Klass et al. (1) linked the extinct fossil taxon Raptophasma to newly described species of an extant taxon Mantophasma, hypothesizing that they form a monophyletic group. This result is interesting and uncontroversial. However, I doubt the claim that Raptophasma and Mantophasma represent a new order of Insecta, Mantophasmatodea. I feel that these insects are instead aberrant members of the orde...

The mid-abdominal musculature and its innervation are compared for several lower neopteran “orders”; data on Embioptera and Mantophasmatodea are presented for the fi rst time. For the sclerotisations, the musculature, and the nervous system of the mid-abdomen general descriptions are given, and general aspects of homologisation in these elements are explained; for the lateral muscles the distin...

n -Ma nni tols, la beled eit her wi t h carbo n-14 at Cl , C2, or C3, o r wi t h tri t ium a t tached to Cl , C2, or C3, were prepared . After oxidatio n by Acetobacter suboxydans, t he dist ribu tion of r adioactivity in each of t he r esul t ing labeled n-fructoses wa deter mined . La beled nmanni tol is uni que a mong t he hexito ls in t ha t i t may be ox idi zed by A . suboxydans in eit he...