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Recognition and completeness: two key metrics for judging the utility of citizen science data

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Volume 21, Issue 4, Page 167-174, May 2023., 2023
Biodiversity citizen science data are being collected at unprecedented scales, and are key for informing conservation and research. Species‐level data typically provide the most valuable information, but recognition of specimens to species level from photographs varies among taxa.
Thomas Mesaglio, Corey T Callaghan, Fabrice Samonte, Simon BZ Gorta, William K Cornwell   +4 more
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Mating behaviour and copulatory mechanism in the scorpionfly Neopanorpa longiprocessa (Mecoptera: Panorpidae). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Sexual conflict during copulation may drive morphological and behavioral evolution in insects. Although nuptial feeding behaviour is well studied in Panorpa, whether this behaviour is universal in Panorpidae remains unknown.
Wen Zhong, Baozhen Hua
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Life habits and evolutionary biology of new two-winged long-proboscid scorpionflies from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber

Nature Communications, 2019
Long-proboscid scorpionflies were associated with mid-Mesozoic gymnosperm pollination. Here, Lin et al. establish a new family of long-proboscid scorpionflies from Myanmar amber, elucidate evolutionary mechanisms of hind-wing reduction, and detail ...
Xiaodan Lin, Conrad C. Labandeira, Chungkun Shih, Carol L. Hotton, Dong Ren   +4 more
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Taxonomy of the genus Neopanorpa van der Weele, 1909 (Mecoptera, Panorpidae) from the Oriental Region, with the description of two new species

European Journal of Taxonomy, 2019
Neopanorpa van der Weele, 1909 is the second largest genus in Panorpidae, and over 170 Oriental species have been reported hitherto. In this paper, we describe two new species: Neopanorpa luojishana sp. nov. and Neopanorpa xingmini sp. nov.
Ji-Shen Wang, Bao-Zhen Hua
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The genome sequence of the German scorpionfly, <i>Panorpa germanica</i> Linnaeus, 1758. [PDF]

Wellcome Open Res
We present a genome assembly from an individual male Panorpa germanica (the German scorpionfly; Arthropoda; Insecta; Mecoptera; Panorpidae). The genome sequence is 464.2 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 21 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the X sex chromosome ...
Sivell D, Mitchell R, Crowley LM, Natural History Museum Genome Acquisition Lab, University of Oxford and Wytham Woods Genome Acquisition Lab, Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective, Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team, Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations, Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team, Tree of Life Core Informatics collective, Darwin Tree of Life Consortium.   +11 more
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FIGHTING AND ASSESSMENT IN HARPOBITTACUS SCORPIONFLIES [PDF]

Evolution, 1984
For reasons that are still not clear, after Darwin (1871) and until the mid1960's, animal contest behavior was seen as evolved for the benefit of groups (e.g., Lorenz, 1966). It is now realized that investigations of animal agonistic behavior are most appropriately framed in terms of costs and benefits to individual reproduction.
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The Mecoptera, or Scorpionflies, of Illinois

Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin, 1975
The objective of this study is to update our knowledge of the distribution and natural history of Mecoptera, particularly in relation to the biogeographic history of Illinois. Synoptic descriptions, keys, and illustrations have been prepared to provide an insight into this primitive and interesting group of insects.
Webb, Donald W., Penny, Norman D., Marlin, John C.   +2 more
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Three new species of Mecoptera (Insecta, Antliophora) from Yunnan, China

European Journal of Taxonomy
The hangingflies (Bittacidae Handlirsch, 1906) and the scorpionflies (Panorpidae Latreille, 1802) are the two largest groups within the holometabolous order Mecoptera Packard, 1886. In this paper, a new hangingfly and two new scorpionflies are described:
Jiao Xie, Ji-Shen Wang
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Habitat divergence shapes the morphological diversity of larval insects: insights from scorpionflies

Scientific Reports, 2019
Insects are the most diverse group of organisms in the world, but how this diversity was achieved is still a disputable and unsatisfactorily resolved issue.
Lu Jiang, Yuan Hua, Gui-Lin Hu, Bao-Zhen Hua   +3 more
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Same Same, but Different: A Glossary of Carcino‐Entomology as a Basis for an Improved Communication and for a Modern View of Carcinology Encompassing Entomology

Acta Zoologica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT One core aspect of science is communication, both among researchers as well as with the public. For successful communication, it is crucial that the terminology used is clear to avoid misunderstandings. Especially when researchers working on different groups of organisms communicate, they often use different terms for similar morphological ...
Joachim T. Haug, Carolin Haug
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