The new micro-dolichopodid genus Hurleyella and two new species, H. cumberlandensis and H. brooksi are described from the Nearctic. Hurleyella resembles the subfamily Medeterinae in having the legs bare of major setae, a depressed posterior mesonotum, and concave dorsal postcranium, but the complex male genitalia is unlike the relatively simple structure of traditional Medeterinae (e.g., Medete...

Parasitic nematodes from the Berlin (ZMB) and Vienna (NMW) Museum collections referred to the genus Filaria Mueller, 1787 by von Linstow or Molin were studied. Three samples were in good condition and the specimens redescribed. Litomosa hepatica (von Linstow, 1897) n. comb., sample ZMB Vermes Entozoa 3368, from the megachiropteran Pteropus neohibernicus, Bismarck Archipelago, resembles L. maki ...

In 1891 Camillo Schaufuss described two new species of Cyrtoscydmini from the Philippines and placed them in a genus Cyrtoscydmus Motschulsky, 1870: C. fundaebraccatus and C. manillae. Later authors (e.g., Csiki 1919; Newton & Franz 1998) treated Cyrtoscydmus as a subgenus of Stenichnus Thomson, 1859 and currently these names are synonyms (Meybohm 2004). Csiki (1919) lists the species of Schauf...

Photoreceptors are critical molecules that function at the interface between organism and environment. Plants use specific light signals to determine their place in time and space, allowing them to synchronize their growth, metabolism, and development to the environments in which they occur. Thus, innovation in light sensing mechanisms is expected to coincide with adaptation and diversification...

Problematic fossils Coleolus carbonarius Demanet, 1938 were described from seven localities of the Mospyne Formation (late Bashkirian, Carboniferous) central Donets Basin. Many authors attributed these conoidal to various groups animals, including worms, conulariids, pteropods, hyoliths, tentaculitids, gastropods, scaphopods, and other molluscs without specifying class, as well phyllocarids. Re...

Partial life histories of 24 Hesperiinae incertae sedis that feed on Dicotyledons are described and illustrated. The genera dealt with are: Acada, Acleros, Andronymus, Fresna, Gorgyra, Melphinyet, Meza, Paronymus, Parosmodes, Platylesches, and Teniorhinus. The food plants of Gorgyra (mainly Connaraceae), Melphinyet (Euphorbiaceae) and Platylesches (Chrysobalanaceae) stand out as clearly distinc...