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Se presentan las primeras citas de Ancylosis nubeculella (Ragonot, 1887) para España peninsular y Europa continental (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae, Phycitinae), junto con imágenes de su hábitus y genitalia del macho y de la hembra.
Javier Gastón+2 more
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In 2006 the US National Park Service initiated a long-term study of the Lepidoptera at White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico. Aleptina arenaria sp. n., described here, was discovered in 2008, the second year of the study.
Eric Metzler, Gregory Forbes
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Conservation challenges and opportunities for native apple (Malus) species in Canada
Apple, one of the world's most widely cultivated and economically important fruit crops, has two wild relatives native to Canada. In this review, we describe the importance of these native apple species to Indigenous heritage and the current threats the species faces due to pests, diseases, and habitat loss.
Terrell T. Roulston+13 more
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Maize varieties producing insecticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) have become an important component of integrated pest management worldwide. For regulatory approval of such plants, risks to the environment need to be assessed. To make such assessments less expensive and time‐consuming, conclusions drawn from data collected in one region
Michael Meissle+2 more
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A contribution to the knowledge of the Lepidoptera fauna of eastern Serbia
The faunistic review of Lepidoptera, Heterocera in the eastern Serbia area, with ecological characteristics and zoogeographical distribution is presented.
Jakšić, P.
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Determinants of mating success in a lek‐mating species
Abstract Leks are male‐biased aggregations formed for mating, where sperm is the only resource acquired by visiting females. One of the many advantages of leks is the possibility to efficiently assess the quality of potential mates by comparing aggregated individuals of the same sex with one another. When direct mate choice occurs in a lekking species,
Joséphine Queffelec+3 more
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A new species of Lacanobia Billberg, 1820 from Turkmenistan (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
A new species of Lacanobia Billberg, 1820, L. (Lacanobia) dubatolovi Volynkin, sp. n. (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) is described from the West Kopetdagh Mountains, Turkmenistan. A diagnostic comparison is made with L. w-latinum (Hufnagel, 1766) and L.
A. V. Volynki
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Animal medical systems from Apis to apes: history, recent advances and future perspectives
ABSTRACT Animal medical systems encompass a wide range of behaviours aimed at maintaining or improving health. It has become clear that these behaviours are not limited to animals treating themselves (self‐medication) but also include the treatment of group members, resulting in the adoption of the more inclusive term “animal medication”.
Michelina Pusceddu+5 more
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What is Semagystia clathrata (Christoph, 1884) (Lepidoptera, Cossidae: Cossinae)?
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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Low‐sodium females took significantly longer to start mating than high‐sodium females, but no pairings differed in the duration of copulation. Reproductive outputs, measured by number of clutches, hatching young, adult offspring and pupation time, did not differ across parental sodium pairings.
Maggie C. Vincent+3 more
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