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Lepidoptera of South Ossetia (Northern Transcaucasia). Part II. Cossidae, Limacodidae, Erebidae (Lymantriinae, Arctiinae, Syntominae, Notodontinae), Lasiocampidae, Lemoniidae, Saturniidae, Sphingidae, Drepanidae and Cimeliidae

Acta Biologica Sibirica, 2022
In the third part of the publication, we present the faunal list of nine families of the Macrolepidoptera of South Ossetia, including 4 species of Cossidae, 2 species of Limacodidae, 40 species of Erebidae, 15 species of Sphingidae, 6 species of ...
Aleksandr N. Streltzov, Petr Ya. Ustjuzhanin, Pavel S. Morozov, Artem E. Naydenov, Vitaly M. Spitsyn, Roman V. Yakovlev   +5 more
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Acoustic camouflage increases with body size and changes with bat echolocation frequency range in a community of nocturnally active Lepidoptera

Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 92, Issue 12, Page 2363-2372, December 2023., 2023
Bigger prey is at higher risk of detection by predators simply because of their size imposing stronger selection on anti‐predator traits. Here, we show how variation in body size influences prey detectability as well as acoustic camouflage in the well‐known arms race between nocturnal moths and echolocating bats.
Ralph Simon, Alrike Dreissen, Helene Leroy, Matty P. Berg, Wouter Halfwerk   +4 more
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Mitochondrial phylogenomics of the Australian scribbly gum moth Ogmograptis (Lepidoptera: Bucculatricidae) and an examination of deep‐level relationships within Lepidoptera

Austral Entomology, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 449-463, November 2023., 2023
Abstract Larval feeding by the moth genus Ogmograptis (Bucculatricidae: Lepidoptera) creates one of the most iconic features of the Australian bush—the ‘scribbles’ found on smooth‐barked Eucalyptus. The taxonomic history of Ogmograptis has been challenging, with members of the genus being initially described in four different genera representing three ...
Stephen L. Cameron
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Evolutionary history of Euteliidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)

Systematic Entomology, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 445-462, July 2023., 2023
We elucidated evolutionary relationships of Euteliidae. The divergence time estimated Euteliidae ancestors originated about 53 Ma. Malpighiales are inferred to be ancestral larval hostplant order for Euteliidae. Abstract We performed a molecular phylogenetic analysis on the family Euteliidae to clarify deep divergences and elucidate evolutionary ...
Reza Zahiri, Jeremy D. Holloway, Jadranka Rota, B. Christian Schmidt, Markku J. Pellinen, Ian J. Kitching, Scott E. Miller, Niklas Wahlberg   +7 more
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What is Semagystia clathrata (Christoph, 1884) (Lepidoptera, Cossidae: Cossinae)?

Acta Biologica Sibirica, 2022
The article gives a redescription of the little studied species, Semagystia clathrata (Christoph, 1884) (Lepidoptera, Cossidae: Cossinae). For the first time, we provide the images of the male and female adults from various portions of the distribution ...
Roman V. Yakovlev
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Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Viscum album

Journal of Ecology, Volume 111, Issue 3, Page 701-739, March 2023., 2023
Mistletoe is a charismatic parasite of tree crowns with a long history of folklore and connections with Christmas celebrations. This, and its need for light, helps explain why it is most common in human‐made habitats across Europe. Once thought to benignly take just water and nutrients from its host it is now known to take carbon as well which can lead
Peter A. Thomas, Monika Dering, Marian J. Giertych, Grzegorz Iszkuło, Dominik Tomaszewski, Jonathan Briggs   +5 more
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Prey size is more representative than prey taxa when measuring dietary overlap in sympatric forest bats

Environmental DNA, Volume 4, Issue 6, Page 1407-1419, November 2022., 2022
Sympatric forest bats appear to coexist with high dietary overlap. Analyzing bat diets by size classes, as opposed to only species, provided an alternative interpretation of dietary richness and overlap that may more accurately represent predator perceptions of prey.
Timothy J. Divoll, Veronica A. Brown, Gary F. McCracken, Joy M. O'Keefe   +3 more
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Electrophysiological and behavioural responses of female Isoceras sibirica (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) to volatiles produced by the plant, Asparagus officinalis

European Journal of Entomology, 2017
In herbivorous insects plant volatiles have an important role in locating mates and oviposition sites. The aim of this study was to test the antennal and behavioural responses of females of Isoceras sibirica Alpheraky (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) to the ...
Hongxia LIU, Zhixiong LIU, Haixia ZHENG, Zerong JIN, Jintong ZHANG   +4 more
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The unresolved phylogenomic tree of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera): Assessing the potential causes and consequences

Systematic Entomology, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 531-550, October 2022., 2022
Phylogenomics has helped us resolve much of the Lepidoptera tree of life, but the relationships among the superfamilies within Ditrysia, containing 98% of the order's species richness, remain unresolved. One of the unresolved questions is the phylogenetic position of the large microlepidopteran superfamily Gelechioidea, whose placement depends on the ...
Jadranka Rota, Victoria Twort, Andrea Chiocchio, Carlos Peña, Christopher W. Wheat, Lauri Kaila, Niklas Wahlberg   +6 more
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Beyond the pest: Life history, ecology and ethnoentomology of the giant wood moth (Endoxyla cinereus)

Austral Ecology, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 733-747, June 2022., 2022
The giant wood moth (Endoxyla cinereus) is the heaviest known moth in the world, a traditional food resource to indigenous Australians and an ecosystem engineer, but it is primarily studied as a pest of Eucalyptus plantations. Here, I review the life history of this enigmatic insect and apply this perspective to the ecology, ethnoentomology and known ...
Jessa H. Thurman
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