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Patterns of morphological simplification and innovation in the megadiverse Holometabola (Insecta)
Abstract We analyzed patterns of complexity and simplicity in holometabolan insects using parsimony and maximum‐likelihood. By contrast with other groups of arthropods (and most other groups of animals), insects have undergone a stepwise process of structural simplification in their evolution.
Rolf Georg Beutel +2 more
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New cleroid beetles from the Middle–Late Jurassic of China [PDF]
Four specimens of fossil beetles recorded from the Middle and Late Jurassic boundary beds of Inner Mongolia, China are assigned to the melyrid lineage of Cleroidea. Three of them are described as Sinomelyris praedecessor gen. et sp. nov.
Jiří Kolibáč, Diying Huang
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Abstract Aim Holm oak (Quercus ilex L.) is regarded as a keystone plant species. Trophic interactions may affect the distribution and abundance of phytophagous species, but the number of arthropod species that use holm oak as a food resource and their levels of host specificity are not yet known.
Juan Antonio Hernández‐Agüero +3 more
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Фауна жесткокрылых надсемейства Cleroidea (Coleoptera) Тюменской области
В работе приводится аннотированный список жесткокрылых насекомых надсемейства Cleroidea Тюменской области. На основе собственных сборов и литературных данных, на исследуемой территории достоверно выявлено 26 видов из 19 родов и 4 семейств: Trogossitidae
Елена Викторовна Сергеева +1 more
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Selected representatives of Cucujoidea, Cleroidea, Tenebrionoidea, Chrysomelidae, and Lymexylidae were examined. External and internal head structures of larvae of Sphindus americanus and Ericmodes spp. are described in detail.
Rolf Georg BEUTEL +1 more
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The type collection of the superfamilies Scarabaeoidea, Buprestoidea, Byrrhoidea, Elateroidea, Cleroidea, Cucujoidea, Tenebrionoidea (except Tenebrionidae family), Chrysomeloidea and Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) deposited in the Natural Sciences Museum of
A. Viñolas +2 more
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A new malachite beetle, Baltamauroania mirabilicornis gen. et sp. nov., belonging to the tribe Amauroniodini (Coleoptera: Dasytidae) embedded in Eocene Baltic amber is described and illustrated.
Sergei E. Tshernyshev +3 more
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In this study, the complete mitochondrial genome of Idgia oculata Redtenbacher, 1868 was sequenced using Illumina’s NovaSeq platform. The mitogenome is a double-stranded circular molecule of 15,805 bp in length with 22 transfer RNA genes, 13 protein ...
Ling Wu, Ruie Nie, Ming Bai, Yuxia Yang
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The results of the study of several hundred specimens of the genus Charopus, preserved in public and private collections from the Mediterranean region are here presented. For C. rotundatus Erichson, 1840 the neotype is here described. C.
Gabriele Franzini
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A new genus with a new species of soft-winged flower beetle, Pectotibialis paghmanensis Tshernyshev gen. et sp. nov. are described from Afghanistan. The new genus can be distinguished from the congeners of the tribe Apalochrini by the dark pectination in
Sergei E. Tshernyshev
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