A checklist of the 39 species of blow flies (Calliphoridae and Mesembrinellidae) so far known to occur in Venezuela is provided, based on a thorough literature review and the examination of ca. 500 specimens deposited in the main entomological collections of the country. Data from the literature and museum collections were used to generate distribution maps for 37 species. Three species are rec...

We compute the SUSY-breaking soft terms in a magnetized D7-brane model with MSSM-like spectrum, under the general assumption of non-vanishing auxiliary fields of the dilaton and Kähler moduli. As a particular scenario we discuss SUSY breaking triggered by ISD or IASD 3-form fluxes. On leave from Departamento de F́ısica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, A.P. 20513, Caracas ...

We study type IIB orientifolds on T/ZN with supersymmetry broken by the compactification. We determine tadpole cancellation conditions including antibranes and considering different actions for the parity Ω. Using these conditions we then obtain the spectrum of tachyons and massless states. Various examples with N even correspond to type 0B orientifolds. On leave from Departamento de F́ısica, Fa...

Eight new species of Hydroptilidae (Trichoptera) from Venezuela are described: Acostatrichia digitatasp. n., Hydroptila cressaesp. n., Metrichia botrychionsp. n., Ochrotrichia spirasp. n., Oxyethira bettyaesp. n., Oxyethira quiramaesp. n., Oxyethira reduncasp. n., and Rhyacopsyche shortisp. n.New country records for Venezuela of 2 additional species, Neotrichia feolai Santos & Nessimian, 2009 a...

The new genus Paraedessa is proposed, to include four species previously placed in Edessa. The new genus is characterized by males with the pygophore showing a lateral expansion of proctiger, and females with gonocoxites 8 reduced; gonapophyses 8 exposed and sclerotized. The species are very similar and their identification is possible only by comparing genitalia. New combinations proposed are ...

Leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) is highly impacted by fisheries’ bycatch worldwide. This study updates and estimates the leatherback stranding records from 2001 to 2014 in Gulf of Venezuela. Eighty-six stranded turtles were documented coast Immature most affected (85.1%) highest number strandings recorded during dry season (55.8%). Our findings represent minimum estimate events for Ve...

Balance de enerǵıa de un modelo 2-D para transporte de petróleo lubricado en una tubeŕıa V. Girault ([email protected]) Université Pierre et Marie Curie Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, 75252 Paris cedex 05, France H. López ([email protected]) Universidad Central de Venezuela, Apartado 47002 Centro de Cálculo Cientifico y Tecnológico, Facultad de Ciencias, Caracas, Venezuela B. ...

1 Institute of Continuing Medical Education of Ioannina, 45333 Ioannina, Greece 2Working Group on Zoonoses, International Society of Chemotherapy, UK 3Tropical and Parasitological Diseases Unit, Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, 98122, Messina, Italy 4Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Luis Razetti Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Central de Venezu...

Ditriaena (Ditriaena) romeroi sp. nov., from the state of Falcón in northwestern Venezuela, is described, illustrated and compared with related species. Additional distributional and biological data of other Buprestidae species, collected at the type locality, are given. Resumen Se describe Ditriaena (Ditriaena) romeroi sp. nov. del estado Falcón en el noroeste de Venezuela. La especie se ilust...

1 Université catholique de Louvain, Earth and Life Institute, Applied Microbiology-Phytopathology, Croix du Sud 2 Bte L07.05.03, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; 2 Laboratorio de Entomología, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Agraria del Ecuador; 3 La Universidad del Zulia, Facultad de Agronomía, Unidad Técnica Fitosanitaria, Maracaibo 4005, Venezuela; 4 Departamento de Biología Celular...