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{"title":"New records and checklist of sponges from El Salvador (Eastern Tropical Pacific).","authors":"Alejandra Trejo, José Luis Carballo, Johanna Segovia","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.4","DOIUrl":"10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sponges constitute an important component of the benthic community in coral and rocky reefs. Although they play many ecological roles and interact with diverse marine invertebrate and vertebrate organisms, little is known of the diversity of marine sponges in El Salvador. The present study is the first effort in the study of the biodiversity of shallow rocky reef sponges from Los Cóbanos, the largest reef system and the only marine protected area of the country. The ten species herein described represent the first sponge fauna on non-intertidal reefs up to 16 m depth: Axinella nayaritensis, Endectyon (Endectyon) hyle, Mycale (Carmia) cecilia, Mycale (Zygomycale) ramulosa, Tedania (Tedania) tropicalis and Cliona euryphylle. Haliclona (Soestella) caerulea and Aplysina chiriquiensis are new records for the country, while Callyspongia (Callyspongia) californica and Subera etiennei are new records for the Central America Pacific coast. In addition, a review of the records and distribution of sponges in El Salvador was carried out.</p>","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"5613 1","pages":"99-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774385","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":"The family Bateidae Stebbing, 1906 (Crustacea, Peracarida) in tropical America with the description of a new species.","authors":"Manuel Ortiz, Norberto Capetillo, Alexander Lopeztegui","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.7","DOIUrl":"10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The tropical American family Bateidae Stebbing, 1906 is only composed by the genus Batea Müller, 1865. This genus includes 14 species of which 7 are distributed in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, Brazil and the Northwestern Atlantic. The rest 6 are distributed in the Pacific, mainly in Baja California and the Gulf of California. Only B. catharinensis Müller, 1865, has a distribution on both sides of America. These amphipods are easily recognized due to their peculiar degraded gnathopod 1 that is hidden by coxa 2. A new species of Batea collected in the Gulf of California is described and fully illustrated. For the first time, a dichotomous key is provided for the classification of the now 15 known species. A chronologically ordered table with the authors and years of the main papers published related to the general distribution of these species is also presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"5613 1","pages":"153-164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774399","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 taxonomic revision of the genus Raorchestes in Myanmar and Thailand with the description of two new species from Myanmar (Amphibia, Anura, Rhacophoridae).","authors":"Gunther Köhler, Ole Dost, Ni Lar Than, Annemarie Ohler, Panupong Thammachoti Charunrochana, Yodchaiy Chuaynkern, Chantip Chuaynkern, Katharina Geiss","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.2","DOIUrl":"10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We revise the frogs of the genus Raorchestes from Myanmar and Thailand based on data of external morphology, bioacoustics, and molecular genetics. The results of this integrative study provide evidence for the recognition of seven species, two of which we describe as new: Raorchestes mindat sp. nov. from Mindat District, Chin State, western Myanmar, and Raorchestes leiktho sp. nov. from Hpa-an District, Kayin State, southeastern Myanmar. The other species that we recognize in Myanmar and Thailand are R. cangyuanensis, R. huanglianshan, R. longchuanensis, R. menglaensis, and R. parvulus. We have compared the external morphology of the lectotype and four paralectotypes of Ixalus parvulus Boulenger, 1893 with the species of the Raorchestes parvulus group currently recognized from South-east Asia. Although the type series of Ixalus parvulus is morphologically most similar to specimens of R. cangyuanensis from Thailand, we refrain from formally synonymizing these two taxa until genetic data for I. parvulus are available that would allow this hypothesis to be tested. Thus, R. parvulus remains an enigmatic taxon still only known from the original type series. As now defined, R. cangyuanensis is distributed across most of Myanmar except for the Malayan Peninsula, and also in adjacent Yunnan Province, China, and adjacent northeastern Bangladesh. Raorchestes longchuanensis occurs in northwestern Thailand as well as in eastern Myanmar and western Yunnan, China. Raorchestes menglaensis ranges from southern Yunnan, China, across Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia to northern Western Malaysia. Raorchestes huanglianshan is distributed in southern Yunnan, China, and northwestern Thailand. Often two, at some places even three species of this genus occur sympatrically (e.g., R. leiktho sp. nov., R. longchuanensis and R. parvulus near Leiktho, Kayin State, Myanmar; R. longchuanensis and R. huanglianshan at Doi Inthanon). We provide new bioacoustic data for R. longchuanensis, R. menglaensis, and R. leiktho sp. nov., and compare these with data of R. cangyuanensis and R. rezakhani.