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Article title
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Abstract
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Key words
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1. Introduction
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2. Materials and methods
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2.1. Selection of taxa
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2.2. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and dissection protocol
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2.3. Terminology
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2.4. Homologizing substructures of the mandible
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2.5. Character mapping analysis
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2.6. Geometric morphometrics
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2.7. Lever calculations
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2.8. Statistics
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3. Results
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3.1. Mouthparts and protarsi description of the Staphylinine group
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3.1.1. Staphylinine group
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3.1.2. Oxyporinae (Oxyporus, Pseudoxyporus)
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3.1.3. Megalopsidiinae (Megalopinus)
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3.1.4. Solieriinae (Solierius)
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3.1.5. Steninae (Dianous, Stenus)
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3.1.6. Euaesthetinae (Austroesthetus, Euaesthetus, Fenderia, Agnosthaetus)
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3.1.7. Scydmaeninae (Cephennodes, Veraphis, Palaeostigus, Scydmaenus, Stenichnus)
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3.1.8. Leptotyphlinae (Eutyphlops, Homeotyphlus)
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3.1.9. Pseudopsinae (Pseudopsis, Zalobius)
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3.1.10. Paederinae (Astenus, Lathrobium, Medon, Stilicoderus, Baryopsis, Gnathymenus, Homaeotarsus, Paederus, Pinophilus)
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3.1.11. Staphylininae (Diochus, Atrecus, Platyprosopus, Erichsonius, Philonthus, Quedius, Platydracus, Thyreocephalus)
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3.2. Analysis of potential groundplan patterns of the mouthparts in staphylinines
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3.3. Mandible shape analysis
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4. Discussion
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4.1. Morphofunctional and groundplan features of the feeding apparatus
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4.1.1. Labrum-epipharynx
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4.1.2. Mandibles
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4.1.3. Maxillae
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4.1.4. Labium-hypopharynx
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4.1.5. Protarsi
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5. Conclusion
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6. Acknowledgements
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7. References
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