Zhi-Qiang Zhang's research while affiliated with University of Auckland and other places
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Publications (496)
Taxonomic data are a scientific common. Unlike nomenclature, which has strong governance institutions, there are currently no generally accepted governance institutions for the compilation of taxonomic data into an accepted global list. This gap results in challenges for conservation, ecological research, policymaking, international trade, and othe...
Modern advances in DNA sequencing hold the promise of facilitating descriptions of new organisms at ever finer precision but have come with challenges as the major Codes of bionomenclature contain poorly defined requirements for species and subspecies diagnoses (henceforth, species diagnoses), which is particularly problematic for DNA-based taxonom...
This paper reports the results of our studies of the morphological ontogeny of Neoseiulus cucumeris (Oudemans) based primarily on specimens reared in a laboratory at Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, Auckland, New Zealand. We describe all postembryonic stages and illustrate them in detail: the larva, protonymph, deutonymph (male and female), and...
Neonidulus falsicornus (Zhang & Martin) is redescribed based on six females, three males, two deutonymphs, two protonymphs and four larvae from New Zealand. We also discussed its ontogenetic development, especially those of leg chaetotaxy.
Phenotypic plasticity is the ability of individual organisms to alter their phenotypes to persist in response to internal states or changing environments. Like many other organisms, the specialist predatory mite, Phytoseiulus persimilis Athias-Henriot (Acari: Phytoseiidae), showed plasticity in developmental time and size at maturity under food str...
Phytoseiulus persimilis Athias-Henriot is an important biocontrol agent for controlling spider mites (Tetranychus spp). Rearing P. persimilis is relatively expensive due to the need to raise spider mites (e.g. Tetranychus urticae Koch), as prey, on live plants. Frozen eggs of T. urticae can be easily stored and used as a potential feed for laborato...
Blattisocius dendriticus (Acari: Blattisociidae) is a predatory gamasid mite with the potential for the biological control of mites attacking stored products. However, its interactions with its cannibalistic conspecifics are poorly understood. In this study, we determined the effects of predation risk from cannibalistic conspecifics on the survival...
Kin recognition has been widely observed across the animal kingdom. Individuals discriminate and treat conspecifics differently in relation to their genetic relatedness to increase their inclusive fitness (i.e. their own reproductive success and that of their relatives) and to avoid adverse influences from inbreeding. Although most studies on kin r...
Predators can affect prey both directly through consumption and indirectly through non-consumptive effects such as predation risk. The latter has been less studied than consumptive effects in predator-prey interactions, although many studies have shown that non-consumptive effects could significantly affect various life history traits of the prey (...
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Different species not only can compete with each other for food and space but also prey on competitors. Intraguild predation is where individuals prey on other competing species. Nevertheless, intraguild predation may cause adverse influence between biocontrol agents targeting the same pest. The generalist predator Blattisocius dentriticus recently...
This is the second part of a survey of mite lifespans initiated last year (Zhang & Fan 2021). This series was launched to collect information on lifespan and related data across mite taxa, with the aim to stimulate more research on both the patterns and mechanisms of mite aging and lifespan (Zhang 2021). The first part covered lifespan and other li...
Phytoseiidae is the most common and widespread mite family inhabiting plants all over the world. This review investigated the development time, longevity, and lifespan of the species in Phytoseiidae based on literature published from 1968 to 2022. We found 132 references including 571 datasets in 57 species of 12 genera, with a focus on sex-specifi...
Cannibalism is commonly found among phytoseiids at almost all mobile life stages. The avoidance of kin cannibalism in the presence of non-kin has been observed in a limited number of phytoseiid species. However, studies examining kin recognition by individuals at different life stages are limited. Early experience with conspecifics can alter indivi...
Many animal species can recognise and discriminate conspecifics differing in their genetic relatedness. The discrimination of kin from non-kin or more distantly related kin can benefit individuals with increased inclusive fitness and avoid adverse influences from inbreeding. A preference by mothers to oviposit near their own or closely related eggs...
The non-consumptive effects of predator-induced stress can influence a variety of life-history traits. Many previous studies focused only on short-term effects such as development and reproductive rates. Recent studies have showed that long-term predation stress (given during the whole life of the prey) and short-term predation stress (provided dur...
