{"title":"Revision of the Neotropical Phyllomya Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Tachinidae): a new synonymy and additional records","authors":"Marcelo Domingos de Santis, Ximo Mengual","doi":"10.1080/00222933.2024.2314968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2314968","url":null,"abstract":"The Neotropical species of the genus Phyllomya Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 are revised. Photographs and diagnosis of the male holotype of P. pictipennis (van der Wulp, 1891), until now the only recorde...","PeriodicalId":16568,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural History","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140167098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chun-Yu Lin, Munetoshi Maruyama, Sheryl A. Yap, Chung-Ping Lin
{"title":"Host plants and nymph morphology of an endemic treehopper, Pyrgonota bifoliata, in the Mount Makiling Forest Reserve, Luzon, Philippines","authors":"Chun-Yu Lin, Munetoshi Maruyama, Sheryl A. Yap, Chung-Ping Lin","doi":"10.1080/00222933.2024.2314965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2314965","url":null,"abstract":"Pyrgonota bifoliata (Insecta: Hemiptera: Membracidae) is a distinct endemic Philippine treehopper species complex distinguished by its extremely elevated and bifurcated pronotal structures. An earl...","PeriodicalId":16568,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural History","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139979093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Erratum: Important corrections to the recent revision of Bolbapium Boucomont, 1910 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Geotrupidae)","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/00222933.2024.2315155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2315155","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Journal of Natural History (Vol. 58, No. 5-8, 2024)","PeriodicalId":16568,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural History","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139979157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phenology and impact of abiotic factors with a temporal lag on the abundance of common crab spider, Xysticus cristatus (Clerck, 1757) (Araneae: Thomisidae) in the agroecosystems of Kashmir","authors":"Shazia Riyaz Shah, Abdul Ahad Buhroo","doi":"10.1080/00222933.2024.2311441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2311441","url":null,"abstract":"Xysticus cristatus is a Palearctic species, very abundant in the north-western Himalayas having a temperate climate. It is one of the predominant species in the agroecosystems of Kashmir. For a per...","PeriodicalId":16568,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural History","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139979171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Veluma Ialú Molinari De Bastiani, Joana Priscilla Boschetti, Julia Renata Ernetti, Tiago Gomes Dos Santos, Elaine Maria Lucas
{"title":"Green, charismatic, microendemic, and threatened: breeding biology of the leaf frog Pithecopus rusticus (Anura: Hylidae: Phyllomedusinae)","authors":"Veluma Ialú Molinari De Bastiani, Joana Priscilla Boschetti, Julia Renata Ernetti, Tiago Gomes Dos Santos, Elaine Maria Lucas","doi":"10.1080/00222933.2024.2314336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2314336","url":null,"abstract":"Pithecopus rusticus is a small and charismatic leaf frog species known only from the type locality, in the Brazilian Subtropical Highland Grasslands of the Atlantic Forest, southern Brazil. In this...","PeriodicalId":16568,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural History","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140008939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Release the confetti! A new genus and species of Indo-West Pacific bubble snails (Cephalaspidea: Haminoeidae)","authors":"Trond R. Oskars","doi":"10.1080/00222933.2024.2311439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2311439","url":null,"abstract":"The bubble snail family Haminoeidae has traditionally been the richest in genera within Cephalaspidea; however, most of these genera were erected based on only the characteristics of the shell or e...","PeriodicalId":16568,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural History","volume":"139 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139979176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epidemiological and Histopathological Analysis of Head and Neck Cancers in Northern India- A Retrospective Review.","authors":"Kamal Kishor Lakhera, Vimal Kumar, Pranav Mohan Singhal, Pinakin Patel, Aishwarya Chatterjee, Suresh Singh, Agil Babu, Raj Govind Sharma","doi":"10.1007/s12070-023-04176-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12070-023-04176-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Head and neck malignancies are responsible for 30% of all cancers in India with a dramatic increase in numbers due to widespread tobacco consumption. This study aims to assess the epidemiological and histopathological spectrum of these tumors.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>A large retrospective review of 5469 biopsy-proven patients presenting between 2018 and 2022 with head and neck cancers was done. Tumors were analysed for distribution according to sites of presentations, gender, age and histopathological profiles.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>With a male-to-female ratio of 4.2:1, men constituted 80.80% of the study population. Mean age of presentation in women was 53.5 years, whereas men presented at an earlier age of 47.2 years. Oral cavity was the commonest site involved (59.7% cases) followed by the oropharynx (23.8% cases). Buccal mucosa was the commonest subsite involved with 1112 cases followed by tongue lesions with 1088 cases. Larynx was responsible for 17.04% of cases. All subsites were more commonly affected in men with the highest Male: Female ratio of 8.29:1 seen in larynx. The lowest ratio of 1.02:1 was seen in lesions of the face and scalp. Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) was the most common histopathological diagnosis encountered in 88.97% of cases followed by basal cell carcinoma which was seen in 2.10% lesions.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Oral cavity lesions constitute the bulk of head and neck cancer presentations in India. The disease is more prevalent in men overall and men present at a younger age in comparison to women. SCC is the most prominent histopathology encountered in our study.</p>","PeriodicalId":16568,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural History","volume":"19 1","pages":"422-427"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10908981/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81393900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A survey of cheiracanthiid spiders (Araneae: Cheiracanthiidae) from Hainan Island, China","authors":"Zhao-Yi Li, Feng Zhang","doi":"10.1080/00222933.2023.2287267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2023.2287267","url":null,"abstract":"Six species in two genera of the family Cheiracanthiidae Wagner, 1887 are studied from Hainan Island, China, including two new species: Cheiracanthium bawanglingense sp. n. (♀♂) and Eutittha hainan...","PeriodicalId":16568,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural History","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139946110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vinícius Costa-Silva, Werner P. Strümpher, Patricia J. Thyssen, Fernando Z. Vaz-de-Mello
{"title":"Taxonomic revision of the South American genus Polynoncus Burmeister, 1876 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Trogidae)","authors":"Vinícius Costa-Silva, Werner P. Strümpher, Patricia J. Thyssen, Fernando Z. Vaz-de-Mello","doi":"10.1080/00222933.2023.2260060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2023.2260060","url":null,"abstract":"The South American genus Polynoncus Burmeister encompasses 38 valid species that are considered to be endemic to South America. In this work, we provide a comprehensive revision of this genus. Poly...","PeriodicalId":16568,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural History","volume":"2013 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139946111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synopsis of the remarkable family Phloeidae (Hemiptera: Pentatomoidea): species identification, chromatic polymorphism and updated distribution","authors":"Guilherme Enrique Luisi López, Cristiano Feldens Schwertner","doi":"10.1080/00222933.2023.2284417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2023.2284417","url":null,"abstract":"The Neotropical family Phloeidae includes three species within two genera, Phloea Lepeletier and Serville, 1825 and Phloeophana Kirkaldy, 1908, distributed in South America. Due to their large size...","PeriodicalId":16568,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural History","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139410785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}