Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:39:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2022-02-01; The family Tarsonemidae (Acari: Prostigmata) exhibits a high diversity of feeding habits and morphological structures, which allow them to be successful in many habitats. In Costa Rica, the Mesoamerican forest is a biome that includes all tropical and subtropical natural plant formations with high biodi...
Made available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T12:17:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-01-01; Smithsonian Natural History Museum; National Agricultural Library (NAL-USDA), SEL-USDA; Brevipalpus yothersi Baker (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) is reported for the first time on cocoa, Theobroma cacao L. (Malvaceae) in northwestern Peru. Mites were collected from organic cocoa smallholdings from September to ...
Made available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T10:50:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-01-01; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Chiggers of the genus Parasecia Loomis parasitize birds, mammals, and reptiles in the Nearctic and Neotropical regions. In the present review, we examined 18 species previ...
Made available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T10:25:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-03-01; Seeds from the cocoa tree, Theobroma cacao L. (Malvaceae), make up the raw materials for cocoa which is used to produce chocolate. In Peru, cocoa is produced mainly by smallholder farmers under a small-scale agriculture model. During March and September 2020, surveys of organic smallholding farms were c...
Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-12T02:14:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-07-04; The genus Otodectes Canestrini 1894, comprises an unique species, Otodectes cynotis (Hering, 1838), that is responsible for the 'ear mange' in terrestrial carnivores worldwide. Here we report its occurrence in four Brazilian host species from the southeastern region, based on records from Carnivora in t...
Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-12T02:16:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-06-01; The Tarsonemidae (Acari: Prostigmata) exhibit a high diversity of feeding habits and morphological structures, which allow them to live in a diversity of habitats. Tarsonemus is the largest genus, with more than 280 described species belonging to three subgenera: Tarsonemus sensu stricto, Chaetotarsonem...
Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-12T02:20:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-01-01; Several mite families are specialized to parasitize only mammals causing severe dermatitis on their skins. Furthermore, few studies highlight co-parasitism between these families and their impact on their hosts. We are reporting a case of co-parasitism between two acariform families, Sarcoptidae and Che...
Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-12T01:54:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-02-17; Chigger mites are ectoparasites of terrestrial vertebrates and can cause severe dermatitis in their hosts, known as trombiculiasis. There are 69 recognized species of chiggers in Brazil that parasitize most vertebrate taxa except domestic dogs. In this study, we report the first known record of trombicu...
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