Review of the Nearctic Salpinginae (Coleoptera: Salpingidae)
The Nearctic species of Salpinginae have not been reviewed for the last 92 years. Inconsistent worldwide treatments of salpingine genera and discordant classification schemes between Nearctic and Palearctic workers have created excessive taxonomic and nomenclatural confusion. We here revise the spec…
Global impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on biodiversity data collection
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered different governmental responses across borders, with cascading effects on people’s movements and on biodiversity data collection. We quantified changes in the number of species occurrence records collected during the first global lockdown (March 15th to May 1st 2020)…
Spatiotemporal disease suitability prediction for Oropouche virus and the role of vectors across the Americas
SummaryOropouche virus (OROV) is an emerging arbovirus with increasing outbreaks in South America, yet its environmental drivers and potential range remain poorly understood. Using ecological niche modeling (ENM) with random forests, we assessed the environmental suitability of OROV and its primary …
Ecologo-Geographic Distribution Patterns of the Italian Locust Calliptamus italicus (Linnaeus) (Orthoptera: Acrididae) in the Easternmost Part of Its …
Grasshoppers (Acridoidea) are one of the most essential components of grassland ecosystems. They are mainly primary consumers and some of them, e.g., the Italian locust, may be very important pests. The main goal of this article is to discuss possible shifts in the species distribution relative to g…
Tropical Niche Conservatism and Dispersal Limitation Jointly Determine Taxonomic and Phylogenetic β‐Diversities of Odonata in Eastern China
ABSTRACTAimTropical niche conservatism (TNC) and dispersal limitation (DL) are major ecological and evolutionary mechanisms in shaping taxonomic and phylogenetic β‐diversities. While these mechanisms have been studied in plants and vertebrates, their roles in freshwater taxa remain unclear. We lever…
Seasonal Phenology ofEmpoasca fabae(Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in Québec, Canada
Climate change is reshaping insect population dynamics in North America, notably impacting the migratory pest Empoasca fabae (Harris) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). While its phenology is well studied in the United States, knowledge gaps exist regarding its dynamics in Eastern Canada, one of its norther…
Diffeomorphic Independent Contrasts for Ancestral Reconstruction of Shapes
Ancestral reconstruction is a fundamental challenge in evolutionary biology, requiring methods that can capture complex morphological changes while accounting for phylogenetic relationships. Current approaches are based on linear assumptions that often oversimplify the spatial relationships between …
A curated soil fungal dataset to advance fungal ecology and conservation research in Australia and Antarctica
DNA metabarcoding has played a pivotal role in advancing our understanding of the diversity and function of soil-inhabiting fungi. The Australian Microbiome Initiative has produced an extensive soil fungal metabarcoding dataset of more than 2000 plots across a breadth of ecosystems in Australia and …
Bioclimatic analysis of cabbage seedpod weevil, Ceutorhyncus obstrictus (Marsham) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and canola, Brassica napus Linnaeus (Bra…
The cabbage seedpod weevil (CSW), Ceutorhynchus obstrictus (Marsham) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) is an important pest of brassicaceous crops, including canola ( Brassica napus Linnaeus). CSW consumes seeds of its host from inside the developing pods. It was introduced to North America from Europe an…
Phylogenetic regionalization of the Pan‐Himalayan vascular flora
Pan‐Himalaya, including Himalaya and its neighboring areas, hosts a rich and unique flora that is crucial for understanding the evolutionary history of mountainous biodiversity. Phylogenetic regionalization can provide novel insights into biodiversity distribution patterns and their formation mechan…
GIS‐Based Platform for Near Real‐Time Prediction of Mosquito Distribution
Mosquitoes are a major public health threat as carriers of numerous pathogens, making it essential to understand their distribution to prevent and control the spread of vector‐borne diseases effectively. This paper presents a platform that incorporates dynamic datasets from online sources with stati…
Adapting to change: exploring the distribution dynamics of the alien and potentially invasive aphid species Cinara curvipes (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in …
This study investigates the potential ecological niche and distribution of the Nearctic bow-legged fir aphid, Cinara curvipes, an alien and potentially invasive species, across Europe. Utilising climate modelling based on climatic preferences in its native range, we assess the suitability of Europea…
Completeness of Digital Accessible Knowledge of plants across Africa and priorities for future data discovery
Abstract Digital Accessible Knowledge (DAK) is of utmost importance for biodiversity conservation. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF, www.gbif.org) is a mega data infrastructure with more than two billion and two hundred million occurrence records as of 17 January 2023. It i…
