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Predicting sex bias in mobility from functional traits in flying insects

open access: yesOikos, Volume 2025, Issue 7, July 2025.
Understanding the movement patterns of organisms is crucial for effective biodiversity conservation in the increasingly dynamic and fragmented landscapes. Since the colonization of habitat patches relies largely on females, sex differences in movement capability must also be considered.
Tiit Teder   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Taxonomical characters of Selidosema plumarium and S. brunnearium (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae) and the function of the internal genitalia during copulation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The genitalia of the Palaearctic species pair, Selidosema plumarium (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) and S. brunnearium (Villers, 1789), are described and illustrated.
Mikkola, Kauri, Sihvonen, Pasi
core   +2 more sources

Region‐specific diversification dynamics and biogeographic history of one of the most diverse families of insects

open access: yesSystematic Entomology, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 206-220, January 2025.
A robust time‐calibrated tree for the mega diverse Geometridae family. Historical biogeography suggest a New World origin for Geometridae, probably Neotropics. Different biogeographical and evolutionary histories are recovered in different biogeographical regions. Abstract A long‐standing question in evolutionary biology is how historical biogeographic
Hamid Reza Ghanavi   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Horisme exoletata (Herrich-Schäffer, 1838) in southern Italy and description of its larva (Geometridae, Larentiinae) [PDF]

open access: yesNota Lepidopterologica, 2020
We report Horisme exoletata (Herrich-Schäffer, 1838) for the first time in Continental Europe: Italy, Calabria. This is a species previously considered endemic to Sicily and Malta, and an addition to the shared fauna of the Calabria and Sicily regions ...
Stefano Scalercio, Aldo Catania
doaj   +3 more sources

On the origin of geometrid moths: the phylogenetic relationships and taxonomy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Geometrid moths represent one of the largest radiations of Lepidoptera. Phylogenetic analyses based on morphological and molecular data supports the monophyly of this group of moths.
Murillo, Leidys
core  

Complex evolution in thin air: Investigating female flightlessness and diel behaviour in geometrid moths (Lepidoptera)

open access: yesSystematic Entomology, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 596-609, October 2024.
Using molecular phylogenetics, morphological traits, and life histories, we explored the evolution of high‐altitude adaptations of Gnophini moths in the European Alps. Female flightlessness has evolved at least twice independently, shifts from ancestral nocturnality to diurnality have evolved at least three times, and strikingly, two Sciadia species ...
Kyung Min Lee   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

New Records of Seven Eupithecia (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from Korea

open access: yesAnimal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity, 2015
The genus Eupithecia Curtis is the largest taxon in Lepidoptera (more than 1,500 species worldwide) and the adults of the genus are characterized by small in size, cryptically colored grayish and brownish forewing, and indistinct basal, ante- and ...
Choi, Sei-Woong, Kim, Sung-Soo
doaj   +1 more source

130 years from discovery to description: micro‐CT scanning applied to construct the integrative taxonomy of a forgotten moth from Southern Africa (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)

open access: yesSystematic Entomology, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 507-525, July 2024.
We produce diagnostic images of lepidopteran wing venation and genitalia from micro‐CT scans using a novel rendering protocol leaving the dried and pinned target specimens intact. We discuss the virtues of micro‐CT imaging compared with traditional dissection methods suggesting further development of this methodology. We describe Chloecolora vergetaria
Mikael Englund   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review of the endemic New Zealand genus Arctesthes Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae), with descriptions of two new range-restricted species [PDF]

open access: yesAlpine Entomology, 2019
The genus Arctesthes Meyrick (Geometridae: Larentiinae: Xanthorhoini), endemic to the South Island of New Zealand, is revised. Four species are recognised, including two new species, as follows: Arctesthes catapyrrha (Butler, 1877), A.
Brian H. Patrick   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

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