Extreme adaptations for probable visual courtship behaviour in a cretaceous dancing damselfly

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  • who: Daran Zheng from the (UNIVERSITY) have published the Article: Extreme adaptations for probable visual courtship behaviour in a Cretaceous dancing damselfly, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of 20/03/2017

SUMMARY

    The authors describe spectacular extremely expanded, pod-like tibiae in males of a platycnemidid damselfly from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. The authors describe a new damselfly with expanded tibiae uniquely probably used for courtship from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Order Odonata Fabricius, 1793 Suborder Zygoptera Selys-Longchamps, 1854 Superfamily Coenagrionoidea Kirby, 1890 Family Platycnemididae Yakobson and amp; Bianchi, 1905 Subfamily Palaeodisparoneurinae Poinar . . .

     

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