Haemophilia A in a Female Patient with Turner Syndrome

A 28-year-old female presented with occasional swelling of knees and prolonged bleeding after trauma. She also complained of gum bleeding in few occasions. She also gave history of primary amenorrhoea and failure of development of secondary sexual character. There was negative family history of bleeding tendency in both maternal and paternal family. Her investigation profile showed prolonged Partial Thromboplastin Time and reduced factor VIII activity (2.5%). Karyotyping showed (45 XO) Turner syndrome. This is the reported first case of association of Turner syndrome with moderate Haemophilia A in Bangladesh.

A review of the Malagasy species of the genus Trigonochilus Brenske (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Adoretini) with description of a new species

Africa and Madagascar have a large and diverse fauna of the chafers of the ruteline beetle tribe Adoretini (Ohaus 1912, 1918). Many nominal taxa from Madagascar are still poorly known and many new ones were described recently (Akhmetova & Montreuil 2010; Montreuil 2010, 2013; Montreuil & Frolov 2014; Frolov & Montreuil 2018). One of the poorly known Adoretini taxa is the genus Trigonochilus Brenske, 1896. Trigonochilus was proposed to accommodate the East-African species T. coriaceus Brenske, 1896, based on the enlarged and curved metatibiae and a short, spur-like process of the labrum (Brenske 1896). Arrow (1901) noted that the enlarged metatibiae of this species (described from a single male) is a secondary sexual character and added another species to this genus, T. politus Arrow, 1901, from Angola. These species were revised by Krikken (1979). Fairmaire (1903) described Adoretus oedipus from Madagascar (without any precise locality) and noted its enlarged metatibia and the shape of the labrum similar to that in Trigonostonum Burmeister, 1844. Fairmaire was apparently unaware of the Brenske’s and Arrow’s works as he did not discuss the possible affinities of A. oedipus with Trigonochilus species. Ohaus (1912) moved A. oedipus to Trigonochilus after examination of the type series but he did not discuss the characters of the species in detail as well as its distribution on the island. Therefore, the genus Trigonochilus Brenske comprised three species described so far, two from Africa and one from Madagascar.

Lithobius (Monotarsobius) meifengensis, a new species of centipede from high altitude forest in central Taiwan (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha, Lithobiidae)

Lithobius (Monotarsobius) meifengensissp. n.occurring at Mei-Feng Farm, Highland Experimental Farm of National Taiwan University, Nantou, Taiwan, is characterised by a male secondary sexual character on leg 15, a very large ventral swelling occupying almost 50% of the ventral surface of the femur; the gently curved apical region bearing approximately 20 short setae and numerous very small pores of flexo-canal epidermal glands. This male secondary sexual character is described for the first time in the genusLithobius.