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Unveiling the Hidden Impact: Urbanisation Disproportionately Reduces Belowground Insect Functional Group Richness

open access: yesDiversity and Distributions, Volume 31, Issue 5, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Aim Anthropogenic effects, for example, urbanisation, induce environmental stressors that often result in biodiversity loss, with significant implications for ecosystem services. In particular, the decline in insect biodiversity can reduce essential services such as pest suppression or food web disruption in urban areas.
Ui‐Joung Byeon   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shedding light on overlooked pollinators: Global insights into floral interactions of velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae and Myrmosidae)

open access: yesJournal of Applied Entomology, Volume 149, Issue 4, Page 453-465, May 2025.
Abstract Plant–animal interactions constitute a recurrent and central focus in ecological research, with pollination representing one of its most extensively studied aspects. While certain insect orders have traditionally received considerable attention due to their abundance as flower visitors and their efficiency in pollination, it is undeniable that
Daniel Parejo‐Pulido   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Los Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) asociados con agallas de Cinípidos (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae) en la Comunidad de Madrid

open access: yesGraellsia, 2006
Se compila y actualiza la información existente sobre la comunidad parasitoide de Chalcidoidea, asociada a agallas de cinípidos (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae) en la Comunidad de Madrid. Los datos corresponden a más de 1000 registros, tanto de datos publicados,
J. F. Gómez   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Two ways of finding a host: A specialist and a generalist parasitoid species (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae)

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Entomology, 2011
Two closely related parasitoid wasp species with different host specificities were used for experimental studies on the biology of host finding, a crucial element of parasitoid life history: The habitat and host specialist Nasonia vitripennis and the ...
Ralph S. PETERS
doaj   +1 more source

Natural enemies of armored scales (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) and soft scales (Hemiptera: Coccoidae) in Chile: molecular and morphological identification. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha) are key pests of agricultural crops and ornamental plants worldwide. Their populations are difficult to control, even with insecticides, due to their cryptic habits.
Amouroux, P.   +9 more
core   +3 more sources

First record of Caenocrepis arenicola (Thomson, 1878) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) from Iran [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 2019
Caenocrepis arenicola (Thomson, 1878) (Hymenpotera: Pteromalidae) is a new record for Iran. A female specimen of this species was collected from south of Kerman province by sweeping net on Medicago sativa in November 2016.
Mahla Shojaey   +3 more
doaj  

Phenology and sex ratio of the parasitoids of a cereal leaf miner Chromatomyia fuscula (Diptera: Agromyzidae)

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Entomology, 2000
The univoltine leaf miner Chromatomyia fuscula Zetterstedt is a Scandinavian cereal pest. We wanted to compare the phenology of C. fuscula in southern Norway with that of its most important natural enemies: 15 parasitoids of the families Eulophidae and ...
Eline B. HAGVAR   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

New contributions to the Eulophidae fauna from Morocco (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) with comparison in the North African region

open access: yesArxius de Miscel-lània Zoològica, 2019
Noves aportacions a la fauna d’Eulophidae del Marroc (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) i comparació amb la de la regió del nord d’Àfrica En aquest article es presenta una actualització dels Eulophidae del Marroc després d’un estudi de les mostres recol ...
K. Kissayi, S. Benhalima, A. Benhoussa
doaj   +1 more source

Epitranus longicaudatus: A new species of chalcidid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae, Epitraninae) from southern India [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics
A new species, Epitranus longicaudatus sp. nov., is described with illustrations from South India, expanding the genus Epitranus Walker to 73 species globally and 18 from India. The new species is compared with the congeneric species E. salinae Narendran,
C. Binoy, S. Santhosh, M. Nasser
doaj  

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