The male postabdomen and genital apparatus of †Mengea tertiaria, a strepsipteran amber fossil (Insecta)

Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 298-308

  Hünefeld, Frank ^a   Pohl, Hans ^a   Wipfler, Benjamin ^a   Beckmann, Felix ^b   Beutel, Rolf G ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mengea; Fossil; Genitalia; Phylogeny; Strepsiptera

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INSECT; MUSCLE; PARASITISM; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EOXENOS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MENGENILLA; MENGENILLIDAE; STREPSIPTERA; STYLOPIDIA;

EID: 80053956678     PISSN: 09475745     EISSN: 14390469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2011.00628.x     Document Type: Article

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