insect | Environmental Information Service Namibia: eLibrary

A class of the Arthropoda typically having a segmented body with an external, chitinous covering, a pair of compound eyes, a pair of antennae, three pairs of mouthparts, and two pairs of wings. (Source: MGH)

The listing below shows all records tagged with this term.

The records can be filtered using the search boxes. Or leave this page and do a full search of all records.

Displaying results 151 - 200 of 489 record(s) tagged with this keywordClick/tap on any title to see full details of the record

McClain E, Seely MK, Hadley NF, Gray V 1985. Wax Blooms in Tenebrionid Beetles of the Namib Desert: Correlations with Environment. Ecology 66 (1) 112-118

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1941311?uid=4&sid=21102338722657

Termigradation - Termites and their uses.

Website link:http://www.termigradation.com/

Ward D, Seely MK 1996. Adaptation and Constraint in the Evolution of the Physiology and Behavior of the Namib Desert Tenebrionid Beetle Genus Onymacris. Evolution 50 (3) 1231-1240

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2410663?uid=4&sid=21102165041421

Hamilton III WJ, Seely MK 1976. Fog basking by the Namib Desert beetle, Onymacris unguicularis. Nature 262 (5566) 284-285

Website link:https://www.nature.com/articles/262284a0

Bartholomew GA, Lighton JRB, Louw GN 1985. Energetics of locomotion and patterns of respiration in tenebrionid beetles from the Namib Desert. Journal of Comparative Psychology B 155 (2) 155-162

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00685208

Seely MK, Lewis JC, O'Brien KA, Suttle AE 1983. Fog response of tenebrionid beetles in the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 6 (2) 135-143

Website link:http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=US201302616026

Seely MK 1979. Irregular fog as a water source for desert dune beetles. Oecologia 42 (2) 213-227

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00344858

Naidu SG, Hattingh J 1988. Water balance and osmoregulation in Physadesmia globosa, a diurnal tenebrionid beetle from the Namib desert. Journal of Insect Physiology 34 (10) 911-917

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022191088901266

Water vapor harvesting: Namib desert beetle. Ask Nature

Website link:http://www.asknature.org/strategy/dc2127c6d0008a6c7748e4e4474e7aa1

Dacke M, Baird E, Byrne M, Scholtz CH, Warrant EJ Dung Beetles Use the Milky Way for Orientation. 23 4 (298-300) 2013

Website link:http://www.cell.com/current-biology/retrieve/pii/S0960982212015072

Irwin ME, Kirk-Spriggs AH 1998. Species composition and flight phenology of stiletto flies and window flies occurring along the Kuiseb River, Gobabeb, Namibia.

Website link:http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/research/therevid/namibia.html

Hamilton III WJ, Penrith M-L 1977. Description of an individual possible hybrid tenebrionid beetle and the habitat preference of the parental species. The Canadian Entomologist 109 701-710

Website link:http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8554747

Fisher SG, Gray LJ, Grimm NB, Busch DE 1982. Temporal succession in a Desert Stream Ecosystem following Flash Flooding. Ecological Monographs 52 (1) 93-110

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2937346?uid=4&sid=21101927235761

Seely MK, Hamilton III WJ 1976. Fog Catchment Sand Trenches Constructed by Tenebrionid Beetles, Lepidochora, from the Namib Desert. Science 193 (4252) 484-486

Website link:http://www.sciencemag.org/content/193/4252/484.abstract

Zhai L, Berg C, Cebeci F, Kim Y, Milwild M, Rubner MF, Cohen RE 2006. Patterned Superhydrophobic Surfaces: Toward a Synthetic Mimic of the Namib Desert Beetle. Nano Letters 6 (6) 1213-1217

Website link:http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl060644q

Naidu SG 2001. Osmoregulation in Onymacris rugatipennis, a free-ranging tenebrionid beetle from the Namib Desert. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 129 (4) 873-885

