The second axillary in Hymenoptera
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- Subject Areas
- Biodiversity, Entomology, Evolutionary Studies, Zoology
- Keywords
- pteralia, wing base, phenotype, Neoptera, evolution, anatomy ontology
- Copyright
- © 2014 Mikó et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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- 2014) The second axillary in Hymenoptera. PeerJ PrePrints 2:e428v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.428v1 (
Abstract
The wing base of basal hymenopterans (Insecta) have never been properly described perhaps due to the difficulties of its visualization and understanding the 3D relationships between wing base components. Novel 3D visualization techniques such as microCT and Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM) allow us to provide easily digestible morphological data. The wing base of four basal Hymenoptera and 10 apocritan species have been imaged with CLSM and dissected under a stereomicroscope. The second axillary is composed of two sclerites (on on the dorsal wing membrane and one on the ventral in Macroxyela, Xyela and Athalia whereas it is represented by a single sclerite traversing the wing in other Hymenoptera. Consequences related to this observation as well are drawn and future directions in Hymenoptera wing base studies are provided.
Author Comment
These results were originally posted on the Frost Entomological Museum Curators' blog: http://sites.psu.edu/frost/2014/06/13/project-snodgrass-second-axillary/