Many essential oils (EOs) and powders of aromatic plants with insecticidal properties are increasingly considered alternative insecticides to protect stored products against pests. One of these pests is Ephestia caute...
Cabbage is today an economically important crop grown in more than 90 countries around the world. Production is constantly threatened by pests including the cabbage webworm, Hellula undalis (F.) (Lepidoptera: Pyralida...
This paper describes a new species of the snout moth Berastagia tainanica sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) from Taiwan. From 2009 to 2016, a biology study was conducted on population dynamics and embryonic developmen...
This work was supported by a China Scholarship Council-Massey University PhD Scholars Programme(CSC No.201806660018)。
Socio-sexual environment can have critical impacts on reproduction and survival of animals.Consequently,they need to prepare themselves by allocating more resources to competitive traits that give them advantages in t...
supported by project RO0418 of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic。
Pyralid moths,Ephestia kuehniella and Plodia interpunctella,are prevalent stored product pests.The insecticides are the main tool to control these moths in the stores.The data describing the response of these moths to...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31772489)。
Epipaschiinae,a subfamily of Pyralidae,has characteristic features distinct from other groups of Pyralidae,such as the thick scales and labial palpi usually upturned.This subfamily is a relative smaller group in Pyral...
This study was supported by the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(LY20C140004);the National Science and Technology Major Project of China(2016ZX08001001);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31501669);the earmarked fund for China Agriculture Research System(CARS-01-36).
Midgut juice plays an important role in food digestion and detoxification in insects.In order to understand the potential of midgut juice of Cnaphalocrocis medinalis(Guenée)to degrade Bt proteins,the enzymatic activi...
Two species of Minooa are revised from China and Southeast Asia,and one of these,Minooa carinata Qi,Bae&Li,sp.nov.is described as new to science,and M.acantha Qi,2016 is newly recorded from Vietnam.Photographs of adul...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2016YFE0203100);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31772489,31750002);the grant(Y229YX5105)from Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution,Chinese Academy of Sciences
Three species of the genus Lista Walker are recognized from China, as a supplement of the former work. Among them, two species are described as new to science, namely L. furcillatusa Wang, Chen & Wu sp. nov. and L. me...
The embryogenesis of lepidopteran insects has morphogenetic events accompanying the blastokinesis movements (anatrepsis and katatrepsis) in early and late stages, respectively. Katatrepsis is related to embryonic move...