Abstract The objective of this trial was to characterize the assemblage structure of fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) by determining the diversity and faunal indices. Fruit flies were collected for ten years between 2003 and 2015 in six municipalities of the Metropolitan Region of Curitiba, Paraná. T...
Distribución Animal,
Biodiversidad,
Brasil,
Citrus/crecimiento & desarrollo,
Producción de Cultivos/métodos,
Productos Agrícolas/crecimiento & desarrollo,
Bosques,
Agricultura Orgánica,
Rosaceae/crecimiento & desarrollo,
Tephritidae/clasificación,
Tephritidae/fisiología
Abstract Epipompilus aztecus (Cresson, 1869) was registered in South America in 2010. The aim of this paper is to report the first record of E. aztecus in the Brazilian Pantanal. Two female individuals of E. aztecus were collected in the northern portion of the Brazilian Pantanal in Mato Grosso State dur...
The fringed leaf frog, Cruziohyla craspedopus is rarely sampled in the Brazilian Amazon, probably due to low detection probability associated with its arboreal habit. The knowledge about the species’ distribution stems from successive additions of occasional occurrence records, which indicate that the ...
As they spend most of their time buried in the substrate and are not a fishery resource, heterenchelyids are seldom seen. These eels are characterized by their greatly reduced eyes, which are covered by semi-transparent skin, the absence of a pectoral fin or lateral line, and no pores on the head or body...
Camponotus (Formicinae) is the most specious and abundant genus of the family Formicidae. The genus is represented by ants that both forage and nest in the most diverse terrestrial and arboreal environments. Among the arboreal species of Camponotus are those of the subgenus Dendromyrmex. We recorded, for...
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether sites with large amount of potential breeding sites for immature forms of Aedes aegypti, called strategic points, influence in the active vector's dispersion into properties in their surroundings. METHODS: We selected four areas in the municipality of Campinas, t...
Aedes/crecimiento & desarrollo,
Aedes/virología,
Distribución Animal/fisiología,
Brasil,
Dengue/prevención & control,
Dengue/transmisión,
Monitoreo del Ambiente,
Control de Mosquitos/métodos,
Control de Mosquitos/estadística & datos numéricos,
Mosquitos Vectores/crecimiento & desarrollo,
Mosquitos Vectores/virología,
Oviposición/fisiología,
Pupa/crecimiento & desarrollo,
Factores de Riesgo,
Análisis Espacial,
Población Urbana
Abstract Analysis of abundance and population structure of Plesionika narval was performed on data concerning 5,255 specimens obtained from 62 fishing sets carried out off the Madeira archipelago (Northeastern Atlantic) between 2004 and 2008 in a depth range from 101 to 350 m. Abundance ranged from 0.01...
Abstract INTRODUCTION: Leishmaniasis is a complex vector-borne infectious diseases caused by protozoan parasites in the genus Leishmania and spread by hematophagous phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae). The aim of this study was to investigate the phlebotomine fauna, endophily a...
Análisis de Varianza,
Distribución Animal,
Brasil,
Conservación de los Recursos Naturales,
Ecosistema,
Insectos Vectores/fisiología,
Leishmaniasis Cutánea/transmisión,
Leishmaniasis Visceral/transmisión,
Densidad de Población,
Psychodidae/fisiología,
Estaciones del Año,
Distribución por Sexo,
Factores de Tiempo
Abstract INTRODUCTION The present study reports the presence of triatomines in natural, peridomestic, and intradomicile environments in Itacoatiara municipality, state of Amazonas, a non-endemic region for Chagas disease. METHODS Active search was performed inside tree trunks, and palm trees, residen...
Distribución Animal,
Brasil,
Enfermedad de Chagas/transmisión,
Bosques,
Vivienda,
Insectos Vectores/clasificación,
Insectos Vectores/parasitología,
Densidad de Población,
Triatominae/clasificación,
Triatominae/parasitología,
Trypanosoma cruzi/aislamiento & purificación
Abstract INTRODUCTION: Trypanosoma cruzi is the etiological agent of Chagas disease (CD), a zoonotic infection transmitted by triatomine bug vectors to human beings. Although the story of this parasitic infection was born in Brazil and here this has made major step forward information, the same cannot b...
