Taxon-biased diet preference in the 'generalist' beetle-hunting wasp Cerceris rubida provides insights on the evolution of prey specialization in apoid wasps [PDF]
Opportunism and specialization appear to be widespread in apoid wasps, although the factors affecting the diet preference (and thus explaining the degree of specialization) are still largely unknown. Four hypotheses that stressed the importance of the size, sex, habitat, and taxonomic identity of prey of the beetle-hunting digger wasp, Cerceris rubida,
Polidori, C +5 more
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Cerceris rubida subsp. pumilio Giner Mari 1945
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Sadeghi, M. +4 more
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Host-trailing satellite flight behaviour is associated with greater investment in peripheral visual sensory system in miltogrammine flies. [PDF]
Polidori C +4 more
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Phylogenomic analysis of Apoidea sheds new light on the sister group of bees. [PDF]
Sann M +10 more
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A preliminary study on the insect fauna of Al-Baha Province, Saudi Arabia, with descriptions of two new species. [PDF]
El-Hawagry MS +4 more
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An illustrated key to the cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) of the Nordic and Baltic countries, with description of a new species. [PDF]
Paukkunen J +4 more
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Hymenoptera and biomimetic surfaces: insights and innovations. [PDF]
Lopez VM, Polidori C, Ferreira RG.
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Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M. & Edmardash, Yusuf A., 2021, New data on the crabronid fauna of Saudi Arabia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea (Spheciformes): Crabronidae) from Jazan Province, with the description of three new species and the hitherto unknown male of Miscophus chrysis Kohl, 1894, pp. 1697-1748 in Journal of Natural
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Published as part of Arens, Werner, 2017, Die Grabwespen der Peloponnes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) 1. Teil: Ampulicidae, Sphecidae, Crabronidae: Entomosericinae und Philanthinae; mit Beschreibung einer neuen Palmodes-Art, pp.
Jahantigh, Fatemeh +3 more
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Investigations into the social behaviour of Hymenoptera have often focussed on species with complex societies. However, understanding the evolutionary origins of sociality requires comparative data from a broad spectrum of social complexity. Ecological, physiological and demographic factors suffer from a paucity of studies, even if intuitively we ...
M. Giovanetti, B. Jacobi
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