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Termite Vibration Sensing: The Chordotonal Organs and Their Appendages
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 10, October 2025.This study investigates how termites use their legs and antennae as vibration‐sensitive sensory organs, comparing them to ants, their eusocial predators. Termite appendages are morphologically adapted to detect lower‐frequency, wood‐borne vibrations, enhancing their foraging and predator avoidance abilities. These findings suggest that termite legs may
Travers M. Sansom +4 more
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A newly recorded species of the genus Lopaphus Westwood, 1859 (Phasmida: Lonchodidae: Necrosciinae) from China [PDF]
Journal of Insect Biodiversity and SystematicsOne species of Lopaphus (Phasmida: Lonchodidae: Necrosciinae), namely L. sphalerus (Redtenbacher, 1908), is reported from China for the first time. The identification of this species is primarily based on female morphological characters: cerci triangular,
Yanting Qin, Qianwen Zhang, Xun Bian
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European Journal of Entomology, 2015 The ecological and genetic mechanisms that determine Phasmatodea reproductive biology are poorly understood. The order includes standard sexual species, but also many others that display distinct types of parthenogenesis (tychoparthenogenesis, automixis,
Mar PÉREZ-RUIZ +3 more
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Endless forms most hidden: katydids that masquerade as moss [PDF]
, 2017 In the cloud forests of the central range of the Colombian Andes, we discovered a species of katydid (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) that imitates mosses to an uncanny degree and is exceedingly difficult to detect. The camouflage exhibited by this particular
Kattan, Gustavo H. +3 more
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The pace and shape of ant ageing
Biological Reviews, Volume 100, Issue 5, Page 2071-2083, October 2025.ABSTRACT Ants have been proposed as good models to study ageing and the effects of extrinsic mortality because of their long lifespans and plasticity of ageing within species. We discuss how age‐dependent extrinsic mortality might influence queen lifespan, and how the effect of age‐independent extrinsic mortality needs further study, accounting for ...
Luisa M. Jaimes‐Nino, Jan Oettler
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Predictions of Future Insect Distributions Under Climate Change
Diversity and Distributions, Volume 31, Issue 10, October 2025.ABSTRACT Aim Climate change has severe consequences for insects worldwide, many of which play key ecological roles. Despite a large literature predicting insect distribution changes over future climate change, a synthesis of predictions of insect responses to climate change in the literature is still lacking. Location Global.
Olivia K. Bates, Cleo Bertelsmeier
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Evolution of Oviposition Techniques in Stick and Leaf Insects (Phasmatodea)
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 Stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea) are large, tropical, predominantly nocturnal herbivores, which exhibit extreme masquerade crypsis, whereby they morphologically and behaviorally resemble twigs, bark, lichen, moss, and leaves.
James A. Robertson +3 more
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Using fecal DNA metabarcoding to investigate the animal diet of black rails, yellow rails, and soras
Wildlife Society Bulletin, Volume 49, Issue 3, September 2025.We used fecal DNA metabarcoding to investigate the diet of yellow rails, Eastern black rails, and sora during the non‐breeding season. Arthropods, particularly ants, were prevalent in their diets, suggesting possible interactions with invasive red imported fire ants.
Christopher J. Butler +4 more
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Tomographic reconstruction of neopterous Carboniferous insect nymphs [PDF]
, 2012 Two new polyneopteran insect nymphs from the Montceau-les-Mines Lagerstätte of France are presented. Both are preserved in three dimensions, and are imaged with the aid of X-ray micro-tomography, allowing their morphology to be recovered in unprecedented
Andrew Ross +7 more
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Revista Chilena de Entomología, 2022 Based on the observation of specimens kept in captivity for 69 days, here we describe in detail for the first time the predatory behavior of an assassin bug Harpactor angulosus (Lepeletier & Serville, 1825) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae ...
Jane Costa +2 more
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