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Descriptions of the mature larva and pupa of the Scaly strawberry weevil, Sciaphilus asperatus (Bonsdorff, 1785) (Coleo…
The mature larva of Sciaphilus asperatus is redescribed and illustrated, and the pupa is described for the first time. Supplements to the identification keys for larvae and pupae …
First record of the New Guinea flatworm Platydemus manokwari (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae) as an alien species in Hong…
The New Guinea flatworm (Platydemus manokwari) caused extinction of the native land snails on several Pacific island in past decades, and therefore it has been listed among the to…
Frankliniella species from China, with nomenclatural changes and illustrated key (Thysanoptera, Thripidae)
Species of the genus Frankliniella are almost all originally from the New World. Although eleven species in this genus have been listed from China before, only seven species here …
Transfer of the assassin bug Helonotus pallidulus Walker to the genus Heza Amyot & Serville (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Re…
Based on examination of its holotype, Helonotus pallidulus Walker, 1873 is transferred to the genus Heza Amyot & Serville, 1843 with the resulting new combination: Heza pallidula …
An annotated checklist of freshwater Copepoda (Crustacea, Hexanauplia) from continental Ecuador and the Galapagos Archi…
An annotated checklist of the free-living freshwater Copepoda recorded in different regions in Ecuador (including the Amazon, the Andes, the coastal region, and the Galapagos Isla…
A weighted taxonomic matrix key for species of the rotifer genus Synchaeta (Rotifera, Monogononta, Synchaetidae)
A new, weighted matrix identification key for 34 largely undisputed species of Synchaeta was created with the aim of providing comparable, detailed and diagnostic character sets f…
Two new species of the genus Meleonoma Meyrick from China (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea, Xyloryctidae)
Two new species of Meleonoma Meyrick, 1914a (Gelechioidea, Xyloryctidae) from southeastern China are described: Meleonoma foliiformis Yin, sp. nov. from Guangxi Province and M. pr…
A new species of the genus Dryinus Latreille (Hymenoptera, Dryinidae) from the USA
A new species of Dryinus Latreille, 1804, is described from Georgia (USA). D. georgianus sp. nov. is morphologically similar to D. mexicanus (Perkins, 1907) and D. splendidus Gugl…
Corrigendum: Recognising and defining a new crown clade within Stromboidea Rafinesque, 1815 (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Zoo…
The paper recongising a new crown clade within Stromboidea contains typographic errors that occurred during copy editing: “Neostromboidea” should read “Neostromboidae” throughout.…
A revision of the geographical distributions of the shrews Crocidura tanakae and C. attenuata based on genetic species …
The Taiwanese gray shrew (Crocidura tanakae) and Asian gray shrew (C. attenuata) are so similar in size and morphology that the taxonomic status of the former has changed several …
An online interactive identification key to common pest species of Aspidiotini (Hemiptera, Coccomorpha, Diaspididae), v…
Aspidiotini is a species-rich tribe of armored scale insects that includes several polyphagous and specialist pests that are commonly encountered at ports-of-entry to the United S…
Recognising and defining a new crown clade within Stromboidea Rafinesque, 1815 (Mollusca, Gastropoda)
This paper defines a new crown clade Neostromboidea to separate the Strombidae, Rostellariidae, and Seraphsidae from their sister families Struthiolariidae and Aporrhaidae. There …
DNA barcoding of Deltocephalus Burmeister leafhoppers (Cicadellidae, Deltocephalinae, Deltocephalini) in China
We investigated the feasibility of using the DNA barcode region in identifying Deltocephalus from China. Sequences of the barcode region of the mitochondrial COI gene were obtaine…
A new species of Pheidole (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from Dominican amber with a review of the fossil records for the gen…
Pheidole comprises approximately 1,000 extant species distributed worldwide, being particularly diverse in the New World. In addition to its high diversity and ecological prevalen…
South American Nothochrysinae (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae): I. Description of Nothochrysa ehrenbergi sp. nov.
