Our exploration of Indian boletoid mushrooms (Boletaceae and related fleshy poroid fungi) led to the discovery of a species belonging to the genus Lanmaoa, marking the first record of this genus from the country. During macrofungal explorations in di...
Two new species of Feihyla sensu stricto are described based on specimens from western and southwestern Yunnan Province, China. Morphologically, the first new species from western Yunnan can be distinguished from other known species of Feihyla sensu...
Mexico is a global hotspot for plant diversity, yet its floristic inventory remains incomplete. Understanding whether taxonomic discovery is advancing evenly is essential for guiding future work. Here, we ask what the taxonomic, geographic, and metho...
A new species of the tiny tree stylommatophoran snails in the genus Sitala H. Adams, 1865, is described based on specimens recently discovered in dry evergreen and dry dipterocarp forests on limestone hills and in agricultural plantations near limest...
Three new names are proposed and three new combinations are formally made to transfer six taxa endemic to SE Yunnan, China, from the segregate genera of Manglietia and Michelia to Magnolia, now widely recognised as the remaining genus in the subfamil...
During a parasitological survey of freshwater fishes from Khun Thale Swamp, Surat Thani Province, Thailand, a new species of opecoelid trematode, Dactylostomum brayi n. sp., was recovered from the intestine of the Asian redtail catfish Hemibagrus nem...
A novel bacterium (designated y65-5T) was identified using a polyphasic approach in this study. Strain y65-5T was isolated from ‘Suan cai’, a kind of traditional Chinese pickle. Both 16S rRNA gene phylogeny and phylogenomic analysis indic...
Phytoseiids play a fundamental role in biological control, but their diversity in the Brazilian Amazon remains poorly known. This publication reports the phytoseiids found in a survey conducted in Parauapebas, southeastern Pará. In July 2023,...
Taxonomy is the foundation of biology, providing the currency (species) for biological studies and the handle (epithet) to refer to them. The task at hand is urgent: a race against extinction as most species remain undescribed and expertise declines....
The field of taxonomy is undergoing a profound renaissance, driven by the integration of classic morphological descriptions with modern genomic, bioinformatic, and ecological tools [...]
The cyanobacterial genus Aliterella (Chroococcidiopsidales) comprises coccoid taxa with a broad geographic and ecological distribution, occurring in habitats ranging from polar environments to arid deserts and tropical regions. In this study, we desc...
Background: Although there is a compendium of species diversity for the Flora of North America, including the Fabaceae, many legume species were excluded. Therefore, this study fills this information gap and updates the systematics and nomenclature o...
Our communication summarizes the recent changes in the paraphyletic species Orthoflavivirus encephalitidis. The paraphyly arises due to louping-ill virus (LIV), which is genetically closer to the European subtype of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBE...
The genieri species group of the Neotropical genus Deltochilum Eschscholtz, 1822 (subgenus D. Deltohyboma Lane, 1946) is studied. Based on the morphological analysis of 729 specimens, fourteen new species are described: D. cryptoporum sp. nov.,...
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A field inventory in the Rio Chapecó drainage, southern Brazil, about 11,120 km2, revealed an unexpected diversity of endemic small fossorial catfishes, genus Cambeva, comprising 2 species recently described and 11 undescribed. They were found...
Compsemys is an enigmatic turtle first described over 160 years ago. Its taxonomic position has been uncertain, as many of the species placed in the genus have since been removed from it. For the last 30+ years, Compsemys victa has been the only reco...
Penicillium and Talaromyces are among the most diverse genera of filamentous fungi and play important ecological roles in soil ecosystems. Despite their ecological and biotechnological relevance, the diversity of these genera remains insufficiently d...
Troglonectes is an endemic cavefish genus of Nemacheilidae, mainly distributed in Guangxi and Guizhou, China. In April 2025, ten specimens of Troglonectes were collected from a subterranean stream of a Liujiang River tributary in Jinchengjiang Distri...
Paragryllina currently comprises more than 30 species of predominantly dendrophilous crickets, all previously recorded exclusively from tropical rainforests environments. Over the past three decades, the taxonomy of this subtribe has undergone succes...
The Macaronesian archipelagos harbor a highly endemic fauna of the flatid genus Cyphopterum Melichar, 1905, characterized by pronounced insular diversification. Despite approximately 80% of its species being unique to the region, the morphology and b...
Gymnodiptychus Herzenstein, 1892, a genus of the subfamily Schizopygopsinae, currently comprises three valid species: Gymnodiptychus dybowskii, Gymnodiptychus pachycheilus, and Gymnodiptychus integrigymnatus. Previous molecular phylogenetic studies h...
This study presents a cytogenetic and comparative analysis of three rare terrestrial orchid species from Thailand: Habenaria janellehayneana, H. rhodocheila, and Nervilia khaoyaica. Somatic chromosome numbers, karyotype structures, and chromosomal mo...
Macroevolutionary analysis evaluating structural monophyly as descent with modification allows recasting of taxa in terms of physics as evolutionary mechanics. There are four natural ranks, as generalized taxa: the species, genus, lineage, and metali...
Identification keys are important aspects of taxonomic research, but their quality varies substantially. I surveyed all the keys associated with the description of new non-insect animal genera that were available to me (through online and library res...
