a survey was performed to investigate the fauna of ichneumonidae in fars province during 2012 to 2013. totally, 14 species belonging to 13 genera and six subfamilies were collected and identified including: exetastes adpressorius (thunberg, 1822) (banchinae); diadegma semiclausum (hellén, 1949) (campopleginae); cryptus inculcator (linnaeus, 1758); dichrogaster saharator (aubert, 1964) (cryptina...

A new opheliid polychaete, Euzonus japonicus sp. nov., is described. This species was collected from subtidal zones in Japanese coasts, while most Euzonus species inhabit intertidal sandy beaches. E. japonicus sp. nov. is morphologically most similar to another subtidal species, E. flabelliferus (Ziegelmeier, 1955) collected from northern Europe, but different from that in the form of branchiae...

Three new parakalummid mites of the subgenus Neoribates (Neoribates), N. (N.) parabulanovae sp. n., N. (N.) paramacrosacculatus sp. n. and N. (N.) pararotundus sp. n., are described from Nepalese soils. Neoribates (Neoribates) parabulanovae sp. n. is morphologically most similar to N. (N.) bulanovae Grishina, 2009, N. (N.) rotundus Aoki, 1982 and N. (N.) setiger Balogh & Mahunka, 1978, however,...

Nereis garwoodi n. sp. is described on the basis of eight syntype specimens (six atokous and two heteronereis) collected in Bahía Chetumal, Mexican Caribbean coast, and the variability in the paragnath numbers in the pharynx is established using 180 specimens; paragnath numbers are I:10(SD = 1.9); II:30 (SD = 2.6); III:41 (SD = 5.2); IV:29 (SD = 3.5), V:1, VI:4, VII-VIII: > 30. Its eyes are big...

Capitella capitata (Fabricius, 1780), the type species of the genus, was originally described from the SW coast of Greenland; however, current definitions of the species are largely based on Eisig (1887), who described specimens from Naples on the Mediterranean coast. Eisig’s excellent account of the morphology of a sexually dimorphic species has subsequently been applied to specimens collected...

A new polychaete species of the longosomatid genus Heterospio is described from the coastal shelf off Angola in the Southeast Atlantic. This species was found from two sampling points at depths of 105 and 146 m, and differs from other members of the family in having eight short thoracic setigers, in the lack of neuropodial acicular hooks in the first setiger, and in having only three pairs of b...

Correspondence BRM= Most of Dr. Birdwood's missionary zeal is harmless, and some of it is a useful reminder of our age-old obligations to the sick. But I must protest at his attack on health centres and at what is suspiciously like a sneer at the Royal College of General Practitioners' "ideal"; his experience of both must be lamentably small and/or distorted. Health centres-of all shapes and si...

This work records the presence of 13 species tubuliferan thrips from Maltese Islands. Eleven these species, namely Bolothrips dentipes , B. insularis Priesneriella mavromoustakisi Gynaikothrips uzeli Haplothrips acanthoscelis H. aculeatus setiger tritici Karnyothrips flavipes Liothrips reuteri and Neoheegeria dalmatica are new for Two species: ficorum can be described as subcosmopolitan in dist...