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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Pensoft Publishers
2015-05-01
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Series: | ZooKeys |
Online Access: | http://zookeys.pensoft.net/lib/ajax_srv/article_elements_srv.php?action=download_pdf&item_id=5222 |