The hypothesis of a Gondwanian origin of the family Tingidae (Insecta, Heteroptera) has been promoted and seems to be generally accepted by specialists. However, the area of emergence and diversification of the clade, South American or Australian, is still debated and cannot be solved without integrating Vianaidinae, a subfamily considered as the sister of all the other Tingidae, into phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses. T...

Motivation Overhunting is a major driver of defaunation in tropical ecosystems, yet its impacts and spatial extent remain challenging to quantify through conventional remote sensing approaches. Novel modelling frameworks based on quantitative relationships between impacts on wildlife populations and the main drivers of hunting pressure have provided a mean to identify hotspots of defaunation for avian and mammalian communities...

With 175 described genera and 1556 described species, Family Cercopidae is currently divided into two subfamilies: the paraphyletic Cercopinae and the monophyletic Ischnorhininae. This study, with emphasis on the family Cercopidae, is in line with the extensive work of Cryan and Svenson which is the first phylogenetic study testing the monophyly of this family and higher‐level relationships within Cercopoidea. This study inclu...

In this study, we present for the first time a cladistic analysis of the subfamilies of A radidae, using molecular and morphological characters. Eighty‐three taxa, including 79 species representing eight subfamilies, are treated. The analyses were performed using 72 morphological characters and approximately 1650 bp corresponding to three molecular loci ( CO 1, 16 S and 28 S ). Characters were analysed using parsimony and B ay...

The Tingidae (Heteroptera) are characterized in part by their lace‐like structures. Some of the traits they exhibit, mostly on the hemelytra and the pronotum, can be considered as exaggerated. One may ask, are these traits hypertelic (nonadaptive) or do they represent an adaptation? Such a question is discussed with the support of a phylogenetic analysis of 55 taxa and on the basis of 85 characters. Six equiparsimonious trees...