A new species, Nothochrysa ehrenbergi sp. nov., is described from Chile; it is the first species of Nothochrysa to be reported from the Southern Hemisphere and only the second fro…
A new species of genus Hoplocryptus Thomson (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae) and a key to species from Oriental …
A new species of Cryptinae, Hoplocryptus qingdaoensis Sheng, Wang & Schwarz, sp. nov. collected from Qingdao, Shandong Province, in the north border of oriental part of China, is …
A new genus and species of berothids (Insecta, Neuroptera) from the Late Cretaceous Myanmar amber
A new genus and species of Berothidae is described from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Myanmar amber. Ansoberotha jiewenae gen. et sp. nov. can be easily distinguished from othe…
A new species of Tipulodina (Diptera, Tipulidae) from China, with description of the female internal reproductive system
A new species of the genus Tipulodina Enderlein, 1912, Tipulodina bifurcata Xue & Men, sp. nov. (Guangxi, South China) is described and illustrated. A key to the known species in …
Unexpected palaeodiversity of omaliine rove beetles in Eocene Baltic amber (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Omaliinae)
Fossil records of the subfamily Omaliinae are fragmentary and most of them are less informative compression fossils. Baltic amber from the mid-Eocene of northern Europe is one of …
Taxonomy, systematics and geographic distribution of ground frogs (Alsodidae, Eupsophus): a comprehensive synthesis of …
The genus Eupsophus (ground frogs) inhabits exclusively the temperate forests of southern South America (Chile and Argentina). The current delimitation of the genus was reached in…
A new species of Fannia (Diptera, Fanniidae) from Yunnan, China
A new species of the genus Fannia (Diptera, Fanniidae) is described from Yunnan, China, namely Fannia baihualingensis sp. nov. The male habitus as well as terminalia are documente…
Two new species of the tribe Synanthedonini (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae), with new hostplant associations from Taiwan
Two new species of the tribe Synanthedonini are described from Taiwan: Synanthedon auritinctaoidis sp. nov. and Paranthrenella helvola sp. nov. Diagnostic characters for the two s…
Scolopsis lacrima, a new species of monocle bream (Teleostei, Perciformes, Nemipteridae) from New Caledonia
The new monocle bream Scolopsis lacrima sp. nov. is described from a single specimen (213.6 mm standard length) collected from Grande-Terre Island, New Caledonia. The new species …
A key to the bamboo-feeding genus Bambusana Anufriev (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Deltocephalinae, Athysanini), with descr…
A new species of the bamboo-feeding leafhopper genus Bambusana Anufriev, 1969, B. longispina Luo & Chen, sp. nov. is described and illustrated from China (Yunnan Province). A chec…
First record of the dotted grouper Epinephelus epistictus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843) (Perciformes, Serranidae) in Mala…
Five specimens of Epinephelus epistictus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843) were collected from a major landing site located on the west coast of Peninsula Malaysia during a fish faunal …
Three new subfamilies of skipper butterflies (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae)
We obtained and analyzed whole genome data for more than 160 representatives of skipper butterflies (family Hesperiidae) from all known subfamilies, tribes and most distinctive ge…
Developing a standardized list of entomological collection methods for use in databases
The current natural history specimen databasing paradigm focuses on standardizing occurrence data: where and when a specimen was collected. In order to gather more information abo…
Morphological differences between species of the sea bass genus Lateolabrax (Teleostei, Perciformes), with particular e…
Morphological differences, including growth-related changes, were examined in three morphologically similar East Asian sea bass species, Lateolabrax japonicus, L. maculatus and L.…
A new species and new records of the genus Alexeter Förster (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ctenopelmatinae) from Beijing …
A new species, Alexeter beijingensis Sheng, sp. nov., and two new records for China, A. angularis (Uchida, 1952) and A. shakojiensis Uchida, 1930, collected in Mentougou, Beijing,…
Resolution of the Portunus gladiator species complex: taxonomic status and identity of Monomia gladiator (Fabricius, 17…
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently adopted DNA barcoding for the purpose of determining the species identity of commercial seafood products. This ef…
A new genus of Pelecotominae from Mexico, with notes on the genera Clinops and Scotoscopus and the description of new s…
Taxonomic notes are provided on species of the uncommonly encountered ripiphorid subfamily Pelecotominae. Zapotecotoma sumichrasti gen. et sp. nov., is described from southern Mex…
A redescription of Syncarpa composita (Ascidiacea, Stolidobranchia) with an inference of its phylogenetic position with…
