Urbanisation is a major driver of biodiversity change; however, its impact on soil macrodetritivore communities and their functional composition still remains overlooked. Terrestrial isopods, key soil macrodetritivores involved in decomposition processes, are increasingly used as model organisms to assess environmental change. In this study, we investigated the influence of landscape-scale urbanisation and local environmental...

The 24 members of the Euro‐Asiatic genus Thymogethes are highly specialized pollen beetles associated as larvae with flowers of Lamiaceae Nepetoideae. All members of the genus were analysed in within the framework of an integrative taxonomy approach, which was aimed to reconstruct the phylogenetic relationships, as well as the possible pattern of evolution of their larval‐host‐plant association. Evidence from multiple molecula...

Marine rockpools represent a dynamic ecosystem where inhabiting species usually suffer changeable conditions, with consequent phenomena of local populations’ size expansions and reductions. Nevertheless, a few specialized insect groups are known to live in marine rockpools, and among them, several species belong to the water beetle family Hydraenidae. Three groups of Ochthebius sensu lato (s.l.) live in fact in marine rockpool...