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2015

Article
Zootaxa 4059 (2): 364–370 (22 Dec. 2015)
Taxonomic considerations on the genus Ophthalmoglipa Franciscolo, 1952 (Coleoptera: Mordellidae) with description of two new species
ENRICO RUZZIER
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Article
Zootaxa 4059 (1): 001–039 (21 Dec. 2015)
A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera and new country records
ALAN F. BURKE, JOHN M. LEAVENGOOD, JR. & GREGORY ZOLNEROWICH
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4058 (4): 591–594 (18 Dec. 2015)
On
Myzomorphus and M. scutellatus (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Prioninae)
ANTONIO SANTOS-SILVA & MARIA HELENA M. GALILEO
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Article
Zootaxa 4058 (4): 578–588 (18 Dec. 2015)
Two new species of Cyanopenthe Nikitsky from Taiwan (Coleoptera, Tetratomidae, Penthinae)
YUN HSIAO, DARREN A. POLLOCK & MAXWELL V. L. BARCLAY
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Article
Zootaxa 4058 (4): 551–560 (18 Dec. 2015)
Review of the Megauchenia Macleay of India (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Prometopinae)
J. DASGUPTA, T.K. PAL & V.D. HEGDE
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Article
Zootaxa 4058 (3): 403–416 (17 Dec. 2015)
Austrelmis Brown (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea: Elmidae) from Argentina:
five new species
VERONICA MANZO & MIGUEL ARCHANGELSKY
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Article
Zootaxa 4058 (3): 362–372 (17 Dec. 2015)
Description of four new species related to Fissocantharis novemexcavatus (Wittmer, 1951) (Coleoptera, Cantharidae) from China
YUXIA YANG, Limei Li & Xingke Yang
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Article
Zootaxa 4058 (3): 301–331 (17 Dec. 2015)
An annotated checklist of the Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) from New Caledonia
ROMAIN NATTIER, HERVÉ JOURDAN, CHRISTIAN MILLE & JEAN CHAZEAU
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Article
Zootaxa 4058 (2): 296–300 (16 Dec. 2015)
A new species of Diapus Chapuis from South-West China and North Thailand (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae)
M. KNÍŽEK, R. A. BEAVER & L-Y. LIU
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Article
Zootaxa 4058 (2): 278–286 (16 Dec. 2015)
On the synonymy of Dymantis Stål, 1861 and Eomyrochea Linnavuori, 1982 and resulting nomenclatural changes (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
PETR KMENT & DAVID A. RIDER
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Article
Zootaxa 4058 (2): 195–210 (16 Dec. 2015)
Three new species of Macrelmis Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Elmidae: Elminae) from Southeastern Brazil with new definition of species groups to the genus
MARIA INÊS SILVA DOS PASSOS, GUSTAVO SILVA DE MIRANDA & JORGE LUIZ NESSIMIAN
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Article
Zootaxa 4058 (1): 119–126 (15 Dec. 2015)
Sucinolivolia torpida—a new genus and species of flea-beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) from Baltic amber
ANDRIS BUKEJS, MAURIZIO BIONDI & VITALII I. ALEKSEEV
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4057 (4): 595–600 (14 Dec. 2015)
First record of the genus Mimonemophas Breuning (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Monochamini) from China with description of a new species
GUANGLIN XIE, JIANGHUA HUANG, WENKAI WANG & LANBIN XIANG
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4057 (4): 582–582 (14 Dec. 2015)
New replacement name for the species Scarabaeus (Scarabaeolus) nitidus Davis & Deschodt, 2015 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)—not an American pest
ADRIAN L.V. DAVIS, RIAAN STALS & CHRISTIAN M. DESCHODT
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Article
Zootaxa 4057 (3): 399–408 (11 Dec. 2015)
Description of the immature stages of Pentacomia (Mesochila) smaragdula (Dejean 1825) (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Cicindelinae), with notes on the species distribution
ANDRÉ SILVA ROZA & JOSÉ RICARDO M. MERMUDES
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Article
Zootaxa 4057 (2): 281–287 (10 Dec. 2015)
New synonymies for Australian Cleridae (Coleoptera)
JUSTIN S. BARTLETT
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Article
Zootaxa 4057 (1): 143–150 (9 Dec. 2015)
Pseudotetracha timberensis: a new species from the Northern Territory, Australia (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Cicindelinae, Megacephalini) and considerations on the taxonomy of Pseudotetracha
MARTIN HÄCKEL & ALEXANDR ANICHTCHENKO
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Article
Zootaxa 4057 (1): 135–142 (9 Dec. 2015)
Taxonomy of Colophon Gray (Coleoptera: Lucanidae): new species and a status change
CARMEN T. JACOBS, CLARKE H. SCHOLTZ & WERNER P. STRÜMPHER
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Monograph
Zootaxa 4056 (1): 001–065 (8 Dec. 2015)
Review of the southern South American Macrodactylini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) with descriptions of new genera and species
ANDREW B.T. SMITH & JOSÉ MONDACA
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4052 (4): 485–489 (4 Dec. 2015)
A new species of the genus Adapterops (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) from northern Madagascar, with a catalogue and key to species
MILOŠ TRÝZNA & PETR BAŇAŘ
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Article
Zootaxa 4052 (3): 366–372 (3 Dec. 2015)
Notes on the distribution and ecology of the genus Stenelmis Dufour, 1835 (Coleoptera: Elmidae) in the Caucasus
MAKSIM I. SHAPOVALOV, ALEXANDR A. PROKIN, DMITRY M. PALATOV & ALEXEY V. KOVALEV
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4052 (2): 241–245 (2 Dec. 2015)
Cretonthophilus tuberculatus, a remarkable new genus and species of hister beetle (Coleoptera: Histeridae) from Cretaceous Burmese amber
MICHAEL S. CATERINO, KARIN WOLF-SCHWENNINGER & GÜNTER BECHLY
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4052 (2): 233–236 (2 Dec. 2015)
Psephenops panamaensis sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea: Psephenidae) from Panama
ROBERTO ARCE-PÉREZ, RODOLFO NOVELO-GUTIÉRREZ & AYDEÉ CORNEJO
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4052 (2): 229–232 (2 Dec. 2015)
New species of Hemilophini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) from Colombia and Ecuador
MARCELA L. MONNÉ & MIGUEL A. MONNÉ
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Article
Zootaxa 4052 (2): 187–200 (2 Dec. 2015)
An annotated checklist of the aquatic Adephaga (Coleoptera) of Egypt III. Noteridae, Haliplidae and Gyrinidae
MOHAMED SALAH & JUAN ANTONIO RÉGIL CUETO
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Article
Zootaxa 4052 (1): 143–149 (1 Dec. 2015)
The first longhorned beetle record for the Prepuna in the Bolivian Andes and Potosi Department in Bolivia: a new species of Dirocoremia (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Rhopalophorini)
ROBERT PERGER & FERNANDO GUERRA
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Article
Zootaxa 4052 (1): 096–106 (1 Dec. 2015)
Phytotelmatrichis, a new genus of Acrotrichinae (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) associated with the phytotelmata of Zingiberales plants in Peru
MICHAEL DARBY & CAROLINE S. CHABOO
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Article
Zootaxa 4052 (1): 001–038 (1 Dec. 2015)
Taxonomy of the genus Osorius Guérin-Méneville (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Osoriinae) from China
SI-SI ZOU & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU
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Monograph
Zootaxa 4051 (1): 001–071 (30 Nov. 2015)
THE TYPES OF PALAEARCTIC HIPPORHININI (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Cyclominae) CONSERVED AT THE MUSÉUM NATIONAL D’HISTOIRE NATURELLE, PARIS
MASSIMO MEREGALLI & HÉLÈNE PERRIN
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Article
Zootaxa 4048 (4): 493–507 (27 Nov. 2015)
Confused identity: subgenera of Pseudoeudesis Binaghi belong in two tribes (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Article
Zootaxa 4048 (4): 451–492 (27 Nov. 2015)
The scarab beetle tribe Pentodontini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) of Colombia: taxonomy, natural history, and distribution
MARGARITA M. LÓPEZ-GARCÍA, HÉCTOR J. GASCA-ÁLVAREZ & GERMÁN AMAT-GARCÍA
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4048 (3): 436–440 (26 Nov. 2015)
Nossidium katyae, a new species of Bolivian Ptiliidae (Coleoptera), described and figured
MICHAEL DARBY
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4048 (3): 431–432 (26 Nov. 2015)
On the taxonomy of the genus Acronicta (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). II. A replacement name for Acronicta geminata (Draudt, 1950)
ANTON V. VOLYNKIN
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Article
Zootaxa 4048 (3): 352–391 (26 Nov. 2015)
Revision of the Nearctic species of the genus Iphthiminus Spilman (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
REBEKKA M. GARDINER & DARREN A. POLLOCK
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Article
Zootaxa 4048 (2): 281–290 (25 Nov. 2015)
A new species of the endemic genus Hemicyrthus Reiche (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) from New Caledonia, with a revised key
FRANK-THORSTEN KRELL & JÖRN THEUERKAUF
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Article
Zootaxa 4044 (4): 585–595 (20 Nov. 2015)
Six new species of Triomicrus Sharp from southern China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)
JIA-WEI SHEN, ZI-WEI YIN & LI-ZHEN LI
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Article
Zootaxa 4044 (2): 289–300 (18 Nov. 2015)
Revision of the genus Procoryphaeus Mazur, 1984 (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Histerinae: Exosternini)
TOMÁŠ LACKNER
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Article
Zootaxa 4040 (4): 589–595 (13 Nov. 2015)
Hypocaccus (s.l.) hirsutus sp. nov., an atypical new species of the genus Hypocaccus C. Thomson, 1867 from India (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Saprininae)
TOMÁŠ LACKNER
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Article
Zootaxa 4040 (4): 501–529 (13 Nov. 2015)
A review of the genus Potemnemus Thomson, 1864 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) with description of a new species from Papua New Guinea
HENRIK WALLIN & TORSTEIN KVAMME
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4040 (4): 469–471 (12 Nov. 2015)
Microdytes huangyongensis sp. n. and new records of Allopachria Zimmermann, 1924 from Zhejiang Province, China (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
DONGJU BIAN, YUE ZHANG & LANZHU JI
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Article
Zootaxa 4040 (3): 345–358 (11 Nov. 2015)
Four new Entiminae from the Mediterranean region (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Phyllobiini, Trachyphloeini), with additional data on the distribution of some poorly known species
CHRISTOPH GERMANN, ROMAN BOROVEC & CARLO BRAUNERT
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Article
Zootaxa 4040 (3): 331–344 (11 Nov. 2015)
Review of some species in the genera Pselaphodes Westwood and Labomimus Sharp (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)
ZI-WEI YIN1 & LI-ZHEN LI
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Article
Zootaxa 4040 (3): 280–300 (11 Nov. 2015)
Taxonomy of 'Euconnus complex'. Part V. Review of type species of Euconnus subgenera Tetramelus, Paratetramelus and Heteroconnus (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Article
Zootaxa 4040 (2): 187–203 (10 Nov. 2015)
The classification and phylogenetic status of Jekelius (Reitterius) punctulatus (Jekel, 1866) and Jekelius (Jekelius) brullei (Jekel, 1866) (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae) using molecular data
JORGE M. LOBO, YOLANDA JIMÉNEZ-RUIZ, EVGENI CHEHLAROV, BORISLAV GUÉORGUIEV, YANA PETROVA, DAVID KRÁL, MIGUEL ÁNGEL ALONSO-ZARAZAGA & JOSÉ R. VERDÚ
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Article
Zootaxa 4039 (4): 553–565 (6 Nov. 2015)
Notes on the genus Echinoaesalus Zelenka, 1993 (Coleoptera: Lucanidae), with the description of a new species from the Malay Peninsula
HAO HUANG, LUCA BARTOLOZZI & CHANG-CHIN CHEN
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4039 (3): 475–477 (5 Nov. 2015)
A new brachypterous scarab species, Orphnus longicornis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Orphninae), from the East African Rift
ANDREY FROLOV & LILIA AKHMETOVA
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Article
Zootaxa 4039 (3): 431–444 (5 Nov. 2015)
Four new species of the genus Thoracophorus Motschulsky, 1857 for the Neotropical region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae)
ULRICH IRMLER
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Article
Zootaxa 4039 (1): 173–182 (3 Nov. 2015)
A study on the genus Agrilaxia Kerremans, 1903 from Venezuela (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae: Anthaxiini)
SVATOPLUK BÍLÝ
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Monograph
Zootaxa 4038 (1): 001–094 (2 Nov. 2015)
Revision of the genus Thyreocephalus and description of Afrus gen. nov. of Africa south of the Sahara (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)
JIŘÍ JANÁK & ARNALDO BORDONI
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Article
Zootaxa 4034 (3): 587–593 (30 Oct. 2015)
Second highly modified hypogean species of the genus Morimotoidius Habu from western Jiangxi Province, China, with a new locality for M. zhushandong (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Platynini)
XINHUI WANG, JIANMEI PANG & MINGYI TIAN
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Article
Zootaxa 4034 (3): 577–586 (30 Oct. 2015)
List of unavailable infrasubspecific names originally published in Oberea Dejean, 1835, with nomenclatural notes on the genus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
ZHU LI, GIULIO CUCCODORO & LI CHEN
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Article
Zootaxa 4034 (2): 375–389 (29 Oct. 2015)
Description of three new species related to Themus (Haplothemus) coriaceipennis (Fairmaire, 1889) (Coleoptera: Cantharidae)
JUNYAN SU, YUXIA YANG & XINGKE YANG
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Article
Zootaxa 4034 (2): 291–308 (29 Oct. 2015)
A taxonomic review, new species and a key to species of Platycoelus Blanchard, 1843 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichini)
KIPLING WILL
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4034 (1): 197–200 (28 Oct. 2015)
Two new high-altitude subspecies of Tapinopterus (Tapinopterus) cognatus (Dejean, 1831) (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichinae) from Serbia
SREĆKO ĆURČIĆ, NASTAS ILIĆ, NIKOLA VESOVIĆ & DRAGAN ANTIĆ
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Article
Zootaxa 4034 (1): 112–126 (28 Oct. 2015)
Undetected for a century: Palaearctic Agrilus ribesi Schaefer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) on currant in North America, with adult morphology, larval biology and DNA barcode
EDUARD JENDEK, VASILY V. GREBENNIKOV & LADISLAV BOCAK
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4033 (3): 445–450 (23 Oct. 2015)
Notes on the systematic placement of Sciacharis (Anthicimimus) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Article
Zootaxa 4033 (3): 393–410 (23 Oct. 2015)
The Cephenniini of China. VII. New species and new records of Cephennodes Reitter of Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Article
Zootaxa 4033 (3): 350–362 (23 Oct. 2015)
Biology and morphology of immature stages of Lixus canescens (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Lixinae)
JIŘÍ SKUHROVEC & SEMYON VOLOVNIK
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Article
Zootaxa 4032 (5): 582–594 (20 Oct. 2015)
Redescription of late-instar larva of Scydmoraphes sparshalli (Denny) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Article
Zootaxa 4032 (4): 395–406 (19 Oct. 2015)
Two new species of the genus Taphioporus Moseyko & Kirejtshuk (Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae) from Baltic amber
ANDRIS BUKEJS & ALEXEY G. MOSEYKO
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Article
Zootaxa 4032 (2): 151–178 (15 Oct. 2015)
Three new species of tiger beetles and new data on Cicindelina species from Angola (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae)
ARTUR R.M. SERRANO, RÚBEN A. CAPELA & ANDREAS OESTERLE
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Monograph
Zootaxa 4030 (1): 001–089 (13 Oct. 2015)
THE MELOIDAE (COLEOPTERA) OF WISCONSIN
DANIEL A. MARSCHALEK  & DANIEL K. YOUNG
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Article
Zootaxa 4028 (4): 539–550 (12 Oct. 2015)
Confirmation of occurrence of Trechus Clairville, 1806 in the Baltic amber forests, with description of a flightless edaphic species, and remarks on Trechoides Motschulsky, 1856 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechini)
JOACHIM SCHMIDT & ARNAUD FAILLE
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Article
Zootaxa 4028 (3): 430–440 (9 Oct. 2015)
Amphimela raydahensis sp. nov. from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini)
ASHRAF M. EL TORKEY & HATHAL M. AL DHAFER
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Article
Zootaxa 4028 (3): 301–353 (9 Oct. 2015)
Checklist and type designations of New Zealand Aleocharinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)
RICHARD A. B. LESCHEN & ALFRED F. NEWTON
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Article
Zootaxa 4028 (2): 246–256 (8 Oct. 2015)
On the species of the genus Anthaxia Eschscholtz, 1829 described by A. Théry from Angola in 1947 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Anthaxiini)
SVATOPLUK BÍLÝ
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4028 (1): 136–142 (7 Oct. 2015)
New species and additional records of the subgenus Termidonia Motschulsky of the genus Zyras Stephens in China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)
ZHU-QI YAN & LI-ZHEN LI
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Article
Zootaxa 4028 (1): 121–128 (7 Oct. 2015)
Phlaeopterus Motschulsky, 1853 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Anthophagini)—a new genus for the Palaearctic: new combination
ALEXEY V. SHAVRIN & LOGAN MULLEN
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Article
Zootaxa 4027 (4): 578–586 (6 Oct. 2015)
Fossil carabids from Baltic amber—III—Tarsitachys bilobus Erwin, 1971 an interesting fossil ground beetle from Baltic amber (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae): Redescription and comments on its taxonomic placement
VICENTE M. ORTUÑO & ANTONIO ARILLO
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4027 (3): 437–441 (5 Oct. 2015)
Microcenoscelis n. gen. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Ulomini) from tropical Africa, with description of a blind species from Zimbabwe
WOLFGANG SCHAWALLER
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Article
Zootaxa 4027 (2): 253–269 (2 Oct. 2015)
Revision of Neotropical species of ant-like stone beetles misplaced in Stenichnus and Scydmoraphes (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Article
Zootaxa 4027 (2): 243–252 (2 Oct. 2015)
A new species of the genus Anthaxia (Anthaxia) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from Republic of South Africa
MARTIN OBOŘIL & PETR BAŇAŘ
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Article
Zootaxa 4027 (2): 205–226 (2 Oct. 2015)
A taxonomic review of the Neotropical genus Hansreia Halffter & Martínez, 1977 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae)
MARCELY VALOIS, FERNANDO Z. VAZ-DE-MELLO & FERNANDO A. B. SILVA
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Article
Zootaxa 4027 (1): 101–116 (1 Oct. 2015)
A checklist of comb-clawed beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Alleculinae) from Iran
VLADIMIR NOVÁK & HASSAN GHAHARI
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Monograph
Zootaxa 4026 (1): 001–097 (30 Sept. 2015)
A checklist of longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of Serbia
NASTAS ILIĆ & SREĆKO ĆURČIĆ
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Monograph
Zootaxa 4024 (1): 001–108 (30 Sept. 2015)
Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae)
SAEED AZADBAKHSH & JAMASB NOZARI
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Zootaxa 4021 (4): 553–564 (29 Sept. 2015)
Review of the Oriental genus Platysodes Westwood (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Cremastocheilini) with a redescription of Platysodes madoni Bourgoin
JIAN-YUE QIU, HAO XU & LI CHEN
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Zootaxa 4021 (3): 493–498 (28 Sept. 2015)
Notes on the systematic placement of Eutheia siamensis Franz (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Zootaxa 4021 (3): 433–446 (28 Sept. 2015)
Biology and morphology of immature stages of Adosomus roridus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Lixinae)
FILIP TRNKA, ROBERT STEJSKAL & JIŘÍ SKUHROVEC
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Zootaxa 4021 (2): 201–242 (25 Sept. 2015)
Taxonomic revision of Phygopoda Thomson, 1864 and Pseudophygopoda Tavakilian & Peñaherrera-Leiva, 2007 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae)
ALLAN CARELLI & MARCELA L. MONNÉ
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Zootaxa 4021 (1): 195–200 (24 Sept. 2015)
One new species of Ptomaphaminus Perreau, 2000 (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae: Ptomaphagini) from a granitic subterranean environment in Vietnam
MICHEL PERREAU & ARNAUD FAILLE
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Zootaxa 4020 (2): 397–400 (22 Sept. 2015)
New species of Oideterus Thomson (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Prioninae, Anacolini) and notes on O. lobicollis
MARIA HELENA M. GALILEO & ANTONIO SANTOS-SILVA
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Zootaxa 4020 (2): 289–312 (22 Sept. 2015)
Trachelostenini sensu novo: redescriptions of Trachelostenus Solier, Myrmecodema Gebien and Leaus Matthews & Lawrence, based on adults and larvae, and descriptions of three new species of Leaus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
ERIC G. MATTHEWS & JOHN F. LAWRENCE
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Zootaxa 4020 (1): 153–168 (21 Sept. 2015)
Revision of Taiwanaenidea Kimoto, 1984 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)
CHI-FENG LEE & RON BEENEN
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Zootaxa 4018 (4): 506–534 (17 Sept. 2015)
The genus Notomicrus in Guadeloupe, with description of three new species (Coleoptera: Noteridae)
MICHAEL MANUEL
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Zootaxa 4018 (3): 444–450 (16 Sept. 2015)
A new species of Neuraphes Thomson, 1859 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) from Kazakhstan
PETER HLAVÁČ & OTO NAKLÁDAL
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Zootaxa 4018 (2): 201–227 (15 Sept. 2015)
Revision of Bondariella Hustache & Bondar (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), with descriptions of the first species from the Amazon and notes on natural history
ROBERTA DE MELO VALENTE & MARIANO BRANDÃO CORDEIRO JÚNIOR
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Zootaxa 4013 (4): 451–502 (10 Sept. 2015)
Revision of Palearctic and Oriental Necrophila Kirby et Spence, part 3: subgenus Calosilpha Portevin (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Silphinae)
JAN RŮŽIČKA, JARIN QUBAIOVÁ, MASAAKI NISHIKAWA & JAN SCHNEIDER
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Zootaxa 4013 (3): 443–448 (9 Sept. 2015)
Scydmoraphes rothangensis Franz, a misplaced Himalayan species of Cyrtoscydmini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Zootaxa 4013 (1): 001–026 (7 Sept. 2015)
Taxonomy of the Quedius mukuensis group (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini: Quediina) with descriptions of four new species from China
YAN-PENG CAI, ZONG-YI ZHAO & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU
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Zootaxa 4012 (3): 570–580 (4 Sept. 2015)
Nargus (Eunargus) celli sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae: Cholevini), a new species from China
CHENG-BIN WANG, JAN RŮŽIČKA & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU
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Zootaxa 4012 (2): 379–385 (3 Sept. 2015)
A new polymorphic Hemilophini Thomson, 1868 from the Tumuc Humac inselbergs, French Guiana (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae)
JULIEN TOUROULT & PIERRE-HENRI DALENS
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Zootaxa 4012 (2): 351–360 (3 Sept. 2015)
First record of Microscapha LeConte from Baltic amber with description of a new species and list of fossil Melandryidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea)
ANDRIS BUKEJS & VITALII I. ALEKSEEV
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Zootaxa 4012 (1): 167–180 (2 Sept. 2015)
Synopsis of the genus Pharaonus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae), with descriptions of new taxa
DENIS KEITH, GUIDO SABATINELLI & MARCO ULIANA
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Zootaxa 4012 (1): 078–096 (2 Sept. 2015)
Taxonomic review of Drilus Olivier, 1790 (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) from Asia Minor, with descriptions of seven new species and comments on the female antennal morphology in Drilini
LUCIE KOBIELUSZOVA & ROBIN KUNDRATA
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Zootaxa 4007 (4): 588–591 (31 Aug. 2015)
Notes on "A checklist of the Gyrinidae (Coleoptera: Adephaga) of Brazil" by Colpani et al. (2014)
H. FERY, C.J. BENETTI, D. COLPANI & N. HAMADA
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Zootaxa 4007 (4): 509–528 (31 Aug. 2015)
Triomicrus Sharp of Eastern China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)
JIA-WEI SHEN, ZI-WEI YIN & LI-ZHEN LI
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Book review
Zootaxa 4007 (3): 450–450 (28 Aug. 2015)
BOOK REVIEW: The Book of Beetles. A lifesize guide to six hundred of nature’s gems (editd by Patrice Bouchard, Ivy Press, UK, 2014, 656 pages)
FEDOR ČIAMPOR JR.
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Zootaxa 4007 (3): 440–444 (28 Aug. 2015)
Rediscovery of the enigmatic Stenosternus costatus Karsch (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Orphninae) from São Tomé Island
ANDREY V. FROLOV & LILIA A. AKHMETOVA
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Zootaxa 4007 (3): 437–439 (28 Aug. 2015)
A new species of Aegidium Arrow (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from the Atlantic forest ecoregion in South America
ANDREY V. FROLOV, PASCHOAL C. GROSSI & FERNANDO Z. VAZ-DE-MELLO
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Zootaxa 4007 (3): 433–436 (28 Aug. 2015)
A new genus and species of Orphninae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) associated with epiphytes in an Andean cloud forest in Ecuador
ANDREY V. FROLOV & FERNANDO Z. VAZ-DE-MELLO
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Zootaxa 4007 (3): 389–398 (28 Aug. 2015)
A new species of Buprestis subgenus Akiyamaia from South-Eastern Tibet, China (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestini)
HAO HUANG & ZHAO-HUI PAN
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Zootaxa 4007 (3): 343–369 (28 Aug. 2015)
Schuelkelia gen. n., a new eastern Palaearctic ant-like stone beetle, with synopsis of Eurasian genera of Cyrtoscydmini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Zootaxa 4007 (2): 290–294 (27 Aug. 2015)
Acinopus sabulosus and A. lepeletieri from north-west Africa are two distinct species (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalini)
BORIS M. KATAEV & DAVID W. WRASE
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Zootaxa 4007 (2): 276–282 (27 Aug. 2015)
New species and additional records of Tetrabothrus Bernhauer from China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)
ZHU-QI YAN & LI-ZHEN LI
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Zootaxa 4007 (1): 047–062 (26 Aug. 2015)
Endemic epigean Tenebrionids (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from the Andean Region: exploring the patagonian-diversification hypothesis
RODOLFO CARRARA & GUSTAVO E. FLORES
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Zootaxa 4006 (3): 463–480 (25 Aug. 2015)
First record and five new species of Xylographellini (Coleoptera: Ciidae) from China, with online DNA barcode library of the family
CRISTIANO LOPES-ANDRADE & VASILY V. GREBENNIKOV
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Zootaxa 4006 (2): 374–382 (24 Aug. 2015)
Revision of Neodeuterus Schaufuss and description of a new allied genus from Borneo(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)
SERGEY A. KURBATOV1 & GIULIO CUCCODORO
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Zootaxa 4006 (2): 247–284 (24 Aug. 2015)
Review of the genus Miloderes Casey, 1888 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae), with desciptions of three new species
MATTHEW H. VAN DAM & CHARLES W. O’BRIEN
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Zootaxa 4002 (1): 001–190 (20 Aug. 2015)
Annotated catalogue of the carabid beetles of the Republic of Macedonia (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
SLAVČO HRISTOVSKI & BORISLAV GUÉORGUIEV
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Article
Zootaxa 4000 (4): 483–491 (18 Aug. 2015)
Taxonomy of 'Euconnus complex'. Part IV. Review of Euconnus subgenus Rhomboconnus (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Zootaxa 4000 (3): 377–382 (17 Aug. 2015)
A new genus and two new species of Rhopalophorini Blanchard, 1845 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae)
UBIRAJARA R. MARTINS, MARIA HELENA M. GALILEO & ANTONIO SANTOS-SILVA
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Zootaxa 4000 (2): 294–298 (14 Aug. 2015)
A new species of Callyntra (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from central Chile
ÁLVARO ZÚÑIGA-REINOSO & MAURICIO CID-ARCOS
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Zootaxa 4000 (1): 123–130 (13 Aug. 2015)
New synonyms, combinations and faunistic records in the genus Denierella Kaszab (Coleoptera: Meloidae)
JAN BATELKA & JIŘÍ HÁJEK
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Zootaxa 4000 (1): 001–048 (13 Aug. 2015)
Annotated checklist of the Blennidus subgenus Agraphoderus species from Peru with description of B. bombonensis n. sp. and synonymic notes (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichinae)
GIANNI ALLEGRO & PIER MAURO GIACHINO
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Zootaxa 3999 (3): 421–429 (11 Aug. 2015)
New data on the subgenus Gnathopaederus of the genus Paederus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae) of mainland China
ZHONG PENG, QI-LI LI, LI-ZHEN LI & FU-KANG GU
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Zootaxa 3999 (3): 413–420 (11 Aug. 2015)
A new species of Lamiogethes and a new species of Meligethes from China (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Meligethinae)
YING CHEN, XIAOLI LIN, MIN HUANG & XING KE YANG
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Zootaxa 3999 (2): 272–278 (10 Aug. 2015)
On the genus Limnocassis Spaeth, with description of two new species from South Africa (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)
LECH BOROWIEC & LUKÁŠ SEKERKA
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Zootaxa 3999 (2): 190–210 (10 Aug. 2015)
Studies of Bolivian Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) 2: The subfamily Acrotrichinae including two new genera Petrotrichis and Microtrichis, and eight new species of Acrotrichis
MICHAEL DARBY
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Zootaxa 3999 (1): 111–124 (7 Aug. 2015)
Description of two new species related to Pterostichus (Aphaonus) arcanoides Lorenz, 1998 from the West Transcaucasia (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichini)
ALEXANDR S. ZAMOTAJLOV, IGOR A. SOLODOVNIKOV & DMITRIY D. FOMINYKH
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Zootaxa 3992 (1): 001–094 (29 Jul. 2015)
Revision of the genus Oxytelus Gravenhorst (Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae) in Southeast Asia
LIANG LÜ & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU
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Zootaxa 3990 (4): 551–566 (28 Jul. 2015)
Brounea, a new genus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from New Zealand, with descriptions of nine new species
JONG-SEOK PARK & CHRISTOPHER E. CARLTON
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Zootaxa 3990 (3): 301–354 (27 Jul. 2015)
Description of Laccomimus gen. n. and eleven new species from the Neotropical region (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Laccophilinae)
MARIO TOLEDO & MARIANO C. MICHAT
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Zootaxa 3990 (2): 279–286 (24 Jul. 2015)
Taxonomy of the Alloraphes-Stenichnaphes-Parastenichnaphes complex: Stenichnodes complicates the picture (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3990 (2): 221–234 (24 Jul. 2015)
The Cephenniini of China. VI. New species and new records of Cephennodes Reitter from Hainan, Guangxi and Guangdong(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3990 (2): 151–196 (24 Jul. 2015)
Taxonomy of the subgenus Quedius (Raphirus) Stephens (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini: Quediina) with descriptions of four new species from China
YAN-PENG CAI & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU
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Zootaxa 3986 (5): 597–600 (21 Jul. 2015)
Neotype designations and nomenclatural actions for Apionidae described by Johann Ludwig Christian Carl Gravenhorst in 1807 (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea)
CARLO GIUSTO
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Zootaxa 3986 (5): 591–596 (21 Jul. 2015)
A new species of the genus Oxyporus Fabricius (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxyporinae) in Yunnan, China
GUO-FENG LI , CHUN-MEI WANG , HUA-FENG LI & YUN-PING HOU
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Zootaxa 3986 (5): 549–560 (21 Jul. 2015)
Taxonomic revision of the Dichotomius speciosus (Waterhouse, 1891) species group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
MARIA E. MALDANER, RAFAEL V. NUNES & FERNANDO Z. VAZ-DE-MELLO
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Zootaxa 3986 (4): 493–498 (20 Jul. 2015)
On the genus Sunius Curtis, 1829 of Turkey II. Two new micropterous species and additional records from Western Anatolia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae)
SİNAN ANLAŞ
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Zootaxa 3986 (4): 483–487 (20 Jul. 2015)
Clidicus chinensis n. sp. from Hainan, the first species of the Mastigitae from China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
DE-YAO ZHOU & LI-ZHEN LI
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Zootaxa 3986 (4): 472–482 (20 Jul. 2015)
Four new species of Astenus (Eurysunius) Dejean, 1833 from Western Anatolia, Turkey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Paederinae)
SİNAN ANLAŞ
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Zootaxa 3986 (4): 461–471 (20 Jul. 2015)
Pumiliofossorum: A new genus of Scotobiini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) with two new species from Peru, and a revised key for the genera of the tribe
VIOLETA A. SILVESTRO, ALFREDO E. GIRALDO MENDOZA & GUSTAVO E. FLORES
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Zootaxa 3986 (4): 452–460 (20 Jul. 2015)
The riffle beetles (Coleoptera: Elmidae) of the Eocene Baltic amber: Heterelmis groehni sp. nov. and Heterlimnius samlandicus (Bollow, 1940) comb. nov.
ANDRIS BUKEJS, VITALII I. ALEKSEEV & MANFRED A. JÄCH
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Zootaxa 3986 (3): 393–396 (17 Jul. 2015)
Discovery of the genus Loeblites Franz (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) in China, with description of a new species
DE-YAO ZHOU & LI-ZHEN LI
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Zootaxa 3986 (3): 373–386 (17 Jul. 2015)
New species of Cerambycinae from the Neotropical Region, and nomen novum for Anelaphus maculatus Galileo, Martins, and Santos-Silva, 2014 (Elaphidiini)
MARIA HELENA M. GALILEO, UBIRAJARA R. MARTINS & ANTONIO SANTOS-SILVA
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Zootaxa 3986 (3): 251–278 (17 Jul. 2015)
Cycadophila, a new genus (Coleoptera: Erotylidae: Pharaxonothinae) inhabiting Cycas debaoensis (Cycadaceae) in Asia
GUANG XU, WILLIAM TANG, PAUL SKELLEY, NIAN LIU & STEPHEN RICH
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Zootaxa 3986 (2): 217–226 (16 Jul. 2015)
A taxonomic revision of the Quadrideres simplicipes species-group (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pedinini), including description of a new species from Tanzania
MARCIN JAN KAMIŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3986 (1): 001–034 (15 Jul. 2015)
New species of Anchastus LeConte, 1853 from South America (Elateridae, Elaterinae, Ampedini, Physorhinina)
SÔNIA A. CASARI
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Zootaxa 3985 (4): 575–582 (14 Jul. 2015)
Four new species of the genus Agrilus Curtis, 1825 from Ecuador (Coleoptera, Buprestidae)
GIANFRANCO CURLETTI
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Zootaxa 3985 (4): 451–490 (14 Jul. 2015)
The phylogeny of mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpoidea: Gryllotalpidae)
OSCAR J. CADENA-CASTAÑEDA
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Zootaxa 3985 (3): 446–450 (13 Jul. 2015)
Cymbiodyta lishizheni sp. nov., the second species of the genus from China
FENGLONG JIA & RENCHAO LIN
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Zootaxa 3985 (3): 440–445 (13 Jul. 2015)
Four new species of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) from Bolivia and Brazil
MARIA HELENA M. GALILEO, UBIRAJARA R. MARTINS, ANTONIO SANTOS-SILVA
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Zootaxa 3985 (2): 291–295 (10 Jul. 2015)
Zopherobatrus gen. n. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), a new troglobitic batrisine from southwestern China
ZI-WEI YIN & LI-ZHEN LI
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Zootaxa 3985 (1): 069–097 (9 Jul. 2015)
A revision of the genus Ora Clark, 1865 (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) in Argentina (part II)—redescriptions, updated distributions and a key to species
MARÍA LAURA LIBONATTI
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Zootaxa 3984 (1): 001–141 (8 Jul. 2015)
An annotated catalogue of the Buprestidae of Iran (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea)
HASSAN GHAHARI, MARK G. VOLKOVITSH & CHARLES L. BELLAMY
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Zootaxa 3981 (4): 592–596 (7 Jul. 2015)
A new fossil species of the genus Coptodera Dejean, 1825 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Lebiinae) from Baltic amber
SARA GAMBOA & VICENTE M. ORTUÑO
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Zootaxa 3981 (4): 577–591 (7 Jul. 2015)
Description of immatures of Berosus decolor Knisch, 1924 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Berosini), with emphasis on chaetotaxy and morphometry
GEORGINA RODRIGUEZ, MIGUEL ARCHANGELSKY & PATRICIA L. M. TORRES
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Article
Zootaxa 3981 (4): 553–564 (7 Jul. 2015)
Note on the genus Neacanista Gressitt, 1940 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Acanthocinini)
GUI-QIANG HUANG, BIN LIU & XAVIER GOUVERNEUR
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Zootaxa 3981 (4): 451–490 (7 Jul. 2015)
Australian Marsh Beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). 8. The new genera Cygnocyphon, Eximiocyphon, Paracyphon, Leptocyphon, Tectocyphon, and additions to Contacyphon de Gozis, Nanocyphon Zwick and Eurycyphon Watts
PETER ZWICK
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Zootaxa 3981 (3): 437–443 (6 Jul. 2015)
Colydodes flavisetis sp. nov. (Coleoptera, Zopheridae, Colydiinae), new species from southeastern Brazil with an updated key to the species of the genus
VINICIUS S. FERREIRA & GUILHERME IDE MARQUES DOS SANTOS
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Zootaxa 3981 (3): 385–396 (6 Jul. 2015)
Lectotype designations of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) described by E. F. Germar in 1824 and J. C. Klug in 1825 and a new synonymy
MARCELA L. MONNÉ & MIGUEL A. MONNÉ
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Zootaxa 3981 (3): 360–366 (6 Jul. 2015)
On the validity of some species names of South American longhorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)
MIGUEL A. MONNÉ & MARIO CUPELLO
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Zootaxa 3981 (3): 301–359 (6 Jul. 2015)
Australian Marsh Beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). 7. Genus Nothocyphon, new genus
PETER ZWICK
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3981 (1): 143–146 (2 Jul. 2015)
Note on Rondibilis similis (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae)
GUI-QIANG HUANG & FRANCESCO VITALI
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Zootaxa 3981 (1): 107–116 (2 Jul. 2015)
Review of the genus Sekaliporus Watts, 1997 with description of a new species from northern Australia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae)
LARS HENDRICH & MICHAEL BALKE
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Zootaxa 3980 (3): 442–446 (30 Jun. 2015)
Margaiostus sundukovi sp. nov., the first record of the genus in the Palaearctic region (Coleoptera: Elateridae)
ALEXANDER S. PROSVIROV
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Zootaxa 3980 (3): 427–434 (30 Jun. 2015)
Notes on the Australian Anacaenini (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae): description of male of Phelea breviceps Hansen and unravelling the identity of Crenitis neogallica Gentili
MARTIN FIKÁČEK & CHRIS H. S. WATTS
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Zootaxa 3980 (1): 136–142 (26 Jun. 2015)
Rhopalomma stefaniae gen. et sp. n., the first ommatid beetle from the Upper Jurassic in Australia (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Ommatidae)
LAUREN G. ASHMAN, ROLF G. OBERPRIELER & ADAM ŚLIPIŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3980 (1): 081–105 (26 Jun. 2015)
Fourteen new species, one new genus, and eleven new country or state records for New World Lamiinae (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)
UBIRAJARA R. MARTINS, ANTONIO SANTOS-SILVA & MARIA HELENA M. GALILEO
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Article
Zootaxa 3974 (4): 582–588 (24 Jun. 2015)
Description of a new species of Sinocaulus Fairmaire from China (Coleoptera: Dascillidae)
ZHENYU JIN, ADAM ŚLIPIŃSKI & WENKAI WANG
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Zootaxa 3974 (4): 573–581 (24 Jun. 2015)
On the Eocene age of Limodromus Motschulsky, 1850, with description of L. hoffeinsorum sp. n. from Baltic Amber (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Platynini)
JOACHIM SCHMIDT
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Zootaxa 3974 (3): 440–446 (23 Jun. 2015)
Range extension and sexual dimorphism in Megabatrus caviceps Löbl (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae)
ZI-WEI YIN & LI-ZHEN LI
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Zootaxa 3974 (3): 401–412 (23 Jun. 2015)
A new species of Domene Fauvel, 1873 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae) from a granitic cavity in Serra da Estrela (Portugal)
ARTUR R.M. SERRANO, JOSÉ CONDE, SANDRA ANTUNES, CARLOS A.S. AGUIAR & MÁRIO BOIEIRO
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Zootaxa 3974 (3): 391–400 (23 Jun. 2015)
Wallacellus is Euwallacea: molecular phylogenetics settles generic relationships (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini)
CAROLINE G. STORER, JESSE W. BREINHOLT & JIRI HULCR
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Zootaxa 3974 (1): 297–300 (22 Jun. 2015)
A new species of Cephalocyclus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) from Mexico
PABLO MINOR, MARCO DELLACASA & GIOVANNI DELLACASA
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Zootaxa 3974 (1): 145–147 (19 Jun. 2015)
Oniticellus (Liatongus) boucomonti Balthasar, 1932 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Oniticellini)—clarification of its taxonomic status by lectotype designation
ALEŠ BEZDĚK, DAVID KRÁL & FRANTIŠEK X. J. SLÁDEČEK
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Zootaxa 3974 (1): 115–121 (19 Jun. 2015)
Synopsis of the genus Neoeutrypanus Monné, 1977 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), with the description of two new species
JUAN PABLO BOTERO & MIGUEL A. MONNÉ
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Zootaxa 3974 (1): 093–105 (19 Jun. 2015)
New data on Apteroloma (Coleoptera: Agyrtidae) of central Asia and the Himalayas with a new synonymy
JAN RŮŽIČKA, LEONARDO LATELLA & WOLFGANG SCHAWALLER
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Zootaxa 3974 (1): 076–092 (19 Jun. 2015)
New national and state records of Neotropical Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera)
JULIETA ASIAIN, JUAN MÁRQUEZ & URLICH IRMLER
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Zootaxa 3974 (1): 029–048 (19 Jun. 2015)
Review of the genus Lesteva Latreille, 1797 of Central Asia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Anthophagini)
ALEXEY V. SHAVRIN
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Zootaxa 3973 (3): 579–590 (18 Jun. 2015)
Late-instar larva of Scydmaenus (Parallomicrus) rufus Müller & Kunze (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3973 (3): 567–578 (18 Jun. 2015)
Three new species of the genus Quedius (subgenus Microsaurus) from China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini: Quediina)
YAN-PENG CAI, ZONG-YI ZHAO & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU
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Zootaxa 3973 (3): 528–538 (18 Jun. 2015)
New data on Himalayan Lesteva Latreille, 1797 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae) with description of a new species from Nepal
ALEXEY V. SHAVRIN
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Zootaxa 3973 (2): 369–380 (17 Jun. 2015)
Retroculus acherontos, a new species of cichlid fish (Teleostei) from the Rio Tocantins basin
MARIA ISABEL LANDIM, CRISTIANO R. MOREIRA & CARLOS A. FIGUEIREDO
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Zootaxa 3973 (2): 300–308 (17 Jun. 2015)
Penghou, a new genus of flea beetles from China (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini)
YONG-YING RUAN, ALEXANDER S. KONSTANTINOV, K. D. PRATHAPAN, SI-QIN GE & XING-KE YANG
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Zootaxa 3973 (2): 271–299 (17 Jun. 2015)
New taxa and new records in Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) from the state of Bahia (Brazil) and notes on Meridiotroctes (Acanthoderini)
UBIRAJARA R. MARTINS, MARIA HELENA M. GALILEO & ANTONIO SANTOS-SILVA
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Zootaxa 3973 (1): 102–118 (16 Jun. 2015)
Description of the larva of Tetragonoderus (Crossonychus) variegatus Dejean, 1829 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cyclosomini) with notes on biology
GUILHERME IDE MARQUES DOS SANTOS
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Zootaxa 3972 (4): 495–520 (15 Jun. 2015)
New species and new records of Mesoceration Janssens, 1967 from South Africa (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae)
DAVID T. BILTON
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Zootaxa 3972 (2): 291–300 (11 Jun. 2015)
Three new species of Neuraphes in eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3970 (1): 001–087 (9 Jun. 2015)
Revision of the New World cycad weevils of the subtribe Allocorynina, with description of two new genera and three new subgenera (Coleoptera: Belidae: Oxycoryninae)
CHARLES W. O’BRIEN & WILLIAM TANG
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Zootaxa 3966 (1): 001–070 (8 Jun. 2015)
Taxonomy on Quedius euryalus group (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini: Quediina) from China with description of eight new species
YAN-PENG CAI, ZONG-YI ZHAO & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU
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Zootaxa 3964 (5): 596–600 (5 Jun. 2015)
A new species of the genus Meiyingia Holzchuh, 2010 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae) from China
ZHU LI, LICHAO TIAN & LI CHEN
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Zootaxa 3964 (4): 482–488 (4 Jun. 2015)
Two new species of the genus Anthaxia (Anthaxia Eschscholtz 1829) from China,
and notes on the related species (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Anthaxiini)
SVATOPLUK BÍLÝ
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Zootaxa 3964 (2): 288–293 (2 Jun. 2015)
Description of a new species of Bothinodroctonus Schedl, 1969 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) from Africa
MILOŠ KNÍŽEK & MICHAIL MANDELSHTAM
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Zootaxa 3964 (2): 151–182 (2 Jun. 2015)
A revision of the genus Euseboides Gahan, 1893 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae:
Lamiinae), with description of two new species
GUI-QIANG HUANG, ZHU LI & LI CHEN
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Zootaxa 3963 (4): 561–582 (28 May 2015)
Review of the species of
Pelodiaetodes Moore (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini: Anillina) of New Zealand
IGOR M. SOKOLOV
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Zootaxa 3963 (3): 335–368 (27 May 2015)
The external and internal structures of Amphizoa davidi Lucas (Coleoptera, Amphizoidae), using X-ray phase contrast microtomography
DEE LI, KAI ZHANG, XIAOYAN LI, PEIPING ZHU, CAIFENG XU, ZIYU WU & HONGZHANG ZHOU
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Erratum
Zootaxa 3963 (2): 250–250 (26 May 2015)
VINICIUS DE SOUZA FERREIRA (2015) An annotated catalogue of the type material of
Elateroidea Leach, 1815 (Coleoptera) deposited in the Coleoptera collection of the Museum of
Zoology of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Zootaxa, 3937(2) 263–310.

