Early Morphological Specialization for Insect-Spider Associations in Mesozoic Lacewings
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Early Morphological Specialization for Insect-Spider Associations in Mesozoic Lacewings
Insects exhibit a wide diversity of anatomical specializations in their adult and immature stages associated with particular aspects of their biology. The order Neuroptera (lacewings, antlions, and their relatives) are a moderately diverse lineage of principally predatory animals, at least in their immature stages, as all have a modified piercing-sucking mandible-maxillary complex that allows t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.04.039