</p>","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"5613 1","pages":"47-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774415","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 Sadyattes Stål, 1875, with the descriptions of six new species from the Philippines (Phasmatodea: Platycraninae: Stephanacridini).","authors":"Frank H Hennemann","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5610.1.1","DOIUrl":"10.11646/zootaxa.5610.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The genus Sadyattes Stål, 1875 is a poorly understood clade of stick insects of the subfamily Platycraninae and tribe Stephanacridini, that currently comprises three species from Borneo as well as type-species S. borrii Stål, 1875 whose locality is as yet a mystery. In its present recognition the genus is here shown to be paraphyletic and research has revealed that a number of species currently attributed to other genera, one of which is not even closely related, actually belong in Sadyattes. To elucidate these shortcomings a taxonomic review of Sadyattes at the species level is presented along with a generic redescription. Sadyattes is distributed throughout the land masses of the Sunda Shelf (Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Java and Sumatra with some of its surrounding islands) and the Philippine Islands. Differential diagnoses as well as notes on intraspecific variability and the distributions are provided for all known species, including new descriptions and combinations, with most species also illustrated. Keys are presented to distinguish females and males. The genus Eucarcharus Brunner v. Wattenwyl, 1907 is found to be a synonym of Sadyattes and thus synonymised (syn. nov.). The two Philippine species previously contained in Eucarcharus, E. fallax Brunner v. Wattenwyl, 1907 and E. feruloides (Westwood, 1859), are automatically transferred to Sadyattes, which results in two new generic combinations (comb. nov.). Four species are transferred to Sadyattes from other genera, which results in another four new generic combinations (comb. nov.): the Bornean S. decoris (Seow-Choen, 2016) and S. incertus (Brunner v. Wattenwyl, 1907) from Peninsular Malaysia, Bangka Island and the Andaman Islands from the genus Phobaeticus Brunner v. Wattenwyl, 1907 (Clitumninae: Pharnaciini), the Bornean S. nigricornis (Redtenbacher, 1908) from the genus Pharnacia Stål, 1877 (Clitumninae: Pharnaciini), and the Philippine S. leytensis (Zompro, 1997) from the genus Hermarchus Stål, 1875 (Platycraninae: Stephanacridini). Six new species from the Philippines are described: S. banwaon sp. nov. from the island of Mindanao from the female, S. maganda sp. nov. from the island of Mindoro from the female and male, S. matipuno sp. nov. from the island of Luzon from the female, male and egg, S. mindanaense sp. nov. from the island of Mindanao from the female, male and egg, S. panayense sp. nov. from the island of Panay from the female only, and S. tubaense sp. nov. from the island of Luzon from the male. A redescription of the male of the type-species S. borrii Stål, 1875 is presented, whose distribution is here shown to comprise Java and Sumatra, along with a description of the previously unrecorded female, which has proven to be represented by Nesiophasma zanus Hennemann, 1998 (syn. nov.). This latter synonymy renders the questionable locality \"New Guinea\" of Nesiophasma zanus as erroneous. The previously unknown males of S. feruloides comb. nov., S. fallax comb. nov., an","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"5610 1","pages":"1-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774344","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":"The Muricidae (Gastropoda, Muricoidea) of the Miocene Paratethys Sea (Aspellinae, Ergalataxinae, Coralliophilinae, Rapaninae).","authors":"Mathias Harzhauser, Bernard M Landau, Didier Merle","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5611.1.1","DOIUrl":"10.11646/zootaxa.5611.