A check-list of the Dermaptera of Iran is presented based on published data and revision of the collection deposited in the National Museum, Praha, Czech Republic. The collection includes 114 specimens in 8 species, of which one, Forcipula quadrispinosa (Dohrn, 1863), is reported for the first time…

A new species of the genus Euborellia Burr, 1910, Euborellia ornata sp. nov., is described, based on material from Nepal. The habitus and diagnostic characters are illustrated.

Mixotrephes (Pictotrephes) pictus subgen. nov. & sp. nov. is described from the Bolaven Plateau in Laos. The new taxon of the tribe Limnotrephini is compared with other two subgenera, Mixotrephes s. str. Papáček, Štys & Tonner, 1989 and Thermotrephes Papáček & Zettel, 2006. Pictotrephes subgen. nov.…

A case of the damsel bug Nabis punctipennis Blanchard, 1852 (Nabidae) biting human in Valparaiso Region, Chile, is described and discussed. The nabid might have been attempting to obtain water and/or solutes.

The assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) of the subfamily Centrocnemidinae and Holoptilinae of Taiwan are surveyed, the taxa are diagnosed, illustrated, and keyed. The nomenclature of the family group name Centrocnemidinae is discussed. Of this subfamily, the single species…

Pactye constanti sp. nov., a new species of Pactye Stål, 1865 (Rhyparochromidae: Rhyparochrorminae: Cleradini) is described from Papua New Guinea; drawings of head, legs, male genital capsule, paramere and dorsal view habitus are provided. New distributional records of P. ciconia Stål, 1867 from…

A new genus and species, Neolargulus excavatus gen. nov. & sp. nov. from the Dominican Republic, is described. Another new genus, Paralargulus gen. nov., is erected for Paralargulus refulgens (Brailovsky & Barrera, 2008) comb. nov. (originally Largulus refulgens) from Jamaica. A key to the genera of…

Nepalius Dlabola, 1997 is revalidated as a subgenus of the genus Eusarima Yang, 1994 in CHAN & YANG (1994). A new species, Eusarima (Nepalius) iranica sp. nov., is described from Iran. A diagnosis of the genus Eusarima is provided with keys to the subgenera and to the species of the subgenus…

Deronectes adanensis sp. nov. and D. ermani sp. nov., both from Adana province, Turkey, are described and illustrated. The former belongs to the D. longipes subgroup of the D. parvicollis species group and can be recognised by its testaceous colouration and by the median lobe of aedeagus in lateral…

The Epimetopus mendeli species group is delineated based on characters of the head, elytra and male genitalia. Three species are included in the group: E. mendeli sp. nov. (Peru), E. flavicaptus sp. nov. (Ecuador) and E. angulatus Balfour-Browne, 1949 (Bolivia). The external morphology of Epimetopus…

The synonymy of Chalcionellus libanicola (Marseul, 1870) and Chalcionellus orcinus Reichardt, 1932 is rejected based on the examination of the type specimens of both species and Chalcionellus orcinus stat. restit. is reinstated as a valid species. The two species differ mainly in the structure of…

Four new genera (Clavister gen. nov., Micronilon gen. nov., Macrotrachelos gen. nov. and Vanuatiella gen. nov.) and five new species, Clavister deplanatus sp. nov., Micronilon acuticollis sp. nov., M. kuscheli sp. nov. and Macrotrachelos longiceps sp. nov. from Fiji and Vanuatiella tishechkini sp.…

A new monotypic genus Batricavus Yin & Li, gen. nov. and species B. tibialis Yin & Li, sp. nov. are described from Guangdong Province, South China. The male and female habitus are illustrated as well as diagnostic characters of the new taxa. The new genus may be distinguished from the allied genera…

Four new species and three new subspecies of Cetoniinae from Indonesia are described: Protaetia (Macroprotaetia) maxwelli sp. nov. and Thaumastopeus pugnator insulanus subsp. nov. from Nias Island; Meroloba siberutana sp. nov., Taeniodera monacha nigra subsp. nov., Protaetia (Pachyprotaetia)…

The family Kateretidae of Japan is revised. Nine species belonging to 6 genera are recognized, including: Kateretes japonicus Hisamatsu, 1985, K. takagii S-T. Hisamatsu, 2006, Platamartus jakowlewi Reitter, 1892, Heterhelus (Heterhelus) scutellaris (Heer, 1841), H. (Heterhelus) morio (Reitter,…

Selected material of 26 species of Macrosiagon Hentz, 1830 from the Old World and Australia has been studied. Based on the examination of type specimens, the following 27 species group names are synonymised in this paper: Macrosiagon axillaris (Gerstaecker, 1855) = M. maculaticeps Pic, 1913, syn.…

The Oriental Notoxus Geoffroy, 1762, comprising 27 species, are revised. Five species insufficiently described by Maurice Pic, Notoxus donckieri Pic, 1908, N. inbasalis Pic, 1926, N. peguensis Pic, 1914, N. sinensis Pic, 1907, and N. suturalifer Pic, 1932, are redescribed. Other known species are…

Urometopus angelinii sp. nov. from northern Turkey (Ordu province) is described and illustrated. Description and illustration of the male of U. anatolicus Smreczyński, 1977 with new locality records are also given. Omias imereticus Reitter, 1888, is here designated as the type species of Urometopus…

Two new species of Mycetophilidae (Diptera), tentatively placed in Dziedzickia Johannsen, 1909, are described – D. bifida sp. nov. (India, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia) and D. pectinata sp. nov. (Thailand). A brief discussion of the relationships among some genera of Gnoristinae is also presented.

The European Stenomicra cogani Irwin, 1982 (Diptera: Stenomicridae) is redescribed including the previously undescribed female, and the variability, biology (with first photographs of living specimens) and distribution of the species are discussed. Stenomicra gracilior sp. nov., a closely allied and…

Myrmica longisculpta sp. nov. is described from south-western slopes of Himalaya in the Jammu and Kashmir region of India. It is most similar to species of the Myrmica rugosa Mayr, 1865 species group but based just on workers, this species cannot be placed with certainty to any species group in the…