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Unlocking Industry Views for Effective Redlegged Earth Mite Resistance Management

  • Elizabeth C. Lowe,
  • Luis Mata,
  • Michael Santhanam-Martin,
  • Leo McGrane,
  • Jessica C. Lye and
  • Paul A. Umina

Insecticide resistance is a growing threat to global food security, with several major pests in Australian broad-acre systems already showing high resistance levels. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) can reduce insecticide reliance and slow resistance...

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The Global Fossil Record of Chilopoda

  • Suzzet Cadenas-Amaya,
  • Francisco Riquelme,
  • Miguel Hernández-Patricio and
  • Fabio Cupul-Magaña

We present a revised catalog of the Chilopoda fossil record based on descriptions and reports published from 1854 to the present. Our compilation reveals 74 fossil occurrences encompassing five orders, 13 families, 26 genera, and 35 species. The foss...

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Bristly millipedes (Polyxenida) in Deep-Time Highlight Their Conserved Life Habits for 100 Million Years

  • Jéhan Le Cadre,
  • Diying Huang,
  • Patrick Müller,
  • Carolin Haug and
  • Joachim T. Haug

12 December 2025

Pincushion millipedes or bristly millipedes (Polyxenida) are common and widespread around the world, yet we still lack a proper understanding of the life of these elusive animals. This limit is even more expressed when looking at their extinct counte...

  • Review
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45 Pages

Viruses and Ticks: An Integrative Review of Virological Findings in Ticks

  • Lucas Henrique da Silva e Silva,
  • Fábio Silva da Silva,
  • Daniel Damous Dias,
  • Sâmia Luzia Sena da Silva,
  • Lucia Aline Moura Reis,
  • Hanna Carolina Farias Reis,
  • Bruna Laís Sena do Nascimento and
  • Joaquim Pinto Nunes Neto

29 November 2025

Vector-borne diseases account for over 17% of reported infectious diseases worldwide and are associated with approximately 700,000 deaths annually. The main vectors include mosquitoes, moths, sand flies, black flies, and ticks. Ticks deserve special...

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20 November 2025

The American lobster (Homarus americanus) is a non-native species to Europe, but is imported as live seafood and has been identified in European waters. These introductions threaten native populations of the European lobster (Homarus gammarus) via di...

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Omics Description (Metabolome and Microbiome) from Centuroides suffusus and Centuroides vittatus (Arachnida: Scorpiones)

  • Mariana Lizbeth Jiménez-Martínez,
  • Patricio Adrián Zapata-Morin,
  • María de Lourdes Ramírez-Ahuja,
  • Manuel de Luna,
  • Ivan Meneses-Morales,
  • Gerardo de Jesús Trujillo-Rodríguez,
  • Estela Ruiz-Baca,
  • Laura Elia Martínez-Garza,
  • Cesaré Moises Ovando-Vazquez and
  • Iram P. Rodríguez-Sánchez
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Scorpions are characterized by their venomous adaptations, including specialized stingers, and their ecological diversity. Some families, such as Buthidae, have medically significant species and their venoms possess a diverse array of chemicals. In M...

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11 Pages

3 September 2025

A new troglobitic species of Dalodesmidae, Pleonaraius spelaeus n. sp., is described from Rolo Vergara Cave, Neuquén Province, Argentina. This species represents the fourth known troglobitic member of the family, the first troglobitic species...

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Locomotory Effect of Reversibly Restraining the Pectines of Scorpions

  • Douglas D. Gaffin,
  • Sofía E. Gálvez Falcón and
  • Mariëlle H. Hoefnagels

Scorpions possess unique, ornate mid-ventral sensory organs called pectines. The pectines are used to process chemo- and mechanosensory information acquired from the ground as the animal walks, and they are implicated in a variety of behaviors includ...

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Spiders and other arthropods can sometimes consume others of their kind, and this is most often associated with mating activity, whereby females cannibalize males during or after mating, or during mating attempts. Nonsexual cannibalism is less common...

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Seven new species of the genus Cherax from the western region of Western New Guinea, Indonesia, are described and illustrated. All new species—Cherax veritas n. sp. from the southeastern part of Misool Island of Raja Ampat Regency, Southwest Pa...

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8 Pages

Amblyomma auricularium (Acari: Ixodidae) in Nine-Banded Armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus: A New Record for the Neotropical Region of Mexico

  • Vicente Homero González-Álvarez,
  • Elena Prudente-Peláez,
  • Luis Ángel Díaz-Vargas,
  • Marco Antonio Ayala-Monter,
  • Gabriela Alvarado-Rodríguez and
  • Carmen Guzmán-Cornejo

The nine-banded armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus, is one of only two species of armadillo found in Mexico. Among the ectoparasites reported on this mammal are ticks of the genus Amblyomma. Between December 2022 and April 2024, 52 ticks of different de...

