A critical review of marine fishes from Malta (Central Mediterranean) recorded up to December 2022 in the technical and semi-popular literature, during the Mediterranean International Trawl Survey (MEDITS), and in commercial fisheries landings data, was undertaken with the main aim of producing a checklist of species whose occurrence in the seas ar...
Limno-terrestrial tardigrades of Argentina had been studied starting in 1908 and for a long time by European researchers, most frequently in the Patagonian region (incl. the Land of Fire). Starting during the 1980s, Claps, Rossi and collaborators published many surveys, studying other regions also, but with taxonomic criteria at that time. Since th...
Species inventories are a prerequisite for biodiversity monitoring and conservation, particularly in protected areas. However, the possibilities of a standardized survey of species diversity using DNA barcoding have so far hardly been implemented, especially in species-rich groups. A first-time molecular-based and nearly complete inventory of the m...
The Nature Reserve Malpaga-Basella, located along the Serio River in Lombardy, was recently established in 2017. It is interesting as it presents plant species typical in dry grassland habitats, not present in the surrounding area. In this study, Heteroptera were surveyed in the Nature Reserve and in a bordering giant Miscanthus crop in 2019. The b...
Published in Acta Musei Silesiae, Scientiae Naturales
A synopsis of the fauna of the family Heleomyzidae (Diptera) in the Gemer area (Slovakia) is presented. A total of 66 species are treated based on previously published records and material examined (largely from the Muránska planina National Park and the Cerová vrchovina Protected Landscape Area). Each species is listed with comments about its gene...
Published in Biodiversity data journal
At a time of immense human pressure on nature and the resulting global environmental changes, the inventory of biota - especially of undisturbed natural areas - is of unprecedented value as it provides a baseline for future research. Krokar, an example of such an undisturbed area, is the largest virgin forest remnant in Slovenia. It is located in t...
Cette révision du genre Scapicoelis complète le travail de Degallier et al. (2020) et s’accompagne de la description des espèces nouvelles suivantes : S. ayri n. sp., S. bichoae n. sp., S. erwini n. sp., S. gomyi n. sp., S. guyanensis n. sp., S. incognitus n. sp., S. kinitii n. sp., S. koriphensis n. sp., S. kovariki n. sp., S. lackneri n. sp., S. ...
Species identification by means of DNA barcodes depends essentially on the scope and quality of a relevant reference library. The first analysis of a large number (about 600 morphospecies) of southern European Lepidoptera (Greece: Peloponnese) shows both the advantages and disadvantages with regard to a reliable identification of Mediterranean spec...
The bombyliid Pterobates chalybaeus (Röder) is recorded from Europe for the first time. Futhermore, new records of dipterans for Andalusia and the provinces of Cádiz and Málaga are presented. / Se cita por primera vez para Europa el bombílido Pterobates chalybaeus (Röder). Además, se presentan citas nuevas de dípteros para Andalucía y las provincia...
The first confirmed record of Andrena (Ulandrena) polita Smith, 1857 in the Iberian Peninsula is published and illustrated, a species whose presence was suspected but had not yet been found in this territory. Twenty-six additional species of wild bees never before recorded in Asturias are included and commented on, of which sixteen are also new to ...
