Goodbye Halteria? The thoracic morphology of Endopterygota (Insecta) and its phylogenetic implications

Cladistics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 579-612

  Friedrich, Frank ^a,b   Beutel, Rolf G ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLADISTICS; DATA SET; INSECT; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; RECONSTRUCTION; SKELETON; TAXONOMY;

AMPHIESMENOPTERA; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; ENDOPTERYGOTA; HALTERIA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; MECOPTERA; NANNOCHORISTIDAE; NEUROPTERIDA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); STREPSIPTERA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 77955617676     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: 10960031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2010.00305.x     Document Type: Article

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