The main focus of this research is to ascertain the X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopic and surface morphology a hornet (Vespa affinis) nest. optical microscopic (OM) analysis demonstrated that nest presented an irregular formation partition materials. This was confirmed via scanning electron microscopy (SEM), which revealed presence unique form with...

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The genus Xiruana Brescovit, 1997 is currently composed of four South American species: X. gracilipes (Keyserling) from Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina, X. affinis (Mello-Leitão) from Brazil, X. hirsuta (Mello-Leitão) from Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay, and X. tetraseta (Mello-Leitão) from Venezuela, Brazil and Paraguay. Of these, the last three are redescribed in this paper,...

The species Ixodes aragaoi Fonseca was described as Ixodes ricinus aragaoi, and later placed in synonymy with Ixodes affinis. However, this synonymy was rejected and the subspecies was elevated to species, and named as I. aragaoi. Some researchers did not consider the validity of I. aragaoi and maintained the synonymy proposed until 1998 when I. aragaoi was revalidated, and it was suggested tha...

abstract statement of the problem: dental prosthesis is usually made indirectly; therefore dimensional stability of the impression material is very important. every few years, new impression materials with different manufacturers’ claims regarding their better properties are introduced to the dental markets which require more research to evaluate their true dimensional changes. objectives: the ...

The present paper continues a series of comprehensive taxonomic treatments of cercosporoid fungi (formerly Cercospora s. lat.), belonging to the Mycosphaerellaceae (Ascomycota). The fourth contribution of this series initiates treatments of cercosporoid fungi on dicots and comprises species occurring on hosts belonging the the families Acanthaceae, Actinidiaceae, Adoxaceae, Aizoaceae, Altingiac...

Aras vadisinde Cleonini ve Tanymecini tribüsüne ait Cleonis pigra (Scopoli, 1763), Conorhynchus kindermanni Faust,1904, Bothynoderes affinis (Schrank, 1781), Pachycerus segnis (Germar, 1824), Maximus strabus (Gyllenhal, 1834), Asproparthenis punctiventris A. steveni (Faust, 1892), omeri Korotyaev, N. Gültekin & L. Gültekin, 2020, Temnorhinus nasutus (Hochhuth, 1847), T. hololeucus (Pallas, ...

The article describes a new subspecies Eurytemora caspica tethysiana subsp. nova that, according to its genetic and morphological features, is closely related the recently described species from Caspian Sea. According our hypothesis, both of these taxa are relics fauna Tethys Sea in last phase existence (Paratethys). form occupies an intermediate position between carolleeae by characteristics. ...