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Cockroach forewing area and venation variabilities relate

  • Róbert Oružinský and Peter Vršanský EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: July 31, 2017
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Abstract

Cockroaches are among the very few organisms allowing study of quantitative changes of intraspecific variability over time. The variability studied here within three Mesozoic and one living species shown independence (R2 = 0.003–0.093) of forewing areas (CVs 10.96–18.02) on number of veins of corresponding individuals (CVs = 6.83–7.80). In contrast, the average number of veins among studied species correlates with the average forewing area (R2 = 0.986), which is not reflected in the variability trends. Study of wing areas and their variability as an informative source of data should thus be included in systematic descriptions of both living and extinct species.

Acknowledgements

We thank Adam Tomášových, Radovan Kyška-Pipík (Earth Science Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences Bratislava, Banská Bystrica), Jun-Hui Liang, Chong Da, Dan-Dan Wei (Capital Normal University Beijing), Ľubomír Vidlička (Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences Bratislava) and Martin Styan for material and literature supply, valuable discussion, technical help and linguistic correction. The work was supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under the contract No. APVV-0436-12, by UNESCO-Amba, VEGA 2/0125/09; 0012-14, MVTS, Literary Fund. R.O. performed the research, P.V. designed the research and wrote the article.

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Received: 2016-2-22
Accepted: 2017-6-6
Published Online: 2017-7-31
Published in Print: 2017-7-26

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