The Palearctic species of the genus Fidiobia are revised, seventeen new described ( F. bohemica sp. nov. ; brevialis communis gallica hirta insoonae lisenchiae longiclava nipponica platystasioides politoides pronotatoides roatai rugosifronsoides sashai tripotini vladlubomiri ), and eleven brevinotaula Veenakumari et al., 2018; filicornis Buhl, 2014; flaviabdominalis hispanica Popovici & 201...

Aim Understanding plant diversity and how different traits have shaped the current biodiversity setting across world is one of major challenges for evolutionary biology. In this sense, genus Linum been broadly studied as a model species showing heterostyly, but no studies attempted to investigate possible correlations between heterostyly diversification. Thus, in study we aim explore origin div...

in the study of natural enemies of mealybugs (hem.: pseudococcidae) in fars province, iran, a large number of parasitized mealybugs were collected, and the emerged encyrtid species identified as leptomastidea alleni noyes & hayat, 1994. the identification was confirmed by zhihong xu, institute of applied entomology, zhejiang university of china. the genus and species is a new record for iran. t...

Several forms or variants have long been recognized in the West Palearctic sweat bee Seladonia smaragdula (Vachal, 1895). Using DNA barcoding and morphological characters, primarily of the male genitalia, these variants are here recognized and described as five new species: S. gemmella Pauly sp. nov., S. submediterranea Pauly sp. nov., S. orientana Pauly & Devalez sp. nov., S. phryganica Pauly ...

Species vary in abundance and heterogeneity of spatial distribution, and the ecological and evolutionary consequences of such variability are poorly known. Evolutionary adaptation to heterogeneously distributed resources may arise from local adaptation with individuals of such locally adapted populations rarely dispersing long distances and hence having small populations and small overall range...

Alpine ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to climate change. For widely distributed alpine specialists, rear-edge populations disproportionately important; it is expected that change will reduce their occupancy ranges due the loss of suitable habitats and connectivity among them. Using four bird species inhabiting southwestern Palearctic as models, we aim study which how environmental facto...

For 30 Afro-Palearctic bird species, the size of breeding population in Europe is compared to numbers wintering northern dry belt Africa south Sahara, Sahel. As distribution most these species wider than just and Sahel, estimates are adjusted based on known ranges. Eight Palearctic recorded sparsely Sahel appeared winter mainly beyond our delimited study area so were excluded from analyses. Spe...