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Contributions to the knowledge of Atlantic Canadian Histeridae (Coleoptera)
New records of Histeridae from Atlantic Canada are reported. Three species are newly recorded from Prince Edward Island and two from New Brunswick, one of which, the introduced Pa…
Diglotta mersa (Haliday) and Halobrecta flavipes Thomson, two new species for the Canadian fauna (Coleoptera, Staphylin…
Diglotta mersa (Haliday) of the Diglottini, a western Palaearctic species, is reported for the first time from the Atlantic coast of North America (Canada, New Brunswick, Dipper H…
Adventive Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: further contributions
Seven species of adventive Palaearctic staphylinids, Ilyobates bennetti Donisthorpe, Meotica exilis (Knoch), Meotica 'pallens' (Redtenbacher), Anotylus insecatus (Gravenhorst), An…
The coastal rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of Atlantic Canada: a survey and new records
The coastline inhabiting rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of Atlantic Canada are surveyed. Thirty-three species have now been recorded in Atlantic Canada including 26 in N…
New records of Canadian Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)
New records are reported for 53 species of Canadian aleocharines. Eighty-eight new Canadian provincial records (nine from Alberta, 11 from British Columbia, eight from New Brunswi…
Species review of the genus Gnypeta Thomson from Canada, Alaska and Greenland (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)…
A review of the rove beetle species of the genus Gnypeta Thomson from Canada, Alaska and Greenland is presented. Eighteen species are reported from Canada of which 7 are described…
How far have we come: 170 years of research on Canadian Coleoptera
A brief history of the research on Coleoptera in Canada is recounted. The Canadian fauna was first studied by Kirby (1837) from specimens collected during the first two Franklin e…
The giant resin bee making its way west: First record in Kansas (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)
The invasive giant resin bee (Megachile sculpturalis Smith) was first discovered in North America in 1994. A 2005 study provided the first predictive ecological niche model for an…
A new candidate for a Gondwanaland distribution in the Zodariidae (Araneae): Australutica in Africa
Two new species of Australutica Jocqué, 1995, a genus formerly only known from Australia, are described from South Africa: A. africana n. sp. from Soutpansberg and A. normanlarsen…
Eight new species of Macvicaria Gibson and Bray, 1982 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) from temperate marine fishes of Australia
Nine morphologically distinct species of Macvicaria Gibson & Bray, 1982 were recovered from six families, ten genera and twelve species of marine fishes in the waters off the coas…
The Carabus fauna of Israel – updated identification key, faunistics, and habitats (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
This key to the Carabus species of Israel is an updated identification key with notes on the distribution and habitats of the species. Substantial additions, corrections and taxon…
ZooKeys, unlocking Earth’s incredible biodiversity and building a sustainable bridge into the public domain: From “prin…
Publishing taxonomic and systematics studies in the digital era faces major challenges and requires new approaches, many of which are currently stimulating spirited discussions am…
Liberating links between datasets using lightweight data publishing: an example using plant names and the taxonomic lit…
Constructing a biodiversity knowledge graph will require making millions of cross links between diversity entities in different datasets. Researchers trying to bootstrap the growt…
Semi-automatic Extraction of Plants Morphological Characters from Taxonomic Descriptions Written in Spanish
Taxonomic literature keeps records of the planet's biodiversity and gives access to the knowledge needed for its sustainable management. Unfortunately, most of the taxonomic infor…
An updated checklist of the Tenebrionidae sec. Bousquet et al. 2018 of the Algodones Dunes of California, with comments…
Generating regional checklists for insects is frequently based on combining data sources ranging from literature and expert assertions that merely imply the existence of an occurr…
The taxlist package: managing plant taxonomic lists in R
Taxonomic lists are crucial elements of vegetation-plot databases and provide the links between original entries, reference taxon views and different taxon concepts. We introduce …
spind: an R Package to Account for Spatial Autocorrelation in the Analysis of Lattice Data
spind is an R package aiming to provide a useful toolkit to account for spatial dependence in the analysis of lattice data. Grid-based data sets in spatial modelling often exhibit…
The stoneflies (Insecta, Plecoptera) of the Talladega Mountain region, Alabama, USA: distribution, elevation, endemism,…
Background The Talladega Mountain region of eastern Alabama is the southernmost outlier of the ancient Appalachian Mountains, including the highest peaks and ranges in the state…
Fauna of Cerambycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) in Komaba Campus of the University of Tokyo, a highly urbanised area in Jap…
Urban green spaces play an important role in maintaining urban biodiversity in the Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. Plant-dependent insect assemblages such as Cerambycidae, in particular,…
Insect biodiversity of the Algodones Dunes of California
Over a nine year period beginning in 2007 we surveyed the insects of the Algodones Dunes, Imperial Count, California, as part of a study undertaken for the U.S. Bureau of Land Man…
20th century Betula pubescens subsp. czerepanovii tree- and forest lines in Norway
Georeferenced tree- and forest line data has a wide range of applications and are increasingly used for e.g. monitoring of climate change impacts and range shift modelling. As par…
Applications of deep convolutional neural networks to digitized natural history collections
Natural history collections contain data that are critical for many scientific endeavors. Recent efforts in mass digitization are generating large datasets from these collections …
A streamlined collecting and preparation protocol for DNA barcoding of Lepidoptera as part of large-scale rapid biodive…
Here we present a general collecting and preparation protocol for DNA barcoding of Lepidoptera as part of large-scale rapid biodiversity assessment projects, and a comparison with…
red - an R package to facilitate species red list assessments according to the IUCN criteria
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List is the most useful database of species that are at risk of extinction worldwide, as it relies on a number of object…
An Upgrade Pinning Block: A Mechanical Practical Aid for Fast Labelling of the Insect Specimens
A new mechanical innovation is described to deal with standard labelling of dried specimens on triangular cards and/or pinned specimens in personal and public collections. It work…
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