Silverfish Lepisma saccharina Linnaeus (Insecta: Zygentoma: Lepismatidae) by Eleanor F. Phillips, Jennifer Lynn Gillett-Kaufman

“… Silverfish is a common name used to refer to many species in the order Zygentoma. The Entomological Society of America designates the term silverfish as the official common name to only one species, however: Lepisma saccharina Linnaeus. …”
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Silverfish Lepisma saccharina Linnaeus (Insecta: Zygentoma: Lepismatidae) by Eleanor F. Phillips, Jennifer Lynn Gillett-Kaufman

“… Silverfish is a common name used to refer to many species in the order Zygentoma. The Entomological Society of America designates the term silverfish as the official common name to only one species, however: Lepisma saccharina Linnaeus. …”
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Flower thrips, Frankliniella tritici (Fitch) (Insecta: Thysanoptera: Thripidae) by Danielle Sprague, Joseph E. Funderburk, Andrea Lucky

“…The official common name established by the Entomological Society of America for this species is flower thrips, although the name flower thrips is often applied generically to the numerous species in the genus Frankliniella that inhabit flowers. …”
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Flower thrips, Frankliniella tritici (Fitch) (Insecta: Thysanoptera: Thripidae) by Danielle Sprague, Joseph E. Funderburk, Andrea Lucky

“…The official common name established by the Entomological Society of America for this species is flower thrips, although the name flower thrips is often applied generically to the numerous species in the genus Frankliniella that inhabit flowers. …”
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New data from the historical bee collection (Hymenoptera, Anthophila) of the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra and additional faunistic updates for Portugal by Hugo Gaspar, Simone Flaminio, Albano Soares, Cristina Rufino, João Loureiro, Sílvia Castro, Thomas J. Wood

“…Entomological collections hold significant scientific potential, especially understudied taxa of historical collections from important biogeographical regions, such as bees in Portugal. …”
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Modified Mosquito Programs’ Surveillance Needs and An Image-Based Identification Tool to Address Them by Jewell Brey, Bala Murali Manoghar Sai Sudhakar, Kiley Gersch, Tristan Ford, Margaret Glancey, Jennifer West, Sanket Padmanabhan, Angela F. Harris, Autumn Goodwin

“…Health districts often lack the resources needed to collect essential data, and conventional entomological species identification involves a significant learning curve to produce consistent high accuracy data. …”
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Evaluation of the protective efficacy of OlysetPlus ceiling nets for reduction of malaria incidence in children in Homa Bay County, Kenya: a cluster-randomised controlled study pro... by Daisuke Yoneoka, Jesse Gitaka, James Kongere, Wataru Kagaya, Akira Kaneko, Yura K Ko, Chim W Chan, Mariko Kanamori, Bernard N Kanoi, Gordon Odhiambo Okomo, Protus Omondi, Kelvin B Musyoka, Takatsugu Okai, Victor Opiyo, Jared Oginga, Samuel Mungai, Kibor K Keitany, Elijah Songok, Noboru Minakawa

“…We will also evaluate the effects of the intervention on entomological indicators as well as its acceptance by communities and cost-effectiveness.Ethics and dissemination Ethics approvals were provided by the Mount Kenya University Institutional Scientific Ethics Review Committee and the Ethics Committee Osaka Metropolitan University. …”
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Exploring the epidemiological impact of attractive targeted sugar bait against malaria in combination with standard malaria control by Nima R. Moghaddas, Mohamed M. Traore, Gunter C. Müller, Joseph Wagman, Javan Chanda, Julian Entwistle, Christen M. Fornadel, Thomas S. Churcher

“…It has been suggested that the percentage of wild mosquitoes caught fed on dye-containing sugar baits without the toxin could provide an entomological correlate of the potential epidemiological benefit of ATSB. …”
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