| taxonomic identification of macrolophus pygmaeus and macrolophus melanotoma based on morphometry and molecular markers. | two macrolophus species, m. melanotoma (=m. caliginosus) and m. pygmaeus, have been referred to as efficient predators of several key pests on vegetable crops in europe. however, due to the great morphological similarity of these species, they have been confused, with important consequences for inoculative releases of these predators in greenhouses and for the conservation of their natural populations on greenhouse and outdoor crops. in this work, we developed tools to identify these morphologic ... | 2013 | 22998681 |
| discrimination of the closely related biocontrol agents macrolophus melanotoma (hemiptera: miridae) and m. pygmaeus using mitochondrial dna analysis. | the separation of the closely related predatory species macrolophus melanotoma costa (= m. caliginosus wagner) and macrolophus pygmaeus (rambur) based exclusively on the different colour pattern of the first antennal segment (white central band in m. melanotoma and entirely black in m. pygmaeus) is rather precarious and their taxonomic status is still in doubt. in the present study their taxonomic status was evaluated by dna confirmatory analysis and hybridization experiments between m. pygmaeus ... | 2003 | 14704097 |
| permanent genetic resources added to molecular ecology resources database 1 april 2012 - 31 may 2012. | this article documents the addition of 123 microsatellite marker loci to the molecular ecology resources database. loci were developed for the following species: brenthis ino, cichla orinocensis, cichla temensis, epinephelus striatus, gobio gobio, liocarcinus depurator, macrolophus pygmaeus, monilinia vaccinii-corymbosi, pelochelys cantorii, philotrypesis josephi, romanogobio vladykovi, takydromus luyeanus and takydromus viridipunctatus. these loci were cross-tested on the following species: cic ... | 2012 | 22898144 |
| elliptic fourier analysis in the study of the male genitalia to discriminate three macrolophus species (hemiptera: miridae). | within the genus macrolophus (heteroptera: miridae), the species m. costalis (fieber), m. melanotoma (costa) and m. pygmaeus (rambur) are present in the mediterranean region on a wide variety of plant species. while m. costalis can easily be separated from the other two by the black tip at the scutellum, m. pygmaeus and m. melanotoma are cryptic species, extremely similar to one another in external traits, which has resulted in misidentifications. m. pygmaeus is an efficient biological control a ... | 2017 | 29104240 |
| comparative cytogenetic study of three macrolophus species (heteroptera, miridae). | macrolophus pygmaeus (rambur, 1839) (insecta, heteroptera, miridae) is a predator of key vegetable crop pests applied as a biocontrol agent in the mediterranean region. macrolophus pygmaeus and macrolophus melanotoma (a. costa, 1853) are cryptic species with great morphological similarity which results in their misidentification and negative consequences for the conservation of their populations on greenhouse and outdoor crops. in order to find out specific markers for their separation we studie ... | 2015 | 26753078 |