supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32460131;31960113);the China Scholarship Council program(202308610209);the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province(2023-JC-YB-17).
Strongylium Kirby is one of the largest genera in the family Tenebrionidae.A new species belonging to this genus was found during our study of tenebrionid specimens from the Jiulong National Wetland Park,Zhejiang.The ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32470477);supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic(DRKVO 2024-2028/5.IK.a,National Museum,00023272).
One new species,Pocadius spiralis sp.nov.,is described and illustrated from Sichuan,China.
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U23A2063);the Gansu Province Top-notch Leading Talents Project(E339040101);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41771290,42377043,41773086).
Tenebrionid beetles represent a crucial arthropod taxon in the Gobi desert ecosystems owing to their species richness and high biomass,both of which are essential for maintaining ecosystem health and stability.However...
funded by Key R&D Project in Shaanxi Province(2022NY-131);We would like to thank all those who shared the transcriptome or genome data of Cucujiformia species on NCBI GenBank.
The Cucujiformia, with remarkable morphological, ecological, and behavioral diversity, is the most evolutionarily successful group within Coleoptera. However, the phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies within ...
The present study was supported by the Guangzhou Collaborative Innovation Center on Science-Tech of Ecology and Landscape(202206010058);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32000327).
The genus Diomus Mulsant,1850(Coleoptera:Coccinellidae:Diomini)from China is herein revised.Five species of Diomus are occurring in the Chinese fauna to date,including a new species from the Dafushan Mountains Forest ...
In this study,the morphology and ultrastructure of the compound eye of L.lewisii were investigated using scanning electron microscopy(SEM),transmission electron microscopy(TEM),microcomputed tomography(μCT),and 3D re...
The aim of this study is to evaluate the insecticidal potential of aqueous extracts of the leaves of Erythrophleum guineense and Uvaria chamae on Caryedon serratus Ol.(Coleoptera,Bruchidae),an insect pest of groundnut...
This research was funded by the National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFE0104900)awarded to Ling Meng.
We attempt to determine the effect of the dietary switch from a native to non-native prey on the gut microbiota in the predaceous ladybird Harmonia axyridis larvae and adults and examine how the dietary effect may var...
funded by the project“NOCLOT—NuOvi farmaCi anticoaguLanti dalla biOdiversiTàdei meloidi”financed by Regione Lazio(grant nos.A0375-2020-36555 and CUP F85F21003680009);co-funded by MIUR-Italy Grants of Departments of Excellence—L.232/2016—art.1 cc.314–337 awarded to the Department of Science of Roma Tre University(2018–2022 and 2023–2027);supported by the project PON—Ricerca e Innovazione(MUR;Project Code:999900_PON_RTD_A7-G-15023_SCIENZE);support of NBFC to the University of Roma Tre—Department of Science and Sapienza University—Department of Biology and Biotechnologies,“Charles Darwin”,funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research,PNRR,Missione 4 Componente 2,“Dalla ricerca all’impresa”,Investimento 1.4(Project CN00000033);supported also by Rome Technopole,PNRR grant M-4C-2Inv.1.5 CUP F832B22000040006 to MAB.
Blister beetles(Coleoptera:Meloidae)are currently subdivided into three subfamilies:Eleticinae(a basal group),Nemognathinae,and Meloinae.These are all characterized by the endogenous production of the defensive terpen...
The genus Bolbochromus Boucomont,1909 includes 3 subgenera(Bolbochromops Krikken&Li,2013;Metabolbochromus Krikken&Li,2013 and Bolbochromus Boucomont,1909)and 27 species(Krikken&Li,2013;Li et al.,2019;Selking,2019).Its...