Neolirata new genus (Eucharitidae: Eucharitini) is recognized based on males and females, with new descriptions of eggs, planidia and pupae. Redescriptions are provided for N. alta (Walker) and N. daguerrei (Gemignani) (comb. nov. transferred from Lirata) and a new description of N. furcula sp. nov. is presented. Females of N. alta deposit their eggs on the underside of leaves of Pseudabutilon ...

Abstract A survey is given of the morphological variation coracoscapular joint neornithine birds. In Mesozoic stem group representatives, coracoid exhibits a deeply concave cotyla scapularis, which articulates with globose tuberculum coracoideum scapula. This morphology likely to be functionally related development powerful supracoracoideus muscle and formation triosseal canal as pulley for ten...

Abstract The occurrence of lateral openings and pleurocoels (lateral fossae) in the corpus thoracic vertebrae extant fossil neornithine birds is reviewed, with both features having been identified as osteological correlates avian pulmonary system. Openings mainly occur larger species a high overall bone pneumatization but do not seem to serve for passage lung or air sac diverticula. Pleurocoels...

Abstract We present the first dated molecular phylogeny of Cerurinae moths (Notodontidae), based on sequence data for 666 loci generated by anchored hybrid enrichment. Monophyly is corroborated, which includes following genera: Pararethona Janse, Pseudorethona Oreocerura Kiriakoff, stat. rev., Cerurella Notocerura Hampsonita Afrocerura Cerurina Neoharpyia Daniel, Furcula Lamarck, Neocerura Mats...

The spermathecal morphology of nine species belonging to the Pentatomidae (Insecta: Heteroptera) were compared by optical and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Among the examined species [Rhaphigaster nebulosa (Poda 1761), Palomena prasina (Linnaeus 1761), Piezodorus lituratus (Fabricius 1794), Graphosoma lineatum (Linnaeus 1758), Graphosoma semipunctatum (Fabricius 1775), Aelia albovittata (...

SYNOPSIS. This essay is in two parts. The first describes functional studies of the shoulder in modern vertebrates that led to the formulation of the hypotheses that motor patterns of homologous muscles have been maintained during the evolution of the tetrapod shoulder, and that a primitive organization of the neural control components has persisted in derived groups. The second part of this es...

As the earliest birds known, the late Jurassic specimens of Archaeopteryx have been the object of great speculative interest. Ostrom'"' has argued that Archaeopteryx was a terrestrial, cursorial predator that represents a preflight stage in the origin of birds in which the forelimbs were used as nets to trap insects. So far, this has been challenged mainly on the grounds that such activity woul...