This study presents an updated list of centipedes of the orders Scutigeromorpha and Scolopendromorpha from Colombia based on data from the literature, the World Catalogue of Centipedes (CHILOBASE), and specimens examined in museum collections. Four families, nine genera, 37 species and four subspecies are listed. One species belongs to Scutigeromorpha, and 36 species and four subspecies to Scol...

Colombia: An Israeli family of four: 37 years old male, 31 years old female and two daughters aged 8 and 2 years, all previously healthy, had traveled to Colombia for seventeen days during December 2015. Their trip included, in addition to Bogota and Subachoque (elevation 2600 m), 5 days in Girardot: a low-lying city in central Colombia (elevation 326 m). After returning to Bogota, all four ha...

A list of species and a photographic catalog of moths of the family Sphingidae reported for Colombia is presented. Following examination of 1463 specimens deposited in major entomological collections of Colombia, and a review of the literature, 188 species are reported for the country, of which 19 species and Phryxus genus are reported for the first time for Colombia. The genus Xylophanes has t...

We analyzed the morphological variation of short tailless bats, Anoura, from Colombia in order to determine their phylogenetic affinities and to define their geographic structure. Our analysis confirmed the presence of A. caudifer aequatoris (Lönnberg 1921) as well as A. luismanueli (Molinari 1994) in Colombia and delimited their distributions in the country. Based on morphological and distribu...

New records of genera and species of spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) from Colombia are provided. Agenioideus, Cryptocheilus, Evagetes, Mystacagenia, and Xerochares are newly recorded genera from Colombia. Nineteen species are first recorded from Colombia: Aimatocarevitrea (Fox); Ageniellaazteca (Cameron); Ageniellacurtipinus (Cameron); Ageniellafallax (Arlé); Ageniellahirsuta Banks; Agen...

* Full Time Professor at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá (Colombia). E-mail: [email protected] ** Full Time Professor at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Colombia. E-mail: [email protected] *** Electronic Engineer, Full Time Professor at Universidad de Pamplona (Colombia). E-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT This paper...

a Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (INCyT), INECO Foundation, Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina b Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia c National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina d Departamento de Estudios Psicológicos, Universidad ICESI, Cali, Colombi...

Prion diseases are rare neurodegenerative disorders occurring worldwide and affecting both humans and animals. Herein, we present the case of a patient diagnosed with definite sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Cali, Colombia. Besides neurological examination, 14-3-3 and tau proteins were valuable tools supporting the diagnosis. We also present a brief perspective of the prion diseases repor...

Luis F. Pedraza 1,2,*, Cesar A. Hernandez 1,2, Ingrid P. Paez 2, Jorge E. Ortiz 2 and E. Rodriguez-Colina 3 1 Faculty of Technology, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogota 110231, Colombia; [email protected] 2 Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota 111321, Colombia; [email protected] (I.P.P.)...

A new species, Milnesium kogui sp. nov. is described from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. The new species belongs to the tardigradum group and is most similar, by the claw configuration [2-2]-[2-2], to Milnesium dujiangensis and Milnesium katarzynae. Milnesium kogui sp. nov. differs from M. dujiangensis mainly by the presence of primary branches on all legs and from M. katarzynae by...