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3959 (1): 001–084 (20 May 2015)
Revisional studies on the Luciolinae fireflies of Asia (Coleoptera: Lampyridae): 1. The genus Pyrophanes Olivier with two new species. 2. Four new species of Pteroptyx Olivier and 3. A new genus Inflata Boontop, with redescription of Luciola indica (Motsch.) as Inflata indica comb. nov.
LESLEY BALLANTYNE, CHRISTINE L. LAMBKIN, YUVARIN BOONTOP & WAN F. A. JUSOH
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Zootaxa 3957 (4): 441–454 (18 May 2015)
A review of the
Canthyporus exilis group, with the description of two new species
(Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
DAVID T. BILTON
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Zootaxa 3957 (3): 300–312 (15 May 2015)
Two new high altitude genera of Camiarini (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Camiarinae) from Australia and New Zealand
AINSLEY E. SEAGO, RICHARD A. B. LESCHEN & ALFRED F. NEWTON
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Zootaxa 3957 (3): 251–276 (15 May 2015)
Phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the subgenus Velleius Leach (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)
ZONG-YI ZHAO & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU
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Zootaxa 3956 (4): 491–512 (12 May 2015)
Passalidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) of the Greater and Lesser Antilles
LARRY JIMÉNEZ-FERBANS, PEDRO REYES-CASTILLO & JACK C. SCHUSTER
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Zootaxa 3956 (2): 239–257 (8 May 2015)
New Aderidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from Baltic and Bitterfeld amber
VITALII I. ALEKSEEV & TRACI L. GRZYMALA
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Zootaxa 3955 (4): 521–536 (6 May 2015)
A review of the genus Miridiba Reitter (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) of Taiwan
CHUN-LIN LI1, PING-SHIH YANG & CHUAN-CHAN WANG
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Zootaxa 3955 (4): 505–520 (6 May 2015)
A revision of the genus Aphengium Harold, 1868 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Ateuchini)
FERNANDO A. B. SILVA & FERNANDO VAZ-DE-MELLO
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Zootaxa 3955 (4): 451–486 (6 May 2015)
Taxonomy of the genus Bolitogyrus Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini: Quediina) from China with description of seven new species
YAN-PENG CAI, ZONG-YI ZHAO & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU
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Zootaxa 3955 (3): 427–434 (5 May 2015)
Two new Craspedophorus species (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Panagaeini) from the Philippines
MARTIN HÄCKEL & ALEXANDR ANICHTCHENKO
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Zootaxa 3955 (3): 417–426 (5 May 2015)
Thiasophila szujeckii sp. n. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)—a cryptic species associated with Formica truncorum in Poland
MIROSŁAW ZAGAJA & BERNARD STANIEC
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Zootaxa 3955 (2): 151–187 (4 May 2015)
Immatures of Palaearctic species of the weevil genus Sibinia (Coleoptera, Curculionidae): new descriptions and new bionomic data with suggestions on their potential value in a phylogenetic reconstruction of the genus
JIŘÍ SKUHROVEC, RAFAŁ GOSIK, ROBERTO CALDARA & MICHAEL KOŠŤÁL
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Zootaxa 3955 (1): 137–141 (1 May 2015)
A new Nalassus Mulsant, 1854 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Helopini), the first representative of the genus from the Russian Far East
M.V. NABOZHENKO & S.N. IVANOV
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Zootaxa 3955 (1): 132–136 (1 May 2015)
A new species of Melobasina (Ulaikoilia Bílý & Kubáň) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from Sulawesi
BRIAN LEVEY
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Zootaxa 3955 (1): 113–122 (1 May 2015)
Molecular phylogeny of Metanoeina net-winged beetles identifies Ochinoeus, a new genus from China and Laos (Coleoptera: Lycidae)
VACLAV KUBECEK, TIMOTHY C. BRAY & LADISLAV BOCAK
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Zootaxa 3949 (4): 597–600 (29 Apr. 2015)
Pristionchus Scratchpads—an online platform for taxonomy, systematics and phylogeny
MATTHIAS HERRMANN, JONAS NEUNER, MARTIN VOETSCH, JOHANNES WÖRNER,
NATSUMI KANZAKI & RALF J. SOMMER
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Zootaxa 3949 (4): 584–588 (29 Apr. 2015)
Discovery of the genus Ancystrocerus Raffray in China, with description of a new species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)
ZI-WEI YIN, DAN WANG & LI-ZHEN LI
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Zootaxa 3949 (4): 575–583 (29 Apr. 2015)
Discovery of second new species of the genus Spiniphilus Lin & Bi, and female of Heterophilus scabricollis Pu with its biological notes (Coleoptera: Vesperidae: Philinae: Philini)
WENXUAN BI & MEIYING LIN
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Zootaxa 3949 (4): 515–539 (29 Apr. 2015)
Description of immatures of Chelymorpha reimoseri Spaeth, 1928 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Mesomphaliini)
JOLANTA ŚWIĘTOJAŃSKA, KAMILA FERREIRA MASSUDA, MAŁGORZATA STACH & LECH BOROWIEC
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Zootaxa 3949 (3): 431–438 (28 Apr. 2015)
A new synonymy in the fidius group of Copris Müller 1764 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) and a new species from the highland grasslands of South Africa
CHRISTIAN M. DESCHODT, ADRIAN L.V. DAVIS & CLARKE H. SCHOLTZ
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Zootaxa 3949 (2): 297–300 (24 Apr. 2015)
A new species of Acroleptus Bourgeois (Coleoptera: Lycidae) from the Brazilian Amazonian rainforest, with a note on its homonymy with Acroleptus Cabanis (Aves)
VINICIUS S. FERREIRA
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Zootaxa 3949 (2): 151–190 (24 Apr. 2015)
Revision of the genus Aulacophora from Taiwan (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)
CHI-FENG LEE & RON BEENEN
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Zootaxa 3949 (1): 082–090 (23 Apr. 2015)
The genus Ontherus Erichson 1847 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae): description of a new species, and notes on the genus in Colombia
FABIO ARTURO GONZÁLEZ & CLAUDIA ALEJANDRA MEDINA U
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Zootaxa 3948 (3): 361–421 (22 Apr. 2015)
Ptenidium pusillum (Gyllenhal, 1808) from egg to pupa (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3948 (2): 287–295 (21 Apr. 2015)
Paraneseuthia Franz in the Indian Himalayan Region and Western Palaearctic (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3948 (1): 125–136 (20 Apr. 2015)
A new species and first record of Cotinis Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) for Venezuela
HÉCTOR JAIME GASCA-ÁLVAREZ & CUAUHTÉMOC DELOYA
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Zootaxa 3948 (1): 041–059 (20 Apr. 2015)
Taxonomy of the water beetle genus Limnebius Leach in southern Africa (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
PHILIP D. PERKINS
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Zootaxa 3948 (1): 024–040 (20 Apr. 2015)
Description of six new species of Anomalini from Costa Rica (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae)
VALENTINA FILIPPINI, EDUARDO GALANTE & ESTEFANÍA MICÓ
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Zootaxa 3947 (4): 590–596 (17 Apr. 2015)
A new species of the genus Orchesia Latreille (Coleoptera: Melandryidae) from Baltic amber with a key to species described from fossil resins
VITALII I. ALEKSEEV & ANDRIS BUKEJS
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Zootaxa 3947 (4): 553–562 (17 Apr. 2015)
A second Eocene species of death-watch beetle belonging to the genus Microbregma Seidlitz (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) with a checklist of fossil Ptinidae
ANDRIS BUKEJS & VITALII I. ALEKSEEV
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Zootaxa 3947 (4): 527–542 (17 Apr. 2015)
A preliminary study on the phylogeny of the family Phengodidae (Insecta: Coleoptera)
SANTIAGO ZARAGOZA-CABALLERO & MARTÍN LEONEL ZURITA-GARCÍA
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Zootaxa 3947 (2): 236–250 (15 Apr. 2015)
Three new species of Quedius elpenor group (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini: Quediina) from China
YAN-PENG CAI & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU
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Zootaxa 3947 (2): 191–200 (15 Apr. 2015)
Two new species of the genus Platambus Thomson, 1859 from China (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Agabinae)
LARS HENDRICH & MAREK PRZEWOŹNY
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Zootaxa 3946 (4): 599–600 (13 Apr. 2015)
Aliocis, a replacement name for the preoccupied ciid genus Anoplocis Kawanabe, 1996 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Ciidae)
VIVIAN ELIANA SANDOVAL-GÓMEZ & CRISTIANO LOPES-ANDRADE
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Zootaxa 3946 (4): 519–552 (13 Apr. 2015)
New species of Cymatodera Gray (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Tillinae) from México and Central America, with notes on others
JACQUES RIFKIND
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Zootaxa 3946 (3): 445–450 (10 Apr. 2015)
Description of the second fossil Baltic amber species of Monotomidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)
ANDRIS BUKEJS & VITALII I. ALEKSEEV
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Zootaxa 3946 (1): 001–148 (8 Apr. 2015)
Ateuchus cujuchi n. sp., a new inquiline species of Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from tuco-tuco burrows in Bolivia
FRANÇOIS GÉNIER
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Zootaxa 3946 (1): 104–112 (8 Apr. 2015)
A new species of Troglocharinus Reitter, 1908 (Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Cholevinae, Leptodirini) from southern Catalonia, with a molecular phylogeny of the related species group
V. RIZZO & J. COMAS
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Zootaxa 3941 (4): 585–588 (2 Apr. 2015)
On the identity of the tiger beetle Cicindela philippinensis Mandl, 1956 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae)
HERBERT ZETTEL & CLISTER V. PANGANTIHON
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Zootaxa 3941 (3): 437–444 (1 Apr. 2015)
Brazilian Histerini (Coleoptera, Histeridae, Histerinae): a new species, key to the genera, and checklist of species
FERNANDO W. T. LEIVAS, DANIEL P. MOURA & MICHAEL S. CATERINO
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Zootaxa 3941 (3): 358–374 (1 Apr. 2015)
A review of species of the genus Apalochrus Erichson (Coleoptera, Malachiidae)
SERGEI E. TSHERNYSHEV
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Zootaxa 3941 (3): 339–357 (1 Apr. 2015)
Taxonomic notes on the genus Anthaxia Eschscholtz, 1829 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Anthaxiini) 1.
DANIELE BAIOCCHI
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Zootaxa 3941 (3): 301–338 (1 Apr. 2015)
Taxonomy of the genus Ptomaphaginus Portevin (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae: Ptomaphagini) from China, with description of eleven new species
CHENG-BIN WANG & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU
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Zootaxa 3941 (2): 289–293 (31 Mar. 2015)
A new species of soft-winged flower beetles of the genus Platyebaeus Wittmer, 1995 (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Malachiidae) from Philippines
SERGEI E. TSHERNYSHEV
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Zootaxa 3941 (2): 255–260 (31 Mar. 2015)
A new species of soft-winged flower beetles of the genus Kuatunia Evers, 1945–48 (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Malachiidae) from Nepal
SERGEI E. TSHERNYSHEV
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Zootaxa 3941 (1): 125–130 (30 Mar. 2015)
The classification of Flabellochromus and Dumbrellia (Coleoptera: Lycidae) with descriptions of two new species of Calochromus from the Sundaland Region
MICHAL MOTYKA & LADISLAV BOCAK
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Zootaxa 3937 (2): 393–400 (25 Mar. 2015)
A new troglobitic species of the genus Pholeuonopsis (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae: Leptodirini) from western Serbia, with a key to the species from Serbia
SREĆKO ĆURČIĆ, MAJA VRBICA, NIKOLA VESOVIĆ, DRAGAN ANTIĆ, MATIJA PETKOVIĆ, FABRIZIO BOSCO & BOŽIDAR ĆURČIĆ
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Zootaxa 3937 (2): 386–392 (25 Mar. 2015)
Description of two new species of the genus Stenothemus from Taiwan (Coleoptera: Cantharidae)
YUN HSIAO
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Zootaxa 3937 (2): 263–310 (25 Mar. 2015)
An annotated catalogue of the type material of Elateroidea Leach, 1815 (Coleoptera) deposited in the Coleoptera collection of the Museum of Zoology of the University of São Paulo, Brazil
VINICIUS DE SOUZA FERREIRA
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Zootaxa 3937 (1): 179–190 (24 Mar. 2015)
Studies of Bolivian Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) 1: The genus Cissidium Motschulsky with six new species
MICHAEL DARBY
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Zootaxa 3937 (1): 090–102 (24 Mar. 2015)
Larval and pupal morphology of three species of the genus Psammoecus Latreille (Coleoptera: Silvanidae: Brontinae) in Japan with reference to the number of larval instars
TAKAHIRO YOSHIDA & TOSHIYA HIROWATARI
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Zootaxa 3936 (4): 600 (23 Mar. 2015)
Erratum: LECH BOROWIEC & JOLANTA WIETOJAÑSKA (2014) A revision of the genus Herminella Spaeth (Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Notosacanthini), with a description of a new related genus and species from Madagascar. Zootaxa, 3892(2): 257–272.
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Zootaxa 3936 (4): 584–592 (23 Mar. 2015)
The genus Platytenerus Miyatake, 1985 (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Neorthopleurinae), with description of a new species from Japan
HIROYUKI MURAKAMI
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Zootaxa 3936 (3): 446–450 (20 Mar. 2015)
Two new species and additional data of Gabrius Stephens (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from the Korean Peninsula
HARALD SCHILLHAMMER
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Zootaxa 3936 (2): 281–286 (19 Mar. 2015)
Notes on the genus Mada Mulsant with description of a new Andean species (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Epilachnini)
KAROL SZAWARYN
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Zootaxa 3936 (2): 272–280 (19 Mar. 2015)
Notes on Australian Laius Guérin-Méneville, Dicranolaius Champion and Intybia Pascoe with description of new species related to Dicranolaius c-purpureus (Lea) (Coleoptera: Melyridae: Malachiinae)
ZHENHUA LIU, ADAM ŚLIPIŃSKI  & HONG PANG
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Zootaxa 3936 (1): 115–122 (18 Mar. 2015)
New species and new records of Xenelmis Hinton (Coleoptera: Elmidae) from Southeastern Brazil
BRUNNO HENRIQUE LANZELLOTTI SAMPAIO, MARIA INÊS DA SILVA DOS PASSOS
& NELSON FERREIRA-JR
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Zootaxa 3931 (4): 505–527 (16 Mar. 2015)
Status changes, new synonymies, key and descriptions of seven new species in the subgenus Scarabaeus (Scarabaeolus) Balthasar 1965 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
CHRISTIAN M. DESCHODT, ADRIAN L.V. DAVIS & CLARKE H. SCHOLTZ
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Zootaxa 3931 (4): 451–482 (16 Mar. 2015)
Molecular phylogenetics, systematics and host-plant associations of the Bruchidius albosparsus (Fåhraeus) species group (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Bruchinae) with the description of four new species
ALEX DELOBEL, BRUNO LE RU, GWENAËLLE GENSON, BOAZ K. MUSYOKA & GAEL J. KERGOAT
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Zootaxa 3931 (3): 443–447 (13 Mar. 2015)
A new species of Zeanichnus Jałoszyński in New Zealand (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI & NATALIA KOŁODZIEJCZYK
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Zootaxa 3931 (3): 401–412 (13 Mar. 2015)
A review of the genus Carchesiopygus Schedl (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae), with keys to species
ROGER A. BEAVER & SUNISA SANGUANSUB
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Zootaxa 3931 (2): 279–285 (12 Mar. 2015)
A new species of Pactola Pascoe, 1876 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Eugnomini) from New Caledonia
MIŁOSZ A. MAZUR & ANNA JEZUITA
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Zootaxa 3931 (2): 272–278 (12 Mar. 2015)
New species and additional records of Amaurodera Fauvel in southern China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)
ZHU-QI YAN & LI-ZHEN LI
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Zootaxa 3931 (1): 127–139 (11 Mar. 2015)
First fossil Lamprosomatinae leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) with descriptions of new genera and species from Baltic amber
ANDRIS BUKEJS & KONSTANTIN NADEIN
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Zootaxa 3931 (1): 117–126 (11 Mar. 2015)
A new species of Oromia (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from the Canary Islands
ANTONIO MACHADO & HERIBERTO LÓPEZ
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Zootaxa 3930 (1): 001–063 (10 Mar. 2015)
A revision of Megagraphydrus Hansen (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae): synonymization with Agraphydrus Régimbart and description of seven new species
YÛSUKE N. MINOSHIMA, ALBRECHT KOMAREK & MASAHIRO ÔHARA
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Zootaxa 3928 (1): 001–091 (10 Mar. 2015)
A revision of the Nearctic species of Brachygluta Thomson, 1859 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)
DONALD S. CHANDLER, GIORGIO SABELLA & CHRISTOPH BÜCKLE
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Zootaxa 3926 (4): 595–599 (9 Mar. 2015)
A new species of the genus Oxyporus Fabricius (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxyporinae) in Yunnan, China
GUO-FENG LI , CHUN-MEI WANG , HONG-WEI LI & YUN-PING HOU
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Zootaxa 3926 (4): 451–479 (9 Mar. 2015)
The rectal valve in Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera)
CHRISTOPHER H. C. LYAL & EMELINE A. FAVREAU
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Zootaxa 3926 (2): 296–300 (5 Mar. 2015)
A new extant species of Electribius Crowson from Honduras (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Artematopodidae)
MATTHEW L. GIMMEL & MILADA BOCAKOVA
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Zootaxa 3925 (4): 573–580 (3 Mar. 2015)
A new species of the enigmatic genus Osphyoplesius from Sicily (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Pythidae)
PAOLO MAGRINI & MARCO ULIANA
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Zootaxa 3925 (4): 551–561 (3 Mar. 2015)
Three new species of the genus Corymbitodes Buysson, 1904 from Nepal and India with a description of the male of Corymbitodes kambaitiana Fleutiaux, 1942 (Coleoptera: Elateridae)
RAINER SCHIMMEL & DARIUSZ TARNAWSKI
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Zootaxa 3925 (4): 451–504 (3 Mar. 2015)
A revision of the Deltochilum subgenus Aganhyboma Kolbe, 1893 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
FERNANDO A. B. SILVA, JÚLIO LOUZADA & FERNANDO VAZ-DE-MELLO
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Zootaxa 3925 (3): 409–421 (2 Mar. 2015)
A review of the genus Lamellipalpodes Maulik (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)
MILADA BOCAKOVA, LADISLAV BOCAK, MATTHEW L. GIMMEL & TEREZA FRIEDLOVA
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Zootaxa 3925 (1): 109–119 (26 Feb. 2015)
New species of Omalodes and redefinition of the tribe Omalodini (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Histerinae)
FERNANDO W. T. LEIVAS, NICOLAS DEGALLIER & LÚCIA M. ALMEIDA
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Zootaxa 3925 (1): 094–108 (26 Feb. 2015)
Description of the immature stages of nine species of Veturius (Coleoptera: Passalidae)
KAREN SALAZAR-NIÑO & JOSÉ EDUARDO SERRÃO
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Zootaxa 3925 (1): 001–024 (26 Feb. 2015)
Taxonomy of 'Euconnus complex'. Part III. Morphology of Euconnus subgenus Napochus and revision of the Australian species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3922 (1): 001–071 (25 Jan. 2015)
Systematic revision of the genus Calligrapha Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Chrysomelinae) in Central America: The group of Calligrapha argus Stål
JESÚS GÓMEZ-ZURITA
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Zootaxa 3920 (4): 563–571 (24 Feb. 2015)
A review of the genus Selasia (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) in the Palaearctic Region
SARKA TRLLOVA & ROBIN KUNDRATA
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Zootaxa 3920 (3): 401–500 (23 Feb. 2015)
On the Dermestidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Rey´s collection. Part 2. Designation of neotype of Anthrenus pimpinellae var. incertus Mulsant et Rey, 1868 and recognition of a new synonymy within Palaearctic Anthrenus Geoffroy, 1762
JIŘÍ HÁVA & MARCIN KADEJ
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Zootaxa 3920 (3): 493–496 (23 Feb. 2015)
Redescription of Trogoderma fasciolata Fairmaire, 1897, comb. rev. from Madagascar (Coleoptera: Dermestidae, Megatomini)
MARCIN KADEJ & JIŘÍ HÁVA
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Zootaxa 3920 (3): 488–492 (23 Feb. 2015)
Description of a new species of Anthrenus Geoffroy 1762, with a key to species from Nepal
JIŘÍ HÁVA & MARCIN KADEJ
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Zootaxa 3920 (3): 401–430 (23 Feb. 2015)
A review of the genus Solariola Flach, 1908 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae, Peritelini)
COSIMO BAVIERA
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Zootaxa 3920 (2): 291–300 (20 Feb. 2015)
A review of the genus Chalcocopris Burmeister, 1846 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), with description of a new species
MICHELE ROSSINI & FERNANDO Z. VAZ-DE-MELLO
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Zootaxa 3920 (1): 163–170 (19 Feb. 2015)
Discovery of a second species of Aesalini from Taiwan, with description of the new species of the genus Echinoaesalus Zelenka, 1993 (Coleoptera: Lucanidae)
HAO HUANG & CHANG-CHIN CHEN
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Zootaxa 3920 (1): 101–152 (19 Feb. 2015)
Revision of the African pollen beetle genera Tarchonanthogethes and Xenostrongylogethes, with insect-host plant relationships, identification key, and cladistic analysis of the Anthystrix genus-complex (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Meligethinae)
PAOLO AUDISIO, ANDREW R. CLINE, MARCO TRIZZINO, EMILIANO MANCINI, GLORIA ANTONINI, SIMONE SABATELLI & PIERFILIPPO CERRETTI
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Zootaxa 3920 (1): 001–039 (19 Feb. 2015)
Taxonomic review of Chinese species of ground beetles of the subgenus Pseudoophonus (genus Harpalus) (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
BORIS M. KATAEV & HONGBIN LIANG
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Zootaxa 3919 (3): 583–599 (18 Feb. 2015)
DNA barcoding and regional diversity of understudied Micropeplinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in Southwest China: phylogenetic implications and a new Micropeplus from Mount Emei
VASILY V. GREBENNIKOV & ALEŠ SMETANA
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Zootaxa 3919 (1): 192–196 (16 Feb. 2015)
A new species of Golinca Thomson (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae): first record of the genus for Brazil
M. VALOIS & F. SILVA
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Zootaxa 3918 (4): 594–598 (13 Feb. 2015)
A new Mexican species of Megarthrus Curtis (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Proteininae)
WILLIAM DAVID RODRÍGUEZ & JOSÉ LUIS NAVARRETE-HEREDIA
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Zootaxa 3918 (4): 587–593 (13 Feb. 2015)
A new genus and two new species of Araecerini from high elevation in the Andes with a synopsis of the tribe in South America (Coleoptera, Anthribidae, Choraginae)
JOSÉ RICARDO M. MERMUDES
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Zootaxa 3918 (4): 503–551 (13 Feb. 2015)
Disentangling a taxonomic nightmare: a revision of the Australian, Indomalayan and Pacific species of Altica Geoffroy, 1762 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)
C. A. M. REID & M. BEATSON
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Zootaxa 3918 (3): 415–423 (12 Feb. 2015)
Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Syndicus Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) in China
ZI-WEI YIN & LI-ZHEN LI
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Zootaxa 3918 (1): 057–091 (10 Feb. 2015)
A revision of the Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) schah Abeille de Perrin, 1904 species-group, with description of two new species from Iran (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Anthaxiini)
DANIELE BAIOCCHI
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Zootaxa 3915 (3): 413–422 (4 Feb. 2015)
Classification of Omalisidae based on molecular data and morphology, with description of Paradrilinae subfam. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateroidea)
ROBIN KUNDRATA, MANUEL BAENA & LADISLAV BOCAK
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Zootaxa 3915 (3): 403–412 (4 Feb. 2015)
Two new species of the genus Anthroherpon Reitter, 1889 from northern Montenegro with notes on the “A. ganglbaueri” species group (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Leptodirini)
IVA NJUNJIĆ, MICHEL PERREAU & DRAGAN PAVIĆEVIĆ
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Zootaxa 3915 (2): 295–300 (3 Feb. 2015)
A description of the Larva of Metapteron xanthomelas (Lucas, 1857) from the Restinga Forest of Southeastern Brazil (Coleoptera: Lycidae, Calopterini)
VINICIUS DE SOUZA FERREIRA & CLEIDE COSTA
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Zootaxa 3915 (2): 250–262 (3 Feb. 2015)
Revision of the genus Stenichnaphes Franz in New Zealand (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3915 (2): 151–205 (3 Feb. 2015)
Review of the Genus Platystethus Mannerheim (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae) in China
LIANG LÜ & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU
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Zootaxa 3915 (1): 143–146 (2 Feb. 2015)
A new species and synonymy in Elacatophora (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3915 (1): 123–131 (2 Feb. 2015)
A description of the larva of Coomaniella (Coomaniella) purpurascens Baudon, 1966 and a discussion on the tribal placement of Coomaniellini Bílý, 1974 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
SVATOPLUK BÍLÝ & MARK G. VOLKOVITSH
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Zootaxa 3915 (1): 001–051 (2 Feb. 2015)
Molecular systematics and morphological identification of the cryptic species of the genus Acalles Schoenherr, 1825, with descriptions of new species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae)
ANDRÉ SCHÜTTE & PETER E. STÜBEN
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Zootaxa 3914 (5): 591–596 (30 Jan. 2015)
Two new species and new records of Liocanthydrus Guignot (Coleoptera, Noteridae) from Brazil
BRUNO AGUILAR CARRILHO GUIMARÃES & NELSON FERREIRA-JR
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Zootaxa 3914 (4): 351–405 (29 Jan. 2015)
Revision of the Genus Crioprosopus Audinet-Serville, and description of three new genera of Trachyderini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae)
BRYAN K. EYA
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Zootaxa 3914 (3): 318–330 (28 Jan. 2015)
Description of the immature stages of Platycrepidius dewynteri Chassain (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Agrypninae, Platycrepidiini) from Brazil with a synopsis of the larval characters of Agrypninae tribes
SIMONE POLICENA ROSA, FABIANO F. ALBERTONI & DANIELA DE CASSIA BENÁ
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Zootaxa 3914 (1): 071–076 (23 Jan. 2015)
Description of the male of Oxyporus bautistae Márquez & Asiain (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Oxyporinae)
JOSÉ LUIS NAVARRETE-HEREDIA & JUAN MÁRQUEZ
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Zootaxa 3912 (1): 001–061 (22 Jan. 2015)
A survey of the weevils of Ukraine. Bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae and Scolytinae)
TATYANA NIKULINA, MIKHAIL MANDELSHTAM, ALEXANDER PETROV, VITALIJ NAZARENKO & NIKOLAI YUNAKOV
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Zootaxa 3911 (4): 581–588 (21 Jan. 2015)
A new species of the highly modified hypogean genus Giraffaphaenops Deuve, 2002 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae)
MINGYI TIAN & XIAOZHU LUO
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Zootaxa 3911 (2): 273–279 (19 Jan. 2015)
Four new species of Cephennomicrus Reitter (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae) from Malaysia
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3911 (1): 081–090 (16 Jan. 2015)
Redescription of Oedichirus flammeus Koch, and description of two new Oedichirus species from China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae, Pinophilini)
WEN-RONG LI, NAN-NAN XIE & LI-ZHEN LI
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Zootaxa 3905 (3): 541–556 (14 Jan. 2015)
A new species of Heilipus Germar (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae) associated with commercial species of Annonaceae in Brazil, and comments on other species of the genus causing damage to avocado trees in Brazil
SERGIO ANTONIO VANIN & DANIELA DE CASSIA BENÁ
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Zootaxa 3905 (3): 441–446 (13 Jan. 2015)
A new species of Yola Gozis, 1886 from the Western Cape of South Africa (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Bidessini)
DAVID T. BILTON
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Zootaxa 3905 (2): 293–300 (12 Jan. 2015)
New and little known species of the genus Songius (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) in China
ZI-WEI YIN & LI-ZHEN LI
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Zootaxa 3905 (2): 283–292 (12 Jan. 2015)
A contribution to knowledge of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) from Kazakhstan with description of one new species
OTO NAKLÁDAL & JIŘÍ HÁVA
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Zootaxa 3905 (2): 264–272 (12 Jan. 2015)
A new species of Tophoderes Dejean from northern Madagascar with a checklist of the species (Coleoptera: Anthribidae)
MILOŠ TRÝZNA & PETR BAŇAŘ
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Zootaxa 3905 (2): 245–263 (12 Jan. 2015)
On the Lathrobium fauna of the Donggong Mountains, eastern China
ZHONG PENG, QI-LI LI, LIANG SHEN & FU-KANG GU
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Zootaxa 3904 (4): 596–599 (8 Jan. 2015)
New species of the genus Glyphobythus Raffray, 1904 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from Turkey
PETER HLAVÁČ & VOLKER BRACHAT
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Article
Zootaxa 3904 (4): 572–580 (8 Jan. 2015)
A new aberrant species of Nipponocercyon from the mountains of southeastern China (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae)
MARTIN FIKÁČEK, FENGLONG JIA & SERGEY RYNDEVICH
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Article
Zootaxa 3904 (4): 451–500 (8 Jan. 2015)
New species of the genus Ypsiloncyphon (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scirtidae: Scirtinae)
HIROYUKI YOSHITOMI
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Zootaxa 3904 (3): 446–450 (7 Jan. 2015)
The Nearctic species Margarinotus (Ptomister) immunis (Erichson, 1834) discovered in Slovakia (Coleoptera: Histeridae)
TOMÁŠ LACKNER & SŁAWOMIR MAZUR
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Zootaxa 3904 (2): 261–269 (6 Jan. 2015)
Two new species of the genus Zorochros (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Negastriinae) from Korea
TAEMAN HAN, IN GYUN PARK & HAECHUL PARK
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Article
Zootaxa 3904 (2): 223–248 (6 Jan. 2015)
The genus Paraplotes Laboissière, 1933 in Taiwan, a speciose group with brachelytrous females (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)
CHI-FENG LEE
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3902 (1): 001–062 (24 Dec. 2014)
A supplement to the revision of the Scirtes flavoguttatus species-group (Coleoptera: Scirtidae: Scirtinae)
RAFAŁ RUTA, AGATA KIAŁKA & HIROYUKI YOSHITOMI
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Article
Zootaxa 3900 (4): 592–600 (24 Dec. 2014)
Ladies in stripes: taxonomic confusion in a potential mimicry complex among Wallacean Coccinellidae (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)
JIAHUI LI, WIOLETTA TOMASZEWSKA, HONG PANG & ADAM ŚLIPIŃSKI
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3896 (1): 001–481 (18 Dec. 2014)
Annotated catalogue of Australian weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)
KIMBERI R. PULLEN, DEBBIE JENNINGS & ROLF G. OBERPRIELER
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Article
Zootaxa 3895 (4): 590–594 (17 Dec. 2014)
Two new species of Paraneseuthia Franz (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae) from West Malaysia
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3895 (2): 292–296 (15 Dec. 2014)
Electribius relictus, a new extant species of Artematopodidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) from Veracruz, Mexico
EMMANUEL ARRIAGA-VARELA & FEDERICO ESCOBAR
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Article
Zootaxa 3895 (2): 257–272 (15 Dec. 2014)
A revision of the genus Herminella Spaeth (Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Notosacanthini), with a description of a new related genus and species from Madagascar
LECH BOROWIEC & JOLANTA WIETOJAÑSKA
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Article
Zootaxa 3895 (2): 238–256 (15 Dec. 2014)
Taxonomy, host-plant associations and phylogeny of African Crotalaria-feeding seed beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Bruchinae): the Conicobruchus strangulatus (Fåhraeus) species group
BRUNO P. LE RU, ALEX DELOBEL, ZOLTÁN GYÖRGY, GWENAËLLE GENSON & GAEL J. KERGOAT
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Article
Zootaxa 3895 (2): 151–169 (15 Dec. 2014)
Studies of Madagascan Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) 4: The genus Bambara including eight new species and the first account of blindness and aptery in the genus
MICHAEL DARBY
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Article
Zootaxa 3895 (1): 137–143 (12 Dec. 2014)
Hexanchorus bifurcatus sp. nov., a new tepui riffle beetle (Coleoptera: Elmidae: Larainae) from Tafelberg, Suriname
CRYSTAL A. MAIER & ANDREW EDWARD Z. SHORT
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Article
Zootaxa 3895 (1): 144–150 (12 Dec. 2014)
Two new species of Oxytrechus Jeannel, 1927 from Ecuador (Coleoptera, Carabidae)
PIER MAURO GIACHINO, GIANNI ALLEGRO & COSIMO BAVIERA
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Article
Zootaxa 3895 (1): 058–072 (12 Dec. 2014)
Review of the Lutrochidae (Coleoptera) of the Guianas and Lesser Antilles, with description of four new species
CRYSTAL A. MAIER & ANDREW EDWARD Z. SHORT
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Article
Zootaxa 3893 (4): 579–586 (10 Dec. 2014)
A review of the Tychobythinus algiricus species group from North Africa (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)
GIORGIO SABELLA, FABIO MASSIMO VIGLIANISI, VERA D’URSO & SAID NOUIRA
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Article
Zootaxa 3893 (4): 562–568 (10 Dec. 2014)
Torneuma penaensis sp. n. from the Algarve, Portugal (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)
CHRISTOPH GERMANN & CARLO BRAUNERT
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Article
Zootaxa 3893 (3): 445–450 (9 Dec. 2014)
A new species of the genus Mygdonia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae) from Madagascar with a key to species
PETR BAŇAŘ, HARRY BRAILOVSKY, LENKA HUBÁČKOVÁ & VLADIMÍR HEMALA
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Article
Zootaxa 3893 (1): 056–076 (5 Dec. 2014)
Male secondary sexual characters resolve taxonomic uncertainty: five new species and a review of the formerly monotypic rove beetle genus Mimosticus Sharp (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)
ADAM BRUNKE & ALEXEY SOLODOVNIKOV
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3891 (1): 001–074 (4 Dec. 2014)
The species of Botanochara Dejean, 1836 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from Argentina: an identification key, new host plant records and list of Cassidinae found in birds’ nests and other protected places
