ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 8d really enjoying this figure on sexual dimorphism in hopliine beetles pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Are they also asymmetrical, or is it just that some of the specimens have lost various bits before being included in the diagram?
Everything keeps trying to turn into crabs!
dang the LEGGIES on these guys!!
Rookie question: are the females the bigger ones? The article didn't make it obvious (probably because they assume I already know, and fair enough)
That is the functional opposite of stag beetles, and I didn’t know that was possible.
Holy granola those leg mods are almost exactly like some of the leg mods of many of the bird mite boys...