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Mandible mechanical properties and composition of the larval Glossosoma boltoni (Trichoptera, Insecta). [PDF]

Sci Rep
Insect feeding structures, such as mandibles, interact with the ingesta (food or/and substrate) and can be adapted in morphology, composition of material and mechanical properties.
Krings W, Below P, Gorb SN.
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Structural mouthpart interaction evolved already in the earliest lineages of insects. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci, 2015
Blanke A, Rühr PT, Mokso R, Villanueva P, Wilde F, Stampanoni M, Uesugi K, Machida R, Misof B.   +8 more
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Material composition of the mouthpart cuticle in a damselfly larva (Insecta: Odonata) and its biomechanical significance. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci, 2018
Odonata larvae are key predators in their habitats. They catch prey with a unique and highly efficient apparatus, the prehensile mask. The mandibles and maxillae, however, play the lead in handling and crushing the food.
Büsse S, Gorb SN.
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Isopod mouthpart traits respond to a tropical forest recovery gradient.

Oecologia, 2023
Functional trait ecology has the potential to provide generalizable and mechanistic predictions of ecosystem function from data of species distributions and traits.
Shawn B. H. Ang, W. N. Lam, G. Png, Sylvia K. B. Tan, Benjamin P Y-H Lee, Max Khoo, M. Luskin, David A. Wardle, Eleanor M. Slade   +8 more
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The mouthparts of the adult dragonfly Anax imperator (Insecta: Odonata), functional morphology and feeding kinematics [PDF]

, 2022
Insects evolved differently specialized mouthparts. We study the mouthparts of adult Anax imperator, one of the largest odonates found in Central Europe. Like all adult dragonflies, A. imperator possesses carnivorous-type of biting-chewing mouthparts. To
Büsse, Sebastian, Gorb, Stanislav, Josten, Benedikt   +2 more
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Mouthpart adaptations of antlion larvae facilitate prey handling and fluid feeding in sandy habitats.

Journal of Experimental Biology, 2022
Antlion larvae are fluid-feeding ambush predators that feed on arthropods trapped in their funnel-shaped pits built in sandy habitats; however, details are lacking about their feeding mechanism.
M. Lehnert, Asheesh Lanba, Kristen E. Reiter, Rena J. Fonseca, Jordan Minninger, B. Hall, W. Huff   +6 more
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A new species of early Cambrian arthropod reconstructed from exceptionally preserved mandibles and associated small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs)

Papers in Palaeontology, 2022
Mandibulate arthropods (myriapods, hexapods and crustaceans) account for a major component of extant animal diversity but their origins remain unclear.
T. Harvey, N. Butterfield
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Mouthpart Ecomorphology and Predatory Behaviour in Selected Rove Beetles of the “Staphylinine Group” (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae, Paederinae)

Insects, 2022
Simple Summary An understanding of the evolution and diversity of organisms is vital not only in its own right, but also with regard to the way that ecosystems function and can be protected. We explore the mouthpart morphology, the feeding behaviour, and
Benedict Stocker, Sonja Barthold, O. Betz   +2 more
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Morphological adaptations of the mouthparts to the ectoparasitic lifestyle of the biting midge Forcipomyia paludis (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), specialized in Odonata [PDF]

, 2022
Damselflies and dragonflies are well-known hosts of the West Palaearctic biting midge Forcipomyia paludis. Females of this ectoparasitic dipteran mainly cling to the host’s wings, sucking hemolymph from the wing veins.
Büsse, Sebastian, Gorb, Stanislav, Wildermuth, Hansruedi   +2 more
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Bottom‐up effects of plant quantity and quality on arthropod diversity across multiple trophic levels in a semi‐arid grassland

Journal of Ecology, 2022
Plant quantity and quality can independently affect the diversity of the entire arthropod communities and multiple arthropod taxa in grassland ecosystems.
Xiaoming Lu, Xuezhen Zhao, Taiki Tachibana, K. Uchida, Takehiro Sasaki, Yongfei Bai   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source