The taxonomyof thegenusColoburaBillberg, 1820, oneof themost commonmembers of the Neotropical lowland forest butterßy fauna, is critically reviewed in light of available information on the morphology of both the immature stages and adults. Although regarded by almost all authors to date as monotypic, Colobura contains two species, one of which is described here as Colobura annulata sp. n. The i...

A comprehensive survey of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) was conducted in Swat Pakistan, from April to September during 2000. The survey involved the sampling of both, adult and immature stages of mosquitoes, and recovered a total of 21 species in five genera. Sampling of adult mosquitoes involved Pyrethrum spray collections, Man-biting collections, and Animal-biting collection. Immature stage...

Keyword Index: Aedes albopictus, tire trap description, surveillance tool, Dominican Republic. With the introduction of Aedes albopictus (Skuse) into the Americas from southeast Asia and Japan (Hawley 1988), many surveillance tools originally used for Aedes aegypti Linn. programs were adopted to monitor the new invading species. In the continental U.S.A., conventional ovitraps (Fay and Eliason ...

In this study, we examined the cellular origin and the expression levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) during normal maturation of mouse testis. The levels of IL-6 (protein and mRNA) were higher in testicular homogenates of sexually immature than mature mice. Immunohistochemical staining of testicular tissues of sexually immature and adult mice show that testicular germ cells, at different stages of ...

Maize is one of the most important cereal crops worldwide and one of the primary targets of genetic manipulation, which provides an excellent way to promote its production. However, the obvious difference of the dedifferentiation frequency of immature maize embryo among various genotypes indicates that its genetic transformation is dependence on genotype and immature embryo-derived undifferenti...

the objective was to study the population development of tuta absoluta (meyrick, 1917) on tomato in greenhouse conditions at droh. the trial assessed the occurrence of t. absoluta adults from the month of october to may in traps; a low numbers is noted. the high numbers recorded (170 adults/greenhouse) are caught at the end of crop cycle. the mean number of capture is 22 adults/ week/ trap. reg...

The essential oil extracted from Citrus × natsudaidai (Yu. Tanaka) Hayata peels is known to have various biological properties. However, the chemical composition of influenced by ripening stages fruits, which then affects related activities. This study investigates antioxidant activities oils at different (immature, mature, and overripe). were using hydro-distillation method. As a result gas ch...

Two new species of Monopelopia Fittkau, 1962 are described and illustrated from the Oriental region based on adult males immature stages. (Monopelopia) recta sp. n. obscurata India a DNA barcode M. is compared with congeneric sequences in NCBI GenBank. Additionally, key to genus reported Palearctic regions given.