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Science 30 March 1973:
Vol. 179. no. 4080, pp. 1321 - 1323
DOI: 10.1126/science.179.4080.1321
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Fossil Lepidopterous Leaf Mines Demonstrate the Age of Some Insect-Plant Relationships

Paul A. Opler 1

1 Organization for Tropical Studies, Apartado 16, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, Central America

The discovery of impressions of 11 kinds of lepidopterous leaf mines, together with a reevaluation of previous reports, contributes significantly to the fossil record for that insect order. It is also concluded that some specific insect-plant associations have persisted from the Miocene to the present.


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