Can soda ash dumping grounds provide replacement habitats for digger wasps (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Spheciformes)?

Can soda ash dumping grounds provide replacement habitats for digger wasps (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Spheciformes)?

BACKGROUND Published sources document a loss of biodiversity at an extreme rate, mainly because natural and semi-natural ecosystems are becoming fragmented and isolated, thus losing their biological functions. These changes significantly influence biological diversity, which is a complex phenomenon that changes over time. Contemporary ecologists must therefore draw attention to anthropogenic re...

New and little known digger wasps of the genus Ammophila W. Kirby, 1798 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Sphecidae) from Central Asia.

Five species of Ammophila are treated. The lectotype of Ammophila separanda F. Morawitz, 1891 is designated and illustrated. The holotype of Ammophila cellularis Gussakovskij, 1930 is redescribed and illustrated. Two new species, Ammophila barkalovi sp. nov. (Kazakhstan) and A. pevtsovi sp. nov. (China), are described and illustrated. The hitherto unknown female of A. vetuberosa Li & Yang, 1994...

Parental Investment and Sexual Dimorphism in Digger Wasps (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)

A revision of the Australian digger wasps in the genus Sphex (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae)

The Australian species of the sphecid wasp genus Sphex are revised. Thirty-five species are recognized, of which 11 are new: Sphex argentatissimus, Sphex brevipetiolus, Sphex caelebs, Sphex corporosus, Sphex flammeus, Sphex fortunatus, Sphex gracilis, Sphex imporcatus, Sphex jucundus, Sphex latilobus and Sphex pretiosus. A dichotomous key covering all Australian species of the genus has been ge...

Can cuticular lipids provide sufficient information 55 for within - colony nepotism in wasps ?

59 Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e Genetica, Università di Firenze, Firenze 1 , Italy 60 Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield 1 , UK 61 Department of Ecology and Evolution, Rice University, 1 USA 62 Department of Conservation Biology and Genetics, EBC, Uppsala University, Uppsala 1 , Sweden 63 Dipartimento di Biologia Evolutiva, Università di Siena, Sie...