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. 2021 Mar 5;12(1):1469.
doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21751-x.

Insects with 100 million-year-old dinosaur feathers are not ectoparasites

David A Grimaldi  1 , Isabelle M Vea  2
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Insects with 100 million-year-old dinosaur feathers are not ectoparasites

David A Grimaldi et al. Nat Commun. .
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Fig. 1. Early instar nymphal Coccoidea, both recent and fossil.
Images d–g are from the original report by Gao et al. (ref. ). a Crawler of the extant species Marchalina hellenica (Margarodidae), ventral view, showing the internal, figure-8 coiled feeding stylets (the crumena) through the translucent body wall. From ref. , the crumena is commonly a single coil. b Early instar nymph of pityococcid in Baltic amber (ventral view), from ref. (original drawing by late Jan Koteja). The feeding styles are fully everted. c Early instar nymph, family undetermined, in Burmese amber, AMNH Bu-1327. Ventral view, slightly oblique laterally (making nymph appear slightly thinner than actual). Location of the labium is outlined. Stylets are not everted, and crumena not visible through the opaque body wall. Figures d–g: From Gao et al. (2019, ref. ). The labels outlined in white are ours; all others are original. Permissions: a, ©2006 International Bee Research Association, reprinted by permission of Taylor & Francis Ltd., http://www.tandfonline.com on behalf of ©2006 International Bee Research Association. b, courtesy of Dr. Paweł Koteja.
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