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Allometry of wing twist and camber in a flower chafer during free flight: How do wing deformations scale with body size? [PDF]
Intraspecific variation in adult body mass can be particularly high in some insect species, mandating adjustment of the wing's structural properties to support the weight of the larger body mass in air.
Yonatan Meresman, Gal Ribak
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Background Insect neuropeptides are interesting for the potential their receptors hold as plausible targets for a novel generation of pesticides. Neuropeptide genes have been identified in a number of different species belonging to a variety of insects ...
J. Veenstra
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Genitalia: female, ultimate ventral segment nearly four times wider than long, posterior margin slightly emarginate with a short broad medium tooth; male valve broad, short; plates broad at base, concavely, attenuately pointed, two and one-half times longer than valve, equalling the pygofers, which are thickly beset with stout hairs.Described from two ...
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Published as part of Segura, Melissa Ottoboni, Passos, Maria Ines Da Silva Dos, Fonseca-Gessner, Alaíde Aparecida & Froehlich, Claudio Gilberto, 2013, Elmidae Curtis, 1830 (Coleoptera, Polyphaga, Byrrhoidea) of the Neotropical region, pp.
Segura, Melissa Ottoboni+3 more
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Here we present a phylogeny of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) based on DNA sequence data from eight nuclear genes, including six single‐copy nuclear protein‐coding genes, for 367 species representing 172 of 183 extant families. Our results refine existing
D. Mckenna+20 more
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The Ceracis furcifer species-group (Coleoptera: Ciidae) originally comprised nine species names: Ceracis cornifer (Mellié, 1849); C. cylindricus (Brèthes, 1922); C. furcifer Mellié, 1849; C. hastifer (Mellié, 1849); C.
Italo S. C. Pecci-Maddalena+1 more
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The article presents 13 new species of beetles for the territory of Katon-Karagay State National Natural Park (South-Western Altai, East Kazakhstan), which complements the fauna Scarabaеidae (Coleoptera) of National Park 49 species, Cerambycidae ...
A. U. Gabdullina
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Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America
This catalogue includes all valid family-group (8 subfamilies, 52 tribes, 14 subtribes), genus-group (349 genera, 86 subgenera), and species-group names (2825 species, 215 subspecies) of darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) known to occur in ...
Y. Bousquet+6 more
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