Slobodan E Makarov,Ljubodrag Vujisić,Günther Raspotnig et al. Slobodan E Makarov et al.

Millipedes have developed specialized chemical defenses against predators and parasites. Here we investigated the strong repellent odour emitted by two julids from the Caucasus, Syrioiulus continentalis (Attems, 1903) and Pachyiulus krivolu...

Gabriel DE Los Santos,Solanlly Carrero-Jiménez Gabriel DE Los Santos

Joining the celebration of Luis F. de Armas 80th birthday, we present a concise overview of his contributions to the knowledge of Hispaniolan arachnids. To do this, we reviewed different checklists and catalogs, and his extensive literature...

Ricardo Botero-Trujillo,Lorenzo Prendini Ricardo Botero-Trujillo

Ricinulei Thorell, 1876, or hooded tick-spiders, are among the least known arachnid orders. Represented by 88 species in the New World and 33 species in South America, only two ricinuleid species have been recorded from Venezuela, one of th...

Yijia Xu,Yuni Wang,Mingyu Li et al. Yijia Xu et al.

Blood-sucking arthropods belonging to the order Diptera, encompassing mosquitoes, sandflies, midges, blackflies, horseflies and tsetseflies serve as vectors for a myriad of pathogens, inflicting substantial harm on both human and animal hea...

Michelle van As,Edward C Netherlands,Johann van As et al. Michelle van As et al.

Intracellular apicomplexan haemoparasites from the genus Hepatozoon Miller 1908 have been described from a wide range of vertebrate hosts, including wild carnivores in Africa. Reports from the African leopard, Panthera pardus pardus (Linnae...

Mauricio Hernández,Mauricio Michel,Joel García et al. Mauricio Hernández et al.

Bark beetles are among the primary drivers of tree mortality in coniferous forests worldwide. Individuals belonging to the order Coleoptera were identified across different forest areas in Honduras. Descriptive statistics were used to calcu...

Vladimir A Lukhtanov Vladimir A Lukhtanov

Despite recent advances in telomere research, the telomere DNA organization remains unknown for representatives of several insect orders. In this study, analysis of the chromosome-level genome assembly shows that the telomeric DNA of the ea...

Mattia Giacomelli,Matteo Vecchi,Roberto Guidetti et al. Mattia Giacomelli et al.

Tardigrada, the water bears, are microscopic animals with walking appendages, that are members of Ecdysozoa, the clade of moulting animals that also includes Nematoda (round worms), Nematomorpha (horsehair worms), Priapulida (penis worms), ...

Nina Alexeeva,Daria Martynova Nina Alexeeva

The family Callipallenidae Hilton, 1942 belongs to the superfamily Nymphonoidea Pocock, 1904 together with other family, Nymphonidae. The lecithotrophic postlarvae hatch from the eggs of the callipallenid sea spiders, but the data on this l...

Romain Sabroux,Russell J Garwood,Davide Pisani et al. Romain Sabroux et al.

Background: The sea spiders (Pycnogonida Latreille, 1810) of the Hunsrück Slate (Lower Devonian, ~400 million years ago) are iconic in their abundance, exquisite pyritic preservation, and in their distinctive body plan c...