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New species reports

Sticking our nose into the Sonorini tribe: A new genus and species of snake (Squamata: Colubridae: Sonorini) from the Balsas Basin of Mexico

Antonio Y. Cisneros-Bernal, Ricardo Palacios-Aguilar, Carlos Hernández-Jiménez, Eric N. Smith, Oscar Flores-Villela, Cristian Hernández-Morales, Oscar Olivares Loyola, Gustavo Campillo-García

published 10 Dec 2025

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A new species of Brachycephalus (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from Serra do Quiriri, northeastern Santa Catarina state, southern Brazil, with a review of the diagnosis among species of the B. pernix group and proposed conservation measures

Marcos R. Bornschein, Marcio R. Pie, Júnior Nadaline, André E. Confetti, David C. Blackburn, Edward L. Stanley, Renata de Britto Mari, Gabriel Silveira Alves, Giovanna Sandretti-Silva, Felipe Farias de Andrade Lima, Luiz F. Ribeiro

published 10 Dec 2025

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Gagea kotuchovii (Liliaceae) a new species from the Karatau Mountains (western Tian Shan, Kazakhstan) evidenced by morphological and molecular analyses

Serik Kubentayev, Igor Levichev, Shukherdorj Baasanmunkh, Ewelina Klichowska, Daniyar Alibekov, Hyeok Jae Choi, Marcin Nobis

published 05 Dec 2025

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Megabarcoding dark taxa – Assessing the utility of mass DNA barcoding for phorid fly species discovery

Jiri Vihavainen, Niina Kiljunen, Pekka Pohjola, Jaclyn McKeown, Eveliina Oinonen, Marko Mutanen, Jaakko Pohjoismäki

published 02 Dec 2025

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Molecular phylogeny of the diatom genus Planothidium with the description of Paraplanothidium gen. nov. and Pseudoplanothidium gen. nov.

Natalia Tseplik, Yevhen Maltsev, Anton Glushchenko, Sergei Genkal, Maxim Kulikovskiy

published 06 Nov 2025

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Three new species of Acalypha L. (Euphorbiaceae, Acalyphoideae) from Tanzania and Angola and their conservation status

Iris Montero-Muñoz, José María Cardiel, Lucía Villaescusa-González, Pablo Muñoz-Rodríguez

published 29 Oct 2025

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Taxonomic study of the genus Diolcogaster Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Borneo with the description of four new species

Geng Lu, Shiqi Chen, Yaoyue Lei, Mengqi Wen, Zhen Liu, Mostafa Ghafouri-Moghaddam, Andrew Polaszek

published 15 Oct 2025

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A review of the genus Angilia Stål, 1865 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae): New species, new synonyms, checklist, and key to species

Higor D. D. Rodrigues, Robert W. Sites, Felipe F. F. Moreira

published 29 Sep 2025

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A revision of the rare Strumigenys mnemosyne (Formicidae; Myrmicinae) group using micro-CT scanning, with the description of three new species, and the virtual repair of a broken paratype

Matthew T. Hamer, Julian Katzke, Kit Lam Tang, André Ibáñez Weemaels, Francisco Hita-Garcia, Evan P. Economo, Benoit Guénard

published 24 Sep 2025

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Integrative taxonomy of Cedrela (Meliaceae) leads to the recognition of a new species (C. tamaulipana) and the reinstatement of C. saxatilis

Sergio Ignacio Gallardo-Yobal, José Antonio Vázquez-García, Alma Rosa Villalobos-Arámbula, Teresa Terrazas, Hilda Palacios-Juárez, Dolores Marina Barragán-Reynaga, Martin Berrones, Alondra Salomé Ortega-Peña, Gerardo Hernández-Vera, Viacheslav Shalisko

published 17 Sep 2025

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Hidden diversity in neglected structures: A morphological study of the terminalia of Limnocoris Stål, 1860 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Naucoridae), with descriptions of two new species from Brazil and taxonomic notes

Rafael P. R. Canejo, Higor D. D. Rodrigues, Felipe F. F. Moreira

published 13 Aug 2025

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An update on Scaponopselaphus Scheerpeltz (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) with the description of three new species, and a key to the species

Louri Klemann-Junior, Angélico Asenjo, Bruno Gouvea, Roberta M. Valente

published 23 Jul 2025

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Description of two new species and a new population of Mesobiotus cf. coronatus from Cotacachi-Cayapas National Park, Ecuador

Anastasiia Polishchuk, Pushpalata Kayastha, Dominika Młodzianowska, Martyna Michalska, Magdalena Gawlak, Jędrzej Warguła, Łukasz Kaczmarek

published 04 Jun 2025

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