French Scorpionism (Mainland and Oversea Territories): Narrative Review of Scorpion Species, Scorpion Venom, and Envenoming Management by Jules-Antoine Vaucel, Sébastien Larréché, Camille Paradis, Arnaud Courtois, Jean-Marc Pujo, Narcisse Elenga, Dabor Résière, Weniko Caré, Luc de Haro, Jean-Christophe Gallart, Romain Torrents, Corinne Schmitt, Johan Chevalier, Magali Labadie, Hatem Kallel, French PCC Research Group

“…Indeed, only one species can be found on Réunion Island, while 38 species exist in French Guiana. The number of stings is also heterogenous, with up to 90 stings per 100,000 inhabitants occurring annually. …”
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Consequences of In Utero Zika Virus Exposure and Adverse Pregnancy and Early Childhood Outcomes: A Prospective Cohort Study by Rebecca Grant, Olivier Flechelles, Narcisse Elenga, Benoît Tressières, Stanie Gaete, Jean-Christophe Hebert, Bruno Schaub, Felix Djossou, Adeline Mallard, Lucetta Delver, Catherine Ryan, Anna L. Funk, André Cabié, Arnaud Fontanet, Bruno Hoen

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A comparison of two common flight interception traps to survey tropical arthropods by Greg Lamarre, Quentin Molto, Paul Fine, Christopher Baraloto

“…Here, we investigate the relative performance of two flight interception traps, the windowpane trap, and the more widely used malaise trap, across a broad gradient of lowland forest types in French Guiana. The windowpane trap consistently collected significantly more Coleoptera and Blattaria than the malaise trap, which proved most effective for Diptera, Hymenoptera, and Hemiptera. …”
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Taxonomic revision of the Canthidium Erichson, 1847 species of the gigas group (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) by Edrielly Carvalho de Santa, Thaynara L. Pacheco, Fernando Z. Vaz-de-Mello

“…This species group is composed of three described species [C. gigas Balthasar, 1939, Brazilian Atlantic Forest, including intrusions into Cerrado, C. bokermanni (Martínez et al., 1964), Chaco and western Cerrado in Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina, and C. kelleri (Martínez et al., 1964), Brazilian Cerrado and neighbouring open areas] and three new species: Canthidium stofeli sp. nov. from the western and southern regions of the Brazilian Amazon, Canthidium feeri sp. nov. from French Guiana, and Canthidium ayri sp. nov. from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. …”
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Two new species of Kalcerrytus Galiano, 2000 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Tambopata River, Madre de Dios, Peru by Bryan Portuguez

“…This genus includes 18 species, only both sexes are known for half of these and of K. leucodon only the female is known; the vast majority of species are registered for Brazil and there are records from Bolivia, Ecuador and French Guiana. Males are characterized by having a robust palp and more sclerotized than in other genera of the Freyina subtribe; females are distinguished by their broad epigynum with large funnel-shaped copulation openings and oblique edges. …”
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First record of Aristolochia wankeana (Aristolochiaceae, Piperales) from Brazil with a key to the species of Aristolochia subser. Anthocaulicae from the Brazilian Amazon by Adriane Maciel de ARAÚJO, Caio Augusto dos Santos BATISTA, Ricardo de Oliveira PERDIZ, Antonio Tavares MELLO, Matheus Mickael Mota SOARES, Joelcio FREITAS

“…Previously, this species had only been recorded in Guyana and French Guiana. We provide the species description based on the new records, a preliminary extinction risk assessment, photographic plates, an updated geographic distribution map, ecological comments, and an updated key for species identification of Aristolochia subser. …”
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A review of the Paectes arcigera species complex (Guenée) (Lepidoptera, Euteliidae) by Michael Pogue

“…(Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana). Adults and genitalia are illustrated for all species. …”
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Le paysage façonné par le droit, entre la rationalité du droit positif et l’empirisme culturel juridique by Olivier Barrière

“…French positive law shapes the landscape in the context of ownership, public action planning and community projects, promoting the passage of a landscape right to a right to the landscape through the principle of landscape interest.However, the codified norms and legal instruments coming from public policies are adopted and taken within a paradigm context which try to reach a heritage value of the landscape, though imperfect.By integrating into the analysis as an illustration the example of the Indians Wayana located in the context of the overseas department of French Guiana, another dimension opens up and questions arise. …”
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A new species of Macrocentrum (Melastomataceae: Merianieae) from Pará, Brazil by Renato Goldenberg, Fabián A. Michelangeli

“…Macrocentrum aurimontium closely resembles M. latifolium, a species from French Guiana, due to its isomorphic leaves and 4-merous flowers, but differs from it by the eglandular trichomes up to 4 mm long on the adaxial foliar surface (vs. glabrous or deciduously strigulose, then the trichomes 0.1–0.2 mm long in M. latifolium), denticulate to denticulate-serrulate, always ciliate leaf margin (vs. minutely serrulate, eciliate), sepals 0.5–0.7 mm long, triangular to broadly triangular, with an obtuse to rounded apex, the external teeth projecting 0.2–0.5 mm above them (vs. sepals ca. 0.1 mm long, oblate, the external teeth with the same size as the sepals) and the fruits shorter and narrower (2.7–3.7 × 1.2–1.4 mm vs. 4–5.5 × 3.1–4 mm).…”
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Amerindian handicraft and notion of tradition in french Guyana: Toward a new terminology by Damien Davy

