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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Autori principali: Baranov, V, Pérez-de la Fuente, R, Engel, MS, Hammel, JU, Kiesmüller, C, Hörnig, MK, Pazinato, PG, Stahlecker, C, Haug, C, Haug, JT
Natura: Journal article
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Pensoft Publishers 2022