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Figure 2 in Fossil diversity in 'dawn' hexapods (Diplura: Projapygoidea), with direct evidence for being chemically predaceous in the Cretaceous

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Figure 2. Holotype of Electroprojapyx alchemicus gen. et sp. nov. (AMNH JZCBu-1957) in Cretaceous Burmese amber. A, photomicrographs of left ventrolateral habitus of the dipluran fossilized in a preying-and-spraying position with its prey. B, detail of cerci with arrows pointing to the secreted substance. C, camera lucida drawing of the specimen with the secreted filaments in red. D, detail of antennae of the dipluran with the Collembola between them. Abbreviations: b, bubble; scA, lateral subcoxal appendage; stII–stVII, stylus II–VII. Scale bars: 0.5 mm in A, C, D; 0.1 mm in B.

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Published as part of Sánchez-García, Alba, Sendra, Alberto, Davis, Steven & Grimaldi, David A., 2023, Fossil diversity in 'dawn' hexapods (Diplura: Projapygoidea), with direct evidence for being chemically predaceous in the Cretaceous, pp. 847-870 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 198 (3) on page 851, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac101, http://zenodo.org/record/8146868

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