Mouthpart homologies and life habits of Mesozoic long-proboscid scorpionflies

Xiangdong Zhao; Bo Wang; Alexey S. Bashkuev; Cédric Aria; Qingqing Zhang; Haichun Zhang; Wentao Tang; Michael S. Engel

doi:10.1126/sciadv.aay1259

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Mouthpart homologies and life habits of Mesozoic long-proboscid scorpionflies

View ORCID ProfileXiangdong Zhao¹,²,
View ORCID ProfileBo Wang¹,³,*,
View ORCID ProfileAlexey S. Bashkuev⁴,
Cédric Aria¹,
View ORCID ProfileQingqing Zhang¹,²,
Haichun Zhang¹,
Wentao Tang⁵ and
View ORCID ProfileMichael S. Engel⁶,⁷,⁸

¹State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China.
²University of Sciences and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.
³Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Depositional Mineralization and Sedimentary Minerals, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, Shandong 266590, China.
⁴Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya ul. 123, Moscow, 117997 Russia.
⁵Changzhou Vocational Institute of Engineering, No. 3 Gehu Road, Changzhou 213164, China.
⁶Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, 1501 Crestline Drive, Suite 140, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.
⁷Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.
⁸Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024-5192, USA.

↵*Corresponding author. Email: bowang{at}nigpas.ac.cn

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Science Advances 04 Mar 2020:
Vol. 6, no. 10, eaay1259
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay1259

Xiangdong Zhao

1State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China.

2University of Sciences and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.

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Bo Wang

3Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Depositional Mineralization and Sedimentary Minerals, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, Shandong 266590, China.

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Alexey S. Bashkuev

4Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya ul. 123, Moscow, 117997 Russia.

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Qingqing Zhang

2University of Sciences and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.

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Haichun Zhang

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Wentao Tang

5Changzhou Vocational Institute of Engineering, No. 3 Gehu Road, Changzhou 213164, China.

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Michael S. Engel

6Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, 1501 Crestline Drive, Suite 140, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.

7Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.

8Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024-5192, USA.

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