Impact of climate change on the distribution of the citrus longhorned beetle Anoplophora chinensis (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) and its host plants, Cas…
Abstract The Anoplophora chinensis (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) (Forster), a serious phytophagous pest threatening Castanea mollissima Blume and Castanea seguinii Dode, poses risks of ecological imbalance, significant economic loss, and increased management difficulties if not properly …
Climate and regional plant richness drive diet specialization in butterfly caterpillars
Studies of coevolution, ecosystem processes, and latitudinal diversity gradients are improved by understanding variation in resource specialization. Insect herbivory is one of the most ubiquitous terrestrial ecological associations that drives the evolution of plants and insects. However, a broad un…
Conservation status of Erebia palaricaChapman, 1905 (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae): Local insight and whole distribution perspective
Conservation efforts are often limited by the lack of information on poorly understood species. Such is the case of Erebia palarica Chapman, 1905, a narrow endemic butterfly restricted to the mountain ranges of northwest Iberia and classified as of “Least Concern” by the IUCN. By combining mark‐rele…
A global biogeographic regionalization for butterflies
The partitioning of global biodiversity into biogeographic regions is critical for understanding the impacts of global-scale ecological and evolutionary processes on species assemblages as well as prioritizing areas for conservation. However, the lack of globally comprehensive data on species distri…
Chorotypes, zones for the conservation of Scarabaeoidea, and representativity in protected areas of El Salvador
Ecological niche models and species distribution models (SDMs) are tools that can define a species' niche based on presence records and identify those areas where appropriate ecological conditions converge as zones of potential distribution for the species. SDMs help to optimise conservation efforts…
First record of the invasive springtail Hypogastrura viatica occurring synanthropically in East Antarctica
Antarctica is increasingly vulnerable to invasive species, some of which have already established on the Antarctic Peninsula. The East Antarctic environment is currently recorded to be free from established non-native invertebrates. Here we report the first record of a highly invasive springtail spe…
Plate tectonics, cold adaptation and long-distance range expansion to remote archipelagos and the high Andes as drivers of a circumantarctic freshwate…
Disjunct distributions, characterised by spatially separated populations of related species, offer insights into historical biogeographic patterns and evolutionary processes. This study investigates the evolutionary history of the diving beetle subfamily Lancetinae through a phylogenomic approach in…
Increased spread risk of citrus long-horned beetle [Anoplophora chinensis (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)] under climate change in Türkiye: Implications fo…
Climate change and increasing global trade are facilitating species’ introduction and establishment outside their native ranges. Predicting likely introductions and spread areas could help to lower the introduction and spread risk of new species through biosecurity measures. The citrus long-horned b…
The genome sequence of the springtail, Dicyrtomina minuta (O.Fabricius, 1783)
We present a genome assembly from an individual female Dicyrtomina minuta (springtail; Arthropoda; Collembola; Symphypleona; Dicyrtomidae). The genome sequence is 582.0 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 5 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the X1 and X2 sex chromosomes. …
PERILAMPUS AENEUS (ROSSIUS, 1790) (HYMENOPTERA: PERILAMPIDAE) CONFIRMED IN LATVIA AND THE BALTIC STATES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A CENTURY
We present the first contemporary Latvian observation of Perilampus aeneus (Rossius, 1790), a hyperparasitoid chalcidoid wasp. The discussed observation is the first record of the species in the whole Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania since 1917. A short discussion on the habitats and …
Eidophelus caucasicus (Lindemann, 1877) a bark beetle confirmed for the Italian fauna after almost 100 years (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae)
A monitoring project focused on saproxylic beetles of “Sasso Fratino Integral Nature Reserve” (Bagno di Romagna, FC), allowed to confirm the presence of the bark beetle Eidophelus caucasicus (Lindemann, 1877) for the Italian fauna. This species was previously known only for “Venezia Tridentina” (cor…
A trans-oceanic flight of over 4,200 km by painted lady butterflies
The extent of aerial flows of insects circulating around the planet and their impact on ecosystems and biogeography remain enigmatic because of methodological challenges. Here we report a transatlantic crossing by Vanessa cardui butterflies spanning at least 4200 km, from West Africa to South Americ…