RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The Entomology Research Museum at the University of California, Riverside today announced the discovery of a new species of firefly from Southern California, collected by an undergraduate student as part of his semester’s insect collection. Doug Yanega, senior museum scientist, said the student, Joshua Oliva, obtained one specimen of the new species...

Scientists from Mexico and California have discovered a new parasitoid wasp species in Jalisco, Mexico. The new species is an egg parasitoid of the fivespotted gamagrass leafhopper ( Dalbulus quinquenotatus), an important insect, economically speaking, that transmits plant diseases such as corn stunt spiroplasma, maize bushy stunt phytoplasma, maize rayado fino vrus, and maize bushy...