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Toward a standardized quantitative and qualitative insect monitoring scheme
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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A review of some new or little-known species of the genus Gnorimoschema (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) from the Palaearctic region [PDF]
Six new species of Gnorimoschema Busck, 1900 are described: G. pamira sp. nov. (Tadzhikistan), G. brachyptera sp. nov. (Russia: Buryatia), G. altaica sp. nov. (Russia: Altai), G. tabazhok sp. nov. (Russia, Altai, Tuva), G. yakovlevi sp. nov.
Oleksiy Bidzilya+3 more
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Advancing the Catalogue of the World’s Natural History Collections [PDF]
Information about natural history collections helps to map the complex landscape of research resources and assists researchers in locating and contacting the holders of specimens. Collection records contribute to the development of a fully interlinked biodiversity knowledge graph (Page 2016), showcasing the existence and importance of museums and ...
Hobern, Donald+9 more
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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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We studied the distributional patterns of phoretic deutonymphs of the genera Oodinychus and Trichouropoda (Uropodina) on the longhorn beetles Monochamus sartor urussovii, Plagionotus detritus, Tetropium castaneum, and Te.
Szymon Konwerski+2 more
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Two new native larval host plants of Hyles annei (Guérin-Méneville, 1839) (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile following exceptional summer rainfall [PDF]
Adults of the little-known Neotropical hawkmoth, Hyles annei (Guérin-Méneville, 1839) (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae: Macroglossinae: Macroglossini), were reared from larvae collected on Allionia incarnata L. (Nyctaginaceae) and Fagonia chilensis Hook.
Héctor A. Vargas, Anna K. Hundsdoerfer
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Deserts are characterized by unpredictable precipitation and extreme temperatures. Their fauna and flora are sensitive to anthropogenic environmental changes, and often recover slowly from environmental disasters.
Efrat Gavish-Regev+15 more
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An integrated leaf trait analysis of two Paleogene leaf floras [PDF]
Objectives This study presents the Integrated Leaf Trait Analysis (ILTA), a workflow for the combined application of methodologies in leaf trait and insect herbivory analyses on fossil dicot leaf assemblages.
Christian Müller+5 more
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Herbarium collections policy of the Finnish Museum of Natural History [PDF]
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.
Hyvärinen, Marko+10 more
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The Natural History Collections [PDF]
I SEE by Galignani, the only newspaper that reaches this high elevation, that a bill has just been introduced into Parliament by Mr. Walpole, and read a second time, to enable the Trustees of the British Museum to move the natural history collections into the new building at South Kensington.
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