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{"title":"A new introduced species in South America: the Asian water bug <i>Synaptonecta issa</i> (Distant, 1910) (Heteroptera, Micronectidae).","authors":"Jonathan David Sanchez-Muelas, Ranulfo González Obando, Karol Viviana Salazar-Rivera, Julianna Freires Barbosa, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo Moreira","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.14.e186680","DOIUrl":"10.3897/BDJ.14.e186680","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Corixoidea is the only group of water bugs (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Nepomorpha) that does not exhibit strictly predatory habits. Two families have been recorded from the Neotropics: Corixidae and Micronectidae. The latter is represented by three genera in the region: <i>Monogobia</i> Nieser & Chen, 2006, <i>Synaptogobia</i> Nieser & Chen, 2006 and <i>Tenagobia</i> Bergroth, 1899. At least four species of Corixoidea have been introduced into non-native areas: <i>Micronecta ludibunda</i> Breddin, 1905 to North America; <i>Synaptonecta issa</i> (Distant, 1910) to North America, the Caribbean Islands and New Zealand; <i>Trichocorixa verticalis</i> (Fieber, 1851) to Europe, Africa and New Caledonia; and <i>T. reticulata</i> (Guerin-Meneville, 1857) to Hawaii.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>Here, we record <i>S. issa</i> from South America for the first time. We collected specimens in the Municipality of Buenaventura, Department of Valle del Cauca, Pacific Region of Colombia. We found it in a permanent freshwater lagoon, in areas dominated by the aquatic plant <i>Cabomba cf. haynessi</i>. We also found the native Neotropical micronectid <i>Tenagobia signata</i> (White, 1879) at the same site and report its first record from Colombia. The introduction pathway of <i>S. issa</i> into South America and any environmental impacts that it might cause locally remain unknown and should be investigated.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"14 ","pages":"e186680"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13408565/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148622843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A new <i>Dermatohomoeus</i> from the Ulu Temburong forest, Brunei (Coleoptera, Leiodidae).","authors":"Immanuel John S Lasco, Nick Rossen, Riccardo Focaia, Niccolò Rossi, Bram van Rijn, Hugo Koopmans, Peter Koomen, David Alford, Boukje Beuger, Dumitru Diaconu, Francesco Fiorentino, Rizmoon Nurul Zulkarnaen, Larry Holbrook, Paula A Gómez-Zapata, Rafhiah Siti Kahar, Massimo Delledonne, Daniele Cicuzza, Iva Njunjić, Menno Schilthuizen","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.14.e202669","DOIUrl":"10.3897/BDJ.14.e202669","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>'Taxon expeditions' are field courses/expeditions for mixed teams of scientists, students and lay people with the aim to do biodiversity inventories, particularly of cryptobiota and to discover and describe new species.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>During a taxon expedition to the Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre and surrounding area of the Ulu Temburong Forest in Brunei, leaf litter sampling yielded a specimen of a previously unknown species of the round fungus beetle genus <i>Dermatohomoeus</i> Hlisnikovský (Leiodidae, Leiodinae, Pseudoliodini). Using the limited time and facilities available, a scientific description was prepared by a number of the expedition participants. The new species is described, pictured and compared with related species from South and Southeast Asia.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"14 ","pages":"e202669"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13408555/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148622837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"First record of <i>Scina nana</i> Wagler, 1926 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Hyperiidea) in Mediterranean Sea from the northern coastal waters north of Syria (eastern Mediterranean).","authors":"Haidar Bassam Hasan, Adib Hasan Zeini, Wassim Mahmoud Mayya","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.14.e199166","DOIUrl":"10.3897/BDJ.14.e199166","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Global biodiversity repositories, including GBIF, OBIS and the authoritative taxonomic database WoRMS, consistently indicate that <i>Scina nana</i> is a globally rare holoplanktonic amphipod. None of these databases contains any historical or contemporary evidence of the species within the Mediterranean Basin. This complete absence of records strongly suggests that the specimen documented from Syrian coastal waters represents the first known occurrence of <i>S. nana</i> in the eastern Mediterranean.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>In this study, <i>Scina nana</i> was observed for the first time in the coastal waters of Syria (Latakia Basin), this species being found mainly in tropical regions of all the world's oceans, except the Mediterranean Sea. Given the complete lack of previous Mediterranean records, the appearance of <i>S. nana</i> in the region is most plausibly interpreted as a recent event, supporting its classification as non-indigenous species that has only recently entered the basin. The rapid warming of Mediterranean waters in recent decades may have provided conditions favourable for the arrival or temporary establishment of this species. Additional factors, such as broader changes in the thermohaline structure of the eastern Mediterranean, may also have facilitated its introduction to the Syrian coast.