in the previous studies by foreign investigators on culicinae fauna of iran two culiseta, cs. longiareolata and cs. annulata; one coguillettidia, cog. richiardii, and one uranotaenia species, ur. unguiculata have been reported. in the comprehensive study of the culicinae fauna of iran, made by the school of public health, teheran university, since 1980, not only all named species, except one, w...

The state of Tripura North-east India is a part the Indo-Myanmar biodiversity hotspot and rich in unique biological flora fauna. present study based on extensive surveys done by author for period 5 years different parts North Tripura, India. Here, I total 21 genera 51 species that are new additions to butterfly fauna Tripura. These records include 18 Hesperiidae, 12 Lycaenidae, 17 Nymphalidae 4...

The Chinese crocodile lizard, Shinisaurus crocodilurus, is the only living representative of the monotypic family Shinisauridae under the order Squamata. It is an obligate semi-aquatic, viviparous, diurnal species restricted to specific portions of mountainous locations in southwestern China and northeastern Vietnam. However, in the past several decades, this species has undergone a rapid decre...

Phlebotomines are invertebrate hosts of Leishmania genus species which are etiological agents of leishmaniases in humans and other mammals. Sandflies are often collected in entomological studies of caves both in the inner area and the adjacent environments. Caves are ecotypes clearly different from the external environment. Several caves have been opened to public visitation before any studies ...

Reserva Natural Absoluta Cabo Blanco, a strongly seasonal deciduous forest located at the southernmost tip of northwestern Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula, was established in 1963 and is the country’s oldest nationally protected reserve. The peninsula has been occupied for millennia and is a heavily impacted landscape, and, unfortunately, its biotic diversity is among themost poorly studied in Ce...

Preservation of terrestrial fauna and flora has been the main reason for the settlement of most protected areas in the past 30 years, but although those areas may include water bodies, this does not necessarily mean that the biodiversity of freshwater environments are also protected. In the present study, the fauna inventory of eight streams (1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th orders) of three microbasins o...

Bromus sect. Triniusa is revised in Khorassan based on the new taxonomic concepts of Bromus danthoniae complex group and a remarkable herbarium material collected from Khorassan (Kopetdagh, northeastern Iran), as the main center of its diversity. Bromus turcomanicus, a narrow endemic species in central Kopetdagh hitherto known only from the type locality in southern Turkmenistan, is newly recor...

Whereas there has been successful collaboration between the UNCTAD and CITES Secretariats in the area of biodiversity and other related issues and the two secretariats would like to extend their collaboration to additional areas; Whereas UNCTAD is " the focal point within the United Nations for the integrated treatment of trade and development, and the interrelated issues in the areas of financ...

Silene is represented by c. 110 species in flora of Iran which growing mainly in the mountainous areas. During several expeditions to different regions of Iran (Tehran, Semnan, Kerman, Kermanshah and Kohgiluyeh va Boyer-Ahmad Provinces) some interesting specimens were collected. S. caucasica, is introduced as a new record for the flora of Iran. Five interesting and very restricted Iranian endem...