The water scavenger beetle genus Cymbiodyta Bedel contains 30 species (Jia & Short 2010, Short & Fikáček 2011), most of which are distributed in North America. Only one species (Cymbiodyta orientalis Jia & Short, 2010) has been described since the worldwide revision of the genus by Smetana (1974). This taxon was the second species of the genus known from the Old World and the first species know...

The genus Pseudorthocladius Goetghebuer, 1943 from China, including 12 species, is reviewed. Five new species, P. (P.) binarius sp. n., P. (P.) cylindratus sp. n., P. (P.) digitus sp. n., P. (P.) ovatus sp. n. and P. (P.) paucus sp. n. are described and illustrated as adult males. P. (P.) cristagus Stur & Sæther, 2004, P. (P.) jintutridecima (Sasa, 1996), P. (P.) macrovirgatus Sæther & Sublette...

Eight species of the genus Cryptopimpla Taschenberg, 1863 are reported from China, five of them new to science: Cryptopimpla flavipedalis Sheng, sp. n., collected from Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and Cryptopimpla rufipedalis Sheng, sp. n. collected from Jilin Province, both from the Palaearctic part of China. Cryptopimpla. carinifacialis Sheng, sp. n., Cryptopimpla flavifacialis Sheng, sp. n...

Manali Biswas1, Sumit Sahoo2,3, Smarajit Maiti2, Sudipta Roy3* 1Department of Molecular biology and Biotechnology, Sripat Singh College, Murshidabad, 742123 2Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Therapeutics Laboratory, Oriental Institute of Science and Technology, Rangamati, Midnapore, 721101 3PG Department of Biotechnology, Oriental Institute of Science and Technology, Rangamati, Mi...

Recently, a severe slime mold infestation affected oriental melon plants in fields in Chilgok county, Gyeongbuk province, Korea. Specimens were collected from the fields and examined for identification. A species of Myxomycetes, Fuligo gyrosa, was identified based on its morphological characteristics. This is the first report that F. gyrosa causes slime mold of oriental melon.

the oriental arborvitae habitat with an area of 223­ha. is located on 20 km south of fazel­abad, golestan province. the lowest and highest of its height are 820 and 1680 m.a.s.l. the floristic-physiognomic investigation performed by walked-field procedure at 2nd seasonal sequence showed that flora of this region includes 173 plant species that belong to 147 genera and 65 families, of which 5 sp...

Species of the genus Foenobethylus Kieffer, 1913 are parasitoids wasps rarely collected and only found in Oriental region. In this study, based on both morphological molecular evidence, we describe three new species from China: F. robusta Li & Chen, sp. nov. , xinglongsensis Wang yunkaishanensis Chen Luo, An updated key to is provided. Additionally, phylogenetic relationships between ot...

Two new species of biting midges, Culicoides cornatus sp. nov. and pileus are described based on adults. The compared to their congeners with close similarity. All specimens were collected from the Indian Sundarban Mangrove Forests, few mounted in glass slides prepared for SEM study. Total 78 under genus Latreille including two ones (6 ornatus group) India. An adult key group Oriental Region is...

A multi-component systems approach is proposed to reduce the risk of oriental fruit fly infestation in ‘Sharwil’ avocados exported from Hawaii into the United States to an acceptable level. This systems approach is based on poor host status, limited distribution and low prevalence. Recent surveys suggest oriental fruit fly populations are naturally low in Hawaii’s small avocado orchards. Mainta...

The old calendar of pollens did not reflect current pollen distribution and concentrations that can be influenced by changes of weather and environment of each region in South Korea. A new pollen calendar of allergenic pollens was made based on the data on pollen concentrations obtained in eight regions nationwide between 1997 and 2009. The distribution of pollen was assessed every day at 8 are...