myiasis, the invasion of live human tissue by larva of diptera, is reported in the nasal cavity of a 5.5- year-old iranian girl. she was referred from golestan province to the shaheed rajaei heart center in tehran. in the 41th day after admission, a live parasite was found in her nasal secretions suction identified presumably as a second instar larvae of a facultative myiasis, woholfartia nuba ...

A checklist of the family Chironomidae (Diptera) recorded from Finland is presented.

A revised checklist of the Chamaemyiidae and Lauxaniidae (Diptera) recorded from Finland is presented.

Litchi chinensis is the “queen of fruits”, and pollination an essential requirement for fruit set production. The present study was conducted in litchi orchards to diversity/abundance insect visitors, impact on quantitative parameters, different modes pollination. results showed that 75 species during flowering were reported including Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Coleoptera. In natural po...

Bu çalışmada Aydın İli’ndeki üç meyve bahçesinde Drosophilidae (Diptera) familyası türlerinin belirlenmesi ve bunların mevsimsel yoğunluklarının araştırılması amaçlanmıştır. Aynı zamanda saptanan diğer diptera türleri de incelenmiştir. Çalışmalar Eylül 2018-Ocak 2020 tarihleri arasında içerisinde üzüm sirkesi bulunan besin cezbedici tuzaklar kullanılarak yürütülmüştür. Çalışma sonunda, tuzaklar...

Spiders are powerful predators, but the threats confronting them are numerous. A survey is presented of the many different arthropods which waylay spiders in various ways. Some food-specialists among spiders feed exclusively on spiders. Kleptoparasites are found among spiders as well as among Mecoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, and Heteroptera. Predators are found within spiders’ own population (c...

During the annual fly survey at Doi Nang Kaew in Doi Saket District, Chiang Mai Province of Thailand in 2011, Isomyia paurogonita Fang & Fan, 1986 (Diptera: Calliphoridae) and Sumatria latifrons Malloch, 1926 (Diptera: Calliphoridae) were collected for the first time in Thailand. They are the rare species of the subfamily Rhiniinae (tribe Cosminini). Prior to this finding, fifteen species of Is...

Thirty-one morphotypes of insect galls and two flower damages were found on 16 families, 22 genera and 24 plant species in Restinga de Marambaia (Barra de Guaratiba, Rio de Janeiro, RJ). Fabaceae and Myrtaceae were the plant families with the greatest richness of insect galls (4 and 6 morphotypes, respectively), and the greatest number of galled plants (four and three species, respectively). Ga...

An updated checklist of the the genera and species of Anthomyiidae (Diptera) found in Finland is provided.