Biogeography and speciation of terrestrial fauna in the south‐western Australian biodiversity hotspot

MG Rix, DL Edwards, M Byrne, MS Harvey… - Biological …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The south‐western land division of Western Australia (SWWA), bordering the temperate
Southern and Indian Oceans, is the only global biodiversity hotspot recognised in Australia …

Biodiversity of Mecoptera

WJ Bicha - Insect Biodiversity: science and society, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Willmann, comparing external and internal morphological details, proposed that all extant
Mecoptera families with males possessing a sperm pump be placed in the suborder …

Evolution and mandibular sexual dimorphism in mid‐Cretaceous scorpionflies (Insecta: Mecoptera: Meropeidae)

Y Zhang, CC Labandeira, J Yu, C Shih… - … of Systematics and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Based on several earwigfly specimens with well‐preserved mouthparts of Meropeidae from
mid‐Cretaceous Burmese amber, a detailed, initial analysis was conducted of the structure …

Hide-and-seek with tiny neotenic beetles in one of the hottest biodiversity hotspots: Towards an understanding of the real diversity of Jurasaidae (Coleoptera …

G Biffi, SP Rosa, R Kundrata - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Jurasaidae are small neotenic beetles which were only recently
discovered in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot. They have a limited dispersal …

Updates on the Brazilian Hangingfly Species of the Genera Issikiella Byers, Nannobittacus Esben-Petersen, and Pazius Navás (Insecta: Mecoptera: Bittacidae)

RJP Machado, MMM Soares… - Neotropical …, 2022 - Springer
This study presents some updates on the Brazilian hangingflies species of the genera
Issikiella Byers, Nannobittacus Esben-Petersen, and Pazius Navás (Insecta: Mecoptera …

Current and future ranges of an elusive North American insect using species distribution models

DP Silva, AFA Andrade, JPJ Oliveira… - Journal of Insect …, 2019 - Springer
Nearly all of Earth's ecosystems are suffering rapid and intense environmental changes,
pushing species extinction rates to levels higher than those previously observed in past …

The genus Bittacus Latreille (Insecta: Mecoptera) in Brazil: key to species, distribution maps, new synonym, and three new species.

RJP Machado, DM De Mello Mendes, JA Rafael - Zootaxa, 2018 - europepmc.org
The Brazilian species of Bittacus Latreille (Mecoptera: Bittacidae) are reviewed and one new
synonym is proposed (Thyridates willmanni Collucci Amorin syn. n. of Bittacus diversinervis …

The relict scorpionfly family Meropeidae (Mecoptera) in Cretaceous amber

DA Grimaldi, MS Engel - Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 2013 - BioOne
The Meropeidae consists of only three rare, highly disjunct Recent species, Merope tuber
Newman from eastern North America, Austromerope poultoni Killington from Western …

One new species of hangingfly from Bolivia, Bittacus vazdemelloi sp. nov. (Mecoptera: Bittacidae), with an identification key to South American species of Bittacus …

RJP Machado - Austral Entomology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A new species of Bittacus Latreille, 1805, is herein described and illustrated, Bittacus
vazdemelloi sp. nov., based on two specimens collected in Buena Vista, Santa Cruz, Bolivia …

First Record Of The Order Mecoptera (Insecta) For The Gorgona Island (Colombia), With The Description Of A New Species.

O Ascuntar-Osnas, DT Domínguez, PC Ulloa… - Zootaxa, 2016 - europepmc.org
During a review of material from the project" Assessment of the current status of the faunistic
conservation objects from the Gorgona Island: a holistic approach to the ecological …