The ecological function of insect egg micropyles
Functional Ecology, Volume 36, Issue 5, Page 1113-1123, May 2022., 2022 Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Insect egg micropyles are openings through the chorion allowing sperm entry for fertilisation. Micropyles are diverse structures showing remarkable variation in number, spatial arrangement and physical structure across extant insect orders.
Graziella Iossa
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Arthropod dark taxa provide new insights into diversity responses to bark beetle infestations
Ecological Applications, Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2022., 2022 Abstract Natural disturbances are increasing around the globe, also impacting protected areas. Although previous studies have indicated that natural disturbances result in mainly positive effects on biodiversity, these analyses mostly focused on a few well established taxonomic groups, and thus uncertainty remains regarding the comprehensive impact of ...
Mareike Kortmann +8 more
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Florida Scorpionfly, Panorpa floridana Byers (Insecta: Mecoptera: Panorpidae)
EDIS, 2012 Have you seen this insect? No living individuals of Panorpa floridana have ever been observed. Knowledge of this species of scorpionfly is limited to five specimens from Alachua and Clay counties in northern peninsular Florida, the last one collected in ...
Louis A. Somma, James C. Dunford
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Review of the Panorpa wormaldi group (Mecoptera: Panorpidae), with descriptions of two new species
European Journal of Taxonomy, 2022 Panorpa Linnaeus, 1758 is the largest genus in the scorpionfly family Panorpidae. In this paper, a taxonomic review of the Panorpa wormaldi group is provided, with two new species described from China: Panorpa fengyanga Wang & Suzuki, sp. nov.
Ji-Shen Wang, Tomoya Suzuki
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Comparative analysis of complete mitochondrial genomes of Panorpidae (Insecta: Mecoptera) and new perspectives on the phylogenetic position of Furcatopanorpa [PDF]
Arthropod Systematics & PhylogenyThe scorpionfly genus Furcatopanorpa Ma & Hua, 2011 is a monotypic taxon of Panorpidae with a series of unique characters. However, the phylogenetic position of Furcatopanorpa in Panorpidae has not been satisfactorily resolved yet.
Yuan Hua +5 more
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Elevational diversity pattern and allochronic divergence of scorpionflies in the Qinling Mountains
Ecological Indicators, 2022 Scorpionflies (Mecoptera, Panorpidae) as a relict group of holometabolous insects normally inhabit dense vegetations of mountain regions in the northern hemisphere.
Peng-Yang Wang, Bao-Zhen Hua
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Morphological phylogenetic analyses and taxonomic revision of the Panorpa davidi group (Mecoptera: Panorpidae) [PDF]
Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, 2021 The Chinese Panorpa species without anal horn are normally assigned to the Panorpa davidi group. Here, we taxonomically revise the P. davidi group, which currently includes 17 known species and four new species: P. gaokaii sp. nov., P. huayuani sp. nov.,
Li Ning, Ji-Shen Wang, Bao-Zhen Hua
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European Journal of Entomology, 2009 We examined effects of seasonality, larval food availability and larval rearing density on sperm length, sperm transfer rates and body size in the bivoltine scorpionfly Panorpa vulgaris.
Andreas VERMEULEN +3 more
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Taxonomic review of the genus Sinopanorpa Cai & Hua, 2008 (Mecoptera, Panorpidae) with descriptions of two new species [PDF]
Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 2023 The scorpionfly genus Sinopanorpa Cai & Hua, 2008 is endemic to the mountain regions of central China, currently consisting of four species: Sinopanorpa tincta (Navás, 1931), S. digitiformis Huang & Hua, 2008, S. nangongshana Cai &
Yuan Hua, Kai Gao, Lianxi Xing
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Functional morphology of the mouthparts in the scorpionfly Sinopanorpa tincta (Mecoptera: Panorpidae) [PDF]
Micron, 2011 The feeding mechanism of insects can be deduced from the morphology of their mouthparts. The mouthpart morphology of the scorpionfly Sinopanorpa tincta (Navás) was investigated using light and scanning electron microscopy. The mandibulate mouthparts of S.
Jing, Huang, Baozhen, Hua
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