El presente trabajo caracteriza la asociación de mosquitos y otros invertebrados sobre bromelias del Parque Nacional San Esteban del Estado Carabobo, Venezuela. Se estudiaron 18 plantas de Aechmea fendleri (11) Aechmea fendleri (1 1) Aechmea fendleri y Hohenbergia stellata (7) durante las épocas lluvia (Septiembre 2004) y sequía (Marzo 2005). Fueron colectados un total de 2020 macroinvertebrados. Los taxa más importantes fueron las Familias Chironomidae (43%), Culicidae (25%) y Chaoboridae (6%) del Orden Diptera, y Scyrtidae (5%) del Orden Coleoptera. En Culicidae las especies más abundan- tes fueron: Culex consolador (31%), Cx. neglectus (27%) y Wyeomyia celaenocephala (17%). La mayor abundancia y riqueza se encontró en la época de sequía, con el aumento de diversidad en Culicidae. La diversidad y equitabilidad de macroinvertebrados fue mayor H. stellata , pero similares entre e...

The incorporation of morphometric data into cladistic analyses poses methodological challenges, particularly in handling continuous characters and landmark configurations in matrices that include multiple individuals per taxon. Although the program TNT (Tree analysis using New Technology) has integrated functionalities for directly analysing continuous and morphogeometric characters, there remains a need for complementary tools that facilitate data preparation and processing. In this context, we present two open-source applications developed in Python: py_tps2tnt and py_tm2tnt. The former transforms TPS files containing multiple individuals per taxon, performs Procrustes alignments, calculates mean configurations, computes centroid size ranges, allows the selection of inter-landmark distances, and exports various types of data into TNT-compatible formats. The latter, py_tm2tnt, focuses o...

In the present work, we characterize the associations of mosquitoes species and other inverte- brates on bromeliads from San Esteban National Park in Carabobo State, Venezuela. Eighteen plants of Aechmea fendleri (11) and Aechmea fendleri (1 1) and Aechmea fendleri Hohenbergia stellata (7) were sampled in rainy (September 2004) and dry (March 2005) seasons. A total of 2020 macroinvertebrates were collected. The most important was the Diptera Order, with the Families Chironomidae (43%), Chaoboridae (25%) and Culicidae (6%), and the Coleoptera, Scyrtidae (5%). In Culicidae the most abundant species were Culex consolator (31%), Culex consolator (31%), Culex consolator Cx. neglectus (27%) and Wyeomyia celaenocephala (17%). The highest abundance and richness was in dry season, when Culicidae diversity increases. The diversity and evenness was similar among season and it was highest in H. stel...