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59 relations: Annual Reviews (publisher), Arthropod, Ascalaphidae, Basal (phylogenetics), Batesian mimicry, Bee, Berothidae, Blacklight, Book lung, Cladistics, Climaciella brunnea, Dicromantispa, Dicromantispa electromexicana, Dicromantispa moronei, Dilaridae, Dominican amber, Early Jurassic, Europe, Family (biology), Feroseta, Fossil, Genus, Hemerobiiformia, Hemolymph, Incertae sedis, Insect, Jurassic, Mantis, Mantispinae, Mantispoidea, Mexican amber, Miocene, Monotypic taxon, Neuroptera, Nocturnality, Nolima, Nolima dine, Oligocene, Paraphyly, Parasitoid, Permian, Phoresis (biology), Predation, Prehistory, Raptorial, Rhachiberothidae, Scarabaeidae, Species, Spider, Spider anatomy, ..., Subfamily, Subtropics, Taxon, Taxonomic rank, Tropics, Type species, Wasp, Zeugomantispa, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Expand index (9 more) »
Annual Reviews (publisher)
Annual Reviews, located in Palo Alto California, Annual Reviews is a nonprofit publisher dedicated to synthesizing and integrating knowledge for the progress of science and the benefit of society.
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Arthropod
An arthropod (from Greek ἄρθρον arthron, "joint" and πούς pous, "foot") is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and paired jointed appendages.
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Ascalaphidae
Ascalaphidae is a family of insects in the order neuroptera, sometimes called owlflies.
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Basal (phylogenetics)
In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.
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Batesian mimicry
Batesian mimicry is a form of mimicry where a harmless species has evolved to imitate the warning signals of a harmful species directed at a predator of them both.
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Bee
Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their role in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the European honey bee, for producing honey and beeswax.
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Berothidae
The Berothidae are a family of winged insects of the order Neuroptera.
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Blacklight
A blacklight (or often black light), also referred to as a UV-A light, Wood's lamp, or simply ultraviolet light, is a lamp that emits long-wave (UV-A) ultraviolet light and not much visible light.
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Book lung
A book lung is a type of respiration organ used for atmospheric gas exchange that is found in many arachnids, such as scorpions and spiders.
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Cladistics
Cladistics (from Greek κλάδος, cládos, i.e., "branch") is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups ("clades") based on the most recent common ancestor.
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Climaciella brunnea
Climaciella brunnea, known sometimes by the common name wasp mantidfly and Brown mantidfly, is a predatory neuropteran insect in the family Mantispidae.
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Dicromantispa
Dicromantispa is a genus of mantidflies in the family Mantispidae.
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Dicromantispa electromexicana
Dicromantispa electromexicana is an extinct species of mantidfly in the neuropteran family Mantispidae known from a fossil found in North America.
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Dicromantispa moronei
Dicromantispa moronei is an extinct species of mantidfly in the neuropteran family Mantispidae known from a fossil found in the Caribbean.
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Dilaridae
Dilaridae is a family of pleasing lacewings in the order Neuroptera.
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Dominican amber
Dominican amber is amber from the Dominican Republic.
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Early Jurassic
The Early Jurassic epoch (in chronostratigraphy corresponding to the Lower Jurassic series) is the earliest of three epochs of the Jurassic period.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Family (biology)
In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.
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Feroseta
Feroseta is an extinct genus of mantidfly in the neuropteran family Mantispidae known from a fossil found in North America, and which contains a single species, Feroseta prisca.
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Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
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Genus
A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.
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Hemerobiiformia
The Hemerobiiformia are a suborder of lacewing insects in the order Neuroptera.
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Hemolymph
Hemolymph, or haemolymph, is a fluid, analogous to the blood in vertebrates, that circulates in the interior of the arthropod body remaining in direct contact with the animal's tissues.
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Incertae sedis
Incertae sedis (Latin for "of uncertain placement") is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined.
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Insect
Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.
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Jurassic
The Jurassic (from Jura Mountains) was a geologic period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period Mya.
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Mantis
Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 430 genera in 15 families.
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Mantispinae
Mantispinae is a subfamily of mantidflies in the family Mantispidae.
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Mantispoidea
The Mantispoidea are a superfamily of lacewing insects in the suborder Hemerobiiformia.
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Mexican amber
Mexican amber is amber found in Mexico, created during the late Oligocene and Early Miocene epochs of the Cenozoic Era in southwestern North America.
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Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
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Monotypic taxon
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.
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Neuroptera
The insect order Neuroptera, or net-winged insects, includes the lacewings, mantidflies, antlions, and their relatives.
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Nocturnality
Nocturnality is an animal behavior characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day.
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Nolima
Nolima is a genus of mantidflies in the family Mantispidae.
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Nolima dine
Nolima dine is a species of mantidfly in the family Mantispidae.
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Oligocene
The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.
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Paraphyly
In taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's last common ancestor and all descendants of that ancestor excluding a few—typically only one or two—monophyletic subgroups.
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Parasitoid
A parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host and at the host's expense, and which sooner or later kills it.
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Permian
The Permian is a geologic period and system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic period 251.902 Mya.
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Phoresis (biology)
In biology, the term phoresis, also called phoresy, is an inter-species biological interaction in ecology and refers to a form of symbiosis where the symbiont, termed the phoront, is mechanically transported by its host.
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Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where a predator (a hunting animal) kills and eats its prey (the organism that is attacked).
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Prehistory
Human prehistory is the period between the use of the first stone tools 3.3 million years ago by hominins and the invention of writing systems.
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Raptorial
The term raptorial implies much the same as predatory but most often refers to modifications of an arthropod's foreleg that make it function for the grasping of prey while it is consumed, where the gripping surfaces are formed from the opposing faces of two successive leg segments (see illustration).
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Rhachiberothidae
The thorny lacewings, Rhachiberothidae, are a family of winged insects of the order Neuroptera.
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Scarabaeidae
The family Scarabaeidae as currently defined consists of over 30,000 species of beetles worldwide, often called scarabs or scarab beetles.
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Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.
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Spider
Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom.
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Spider anatomy
The anatomy of spiders includes many characteristics shared with other arachnids.
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Subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: subfamilia, plural subfamiliae) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus.
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Subtropics
The subtropics are geographic and climate zones located roughly between the tropics at latitude 23.5° (the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn) and temperate zones (normally referring to latitudes 35–66.5°) north and south of the Equator.
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Taxon
In biology, a taxon (plural taxa; back-formation from taxonomy) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.
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Taxonomic rank
In biological classification, taxonomic rank is the relative level of a group of organisms (a taxon) in a taxonomic hierarchy.
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Tropics
The tropics are a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator.
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Type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen(s).
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Wasp
A wasp is any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is neither a bee nor an ant.
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Zeugomantispa
Zeugomantispa is a genus of mantidflies in the family Mantispidae.
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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
The Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of zoology published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Linnean Society.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantispidae
