We present 33 new records of Laboulbeniales from Central American countries on hosts of the orders Blattodea, Coleoptera, and Diptera. Twenty-seven records are new for Panama. These are Amorphomyces eschweizerbart_xxx paranensis on Archimandrita tessellata from Colombia and Costa Rica; Hesperomyces palustris on Coleomegilla maculata from Cuba; Laboulbenia fallax on Gyretes sp. from Trinidad; L. flabelliformis on Asphaera nobilitata from Trinidad; L. funeralis on Gyrinus sp. from Costa Rica; and L. systenae on Systena basalis from Haiti and on S. s-littera from Trinidad. Archimandrita, Azya, Capraita, Epilachna, Ischyrus, and Trichobius are reported as new host genera for Laboulbeniales. Illustrations are given for 16 species.

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Plecoptera order is a basal group of aquatic insects, also known as stonefly. In order to contribute to the taxonomic and ecological knowledge of the genus Anacroneuria, nymphs were collected in the upper and low parts of the Caldera River, in the Chiriquí province. For this, field trips were carried out once a month, from January to December of 2015. A total of seven stations were sampled, and nymphs were collected on rocks and submerged leaf litter, manually with entomological tweezers, and with a triangular net; nymphs were later transported and reared in aquarium systems in the laboratory, and their growth was followed. A total of 485 nymphs were collected, with the emergence of 138 adults. Five species of Anacroneuria: Anacroneuria annulipalpis Klapálek, 1922, A. benedettoi Stark, 1998, A. planicollis Klapálek, 1923, A. quetzali Gutiérrez- Fonseca y Springer, 2015, A. marca Stark, 1998 and two unknown species were obtained after nymphs rearing. The distribution range of A. benedettoi was extended to the Chiriqui province. The first record for A. quetzali in Panamá is commented. In addition, data of altitudinal distribution, seasonal variability and environment requirements were mentioned. We recommend to expand studies on Plecoptera nymph associations with adult forms in other areas of Panama and the Neotropics, as well as to increase the knowledge about their biology and ecology.

A new definition for the genus Moribaetis Waltz & McCafferty 1985 is given. Its type species, Moribaetis maculipennis (Flowers 1979) is redescribed based on male and female imagoes reared from larvae near the type locality in Panama. Larvae, formerly wrongly attributed to Moribaetis salvini (Eaton 1885), and a male imago, formerly wrongly attributed to Moribaetis macaferti Waltz 1985, belong to a new species Moribaetis latipennis sp. n., which is described here based on a male imago reared from larva in Panama. Both species, M. maculipennis and M. latipennis sp. n., are distinct from M. salvini, which is known as a single male imago (lectotype) from Costa Rica. All other species, formerly attributed to Moribaetis, are excluded from this genus; a new combination Caribaetis macaferti comb. n. is proposed for the species originally described as Moribaetis macaferti Waltz (in Waltz & McCafferty) 1985, and a new combination Baetis (Rhodobaetis) mimbresaurus comb. n. is proposed for the species originally described as Moribaetis mimbresaurus McCafferty 2007.

La herbivoría es una de las interacciones de mayor impacto en los trópicos debido a que la vegetación está expuesta a una mayor abundancia y riqueza de folívoros. Se determinó el nivel de herbivoría, la abundancia y diversidad de folívoros, y su relación con el tipo de suelo en la Reserva Forestal Fortuna (RFF). Se evaluó la herbivoría de febrero a septiembre de 2014 en dos parcelas (Honda A y Pinola) en cinco especies vegetales: Cupania seemannii, Faramea multiflora, Guarea glabra, Inga alba y Osteophloeum platyspermum. Se obtuvieron 170 especímenes pertenecientes a nueve órdenes, 38 familias, 29 géneros y 64 morfoespecies pertenecientes a las clases Insecta, Malacostraca y Gastropoda. El índice de Shannon-Weaver indicó una alta diversidad en la RFF (3.47 para Honda A y 3.67 para Pinola). Honda A presentó14.6 % de daño foliar y un índice de herbivoría de 2.05; mientras que Pinola fue 12.4 % y un índice de 1.96. Los porcentajes de herbivoría registrados en este estudio, se mantuvieron dentro del intervalo de daño para bosques tropicales que va de 12 %-40 %, pero no sigue el patrón teórico fundamentado en la disponibilidad de nutrientes en el suelo.