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"14 ","pages":"e199166"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13397064/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148585869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Baseline riparian forest and aquatic macrophyte vegetation dataset from the Danube right bank near Draž (Croatia), to support before-after monitoring of side-arm reconnection (2024-2025).","authors":"Dragana Vukov, Danijela Žunić, Nataša Prodanović, Vladimir Sabadoš","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.14.e190669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e190669","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Baseline biodiversity data collected prior to hydromorphological interventions are essential for understanding and evaluating ecological change following restoration or engineering measures. In large river floodplains, interventions such as side-arm reconnection are expected to alter hydrological regimes, habitat connectivity and disturbance patterns, with cascading effects on both riparian and aquatic plant communities. However, without well-documented pre-intervention datasets, post-restoration assessments often lack a reliable reference against which observed changes can be interpreted.Along the right bank of the Danube River near the village of Draž (Croatia), planned hydro-technical measures aim to reconnect a cut-off side arm to the main channel. This reconnection is expected to modify local hydrological conditions and habitat structure in adjacent riparian forests and aquatic habitats, creating a clear need for baseline vegetation data collected prior to intervention.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>This data paper presents a baseline dataset of riparian forest and aquatic vegetation collected along the right bank of the Danube River near the village of Draž (Croatia), prior to planned hydromorphological restoration measures involving the reconnection of a cut-off side-arm to the main channel. Riparian forest vegetation was surveyed in May 2024 using three 10 m × 10 m plots per site, with species cover estimated using the Domin cover-abundance scale and reported as plot means. Aquatic vegetation was surveyed in July 2025 using three 10 m belt transects per site, with species cover recorded in five ordinal cover classes and reported as transect means.The dataset comprises 20 sampling events (10 forest and 10 aquatic), 251 taxon-by-event occurrence records and 331 measurements, including species cover or abundance, establishment status (native, introduced, invasive) and event-level environmental descriptors, such as canopy-cover classes, water physicochemistry, water-velocity class and CORINE Land-Cover categories. Taxonomic nomenclature was standardised according to Plants of the World Online (POWO 2026). The sampling design and data structure allow the dataset to serve as the \"before\" component of a before-after monitoring framework, supporting future assessments of vegetation responses to hydrological reconnection. The dataset provides a reference for restoration evaluation, invasion dynamics and comparative studies of riparian and aquatic plant communities in large river floodplains and constitutes the baseline vegetation component of the ecological monitoring programme established within the Horizon Europe project DaWetRest.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"14 ","pages":"e190669"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13397057/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148585922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The \"GfI-Fischartenatlas\" of the German Ichthyological Society (GfI) - A compilation of validated fish species occurrence records.","authors":"Heiko Brunken, Lars Braubach, Thore Engel, Peter Grobe, Claas-Thido Pfaff, Birgit Rach, Heide-Rose Vatterrott, Martin Friedrichs-Manthey","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.14.e201405","DOIUrl":"10.3897/BDJ.14.e201405","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Despite the urgent need for conservation, reliable data on the distribution of fish species across countries and federal states is limited for both freshwater and marine habitats. The German Ichthyological Society (Gesellschaft für Ichthyologie e.V. or GfI) aims to compile fish distribution data with a focus on Germany (including its marine areas), Austria and the marine areas of the Netherlands and Denmark. These data are openly available on the \"GfI-Fischartenatlas\" web portal which serves as an information platform at the intersection of science, practice and environmental education, promoting the conservation of fish biodiversity and their habitats. The GfI-Fischartenatlas is a joint project of the GfI and the City University of Applied Sciences Bremen. It was developed in cooperation between the biology and computer science departments at the university. The IT basis for collecting, managing and presenting the data online is the \"Biodiversity Warehouse\" software architecture. The data are hosted by the Biodiversity Informatics Department at the Museum Koenig Bonn, which is part of the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB).</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>The GfI-Fischartenatlas consolidates fish distribution data from various cross-border sources into a unified platform. This includes both data collected specifically for the atlas and data integrated from other databases (in total n = 136,714, as of 13.03.2026). The data primary to the atlas are published as a dataset on the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). This dataset (ABCD archive) contains occurrence records (n = 62,545) for 264 freshwater and marine fish species, derived from scientific and grey literature as well as citizen0science observations, covering 16 European countries (with a focus on Germany and Austria).