A review of the genus Pteranabropsis Gorochov is presented. Five new species are described, namely Pteranabropsis tenchongensis Wang, Liu, Li sp. nov., Pteranabropsis infuscatus Wang, Liu, Li sp. nov., Pteranabropsis karnyi Wang, Liu, Li sp. nov., Pteranabropsis parallelus Wang, Liu, Li sp. nov. and Pteranabropsis tibenensis Wang, Liu, Li sp. nov.. A key to the species of Pteranabropsis is prov...

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 (...

Asexual lineages can derive from sexual ancestors via different mechanisms and at variable rates, which affects the diversity of the asexual population and thereby its ecological success. We investigated the variation and evolution of reproductive systems in Aptinothrips, a genus of grass thrips comprising four species. Extensive population surveys and breeding experiments indicated sexual repr...