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Surprising discovery of an enigmatic geometrid in Croatia: Mirlatia arcuata, gen. nov., sp. nov. (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2023 A new monotypic genus of Geometridae, Mirlatia gen. nov., and a new species, M. arcuata sp. nov., are described from Croatia. Based on external and genitalia characters, the new genus is tentatively placed in the subfamily Larentiinae.
Axel Hausmann +3 more
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Research Infrastructure Contact Zones: a framework and dataset to characterise the activities of major biodiversity informatics initiatives [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022 The landscape of biodiversity data infrastructures and organisations is complex and fragmented. Many occupy specialised niches representing narrow segments of the multidimensional biodiversity informatics space, while others operate across a broad front,
Vincent Smith +16 more
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Revision of the genus Attaphila (Blattodea: Blaberoidea), myrmecophiles living in the mushroom gardens of leaf-cutting ants [PDF]
Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, 2021 The genus Attaphila, comprising minute myrmecophilous cockroaches, is revised, including now six previously known (A. aptera, A. bergi, A. flava, A. fungicola, A. schuppi, A. sexdentis) and three new species (A. multisetosa sp. nov.
Horst Bohn +3 more
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ZooKeys, 2018 The braconid wasp parasitoid Cotesia nuellorum Whitfield, new species, is described from specimens reared from a caterpillar of the hickory horned devil, Citheronia regalis (F.), and from a caterpillar of the luna moth, Actias luna (L.), in eastern Texas.
James B. Whitfield +2 more
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Toward a standardized quantitative and qualitative insect monitoring scheme
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 The number of insect species and insect abundances decreased severely during the past decades over major parts of Central Europe. Previous studies documented declines of species richness, abundances, shifts in species composition, and decreasing biomass ...
Axel Hausmann +9 more
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Semantic Annotation of Natural History Collections
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018 Large collections of historical biodiversity expeditions are housed in natural history museums throughout the world. Potentially they can serve as rich sources of data for cultural historical and biodiversity research. However, they exist as only partially catalogued specimen repositories and images of unstructured, non-standardised, hand-written text ...
Stork, L. +6 more
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Digital libraries for biodiversity and natural history collections [PDF]
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2009 AbstractThis panel aims to discuss the importance of creating digital libraries for biodiversity and natural history collections, the state of the art in terms of standards, best practices and the challenges that natural history museums and herbaria face when trying to digitize their collections, and the creation and management of personal digital ...
Miguel E. Ruiz +3 more
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Herbarium collections policy of the Finnish Museum of Natural History [PDF]
, 2020 The herbarium collections are sub-collections of the Finnish Museum of Natural History Luomus that manages national natural history collections, as referred to in the Universities Act.
Väre, Henry +24 more
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Parasites & Vectors, 2015 Background Gyrodactylus salaris is a directly transmitted ectoparasite that reproduces in situ on its fish host. Wild Norwegian (East Atlantic) salmon stocks are thought to be especially susceptible to the parasite due to lack of co-adaptation, contrary ...
Raúl Ramírez +2 more
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Frontiers in Zoology, 2018 Background The European spurge hawkmoth, Hyles euphorbiae (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae), has been intensively studied as a model organism for insect chemical ecology, cold hardiness and evolution of species delineation.
M. Benjamin Barth +8 more
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