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Racial and social disparities exist in outcomes related to cancer and cardiovascular disease (CVD).The aim of this cross-sectional study was to study the impact of social vulnerability on mortality attributed to comorbid cancer and CVD.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research database (2015-2019) was used to obtain county-level mortality data attributed to cancer, CVD, and comorbid cancer and CVD. County-level social vulnerability index (SVI) data (2014-2018) were obtained from the CDC's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. SVI percentiles were generated for each county and aggregated to form SVI quartiles. Age-adjusted mortality rates (AAMRs) were estimated and compared across SVI quartiles to assess the impact of social vulnerability on mortality related to cancer, CVD, and comorbid cancer and CVD.The AAMR for comorbid cancer and CVD was 47.75 (95% CI: 47.66-47.85) per 100,000 person-years, with higher mortality in counties with greater social vulnerability. AAMRs for cancer and CVD were also significantly greater in counties with the highest SVIs. However, the proportional increase in mortality between the highest and lowest SVI counties was greater for comorbid cancer and CVD than for either cancer or CVD alone. Adults <45 years of age, women, Asian and Pacific Islanders, and Hispanics had the highest relative increase in comorbid cancer and CVD mortality between the fourth and first SVI quartiles, without significant urban-rural differences.Comorbid cancer and CVD mortality increased in counties with higher social vulnerability. Improved education, resource allocation, and targeted public health interventions are needed to address inequities in cardio-oncology.

Cancer and cardiovascular (CV) disease are the most prevalent diseases in the developed world. Evidence increasingly shows that these conditions are interlinked through common risk factors, coincident in an ageing population, and are connected biologically through some deleterious effects of anticancer treatment on CV health. Anticancer therapies can cause a wide spectrum of short- and long-term cardiotoxic effects. An explosion of novel cancer therapies has revolutionised this field and dramatically altered cancer prognosis. Nevertheless, these new therapies have introduced unexpected CV complications beyond heart failure. Common CV toxicities related to cancer therapy are defined, along with suggested strategies for prevention, detection and treatment. This ESMO consensus article proposes to define CV toxicities related to cancer or its therapies and provide guidance regarding prevention, screening, monitoring and treatment of CV toxicity. The majority of anticancer therapies are associated with some CV toxicity, ranging from asymptomatic and transient to more clinically significant and long-lasting cardiac events. It is critical however, that concerns about potential CV damage resulting from anticancer therapies should be weighed against the potential benefits of cancer therapy, including benefits in overall survival. CV disease in patients with cancer is complex and treatment needs to be individualised. The scope of cardio-oncology is wide and includes prevention, detection, monitoring and treatment of CV toxicity related to cancer therapy, and also ensuring the safe development of future novel cancer treatments that minimise the impact on CV health. It is anticipated that the management strategies discussed herein will be suitable for the majority of patients. Nonetheless, the clinical judgment of physicians remains extremely important; hence, when using these best clinical practices to inform treatment options and decisions, practitioners should also consider, SCOPUS: ar.j, DecretOANoAutActif, info:eu-repo/semantics/published

Introduction: Mitochondrial DNA has proven its utility for the study of insect evolution. Genes such as cytochrome b (Cytb) and the transfer gene for serine (SertRNA) can be used to compare closely related organisms.Objective: The phylogenetic utility of Cytb-SertRNA-IG1-ND1 was tested for polymorphisms, and secondary structure modeling in SertRNA was done to detect possible cryptic species in Anopheles neivai.Materials and methods: Specimens from Colombia, Guatemala, and the type locality in Panamá were collected and sequenced for specimen comparison based on DNA polymorphisms, and secondary structure modeling for the SertRNA gene.Results: Thirty-six sequences for A. neivai and A. pholidotus were obtained.Conclusions: Polymorphic variants were detected in A. neivai for Cytb-SertRNA-IG1- ND1. Despite this variation in A. neivai, cryptic species could not be detected., Introducción. El ADN mitocondrial ha demostrado su utilidad para el estudio de la evolución en los insectos. Existen algunos genes mitocondriales como el citocromo b (Cytb) y el gen de transferencia para el aminoácido serina (SertRNA) que pueden usarse en el diagnóstico de especies estrechamente relacionadas.Objetivo. Explorar la utilidad filogenética de la región Cytb-SertRNA-IG1-ND1 para detectar posibles especies crípticas en Anopheles neivai.Materiales y métodos. Se recolectaron especímenes en Colombia, Guatemala y en la localidad tipo en Panamá, los cuales se secuenciaron y se compararon mediante el polimorfismo de ADN en toda la región y mediante la simulación de estructuras secundarias del gen SertRNA.Resultados. Se obtuvieron las secuencias de especímenes de A. neivai (34) y A. pholidotus (2).Conclusiones. Se detectaron algunos polimorfismos para la regiónCytb-SertRNA-IG1-ND1 en A. neivai, pero no así especies crípticas.