</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"14 ","pages":"e201405"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13396978/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148585848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cleptoparasitic bees (Apoidea, Anthophila) in rural protected areas in Latium (Italy): a faunistic survey through an integrative taxonomic approach.","authors":"Matteo Annessi, Alessandra Riccieri, Carlo Polidori, Maurizio Mei, Andrea Di Giulio","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.14.e193040","DOIUrl":"10.3897/BDJ.14.e193040","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Cleptoparasitic bees represent a poorly studied yet ecologically important component of wild bee communities, responding sensitively to environmental heterogeneity and reflecting local wild bee diversity. Despite representing approximately 13% of bee species globally, significant knowledge gaps remain regarding their species distribution, taxonomy, and conservation status, particularly within the Mediterranean region, which is recognized as a global hotspot for bee diversity.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>This work provides a faunistic survey of cleptoparasitic bees collected in rural protected areas within the province of Rome (Latium, central Italy), employing an integrative taxonomic approach combining morphological identification and DNA barcoding (COI-5P gene). A total of 417 individuals belonging to 44 species from 10 genera and three families were collected. Five species are newly recorded for Latium. A total of 98 COI-5P sequences were generated and deposited in BOLD and GenBank, including the first COI-5P record for <i>Nomada nausicaa</i> Schmiedeknecht, 1882. The integrative approach proved particularly valuable for resolving challenging identifications and for highlighting some taxonomic issues - particularly within the genus <i>Melecta</i> - that clearly require further molecular and morphological studies. Our findings provide new distributional data on cleptoparasitic bees in central Italy and expand the availability of COI-5P sequences in public molecular databases.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"14 ","pages":"e193040"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13389566/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148563847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Updated checklist of the birds of Calabria (southern Italy).","authors":"Salvatore Urso, Giuseppe Martino, Eugenio Muscianese, Manuela Policastrese, Mario Pucci, Maurizio Vena, Pierpaolo Storino","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.14.e195967","DOIUrl":"10.3897/BDJ.14.e195967","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Information on the avifauna of Calabria is still incomplete, with much of it contained in isolated studies, local reports and unpublished observations. More than thirty years have passed since the publication of the first regional checklist. The last ten years have seen an increase in fieldwork and collaboration amongst local ornithologists, now coordinated by the Stazione Ornitologica Calabrese (StOrCal).</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>We provide an updated checklist of the birds of Calabria, revised through 31 December 2025, representing an increase of 43 species compared to the previous regional checklist of 320 species. The total number of taxa is 363 species and nine subspecies, divided as follows: 336 AERC category A, 12 B, 7 C, 5 AC and 3 E. General status codes were assigned to 258 regular species, 20 irregular species, 64 accidental/vagrant species and 21 historical species. Breeding status was assigned to 143 regularly breeding species, eight irregular, three occasional and four former breeding species. A total of 125 species are included in Annex I of Directive 2009/147/EC. National IUCN categories are known for 230 species, including nine Critically Endangered, 21 Endangered and 32 Vulnerable species. Taxonomy and status coding are from the national CISO-COI checklist.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"14 ","pages":"e195967"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13386133/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148551519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"First record of <i>Eutrichosiphum sinense</i> Raychaudhuri (Hemiptera, Aphididae, Greenideinae) from South Korea, with an illustrated key to the Korean Greenideinae species.","authors":"Yejin Kang, Wonhoon Lee","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.14.e190624","DOIUrl":"10.3897/BDJ.14.e190624","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The subfamily Greenideinae (Hemiptera, Aphididae) comprises approximately 180 species in 16 genera worldwide. It is divided into three tribes: Cervaphidini, Greenideini, and Schoutedeniini, with the majority of species assigned to Greenideini. In South Korea, seven species representing four genera have been recorded to date.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>In 2025, <i>Eutrichosiphum sinense</i> Raychaudhuri, 1956 was collected from <i>Castanopsis sieboldii</i> in Samgye-ri, Naedong-myeon, Jinju-si, South Korea (35.1477, 128.0448). This species is reported here for the first time from South Korea. Illustrations of apterous viviparous females, together with morphological descriptions, measurements, host plant information, and distributional data, are provided.