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On the availability of the family-group name Lychnocolacidae (Strepsiptera).
Zootaxa - 26 Feb 2020
Engel Michael S
Abstract excerpt
In a phylogenetic study of the insect order Strepsiptera, the peculiar paleotropical genus Lychnocolax Bohart, 1951 was recovered as the sister group to Stylopidae + Xenidae rather than as nested among the Myrmecolacidae (McMahon et al., 2011). Accordingly, the genus was removed from the myrmecolacids and placed in a family of its own (Kathirithamby Engel, 2014). Kathirithamby Engel (2014) erroneously attributed...
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