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Unusual larviform beetles in 100-million-year-old Kachin amber resemble immatures of trilobite beetles and fireflies
Despite the large number of species in the group Coleoptera (beetles), it is usually relatively easy to identify an adult beetle as such due to...
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Dominican amber net-winged beetles suggest stable paleoenvironment as a driver for conserved morphology in a paedomorphic lineage
Paedomorphosis is a heterochronic syndrome in which adult individuals display features of their immature forms. In beetles, this phenomenon occurs...
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Discovery of Lopheros lineatus (Gorham, 1883) (Coleoptera, Lycidae) in Mordovia, Central Russia
The net-wing beetle Lopheros lineatus (Gorham, 1883), previously known in the western Palaearctic only from Poland, and in the eastern Palaearctic,...
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Abundance and richness of invertebrates in shade-grown versus sun-exposed coffee home gardens in Indonesia
Complex agroforestry systems are suggested as a possible solution to reduce the effects of deforestation in the tropics while enhancing the...
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Conspicuousness, phylogenetic structure, and origins of Müllerian mimicry in 4000 lycid beetles from all zoogeographic regions
Biologists have reported on the chemical defences and the phenetic similarity of net-winged beetles (Coleoptera: Lycidae) and their co-mimics....
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Communities of Saproxylic Beetles of Silver Birch (Betula pendula Roth.) in the Voroninsky Nature Reserve
AbstractThis study has been conducted to examine the diversity and community structure of saproxylic beetles inhabiting silver birch ( Betula pendula ...
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The Beetles (Coleoptera) of Príncipe, São Tomé and Annobón
The known beetle fauna of Príncipe, São Tomé, and Annobón amounts to 403 species and subspecies, of which 190 (47%) are endemic. The most diverse...
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Origins and diversity of spot-like aposematic and disruptive colorations among cockroaches
Protective coloration is observed in numerous extant cockroach species and is prevalent among insects. Such coloration can signal nonprofitability of...
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Insect Pests of Indian Sandalwood
Establishment of extensive Sandalwood plantations has been progressively increasing recently. Many insects attack Sandalwood plantations as well as...
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Inventory of arthropods associated with cashew (Anacardium occidentale L.) in Panama
Cashew ( Anacardium occidentale L.) (Sapindales: Anacardiaceae) is a plant frequently found in backyards; its false fruit and nut are consumed as a...
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Pollination and floral insect visitors of non-native Crataegus monogyna Jacq and Crataegus mexicana DC (Rosaceae) in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
Crataegus species (Rosaceae) or hawthorns form dense thickets and displace native vegetation out of their native range. In South Africa, Crataegus...
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Elateriform beetle larvae preserved in about 100-million-year-old Kachin amber
Beetle larvae show high diversity in forms and ecological roles. Beetle larvae are often roughly categorised into certain larval types, for example:...
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Insects in Environmental Engineering and Ecosystem Services
Insects are the most abundant and diverse organisms on this earth. They are the environmental engineers, and the major service providers to our...
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Interactions in multi-pattern Müllerian communities support origins of new patterns, false structures, imperfect resemblance and mimetic sexual dimorphism
Mimicry is a hot spot of evolutionary research, but de novo origins of aposematic patterns, the persistence of multiple patterns in Müllerian...
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Genome sequences identify three families of Coleoptera as morphologically derived click beetles (Elateridae)
Plastoceridae Crowson, 1972, Drilidae Blanchard, 1845 and Omalisidae Lacordaire, 1857 (Elateroidea) are families of the Coleoptera with obscure...
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An unusual elateroid lineage from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Elateroidea)
We here report a new elateroid, Anoeuma lawrencei Li, Kundrata and Cai gen. et sp. nov., from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Though superficially...
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The oldest case of paedomorphosis in rove beetles and description of a new genus of Paederinae from Cretaceous amber (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)
The ecology of extinct species from the Cretaceous is largely unknown. Morphological features of specimens preserved in amber can help to reveal...
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Unlocking the mystery of the mid-Cretaceous Mysteriomorphidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) and modalities in transiting from gymnosperms to angiosperms
The monospecific family Mysteriomorphidae was recently described based on two fossil specimens from the Late Cretaceous Kachin amber of northern...
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A new species of larval Leptus (Leptus) (Trombidiformes: Erythraeidae) from Brazil with list of host-parasite associations between Leptus and arthropods in America
Leptus ( Leptus ) guarani sp. n. is described from Brazil based on eight larvae. List of host-parasite associations between Leptus and arthropods in...
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Heavy Metal Pollution Analysis and Health Risk Assessment of Two Medicinal Insects of Mylabris
Mylabris is the dried body of the Chinese blister beetle ( Mylabris sp.), which has been used in traditional Chinese medicine and achieved significant...
