Personal Dimensions in First Psychotic Episode Patients with Catatonia.

The study reports findings from an observational cross-sectional study involving patients experiencing their first psychotic episode with acute catatonia (n=82), compared to non-catatonic patients (n=74) and a group of healthy volunteers (n=47). Diagnostic procedures spanned two days: the first involved clinical interviews to assess psychosis structure and gather objective data (from relatives and medical records), while the second included psychometric evaluations using PANSS and BFCRS scales. Between these days, participants completed the Big Five Personality Factor Questionnaire (5PFQ) and Beck's Personality Beliefs Questionnaire (PBQ).

New records of mealybug (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) parasitoids belonging to the family Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from Turkey.

As a result of surveys conducted in Aydın Province (Turkey), 19 parasitoids belonging to the family Encyrtidae were found on pseudococcids. Four species are newly recorded from Turkey: Anusia tornike Japoshvili, Coccidoxenoides perminutus Girault, Homalotylus quaylei (Timberlake), and Prochiloneurus aegyptiacus (Mercet). One new species, Leptomastix baspinari Japoshvili sp.

Studies on mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in Indonesia, with description of a new species and three new country records.

Pseudococcid mealybugs (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) include economically important insect pests worldwide; however, little is known about the species present in Indonesia. Samples were collected and identified from wild and cultivated plants in several regions of southern Sumatra, Indonesia between 2018 and 2020. Eighteen species of Pseudococcidae in 8 genera were identified, including one undescribed species and new host plants.

A checklist of Indonesian scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha).

Scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorryncha: Coccomorpha) are a very important insect group containing numerous pests of woody and herbaceous plants worldwide. The only complete study of any scale insects in Indonesia was by D.J.