Redescriptions of Ectomocoris cordiger and E. fenestratus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) with two new synonyms Yingqi Liu, Wanzhi Cai Two assassin bugs, Ectomocoris cordiger Stål, 1867 and E. fenestratus (Klug, 1830) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Peiratinae), are redescribed. Ectomocoris picturatus Distant, 1919, syn. nov., is treated as a junior synonym of E. cordiger, and Pirates adjunctus Walker, 1873 is…
On the identity of Scaphidium grande, with resurrection of S. inimpressum and S. melanopus and description of two new species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scaphidiinae) Ivan Löbl Scaphidium grande Gestro, 1879, assumed to be widely distributed in Asia, has been misidentified. The range of this species is likely restricted to Borneo. Scaphidium grande is distinguished from allied species by the male genital characters, notably by the shape of the median lobe. Scaphidium…
The second Malagasy species of Anacanthiocnemis (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) with an updated key to the species of the genus Zhuo Chen, Wanzhi Cai Based on the material collected from Toamasina, east Madagascar, we describe Anacanthiocnemis lihui sp. nov. as the second Malagasy representative of the genus Anacanthiocnemis Reuter, 1882 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Stenopodainae). The new species presents relatively long postocular…
Revision of the New Zealand genus Euglyptus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with eight new species Ui-Joung Byeon, Donald S. Chandler, Richard A. B. Leschen, Jong-Seok Park The New Zealand endemic genus Euglyptus Broun, 1893 (Staphylinidae: Pselaphi- nae: Euplectitae) is revised. Eight new species are described: Euglyptus bifurcatus sp. nov., E. boreus sp. nov., E. dunedinensis sp. nov., E. latefossatus sp. nov., E. parvus sp. nov., E. punctatosimilis sp. nov., E.…
Species of the genus Reicheiodes from Taiwan (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Scaritinae) Petr Bulirsch, Paolo Magrini, Bin-Hong Ho, Martin Fikáček The species of the genus Reicheiodes Ganglbauer, 1891 from Taiwan are reviewed. The Taiwanese fauna consists of three species: Reicheiodes (Reichonippodes) kuankong sp. nov., R. (Reichonippodes) ursinus sp. nov., and R. (Reichonippodes) taiwanensis Bulirsch, 2018; the latter previously known in…
Bylesia gen. nov., a new genus of Darwin wasp (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from the Eastern Himalaya Alexey Reshchikov A new genus of Cremastinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), Bylesia gen. nov., and its type species, B. brachyscleromamorpha sp. nov., are described from the Eastern Himalaya, Yunnan, China. The new taxa are illustrated, diagnosed, and their relationships are discussed.
A new species of the genus Eurystylops (Strepsiptera: Stylopidae) rediscovered after more than 100 years from Rophites bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) Daniel Benda, Jakub Straka A new species of Strepsiptera of the genus Eurystylops Bohart, 1943 (Stylopidae) from the Western Palearctic Region is described based on the female cephalothorax. Eurystylops ogloblini sp. nov. represents the first species described from the host bee of the genus Rophi- tes Spinola,…
Notes on plant bugs from New Caledonia with descriptions of two new species of the genus Bolbomiris (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae) Grzegorz Gierlasiński, Roland Dobosz, Aleksandra Poźniak, Michelle Sitnik, Artur Taszakowski Two new species of Bolbomiris Hosseini & Cassis, 2019, B. picpinensis Gierlasiński & Taszakowski sp. nov. and B. koghi Gierlasiński & Taszakowski sp. nov., are diagnosed and described. Photographic images of habitus and male genital structures, as well as scanning electron micrographs of…
Taxonomic revision of the current concept of Cylindera morio and allied taxa (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) Jiří Moravec, Ondřej Šafránek A taxonomic revision of the common concept of the hitherto little-known tiger beetle species Cylindera (Cylindera) morio (Klug, 1834) and allied taxa within the nominotypical subgenus of the tiger beetle genus Cylindera Westwood, 1831 is presented. Type specimens of Cicindela morio Klug,…
The first species of Cephalophanus from India (Coleoptera: Discolomatidae) resembling epilachnine ladybirds Hiroyuki Yoshitomi, Jiří Hájek Cephalophanus epilachnoides sp. nov. is described and illustrated from Western Ghats, southwestern India. It is the first species of the genus known from the Indian subcontinent. The new species differs from other congeners by the peculiar elytral pattern consisting of ocellate maculation (black…