“…Through examples drawn to diverse Amerindian communities living in French Guiana we shall approach the ambiguous notions of "traditional" and " modern" item. …”
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Geographic Spread of Gnamptogenys triangularis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ectatomminae) by Joseph A. MacGown, James K. Wetterer

“…In its native range, this species is known from Buenos Aires, Argentina (38.1°S) in the south to Costa Rica (10.4°N) in the north, with records from eight countries in South America (all except Chile, French Guiana, and Paraguay), and the two southernmost countries of Central America (Panama and Costa Rica). …”
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New records and distribution extensions of the glassfrogs Hyalinobatrachium taylori (Goin, 1968) and H. tricolor Castroviejo-Fisher, Vilà, Ayarzagüena, Blanc &a... by Carlos Eduardo Costa-Campos, Davi Lee Bang, Vinícius Antônio Martins Barbosa de Figueiredo, Rodrigo Tavares-Pinheiro, Antoine Fouquet

“…These are the first records of H. taylori and H. tricolor from Amapá, extending the geographic distributions of these species by 317 km from Mitaraka and 320 km from Saut Grand Machicou, both in French Guiana, respectively.…”
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Territorialisation sanitaire et structuration de l’offre sanitaire et sociale pour les populations vulnérables dans l'agglomération de Cayenne (Guyane) : apports de l’analyse de ré... by Elise Autrive, Emmanuel Eliot

“…This article studies the organization of the health and social system for vulnerable populations in the Communauté d'Agglomération Centre Littoral (CACL) in French Guiana (Cayenne agglomeration). It is based on a survey by semi-structured interviews, conducted between 2017 and 2019 among the local actors of this territory, studied using network analysis (graph theory) by crossing different measures of centrality. …”
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Description of a new Lithoxus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Guayana Highlands with a discussion of Guiana Shield biogeography by Nathan K. Lujan

“…Lithoxus jantjae represents a nearly 600 km westward range expansion for a genus historically known only from Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Brazil. Lithoxus jantjae shares with other species of Lithoxus a dorsoventrally depressed body and a large, papilose oral disk with small toothcups and few teeth. …”
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Combining OSMAC, metabolomic and genomic methods for the production and annotation of halogenated azaphilones and ilicicolins in termite symbiotic fungi by Téo Hebra, Nicolas Pollet, David Touboul, Véronique Eparvier

“…Abstract We gathered a collection of termite mutualistic strains from French Guiana to explore the metabolites of symbiotic microorganisms. …”
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Tuberculosis in the Caribbean: Using Spacer Oligonucleotide Typing to Understand Strain Origin and Transmission by Christophe Sola, Anne Devallois, Lionel Horgen, Jérôme Maïsetti, Ingrid Filliol, Eric Legrand, Nalin Rastogi

“…We used direct repeat (DR)-based spacer oligonucleotide typing (spoligotyping) (in association with double-repetitive element–polymerase chain reaction, IS6110-restriction fragment length polymorphism [RFLP], and sometimes DR-RFLP and polymorphic GC-rich sequence-RFLP) to detect epidemiologic links and transmission patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis on Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana. In more than a third of the 218 strains we typed from this region, clusters and isolates shared genetic identity, which suggests epidemiologic links. …”
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Avis de tempête sur les Guyanes by Stéphen Rostain, François Renoux, Benjamin Iaparra Batista

“…For example, the oral tradition of the Palikur people of French Guiana bears witness to great drought and to wars between them and the Kali’na before the arrival of Europeans. …”
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How do borders influence migration? Insights from open and closed border regimes in the three Guianas by Simona Vezzoli

“…To clarify how different border regimes influence migration patterns, this article examines the impact of open and closed border regimes on migration outcomes in Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana in the 1950s–1980s period, when all three gained independence or non-sovereign status and colonial ties were strong. …”
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The 9 Mile Deposit of the Barama-Mazaruni Greenstone Belt of the Guiana Shield: geochemistry, geochronology and regional significance by Roy Bassoo, James Brendan Murphy

“…ABSTRACT: The granitoid and greenstone-hosted 9 Mile Deposit, located in the Paleoproterozoic Barama-Mazaruni Greenstone Belt of the Guiana Shield, is one of a series of gold deposits within the NW-SE trending Makapa-Kuribrong Shear Zone (MKSZ), which extends from Venezuela, through Guyana, and French Guiana. The 9 Mile Deposit is underlain by the upper section of a shallowly-dipping meta-rhyolite rock, which was intruded by a host granodiorite and subsequently intruded by of a series of mafic dykes. …”
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Le Transport Maritime à Courte Distance du Plateau des Guyanes à la Mer des Caraïbes : la perception des parties prenantes by Sherline Dumano, Rémy Louis Budoc, Claude Fiore

“…Given the background of unbalanced external trade among the territories examined by this work, the development of infrastructures and rational modes of transport is necessary to liberate and encourage intra-regional exchange. In French Guiana, the trade imbalance is underpinned by its high reliance on imports principally from mainland France and Europe, despite it sharing a border with Brazil – Macapá, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amapá, is only 700 km away. …”
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