OSVALDO DI IORIO & PAOLA TURIENZO
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Article
Zootaxa 3889 (4): 451–484 (3 Dec. 2014)
Ogyges Kaup, a flightless genus of Passalidae (Coleoptera) from Mesoamerica: nine new species, a key to identify species, and a novel character to support its monophyly
ENIO B. CANO
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Article
Zootaxa 3889 (2): 185–213 (1 Dec. 2014)
A Checklist of the Gyrinidae (Coleoptera: Adephaga) of Brazil
DANIARA COLPANI, CESAR JOÃO BENETTI & NEUSA HAMADA
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Article
Zootaxa 3887 (4): 471–480 (26 Nov. 2014)
Two new water beetles from the Hantamsberg, an inselberg in the Northern Cape of South Africa (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae)
DAVID T. BILTON
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Article
Zootaxa 3887 (4): 422–436 (26 Nov. 2014)
A checklist of stag beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Lucanidae) from Iran
LUCA BARTOLOZZI, HASSAN GHAHARI, EVA SPRECHER-UEBERSAX & MICHELE ZILIOLI
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Article
Zootaxa 3887 (3): 393–400 (25 Nov. 2014)
Synopsis of the Japanese species of Aleocharinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), with review of the type specimens I. Tribes Himalusini and Leucocraspedini
MUNETOSHI MARUYAMA, SHÛHEI YAMAMOTO & TARO K. ELDREDGE
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Article
Zootaxa 3887 (3): 354–376 (25 Nov. 2014)
Review of the Chinese species of the genus Coelostoma Brullé, 1835 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae)
FENGLONG JIA, PAUL ASTON & MARTIN FIKÁČEK
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Article
Zootaxa 3884 (5): 419–428 (18 Nov. 2014)
Taxonomic notes on Australian species of Sciacharis (Magellanoconnus) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Article
Zootaxa 3884 (4): 347–359 (17 Nov. 2014)
Descriptions and key to the larvae of the Tasmanian endemic genus Hoplogonus Parry (Coleoptera: Lucanidae), and comparison with the sympatric Lissotes rudis Lea
KAREN RICHARDS & CHRIS P. SPENCER
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Article
Zootaxa 3884 (3): 275–281 (14 Nov. 2014)
New species of Elaphidiini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from Bolivia
MARIA HELENA M. GALILEO, UBIRAJARA R. MARTINS & ANTONIO SANTOS-SILVA
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Article
Zootaxa 3884 (2): 122–140 (13 Nov. 2014)
Review of the genus Lesteva Latreille, 1797 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Anthophagini) of Iran and adjacent territories
ALEXEY V. SHAVRIN
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Article
Zootaxa 3884 (1): 027–044 (12 Nov. 2014)
A revision of the genus Ora Clark, 1865 (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) in Argentina (part I)—descriptions of new species
MARÍA LAURA LIBONATTI
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Article
Zootaxa 3881 (6): 597–599 (10 Nov. 2014)
Description of Pella sichuanensis sp. n. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) from Micang Mountain, Sichuan, China
DAN-LIN ZHENG & MEI-JUN ZHAO
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Article
Zootaxa 3881 (4): 362–372 (6 Nov. 2014)
Description of the second and third instars of Aspidytes wrasei Balke, Ribera & Beutel, 2003, with comments on the identification of larvae of Aspidytes Ribera, Beutel, Balke & Vogler, 2002 (Coleoptera: Aspidytidae), and phylogenetic considerations
MARIANO C. MICHAT, YVES ALARIE, FENGLONG JIA, SHENGQUAN XU, JIŘÍ HÁJEK & MICHAEL BALKE
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Article
Zootaxa 3881 (4): 301–327 (6 Nov. 2014)
Revision of the genus Metallesthes Kraatz and description of Metallesthes anneliesae, a new species of Cetoniinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Queensland and New South Wales, Australia
CHRISTIAN H. MOESENEDER, PAUL M. HUTCHINSON & CHRISTINE L. LAMBKIN
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Article
Zootaxa 3881 (1): 049–062 (3 Nov. 2014)
Revision of the Afrotropical Pimentelia Laboissière, 1939 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae)
HELMUT BOLZ & THOMAS WAGNER
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Zootaxa 3878 (6): 597–600 (30 Oct. 2014)
A new species and additional records of Pseudolathra Casey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae) from southern China
ZHONG PENG, LI-ZHEN LI & MEI-JUN ZHAO
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Zootaxa 3878 (3): 248–260 (24 Oct. 2014)
Description of a new genus and species of Cerophytidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) from Africa with a cladistic analysis of the family
CLEIDE COSTA, SERGIO A. VANIN & SIMONE P. ROSA
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Article
Zootaxa 3878 (2): 179–184 (23 Oct. 2014)
Description of Dirrhagofarsus ernae n. sp. with a key to the known Dirrhagofarsus species (Coleoptera: Eucnemidae)
ROBERT L. OTTO, JYRKI MUONA & JIM MCCLARIN
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3875 (1): 001–082 (21 Oct. 2014)
A Synopsis of the Scolytine Ambrosia Beetles of Thailand (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
R. A. BEAVER, W. SITTICHAYA & L-Y. LIU
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Article
Zootaxa 3873 (4): 441–450 (17 Oct. 2014)
Note on the genus Morimospasma Ganglbauer with description of two new species from China (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae)
GUANGLIN XIE, XIA ZOU & WENKAI WANG
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3873 (3): 293–296 (16 Oct. 2014)
New or interesting Peritelini of the west-palaearctic fauna. XXV. A novel Italian species of the genus Meira Jacquelin Du Val (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae)
HELIO PIEROTTI
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Article
Zootaxa 3873 (3): 275–284 (16 Oct. 2014)
An annotated checklist of the aquatic Polyphaga (Coleoptera) of Egypt I. Family Hydraenidae
MOHAMED SALAH, JUAN ANTONIO RÉGIL CUETO & LUIS F. VALLADARES
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Article
Zootaxa 3873 (2): 165–177 (15 Oct. 2014)
Two new species and new records of Syndicus Motschulsky (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae) from SE Asia and Australia
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Article
Zootaxa 3872 (5): 591–600 (13 Oct. 2014)
Description of a new species of Anomala Samouelle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) from Northern Territory, Australia
MENGJIE JIN, TOM WEIR, ADAM ŚLIPIŃSKI & HONG PANG
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Article
Zootaxa 3872 (3): 257–274 (9 Oct. 2014)
Revision of the genus Achmonia of Africa south of the Sahara (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)
JIŘÍ JANÁK & ARNALDO BORDONI
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Article
Zootaxa 3872 (2): 180–186 (8 Oct. 2014)
Description of Cyclocephala distincta Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Cyclocephalini) immatures and identification key for third instars of some Cyclocephala species
THAMYRYS BEZERRA DE SOUZA, ARTUR CAMPOS DÁLIA MAIA, CLEIDE MARIA RIBEIRO DE ALBUQUERQUE & LUCIANA IANNUZZI
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3869 (5): 597–600 (3 Oct. 2014)
First record of Otibazo (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae) outside of Japan, with description of a new species from Vietnam
VASILY V. GREBENNIKOV & HONG THAI PHAM
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Article
Zootaxa 3869 (5): 579–584 (3 Oct. 2014)
A new species of Tomarus Erichson, 1847 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Pentodontini), with a key to the species in Colombia
MARGARITA M. LÓPEZ-GARCÍA, HÉCTOR J. GASCA-ÁLVAREZ & GERMÁN AMAT-GARCÍA
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Article
Zootaxa 3869 (4): 435–451 (2 Oct. 2014)
Revalidation of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest dung beetle species Coprophanaeus (Metallophanaeus) machadoi (Pereira & d’Andretta, 1955) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Phanaeini) based on morphological and distributional evidence
MARIO CUPELLO & FERNANDO Z. VAZ-DE-MELLO
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Zootaxa 3869 (2): 180–188 (30 Sept. 2014)
Description of a new genus and species, Pseudobasidissus barclayi (Coleoptera: Anthribidae), from east Madagascar
MILOŠ TRÝZNA & PETR BAŇAŘ
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Article
Zootaxa 3866 (4): 451–478 (25 Sept. 2014)
Carabus of Subgenus Cathoplius C.G. Thomson, 1875, with description of their life-way, life-cycle and pre-imaginal morphology (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
ENRICO BUSATO, CLAUDIO GHITTINO & ACHILLE CASALE
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Zootaxa 3866 (2): 289–296 (23 Sept. 2014)
Scydmepitoxis gen. n., a new genus of Cyrtoscydmini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) from Australia
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3866 (2): 151–201 (23 Sept. 2014)
Studies of Madagascan Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) 3: The genus Acrotrichis including twenty seven new species
MICHAEL DARBY
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Zootaxa 3866 (1): 122–130 (22 Sept. 2014)
A new concept of Absoloniella (=Ruffodytes syn. n.) for five blind Mediterranean species (Coleoptera: Brachyceridae: Erirhininae)
VASILY V. GREBENNIKOV
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Article
Zootaxa 3861 (5): 466–478 (17 Sept. 2014)
Description of immatures of Mesomphalia gibbosa (Fabricius, 1781) and Mesomphalia turrita (Illiger, 1801) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Mesomphaliini)
MARIANNA V. P. SIMÕES & MARCELA L. MONNÉ
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Zootaxa 3861 (4): 355–362 (16 Sept. 2014)
New records and a new species of the cavernicolous genus Guiodytes Tian, 2013 from Guangxi, China (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Scaritinae)
MINGYI TIAN
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Zootaxa 3861 (2): 170–176 (12 Sept. 2014)
The Pselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of Madagascar. III. Additional description of Andasibe sahondrae Hlaváč & Baňař, 2012 based on males
PETR BAŇAŘ1 & PETER HLAVÁČ
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Zootaxa 3861 (1): 096–100 (11 Sept. 2014)
Scapanoclypeus hardap (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Tanyproctini), a new species from Hardap province, Namibia
RICHARD SEHNAL
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Article
Zootaxa 3861 (1): 001–039 (11 Sept. 2014)
Revision of Charaea (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) from Taiwan
JAN BEZDĚK & CHI-FENG LEE
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Article
Zootaxa 3860 (6): 589–595 (10 Sept. 2014)
Veraphis yoshitomii sp. n. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae) from Japan
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3860 (5): 487–492 (9 Sept. 2014)
Review of species of the genus Nicotikis Marseul, 1883 (Coleoptera: Histeridae) from Southeast Asia
VADIM ZINCHENKO
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Zootaxa 3860 (2): 101–124 (4 Sept. 2014)
An illustrated key to and diagnoses of the species of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) associated with decaying carcasses in Argentina
FERNANDO H. ABALLAY, MARIANA R. CHANI-POSSE, MARÍA ROSANA AYÓN, MARÍA BELÉN MALDONADO & NÉSTOR D. CENTENO
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Zootaxa 3857 (3): 333–378 (29 Aug. 2014)
Taxonomic remarks, phylogeny and evolutionary notes on the leaf beetle species belonging to the Cryptocephalus sericeus complex (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae)
DAVIDE SASSI
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Zootaxa 3857 (2): 292–300 (28 Aug. 2014)
New species and records of Macrodactylus Dejean (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Macrodactylini) from Bolivia
ROBERTO ARCE-PÉREZ & MIGUEL ÁNGEL MORÓN
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Zootaxa 3857 (2): 261–274 (28 Aug. 2014)
Onciderini Thomson, 1860 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae) types of The Natural History Museum (BMNH)
EUGENIO H. NEARNS, MAXWELL V.L. BARCLAY & GÉRARD L. TAVAKILIAN
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Zootaxa 3857 (1): 114–124 (27 Aug. 2014)
Two new species of Conognatha Eschscholtz, 1829 (Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Stigmoderini) from Southeast and South Brazilian regions with distributional notes
CLAYTON PORTELA & JOSÉ RICARDO M. MERMUDES
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Zootaxa 3856 (3): 375–398 (25 Aug. 2014)
A new genus of trechine beetles, Puertrechus gen. n., with two new species and a new species of Dactylotrechus Belousov et Kabak, 2003 from Southern China (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae)
IGOR A. BELOUSOV & ILYA I. KABAK
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Article
Zootaxa 3852 (5):595–598 (19 Aug. 2014)
Synopsis of the genus Pseudosparna Mermudes & Monné (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), with description of two new species
MIGUEL A. MONNÉ & MARCELA L. MONNÉ
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Zootaxa 3852 (5):540–552 (19 Aug. 2014)
Review of Solier's Mecorhopalus species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
M. MOUSSALLEM, C.S. RIBEIRO-COSTA & E. CARON
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Zootaxa 3852 (4):496–500 (18 Aug. 2014)
Paolaltica eocenica new genus and new species of flea beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini) from Baltic amber
MAURIZIO BIONDI
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Zootaxa 3852 (4):475–488 (18 Aug. 2014)
Morphometry and redescription of Parahelichus granulosus (Delève, 1974) with description of P. pseudogranulosus, a new cryptic species of Long-toed Water Beetles (Coleoptera: Dryopidae) from Indochinese peninsula, and proposal of a new synonym for Praehelichus sericatus (Waterhouse, 1881) from China
SOŇA LOJKOVÁ, PETER DEGMA & JÁN KODADA
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Zootaxa 3852 (4):461–474 (18 Aug. 2014)
Review of the genus Mesosaimia Breuning with description of a new species (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Mesosini)
JUNSUKE YAMASAKO
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3850 (1): 001–083 (12 Jul. 2014)
Revision of the Oriental genus Horniella Raffray (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae)
ZI-WEI YIN & LI-ZHEN LI
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Zootaxa 3847 (3): 431–436 (8 Aug. 2014)
Two new species and a new synonym of the genus Paederus Fabricius (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae) from China
XIAO-YAN LI, ALEXEY SOLODOVNIKOV & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU
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Zootaxa 3847 (3): 449–449 (8 Aug. 2014)
Aphodius petri: a replacement name for the primary junior homonym Aphodius kozlovi Frolov, 2009 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae)
ANDREY V. FROLOV
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Zootaxa 3847 (3): 423–430 (8 Aug. 2014)
Cymatodera ochlera Barr, a junior synonym of Cymatodera wolcotti Barr, with a comparison to similar species (Coleoptera: Cleridae)
ALAN F. BURKE & GREGORY ZOLNEROWICH
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Zootaxa 3847 (2): 259–266 (7 Aug. 2014)
Redescription and distribution of the rare flower chafer, Periphanesthes aurora (Motschulsky, 1858) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae)
JIAN-YUE QIU, HAO XU & LI CHEN
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Zootaxa 3847 (2): 203–220 (7 Aug. 2014)
Review of the Stenothemus harmandi species-group (Coleoptera, Cantharidae), with description of six new species from China
YUXIA YANG, JUNYAN SU & XINGKE YANG
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Zootaxa 3847 (1): 139–144 (6 Aug. 2014)
Paracriodion Fragoso (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae): redefinition, with description of a new species from Bolivia
MIGUEL A. MONNÉ
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Zootaxa 3847 (1): 133–138 (6 Aug. 2014)
A new species of the genus Aspidiotes Schoenherr, 1847 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Tanymecini) from Middle Anatolia (Turkey)
MAHMUT ERBEY & YASİN GÜRLER
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Zootaxa 3846 (1): 105–118 (31 Jul. 2014)
Cleridae (Insecta: Coleoptera) type collection at National Forest Insect Collection (NFIC), Forest Research Institute, Dehradun (India)
MOHAMMAD FAISAL, SUDHIR SINGH & MOHAMMAD YOUSUF
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Zootaxa 3846 (1): 042–068 (31 Jul. 2014)
Synopsis of Oryssomini Gordon (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from the Neotropical region with new species of Oryssomus Mulsant, Pseudoryssomus Gordon and Gordonoryssomus Almeida & Lima
LÚCIA M. ALMEIDA & PAULA B. SANTOS
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Zootaxa 3846 (1): 001–041 (31 Jul. 2014)
Australian Marsh Beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). 6. Genera Calvarium Pic, Papuacyphon Zwick, and Ypsiloncyphon Klausnitzer
PETER ZWICK
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Zootaxa 3841 (4): 451–490 (29 Jul. 2014)
On some Palaearctic click beetles deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, 2 (Coleoptera: Elateridae)*
T. NÉMETH & G. PLATIA
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Zootaxa 3841 (3): 339–363 (28 Jul. 2014)
Nomenclatural changes, new country records and range extensions of Baridinae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) from China
JENS PRENA, JIANI YANG, LI REN, ZHILIANG WANG, NING LIU & RUNZHI ZHANG
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Zootaxa 3841 (1): 090–106 (24 Jul. 2014)
A new species of the genus Hydroporus Clairville, 1806 from the Central Rif mountains of northern Morocco (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
MICHAEL MANUEL
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Zootaxa 3839 (1): 001–083 (23 Jul. 2014)
Immatures of Palaearctic species of the weevil genus Tychius (Coleoptera, Curculionidae): new descriptions and new bionomic data with an evaluation of their value in a phylogenetic reconstruction of the genus
JIŘÍ SKUHROVEC, RAFAŁ GOSIK & ROBERTO CALDARA
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Zootaxa 3838 (3): 397–400 (18 Jul. 2014)
First records of Nacerdes melanura (Linnaeus 1758) and Xanthochroina auberti (Abeille de Perrin 1876) (Coleoptera: Oedemeridae) from Israel
OZ RITTNER & ASSAF NIR
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Zootaxa 3838 (3): 287–309 (18 Jul. 2014)
Study of the genus Cephennium Müler & Kunze, 1822 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae) from the Balkan Peninsula. Part II. New species of the subgenus Cephennium s. str.
MIROSLAV STEVANOVIĆ
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Zootaxa 3838 (2): 233–241 (17 Jul. 2014)
A new micropterous species of Physoderes from Fiji Islands (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Physoderinae)
LEONIDAS ROMANOS DAVRANOGLOU
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Zootaxa 3838 (2): 151–173 (17 Jul. 2014)
DNA barcode and phylogeography of six new high altitude wingless Niphadomimus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae) from Southwest China
VASILY V. GREBENNIKOV
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Zootaxa 3838 (1): 001–045 (16 Jul. 2014)
A contribution to the knowledge of New World Bruchinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae): taxonomic revision of Ctenocolum Kingsolver & Whitehead, with description of five new species
FELÍCIA PEREIRA DE ALBUQUERQUE, DAIARA MANFIO & CIBELE STRAMARE RIBEIRO-COSTA
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Zootaxa 3835 (4): 583–592 (14 Jul. 2014)
Walker’s Eleodes (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
DONALD B. THOMAS, AARON D. SMITH, CHARLES A. TRIPLEHORN & ROLF A. AALBU
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Zootaxa 3835 (4): 564–572 (14 Jul. 2014)
Endogean and cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XIV. Melledobythus bilandzijae, new genus and species of cavernicolous Bythinini (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from the Island Mljet, Croatia
PETER HLAVÁČ, OTO NAKLÁDAL & BRANKO JALŽIĆ
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Zootaxa 3835 (3): 397–400 (11 Jul. 2014)
Laccobius leopardus sp. nov. from the Western Cape of South Africa (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)
DAVID T. BILTON & ELIO GENTILI
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Zootaxa 3835 (3): 325–337 (11 Jul. 2014)
Ybytyramoan, a new genus of fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae, Lampyrinae, Photinini) endemic to the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest, with description of three new species
LUIZ FELIPE LIMA DA SILVEIRA & JOSÉ RICARDO M. MERMUDES
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Zootaxa 3835 (2): 251–262 (10 Jul. 2014)
A new genus of egg case-carrying water scavenger beetle from the Guiana Shield (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Acidocerinae)
ANDREW EDWARD Z. SHORT & MAURICIO GARCÍA
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Zootaxa 3835 (2): 151–197 (10 Jul. 2014)
Taxonomic Revision of the genus Mesomphalia Hope, 1839 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)
MARIANNA V. P. SIMÕES & MARCELA L. MONNÉ
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Zootaxa 3828 (1): 001–076 (8 Jul. 2014)
'The curse of Horaeomorphus': taxonomy of misplaced Australian Cyrtoscydmini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3827 (4): 493–516 (7 Jul. 2014)
Larval morphology of selected Quedius Stephens, 1829 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini) with comments on their subgeneric affiliation
EWA PIETRYKOWSKA-TUDRUJ, KATARZYNA CZEPIEL-MIL & BERNARD STANIEC
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Zootaxa 3827 (3): 318–330 (4 Jul. 2014)
Description of the third instar of Hygrobia nigra (Clark, 1862) (Coleoptera: Paelobiidae), with a key for the identification of mature larvae of Hygrobia Latreille, 1804 and phylogenetic analysis
MARIANO C. MICHAT, YVES ALARIE & LARS HENDRICH
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Zootaxa 3827 (2): 273–281 (3 Jul. 2014)
The identity of Aphodius nodifrons Randall, 1838 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) from Maine, United States of America, with designation of the lectotype and handwriting examples
FRANK-THORSTEN KRELL & ROBERT ANGUS
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Zootaxa 3827 (1): 087–094 (2 Jul. 2014)
Description of two new species in the genera Epectinaspis Blanchard and Strigoderma Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Anomalini)
ANDRÉS RAMÍREZ-PONCE & DANIEL CUROE
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Zootaxa 3826 (3): 401–448 (1 Jul. 2014)
Alien seed beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) in Europe
RAFAEL YUS-RAMOS, DANIEL VENTURA, KEITH BENSUSAN, PEDRO COELLO-GARCÍA, ZOLTÁN GYÖRGY & ANELIA STOJANOVA
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Zootaxa 3826 (2): 386–392 (30 Jun. 2014)
A new species of the genus Blaberops (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) from east Madagascar, with a key to species
MILOŠ TRÝZNA & PETR BAŇAŘ
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Zootaxa 3826 (1): 195–229 (27 Jun. 2014)
Review of the genera of Mycetophagidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) with descriptions of new genera and a world generic key
JOHN F. LAWRENCE, HERMES E. ESCALONA, RICHARD A. B. LESCHEN & ADAM ŚLIPIŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3822 (1): 001–082 (26 Jun. 2014)
Revision of the genus Hyperomma Fauvel, 1878—part 1: New Zealand (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae)
ANDREA M. SCHOMANN & ALEXEY SOLODOVNIKOV
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Zootaxa 3821 (5): 597–599 (25 Jun. 2014)
Synonymy of Reinholdina deelemanorum Giachino & Moravec, 2009 (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae: Leptodirini)
Ján Lakota, Peter Hlaváč, Roman Lohaj & Dávid Čeplík
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Zootaxa 3821 (2): 291–296 (20 Jun. 2014)
Two new species and records of the genus Lesteva Latreille, 1797 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae) from southeastern China
ALEXEY V. SHAVRIN
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Zootaxa 3815 (4): 575–582 (17 Jun. 2014)
A new species of Chaeridiona Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Oncocephalini) infesting ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) and turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) in India and redescription of Chaeridiona pseudometallica Basu
K. M. Shameem & K. D. PRATHAPAN
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Zootaxa 3815 (3): 435–440 (16 Jun. 2014)
New species and new record of Megatyrus Hlaváč & Nomura (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from Asia
ZI-WEI YIN & LI-ZHEN LI
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Zootaxa 3815 (3): 417–427 (16 Jun. 2014)
Nemozoma gymnosternalis sp. nov., a new anomalous species of Trogossitidae from Brazil
JIŘÍ KOLIBÁČ
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Zootaxa 3815 (2): 297–298 (13 Jun. 2014)
Nomenclatural corrections to two Neotropical species of Staphylininae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)
JUAN MÁRQUEZ & JULIETA ASIAIN
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Zootaxa 3815 (2): 286–290 (13 Jun. 2014)
A new species of the genus Crepidodera Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from Baltic amber
Andris Bukejs
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Zootaxa 3814 (4): 521–536 (11 Jun. 2014)
Taxonomy of the genus Erymus Bordoni (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Staphylininae, Xantholinini) in China with descriptions of two new species
YU-LINGZI ZHOU & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU
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Zootaxa 3814 (3): 392–398 (10 Jun. 2014)
Flea weevils of the genus Megorchestes Kojima (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Curculioninae, Rhamphini), with description of a second species from India
SHALOO AYRI, HIROAKI KOJIMA & V.V. RAMAMURTHY
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Zootaxa 3814 (2): 292–296 (9 Jun. 2014)
A new species of Syndicus (s. str.) Motschulsky (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae) from East China
ZI-WEI YIN, XIAO-BIN SONG & LI-ZHEN LI
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Zootaxa 3814 (2): 242–258 (9 Jun. 2014)
Six new species of Hylotribus Jekel, 1860 from Brazil (Coleoptera, Anthribidae, Anthribinae, Discotenini)
FERNANDO LUIZ CUNHA AVILA VILLAR DE QUEIROZ & JOSÉ RICARDO M. MERMUDES
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Zootaxa 3814 (2): 202–220 (9 Jun. 2014)
Review of the New Caledonian species of the genus Pactola Pascoe, 1876 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Eugnomini), with description of two new species
MIŁOSZ A. MAZUR
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Zootaxa 3811 (4): 553–568 (5 Jun. 2014)
Neoeubria inbionis Shepard & Barr, a new genus and new species of Neotropical water penny beetle (Coleoptera: Psephenidae: Eubriinae), with a key to the adult Eubriinae of the Neotropic Zone
WILLIAM D. SHEPARD & CHERYL B. BARR
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Zootaxa 3811 (4): 515–534 (5 Jun. 2014)
Redescription of late-instar larva of Ptinella aptera (Guérin-Méneville, 1839) (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3811 (4): 438–462 (5 Jun. 2014)
New species and new records of Pterosthetops: eumadicolous water beetles of the South African Cape (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae)
DAVID T. BILTON
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Zootaxa 3811 (4): 401–437 (5 Jun. 2014)
A taxonomic review of the genus Junnanotrechus Uéno & Yin, 1993 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae), with description of six new species
IGOR A. BELOUSOV & ILYA I. KABAK
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Zootaxa 3811 (3): 374–380 (4 Jun. 2014)
Lolodorfus, a new genus of net-winged beetles (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Dexorinae) from Cameroon
MILADA BOCAKOVA
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Zootaxa 3811 (2): 280–288 (3 Jun. 2014)
The enigmatic genus Stenichnoteras Scott from the Seychelles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3811 (2): 226–238 (3 Jun. 2014)
The unique Brazilian species of Polylobus Solier (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) with a checklist of all species of the genus
SIDNEI BORTOLUZZI DA SILVA & EDILSON CARON
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Zootaxa 3811 (1): 001–033 (30 May 2014)
Redescription of immatures and bionomy of the Palaearctic species Dicladispa testacea (Linnaeus, 1767) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Hispini), a leaf-mining hispine beetle
JOLANTA ŚWIĘTOJAŃSKA, LECH BOROWIEC & MAŁGORZATA STACH
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Zootaxa 3809 (1): 001–127 (29 May 2014)
Illustrated Catalogue and Type Designations of the New Zealand Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea)
NATHAN P. LORD & RICHARD A.B. LESCHEN
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Zootaxa 3806 (1): 001–078 (29 May 2014)
Taxonomy, Bionomics and Faunistics of the Nominate Subgenus of Mylabris Fabricius, 1775, with the description of five new species (Coleoptera: Meloidae: Mylabrini)
ZHAO PAN & MARCO A. BOLOGNA
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Zootaxa 3802 (3): 395–399 (27 May 2014)
Two new species of Ochthebius Leach (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) from Turkey
NESİL ERTORUN & MANFRED A. JÄCH
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Zootaxa 3802 (3): 359–372 (27 May 2014)
A new hypogean Trechus Clairville (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechini) discovered in a non-calcareous Superficial Subterranean Habitat of the Iberian System (Central Spain)
VICENTE M. ORTUÑO, EVA CUESTA, JOSÉ D. GILGADO & ENRIQUE LEDESMA
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Zootaxa 3802 (2): 276–284 (26 May 2014)
A new giant species of Deltochilum subgenus Deltohyboma (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) from Colombia, with notes on D. spinipes Paulian, 1938
FERNANDO A. B. SILVA & FERNANDO Z. VAZ-DE-MELLO
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Zootaxa 3796 (2): 361–373 (19 May 2014)
Myrmecophilous rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) associated with Aenictus hodgsoni (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Thailand, with description of two new genera and three new species
Munetoshi Maruyama, Takashi Komatsu, Yuji Katayama, Xiao-bin Song & Watana Sakchoowong
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Zootaxa 3796 (1): 197–200 (16 May 2014)
A new species of Aspidimorpha (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Aspidimorphini) from Uganda
LECH BOROWIEC & LUKÁŠ SEKERKA
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Zootaxa 3795 (5): 597–599 (15 May 2014)
Onthophagus fragosus n.sp. a second endemic species of Onthophagus Latreille from Cuba (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae)
FRANÇOIS GÉNIER & HENRY F. HOWDEN
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Zootaxa 3795 (5): 557–563 (15 May 2014)
Giesbertiolus curoei, a new species of flower chafer from Panama with transitional characters (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Trichiini)
ANDRÉS RAMÍREZ-PONCE
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Zootaxa 3795 (1): 085–090 (9 May 2014)
A new species of the genus Linoderus Sharp, 1885 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Philonthina) from the Colombian Andes
MARGARITA M. LÓPEZ-GARCÍA & DIANA M. MÉNDEZ-ROJAS
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Zootaxa 3795 (1): 025–037 (9 May 2014)
Taxonomic revision of Australian Platynectes Régimbart, 1879 (part I)—four new species from Queensland (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Agabinae)
LARS HENDRICH & JAROSLAV ŠŤASTNÝ
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Zootaxa 3794 (3): 481–491 (7 May 2014)
Obesoconnus gen. n., a new bizarre Neotropical genus of Cyrtoscydmini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3794 (3): 435–454 (7 May 2014)
Antillipeltis, a new genus of Antillean Trogossitidae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea) with a key to the Cleroidea
JOHN F. LAWRENCE, RICHARD A. B. LESCHEN & ADAM ŚLIPIŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3794 (3): 419–434 (7 May 2014)
A revision of Hoplasoma acuminatum and H. thailandicum species groups, and re-definition of H. unicolor species group (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)
JAN Bezděk
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Zootaxa 3794 (2): 222–236 (6 May 2014)
Comparative morphology and taxonomy of Sciacharis s. str., Chathamaenus Franz and Maorinus Franz (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3794 (1): 087–107 (5 May 2014)
Silbermann’s “Revue entomologique”: Publication Dates for Nomenclatural Purposes and Bibliographic Notes (Insecta, mainly Coleoptera)
PETER NAGEL & LARA SCHMIDLIN
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Zootaxa 3793 (5): 501–537 (2 May 2014)
Revision of Trachelissa Aurivillius, 1912 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
HINGRID YARA S. QUINTINO & MARCELA L. MONNÉ
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Zootaxa 3793 (3): 350–360 (30 Apr. 2014)
Studies of Madagascan Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) 2: The genus Ptenidium including three new species
MICHAEL DARBY
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Zootaxa 3793 (2): 291–296 (29 Apr. 2014)
Description of a new species of Aegosoma Audinet-Serville, 1832 from Vietnam (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Prioninae)
CUONG DO & ALAIN DRUMONT
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Zootaxa 3793 (2): 247–256 (29 Apr. 2014)
A new genus and species of Schizogyniidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) associated with carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from Ukraine
VIACHESLAV A. TRACH & OWEN D. SEEMAN
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Zootaxa 3793 (2): 231–246 (29 Apr. 2014)
Revision of the Neotropical burrowing water beetle genus Liocanthydrus Guignot (Coleoptera: Noteridae: Noterinae: Noterini) with the description of two new species
STEPHEN M. BACA, GREY T. GUSTAFSON, MARIO TOLEDO & KELLY B. MILLER
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Zootaxa 3790 (2): 399–400 (17 Apr. 2014)
Correction of the type species of the South American genus Gromphas Brullé, 1837 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Phanaeini)
Mario Cupello & FERNANDO Z. VAZ-DE-MELLO
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Zootaxa 3790 (2): 380–398 (17 Apr. 2014)
Description of immatures of the genus Tropisternus Solier, subgenus Pristoternus Orchymont (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae), with emphasis on the chaetotaxy and morphometry of larval forms
PATRICIA L. M. TORRES, MARIANO C. MICHAT, MIGUEL ARCHANGELSKY
& LILIANA A. FERNÁNDEZ
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Article
Zootaxa 3790 (2): 281–318 (17 Apr. 2014)
A review of the natural history of adult Cetoniinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Argentina and adjacent countries
OSVALDO DI IORIO
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Article
Zootaxa 3790 (1): 177–184 (16 Apr. 2014)
Agaporomorphus sharynae, a new species of diving beetle (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Copelatinae) from Venezuela
KELLY B. MILLER
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3788 (1): 001–063 (15 Apr. 2014)
A taxonomic monograph of the genus Tylodinus Champion (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae: Tylodina) of Chiapas, Mexico
JESÚS LUNA-COZAR, ROBERT S. ANDERSON, ROBERT W. JONES & JORGE L. LEÓN-CORTÉS
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Article
Zootaxa 3786 (4): 492–498 (11 Apr. 2014)
New taxa, notes and new synonymy in Neoibidionini
(Cerambycidae, Coleoptera)
UBIRAJARA R. MARTINS & MARIA HELENA M. GALILEO
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Article
Zootaxa 3786 (4): 458–468 (11 Apr. 2014)
The first Amazonian species of Andranthobius Kuschel
(Coleoptera: Curculionidae), with records of new host palms for the genus
ROBERTA DE MELO VALENTE & PAULO AUGUSTO LIMA DA SILVA
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Article
Zootaxa 3786 (3): 331–358 (10 Apr. 2014)
Carabid (Coleoptera) type collection at National Forest Insect Collection (NFIC), Forest Research Institute, Dehradun (India)
MOHAMMAD FAISAL & SUDHIR SINGH

