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The genera Albanura Deharveng, 1982 and Persanura Mayvan et al., 2015 are no longer monotypic: description of new speci…
Two new species from the Caucasus belonging to the genera Albanura and Persanura are described and illustrated in detail. Albanura secunda sp. n. is distinctive because of the pre…
A synopsis of centipedes in Brazilian caves: hidden species diversity that needs conservation (Myriapoda, Chilopoda)
This study revises centipede fauna found in Brazilian caves, focusing on troglomorphic taxa and emphasizing conservation status. We present 563 centipede specimens from 274 caves …
A new species of Chelonus (Areselonus) (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from India reared from Acrocercops lysibathra (Meyrick…
Chelonus (Areselonus) spinigastersp. n., (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cheloninae) is described from India. The new species was reared from the moth species Acrocercops lysibathra (Me…
A distinct species, Dodona formosana, detected in the Dodona eugenes species complex: clarification of the taxonomic st…
The Tailed Punch, Dodona eugenes, is widely distributed in East Asia with seven subspecies currently recognized. However, two of them, namely ssp. formosana and ssp. esakii found …
DKey software for editing and browsing dichotomous keys
Despite advances in computer technology and the increasing availability of multiple-access taxonomic keys, traditional dichotomous keys remain the most often used taxonomic identi…
Amphibians and reptiles of C. E. Miller Ranch and the Sierra Vieja, Chihuahuan Desert, Texas, USA
We report the occurrence of 50 species of amphibians and reptiles recently collected on C. E. Miller Ranch and the Sierra Vieja in the Chihuahuan Desert of Texas, USA and describe…
The dating of the fourth volume of Guillaume-Antoine Olivier’s “Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des insectes”
Despite the title page is dated 1795, the fourth volume of Olivier’s Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des insectes was issued in two parts, one probably in 1795 and the second i…
The tiger beetles (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae) of the southern Levant and adjacent territories: from cybertaxonomy to con…
The tiger beetles of the southern Levant (Egypt: Sinai, Israel, Jordan) and adjacent regions of the neighboring countries Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are reviewed…
Review of the genus Coccus Linnaeus from Korea, with description of a new species (Hemiptera, Coccomorpha, Coccidae)
The genus Coccus from Korea is reviewed, including a new species, C. ficicola sp. n., and a first record of C. malloti (Takahashi, 1956). The new species is characterized by a dis…
Corrigenda: De Mattia W, Neiber MT, Groh K (2018) Revision of the genus-group Hystricella R. T. Lowe, 1855 from Porto S…
Wollastonaria nom. n. pro Wollastonia De Mattia, Neiber & Groh, 2018
An early and mysterious histerid inquiline from Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera, Histeridae)
We describe a new genus and species of Histeridae from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber, Amplectister tenax Caterino & Maddison, gen. & sp. n. This species represents the third know…
Two new species of the genus Dahlica Enderlein (Lepidoptera, Psychidae) from Korea
The genus Dahlica Enderlein, 1912 is reported for the first time from Korea with two new species: Dahlica (Dahlica) somae Roh & Byun, sp. n. and Dahlica (Dahlica) ochrostigma Roh …
Rhachotropis (Eusiroidea, Amphipoda) from the North East Atlantic
The genus Rhachotropis has the widest geographic and bathymetric distribution of all amphipod genera worldwide. Molecular and morphological investigations of specimens sampled aro…
Amphipod family distributions around Iceland
Amphipod crustaceans were collected at all 55 stations sampled with an epibenthic sledge during two IceAGE expeditions (Icelandic marine Animals: Genetics and Ecology) in 2011 and…
A genetic fingerprint of Amphipoda from Icelandic waters – the baseline for further biodiversity and biogeography studi…
Amphipods constitute an abundant part of Icelandic deep-sea zoobenthos yet knowledge of the diversity of this fauna, particularly at the molecular level, is scarce. The present wo…
Ampeliscidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from the IceAGE expeditions
Ampeliscidae has been recorded extensively from Icelandic waters by many detailed reports. Material collected from the IceAGE (Icelandic marine animals: Genetics and Ecology) 1 an…
