Factors Influencing the Distribution of Endemic Damselflies in Vanuatu [PDF]
Insects, 2021 Vanuatubasis Ober and Staniczek is a genus of damselfly endemic to Vanuatu. Little is known about the distribution and general natural history of the genus.
Natalie A. Saxton +5 more
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Predatory Potential of Nymphal Odonates on Aedes aegypti Developing in Freshwater and Brackish Water Habitats [PDF]
InsectsAedes aegypti, the primary vector of dengue, undergoes preimaginal development in brackish water (BW). However, dengue vector control exclusively targets freshwater (FW) habitats.
Sivasingham Arthiyan +3 more
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Behavioral and Transcriptomic Analyses in the Indoxacarb Response of a Non-Target Damselfly Species [PDF]
InsectsIschnura senegalensis, which widely spreads in paddy fields, has the potential to be used as a natural predator of insect pests. However, the application of insecticides in the field could pose a threat to the survival of I. senegalensis.
Bin Jiang +5 more
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Levels and Spatial Patterns of Effective Population Sizes in the Southern Damselfly (Coenagrion mercuriale): On the Need to Carefully Interpret Single‐Point and Temporal Estimations to Set Conservation Guidelines [PDF]
Evolutionary ApplicationsThe effective population size (Ne) is a key parameter in conservation and evolutionary biology, reflecting the strength of genetic drift and inbreeding.
Agathe Lévêque +6 more
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Demography and Behaviour of Teinopodagrion oscillans (Odonata: Megapodagrionidae) in a Protected Area of the Colombian Andean Region [PDF]
InsectsThe demography and behaviour of Teinopodagrion oscillans was studied in a protected area in the Andean region of Colombia. Adult damselflies were individually marked, and using their recapture histories, we estimated survival, longevity, sex ratio, and ...
Fredy Palacino-Rodríguez +3 more
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Microplastic exposure across trophic levels: effects on the host–microbiota of freshwater organisms [PDF]
Environmental Microbiome, 2022 Background Microplastics are a pervasive pollutant widespread in the sea and freshwater from anthropogenic sources, and together with the presence of pesticides, they can have physical and chemical effects on aquatic organisms and on their microbiota ...
Javier Edo Varg +5 more
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New records of the Critically Endangered Leptagrion acutum Santos, 1961 (Odonata, Coenagrionidae) from southern Bahia, Brazil [PDF]
Check List, 2021 Leptagrion acutum Santos, 1961 is endemic to Brazil and, since 2003, listed as Critically Endangered in the Red Book of Threatened Brazilian Fauna. In this study, L.
Cintia Santos +2 more
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A Comparison of Wing Shape and Size in Andromorph and Gynomorph Females with Males of Calopteryx Intermedia Using Geometric Morphometrics [PDF]
تاکسونومی و بیوسیستماتیک, 2021 Female polymorphism is visible in some populations of Odonata species for unknown reasons. In general, one of the female forms which is more or less similar to males is called andromorph. Andromorph females show similar color patterns and sometimes, even
Fatemeh Dorsetan +2 more
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New species records in Acanthagrion, Nehalennia, and Perilestes (Odonata: Zygoptera) for Colombia
Biota Colombiana, 2022 We record for the first time Acanthagrion jessei, Nehalennia minuta, and Perilestes solutus in Colombia, based on males and females taken at the campus Barcelona at the Universidad de Los Llanos, located in the foothills of the Colombian Eastern Andes in
Karen Lineke Alvarez Alvarez +2 more
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Differences in land use modify Odonata assemblages in the Cerrado-Caatinga ecotone
Acta Limnologica Brasiliensia, 2020 : Aim The present study tested the hypothesis that the composition of the odonate assemblages in environments with greater habitat integrity is significantly different from that of areas with reduced habitat integrity.
Daniel Silas Veras +4 more
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