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Pests for Dinner: Dietary Composition of Insectivorous Bats in a Fragmented Tropical Dry Forest

Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Insectivorous bats are key predators of a wide array of arthropods, including species that act as disease vectors and pests, yet such ecological roles remain poorly studied in tropical regions. In this study, we aimed to describe the diet of five insectivorous bat species from the genera Balantiopteryx, Myotis, Mormoops, and Pteronotus inhabiting a ...
Mónica Izquierdo‐Suzán, Cárol Sierra‐Durán, Santiago Perea, Colton D. Meinecke, Rodrigo A. Medellín   +4 more
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Increasing the diversity of Sycorax Haliday, 1839 (Diptera: Psychodidae) in the Neotropical region: New species from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Austral Entomology, Volume 65, Issue 1, February 2026.
Abstract Four new species of Sycorax Haliday, 1839 are described: Sycorax alumna sp. nov., Sycorax catarina sp. nov., Sycorax paranaensis sp. nov., and Sycorax striga sp. nov., with the females of Sycorax striga sp. nov. bearing characteristics that suggest haematophagous behaviour.
Lucas Rossito, Luiz Carlos Pinho, Andrey José de Andrade   +2 more
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The Psychodidae of Washington

, 1897
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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Serosurveillance of Leishmania infantum in Zoo‐Kept Animals in Spain

Zoonoses and Public Health, Volume 73, Issue 1, Page 65-73, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction Leishmaniosis is a sand fly‐borne zoonosis mainly caused by Leishmania infantum in Europe. Exposure to this protozoan has been widely reported in many domestic and wild species. However, epidemiological surveys evaluating the circulation of L. infantum in zoo‐kept animals remain limited. This large‐scale study aims to evaluate the
Jesús Barbero‐Moyano, Diana Marteles, David Cano‐Terriza, Sergio Villanueva‐Saz, Moisés Gonzálvez, Pablo Quilez, Adrián Beato‐Benítez, Javier Martínez, Alfredo Gargallo‐Martín, Pilar Soriano, María A. Risalde, Ignacio García‐Bocanegra   +11 more
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XXXIII-Indian Psychodidae

Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 1908
No Abstract.
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An oviposition trap to collect immatures of coprophagous moth flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) [PDF]

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Larvae of Psychodidae develop in a variety of breeding sites, including vertebrate feces. As searching for the larvae can be an extremely difficult task, immatures of many species are little known, with descriptions of coprophagous moth flies all from ...
DAYANA A. LIMA, DANILO P. CORDEIRO, ELIZABETH FRANKLIN   +2 more
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Taxonomic studies of the subgenus Helcocyrtomyia: II. series Vexator (Diptera, Psychodidae, Phlebotominae)

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1993
Continuing to review the subgenus Helcocyrtomyia (Diptera, Psychodidae, Phlebotomiane) some specimens of sandflies from the vexator series were examined. Taxonomic remarks, geographic distribution and drawings of those species are presented.
Edelberto Santos Dias, João Evangelista da Silva, Alda Lima Falcão   +2 more
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Description of Lutzomyia (Pifanomyia) robusta n. sp. (Diptera, Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) from Peruvian Equadorean interandean areas

Revista de Saúde Pública
Description of Lutzomyia robusta, n. sp. (Diptera, Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) from interandean areas of Peru and Equador. Lutzomyia robusta, n. sp., probable vector of human bartonellosis and cutaneous leishmaniasis, is described and illustrated.
Eunice A. Bianchi Galati, Abraham G. Cáceres, Francois Le Pont   +2 more
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Interação flebotomíneos, animais domésticos e dominância de Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) intermedia (Lutz & Neiva, 1912) em área com alto grau de antropia, no Sul do Brasil Sandflies and domestic animals interaction and Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) intermedia (Lutz & Neiva, 1912) predominance in an area with a high level of anthropy, in Southern Brazil

Revista de Saúde Pública, 1997
Relatam-se os resultados de coletas de flebotomíneos em área com elevado grau de antropia, no Município de São Jorge do Ivaí, Estado do Paraná, Brasil. A espécie predominante foi Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) intermedia (Lutz & Neiva, 1912).
Ueslei Teodoro, João B. Kühl
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Physiological age in Lutzomyia youngi (Diptera: Psychodidae) populations from an endemic area for cutaneous leishmaniasis, Venezuela

Revista de Saúde Pública
Batches of sylvatic females of Lutzomyia youngi (Phlebotominae) captured in a Shannon trap on twelve occasions over one year in a locality where subcutaneous leishmaniasis is endemic, near the city of Trujillo, Venezuela, were used to study: 1) the ...
José V. Scorza, Milagros Oviedo
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