A sample of 346 specimens of Diplazontinae parasitoid wasps from the Kuril islands was studied. Twenty-six species are reported, Tymmophorus gelidus Dasch for the first time for the Eastern Palaearctic. Two new species are described, Diplazon kurilensis sp. n. and Homotropus formosus sp. n. Diplazon urupensis Uchida is removed from synonymy (stat. rev.), and Promethes persulcatus Nakanishi is s...

Bufonid toads generally possess cardiotoxic steroids called bufadienolides as defensive chemicals. Although knowledge of the life stages at which toad species poison is important for our understanding diversity toxicity among bufonid toads, this limited. In present study, we revealed that Japanese common toad, Bufo japonicus formosus, possesses toxins unfertilized egg stage by conducting a bioa...

We characterized five co-dominant microsatellite markers and used them to study Pacific golden chanterelle (Cantharellus formosus) genet size and its relation to forest age and disturbance. Fruit-bodies were mapped in and collected from nine replicate study plots in old-growth, recently thinned, and unthinned 40-60-year-old second-growth stands dominated by Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii). ...

Some 1,88 1 Aedes aegypti (L.) progeny were reared as sibling samples taken from 196 families representing populations from 18 localities in South Africa, including anthropophilic and non-anthropophilic populations. The number of white scales on tergite I (T1) and in the basal band on tergite II (T2) were counted. Study of family samples showed that 60.2% of families were heterogeneous, contain...

Paecilomyces variotii is a commonly occurring species in air and food, but it is also associated with many types of human infections and is among the emerging causative agents of opportunistic mycoses in immunocompromised hosts. Paecilomyces can cause hyalohyphomycosis, and two species, Paecilomyces lilacinus and P. variotii, are the most frequently encountered organisms. In the present study, ...

Olindias sambaquiensis, known as agua viva, is an endemic hydromedusa that is distributed from latitude 23 degrees to 42 degrees south in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean and is known to cause severe stings. This is the first report of the use of vinegar in disarming O sambaquiensis nematocysts and includes preliminary observations on its use in managing the stings of hydromedusae.

A total of 22 specimens of whiting Merlangius merlangus (L.) (Teleostei, Gadidae) from the northern Øresund, Denmark were examined for Myxosporea. Zschokkella hildae Auerbach, 1910 (Myxidiidae), Gadimyxa sp. (Parvicapsulidae) and a species of Bipteria occurred in the renal tubules of 9%, 18% and 68% whiting, respectively. Immature spores of the Bipteria species are very similar to spores of Myx...

A new species of quill mites Picobia dziabaszewskii sp. nov. (Acari, Syringophilidae) parasitizing Garrulax formosus (Verreaux) (Passeriformes: Leiothrichidae) is described using combined data sources: standard morphological information extended by mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I sequence (COI) and domene D2 of the nuclear gene 28S rDNA data (DNA barcode). Additionally, the case of polymorph...

The following species of the genus Epidapus Haliday, 1851 are recognized from New Caledonia: Epidapus (s. str.) aciculatus sp. n., E. (Pseudoaptanogyna) angulatus sp. n., E. (s. str.) formosus sp. n., E. (Zuhalia) primus Mohrig, 2004 and E. (s. str.) triquetrus sp. n. The new species are described, and a key to the local species is given.