Mud snails (family Nassariidae) represent a highly diversified lineage within the superfamily Buccinoidea. Recent molecular phylogenies contradicted in some instances the traditional nassariid classification and revealed important levels of homoplasy in phenotypic characters. In order to clarify the boundaries of the family Nassariidae, as well as ...
Three new species of click-beetles Craspedostethus echis n. sp., Dicronychus boboti n. sp. and Dicronychus jarda n. sp. are described from the Sultanate of Oman. The transfers of Saudilacon omanensis (Platia, 2008) comb. nov. from the genus Adelocera and Compsolacon omanensis (Platia & Schimmel, 1997) comb. nov. from the genus Agrypnus are submitte...
A new contribution is proposed to the knowledge of the family Chaerilobuthidae Lourenço & Beigel, 2011, originally described from Early Cretaceous Burmite. With the descriptions of one new genus and one new species the diversity of this family, previously composed of the single genus Chaerilobuthus, is improved. The family Chaerilobuthidae remains...
A checklist for the species of Curculionidae collected in the surroundings of the Rancho Frio Biological Station, Darien National Park, Panama is presented. Specimens were collected from March 21to April 4, 2000, and November 7, 2000, to January 24, 2001, using seven Malaise traps. 343 specimens of Curculionidae (excluding Scolytinae and Platypodin...
In this paper, we describe a new species, Falcicornis zhongi Xin & Qi, sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Lucaninae) from Hà Giang Province, Vietnam. Meanwhile, we proposed a taxonomic treatment: Falcicornis vidam (Nguyen & Schenk, 2015) comb. nov. (transferred from Macrodorcas Motschulsky, 1861). Furthermore, we provide a checklist of Falcicornis s...
Several species described in the genus Acalolepta Pascoe, 1858 were analysed. Acalolepta aesthetica (Olliff, 1890); A. artensis (Montrouzier, 1861); A. blairi (Breuning, 1935); A. bolanica (Aurivillius, 1925); A. gracilis (Breuning, 1938); A. puncticeps (Breuning, 1938); A. riouensis (Aurivillius, 1924); A. sculpturata (Aurivillius, 1924); A. timor...
Xixuthrus ripertae n. sp. is described from West Papua, Indonesia, and compared with X. helleri (Lameere, 1903) and X. lameerei Marazzi, Marazzi & Komiya, 2006. Xixuthrus horaki Hergovits, 2023 corresponds to the description of the male of X. arfakianus (Lansberge, 1884) and is considered as a junior synonym. The genus Chondrothrus described by Gre...
A new species belonging to the genus Tityus (Atreus) (family Buthidae, C. L. Koch, 1837) is described from the Colombian Cordillera Oriental on the basis of three specimens collected in La Vega (Cundinamarca department). Specimens of Tityus (Atreus) icarus sp. n. were collected in a patch of medium-altitude broadleaf rainforest, 1350 a.s.l. The new...
A detailed presentation of eight non-native beetle species for mainland France is made, including new interceptions or first records in this country. Dryophthorus americanus (Bedel, 1885) (Dryophthoridae), Glischrochilus fasciatus (A. G. Olivier, 1790) (Nitidulidae), Neoisocerus ferrugineus (Fabricius, 1798) (Tenebrionidae), Stenolophus (Egadroma) ...
The highly variable ’leafscapes’ of plants across the world represent billions of square metres of mite habitat. The phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae), an extremely species-rich group of mostly generalist predators, are providers of ecosystem services for humanity worth many hundreds of millions of dollars annually by helping suppress phytopha...
