Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

June 30, 2021

Taxonomic revision of the Temnothorax salvini clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a key to the clades of New World Temnothorax

Matthew M. Prebus

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11514 PubMed 34249486

June 18, 2021

Evolutionary and ecological processes influencing chemical defense variation in an aposematic and mimetic Heliconius butterfly

Anniina L. K. Mattila, Chris D. Jiggins, Øystein H. Opedal, Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich, Érika C. Pinheiro de castro, W. Owen McMillan, Caroline Bacquet, Marjo Saastamoinen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11523 PubMed 34178447

June 4, 2021

Spondias mombin as a reservoir of fruit fly parasitoid populations in the Eastern Amazon: an undervalued ecosystem service

Maria do Socorro Miranda de Sousa, Ezequiel de Deus, Adilson Lopes Lima, Cristiane Ramos de Jesus, Salustiano Vilar da Costa Neto, Lailson do Nascimento Lemos, Ana Claudia Mendes Malhado, Richard J. Ladle, Ricardo Adaime

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11530 PubMed 34141484

June 24, 2021

Malagasy Polka Dot Moths (Noctuoidea: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Syntomini) of Ambohitantely—endemism in the most important relict of Central Plateau rainforest in Madagascar

Marcin Wiorek, Kamila Malik, David Lees, Łukasz Przybyłowicz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11688 PubMed 34239780

June 25, 2021

Insect taxonomy can be difficult: a noctuid moth (Agaristinae: Aletopus imperialis) and a geometrid moth (Sterrhinae: Cartaletis dargei) combined into a cryptic species complex in eastern Africa (Lepidoptera)

Pasi Sihvonen, Leidys Murillo-Ramos, Niklas Wahlberg, Axel Hausmann, Alberto Zilli, Michael Ochse, Hermann S. Staude

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11613 PubMed 34277147

June 24, 2021

Using an integrative taxonomic approach to delimit a sibling species, Mycetomoellerius mikromelanos sp. nov. (Formicidae: Attini: Attina)

Cody Raul Cardenas, Amy Rongyan Luo, Tappey H. Jones, Ted R. Schultz, Rachelle M.M. Adams