As peacefully and equanimously as he lived and worked, our friend and colleague Vladimír Švihla deceased on 8 February 2015.

Bruneastrum cardinale gen. & sp. nov. is described from Brunei. This is the fi rst record of the tribe Hemisphaeriini Melichar, 1906 and second representative of the family Issidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) from the country. A checklist and an identifi cation key to the species of Hemisphaeriini…

This study presents the morphological description of a new species, Cicadatra pazukii sp. nov., collected from Iran, also providing the diagnosis of the new species with closely related species. An identifi cation key for the Cicadatra species of Iran is submitted. Adding the new species to the list…

Parahiranetis salgadoi gen. & sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae: Harpactorini) is described based on two females from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A revised key to Neotropical wasp-mimicking Harpactorini genera is presented.

A checklist of the species of the genus Nematopus Berthold, 1827 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Nematopodini) known from French Guiana is given. One new species, N. persuasus sp. nov., is described. New distributional records for N. indus (Linnaeus, 1758) and N. nervosus Laporte, 1832…

Larval morphology and head chaetotaxy are described for two genera of the tribe Berosini, Berosus Leach, 1817 and Regimbartia Zaitzev, 1908, based on reared and fi eld-collected larvae of Berosus (Berosus) japonicus Sharp, 1873 and Regimbartia attenuata (Fabricius, 1801). We describe and illustrate…

Species of Philomessor Jeannel, 1936, subgenus Attumbrinus Jeannel, 1936 inhabiting Algeria and Morocco, namely Philomessor (Attumbrinus) bolivari Jeannel, 1936, P. (A.) cloueti (Portevin, 1907), and P. (A.) henroti Růžička, 1996 are reexamined and a new species Philomessor (Attumbrinus) lackneri…

The Tribasodites bedosae Yin & Li, 2011 species-group is designated to accommodate the cavernicolous species placed in the genus Tribasodites Jeannel, 1960. This group includes three previously described species from the Chinese province of Guangxi, Tribasodites bedosae Yin & Li, 2011, T. deharvengi…

The Kalimantan species of Scaphisoma Leach, 1815 are reviewed. The following species are redescribed: S. borneense Pic, 1916, S. lineatopunctatum (Pic, 1916), S. punctatipenne Pic, 1916, S. punctatum (Pic, 1915) and S. submaculatum Pic, 1920. Lectotypes are designated for these species, and for S.…

Recent collections of Osoriinae from Cuba revealed three new species, Allotrochus cubensis sp. nov., Thoracophorus cubensis sp. nov., and Antillosorius martini sp. nov. In total, 34 species of Osoriinae are currently known from this island including the three new ones. An identifi cation key to the…

Larvae of four Australian species of the buprestid subfamily Polycestinae are described and illustrated: Astraeus (Depollus) aberrans van de Poll, 1886, A. (Astraeus) prothoracicus van de Poll, 1889 (Astraeini), Xyroscelis crocata Gory & Laporte, 1839, and Xyroscelis sp. (probably X. bumana Williams…

The South American genus Pseudodira Gordon, 1975 is revised; its species are described, diagnosed and illustrated, and an identifi cation key and comments are provided. Rodolia carmelitana Mulsant, 1853 is removed from synonymy with Mada fraterna (Mulsant, 1850), provided with lectotype designation,…

Indostola kaengkrachanensis sp. nov. from Thailand is described. Pseudochillus gen. nov. is described and subdivided into three subgenera: P. (Pseudochillus subgen. nov.), P. (Kaszabochillus subgen. nov.), and P. (Micropseudochillus subgen. nov.). Two species of the genus Indochillus are transferred…

A new species, Synchroa formosana sp. nov., is described from Taiwan, representing the fi rst occurrence of the family Synchroidae Lacordaire, 1859 in Taiwan; ecological information is provided. In addition, the new species is included in a key to the world fauna of Synchroidae.

Anthelephila mutillaria Saunders, 1834 and A. rufi collis Saunders, 1834 are redescribed. Seven new synonyms are proposed: Anthelephila mutillaria Saunders, 1834 = Formicomus mutillarius tonkineus Pic, 1899, syn. nov. = F. mutillarius inapicalis Pic, 1899, syn. nov. = F. mutillarius innotatipennis…

Descriptions of the following new species reared from seeds of various Vachellia species (Fabaceae: Mimosoideae: Acacieae) are presented: Bruchidius horridus sp. nov. from V. horrida (L.) Willd., B. quadrispinosus sp. nov. from V. xanthophloea (L.) Willd., B. tumidulus sp. nov. from V. seyal (Del.)…

Five species of the Oulema melanopus group are recognized in the western Palaearctic Region: O. melanopus (Linnaeus, 1758), O. rufocyanea (Suffrian, 1847), O. duftschmidi (Redtenbacher, 1874), O. mauroi sp. nov. (northern Italy), and O. verae sp. nov. (Spain and Portugal). The two new species are…

Taxonomy and nomenclature of the genus Stylops Kirby, 1802 (Strepsiptera) have been understood differently in different parts of world for a long time. Largest differences came from erroneous concept of host specialization of individual species. For this reason, we re-evaluated taxonomy and…

An updated checklist of Dryinidae, Embolemidae and Sclerogibbidae from Burundi and Kenya is presented. The following new species of Dryinidae are described from Burundi: Anteon nkubayei sp. nov. (Anteoninae); from Kenya: Aphelopus severancei sp. nov. (Aphelopinae); Conganteon lymanorum sp. nov.…

A neotype is designated for Camponotus horseshoetus Datta & Raychaudhuri, 1985 as the type material is lost. The original description is ambiguous and for that reason we redescribe the species with illustrations. Camponotus horseshoetus is recorded from West Bengal and Himachal Pradesh for the first…

Two new genera of Keroplatidae (Diptera), Afrokeroplatus gen. nov. and Asiokeroplatus gen. nov., are proposed for two new species, Afrokeroplatus ashleyi sp. nov. from South Africa, and Asiokeroplatus tiger sp. nov. from northern Thailand. An updated key to the World genera of the tribe Keroplatini…

A new species of the genus Sciapus Zeller, 1842, S. talebii Kazerani & Grichanov sp. nov., is described, and three species are recorded for the Iranian fauna for the fi rst time: Sciapus basilicus Meuffels & Grootaert, 1990, Sciapus heteropygus Parent, 1926, and Sciapus medvedevi Negrobov &…

Type specimens from the collection of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) deposited in the Department of Entomology, National Museum, Prague, are currently being catalogued. In this part of the catalogue dealing with the family Aradidae (infraorder Pentatomomorpha), we present precise information…