Two new species of the subfamily Lecithocerinae (Gelechioidea, Lecithoceridae); Notioseus liberianus Park & Karisch, sp. nov. and Lecithocera maruana Park & Karisch, sp. nov., are described from the Nimba Mountains, bordering Guinea and Liber...
Two new species of Lonchaeidae in the genus Lonchaea, namely Lonchaea desirade sp. nov. and Lonchaea minutissima sp. nov., are described from the island of Guadeloupe in the Lesser Antilles, an island group in the southern Caribbean Sea. The genitali...
Knowledge of the biology of the genus Vitis has undergone a profound transformation, evolving from the morphological descriptions of classical ampelography to the high-resolution analyses enabled by modern phylogenomics. This review explores the &ldq...
The Tabanidae fauna of Uruguay has historically received limited attention, with most records dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries and concentrated near Montevideo. Here, we provide an updated synthesis of the Uruguayan Tabanidae fauna based...
The delimitation of cryptic species represents one of the main challenges, particularly in groups with low external morphological differentiation. In this context, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) enables the detection of diagnostic characters at t...
Wilsonosaura Lehr, Moravec, Von May, 2020, was described as a monotypic genus from central Peru, based on genetic and morphological characters. This genus is easily distinguished from other lizards in the gymnophthalmid subfamily Cercosaurini, except...
Opuntia miquihuanensis (Cactaceae: Opuntioideae), a new species endemic to the locality Peña-Aserradero, part of the Sierra Madre Oriental, Tamaulipas, Mexico, is formally described and illustrated. Phylogenetic analyses used maximum parsimony...
In this study a new species of Pedicularis, P. dieshanensis, is described. It is endemic to the Die Mountains, China, and grows on the alpine meadow at the edge of the fir forest at elevations of 3150–3500 m. This species is characterized by th...
The taxonomy and distribution of Kaempferia subgen. Protanthium (Zingiberaceae) in Myanmar remain incompletely documented despite the botanical significance of the region. This study aims to clarify the diversity and taxonomic status of species belon...
Decomposing whale carcasses on the seabed (whale falls) are known to support distinct communities, with many taxa new to science. This paper describes a new polynoid species, Macellicephala irisae sp. nov., from a natural whale fall at 1240 m depth i...
Among the life forms that have adapted to the harsh Antarctic environment, springtails and mites are the most abundant arthropod groups of the terrestrial ecosystem, both in continental and maritime Antarctica. The study of the systematics of these o...
A new species, Anthurium elsieae, from the Amapá State Forest in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon is described and illustrated. Belonging to the Anthurium sect. Schizoplacium, the species differs from its Amazonian congeners, A. pentaphyllum and A...
Colocasia kerrii Gagnep. has been treated as a synonym of C. fallax Schott in both the Flora of China and the Flora of Thailand accounts of Colocasia. However, detailed examination of the type material and additional specimens clearly demonstrates th...
A new species of Scorpio Linnaeus, 1758 is described from Al Ula Governorate, Al Madinah Province, Saudi Arabia. Scorpio furvus sp. nov. is distinguished from closely related congeners, including S. fuscus, S. kruglovi, S. palmatus, S. jordanensis, a...
We report fungal species used as food sources by mycophagous scarab beetles, with special emphasis on Phanaeus MacLeay, 1819, and confirm that Phanaeus zapotecus Edmonds, 2006 and Phanaeus bravoensis Moctezuma, Sánchez-Huerta & Halffter, 2...
The ‘Tenuifoliae irises’ are a distinctive group of beardless, rhizomatous perennial irises, which are characterised by their somewhat vertical rhizomes, typically clothed at the apex with long maroon-brown, sharp fibrous remains of leaf...
Anomalopsychidae Flint, 1981, is a small family of caddisflies comprising two genera: the monotypic Anomalopsyche Flint, 1967, and Contulma Flint, 1969, including 31 described species grouped into the cranifer and spinosa species groups. The genus Co...
Background: The species richness and endemism of the species of the tribes Astragaleae, Crotalarieae, Genisteae, Indigofereae, and Loteae in northeastern Mexico are poorly documented and the systematics of these groups in the study area have not been...
Marasmius neooreades sp. nov. from Japan is described. This species produces fleshy, medium-sized basidiomata that are macromorphologically similar to M. oreades, with a pileus ranging from wheat-colored to dark brown and a tough stipe covered with b...
Recent genomic phylogenies have generated new robust classifications of actinopterygian fishes, making possible greater nomenclatural stability, but genus-level classifications of groups like the diverse catfish subfamily Trichomycterinae are still u...
The genus Auricularia holds significant ecological importance due to its role in wood decaying and notable economic value as both an edible and medicinal resource. This study investigates the diversity of Auricularia species in Colombian Andes using...
Astigmata is a diverse lineage of mites with significant ecological, medical, and economic importance, yet higher-level relationships within the group remain contentious due to incongruent morphological and molecular data. Here, we integrate multigen...
Shovel head worms (Annelida: Magelonidae) have long presented challenges to polychaete systematists due to their unique morphology and relative uniformity. This has been compounded by a lack of taxonomic work across key biogeographic regions. However...
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The family Grapsidae is composed of 39 species belonging to seven genera. Currently, larval data are known for 24 out of the 39 species, but the megalopa stage remains unknown for the genera Goniopsis, Grapsus, Leptograpsus, and Planes, although mega...
