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European Journal of Entomology, 2011 The relative effects of two components of mountain environmental heterogeneity, altitude (1500, 1700 and 2000 m a.s.l.) and habitat (pastures, coniferous forests, wet meadows, scrub and anthropogenic woods) on the diversity of dung beetles in an Italian ...
Matteo NEGRO +3 more
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European Journal of Entomology, 2002 Circellium bacchus is a flightless telecoprid (ball-rolling) dung beetle, endemic to the afrotropical region, where it is found in a few restricted populations in the eastern Cape of South Africa. Its apterous condition and large size (mass ranges from 6
Frances D. DUNCAN
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Mycobiology, 2020 Root-feeding Scarabaeidae, particularly white grubs are considered among the most harmful coleopteran insect pests in turfgrass. In this work, sixteen entomopathogenic fungal species were assayed against flower chafer beetle, Protaetia brevitarsis ...
Sihyeon Kim +9 more
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Four new species of the genus Anomala Samouelle, 1819 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) from South-East Asia and a key to the species with the similar elytral sculpture [PDF]
Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень, 2021 Four new species of the genus Anomala Samouelle, 1819 from the continental South-East Asia are described. Anomala paramychodes sp. n. from Laos, Myanmar and South China and A. sinifrater sp. n.
A.M. Prokofiev
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European Journal of Entomology, 2016 Male dimorphism in insects is often accompanied by alternative mating tactics, which may, together with morphological traits, determine fitness of the different male morphs. Fitness consequences of male head horn size, male-male competition and male nest-
Mayumi AKAMINE
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Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2022 Holotrichia parallela (Motschulsky, 1854) is an important pest for peanut, potato, and soybean in China, and it causes great economic losses. In this study, we sequenced and analyzed the complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of H. parallela.
Jing Zhao +4 more
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The system of the genus Holochelus Reitter, 1889 sensu lato (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) [PDF]
Кавказский энтомологический бюллетеньA new systematic division of the genus Holochelus Reitter, 1889 is proposed based on the features of the external structure, the shape of the parameres and the endophallus. The presence of five subgenera in the genus is accepted: Holochelus s.
I.V. Shokhin
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European Journal of Entomology, 2010 A new species group and five new species of mites of the genus Pavania Lombardini, 1949 belonging to the family Dolichocybidae (Acari: Heterostigmata) are described from Iran. Pavania gymnopleuri Hajiqanbar & Khaustov sp. n., P. sabzevarensis Hajiqanbar &
Hamidreza HAJIQANBAR, Alexnder KHAUSTOV
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Revista Chilena de Entomología, 2022 We described two similar teratological cases with multiple malformations and loss of symmetry observed in specimens of Amithao decemguttatus (Waterhouse, 1876) (Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) and Megaceras jason (Fabricius, 1775) (Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae ...
Julián Clavijo-Bustos +2 more
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Dung feeding in hydrophilid, geotrupid and scarabaeid beetles: Examples of parallel evolution
European Journal of Entomology, 2004 The maximum size of ingested ball-shaped particles was determined in three species of adult dung feeding beetle: Anoplotrupes (Geotrupes) stercorosus and Geotrupes spiniger (Geotrupidae, Geotrupinae) and Sphaeridium lunatum (Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae).
Peter HOLTER
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