A group of entomologists headed by Dr Fernando Montealegre-Z from the University of Lincoln, UK, reported the discovery of a new genus and three species...
Dr Ernst Heiss from the Tiroler Landesmuseum in Innsbruck, Austria, has described a new extinct species of flat bug.
Aradus macrosomus, a 9.2-mm-long female,...
An immensely long (7–8 mm) and slender (15 μm) ovipositor of the parasitic fig wasp Apocrypta westwoodi is equipped with a sharp, zinc-coated tip, ready...
According to new research reported in the journal Nature Communications, light-colored insects are out-competing darker-colored ones in the face of climate...
An awesome mammal from Colombia and Ecuador, a leaf-tailed gecko from Australia and a snail with semi-transparent shell from Croatia are among the new...
Entomologists have described a new species of praying mantis from Nyungwe National Park, the Republic of Rwanda.
Dystacta tigrifrutex, female. Image credit:...
The Southern California erythracarid mite species, Paratarsotomus macropalpis, which is smaller than sesame seed, can run up to 322 body lengths per second,...
Paleontologists led by Dr Maomin Wang from Capital Normal University in China say the newly discovered stick insect Cretophasmomima melanogramma may have...
Sci-News.com presents some of the best species officially described in 2013. A walking shark, a snail with semi-transparent shell, a venomous crustacean,...
A team of scientists has found a well-preserved, 165-million-year-old fossil of copulating froghoppers, Anthoscytina perpetua, at the Daohugou village...
Dr Michael Caterino and Dr Alexey Tishechkin, both from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, have described 85 new species in the genus Baconia,...
According to a study published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, insects modify calling and mating behavior in anticipation of storms.
Curcurbit beetle,...
A study by entomologists from Bulgaria and Russia provides new interesting information on the life habits and the distribution of the giant water bug Lethocerus...
U.S. entomologists have found a strange new insect on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska.
Female Caurinus tlagu (Sikes DS / Stockbridge J)
The...
U.S. scientists have described a new extinct family of scorpionflies from fossils found in British Columbia and Washington state, most prominently at the...
An international team of entomologists from Brazil and the United States has described a new species of tiny insect.
The newly discovered forcepfly Austromerope...
U.S.-Spanish scientists have found evidence of what they say is the oldest known camouflaging behavior in insects.
This is an artist’s reconstruction...
One fly and two mites found in droplets of amber from northeastern Italy are about 100 million years older than any other amber arthropod – invertebrate...
A citizen scientist and professional taxonomists have jointly discovered an unusual new species of green lacewing.
Female Semachrysa jade (Guek Hock Ping)
Green...
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Yale University have discovered that grasshoppers stressed by spiders affect the productivity...