Leucothoe vaderotti, a new Atlantic Leucothoe (Crustacea, Amphipoda) belonging to the “spinicarpa-clade” (Crustacea, Am…
Within the international IceAGE project (Icelandic marine Animals: Genetics and Ecology) some leucothoid amphipods (Crustacea) were collected, among them a rather small new specie…
The Senticaudata, a suborder of the Amphipoda – A commentary on d’Udekem d’Acoz and Verheye (2017)
A response is given to criticisms in a recent paper of the validity of the amphipod suborder Senticaudata. The tacitly assumed status of truth implied in some molecular higher phy…
Ten unique and charismatic new species of Microgastrinae wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from North America
Ten new species within four genera of Microgastrinae parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) are described from Canada and United States: Diolcogaster ichiroi, Diolcogaster mia…
New records of an alien aphid species Tinocallis (Sappocallis) takachihoensis from countries in central and northern Eu…
The aphid genus Tinocallis Matsumura, 1919 (Hemiptera: Aphididae: Calaphidinae) in central and northern Europe is reviewed; it includes four species. The first records of the Asia…
A global checklist of the 932 fruit fly species in the tribe Dacini (Diptera, Tephritidae)
The correct application of the scientific names of species is neither easy nor trivial. Mistakes can lead to the wrong interpretation of research results or, when pest species are…
Updated checklist of the Michigan (USA) caddisflies, with regional and habitat affinities
Based on examination of ~180,000 specimens from 695 collections of 443 localities collected from the 1930s to 2015 we report 295 species of caddisflies from Michigan. Of these, 41…
A new lineage of braconid wasps in Burmese Cenomanian amber (Hymenoptera, Braconidae)
A new braconid wasp from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) amber of the Hukawng Valley in Kachin State, Myanmar is described and figured from a unique female. Seneciobracon novala…
Description of the last-instar larva and pupa of a leaf-mining hispine – Prionispa champaka Maulik, 1919 (Coleoptera, C…
The last-instar larva and pupa of Prionispa champaka Maulik, 1919 are described and figured in detail. The chaetotaxy of the head, mouthparts, legs, and dorsal and ventral surface…
Two new genera of metalmark butterflies of North and Central America (Lepidoptera, Riodinidae)
Two new genera of Riodinidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera) are described, Neoapodemia Trujano-Ortega, gen. n. (Neoapodemia nais (W. H. Edwards, 1876), comb. n., N. chisosensis Freeman, 1…
A sibling species of Platythyrea clypeata Forel, 1911 in southeast Asia (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Ponerinae)
A new species of the rarely collected ant genus Platythyrea Roger, 1863 closely related to Platythyrea clypeata Forel, 1911 is described and illustrated based on the worker caste …
Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America
This catalogue includes all valid family-group (8 subfamilies, 52 tribes, 14 subtribes), genus-group (349 genera, 86 subgenera), and species-group names (2825 species, 215 subspec…
New eurymeline leafhoppers (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Eurymelinae) from Eocene Baltic amber with notes on other fossil C…
Two new extinct fossil cicadellid taxa from Eocene Baltic amber, representing the subfamily Eurymelinae (sensu lato), are described and illustrated, and their relationships to mod…
Effects of habitat and time of day on flock size of Turkey Vultures in Cuba (Cathartes aura)
In agricultural landscapes, the Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura feeds mainly on carcases of domestic animals. In spring 2017, data on 214 flocks of Turkey vultures were collected in…
A new species of Homoneura (Euhomoneura) from northern China (Diptera, Lauxaniidae)
Homoneura (Euhomoneura) yanqingensissp. n. is described as new to science and Homoneura (E.) shatalkini Papp, 1984 is recorded from China for the first time. Photographs and illus…
Seeking quantitative morphological characters for species identification in soldiers of Puerto Rican Heterotermes (Dict…
Subterranean termites in the genus Heterotermes Froggatt (Rhinotermitidae: Heterotermitinae) are pantropical wood feeders capable of causing significant structural damage. The aim…
Discovery of a most remarkable cave-specialized trechine beetle from southern China (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechinae)
Xuedytes bellus Tian & Huang, gen. et sp. n. is described from a limestone cave in Du’an Karst of Guangxi, a kingdom of cavernicolous trechine beetles in southern China. From a mo…
