Background: Hemiscorpius lepturus is one of the dangerous scorpions in the world and also in Iran. This kind of scorpion in southern provinces, especially in Khoozestan, has been responsible for stinging a lot of people that resulted in long-standing and dangerous side effects and sometimes mortality. As the study of the effects of this scorpion venom on some laboratory animals can determine th...

The presence and distribution of two species of Notanisus Walker (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) in North America is reported. Notanisus sexramosus (Erdős), originally described from Hungary and previously reported from Maryland, USA, is recorded also from Massachusetts and Pennsylvania based on a male and macropterous and brachypterous females. Males of Notanisus are shown to have two types of fla...

background : envenomation by hemiscorpius lepturus is not painful and the clinical manifestations include bloody urine due to hemoglobinuria or hematuria, dermonecrotic reactions,cardiac arrhythmia and in minority of cases acute renal failure which may lead to death following disseminated intravascular coagulation in infants. cardiac effects of envenomation by h. lepturus venom including inotro...

conclusions hemiscorpius lepturus venom in sheep can cause severe changes in some of the coagulation factors. this should be considered as part of the pathogenesis of scorpion sting and seriously in the treatment protocol of scorpion sting victims. results in the studied groups, the effect of time on pt and platelets counts was significant (p < 0.05); however, it did not have a significant effe...

background: the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of hemiscorpius lepturus venom on leukocytes and the leukocyte subgroups in peripheral blood of rat. methods: in this experimental study, sixty n-mari rats were divided into three groups of 20 rats. then the rats in each group were divided into four subgroups based on the blood sampling time that was 2, 6, 24 and 48 hours after the...

Pseudoparasitus (Gymnolaelaps) annectans (Womersley) and two new species are assigned to a new genus, Nidilaelaps. Nidilaelaps has a number of important differences from Pseudoparasitus and other genera that Nidilaelaps annectans has been previously assigned to, but shares characters with Australopapuan vertebrate-associated taxa, particularly the “Androlaelaps” ulysses species group and Laelap...

Two new species of pterygosomatid mites parasitizing lizards of the family Agamidae are described: Pterygosoma aqabensis sp. nov. from Pseudotrapelus aqabensis Melnikov et al. and Pterygosoma dhofarensis sp.nov. from Pseudotrapelus dhofarensis Melnikov and Pierson both from Arabian Peninsula. Pterygosoma aqabensis sp. nov. is most closely related to P. dhofarensis sp. nov. but differs by the pr...