The first adult mantis lacewing from Baltic amber, with an evaluation of the post-Cretaceous loss of morphological diversity of raptorial appendages in Mantispidae
Mantis lacewings (Neuroptera: Mantispidae) are prominent and charismatic predatory representatives of Insecta. Nevertheless, representatives of the group are surprisingly scarce in Paleogene deposits after a relative abundance of specimens known from Cretaceous. Here we present Mantispa? damzenogeda...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Pensoft Publishers
2022-02-01
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Series: | Fossil Record |
Online Access: | https://fr.pensoft.net/article/80134/download/pdf/ |