Wood borer species of the families Euplatypodidae and Scolytidae were observed attacking trees of Pinus sp. in the Municipality of Ribas do Rio Pardo, state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, in March 2000. This plantation had been previously burned in an accidental fire in January 2000, causing the trees to become partially or totally unhealthy, rendering them more susceptible to attack of these p...

Ordo Coleoptera memiliki peranan penting di perkebunan kopi diantara sebagai herbivor, predator, mycophagous dan detritrivor. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui keanekaragaman kelimpahan Coleoptera, faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi keanekaragaman, kelimpahan, komposisi spesies Jawa Timur. lapangan dilakukan dari bulan Desember 2020 hingga April 2021 pada 12 Di setiap ditentukan plot penga...

Two new species of Metapocyrtus Heller, 1912, subgenus Orthocyrtus 1912 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae, Pachyrhynchini) are described and illustrated from Mindanao Island, Philippines. The (Orthocyrtus) davaoensis sp. nov. hirakui Davao City Bukidnon, respectively. Brief bionomical notes phenotypic characters compared to their sympatric Entiminae counterparts also reported. discovery M. ...

Scapanoclypeus hardap Sehnal, new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Tanyproctini), from Hardap province, Namibia, is described and an updated key to species of Scapanoclypeus Evans, 1987 is presented.

Grandaustralis new genus and Grandaustralis boomerang new species are described from Western Australia. Grandaustralis is placed in the tribe Schizorhinini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae).

Three new species of Hemilophini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) are described: Chrysaperda mimica sp. nov. and Malacoscylus nearnsi sp. nov. from Ecuador, and Eulachnesia boteroi sp. nov. from Colombia.

Parasabella Bush, 1905 is reintroduced as a replacement name for Demonax Kinberg, 1867 (Annelida: Polychaeta: Sabellidae) which is a junior homonym of Demonax Thomson, 1860 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).

1 The presence and abundance of arthropods were compared in three olive orchards under organic, integrated and conventional management regimes. In each olive orchard, trees were sampled in the canopy by beating branches and soil arthropods by placing pitfall traps. Contrary to expectations, the highest abundance of arthropods occurred in the integrated management orchard. The most abundant grou...

A community of frugivorous insects was studied by rearing of 25565 individual insects representing three orders (Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Diptera except Drosophilidae) from 326 woody plant species in a lowland rainforest in Papua New Guinea. Fruits from 19.3% of plant species were not attacked by any insect order, 33.4% of plant species were attacked by a single order, 30% by two orders and ...