The psylloid fauna of Afghanistan is reviewed comprising, 32 identified species, 15 of which are recorded from the country for the first time, including Agonoscena klapperichi sp. nov. (Psyllidae: Rhinocolinae), which is formally described and illustrated. Additional illustrations are provided for…

Ochterus nicobarensis sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Ochteridae) is described from Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and is the second Ochterus Latreille, 1807 species known from India.

Updated distribution data are presented for the following species of Notonectidae (Heteroptera) in southeastern Asia: Anisops breddini Kirkaldy, 1901, A. kuroiwae Matsumura, 1915, A. nasutus Fieber, 1851, A. nigrolineatus Lundblad, 1933, A. occipitalis Breddin, 1905, A. rhomboides Nieser & Chen,…

The tribe Scolopini is characterized by having males with uradenia consisting of paired glands with either a single or paired openings on abdominal sternum III or IV (exceptionally on V), and females with copulatory tubes (not in Calliodina), and by a midventral abdominal copulatory site. The tribe…

A list of 81 species of the true bugs belonging to the families Pyrrhocoridae (2 species), Stenocephalidae (2 species), Rhopalidae (13 species), Alydidae (4 species), Coreidae (8 species), Cydnidae (5 species), Scutelleridae (3 species), and Pentatomidae (44 species) from Khuzestan and the adjacent…

A revision of the Mesozoic fossils belonging to the helophorid lineage of the superfamily Hydrophiloidea is performed and an adapted classification is suggested based on the phylogenetic analysis combining modern and fossil taxa of the lineage. Three genera are revealed as basal extinct Mesozoic…

Horelophus walkeri Orchymont, 1913, the single representative of the enigmatic hydrophilid subfamily Horelophinae, is redescribed and illustrated based on recently collected specimens and its external morphology is briefly compared with other groups of Hydrophilidae. The species is hygropetric,…

Genus Xenonychus Wollaston, 1864 of the subfamily Saprininae is revised herein. It now contains three species: X. tridens (Jacquelin du Val, 1852), X. aralocaspius Kryzhanovskij, 1976 in Kryzhanovskij & Reichardt (1976) and X. somaliensis (Thérond, 1963) comb. nov. (transferred from Styphrus…

Two new species, Awas kayan sp. nov. from Hunan, Central China and Awas loebli sp. nov. from Zhejiang, East China are described and their diagnostic features illustrated with photos and line drawings. An updated key to Awas species is included. The distribution of the genus is mapped and briefly…

Following five species are described from peninsular West Malaysia: Bironium amicale sp. nov., Scaphisoma hajeki sp. nov., S. longiusculum sp. nov., S. edentatum sp. nov., and Toxidium lunatum sp. nov. Pseudobironium languei (Achard, 1920), Scaphisoma pseudorufum Löbl, 1986 and Scaphisoma rufescens…

Two new species of the genus Scaphidium Olivier, 1790 are described from China: S. yinziweii sp. nov. from Yunnan Province and S. bituberculatum sp. nov. from Hainan Province, and their diagnostic characters are illustrated.

Some nomenclatural issues are resolved in the genus Oxytelus Gravenhorst, 1802, into which the genera Anisopsidius Gravenhorst, 1802, Anisopsis Gravenhorst, 1802, Hoplitodes Gravenhorst, 1802 and Paroxytelopsis Gravenhorst, 1802 were moved by Makranczy (2006). All affected taxa are listed, and the…

Haroldius jechaer sp. nov. from Yunnan province, China, is described and illustrated. The new species resembles H. stevensi Arrow, 1931 in having a large body (length 3.8 mm) and a small semi-elliptic bordered area near the base of the pronotum. Both species can be separated mainly by their…

A new species of Pseudopodabrus Pic, 1906, P. foveatus sp. nov. (China: Yunnan), is described and illustrated. Another five species of this genus are recorded from China for the first time: P. brancuccii Wittmer, 1983 (Yunnan), P. impressiceps Pic, 1906 (Fujian, Guangdong), P. kabakovi Wittmer, 1983…

A new species, Yimnashana wakaharai sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Gyaritini), is described from Laos. A key to the known species of the genus Yimnashana Gressitt, 1937 is provided.

Centroscelis kadleci sp. nov. from Yemen is described and illustrated. Geographical distribution of the Afrotropical genus Centroscelis Chevrolat, 1836 is extended to the southernmost part of the Arabian Peninsula. Lectotype is designated for Chrysomela decempustulata Thunberg, 1787. Centroscelis…

Two new species of the genus Larinus Dejan, 1821 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Lixinae), Larinus iranicus sp. nov. and Larinus zagros sp. nov., are described from Iran. The first species is classified in the subgenus Larinus s. str., the second species in Phyllonomeus Gistel, 1856. Both new species…

A new species of the genus Ceutorhynchus Germar, 1824 from the Tatra Mountains in northern Slovakia is described as C. tatricus sp. nov. and compared with closely related and similar European species of the genus. Key to all central European species related to C. ignitus Germar, 1824 is given.

Pristiphora bohemica sp. nov. is described based on specimens reared from larvae collected on Spiraea salicifolia (Rosaceae) in southern Bohemia (Czech Republic). The new species is close to its presumed vicariant species P. angulata Lindqvist 1974 from northeastern Europe.

Geranomyia bezzii Alexander & Leonard, 1912 is revised and redescribed based on the types, other available specimens, and new material. Geranomyia fuscior sp. nov. (Albania, Portugal, Libya) is described. All important characters of the male and female terminalia are illustrated for both species.…

A new genus, Pseudochetoneura gen. nov., is proposed for a single new species, P. otongensis sp. nov. (Diptera: Keroplatidae), collected in the Otonga Reserve in Ecuador. Its possible relationships with other genera of Keroplatidae are briefly discussed. The recently described genus Bisubcosta Papp,…

Callomyia triangulata sp. nov. is described from South China (Yunnan Province) based on two females. The species is compared with the only other species of Callomyia Meigen, 1804 known from the Oriental Region, C. coei Kessel, 1966 from Nepal, from which it differs mainly by the thoracic and…

Type specimens from the collection of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the Department of Entomology, National Museum, Prague, are currently being catalogued. In this part of the catalogue dealing with the Scarabaeoidea, we present precise information on the types of 77 taxa of the tribe Coprini,…