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3786 (1): 099–100 (8 Apr. 2014)
A taxonomic note on Homorosoma horridulum Voss, 1958 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), with new records from Taiwan
Boris A. Korotyaev, HIRAKU YOSHITAKE & JUNHAO HUANG

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Article
Zootaxa 3786 (1): 085–090 (8 Apr. 2014)
Foveocrotaphus gen. n. and F. burmanicus sp. n.: a new genus and species of Physocrotaphini from Myanmar (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Anthiinae)
ALEXANDER ANICHTCHENKO

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Article
Zootaxa 3786 (1): 073–078 (8 Apr. 2014)
A new genus and species of myrmecophilous brentid beetle (Coleoptera: Brentidae) inhabiting the myrmecophytic epiphytes in the Bornean rainforest canopy
MUNETOSHI MARUYAMA, LUCA BARTOLOZZI, YOKO INUI, HIROSHI O. TANAKA,
FUJIO HYODO, USUN SHIMIZU-KAYA, YOKO TAKEMATSU, TAKUO HISHI & TAKAO ITIOKA

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Article
Zootaxa 3785 (4): 561–574 (7 Apr. 2014)
Revision of the subgenus Persexarthrus Voss of the genus Anthonomus Germar (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Anthonomini)
MICHAEL KOŠŤÁL

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Article
Zootaxa 3785 (3): 301–342 (4 Apr. 2014)
Revision of the new world species of Hylurgops LeConte, 1876 with the description of a new genus in the Hylastini (Coleoptera: Scolytinae) and comments on some Palearctic species
JAVIER E. MERCADO-VÉLEZ & JOSÉ F. NEGRÓN

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Article
Zootaxa 3785 (1): 095–100 (2 Apr. 2014)
A new species of Pseudopyrochroa Pic, 1906 (Coleoptera: Pyrochroidae: Pyrochroinae) from the Mae Chaem District, Thailand
DANIEL K. YOUNG

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Article
Zootaxa 3784 (3): 275–280 (28 Mar. 2014)
Ruthmuelleria, a new genus of Carinodulini (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Microweiseinae) from South Africa
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI & ADAM ŚLIPIŃSKI

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Article
Zootaxa 3784 (3): 267–274 (28 Mar. 2014)
A new species of Duvalius from world’s deepest cave (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
ANA SOFIA P. S. REBOLEIRA & VICENTE M. ORTUÑO

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Article
Zootaxa 3780 (3): 577–584 (24 Mar. 2014)
A contribution to Macrolasia Weise (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Epilachnini)
KAROL SZAWARYN & WIOLETTA TOMASZEWSKA

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Article
Zootaxa 3780 (1): 001–035 (20 Mar. 2014)
Seventeen
new species and additional records of Lathrobium (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from mainland China
Zhong Peng, Li-Zhen Li & Mei-Jun Zhao

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Article
Zootaxa 3779 (5): 563–572 (19 Mar. 2014)
A new species of Luchoelmis Spangler & Staines (Coleoptera: Elmidae) from Argentina and its probable larva
MIGUEL ARCHANGELSKY & CECILIA BRAND

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Article
Zootaxa 3779 (5): 518–528 (19 Mar. 2014)
Review of the genus Susuacanga (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae)
JUAN PABLO BOTERO R.

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3779 (4): 493–496 (18 Mar. 2014)
Eutheia bekchievi sp. n. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae) from Bulgaria
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI

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Article
Zootaxa 3779 (2): 288–296 (14 Mar. 2014)
A new troglobitic species of Coarazuphium Gnaspini, Vanin & Godoy (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Zuphiini) from a cave in Paraná State, Southern Brazil
DANIELA DE CASSIA BENÁ & SERGIO ANTONIO VANIN

Article 
Zootaxa 3774 (6): 523–534 (11 Mar. 2014)
Notes on Lycocerus kiontochananus (Pic, 1921) and description of two new species of Lycocerus Gorham from China (Coleoptera, Cantharidae)
YUXIA YANG & XINGKE YANG

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Article 
Zootaxa 3774 (5): 489–495 (10 Mar. 2014)
A new species of Epania Pascoe (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Molorchini) from Papua New Guinea
GUIQIANG HUANG, BO CAI, WEI XU & LI CHEN

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Article 
Zootaxa 3774 (4): 301–323 (7 Mar. 2014)
The first morphological description of the immature stages of Thiasophila Kraatz, 1856 (Coleoptera; Staphylinidae) inhabiting ant colonies of the Formica rufa group
MIROSŁAW ZAGAJA, BERNARD STANIEC & EWA PIETRYKOWSKA-TUDRUJ

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3774 (2): 193–196 (5 Mar. 2014)
A new species of the genus Anthaxia Eschscholtz, 1829 from southern Africa (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Anthaxiini)
SVATOPLUK BÍLÝ

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Article 
Zootaxa 3774 (1): 083–089 (4 Mar. 2014)
Monoxia obesula Blake, 1939, a species native to the U.S.A. and adventive to Sardinia, Italy (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Galerucini)
SHAWN M. CLARK, ANDREA RATTU & DAVIDE CILLO

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Zootaxa 3774 (1): 001–030 (4 Mar. 2014)
The smallest Cyrtoscydmini of Australia: revision of Microscydmus Saulcy & Croissandeau and Penicillidmus gen. n. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI

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Article 
Zootaxa 3768 (4): 487–496 (27 Feb. 2014)
The first discovery of the genus Meira Jacquelin du Val outside the western mediterranean area, with description of a new species (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae)
Cesare Bellò & Cosimo Baviera

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Article 
Zootaxa 3768 (2): 196–200 (25 Feb. 2014)
A new species of the genus Anthaxia Eschscholtz, 1829 from Spain (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae: Anthaxiini)
SVATOPLUK BÍLÝ & ANTONIO VERDUGO

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Article 
Zootaxa 3768 (2): 189–195 (25 Feb. 2014)
A new species of the genus Ishikawatrechus (Coleoptera, Trechinae) from Japan
KAZUKI SUGAYA & JUNSUKE YAMASAKO

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Article 
Zootaxa 3768 (1): 095–100 (24 Feb. 2014)
Descriptions of two new species of Myrmedonota Cameron (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) from Mexico with comments on the genus taxonomy and behavior
KAITLYN A. MATHIS & K. TARO ELDREDGE

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Article 
Zootaxa 3765 (6): 583–592 (21 Feb. 2014)
Revision of the genus Delenda Croissandeau, 1891 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)
ROSTISLAV BEKCHIEV & VOLKER BRACHAT

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Article 
Zootaxa 3765 (6): 526–540 (21 Feb. 2014)
Ultrastructural analysis and polymorphisms in Coarazuphium caatinga (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Zuphiini), a new Brazilian troglobitic beetle
THAIS GIOVANNINI PELLEGRINI & RODRIGO LOPES FERREIRA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3765 (5): 481–494 (20 Feb. 2014)
Four new species and first nominal record of Chasmogenus Sharp, 1882 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) from Brazil
BRUNO CLARKSON & NELSON FERREIRA-JR

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Article 
Zootaxa 3765 (4): 382–388 (19 Feb. 2014)
Three new species of the genus Paederus Fabricius (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae) from China
XIAO-YAN LI, ALEXEY SOLODOVNIKOV & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU

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Article 
Zootaxa 3765 (3): 295–300 (18 Feb. 2014)
Two new species of the genus Gonioctena Chevrolat (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Chrysomelinae) from Sichuan, China
HEE-WOOK CHO & LECH BOROWIEC

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Article 
Zootaxa 3765 (3): 279–287 (18 Feb. 2014)
Two new species of Nyctelia Latreille (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Argentinean Patagonia with zoogeographical and ecological remarks
GUSTAVO E. FLORES & GERMÁN H. CHELI

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Article 
Zootaxa 3765 (3): 201–248 (18 Feb. 2014)
Systematic review of the firefly genus Amydetes Illiger, 1807 (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), with description of 13 new species
LUIZ FELIPE LIMA DA SILVEIRA & JOSÉ RICARDO M. MERMUDES

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Article 
Zootaxa 3765 (2): 187–193 (17 Feb. 2014)
Two new combinations and a key to the species of the genus Earota Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
SEUNG-GYU LEE & KEE-JEONG AHN

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Article 
Zootaxa 3765 (1): 001–028 (14 Feb. 2014)
New species of the genus Chydaeus from China, Nepal, Myanmar, and Thailand, with remarks on species previously described (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalini)
BORIS M. KATAEV, DAVID W. WRASE & JOACHIM SCHMIDT

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3764 (5): 597–600 (13 Feb. 2014)
A new species of Lasinus Sharp (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from East China
ZI-WEI YIN , ROSTISLAV BEKCHIEV & LI-ZHEN LI

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3761 (1): 001–156 (5 Feb. 2014)
A revision of the New World genus Aptilotella Duda
(Sphaeroceridae: Limosininae)
STEPHEN P.L. LUK & STEPHEN A. MARSHALL
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Article
Zootaxa 3760 (3): 383–395 (03 Feb. 2014)
Ancyronyx reticulatus and A. pulcherrimus, two new riffle beetle 
species from Borneo, and discussion about elmid 
plastron structures (Coleoptera: Elmidae)
JÁN KODADA, MANFRED A. JÄCH & FEDOR ČIAMPOR JR

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Article 
Zootaxa 3760 (3): 301–335 (03 Feb. 2014)
Nomenclatural notes on some checkered beetle (Coleoptera: Cleridae) 
types of the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH)
JOHN M. LEAVENGOOD, JR. & BEULAH H. GARNER

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3758 (1): 001–092 (29 Jan. 2014)
A revision of the water beetle genus Hydraena Kugelann 
for southern Africa (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
PHILIP D. PERKINS
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Article 
Zootaxa 3755 (6): 501–548 (28 Jan. 2014)
Revision of the checkered beetle genus Erymanthus Spinola, 
1841
(Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae)
ROLAND GERSTMEIER & MAX SALVAMOSER

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Article
Zootaxa 3755 (5): 457–469 (24 Jan. 2014)
A review of Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) of the Northern Levant, 
with description of a new species from Syria and a key to Levantine species
ROBIN KUNDRATA, LUCIE KOBIELUSZOVA & LADISLAV BOCAK

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Article
Zootaxa 3755 (4): 391–400 (23 Jan. 2014)
Glesirhanis bercioi, a new genus and species from Baltic amber
 (Coleoptera: Endomychidae: Leiestinae) with a checklist 
and nomenclatural notes regarding fossil Endomychidae
FLOYD W. SHOCKLEY & VITALY I. ALEKSEEV

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Article 
Zootaxa 3755 (2): 197–200 (21 Jan. 2014)
Two new species of Mesostrix Mazur, 1994 (Coleoptera: Histeridae) 
from Southeast Asia
SŁAWOMIR MAZUR & TOMASZ MOKRZYCKI

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Article 
Zootaxa 3755 (2): 194–196 (21 Jan. 2014)
Allopachria longyanensis sp. n. from China (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
LANZHU JI, CHENG GUO & DONGJU BIAN
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Article 
Zootaxa 3755 (1): 062–086 (20 Jan. 2014)
An illustrated key to the New World genera of Philonthina Kirby (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae),
 with morphological, taxonomical and distributional notes
MARIANA CHANI-POSSE

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Article 
Zootaxa 3754 (5): 583–591 (17 Jan. 2014)
Sedlacekvia kinchegaensis, a new species of a charismatic genus from Australia, with notes on its systematics (Coleoptera, Cleridae)
JIŘÍ KOLIBÁČ
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Article 
Zootaxa 3754 (4): 301–352 (16 Jan. 2014)
Catalogue of the world genera and subgenera of the superfamilies Derodontoidea and Bostrichoidea (Coleoptera: Derodontiformia, Bostrichiformia)
PETR ZAHRADNÍK & JIŘÍ HÁVA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3754 (2): 159–172 (14 Jan. 2014)
Descriptions of immature stages of the weevil Lixus punctiventris Boheman, 
1835 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Lixini)
RAFAŁ GOSIK & MAREK WANAT

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Article 
Zootaxa 3754 (1): 032058 (13 Jan. 2014)
A revision of the Pediacus Shuckard 1839 (Coleoptera: Cucujidae) of Asia and Australasia
JOHN W. M. MARRIS & ADAM ŚLIPIŃSKI

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Article 
Zootaxa 3753 (6): 585–596 (10 Jan. 2014)
A new species of Desmopachria Babington (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from Cuba with a prediction of its geographic distribution and notes on other Cuban species of the genus

YOANDRI S. MEGNA & DAVID SÁNCHEZ-FERNÁNDEZ

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3753 (2): 196–200 (06 Jan. 2014)
A new species of Iapir Py-Daniel, Fonseca & Barbosa (Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Torridincolidae) from Brazil with key to species of the genus

BRUNNO HENRIQUE LANZELLOTTI SAMPAIO & NELSON FERREIRA-JR

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Zootaxa 3753 (2): 187–195 (06 Jan. 2014)
Two new Larainae species from Guayana region, Venezuela (Coleoptera: Elmidae)

KRISTÍNA LAŠŠOVÁ, FEDOR ČIAMPOR Jr & ZUZANA ČIAMPOROVÁ-ZAŤOVIČOVÁ

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Article
Zootaxa 3750 (5): 549–568 (23 Dec. 2013)
Revision of the Neotropical genus Alloraphes Franz (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI

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Article 
Zootaxa 3750 (4): 396–400 (20 Dec. 2013)
Two new species of Dryophthorinae in the genera Metamasius and Melchus from the Lesser Antilles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

ROBERT S. ANDERSON

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Article
Zootaxa 3750 (3): 251–264 (19 Dec. 2013)
Terataki, a new genus of Staphylinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae) from South America

STYLIANOS CHATZIMANOLIS

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Article 
Zootaxa 3750 (2): 143–166 (18 Dec. 2013)
Taxonomic Review of the Genus Rhinoncomimus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Ceutorhynchinae) with description of a new species from Yunnan, China

JUNHAO HUANG, HIRAKU YOSHITAKE, RUNZHI ZHANG & MOTOMI ITO

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Article 
Zootaxa 3750 (1): 089–094 (17 Dec. 2013)
A new species of the genus Thoracochirus Bernhauer (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae) from Yunnan, China
GUO-FENG LI, CHUN-MEI WANG, ZHONG-WEI LI & DE-QUAN ZHOU
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Article 
Zootaxa 3750 (1): 083–088 (17 Dec. 2013)
The red-listed species Thamnurgus rossicus in East Europe is a synonym of the rare Central European species, T. petzi (Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
BJARTE H. JORDAL, HEIKO GEBHARDT & MICHAIL Y. MANDELSHTAM
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Zootaxa 3750 (1): 026–036 (17 Dec. 2013)
A taxonomic revision of South African Sharphydrus, with the description of two new species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Bidessini)
DAVID T. BILTON
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3748 (1): 001–109 (16 Dec. 2013)
A taxonomic review of the genus Megalostomis Chevrolat (Coleoptera, Cryptocephalinae, Chrysomelidae)
FEDERICO A. AGRAIN

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Article 
Zootaxa 3746 (1): 101–122 (10 Dec. 2013)
A checklist of the Kateretidae and Nitidulidae of Iran (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)

ANDRZEJ LASOŃ & HASSAN GHAHARI

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Article 
Zootaxa 3745 (5): 533–550 (9 Dec. 2013)
Stictonectes abellani sp. n. (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae) from
the Iberian Peninsula, with notes on the phylogeny, ecology and distribution of the Iberian species of the genus
ANDRÉS MILLÁN, FÉLIX PICAZO, HANS FERY, JOSÉ LUIS MORENO &
DAVID SÁNCHEZ-FERNÁNDEZ
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Article 
Zootaxa 3745 (4): 401–434 (6 Dec. 2013)
Revision of the subgenus Cosmiomorpha (Cosmiomorpha) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae)
JIAN-YUE QIU, HAO XU & CHUN-LIN HU

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3745 (3): 397–399 (5 Dec. 2013)
Endogean and cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XII. New species of Paramaurops Jeannel, 1948 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from Macedonia
PETER HLAVÁČ

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Article 
Zootaxa 3745 (3): 379–387 (5 Dec. 2013)
A new species, Hemicrepidius (Miwacrepidius) rubriventris sp. nov. (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Denticollinae) from Republic of Korea
TAEMAN HAN, YOUNGBO LEE, NAMJUNG KIM, SANGWOOK PARK, WATARU SUZUKI,
SEUNGHWAN LEE & HAECHUL PARK
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Article 
Zootaxa 3745 (3): 301–329 (5 Dec. 2013)
The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species
JOHN F. LAWRENCE, ADAM SLIPINSKI, OLAF JÄGER & ANDREAS PÜTZ

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Erratum
Zootaxa 3745 (2): 299–300 (4 Dec. 2013)
Erratum: RAFAŁ GOSIK & PETER SPRICK (2013) Morphology and identification of the pupae of several species of soil-dwelling broad-nosed weevils from Central Europe (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae). Zootaxa, 3731(4): 445–472.
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Article 
Zootaxa 3745 (1): 019–034 (3 Dec. 2013)
Mature larva of Stenichnus collaris (Müller & Kunze) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI

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Zootaxa 3741 (3): 511–537 (29 Nov. 2013)
Description of larvae of two closely related species Cassida palaestina Reiche, 1858 and Cassida rubiginosa Müller, 1776 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)
JOLANTA ŚWIĘTOJAŃSKA, HOSSEIN MORADIAN, LECH BOROWIEC & HADI OSTOVAN

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Zootaxa 3741 (3): 349–358 (28 Nov. 2013)
New species and new records of the hygropetric water beetle genus Oocyclus Sharp from South America (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

ANDREW EDWARD Z. SHORT, LUKE GREENE & MAURICIO GARCIA

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Zootaxa 3741 (2): 243–253 (27 Nov. 2013)
Pachybrachis holerorum (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae),
a new species from the Apennines, Italy, identified by integration of morphological and molecular data
MATTEO MONTAGNA, DAVIDE SASSI & ANNAMARIA GIORGI

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Erratum
Zootaxa 3737 (5): 600 (22 Nov. 2013)
Erratum: MARCIN JAN KAMIŃSKI (2013) Taxonomy and distribution of the Afrotropical genus Anchophthalmops Koch, 1956 with a key to species (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pedinini). Zootaxa, 3709(6): 501–523.
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Article 
Zootaxa 3737 (4): 379–398 (21 Nov. 2013)
Two new species of the genus Temnaspis Lacordaire, 1845, (Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea: Megalopodidae) from China and Myanmar, with notes on the biology of the genus
KAIQIN LI, ZONGLI LIANG & HONGBIN LIANG

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Article 
Zootaxa 3737 (3): 295–300 (20 Nov. 2013)
Loranthophila, a new genus of Australian Lyctinae (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) associated with Mistletoe

JOHN F. LAWRENCE & ADAM SLIPINSKI

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Article 
Zootaxa 3737 (3): 289–294 (20 Nov. 2013)
Three new species of the genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 from the Philippines, with a modified key to species (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Brachininae)
MINGYI TIAN & THIERRY DEUVE

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Zootaxa 3737 (3): 251–260 (20 Nov. 2013)
Four new species of the genus Smaragdina Chevrolat, 1836 from China (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Clytrini)

FENG-YAN WANG & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU

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Article 
Zootaxa 3737 (2): 191–196 (19 Nov. 2013)
Tanyproctus (Tanyproctus) arher (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Tanyproctini), a new species from the Socotra Island, Yemen

ALEŠ Bezděk, RICHARD Sehnal & DAVID Král

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Article 
Zootaxa 3737 (1): 085–091 (18 Nov. 2013)
A new species of Elathous Reitter (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Turkey

MAHMUT KABALAK, GIUSEPPE PLATIA & MUSTAFA AVCI

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Article 
Zootaxa 3736 (5): 536–548 (15 Nov. 2013)
Review of the genus Cystocnemis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae) with descriptions of two new species

YURI E. MIKHAILOV & ELENA V. GUS’KOVA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3736 (5): 501–535 (15 Nov. 2013)
Review of the largest species group of the New World seed beetle genus Sennius Bridwell (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), with host plant associations

JÉSSICA HERZOG VIANA & CIBELE STRAMARE RIBEIRO-COSTA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3736 (5): 457–470 (15 Nov. 2013)
Redefinition of the genus Silphitrombium (Trombidiformes: Neothrombiidae) with description of two new species parasitizing beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae, Tenebrionidae) from Iran
SAMANEH TASHAKOR, HAMIDREZA HAJIQANBAR& ALIREZA SABOORI

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Article 
Zootaxa 3736 (4): 301–337 (14 Nov. 2013)
Revision of the genus Ateralphus Restello, Iannuzzi & Marinoni, 2001 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae)

DIEGO DE S. SOUZA & MARCELA L. MONNÉ

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Article 
Zootaxa 3736 (3): 277–284 (13 Nov. 2013)
Working and reference check list for fireflies of Melanesia (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae)
LESLEY A. BALLANTYNE
& JAMES E. LLOYD

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Article 
Zootaxa 3736 (3): 265–276 (13 Nov. 2013)
The Pselaphinae of Madagascar. II. Redescription of the genus Semiclaviger Wasmann, 1893 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae: Clavigeritae) and synonymy of the subtribe Radamina Jeannel, 1954
PETER HLAVÁČ
, PETR BAŇAŘ & JOSEPH PARKER

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Article 
Zootaxa 3736 (2): 128–142 (12 Nov. 2013)
Three new species of Macrelmis Motschulsky, 1859 (Coleoptera: Elmidae: Elminae) from the Brazilian Cerrado Biome with updated key for the Macrelmis of Brazil
FELIPE FRANCISCO BARBOSA, ANDRÉ SILVA FERNANDES & LEANDRO GONÇALVES OLIVEIRA

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Article
Zootaxa 3734 (3): 385–390 (6 Nov. 2013)
A new species of Siamites Franz (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae) from Thailand

PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI

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Article
Zootaxa 3734 (2): 273–280 (5 Nov. 2013)
New or interesting Peritelini of the West-Mediterranean fauna. XXIV. Two new Simmeiropsis Pierotti & Bellò, 2013 from Portugal (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae)
HELIO PIEROTTI, CHRISTOPH GERMANN & CARLO BRAUNERT

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Article
Zootaxa 3734 (2): 259–272 (5 Nov. 2013)
Morphology and life history of Brachypeplus glaber LeConte (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae), with a discussion of multiple life stage data for phylogenetic analyses
ANDREW R. CLINE, PAUL E. SKELLEY & PAOLO AUDISIO

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Article
Zootaxa 3734 (1): 091–095 (4 Nov. 2013)
A new species of Laccobius Erichson, 1837 from China (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)
FENGLONG JIA, KEQING SONG & Elio Gentili

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Article
Zootaxa 3734 (1): 086–090 (4 Nov. 2013)
On the Nazeris fauna of Guangxi, China. II. The species of Daming Shan (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae)
JIA-YAO HU, YAN CHEN
& LI-ZHEN LI

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Article
Zootaxa 3734 (1): 081–085 (4 Nov. 2013)
A new species of Sicoderus Vanin from Bolivia (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Otidocephalini)
SERGIO A. VANIN & BRUNO A. S. DE MEDEIROS

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Article
Zootaxa 3734 (1): 015–022 (4 Nov. 2013)
Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Dicronychus (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

HATHAL M. AL DHAFER & GIUSEPPE PLATIA

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3731 (4): 599–600 (1 Nov. 2013)
A new record of Megatoma (Pseudohadrotoma) graeseri (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from Manitoba, Canada
JIŘÍ HÁVA

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Article
Zootaxa 3731 (4): 495–519 (1 Nov. 2013)
Taxonomy of the Oriental genus Bolbochromus: a generic overview and descriptions of four new species (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae: Bolboceratinae)
JAN KRIKKEN & CHUN-LIN LI

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Article
Zootaxa 3731 (4): 445–472 (1 Nov. 2013)
Morphology and identification of the pupae of several species of soil-dwelling broad-nosed weevils from Central Europe (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae)
RAFAŁ GOSIK & PETER SPRICK

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Article
Zootaxa 3731 (4): 401–444 (1 Nov. 2013)
The tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Cicindelinae) of Angola: a descriptive catalogue and designation of neotypes
Artur R.M. Serrano & Rúben A. Capela

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Article
Zootaxa 3731 (3): 386–390 (31 Oct. 2013)
A new species of the Stenus cephalotes group (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Guangxi, South China
WEN-RONG LI, LIANG TANG
& LI-ZHEN LI

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Article
Zootaxa 3731 (1): 183–192 (29 Oct. 2013)
Hypocaccus (Baeckmanniolus) laevis Thérond, 1963 is not synonymous with
H. (B.) virescens Thérond, 1963 (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Saprininae)
TOMÁŠ LACKNER

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Article
Zootaxa 3731 (1): 077–105 (29 Oct. 2013)
On the family- and genus-series nomina in Gyrinidae Latreille, 1810 (Coleoptera, Adephaga)

GREY T. GUSTAFSON & KELLY B. MILLER

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Article
Zootaxa 3731 (1): 001–057 (29 Oct. 2013)
Elmidae Curtis, 1830 (Coleoptera, Polyphaga, Byrrhoidea) of the Neotropical region
Melissa Ottoboni Segura, Maria ines da silva dos passos,
Alaíde Aparecida Fonseca-Gessner& CLAUDIO GILBERTO FROEHLICH
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3727 (1): 001–066 (25 Oct. 2013)
Taxonomy of the genus Megalinus Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Xantholinini) and seven new species from China
YU-LINGZI ZHOU, ARNALDO BORDONI & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU

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Article
Zootaxa 3722 (4): 439–482 (24 Oct. 2013)
Taxonomic revision of the South American dung beetle genus Gromphas Brullé, 1837 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Phanaeini: Gromphadina)

Mario Cupello & FERNANDO Z. VAZ-DE-MELLO

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Article
Zootaxa 3722 (2): 245–266 (22 Oct. 2013)
Revision of Neotropical genera Microraphes Franz, Heteroscydmus Franz and Mimoscydmus Franz (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae

PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI

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Article
Zootaxa 3722 (2): 101–142 (22 Oct. 2013)
The genus Phyllophaga Harris (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)
in the Colombian Andean Mountains
LUÍS FERNANDO VALLEJO E. & MARTHA WOLFF E.

