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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.The relationship between the position of a flea species in the networks and its functional originality was found to be consistently positive in all realms, independently of which originality index was used. ABSTRACT We investigated the relationships between a species’ network position (measured as the combined normalized degree, species strength, and ...
Boris R. Krasnov, Vasily I. Grabovsky
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First record of the sawfly family Xyelidae (Hymenoptera) from Malta [PDF]
, 2016 Xyela cf. altenhoferi Blank, 2013 is recorded from Buskett (Malta). Its host is Pinus halepensis.
Mifsud, David, Liston, Andrew D.
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Ecology and Brain Size Drive Feeding Innovations in Birds
Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Larger‐brained birds exhibit higher feeding innovation rates, but ecological factors shape different forms of innovation in distinct ways. Across 955 bird species, phylogenetic path analyses revealed that migration type and feeding strategy mediate the effects of brain size and climate on feeding innovations, illustrating how cognition and ecology ...
Yating Liu +3 more
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Supplementing beef cattle diets with brown seaweed affects coprophagous beetles' dung use
Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.Supplementing beef cattle diets with brown seaweed reduced the attractiveness of dung for a common dung beetle (Onthophagus nuchicornis). Dietary supplementation with brown seaweed appeared to reduce the proportion of major males in the F1 generation.
Samantha Bennett +3 more
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New species and new records of hybotid dance flies (Diptera: Hybotidae: Tachydromiinae) from Iranian mangrove habitats [PDF]
Journal of Insect Biodiversity and SystematicsThe family Hybotidae (Insecta: Diptera, Empidoidea) is recorded for the first time from mangrove habitats in Iran (Hormozgan Province). Four species belonging to the subfamily Tachydromiinae have been found of which two species are recorded for the first
Igor V. Shamshev, Ebrahim Gilasian
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A note on the synonymy of Palaearctic casebearer moths (Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae) [PDF]
Кавказский энтомологический бюллетеньTe type specimens of the casebearer moths (Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae) Casignetella magyarica (type locality: Hungary, Kiskunság National Park) and Ecebalia parasymi (type locality: Russia, Saratov environs) are conspecifc, so the second name is ...
Yu.I. Budashkin
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Lispe (Diptera, Muscidae) of the Palaearctic region
Амурский зоологический журнал, 2020 The Palaearctic fauna of Lispe is reviewed. The paper consists of 4 parts. (1) The alphabetical list of 65 taxa of the Palearctic fauna is given with references, distribution data and, where necessary, taxonomic remarks. (2) A complete identification key
Nikita E. Vikhrev
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Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.Ips sexdentatus is expanding across southern Europe, attacking multiple Pinus species and showing the ability to colonize trees at early stages of decline. Genetic analysis of 668 individuals revealed 106 haplotypes, with Iberian populations as diversity hotspots, reflecting long‐term refugial persistence alongside more recent demographic expansion ...
Dimitrios N. Avtzis +4 more
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Palaearctic Acrididae new to the Indian Fauna [PDF]
, 1942 The present paper includes notes on several Acrididae of definite Palaearctic affinities not previously reported from India, two of them new to science but belonging to a purely Palaearctic genus. It will be seen that the series comprises not only the
Uvarov, B. P.
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Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.Bioecology parameters of the endemic Psychidae Deborrea malgassa, the main pest of apple trees in Madagascar. Spatiotemporal dynamics of Deborrea malgassa, with a peak infestation between May and August. Proposed targeted prophylaxis techniques associated with other agroecological principles will be key to reducing the vulnerability of apple orchards ...
Miora Ranaivozandriny +6 more
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