Five new Oriental species of Ptychoptera Meigen, 1803 are herein described and illustrated: Ptychoptera hantu Kolcsár & Fasbender, sp. nov. from Singapore, representing the first record of the fam...

The genus Apotropina (Diptera, Chloropidae) has a global distribution with more than 80 valid described species, of which 22 are known to occur in Australia. The Australian Apotropina fauna is poorly ...

Identifying species in biology among tens of thousands of visually similar taxa while discovering unknown species in open-world environments remains a fundamental challenge in biodiversity research. C...

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Nests built by vertebrates, such as birds and mammals, constitute diverse microhabitats that are inhabited by many arthropod taxa and represent important hubs of local biodiversity. Compared to leaf...

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For years, scientists found only clues suggesting that bats prey on songbirds—for example, feathers in bat droppings and bird wings discovered beneath hunting grounds. But the full picture was missing...

Jumping can be hazardous for entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) as those that fail to attach to an insect host face death by predation or starvation...