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Holistic understanding of contemporary ecosystems requires integration of data on domesticated, captive and cultivated …

Domestic and captive animals and cultivated plants should be recognised as integral components in contemporary ecosystems. They interact with wild organisms through such mechanism…

Two new species of the genus Anufrievia Dworakowska from China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae)

The genus Anufrievia Dworakowska, 1970 is widely distributed in China, Korea, South Korea, Japan, Nepal, India, Thailand, Vietnam and Vietnam. This work reports on two new species…

Distribution of endemic angiosperm species in Brazil on a municipality level

Herbarium collections and the data they hold are the main sources of plant biodiversity information. These collections contain taxonomical and spatial data on living and extinct s…

A striking new species of Dolichomitus Smith, 1877 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae; Pimplinae) from South America

Dolichomitus Smith, 1877 is a genus of Darwin wasps characterized by its large body and long ovipositor, that includes more than 75 species worldwide, 20 of which occur in the Neo…

Flora of Vladimir Oblast, Russia: an updated grid dataset (1867–2020)

The dataset covers wild tracheophytes (native species, naturalized aliens, and casuals) of Vladimir Oblast, Russia. It includes only one occurrence per species per grid square, th…

Occurrence of fish species in the inland water of Murmansk Region (Russia): research in 1972-2021

Knowledge about the distribution of living organisms on the Earth is quite important for many branches of the biological sciences and for the deeper understanding of the surroundi…

Checklist of the Ichneumonidae of Germany (Insecta, Hymenoptera)

A revised checklist of the Ichneumonidae of Germany is presented. The list represents an update of an earlier checklist, published in 2001. The present list includes several recor…

Fish species richness in the Terminos Lagoon: An occurrence data compilation of four sampling campaigns along a multide…

As the nekton's central biological representatives, fish are an important natural resource subject to environmental conditions and human activities in the Terminos Lagoon. An init…

Hemithea aestivaria (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae), a Palaearctic moth, new to eastern North America

The geometrid moth Hemithea aestivaria (Hübner, 1789) was introduced from Europe to North America, first being detected in British Columbia in 1973. Until 2019, its North American…

A crowdsourcing approach to track the expansion of the brown marmorated stinkbug Halyomorpha halys (Stål, 1855) in Fran…

Halyomorpha halys (Stål, 1855), the brown marmorated stinkbug (BMSB) is a highly successful invasive species native to eastern Asia. It has managed to spread into North America an…

Ants of the Palouse Prairie: diversity and species composition in an endangered grassland

Grasslands are globally imperilled ecosystems due to widespread conversion to agriculture and there is a concerted effort to catalogue arthropod diversity in grasslands to guide c…

DNA barcoding for bio-surveillance of emerging pests and species identification in Afrotropical Prioninae (Coleoptera, …

DNA barcoding has been succesfully used for bio-surveillance of forest and agricultural pests in temperate areas, but has few applications in the tropics and particulary in Africa…

New records in vascular plants alien to Tenerife (Spain, Canary Islands)

Recent fieldwork by the author in Tenerife, mostly between 2014 and 2019, yielded new records of alien vascular plants.Seventeen taxa (Acacia decurrens, A. mearnsii, Brachychiton …

Pythium huanghuaiense sp. nov. isolated from soybean: morphology, molecular phylogeny and pathogenicity

Soybean is a major source of plant for edible oil and protein. A new species of Pythium, P. huanghuaiense, isolated from the seedlings of soybean in China is described and illustr…

The Atlas of Living Australia: History, current state and future directions

The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is Australia’s national biodiversity database, delivering data and related services to more than 80,000 Australian and international users annu…

Unlocking the Entomological Collection of the Natural History Museum of Maputo, Mozambique

The collections of the Natural History Museum of Maputo have a crucial role in the safeguard of Mozambique's biodiversity, representing an important repository of data and materia…

Re-introduction of the Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) in Bulgaria - preliminary results from the ongoing establishment ph…

