A5076516528- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Plant and animal studies
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics
- Entomological Studies and Ecology
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Research on scale insects
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Agricultural pest management studies
- Insect Pheromone Research and Control
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Weed Control and Herbicide Applications
Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
2020-2024
University of Bergen
2014-2020
Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden
2010-2014
A new species, Conogethes sahyadriensis sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), feeding on cardamom, is described from India. The species status supported by diagnostic morphology as well genetic data. phylogenetic analysis based the publicly available COI barcode sequences finds C. sister to pluto, and it further reveals a number of clades that potentially represent additional undescribed species.The delineated closely related superficially similar Conogethes.
The Iberian species of the genera Coscinia Hübner, [1819] and Spiris [1819], as well three other from Mediterranean area, are revised based on morphological molecular genetic data. Our results suggest separation into four morphologically phylogenetically different genera: Lerautia Kemal & Koçak, 2006 stat. rev., Sagarriella Macià, Mally, Ylla, Gastón Huertas gen. nov. [1819]. We conclude that there eight genus group present in studied area: cribraria (Linnaeus, 1758), chrysocephala...
<i>Integrative Systematics: Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History</i>, which continues <i>Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie A (Biologie)</i>, is issued by the State Museum of History and publishes articles general biological interest with a focus on morphological systematics.
Abstract Crambidae is a group of moths with more than 10,000 species occurring worldwide that evolved diverse morphological and ecological habits. They can be best recognized by characters the adult tympanal organ larval chaetotaxy. We present first molecular phylogeny including all subfamilies most tribes. use available data from two previous studies, published transcriptomes genomes, compiling ten genes totalling 11,247 bp. Up to eight are sequenced for thirty‐nine additional taxa,...
Abstract Following a request from the European Commission, EFSA Panel on Plant Health performed quantitative risk assessment of Leucinodes orbonalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), eggplant fruit and shoot borer, for EU. The focused potential pathways entry, climatic conditions favouring establishment, spread impact. Options reduction are discussed but effectiveness was not quantified. L. is key pest (aubergine/brinjal) in Indian subcontinent occurs throughout most southern Asia with records...
The box tree moth, Cydalima perspectalis (Walker, 1859) comb.n., is native to India, China, Korea, Japan and the Russian Far East.Its larvae are a serious pest of different species Buxus.Recently, C. was introduced into Europe first recorded from Germany in 2006.This has been placed various spilomeline genera including Palpita Hübner, 1808, Diaphania 1818, Glyphodes Guenée, 1854 monotypic Neoglyphodes Streltzov, 2008.In order solve this nomenclatural confusion find reasonable verifiable...
Abstract Aim Lepidoptera is a highly diverse, predominantly herbivorous insect order, with species transported to outside their native range largely facilitated by the global trade of plants and plant‐based goods. Analogous island disharmony, we examine invasion where filtering during invasions increases systematic compositional differences between non‐native assemblages, test whether some families are more successful at establishing in regions than others. Location Hawaii, North America,...
Abstract Aim Many invasive plant species benefit from enemy release resulting the absence of insect herbivores in their invaded range. However, over time, specialized may ‘catch up’ with such plants. Black locust is a tree relatively limited native range North America but has large areas virtually every temperate continent including America. We hypothesize that both intra‐ and intercontinental spread black leads to parallel, though delayed pattern herbivores. Location Global. Taxon locust,...
The larvae of the Old World genera Leucinodes Guenée, 1854 and Sceliodes are internal feeders in fruits Solanaceae, causing economic damage to cultivated plants like Solanum melongena S. aethiopicum. In sub-Saharan Africa five nominal species one occur. One these species, eggplant fruit shoot borer L. orbonalis 1854, is regarded as regularly intercepted from Asia Europe, North South America therefore a quarantine pest on continents. We investigate taxonomy African based morphological...
Non-native plants typically benefit from enemy release following their naturalization in non-native habitats. However, over time, herbivorous insects specializing on such may invade the native range and thereby diminish benefits of that these experience. In this study, we compare rates invasion spread across Europe three North American insect folivores: Lepidoptera leaf miners Macrosaccus robiniella Parectopa , gall midge Obolodiplosis robiniae specialize Robinia pseudoacacia . This tree...
Abstract Two of the largest subfamilies Crambidae, Pyraustinae and Spilomelinae, have 341 species recorded in Japan, but their natural relationships are poorly understood. We reconstructed a molecular phylogeny based on one mitochondrial (COI) three nuclear genes (CAD, EF1-α, RpS5) for 129 69 genera Spilomelinae 62 27 from Japan. The concatenated data was analyzed by maximum likelihood Bayesian inference methods. Our results recovered most tribes recognized previous study, Pyraustini is...
Abstract Following a request from the European Commission, EFSA Panel on Plant Health performed quantitative risk assessment for EU of African Leucinodes species (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), which are fruit and shoot borers, especially eggplant type fruit. The focused (i) potential pathways entry, (ii) distribution infested imports within EU, (iii) climatic conditions favouring establishment, (iv) spread (v) impact. Options reduction discussed, but their effectiveness was not quantified. spp....
Udea Guenée, 1845, comprising more than 200 species, predominantly occurs in temperate Eurasia and the New World, with few representatives on southern continents of Old World. We present a fi rst phylogenetic analysis for genus, mainly based European species. applied Bayesian Maximum Parsimony approaches to combined dataset coxI (1,415 bp) wingless (363 sequences as well morphological characters. The concatenated partitions inference yielded hypothetical tree 26 supported (posterior...
The analysis of mitochondrial COI data for the European-Centroasian montane Udeaalpinalis species group finds deep intraspecific splits. Specimens U.austriacalis and U.rhododendronalis separate into several biogeographical groups. These allopatric groups are not recovered in analyses two nuclear markers wingless Elongation factor 1-alpha, except from Pyrenees French Massif Central. latter populations also morphologically distinct conspecific with Scopuladonzelalis Guenée, 1854, which is...
DNA barcode data reveal a distinct group of Udea specimens collected on Crete and previously misidentified as fulvalis (Hübner, 1809) U. languidalis ab. veneralis (Staudinger, 1870). Morphological examination the corroborates their status species which is described ruckdescheli sp. n. Images adults genitalia both sexes, well sequences are presented. A phylogenetic analysis using molecular (COI, wingless) morphological indicates that new belongs to numeralis 1796) sister fimbriatralis...
There is a long history of humans either intentionally or accidentally moving plant species to areas outside their native ranges. In novel environments, populations many these exhibit explosive population growth and spread, in part due the absence coevolved enemies such as herbivorous insects. However, over time can ‘catch up' with host re‐establish host–herbivore relationships. Though this phenomenon has been documented several systems, little evidence exists on how re‐assembly results...
A new species, Suhela cuneus Rao, Sivaperuman & Mally sp. nov., belonging to the family Crambidae is described from Indian Andaman Islands. The generic concept of revised include species. differential diagnosis as well images adult habitus and both male female genitalia are provided.
The Neotropical genus Catharylla Zeller, 1863 (type species: Crambus tenellus 1839) is redescribed. contiguella 1872, C. interrupta 1866 and Myelois sericina 1881, included by Munroe (1995) in Catharylla, are moved to Argyria Hübner. paulella Schaus, 1922 (Zeller, Six new species described Léger Landry: bijuga, chelicerata, coronata, gigantea, mayrabonillae serrabonita. phylogenetic relationships were investigated using morphological as well molecular data (COI, wingless, EF-1α genes)....