Adaptations for nectar-feeding in the mouthparts of long-proboscid flies (Nemestrinidae: Prosoeca)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 414-424

  Karolyi, Florian ^a   Szucsich, Nikolaus U ^a   Colville, Jonathan F ^b   Krenn, Harald W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Co evolution; Diptera; Flower visiting; Functional morphology; Pollination

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY SIZE; COEVOLUTION; FLOWER; FLOWER VISITING; FLY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; NECTAR; POLLINATION;

DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; NEMESTRINIDAE; PROSOECA;

EID: 84866320009     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01945.x     Document Type: Article

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