Considered extinct as breeding species in the early 2000s, the Saker Falcon was recovered when the first active nest from the new history of the species in Bulgaria was discovered…

Re-introduction of Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus) in the Eastern Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria – completion of the establis…

The current study presents and analyses the results from the recently completed 11-year-establishment phase, following the start of the local re-introduction of the Griffon Vultur…

Complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the Psammocora profundacella (Scleractinia, Psammocoridae): mitogenome character…

Complete mitochondrial DNA sequence data have played a significant role in phylogenetic and evolutionary studies of scleractinian corals. In this study, the complete mitogenome of…

A small collection of Endeis juveniles (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida: Endeidae) sorted from the fouling organisms on the R/V…

Endeis straughani Clark, 1970 was originally described from Queensland, Australia. Its range was extended to Ghana, West Africa when E. picta Bamber, 1979 was synonymised with E. …

Reassessment of Varronia bellonis - a threatened, endemic plant from Puerto Rico

Varronia bellonis is a lianescent or recumbent shrub that is endemic to Puerto Rico where it is restricted to specific geology types with a limited extent on the western half of t…

When xylarium and herbarium meet: linking Tervuren xylarium wood samples with their herbarium specimens at Meise Botani…

The current data paper aims to interlink the African plant collections of the Meise Botanic Garden Herbarium (BR) and the Royal Museum for Central Africa Xylarium (Tw). Complement…

Field surveys along habitat gradients revealed differences in herpetofauna assemblage in Margalla Hills National Park, …

This study was conducted to see whether herpetofaunal assemblage differed amongst hiking trails, undisturbed forest and urban areas within the Margalla Hills National Park, Islama…

Paraeutypella guizhouensis gen. et sp. nov. and Diatrypella longiasca sp. nov. (Diatrypaceae) from China

In this study, we introduce a novel genus Paraeutypella of the family Diatrypaceae, comprising three species viz. Paraeutypella guizhouensis sp. nov. and P. citricola (basionym: E…

A preliminary world checklist of fern-mining insects

Compared to the leaf-miners and stem-miners on flowering plants, the miners on ferns (including both Lycopodiophyta and Polypodiophyta in the broad sense) are less known. Knowledg…

A new species of Psyllaephagus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) from China, parasitoid of Macrohomotoma sinica (Hemiptera: Hom…

During the investigation of forest insects in Guilin, Guangxi, some encyrtids belonging to Psyllaephagus were reared from Macrohomotoma sinica (Hemiptera: Homotomidae) on Ficus co…

Conservation status of native plant hybrids in the British Virgin Islands

Hybridization is an evolutionary event present in the natural world. Several studies suggest that natural hybridization is an important process in plant evolution, creating new ge…

Sponge-dwelling fauna: a review of known species from the Northwest Tropical Atlantic coral reefs

Within tropical shallow-water coral reefs, marine sponges provide microhabitats for a wide range of fauna. Although there have been numerous studies and reports of symbiotic relat…

Updated checklist of Azores Chondrichthyes (Vertebrata: Gnathostomata)

Several lists of marine fish from the Azores were published in the past. Most of those publications are difficult to access on line and several were not published in peer reviewed…

Updated checklist of Azores Actinopterygii (Gnathostomata: Osteichthyes)

Since the first published comprehensive checklist of Azorean fishes - covering the whole EEZ region - several new records have been published and an updated checklist published in…

Description of a new species of Zeuxevania Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae) from India with a key to species

Taxonomy and diversity of Evaniidae from India have not been studied in depth and hosts of many species are unknown. Out of 31 world genera, only 05 genera (Evania Fab., Prosevani…

Checklist of the coral fish fauna of Xisha Islands, China

The Xisha Islands are composed of the Yongle Islands and the Xuande Islands in Hainan province, China. It has one of the highest species diversities in the world and is also a typ…

Update on the Brassicaceae species checklist

Here we present a revised species checklist for the Brassicaceae updated from Warwick SI, Francis, A, Al-Shehbaz IA (2006), Brassicaceae: Species checklist and database on CD-ROM,…

