The genus Rhinoleucophenga Hendel comprises 26 nominal species with New World distribution. In the present study, two new species are described from samples in the Pampa and Caatinga biomes in Brazil, R. punctuloides sp. nov. and R. trivisualis sp. nov., respectively. Rhinoleucophenga punctuloides sp. nov. is a sibling species of R. punctulata Duda. Furthermore, two females of R. joaquina Schmi...

BACKGROUND The Ukrainian Anomaloninae fauna is relatively poorly known. The presence of large under-collected areas, such as the Carpathians, makes taxonomic and faunistic studies concerning these parasitoids from Ukraine urgently relevant. NEW INFORMATION Based on our ongoing surveys on the Anomaloninae of the Ukrainian Carpathians, we report here the new distribution records for some specie...

We carried out a study to characterize fruit fly populations on an organic guava orchard (Psidium guajava cv. Paluma) in the municipality of Una, southern region of the state of Bahia, Brazil, using faunistic analysis of the adult fruit fly specimens captured in McPhail traps from January 2004 through March 2007. A total of 22,673 specimens of Anastrepha (15,306 females and 7,367 males) were ca...

In previous papers, faunistic and preliminary taxonomic data on the gastrotrich communities along the coastline of the Brazilian states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro were reported; among the over 40 records, the occurrence of several species new to science was highlighted. One of such new taxa is described here based on observation carried out on living and SEM prepared specimens. Pseudostome...

During the ornithological "Operation Baltic" on the Hel Peninsula (the Baltic Sea coast in Poland) the first case of transfer to Poland of ticks of the species Ixodes eldaricus Djaparidze, 1950, on Prunella modularis (one female tick) and Erithacus rubecula (two males and one female tick). P. modularis and E. rubecula have not previously been recorded among the hosts of this tick species. Altho...

the faunistic survey of oribatid mites, between 2008 and 2010, on the outskirts of the city of shiraz led to the discovery of the species banksinoma exobothridialis bayartogtokh of the family thyrisomidae. both the species and the family are new to the iranian fauna.

in the course of a faunistic survey on the iranian oribatid mites (acari: oribatida) in the southeastern province of sistan and balouchestan, the species bicyrthermannia duodentata hammer, 1979 of the family nanhermanniidae was identified. this species is a new record for the palaearctic region.

in the course of a faunistic survey of oribatid mites in mazandaran province, iran, five species belonging to the genus hermanniella berlese were collected and identified, of which the following four species are new records for the fauna of iran: h. grandis sitnikova, h. granulata (nicolet), h. septentrionalis berlese and h. serrata sitnikova.