Significance of hind wing morphology in distinguishing genera and species of cantharid beetles with a geometric morphometric analysis

There remain some difficulties in delimitation of related genera or sibling species for cantharid beetles, because the traditionally taxonomic method and morphological characters have not been updated or introduced. In the present study, we firstly use the landmark-based geometric morphometrics to a...

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Main Authors: Junyan Su, Kaile Guan, Jiaxu Wang, Yuxia Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2015-05-01
Series:ZooKeys
Online Access:http://zookeys.pensoft.net/lib/ajax_srv/article_elements_srv.php?action=download_pdf&item_id=5222