A Cretaceous-aged Palaeotropical dispersal established an endemic lineage of Caribbean praying mantises
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A review of the research on Canary Islands praying mantises (Mantodea).
For many years researchers studying the fauna of the Canary Islands have only sparsely treated the charismatic insect order of praying mantises (Mantodea). By studying the known literature it becomes obvious that there are several inconsistencies regarding mantodean taxonomy as well as the number of actual species and their distribution within the archipelago. In the present contribution, the l...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1280