supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31772506,32070468)。
In this paper,five new species of Episymploce are reported,mainly distributed in Yunnan,Guizhou and Guangxi in China.Three new synonyms and a combination are proposed.Morphological descriptions of the new species,incl...
Parthenogenesis is an asexual mode of reproduction that plays an important role in the evolution of sex, sociality, and reproduction strategies in insects. Some species of cockroach exhibit thelytoky, a type of parthe...
funded by the Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental,Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales,Universidad de Buenos Aires;Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico e Investigación en Endemo-Epidemias,Administración Nacional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud "Dr.Carlos G.Malbrán"
Blaptica dubia(Serville, 1838) and B. interior Hebard, 1921 were considered to be cryptic species. The characteristics originally proposed for their identification are not reliable.Thus the relationship between the tw...
The book, Cockroaches of Southeastern China, wrote by Xianwei Liu, Weibing Zhu, Li Dai and Hanqiang Wang, was published in 2017.In this book,the cockroachs fauna of the Southern China was observed,occupied Shandong, A...
A study was performed to estimate the prevalence of the external bacterial flora of two domestic cockroaches (Blattella germanica and Blatta orientalis) collected from households in Tebessa (northeast AIgeria).Thr...
Cariblattoides labandeirai sp.n. from the Eocene sediments of Green River in Colorado, USA bear only two plesiomorphies, but also several significant autapomorphies within the advanced and highly derived living cockro...
Background Cockroaches are an important indoor allergen source causing allergic rhinitis and asthma. The aim of this study was to investigate the cockroach prevalence in mainland of China and the cross-reactivity of I...
We have reported that the neurotoxin released by DDT-poisoned cockroaches was identified to be tyramine, the decarboxylated product of tyrosine. The excessive production of this neurotoxin is apparently the result of ...
DDT-prostrate cockroaches release, from the nerve cord into the haemolymph, a neurotoxin which is not DDT or its metabolite. Electrophy-siological studies revealed that the neurotoxin stimulates the nerve to produce