Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Texas A&M Researcher Co-Discoverer Of Previously Unknown And Fascinating Insect Species In Brazil

An open access report in the Journal Zoo Keys (ZooKeys 269: 51–65, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.269.4255) describes a newly-discovered and spectacular species of forcepflies, which are also popularly but incorrectly known as earwigflies, because the males have a large genital forceps that resemble the cerci of earwigs.

http://bionews-tx.com/news/2013/04/15/texas-am-researcher-co-discoverer-of-previously-unknown-and-fascinating-insect-species-in-brazil/

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