Acridid populations have increased significantly in recent years, causing damage to crops. Having biocontrol tools is important as it will help reduce the use of insecticides. This study reports the presence of Parago...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31772221);the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFD0201200);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation funded project (2017M611056)
Neurotransmitters are important in the maintenance of phase transformation of Locusta migratoria(Arthropoda: Orthoptera). Here, the effects of the entomopathogen Paranosema locustae on the neurotransmitter taurine in ...
Sexual ornaments contribute substantially to phenotypic diversity and it is particularly relevant to understand their evolution. Ornaments can assume the function of signals-of-quality that the choosy sex uses to eval...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31260520, 31560605)
The male genitalia of Caryanda aurata Mao, Ren & Ou, 2007 is redescribed. Two new species, C. nigrotibia sp. nov. and C. zhenyuanensis sp. nov. are described and illustrated. The concept of the Caryanda aurata specie...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31260520,31260523)
Two new species, Caryanda caesinota Mao Li sp. nov. and Caryanda heterochromia Mao Huang sp. nov., are described and illustrated. The concept of the Caryanda nigrospina species group is proposed to contain C. nigrospi...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(30960057,31260520)
Two new species, Caryanda cyanonota sp. nov. and C. shuangjianga sp. nov. are described and illustrated. The male genitalia of C amplexicerca Ou, Liu & Zheng, 2007 is complementally described. A new species group of ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(30960057,31260520)
The male genitalia of Caryanda cyclata Zheng, 2008 is described. A new species, Caryanda jiangchenga sp. nov. is described and illustrated. The conception of a Caryanda dentata species group is proposed to contain C. ...
One new species in the genus Pseudoeoscyllina from Inner Mongolia is described, e.g. Pseudoeoscyllina xilingensis sp. nov. A key to all known species of this genus is given. Type specimens are deposited in the Institu...
supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (522/98/0773);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (39870475 and 31171844);the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (S2011010001353)
The newly emerged adult females of Schistocerca gregaria were separated and kept in the rearing conditions without males to examine the detailed developmental characteristic of the no mating females and carefully obse...
Key elements such as nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are often limiting relative to the nutritional needs of herbivores that feed on them. While N often limits insect herbivores in natural terrestrial ecosystems, ...