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Insects, Volume 13, Issue 1

January 2022 - 105 articles

Cover Story: Fireflies are charismatic beetles with a fascinating biology and economic interest, yet their diversity is poorly studied, especially in the tropics, where they are most diverse. Here, by studying museum specimens, we discovered a new genus and three new species of fireflies endemic to the Amazon biome, which share in common a unique mating device on the last few segments of the abdomen. Our phylogenetic analyses based on morphological data suggest the new genus is related to Scissicauda, fireflies from the Atlantic Rainforest which also have mating clamps, although in a different arrangement. View this paper
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Articles (105)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,324 Views
10 Pages

14 January 2022

The genera Abaria Mosely 1948 and Drepanocentron Schmid 1982 are recorded in China for the first time. In this study, two new species, Abaria herringbona sp. nov., from Guang-xi, and Drepanocentron fuxiensis sp. nov., from An-hui, are described and i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,393 Views
13 Pages

Changes in Biomass and Diversity of Soil Macrofauna along a Climatic Gradient in European Boreal Forests

  • Mikhail V. Kozlov,
  • Vitali Zverev,
  • Vladimir I. Gusarov,
  • Daniil I. Korobushkin,
  • Nina P. Krivosheina,
  • Jaakko Mattila,
  • Marko Mutanen,
  • Anna Popova,
  • Alexander S. Prosvirov and
  • Pekka Punttila
  • + 6 authors

14 January 2022

Latitudinal gradients allow insights into the factors that shape ecosystem structure and delimit ecosystem processes, particularly climate. We asked whether the biomass and diversity of soil macrofauna in boreal forests change systematically along a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,922 Views
18 Pages

Species-Specificity in Thermopreference and CO2-Gated Heat-Seeking in Culex Mosquitoes

  • Joanna M. Reinhold,
  • Karthikeyan Chandrasegaran,
  • Helen Oker,
  • José E. Crespo,
  • Clément Vinauger and
  • Chloé Lahondère

14 January 2022

Combining thermopreference (Tp) and CO2-gated heat-seeking assays, we studied the thermal preferendum and response to thermal cues in three Culex mosquito species exhibiting differences in native habitat and host preference (e.g., biting cold and/or...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,878 Views
9 Pages

Isolation of Beauveria Strains and Their Potential as Control Agents for Lema bilineata Germar (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

  • Jason Lee Furuie,
  • Andressa Katiski da Costa Stuart,
  • Morgana Ferreira Voidaleski,
  • Maria Aparecida Cassilha Zawadneak and
  • Ida Chapaval Pimentel

14 January 2022

Lema bilineata Germar (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) was recently reported to damage Physalis peruviana crops in Brazil. Given the potential for inflicting damage on other Solanaceae species and the lack of alternatives for controlling this pest, we ass...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,536 Views
12 Pages

13 January 2022

Helicoverpa armigera nucleopolyhedrovirus (HearNPV) is a naturally occurring virus commercially produced for control of Heliothines, including Helicoverpa zea. One drawback with using this virus for control has been the slower time to mortality compa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,430 Views
13 Pages

13 January 2022

Spiders are important natural enemies of rice pests. Studying the effects of herbivore-induced rice volatiles on spider attraction and predation ability may lead to safer methods for pest prevention and control. In this study, four-arm olfactometer,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,282 Views
14 Pages

13 January 2022

The mass rearing of hymenopteran egg parasitoids requires an abundant supply of host eggs. The onset of reproductive diapause and subsequent decline in egg production poses a challenge for parasitoid rearing when using host colonies augmented by fiel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,564 Views
15 Pages

Sampling Optimization and Crop Interface Effects on Lygus lineolaris Populations in Southeastern USA Cotton

  • Seth J. Dorman,
  • Sally V. Taylor,
  • Sean Malone,
  • Phillip M. Roberts,
  • Jeremy K. Greene,
  • Dominic D. Reisig,
  • Ronald H. Smith,
  • Alana L. Jacobson,
  • Francis P. F. Reay-Jones and
  • Silvana Paula-Moraes
  • + 1 author

13 January 2022

Tarnished plant bug, Lygus lineolaris (Hemiptera: Miridae), is an economically damaging pest in cotton production systems across the southern United States. We systematically scouted 120 commercial cotton fields across five southeastern states during...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,177 Views
12 Pages

13 January 2022

The soybean aphid Aphis glycines Matsumura (Hemiptera: Aphididae) is a major pest of soybean and poses a serious threat to soybean production. Studies on the effect of acetamiprid on the life table parameters of A. glycines, provide important informa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,010 Views
12 Pages

13 January 2022

Dryocosmus kuriphilus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) induces galls on chestnut trees, which results in massive yield losses worldwide. Torymus sinensis (Hymenoptera: Torymidae) is a host-specific parasitoid that phenologically synchronizes with D. kuriphil...

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Insects - ISSN 2075-4450