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Cicadomorpha Community (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) in Portuguese Vineyards with Notes of Potential Vectors of Xylella fastidiosa

Isabel Rodrigues,
Maria Teresa Rebelo,
Paula Baptista and
José Alberto Pereira

Insects2023, 14(3), 251;https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14030251

2 March 2023

Cicadomorpha (Hemiptera) insects are currently responsible for a growing negative impact on the agricultural economy due to their ability to directly damage crops or through the capacity to act as vectors for plant pathogens. The phytopathogenic bact...

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21 Pages

True Parthenogenesis and Female-Biased Sex Ratios in Cicadomorpha and Fulgoromorpha (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha)

Dora Aguín-Pombo and
Valentina G. Kuznetsova

Insects2023, 14(10), 820;https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14100820

17 October 2023

Insects are renowned for their remarkable diversity of reproductive modes. Among these, the largest non-holometabolous order, Hemiptera, stands out with one of the most diversified arrays of parthenogenesis modes observed among insects. Although ther...

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New Insight and Confrontation of the Internal Structure and Sensilla of the Mouthparts of Cicadomorpha (Insecta: Hemiptera)

Jolanta Brożek,
Piotr Wegierek,
Mick Webb and
Adam Stroiński

Insects2025, 16(10), 1026;https://doi.org/10.3390/insects16101026

4 October 2025

This study presents detailed microstructural observations of the mouthparts and sensory organs of adult cicadomorphan species, obtained using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Despite microstructural variation, the overall morphology of the mouthpa...

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Identification of Auchenorrhyncha Nymphs Using DNA Barcoding and Phylogenetic Analysis of the Most Common Genera Collected in Olive Fields

Zoi Thanou,
Maria Bouga,
Georgios Papadoulis and
Antonios Tsagkarakis

Diversity2025, 17(7), 496;https://doi.org/10.3390/d17070496

19 July 2025

Due to the potential role of Auchenorrhyncha in the transmission of the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa in a wide variety of cultivations, during recent years in Europe, many studies have focused on species composition, abundance and seasonal appearance...

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16 Pages

Competition among Flavescence Dorée Phytoplasma Strains in the Experimental Insect Vector Euscelidius variegatus

Marika Rossi,
Luciana Galetto,
Nicola Bodino,
Jessica Beltramo,
Silvia Gamalero,
Mattia Pegoraro,
Domenico Bosco and
Cristina Marzachì

Insects2023, 14(7), 575;https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14070575

23 June 2023

Phytoplasmas are plant pathogenic wall-less bacteria transmitted in a persistent propagative manner by hemipteran insects, mainly belonging to the suborder Auchenorrhyncha (Fulgoromorpha and Cicadomorpha). Flavescence dorée (FD) is a quarantin...

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New Insights into the Telomere Structure in Hemiptera (Insecta) Inferred from Chromosome-Level and Scaffold-Level Genome Assemblies

Desislava Stoianova,
Snejana Grozeva,
Nadezhda Todorova,
Miroslav Rangelov,
Vladimir A. Lukhtanov and
Valentina G. Kuznetsova

Diversity2025, 17(8), 552;https://doi.org/10.3390/d17080552

4 August 2025

Telomeres are terminal regions of chromosomes that protect and stabilize chromosome structures. Telomeres are usually composed of specific DNA repeats (motifs) that are maintained by telomerase and a complex of specific proteins. Telomeric DNA sequen...

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