Reconstructing the origins of praying mantises (Dictyoptera, Mantodea): The roles of Gondwanan vicariance and morphological convergence

Cladistics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 468-514

  Svenson, Gavin J ^a,b   Whiting, Michael F ^b  

^a NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFROTROPICAL REGION; BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; CONVERGENCE; CRETACEOUS; DIVERGENCE; GONDWANA; INDOMALAYA ECOZONE; INSECT; JURASSIC; MORPHOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SPECIALIZATION; VICARIANCE;

ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALASIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

BLATTARIA; DICTYOPTERA; ISOPTERA; MANTIS; MANTIS RELIGIOSA; MANTODEA;

EID: 70349224153     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: 10960031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00263.x     Document Type: Article

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