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