Dorsal sex pheromone glands in female Geometridae (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea): a new apomorphy of the family [PDF]
European Journal of Entomology, 2001 The female Geometridae are characterized by the presence of saccular pheromone glands. They are paired structures, invaginated anteriorly and located dorso-laterally to the rectum.
Amel BENDIB
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Unusual lizard fossil from the Miocene of Nebraska and a minimum age for cnemidophorine teiids [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Teiid lizards are well represented in the fossil record and are common components of modern ecosystems in North and South America. Many fossils were referred to the cnemidophorine teiid group (whiptails, racerunners and relatives), particularly from ...
Simon G. Scarpetta
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The first known fossil Uma: ecological evolution and the origins of North American fringe-toed lizards [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019 Background Fossil evidence suggests that extant North American lizard genera (north of Mexico) evolved during the Miocene. Although fossils of the clade Phrynosomatidae (spiny lizards and sand lizards) have been reported, there have been no previously ...
Simon G. Scarpetta
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Using the Fossil Record to Evaluate Timetree Timescales [PDF]
Frontiers in Genetics, 2019 The fossil and geologic records provide the primary data used to established absolute timescales for timetrees. For the paleontological evaluation of proposed timetree timescales, and for node-based methods for constructing timetrees, the fossil record ...
Charles R. Marshall, Charles R. Marshall
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A remarkable new genus of Thripinae (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) without anteocellar setae from India [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2023 Nandithrips pouzolziae gen. et sp. nov. (Thripidae, Thripinae) is described from the flowers of Pouzolzia petandra subsp. wightii (Urticaceae) found in Nandi hills, Karnataka, India.
Remani Rajan Rachana +3 more
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Comparative morphology of the musculature of the sting apparatus in Ampulex compressa (Hymenoptera, Ampulicidae) and Sceliphron destillatorium (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) [PDF]
Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 2021 The sting apparatus of aculeate Hymenoptera is derived from the ovipositor and is their most prominent apomorphy. In contrast to the frequently analysed sclerites of the sting apparatus, the associated musculature has largely been neglected.
Stefan Graf +2 more
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Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2021 Phytomelanin is a mechanically hard, blackish, and inert substance rarely found in plants. In Asteraceae, this substance was historically associated with the Heliantheae alliance, but recent studies have observed it in unrelated groups as Heterocoma and ...
DANILO MARQUES +2 more
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Anatomical notes and discussion of the first described aetosaur Stagonolepis robertsoni (Archosauria: Suchia) from the Upper Triassic of Europe, and the use of plesiomorphies in aetosaur biochronology [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Stagonolepis robertsoni, from the Late Triassic of Scotland, was the first named aetosaurian. Known mostly from a series of natural molds from two localities, the osteology of this taxon has been difficult to interpret.
William G. Parker
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Oreocharis xieyongii, an unusual new species of Gesneriaceae from western Hunan, China
Plant Diversity, 2022 A new species, Oreocharis xieyongii T. Deng, D.G. Zhang & H. Sun, from Hunan Province, central China, is described. The combination of purple zygomorphic corolla with longer adaxial lobes and exserted stamens defines the species and discriminates it ...
Zhen-Yu Lv +8 more
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Pterosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Angola
Diversity, 2022 Here, we describe the first pterosaur remains from Angola, an assemblage of fourteen bones from the Lower Maastrichtian marine deposits of Bentiaba, Namibe Province. One new species is introduced, Epapatelo otyikokolo, gen. et sp.
Alexandra E. Fernandes +6 more
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