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109564330100352X

Naidu SG 1998. Haemolymph Amino Acid, Sugar and Glycerol Levels in the Namib Desert Tenebrionid Stips stali During Dehydration and Rehydration. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 119 (2) 477-484

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1095643397004546

Naidu SG 2001. Water balance and osmoregulation in Stenocara gracilipes, a wax-blooming tenebrionid beetle from the Namib Desert. Journal of Insect Physiology 47 (12) 1429-1440

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022191001001330

Scholtz CH, Harrison JG, Grebennikov VV 2004. Dung beetle (Scarabaeus (Pachysoma)) biology and immature stages: reversal to ancestral states under desert conditions (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)?. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 83 (4) 453-460

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00389.x/abstract

Watkinson AR, Ormerod SJ 2001. Grasslands, grazing and biodiversity: editors' introduction. Journal of Applied Ecology 38 (2) 233-237

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2664.2001.00621.x/full

Becker T 2007. The phenomenon of Fairy Circles in Kaokoland (NW Namibia). Basic and Applied Dryland Research 1 (2) 121-137

Website link:http://www.badr-online.de/fairy_circles_kaokoland

Goldberg K 2001. Zambesian flooded grasslands (AT0907).

Website link:http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at0907_full.html

Duncan FD 2003. The role of the subelytral cavity in respiration in a tenebrionid beetle, Onymacris multistriata (Tenebrionidae: . Journal of Insect Physiology 49 (4) 339 - 346

Website link:http://www.mendeley.com/research/role-subelytral-cavity-respiration-tenebrionid-beetle-onymacris-multistriata-tenebrionidae-adesmiini/

Hauffe HC, Pietruszka RD, Seely MK 1988. Observations on the behaviour of Onymacris laeviceps Gebien (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae>: Adesmiini) in the central Namib Desert dunes. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 51 (2) 183 - 192

Website link:http://www.mendeley.com/research/observations-behaviour-onymacris-laeviceps-gebien-coleoptera-tenebrionidae-adesmiini-central-namib-desert-dunes/

Namibia Bird Club.

Website link:http://www.namibiabirdclub.org

Ashton PJ 2010. Demise of the Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) as a keystone species for aquatic ecosystem conservation in South Africa: The case of the Olifants River. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 20 (5) 489 - 493

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4121

Ntombwa BN, Usuku P, Govere JN, Manga L, Koekemoer LL, Hunt RH, Coetzee M 2006. Distribution of members of the Anopheles gambiae Giles s.l. complex in Namibia and susceptibility to insecticides used for malaria control. African Entomology 14 (2) 404-406

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/ento/14/2/EJC32677

Londt JGH 2012. A new Namibian Empodiodes Oldroyd, 1972 and some interesting new records of robber flies from Namibia and South Africa (Diptera: Asilidae). African Entomology 20 (2) 259-265

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/ento/20/2/EJC125249

Mey W 2016. A taxonomic and faunistic study of the Cossidae of southwestern Africa (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea). Annals of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History 6 (07) 146-198

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/nfi_ditsong/6/07/EJC192279

Kirk-Spriggs AH, Evenhuis NL 2008. A new species of Psiloderoides Hesse (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae) from the Brandberg Massif, Namibia. African Entomology 16 (1) 122-126

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/ento/16/1/EJC32751

Polis GA, Barnes JD, Seely MK, Henschel JR, Enders MM 1998. Predation as a major cost of reproduction in Namib Desert tenebrionid beetles. Ecology 79 (7) 2560-2566

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079%5B2560:PAAMCO%5D2.0.CO;2/full

Henschel JR 2015. Locust times – monitoring populations and outbreak controls in relation to Karoo natural capital. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 70 (2) 135-143

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0035919X.2015.1046974

Coaton WGH 1971. Five new termite genera from South West Africa (Isoptera: Termitidae).

Website link:http://archives.unam.edu.na/index.php/coaton-w-g-h-five-new-termite-genera-from-south-west-africa-isoptera-termitidae-w-g-h-coaton-windhoek-state-museum-1971

Brown HD 1967. A new grasshopper allied to Shelfordites Karny from South West Africa (Orthoptera: Acridoidae).

