Long‐distance insect migration is poorly understood despite its tremendous ecological and
economic importance. As a group, Nearctic hover flies (Diptera: Syrphidae: Syrphinae) …

Insect wings are typically supported by thickened struts called veins. These veins form
diverse geometric patterns across insects. For many insect species, even the left and right …

The size, shape and structure of insect wings are intimately linked to their ability to fly.
However, there are few systematic studies of the variability of the natural patterns in wing …

Determining which traits allow species to live at higher elevations is essential to
understanding the forces that shape montane biodiversity. For the many animals that rely on …

The damselflies Hetaerininae, a subfamily of Calopterygidae, comprise four genera
distributed from North to South America: Hetaerina, Mnesarete, Ormenophlebia and …

The global population structure and dispersal patterns of Pantala flavescens (Fabricius,
1798) are evaluated using a geographically extensive mitochondrial DNA dataset, a more …

Understanding why species range sizes vary is important for predicting the impact of
environmental change on biodiversity. Here we use a multi‐variable approach in a …

An important resource partitioning strategy allowing dung beetles to coexist in the same
habitat, while utilising the same food, is species' separation of activity times. After …

Background Triatoma guasayana is considered an emerging vector of Chagas disease in
the Southern Cone of South America. The presence of a triatomine population with …

Acoustic communication is well-known in insects since the Mesozoic, but earlier evidence of
this behavior is rare. Titanoptera, an 'orthopteroid'Permian-Triassic order, is one of the few …