It's not a bug, it's a feature: functional materials in insects

TBH Schroeder, J Houghtaling, BD Wilts… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Over the course of their wildly successful proliferation across the earth, the insects as a
taxon have evolved enviable adaptations to their diverse habitats, which include adhesives …

The Chalcidoidea bush of life: evolutionary history of a massive radiation of minute wasps

A Cruaud, JY Rasplus, J Zhang, R Burks, G Delvare… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Chalcidoidea are mostly parasitoid wasps that include as many as 500 000 estimated
species. Capturing phylogenetic signal from such a massive radiation can be daunting …

Taxonomy of the genus Anagrus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) of the world: an annotated key to the described species, discussion of the remaining problems …

SV Triapitsyn - 2015 - cabidigitallibrary.org
The described species of Anagrus Haliday of the world are reviewed. An identification key
for females of the 82 valid species is provided, and other nine nominal, valid species are …

[PDF][PDF] Bronze bug Thaumastocoris peregrinus Carpintero and Dellapé (Hemiptera: Thaumastocoridae) on Eucalyptus in Brazil and its distribution

C Wilcken, E Soliman, L de Sá, L Barbosa… - Journal of Plant …, 2010 - psjd.icm.edu.pl
The bronze bug Thaumastocoris peregrinus Carpintero & Dellapé (Hemiptera:
Thaumastocoridae) was detected infesting Eucalyptus trees in Brazil in 2008, in the states of …

[PDF][PDF] A new genus and species of fairyfly, Tinkerbella nana (Hymenoptera, Mymaridae), with comments on its sister genus Kikiki, and discussion on small size limits …

J Huber, J Noyes - Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 2013 - jhr.pensoft.net
A new genus and species of fairyfly, Tinkerbella nana (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) gen. n.
and sp. n., is described from Costa Rica. It is compared with the related genus Kikiki Huber …

Bristles reduce the force required to 'fling'wings apart in the smallest insects

SK Jones, YJJ Yun, TL Hedrick… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
The smallest flying insects commonly possess wings with long bristles. Little quantitative
information is available on the morphology of these bristles, and their functional importance …

[HTML][HTML] World reclassification of the Gonatocerus group of genera (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae)

JT Huber - Zootaxa, 2015 - biotaxa.org
The 400+ nominal species of the worldwide genus Gonatocerus Nees are reclassified into
14 genera that are placed in Gonatocerini, which is defined by three putative …

[PDF][PDF] The bronze bug Thaumastocoris peregrinus: a new insect recorded in Italy, damaging to Eucalyptus trees

S Laudonia, R Sasso - Bulletin of Insectology, 2012 - researchgate.net
The bronze bug Thaumastocoris peregrinus Carpintero et Dellape (Heteroptera
Thaumastocoridae) is reported for the first time from Italy infesting Eucalyptus spp. in several …

Toxicity of essential oil of Eugenia uniflora (L.) to Thaumastocoris peregrinus (Hemiptera: Thaumastocoridae) and selectivity to the parasitoid Cleruchoides noackae …

LD Stenger, R Abati, IG Pawlak, GO Varpechoski… - Crop Protection, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Thaumastocoris peregrinus Carpintero and Dellapé, 2006 (Hemiptera:
Thaumastocoridae) is an exotic insect that causes losses in the production of Eucalyptus sp …

Current understanding of the biology of Thaumastocoris peregrinus in the quest for a management strategy

RL Nadel, AE Noack - International Journal of Pest Management, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Thaumastocoris peregrinus is a serious insect pest of Southern African and South American
Eucalyptus plantations. Native to Australia, T. peregrinus was initially discovered infesting …