Furciseta Aczél, 1956 [type species: F. plaumanni (Hennig, 1952)] was described as a monotypic genus from southern Brazil and is known only from the type material. Herein, F hyalipennis n. sp. is described and illustrated based on three males and one female collected in the Brazilian states of Amazonas and Maranhão. An illustrated key to the two known species is presented.

Protected areas (PAs) help in strategies for maintaining biodiversity and inhibiting deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. However, there are few studies that evaluate effectiveness lands protected by states (or federation units). Our goal was to compare land use change over 35 years state-level PAs with another area protection, both Maranhão state, Brazil. We employed remote sensing techniqu...

1Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA 2Laboratory of Experimental Physiology, Department of Physiological Sciences, Federal University of Maranhão, São Luı́s, MA, Brazil 3Diabetes, Endocrinology and Obesity Branch, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA 4Departamento de Bioquı́mica and Center for Free Radical and Biomedical Research, Facultad de Medicina...

In the Brazilian Amazon region, malaria caused by Plasmodium malariae is considered to be a zoonosis because of cross-transfer of the parasite between humans and Neotropical primates. To contribute information on this issue, we investigated occurrences of natural infection with Plasmodium sp. among Neotropical primates in the Maranhense Amazon (Amazon region of the state of Maranhão), in the no...

INTRODUCTION The incidence of American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) is increasing in Latin America, especially in Brazil, where 256,587 cases were confirmed in the last decade. METHODS This study used a Bayesian model to examine the spatial and temporal distribution of ACL cases between 2000 and 2009 in 61 counties of State of Maranhão located along the three main road and railway corridors....

This study describes a survey (n=700) carried out in 14 elementary schools in the municipality of Caxias, State of Maranhão, Brazil. The survey was conducted between July and De-cember 2007 in schools from seven neighborhoods on the outskirts of the western part of the municipality , where for the past three years high densities of immature Aedes aegypti mosquitoes have been recorded. The stude...

We studied the Cladocera of a group of ephemeral interdunal pools in the Lençóis Maranhenses, Maranhão State (NE - Brazil) and recorded 34 species. The fauna was overwhelmingly neotropical, with no evidence of invasive species. Species composition differed in Lagoa da Colher, an acid system. We provide notes on behaviour, morphology and taxonomy of some lesser-known anomopods, with emphasis on ...