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"14 ","pages":"e190624"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13379708/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148498525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A year-long camera-trap dataset for assessing spatial occurrence and diel activity of sympatric ungulates in South Korea.","authors":"Jong-Hoon Jeon, Anya Lim","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.14.e191556","DOIUrl":"10.3897/BDJ.14.e191556","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Understanding how ecologically similar species share space and time is central to community ecology and can provide information for conservation and management in multi-species systems. Camera-trap data provide a practical means of describing spatial co-occurrence and diel activity overlap amongst sympatric mammals, particularly where direct mechanistic inference is not possible from observational data alone. In human-dominated landscapes, standardised, open-access occurrence data are critical for balancing the conservation of endangered species with the management of over-abundant, conflict-prone wildlife.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>In this study, we present a curated, year-long camera-trap dataset for four sympatric ungulates in South Korea, based on monitoring conducted in a temperate forest landscape in Uljin County, together with station-level covariates and harmonised effort information derived from a camera operation log. We provide example analyses illustrating: (i) spatial occurrence patterns using species-wise occupancy models and (ii) diel activity and temporal overlap using non-parametric activity analyses. For the temporal example, overlap is summarised using local clock time (Asia/Seoul, UTC+09:00) and complemented by a photoperiod-adjusted (solar-time) sensitivity analysis, based on sunrise and sunset times calculated for site-level representative coordinates (one point per site; UJ1 and UJ2). Diel-period summaries are additionally reported as rate-normalised detections (detections per 100 hours) using civil-twilight definitions to account for unequal period durations. The released dataset contains 4,623 independent detection events for the four ungulate species (long-tailed goral: 2,317; water deer: 814; Siberian roe deer: 808; wild boar: 684) recorded at 82 camera stations between April 2022 and May 2023. Survey effort totalled 29,850 functional camera-trap nights (30,410 scheduled nights, including 560 inactive nights from recorded downtime). All released files are listed in the Data resources section and include event-level records, station-level covariates, generalised coordinates and effort summaries to support reproducible reuse.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"14 ","pages":"e191556"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13379711/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148498557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Four new species of subgenus <i>Drino</i> (<i>sensu stricto</i>) Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 from China, with a review of the Chinese species (Diptera, Tachinidae).","authors":"Xusheng Liu, Chuntian Zhang","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.14.e175030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e175030","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The subgenus Drino (<i>sensu stricto</i>) Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Tachinidae) is a group within the tribe Eryciini, comprising 27 valid species with a wide global distribution, though it is absent from the Australasian region.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>The species of the subgenus Drino (<i>sensu stricto</i>) Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 (Diptera, Tachinidae) from China are revised. Fifteen valid species were recognized: <i>D. adiscalis</i> (Chao, 1982), <i>D. angustivitta</i> Liang & Chao, 1998, <i>D. argenticeps</i> (Macquart, 1851), <i>D. auripollinis</i> Chao & Liang, 1998, <i>D. densichaeta</i> Chao & Liang, 1998, <i>D. facialis</i> (Townsend, 1928), <i>D. flava</i> Chao & Liang, 1992, <i>D. interfrons</i> (Sun & Chao, 1992), <i>D. laticornis</i> Chao & Liang, 1998, <i>D. latifrons</i> Liu, Zhang & Xi, 2023, <i>D. longicapilla</i> Chao & Liang, 1998, <i>D. longihirta</i> Chao & Liang, 1992, <i>D. lota</i> (Meigen, 1824), <i>D. minuta</i> Liang & Chao, 1998, <i>D. parafacialis</i> Chao & Liang, 1998, and four species are described as new to science: <i>D. liaoningensis</i> <b>sp. nov</b>. (Liaoning Province, Northeast China), <i>D. uniseta</i> <b>sp. nov</b>. (Hubei Province, Central China), <i>D. meridionalis</i> <b>sp. nov</b>. (Guangxi Autonomous Region, South China) and <i>D. oharai</i> <b>sp. nov</b>. (Hubei Province, Central China). An identification key to 19 species recorded from China is provided. This is accompanied by 33 figures depicting the head, body, and male terminalia, and a distribution map for the four new species. Additionally, 90 illustrations of the head, body, and terminalia of type specimens of known species are included. The type specimens of the new species are deposited in the Insect Collection of Shenyang Normal University (SYNU), China.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"14 ","pages":"e175030"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13373582/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148474508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}