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Article
Zootaxa 3722 (1): 092–100 (21 Oct. 2013)
Description of Phloeosinus laricionis sp. n. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae), a new bark beetle species from southern Europe
MASSIMO FACCOLI & AGATINO SIDOTI

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Article
Zootaxa 3721 (6): 529–551 (18 Oct. 2013)
New species and records of Scolytodes (Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Scolytinae) from South America

BJARTE H. JORDAL

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Article
Zootaxa 3721 (5): 495–500 (17 Oct. 2013)
A new species of Dexoris (Coleoptera: Lycidae) and parallel evolution of brachyptery in the soft-bodied elateroid beetles
LADISLAV BOCAK, VASILY V. GREBENNIKOV & MICHAL MASEK

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Article
Zootaxa 3721 (4): 351–364 (16 Oct. 2013)
Cossyphodini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae) in South Africa, Namibia and adjacent regions: New species and records, key to genera, and Old World species catalogue

WOLFGANG SCHAWALLER

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Zootaxa 3721 (3): 296–299 (15 Oct. 2013)
New species of the genus Ontholestes Ganglbauer, 1895 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae) from Yakutia
ALEŠ SMETANA & ALEXEY V. SHAVRIN

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Article 
Zootaxa 3721 (2): 193–200 (14 Oct. 2013)
A new species of Apocellus Erichson, 1839 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from Argentina with ecological notes
MARIANA CHANI-POSSE & ERICA E. SCHEIBLER

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Article 
Zootaxa 3721 (2): 143–156 (14 Oct. 2013)
New genera of Dicrepidiina from the Neotropical Region (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Elaterinae, Ampedini)
SÔNIA A. CASARI

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Article 
Zootaxa 3721 (1): 071–078 (11 Oct. 2013)
A new species of the genus Basidissus (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) from east Madagascar, with a key to species

MILOŠ TRÝZNA
& PETR BAŇAŘ
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Article 
Zootaxa 3721 (1): 001–048 (11 Oct. 2013)
Studies on South-east Asian fireflies: Abscondita, a new genus with details of life history, flashing patterns and behaviour of Abs. chinensis (L.) and Abs. terminalis (Olivier) (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae)
LESLEY BALLANTYNE, XINHUA FU, CHRISTINE LAMBKIN, MING-LUEN JENG, LYNN FAUST, W. M. C. D. WIJEKOON, DAIQIN LI & TENGFUI ZHU

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Article 
Zootaxa 3718 (5): 477–482 (8 Oct. 2013)
Smetanabatrus kinabalu (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae: Batrisitae),
a new genus and new species from Sabah, Borneo
ZI-WEI YIN & LI-ZHEN LI

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Article 
Zootaxa 3718 (4): 378–386 (7 Oct. 2013)
Two new species of the genus Anemadus Reitter, 1885, from the Near East (Coleoptera: Cholevidae)
PIER MAURO GIACHINO, LEONARDO LATELLA & DANTE VAILATI

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Article 
Zootaxa 3718 (3): 239–266 (4 Oct. 2013)
Studies of Madagascan Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) 1: The Tribe Discheramocephalini including eighteen new species

MICHAEL DARBY

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Article 
Zootaxa 3718 (2): 137–157 (3 Oct. 2013)
Review of the Argentinean species of Pseudomicrocara Armstrong (Coleoptera: Scirtidae)
MARÍA LAURA LIBONATTI & RAFAŁ RUTA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3718 (2): 101–127 (3 Oct. 2013)
Molecular phylogeny of the weevil genus Dichromacalles Stüben (Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae) and description of a new species
PETER E. STÜBEN, ANDRÉ SCHÜTTE & JONAS J. ASTRIN

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Article 
Zootaxa 3717 (4): 515–542 (1 Oct. 2013)
The Apionidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) of New Caledonia. Genera Archellerenius gen. nov. and Hellerenius Wanat
MAREK WANAT

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Article 
Zootaxa 3717 (3): 377–382 (30 Sept. 2013)
Dasytes plumbeus (Müller) (Coleoptera: Melyridae: Dasytinae), a Palearctic soft-winged flower beetle new to North America
E. RICHARD HOEBEKE & ALFRED G. WHEELER, JR.

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Article 
Zootaxa 3717 (3): 369–376 (30 Sept. 2013)
Notes on synonymy of Diartiger Sharp with Microdiartiger Sawada (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), with description of two new species from East China
ZI-WEI YIN & LI-ZHEN LI

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Article 
Zootaxa 3717 (3): 359–368 (30 Sept. 2013)
New evidence for the validity of Coprophanaeus (C.) terrali Arnaud, 2002 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Phanaeini), a dung beetle from Brazil
Mario Cupello & FERNANDO Z. VAZ-DE-MELLO

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Article 
Zootaxa 3717 (1): 053–064 (26 Sept. 2013)
Designations of the lectotypes for the oriental species of the genus Carpelimus Leach, 1819 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)
MIKHAIL YU. GILDENKOV

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3716 (4): 595–598 (25 Sept. 2013)
New and interesting Peritelini of the Western Mediterranean fauna. XX. A novel Meira (Jacquelin du Val, 1852) species from the Ligurian Alps
HELIO PIEROTTI & THOMAS FINK

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Zootaxa 3716 (3): 441–459 (24 Sept. 2013)
Taxonomic revision of the African genus Trechosiella Jeannel (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae)
GERNOT GEGINAT

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Article
Zootaxa 3716 (2): 277–288 (23 Sept. 2013)
Chimaerocyon gen. nov., a morphologically aberrant myrmecophilous genus of water scavenger beetle (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae)
MARTIN FIKÁČEK, MUNETOSHI MARUYAMA, DOMINIK VONDRÁČEK & ANDREW E. Z. SHORT

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Erratum
Zootaxa 3710 (6): 6 00 (18 Sept.. 2013)
Erratum: PETER ZWICK (2013) Australian Marsh Beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) 4. Two new genera, Austrocyphon and Tasmanocyphon . Zootaxa, 3706(1), 001–074.
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Article
Zootaxa 3710 (6): 565–577 (18 Sept. 2013)
Review of the genus Allochotes (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Neorthopleurinae) from Taiwan
HIROYUKI MURAKAMI, JUNSUKE YAMASAKO, WEN-I CHOU & GANYAN YANG

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3710 (3): 297–300 (13 Sept. 2013)
New and little known species of the genus Orphnus MacLeay (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Orphninae) from the East African Rift
ANDREY V. FROLOV

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Zootaxa 3710 (3): 281–288 (13 Sept. 2013)
Chondropyga insignicosta, a new species of Cetoniinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Queensland, Australia
PAUL M. HUTCHINSON & CHRISTIAN H. MOESENEDER

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Article
Zootaxa 3710 (3): 257–270 (13 Sept. 2013)
Globorentonium, a new genus of rentoniine Trogossitidae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea) from Australia and Brazil
JOHN F. LAWRENCE & ADAM SLIPINSKI

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Zootaxa 3710 (3): 226–232 (13 Sept. 2013)
Copelatus cessaima sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Copelatinae): first record of a troglomorphic diving beetle from Brazil
DANIEL S. CAETANO, DANIELA DE C. BENÁ & SERGIO A. VANIN

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Zootaxa 3710 (1): 072–080 (11 Sept. 2013)
Revision of the genus Hemitrachys Gorham, with discovery of a second species (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae)
GAN-YAN YANG & XING-KE YANG

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Article
Zootaxa 3710 (1): 046–060 (11 Sept. 2013)
Intraspecific variation in Typhlocharis Dieck, 1869 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Anillini): the case of two new species of the baetica group
SERGIO PÉREZ-GONZÁLEZ, JUAN P. ZABALLOS & SAMIR GHANNEM

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3709 (6): 597–600 (10 Sept. 2013)
Elucidating Article 45.6 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature: A dichotomous key for the determination of subspecific or infrasubspecific rank
STEVEN W. LINGAFELTER & EUGENIO H. NEARNS

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Article
Zootaxa 3709 (6): 581–590 (10 Sept. 2013)
A review of the genus Sinodorcadion Gressitt, 1939 with description of three new species from China (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae)
GUANG-LIN XIE, FU-MING SHI & WEN-KAI WANG

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3709 (6): 555–555 (10 Sept. 2013)
Lycomimodes, a new generic replacement name for preoccupied Lycomimus Lawrence and Slipinski, 2013 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Ptilodactylidae) non Melzer, 1931 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
JOHN F. LAWRENCE & ADAM SLIPINSKI

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Article
Zootaxa 3709 (6): 501–523 (10 Sept. 2013)
Taxonomy and distribution of the Afrotropical genus Anchophthalmops Koch, 1956 with a key to species (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pedinini)
MARCIN JAN KAMIŃSKI
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Article
Zootaxa 3709 (4): 394–400 (6 Sept. 2013)
A new species of Anchylorhynchus Schoenherr (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from the Amazon, with a record of a new host palm for the genus
ROBERTA DE MELO VALENTE & BRUNO AUGUSTO SOUZA DE MEDEIROS

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Article
Zootaxa 3709 (3): 285–295 (5 Sept. 2013)
Nine new species of the genus Rosalba (Coleptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Apomecynini) from South America
MARIA HELENA M. GALILEO & UBIRAJARA R. MARTINS

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Article
Zootaxa 3709 (1): 052–070 (3 Sept. 2013)
Taxonomic, nomenclatural, and faunistic records for species in tribes Melaenini, Moriomorphini, Pterostichini, Licinini, and Sphodrini (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
BORISLAV GUÉORGUIEV

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3706 (1): 001–074 (2 Sept. 2013)
Australian Marsh Beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) 4. Two new genera, Austrocyphon and Tasmanocyphon
PETER ZWICK

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Article
Zootaxa 3702 (6): 566–572 (30 Aug. 2013)
Three new species of Paraneseuthia Franz from Australia (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI

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Article
Zootaxa 3702 (2): 124–134 (26 Aug. 2013)
Eulasia (Rudeulasia) daccordii, a new species from southern Levant, with notes on E. pietschmanni Breit and E. baumanni Mitter (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Glaphyridae)
MARCO ULIANA & GUIDO SABATINELLI

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Erratum
Zootaxa 3702 (1): 100 (23 Aug. 2013)
Erratum: ROLAND GERSTMEIER & MARTIN SEITNER (2013) Revision of the checkered beetle genus Eunatalis Schenkling, 1909 (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae). Zootaxa, 3698, 001–077.
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Article
Zootaxa 3702 (1): 071–078 (23 Aug. 2013)
Lycomimus, a new genus of Australian Ptilodactylidae (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea)
JOHN F. LAWRENCE & ADAM SLIPINSKI

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Article
Zootaxa 3701 (3): 393–400 (20 Aug. 2013)
A Possible Larva of Lepicerus inaequalis Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Lepiceridae) from Panama
JOHN F. LAWRENCE ADAM ŚLIPIŃSKI , ROLF G. BEUTEL & ALFRED F. NEWTON

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3701 (2): 298–300 (19 Aug. 2013)
Type species designation for the genus Rhagonycha Eschscholtz, 1830 (Coleoptera, Cantharidae)
JOSÉ MANUEL GROSSO-SILVA, MIGUEL A. ALONSO-ZARAZAGA & RUBIM M. ALMEIDA DA SILVA

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Zootaxa 3701 (2): 192–206 (19 Aug. 2013)
A checklist and key for the identification of bess beetles (Coleoptera: Passalidae) of Argentina
LARRY JIMÉNEZ-FERBANS, PEDRO REYES-CASTILLO,
JACK C. SCHUSTER & KAREN SALAZAR-NIÑO
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Zootaxa 3701 (2): 101–147 (19 Aug. 2013)
The genus Leucophenga (Diptera, Drosophilidae), part II: the ornata species group from East Asia, with morphological and molecular evidence (I)
JIA Huang, Tong Li, Jianjun Gao
& Hongwei Chen
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Zootaxa 3701 (1): 063–075 (16 Aug. 2013)
A review of Tychobythinus theryi species group with description of a new species from Algeria (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae)
Giorgio Sabella, VERa D’URSO Said Nouira, Rhida Souissi & Claude BESUCHET

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3700 (3): 495–498 (14 Aug. 2013)
Description of a new unusual Pselaphodes Westwood, 1870 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from Nepal
ROSTISLAV BEKCHIEV & PETER HLAVÁČ

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Zootaxa 3700 (1): 195–199 (12 Aug. 2013)
Ochthebius hivae (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) from western Iran, a new species of the O. metallescens group with remarkable aedeagal variability
MANFRED JÄCH, ELHAM IRANI
& JUAN A. DELGADO

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3698 (1): 001–077 (9 Aug. 2013)
Revision of the checkered beetle genus Eunatalis Schenkling, 1909 (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae)

ROLAND GERSTMEIER & MARTIN SEITNER

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Zootaxa 3694 (5): 461–470 (7 Aug. 2013)
The larvae of Altica koreana (Ogloblin) and A. viridicyanea (Baly) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini)
YI HUA, SI-QIN GE, ROLF GEORG BEUTEL, YONG ZHANG, JUN-ZHI CUI & XING-KE YANG
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Zootaxa 3694 (4): 336–342 (6 Aug. 2013)
Description of two new species of the genus Tmesiphodimerus gen. n. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from South Asia
ZI-WEI YIN, GEORGES COULON
& LI-ZHEN LI
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Zootaxa 3694 (3): 289–295 (5 Aug. 2013)
A new species of Notosacantha Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Notosacanthini) from southern India
LECH BOROWIEC
& STEPHANE LE TIRANT
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Zootaxa 3694 (3): 213–220 (5 Aug. 2013)
Two new species and additional records of Lathrobium Gravenhorst (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae) from Guangxi, South China
ZHONG PENG, LI-ZHEN LI
& MEI-JUN ZHAO
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Zootaxa 3694 (1): 097–100 (1 Aug. 2013)
Synonymic notes on Palaearctic and Oriental Scydmaenus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI

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Zootaxa 3693 (4): 568–578 (31 Jul. 2013)
Taxonomy and distribution of Sternotrigon Skopin in China (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae)
YI-BIN BA
& GUO-DONG REN
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Zootaxa 3693 (3): 365–378 (30 Jul. 2013)
Afrophloeus, a new genus of African weevils of the tribe Embrithini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae), with description of a new species and notes on the composition of Embrithini
ROMAN BOROVEC
& ROLF G. OBERPRIELER
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Zootaxa 3693 (3): 320–328 (30 Jul. 2013)
A new species group and species of the genus Pavania (Acari: Dolichocybidae), phoretic on Onthophagus vitulus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Iran
AMIR LOGHMANI, HAMIDREZA HAJIQANBAR
& ALI ASGHAR TALEBI
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Zootaxa 3693 (2): 163–181 (29 Jul. 2013)
The genus Macronemus Dejean, 1835 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae): two new species, new records and a new synonymy
VANESSA S. MACHADO & MARCELA L. MONNÉ

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Zootaxa 3693 (1): 091–096 (26 Jul. 2013)
The Lacconectus Motschulsky of Hainan, China, with description of a new species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Copelatinae)
JI
ŘÍ HÁJEK, SHUANG ZHAO & FENGLONG JIA
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Zootaxa 3693 (1): 075–084 (26 Jul. 2013)
Two new species of Polydrusus (Polydrusus) from Turkey, Iran and Greece (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Polydrusini)
ROMAN BOROVEC & CHRISTOPH GERMANN
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Zootaxa 3691 (2): 273–282 (19 Jul. 2013)
Revision of the genus Ctenophilothis Kryzhanovskij, 1987 (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Saprininae)
TOMÁŠ LACKNER

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Zootaxa 3691 (2): 253–272 (19 Jul. 2013)
Taxonomic revision of Trypanidius Blanchard, 1846 in South America (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
ALLAN CARELLI, MARCELA L. MONNÉ & VANESSA SOUZA MACHADO

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Zootaxa 3686 (5): 556–564 (15 Jul. 2013)
Detailed morphological description of the mature larva of Globicornis corticalis (Eichhoff, 1863) (Dermestidae: Megatominae) with comparisons to related species
MARCIN KADEJ & SYLWIA JAROSZEWICZ

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Zootaxa 3686 (5): 543–555 (15 Jul. 2013)
Phenrica littoralis (Bechyné, 1955) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) a potential candidate for the biological control of alligator weed, Alternanthera philoxeroides (Martius) Grisebach (Amaranthaceae): redescription of the adult, first description of immature stages, and biological notes
NORA CABRERA, ALEJANDRO J. SOSA & MIC JULIEN

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Zootaxa 3686 (4): 482–492 (15 Jul. 2013)
Discovery of a new blind ground beetle in western French Pyrenees, and its relevance to the phylogeny of Pyrenean hypogean Trechini
ARNAUD FAILLE, JAVIER FRESNEDA, CHARLES BOURDEAU

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Zootaxa 3686 (3): 381–388 (12 Jul. 2013)
Dieneremia rueckeri, a new genus and species of minute brown scavenger beetle from Baltic amber, with notes on other fossil Latridiidae
(Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)
HANS-PETER REIKE, VITALY I. ALEKSEEV & ANDRIS BUKEJS
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Zootaxa 3686 (3): 356–362 (12 Jul. 2013)
Synonymical and nomenclatural notes on Trachyderini
(Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae)
MARCELA L. MONNÉ & MIGUEL A. MONNÉ
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Zootaxa 3686 (3): 301–325 (12 Jul. 2013)
Taxonomic changes in the genus Diabrotica Chevrolat (Coleoptera:
Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae): results of a synopsis of North and Central America Diabrotica species
A. DERUNKOV & A. KONSTANTINOV
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Zootaxa 3683 (5): 571–580 (8 Jul. 2013)
New species and records of Cerambycinae and Lamiinae (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from the Neotropical Region
UBIRAJARA R. MARTINS & MARIA HELENA M. GALILEO

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Zootaxa 3683 (4): 411–426 (5 Jul. 2013)
The first record of the tribe Cephenniini in South Africa, with new species of Cephennomicrus Reitter and Cephennodes Reitter (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZY
ŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3683 (3): 280–288 (4 Jul. 2013)
Description of the larva of Ochthebius capicola (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) from marine rockpools of South Africa
SIMONE SABATELLI, PAOLO AUDISIO, MARCO TRIZZINO & ANDREA DI GIULIO
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Zootaxa 3683 (2): 192–196 (3 Jul. 2013)
Description of a new species of Kibakoganea from Vietnam (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Rutelini)
CUONG DO

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Zootaxa 3683 (2): 101–116 (3 Jul. 2013)
Discovery of new species and country records for the North American sap beetle fauna (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) 
ANDREW R. CLINE & PAUL E. SKELLEY
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Zootaxa 3683 (1): 065–081 (2 Jul. 2013)
A taxonomic revision of the myrmecophilous genus Lomechusoides Tottenham, 1939 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) Part I. Redescription of the genus, definition of species groups and the revision of the amurensis Wasmann 1897 species group
TOMÁŠ JÁSZAY & PETER HLAVÁ
Č
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Zootaxa 3682 (4): 563–571 (1 Jul. 2013)
Pterostichus (Anilloferonia) diana LaBonte (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichini), a replacement name for P. (A.) lanei (Hatch, 1935), and validity and redescription of P. (A.) malkini (Hatch, 1953)
JAMES R. LABONTE

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Zootaxa 3682 (3): 454–458 (28 Jun. 2013)
A new species of Demonax Thomson (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae) from Southwest China, with a key to thirteen species from China
ZHU LI, LI-CHAO TIAN & LI CHEN

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Zootaxa 3682 (2): 249–269 (27 Jun. 2013)
Tarsal tetramery and extreme size reduction in Anillini (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechinae): the case of Typhlocharis Dieck, 1869; description of three new species and definition of a new intra-generic species group
SERGIO PÉREZ-GONZÁLEZ & JUAN P. ZABALLOS

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Zootaxa 3682 (1): 178–190 (26 Jun. 2013)
Morphological variability and taxonomy of Coraebus hastanus Gory & Laporte de Castelnau, 1839 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae: Coraebini: Coraebina)
HONGXIA XU, VÍT
ĚZSLAV KUBÁŇ, MARK G. VOLKOVITSH, SIQIN GE, MING BAI & XINGKE YANG
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Erratum
Zootaxa 3681 (4): 500 (24 Jun. 2013)
Erratum: LARRY G. BEZARK, UBIRAJARA R. MARTINS, ANTONIO SANTOS-SILVA & AMY BERKOV (2013) New species and new distribution records in Rhinotragini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae) Zootaxa, 3647(1), 181–193.
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Article
Zootaxa 3681 (4): 395–404 (24 Jun. 2013)
A new species of Paropsisterna Motschulsky, 1860, a significant pest of
plantation eucalypts in Tasmania and Ireland (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae)
CHRIS A. M. REID & DAVID W. DE LITTLE

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Zootaxa 3681 (4): 371–394 (24 Jun. 2013)
Enhypnon Carter: a taxonomic revision of an endemic Australian genus of ground-dwelling beetles (Coleoptera: Zopheridae)
FEDERICA TURCO, ADAM
ŚLIPIŃSKI & CHRISTINE L. LAMBKIN
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Zootaxa 3681 (3): 225–240 (21 Jun. 2013)
A taxonomic revision of Neobuprestis Kerremans (Coleoptera : Buprestidae) with the description of a new genus and two new species
B. LEVEY & C.L. BELLAMY

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Zootaxa 3681 (1): 093–095 (19 Jun. 2013)
New species and records of the genus Lesteva Latreille, 1797
(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae) from Jiangxi province, China
ALEXEY V. SHAVRIN
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Zootaxa 3681 (1): 085–088 (19 Jun. 2013)
Allopachria yiae sp. n. from Chongqing, China (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae)
DONGJU BIAN, CHENG GUO & LANZHU JI
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Zootaxa 3670 (3): 317–328 (13 Jun. 2013)
A new species of the putatively myrmecophilous genus Plaumanniola Costa Lima, with notes on the systematic position of Plaumanniolini
(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZY
ŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3670 (2): 255–273 (12 Jun. 2013)
Redescription of Anomala eucoma Bates, 1888 and a description of
three new species from Costa Rica (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae)
VALENTINA FILIPPINI, ESTEFANIA MICÓ & EDUARDO GALANTE

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Zootaxa 3670 (2): 101–136 (12 Jun. 2013)
Casey’s conundrum, a review of the genus Semanotus Mulsant
(Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Callidiini) in North America
H.E. JAMES HAMMOND & DARYL J. WILLIAMS

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Zootaxa 3670 (1): 063–070 (11 Jun. 2013)
Two new species of Psephenops Grouvelle from Belize (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea: Psephenidae), with a key to the known species from Mexico and Central America

ROBERTO ARCE-PÉREZ & RODOLFO NOVELO-GUTIÉRREZ

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Zootaxa 3669 (3): 384–400 (7 Jun. 2013)
Ivalia Jacoby—a flea beetle genus new to Australia
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)
KONSTANTIN S. NADEIN

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Zootaxa 3669 (1): 096–100 (5 Jun. 2013)
Occurrence of Xyleborus bispinatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) Eichhoff in southern Florida

THOMAS H. ATKINSON, DANIEL CARRILLO, RITA E. DUNCAN & JORGE E. PEÑA

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Zootaxa 3669 (1): 076–084 (5 Jun. 2013)
Adinopsis nippon, a new species of marsh-dwelling rove beetle
(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Deinopsini) from Japan, with an annotated catalogue of Adinopsis species of the world
MUNETOSHI MARUYAMA & HIROMU KAMEZAWA

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Zootaxa 3669 (1): 056–064 (5 Jun. 2013)
Two new species of Phyllocladus (Coleoptera: Pyrochroidae: Pyrochroinae) from China, with a key to males of the Chinese species

DANIEL K. YOUNG

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Zootaxa 3669 (1): 027–036 (5 Jun. 2013)
Taxonomy of the genus Kochogaster Kami
ński et Raś, 2011 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pedinini), with description of a second known species
MARCIN JAN KAMI
ŃSKI & DARIUSZ IWAN
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Zootaxa 3669 (1): 017–026 (5 Jun. 2013)
Grandaustralis, a new genus and Grandaustralis boomerang, a new species of Cetoniinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Western Australia

PAUL M. HUTCHINSON & CHRISTIAN H. MOESENEDER

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Zootaxa 3668 (1): 001–087 (5 Jun. 2013)
A review of the Cetoniinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Argentina and adjacent countries: systematics and geographic distributions
OSVALDO DI IORIO

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Zootaxa 3666 (4): 523–543 (4 Jun. 2013)
Taxonomy of 'Euconnus complex'. Part II. Revision of Archiconnus Franz, Parapseudoconnus Franz and Mexiconnus gen. nov.
(Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZY
ŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3666 (3): 398–400 (31 May 2013)
Taxonomic status of Cyrtoscydmus described by C. Schaufuss from the Philippines (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)

PAWEŁ JAŁOSZY
ŃSKI
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Zootaxa 3666 (3): 345–357 (31 May 2013)
Prosthetops wolfbergensis sp. nov.—a giant amongst the ‘minute moss beetles’, with new data on other members of the genus (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae)

DAVID T. BILTON

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Zootaxa 3666 (3): 331–336 (31 May 2013)
New species and record of Pselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from Saudi Arabia

PETER HLAVÁ
Č, MOSTAFA R. SHARAF & ABDULRAHMAN S. ALDAWOOD
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Zootaxa 3666 (2): 221–251 (30 May 2013)
Identification, distribution, and adult phenology of the carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of Texas 
PATRICIA L. MULLINS, EDWARD G. RILEY & JOHN D. OSWALD
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Zootaxa 3666 (2): 137–159 (30 May 2013)
New fossil taxa and notes on the Mesozoic evolution of Liadytidae and Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) 
ALEXANDER A. PROKIN, PYOTR N. PETROV, BO WANG & ALEXANDER G. PONOMARENKO
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Zootaxa 3664 (2): 136–148 (24 May 2013)
Systematics of the weevil genus Mecinus Germar, 1821
(Coleoptera: Curculionidae). II. Phylogenetic analysis based on adult morphological characters and host plant information
ROBERTO CALDARA, DAVIDE SASSI & MATTEO MONTAGNA

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Zootaxa 3664 (2): 101–135 (24 May 2013)
A new subgenus Wraseiellus of the genus Pterostichus Bonelli
(Coleoptera, Carabidae, Pterostichini) and new species descriptions
HONGLIANG SHI, RICCARDO SCIAKY, HONGBIN LIANG & HONGZHANG ZHOU

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Zootaxa 3659 (1): 001–062 (22 May 2013)
Taxonomic Revision and Phylogenetic Analysis of the Genus Elytroleptus Dugés (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Trachyderini)
TRACI L. GRZYMALA & KELLY B. MILLER

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Zootaxa 3654 (1): 001–105 (22 May 2013)
Systematics of the weevil genus Mecinus Germar, 1821 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). I. Taxonomic treatment of the species
ROBERTO CALDARA & VALTER FOGATO

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Zootaxa 3653 (1): 001–162 (22 May 2013)
Systematics and Phylogenetics of Indo-Pacific Luciolinae Fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) and the Description of new Genera
LESLEY A. BALLANTYNE & CHRISTINE L. LAMBKIN

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Zootaxa 3652 (4): 453–474 (20 May 2013)
A new semi-subterranean diving beetle of the Hydroporus normandi-complex from south-eastern France, with notes on other taxa of the complex (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) 
MICHAEL MANUEL
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Zootaxa 3652 (4): 401–423 (20 May 2013)
A review of the genus Pelenomus Thomson (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Ceutorhynchinae) from China

LUJING YANG, JUNHAO HUANG, RUNZHI ZHANG & HONG WU

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Zootaxa 3652 (3): 327–342 (17 May 2013)
Synopsis of Paxillus MacLeay, 1819 (Coleoptera: Passalidae):
distributional records and descriptions of four new species from Brazil
INGRID MATTOS & JOSÉ RICARDO M. MERMUDES

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Zootaxa 3652 (3): 301–326 (17 May 2013)
A revision of the genus Baeocera in Japan, with a new genus of the tribe
Scaphisomatini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scaphidiinae)
RYO OGAWA & IVAN LÖBL
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Zootaxa 3652 (2): 297–298 (16 May 2013)
Trogophloeus tripunctulatus Coiffait, 1981, a new synonym of Carpelimus insularis (Kraatz, 1858) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae)

GYÖRGY MAKRANCZY

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Zootaxa 3652 (2): 295–296 (16 May 2013)
Oxybleptes davisi (Notman, 1924) in Minnesota (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae,
Staphylininae, Xantholinini)
ALEŠ SMETANA

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Zootaxa 3647 (2): 358–370 (09 May 2013)
Revision of Gallerucida singularis species group (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) 
CHI-FENG LEE & JAN BEZDĔK
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Zootaxa 3647 (1): 181–193 (08 May 2013)
New species and new distribution records in Rhinotragini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae) 
LARRY G. BEZARK, UBIRAJARA R. MARTINS, ANTONIO SANTOS-SILVA & AMY BERKOV
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Zootaxa 3646 (5): 501–515 (07 May 2013)
Soil insect research in South Africa. 1. A new genus of terricolous weevils with four new species from the Richtersveld National Park (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Trachyphloeini) 
R. BOROVEC & M. MEREGALLI
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Zootaxa 3646 (4): 447–486 (06 May 2013)
A synopsis of the pin-hole borers of Thailand (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae) 
R.A. BEAVER & L-Y. LIU
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Zootaxa 3646 (4): 401–425 (06 May 2013)
A review of the subgenus Cladoconnus Reitter of the genus Euconnus Thomson (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) from the Balkan Peninsula, Turkey and Caucasus 
PETER HLAVÁČ & MIROSLAV STEVANOVIĆ
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3646 (3): 297–299 (03 May 2013)
A new species of Quwatanabius Smetana (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Staphylininae) from Guangxi, South China

JIA-YAO HU, LI-ZHEN LI & MEI-JUN ZHAO

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Article
Zootaxa 3646 (1): 087–092 (01 May 2013)
The genus Neoanthrenus Armstrong, 1941 (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Anthrenini): A new synonym of Anthrenus Geoffroy, 1762
MARCIN KADEJ & JIŘÍ HÁVA
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Article
Zootaxa 3646 (1): 068–074 (01 May 2013)
Geoparnus loebli, a new species of terrestrial dryopid from Peninsular Malaysia (Coleoptera: Dryopidae) 
JÁN KODADA, MICHAL KADUBEC & FEDOR ČIAMPOR JR
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Article
Zootaxa 3646 (1): 051–067 (01 May 2013)
Review of Scirtidae (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea) described by Johan Christian Fabricius (1745–1808)
RAFAŁ RUTA
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3645 (1): 1–79 (30 Apr. 2013)
Preliminary review of the genus Stenotarsus Perty (Coleoptera: Endomychidae) from México, Guatemala and Belize, with descriptions of twelve new species
EMMANUEL ARRIAGA-VARELA
, SANTIAGO ZARAGOZA-CABALLERO, WIOLETTA TOMASZEWSKA & JOSE LUIS NAVARRETE-HEREDIA
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Article
Zootaxa 3641 (3): 233–240 (24 Apr. 2013)
Lymnastis of Ukraine with the redescription of Lymnastis novikovi
(Coleoptera: Carabidae)
MARINA B. KIRICHENKO & ANDREJ V. GONTARENKO

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Zootaxa 3641 (3): 201–222 (24 Apr. 2013)
Revision of the Subgenus Coprochara Mulsant & Rey of the Genus Aleochara Gravenhorst from Japan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)

SHÛHEI YAMAMOTO & MUNETOSHI MARUYAMA

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Article
Zootaxa 3641 (2): 188–192 (23 Apr. 2013)
A new subgenus and species of the genus Hedyphanes Fischer von Waldheim, 1820 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Helopini) from Israel and Egypt 
MAXIM V. NABOZHENKO & MARTIN LILLIG
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Article
Zootaxa 3640 (4): 572–580 (19 Apr. 2013)
Mexican Buprestidae: two new species of Acmaeodera Eschscholtz and a review of the genus Chalcophora Dejean

RICHARD L. WESTCOTT & CHARLES L. BELLAMY

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Article
Zootaxa 3640 (1): 095–100 (16 Apr. 2013)
Blamada rubripronota, a new genus and species of the tribe Saperdini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae) from Southeast Asia
MEI-YING LIN & CAROLUS HOLZSCHUH
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Article
Zootaxa 3640 (1): 079–087 (16 Apr. 2013)
Memoan ciceroi gen. et sp. nov., a remarkable new firefly genus and species from the Atlantic Rainforest (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)

LUIZ FELIPE LIMA DA SILVEIRA& JOSÉ RICARDO M. MERMUDES

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Article
Zootaxa 3640 (1): 070–078 (16 Apr. 2013)
Taxonomic revision of the genus Brounopsis Blair (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae) with description of four new species

QIAO WANG & WEN LU

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Article
Zootaxa 3637 (5): 597–599 (15 Apr. 2013)
A new species of Brasilycus (Coleoptera: Lycidae) from Peru

MILADA BOCAKOVA & ELYNTON ALVES DO NASCIMENTO

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Article
Zootaxa 3637 (4): 462–471 (12 Apr. 2013)
Three new species of Gnaptorina Reitter (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae: Blaptini) from Tibet, China

AI-MIN SHI

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Article
Zootaxa 3637 (3): 374–384 (11 Apr. 2013)
Description of a new species of Anthaxia Eschscholtz, 1829 from Jordan, with notes on the Anthaxia winkleri species-group (Coleoptera, Buprestidae)

DANIELE BAIOCCHI & GIANLUCA MAGNANI

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Article
Zootaxa 3637 (3): 355–360 (11 Apr. 2013)
A new fossil jewel beetle (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from the Early Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China

YALI YU, ADAM
ŚLIPIŃSKI, CHUNGKUN SHIH, HONG PANG & DONG REN
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Article
Zootaxa 3637 (3): 341–354 (11 Apr. 2013)
Larvae of Australian Buprestidae (Coleoptera). Part 4. Genus Julodimorpha

SVATOPLUK BÍLÝ, MARK VOLKOVITSH & MAGNUS PETERSON

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Article
Zootaxa 3637 (3): 285–307 (11 Apr. 2013)
A revision of the Lutrochidae (Coleoptera) of Venezuela, with description of six new species

CRYSTAL A. MAIER & ANDREW E.Z. SHORT

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Article
Zootaxa 3637 (2): 183–189 (10 Apr. 2013)
A new species of Agrilozodes Théry, 1927, new record for A. pygmaeus (Kerremans, 1897) and a key for the genus (Coleoptera, Buprestidae)
 
CLAYTON PORTELA & JOSÉ RICARDO M. MERMUDES

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Article
Zootaxa 3637 (1): 065–073 (9 Apr. 2013)
A new species of Pachytrechodes Jeannel, 1960 (Coleoptera: Carabidae:
Trechinae) from Tanzania, with a key to species
IGOR A. BELOUSOV & BRUNO A. NYUNDO

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Article
Zootaxa 3637 (1): 047–057 (9 Apr. 2013)
Redescription of Tyrus Aubé and T. sinensis Raffray (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), and two new species from Sichuan, Southwest China

ZI-WEI YIN, SHÛHEI NOMURA & LI-ZHEN LI

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Article
Zootaxa 3637 (1): 029–038 (9 Apr. 2013)
Hydraena lotti sp. nov., a new member of the "Haenydra" lineage from the
Peloponnese (Greece), with additional records of Hydraena species in the region (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae)
DAVID T. BILTON

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Article
Zootaxa 3636 (4): 547–560 (8 Apr. 2013)
Phylogenetic relationships of the South American ground beetle subgenus Chilioperyphus Jeannel (Coleoptera: Carabidae:
Trechinae: Bembidiini: Bembidion Latreille)
DAVID R. MADDISON, LUCA TOLEDANO, SOLEDAD SALLENAVE & SERGIO ROIG-JUÑENT

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Article 
Zootaxa 3636 (3): 451–462 (5 Apr. 2013)
Description of immatures and natural history of the weevil Loncophorus pustulatus (Champion, 1903) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae) associated with flowers of Ceiba speciosa (A. St.-Hil.) Ravenna (Bombacoidea: Malvaceae) in southeast Brazil
SERGIO ANTONIO VANIN, DANIELA DE CASSIA BENÁ & FABIANO FABIAN ALBERTONI

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Article 
Zootaxa 3636 (2): 394–400 (4 Apr. 2013)
Three new species of Anchylorhynchus Schoenherr, 1836 from Colombia (Coleoptera: Curculionidae; Curculioninae; Acalyptini)

BRUNO A. S. DE MEDEIROS & LUIS A. NÚÑEZ-AVELLANEDA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3636 (1): 190–195 (3 Apr. 2013)
A new species of the subgenus Stigmatochirus of Plastus Bernhauer
(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae) from Yunnan, China
GUO-FENG LI, HONG-WEI LI, YING-JIE LIU & RONG-WEN HUANG

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Article 
Zootaxa 3635 (5): 591–597 (2 Apr. 2013)
Hypsilara breweri n.sp. from Venezuela: description of new species with notes on the morphology and phylogenetic relationships of the genus (Coleoptera: Elmidae: Larainae)
FEDOR
ČIAMPOR JR, KRISTÍNA LAŠŠOVÁ & ZUZANA ČIAMPOROVÁ-ZAŤOVIČOVÁ
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Article 
Zootaxa 3635 (5): 569–578 (2 Apr. 2013)
Four new species of the genus Lobrathium Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae) from China
XIAO-YAN LI, ALEXEY SOLODOVINIKOV & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU

