The interrelationships and lines of descent of living insects.
The interrelationships and lines of descent of living insects.
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10.1155/1938/18939
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1938-01-01
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Crampton, G. C.
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Crampton, G. C.
The lines of descent shown in the accompanying phylo-genetic tree should be interpreted as though the figure were a three dimensional one (as is indicated by the basal attachments of the branches ofthe tree), since the usual method of portraying the lines of descent in the form of a dichotomously branching tree, drawn in one plane, does not bring out thefact that several lines of descent may converge upon a common ancestry, and does not indicate the complicated interrelationships of these lines of descent at all accurately. In fact, sections of cones made up ofconverging lines would better illustrate the fact that some lines of descent intergrade" horizontally" as well as" vertically," but themethod of illustrating the interrelationships of the lines of descent shown in the accompanying figure will serve well enough for all practical purposes, if the figure is interpreted as a three dimensional one.The hypothetical" Protomalacostraca" shown at thebase of the phylogenetic tree, representthe extinct common an-cestors of the higher Crustacea (such as the Tanaidacea, Mysidacea, Anaspidacea, etc.) insects and" myriopods". The character of the head, with its sessile eyes, the monocondylar mandibles, with their differentiated incisor and projecting molar regions, the large paragnaths, the slender multiarticulate, cerci-like uropods, and other feature of the Tanaidacea (such as Tanais, Apseudes, Leptochelia, etc.) are strikingly suggestive of the precursors of similar structures in the Machiloid insects, and the ancestors of the Tanaidacea (represented by the hypothetical" Proto-tanaidacea in the diagram) must have been extremely closely related to the more dir. ect ancestors of the Hexapoda (rep-resented in the diagram by the hypothetical" Protohexa-