Redescription reveals details of proboscis structure in Turbidapsyche dobrokhotovae, indicating insights on paleoecology.
The mecopteran family Mesopsychidae is characterized primarily by an elongated siphonate proboscis, which likely enabled its members to feed on and pollinate Mesozoic gymnosperms (e.g., Labandeira et al., 2007; Ren et al., 2009). However, many species and fossil specimens from this family are known only from isolated wings, making it difficult to generalize their paleoecology (Lian et al., 2024).
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