The influence of forest types including native and non-native tree species on soil macrofauna depends on site conditions. [PDF]
Ecol EvolAbstract The ongoing climate change calls for managing forest ecosystems in temperate regions toward more drought‐resistant and climate‐resilient stands. Yet ecological consequences of management options such as planting non‐native tree species and mixing coniferous and deciduous tree species have been little studied, especially on soil animal ...
Wenglein R, Lu JZ, Scheu S.
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Taxonomy of Korean Dinaraea Thomson (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
Journal of Asia-Pacific BiodiversityA taxonomic study of the genus Dinaraea Thomson in Korea is presented. Three species are recognized and D. linearis (Gravenhorst) is newly added to the Korean fauna.
Seung-Gyu Lee, Kee-Jeong Ahn
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Termite nest evolution fostered social parasitism by termitophilous rove beetles. [PDF]
Evolution, 2022 Abstract Colonies of social insects contain large amounts of resources often exploited by specialized social parasites. Although some termite species host numerous parasitic arthropod species, called termitophiles, others host none. The reason for this large variability remains unknown. Here, we report that the evolution of termitophily in rove beetles
Mizumoto N, Bourguignon T, Kanao T.
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Trophic level and basal resource use of soil animals are hardly affected by local plant associations in abandoned arable land. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2020 Soil invertebrates depend on plants and plant residues as food source and habitat, but this link may be weaker than that for aboveground taxa and may have different mechanisms. We showed that in general, basal resources and trophic levels available for soil animal species are similar under different plants, but food‐web structure changes with the age ...
Salamon JA +4 more
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On the Geostiba fauna of Georgia. VII. Five new species from the Kakheti region and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) [PDF]
Contributions to Entomology, 2022 Five species of Geostiba Thomson, 1858 from the Kakheti region, Northeast Georgia, are described and illustrated: Geostiba (Tropogastrosipalia) angularis spec. nov. (region to the north of Lechuri); G. (Sibiota) tbatanana spec. nov. (Tbatana Range) and G.
Volker Assing
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On the taxonomy and zoogeography of the Caucasian genus Pseudotyphlopasilia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). IV. Two new species and additional records from Northwest Georgia [PDF]
Contributions to Entomology, 2022 Two field trips to Northwest Georgia conducted in 2021 yielded 29 specimens of the Caucasian genus Pseudotyphlopasilia Pace, 1983, most of them collected by soil-washing.
Volker Assing
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Structural Diversity of Adipokinetic Hormones in the Coleopteran Suborder Polyphaga (Excluding Cucujiformia). [PDF]
Arch Insect Biochem PhysiolAdipokinetic hormones of Polyphaga beetles (minus Cucujiformia series) were sequenced and confirmed via mass spectrometry. Schgr‐AKH‐II is assumed as ancestral AKH in Coleoptera. Radiation of AKH diversity during the evolution of Scarabaeoidea. ABSTRACT Beetles are the largest animal group, in general.
Gäde G, König S, Marco HG.
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Zoodiversity, 2022 Gyrophaena anastasiarum Glotov, sp. n. is described from Primorskiy Kray (Russian Far East). New synonymy is proposed: Gyrophaena triquetra Weise, 1877 = Gyrophaena fl ammula Pace, 2007 syn. n. Lectotypes are designated for Gyrophaena hanseni A.
S. V. Glotov
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The first record of Tectusa from the Greater Caucasus, Georgia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Oxypodini) [PDF]
Contributions to Entomology, 2022 Tectusa abanona spec. nov. (Georgia: Kakheti: Abano pass), the first confirmed record of the oxypodine genus Tectusa Bernhauer, 1899 from the Greater Caucasus, is described and illustrated.
Volker Assing
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Checklist of Subfamilies Aleocharinae, Euaesthetinae, Omaliinae and Proteininae Belonging to Family Staphylinidae: Coleoptera in Egypt [PDF]
Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 2018 A systematic checklist of the Egyptian species of subfamilies Aleocharinae, Euaesthetinae, Omaliinae and Proteininae (Staphylinidae: Coleoptera) is presented. Subfamily Aleocharinae consists of 84 species belonging to 9 tribes, 33 genera and 23 subgenera,
E. Bibars
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