Early figures showing excitators in Scirtidae: (A) A plate published in a monograph by Henri Tournier (1868) – the first illustration of excitators in Scirtidae (marked with arrows), females of Contacyphon coarctatus (9, 10) and C. palustris (12); (B) A plate from Biologia Centrali-Americana (Champion 1897) showing excitators on elytra of Neotropical Ypsiloncyphon species.

#LiteratureNotice Ruta et al. Excitators: Female-Specific Secretory Structures in #MarshBeetles ( #Coleoptera: #Scirtidae) doi.org/10.3161/0003... #Beetle #Beetles #Histology

Image of a new scirtine fossil, Serracyphon philipsi gen. et sp. nov. and a revised phylogenomic analysis and Cretaceous fossil evidence, revealing new insights into the evolution of Scirtinae (Coleoptera: Scirtidae)

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Read this #OpenAccess paper for free in JSE! #systematics #evolution #Cretaceous #fossil #beetle #phylogenomics #Scirtidae #phylogeny

#LiteratureNotice Watts et al. Descriptions and notes on the larvae of Austrocyphon, C. mobula, Fratercyphon gen. nov., L. furcalonga, and Nothocyphon ( #Coleoptera, #Scirtidae), and a phylogeny based on these larvae using mitochondrial sequence data doi.org/10.1080/0372... #Beetle #Beetles

Thread by @GromesRoland on Thread Reader App @GromesRoland: Zeit für mehr #Käfer (#Coleoptera) Los geht's mit den meist kleinen Sumpfkäfern (Scirtidae): * Cyphon spec. * Elodes marginata (1/12) Die Prachtkäfer (Buprestidae) sind vor allem in den...

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