b a ckground : the present study was undertaken to compare the entomological situation by analyzing the blood meal of mosquitoes of canal irrigated and non-irrigated areas of bikaner in order to explore scientific information on the vector biology and malaria burden profile and to plan proper strategies for malaria control and eradication. methods : adult mosquitoes were collected and the abdom...

Two new species of Palpimanus Dufour, 1820 are described from India: P. godawan Tripathi & Sankaran sp. nov. (♂♀), collected the Thar Desert in Rajasthan, and maldhok Kuni, Maharashtra. Images endogyne male palp holotype paratype narsinhmehtai Parajapati, Hun Raval, 2021 presented to facilitate its identification. A key Indian a catalogue palpimanid spiders provided. The current distributio...

The paper highlights the growing concern of the impact of climate change and variability including rainfall anomaly, rising temperature in mountain areas and occurrence of heat waves in relation to human mortality pattern in India. The paper investigates the historical perspective of rainfall and malaria relationship, and cited current studies to show how climate change and variability resulted...