This research is partially supported by Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran under code number of NIMAD 995633.
Mosquitoes belong to order of Diptera.The main important vectors are genus Aedes,Culex and Anopheles.They transmit different agents such bacteria,viruses,and parasites.According to the latest information around 7 hund...
Dragonflies are well-known group of insects because of their biological and ecological importance in a community,that is,they indicate the environmental health of an ecosystem.However,in an urban ecosystem,there are m...
Egg deposition within plants is one of the most widely distributed and ancient behaviors in Odonata. The resulting clutch consists of eggs placed in peculiar pattern that can be a characteristic for certain groups of ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10872150,10872114)
The surfaces of the veins of dragonflies(Pantala flavesens Fabricius and Crocothemis servilia Drury) wings are observed through SEM,and interesting micro and nano structures and morphologies are discovered.On the surf...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(30430100,40872022);Beijing Natural Science Foundation(5082002);Key Project of Beijing Municipal Commission of Education,National Infrastructure of Natural Resources for Science and Technology(2005DKA21403);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(20060400479)
Three new species of fossil dragonflies assigned to Sinokaratawia Nel, Huang and Lin in family Campterophlebiidae, i.e.S, daohugouica sp. nov., S. magica sp. nov. and S. gloriosa sp. nov., and new materials of male S....
This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.30430100);Beijing Municipal Commission of Education(Grant No.KZ200410028013);the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.5032003);PHR Project of Beijing Municipal Commission of Education and the financial support from China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.20060400479).
Two fossil dragonflies from the Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation in Liutiaogou Village,Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia,China are described and illustrated.They are assigned to two new genera and sp...
The research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grants 30025006, 30370184, and 30430100);State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Sun Yat-Sen University (2003-01);Beijing Natural Science Foundation (5032003);Scientific Research Key Program (KZ200410028013) ;RCQJ Project of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Education.
Two well-preserved fossil dragonflies from the Late Mesozoic Yixian Formation, Liaoning Province, China are described and assigned to a new genus, Sopholibellula gen. nov. in Araripelibellulidae Bechly, 1996, closely ...
The knowledge of wing orientation and deformation during flapping flight is necessary for a complete aerodynamic analysis, but to date those kinematic features have not been simultaneously quantified for free-flying i...
The hemimetabolous preliminary studies on the life cycle of Indocnemis orang is here reported for the first time, being completed in 6 instars for a minimum duration of 69 days. It can be classified as a stenotopic s...
Abstract This is the first part of a series of articles dealing with corrections and additionsto The Gomphid Dragonflies of China published by the author in 1990.Comprised in thisarticle are the following items.(I)GOM...