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Review of the Anthelephila maindroni complex, and description of four new species from the Indian subcontinent (Coleoptera: Anthicidae)

Zbyněk Kejval

Anthelephila maindroni(Pic, 1903) is redescribed and A. maindroni strigosa (Heberdey, 1934) is elevated to the species level. Four species are newly described from India: Anthelephila feminea sp. nov. (Maharashtra, Karnataka), A. nandi sp. nov. (Karnataka), A. sahyadrica sp. nov. (Tamil Nadu), and…

New and little known Jacobsoniidae (Coleoptera) from China

Zi-Wei Yin, Wen-Xuan Bi

A second Chinese species of the beetle family Jacobsoniidae, Sarothrias songi sp. nov., is described from Hainan Island. The new species is compared with and separated from similar congeners, supported by illustrations of diagnostic characters. A new collection record for S. sinicus Bi…

A new species of Platypelochares from Baltic amber (Coleoptera: Limnichidae)

Carles Hernando, Karol Szawaryn, Ignacio Ribera

We describe a new species of Limnichidae (Coleoptera) from Eocene Baltic amber, Platypelochares electricus sp. nov. The species belongs to the extant genus Platypelochares Champion, 1923, with six species distributed in the Oriental Region, characterised by an almost hemispherical shape, lateral…

Significant range expansion for the rove beetle genus Deleaster, based on a new species from Papua New Guinea (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae)

Josh Jenkins Shaw

Deleaster wilhelmensis sp. nov (Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae: Deleastrini) is described and illustrated from Mount Wilhelm, Papua New Guinea. It is the first species of Deleaster Erichson, 1839 recorded from Oceania and represents a significant expansion of the known range of the genus.

Lyalinus, a new genus of Cneorhinini from Burkina Faso (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Roman Borovec

A new genus, Lyalinus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Cneorhinini) with one new species, Lyalinus bimaculatus sp. nov. from Burkina Faso, is described, illustrated and compared with other related genera.

Trionymus okiensis sp. nov., a new species of mealybug from Japan (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae)

Hirotaka Tanaka

A new species of mealybug (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae), Trionymus okiensis sp. nov., is described based on adult females collected in Dougo Island, Shimane Prefecture, Japan, on Japanese silver grass, Miscanthus sinensis (Poaceae). The new species resembles Trionymus…

First Anthomyzidae (Diptera) from China: a new genus, six new species and new records

Jindřích Roháček

The family Anthomyzidae (Diptera: Acalyptrata) is recorded from China for the first time based on 11 species, 6 of them new to science. A distinctive new genus Marshallya gen. nov. is described, based on single peculiar species, M. platythorax sp. nov. (both sexes) from Sichuan. Other…

Taxonomic revision of Pygodiscodon (Coleoptera: Cantharidae)

Gabriel Biffi, Robert Constantin

The Neotropical genus Pygodiscodon Wittmer, 1966 (Coleoptera: Cantharidae: Silinae: Silini) is revised. Six species are recognized as valid, three of which are herein proposed as new: Pygodiscodon apicicornis (Pic, 1910), P. gurupi sp. nov., P. monoceros sp. nov., P. obscurus Wittmer,…

Comparative genitalic morphology in ten genera of thread-legged bugs of the tribe Metapterini, and its phylogenetic importance (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae)

Valentina Castro-Huertas, Dimitri Forero, Jocelia Grazia

The assassin bug tribe Metapterini belongs to the subfamily Emesinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae). Morphologically, it is characterized by the conspicuous basal process of the posteroventral series in the foreleg and the presence of wing polymorphism, with a high proportion of the genera…

Three new species and new records of cuckoo bees of the genus Epeolus in Turkey (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Nomadinae)

Petr Bogusch

Three new species of cuckoo bees of the genus Epeolus Latreille, 1802 are described: E. turcicus sp. nov., E. warnckei sp. nov., and E. productuloides sp. nov., all from the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. Descriptions of E. turcicus and E. warnckei are based on both sexes whereas the…

A new species of Synopeas (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) parasitizing Pauropsylla cf. depressa (Psylloidea: Triozidae) in India

Kamalanathan Veenakumari, Peter Neerup Buhl, Prashanth Mohanraj

Synopeas pauropsyllae Veenakumari & Buhl, sp. nov., a new species of Synopeas Förster, 1856 (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Platygastridae: Platygastrinae), is recorded from galls induced by Pauropsylla cf. depressa Crawford, 1912 (Hemiptera: Psylloidea: Triozidae) on Ficus benghalensis L.…

Descriptions of Zygometapodus gen. nov. and a new species of Stenometapodus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae)

Harry Brailovsky

The genus Stenometapodus Breddin, 1903 (Coreidae: Coreinae: Acanthocephalini) is redescribed and one new species, Stenometapodus aurantiacus sp. nov., is described from Brazil. The new species is distinguished by a combination of color patterns and morphological characters, such as the shape of…

A review of Scaphisomatini from Sulawesi, with descriptions of ten new species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scaphidiinae)

