The pink hibiscus mealybug (PHM), Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) and the associated hymenopterous parasitoid, Anagyrus kamali Moursi, 1948 (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), are reported for the first time in Brazil. Specimens of the PHM were collected on nine hosts plants, Annona muricata L. (Anonnaceae), Glycine max (L.) Merr. (Fabaceae), Centrolobium paraensis Tul. (Fab...

Biventricular Thrombus and Endomyocardial Fibrosis in Antiphospholipid Syndrome Luiz Flávio Galvão Gonçalves2, Fernanda Maria Silveira Souto1, Fernanda Nascimento Faro1, Joselina Luzia Menezes Oliveira1,2, José Augusto Soares Barreto-Filho1, Antônio Carlos Sobral Sousa1,2 Departamento de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Sergipe1; Serviço de Ressonância Cardiovascular e Laboratório de Ecocardio...

The genus Paraheligmonelloides Fukumoto, Kamiya and Suzuki, 1980 (Nippostrongylinae) is revised and split into four genera, mainly based on characters of the synlophe not previously considered at the supraspecific level. These characters mainly include the homology of the left ridge with ridge 1', the relative size of the right ridge to the left ridge and to ridge 1' and the distribution of the...