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We document 59 species of Aspellinae, Ergalataxinae, Coralliophilinae, Rapaninae and Muricidae incertae sedis from the Miocene of the Central Paratethys Sea. The subfamily Coralliophilinae is the most specious group among these subfamilies, comprising numerous rare and overlooked new species. Aspellinae and Rapaninae display moderate endemicity, whereas Coralliophilinae and Ergalataxinae are characterized by high endemicity. This points to a diversity hotspot, which formed in the coral reefs of the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum. Favorable conditions during the Langhian (early/middle Badenian) are also reflected by an enormous boom in diversity and a distinct loss of species numbers with the subsequent onset of the Serravallian (late Badenian). Zoltania is introduced as new genus in Rapaninae. Aspella teter sp. nov., Favartia kovacsi sp. nov., Muricopsis hystrix sp. nov., Pazinotus aster sp. nov., Pazinotus pulcher sp. nov. (Aspellinae), Cathymorula exilissima sp. nov. (Ergalataxinae), Coralliophila acuta sp. nov., Coralliophila badensis sp. nov., Coralliophila elegantula sp. nov., Coralliophila hoplites sp. nov., Coralliophila megaglobosa sp. nov. and Coralliophila wegmuelleri sp. nov. (Coralliophilinae) are described as new species.</p>","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"5611 1","pages":"1-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774362","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":"Illustrated Catalogue of the types of Tabanidae (Diptera: Brachycera) housed in the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA).","authors":"Lia Pereira Oliveira, Augusto Loureiro Henriques","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5612.1.1","DOIUrl":"10.11646/zootaxa.5612.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Following recommendation 72F of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), we provide an updated list of primary and secondary types of Tabanidae deposited in the Invertebrate Collection of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA). Specimen information is provided based on their labels, and the species are presented in alphabetical order. The collection houses a total of 37 holotypes and 703 paratypes of 76 species and one subspecies. We report the type status, additional comments, and photographs of species.</p>","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"5612 1","pages":"1-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774368","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":"Dvidulopsis gen. nov., a rare Neotropical genus of pygmy moths (Nepticulidae) endemic to lowland humid forests, a biome of conservation priority.","authors":"Jonas R Stonis, Arūnas Diškus, Andrius Remeikis, Svetlana Orlovskytė","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5609.4.8","DOIUrl":"10.11646/zootaxa.5609.4.8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This publication describes Dvidulopsis Stonis & Diškus, gen. nov., and a new species, D. diviantis Stonis & Remeikis, sp. nov., along with new distribution data for D. latipennata (Puplesis & Robinson) from Honduras. The study identifies Dvidulopsis gen. nov. as a distinct taxon, characterized by notable characters of the male genitalia, including a typically divided uncus and gnathos, and three elongated apical carinae of the phallus. Molecular evidence from new mtDNA COI-5' sequences further supports the genus description. The new genus, comprising eight species, is endemic to lowland tropical humid forests, typically found at elevations of 10-400 m. Half of the known species inhabit equatorial regions, specifically the humid forests of the Amazon Basin, while the other half are found in the humid forests of Central America. The study also summarizes distribution data on Nepticulidae from the conservation-priority lowland tropical humid forests of the Neotropics, currently encompassing 57 species, representing approximately 30% of the described Nepticulidae fauna in the Neotropical region (sensu stricto). The article is illustrated with a chart depicting Nepticulidae occurrence in the lowland tropical humid forests of the Americas, a species distribution map, photographs of Dvidulopsis adults and male genitalia, and two molecular NJ trees distinguishing the new genus from similar taxa, such as Acalyptris Meyrick, 1921; Fomoria Beirne, 1945; and other Nepticulidae.</p>","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"5609 4","pages":"583-599"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774279","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 cryptic new species of the plant bug genus Campylomma recently discovered in Japan and Singapore (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae).","authors":"Tomohide Yasunaga, Ee-Hean Yap, Reo Ito, Wei-Song Hwang","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5609.4.5","DOIUrl":"10.11646/zootaxa.5609.4.5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two new species of the nasocorine plant bug genus Campylomma Reuter, 1878 inhabiting cryptic habitats are described, namely, Campylomma marinum Yasunaga & Ito, sp. nov. (from vulnerable seashore vegetation in Oita Pref., SW Japan) and C. singapura Yasunaga, Yap & Hwang, sp. nov. (from urbanized zones in Singapore). The host plant association and natural history are documented for each new species with images of the live individuals. A checklist of Campylomma species currently known in the Oriental Region and Japan Archipelago is also provided.