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Integrating Plant Volatile Scents in Sustainable IPM Approaches for Fall Armyworm Control
Journal of Applied Entomology, Volume 149, Issue 9, Page 1304-1318, November 2025.ABSTRACT Since the invasion of the fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) into new regions, studies have oriented toward low‐cost management tools and methods. This study assessed the effects of volatile scents that are naturally emitted by essential oil (EO) plants on the severity of FAW and populations of its natural ...
Djima Koffi +4 more
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Systematics and Biogeography of the Neotropical “Polymorphic Earless Praying Mantises” (Mantodea: Acanthopoidea) [PDF]
, 2017 The Mantodea, or praying mantises, are a lineage of cryptic predatory insects with a history of rampant evolutionary convergence in their cryptic strategies.
Rivera Castillo, Julio Martin
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Luring cannibal: Dishonest sexual signalling in the springbok mantis
Functional Ecology, Volume 39, Issue 10, Page 2849-2859, October 2025.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Sexual signals that attract the opposite sex are typically honest indicators of quality. However, sexually antagonistic selection can favour dishonest signals if poor quality members of the signalling sex can improve their own fitness at a cost to the opposite sex by ...
Laura Knapwerth, Nathan W. Burke
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Austral Ecology, Volume 50, Issue 9, September 2025.ABSTRACT Tropical savannahs experience pronounced seasonality, especially in rainfall and temperature, shaping plant productivity and resource availability. Yet, temporal patterns in insect diversity remain poorly understood. We investigated seasonal variation in species richness and community composition of moths (herbivores) and mantises (predators ...
Fernando P. Gaona +14 more
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Strategic Deployment of Secondary Defences in the Springbok Mantis (Miomantis Caffra)
Ethology, Volume 131, Issue 8, Page 13-21, August 2025.Prey often use multiple defences for warding off predator threats. But the factors that influence their optimal deployment are poorly understood. In the springbok mantis, we show that females utilise their defences strategically to match the level of the threat by fleeing in early phases of the predation sequence and standing their ground with startle ...
Nathan W. Burke, Laura Knapwerth
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, 2023 Prehensile raptorial forelegs are prey capturing and grasping devices, best known for praying mantises (Mantodea) within insects. They show strong morphological and behavioral adaptations toward a lifestyle as generalist arthropod predators. In the past,
Stanislav N. Gorb +5 more
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Review of Paraphotina (Mantodea: Photinaidae)
, 2016 The number of studies on Neotropical mantises has been growing in recent years, and the systematics of Mantodea is now a dynamic field with noteworthy contributions. Several taxonomic revisions have been published recently.
Antonio A. Agudelo (12844202) +1 more
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The phylogenetic system of Mantodea (Insecta: Dictyoptera)
, 2013 Softcover, DIN A4Praying mantises (Mantodea) are a charismatic group of raptorial insects. Their main distribution encompasses the tropical and subtropical regions of the world where they have conquered almost every habitat including the sandy deserts ...
Frank Wieland, Wieland, Frank
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A review of African praying mantises (Dictyoptera: Mantodea) incorporating molecular and morphological data [PDF]
Praying mantises (Dictyoptera: Mantodea) are an iconic group of predatory insects, comprising around 2500 species globally, that occur in all zoogeographic regions except the poles.
Roestof, Bruce
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, 2014 FIGURE 2. Variability in females of Deroplatys truncata (Guérin-Méneville, 1843). a. Holotype of Deroplatys shelfordi Kirby, 1903 from Sarawak (NHM), dorsal view; b. same, ventral view; Photos M. Stiewe © NHM. c.
Konopik, Oliver, Schwarz, Christian J.
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