Lake sediments and peat deposits from two basins on Nightingale Island (37 degrees S), in the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, South Atlantic, have been analyzed. The studies were focused on the time period 16.2-10.0 cal ka BP, determined by 36 C-14 dates from the two sequences. A wide variety of proxies were used, including pollen and diatom analyzes, biogenic silica content, C and N analyzes, stable isotopes (C-13 and N-15), elemental concentrations and magnetic susceptibility measurements, to detect environmental changes that can be related to shifts of the circulation belts of the Southern Ocean. In addition, climate model simulations were carried out. We find that the sediments are underlain by a >2 cal ka BP long hiatus, possibly representing a dried-out lake bed. The climate simulations corroborate that the area might have been exposed to arid conditions as a consequence of the Heinrich I event in the north and a southward displacement of the ITCZ. The development on the island after 16.2 cal ka BP is determined by the position of the Subtropical Front (STF) and the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies (SHW). The period 16.2-14.75 cal ka BP was characterized by varying influence from SHW and with STF situated south of Tristan da Cunha, ending with a humidity peak and cooler conditions. The stable conditions 14.7-14.1 cal ka BP with cool and fairly arid conditions imply that STF and SHW were both north of the islands during the first part of the Antarctic Cold Reversal. The most unstable period, 14.1-12.7 cal ka BP, indicates incessant latitudinal shifts of the zonal circulation, perhaps related to climate variability in the Northern Hemisphere and bipolar seesaw mechanisms as the strength of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) varied. At 12.7 cal ka BP the Holocene warming began with a gradually drier and warmer climate as a result of a dampened AMOC during the Younger Dryas cooling in the north with ITCZ, STF and SHW being displaced southwards.

Tristan da Cunha is a volcanic island group situated in the central South Atlantic. The oldest of these islands, Nightingale Island, has an age of about 18Ma. In the interior of the island, there are several wetlands situated in topographic depressions. The ages of these basins have been unknown, and their genesis has been debated. Aiming towards the reconstruction of the geomorphological history of these basins, we conducted geoelectrical resistivity measurements to map the subsurface topography, extracted peat and sediment cores and dated the onset of sedimentation applying the radiocarbon method. The irregular shapes of the basins and the lack of clear erosional features indicate that they are not eruption craters and were not formed by erosion. Instead, we regard them as morphological depressions formed between ridges of trachytic lava flows and domes at a late stage of the formation of the volcanic edifice. The onset of sedimentation within these basins appears to have occurred between 24 and 37 ka with the highest situated wetland yielding the highest ages. These ages are very young compared to the timing of the main phase of the formation of the island, implying volcanic activity on the island during the Late Pleistocene.

Idiolispa Foerster (Ichneumonidae: Phygadeuontinae: Mesostenini) has been known previously only from the Holarctic Region but an undescribed species now is reported in tropical cloud forest (1800 m) on Monte Uyuca near the Escuela Agricola Panamericana at Zamorano, Honduras.

Three new species of the albomarginatus species group of the genus Trachysphyrus (T. fidalgoi, T. riojanus, and T. tmetus) are described from the Subandean Desert (Monte) of Northwest Argentina. A key is given to these and to the five described species also known from Neotropic Argentina in the semiarid Prepuna, Subandino, and Chaco Serrano as well as in such wetter habitats as the Chaco Húmedo and Selva Tucumano-Boliviana (Yungas). Four additional species occur in Neantarctic Chile from Santiago south to Magallanes with overlap into the Nothofagus forests of southwest Argentina (Neuquén, Río Negro). Several species have been reared from cocoons of Lepidoptera (Megalopygidae, Psychidae) and others from mud nests of eumenid wasps (Hypodynerus Saussure, Pachymenes Saussure).

Six new species of Phycitiplex (P. obscurior, P. tricinctus, P. unicinctus, P. peralta, P. trichroma, and P. lepidus) are described from material taken by Malaise trap in a humid ravine at Santa Vera Cruz in the Subandean Desert (Monte) of La Rioja Province (Argentina). These are keyed along with several closely related described species. Except for P. eremnus from central Chile, this genus is known only from the semiarid Chaco and Subandean biogeographic provinces in the northern half of Argentina. The only available host record is of Phycitiplex doddi (Cushman) reared from larvae of Cactoblastis cactorum (Berg), a phycitid moth that attacks prickly pear cacti.

Habronyx Foerster occurs in all regions except the Afrotropical and parasitizes lepidopterous larvae (Geometridae, Noctuidae, Saturniidae, Sphingidae, Psychidae). Habronyx albifrons (Spinola) inhabits neantartic Chile and southern Argentina. It is black with a white flagellar annulus and with a strong prepectal carina on the lower half of the mesopleuron. Habronyx albifrons is redescribed and descriptions are given of two new species which belong to a group of their own: Habronyx citrinus Porter, n. sp., from central Chile; and Habronyx punensis Porter, n. sp., from the high Andean steppe of Bolivia, where it attacks noctuid larvae on Chenopodium quinoa Willd. These differ from H. albifrons because the prepectal carina is absent on the mesopleuron, being developed only on the mesosternum, and because they have the flagellum uniformly black and the gaster extensively orange. Habronyx punensis differs from H. citrinus in having a sharp carina on the front, the mesopleural punctures not reticulately confluent, the discoidella weaker and in part desclerotized

Porter, new species, is described from Costa Rica. It forms a species group of its own, unique in its grotesquely enlarged male mandibles and reduced clypeus, single mid tibial spur, and in having a medio-apical bulge on the second sternite. It was previously identified as Z. magretti Zavattari but reexamination of the type of this species shows that it actually belongs to the coeruleopennis species group.

Six new species of Phycitiplex (P. obscurior, P. tricinctus, P. unicinctus, P. peralta, P. trichroma, and P. lepidus) are described from material taken by Malaise trap in a humid ravine at Santa Vera Cruz in the Subandean Desert (Monte) of La Rioja Province (Argentina). These are keyed along with several closely related described species. Except for P. eremnus from central Chile, this genus is known only from the semiarid Chaco and Subandean biogeographic provinces in the northern half of Argentina. The only available host record is of Phycitiplex doddi (Cushman) reared from larvae of Cactoblastis cactorum (Berg), a phycitid moth that attacks prickly pear cacti. Resumen. Se describen seis especies nuevas de Phycitiplex (P. obscurior, P. tricinctus, P. unicinctus, P. peralta, P. trichroma, y P. lepidus). Todas fueron coleccionadas en una trampa Malaise colocada en una quebrada húmeda cerca de Santa Vera Cruz en el Desierto Subandino (Monte) de la Provincia de La Rioja (Argentina). Se proporciona una clave de éstas junto con varias especies descritas muy afines. Aparte de P. eremnus en Chile central, este género se conoce sólo de las provincias biogeográficas semiáridas del Chaco y Desierto Subandino en la mitad norte de la Argentina. Phycitiplex doddi (Cushman) parasita larvas de Cactoblastis cactorum (Berg) que viven en cactáceas del género Opuntia.

Zethus stangei Porter, new species, is described from Costa Rica. It forms a species group of its own, unique in its grotesquely enlarged male mandibles and reduced clypeus, single mid tibial spur, and in having a medio-apical bulge on the second sternite. It was previously identified as Z. magretti Zavattari but reexamination of the type of this species shows that it actually belongs to the coeruleopennis species group. Resumen: Se describe a Zethus stangei Porter, especie nueva, de Costa Rica, cuyas características más notables la colocan en su propio grupo, siendo ellas las grandes y abultadas mandíbulas y el clípeo achicado del macho, la tibia intermedia con un solo espolón apical, y el segundo esternito con un lóbulo medio-apical. Al principio se le consideraba como perteneciente a Zethus magretti Zavattari pero estudios más recientes del tipo de esta especie demuestran que es un miembro del grupo coeruleopennis.

Three new species of the albomarginatus species group of the genus Trachysphyrus (T. fidalgoi, T. riojanus, and T. tmetus) are described from the Subandean Desert (Monte) of Northwest Argentina. A key is given to these and to the five described species also known from Neotropic Argentina in the semiarid Prepuna, Subandino, and Chaco Serrano as well as in such wetter habitats as the Chaco Húmedo and Selva Tucumano-Boliviana (Yungas). Four additional species occur in Neantarctic Chile from Santiago south to Magallanes with overlap into the Nothofagus forests of southwest Argentina (Neuquén, Río Negro). Several species have been reared from cocoons of Lepidoptera (Megalopygidae, Psychidae) and others from mud nests of eumenid wasps (Hypodynerus Saussure, Pachymenes Saussure). Resumen. Se describen tres especies nuevas de Trachysphyrus (T. fidalgoi, T. riojanus, y T. tmetus) del Desierto Subandino en el noroeste de la Argentina y pertenecientes al grupo de T. albomarginatus. Se proporciona una clave de éstas junto con las cinco especies ya descritas del mismo grupo que se conocen de la Argentina neotropical y que habitan en zonas semiáridas como la Prepuna, Subandino, y Chaco Serrano, asimismo en zonas más lluviosas como el Chaco Húmedo y Selva Tucumano-Boliviana (Yungas). El grupo está representado también por cuatro especies más en Chile neantártico desde Santiago hasta Magallanes y en el suroeste de la Argentina (Neuquén, Río Negro). Varias especies han sido criadas de capullos de Lepidoptera (Megalopygidae, Psychidae) y otras de los nidos de barro construidos por avispas de la familia Eumenidae (Hypodynerus Saussure, Pachymenes Saussure).

Habronyx Foerster occurs in all regions except the Afrotropical and parasitizes lepidopterous larvae (Geometridae, Noctuidae, Saturniidae, Sphingidae, Psychidae). Habronyx albifrons (Spinola) inhabits neantartic Chile and southern Argentina. It is black with a white flagellar annulus and with a strong prepectal carina on the lower half of the mesopleuron. Habronyx albifrons is redescribed and descriptions are given of two new species which belong to a group of their own: Habronyx citrinus Porter, n. sp., from central Chile; and Habronyx punensis Porter, n. sp., from the high Andean steppe of Bolivia, where it attacks noctuid larvae on Chenopodium quinoa Willd. These differ from H. albifrons because the prepectal carina is absent on the mesopleuron, being developed only on the mesosternum, and because they have the flagellum uniformly black and the gaster extensively orange. Habronyx punensis differs from H. citrinus in having a sharp carina on the front, the mesopleural punctures not reticulately confluent, the discoidella weaker and in part desclerotized. Resumen: Habronyx Foerster se halla en todas las regiones biogeográficas excepto la afrotropical y parasita larvas de Lepidoptera (Geometridae, Noctuidae, Saturniidae, Sphingidae, Psychidae). Habronyx albifrons (Spinola) habita en la región neantártica de Chile y del suroeste de la Argentina. Es de color negro con un anillo blanco en la antena y tiene la carena prepectoral bien desarrollada en la mitad inferior de la mesopleura. Se describen dos especies nuevas, estrechamente emparentadas entre sí: Habronyx citrinus Porter de Chile central y Habronyx punensis Porter que habita en la puna altoandina de Bolivia.en donde parasita a larvas de un noctuído que se alimenta de Chenopodium quinoa Willd. Se diferencian estas dos de H. albifrons porque tienen la carena prepectoral desarrollada sólo en el mesoesterno, por carecer de un anillo antenal blanco, y por su gáster mayormente color narranja. H. punensisse d

Xorides albopictus (Cresson) and Xorides calidus (Provancher) are recorded for the first time from Florida. New Florida records are given for Xorides semirufus Townes, previously known only from the holotype female collected near Archer in Alachua County in 1953. A key is provided to the Florida species of Xorides. A photograph of X. semirufus is included. Resumen: Se citan por primera vez para Florida las especies Xorides albopictus (Cresson) y Xorides calidus (Provancher). Se proporcionan nuevos registros para Florida de Xorides semirufus Townes, especie de la cual antes se conocía un solo ejemplar, el holotipo coleccionado en 1953 cerca de Archer en el Condado de Alachua. Se da una clave de las especies de Xorides conocidas del Estado de Florida.

Acrotaphus fuscipennis (Cresson), distinctive because of its black wings and bright red body, is recorded for the first time from the United States. It was reared from araneid spiders collected in Florida, which constitutes the first host record for this species. Acrotaphus tibialis (Cameron), collected in Texas, is also recorded for the first time in the United States. New U.S. localities are given for A. wiltii (Cresson). A key is provided for the identification of the three species of Acrotaphus in United States. The adults of all three species and the cocoon of Acrotaphus fuscipennis are illustrated. Resumen: Acrotaphus fuscipennis (Cresson), especie notable por sus alas negras y cuerpo rojo intenso, se cita por primera vez de los Estados Unidos. Fué obtenida de arañas de la familia Araneidae (género Neoscona) colectadas en Florida, lo que constituye el primer registro de los hospederos de esta especie. Acrotaphus tibialis (Cameron), que fué colectada en Texas, también se cita por primera vez de los Estados Unidos. Se dan nuevas localidades en los Estados Unidos para Acrotaphus wiltii (Cresson). Se presenta una clave para la identificación de las tres especies de Acrotaphus para los Estados Unidos. Se ilustran los adultos de las tres especies y el capullo de A. fuscipennis.

Labena is a primitive genus known from the Neotropic, Nearctic, Neantarctic, and Australian biogeographic regions. It parasitizes larvae of wood boring beetles in dead twigs and smaller branches of hardwood trees and shrubs. Descriptions are given of 2 new Chilean species: Labena canelensis Porter, from sclerophyll woodland in central Chile, is black with sparse white markings, has a strong tooth at the base of the submetapleural carina, and a short first gastric tergite (2.3-2.6 as long as wide at apex), whereas L. pucon Porter occurs in temperate wet forest of southern Chile and is black with profuse white markings, lacks a submetapleural tooth, and has the first tergite very elongate (4.0-6.2 as long as wide at apex). Resumen: Labena es un género primitivo conocido de las regiones Neotropical, Neártica, Neantártica, y Australiana y cuyas especies parasitan larvas de coleópteros xilófagos en ramitas y ramas muertas de árboles y arbustos angioespermas. Se describen dos especies nuevas de Chile: Labena canelensis Porter, que habita en el bosque esclerófilo de Chile central, es de color negro con escasos diseños blancos, tiene un gran diente triangular en la base de la carina submetapleural, y el primer tergito gástrico robusto (2.3-2.6 tan largo como ancho en el ápice), mientras L. pucon, que se encuentra en las selvas húmedas del sur, se destaca por ser negra con abundantes diseños blancos, por carecer de un diente submetapleural, y por su primer tergito muy alargado (4.0-6.2 tan largo como ancho en el ápice).

Acrotaphus fuscipennis (Cresson), distinctive because of its black wings and bright red body, is recorded for the first time from the United States. It was reared from araneid spiders collected in Florida, which constitutes the first host record for this species. Acrotaphus tibialis (Cameron), collected in Texas, is also recorded for the first time in the United States. New U.S. localities are given for A. wiltii (Cresson). A key is provided for the identification of the three species of Acrotaphus in United States. The adults of all three species and the cocoon of Acrotaphus fuscipennis are illustrated., Acrotaphus fuscipennis (Cresson), especie notable por sus alas negras y cuerpo rojo intenso, se cita por primera vez de los Estados Unidos. Fué obtenida de arañas de la familia Araneidae (género Neoscona) colectadas en Florida, lo que constituye el primer registro de los hospederos de esta especie. Acrotaphus tibialis (Cameron), que fué colectada en Texas, también se cita por primera vez de los Estados Unidos. Se dan nuevas localidades en los Estados Unidos para Acrotaphus wiltii (Cresson). Se presenta una clave para la identificación de las tres especies de Acrotaphus para los Estados Unidos. Se ilustran los adultos de las tres especies y el capullo de A. fuscipennis.

Labena is a primitive genus known from the Neotropic, Nearctic, Neantarctic, and Australian biogeographic regions. It parasitizes larvae of wood boring beetles in dead twigs and smaller branches of hardwood trees and shrubs. Descriptions are given of 2 new Chilean species: Labena canelensis Porter, from sclerophyll woodland in central Chile, is black with sparse white markings, has a strong tooth at the base of the submetapleural carina, and a short first gastric tergite (2.3-2.6 as long as wide at apex), whereas L. pucon Porter occurs in temperate wet forest of southern Chile and is black with profuse white markings, lacks a submetapleural tooth, and has the first tergite very elongate (4.0-6.2 as long as wide at apex)., Labena es un género primitivo conocido de las regiones Neotropical, Neártica, Neantártica, y Australiana y cuyas especies parasitan larvas de coleópteros xilófagos en ramitas y ramas muertas de árboles y arbustos angioespermas. Se describen dos especies nuevas de Chile: Labena canelensis Porter, que habita en el bosque esclerófilo de Chile central, es de color negro con escasos diseños blancos, tiene un gran diente triangular en la base de la carina submetapleural, y el primer tergito gástrico robusto (2.3-2.6 tan largo como ancho en el ápice), mientras L. pucon, que se encuentra en las selvas húmedas del sur, se destaca por ser negra con abundantes diseños blancos, por carecer de un diente submetapleural, y por su primer tergito muy alargado (4.0-6.2 tan largo como ancho en el ápice).

Xorides albopictus (Cresson) and Xorides calidus (Provancher) are recorded for the first time from Florida. New Florida records are given for Xorides semirufus Townes, previously known only from the holotype female collected near Archer in Alachua County in 1953. A key is provided to the Florida species of Xorides. A photograph of X. semirufus is included., Se citan por primera vez para Florida las especies Xorides albopictus (Cresson) y Xorides calidus (Provancher). Se proporcionan nuevos registros para Florida de Xorides semirufus Townes, especie de la cual antes se conocía un solo ejemplar, el holotipo coleccionado en 1953 cerca de Archer en el Condado de Alachua. Se da una clave de las especies de Xorides conocidas del Estado de Florida.

Descriptions are given of the new species Anacis ignifera and A. flammigera from Mérida State, Venezuela and of A. umbrifera from Machu Picchu, Perú. These belong to a tropical Andean lineage with strongly projecting propodeal cristae and pictured wings. Anacis hercana Porter, a Chilean species long known only from the holotype taken at El Canelo near Santiago, now is documented by a second specimen from nearby Río Clarillo. Biconus Townes (1969) is synonymized under Anacis Porter (1967a). Anacis apoeca (Porter), A. atrorubra (Townes), and A. subflava (Porter) are new combinations in Anacis. The South American species of Anacis are keyed. Resumen: Se describen las especies nuevas Anacis ignifera y A. flammigera, del Estado de Mérida en Venezuela y A.umbrifera de Machu Picchu, Perú. Pertenecen éstas tres a un linaje propio de la pluviselva altoandina tropical, e1 cual tiene muy grandes y proyectadas las crestas del propodeo,y las alas con extensas manchas oscuras. Anacis hercana Porter, antes conocida sólo del holotipo colectado en El Canelo cerca de Santiago de Chile, se cita ahora de la vecina Reserva Natural de Río Clarillo. Biconus Townes (1969) se considera sinónimo de Anacis Porter (1967a), siendo nuevas las combinaciones: Anacis apoeca (Porter), A. atrorubra (Townes), y A. subflava (Porter). Se proporciona una clave de las especies sudamericanas de Anacis.

Cyclolabus Heinrich may be recognized by the following combination of characters: clypeus convex in profile; propodeum with spiracle circular or nearly so and without projecting cristae; petiole dorsally flattened, wider than high; thyridia strongly trans- verse (each wider than the space between them). This genus is mostly Holarctic in distribution with some overlap into the Oriental region and the northern Neotropics (Yu and Horstmann 1997). In the Nearctic it is known mainly from Canadian and Transition zone localities, except for C. carolinensis described by Heinrich (1962) from western South Carolina. Heinrich does not include Cyclolabus in his 1977 review of the Florida Ichneumoninae, but recent (1997) collecting with Malaise traps has shown it to be common in hardwood forests of the northern Florida peninsula.

Labium is a primitive transantarctic genus which parasitizes ground-nesting halictid bees and until now has been known only from the Australian Region. Diagnostic features include its large exposed labrum (as long as clypeus) ; elongate mandible with upper tooth much shorter and smaller than lower tooth; slender 1st gastric tergite with spiracle distad of middle; and short, concealed ovipositor which is slender, depressed, and without notch or nodus. Labium wahli is now described from south Brazilian rain forest. It differs from the Australian species by its longer flagellum which is only slightly thickened apicad and because it has no crests at base of the notauli Resumen: Labium es un género primitivo de distribución transantártica, conocido hasta ahora sólo de la Región Australiana, y que parasita abejas de la familia Halictidae que nidifican en la tierra. Puede reconocerse por su labro grande y descubierto (tan largo como el clípeo); mandíbula alargada con el diente superior mucho más corto y pequeño que el diente inferior; primer terguito algo esbelto con el espiráculo ubicado detrás de la mitad; y el ovipositor corto que no se extiende más alla del ápice del gáster y que es fino, deprimido, y no tiene ni hendidura ni nodo. Se describe como nueva la especie Labium wahli que habita en la selva lluviosa del sur de Brasil , diferenciándose de las especies australianas por su flagelo más largo, fino y sólo levemente ensanchado hacia el ápice y porque no tiene una cresta en la base de cada notaulo.

Melanichneumon dreisbachi was described by Heinrich (1962) on the basis of material from Maine and Michigan. No further records of this species have been published, even though Heinrich subsequently (1977) provided an exhaustive treatment of the Florida Ichneumoninae, but more recent collecting in the Gainesville area of north-central Florida has turned up 2 additional specimens.

Labium is a primitive transantarctic genus which parasitizes ground-nesting halictid bees and until now has been known only from the Australian Region. Diagnostic features include its large exposed labrum (as long as clypeus) ; elongate mandible with upper tooth much shorter and smaller than lower tooth; slender 1st gastric tergite with spiracle distad of middle; and short, concealed ovipositor which is slender, depressed, and without notch or nodus. Labium wahli is now described from south Brazilian rain forest. It differs from the Australian species by its longer flagellum which is only slightly thickened apicad and because it has no crests at base of the notauli, Labium es un género primitivo de distribución transantártica, conocido hasta ahora sólo de la Región Australiana, y que parasita abejas de la familia Halictidae que nidifican en la tierra. Puede reconocerse por su labro grande y descubierto (tan largo como el clípeo); mandíbula alargada con el diente superior mucho más corto y pequeño que el diente inferior; primer terguito algo esbelto con el espiráculo ubicado detrás de la mitad; y el ovipositor corto que no se extiende más alla del ápice del gáster y que es fino, deprimido, y no tiene ni hendidura ni nodo. Se describe como nueva la especie Labium wahli que habita en la selva lluviosa del sur de Brasil, diferenciándose de las especies australianas por su flagelo más largo, fino y sólo levemente ensanchado hacia el ápice y porque no tiene una cresta en la base de cada notaulo.

Descriptions are given of the new species Anacis ignifera and A. flammigera from Mérida State, Venezuela and of A. umbrifera from Machu Picchu, Perú. These belong to a tropical Andean lineage with strongly projecting propodeal cristae and pictured wings. Anacis hercana Porter, a Chilean species long known only from the holotype taken at El Canelo near Santiago, now is documented by a second specimen from nearby Río Clarillo. Biconus Townes (1969) is synonymized under Anacis Porter (1967a). Anacis apoeca (Porter), A. atrorubra (Townes), and A. subflava (Porter) are new combinations in Anacis. The South American species of Anacis are keyed., Se describen las especies nuevas Anacis ignifera y A. flammigera, del Estado de Mérida en Venezuela y A. umbrifera de Machu Picchu, Perú. Pertenecen éstas tres a un linaje propio de la pluviselva alto andina tropical, el cual tiene muy grandes y proyectadas las crestas del propodeo, y las alas con extensas manchas oscuras. Anacis hercana Porter, antes conocida sólo del holotipo colectado en El Canelo cerca de Santiago de Chile, se cita ahora de la vecina Reserva Natural de Río Clarillo. Biconus Townes (1969) se considera sinónimo de Anacis Porter (1967a), siendo nuevas las combinaciones: Anacis apoeca (Porter), A. atrorubra (Townes), y A. subflava (Porter). Se proporciona una clave de las especies sudamericanas de Anacis.

The Holarctic genus Ropronia Provancher has three species in North America: P. californica Ashmead (California, Oregon), P. pediculata Provancher (New York, Ontario), and R. garmani Ashmead known previously in the United States from New Hampshire to northern Georgia and west to Iowa (Townes 1948).

Therion fidalgoi n. sp. is described from the Sierras de Cordoba in the upland subtropical thorn scrub of northwest Argentina. It differs from other South American Therion because of its strongly elevated, bilobed ocellar area, bidentate mandible, and unpectinate tarsal claws. Resumen: Therion fidalgoi n. sp. habita en el Chaco Serrano de las Sierras de Cordoba en el noroeste subtropical de la Argentina. Se diferencia de las otras especies sudamericanas de su genero por tener el area ocelar del vertice muy elevada, abultada y bilobulada, la mandibula con dos dientes apicales, y las unas tarsales no pectinadas.

Therion fidalgoi n. sp. is described from the Sierras de Cordoba in the upland subtropical thorn scrub of northwest Argentina. It differs from other South American Therion because of its strongly elevated, bilobed ocellar area, bidentate mandible, and unpectinate tarsal claws., Therion fidalgoi n. sp. habita en el Chaco Serrano de las Sierras de Cordoba en el noroeste subtropical de la Argentina. Se diferencia de las otras especies sudamericanas de su genero por tener el area ocelar del vértice muy elevada, abultada y bilobulada, la mandibula con dos dientes apicales, y las unas tarsales no pectinadas.

Rhyssa neotropicae n. sp. is the first Rhyssa to be recorded from the New World tropics, where it was collected in cloud forest at 1800 m on Monte Uyuca near Zamorano, Honduras. It is closely related to the Nearctic R. hoferi Rohwer and R. howdenorurn Townes but differs from all other Rhyssa by its complexly yellow and black marked head and body, whose color pattern mimics that of aggressive social vespid wasps (Agelaia) which occur in the same habitat. Rhyssa howdenorurn Townes is recorded for the first time from Florida and Oklahoma. The genus Rhyssella, previously unknown in Florida, is represented in that state by R. perfulva n. sp., distinctive in its mostly orange brown coloration, and by R. humida (Say), a black and white species with fulvous on the thoracic pleura and propodeum. Resumen: Rhyssa neotropicae n. sp. es la primera especie de su gbnero de ser seiialada para la Region Neotropical, donde se la colecciono en selva hhmeda de alta montaiia a 1800 msnm en la cima del Monte Uyuca cerca de Zamorano en Honduras. Se trata de una especie muy afin a R. hoferi Rohwer y a R. howdenorurn Townes, las cuales se distribuyen en el suu y centro de la Region Nehrtica, diferenciandose, no obstante, R. neotropicae de todas las demas Rhyssa por su bello esquema de coloracion con intrincados disenos amarillos y negros, a semejanza del que ostentan unos vespidos sociales agresivos (Agelaia), que abundan en los mismos ambientes. Se cita por primera vez a Rhyssa howdenorurn Townes para Florida y Oklahoma. El genero Rhyssella, antes no conocido en la Florida, cuenta de hecho en este estado con 2 especies, R. perfulva asp., que destaca por tener el cuerpo casi uniformemente de color castaiio claro anaranjado, y R. humida (Say), especie negra con diseiios blancos y las pleuras torhcicas junto con el propodeo en gran parte de color claro, entre anaranjado y rojo.

