Description of a new species ofCosmolaelapsBerlese (Acari: Laelapidae, Hypoaspidinae) from Brazil and its biological cycle

Biology and predation capacity of Parasitus bituberosus (Acari: Mesostigmata: Parasitidae) on Frankliniella occidentalis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), and free‐living nematodes as its complementary prey

“…It consisted of a plastic container (10 cm diameter and 7 cm high), whose bottom was covered with a layer of about 1.5 cm of a mixture of nine parts of gypsum and one part of activated charcoal . The mites were fed with a mixture of all stages of an unidentified free‐living nematode of the family Rhabditidae on pieces of bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.) pods soaked in water, and a mixture of all developmental stages of Aleuroglyphus ovatus (Troupeau) (Acari: Sarcoptiformes: Astigmatina) on pieces of the commercial dog food Purina . The units were closed with a piece of plastic film and maintained permanently moist by daily addition of distilled water.…”

Soil mesostigmatid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) inhabiting rose fields and neighboring vegetation in the Bogota plateau and their potential role as biological control agents of <i>Frankliniella occidentalis</i> (Insecta: Thysanoptera)

“…The long duration of the deutonymphal period, resulting in a prolonged immature phase of almost three weeks, seems uncommon. This period seems considerably longer than observed for other mites of the cohort Gamasina , possibly because of the lower temperature employed in the present study (21 o C) compared to other studies (close to 25 °C), on laelapids (Freire and Moraes 2007a;, Macrochelidae (Azevedo et al 2018), Phytoseiidae (McMurtry et al 1970Marafeli et al 2014;Fouly and Abdel-Baky 2015) and Rhodacaridae . In terms of prey consumption, this does not seem to be necessarily a problem, as our preliminary observations indicated that deutonymphs can kill almost the same number of pre-pupae and pupas as adults.…”

Serapilheira em floresta Atlântica no Brasil: uma abordagem da produção científica (1987-2019)

“…Nesta classe, a mesofauna edáfica, por sua vez, foi representada em oito artigos, dentre eles, artigos com registro de novos gêneros e espécies da classe Collembola (Bellini & Zeppelini, 2009;Mendonça & Fernandes, 2005;Zeppelini & Brito, 2014) e de ácaros (Rocha et 2015;Ermilov et al, 2015), assim como a descrição do seu ciclo biológico (Freire & Moraes, 2007). Já para a microfauna edáfica foram registrados quatro artigos, os quais estimaram a diversidade e a densidade de planárias na serapilheira (Carbayo, 2016).…”