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The South African Sugarcane Research Institute (SASRI) is researching an Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management (AW-IPM) strategy against sugarcane thrips, Fulmekiola serrata (Kobus) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Unique monitoring techniques successfully implemented provided faunal complexes that might include natural enemies within leaf spindles. Twentyeight Thysanoptera taxa from three families, n...

The spider genera Mystaria Simon, 1895 and Paramystaria Lessert, 1919 are revised (Mystarini: Thomisidae). About 400 individuals were studied. The approach followed was classical taxonomy using illustrated sexual dimorphic copulatory characters and described morphological characters, photographed or measured. Paramystaria is considered a junior synonym of Mystaria, based on similarity to the ty...

Although crab spiders are common in flowering plants, their relations with plant species and its floral traits have been poorly known in the Neotropics. Observations regarding plant habits, floral visitors and also floral characteristics such as anthesis, odour, shape, colour and floral resources were recorded in flowering plant species of an area of "Cerrado" on a 2 km long trail. Misumenops a...

The Iraqi spider fauna includes several dozens of species described and reported mostly by local researchers but still there are considerable sampling gaps. For the first time in Iraq, Agelena orientalis C. L. Koch 1837 (Agelenidae), Oxyopes globifer Simon, 1876 (Oxyopidae), Thanatus formicinus (Clerck, 1757) (Philodromidae) recorded. In addition, newly collected material Bassaniodes tristrami ...