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19 Pages

A New Genus of Ectinosomatidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) Symbiont in the Digestive Tract of Eudistoma vannamei Millar, 1977 (Ascidia, Polycitoridae)

  • Paulo H. Corgosinho,
  • Terue C. Kihara,
  • Amilcar Farias,
  • Nikolaos Schizas,
  • Elizabeth Neves and
  • Rodrigo Johnsson

A new genus of Ectinosomatidae is recorded in association with an Ascidia from a permanent submerged coral community in Barra Beach, Salvador City, Bahia State (Brazil). The new taxon belongs to a smaller group of genera in the family Ectinosomatidae...

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The Impacts of Traffic Intensity on Taxonomic and Functional Diversity in Understory Spiders from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

  • Rebeca Esther Da Justa Ximenes,
  • Matheus Leonydas Borba Feitosa,
  • Nancy Lo-Man-Hung,
  • Hugo Rodrigo Barbosa-da-Silva,
  • André Otávio Silva-Junior,
  • Alysson Henrique Alcântara Lins,
  • Geraldo Jorge Barbosa de Moura and
  • André Felipe de Araújo Lira

Although it has its advantages for the development of urban areas, road construction is among the greatest threats to biodiversity, due to fragmentation, habitat loss, and changes in landscape structure. This study investigated the effects of differe...

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29 Pages

Taxonomy and Distribution of the Cave-Dwelling Scorpions Troglorhopalurus (Scorpiones, Buthidae), with the Description of a New Cave-Restricted Species

  • Leonardo Sousa Carvalho,
  • Maria Idalete Lopes Silva,
  • Priscila Emanuela de Souza and
  • Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira

The genus Troglorhopalurus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) is endemic to northeastern Brazil and comprises cave-dwelling species with limited distributions. Based on newly collected specimens, this study provides a description of a new cave-dwelling Troglorho...

  • Brief Report
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1 Citations
1,439 Views
11 Pages

Exploring New Territories: New Records and Occurrence Confirmation of Two Caridean Shrimps in Brazil

  • Lucas Rezende Penido Paschoal,
  • Caio Santos Nogueira and
  • Fernando José Zara

Here, we confirm the presence of two species of caridean shrimps for the first time in Brazil: Latreutes parvulus and Ambidexter cochensis. During active samplings conducted in December 2023, April 2024 and September 2024 on the rocky shore of Prainh...

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3 Citations
3,075 Views
16 Pages

The palaemonid shrimp genus Pseudopalaemon Sollaud, 1911, is endemic to South America, comprising seven freshwater and low salinity species. This study aimed to compile an overview of the genus, including an illustrated identification key for species...

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Mastigoproctus Pocock, 1894, is the most speciose genus in the thelyphonid subfamily Mastigoproctinae Speijer, 1933, with eighteen described species distributed from the Southern United States to Colombia and Venezuela. Ten of these species occur in...

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Rock shrimps (Sicyonia dorsalis and Sicyonia typica) are commonly caught as bycatch during shrimp trawling along the Brazilian coast, but are not commercially exploited due to their small size and hard carapace. This study evaluated their spatio-temp...

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30 Pages

20 December 2024

Two new species of the genus Cherax are described and illustrated. Cherax rayko n. sp., endemic to the Bian River drainage basin in the Muting District, in the northern part of the Merauke Regency, South Papua, Indonesia, is described, figu...

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14 Pages

The Prevalence of Egg Parasitoids of Two Cobweb Spiders in a Tropical Urban Gradient

  • Natalia Jiménez-Conejo,
  • Paul E. Hanson,
  • Eduardo Chacón-Madrigal and
  • Geovanna Rojas-Malavasi

27 November 2024

Parasitoidism strongly influences the structure of the spiders’ populations, and it can be affected by environmental factors such as those caused by anthropogenic actions. We studied the prevalence of parasitoids in egg sacs and the proportion...

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1 Citations
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24 Pages

New Cases of Teratology, Albinism, Abnormal Pigmentation, Gynandromorphism, and Injury Healing in Scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones)

  • Danniella Sherwood,
  • Victoria Tang,
  • Julien Tchilinguirian,
  • Ludivine Lamare,
  • Seth Croffy,
  • Mark Stockmann,
  • Jay Keller and
  • Valerio Gerace

21 November 2024

Eighteen new cases of teratology and other abnormalities within scorpions are presented, representing new cases of metasomal duplication, mesosomal anomaly, telson anomaly, albinism, and abnormal pigmentation. Furthermore, recently published literatu...

