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Emperors, admirals and giants, zebras, tigers and woolly bears: casting a broader net in exploring heparin effects on Lepidoptera wing patterns [version 3; peer review: 2 approved]

F1000Research, 2020
Background: Studies of heparin effects on Lepidoptera wing patterns have been restricted to a small number of species. I report observations from experiments on a broader range of taxa, including first results from swallowtails, tiger moths and ...
Andrei Sourakov
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A Pyralid Moth (Lepidoptera) as Pollinator of Blunt-Leaf Orchid [PDF]

, 2017
(excerpt) As early as 1912, mosquitoes were observed bearing the pollen masses (pollinia) of the blunt-leaf orchid, Habenaria obtusata (Pursh) Richardson, in Reese\u27s Bog, a cedar swamp at the north end of Burt Lake, Cheboygan County, Michigan, near ...
Riefner, Richard E, Jr., Voss, Edward G
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A near chromosome-level genome assembly of a ghost moth (Lepidoptera, Hepialidae)

Scientific Data
Ghost moths are an unusual family of primitive moths (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) known for their large body size and crepuscular adult activity. These moths represent an ancient lineage, frequently have soil dwelling larvae, and are adapted to high ...
Yi-Ming Weng, Isabel Lopez-Cacacho, Bert Foquet, Jose I. Martinez, David Plotkin, Andrei Sourakov, Paul B. Frandsen, Akito Y. Kawahara   +7 more
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Mexican Lepidoptera biodiversity [PDF]

, 2002
Being among the most habitat diverse countries in the world (and plant diversity is about 22,000 sp.), Mexico has a Lepidoptera fauna recorded at about 14,385 species but is estimated to be over 22,000 species, if not much higher (some estimates go to 35,
Heppner, J. B.
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First contribution to the knowledge of the braconid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) of Malta [PDF]

, 2015
A total of 48 species of braconid wasps (excluding 16 Aphidiidae) are here reported as occurring in the Maltese Islands, of which 38 species are reported for the first time from this territory.
Papp, Jeno
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Mechanisms of Aristolochic Acid Resistance in Specialist Butterflies and Evolutionary Insights for Potential Protective Pathways

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The study provides an extreme example of insect adaptation to highly toxic defenses of host plants, and investigates the complex strategies to resist carcinogenic aristolochic acids, including physical isolation, metabolic detoxification, and DNA repair.
Yang Luan, Yubo Zhang, Jingjing Li, Jianqing Zhu, Yuyang Lei, Yushi Hu, Zhenqiang Xin, Tianpei Xie, Jiang Zheng, Yuanyuan Lin, Jingjing Shen, Yiyi Cao, Xinyue You, Jing Xi, Jiaying Wu, Weiying Liu, Xinyu Zhang, Yuanting Zheng, David J. Lohman, Leming Shi, Wei Zhang   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genome assembly of a nocturnal butterfly (Macrosoma leucophasiata) reveals convergent adaptation of visual genes

Communications Biology
Nearly all animals exhibit a preferred period of daily activity (diel-niche), strongly influenced by the light environment. Vision is a sensory system that is strongly adapted to light, and evolutionary transitions to novel light environments can impose ...
Rachit Pratap Singh, Yi-Ming Weng, Yash Sondhi, David Plotkin, Paul B. Frandsen, Akito Y. Kawahara   +5 more
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Gut Microbe‐Driven Resistance Mechanisms in Propylea Japonica: Insights from Horizontal Gene Transfer and Oxidative Phosphorylation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Acinetobacter regulates dinotefuran tolerance in Propylea japonica by mediating the expression of the horizontally transferred gene PjDUF1. Abstract Insect–microbial symbiont relationships are widespread in nature and often involve lateral gene transfer.
Ningbo HuangFu, Xiangzhen Zhu, Zhijuan Tang, Li Wang, Kaixin Zhang, Dongyang Li, Jichao Ji, Jinjie Cui, Zhaojiang Guo, Junyu Luo, Xueke Gao   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

A new species of Oxyptilus Zeller from the southwestern United States (Lepidoptera, Pterophoridae)

ZooKeys, 2017
Oxyptilus eleanerae sp. n., is described from New Mexico, Arizona, and Southwest Texas, and compared with the only other Oxyptilus occurring in the Nearctic Region, O. delawaricus Zeller. A redescription is provided for O. delawaricus.
Deborah Matthews
doaj   +3 more sources

Holotype of Agathymus escalantei Stallings, Turner, and Stallings, 1966 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Megathyminae) [PDF]

, 2009
Agathymus escalantei Stallings, Turner, and Stallings, 1966 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) is the only described species of Megathyminae known from a single collected individual.
Boyd, Bret M.
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