Soil organisms drive major ecosystem functions by mineralising carbon and releasing
nutrients during decomposition processes, which supports plant growth, aboveground …

Speciation is the origin of reproductive isolation and divergence between populations,
according to the “biological species concept” of Mayr. Studies of reproductive isolation have …

The fauna of the family Pentatomidae Leach, 1815 in the Middle East comprises 337
species and subspecies in 111 genera and four subfamilies, Asopinae, Pentatominae …

Hemiptera, the largest non-holometabolous order of insects, represents approximately 7% of
metazoan diversity. With extraordinary life histories and highly specialized morphological …

Abstract Amber from Kachin, northern Burma, has been used in China for at least a
millennium for carving decorative objects, but the only scientific collection of inclusion …

This chapter presents an overview of the seven infraorders and the 91 currently recognized
families of Heteroptera. For each family, it provides a brief diagnosis, selected information on …

This work presents the most thorough account of true bugs to date, from the bloodsucking
bed bug to the dreaded assassin bug. It is the definitive source for biological information on …

Over the past three decades, the philosophy of biology has emerged from the shadow of the
philosophy of physics to become a respectable and thriving philosophical subdiscipline. In …

The broad-headed bug Riptortus clavatus (Heteroptera: Alydidae) possesses a number of
crypts at a posterior midgut region, which house a dense population of a bacterial symbiont …

Classification of the Triatominae has become a complex balance between traditional
approaches and a wide variety of evolutionary interpretations. On the one hand is the need …