Ivan Löbl

The species of the scaphidiine tribe Scaphisomatini from Sulawesi are reviewed. The following new species are described and illustrated: Baeocera inoptata sp. nov., Scaphisoma ancora sp. nov., S. caricatum sp. nov., S. flavolineatum sp. nov., S. hulai sp. nov., S. ogawai sp. nov., S. pellax sp.…

Dolichogenidea maetoi sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Japan, the first parasitoid wasp recorded from Hyblaea fortissima (Lepidoptera)

Jose Fernandez-Triana, Kota Sakagami, So Shimizu

A new species of Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Japan, Dolichogenidea maetoi Fernandez-Triana & Shimizu sp. nov., is described, representing the first record of a braconid wasp parasitizing the lepidopteran family Hyblaeidae in the Palaearctic Region (from Hyblaea fortissima…

Elaphidiini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from the Neotropical Region: new species, updated key, new synonym, and new records

Francisco E. de L. Nascimento

Two new species of Neotropical Elaphidiini (Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae) are described and illustrated: Anelaphus flavofasciatus sp. nov. from Colombia and Stizocera wappesi sp. nov. from Bolivia. Additionally, an updated key to South American species of Anelaphus Linsley, 1936 is provided.…

Presence of uradenia in male adults of the genus Dismegistus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Parastrachiidae)

Dominique Pluot-Sigwalt, Jerzy A. Lis

Uradenia, often referred to as paragenital glands, are usually voluminous paired exocrine glands located ventrally in the abdomen mostly on the intersegmental membrane between abdominal segments (= urites) VII–VIII or VIII–IX, depending on sex or the taxon. They have been previously recorded from…

Larval morphology of Yateberosus, a New Caledonian endemic subgenus of Laccobius (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae), with notes on ‘Berosus-like’ larvae in Hydrophiloidea

Martin Fikáček, Yûsuke N. Minoshima, Manfred A. Jäch

The morphology and head chaetotaxy of the second and third instar larvae of Laccobius (Yateberosus) sp. are described based on specimens collected in New Caledonia. The larvae agree with those of other subgenera of Laccobius Erichson, 1837 in most morphological characters including the…

Annotated catalogue of the flower bugs from India (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae, Lasiochilidae)

Chandish R. Ballal, Shahid Ali Akbar, Kazutaka Yamada, Aijaz Ahmad Wachkoo, Richa Varshney

The present paper provides a checklist of the flower bug families Anthocoridae and Lasiochilidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of India based on literature and newly collected specimens including eleven new records. The Indian fauna of flower bugs is represented by 73 species belonging to…

Missing geographic link: minute lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Microweiseinae) from Mount Wilhelm, New Guinea

Karol Szawaryn

Lady beetle fauna of the New Guinea has been studied by several entomologists but there are still many coccinellid groups that have not been recorded from the island yet. Newly collected materials from “Our Planet Reviewed – Papua New Guinea” expedition revealed three new species belonging to…

Notes on the Dianous luteoguttatus complex with description of a new species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

Liang Tang, Wei Wang

Dianous lilizheni sp. nov., a new species of the Dianous luteoguttatus complex from China, is described. Males of D. vorticipennis Puthz, 2005 and D. depressifrons Puthz, 2016 and the female of D. rimosipennis Puthz, 2005 are discovered for the first time. New distributional records…

New species and first record of Helotrephes from India, and a check-list of Indian Helotrephidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)

E. Eyarin Jehamalar, Kailash Chandra, Herbert Zettel

Helotrephes nainamalaii sp. nov. from Meghalaya, India is described. Representatives of Helotrephes are so far known from southern China, Southeast Asia and Sundaland. The unexpected first record of Helotrephes from India expands their distribution more than 1,000 kilometres westward. The new…

Four new species and new records of Manota (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia

Heikki Hippa, Olavi Kurina

Four new Manota species are described from the northern part of Sulawesi: M. ashleyi sp. nov., M. axillata sp. nov., M. loriculata sp. nov. and M. spathigera sp. nov. New records are given for the following species: M. dolichothrix Hippa & Ševčík, 2010 (South Sulawesi), M. horrida Hippa,…

Contribution to the knowledge of selected genera of the tribe Opsiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Saad El-Sonbati, Michael Wilson, Hathal Al Dhafer

The redescriptions of two genera of Opsiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), Concavifer Dlabola, 1960 and Phlepsopsius Dlabola, 1979, are given based on specimens collected recently in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Concavifer nativus Zhuravlev, 1991 syn. nov., and C. sagittatus Emeljanov,…

Two new species of Heleomyzidae (Diptera) from Czech Republic and Crimea

Jiří Preisler, Michal Tkoč

Two new species of Heleomyzidae are described. Heleomyza kovali sp. nov. is described based on material from the Czech Republic and Crimea and differs from other European Heleomyza species by the structure of male genitalia. Eccoptomera nevrlyi sp. nov. is described based on two males from Jeseníky…

A revision of the types of Heteroptera species described by Géza Horváth based on specimens from collections of Ladislav Duda and Emil Holub

Petr Kment, Dávid Rédei

A recent cataloguing of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) types held in the collection of National Museum, Prague (NMPC), revealed several specimens originating from the collection of Czech collectors Emil Holub and Ladislav Duda, being part of the same series as types described by Géza Horváth in…

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