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The Asian snail-eating snakes Pareas is the largest genus of the family Pareidae (formerly Pareatidae), and widely distributed in Southeast Asia. However, potential diversity rema…

Concerns have been raised about the environmental weed risk of non-indigenous plants promoted for broad scale revegetation and farm forestry purposes in South Australia (SA). Envi…

A new subgenus, Walaphyllium subgen. nov., is described within Phyllium Illiger, 1798 to accommodate three leaf insect species. One of the species included is newly described here…

The genus Typhochlaena C.L. Koch, 1850 consists of five small size arboreal tarantula species with remarkable colored abdominal patterns and a very restricted geographic range in …

With the aim of supporting ecological analyses in butterflies, the third most species-rich superfamily of Lepidoptera, this paper presents the first time-calibrated phylogeny of a…

We apply a move max matched-filter method to detect heightened seismicity triggered in the San Jacinto fault (SJF) zone, by the 2014 Mw 7.2 Papanoa, Mexico earthquake. The move ma…

Die Entwicklung der Verbandsorganisation der deutschen Torfwirtschaft und deren Aufgabe seit der Gründung der ersten Fachverbände im Jahr 1946 werden beschrieben. Des weiteren wir…

Auf der Basis von Mikrofaunen-Untersuchungen wurden die Corbicula- Schichten des Mainzer Beckens s. str. feinstratigraphisch-paläoökologisch bearbeitet. Die Untersuchungen stütz…

The genus Chilocorellus Miyatake, 1994 has been revised. Three new species (C. uncinacanthus Zhang & Wang, sp. nov., C. denspinulifer Zhang & Wang, sp. nov., and C. fistulachaetod…

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Two new pygmy grasshopper species are described from PR China and are assigned to Formosatettix Tinkham, 1937, a large Asian tetrigin genus composed of species with reduced tegmin…

Von fünf Stellen wird eine unter rißeiszeitlichem Hochterrassenschotter gefundene interglaziale Molluskenfauna beschrieben (s. Tab. 1); sie wird ökologisch gedeutet und stratigrap…

A new genus of Languriinae, Tomolanguria Huang, gen. nov. is erected for a single species, Languria aculeata Gorham, 1887 from Mexico. It is similar to the Neotropical genus Langu…

The Tylototriton asperrimus complex from northern Vietnam is reviewed based on morphological comparisons and analysis of the mitochondrial marker NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 (ND2…

In order to enhance our understanding of clouds and their microphysical processes, it is crucial to exploit both observations and models. Local observations from ground‐based remo…

A new genus of flightless spider beetle from Peru with two new species is described. It is characterized by unique heart-shaped fused elytra and a broad pronotum with five basal d…

This dissertation presents a comprehensive description of the stability of asteroid orbits in the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt taking the 3:5, 4:7 and 1:2 mean motion resonance with Nept…

The present paper reports data on the biology of eleven species of tachinid flies collected in Italy and Spain on different host plants and emerged from different host larvae. An …

From the Lower Toarcian near Holzmaden (Southwest Germany) belemnites, Acrocoelites (Toarcibelus) raui und Passaloteuthis paxillosa, with softpart preservation are described. Th…

A new species of the genus Myiocephalus Marshall, 1898, M. cracentis Li, sp. nov. from the Palaearctic (China, Ningxia, Hubei), is described and illustrated. A key to known specie…

A new species of grouper, Epinephelus tankahkeei sp. nov. is described from the South China Sea based on examination of morphological and molecular characteristics. This new speci…

Aufbau und Verbreitung der Kieskörper der Harzflüsse Sieber und Oder werden beschrieben, sowie verschiedene Erosionsterrassen ohne eigenen Kieskörper. Das Alter der Kiese und der …

Four species of Minettia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 from Southwest China are described as new to science: Minettia (Minettiella) dashahensis sp. nov., M. (Minettiella) longispina sp.…

Der Arbeitskreis Umweltkartographie in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kartographie versteht sich seit seiner Gründung 1988 als ein Forum der im Umweltbereich tätigen Kartographen …

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, or Commission) considered amendments to Articles of its Constitution (ICZN 1999a) at a special session in Singapore,…

At present, there are 31 species of Rhaphium Meigen recorded in China. In this paper, two species from Qinghai Province of China are described as new to science: Rhaphium huzhuens…

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Sinaloa possesses a rich biota with unique characteristics due to its proximity to the northern deserts, the tropical lowlands of the south, and the temperate environments of the …

The marine toad Rhinella marina (Linnaeus) (Anura, Bufonidae) is a notorious, exotic amphibian species in Australia. However, our present knowledge of the composition of the nemat…

Geologische Karte 1: 25 000 mit Erläuterungen. Digitalisat des FID GEO (Fachinformationsdienst Geowissenschaften der festen Erde), erstellt durch das GDZ (Göttinger Digitalisierun…

Red Listing of Threatened species is recognized as the most objective approach for evaluating extinction risk of living organisms which can be applied at global or national scales…

The diplopod fauna of Georgia, Transcaucasia, is very rich given the country’s relatively small territory; it presently comprises 103 species from 44 genera, 12 families, and 7 or…

Based on all available information, 339 species from 71 genera, 26 families, and eleven orders of Diplopoda have hitherto been recorded from mainland China, the fauna thus being v…

Geologische Karte 1: 25 000 mit Erläuterungen. Digitalisat des FID GEO (Fachinformationsdienst Geowissenschaften der festen Erde), erstellt durch das GDZ (Göttinger Digitalisierun…

Tasmaniosoma armatum Verhoeff, 1936 and T. orientale Mesibov, 2010 are parapatric in northeast Tasmania, Australia. The parapatric boundary is ca 50 km long and mainly follows str…

Until now, morphological trait variation has been investigated in several millipede species using geometric morphometrics. The present study is the first attempt to explore sexual…

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Many stars evolve not alone but along one or more companions. While the evolution of single isolated stars is well predicted by theoretical calculations, close binary systems with…

Strong damped Lyman alpha absorption (DLA) lines seen spectra of distant quasar are believed to arise when the sight line to the quasar goes trough the disc of a galaxy or a proto…

Die Arbeit setzt die glazialgeologischen Untersuchun­gen des Authors in den Karnischen Alpen fort, vorgenommen in den Karawanken in den Jahren 1932 und 1933.

In a paper about the biodiversity of Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in Ottawa Canada (Fernandez-Triana et al. 2016) some figure captions are incorrect. That includes thr…

Es werden eingangs die negativen Erfahrungen der Mooraufforstungen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts aufgrund der modernen Erkenntnisse der Moorkunde und Kulturtechnik gedeutet. Mit Hinwe…

Colima is the fourth smallest Mexican state, covering only 0.3% of the surface area of Mexico, but due to the remarkable diversity of physiographic and environmental conditions pr…

Aethiopomyia Malloch (Diptera, Muscidae) is a small genus with occurrence restricted to the Afrotropical region. Only five species are currently known in this genus: A. patersoni …

The Lesser Antilles, in the Eastern Caribbean, is inhabited by three Iguana species: the Lesser Antillean iguana Iguana delicatissima, which is endemic to the northernmost islands…

The world genera of the Bobekia-group of Alysiini (Braconidae: Alysiinae) are reviewed and keyed. A new genus (Neodiasta gen. nov.) is proposed for Phasmidiasta ecuadorensis Fisch…

Projections of potential impacts of climate change and groundwater abstraction on gaining and losing streams, particularly in ephemeral river basins exhibiting sporadic and intric…