Coelomera lanio (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) is the most important defoliator of Cecropia trees. Natural enemies of C. lanio collected in the region of Viçosa, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil were identified on field observations in a forest fragment and on laboratory analyses. Individuals of C. lanio were not found on Cecropia pachystachya trees colonized by Azteca mülleri (Hymenoptera: Formicida...

The objective was to compare the formation of the acrosome in the testicular lobes of the species Antiteuchus tripterus F. and Platycarenus umbractulatus F., belonging to the subfamily Discocephalinae, and Euschistus heros F., Mormidea quinqueluteum L., Oebalus sp. and Thyanta perditor F., belonging to the Pentatominae (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). It was found that, in general, the behavior of ...

This study was carried out to determine tachinid (Diptera: Tachinidae) parasitoids obtained from some hemipterous hosts in Adana, Ankara, Hatay, Konya and Uşak provinces of Türkiye between 2001 2020. For this purpose, adult hemipters were collected perennial arboreal annual herbaceous plants. The samples brought the laboratory cultured on relevant host plant material. As a result study, 11 spec...