Website link:http://archives.unam.edu.na/index.php/brown-h-dick-new-grasshopper-allied-to-shelfordites-karny-from-south-west-africa-orthoptera-acridoidae-windhoek-state-museum-1967

Lawrence RF 1975. The Chilopoda of South West Africa.

Website link:http://archives.unam.edu.na/index.php/lawrence-r-f-chilopoda-of-south-west-africa-windhoek-state-museum-1975

Munting J 1969. Observations on some armoured scale insects (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Diaspididae) from South West Africa and neighbouring territories. Cimbebasia 1 (A) 115-161

Website link:http://archives.unam.edu.na/index.php/munting-j-observations-on-some-armoured-scale-insects-homoptera-coccoidea-diaspididae-from-south-west-africa-and-neighbouring-territories-j-munting-windhoek-state-museum-1969

Gess FW 2004. A Revision of the Afrotropical species of the wasp Genus Jugurtia de Saussure, 1854 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 77 (4) 669-720

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/25086251

Gess SK, Gess FW 2004. A comparative overview of flower visiting by Non-Apis Bees in the semi-arid to arid areas of southern Africa. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 77 (4) 602-618

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/25086245

Kirk-Spriggs AH 2007. Third instar larva and puparium of Archicollinella penteseta (Richards) (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae) from Namibian guano islands, with notes on the species' biology and introduction to the Scilly Isles of Great Britain. African Entomology 15 (1) 141-151

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.4001/1021-3589-15.1.141

Kirk-Spriggs AH 2003. The immature stages of Sarcophaga (Liosarcophaga) namibia Reed (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the southwestern seaboard of Africa. Cimbebasia 18 39-47

Website link:http://sarcophagidae.myspecies.info/node/952

Kirk-Spriggs AH 2007. Description of the biology and immature stages of Eutropha lindneri Sabrosky (Diptera: Chloropidae: Chloropinae), based on survey material from the Namibian coast. African Entomology 15 (2) 319-327

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.4001/1021-3589-15.2.319

Steckel J, Penrith ML, Henschel J, Brandl R, Meyer J 2010. A preliminary molecular phylogeny of the Namib Desert darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae). African Zoology 45 107-114

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2010.11657259

Otte D 2014. Twenty-six new species of grasshoppers from the southern African arid zone (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Lentulidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 140 (1) 293-647

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276511130_Twenty-Six_New_Species_of_Grasshoppers_from_the_Southern_African_Arid_Zone_Orthoptera_AcridoideaLentulidae

Rössl R 2000. Reproduktionsbiologie, Entwicklungsbiologie und Ökologie von sympatrischen Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera: Insecta) des Kuiseb bei Gobabeb in der Namib Wüste / Namibia.

Website link:http://d-nb.info/960963324

Marsh AC 1985. Thermal responses and temperature tolerance in a diurnal desert ant, Ocymyrmex barbiger. Physiological Zoology 58 (6) 629-636

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/30156067

Marden JH 1987. In pursuit of females: following and contest behavior by males of a Namib Desert tenebrionid beetle, Physadesmia globosa. Ethnology 75 (1) 15-24

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1987.tb00638.x/abstract

Kaunda SK 1994. The possible effects of millipedes on the nutrient dynamics of an Acacia Savanna Woodland. Botswana Notes and Records 26 151-165

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40959190

Larsen TB 1992. The butterflies of the Gemsbok National Park in Botswana (Lepidoptera – Rhopalocera). Botswana Notes and Records 24 181-203

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979923

Merron GS 1992. Tsetse Fly control and the environmental implications for fish in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Botswana Notes and Records 24 49-56

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979916

Barker JF 1985. The distribution of "Acridoidea" (grass-hoppers) in relation to overgrazing. Botswana Notes and Records 17 141-148

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979744