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Article 
Zootaxa 3635 (4): 402–418 (28 Mar. 2013)
The genus Laccobius in China: new species and new records
(Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)
FENGLONG JIA, ELIO GENTILI & MARTIN FIKÁ
ČEK
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3635 (3): 297–300 (27 Mar. 2013)
Two new remarkable Callimicra Deyrolle, 1864
(Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae) from Central America
HENRY A. HESPENHEIDE

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Article 
Zootaxa 3635 (1): 94–100 (25 Mar. 2013)
Description of the male of Sebasthetops omaliniformis Jäch, 1998—a phylogenetically isolated water beetle from South Africa,
with notes on its ecology (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae)
DAVID T. BILTON
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3630 (3): 591–593 (21 Mar. 2013)
Sexual dichromatism in a Mexican checkered beetle (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Neorthopleurinae)
JACQUES RIFKIND

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Article 
Zootaxa 3630 (3): 505–518 (21 Mar. 2013)
Four new Chlaenius species (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Chlaeniini) from Asia and a key to the species of subgenus Chlaenioctenus
YE LIU, HONGLIANG SHI & HONGBIN LIANG

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3630 (2): 379–384 (20 Mar. 2013)
Description and ecology of a new species of Eriopeltastes Burmeister & Schaum, 1840 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Trichiini), from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
ENRICO RICCHIARDI & RENZO PERISSINOTTO

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Article 
Zootaxa 3630 (2): 369–378 (20 Mar. 2013)
Jubogaster towai, a new Neotropical genus and species of Trogastrini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) exhibiting myrmecophily and extreme body enlargement
JOSEPH PARKER & MUNETOSHI MARUYAMA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3630 (1): 39–79 (19 Mar. 2013)
Revision of subgenera of Stenichnus Thomson, with review of Australo-Pacific species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZY
ŃSKI
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3626 (4): 589–592 (15 Mar. 2013)
Crenitis bicolor sp. n. from the Kamiesberg of South Africa
(Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)
DAVID T. BILTON

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Zootaxa 3626 (4): 569–575 (15 Mar. 2013)
A second species of the genus Helibatus Mulsant & Rey, 1859
(Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Opatrina)
DARIUSZ IWAN & DAVID SCHIMROSCZYK

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Article 
Zootaxa 3626 (4): 455–476 (15 Mar. 2013)
Morphology and terminology of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) male genitalia

CLAUDIA A. MEDINA, FREDY MOLANO & CLARKE H. SCHOLTZ

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Zootaxa 3626 (3): 363–380 (14 Mar. 2013)
Two new species of Xanthophius Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Staphylininae, Xantholinini) from China with notes on X. filum (Kraatz)

YU-LINGZI ZHOU & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU

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Article 
Zootaxa 3626 (3): 326–344 (14 Mar. 2013)
Australian marsh beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). 2. Pachycyphon,
a new genus of presumably terrestrial Australian Scirtidae
PETER ZWICK

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Zootaxa 3626 (2): 249–267 (13 Mar. 2013)
Review of the New World species of the genus Argopistes Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini)
JAVIER BLANCO & ALEXANDER KONSTANTINOV

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Article 
Zootaxa 3620 (4): 553–568 (8 Mar. 2013)
Revision of the genus Acallopistus Schoenherr
(Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Curculioninae, Nerthopini)
JUILEN HARAN

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Article 
Zootaxa 3620 (4): 544–552 (8 Mar. 2013)
Review of the genus Cassidinoma Hincks
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Omocerini)
FLÁVIA RODRIGUES FERNANDES & LECH BOROWIEC

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Article 
Zootaxa 3620 (4): 533–543 (8 Mar. 2013)
Two new species of Xenysmoderodes from China
(Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Ceutorhynchinae)
NI YANG, RUNZHI ZHANG & LI REN

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Article 
Zootaxa 3620 (3): 351–378 (7 Mar. 2013)
The Cholevinae of Romania (exclusive of Leptodirini) (Coleoptera, Leiodidae) with special reference to the hypogeal records

EUGEN NITZU

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Article 
Zootaxa 3619 (5): 501–525 (4 Mar. 2013)
New Guinea Onthophagus: taxonomy of ten small, unicolored new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
J. KRIKKEN & J. HUIJBREGTS

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Zootaxa 3619 (2): 161–182 (27 Feb. 2013)
Revision of the Chinese Geotragus Schoenherr with description of three new species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae)
LI REN, MIGUEL A. ALONSO-ZARAZAGA & RUNZHI ZHANG

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Zootaxa 3619 (1): 79–100 (26 Feb. 2013)
Chrysomelid males with enlarged mandibles: three new species and a review of occurrence in the family (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
C. A. M. REID & M. BEATSON

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Article 
Zootaxa 3616 (4): 387–395 (21 Feb. 2013)
Two new species of the ladybird beetle Hong Ślipiński from Chile (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Microweiseinae)
GUILLERMO GONZÁLEZ & HERMES E. ESCALONA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3616 (3): 253–267 (20 Feb. 2013)
A review of the Japanese Cybocephalidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)
SADATOMO HISAMATSU

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3616 (1): 95–98 (18 Feb. 2013)
Cercyon hungaricus, a new junior subjective synonym of C. bononiensis(Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)
MARTIN FIKÁČEK & SAVERIO ROCCHI

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Article 
Zootaxa 3613 (5): 493–500 (13 Feb. 2013)
A new species of Tarphius Erichson, 1845 (Coleoptera: Zopheridae) from North Africa and notes on an Iberian species
ARTUR R.M. SERRANO, ISABEL R. AMORIM & PAULO A. V. BORGES

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Article 
Zootaxa 3613 (5): 455–481 (13 Feb. 2013)
The Anthaxia (Anthaxia) manca (Linnaeus, 1767) species-group in Iran, with description of a new species and a new synonymy (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
DANIELE BAIOCCHI
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Zootaxa 3613 (3): 245–256 (11 Feb. 2013)
A revision of the genus Notodascillus Carter (Coleoptera: Dascillidae)
ZHENYU JIN, ADAM ŚLIPIŃSKI & HONG PANG

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Article 
Zootaxa 3613 (2): 165–175 (8 Feb. 2013)
Taxonomy of the subgenus Euleptarthrus Jakobson (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Osoriinae, Priochirus) of China with descriptions of three new species
JIE WU & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU

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Article 
Zootaxa 3609 (5): 504–512 (1 Feb. 2013)
A new species of the genus Apatenia (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) from Madagascar with notes on female genitalia, redescription of the female of Apatenia quadristigma Frieser and list of Madagascan species
Miloš TRÝZNA & Petr BAŇAŘ

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Article 
Zootaxa 3609 (5): 495–503 (1 Feb. 2013)
Three new species of Eutheiini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae) from China
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI

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Article 
Zootaxa 3609 (5): 465–470 (1 Feb. 2013)
A second species of Psyllototus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini) from the Upper Eocene Baltic amber
ANDRIS BUKEJS & KONSTANTIN NADEIN

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Erratum
Zootaxa 3609 (4): 450 (31 Jan. 2013)
Erratum: M. Trizzino, L. Carnevali, S. De Felici & Paolo Audisio (2013) A revision of Hydraena species of the "Haenydra" lineage (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). Zootaxa, 3607 (1), 001–173.
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Article 
Zootaxa 3609 (4): 411–420 (31 Jan. 2013)
New brachypterous species of Dichotomius Hope, with taxonomic notes in the subgenus Luederwaldtinia Martínez (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
RAFAEL V. NUNES¹ & FERNANDO Z. VAZ-DE-MELLO

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Zootaxa 3609 (3): 349–350 (30 Jan. 2013)
First record of Myrrha octodecimguttata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and Epuraea ocularis (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) from Israel
OZ RITTNER & ASSAF NIR

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Zootaxa 3609 (3): 327–334 (30 Jan. 2013)
On the identity of Pselaphodes walkeri (Sharp, 1892) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), with description of a new related species
ZI-WEI YIN & LI-ZHEN LI

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Zootaxa 3609 (2): 243–247 (29 Jan. 2013)
Notomicrus josiahi, a new species of Noteridae (Coleoptera) from Venezuela
KELLY B. MILLER

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Zootaxa 3608 (4): 273–277 (21 Jan. 2013)
New species of Cerambycidae from Panama, with new distribution records (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
LARRY G. BEZARK, WILLIAM H. TYSON & NATHAN M. SCHIFF

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Zootaxa 3608 (3): 161–177 (18 Jan. 2013)
Five new species of Notosacantha Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) from Borneo, with a key to the Bornean species and new faunistic data
LECH BOROWIEC, HARUO TAKIZAWA & JOLANTA ŚWIĘTOJAŃSKA

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3608 (2): 158–160 (17 Jan. 2013)
A new species of Lathrobium Gravenhorst (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae) from Shaanxi, Central China
ZHONG PENG, LI-ZHEN LI & MEI-JUN ZHAO

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Zootaxa 3608 (1): 94–100 (16 Jan. 2013)
A new fossil genus of net-winged beetles, with a brief review of amber Lycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera)
SERGEY V. KAZANTSEV

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Zootaxa 3608 (1): 26–50 (16 Jan. 2013)
Revision of the Asian species of Afidentula Kapur, 1958 (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Epilachnini)
WIOLETTA TOMASZEWSKA & KAROL SZAWARYN

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3607 (1): 1–173 (16 Jan. 2013)
A revision of Hydraena species of the "Haenydra" lineage (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae)
MARCO TRIZZINO, LUCILLA CARNEVALI, STEFANO DE FELICI & PAOLO AUDISIO

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3605 (1): 1–147 (15 Jan. 2013)
Genus-level revision of the family Phalacridae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) 
MATTHEW L. GIMMEL

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Article 
Zootaxa 3599 (6): 535–548 (10 Jan. 2013)
A new genus and species of Bruchinae, with a key to the genera from Australia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
C. A. M. REID & M. BEATSON

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Article
Zootaxa 3599 (5): 483–489 (9 Jan. 2013)
Redescription of Cis taurus (Reitter, 1878) (Coleoptera: Ciidae)
ESTER H. OLIVEIRA & CRISTIANO LOPES-ANDRADE

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2012

Article
Zootaxa 3597: 47–52 (24 Dec. 2012)  2 plates; 11 references           Accepted: 26 Nov. 2012
A new Mexican species and new taxonomic and distributional data of Strigoderma Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae)
LEONARDO DELGADO & EDER F. MORA-AGUILAR

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Article
Zootaxa 3591: 47–66 (19 Dec. 2012)  8 plates; 72 references            Accepted: 9 Nov. 2012
Taxonomic Review of the Subtribe Athouina Candèze, 1859 (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Dendrometrinae, Dendrometrini) in Korea 
TAEMAN HAN (Korea), HAECHUL PARK (Korea), YOUNGBO LEE (Korea), NAMJEONG KIM (Korea), HITOO ÔHIRA (Japan), GIUSEPPE PLATIA (Italy) & SEUNGHWAN LEE (Korea)

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Zootaxa 3587: 65–77 (17 Dec. 2012)  9 plates; 11 references       Accepted: 29 Oct. 2012
Immatures of Dicrepidius Eschscholtz, 1829 and Dipropus Germar, 1839 (Elateridae, Elaterinae, Ampedini: Dicrepidiina) 
SÔNIA A. CASARI & GABRIEL BIFFI (Brazil)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3584: 1–110 (13 Dec. 2012) 50 plates; 45 references             Accepted: 30 Oct. 2012   
Phylogenetic relationships and comparative larval morphology of epigean and stygobitic species of Limbodessus Guignot, 1939 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Bidessini), with a key of identification
MARIANO C. MICHAT1, YVES ALARIE2 & CHRIS H.S. WATTS3
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Zootaxa 3580: 24–42 (11 Dec. 2012)  9 plates; 28 references           Accepted: 15 Oct. 2012
Comparative larval morphology of Platydracus and Staphylinus (Staphylinidae: Staphylinini: Staphylinina) with notes on their biology and redescription of the pupa of Staphylinus 
EWA PIETRYKOWSKA-TUDRUJ1 & BERNARD STANIEC (Poland)

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Zootaxa 3577: 71–79 (10 Dec. 2012)  3 plates; 22 references              Accepted: 2 Nov. 2012
Onerunka longi, a new genus and species of Thanerocleridae (Coleoptera) from Papua New Guinea, with systematic notes on the tribe Thaneroclerini 
JIŘÍ KOLIBÁČ (Czech Republic)

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Zootaxa 3577: 58–70 (10 Dec. 2012)  2 plates; 60 references              Accepted: 1 Nov. 2012
The discovery of progenetic Allocreadium neotenicum Peters, 1957 (Digenea: Allocreadiidae) in water beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) in Great Britain 
RODNEY A. BRAY (UK), GARTH N. FOSTER (Scotland), ANDREA WAESCHENBACH (UK) & D TIMOTHY J LITTLEWOOD (UK)

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Zootaxa 3577: 43–57 (10 Dec. 2012)  9 plates; 21 references              Accepted: 5 Nov. 2012
Compsodactylus, a new South American genus with one new species and two new combinations (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) 
JUARES FUHRMANN (Brazil)
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3576: 1–63 (7 Dec. 2012) 22 plates; 103 references             Accepted: 24 Oct. 2012   
Taxonomy of the genus Oxytelus Gravenhorst (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae) from China 
LIANG LÜ & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3573: 55–58 (6 Dec. 2012)  1 plate; 22 references            Accepted: 17 Oct. 2012
Siraton devillei Hustache (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), the mysterious weevil from the Isle of Elba: exiled no longer 
ROLF G. OBERPRIELER (Australia) & ROBERTO CALDARA (Italy)

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Zootaxa 3571: 66–80 (4 Dec. 2012)  3 plates; 13 references           Accepted: 31 Oct. 2012
New genera and species of Neotropical Rhinotragini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae) 
ANTONIO SANTOS-SILVA (Brazil), LARRY G. BEZARK (USA) & UBIRAJARA R. MARTINS (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3570: 82–88 (3 Dec. 2012)  2 plates; 24 references             Accepted: 12 Oct. 2012
Redescription of the genus Curiades Pascoe 1880 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Naupactini), a potential mimic of Mutillidae from Brazil 
M. GUADALUPE DEL RÍO & ANALIA A. LANTERI (Argentina)

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Zootaxa 3570: 56–68 (3 Dec. 2012)  8 plates; 27 references             Accepted: 17 Oct. 2012
A new species of Microlestes Schmidt-Gobel, 1846 (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Southwest of the Iberian Peninsula (Portugal) with illustrated keys for the identification of the Iberian-Balearic species 
VICENTE M. ORTUÑO (Spain) & AMALIA ESPIRIDIÃO OLIVEIRA (Portugal)

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Zootaxa 3568: 81–88 (29 Nov. 2012)  2 plates; 17 references            Accepted: 29 Oct. 2012
Delgadobius amazonensis—a new genus and species of the subtribe Philonthina from Amazonia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae) 
MARIANA CHANI-POSSE (Argentina) & GUY COUTURIER (France)

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Zootaxa 3568: 74–80 (29 Nov. 2012)  4 plates; 5 references             Accepted: 12 Oct. 2012
Flea weevils of the genus Synorchestes Voss (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Curculioninae, Rhamphini), with description of a second species from India 
SHALOO AYRI (India), HIROAKI KOJIMA (Japan) & V.V. RAMAMURTHY (India)

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Zootaxa 3568: 53–64 (29 Nov. 2012)  6 plates; 7 references             Accepted: 29 Jun. 2012
New species of Agriotes (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Mexico with a key to species 
MARTIN LEONEL ZURITA-GARCIA, SANTIAGO ZARAGOZA CABALLERO & HELGA OCHOTERENA BOOTH (Mexico)

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Erratum
Zootaxa 3564: 68 (27 Nov. 2012)
Erratum: WEN-LI MA & LI-ZHEN LI (2012) A new species of Lesteva Latreille (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Omaliinae) from Zhejiang, East China. Zootaxa, 3530, 74–76.
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Zootaxa 3564: 61–67 (27 Nov. 2012)  2 plates; 14 references           Accepted: 29 Oct. 2012
Revision of the genus Alyculus Kazantsev, 1999 (Coleoptera: Lycidae) 
VACLAV PALATA & LADISLAV BOCAK (Czech Republic)

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Zootaxa 3564: 47–53 (27 Nov. 2012)  4 plates; 12 references           Accepted: 17 Oct. 2012
Two new species of the genus Allochotes (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Neorthopleurinae) from Taiwan 
HIROYUKI MURAKAMI & JUNSUKE YAMASAKO (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3564: 1–16 (27 Nov. 2012)  11 plates; 5 references             Accepted: 19 Oct. 2012
Malaysian species of Dryopomorphus Hinton, 1936 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Elmidae) 
FEDOR ČIAMPOR Jr, ZUZANA ČIAMPOROVÁ-ZAŤOVIČOVÁ & JÁN KODADA (Slovakia)

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Zootaxa 3557: 59–68 (21 Nov. 2012)  2 plates; 14 references          Accepted: 30 Oct. 2012
The genera Tropidozineus Monné & Martins, 1976 and Ozineus Bates, 1863 in Bolivia (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae): six new species and a new synonym 
MIGUEL A. MONNÉ & MARCELA L. MONNÉ (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3557: 56–58 (21 Nov. 2012)  1 plate; 9 references               Accepted: 19 Oct. 2012
A new species of Lathrobium Gravenhorst (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae) from Yulongxueshan Mountain, Southwest China 
ZHONG PENG, LI-ZHEN LI & MEI-JUN ZHAO (China)

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Zootaxa 3557: 40–48 (21 Nov. 2012)  3 plates; 15 references           Accepted: 24 Oct. 2012
Octocollis, a new genus and Octocollis setosus, a new species of Cetoniinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Queensland, Australia 
CHRISTIAN H. MOESENEDER & PAUL M. HUTCHINSON (Australia)

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Zootaxa 3555: 83–88 (20 Nov. 2012)  2 plates; 4 references                Accepted: 23 Oct. 2012
A new genus and species of flightless, microphthalmic Corythoderini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) from Cambodia, associated with Macrotermes termites 
MUNETOSHI MARUYAMA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3555: 55–82 (20 Nov. 2012)  18 plates; 23 references            Accepted: 15 Oct. 2012
Taxonomy of 'Euconnus complex'. Part I. Morphology of Euconnus s. str. and revision of Euconnomorphus Franz and Venezolanoconnus Franz (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) 
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI (Poland)

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Zootaxa 3554: 59–74 (19 Nov. 2012)  4 plates; 26 references            Accepted: 18 Oct. 2012
Biology of the Apionidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) in New Caledonia, a preliminary report 
MAREK WANAT (Poland) & JÉRÔME MUNZINGER (France)

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Zootaxa 3552: 66–68 (16 Nov. 2012)  3 plates; 4 references            Accepted: 24 Oct. 2012
On the taxonomic placement of Geodromicus pusillus Coiffait, 1983 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae) 
ALEXEY V. SHAVRIN (Latvia)

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Zootaxa 3547: 78–84 (13 Nov. 2012)  3 plates; 7 references              Accepted: 15 Oct. 2012
New and poorly known species of the genus Lesteva Latreille, 1797 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae) from Nepal 
ALEXEY V. SHAVRIN (Latvia)

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Zootaxa 3535: 1–104 (1 Nov. 2012) 56 plates; 21 references                      Accepted: 20 Sept. 2012   
Afrotropical weevils of the Cadoderus Marshall generic complex (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Embrithini). Part 1. Genera: Cadoderus Marshall, 1926; Sphrigodellus Marshall, 1942 and Oncophyes Marshall, 1942
NIKOLAI YUNAKOV
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Zootaxa 3531: 1–95 (30 Oct. 2012) 67 plates; 24 references             Accepted: 17 Sept. 2012   
A revision of Epimetopus Lacordaire, the New World hooded shore beetles (Coleoptera: Epimetopidae) 

PHILIP D. PERKINS

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Zootaxa 3530: 83–88 (30 Oct. 2012)  3 plates; 11 references           Accepted: 5 Oct. 2012
Notes on Prosthecarthron Raffray, with description of P. insulanus, sp. n. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae) from Qi’ao Island, South China 
ZI-WEI YIN, SHAO-BIN HUANG & FU-KANG GU (China)

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Zootaxa 3530: 79–82 (30 Oct. 2012)  3 plates; 15 references           Accepted: 5 Oct. 2012
A new species of Scirtes (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) from southern Florida and the Caribbean 
J.H. EPLER (USA)
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Zootaxa 3530: 74–76 (30 Oct. 2012)  1 plate; 2 references               Accepted: 5 Oct. 2012
A new species of Lesteva Latreille (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Omaliinae) from Zhejiang, East China 
WEN-LI MA & LI-ZHEN LI (China)

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Zootaxa 3526: 53–58 (25 Oct. 2012)  2 plates; 11 references            Accepted: 25 Sept. 2012
New species, new synonym, and redescription of Onthophagus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from the Western Ghats, India 
NITHYA SATHIANDRAN & THOMAS K. SABU (India)

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Zootaxa 3521: 1–38 (18 Oct. 2012)  9 plates; 19 references                Accepted: 14 Sept. 2012
A revision of the genera Anilaroides Théry, 1934, stat. nov. and Tetragonoschema Thomson, 1857 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae: Anthaxiini) 
SVATOPLUK BÍLÝ (Czech Republic)

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Zootaxa 3517: 63–70 (15 Oct. 2012)  4 plates; 8 references                 Accepted: 16 Aug. 2012
First record of the tribe Eugnomini Lacordaire, 1863 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Fiji with description of Pactola fiji sp. n. 
MIŁOSZ A. MAZUR (Poland)

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Zootaxa 3517: 1–52 (15 Oct. 2012)  15 plates; 97 references                Accepted: 24 Jul. 2012
Revision of the Seashore-dwelling Subgenera Emplenota Casey and Triochara Bernhauer (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: genus Aleochara) from Japan 
SHÛHEI YAMAMOTO & MUNETOSHI MARUYAMA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3514: 79–83 (11 Oct. 2012)  2 plates; 2 references                  Accepted: 5 Sept. 2012

A new genus and species of Tentyriini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from sand dunes in Namaqualand, South Africa 

WOLFGANG SCHAWALLER (Germany)

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Zootaxa 3509: 81–84 (8 Oct. 2012)  1 plate; 7 references                     Accepted: 14 Sept. 2012

A New Species of Oocyclus Sharp From Southeastern China (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) 

FENGLONG JIA (China) & JASON F. MATÉ (Spain)

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Zootaxa 3503: 82–88 (2 Oct. 2012)  4 plates; 12 references                Accepted: 28 Aug. 2012
Description of a new species of the "Haenydra" lineage (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) from the Republic of Macedonia 
VLATKA MIČETIĆ STANKOVIĆ (Croatia) & MANFRED A. JÄCH (Austria)

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Erratum
Zootaxa 3501: 88 (1 Oct. 2012)
Erratum: MIGUEL A. MONNÉ & MARCELA L. MONNÉ (2012) New species of Acanthocinini from South America (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Zootaxa, 3478, 192–200.
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Zootaxa 3501: 63–73 (1 Oct. 2012)  6 plates; 28 references                Accepted: 6 Sept. 2012
Systematic position of Australian genus Palaeoscydmaenus Franz (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) 
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI (Poland)

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Zootaxa 3500: 61–69 (28 Sept. 2012)  5 plates; 4 references                   Accepted: 5 Sept. 2012
Elachistelmis gen. n. (Coleoptera: Elmidae: Elminae) from Suriname, with description of two new species 
CRYSTAL A. MAIER (USA)

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Zootaxa 3500: 49–60 (28 Sept. 2012)  6 plates; 19 references                 Accepted: 6 Sept. 2012
Taxonomy of the Afrotropical genera Angolositus Koch, 1955 and Pseudoselinus Iwan, 2002 with a key to species (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pedinini) 
MARCIN JAN KAMIŃSKI (Poland)

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Zootaxa 3500: 36–48 (28 Sept. 2012)  6 plates; 11 references                 Accepted: 27 Aug. 2012
Description of three new species of Nymphistrini (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Haeteriinae) from Central America 
ALEXEY K. TISHECHKIN (USA) & ALIDA MERCADO CÁRDENAS (Canada)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3495: 88 (24 Sept. 2012)
Erratum: Yang, Y.C., Yin, Z.W. & Yu, W.D. (2012) A new species of Tyrinasius Kurbatov (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae) from Ningxia, Northwest China. Zootaxa, 3401, 60–62.
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Zootaxa 3487: 77–84 (18 Sept. 2012)  1 plates; 13 references                 Accepted: 6 Aug. 2012
Nomenclatural changes and redescriptions in Plateros Bourgeois, 1879 (Coleoptera: Lycidae) from Neotropical region 
ELYNTON ALVES DO NASCIMENTO (Brazil) & MILADA BOCAKOVA (Czech Republic)
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Zootaxa 3483: 58–70 (14 Sept. 2012)  8 plates; 35 references                     Accepted: 26 Jul. 2012
A taxonomic review of Korean species of the genus Philhygra Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
SEUNG-GYU LEE & KEE-JEONG AHN (Korea)

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Zootaxa 3483: 39–57 (14 Sept. 2012)  9 plates; 27 references                     Accepted: 27 Jul. 2012
Morphology and identification of the pupae of seven species of the genus Otiorhynchus Germar, 1822 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Otiorhynchini)
RAFAŁ GOSIK (Poland) & PETER SPRICK (Germany)

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Zootaxa 3483: 29–38 (14 Sept. 2012)  5 plates; 18 references                     Accepted: 13 Aug. 2012
A new species of Allecula (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Alleculinae) from cork oak stands of Italy
VLADIMÍR NOVÁK (Czech Republic), NICKLAS JANSSON (Sweden), STEFANO CHIARI (Italy), AGNESE ZAULI (Italy), PAOLO AUDISIO (Italy) & GIUSEPPE M. CARPANETO (Italy)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3482: 88–88 (13 Sept. 2012)  0 plate; 2 references                       Accepted: 12 Jul. 2012
Correction of the name of a recently published taxon in the Curculionini (Curculionidae) 
FRANK W. PELSUE, JR. & CHARLES W. O'BRIEN (USA)

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Zootaxa 3482: 82–87 (13 Sept. 2012)  1 plate; 25 references                      Accepted: 2 Aug. 2012
Axinotarsus pulicarius (F.) (Coleoptera: Melyridae: Malachiinae), a soft-winged flower beetle new to North America 
E. RICHARD HOEBEKE & ALFRED G. WHEELER, JR. (USA)

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Zootaxa 3482: 68–76 (13 Sept. 2012)  4 plates; 11 references                     Accepted: 31 Jul. 2012
New synonymy and redescription of Mastigus deustus (Thunberg) (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae) 
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI (Poland)

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Zootaxa 3482: 33–46 (13 Sept. 2012)  10 plates; 24 references                   Accepted: 11 Jul. 2012
Revision of the genus Scapomegas Lacordaire, 1854 (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Omalodini) 
FERNANDO W. T. LEIVAS (Brazil), CARLA L. BICHO (Brazil), NICOLAS DEGALLIER (France) & DANIEL P. MOURA (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3482: 1–32 (13 Sept. 2012)  33 plates; 51 references                     Accepted: 18 Jul. 2012
Checklist and distribution atlas of the Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of Costa Rica 
ÁNGEL SOLÍS & BERT KOHLMANN (Costa Rica)

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Zootaxa 3478: 164–168 (11 Sept. 2012) 2 plates; 7 references          Accepted: 10 Aug. 2012
Two new species of Macrelmis Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Elmidae) and a new record of Macrelmis isis (Hinton) from Southeastern Brazil
BRUNNO HENRIQUE LANZELLOTTI SAMPAIO, MARIA INÊS DA SILVA DOS PASSOS & NELSON FERREIRA- JR.

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Zootaxa 3478: 169–191 (11 Sept. 2012) 9 plates; 31 references        Accepted: 13 Jul. 2012
Taxonomy of the genus Medhiama Bordoni, 2002 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Staphylininae, Xantholinini) with descriptions of three new species
YU-LINGZI ZHOU, & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU

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Zootaxa 3478: 192–200 (11 Sept. 2012) 2 plates; 25 references        Accepted: 7 Aug. 2012
New species of Acanthocinini from South America (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
MIGUEL A. MONNÉ & MARCELA L. MONNÉ

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Zootaxa 3478: 201–204 (11 Sept. 2012) 3 plates; 17 references        Accepted: 23 Jul. 2012
A new fossil Hybosoridae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) from the Yixian Formation of China
ZHUO YAN, MING BAI & DONG REN

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Zootaxa 3478: 205–212 (11 Sept. 2012) 3 plates; 19 references        Accepted: 28 Aug. 2012
A taxonomic review of the genus Neptosternus Sharp of China with the description of a new species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Laccophilinae)
SHUANG ZHAO, JIŘÍ HÁJEK, FENGLONG JIA & HONG PANG

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Zootaxa 3478: 213–238 (11 Sept. 2012) 18 plates; 33 references      Accepted: 27 Jul. 2012
The Hydraenidae of Cuba (Insecta: Coleoptera) I: Contribution to the fauna of eastern Cuba
ALBERT DELER-HERNÁNDEZ & JUAN A. DELGADO

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Zootaxa 3478: 239–255 (11 Sept. 2012) 8 plates; 47 references        Accepted: 10 Aug. 2012
Review of the lady beetle genus Phaenochilus Weise (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Chilocorini) with description of a new species from Thailand that preys on cycad aulacaspis scale, Aulacaspis yasumatsui Takagi (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Diaspididae)
JOSÉ ADRIANO GIORGI & NATALIA J. VANDENBERG

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Zootaxa 3478: 256–266 (11 Sept. 2012) 4 plates; 41 references        Accepted: 26 Jul. 2012
Talbragarus averyi gen. et sp. n., the first Jurassic weevil from the southern hemisphere (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Nemonychidae)
ROLF G. OBERPRIELER & STEFANIE K. OBERPRIELER

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Zootaxa 3478: 267–281 (11 Sept. 2012) 6 plates; 48 references        Accepted: 27 Jul. 2012
Two new species of Elmidae (Coleoptera) from Argentina
V. MANZO & M. ARCHANGELSKY

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Zootaxa 3478: 282–296 (11 Sept. 2012) 9 plates; 9 references          Accepted: 1 Aug. 2012
Revision of the genus Falsocaenia (Coleoptera: Lycidae)
MILADA BOCAKOVA, BARBORA BACIAKOVA & ELYNTON ALVES DO NASCIMENTO
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Zootaxa 3464: 1–107 (7 Sept. 2012) 27 plates; 69 references                      Accepted: 5 Apri. 2012   
A Revision of the Australian species of the genus Melobasis Laporte & Gory 1837 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), Part 1 (Introductory material, key to species-groups and keys to species of the thoracica, pusilla, formosa, propinqua & gloriosa species-groups)
BRIAN LEVEY

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Zootaxa 3463: 1–112 (7 Sept. 2012) 90 plates; 57 references                      Accepted: 23 May 2012   
Neobarombiella, a diverse, newly described genus of Afrotropical Galerucinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)
HELMUT BOLZ & THOMAS WAGNER

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Zootaxa 3462: 1–125 (7 Sept. 2012) 33 plates; 68 references                      Accepted: 18 Jul. 2012   
Revision of Asytesta Pascoe, 1865, with comments on the phylogeny of the Indo-Australian crowned weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae)
GREGORY P. SETLIFF

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Zootaxa 3455: 81–88 (6 Sept. 2012)  2 plates; 27 references                   Accepted: 23 Jul. 2012
Description of a new genus and two new species of Leiodidae (Coleoptera) from Baltic amber using phase contrast synchrotron X-ray microtomography
MICHEL PERREAU (France)

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Zootaxa 3455: 69–80 (6 Sept. 2012)  4 plates; 10 references                     Accepted: 1 May 2012
First record of the genus Bordoniola Osella, 1987 in Ecuador with description of five new species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Raymondionyminae)
COSIMO BAVIERA, CESARE BELLÒ & GIUSEPPE OSELLA (Italy)

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Zootaxa 3438: 43–53 (24 Aug. 2012)  4 plates; 19 references                    Accepted: 4 Jul. 2012
Revision of the genus Eucharitolus Bates (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae)
JUAN PABLO BOTERO R. & MIGUEL A. MONNÉ (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3434: 49–58 (22 Aug. 2012)  5 plates; 15 references                    Accepted: 18 Jun. 2012
Two new tiger beetle (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelitae) species from the Tucuman-Bolivian forest in the National Tariquia Reserve, Bolivia
ROBERT PERGER & FERNANDO GUERRA (Bolivia)

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Zootaxa 3427: 1–16 (17 Aug. 2012)  7 plates; 19 references                    Accepted: 9 Jul. 2012
Revision of Menippus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) of Taiwan and Menippus dimidiaticornis species group with a new generic synonymy
CHI-FENG LEE (Taiwan), JAN BEZDĔK (Czech Republic) & HARUKI SUENAGA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3423: 45–60 (15 Aug. 2012)  8 plates; 37 references                     Accepted: 22 Jun. 2012
Description of immature stages of Phelypera schuppeli (Boheman, 1834) with comments on natural history (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Hyperinae)
SERGIO ANTONIO VANIN, DANIELA DE CASSIA BENÁ & FABIANO FABIAN ALBERTONI (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3423: 27–35 (15 Aug. 2012)  7 plates; 15 references                      Accepted: 22 Jun. 2012
First record of Cyrtogenius Strohmeyer in Europe, with a key to the European genera of the tribe Dryocoetini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae)
MASSIMO FACCOLI, MAURO SIMONATO & EDOARDO PETRUCCO TOFFOLO (Italy)

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Zootaxa 3420: 1–37 (13 Aug. 2012)  26 plates; 39 references                  Accepted: 27 Jun. 2012
Contribution to the knowledge of Chinese Epilachna Chevrolat with descriptions of new species (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Epilachnini)
HONG PANG (China), ADAM ŚLIPIŃSKI (Australia), YAPING WU (China) & YONGSHENG ZUO (China)

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Zootaxa 3413: 55–63 (8 Aug. 2012)  3 plates; 25 references                   Accepted: 27 Jun. 2012
A remarkable new species of flesh-fly mimicking weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Conoderinae) from Southeastern Brazil
SERGIO A. VANIN & TADEU J. GUERRA (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3409: 1–29 (6 Aug. 2012)  18 plates; 30 references                 Accepted: 18 Jun. 2012
Revision of the scarab subfamily Aclopinae Blanchard (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) 
in Argentina and Chile
FEDERICO C. OCAMPO (Argentina) & JOSÉ MONDACA (Chile)

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Zootaxa 3408: 59–68 (3 Aug. 2012)  7 plates; 12 references                 Accepted: 11 Jun. 2012
Brachysomus (Hippomias) samos sp. n. from Greece—first island endemism in the genus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae)
NIKOLAI YUNAKOV (Norway) & CHRISTOPH GERMANN (Switzerland)

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Zootaxa 3405: 64–68 (1 Aug. 2012)  1 plates; 11 references                   Accepted: 30 May 2012
Two new species of Emmallodera Blanchard, 1842 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from western Argentina
VIOLETA A. SILVESTRO & GUSTAVO E. FLORES (Argentina)

