Bartłomiej Surmacz

1 Introduction The use of mitochondrial genomes in resolving phylogenetic relationships among different animal taxa has undoubtedly brought progress to the field of phylogenetics and systematics (e.g., Forni et al. 2021; García-Souto et al. 2025; Lavrov et al. 2023; Sun et al. 2020).

Associate Editor: Nalini Puniamoorthy W., Surmacz, B., Stec, D. & Miler, K. (2026) Beneath the sand: Microbiota composition across instars of two co-occurring antlion species. Ecological Entomology, 1–13. Available from: Antoł, https://doi.org/10.1111/een.70084 CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

1 Introduction Human impact drives biodiversity loss, yet among the great variety of life forms, different organisms respond differently to anthropogenic changes, which limits the generalisations of human pressure across taxa (Keck et al. 2025).