Phenotypic plasticity is a mechanism where different phenotypes are expressed from a genotype allowing individuals to survive variable environments. Diet-induced phenotypic plasticity was observed in the developmental time and size at maturity of the specialist predatory mite Phytoseiulus persimilis. As a preliminary study, we investigated variatio...
Kin recognition has been widely observed in various taxa. Cannibalism avoidance may be a strong driver for the evolution of kin recognition, as it may avoid a reduction in inclusive fitness. Kin recognition has recently been observed in a generalist phytoseiid, Amblyseius herbicolus (Acari: Phytoseiidae). This study experimentally examined the degr...
The early-life experience is important in modulating the late-life performance of individuals. It has been predicted that there were trade-offs between early-life fitness and late-life success. Most of the studies on senescence have focused on the trade-offs between the reproduction and lifespan, and the influences of diet, mating, and other factor...
Cannibalism is commonly found among phytoseiids at almost all mobile life stages. The avoidance of kin cannibalism in the presence of non-kin has been observed in limited species of phytoseiids. Early experience with conspecifics can alter individuals’ social behaviour at later stages. In this study, we examined the influence of ontogenetic isolati...
In predator–prey interactions, non-consumptive effects of predators have been less studied than consumptive effects. However, non-consumptive effects may have significant influences on prey and can change different aspects of their life history such as development, reproduction and lifespan. The odour and other cues associated with a predator, with...
Predator-prey interactions are fundamental to the understanding of ecological communities. The non-consumptive effects of predators on the food web can be more prominent than direct killing. However, the non-consumptive effects in intraguild interaction have rarely been studied. This study determined the non-consumptive effects of an intraguild pre...
Cannibalism is a commonly found behaviour in the animal kingdom. The biggest concern of cannibalism is that it reduces the inclusive fitness of the cannibals by eliminating close relatives. Kin recognition is a strategy used by many cannibals to benefit from cannibalism without the cost of reducing their inclusive fitness by eating close relatives....
How long do animals live and why are some long-lived whereas others short-lived? These questions have long fascinated scholars, including Aristotle. Incidentally, it is also Aristotle who first named mites “Acari” according to new research on the Greek origin of acarology by Zaborowski & Daszkiewicz (2017)
The Winterschmidtiidae are a family of over 140 species of fungivorous, saprophagous, predatory and/or parasitic mites in insect/vertebrate nests, in decaying organic matter, in soils and on plants worldwide. In this review, I provide a survey of the immature developmental time, adult longevity and lifespan of the Winterschmidtiidae as part of the...
The Anystidae are a family of over 100 species of predatory mites commonly seen in soils and on plants worldwide. A few species of genus Anystis have potential as biocontrol agents against some insect and mite pests. Herein I provide a review of the lifespan of the Anystidae as part of a series on the lifespans in the Acari. The full life cycle in...
Alternative food sources could sustain predator populations by influencing their performances including predation, development, and reproduction in periods of shortage or scarcity of prey under laboratory or fields conditions. The aim of this study was to explore suitability of cattail pollen (Typha orientalis) as an alternative food source for dif...
Being generalist predators makes many members of the Phytoseiidae family a more favourable choice for biocontrol. Amblyseius herbicolus, a predator of several phytophagous pest mites and insects, has recently gained focus as an important biocontrol agent. Most studies focus on providing alternative food such as pollens as a way to increase their pe...
At present, substantial scientific research achievements have been made in the research on landslide occurrence, movement mechanism, mitigation measures, and structural stability during tunnel excavation. However, the interaction mechanism of a tunnel under-traversing a slope body with potential landslides is still not well understood. Based on the...
Small-scale (1:30) model tests were performed to investigate the failure modes of highway tunnels that have single voids with different scales immediately above the lining roof. The tunnels employed have horseshoe-shaped cross-sections which match those typically used to carry two lanes of traffic. In the absence of a void, the mechanical behavior...
A consensus among biologists has been growing in recent years for the development of a global list of accepted species (and other taxa). To date, much discussion has focused on visions for how such a list would benefit many scientific and societal disciplines. Less emphasis has been placed on understanding the many technical challenges of compiling...
The original description of Scheloribates crassus Hammer, 1967 was incomplete, lacking information and figures about some morphological structures. Our specimens of S. crassus match broadly with the original description of the type specimens. However, there are the following differences: the morphological structures of leg I–II, the number of saccu...