Two species of styelid colonial ascidians in the genus Syncarpa Redikorzev, 1913 are known from the northwest Pacific. The valid status of the lesser known species, Syncarpa compo…
An annotated checklist of the leaf beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) from El Salvador, with additions from the Bechyn…
A checklist of the species of leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of El Salvador is presented based on data from literature and a digitization project of the Bechyné collecti…
The genus Lochmaea Weise, 1883 in Taiwan: results of taxonomic expeditions by citizen scientists (Coleoptera, Chrysomel…
More than 520 specimens of the chrysomelid genus Lochmaea were available for study as the result of collecting efforts by citizen scientists. Taiwanese species of Lochmaea can be …
Leaf beetle decline in Central Europe (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae s.l.)?*
Based on 168,674 records in the database ChryFaun changes in distribution and abundance of leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae s.l.) in Central Europe were analysed from 1900 through 2009…
Adaptation of flea beetles to Brassicaceae: host plant associations and geographic distribution of Psylliodes Latreille…
The cosmopolitan flea beetle genera Phyllotreta and Psylliodes (Galerucinae, Alticini) are mainly associated with host plants in the family Brassicaceae and include economically i…
Review of the leafhopper subgenus Pediopsoides (Sispocnis) (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Eurymelinae, Macropsini) with desc…
The leafhopper subgenus Pediopsoides (Sispocnis) Anufriev, 1967 is reviewed and the type species is fixed as Bythoscopus kogotensis Matsumura, 1912. Six valid species of the subge…
Two new species of the genus Tsauria Koçak & Kemal (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Cixiidae) from China, with descriptions o…
Two new species of cixiid planthoppers genus Tsauria Koçak & Kemal, Tsauria brevispina Zhi & Chen, sp. nov. and T. longispina Zhi & Chen, sp. nov., are described and illustrated f…
A new species of the genus Ochthebius (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae) from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, with a description o…
A new species of the genus Ochthebius, O. (O.) sasakii sp. nov., is described from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, with a description of the larva. This record is the first of the f…
Genus Pempeliella Caradja, 1916 and P. bayassensis Leraut, 2001 (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) in Italy
Pempeliella bayassensis has been reported for the first time in Italy. This species has been confused with P. ornatella for a long time. Our study of the historical collections of…
Allometry and morphological trait relationship in the sexually dimorphic Chinese dobsonfly, Acanthacorydalis asiatica (…
Male insects with large weapons such as horns and elongate mandibles would be expected to invest more on such structures than other parts of the body for advantages in male to mal…
Taxonomic study of the leafhopper genus Oncopsis (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Macropsinae) from Sichuan Province, China wi…
This paper deals with the leafhopper genus Oncopsis (Macropsinae) from Sichuan Province of China, and describes and illustrates two new species, O. konkaensis sp. nov. from Minya …
First record of the genus Rasnitsynoryctes Belokobylskij, 2011 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Doryctinae) in Vietnam, with t…
The rare doryctine genus Rasnitsynoryctes Belokobylskij, 2011 is recorded for the braconid fauna of Vietnam for the first time. A new species of this genus, R. vietnamicus sp. nov…
Metapocyrtus kitangladensis sp. n., a new Pachyrhynchus cumingii GR Waterhouse, 1841 mimic from Mindanao Island, Philip…
A description of a new species from the genus Metapocyrtus Heller, 1912 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Pachyrhynchini) from Mt Kitanglad Range Natural Park, an ASEAN Heritage Site in…
Biogeography of predaceous diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) of Mongolia
The bio-geographical composition and spatial distribution patterns of dytiscid assemblages in Mongolia are relatively unexplored. In this study, we compiled a list of 99 dytiscid …
Description of larva and pupa of Laena haigouica (Tenebrionidae, Laenini) from China based on morphology and four DNA m…
The larvae, pupae, and adults of Laena haigouica Schawaller, 2001 were collected during recent fieldwork in the Sichuan Province (China). Since the pupal morphology of Laena has n…
The genus Sternocampsus Fleutiaux, 1927 (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Oxynopterinae), with description of a new species from…
Sternocampsus coriaceus, sp. nov. is described and illustrated from China. A new combination, Campsosternus castaneus (Jiang & Wang, 1999) is proposed. A key and a checklist of th…
A new genus and a new species in the subfamily Polyzosteriinae (Blattodea, Blattidae) from China
Laevifacies quadrialata gen. et sp. nov. is described from Hainan Province, China based on morphological data. COI data (DNA barcodes) is utilized to confirm the sexual dimorphism…
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