ZootaxaPub Date : 2025-04-02DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.7
Mario E Toledo, Ilaria Negri, Johannes Bergsten
{"title":"The identity of Canthydrus testaceus (Boheman, 1858) and a new faunistic record of Sternocanthus indicus (Wehncke, 1876) (Coleoptera: Noteridae).","authors":"Mario E Toledo, Ilaria Negri, Johannes Bergsten","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"5618 2","pages":"284-286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZootaxaPub Date : 2025-04-02DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.5
S V Kazantsev
{"title":"A review of the fossil genus Mimoplatycis Kazantsev, 2013 (Coleoptera: Cantharidae: Malthininae).","authors":"S V Kazantsev","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.5","DOIUrl":"10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two new species of soldier beetles of the subfamily Malthininae, Mimoplatycis alekseevi sp. nov., from East Baltic amber, and M. perkovskyi sp. nov., from Rovno amber, are described. A checklist and an identification key to Mimoplatycis are presented, with four species from Baltic (Danish and East Baltic) and one from Rovno amber.</p>","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"5618 2","pages":"267-274"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZootaxaPub Date : 2025-04-02DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.6
Kohei Watanabe, Yuuki Kamite, Leo Takechi, Masakazu Hayashi
{"title":"Description of the instar III larva of Agabus (Acatodes) browni Kamiya, 1934 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Agabinae).","authors":"Kohei Watanabe, Yuuki Kamite, Leo Takechi, Masakazu Hayashi","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.6","DOIUrl":"10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The instar III larva of Agabus (Acatodes) browni Kamiya, 1934 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Agabinae) is described for the first time with emphasis on chaetotaxy. The larva is characterized by a yellow-brown frontoclypeus with a central anterior diamond-shaped dark brown macula, the serrated inner ventral margin of the distal half of the mandible, and the abdominal segment VIII with both short and three pairs of long hair-like setae. The larva is compared to those of A. conspicuus Sharp, 1873, and A. japonicus Sharp, 1873 from Honshu and western Japan. A key to identify the instar III larvae of these species is provided.</p>","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"5618 2","pages":"275-283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZootaxaPub Date : 2025-04-02DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.10
David Chamé-Vázquez, María-Luisa Jiménez
{"title":"A new sac spider of the genus Elaver O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 (Araneae: Clubionidae) from western Mexico.","authors":"David Chamé-Vázquez, María-Luisa Jiménez","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"5618 2","pages":"295-300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZootaxaPub Date : 2025-04-02DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.9
Amartya Pal, Jerzy A Lis, Swetapadma Dash, Abhisekh Subba, David A Rider
{"title":"A new combination in Coridius Illiger, 1807 (Hemiptera: Pentatomoidea: Dinidoridae), rediscovery of the type specimen and solving of a nomen dubium.","authors":"Amartya Pal, Jerzy A Lis, Swetapadma Dash, Abhisekh Subba, David A Rider","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"5618 2","pages":"289-294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZootaxaPub Date : 2025-04-02DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.4
Alexander A Fomichev, Mikhail M Omelko
{"title":"Three new species of Pamirosa Fomichev, Omelko & Marusik, 2024 (Araneae: Lycosidae) from Kyrgyzstan, extending the known range of Artoriinae in Central Asia.","authors":"Alexander A Fomichev, Mikhail M Omelko","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.4","DOIUrl":"10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Three new Pamirosa species from Kyrgyzstan are diagnosed, described, and illustrated: P. alaica sp. nov. (male, female), P. archalturica sp. nov. (male) and P. transalaica sp. nov. (male, female). The new species represent the first records of the genus outside the type locality of the generotype, P. kudratbekovi Fomichev, Omelko & Marusik, 2024 (Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan). The new findings represent the northernmost records of Artoriinae. All new species were collected from screes at elevations of 3700-4200 m. A distribution map of all known Pamirosa species is provided. An identification key to all species is also provided. The distribution of scree-dwelling Lycosidae in Central Asia, and research prospects on this topic are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"5618 2","pages":"249-266"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two new species and one new record of the genus Melolontha Fabricius, 1775 from China (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae).","authors":"Fa-Lei Wang, Zhen Wang, Zi-Chun Xiong, Jian-Yue Qiu","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.2","DOIUrl":"10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two new species of the genus Melolontha Fabricius, 1775 are described from China: Melolontha daliensis Wang & Qiu, sp. nov. from Yunnan province and Melolontha wangyutangi Wang & Qiu, sp. nov. from Shannxi province. Additionally, Melolontha phupanensis is recorded from China for the first time, with its female illustrated for the first time. For comparative purposes, Melolontha reichenbachi Keith, 2008 is also illustrated. A comprehensive checklist of Melolontha species from the Chinese mainland is provided.