Trees, shrubs and herbs of the coastal Myrtaceae swamp forest (Región de La Araucanía, Chile): a dataset

Species lists are fundamental for knowledge of species diversity in regions subject to intense anthropogenic pressure, especially in poorly studied ecosystems. The dataset comes f…

An open-source, citizen science and machine learning approach to analyse subsea movies

This paper describes a data system to analyse large amounts of subsea movie data for marine ecological research. The system consists of three distinct modules for data management …

Structure and floristic composition associated with an endangered species Beta patula Aiton (Amaranthaceae) in the Isla…

Twenty-two native Crop Wild Relatives (CWR) occur in specific dry environments of Madeira archipelago, like Desembarcadouro islet in Ponta de São Lourenço and Chão islet in Desert…

EcoBank: A flexible database platform for sharing ecological data

Environmental crisis challenges the human race harder than ever before. Ecologists have produced a massive amount of data to cope with the crisis. Accordingly, many national scale…

Distribution of birds in Colombia

1.  Colombia with 1941 known recorded bird species is one of the most species rich countries in the world. Efforts are necessary to conserve, study and promote sustainable use of …

DNA barcoding of native Caucasus herbal plants: potentials and limitations in complex groups and implications for phylo…

DNA barcoding has rapidly become a useful complementary tool in floristic investigations particularly for identifying specimens that lack diagnostic characters. Here, we assess th…

The Insect database in Dokdo, Korea: An updated version in 2020

Dokdo, an island toward the East Coast of South Korea, comprises 89 small islands. Dokdo is a volcanic island created by a volcanic eruption that promoted the formation of Ulleung…

First Bornean orangutan sighting in Usun Apau National Park, Sarawak

Wildlife surveys were conducted in Usun Apau National Park (UANP), Sarawak from Oct 2017 to Oct 2020. This was the first attempt to document fauna diversity in Usun Apau National …

The Dataset of Camellia Cultivars Names in the World

The species of the genus Camellia arise in southeast Asia, with 80 percent of the species coming from China. These include economically important C. sinensis (Tea) and C. oleifera…

Additions to Italian Pleosporinae, including Italica heraclei sp. nov.

Our investigation of pleosporalean fungi performed from terrestrial habitats in provinces of Arezzo (Tuscany region), Forlì-Cesena and Ravenna (Emilia-Romagna region) in Italy. We…

Lasiodiplodia syzygii sp. nov. (Botryosphaeriaceae) causing post-harvest water-soaked brown lesions on Syzygium samaran…

Syzygium samarangense (Wax apple) is an important tropical fruit tree with high economic and nutrient value and is widely planted in the tropics or subtropics of Asia. A water-soa…

One new species and one new record of Zasmidium in China

Two hyphomycetous species were collected from leaves of Smilaz china and Cremastra appendiculata. ITS-BLAST searches from NCBI indicated that they belong to Zasmidium.Morphologica…

A list of land plants of Parque Nacional do Caparaó, Brazil, highlights the presence of sampling gaps within this prote…

Brazilian protected areas are essential for the conservation of plants of the Atlantic Forest domain, one of 36 global biodiversity hotspots. A major challenge for improving conse…

Occurrence of the amphibians in the Volga, Don River basins and adjacent territories (Russia): research in 1996-2020

Knowledge about the distribution of living organisms on Earth is very important for many areas of biological science and understanding of the surrounding world. However, much of t…

TUL Herbarium: collections of vascular plants of Tula Oblast, Russia

TUL Herbarium presents collections from Tula Oblast stored at the Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University, which is an educational and scientific institution that supports v…

Importance of building a digital species index (spindex) for entomology collections: A case study, results and recommen…

The Entomology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (ANSP) contains approximately four million insect specimens including some of the oldest in the W…

New insights from museum specimens: a case of Viviparidae (Caenogastropoda: Mollusca) in Iwakawa’s collection preserved…

In this study, we clarify the classification of museum specimens of the family Viviparidae, which is composed of six species/subspecies in Japan, including three endangered specie…

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