The head horn of the Asian rhinoceros beetle develops as an extensively folded primordium before unfurling into its final 3D shape at the pupal molt. The information of the final 3D structure of the beetle horn is prefigured in the folding pattern of the developing primordium. However, the deve...
barneyi shares approximately 89–90% identity to the terrestrial eugregarines from cockroach, beetle and cricket. Among three SSU rDNA sequences from insect gregarines, the sequence from the termite M. barneyi gregarine (MT126033) has the highest identity (90.10%) to that of gregarine from ...
A scarab beetle grub from Australia. The C-shaped larvae, called grubs, are pale yellow or white. Most adult beetles are nocturnal, although the flower chafers (Cetoniinae) and many leaf chafers (Rutelinae) are active during the day. The grubs mostly live underground or under debris, so ar...
a new beetle family from the Middle–Late Triassic of Kyrgyzstan: its affinities with Polyphaga (Insecta, Coleoptera) and the groundplan of this megadiverse suborder. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 16(6): 515–530. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2017.1313789 Paywall. ResearchGate Open...
Genomic data is currently lacking for all the putative nudiviruses infecting amphipods. In this study, we provide full genome characterisation of a nudivirus infecting the amphipodD. haemobaphescollected from outside of its native range. We use these data to provisionally name the virus asDikero...
Name of colours on each side of the lamp are shown on top of each treatment. This figure was generated using Python 3.10 (https://www.python.org/). Full size image More specifically below, we first consider the number and location of landings on each half of the lamp, as a comparison...
The generally cited decrease in diversity, however, may have been responsible for a relatively high number of beetle families described in the amber record from the Cretaceous that currently do not exist. One of these fossil families, Mysteriomorphidae, recently was established based on two ...
Beetle fossils are a rich source of information about the palaeodiversity and evolutionary history of the order Coleoptera. Despite the increasing rate of fossil research on click-beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae), the most diverse group in the superfamil