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If you are coming to the Museum on Saturday, May 25, please use one of the following entrances: 79th Street and Central Park West, subway entrance, or Weston Pavilion (Columbus Avenue entrance). The 81st Street entrance will be closed, but the Hayden Planetarium Space Show will be shown on a normal schedule.

Textbook Figure

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Fig. 8.3

A psocopteran, Pseudicaecilius sp., showing features typical of Psocotera, commonly known as booklice, (a, c) or Paraneoptera (b). (a) Wing-folding mechanism; (b) wing coupling mechanism; (c) Pearman’s organ. Body length 1.3mm.

 

Taken from:

Evolution of the Insects. By David Grimaldi and Michael S. Engel

Cambridge Unversity Press. NY, USA 2005