funded by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China(grant no.BK20230983).
The tetraspanin gene family encodes cell-surface proteins that span the membrane 4 times and play critical roles in a wide range of biological processes across numerous organisms.Recent findings highlight the involvem...
supported by grants from the baseline survey on diversity of pollinating insects in Qomolangma National Nature Reserve,the survey of Wildlife Resources in Key Areas of Xizang(ZL202203601;ZL202303601),a grant(CAS-TAX-24-003)from Chinese Academy of Science and the National Nature Science Foundation of China(31660495;32170464;32330013).
One new species of the genus Ourapteryx Leach,1814,from Jilong Valley,Xizang,China,is described:O.jilongensis sp.nov.Illustrations of external features and male genitalia of this new species are provided.Morphology tr...
supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant Number:2023YFD1700502);Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter,Nankai University,(Grant Number:63181206);the Haihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations,China(Grant Number:YYJC202102).
Cyclic dinucleotides(CDNs)play important physiological roles in bacteria,mammals and insects as a novel class of signaling molecules.However,the application of CDNs in agricultural pest control has not been reported y...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32325009,32170420);the Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences,and the State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research to WZ and grants from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2023M730082,BX20230026)to SW.
Kallima butterflies are famous for their leaf-mimicking wing patterns.Yet the characterization of Kallima species is still under debate owing to their high phenotypic similarity.With the release of the K.inachus refer...
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...
Lepidoptera stem borers cause significant damage in irrigated rice in Burkina Faso. This study was conducted to monitor the damage associated with these insect pests in an integrated cropping system over two consecuti...
This work was supported by the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(Grant No.2022A1515010080).
The gregarious lifestyle of lepidopteran larvae is diverse and shaped by a com-plex interplay of ecological and evolutionary factors.Our review showed that the larval-aggregation behavior has been reported in 23 lepid...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangzhou(grant number 202201010218);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant numbers 32271613 and 32170232);the Guangdong Forestry Bureau Fund(grant number 890-2020-XMZC-2758-01-0001);the Science and Technology Basic Works Program of Ministry of Science and Technology of China(grant number 2019FY202100).
Plant–Lepidoptera interactions are often studied using the pollination or herbivore networks only.Lepidoptera species are involved in two types of plant–insect interactions because they are herbivores as larvae and ...
financially supported in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior-Brasil(CAPES)-Finance Code 001 through a fellowship awarded to the first author and grants from Fundação de AmparoàPesquisa do Estado de São Paulo(FAPESP)(2002/13898-0,2018/099947-4,2015/50683-2,and 2016/50384-8);M.D.is also grateful to CAPES(PROTAX II-grant 440597/2015-3);Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico(grants 305905/2012-0,311083/2015-3,312190/2018-2,and 150178/2019-0);Universidade de São Paulo(Projeto 1,Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa).
INTRODUCTION Pollination is a critical phenomenon for global diversity and food production,largely facilitated by animal pollinators(Klein et al.2007;Hahn&Brühl 2016),which are endangered by anthropogenic changes(Car...
supported by grants from the survey of Wildlife Resources in Key Areas of Xizang(ZL202203601);the National Nature Science Foundation of China(32170464);Biological Resources Programme of Chinese Academy of Sciences(KFJ-BRP-017-45);the National Science&Technology Fundamental Resources Investigation Program of China(2019FY101800);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program(STEP)(2019QZKK0501);the base line survey on diversity of pollinating insects in Qomolangma National Nature Reserve。
Eleven new species of Ourapteryx Leach,1814 were described:O.curta Jiang&Han,sp.nov.,O.triangulata Cheng&Han,sp.nov.,O.cawarongensis Cheng&Jiang,sp.nov.,O.arcuata Jiang&Cheng,sp.nov.,O.longiacutata Jiang&Cheng,sp.nov....