Parasitoid detection and identification is a necessary step in the development and
implementation of fruit fly biological control strategies employing parasitoid augmentive …

Fruit flies in the family Tephritidae are the economically important pests that have many
species complexes. DNA barcoding has gradually been verified as an effective tool for …

Angiostrongylus cantonensis is an important emerging zoonotic parasite causing human
eosinophilic meningitis (or meningoencephalitis) in many parts of the world. To-date there is …

The wheat curl mite (WCM), Aceria tosichella, is an important pest of wheat and other cereal
crops that transmits wheat streak mosaic virus and several other plant viruses. Wheat curl …

Zeugodacus caudatus (Fabricius) is a pest of cucurbit plants. The present study was
conducted to draw the relationship among Indian Z. caudatus populations with the other …

The fruit fly B actrocera latifrons (H endel) is an important pest of commercially significant
plants such as chili, tomato and eggplant. The species is native to S outh and S outheast A …

We present the first empirical treatment of the northernmost breeding dragonfly,
Somatochlora sahlbergi. We sequenced populations from United States, Canada, Finland …

Invasive apple snails, Pomacea canaliculata and P. maculata, have a widespread
distribution globally and are regarded as devastating pests of agricultural wetlands. The two …

Here, we investigate the evolutionary history of five northern dragonfly species to evaluate
what role the last glaciation period may have played in their current distributions. We look at …

Dragonflies of the genus Orthetrum are members of the suborder Anisoptera, family
Libellulidae. There are species pairs whose members are not easily separated from each …