  • Article
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1 Citations
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14 Pages

Lethal and Sub-Lethal Effects of Spirotetramat on Red Spider Mite, Tetranychus macfarlanei Baker and Pritchard (Acari: Tetranychidae)

  • Farhana Afrose Swarna,
  • Tasfia Hayder,
  • Shreema Mandal Barsa,
  • Powlomee Mondal,
  • Tetsuo Gotoh and
  • Mohammad Shaef Ullah

12 September 2024

The red spider mite, Tetranychus macfarlanei, is a serious pest of many cultivated crops in Bangladesh and other East-Asian and South-East Asian countries, in the Afrotropical, Oriental, and Palearctic regions. Sublethal concentration of pesticides,...

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1 Citations
3,415 Views
20 Pages

Survival and Growth of Asellus aquaticus on Different Food Sources from Drinking Water Distribution Systems

  • Nikki van Bel,
  • J. Hein M. van Lieverloo,
  • Antonie M. Verschoor,
  • Leonie Pap-Veldhuizen,
  • Wim A. M. Hijnen,
  • Edwin T. H. M. Peeters and
  • Julia Wunderer

2 August 2024

Invertebrates, including Asellidae, are part of the natural ecosystem of the drinking water distribution system (DWDS) and are known to cause a nuisance to consumers. In addition, recently, the potential role of the species Asellus aquaticus (L. 1758...

  • Communication
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1 Citations
2,293 Views
11 Pages

Acarological Risk of Infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme Disease Agent, in Staten Island, New York City

  • Liyang Zhou,
  • Leonid Tsynman,
  • Kamesan Kanapathipillai,
  • Zahir Shah and
  • Waheed Bajwa

15 July 2024

Lyme disease, the leading vector-borne ailment in the U.S., annually affects an estimated 476,000 individuals, predominantly in the Northeast and Upper Midwest. Despite its increasing incidence, the evaluation of risk within U.S. cities, including na...

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11 June 2024

The family Atyidae is composed of species whose existence has been known since the seventeenth century. Widely found in the Caribbean, Atya lanipes is a freshwater scraper/filter feeder shrimp with an amphidromous complex life cycle. Hunte (1975) des...

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2 Citations
2,416 Views
13 Pages

25 May 2024

Limb anomalies are widespread and diversified in arthropods. From trilobites to insects, they range from the loss to the addition or fusion of legs and may appear congenitally or be induced experimentally (e.g., amputation or injury). Basal chelicera...

  • Correction
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16 May 2024

There was a mistake in Supplementary Table S1 as published in the original publication [...]

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2 Citations
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19 Pages

8 April 2024

Ocypode Weber, 1795 (Brachyura: Ocypodidae) is popularly known as ghost crab, and encompasses 21 valid species, including Ocypode quadrata (Fabricius, 1787). This species has wide distribution along the Atlantic coast of America, from the USA (Massac...

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1 Citations
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11 Pages

Serendipitous Discovery of Desert Hairy Scorpion Mitogenomes as Bycatch in Venom Data via Nanopore Sequencing

  • Matthew R. Graham,
  • Carlos E. Santibáñez-López,
  • Jessica R. Zehnpfennig,
  • Dylan S. Tillman and
  • Barbara Murdoch

4 April 2024

While originally intending to explore the venom gland microbiome of the desert hairy scorpion Hadrurus arizonensis Ewing, 1928, nanopore sequencing serendipitously recovered complete mitochondrial genomes for this iconic arachnid. Phylogenetic analys...

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2 Citations
3,390 Views
20 Pages

Three New Species of the Freshwater Shrimp Genus Caridina from Australia

  • Werner Klotz,
  • Thomas von Rintelen and
  • Kristina von Rintelen

18 March 2024

Three new species of the genus Caridina are described from the northernmost part of Australia. Caridina darwin n. sp. resembles Caridina temasek Choy and Ng, 1991 but differs in the armature of the rostrum, the development of epipods on the pereiopod...

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1 Citations
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14 Pages

Horseshoe crabs represent the most ancestral chelicerate lineage characterized by marine ecology and the possession of lateral compound eyes. While considered living fossils, recent studies reported an unusual number of Pax6 genes in the Atlantic hor...

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Herein, we redescribe Neostenotarsus guianensis (Caporiacco, 1954) nearly seven decades after its original description. In the original description of Neostenotarsus scissistylus Tesmoingt & Schmidt, 2002, we found characters incongruent with N. ...

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2 Citations
2,195 Views
10 Pages

18 February 2024

Coral-dwelling gall crabs (Cryptochiridae) are common inhabitants of scleractinian corals. Several species have been described as new in recent years, including Lithoscaptus doughnut, which was described from Hong Kong based on a single female retrie...

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9 Citations
12,118 Views
11 Pages

13 February 2024

An invasive orb-weaving spider from east Asia is now spreading through the southeastern United States; Trichonephila clavata (the “jorō spider”) makes large, imposing webs seemingly everywhere, including in urban landscapes, and even...

