Shedding Light on the Shadows: Hidden Diversity in the Italian Embioptera
Fabio Cianferoni, Filippo Ceccolini, Yang Liu · 2024
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Description
Fabio Cianferoni and co-authors find hidden kinds among Italian webspinners in a 2024 study. Webspinners are small insects that spin silk homes, and their kinds are told apart by fine parts at the male tail. The stock way to study them, flat mounts on glass, warps those parts and blocks fair checks against old type samples.
The team cut and studied the tail parts in full 3D instead. That view split three new kinds: one from Tuscany, one from a small Tyrrhenian isle, and one from Calabria. The method charts a fresh path for the whole order.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Fabio Cianferoni, Filippo Ceccolini, Yang Liu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 67 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |