Primeiro registro de Saica apicalis Osborn & Drake para o Brasil e Pseudosaica florida (Barber), com notas taxonômicas e chave para os gêneros de Saicinae do Brasil (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) First records of Saica apicalis Osborn & Drake and Pseudosaica florida (Barber) in Brazil, with taxonomical notes and key for the Saicinae genera of Brazil (Hemiptera, Reduviidae)

Apresenta-se o primeiro registro de ocorrência de Saica apicalis Osborn & Drake, 1915 e de Pseudosaica florida (Barber, 1953) no Brasil. Notas taxonômicas sobre Saica Amyot & Serville, 1843 e Pseudosaica Blinn, 1990 são fornecidas.<br>The first records of Saica apicalis Osborn & Drake, 1915 and Pseudosaica florida (Barber, 1953) for Brazil are presented. Taxonomical notes on Saica Amyot & Serville, 1843 and Pseudosaica Blinn, 1990 are given

Predation of Apiomerus pilipes (Fabricius) (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Harpactorinae, Apiomerini) over Meliponinae bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae), in the State of Amazonas, Brazil

The present work shows the occurrence of an intense predatory activity on adults working Meliponinae bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae), by Apiomerus pilipes (Fabricius, 1787) (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Harpactorinae, Apiomerini) at a meliponary in the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA, Manaus), Amazonas State, Brazil.<br>O presente trabalho registra a ocorrência de intensa atividade predatória de Apiomerus pilipes (Fabricius, 1787) (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Harpactorini, Apiomerini) sobre operárias adultas de meliponíneos (Hymenoptera, Apidae), no meliponário experimental do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA, Manaus), Estado do Amazonas, Brasil. O meliponário se encontra num fragmento de vegetação secundária no próprio INPA

Catálogo dos Erotylidae (Coleoptera) Neotropicais Catalogue of Neotropical Erotylidae (Coleoptera)

<abstract language="eng">The present catalog is an inventory of names proposed in Erotylidae (from family through subspecies) ocurring in the Neotropical Region, up to the present date (1988). It updates the nomenclature of included taxa, adds taxonomic units proposed after the Kuhnt's Genera Insectorum (Kuhnt, 1909) and includes abbreviated references to the literature, which are fully cited at the end of this catalogue. The systematic order follows Kuhnt, 1909, and afterwards, the position given to each taxa by the original author