Species lists are widely used in legislation and regulation to manage and conserve biodiversity. In this paper, we explore the issues caused by the lack of an adequately governed and universally accepted list of the world's species. These include lack of quality control, duplicated effort, conflicts of interest, lack of currency, and confusion in t...
Sexual interference between male and female function in hermaphrodite plants is reduced by protandry. In environments with insufficient pollinator service, prolongation of male function owing to limited pollen removal could restrict the duration of female function and lower seed production. We provide evidence that this form of sexual conflict has...
Governance is the act of governing or organizing, that is a system of rules, norms, or shared strategies to guide or regulate the actions of the governed. Since the initial development of Linnaean taxonomy, a diversity of approaches have been adopted for critical taxonomic decisions, introducing pluralism to taxonomic principles and resulting in di...
On the occasion of the 5000th volume of Zootaxa, I herein provide the publication dates, page numbers and frequencies of all volumes/issues published in Zootaxa in one publication. The growth and development of Zootaxa are divided into three periods. The First Period (Explosive Growth) covers the first four years (Zootaxa 1 to 1,000) when each pape...
A global consensus list of the world’s species must be based on the best available taxonomic research, and its contents should not be biased towards certain political or social aims. At the same time, users of any global list must be involved or consulted in its establishment to ensure that the list meets their needs. This paper argues that while t...
Taxonomy—the delimitation, naming, classification and documentation of species and other taxa—is an often-misunderstood discipline. Complex and at times contested, taxonomy occupies a sometimes discomforting intermediate position on a continuum from descriptive to hypothetico-deductive science. Two aspects of taxonomy that are striking to many obse...
Sex dimorphism is ubiquitous in the animal kingdom and can be influenced by environmental factors. However, relatively little is known about how the degree and direction of sex difference vary with environmental factors, including food quality and temperature. With the spider mites from the family Tetranychidae as subjects, the sex difference of li...
Numerous experimental life history studies on ageing are mainly biased on two classical models—fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster (Meigen) and nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (Maupas)—with relatively little attention given to other organisms with different life-history characters. Two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychida...
The ’All genera of the world’ series was announced by Zhang (2020) when Megataxa was launched. It aims to publish a full list of all genera (living and fossil) in a current consensus classification, including species richness, type species, and synonyms/homonyms (if any) for each genus. Original references for the generic names, type species, and n...
On the 20th anniversary of Zootaxa, I herein provide an overview of its development and contributions over the last two decades (2001 to 2020) and an introduction to this special volume of 25 collected papers in celebration. Zootaxa published over 29,400 papers (including 1,499 monographs of 60 or more pages) by more than 28,000 authors in over 585...
Acari represent the most diverse group within the arachnids with some 60,000 described species. It is generally believed that most species of mites are waiting to be discovered and described. Zootaxa was the most important journal for mite taxonomy during the last twenty years (2001 to 2020). It published 1305 papers by 1057 authors during these tw...
We present a summary and analysis of the Diptera-related information published in Zootaxa from 2001 to 2020, with a focus on taxonomic papers. Altogether, 2,527 papers on Diptera were published, including 2,032 taxonomic papers and 1,931 papers containing new nomenclatural acts, equivalent to 22% of all publications with new nomenclatural acts for...
Establishment and maintenance of the natural enemy are critical for successful biological control of pests on plants without alternative food for predators. Great efforts have been devoted to exploring suitable supplementary food for predators. In this study, we evaluated the feasibility of using Tyrophagus curvipenis (Fain and Fauvel) (Acari: Acar...
Sericothrips staphylinus was introduced to New Zealand as a biological control agent for gorse, Ulex europaeus (Fabales: Fabaceae), an invasive weed of European origin, but has proven to be an ineffective agent. We investigated and compared the functional responses of a predatory mite found on gorse in New Zealand, Amblyseius herbicolus, with two w...
154-km long tunnels of major highways in Shanxi Province of China are observed, and 5120 crack distributions are obtained that are largely dependent on both earth pressure conditions and external water pressure. By conducting 1:30 scaled model tests, the cracking patterns of the mold lining induced by earth pressure are notably different from those...
This successful series on mite ontogeny and morphological diversity has published three volumes (Zhang et al. 2018, 2019, 2020). I am happy to announce here the publication of another volume. This volume consists of seven papers: one on Mesostigmata (Ma et al. 2020), three on Oribatida (Seniczak et al. 2020a,b; Fan et al. 2020) and three on Trombid...
