Pensoft is proud to serve as a sponsor for the 11th Congress of the International Society of Hymenopterists, scheduled to take place from 10 to 14 August 2026 at the Instituto de Biología, Univ...

Autotomy enables orthopteran species to escape from predators but imposes costs on escape speed and mating success. In the band-legged ground cricket Dianemobius fascipes nigrofasciatus, we attempted ...

A new species of cricket has been discovered inside a man-made tunnel on a small island in Greece.

The XIII European Congress of Entomology (ECE 2026) is set to be held in Tours, France, from June 29 to July 3, 2026. This international gathering is organised by the French Entomological Society and ...

The endemic species Barbitistes vicetinus (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) is a flightless bush-cricket that is recognized as a pest in certain hilly areas of northeastern Italy. Under favorable conditions...

The fungus Metarhizium acridum (Driver & Milner) (Hypocreales, Clavicipitaceae) is the most effective alternative to conventional insecticides for controlling the desert locust, Schistocerca grega...

The praying mantid Tenodera sinensis (Saussure, 1871) is widely distributed and a popular species for studying many aspects of mantid biology. In this study, ten microsatellite loci were characterized...

In Gryllus, mate choice is known to exist in both sexes. Because of the added cost of mate selection, most models assume that mate choice has benefits that outweigh these costs. Gryllus firmus and G. ...

Adult body size often varies geographically in response to local climatic conditions. The Emma field cricket (Teleogryllus emma) exhibits a reverse Bergmann’s rule pattern, with smaller adults occurri...

Several thermophilous insect species have shown northward expansion in recent decades, and for some, it is only a matter of the recolonization of historic sites. Acrotylus insubricus and A. longipes a...

The pygmy grasshopper, Tetrix japonica, is a common insect widely distributed in eastern Asia. To further investigate its genome characteristics, high-throughput sequencing was used to obtain genome s...