Search
Search Results
-
Grip** performance in the stick insect Sungaya inexpectata in dependence on the pretarsal architecture
Insect attachment devices and capabilities have been subject to research efforts for decades, and even though during that time considerable progress...
-
Hydrocarbons in Formicidae: influence of chemical footprints on ant behavioral strategies
When an insect walks, it leaves chemical cues that derive from the arolium, a tarsal structure. These cues may contain important information about...
-
A Taxonomic Revision of the South American Trilobite Cockroaches of Parahormetica Brunner von Wattenwyl 1865 (Blattodea: Blaberidae), with Description of Parahormetica museunacional sp. nov. from the Atlantic Forest
The taxonomically intricate genus of trilobite cockroaches, Parahormetica Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865, is revised based on a comparative...
-
Mesozoic origin-delayed explosive radiation of the cockroach family Corydiidae Saussure, 1864
Diversification of cockroaches restricted to explosive reduction ring radiations was evidenced for termites, mantodeans, cave cockroaches, and...
-
Jordanian–Lebanese–Syrian cockroaches s.s. from Lower Cretaceous amber – Monograph
The earliest amber with numerous important paleobiological samples, and the only significant Lower Cretaceous one containing cockroaches, comes from...
-
Survey of the exocrine glands in workers of the ant Leptanilla clypeata
Our morphological study of the exocrine system in workers of Leptanilla clypeata revealed the presence of at least 23 glands. Among these, the...
-
Two new cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Ectobiidae) from Rovno amber
Two fossil cockroaches belonging to the extinct genus Palaeosymploce gen. n. ( P . aristovi sp. n.) and the extant genus Supella Shelford, 1911 ( S . eocenica...
-
Convergent Evolution of Animal Adhesive Pads
Functional systems that evolve as a response to specific environmental challenges often exhibit convergent traits. Organs adapted for attachment to a...
-
New Cretaceous fossil mantispids highlight the palaeodiversity of the extinct subfamily Doratomantispinae (Neuroptera: Mantispidae)
Doratomantispinae is an extinct mantispid subfamily reported only from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber, which includes two genera, Doratomantispa Poinar...
-
A Neoponera villosa (Fabricius, 1804) Worker Pupa with too Many Legs (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Several somatic and sexual anomalies such as gynandromorphism and other morphological malformations have been described in ants, but cases of...
-
A new cockroach Huablattula vrsanskyi sp. n. (Blattaria: Blattulidae) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber
The Blattulidae Vishniakova, 1982 is an extinct family of cockroaches which was widely distributed around the world from Late Triassic to Late...
-
Die Vielfalt der Insekten
Ohne eine systematische Ordnung der Vielfalt der Insekten (wie auch jeder anderen Organismengruppe) könnten wir nicht vernünftig über die behandelten...
-
Deep time extinction of largest insular ant predators and the first fossil Neoponera (Formicidae: Ponerinae) from Miocene age Dominican amber
BackgroundPonerine ants are almost exclusively predatory and comprise many of the largest known ant species. Within this clade, the genus Neoponera ...
-
Tarsal attachment structures of the biting midge Forcipomyia paludis (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), a specialized ectoparasite of Odonata imagines
The female of the biting midge Forcipomyia paludis is a dipteran ectoparasite of West Palaearctic damselflies and dragonflies, sucking haemolymph...
-
Supella dominicana, a new species of cockroach (Blattida: Ectobiidae) with developed spermatids in Dominican amber
A small, male cockroach (7 mm in length) in Dominican amber is described as Supella dominicana sp. n. (Blattida: Ectobiidae = Blattellidae). The dark...
-
Attachment devices and the tarsal gland of the bug Coreus marginatus (Hemiptera: Coreidae)
The present ultrastructural investigation using scanning and transmission electron microscopy as well as light and fluorescence microscopy describes...
-
Multi-modal locomotor costs favor smaller males in a sexually dimorphic leaf-mimicking insect
BackgroundIn most arthropods, adult females are larger than males, and male competition is a race to quickly locate and mate with scattered females...
-
New cockroach (Insecta: Blattaria) from North Myanmar amber
Mid-Cretaceous amber from Northern Myanmar, also known as “burmite”, contains the most productive and species-rich amber sites in the world. Up to...
-
Techniques for Collection and Sampling of Pseudoscorpions (Arthropoda: Arachnida)
Pseudoscorpions comprise an intriguing group of cryptic arachnids, occurring in almost all regions of the world, and belong to the third most...
-