</p>","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"5618 2","pages":"206-220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZootaxaPub Date : 2025-04-02DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.1
Matheus Vieira Lopes, André Padua, Fernanda Azevedo, Michelle Klautau
{"title":"Integrative taxonomy of Calcarea (Porifera) from Espírito Santo, Eastern Brazil.","authors":"Matheus Vieira Lopes, André Padua, Fernanda Azevedo, Michelle Klautau","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.1","DOIUrl":"10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite the biogeographical and ecological importance of the Eastern Brazil ecoregion as a transitional zone, this ecoregion still represents a taxonomic and distributional gap to the knowledge on macrobenthic invertebrates. Therefore, our aim was to narrow this gap studying the calcareous sponge diversity of this important marine ecoregion. Using morphological and molecular tools, 12 species were identified, four of them new to science: Ascandra polejaeffi sp. nov., Clathrina albata sp. nov., Clathrina capixaba sp. nov., and Vosmaeropsis anomala sp. nov., with new diagnostic proposals and an amendment of the genus Vosmaeropsis. One species known from the Eastern Caribbean ecoregion and from the Fernando de Noronha and Atoll das Rocas ecoregion is being registered for the Eastern Brazil ecoregion for the first time: Clathrina delicata. Seven species previously recorded for the Eastern Brazil ecoregion were recollected in this study, corroborating their occurrence and expanding their geographic distribution within it: Borojevia brasiliensis, Borojevia trispinata, Clathrina aurea, Clathrina soluta, Grantia kempfi, Paraleucilla magna and Sycettusa hastifera. These last two species are probably invasive in Brazil and are recorded in its northernmost location in the Southwestern Atlantic. Considering the total of 43 species registered in the Eastern Brazil ecoregion, seven are shared with the Amazonia, two with São Pedro e São Paulo Islands, seven with Fernando de Noronha and Atoll das Rocas, 13 with Northeastern Brazil, one with Trindade e Martin Vaz Islands, and 14 with Southeastern Brazil ecoregion. Eastern Brazil is the best-known ecoregion in the Brazilian coast and its role as a transitional zone between tropical and subtropical faunas is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"5618 2","pages":"151-205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A review of genus Laubuka (Cypriniformes: Danionidae) in Myanmar with description of two new species.","authors":"Khin Yadanar Htay, Xin-Yuan Song, Thaung Naing Oo, Xiao-Yong Chen","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.3","DOIUrl":"10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Danionid genus Laubuka Bleeker, 1859 is distributed in South Asia and Southeast Asia. Specimens of Laubuka from 20 locations in streams, rivers, and lakes from Kachin State, Sagaing and Ayeyarwady regions of Myanmar and Southern Thailand were compared on their morphology and phylogenetic relationships using COI gene. To date, five species of Laubuka are distributed across Myanmar, including L. laubuca, L. parafasciata, and L. tenella, in addition to two new species described herein. Laubuka myitthaensis Khin & Chen, sp. nov., collected from the Myittha River, Ayeyarwady drainage, is distinguished from its congeners by possessing dorsal-fin-base length less than half of anal-fin-base length; short dorsal-fin-base-length (11.8-13.4% SL) and 9-10 branched pectoral-fin rays. Laubuka indawgyiana Khin & Chen, sp. nov., from Indawgyi Lake, can be distinguished by possessing a convex dorsal profile, and more convex ventral profile, and 16-18 predorsal scales. The two new species can be distinguished from other species of Laubuka by the absence of any markings on the body other than the humeral spots. They are separated from other Laubuka species by a minimum genetic distance of 0.077 and 0.043 in the mitochondrial COI gene, which supports their validity as distinct species.</p>","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"5618 2","pages":"221-248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZootaxaPub Date : 2025-04-02DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.8
Richard Littauer
{"title":"Corrections for agreement in gender in Notonectidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) under Article 31 of the Code.","authors":"Richard Littauer","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"5618 2","pages":"287-288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}