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First annotated checklist of Chironomidae of Rhodos, Greece (Insecta, Diptera) [PDF]
Chironomid fauna of Greek Aegean islands, an essential part of the biogeographically important Mediterranean region, is almost unexplored, with only 36 species recorded prior to the present study.
Csabai, Zoltán Szabolcs, Móra, Arnold
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A study of louse flies in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, and Ireland found 212 different interactions between Hippoboscidae and their hosts, of which 70 were previously unrecorded. No louse flies were found on aquatic species of birds. Host‐switching to gulls (Laridae) has occurred during a period in which these species have started relying on ...
Denise C. Wawman +2 more
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Trematodes from 11 families have dixenic life cycles. Primary dixenic life cycles are typical for trematodes families Notocotylidae and Psilostomidae. Secondary dixenic life cycles have 3 versions.
E. A. Serbina
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We analysed various points of the counter‐adaptations of the spider egg sac pseudoparasitoid and spiders exhibiting active maternal care, utilising the ichneumonid Hidryta fusiventris and the wolf spider Pardosa lugubris. We observed that there is a time shift of approximately 1 month between the first egg sac of P.
Agata Kostro‐Ambroziak +6 more
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Evolution of Peripheral Visual System in the Apoidea: A Role for Food Item Mobility?
Since larger compound eyes and ocelli altogether improve vision, one may expect that insects specialised in chasing very mobile resources possess such morphological optimisation. By analysing 77 species of bees and wasps, we have found that wasps had larger eyes, but not larger ocelli, than bees.
Chiara Francesca Trisoglio +4 more
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Infection of cultured and freshwater fishes with monogeneans in Syria [PDF]
During a survey made in 2004 and 2005 in Syrian fish farms of the Orontes valley and on natural water fishes harvested in the Orontes River and in Lake Assad (a water reservoir of the Euphrates River), 145 specimens of fish belonging to 15 fish species ...
Al-Samman, A. +2 more
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The Red Queen unveils the sexual and mating strategies of flowers
Although the conventional wisdom is that floral traits of plants evolved in concert with their mutualistic pollinators, here we showed that several key sexual and mating traits of plants, which modulate their outcrossing strategy, evolved in response to the pressure exerted by their antagonistic insect herbivores.
Carlos Roberto Fonseca +2 more
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Fauna of Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) of the Republic of Mordovia
The known fauna of the Republic of Mordovia comprises 506 species of Curculionoidea from six families: Anthribidae (8), Attelabidae (15), Brentidae (81), Cimberididae (1), Curculionidae (400), and Nemonychidae (1). The checklist includes 36 species newly
Leonid V. Egorov +7 more
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Potential New Records of Mites in Australia Based on Citizen Science (Acariformes, Parasitiformes)
ABSTRACT This paper reports on 10 species, 10 genera and 1 family of mites that are recorded in the iNaturalist database but otherwise not recorded from Australia. They include five species of plant parasites in the family Eriophyidae that may be economically important pests.
Bruce Halliday
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Synopses on Palaearctic Collembola – TULLBERGIIDAE
The volume ‘Tullbergiidae’ presented here is an entirely revised version, updated and translated into English, of the first edition (which appeared as Volume I of the Synopses on Palaearctic Collembola: Tullbergiinae [1994; in German language] by Bettina Zimdars and Wolfram Dunger).
Wolfram Dunger, Bettina Schlitt
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