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Review of the Neotropical Species of the Elachista praelineata Species Group (Lepidoptera, Elachistidae, Elachistinae) with Identification Keys and Description of a New Species from Bolivia [PDF]

Insects, 2023
Neotropical species of the Elachista praelineata species group are reviewed. Five species are recognized in the Neotropics. A new species, Elachista stonisi sp. nov., and female of E.
Virginijus Sruoga, Jekaterina Havelka
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Revision of the Neotropical species of the hoverfly genus Serichlamys Curran, 1925 (Diptera, Syrphidae, Microdontinae) [PDF]

ZooKeys
The Neotropical species of the hoverfly genus Serichlamys Curran, 1925 are revised. A total number of 14 Neotropical species are recognized, two of which were previously described, namely S. mitis (Curran, 1940) and S. mus (Curran, 1936).
Menno Reemer, Ximo Mengual
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Population genetic structure and species delimitation of a widespread, Neotropical dwarf gecko [PDF]

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2019
Amazonia harbors the greatest biological diversity on Earth. One trend that spans Amazonian taxa is that most taxonomic groups either exhibit broad geographic ranges or small restricted ranges.
Brendan J Pinto, Guarino R Colli, Timothy E Higham   +2 more
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State of the ant: how broad is our recent knowledge of Neotropical ant behavior? [PDF]

Frontiers in Insect Science
Over the years, most scholarly published papers have studied vertebrates, despite invertebrates’ higher species diversity and number of individuals. This has led to an inaccurate representation of global biodiversity patterns in scientific publications ...
Rosannette Quesada-Hidalgo, Rosannette Quesada-Hidalgo, Yorlenis González, Dumas Gálvez, Dumas Gálvez, Dumas Gálvez, Peter R. Marting, Armando Castillo-Pimentel, Armando Castillo-Pimentel, Armando Castillo-Pimentel, Jane Aguilar, Stephen Cox, Carrie Smith, Sabrina Amador-Vargas, Sabrina Amador-Vargas   +14 more
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Behavioral repertoire of the Brazilian spiny-rats, Trinomys setosus and Clyomys laticeps: different levels of sociality

Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2021
Behavior is a useful trait for comparative studies that provide the comprehension of phylogenetic relationships among species. Here, we present a description of two spiny-rats species’ behavioral repertoire, Clyomys laticeps and Trinomys setosus ...
L. M. R. Cantano, L. C. Luchesi, J. T. Takata, P. F. Monticelli   +3 more
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Molecular phylogeny of Culex subgenus Melanoconion (Diptera: Culicidae) based on nuclear and mitochondrial protein-coding genes [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2018
The subgenus Melanoconion of the mosquito genus Culex is taxonomically diverse and is widely distributed in the Neotropical Region, with 10 species occurring in the Nearctic Region.
Carolina Torres-Gutierrez, Tatiane M. P. de Oliveira, Kevin J. Emerson, Eduardo Sterlino Bergo, Maria Anice Mureb Sallum   +4 more
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A new remarkable Vanilla Mill. (Orchidaceae) species endemic to the Espinhaço Range, Brazil: its phylogenetic position and evolutionary relationships among Neotropical congeners [PDF]

PhytoKeys, 2023
During surveys conducted on Neotropical Vanilla, a new endemic species was found in the Brazilian campos rupestres of the Espinhaço Range. Here, this new remarkable Vanilla species, namely V. rupicola Pansarin & E.L.F.
Emerson Ricardo Pansarin, Euler da Luz Fernandes Menezes   +1 more
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New species of Serpinema (Nematoda: Camallanidae) from the scorpion mud turtle Kinosternon scorpioides (Testudines: Kinosternidae) from eastern Amazon, Brazil

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2023
The genus Serpinema Yeh, 1960 allocates parasitic nematodes of freshwater turtles distributed across the Oriental, Neotropical, and Palearctic regions. Five of 10 valid species of the genus Serpinema occur in the Neotropical region, and three have been ...
Leandro Mauricio Oliveira Silva, Ronald Ferreira Jesus, Ana Nunes Santos, Bianca Nandyara, Yuri Willkens, Jeannie Nascimento Santos, Francisco Tiago Vasconcelos Melo   +6 more
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Woodlice and their parasitoid flies: revision of Isopoda (Crustacea, Oniscidea) – Rhinophoridae (Insecta, Diptera) interaction and first record of a parasitized Neotropical woodlouse species [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2018
Terrestrial isopods are soil macroarthropods that have few known parasites and parasitoids. All known parasitoids are from the family Rhinophoridae (Insecta: Diptera).
Camila T. Wood, Silvio S. Nihei, Paula B. Araujo   +2 more
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Revision of rove beetle genus Bolitogyrus Chevrolat (Staphylininae, Cyrtoquediini). Supplement 1 [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2022
Bolitogyrus is a moderately diverse genus of 78 species that are widely disjunct in the subtropical and tropical forests of the Neotropical and Oriental regions. Following recent revisions of both the Neotropical and Oriental species, this study provides
Adam J. Brunke
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