Dilopharius Townes (1966) ranges from the southern United States to Argentina. Its only described species is D. otomitus (Cresson 1868), previously known from Mexico and south Texas, but now recorded for the first time from Florida. This is a medium sized ichneumonid (fore wing 5-10 mm long) recognizable as follows: mandible broad, lower tooth a little shorter than upper; occipital carina joins base of mandible; scutellum nearly flat, with a strong, percurrent lateral carina; propodeum with broadly triangular apico-latera1 crests; female gaster short and broad; second tergite with coarse punctures, thyridia broad, space between them not much greater than width of 1 thyridium; black with a white band on flagellum and profuse white marks on head and mesosoma, female gaster orange red, often with black and white markings on tergites 1-3, in male extensively black and white on tergites 1-4.

Acaenitines have five genera and 18 species in North American forests (Townes 1960). Several of these occur in the eastern United States, but none is recorded from Florida; however, recent fieldwork in Florida yielded four species: Arotes decorus (Say), Spilopteron formosum (Cresson), S. occiputale (Cresson) and S. vicinum (Cresson) . These inhabit mature forests and attack wood-boring beetle larvae in dead trunks. There are no Florida host records, but Townes (1960) and Cushman and Rohwer (1920) report that in the northeastern states A. decorus was reared from Tomoxia (Mordellidae) in Carya (Juglandaceae), S. formosum from Bellamira (Cerambycidae) in Betula (Betulaceae), S. occiputale from Strangalina (Cerambycidae) in Quercus (Fagaceae) and S. vicinum from Leptura (Cerambycidae) in Pinus (Pinaceae).

Dilopharius Townes (1966) ranges from the southern United States to Argentina. Its only described species is D. otomitus (Cresson 1868), previously known from Mexico and south Texas, but now recorded for the first time from Florida.

First records of the subfamily Acaenitinae in Florida (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

Rhyssa neotropicae n. sp. is the first Rhyssa to be recorded from the New World tropics, where it was collected in cloud forest at 1800 m on Monte Uyuca near Zamorano, Honduras. It is closely related to the Nearctic R. hoferi Rohwer and R. howdenorum Townes but differs from all other Rhyssa by its complexly yellow and black marked head and body, whose color pattern mimics that of aggressive social vespid wasps (Agelaia) which occur in the same habitat. Rhyssa howdenorum Townes is recorded for the first time from Florida and Oklahoma. The genus Rhyssella, previously unknown in Florida, is represented in that state by R. perfulua n. sp., distinctive in its mostly orange brown coloration, and by R. humida (Say), a black and white species with fulvous on the thoracic pleura and propodeum., Rhyssa neotropicae n. sp. es la primera especie de su genero de ser senalada para la Region Neotropical, donde se la colecciono en selva humeda de alta montana a 1800 msnm en la cima del Monte Uyuca cerca de Zamorano en Honduras. Se trata de una especie muy afin a R. hoferi Rohwer y a R. howdenorum Townes, las cuales se distribuyen en el sur y centro de la Region Neartica, diferenciimdose, no obstante, R. neotropicae de todas las demas Rhyssa por su bello esquema de coloracion con intrincados dis enos amarillos y negros, a semejanza del que osten tan unos vespidos sociales agresivos (Agelaia), que abundan en los mismos ambientes. Se cita pol' primera vez a Rhyssa howdenorum Townes para Florida y Oklahoma. El genero Rhyssella, antes no conocido en la Florida, cuenta de hecho en este estado con 2 especies, R. perfulua n.sp., que destaca pOl' tener el cuerpo casi uniformemente de color castano claro anaranjado, y R. humida (Say), especie negra con dis enos blancos y las pleuras toracicas junto con el propodeo en gran parte de color claro, entre anaranjado y rojo.

This paper is a case study examining the implementation of a middle level integrated science curriculum in a large Midwestern city. Data was collected via interviews with 12 middle level science teachers participating in the implementation process. Results of this study indicate there are two critical factors that effectively motivate teachers and promote efficient curriculum implementation. These are: staff development and effective assessment. This study found that staff development should include both effective teacher training activities as well as staff collaboration sessions. It also determined that these activities should be scheduled to take place before and during the implementation process. In addition, staff involvement was found to be an important link to staff development, specifically during the planning process. The second critical feature was found to be the development of an effective assessment tool. This tool is important for two reasons. First, it is a significant factor in the evaluation of the new curriculum. Secondly, and perhaps most important, an effective assessment tool can drive the curriculum. It can be a powerful influence in getting teachers to actually incorporate the curriculum into their classrooms.

