This study analyzes the natural vibration characteristics of grid beetle elytron plates (GBEPs), a type of laminated plate inspired by the sandwich structure of beetle forewings, under different angles of rotations [...]
Growth in the advancement of 3D printing technology has made it easy to fabricate complicated bio-inspired structures (BISs). In this paper, the sandwich structure of the beetle elytron structure (BES) hollow cylinder, influencing every corner of the...
The vibrational properties and mechanism of a foam-filling short basalt fiber reinforced epoxy resin composite beetle elytron plate (EBEPfc) were studied by experiments and the finite element (FE) method in this paper. The experimental results showed...
Many studies have found that the correlation between species richness (SR) and morphological diversity (MD) is positive, but the correlation degree of these parameters is not always consistent due to differences in categories and various ecological f...
A positive correlation between the species richness and morphological diversity of some organisms has been found in almost all studies at the local community scale. However, this documented relationship has not always been consistent because of diver...
This study investigates the flexural mechanical properties of aluminum middle-trabecular beetle elytron plates (MBEPN) with a significant height-to-thickness ratio core to understand how varying numbers of trabeculae (N) influence their bending resis...
Evolutionary biology faces the important challenge of determining how to interpret the relationship between selection pressures and evolutionary radiation of species. The different biodiversity indicators highlight the disparate nature of biodiversit...
The fog-basking behavior of the Onymacris unguicularis, a beetle species living in the coastal regions of the Namibian desert, has recently caught the attention of the engineering community, as suggesting a viable biomimetic approach to address the p...
To date, five species of reddish-brown Neotriplax have been described, but their highly similar body color and other phenotypic traits make accurate taxonomy challenging. To clarify species-level taxonomy and validate potential new species, the cytoc...
In the W Italian Alps, an area characterized by considerable environmental complexity, the widespread Platynus were studied by focusing on their species composition. The ecological niche realized by the genus in this area encompasses a preference for...
In taxonomy, qualitative methods are commonly used to analyze morphological characters, which can lead to dramatic changes in higher taxa. Geometric morphometrics (GM) has proven to be useful for discriminating species in various taxonomy groups. How...