Hind wing variation in Leptura annularis complex among European and Asiatic populations (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)
The ability to quantify morphological variation is essential for understanding the processes of species diversification. The geometric morphometrics approach allows reliable descr…
The genus Gallerucida Motschulsky in Taiwan (Insecta, Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae)
Species within the genus Gallerucida Motschulsky recorded in Taiwan are revised. Gallerucida bifasciata Motschulsky 1861 G. lutea Gressitt & Kimoto 1963 G. sauteri Chûjô 1938 and …
Corrigenda: Capa M, Murray A (2017) Combined morphological and molecular data unveils relationships of Pseudobranchiomm…
Corrigenda: Capa M, Murray A (2017) Combined morphological and molecular data unveils relationships of Pseudobranchiomma (Sabellidae, Annelida) and reveals higher diversity of thi…
Intra-specific structural variation among Hawaiian Hoplothrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae), with ten new synonymies…
Most of the 16 fungus-feeding species described from the Hawaiian Islands and now placed in the genus Hoplothrips were based on very few and incomplete specimens. The descriptions…
Two new genera and three new species of Epipaschiinae Meyrick from China (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae)
Two new genera of Epipaschiinae are described. The genus Arcanusa Wang, Chen & Wu, gen. n. is established for Ar. apexiarcanusa Wang, Chen & Wu, sp. n. and Ar. sinuosa (Moore, 188…
An illustrated key to the genera and subgenera of the Alysiini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae), with three genera …
An illustrated key to the genera and subgenera of the Alysiini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae) from China is presented. Three genera new for China are reported: Adelurola Str…
Comparative morphology of the spermatheca in Megalopodidae (Coleoptera, Chrysomeloidea)1
The spermatheca is an organ that stores and maintains viability of sperm until fertilization. It has an important role in copulation and oviposition, and it is highly informative …
Oulema septentrionis and O. erichsonii are neither conspecific nor melanic variants of O. melanopus as assessed by micr…
The investigation of the type series of Oulema septentrionis (Weise, 1880) and Oulema erichsonii (Suffrian, 1841) using Micro-computed X-ray tomography (µCT) revealed that neither…
How many genera and species of Galerucinaes. str. do we know? Updated statistics (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)1
Galerucinaes. str. is a rich group of leaf beetles. A new, up-to date checklist of Galerucinae genera in the world is provided, including the number of valid species of each genus…
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Quo vadis biodiversity? Species richness following twenty years of taxonomic revisions on Afrotropical Galerucinaes. st…
Galerucinae is one of the most species-rich leaf beetle group with its greatest diversity occurring in tropical forests. There are 1680 nominal species of Afrotropical Galerucinae…
Recent advances in the knowledge of Mexican Alticinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)1
The present study updates previously published biodiversity/faunistics of the flea beetles of Mexico published by the author after examination of 6132 specimens from 8 institution…
Traumatic mating by hand saw-like spines on the internal sac in Pyrrhalta maculicollis (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Gale…
Morphology of the aedeagus and vagina of Pyrrhalta maculicollis and its closely related species were investigated. The internal sac of P. maculicollis bears hand saw-like spines, …
New genetic perspectives of the ambiguous pomfret as revealed by CR sequences
Pampus argenteus is an economically important fish that is often erroneously identified as Pampus echinogaster. No population genetic analyses have been performed on the true P. a…
Evolution of the connection patterns of the cephalic lateral line canal system and its use to diagnose opsariichthyin c…
The cephalic lateral line canal systems were compared among 12 species of the cyprinid tribe Opsariichthyini. All species were characterized by the separation of the supraorbital …
New species of Ancistrocerus (Vespidae, Eumeninae) from the Neotropics with a checklist and key to all species south of…
A new species of potter wasp from South America, Ancistrocerus sur sp. n., is described. A species key and checklist for all described Ancistrocerus that occur south of the Rio Gr…
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