Therion Curtis (Ichneumonidae: Anomalinae) has a nearly cosmopolitan geographic distribution but has not previously been recorded from South America. In most Therion the tarsal claws are simple or have only a few inconspicuous teeth near the base. The new species described herein are distinctive, therefore, because they have the tarsal claws conspicuously pectinate over at least 0.8 the distance from base to apex. Therion ranti n. sp. from Cordoba and Mendoza Provinces of Argentina may be recognized by its almost uniformly red mesosoma and basally elevated clypeus. In Therion wileyi n. sp., from the Andean puna near La Paz in Bolivia, the mesosoma is red with extensive black coloration, including much of the propodeum, and the clypeus is weakly and symmetrically convex in profile. Therion wileyi n.sp. was reared from an unidentified noctuid moth larva infesting Chenopodium quinoa (Angiospermae: Chenopodiaceae), an important food crop in Andean South America. Resumen: El genero Therion Curtis (Ichneumonidae: Anomalinae) es de distribucion geografica cosmopolita, pero no ha sido citado antes de Sudamerica. En la mayoria de las especies de Therion, las unas tarsales son simples o, como maximo, tienen varios dientes inconspicuos cerca de la base. Las especias nuevas aqui descriptas, por lo tanto, se destacan por sus unas tarsales que son fuertemente pectinadas en alrededor de 0,8 de su largo total entre la base y el apice. Therion ranti sp.nov., de las provincias de Cordoba y Mendoza en la Argentina, puede reconocerse por su mesosoma casi del todo rojo y por tener el clipeo notablemente elevado en la mitad basal. En Therion wileyi sp.nov., de la puna altoandina cerca de La Paz en Bolivia, el mesosoma es rojo y negro con gran parte del propodeo negro y el clipeo, visto de perfil, es de contornos simQtricos y poco elevado. Therion wileyi sp.nov. fue criado de la larva de una especie no identificada de noctuido(Lepidoptera) sobre Chenopodiurn quinoa (Angiospermae

Therion Curtis (Ichneumonidae: Anomalinae) has a nearly cosmopolitan geographic distribution but has not previously been recorded from South America. In most Therion the tarsal claws are simple or have only a few inconspicuous teeth near the base. The new species described herein are distinctive, therefore, because they have the tarsal claws conspicuously pectinate over at least 0.8 the distance from base to apex. Therion ranti n.sp. from Cordoba and Mendoza Provinces of Argentina may be recognized by its almost uniformly red mesosoma and basally elevated clypeus. In Therion wileyi n.sp., from the Andean puna near La Paz in Bolivia, the mesosoma is red with extensive black coloration, including much of the propodeum, and the clypeus is weakly and symmetrically convex in profile. Therion wileyi n.sp. was reared from an unidentified noctuid moth larva infesting Chenopodium quinoa (Angiospermae: Chenopodiaceae), an importantfood crop in Andean South America., El genero Therion Curtis (Ichneumonidae: Anomalinae) es de distribucion geografica cosmopolita, pero no ha sido citado antes de Sudamerica. En la mayoria de las especies de Therion, las ufias tarsales son simples 0, como maximo, tienen varios dientes inconsp:icuos cerca de la base. Las especias nuevas aqui descriptas, por 10 tanto, se destacan por sus ufias tarsales que son fuertemente pectinadas en alrededor de 0,8 de su largo total entre la base y el apice. Therion ranti sp.nov., de las provincias de Cordoba y Mendoza en la Argentina, puede reconocerse por su mesosoma casi del todo rojo y por tener el clipeo notablemente eleva do en la mitad basal. En Therion wileyi sp.nov., de la puna altoandina cerca de La Paz en Bolivia, el mesosoma es rojo y negro con gran parte del propodeo negro y el clipeo, visto de perfil, es de contornos simetricos y poco elevado. Therion wileyi sp.nov. fue criado de la larva de una especie no identificada de noctuido(Lepidoptera) sobre Chenopodium quinoa (Angiospermae: Chenopodiaceae), una plant a comestible de gran valor economico ampliamente cultivada en la region altoandina de Sudamerica.

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Area Studies ToolBook is an attempt to quantify a broad range of information about the twelve states which comprise the CIS. The authors of the ToolBook present and analyze this information on the leadership, system essentials, infraststructure, population, and military forces of each country in an attempt to inform the reader of some basic facts as well as draw some conclusions about the direction the states of the former Soviet Union are headed. The ToolBook employs Colonel (retired) John A. Warden' s Five Rings analysis method to examine each area for each country and presents a summary analysis section to synthesize the information presented. The implicit question the ToolBook seeks to answer is whether the CIS constitutes a threat to US interests in the near to mid-term future. To even the casual observer it would appear that political and economic upheaval have left the CIS states incapable of posing a threat even to any of their own number, let alone to anyone outside their borders. The ToolBook bears this conclusion out to a large degree with the possible exception of Russia, who as the successor to the lion's share of the military, and natural and manmade resources of the former Soviet Union, has demonstrated a proclivity toward playing first among equals within the CIS. The CIS as an organization, however, exercises only as much centralizing influence as its constituent members decide to accord it, and thus far they have not accorded it much, preferring instead to develop independently of one another and cooperating only in those areas where it suits their individual interests.

The purpose of this thesis was twofold. First, to develop software which automated the current simulation output analysis techniques of batch means and independent replications. Second, to determine the applicability of employing Kalman filtering for simulation output analysis on an M/M/1 queue. The Output Analysis Program incorporates batch means and independent replications into a menu driven, micro-computer program. The program allows the user to quickly analyze the simulation output graphically, discard the transient, and then perform the two techniques. The Kalman Filter proved valuable in providing insight into the underlying system variance in steady state, and appeared to offer several avenues for further research, particularly in the area of transient identification. (kr)

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