Heminicsara Karny, 1912 is a katydid genus of Agraeciini from the Axylus group. It currently comprises 62 species mainly New Guinea and surrounding archipelagos. Based on recent fieldwork in Lobo West Papua, Indonesia, new described here: incrassata sp. nov. most readily characterised congeners other group by male tenth abdominal tergite forming large shield-shaped plate. This represents first ...

INTRODUCTION Papua New Guinea is a Pacific Island nation of 7.3 million people with an estimated HIV prevalence of 0.8%. ART initiation and monitoring are guided by clinical staging and CD4 cell counts, when available. Little is known about levels of transmitted HIV drug resistance in recently infected individuals in Papua New Guinea. METHODS Surveillance of transmitted HIV drug resistance in...

Alfred Hartemink is a soil scientist at ISRIC in Wageningen. Prior to his current position he was lecturer in soil science at the University of Technology in Papua New Guinea. He holds an MSc in soil science from Wageningen Agricultural University, and has worked as a soil surveyor and soil fertility specialist in Tanzania, Zaire, Indonesia, and for ICRAF in Kenya. Dr Mike Bourke is an Adjunct ...

In this article we examine how partner choice and strategies of social reproduction among the Wampar of northeastern Papua New Guinea are implicated in currently pressing questions about the future of Wampar as a socio-cultural unit. We use long-term qualitative and quantitative data based on fieldwork and census surveys conducted between 1954 and 2013 from the village of Gabsongkeg to analyse ...