The morphology and evolution of the adult head of Adephaga (Insecta: Coleoptera)

Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 239-287

  Dressler, Carina ^a   Beutel, Rolf Georg ^b  

^a SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adephaga; Adephagan ground plan; Amphizoidae; Aspidytidae; Cladistic analysis; Geadephaga; Haliplidae; Head morphology; Hydradephaga; Trachypachidae

Indexed keywords

ADEPHAGA; AMPHIZOA; AMPHIZOIDAE; ASPIDYTES; ASPIDYTIDAE; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; GYRINIDAE; HALIPLIDAE; HALIPLUS; HYDRADEPHAGA; INSECTA; TRACHYPACHIDAE; TRACHYPACHUS;

EID: 79952535457     PISSN: 18637221     EISSN: 18648312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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