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Entomo-venomics: the evolution, biology and biochemistry of insect venoms [PDF]

, 2018
The insects are a hyperdiverse class containing more species than all other animal groups combined-many of which employ venom to capture prey, deter predators and micro-organisms, or facilitate parasitism or extra-oral digestion.
Baumann, Kate, Dobson, James, Fry, Bryan G., Jin, Jiayi, King, Glenn F., Robinson, Samuel D., Walker, Andrew A., Yeates, David K.   +7 more
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Cutting the sap: First molecular phylogeny of twig‐girdler longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Onciderini) suggests shifts in host plant attack behaviours contributed to morphological evolution

Systematic Entomology, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 369-386, April 2025.
Onciderines originated c. 56 Ma, in the Palaeocene‐Eocene boundary, and consist of two major monophyletic lineages, here established as subtribes Hypsiomatina and Onciderina. A novel, female‐specific mechanism of attacking host plants known as girdling evolved independently and irreversibly at least five times in the onciderines.
Diego de S. Souza, Rowan L. K. French, José O. Silva Júnior, Eugenio H. Nearns, Luciane Marinoni, Ian P. Swift, Kelly B. Miller, Felix A. H. Sperling, Marcela L. Monné   +8 more
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The structure of extremely long mouthparts in the aphid genus Stomaphis Walker (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aphididae) [PDF]

, 2015
Scanning electron microscopy and light microscopy were used to elucidate the morphology of labium and mandibular and maxillary stylets of the aphids Stomaphis quercus (L.) and S. graffii Cholodkovsky.
Brożek, Jolanta, Depa, Łukasz, Mróz, Ewa, Wylężek, Dominika, Węgierek, Piotr   +4 more
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Linking effect traits of soil fauna to processes of organic matter transformation

Functional Ecology, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 446-461, February 2025.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Soil organic matter (SOM) transformation processes are regulated by the activities of plants, microbes, and fauna. Compared with plants and microbes, effects of soil fauna are less understood because of their high taxonomic and functional diversity, and mix of direct ...
Jonathan Bonfanti, Anton M. Potapov, Gerrit Angst, Pierre Ganault, Maria J. I. Briones, Irene Calderón‐Sanou, Ting‐Wen Chen, Erminia Conti, Florine Degrune, Nico Eisenhauer, Olga Ferlian, Davorka Hackenberger, Amelie Hauer, Mickaël Hedde, Karin Hohberg, Paul Henning Krogh, Christian Mulder, Camila Perez‐Roig, David Russell, Oren Shelef, Zheng Zhou, Andrey G. Zuev, Matty P. Berg   +22 more
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Morphological Variance in Mouthparts and Foraging Behavior in Bumblebees [PDF]

, 2021
Bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus) show an incredible degree of size variation within and between species. Individuals from the same hive may vary up to 10-fold in mass.
Lee, Ye Jin
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A revised classification of the assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) based on combined analysis of phylogenomic and morphological data

Systematic Entomology, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 102-138, January 2025.
This study produces the first combined morphological and molecular phylogenetic analysis for Reduviidae and reveals synapomorphies and diagnostic traits for clades at the ranks of subfamilies and tribes. Based on our resulting robust phylogenetic reconstructions and subsequent optimization of morphological character information, we propose a ...
Paul K. Masonick, Alex Knyshov, Eric R. L. Gordon, Dimitri Forero, Wei Song Hwang, Rochelle Hoey‐Chamberlain, Tatiana Bush, Stephanie Castillo, Madison Hernandez, Jamie Ramirez, Samantha Standring, Junxia Zhang, Christiane Weirauch   +12 more
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The larval morphology of the clonal raider ant, Ooceraea biroi (Forel, 1907) (Dorylinae), with broader implications for the Formicidae and Hymenoptera [PDF]

The larvae of ants are essential for colony organization and growth, yet knowledge of their internal anatomy is sparse, and the homologies of many larval structures remain uncertain. We therefore used synchrotron-radiation micro-computed tomography (SR-μ-
Beutel, Rolf G., Boudinot, Brendon E., Kamp, Thomas van de, Kronauer, Daniel J. C., Li, Di, Olivos-Cisneros, Leonora, Richter, Adrian   +6 more
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From Spinning Silk to Spreading Saliva: Mouthpart Remodeling in Manduca sexta (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) [PDF]

, 2019
As a model organism, the tobacco hornworm Manduca sexta (Linnaeus 1763) has contributed much to our knowledge of developmental processes in insects, and major developmental changes between different larval instars are generally well understood.
Gominho, Brandon, Hines, Heather M, Jones, Anne C, Miko, Istvan, Paudel, Sulav, Rahman, Sarthok Rasique, Schilder, Rudolf J, Stupski, S David, Townley, Mark A.   +8 more
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A new exceptionally preserved sawfly fossil (Hymenoptera: Pergidae) and an evaluation of its utility for divergence time estimation and biogeography

Systematic Entomology, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 237-251, January 2025.
We describe the first Australian Pergidae fossil species, Baladi warru, from McGraths Flat, a newly discovered Miocene Konservat‐Lagerstätte in Australia. The specimen contains pollen grains from Quintianapolis that were imaged with high‐resolution using SEM.
Juanita Rodriguez, Michael Frese, Mary Dettmann, Mahin Chavoshi‐Jolfaei, John Macdonald   +4 more
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Comparative Morphology of the Mouthparts in Three Predatory Stink Bugs (Heteroptera: Asopinae) Reveals Feeding Specialization of Stylets and Sensilla [PDF]

, 2020
Mouthpart structures were observed in three species of Asopinae using scanning electron microscopy to investigate their morphological disparity.
Brożek, Jolanta, Dai, Wu, Wang, Yan
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