</p>","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"5609 4","pages":"537-552"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774306","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":"An integrative taxonomic approach to describe Andricus pseudomultiplicatus sp. nov. and establish new synonymies in Andricus Hartig, 1840 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini).","authors":"Salvatore Sottile, James A Nicholls, Graham N Stone, Giuliano Cerasa","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5609.4.1","DOIUrl":"10.11646/zootaxa.5609.4.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An examination of type and non-type material deposited in various European scientific collections concludes that the sexual generation of Andricus truncicolus (Giraud, 1859), recently discovered through laboratory experiments and herein confirmed by molecular data, is synonymous with Andricus multiplicatus Giraud, 1859; the latter name becomes a junior synonym. We demonstrate that previously published phylogenetic analyses did not group these two taxa together due to morphological misidentification of the sexual form. We show that the mistakenly identified taxon is a species new to science, described herein as Andricus pseudomultiplicatus sp. nov. along with illustrations, diagnosis, host associations, distribution, biology and molecular data. We also provide multi-locus molecular evidence to support the previously published lifecycle closure and synonymisation of Andricus conificus (Hartig, 1843) and Andricus cydoniae Giraud, 1859.</p>","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"5609 4","pages":"451-478"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774263","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 light in the dark: DNA barcoding provides new data about the taxonomy of the Italian Luciola (Coleoptera, Lampyridae) fireflies.","authors":"Emiliano Mori, Andrea Viviano, Mariella Baratti, Elisa Serafini, Bianca Gabbrielli, Malayka Samantha Picchi, Daniele Giannetti, Cristina Mascalchi, Leonardo Ancillotto","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5609.4.4","DOIUrl":"10.11646/zootaxa.5609.4.4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Environmental pollution and agricultural intensification are threatening insects worldwide, and reliable taxonomy is pivotal to protect these taxa, particularly endemic species. Despite their wide distribution, lampyrid beetles (Lampyridae)-well-known as fireflies-are poorly studied in terms of taxonomy, particularly in Europe. Accordingly, as for almost all insects, the description of most species is only based on a few morphological featuresSince genetic analyses can provide valuable support in taxonomic studies, in this work, we investigated the species identity of an Italian endemic firefly, Luciola pedemontana (Curtis, 1843), with respect to other congeneric species, namely Luciola italica (Linnaeus, 1767) and Luciola lusitanica (Charpentier, 1825) by applying Barcoding technique. Particularly, L. pedemontana has been for long considered as a synonym of L. lusitanica or as a subspecies of L. italica. Italy hosts the highest diversity of firefly species in Europe, but the Luciola inter-specific phylogenetic relationships and species delimitations are still poorly known. With the aim to assist morphological analyses in the taxonomic characterization of species of the genus Luciola in Italy, we sequenced the cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene (COI) fragment of 40 individuals from 18 sites in Central Italy. Our analysis confirmed L. pedemontana as a well-supported monophyletic clade and as the sister taxon of L. italica. Furthermore, a low intraspecific genetic variation was found between L. lusitanica and L. pedemontana and between Luciola unmunsana + Luciola papariensis. Genetic data obtained for the Luciola species can help to improve conservation measures for L. pedemontana, strongly required to protect this Italian endemic taxon, which is currently threatened by light pollution and environmental alterations.</p>","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"5609 4","pages":"525-536"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774253","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}