Geometric morphometric analysis of the pronotum and elytron in stag beetles: insight into its diversity and evolution

Stag beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Lucanidae) have received extensive attention from researchers in behavioral ecology and evolutionary biology. There have been no previous quantitative analyses, particularly using a geometric morphometric approach based on a large sample of...

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Main Authors: Mengna Zhang, Yongying Ruan, Xia Wan, Yijie Tong, Xingke Yang, Ming Bai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2019-03-01
Series:ZooKeys
Online Access:https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/26164/download/pdf/