BACKGROUND The checklist of British and Irish Ichneumonidae is revised, based in large part on the collections of the Natural History Museum, London and the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh. Distribution records are provided at the country level. NEW INFORMATION Of the 2,447 species regarded as valid and certainly identified, 214 are here recorded for the first time from the British Is...

Neoceratitis is revised to include six species. N. albiseta, from Madagascar, is described as new. Trirhithrum lycii var. minimum Bezzi, 1924 is a junior synonym of Ceratitis lycii Coquillett, 1901, new synonym. All known and suspected host associations are within the family Solanaceae, with one species (N. cyanescens) infesting tomatoes and several species of Solanum, whereas the other species...

Antoine Joseph Jean Solier, a French naturalist, described 53 species of Staphylinidae of the Chilean fauna, among them three species in a new genus Mecorhopalus (M. ater, M. bipustulatus and M. elongatus). Today these species are regarded as Aleochara atra, A. solieri and A. mutare , respectively. The objective of this study is to provide an updated description and nomenclatural status of thes...

Drug Package Leaflets provide information for patients on how to safely use medicines. European Commission and recent studies stress that further efforts must be made to improve the readability and understandability of package leaflets in order to ensure the proper use of medicines and to increase patient safety. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that directly deals with the ...

The 31 species of Microctonus Wesmael that occur in North America are taxonomically treated. Six are described as new: M. cappilicrus, M. gouleti, M. passi, M. portalensis, M. rotundatus, and M. sharkeyi. Microctonus zimmermanni Loan is considered a junior synonym of M. brevipetiolatus (Thomson) and M. barri Loan is considered a junior synonym of M. muesebecki Loan. The European Perilitus altic...