Anti-predator defences of a bombardier beetle: is bombing essential for successful escape from frogs? [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Some animals, such as the bombardier beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Brachinini), have evolved chemical defences against predators. When attacked, bombardier beetles can discharge noxious chemicals at temperatures of approximately 100 °C from the tip of ...
Shinji Sugiura
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Beetle bombing always deters praying mantises [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Some animals have evolved chemical weapons to deter predators. Bombardier beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Brachininae: Brachinini) can eject toxic chemicals at temperatures of 100 °C from the tips of their abdomens, ‘bombing’ the attackers. Although some
Shinji Sugiura
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Bombardier beetles repel invasive bullfrogs [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Invasive non-native predators negatively affect native species; however, some native species can survive the predation pressures of invasive species by using pre-existing antipredator strategies or evolving defenses against invasive predators.
Shinji Sugiura, Tomoki Date
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Bombardiers and assassins: mimetic interactions between unequally defended insects [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 In defensive mimicry, resemblance between unequally defended species can be parasitic; this phenomenon has been termed quasi-Batesian mimicry. Few studies have used real co-mimics and their predators to test whether the mimetic interactions were ...
Shinji Sugiura, Masakazu Hayashi
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Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). [PDF]
Zookeys, 2011 We synthesize data on all known extant and fossil Coleoptera family-group names for the first time. A catalogue of 4887 family-group names (124 fossil, 4763 extant) based on 4707 distinct genera in Coleoptera is given. A total of 4492 names are available,
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A Bombardier Beetle Pheropsophus aequinoctialis (L.) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae)
EDIS, 2021 Pheropsophus aequinoctialis (L.) is a ground beetle in the tribe, Brachinini, native to parts of South and Central America. Ground beetles of this tribe are commonly referred to as bombardier beetles due to their ability to produce a powerful and hot ...
Gregory Parrow, Adam Dale
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An Annotated Checklist of Wisconsin Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) [PDF]
, 2018 A survey of Carabidae in the state of Wisconsin, U.S.A. yielded 87 species new to the state and incorporated 34 species previously reported from the state but that were not included in an earlier catalogue, bringing the total number of species to 489 in ...
Messer, Peter W
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Mechanistic origins of bombardier beetle (Brachinini) explosion-induced defensive spray pulsation [PDF]
, 2014 Bombardier beetles (Brachinini) use a rapid series of discrete explosions inside their pygidial gland reaction chambers to produce a hot, pulsed, quinone-based defensive spray.
Arndt, Eric Michael +3 more
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ZooKeys, 2009 Adults of Pheropsophus aequinoctialis (L.) (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Brachininae: Brachinini), are largely nocturnal predators and scavengers on animal and plant materials. The daily food consumption of a pair of adults is the equivalent to 1.2 - 2.3 large
Howard Frank +2 more
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Inhibition of tumour and non-tumour cell proliferation by pygidial gland secretions of four ground beetle species (Coleoptera: Carabidae) [PDF]
, 2018 Inhibition of the proliferation of human tumour cells and porcine non-tumour cells by the pygidial gland secretion released by adults of four ground beetle species was observed in this study.The sulphorhodamine B(SRB)assay was applied to establish the ...
Calhelha, Ricardo C. +6 more
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