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From: A mantidfly in Cretaceous Spanish amber provides insights into the evolution of integumentary specialisations on the raptorial foreleg

Figure 5

Reconstruction of Aragomantispa lacerata gen. et sp. nov. (Neuroptera: Mantispidae) striking a potential prey, an Alavesia sp. fly, on a hypothetical gleicheniacean fern. Antennal length, thoracic (including pronotal shape and the proportions of meso- and metathoracic legs) and abdominal morphology, striking pose and colouration of the new taxon based on extant mantidfly relatives. Species classified within the genus Alavesia have been found in two Spanish amber localities74, and the fern group is recorded as trichome inclusions and spores within the sediments associated to Spanish amber75; both were most likely abundant in the Iberian amber forest.

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