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Zootaxa 3405: 1–34 (1 Aug. 2012)  18 plates; 102 references                 Accepted: 21 Mar. 2012
The external larval morphology of aquatic and terrestrial Luciolinae fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)
XINHUA FU (China), LESLEY BALLANTYNE (Australia), CHRISTINE LAMBKIN (Australia)

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Zootaxa 3403: 54–60 (31 Jul. 2012)  5 plates; 5 references                 Accepted: 8 Jun. 2012
Descriptions of Macrolygistopterus subparallelus Pic, 1930 immatures from southeastern Brazil (Coleoptera, Lycidae, Lycinae, Calochromini)
CLEIDE COSTA & SERGIO A. VANIN (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3403: 1–53 (31 Jul. 2012)  12 plates; 59 references                Accepted: 29 May 2012
Emeia gen. nov., a new genus of Luciolinae fireflies from China (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) with an unusual trilobite-like larva, and a redescription of the genus Curtos Motschulsky
XINHUA FU (China), LESLEY BALLANTYNE (Australia) & CHRISTINE LAMBKIN (Australia)

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Zootaxa 3401: 60–62 (27 Jul. 2012)  1 plates; 3 references                   Accepted: 29 May 2012
A new species of Tyrinasius Kurbatov (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae) from Ningxia, Northwest China
YI-CHENG YANG, ZI-WEI YIN& WEI-DONG YU (China)

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Zootaxa 3399: 35–44 (25 Jul. 2012)  6 plates; 14 references                  Accepted: 1 Jun. 2012
Six new species of Nazeris Fauvel (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae) from Guangxi, South China
JIA-YAO HU, LI-ZHEN LI & MEI-JUN ZHAO (China)

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Zootaxa 3399: 23–34 (25 Jul. 2012) 7 plates; 15 references                    Accepted: 1 Jun. 2012
Revision of the Malagasy genus Lechius Iwan, 1995 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pedinini)
DARIUSZ IWAN & MARCIN JAN KAMIŃSKI (Poland)

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Zootaxa 3397: 55–61 (24 Jul. 2012)  4 plates; 4 references                  Accepted: 29 May 2012
Contributions to the knowledge of the myrmecophilous pselaphines (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae) from China. I. Tangius glabellus gen. et sp. nov. from Tibet
ZI-WEI YIN, LI-ZHEN LI & MEI-JUN ZHAO (China)

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Zootaxa 3397: 1–27 (24 Jul. 2012)  3 plates; 10 references                  Accepted: 28 May 2012
New Central American and Mexican Enoclerus Gahan (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae): Part II
JACQUES RIFKIND (USA)

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Zootaxa 3394: 59–63 (20 Jul. 2012)  2 plates; 8 references                Accepted: 18 Apr. 2012
The Pselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of Madagascar. I. Andasibe sahondrae, a new, peculiar genus and species of Clavigeritae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)
PETER HLAVÁČ & PETR BAŇAŘ (Czech Republic)

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Zootaxa 3394: 31–34 (20 Jul. 2012)  1 plates; 7 references                Accepted: 5 Jun. 2012
Parisopalpus defoei sp. nov. from Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile, the first known species of the genus from the Neotropical Region (Coleoptera: Oedemeridae)
VLADIMÍR ŠVIHLA (Czech Republic) & FRANCISCO RAMÍREZ FISCHER (Chile)

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Zootaxa 3394: 1–24 (20 Jul. 2012)  10 plates; 30 references                Accepted: 5 Jun. 2012
Revision of the genus Pachystethus Blanchard with description of three new species from Mexico (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Anomalini)
ANDRÉS RAMÍREZ-PONCE & MIGUEL ANGEL MORÓN (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 3389: 14–24 (16 Jul. 2012) 5 plates; 11 references                 Accepted: 11 May 2012
Two new species of Austrolimnius Carter & Zeck (Insecta: Coleoptera: Elmidae) from Southeastern Brazil
GUSTAVO SILVA DE MIRANDA, BRUNNO HENRIQUE LANZELLOTTI SAMPAIO & MARIA INÊS DA SILVA DOS PASSOS (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3389: 1–13 (16 Jul. 2012) 7 plates; 9 references                 Accepted: 6 Mar. 2012
New species of the genus Lathrobium Gravenhorst (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae) from Guangxi, South China
ZHONG PENG, LI-ZHEN LI & MEI-JUN ZHAO (China)

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Zootaxa 3385: 62–68 (11 Jul. 2012) 3 plates; 10 references            Accepted: 17 May 2012
Synopsis of the genus Mimothestus Pic with description of a new species from China (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae)
GUANG-LIN XIE, FU-MING SHI & WEN-KAI WANG (China)

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Zootaxa 3382: 59–65 (9 Jul. 2012) 2 plates; 14 references                 Accepted: 11 May 2012
Ancyronyx jaechi sp.n. from Sri Lanka, the first record of the genus Ancyronyx Erichson, 1847 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Elmidae) from the Indian Subcontinent, and a world checklist of species
Hendrik Freitag (Germany)

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Zootaxa 3382: 1–19 (9 Jul. 2012) 8 plates; 23 references                 Accepted: 15 May. 2012
Revision of Hoplasoma (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) of the Philippines, with descriptions of five new species
JAN BEZDĚK (Czech Republic)

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Zootaxa 3361: 56–62 (29 Jun. 2012) 1 plate; 32 references            Accepted: 11 May 2012
Association of larvae and adults of Mexican species of Macrelmis (Coleoptera: Elmidae): a preliminary analysis using DNA sequences
JOSEFINA CURIEL & JUAN J. MORRONE (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 3361: 1–17 (29 Jun. 2012) 6 plates; 30 references            Accepted: 30 Apr. 2012
Pre-imaginal stages of Cychrus schmidti Chaudoir, 1837, and Cychrus semigranosus Palliardi, 1825, with a key to the larvae of the European Cychrus species (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
ENRICO BUSATO (Italy)

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Zootaxa 3357: 25–36 (26 Jun. 2012) 2 plates; 52 references                 Accepted: 3 May 2012
A new species and notes on the subgenus Deltochilum (Deltochilum) Eschscholtz, 1822 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Deltochilini)
FRANÇOIS GÉNIER (Canada)

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Zootaxa 3355: 62–68 (22 Jun. 2012) 4 plates; 3 references                 Accepted: 9 May 2012
Redescription of Ceroderma asperata Raffray, and description of Cerochusa cilioceps gen. et sp. n. from Hainan, South China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae)
ZI-WEI YIN (China), SHÛHEI NOMURA (Japan) & LI-ZHEN LI (China)

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Zootaxa 3355: 1–28 (22 Jun. 2012) 13 plates; 34 references                 Accepted: 19 Apr. 2012
Revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Papuan weevil genus Thyestetha Pascoe (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Cryptorhynchinae)
JONAS EBERLE, RENE TÄNZLER & ALEXANDER RIEDEL (Germany)

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Zootaxa 3351: 60–68 (19 Jun. 2012) 5 plates; 17 references                 Accepted: 8 May 2012
A new species of the genus Clastopus Fairmaire, 1898 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pedinini) from Madagascar
DARIUSZ IWAN (Poland), MARCIN JAN KAMI
ŃSKI (Poland) & ROLF AALBU (USA)
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Zootaxa 3351: 47–59 (19 Jun. 2012) 8 plates; 30 references                 Accepted: 1 May 2012
Larval morphology of Amphiops mater mater Sharp (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Chaetarthriini)
YÛSUKE MINOSHIMA & MASAKAZU HAYASHI (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3346: 43–50 (14 Jun. 2012) 6 plates; 14 references                 Accepted: 30 Apr. 2012
Three new species of the genus Laena Dejean from China (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Lagriinae)
XIAO-LIN ZHAO & GUO-DONG REN (China)

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Zootaxa 3342: 51–59 (12 Jun. 2012) 6 plates; 13 references                 Accepted: 3 Apr. 2012
Two new species of Parhydraenini from South Africa (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
DAVID T BILTON (UK) & PHILIP D PERKINS (USA)

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Zootaxa 3342: 1–38 (12 Jun. 2012) 12 plates; 56 references                 Accepted: 7 Nov. 2011
Review of the Elmidae of Ecuador with the description of ten new species (Coleoptera: Elmidae)
CINZIA MONTE & ALESSANDRO MASCAGNI (Italy)

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Zootaxa 3336: 62–68 (6 Jun. 2012) 1 plates; 6 references                 Accepted: 13 Apr. 2012
New species and records of the genus Spiloscapha Bates (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from the Oriental and Papuan Regions (part 2)
WOLFGANG SCHAWALLER (Germany)

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Zootaxa 3336: 1–35 (6 Jun. 2012) 8 plates; 61 references                 Accepted: 12 Apr. 2012
Systematic revision of the South American genus Praocis Eschscholtz, 1829 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Part 1: Introduction and subgenus Praocis s. str.
GUSTAVO E. FLORES (Argentina) & JAIME PIZARRO-ARAYA (Chile)

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Zootaxa 3329: 31–40 (31 May 2012) 1 plate; 31 references                 Accepted: 20 Apr. 2012
Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on the Rhinusa tetra (Fabricius) species complex (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
ROBERTO CALDARA, ROBERTO CASALINI & COSIMO BAVIERA (Italy)

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Zootaxa 3326: 67–68 (28 May 2012) 0 plate; 9 references                 Accepted: 3 Apr. 2012
A new substitute name for Bidessus (Bidessodes) plicatus Zimmermann, 1921 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae: Bidessini)
JI
ŘÍ HÁJEK (Czech Republic)
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Zootaxa 3326: 1–36 (28 May 2012) 10 plates; 72 references                 Accepted: 21 Mar. 2012
A review of the genera Leiopus Audinet-Serville, 1835 and Acanthocinus, Dejean, 1821 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Acanthocinini) in Asia, with descriptions of six new species of Leiopus from China
HENRIK WALLIN (Sweden), TORSTEIN KVAMME (Norway) & MEIYING LIN (China)

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Zootaxa 3323: 1–26 (24 May 2012) 1 plate; 114 references                 Accepted: 30 Mar. 2012
Immature stages of the rose chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae): a historical overview
PETR ŠÍPEK & DAVID KRÁL (Czech Republic)

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Zootaxa 3322: 63–68 (23 May 2012) 3 plates; 5 references                 Accepted: 28 Apr. 2012
Two new species of Veraphis Casey (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae) from China
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZY
ŃSKI (Poland)
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Zootaxa 3322: 35–48 (23 May 2012) 9 plates; 40 references                 Accepted: 13 Apr. 2012
Dorcadion axillare Küster, 1847 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae): distribution, morphometrics, karyotype and description of a new subspecies from Romania
MARIA-MAGDALENA DASC
ĂLU& LUCIAN FUSU (Romania)
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Zootaxa 3318: 57–62 (21 May 2012) 3 plates; 7 references                 Accepted:12 Apr. 2012
Three new species of Anchocerus Fauvel (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae), with an updated key to Chinese species
JIAYAO HU, LIZHEN LI & MEIJUN ZHAO (China)

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Zootaxa 3316: 63–68 (17 May 2012) 2 plates; 19 references                 Accepted: 10 Mar. 2012
A new species of leaf-litter inhabiting Georissus from Borneo (Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea: Georissidae)
MARTIN FIKÁ
ČEK (Czech Republic)
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Zootaxa 3316: 15–27 (17 May 2012) 19 plates; 4 references                 Accepted: 12 Apr. 2012
Five new species of Lemodes (Lagriomorpha) (Coleoptera: Anthicidae: Lemodinae) from Indonesian and Papuan New Guinea with a revised key to the species
DANIEL K. YOUNG (USA)

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Zootaxa 3313: 62–68 (15 May 2012) 4 plates; 19 references                 Accepted: 2 Mar. 2012
Taxonomic status of Allohoraeomorphus Franz (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZY
ŃSKI (Poland)
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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3311: 68 (14 May 2012)
Erratum: HLAVÁČ, P. (2012) Contribution to the knowledge of the tribe Mastigerina (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae, Clavigeritae), with a description of a new genus from Borneo. Zootaxa, 3070, 51–59.
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Zootaxa 3308: 68 (10 May 2012)
Erratum: KANG, T.H., HAN, T.M., OKUSHIMA, Y. & PARK, H.C. (2012) Integrative taxonomy of Asiopodabrus fragiliformis (Kang and Kim, 2000) (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) and its related species. Zootaxa, 3259, 1–33.
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Zootaxa 3303: 1–36 (8 May 2012) 18 plates; 92 references                 Accepted: 22 Feb. 2012
Species composition and geographic distribution of Fuegian Curculionidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)
PAULA POSADAS (Argentina)

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Zootaxa 3300: 45–54 (4 May 2012) 5 plates; 26 references                 Accepted: 16 Mar. 2012
Review of the Nearctic species of Drusilla Leach (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
K. TARO ELDREDGE (USA)

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Zootaxa 3300: 1–19 (4 May 2012) 0 plate; 70 references                 Accepted: 28 Mar. 2012
Studies in the Palaearctic and Oriental Agrilus (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) IV
EDUARD JENDEK (Canada)

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Zootaxa 3298: 62–68 (3 May 2012) 6 plates; 18 references                 Accepted: 13 Mar. 2012
A new species of Suphisellus Crotch, 1873 (Coleoptera: Noteridae) from “Los Llanos”, Venezuela
AURICIO GARCÍA (Venezuela), CESAR JOÃO BENETTI (Spain) & JESÚS CAMACHO (Venezuela)

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Zootaxa 3282: 42–44 (27 Apr. 2012) 1 plates; 11 references                 Accepted: 22 Mar. 2012
A new species of Artimpaza Thomson (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae) from China, with a key to the Chinese species of the genus
LICHAO TIAN, LI CHEN & ZHU LI (China)

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Zootaxa 3281: 41–55 (27 Apr. 2012) 9 plates; 9 references                 Accepted: 5 Mar. 2012
A new genus and three new species of Neotropical Tanyproctini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)
JHON CESAR NEITA & FEDERICO C. OCAMPO (Argentina)

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Zootaxa 3279: 46–62 (25 Apr. 2012) 8 plates; 40 references                 Accepted: 13 Mar. 2012
Re-description of two species of Typhlocharis (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Anillini) and revision of the models of female genitalia within the genus
SERGIO PÉREZ-GONZÁLEZ & JUAN P. ZABALLOS (Spain)

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Zootaxa 3278: 61–68 (25 Apr. 2012)  1 plate; 84 references                Accepted: 13 Feb. 2012
On nomenclature and synonymy of Trichius rosaceus, T. gallicus, and T. zonatus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Trichiini)
FRANK-THORSTEN KRELL (USA)

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Zootaxa 3274: 1–13 (20 Apr. 2012) 13 plates; 16 references                       Accepted: 27 Feb. 2012
Two new species of Rhagophthalmus Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Rhagophthalmidae) from Matzu Archipelago, Taiwan with biological commentary 
JEN-ZON HO, YOUNG-FA CHEN, SU-HAN CHENG, XI-LIAN TSAI, PING-SHIN Y
ANG (Taiwan)
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Zootaxa 3270: 63–66 (17 Apr. 2012)  2 plates; 20 references                Accepted: 29 Feb. 2012
A new invasive Ptinella Motschulsky from Europe and North America (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) 
OSCAR VORST (The Netherlands)

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Zootaxa 3270: 31–40 (17 Apr. 2012) 3 plates; 43 references                 Accepted: 24 Feb. 2012
Detailed morphological description of the mature larva of Anthrenus latefasciatus Reitter, 1892 (Dermestidae: Megatominae: Anthrenini) with comparisons to related species 
MARCIN KADEJ (Poland)

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Zootaxa 3268: 55–62 (13 Apr. 2012) 6 plates; 3 references                 Accepted: 5 Mar. 2012
Stenomastigus pseudofranzi sp. n., from South Africa (Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae) 
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZY
ŃSKI (Poland)
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Zootaxa 3268: 29–39 (13 Apr. 2012) 9 plates; 10 references                 Accepted: 29 Feb. 2012
A new species of the genus Gonioctena (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae) from Shikoku, Japan, with description of its immature stages 
HARUKI SUENAGA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3267: 65–68 (12 Apr. 2012)  1 plate; 13 references                Accepted: 27 Feb. 2012
Platyonitis oberthueri Janssens, 1942 and Epionitis tarsatus Balthasar, 1942 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Onitini) — synonymy confirmed 
ALEŠ BEZD
ĚK & FRANTIŠEK X. J. SLÁDEČEK (Czech Republic)
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Zootaxa 3262: 46–53 (9 Apr. 2012) 3 plates; 18 references                 Accepted: 22 Feb. 2012
Synonym, new species and checklist of the genus Fissocantharis Pic from Taiwan (Coleoptera, Cantharidae) 
YU-XIA YANG (China), YÛICHI OKUSHIMA (Japan) & XING-KE YANG (China)
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Zootaxa 3261: 33–58 (6 Apr. 2012)  8 plates; 65 references                Accepted: 23 Feb. 2012
Revision of Palaearctic and Oriental Necrophila Kirby & Spence, part 2: subgenus Chrysosilpha Portevin (Coleoptera: Silphidae) 
JAN R
ŮŽIČKA (Czech Republic), JAN SCHNEIDER (Czech Republic), 
JARIN QUBAIOVÁ (Czech Republic) & MASAAKI NISHIKAWA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3260: 19–32 (6 Apr. 2012) 8 plates; 5 references                 Accepted: 16 Jan. 2012
A new genus of leaf litter inhabiting Neotropical Monoplatina (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini) 
ADELITA M. LINZMEIER (Brazil) & ALEXANDER S. KONSTANTINOV (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3260: 1–18 (6 Apr. 2012) 0 plate; 72 references                 Accepted: 13 Feb. 2012
Checklist of the Elmidae (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea) of Brazil 
MELISSA OTTOBONI SEGURA, FRANCISCO VALENTE-NETO & ALAÍDE APARECIDA FONSECA-GESSNER (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3259: 1–33 (5 Apr. 2012) 5 plates; 63 references                 Accepted: 6 Dec. 2011
Integrative taxonomy of Asiopodabrus fragiliformis (Kang and Kim, 2000) (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) and its related species 
TAE HWA KANG (Korea), TAE MAN HAN (Korea), YÛICHI OKUSHIMA (Japan) 
& HAE CHUL PARK (Korea)

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Article
Zootaxa 3256: 27–37 (4 Apr. 2012)  7 plates; 30 references                Accepted: 15 Feb. 2012
The genus Phygasia Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini) in Taiwan 
CHI-FENG LEE (Tawian)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3255: 68 (3 Apr. 2012)
Erratum: MONNÉ M.M. (2012) Catalogue of the type-species of the genera of the Cerambycidae, Disteniidae, Oxypeltidae and Vesperidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region . Zootaxa, 3213, 1–183.

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Article
Zootaxa 3255: 57–61 (3 Apr. 2012) 3 plates; 5 references                 Accepted: 1 Mar. 2012
First record of Ancyronyx Erichson (Coleoptera: Elmidae) from China, with description of a new species 
DONGJU BIAN, CHENG GUO & LANZHU JI (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 3255: 52–56 (3 Apr. 2012)  2 plates; 13 references                Accepted: 13 Feb. 2012
Phrixosoma concavifrons – a sexually dimorphic Phrixosomatini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from the Udzungwa mountains in Tanzania 
BJARTE H. JORDAL (Norway)

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Article
Zootaxa 3255: 1–36 (3 Apr. 2012) 16 plates; 36 references                 Accepted: 15 Feb. 2012
A review of the genera Prismognathus Motschulsky and Cladophyllus Houlbert (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Lucanidae) from China, with the description of two new species 
HAO HUANG & CHANG-CHIN CHEN (China)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3251: 64–68 (30 Mar. 2012) 2 plates; 20 references                 Accepted: 13 Feb. 2012
First record of the black twig borer Xylosandrus compactus (Eichhoff) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) from Europe 
ANTONIO P. GARONNA (Italy), STEPHANIE A. DOLE (USA), ANTONIO SARACINO (Italy), STEFANO MAZZOLENI (Italy) & GENNARO CRISTINZIO (Italy)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3242: 62–67 (21 Mar. 2012) 3 plates; 13 references                 Accepted: 3 Feb. 2012
Petrodessus conatus sp. n., a new genus and species of Bidessini from hygropetric habitats in tropical Australia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae) 
KELLY B. MILLER (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3242: 53–61 (21 Mar. 2012) 1 plates; 18 references                 Accepted: 10 Feb. 2012
Nomenclatural changes in Neotropical Tracheini with the description of Hylaeogena aeneonitens sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from the Orinoco basin in Venezuela 
MICHAEL HORNBURG (Germany)

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Article
Zootaxa 3239: 64–68 (20 Mar. 2012) 1 plate; 9 references                 Accepted: 10 Feb. 2012
Ditriaena romeroi sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), a new species from north-western Venezuela 
MICHAEL HORNBURG & STEPHAN GOTTWALD (Germany)

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Article
Zootaxa 3239: 1–34 (20 Mar. 2012) 15 plates; 28 references                 Accepted: 7 Feb. 2012
Taxonomic revision of Australian Pristoderus Hope (Coleoptera, Zopheridae) 
FEDERICA TURCO, ADAM ŚLIPIŃSKI & CHRISTINE L. LAMBKIN (Australia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3237: 24–34 (16 Mar. 2012) 5 plates; 17 references                 Accepted: 26 Jan. 2012
Polymorphism in Languria taedata LeConte, its occurrence in coastal Louisiana Spartina marshes, and clarification of some Motschulsky languriine types (Coleoptera: Erotylidae: Languriinae) 
MATTHEW L. GIMMEL, CHRISTOPHER E. CARLTON & WILLIAM H. WHITE (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3232: 44–61 (13 Mar. 2012) 4 plates; 46 references                 Accepted: 7 Feb. 2012
New species of Macrolycus Waterhouse, 1878 from China and Laos, with a checklist of the genus (Coleoptera: Lycidae) 
YUN LI (China), LADISLAV BOCAK (Czewch Republic) & HONG PANG (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3227: 34–53 (8 Mar. 2012) 11 plates; 53 references                 Accepted: 20 Jan. 2012
Revision of the endemic Hispaniolan genus Asteriza Chevrolat, 1836, with description of two new species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Ischyrosonychini) 
CHULWOO SHIN, CAROLINE S. CHABOO & SHAWN M. CLARK (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3223: 55–67 (6 Mar. 2012) 5 plates; 27 references                    Accepted: 7 Feb. 2012
Hydroporus sejilashan sp. n., a new diving beetle of the acutangulus-complex from Xizang, China (Qinghai-Tibet Plateau), and notes on other taxa of the genus (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae) 
FENGLONG JIA (China), SHUANG ZHAO (China) & HANS FERY (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3223: 40–54 (6 Mar. 2012) 3 plates; 42 references                 Accepted: 24 Jan. 2012
Contribution to the knowledge of Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) with description of new species and new records from Pakistan 
MUHAMMAD ATIQUE AKHTER (Pakistan), ALAIN DRUMONT (Belgium), SYED ANSER RIZVI (Pakistan) & ZUBAIR AHMED (Pakistan)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3223: 1–23 (6 Mar. 2012) 16 plates; 21 references                 Accepted: 19 Jan. 2012
Description of Jolyelmis spangleri a new species from Churí-tepui (Chimantá Massif, Venezuela), with a description of the larva of J. spangleri and J. reitmaieri (Insecta: Coleoptera: Elmidae) 
JÁN KODADA, TOMÁŠ DERKA & FEDOR
ČIAMPOR, Jr. (Slovakia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3222: 61–68 (5 Mar. 2012) 4 plates; 13 references                 Accepted: 23 Jan. 2012
Batrisoplisus Raffray, 1908, a new synonymy of Trisinus Raffray, 1894 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae), with description of three new Chinese species 
ZI-WEI YIN (China), SHÛHEI NOMURA (Japan) & MEI-JUN ZHAO (China)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3219: 67–68 (2 Mar. 2012) 0 plate; 11 references                 Accepted: 23 Feb. 2012
Synonymy of Orthomus susanae Serrano & Borges, 2009 with Orthomus annae (Donabauer, 2008) (Coleoptera: Carabidae) 
ARTUR R.M. SERRANO, CARLOS A.S. AGUIAR, MÁRIO BOIEIRO, PAULO A.V. BORGES, CARLA REGO, ISABEL R. AMORIM, SÉRVIO P. RIBEIRO & FERNANDO PEREIRA (Portugal)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3219: 54–61 (2 Mar. 2012) 3 plates; 10 references                 Accepted: 16 Jan. 2012
Indophyes yaromi, a new genus and species of Nanophyidae (Curculionoidea) from southern India ARIEL-LEIB-LEONID FRIEDMAN (Israel)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3219: 1–53 (2 Mar. 2012) 30 plates; 59 references                 Accepted: 9 Jan. 2012
A review of the Asian species of the genus Pachysternum (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae) 
MARTIN FIKÁ
ČEK (Czech Republic), FENGLONG JIA (China) & ALEXANDER PROKIN (Russia)
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3213: 1–183 (29 Feb. 2012) 0 plate; 914 references                      Accepted: 6 Dec. 2011   
Catalogue of the type-species of the genera of the Cerambycidae, Disteniidae, Oxypeltidae and Vesperidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region
MIGUEL A. MONNÉ
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Article 
Zootaxa 3207: 63–67 (27 Feb. 2012) 3 plates; 4 references                        Accepted: 11 Jan. 2012
Idahelops alpagutae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Helopini): a new genus and species from the Aegean region of Turkey 
BEKIR KESKIN (Turkey) & MAXIM V. NABOZHENKO (Russia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3202: 58–64 (22 Feb. 2012) 2 plates; 6 references                       Accepted: 22 Dec. 2011
Glischrochilus (Librodor) forcipatus (Fairmaire, 1889) rediscovered (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) JOSEF JELÍNEK (Czech Republic), ANDRZEJ LASOŃ (Poland) & JIŘÍ HÁJEK (Czech Republic)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3198: 29–53 (20 Feb. 2012) 16 plates; 15 references                    Accepted: 22 Dec. 2011
Revision of the Neotropical ladybird genus Parinesa Gordon (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) 
HERMES E. ESCALONA (Venezuela) & ADAM
ŚLIPIŃSKI (Australia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3196: 58–63 (17 Feb. 2012) 3 plate; 3 references                            Accepted: 10 Jan. 2011
Portelmis guianensis sp. nov. from French Guiana (Coleoptera: Elmidae) 
MAREK PRZEWO
ŹNY (Poland) & ANDRÉ S. FERNANDES (Spain)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3193: 53–61 (15 Feb. 2012) 9 plate; 10 references                            Accepted: 14 Dec. 2011
Plectrosternus Lacordaire, 1857 (Coleoptera: Elateridae); genus new to north-ern Western Ghats, India with a description of one new species 
AMOL PATWARDHAN & R. P. ATHALYE (India)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3193: 28–52 (15 Feb. 2012) 17 plate; 17 references                            Accepted: 15 Dec. 2011
New species and revalidations of scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae: Athyreini and Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from Costa Rica and Panama 
BERT KOHLMANN & ÁNGEL SOLÍS (Costa Rica)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3191: 65–68 (13 Feb. 2012) 2 plate; 3 references                            Accepted: 3 Jan. 2011
Quwatanabius Smetana—a new genus in the fauna of the Mainland China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), with description of two new species
JIAYAO HU, LIZHEN LI & MEIJUN ZHAO (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3191: 56–64 (13 Feb. 2012) 4 plate; 24 references                            Accepted: 9 Dec. 2011
Two new species of soft-winged flower beetles of the genus Kuatunia Evers, 194548 (Coleoptera, Malachiidae) from China and northeastern Russia
SERGEI E. TSHERNYSHEV (Russia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3191: 1–20 (13 Feb. 2012) 12 plate; 48 references                            Accepted: 3 Jan. 2011
Review of Chinese species of the genus Ontholestes Ganglbauer, 1895 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae) with description of two species new to science
ZHUO YANG & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3189: 29–38 (10 Feb. 2012) 5 plate; 3 references                            Accepted: 21 Dec. 2011
Taxonomic study on the genus Pselaphodes Westwood (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae) from China. Part III
ZI-WEI YIN, LI-ZHEN LI & FU-KANG GU (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3188: 42–54 (9 Feb. 2012) 10 plate; 15 references                            Accepted: 21 Nov. 2011
Stictonectes rebeccae sp. n. from the Iberian Peninsula, with notes on its phylogenetic position (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae)
DAVID T. BILTON (UK)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3186: 59–63 (8 Feb. 2012) 2 plates; 8 references                           Accepted: 14 Dec. 2011
New omethid and lampyrid taxa from the Baltic Amber (Insecta: Coleoptera)
SERGEY V. KAZANTSEV(Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3185: 1–35 (7 Feb. 2012) 17 plates; 58 references                           Accepted: 21 Dec. 2011
Revision of Molopsis Schatzmayr (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichini), with descriptions of four new species
ROMAN LOHAJ (Slovakia), BORISLAV GUÉORGUIEV (Bulgaria), GÉRARD DUBAULT (France)
& BERNARD LASSALLE (France)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3183: 65–68 (06 Feb. 2012) 1 plate; 11 references                           Accepted: 13 Dec. 2011
On the identity of Dichotrachelus maculosus Fairmaire and D. sabaudus Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae)
MASSIMO MEREGALLI (Italy) & HÉLÈNE PERRIN (France)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3183: 1–35 (06 Feb. 2012) 18 plate; 18 references                           Accepted: 14 Dec. 2011
Revision of the Oocyclus Sharp of Brazil with description of ten new species
(Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Laccobiini)
BRUNO CLARKSON (Brazil) & ANDREW E. Z. SHORT (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3181: 1–27 (02 Dec. 2012) 6 plate; 22 references                            Accepted: 05 Dec. 2011
New Mexican and Central American species of Agrilus Curtis
(Coleoptera: Buprestidae) mimetic of flies
HENRY A. HESPENHEIDE (USA)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3180: 66–68 (1 Feb. 2012) 1 plate; 19 references                            Accepted: 8 Dec. 2011
Re-classification of Rhipidiomorphus malaccanus Pic, a long-neglected genus and species of Psephenoidinae (Coleoptera: Psephenidae)
MING-LUEN JENG (Taiwan)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3175: 63–68 (27 Jan. 2012) 3 plate; 21 references                           Accepted: 28 Nov. 2011
New species and key of Aeletes Horn (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Abraeinae) from Brazil
FERNANDO W. T. LEIVAS (Brazil), KLEBER M. MISE (Brazil), LÚCIA M. ALMEIDA (Brazil),
BRUNA P. MACARI (Brazil) & YVES GOMY (France)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3174: 44–50 (26 Jan. 2012) 4 plate; 6 references                           Accepted: 29 Nov. 2011
Oroides pakaluki new genus and new species of Coccidulini from New Guinea (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)
WIOLETTA TOMASZEWSKA (Poland) & ADAM
ŚLIPIŃSKI (Australia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3174: 22–34 (26 Jan. 2012) 6 plate; 8 references                           Accepted: 29 Nov. 2011
Revision of the subgenus Scymnus (Parapullus) Yang from China (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)
XIAO-SHENG CHEN SHUN-XIANG REN & XING-MIN WANG (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3173: 37–53 (25 Jan. 2012) 7 plate; 21 references                           Accepted: 31 Oct. 2011
A new interstitial species of the Hydroporus ferrugineus group from
north-western Turkey, with a molecular phylogeny of the H. memnonius and related groups (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae)
CARLES HERNANDO, PEDRO AGUILERA†, AGUSTÍN CASTRO & IGNACIO RIBERA (Spain)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 3169: 1–60 (23 Jan. 2012) 33 plate; 99 references                           Accepted: 09 Nov. 2011
Revision of the genus Andraegoidus Aurivillius (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
JUAN PABLO BOTERO R. & MARCELA L. MONNÉ

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Article 
Zootaxa 3168: 64–68 (23 Jan. 2012) 1 plate; 18 references                           Accepted: 23 Nov. 2011
Redescription and lectotype designation of Helichus cordubensis Berg (Coleoptera: Dryopidae)
G. A. RODRIGUEZ & V. MANZO (Argentina)

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Article
Zootaxa 3168: 39–52 (23 Jan. 2012) 10 plate; 6 references                           Accepted: 03 Nov. 2011
Further studies of African Acylophorus Nordmann (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)
DEREK A. LOTT† (UK)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3164: 17–31 (18 Jan. 2012) 5 plate; 31 references                           Accepted: 16 Nov. 2011
Revision of the genus Adelostoma (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae).
Part 1: subgenus Zarudnionymus Semenov & Bogatchev, 1947
LUBOŠ PURCHART (Czech Republic)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3159: 65–68 (13 Jan. 2012) 2 plate; 5 references                           Accepted: 21 Nov. 2011
A new scarab species, Aphodius gissaricus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae:
Aphodiinae), from the Pamir-Alay Mountains in Tajikistan
LILIA AKHMETOVA & ANDREY FROLOV (Russia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3157: 54–60 (11 Jan. 2012) 3 plate; 10 references                           Accepted: 08 Nov. 2011
A new species of Chlorophorus Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae:
Cerambycinae) from China with description of biology
SHI-XIANG ZONG, GUANG-LIN XIE, WEN-KAI WANG, YOUQING LUO & CHUAN-JIAN CAO (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3157: 31–40 (11 Jan. 2012) 4 plate; 19 references                         Accepted: 16 Nov. 2011
Belicinus Rhomboideus, a new genus and species of Psepheninae
(Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea: Psephenidae) from Belize

ROBERTO ARCE-PÉREZ (Mexico), WILLIAM D. SHEPARD (USA) & MIGUEL A. MORÓN (Mexico)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3156: 43–68 (10 Jan. 2012) 8 plates; 22 references                           Accepted: 3 Nov. 2011
Contributions to the knowledge of the Quediina (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Staphylinini) of China. Part 42. Genus Quedius Stephens, 1829. Subgenus Raphirus Stephens, 1829. Section 10
ALEŠ SMETANA (Canada)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3153: 57–68 (6 Jan. 2012) 3 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 7 Nov. 2011
Biodiversity research of darkling beetles on Socotra Island. Part I. The genus Deretus Gahan, 1900 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
LUBOŠ PURCHART (Czech Republic)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3153: 39–56 (6 Jan. 2012) 14 plates; 9 references                           Accepted: 9 Nov. 2011
Stenomastigus Leleup (Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae): status of subgenus Acanthostigus Leleup and revision of species with elongated male protrochanters
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI (Poland)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3151: 28–34 (5 Jan. 2012) 4 plates; 3 references                           Accepted: 28 Oct. 2011
Notes on Chinese Allopachria Zimmermann, with descriptions of two new species from Guangxi (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
DONGJU BIAN & LANZHU JI (China)

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2011

Editorial
Zootaxa 3148: 203–208 (23 Dec. 2011
Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

S. A. SLIPINSKI, R. A. B. LESCHEN, AND J. F. LAWRENCE
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Article
Zootaxa 3139: 1–27 (21 Dec. 2011) 12 plates; 27 references                      Accepted: 21 Oct. 2011
New species of Horistonotus Candèze from Brazil (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Cardiophorinae)
SÔNIA A. CASARI (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3128: 47–57 (13 Dec. 2011) 5 plates; 36 references                         Accepted: 25 Oct. 2011
Molecular and morphological diagnostic markers for the Himalayan Ips DeGeer species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
ABDUL A. BUHROO & FERENC LAKATOS (Hungary)

