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Diptera of Canada [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2019
The Canadian Diptera fauna is updated. Numbers of species currently known from Canada, total Barcode Index Numbers (BINs), and estimated numbers of undescribed or unrecorded species are provided for each family. An overview of recent changes in the systematics and Canadian faunistics of major groups is provided as well as some general information on ...
Savage,Jade, Borkent,Art, Brodo,Fenja, Cumming,Jeffrey, Curler,Gregory R, Currie,Douglas, deWaard,Jeremy, Gibson,Joel, Hauser,Martin, Laplante,Louis, Lonsdale,Owen, Marshall,Stephen, O'Hara,James, Sinclair,Bradley, Skevington,Jeffrey   +14 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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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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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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External female genitalia of Triatoma jatai, Triatoma costalimai and Triatoma williami (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae)

Parasites & Vectors, 2020
Background Taxonomic identification of triatomines is generally performed based on aspects of their external morphology. However, the use of a multidisciplinary approach, considering morphological aspects of the external genitalia, morphometry, genetics,
Simone Caldas Teves, Teresa Cristina Monte Gonçalves, Simone Patrícia Carneiro de Freitas, Catarina Macedo Lopes, Ana Laura Carbajal-de-la-Fuente, Jacenir Reis dos Santos-Mallet   +5 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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A new species of Phasmatocoris Breddin, 1904 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) from Ecuador, with taxonomic notes and an updated key of the genus

Revista Chilena de Entomología, 2021
Phasmatocoris ecuadorensis sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) is described from Ecuador based on a male specimen. Phasmatocoris Breddin, 1904 is recorded from Ecuador for the first time.
Hélcio R. Gil-Santana
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A new record of the hoverfly genus Dasysyrphus Enderlein, 1938 (Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae) from India

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2020
One species of genus Dasysyrphus, Enderlein 1938, namely Dasysyrphus albostriatus (Fallen, 1817) is recorded for the first time from India.
Jayita Sengupta, Atanu Naskar, Aniruddha Maity, Panchanan Parui, Sumit Homchaudhuri, Dhriti Banerjee   +5 more
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