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Keywords: thistles as host plants of insects, thistle tribes and their insect fauna, resource heterogeneity of thistle host plants, Compositae, Cynaroideae, resource heterogeneity of thistle host plants, habitats of host plants, agricultural and rangeland weeds, insects as biogeographic tracers of the Cynaroideae, evolutionary aspects, importance of preadapted species pools, intraspecific evolution of thistle insects, adaptations of phytophagous insects to thistle hosts, guild structure in thistle insects