20 articles in this issue
Paolo Magrini, Valerio Sbordoni
A new anophthalmic carabid beetle belonging to the genus Duvalius Delarouzée, 1859, recently collected in a deep cave in the Southern Aurunci Mountains, Lazio, is described. The new species appears to be the most troglomorphic among all the thus far known... see more
Paolo Magrini, Mario Grottolo, Davide Pedersoli
Abstract New iconographic data are here reported and a new record is given (Monte Alben, Bergamo Pre-Alps) for Ocys monzinii Magrini and Vigna Taglianti, 2006; beside, a new morphometric table is provided after newly collected material.
Giuseppe Maria Carpaneto, Federico Romiti
A geometric morphometric analysis, conducted as part of a taxonomic review of the genus Pseudoathyreus (Coleoptera: Bolboceratidae), allowed us to highlight the differences within a group of closely related species spread from the Sahel region to India, s... see more
Alberto Zilli, Rob de Vos
Artena uncinata sp. n. from the Philippines (Luzon) is described. This species is a third member of the A. lacteicincta-A. eccentrica group and can readily be separated from its closest allies by the reduced secondary sexual characters of the male and dif... see more
Alberto Zilli
Gespanna amelieae sp. n. from Sulawesi is described. This species is the second member of a hitherto monotypic genus and the first extra-Sundanan one. Despite the close resemblance to G. confirmata (= pectoralis), it can readily be separated from its cong... see more
Joachim T. Haug, Veronika Winder, Maja Ilic, Gideon T. Haug, Carolin Haug
Ant mimicry, i.e., the mimicking of ant workers by another organism, is a widespread phenomenon among different groups of Euarthropoda, including spiders and different insect species. One example of ant mimicry occurs among praying mantises (Mantodea); he... see more
Marco A. Bologna, Davide Badano, Riccardo Poloni
In this paper is reported for the first time with certainty the presence in Italy of the genus Xanthochroina, exhibiting a Holarctic discontinuous distribution. The Mediterranean species X. auberti is recorded from western Liguria and information on the r... see more
Sandro Piazzini, Leonardo Favilli
After about 40 years, the presence of Erebia gorge (Hübner, [1804]) has been reconfirmed in the Pollino massif (Calabria, Italy). In July 2019, two specimens (1 ? and 1 ?) were captured in the zone of Monte Pollino cliffs on the east face of the massif at... see more
Javier Arcos
The ant F. clara is reported from two localities in Barcelona (NE Iberian Peninsula), representing the southernmost record of the species in Southwestern Europe. Foraging workers were manually collected from both undisturbed and disturbed habitats. Its se... see more
Gino Juarez-Noé, Uzbekia Gonzalez-Coronado
A new species of genus Fredlanea Martins and Galileo, 1996 is described from Peru: Fredlanea wilderi sp. nov., based on a specimen collected from the Cuyas cloud forest in Piura region, important mountain rainforest of Peruvian Andes. The new taxon is clo... see more
Francisco A. López-Núñez, Liliana Neto Duarte, Rafael Yus Ramos, Elizabete Marchante; Hélia Marchante
Several Australian and African Acacia shrubs and trees have been intentionally introduced into the Mediterranean basin for different purposes, but some species become invasive, such as Vachellia karroo (Hayne) Banfi and Galasso (syn. Acacia karroo) (Fabal... see more
Federica Talarico, Antonio Mazzei, Carmen Gangale, Giorgia Scrivano, Pietro Brandmayr
In carabid beetles, several morphometric parameters may vary from one habitat to another. Body size is one of the most important traits in animals because it directly relates to fitness and changes across latitudinal and altitudinal gradients. In this pap... see more
Vladimir Sakalian, Enrico Migliaccio, Franco Tassi, Danail Doychev, Georgi Georgiev
The present article lists distributional data about 19 taxa, which are new records for the Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park, respectively – 16 jewel and 3 longhorn beetles. Data about 4 Italian endemics (2 buprestids and 2 cerambycids) are listed, ... see more
Paolo Biella, Andrea Galimberti
Climate change and human activities are impacting species distribution, and thus, tracking species movements is a key aspect for their conservation and for understanding their biology. Among the bumblebees that are changing distribution, one of the most s... see more
Maurizio Cornalba, Paolo Biella, Andrea Galimberti
DNA barcoding is well-known to support morphological species identification and it can be helpful for unveiling unexpected populations divergence patterns, especially in the context of the impacts on species posed by global change. In this note, we provid... see more
Alessio Trotta
The spiderfauna of Molise includes 98 species belonging to 64 genera and 21 families; 48 species are firstly reported for this region, 19 are earlier record confirmed and 31 are earlier record to be confirmed. The following new combination and new synonym... see more
Filippo Ceccolini, Lucia Pizzocaro, Fabio Cianferoni
New chorological data on some species of Orthoptera from the Italian region Molise are given, and 11 species are recorded as new for this area. Moreover, an updated checklist of the Orthoptera thus far recorded from Molise is provided.
Umberto Maritano, Daniele Sommaggio
This paper presents the results of the one-year field research into the hoverfly (Diptera: Syrphidae) in Mareschi, in Sant’Antonino di Susa municipality. The sampling activities were performed with Malaise trap, emerging trap, and entomological net. Monit... see more
Salvatore Bella, Roberto Catania, Vittorio Nobile, Gaetana Mazzeo
The authors report newly recorded species of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) on the Volcan Etna (Sicily). A total of ten species belonging to three families are recorded: Halictidae (8 species), Megachilidae (1 species), and Apidae (1 species). Pseudapis valg... see more
Meike Liu, Min Huang, Andrew Richard Cline, Paolo Cardoli, Paolo Audisio, Simone Sabatelli
Recent molecular and morphological data derived from members of the pollen-beetle subfamily Meligethinae suggest the need to separate the genus Sagittogethes Audisio and Cline, 2009, including species mostly distributed in Western Palaearctic areas, into ... see more