New data from the Middle Jurassic of China shed light on the phylogeny and origin of the proboscis in the Mesopsychidae (Insecta: Mecoptera)

BACKGROUND: The Mesopsychidae is an extinct family of Mecoptera, comprising eleven described genera from Upper Permian to Lower Cretaceous deposits. In 2009, several well-preserved mesopsychids with long proboscides were reported from the mid Mesozoic of Northeastern China, suggesting the presence o...

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Autores principales: Lin, Xiaodan, Shih, Matthew J. H., Labandeira, Conrad C., Ren, Dong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4700641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26727998
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0575-y

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4700641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26727998
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0575-y

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