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Exaggerated body structures such as elongated appendages and large outgrowths have always attracted the interest of biologists and the public, especially to seek the extreme boundaries of marvelous nature. As a highly diversified group, insects provide an unlimited number of examples: different kinds of horns in scarab beetles (Dynastinae, Scarabaeinae/Coleoptera) and treehoppers (Membracidae/Hemiptera); tremendously enlarged heads in soldier ants (Formicidae/Hymenoptera) and termites (Isoptera/Blattodea); developed mandibles in stag beetles (Lucanidae/Coleoptera); a transversely expanded body in lace bugs (Tingidae/Hemiptera); or modified predatory forelegs in mantis (Mantodea). Exaggerated structures have also . . .
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