On the identity of Serica elongata Nonfried from Honduras (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae) Thaynara L. Pacheco, Paul Lago, Dirk Ahrens The previously doubtful taxon Serica elongata Nonfried, 1892, originally described from Honduras, is here redescribed and recognized as a senior synonym of Serica delicata Dawson, 1922, syn. nov., which was originally described from Florida (U.S.A.). Honduras, the type locality of S. elongata, is…
A review of Palaearctic species of the contaminata group of Scatophila (Diptera: Ephydridae) with description of a new species Tadeusz Zatwarnicki, Zbyněk Kejval The contaminata group of Scatophila Becker, 1896 from the Palaearctic Region is reviewed. A new species S. hirsovae sp. nov. from the Czech Republic (type locality: Kateřina, Soos Reserve), Slovakia, and Turkey is described. Redescription of the contaminata group, diagnoses and photographs…
A new species of the leafhopper genus Ladoffa (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae) from rainforests of eastern Mexico M. Victoria Chavez-Gutierrez,J. Adilson Pinedo-Escatel While sorting the section of unidentified Auchenorrhyncha in the National Collection of Insects at the Institute of Biology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, an undes- cribed species of the genus Ladoffa Young, 1977 was found. Here it is described as Ladoffa tsibi Chávez-Gutiérrez…
A review of the types of Lycaenidae species (Lepidoptera) described by Napoleon Manuel Kheil deposited in the collection of the National Museum of the Czech Republic Jan Šumpich, Zdeněk Weidenhoffer Within the framework of organizing the general collection of tropical butterflies in the National Museum of the Czech Republic, the type material of species described by Napoleon Manuel Kheil is reviewed. The present paper deals with the types in the family Lycaenidae and comprises a total of…
A new Perichares from the Cosñipata Valley, Cusco, Peru, and the revalidation of Perichares lindigiana stat. rev. (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) Ayane Suenia-Bastos, Adalberto Dantas de Medeiros, Suianne Caje, Emanoel Pereira Gualberto, Olaf Hermann Hendrik Mielke, Mirna Martins Casagrande A new Perichares Scudder, 1872, Perichares cosnipata Suênia-Bastos, O. Mielke & Casagrande sp. nov., is described from the Cosñipata Valley, Cusco, Peru, and P. lindigiana (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1867) stat. rev. from Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia is revalidated. After this…
The Osoriinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from the Ionian Islands, with the description of Typhloiulopsis pavesii sp. nov. from Kérkyra Michele Violi The Osoriinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) genera Typhloiulopsis Scheerpeltz, 1931 and Leptotyphlopsis Scheerpeltz, 1931 from the Ionian Islands (Greece) are revised based on morphology. Typhloiulopsis pavesii sp. nov. from Kérkyra is described. The three taxa of Leptotyphlopsis described…
Updated checklist of hover flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of the Azores archipelago with taxonomic notes and the description of a new species, Eristalis azorensis sp. nov. Sander Bot, Lenze Hofstee, Ximo Mengual We report the results of a field expedition to the Azores archipelago. A total of 13 species of hover flies were collected, including several species new to certain islands of the archipelago. The records of the expedition are supplemented with new island records found on iNaturalist and…
The cleptoparasitic bee genus Euaspis in Vietnam (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) Lam Xuan Truong, Lien Thi Phuong Nguyen, Ngat Thi Tran, Michael S. Engel The cleptoparasitic bee genus Euaspis Gerstäcker, 1858 is reviewed from Vietnam, with four species recognized. A new species, Euaspis flavorotundata Tran & Engel sp. nov. from Northern and Central Highlands, Vietnam is described and figured. The distribution area of E. aequicarinata…
Four new species of the genus Ceutorhynchus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from the western Palaearctic Jiří Krátký Four new species close to the Ceutorhynchus assimilis (Paykull, 1792) species group are described here: Ceutorhynchus armeniacus sp. nov. from Armenia lives on Alyssum (Brassicaceae), and is most similar to the West Palaearctic C. griseus C. Brisout de Barneville, 1869 and to C. montanus Colonnelli,…
The oldest known fossil imago of Ameletopsidae (Ephemeroptera) from 99-million-year-old Kachin amber Zhi-Teng Chen, Xuhongyi Zheng A new fossil genus and species of the mayfly family Ameletopsidae, Paprika atsukochibae gen. & sp. nov., is described from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber of northern Myanmar. The specimen represents a female imago and constitutes the oldest known imaginal fossil of the family. Paprika gen.…