La chenille légionnaire d'automne Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) est un ravageur vorace qui se nourrit principalement de céréales et autres cultures d'importance économique. Originaire d'Amérique, elle a récemment envahi les pays d'Afrique sub-saharienne où menace actuellement la sécurité alimentaire. Les connaissances sur ses ennemis naturels en Afrique sont limitées. Dans cett...

The genus Apteromantis Werner, 1931 comprises two species of wingless mantids, the Iberian A. aptera (Fuente, 1894) and the North African A. bolivari (Werner, 1929). Although A. aptera and A. bolivari have been traditionally considered as separate and valid species, their external appearance is quite similar and no comprehensive taxonomic study has analyzed their morphological and genetic chara...

The movement of energy and nutrients from aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems can be substantial, and emergent aquatic insects can serve as biovectors not only for nutrients, but also for contaminants present in the aquatic environment. The terrestrial predators Tenodera aridifolia sinensis (Mantodea: Mantidae) and Tidarren haemorrhoidale (Araneae: Theridiidae) and the aquatic predator Buenoa sci...

Certain species of orb-weavers add extra silk structures, termed a stabilimentum or web decoration, to their webs. In the genus Argiope stabilimenta are silken structures of densely woven zig-zag ribbons. The adaptive value of these stabilimenta is still unclear and controversially discussed. In the course of time, many functional hypotheses have been proposed for silk stabilimenta. Because of ...

In the last few years, allochthonous mantid species, Hierodula tenuidentata Saussure, 1869 has spread vigorously across Europe. To date, species been recorded in many countries southern and eastern parts of continent, Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Moldova, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Ukraine. On October 22, 2022, Szeged, a city part Hungar...