and Excellent Young Scientists Fund Project, etc.

(*: First authors; #: Corresponding author)

1. Yang, D., Liu, X.Y.. 2010. Fauna Sinica. INSECTA. Vol.51. Megaloptera. Beijing, Science Press.
2. Yang, D., Liu, X.Y., Yang, X.K., et al. 2018. Species Catalogue of China. Volume 2 Animals. INSECTA (II), Neuropterida. Beijing, Science Press.
3. Yang, D., Liu, X.Y., Yang, X.K.. 2023. The Color Atlas of Neuropterida from China. Zhengzhou, Henan Science and Technology Press.
4. Tu, Y.Z., Li, X.K., Hayashi, F., Zhang, F., Yang, D., Condamine, F.L. & Liu, X.Y.* 2025. Non-adaptive radiation promotes phenotypic diversification and convergent evolution of aposematic mimicry in a highly diverse genus of Megaloptera. Systematic Biology, online.
5. Li, H.Y., Zhuo, D., Wang, B., Nakamine, H., Yamamoto, S., Zhang, W.W., Jepson, J.E., Ohl, M., Aspöck, U., Aspöck, H., Tin Nyunt, T., Engel, M.S., Benton, M.J., Donoghue, P. & Liu, X.Y.* 2025. A double-edged sword: Evolutionary novelty along deep-time diversity oscillation in an iconic group of predatory insects (Neuroptera: Mantispoidea). Systematic Biology, 74(3), 395-420.
6. Shen, R.R., Aspöck, H., Aspöck, U., Plant, J., Dai, Y.T. & Liu, X.Y.* 2022. Unraveling the evolutionary history of the snakefly family Inocelliidae (Insecta: Raphidioptera) through integrative phylogenetics. Cladistics, 38, 515-537.
7. Jiang, Y.L., Yue, L., Yang, F., Gillung, J.P., Winterton, S.L., Price, B.W., Contreras-Ramos, A., Hayashi, F., Aspöck, U., Aspöck, H., Yeates, D.K., Yang, D. & Liu, X.Y.* 2022. Similar pattern, different paths: tracing the biogeographical history of Megaloptera (Insecta: Neuropterida) using mitochondrial phylogenomics. Cladistics, 38, 374-391.
8. Jiang, Y.L.#, Yang, F.#, Yue, L., Yang, D., Hayashi, F. & Liu, X.Y.* 2021. Origin and spatio-temporal diversification of a fishfly lineage endemic to the islands of East Asia (Megaloptera: Corydalidae). Systematic Entomology, 46, 124-139.
9. Lu, X.M., Wang, B., Zhang, W.W., Ohl, M., Engel, M.S. & Liu, X.Y.* 2020. Cretaceous diversity and disparity in a lacewing lineage of predators (Neuroptera: Mantispidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287, 20200629.
10. Lu, X.M., Wang, B., Yang, S.Y. & Liu, X.Y.* 2019. Early evolution of Nemopteridae illuminated with the first and oldest thread-winged lacewing in Cretaceous amber. Systematic Entomology, 44, 262-272.
11. Liu, X.Y.*, Shi, G.L., Xia, F.Y., Lu, X.M., Wang, B.* & Engel, M.S.* 2018. Liverwort mimesis in a Cretaceous lacewing larva. Current Biology, 28, 1475-1481.
12. Liu, Q.#, Lu, X.M.#, Zhang, Q.Q.#, Chen, J., Zheng, X.T., Zhang, W.W., Liu, X.Y.* & Wang, B.* 2018. High niche diversity in Mesozoic pollinating lacewings. Nature Communications, 9, 3793.
13. Yang, F.#, Chang, W.C.#, Hayashi, F., Gillung, J., Jiang, Y.L., Yang, D. & Liu, X.Y.* 2018. Evolutionary history of the complex polymorphic dobsonfly genus Neoneuromus (Megaloptera: Corydalidae). Systematic Entomology, 43, 568-595.
14. Liu, X.Y.*, Aspöck, H., Winterton, S.L., Zhang, W.W. & Aspöck, U. 2017. Phylogeny of pleasing lacewings (Neuroptera: Dilaridae) with a revised generic classification and description of a new subfamily. Systematic Entomology, 42, 448-471.
15. Wang, Y.Y., Liu, X.Y.*, Garzón-Orduña, I.J., Winterton, S.L., Yan, Y., Aspöck, U., Aspöck, H. & Yang, D.* 2017. Mitochondrial phylogenomics illuminates the evolutionary history of Neuropterida. Cladistics, 33, 617-636.
16. Liu, X.Y.*, Zhang, W.W., Winterton, S.L., Breitkreuz, L.C.V. & Engel, M.S.* 2016. Early Morphological Specialization for Insect-Spider Associations in Mesozoic Lacewings. Current Biology, 26, 1590-1594.
17. Liu, X.Y.*, Lü, Y.N., Aspöck, H., Yang, D. & Aspöck, U. 2016. Homology of the genital sclerites of Megaloptera (Insecta: Neuropterida) and their phylogenetic relevance. Systematic Entomology, 41, 256-286.
18. Liu, X.Y.*, Hayashi, F. & Yang, D.* 2015. Phylogeny of the family Sialidae (Insecta: Megaloptera) inferred from morphological data, with implications for generic classification and historical biogeography. Cladistics, 31(1), 18-49.
19. Liu, X.Y.*, Winterton, S.L., Wu, C., Piper R. & Ohl, M. 2015. A new genus of mantidflies discovered in the Oriental region, with a higher-level phylogeny of Mantispidae (Neuroptera) using DNA sequences and morphology. Systematic Entomology, 40, 183-206.
20. Liu, X.Y.*#, Hayashi, F.#, Lavine, L.C. & Yang, D.* 2015. Is diversification in male reproductive traits driven by evolutionary trade-offs between weapons and nuptial gifts? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282, 20150247.