External and internal features of the male postabdomen of Tetraphalerus bruchi were examined with a broad spectrum of morphological techniques and are described in detail. The conditions found in males of Tetraphalerus are ...

The discovery of the southernmost world record (49.5S) of a Late Cretaceous insect fauna and plant-insect interactions is reported herein. The new locality is from the middle Cenomanian lacustrine deposits of the Mata ...

In order to infer phylogenetic relationships within the extraordinarily speciesrich order Coleoptera, a cladistic analysis is performed, in which 516 adult and larval morphological characters are scored for 359 beetle taxa, ...

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Since the first of three Coleoptera volumes of the Hand-book of Zoology series was published in 2005, the progress in the investigation of the most species-rich insect order has been remarkable. The exploration of the ...

Las colecciones taxonómicas de artrópodos son, per se, sistemas de referencia para la comprensión de la entomodiversidad natural y agrícola. AGROSAVIA comparte con la comunidad científica y los productores la información ...

Here we present a phylogeny of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) based on DNA sequence data from eight nuclear genes, including six single-copy nuclear protein-coding genes, for 367 species representing 172 of 183 extant ...