The development of an efficient indoor rearing protocol Philaenus spumarius is a key step for research on the meadow spittlebug, as it could reduce researchers' dependency availability and collection univoltine individuals in field. Here, we implemented previously described by inducing females' parapause breakage before mating. This new enables completion life cycle P. (adult to adult) 149 days...

Spittlebugs are among the main insect pests of forage grasses in Brazil. In February 2021, a spittlebug infestation was verified Xaraés palisadegrass (Brachiaria brizantha cv. Xaraés) municipality Senador Guiomard, Acre state, The specimens were captured with an entomological sweep net and identified as Notozulia entreriana (Berg) Mahanarva spectabilis (Distant) (Hemiptera: Cercopidae). is freq...

OBJECTIVES To investigate an unusual outbreak of tetrodotoxin poisoning in Leizhou, southeast China, a case series analysis was conducted to identify the source of illness. METHODS A total of 22 individuals experienced symptoms of poisoning, including tongue numbness, dizziness, nausea and limb numbness and weakness. Two toxic species, Amoya caninus and Yongeichthys nebulosus, were morphologi...

Time of day was determined for spawning of several species of sciaenid fishes by examin~ng development stages of eggs collected in estuarine and near-shore plankton samples. Estuarine samples were taken at different times of day and night but newly spawned Cynoscion nebulosus and Bairdiella chrysoura eggs were taken only during a period from just before to 3 or 4 hours after sunset. Sclaenops o...

Three new species of lotic breeding Hynobius, formerly assigned to H. boulengeri, are described from the Kyushu region, southwestern Japan. They differ from all the known congeners by a unique combination of body size, character ratios, coloration, mtDNA, and allozymic characteristics. Together with H. stejnegeri they form a clade, which is not a sister group of H. boulengeri, and their speciat...