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Diversity, Biogeography and Evolution of Hemiptera of the Palaearctic Region
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Diversity, Biogeography and Evolution of Hemiptera of the Palaearctic Region

A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Diversity".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2023) | Viewed by 3601

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Viktor Golub

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Department of Zoology and Parasitology, Voronezh State University, Universitetskaya sq.1, Voronezh 394006, Russia
Interests: insect taxonomy; ecology and evolution; insect diversity; phylogenetic analysis; evolution; natural history; conservation; phylogeography and phylogenetic biogeography; insect; entomology
Dr. Alexander A. Prokin

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Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters Russian Academy of Sciences, Yaroslavl Prov., Nekouz Distr., Borok 152742, Russia
Interests: aquatic and semiaquatic heteroptera and coleoptera; fossil insects; macroinvertebrate communities; ecosystem evolution
Dr. Natalia Golub

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Department of Karyosystematics, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya emb.1, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia
Interests: Insecta; Hemiptera; Psocodea; karyosystematics; molecular cytogenetics; karyotype evolution
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues, 

The Palaearctic is a major zoogeographic region that extends across Eurasia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas and North Africa. Its territory is characterized by a great diversity of climatic, landscape and ecological conditions. The vast expanses of the north and northeast of Palaearctic are occupied by tundra and taiga. A significant area of the west and east is covered with mixed and broad-leaved forests. Steppes and semideserts extend as wide strips into the south of the forest zone. A large belt of deserts, including the Atlantic coastal desert, Sahara desert and the Arabian desert, separates the Palearctic and Afrotropic regions. Extensive plain territories alternate with the impressive mountain ranges. Such a wide variety of landscapes and ecological features of the Palaearctic provides a great diversity of Hemiptera. The large and diverse order Hemiptera embraces terrestrial, aquatic and amphibiotic insects. Among Hemiptera, there are phytophages, zoophages and zoophytophages. Some species are serious pests of crops and forest plantations. Studies concerning the Hemiptera of the Palaearctic, while extensive, are still far from complete.

We invite manuscripts focusing on all aspects of the study of the diversity of terrestrial, aquatic and amphibious Hemiptera in various natural zones of the Palaearctic in this Special Issue. We welcome articles devoted to Hemiptera taxonomy at the morphological, karyological and molecular levels, biogeographic features, faunagenesis, the evolution of the Hemiptera fauna in the Palaearctic region and the distribution of harmful species.

Dr. Viktor Golub
Dr. Alexander A. Prokin
Dr. Natalia Golub
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Hemiptera
  • Heteroptera
  • Auchenorrhyncha
  • Homoptera
  • recent
  • fossil
  • systematics
  • diversity
  • biogeography
  • evolution
  • east Palaearctic

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When Cockroaches Replace Ants in Trophobiosis: A New Major Life-Trait Pattern of Hemiptera Planthoppers Behaviour Disclosed When Synthesizing Photographic Data
by Thierry Bourgoin, Ilia Gjonov, Albena Lapeva-Gjonova, Sonia Roger, Jérôme Constant, Gernot Kunz and Michael R. Wilson
Diversity 2023, 15(3), 356; https://doi.org/10.3390/d15030356 - 1 Mar 2023
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The mutualistic interspecific relationships of trophobiosis between trophobiont planthoppers (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha) providing food to the host called xenobiont, are reviewed. The degree of interspecific relationships between these symbionts varies from occasional or short time duration (a few hours to a few days) to [...] Read more.
The mutualistic interspecific relationships of trophobiosis between trophobiont planthoppers (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha) providing food to the host called xenobiont, are reviewed. The degree of interspecific relationships between these symbionts varies from occasional or short time duration (a few hours to a few days) to longer ones, with trophobionts left free to escape (optobiotic type) by the xenobiont, or maintained enclosed in nests or ant shelters (cryptobiotic type). Of 267 collected cases, 126 are new illustrated observations. Occasional trophobiosis is documented in 13 families of planthoppers and appears to be quite general in Fulgoromorpha, although it is reported for the first time for Dictyopharidae, Eurybrachidae, and Nogodinidae. Xenobionts associated with planthoppers are reported from ants and other Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, and Blattodea, but also from Mollusca and even small gekkonid vertebrates. Tettigometridae appear to be exclusively tended by ants, while Fulgoridae significantly more often by cockroaches (40%) than by ants (27%). Long-time trophobiosis occurs always with ants, cryptobiotic ones reported in Cixiidae, Delphacidae, Tettigometridae, Meenoplidae, Flatidae and Hypochthonellidae, while optobiotic ones remain restricted to tettigometrids. A particular focus on Tettigometridae attended by ants is provided with new etho-ecological observations of 92 currently described tettigometrids species, 32 different species (35%) are now known to be able to be ant-attended. In Bulgaria, where fourteen species occur, trophobiosis occurs with at least five species of them (36%). In tettigometrids, subsociality, sessility, and underground life appear to be key factors allowing more complex relationships with ants. However, the planthopper size and thus the amount of food (drops of honeydew) is probably also an important factor. This might explain many new observations in large-sized and often isolated fulgorids with cockroaches. Tapping of trophobiont forewings by cockroaches, moths, or of the bark subtrate by geckos has been observed, but antennal palpation behaviours by ants are the most commonly observed with tettigometrids, although not with larger planthoppers. In tettigometrids, specific tegumentary glands secretions (allomones) of the abdomen pleurites might also mediate their long-term mutualistic associations, even possibly completing honeydew kairomones actions mediating planthopper trophobiosis in general. Full article
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