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Diet and helminth parasites of freshwater turtles Mesoclemmys tuberculata , Phrynops geoffroanus (Pleurodira: Chelidae) and Kinosternon scorpioides (Criptodyra: Kinosternidae) in a semiarid region,…

Host body size was positively related to helminths abundance in both male and female Chelidae species, and a significant difference in helminth abundance between the sexes was found only in P. geoffroanus, where females had more parasites than males.
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Influence of temporal variation and host condition on helminth abundance in the lizard Tropidurus hispidus from north-eastern Brazil.

Overall, larger-sized lizards showed higher helminth abundance and heteroxenic species were more abundant in the Atlantic Forest environments, showing that the temporal variation, body size, sex, reproductive period and habitat type influence the abundance and composition of helmineth species in T. hispidus.
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Helminth parasites of Phyllodactylidae and Gekkonidae lizards in a Caatinga ecological station, northeastern Brazil

South American lizards were identified as being new hosts for the Trichospirura genus, and there were 16 new occurrences of parasite species in the five lizard species studied herein.
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Helminths of the Lizard Salvator merianae (Squamata, Teiidae) in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil.

New parasitological data on the gastrointestinal nematodes associated with the lizard S. merianae is provided, thus increasing the knowledge of the fauna of parasites that infect large Neotropical lizards.
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Nematodes associated with Iguana iguana (Linnaeus, 1758) (Squamata, Iguanidae) in Semi-arid areas of Northeastern Brazil.

Iguana iguana was identified as a new host for Physaloptera sp.
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Raillietiella Mottae (Pentastomida: Raillietiellidae) Parasitizing Four Species of Gekkota Lizards (Gekkonidae and Phyllodactylidae) in the Brazilian Caatinga

Host sex did not influence the abundance of parasites in any species, and Hemidactylus agrius, G. geckoides, and H. brasilianus are three new host records for pentastomids.
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First record of stink bug (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) in rice farming in the Maranhão.

Apresenta-se o primeiro registro de ocorrência de Atrachelus cinereus crassicornis, Doldina carinulata Stål, 1859, Zelus mattogrossensis Wygodzinsky, 1947 em lavoura de arroz, no estado do Maranhão, Brasil.
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