In this study, protein extraction was performed from the aquatic insect Helophorus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758) and syriacus (Kuwert, 1885) species belonging to genus (Coleoptera: Helophoridae). Then, these extracts were studied in vitro. These collected shallow parts of various streams, springs, creeks, ponds hot springs Bingöl city centre its districts between May June 2017. The amount determin...

searching efficiency is a key parameter of functional response which is in turn the major components in the selection of predators and parasitoids for biological control. searching efficiency of scymnus syriacus mulsant feeding on aphis craccivora koch was determined at five different experimental arenas (i.e. 195, 247, 304, 385 and 650 cm2) on broad bean (vicia fabae l.). to do this, functiona...

the cotton leaf roller moth, haritalodes derogata (fabricius, 1775) (lepidoptera: crambidae) was collected on two kinds of flowering shrubs, hibiscus syriacus l. and hibiscus mutabilis l., in rasht, guilan province, during august 2013. this species represents a generic new record for the fauna of iran. a brief description of the species is provided to facilitate the identification.

The monophyletic genus Hemisaprinus Kryzhanovskij in Kryzhanovskij & Reichardt, 1976 is revised herein. All three species Hemisaprinus subvirescens (Ménétries, 1832), H. lutshniki (Reichardt, 1941) and H. cyprius (Dahlgren, 1981) are found to be correctly assigned to the genus and their monophyly is supported by the synapomorphy of the presence of prosternal foveae. The three species are re-des...