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Key to the females of Afrotropical Anopheles mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae)

Malaria Journal, 2020
In 1987, Gillies and Coetzee published a pictorial key for the morphological identification of adult female mosquitoes. Since then, several new species of anopheline mosquitoes have been described.
M. Coetzee
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Spatial distribution and interactions between mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) and climatic factors in the Amazon, with emphasis on the tribe Mansoniini

Scientific Reports, 2022
This work aimed to evaluate the spatial distribution of mosquitoes in different seasonal periods and the interaction between climatic factors and the abundance of mosquitoes, especially those belonging to the tribe Mansoniini in the area surrounding the ...
Cecilia Ferreira de Mello, Ronaldo Figueiró, Rosemary Aparecida Roque, Daniele Aguiar Maia, Vânia da Costa Ferreira, Anthony Érico Guimarães, Jeronimo Alencar   +6 more
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Report of Mosquito Vectors of Arboviruses from a Federal Conservation Unit in the Atlantic Forest, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Life, 2022
Arbovirus infections, such as dengue, zika, chikungunya, and yellow fever, are a major public health problem worldwide. As the main vectors, mosquitoes have been classified by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention as one of the deadliest animals ...
Shayenne Olsson Freitas Silva, Cecilia Ferreira de Mello, Juan Augusto Rodrigues dos Campos, Paulo José Leite, Rebeca Sabino, Jeronimo Alencar   +5 more
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A new genus and a new species of wasp-mimicking Harpactorini (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Reduviidae, Harpactorinae), with an updated key to the Neotropical genera [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2023
Quasigraptocleptes maracristinae gen. nov., sp. nov. (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Reduviidae, Harpactorinae, Harpactorini) is described based on male and female specimens from Brazil.
Hélcio R. Gil-Santana, Jader Oliveira
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Sexual Proportion and Egg Hatching of Vector Mosquitos in an Atlantic Forest Fragment in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Life, 2022
Some Aedinii mosquitoes are of high importance in the transmission of the sylvatic YFV. Usually, their eggs are very resistant and depend on the rain for their hatching.
Shayenne Olsson Freitas Silva, Cecilia Ferreira de Mello, Genimar Rebouças Julião, Rayane Dias, Jeronimo Alencar   +4 more
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Ecological Aspects of the Phlebotominae Fauna (Diptera: Psychodidae) among Forest Fragments and Built Areas in an Endemic Area of American Visceral Leishmaniasis in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil

Insects, 2022
Sand flies are dipterans of medical importance, as some species are vectors of American visceral leishmaniasis (AVL). The municipality of João Pessoa (Paraíba, northeastern Brazil), is an endemic region for AVL, having high rates of human and canine ...
Bruna Queiroz da Silva, Margarete Martins dos Santos Afonso, Lucas José Macêdo Freire, Antônio Luís Ferreira de Santana, Alessandre Pereira-Colavite, Elizabeth Ferreira Rangel   +5 more
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Diversity of flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) in an Atlantic forest fragment in Rio das Ostras, RJ, Southeastern Brazil

EntomoBrasilis, 2021
Sarcophagidae is a family of Diptera with medical-veterinary importance, which have species with sarcosaprophagous, necrophagous or causing-myiasis larvae, among others.
Marina Morim Gomes, Cátia Antunes de Mello-Patiu   +1 more
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Interaction of Haemagogus leucocelaenus (Diptera: Culicidae) and Other Mosquito Vectors in a Forested Area, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022
The yellow fever (YF) virus has been detected throughout Brazil, with the occurrence of human cases, cyclic epizootics, and its isolation from Haemagogus janthinomys and Hg. leucocelaenus.
Shayenne Olsson Freitas Silva, Cecilia Ferreira de Mello, Sergio Lisboa Machado, Paulo José Leite, Jeronimo Alencar   +4 more
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Natural Infection and Vertical Transmission of Zika Virus in Sylvatic Mosquitoes Aedes albopictus and Haemagogus leucocelaenus from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2021
Zika virus (ZIKV) was recently introduced into the Western Hemisphere, where it is suspected to be transmitted mainly by Aedes aegypti in urban environments.
Jeronimo Alencar, Cecilia Ferreira de Mello, Carlos Brisola Marcondes, Anthony Érico Guimarães, Helena Keiko Toma, Amanda Queiroz Bastos, Shayenne Olsson Freitas Silva, Sergio Lisboa Machado   +7 more
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DIPTERA. [PDF]

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1900
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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