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7 Citations
6,006 Views
22 Pages

Composition, Distribution, and Biodiversity of Zooplanktons in Tropical Lentic Ecosystems with Different Environmental Conditions

  • Wahidah Ahmad Dini Umi,
  • Fatimah M. Yusoff,
  • Zetty Norhana Balia Yusof,
  • Norulhuda Mohamed Ramli,
  • Artem Y. Sinev and
  • Tatsuki Toda

31 January 2024

A study was conducted to evaluate zooplankton species composition, abundance, and diversity in both natural and artificial lakes with varying trophic levels and to determine the relationship between zooplankton community structure and lake environmen...

  • Communication
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1,899 Views
5 Pages

17 January 2024

In the American Museum of Natural History, New York, there is an old specimen labelled as “Holodromia harrisonwilliamsi Boone, MS name” that was collected from Cocos Island in 1925. This name has never been published. An examination of th...

  • Article
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2,766 Views
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9 January 2024

Coastal wetlands, vital for ecological diversity, have been significantly altered by anthropogenic activities, particularly in the Caribbean. These changes have created a complex mosaic of habitats and physicochemical conditions, further stressed by...

  • Article
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2 Citations
2,080 Views
15 Pages

15 December 2023

Salmoneus sultanus sp. nov. is described based on several specimens collected on the exposed shores of Masirah Island and Dhofar, Oman, a region characterised by seasonal upwellings cooling water temperature to less than 23 °C. The new species is...

  • Article
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2 Citations
2,841 Views
13 Pages

1 December 2023

The former subfamily Prostygninae was recently elevated to family rank, and its phylogenetic relationships were investigated based on molecular data. In this study, we provide a revised morphological diagnosis for the family, focusing on characters f...

  • Communication
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1,825 Views
9 Pages

22 November 2023

A new species of the rare shrimp genus Bresilia is described and illustrated from shallow-water lava tubes in Cabo Verde. Characteristics differentiating the new species from its three known Atlantic congeners are listed and discussed. Scanning elect...

  • Article
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3 Citations
1,738 Views
19 Pages

14 November 2023

Why do the eyes remain comparatively large, whereas the cornea is reduced in most troglobiont mysids? Are there any important organ size-dependent functions served by non-visual eye rudiments? This issue was approached by measuring eye structures in...

  • Communication
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1 Citations
1,898 Views
12 Pages

14 November 2023

A new shrimp species of the genus Periclimenes is described based on specimens collected in the Bissagos Islands, Guinea-Bissau. Specimens were collected from an unidentified octocoral. This is the ninth species in the genus known to be from the East...

  • Communication
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1 Citations
2,414 Views
5 Pages

19 October 2023

Among spiders, movement in aquatic environments, including below the water’s surface or on the surface film, is completed using a variety of techniques that do not involve the use of silk, including swimming, walking, and rowing. The use of sil...

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18 October 2023

Synalpheopsis gen. nov. is established for a remarkable new alpheid species, Synalpheopsis laureae sp. nov., presently known only from the male holotype collected at 111–162 m east of La Désirade, Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles. Synalpheops...

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2 Citations
5,030 Views
24 Pages

Updated Checklist of the Freshwater Shrimps (Decapoda: Caridea: Atyidae) of Mindoro Island, the Philippines, with a Description of a New Species of Caridina

  • Valentin de Mazancourt,
  • Hendrik Freitag,
  • Kristina von Rintelen,
  • Marivene Manuel-Santos and
  • Thomas von Rintelen

12 October 2023

Following recent expeditions to Mindoro Island, the Philippines, numerous samples of atyid shrimps were collected and then studied in an integrative taxonomy framework. A total of 16 species belonging to 4 genera are hereby reported, including 8 new...

  • Communication
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4 Citations
1,569 Views
9 Pages

30 September 2023

During a faunal investigation using SCUBA in Taiwan in 2014, a single ovigerous specimen of an alpheid shrimp belonging to the genus Salmoneus Holthuis, 1955, was collected. Notably, the specimen stood out due to its extremely robust major cheliped c...

  • Communication
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1 Citations
2,266 Views
6 Pages

30 August 2023

Details regarding the synonymy of Nesaea Leach, 1814 and Dynamene Leach, 1814 are given and a type species is selected for Dynamene. The genus Heteruropus Verhoeff, 1942 is shown to be the senior objective synonym of Harrieta Kensley, 1987 and an exp...

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1 Citations
2,998 Views
9 Pages

31 July 2023

A new species of gall crab collected from elegance coral, Catalaphyllia jardinei, is described in this paper. The male holotype was collected from a reef tank in Germany in 2016, and it is described here using integrative taxonomy. This species, name...

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