Categoria: entomologia
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Un coleottero davvero enigmatico
Le vie del signore ….. scusate ….. le vie dell’evoluzione (e dell’adattamento) sono infinite. tempo fa mostrai agli amici e colleghi entomologi l’immagine di questo coleottero che non avevo mai visto in più di cinquant’anni di lavoro su questi insetti. Continuavo così a stupirmi della mia ignoranza abissale nei confronti di questo “immane” e incredibile…
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Un particolarissimo meloide anoftalmo del Nuovo Mondo ristudiato ai massimi livelli
New insights on the rare blind blister beetle genus Meloetyphlus (Coleoptera: Meloidae): occurrence in Colombia, SEM larval description, and molecularphylogenetic placement.Andrea Di Giulio, Takumasa Kondo, Marco A. Bologna, Alessandra Riccieri Annals of the Entomological Society of America, XX(X), 2023, 1–14 https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/saad017
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Primo coleottero con maschio privo di elitre
An extraordinary case of elytra loss in Coleoptera (Elateroidea: Lycidae): discovery and placement of the first anelytrous adult male beetle DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad026 Vinicius S. Ferreira, Felipe Francisco Barbosa, Milada Bocakova, Alexey Solodovnikov Abstract Insects are one of the few groups of animals that developed the ability of active flight. Such mobility allowed the group to successfully…
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Tse tse Flies
“una scoperta di grande importanza” entomologia Elusive Tsetse Pheromones Researchers discovered novel attractants that may improve Tsetse fly traps and help control disease spread. Tsetse, a pest in sub-Saharan Africa, is notorious for spreading diseases to humans and livestock through the trypanosome parasites they harbor. Baiting traps with volatile pheromones, or odors that attract mates…
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Trogoderma variabile Ballion, 1878: A possible new pest of Italian entomological collections (Coleoptera: Dermestidae)
The first infestation of an entomological collection in Italy by Trogoderma variabile Ballion, 1878 is recorded; it was detected in Rome in 2014. This record and another one from the Molise Region, are herein discussed. Distributional, biological and nomenclatural data on this polyphagous alien pest are summarized, and its possible local establishment is discussed. https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa02/fragmenta_entomologica/article/view/235/223…