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Zootaxa
April 2022
Universidade Federal do Esprito Santo, Depto Cincias Biolgicas, Vitria, ES (Brazil).
We provide a Neotropical synopsis of the genus Sclerodermus Latreille. The genus is recognized by having the antenna with 11 flagellomeres, the head globoid or nearly so, the eyes present and flat, and the clypeal median lobe strongly angled and deeply separated from the lateral lobes. The strong polymorphism of having wings is an intra- and intergeneric feature and the macropterous specimens are diagnosed by having forewings with the pterostigma slender and only the R cell closed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFG Ital Dermatol Venereol
December 2010
Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Dermatology Sciences, University of Milan, I.R.C.C.S. FoundationCa' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
Aim: Sclerodermus domesticus is an insect belonging to the order Hymenoptera. Female of S. domesticus feeds on larvae of xylophagous Coleoptera and Lepidoptera living in the galleries they dig in old wooden furniture.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCase history of five members from the same family is reported. They developed papulourticarial pruritic rash on the skin of their torsos and extremities during their summer stay in an old family house. The cause was an insect determined as Sclerodermus domesticus, known for its parasitism on larvae of a wood pest.
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