Florida State Collection of Arthropods

Leaving X: How scale insects repeatedly evolved alternatives to chromosomal sex determination

Abstract Reproduction is a core feature of life, yet it is still unclear why sex determination systems are conserved for hundreds of millions of years in some taxa but repeatedly turn over in others. A prime example is the true bugs; the vast majority of families employ a conserv...

Antroscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae): Out of Oblivion

Antroscelio Kieffer is a monobasic genus that was described alongside its type species, A. lucifugax Kieffer, in 1913. The description of A. lucifugax was based on a single male specimen collected in northern Tanzania the year prior, 1912. No additional material of this species i...

Two introduced species of Eretmocerus Haldeman (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) are established in South Carolina, United States of America

Two species of Eretmocerus Haldeman (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) that were released in the United States as part of separate, historic classical biological control programmes were recently recovered from their respective host whiteflies in South Carolina, USA. Eretmocerus debachi R...