The new hypogean ground beetle, Duvalius abyssimus n. sp., from Krubera-Voronja, world's deepest cave (Arabika massif, Western Caucasus) is described and illustrated. Diagnostic morphological characters of the imago, male and female genitalia are provided. Its relations with other Duvalius Delarouzée species from the Western Caucasus geographic area are discussed. An updated overview of the bio...

Duvalius (sg. Neoduvalius) gejzadunayi sp. n. from Pećina u Dubokom potoku cave ( Donje Biševo village near Rožaje, Montenegro), the first known representative of this subgenus from the territory of Montenegro is described, illustrated and compared with the related species of the subgenus Neoduvalius Müller, 1913. This new species is characterised by depigmented, medium sized body, totally redu...

two new species of the genus duvalius delarouzã©e from south west iran and one new perileptus schaum from south east iran are described. duvalius koeni sp. n. was collected in khuzestan and duvalius mohammadzadehi sp. n. in fars. the species are compared with d. hetschkoi matilei deuve. perileptus jelineki sp. n. was collected in baluchestan and hormozgan, and compared with other perileptus spe...

BACKGROUND Gynaikothrips uzeli Zimmerman was first detected in North America from galls on weeping fig (Ficus benjamina L.) in 2003. It has been reported from ten states in the continental United States, Hawaii, Trinidad and Costa Rica. Adult thrips induce leaves to fold permanently along the midvein, making it a significant pest of weeping fig. Studies were initiated to determine monitoring me...

Cave beetles are endemic to one or few caves and live in a stable subterranean microclimate permanent darkness. However, not much is known about the food sources of cave share autotrophic their diet. Seven were sampled seasonally from five Romanian together with sampling sediments climatic measurements. Gut was extracted specimens, Illumina's 16S amplicon-based metagenomics sequencing protocol ...