Host-Pathogen-Vector Continuum in a Changing Landscape: Potential Transmission Pathways for in a Small Mammal Community.

Bacterial infections account for a large proportion of zoonoses. Our current understanding of zoonotic spillover, however, is largely based on studies from viral systems. Small mammals such as rodents and their ectoparasites present a unique system for studying several bacterial pathogens and mapping their spillover pathways.

Review of the Monobazus-group leafhopper genera (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from the Indian subcontinent with description of five new genera and twenty-eight new species.

A group of Asian Deltocephalinae leafhopper genera share one or more of the following features: head markings usually complex with a white diamond shaped marking apically, forewing with veins from outer apical cell (R1 and R2+3) not or variably strongly reflexed, subgenital plates moderately to greatly elongated to digitate apex, male pygofer with a dorsal or ventral process and aedeagus with one or two basal, lateral or ventral processes. This group, named here as the Monobazus group of genera, is treated in the present paper. The following genera are included: Banus Distant, Monobazus Distant, Osbornellus Ball, Mavromoustaca Dlabola, stat.

Arboreal eurymeline leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Eurymelinae) of the Indian subcontinent with description of new genera and eight new species.

Species of the arboreal leafhopper subfamily Eurymelinae formerly included in Idiocerinae (i.e., excluding Macropsini) from the Indian subcontinent are reviewed.