In this paper, we studied the morphological ontogeny of Neoseiulus barkeri Hughes (Acari: Phytoseiidae) based on specimens collected from Southwest University (Chongqing, China) and reared in laboratory of Shanxi Agriculture University.
Balaustium medicagoense Meyer & Ryke, 1959 is reported from New Zealand for the first time. Field collected specimens were reared successfully on pollen grains of Typha orientalis in the laboratory. All life stages of this species are described and illustrated from laboratory-reared specimens as well as field-collected specimens.
In this paper, we provide a comparative survey of ontogenetic development of chaetotaxy in the family Tenuipalpidae, with the aim to compare patterns among species/genera and to discover some general trends. We also want to find gaps within published literature and provide suggestions for future studies. Although we focused on the ontogeny of setal...
Neoseiulus kikuyu sp. nov. of Neoseiulus paspalivorus species-group was discovered from kikuyu grass, Pennisetum clandestinus (Poaceae) in Auckland, New Zealand. All life stages of this new species were described and illustrated.
Sexual interference between male and female function in hermaphrodite plants is reduced by protandry. In environments with insufficient pollinator service, prolongation of male function owing to limited pollen removal could restrict the duration of female function and lower seed production. We provide evidence that this form of sexual conflict has...
The extension of lifespan by means of calorie restriction (CR) is one of the most replicable mechanisms across a range of different taxa. However, the effects of this on the next generation are less studied due to the complexities associated with such an experiment. In this study, the effects of CR and ad libitum (AL) feeding on lifespan, duration...
Predator-prey interactions have long been of great interest to ecologists. Although the direct consumptive effects have received extensive research, indirect influences of odour derived from their conspecifics and prey on predators have largely been underestimated and overlooked. In this study, the indirect effects of predator-prey interactions wer...
Lists of species underpin many fields of human endeavour, but there are currently no universally accepted principles for deciding which biological species should be accepted when there are alternative taxonomic treatments (and, by extension, which scientific names should be applied to those species). As improvements in information technology make i...
Sexual interaction is an important activity that determines the reproductive schedule of organisms and can ultimately influence the fitness traits of both sexes. Although the influence of sexual interaction on the fitness of females has been extensively determined, little is known about the effects on males, which often have different mating strate...
Based on morphological and molecular characters, a Neoseiulus species collected from southern China was identified as Neoseiulus californicus (McGregor), which was not recorded in China before 2012. However, the Chinese population of N. californicus has some unique biological features and its morphology is also somewhat different from those populat...
Roscoea tibetica is a most widespread and extensively phenotypic-variable alpine ginger species. Here, we reported the complete chloroplast (cp) genome sequence of R. tibetica. The complete chloroplast genome is 163,515 base pairs (bp) in length, containing two inverted repeat (IRa and IRb) regions of 29,781 bp, which was separated by a large singl...
The effect of earth pressure on the mechanical behaviour of horseshoe-shaped tunnel linings was explored using 1:30 scaled models. The linings considered are typically used to carry 300 km/h high-speed trains on double tracks. A self-weight stress field causes the tunnel lining’s roof settlement to dominate over the horizontal deformation of the wa...
I am delighted to announce the inaugural issue of Megataxa, a new journal designed for large monographic reviews and highly significant original papers reporting major advances in taxonomy. Megataxa aims to be a premium journal of high impact to encourage most important works in taxonomy. As a general journal of taxonomy, Megataxa will also include...
In augmentative biocontrol, more generalists are being investigated for their potential in pest control. Although other food sources such as supplementary food may enhance the survival of generalists, whether they will affect their predation capacity is still an open question. Here, we investigated the influence of Typha orientalis pollen on the pr...
Immature mites are much less known than their adults, although they may also provide a diversity of characters and other information useful for understanding mite classification and phylogeny (Zhang et al. 2018). A recent survey of taxonomic papers published on mites from 2015 to 2017 showed that only 10% of these contained descriptions of immature...
Background:
Predatory mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) are the most important beneficial arthropods used in augmentative biological pest control of protected crops around the world. However, the genomes of mites are far less well understood than those of insects and the evolutionary relationships among mite and other chelicerate orders are contested, w...
