A Babesia sp. was recently observed in Hyalomma marginatum rufipes and found to be transmissible to bovines. Further observations were carried out on this parasite and a study made of the morphology of stages in both erythrocytes and tick haemolymph. Apart from Babesia divergens, intra-erythrocytic parasites were not readily distinguishable from bovine Babesia spp. Merozoites in tick haemolymph...

Los insectos asociados a productos almacenados dañan una amplia variedad de alimentos en hogares y expendios, provocando baja calidad nutricional e incluso riesgo la salud los consumidores. El objetivo este estudio fue determinar las especies abundancia secos casas tiendas abarrotes ciudad Culiacán, Sinaloa. Se obtuvieron alimenticios, o abarrotes, con indicios daños por presencia mismos, cuale...

during a faunal survey on the family tachinidae in fars province, six tachinid parasitoids belonging to the subfamilies tachininae and phasiinae were collected and identified. they are reported for the first time from iran. the species are as follows: linnaemya neavei curran, microcerophina planifacies kugler, phasia mesnili (draber-monko), catharosia flavicornis (zetterstedt), leucostoma enged...

We analyzed the phylogenetic relationships of the Malagasy plated lizards in the family Gerrhosauridae based on DNA sequence fragments of four mitochondrial and five nuclear genes. Various clades were strongly supported by the concatenated data set and also recovered by separate analyses of mtDNA and nucDNA. In particular, two clades here named the Z. rufipes group (containing Z. bemaraha , Z. ...

We investigated whether or not different degrees of refuge for prey influence the characteristic of functional response exhibited by the spider Nesticodes rufipes on Musca domestica, comparing the inherent ability of N. rufipes to kill individual houseflies in such environments at two distinct time intervals. To investigate these questions, two artificial habitats were elaborated in the laborat...

Ixodid ticks were collected during the period September 1991 to August 1993 from cattle belonging to small-scale farmers utilising 4 communal grazing areas. Three of these were in North West Province and 1 in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. Ten tick species were collected in North West Province and 7 in Mpumalanga. The adults of Amblyomma hebraeum, Rhipicephalus appendiculatus and Rhipicepha...

Bartonella spp. infections are considered to be vector-borne zoonoses; ticks are suspected vectors of bartonellae. Migratory birds can disperse ticks infected with zoonotic pathogens such as Rickettsia and tick-borne encephalitis virus and possibly also Bartonella. Thus, in the present study 386 tick specimens collected in spring 2009 from migratory birds on the Mediterranean islands Capri and ...