Although the reported aetiological agent of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in Sri Lanka is Leishmania donovani, the sandfly vector remains unknown. Ninety-five sandflies, 60 females and 35 males, collected in six localities in the district of Matale, central Sri Lanka, close to current active transmission foci of CL were examined for taxonomically relevant characteristics. Eleven diagnostic morph...

Complex bottom topography and the presence of floating ice significantly complicate use traditional sampling methods in Arctic coastal waters, forcing to look for alternative approaches. One such technique is underwater imagery, which has grown popularity recent decades based on its effectiveness hard-to-reach places. We demonstrate that an video mosaic can be a reliable method comparative anal...

Despite concern around plastic pollution in subtropical gyres, our understanding of the biological component neustonic layer (upper 20 cm ocean) these areas is poor. Here we investigate neuston (excluding copepods) assemblages across Southern Indian Subtropical Gyre using triplicate samples collected by manta-trawls from 28 stations along a transect at latitude S during June/July 2015. The vert...

The intermediate disturbance hypothesis predicts that the highest diversity will occur at levels of moderate disturbance. We measured the species diversity, abundance, and species diversity of bacteria on the human body in relation to disturbance by washing. Bacteria were sampled from three surfaces on the human body with varying disturbances, counted, and classified into morphospecies. The sit...

The family Osmylidae is recorded for the first time in Colombia, extending its known distribution range to the north of South America in the northern Andes. Two new species of the genus Isostenosmylus Krüger, 1913, I. contrerasi n. sp. and I. septemtrionalandinus n. sp. and one morphospecies distributed along the eastern cordillera in the departments of Cundinamarca, Huila, and Norte de Santand...

A recent species checklist of the ants of Peru recorded 592 nominal species and 79 genera on the basis of a literature review. Here we complement the previously published checklist with the addition of 83 nominal species and six genera, including three genera recorded only from morphospecies. This increases the list of ants reported from Peru to at least 679 species and subspecies and 85 genera...

The purpose of this short note is to identify morphospecies sp. 0471 of the Hope River Forest Fragmentation Project. It is Stenosagolanewtoni Park & Carlton, 2013. The material listed herein raises the number of published specimen records for Stenosagolanewtoni from 2 to 51. All additional 49 specimens are fully winged males, collected in flight intercept traps (FITs), from the South Island of ...