Predators can influence prey directly by consuming them, or indirectly by inducing stress to them. In previous studies, the exposure of leaves or containers to predators is short term and the replacement of such predator-exposed units for any long-term experiments is laborious. This study aims to establish a new method to enable continuous predator...
Predator-induced stress shows pronounced effects on prey by inducing behavioural, morphological, and physiological responses. Increasing evidence shows that these antipredator responses may also lead to changes in life-history traits such as aging and lifespan. However, little is known about how predator cues influence the fitness of preys and thei...
The two biological control agents, predatory mite Amblydromalus limonicus Garman & McGregor (Acari: Phytoseiidae) and entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) Beauveria bassiana (Balsamo) Vuillemin (Hypocreales: Cordycipitaceae), have the potential to independently suppress the invasive tomato potato psyllid (TPP), Bactericera cockerelli (Šulc), in New Zealand...
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... Critical morphological characters that would permit its clear differentiation from several extant congeners are not available for study. Therefore we have no data to provide a contrastive and state-specific species diagnosis (Rheindt et al., 2023). Thus, we leave it unnamed pending possible new fossil findings to bring diagnostic characters. ...
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... In the research on the safety of tunnel lining structures in water-rich areas, Wang et al. [12] developed a pressure-adaptive concrete lining for hydraulic tunnels with high water pressure and high ground water pressure based on the theory of thick-walled cylinders. He et al. [13] developed equipment to simulate external water pressure on the lining of a horseshoe tunnel and combined it with a finite-element numerical model to validate the proposed method through comparing relevant bending moments, thrust, and shear forces. Chen et al. [14] conducted experiments on tunnels under different static water head heights using a self-developed seepage model testing device and studied the distribution of seepage fields in small spacing tunnels in water-rich areas and its impact on structural mechanical behavior. ...
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... It should be clear however that, for some at least, status quo should continue to prevail. 36,37 In fact, the ICZN issued a formal statement that taxonomic nomenclature is above ethical and societal concerns 38 (but see Roksandic and colleagues 27,28 ). Based strictly on ethical grounds, the vast majority of the NS'23 workshop participants had serious issues with the name H. rhodesiensis. ...
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... Additionally, adult A. herbicolus females discriminated larvae from their first and second cousins by preferentially eating the more distantly related kin (Zhang and Zhang 2022b). In addition to cannibalism, A. herbicolus also showed a preference to oviposit near eggs of non-kin rather than their own eggs in the absence of prey interference (Zhang and Zhang 2022c). Studies examining kin recognition at different life stages are limited (Mateo 2017). ...
... To understand whether it is the predation stress given during a short-term or the stress given during one of the specific immature stages of the prey that generated positive effects on lifespan of the prey, the exposure of predation stress was applied during different specific developmental stages, including the larval, protonymphal, and tritonymphal stages; and also including the first five days of the oviposition stage. The exposure to predation stress during the larval or protonymphal stage delayed development, reduced fecundity and prolonged lifespan of the prey, while the exposure during the tritonymphal stage reduced lifespan slightly and the exposure during the first five days of the oviposition period showed the same lifespan with those of the control (Wei et al. 2022a). This indicated that it was not, or at least not only, because of the exposure during short-term, that generated positive effects on lifespan of the prey. ...
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... In a choice experiment, the adult A. herbicolus females avoided cannibalising kin (daughters) and preferred non-kin larvae (Zhang and Zhang 2022a). Additionally, adult A. herbicolus females discriminated larvae from their first and second cousins by preferentially eating the more distantly related kin (Zhang and Zhang 2022b). In addition to cannibalism, A. herbicolus also showed a preference to oviposit near eggs of non-kin rather than their own eggs in the absence of prey interference (Zhang and Zhang 2022c). ...
... A restricted diet at the intermediate level (10 and 20 eggs daily) was given to P. persimilis mothers. A total of 20 spider mite eggs allowed over 90% survival of newly hatched P. persimilis to reach adulthood (Han et al. 2022), which was given to P. persimilis to sustain their immature development in this experiment. ...
... Compared with the control group, the predation stress given during oviposition stage reduced fecundity dramatically by 50.7%, while predation stress given during immature stage just reduced fecundity by 7.3%. The highlight of this study was that the predation stress supplied during earlier life (immature stage) extended lifespans of the prey by 9.7%, whereas the stress supplied during later life (oviposit