Mitochondrial (mt) genome data have been proven to be informative for animal phylogenetic studies but may also suffer from systematic errors, due to the effects of accelerated substitution rate and compositional heterogeneity. We analyzed the mt genomes of 25 insect species from the four paraneopteran orders, aiming to better understand how accelerated substitution rate and compositional hetero...

DINUROTHRIPS HOOKERI HOOD (THYSANOPTERA: THRIPIDAE: PANCHAETOTHRIPINAE): UN NUEVO RÉCORD PARA CUCUMIS SATIVUS EN PUERTO RICO

The South African Sugarcane Research Institute (SASRI) is researching an Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management (AW-IPM) strategy against sugarcane thrips, Fulmekiola serrata (Kobus) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Unique monitoring techniques successfully implemented provided faunal complexes that might include natural enemies within leaf spindles. Twentyeight Thysanoptera taxa from three families, n...

Gynaikothrips uzeli (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) is a minuscule insect species, which forms galls, is subsocial, and parthenogenetic. It is associated with Ficus benjamina L. (Moraceae) and has a pantropical occurrence. The paucity of genetic studies on the order Thysanoptera led us to use inter-simple sequence repeat molecular marker to assess intra- and inter-gall, as well as intra- and in...

We assessed the effects of cultivating two genetically modified (GM) glyphosate-tolerant soybean varieties (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) derived from Event 40-3-2 and a Japanese conventional variety on arthropods under field conditions, with weed control using glyphosate and conventional weed control for two years. Plant height and dry weight of the conventional variety were significantly larger tha...

taeniothrips inconsequens (uzel) of the subfamily thripinae (thysanoptera: thripidae) collected on flowers from doha is reported in this paper, which represents the first record of both the genus and the species from qatar. morphological characters and geographical distribution of the newly recorded thrips are given.

haplothripsverbasci (osborn) is recorded from iran for the first time. the specimens of this species were collected on flowers of verbascum thapsus (scrophulariaceae) from hamedan province, western iran.

Corresponding author: Kambiz Minaei, E-mail: [email protected] Copyright © 2017, Minaei. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. First description of the male of Dendrothrips aspersus (...

The Paraneoptera (Hemipteroid Assemblage) comprises the orders Thysanoptera (thrips), Hemiptera (bugs), Phthiraptera (lice) and Psocoptera (booklice and barklice). The phylogenetic relationships among the Psocodea (Phthiraptera and Psocoptera), Thysanoptera and Hemiptera are unresolved, as are some relationships within the Psocodea. Here, we present phylogenetic hypotheses inferred from SSU rDN...