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A mantidfly in Cretaceous Spanish amber provides insights into the evolution of integumentary specialisations on the raptorial foreleg
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Multiple predatory insect lineages have developed a raptorial lifestyle by which they strike and hold prey using modified forelegs armed with spine-like structures and other integumentary specialisations. However, how structures enabling the raptorial function evolved in insects remains largely hypothetical or inferred through phylogeny due to the rarity of meaningful fossils. This is particularly true for mantidflies (Neuroptera: Mantispidae), which have a scarce fossil record mostly base...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Nature Research Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Scientific Reports Journal website
- Volume:
- 9
- Publication date:
- 2019-09-13
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-08-24
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2045-2322
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:1053348
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uuid:b84fea0e-508b-4f8a-8cb7-038b1f130c4c
- Local pid:
- pubs:1053348
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1053348
- Deposit date:
- 2019-09-13
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- Pérez-de la Fuente and Peñalver
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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- © The Author(s) 2019. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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