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Article
Zootaxa 3126: 39–54 (12 Dec. 2011) 9 plates; 13 references                  Accepted: 26 Oct. 2011
Notes on Prosopocoilus Hope (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Lucanidae)
from China, with the description of two new species
HAO HUANG & CHANG-CHIN CHEN (China)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3121: 66–68 (07 Dec. 2011) 01 plates; 08 references                  Accepted: 04 Nov. 2011
On the identity of Anchorosternum sinense (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Megasternini)
MARTIN FIKÁČEK (Czech Republic) & FENGLONG JIA (China)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 3119: 1–68 (05 Dec. 2011) 0 plate; 220 references                   Accepted: 14 Oct. 2011
NAnnotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae)
JUAN J. MORRONE

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Article
Zootaxa 3116: 47–58 (02 Dec. 2011) 10 plates; 17 references                  Accepted: 21 Oct. 2011
Coarazuphium tapiaguassu (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Zuphiini), a new Brazilian troglobitic beetle, with ultrastructural analysis and ecological considerations
THAIS GIOVANNINI PELLEGRINI & RODRIGO LOPES FERREIRA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 3116: 33–46 (02 Dec. 2011) 07 plates; 16 references                  Accepted: 20 Oct. 2011
Two new species of the genus Geocharis Ehlers, 1883 and new data on Anillina
species from Portugal (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
ARTUR R. M. SERRANO & CARLOS A. S. AGUIAR (Portugal)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3113: 65–68 (29 Nov. 2011) 02 plates; 03 references                  Accepted: 21 Oct. 2011
Stenocyphon neozealandicus, a new species from New Zealand of a previously monotypic subfamily from Chile (Coleoptera: Scirtidae: Stenocyphoninae)
RAFAŁ RUTA (Poland), STEPHEN THORPE (New Zealand) & HIROYUKI YOSHITOMI (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3113: 36–52 (29 Nov. 2011) 07 plates; 07 references                  Accepted: 19 Oct. 2011
Ten new species of Cephennula Jałoszyński (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae) from Malaysia
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI (Poland)

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Zootaxa 3102: 27–49 (18 Nov. 2011) 70 plates; 28 references                         Accepted: 15 Aug. 2011

A redefinition of the Curculionini of the world, with a key to subtribes and genera,
and two new genera: Pseudoculio and Megaoculis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae)
FRANK W. PELSUE, JR., CHARLES W. O’BRIEN (USA)
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Zootaxa 3102: 1–26 (18 Nov. 2011) 14 plates; 29 references                          Accepted: 10 Oct. 2011
Rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) associated with Aenictus laeviceps (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Sarawak, Malaysia: Strict host specificity, and first myrmecoid Aleocharini
MUNETOSHI MARUYAMA (USA), TAKASHI MATSUMOTO (Japan) & TAKAO ITIOKA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3101: 53–58 (17 Nov. 2011) 2 plates; 13 references                  Accepted: 10 Oct. 2011

Revision of the genus Myrmecobrenthus Kleine with a description of
a new species from Gabon (Coleoptera: Brentidae: Eremoxenini)
LUCA BARTOLOZZI (Italy) & SANDRINE MARIELLA BAYENDI LOUDIT (France)

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Zootaxa 3101: 47–52 (17 Nov. 2011) 1 plates; 18 references                  Accepted: 05 Oct. 2011
Two new species of the genus Melanotus Eschscholtz (Coleoptera: Elateridae; Melanotinae) from Pakistan
MUHAMMAD ATIQUE AKHTER (Pakistan), GIUSEPPE PLATIA (Italy) , SYED ANSER RIZVI (Pakistan) & ZUBAIR AHMED (Pakistan)

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Zootaxa 3100: 35–68 (16 Nov. 2011) 13 plates; 73 references                  Accepted: 07 Oct. 2011
On the Sicilian species of Pseudomeira Stierlin (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae)
CESARE BELLÒ & COSIMO BAVIERA (Italy)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3097: 68–68 (14 Nov. 2011) 0 plates; 2 references                  Accepted: 10 Oct. 2011
Ochicanthon fernandoi: a replacement name for the primary junior homonym O. vazdemelloi Latha and Sabu 2011 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
THOMAS K. SABU & MATHEWS LATHA (India)

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Zootaxa 3094: 43–51 (09 Nov. 2011) 6 plates; 17 references                  Accepted: 04 Oct. 2011
A new species of Placusa Erichson (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) from China
JIANGYONG GAO, BAOZHONG JI & SHUWEN LIU (China)

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Zootaxa 3093: 1–34 (08 Nov. 2011) 22 plates; 12 references                  Accepted: 03 Oct. 2011
New species and new collection records of aquatic beetles in the genus Ochthebius Leach from southern Africa (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
PHILIP D. PERKINS (USA)

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Zootaxa 3090: 41–56 (03 Nov. 2011) 5 plates; 45 references                  Accepted: 04 Oct. 2011
Taxonomic notes on Chinese Cercyon: description of a new species, new synonyms, and additional faunistic records (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae)
FENG-LONG JIA (China), MARTIN FIKÁ
ČEK (Czech Republic) & SERGEY K. RYNDEVICH (Russia)
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Zootaxa 3090: 21–40 (03 Nov. 2011) 0 plates; 21 references                  Accepted: 03 Oct. 2011
An annotated checklist of the oryctine rhinoceros beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Oryctini) of the Neotropical and Nearctic realms
HÉCTOR JAIME GASCA-ÁLVAREZ (Colombia) & BRETT C. RATCLIFFE (USA)

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Zootaxa 3090: 1–20 (03 Nov. 2011) 8 plates; 39 references                  Accepted: 30 Sep. 2011
Revision and phylogeny of Chelagyrtodes Szymczakowski (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Camiarinae: Agyrtodini)
AINSLEY E. SEAGO (Australia) & RICHARD A. B. LESCHEN (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 3087: 1–55 (01 Nov. 2011) 37 plates; 39 references                  Accepted: 30 Sep. 2011
Notation of primary setae and pores on larvae of Dytiscinae (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), with phylogenetic considerations
YVES ALARIE (Canada), MARIANO C. MICHAT (Argentina) & KELLY B. MILLER (USA)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 3077: 1–118 (28 Oct. 2011) 57 plates; 75 references                   Accepted: 29 Jul. 2011
Systematics, distributions and bionomics of the Catopocerini (eyeless soil fungivore beetles) of North America (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Catopocerinae)
STEWART B. PECK & JOYCE COOK
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 3075: 1–151 (28 Oct. 2011) 1 plates; 50 references                   Accepted: 18 Jul. 2011
World catalogue of the species of the tribe Lomechusini (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
PETER HLAVÁ
Č, ALFRED F. NEWTON & MUNETOSHI MARUYAMA
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 3074: 1–198 (28 Oct. 2011) 128 plates; 15 references                   Accepted: 10 Aug. 2011
New records and description of fifty-four new species of aquatic beetles in the genus Hydraena Kugelann from South America (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
PHILIP D. PERKINS

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Zootaxa 3070: 51–59 (27 Oct. 2011) 1 plates; 16 references                  Accepted: 29 Sep. 2011
Contribution to the knowledge of the tribe Mastigerina (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae, Clavigeritae), with a description of a new genus from Borneo 

PETER HLAVÁ
Č (Czech Republic)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3067: 65–68 (25 Oct. 2011) 2 plates; 18 references                  Accepted: 04 Oct. 2011
A new species of the genus Oxyporus Fabricius (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxyporinae) from Yunnan, China 

GUO-FENG LI, YUAN ZHOU & FA-KE ZHENG (China)

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Zootaxa 3067: 1–25 (25 Oct. 2011) 14 plates; 64 references                  Accepted: 30 Sep. 2011
A synopsis on the Chinese species of Clytra Laicharting, with description of two new species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Clytrini) 

FENG-YAN WANG & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU (China)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3065: 66–68 (21 Oct. 2011) 3 plates; 4 references                  Accepted: 30 Sep. 2011
A new species of Nazeris Fauvel, 1873 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae) from Uttarakhand, Northern India
ALEXEY V. SHAVRIN (Latvia)

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Zootaxa 3065: 49–59 (21 Oct. 2011) 5 plates; 27 references                  Accepted: 22 Sep. 2011
Discovery in the caves of Guangxi, China: three new troglobitic species of Tribasodites Jeannel (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae)
ZI-WEI YIN, LI-ZHEN LI & MEI-JUN ZHAO (China)

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Zootaxa 3065: 38–48 (21 Oct. 2011) 8 plates; 17 references                  Accepted: 21 Sep. 2011
A review of the Tychus algericus species group (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), North Africa
GIORGIO SABELLA (Italy), CLAUDE BESUCHET (Switzerland) & SERGEY A. KURBATOV (Russia)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3060: 67–68 (17 Oct. 2011) 0 plates; 7 references                  Accepted: 05 Oct. 2011
Change of authorship of Aphodius and Oryctes to Hellwig, 1798 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) 
MIGUEL ANGEL ALONSO-ZARAZAGA (SPAIN) & FRANK-THORSTEN KRELL (USA)
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Zootaxa 3060: 31–46 (17 Oct. 2011) 5 plates; 29 references                  Accepted: 14 Sep. 2011
Revision of New Caledonian species of Eumolpinae described by K. M. Heller (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) 
JESÚS GÓMEZ-ZURITA
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Zootaxa 3058: 22–34 (13 Oct. 2011) 2 plates; 12 references                  Accepted: 13 Sep. 2011
One new genus and six new species of Coraebini Bedel, 1921 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from the Philippines 

C. L. BELLAMY (USA) & SADAHIRO OHMOMO (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 3055: 22–42 (11 Oct. 2011) 10 plates; 73 references                  Accepted: 08 Sep. 2011
Checklist of the Hydraenidae (Coleoptera) of Turkey, with notes on distribution 
NESİL ERTORUN (Turkey), MANFRED A. JÄCH (Austria), AHMET KASAPOĞLU (Turkey) & MUSTAFA C. DARILMAZ (Turkey)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3053: 59–62 (10 Oct. 2011) 1 plates; 9 references                  Accepted: 14 Sep. 2011
A new dichromatic species of Oaxacanthaxia Bellamy 1991 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from Quintana Roo, México 
C. L. BELLAMY (USA)
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Zootaxa 3050: 37–54 (06 Oct. 2011) 7 plates; 29 references                  Accepted: 22 Aug. 2011
Agabus (Acatodes) puetzi sp. n., a new species of the confinis-group from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Agabini) 
HANS FERY (Germany)
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Zootaxa 3047: 63–68 (03 Oct. 2011) 2 plates; 14 references                  Accepted: 07 Sep. 2011
A new species of the genus Golsinda Pascoe, 1857 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Mesosini) from the Malay Peninsula, with a nomenclatural note of the genus 
JUNSUKE YAMASAKO & HIROSHI MAKIHARA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 3031: 47–53 (16 Sep. 2011) 3 plates; 12 references                  Accepted: 15 Aug. 2011
Iapir quadridentatus sp. nov., a new torridincolid beetle from Brazil (Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Torridincolidae) 
VALERIA ARAÚJO BRAULE PINTO, CLAUDIO RUY VASCONCELOS DA FONSECA & NEUSA HAMADA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 3031: 1–13 (16 Sep. 2011) 4 plates; 23 references                  Accepted: 15 Aug. 2011
A revision of the genus Stictobura Crotch and description of a new species of Sticholotis Crotch (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Sticholotidinae) 
J. POORANI (India), NATALIA J. VANDENBERG (USA) & R.G. BOOTH (UK)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3021: 63–68 (12 Sep. 2011) 4 plates; 10 references                  Accepted: 02 Aug. 2011
Revision of the Ochthebiinae of Venezuela (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) 
LUIS F. VALLADARES (Spain) & ANDREW EDWARD Z. SHORT (USA)
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Zootaxa 3019: 1–25 (09 Sep. 2011) 56 plates; 39 references                  Accepted: 09 Aug. 2011
Descriptions of mature larvae and pupae of the genus Larinus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Lixinae) 

RAFAŁ GOSIK (Poland) & JI
ŘÍ SKUHROVEC (Czech Republic)
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Zootaxa 3016: 51–62 (07 Sep. 2011) 7 plates; 20 references                  Accepted: 08 Aug. 2011
Two new species of Satonius Endrödy-Younga from China and notes on the wing polymorphism of S. kurosawai Satô (Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Torridincolidae) 
JIŘÍ HÁJEK (Czech Republic), HIROYUKI YOSHITOMI (Japan), MARTIN FIKÁČEK (Czech Republic), MASAKAZU HAYASHI (Japan) & FENG-LONG JIA (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 3016: 37–50 (07 Sep. 2011) 6 plates; 17 references                  Accepted: 20 Jul. 2011
Batriscenellus Jeannel (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae) redefined, with notes on the Chinese species 
ZI-WEI YIN, LI-ZHEN LI & MEI-JUN ZHAO (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 3012: 64–68 (01 Sep. 2011) 2 plates; 5 references                  Accepted: 10 Aug. 2011
Two new species of Oocyclus Sharp from China with a revised key to the genus for mainland Southeast Asia (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) 
ANDREW EDWARD Z. SHORT (USA) & FENG-LONG JIA (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 3012: 59–63 (01 Sep. 2011) 1 plates; 13 references                  Accepted: 3 Aug. 2011
A review of the genus Phloeosinopsioides Schedl (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) 
ROGER A. BEAVER (Thailand)
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Zootaxa 3012: 1–20 (01 Sep. 2011) 9 plates; 62 references                  Accepted: 1 Aug. 2011
A hypothetical evolutionary history of passalid beetles narrated by the comparative anatomy of the hindgut (Coleoptera: Passalidae) 

CLAUDIO RUY VASCONCELOS DA FONSECA, MÁRCIO LUÍS LEITÃO BARBOSA & MARIA FERNANDA SOUZA FERNANDEZ (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3009: 62–66 (30 Aug. 2011) 3 plates; 6 references                  Accepted: 2 Aug. 2011
Two new species of Lathomicrus Jałoszyński (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae) from Borneo 
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI (Poland)
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Zootaxa 3003: 63–68 (25 Aug. 2011) 1 plates; 9 references                  Accepted: 18 Jul. 2011
Description of a second species in the enigmatic Southeast Asian genus Platygeniops (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) 
STANISLAV JÁKL (Czech Republic) & JAN KRIKKEN (The Netherlands)
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Zootaxa 3003: 55–62 (25 Aug. 2011) 4 plates; 9 references                  Accepted: 23 Jul. 2011
A new genus and species of Malvapiini (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Apionidae) from Ghana
MIŁOSZ A. MAZUR (Poland)
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Zootaxa 3003: 1–21 (25 Aug. 2011) 16 plates; 33 references                  Accepted: 6 Jul. 2011
Two new species of Macroplea Samouelle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Donaciinae) from China, with a key to all known species 
QIAOZHE LOU, PEIYU YU & HONGBIN LIANG (China)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3000: 66–68 (22 Aug. 2011) 0 plates; 6 references                  Accepted: 13 Jul. 2011
New replacement names for Oriental Scydmaeninae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 

PAWEŁ JAŁOSZY
ŃSKI (Poland)
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Zootaxa 3000: 44–48 (22 Aug. 2011) 2 plates; 6 references                  Accepted: 14 Jul. 2011
A new species of Peritrox Bates, with a revised key for the genus (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) 
JULIANA MOURÃO DOS SANTOS RODRIGUES & JOSÉ RICARDO M. MERMUDES (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 3000: 1–43 (22 Aug. 2011) 22 plates; 33 references                  Accepted: 5 Jul. 2011
Revision of the New Caledonian endemic genus Bohumiljania Monrós (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Spilopyrinae) 

C. A. M. REID & M. BEATSON (Australia)

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Zootaxa 2996: 49–56 (16 Aug. 2011) 3 plates; 7 references                  Accepted: 23 May 2011
Spanglerodessus shorti and Incomptodessus camachoi, new genera and species of Bidessini from Guyana and Venezuela (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae) 
KELLY B. MILLER (USA) & MAURICIO GARCIA(Venezuela)
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Zootaxa 2991: 21–28 (10 Aug. 2011) 2 plates; 13 references                  Accepted: 15 Jul. 2011
New species and new records of Syndicus Motschulsky (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI (Poland)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2987: 65–68 (05 Aug. 2011) 2 plates; 8 references                  Accepted: 2 Jun. 2011
A new species of Callona Waterhouse (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from Costa Rica and Panama
BRYAN K. EYA & WILLIAM H. TYSON (USA)
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Zootaxa 2987: 56–64 (05 Aug. 2011) 4 plates; 13 references                  Accepted: 7 Jul. 2011
Description of two new species of Lucanus Scopoli (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Lucanidae) from southeastern Tibet, China
HAO HUANG, YANG HE & ZHENG SHI (China)
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Zootaxa 2987: 13–17 (05 Aug. 2011) 3 plates; 7 references                  Accepted: 1 Jul. 2011
Glenea changchini sp. nov. from Yunnan of China (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Saperdini) 

MEIYING LIN (China) & WENHSIN LIN (Taiwan)

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Zootaxa 2987: 1–12 (05 Aug. 2011) 5 plates; 31 references                  Accepted: 6 Jul. 2011
Revision of Palaearctic and Oriental Necrophila Kirby & Spence, part 1: subgenus Deutosilpha Portevin (Coleoptera: Silphidae) 

JAN R
ŮŽIČKA & JAN SCHNEIDER (Czech Republic)
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Zootaxa 2977: 50–60 (27 Jul. 2011) 6 plates; 5 references                  Accepted: 7 Jun. 2011
On some species of Pandeleteius Schoenherr, 1834, in South America south of
the tenth parallel (Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Entiminae: Tanymecini)
ANNE T. HOWDEN (Canada)

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Zootaxa 2977: 1–49 (27 Jul. 2011) 25 plates; 23 references                  Accepted: 20 Jun. 2011
The weevil genus Trigonopterus Fauvel (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) and
its synonyms—a taxonomic study on the species tied to its genus-group names
ALEXANDER RIEDEL (Germany)

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Zootaxa 2975: 64–68 (25 Jul. 2011) 3 plates; 11 references                  Accepted: 25 Jun. 2011
Review of the genus Hyperstoma (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)

KRISTYNA JANISOVA & MILADA BOCAKOVA (Czech Republic)

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Zootaxa 2970: 1–32 (19 Jul. 2011) 25 plates; 29 references                  Accepted: 29 Jun. 2011
Revision of Anoreina Bates (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae)

VANESSA S. MACHADO & MARCELA L. MONNÉ (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 2965: 61–68 (13 Jul. 2011) 1 plates; 13 references                  Accepted: 21 Jun. 2011
New species of Rhinotragini and redescription of two species of Stultutragus
Clarke (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae)
LARRY G. BEZARK (USA), ANTONIO SANTOS-SILVA (Brazil) & UBIRAJARA R. MARTINS (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 2965: 39–50 (13 Jul. 2011) 9 plates; 30 references                  Accepted: 15 Jun. 2011
Three new Praociini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Peninsula Valdés (Argentina), with zoogeographical and ecological remarks
GUSTAVO E. FLORES, RODOLFO CARRARA & GERMÁN H. CHELI (Argentina)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2944: 1–417 (08 Jun. 2011) 287 plates; 37 references                   Accepted: 13 Jun. 2011
New species (130) of the hyperdiverse aquatic beetle genus Hydraena Kugelann from Papua New Guinea, and a preliminary analysis of areas of endemism (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
PHILIP D. PERKINS

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Zootaxa 2943: 45–57 (07 Jul. 2011) 6 plates; 39 references                  Accepted: 31 May 2011
Study of a part of the A. G. Olivier Lixini collection (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): lectotype designations, new synonymies and nomenclatural acts
LEVENT GÜLTEK
İN (Turkey) & HÉLÈNE PERRIN (France)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2937: 66–68 (04 Jul. 2011) 1 plates; 7 references                  Accepted: 20 Jun. 2011
A new species of Eleodes (Eleodes) from Mexico, with ecological
and phenological notes (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
CHARLES A. TRIPLEHORN (USA) & PAULINA CIFUENTES RUIZ (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 2932: 1–23 (28 Jun. 2011) 11 plates; 21 references                  Accepted: 14 Jun. 2011
Three new species of Anthaxia Eschscholtz, 1829 from Iran
(Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
DANIELE BAIOCCHI (Italy)

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Zootaxa 2931: 8–34 (27 Jun. 2011) 15 plates; 12 references                  Accepted: 17 May 2011
Pteroptyx maipo Ballantyne, a new species of bent-winged firefly
(Coleoptera: Lampyridae) from Hong Kong, and its relevance to firefly biology and conservation
LESLEY BALLANTYNE (Australia), XIN HUA FU (P.R. China), CHUN-HAT SHIH (P.R. China), CHUI-YU
CHENG (P.R. China) & VOR YIU (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 2928: 64–68 (23 Jun. 2011) 1 plates; 22 references                       Accepted: 9 Jun. 2011
Synonymical notes on Neotropical Cerambycidae (Insecta, Coleoptera)
MIGUEL A. MONNÉ & JUAN PABLO BOTERO R. (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 2928: 57–63 (23 Jun. 2011) 3 plates; 12 references                       Accepted: 31 May 2011
Promanodes alleni sp. nov., the second species of the Tertiary genus Promanodes
Kolibáč, Schmied, Wappler et Kubisz, 2010, with improved diagnosis of the genus and remarks on its phylogeny (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae)
JI
ŘÍ KOLIBÁČ (Czech Republic)
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Zootaxa 2928: 20–28 (23 Jun. 2011) 2 plates; 12 references                       Accepted: 1 Jun. 2011
Synopsis of the genus Oxathres Bates (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
MIGUEL A. MONNÉ (Brazil) & GERARD LUC TAVAKILIAN (France)

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Zootaxa 2927: 49–56 (22 Jun. 2011) 5 plates; 12 references                       Accepted: 29 Mar. 2011
Description and taxonomic position of a new genus and species of southern
African pollen beetle (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Meligethinae)
P. AUDISIO (Italy), J. JELÍNEK (Czech Republic), A.R. CLINE (USA), E. MANCINI (Italy), M. TRIZZINO
(Italy), P. CERRETTI (Italy) & G. ANTONINI (Italy)
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Zootaxa 2923: 27–47 (20 Jun. 2011) 8 plates; 81 references                       Accepted: 30 May 2011
Tibiodrepanus tagliaferrii—a new Afrotropical Drepanocerina species
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Oniticellini), with notes on phylogeny and distribution of the genus
ENRICO BARBERO, CLAUDIA PALESTRINI & ANGELA ROGGERO (Italy)

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Zootaxa 2921: 56–64 (16 Jun. 2011) 4 plates; 4 references                       Accepted: 10 May 2011
Stegoelmis Hinton, 1939 (Coleoptera: Elmidae: Elminae) in Brazil: two new species and a key to the Brazilian species
ANDRÉ S. FERNANDES, MARIA INÊS S. PASSOS & NEUSA HAMADA (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2917: 59–68 (14 Jun. 2011) 5 plates; 9 references                        Accepted: 3 May 2011
Five new species of Telegeusis Horn, 1895 (Coleoptera: Telegeusidae) from Mexico, with a key to the species
SANTIAGO ZARAGOZA-CABALLERO & BEATRIZ RODRÍGUEZ-VELEZ (Mexico)

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Correspondence
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otaxa
2916: 62–64 (14 Jun. 2011) 1 plates; 6 references                        Accepted: 11 May 2011
First record and a new species of Megarthrus Curtis (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Proteininae) from the Colombian Central Andes
MARGARITA M. LÓPEZ-GARCÍA (Colombia), DIANA M. MÉNDEZ-ROJAS (Colombia) & JOSÉ LUÍS
NAVARRETE-HEREDIA (Mexico)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2915: 20–28 (13 Jun. 2011) 5 plates; 12 references                        Accepted: 11 May 2011
Immature stages of Homophileurus tricuspis Prell (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Phileurini) with notes on natural history and distribution in Colombia
JHON CÉSAR NEITA MORENO (Colombia) & BRETT C. RATCLIFFE (USA)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2914: 1–66 (10 Jun. 2011) 3 plates; 166 references                        Accepted: 7 Feb. 2011
World catalogue of the family Callirhipidae (Coleoptera:
Elateriformia), with nomenclatural notes
JI
ŘÍ HÁJEK
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Article 
Zootaxa 2913: 59–62 (10 Jun. 2011) 3 plates; 3 references                        Accepted: 3 May 2011
Ochthebius ustaoglui sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae),
a new species of the O. metallescens group from Turkey
E. TARIK TOPKARA (Turkey), MANFRED JÄCH (Austria) & AHMET KASAPO
ĞLU (Turkey)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2913: 1–15 (10 Jun. 2011) 7 plates; 8 references                        Accepted: 11 May 2011
A new genus Microphylacinus and revision of the closely related Phylacinus
Fairmaire, 1896 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pedinini) from Madagascar
DARIUSZ IWAN (Poland), MARCIN KAMI
ŃSKI (Poland) & ROLF AALBU (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2909: 47–56 (8 Jun. 2011) 2 plates; 29 references                        Accepted: 29 Mar. 2011
A new species of southern African pollen beetle and discussion of the taxonomic position of Jelinekigethes Audisio & Cline, 2009
(Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Meligethinae)
PAOLO AUDISIO (Italy), ANDREW RICHARD CLINE (USA), EMILIANO MANCINI (Italy), MARCO
TRIZZINO (Italy), FRANCESCO LAMANNA (Italy) & GLORIA ANTONINI (Italy)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2909: 38–46 (8 Jun. 2011) 4 plates; 28 references                        Accepted: 3 May 2011
Hydroporus esseri sp. n., a new diving beetle from southern Turkey (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae)
HANS FERY & LARS HENDRICH (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2909: 27–37 (8 Jun. 2011) 6 plates; 20 references                        Accepted: 10 May 2011
A new species of Stenomorpha Solier (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae: Asidini) from Cuatrociénegas, Mexico with a key to the furcata species group
AARON D. SMITH, KELLY B. MILLER & QUENTIN D. WHEELER (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2908: 45–63 (7 Jun. 2011) 8 plates; 17 references                        Accepted: 11 Apr. 2011
Revision of the Mexican subgenus Carabomimus Kolbe, 1895 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Calosoma Weber, 1801): C. depressicolle, C. flohri and C. digueti species groups
MARTIN HÄCKEL (Czech Republic), WALTER HEINZ (Germany) & ROSTISLAV SEHNAL (Czech Republic)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2908: 1–44 (7 Jun. 2011) 13 plates; 89 references                        Accepted: 22 Feb. 2011
World review of Laricobius (Coleoptera: Derodontidae)
RICHARD A. B. LESCHEN (New Zealand)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2907: 47–50 (7 Jun. 2011) 13 plates; 22 references                     Accepted: 30 Apr. 2011
A new Iranian Onthophagus species belonging to the O. semicornis group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Onthophagini)
STEFANO ZIANI (Italy)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2906: 1–42 (3 Jun. 2011) 38 plates; 20 references                       Accepted: 10 Mar. 2011
Notes on the genus Ceruchus MacLeay from China, with the description of a new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Lucanidae)
HAO HUANG (P.R. China), YÛKI IMURA (Japan) & CHANG-CHIN CHEN (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2900: 51–68 (31 May 2011) 8 plates; 29 references                     Accepted: 31 Mar. 2011
New distributional records for Gyrinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) on New Guinea
and nearby islands, with a checklist of the New Guinea species
DAN A. POLHEMUS (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2900: 1–45 (31 May 2011) 11 plates; 89 references                      Accepted: 22 Apr. 2011
Phylogenetic relationships of Elateridae inferred from adult morphology,
with special reference to the position of Cardiophorinae
HUME DOUGLAS (Canada)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2895: 1–34 (27 May 2011) 11 plates; 16 references                      Accepted: 21 Apr. 2011
New taxa of the subfamily Cantharinae (Coleoptera: Cantharidae)
from south-eastern Asia, with notes on other species III
VLADIMÍR ŠVIHLA (Czech Republic)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2892: 1–24 (26 May 2011) 19 plates; 25 references                      Accepted: 21 Apr. 2011
Illustrated overview and identification key to Cameroonian Ceratocanthinae beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Hybosoridae)
with description of four new species
ALBERTO BALLERIO (Italy), BRUCE D. GILL (Canada) & VASILY V. GREBENNIKOV (Canada)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2888: 39–56 (24 May 2011) 6 plates; 30 references                      Accepted: 16 Mar. 2011
Description of the egg and larva of Paederidus Mulsant & Rey, 1878
(Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae) based on the two European species
BERNARD STANIEC, EWA PIETRYKOWSKA-TUDRUJ & DOROTA SAŁAPA (Poland)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2882: 64–68 (18 May 2011) 2 plates; 2 references                        Accepted: 29 Apr. 2011
Bembidion (Plataphodes) kmecoi sp. nov. from China, Sichuan (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiina)
LUCA TOLEDANO (Italy) & OTO NAKLÁDAL (Czech Republic)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2882: 35–50 (18 May 2011) 8 plates; 15 references                      Accepted: 24 Mar. 2011
Review of the genus Paragolsinda Breuning, 1956 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Mesosini), with reconsideration of the endophallic terminology
JUNSUKE YAMASAKO & NOBUO OHBAYASHI (Japan)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2879: 59–63 (16 May 2011) 2 plates; 10 references                     Accepted: 11 Apr. 2011
Description of Hydraena (s.str.) tekmanensis (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
from northeastern Turkey
MANFRED A. JÄCH (Austria), ANDRE SKALE (Germany) & AHMET KASAPO
ĞLU (Turkey)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2872: 1–17 (9 May 2011) 7 plates; 25 references                        Accepted: 24 Mar. 2011
Mathesius liaoningensis gen. et sp. nov. of Jehol Biota, a presumptive relative of
the clerid or thaneroclerid branches of Cleroidea (Coleoptera)
JI
ŘÍ KOLIBÁČ (Czech Republic) & DI-YING HUANG (P.R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2870: 63–68 (6 May 2011) 3 plates; 19 references                        Accepted: 11 Apr. 2011
A new species of Criocerinae (Chrysomelidae) from New Caledonia: Oulema (Oulema) taophiloides sp. nov.
JESÚS GÓMEZ-ZURITA (Spain)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2870: 48–52 (6 May 2011) 1 plates; 4 references                            Accepted: 5 Apr. 2011
Three new species of the genus Anthaxia Eschscholtz, 1829 from Madagascar (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae: Anthaxiini)
SVATOPLUK BÍLÝ (Czech Republic)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2868: 62–68 (5 May 2011) 3 plates; 24 references                          Accepted: 25 Mar. 2011
Notes on the taxonomic identity of Bystus hirtulus (Kirsch) and transfer from Endomychidae to Coccinellidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea), with designation of a lectotype for Alexia hirtula Kirsch
FLOYD W. SHOCKLEY & NATALIA J. VANDENBERG (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2866: 39–49 (4 May 2011) 11 plates; 13 references                        Accepted: 28 Feb. 2011
Ultrastructural analysis of Coarazuphium formoso (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Zuphiini), a new Brazilian troglobitic beetle
THAÍS GIOVANNINI PELLEGRINI & RODRIGO LOPES FERREIRA (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2865: 53–67 (3 May 2011) 6 plates; 30 references                       Accepted: 14 Feb. 2011
The morphology of the pupae of six species of Philonthina
(Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Staphylinini) with taxonomic remarks
EWA PIETRYKOWSKA-TUDRUJ & BERNARD STANIEC (Poland)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2863: 49–62 (2 May 2011) 5 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 8 Mar. 2011
Revision of the New Caledonian genus Pseudonthobium Paulian, 1984 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Epilissini)
OLIVIER MONTREUIL & THOMAS THÉRY (France)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2862: 56–68 (2 May 2011) 9 plates; 32 references                        Accepted: 5 Mar. 2011
A new hypogean species of Iberian Microtyphlus and review of the taxonomic position of Speleotyphlus and Aphaenotyphlus (Carabidae: Trechinae: Anillini)
VICENTE M. ORTUÑO & ALBERTO SENDRA (Spain)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2858: 1–60 (29 Apr. 2011) 2 plates; 334 references                     Accepted: 3 Dec. 2010
A preliminary bibliographic survey of the insects found in poultry houses from the Neotropical Region, with remarks on selected taxa shared with native birds' nests

OSVALDO DI IORIO & PAOLA TURIENZO
(Argentina)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2854: 1–73 (29 Apr. 2011) 25 plates; 80 references                      Accepted: 22 Dec. 2010
A multilingual key to the genera and subgenera of the subfamily Scarabaeinae
of the New World (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
FERNANDO Z. VAZ-DE-MELLO (Brazil), W. D. EDMONDS (USA),
FEDERICO C. OCAMPO (Argentina) & PAUL SCHOOLMEESTERS (Belgium)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2853: 1–71 (29 Apr. 2011) 9 plates; 186 references                      Accepted: 10 Dec. 2010
Systematic revision of the genus Cerocoma Geoffroy, 1762
(Coleoptera: Meloidae: Cerocomini)
FEDERICA TURCO & MARCO A. BOLOGNA
(Italy)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2836: 65–68 (28 Apr. 2011) 2 plates; 3 references                          Accepted: 26 Mar. 2011
A new species of the Madagascan genus Pseudorphnus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Orphninae)
ANDREY V. FROLOV (Russia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2832: 1–43 (26 Apr. 2011) 9 plates; 66 references                         Accepted: 17 Mar. 2011
Revision of the nearctic blister beetle genus Tricrania LeConte, 1860
(Coleoptera: Meloidae: Nemognathinae)
ANDREW R. CLINE & JEFFREY P. HUETHER (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2831: 39–53 (26 Apr. 2011) 3 plates; 13 references                       Accepted: 17 Mar. 2011
Revision of the genus Stenolis Bates (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) 
MIGUEL A. MONNÉ (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2831: 1–22 (26 Apr. 2011) 14 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 3 Feb. 2011
New species of Triplonychus Candèze and Globothorax Fleutiaux from Brazil (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Cardiophorinae)
SIMONE POLICENA ROSA (Brazil)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2830: 55–58 (22 Apr. 2011) 2 plates; 5 references                          Accepted: 21 Feb. 2011
Notionotus attenuatus sp. n. from southern China with a key to the Old World species of the genus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)
FENGLONG JIA (P.R. China) & ANDREW EDWARD Z. SHORT (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2830: 29–38 (22 Apr. 2011) 1 plates; 31 references                          Accepted: 7 Mar. 2011
Faunal survey, endemism and possible species loss of Scarabaeinae
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in the western slopes of the moist South Western Ghats, South India
THOMAS K. SABU, S. NITHYA & K.V. VINOD (India)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2829: 1–45 (22 Apr. 2011) 27 plates; 41 references                         Accepted: 28 Feb. 2011
Revision of the Mecodema curvidens species group (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Broscini)
DAVID S. SELDON & RICHARD A.B. LESCHEN (New Zealand)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2824: 44–52 (19 Apr. 2011) 5 plates; 28 references                        Accepted: 3 Mar. 2011
Histerid beetles of French Guiana. V. Revision of the genus Ebonius Lewis (Coleoptera, Histeridae, Omalodini)
NICOLAS DEGALLIER (France), FERNANDO W. T. LEIVAS (Brazil) & DANIEL P. MOURA (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2824: 21–43 (19 Apr. 2011) 9 plates; 45 references                        Accepted: 15 Jan. 2011
Redefinition of the vittata species group of Epicauta Dejean (1834) (Coleoptera: Meloidae) and taxonomic revision of the species from southern South America
MARÍA PAULA CAMPOS-SOLDINI & SERGIO ALBERTO ROIG-JUÑENT (Argentina)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2824: 1–20 (19 Apr. 2011) 12 plates; 8 references                           Accepted: 7 Mar. 2011
Eight new species of Lemodes (Lagriomorpha) (Coleoptera: Anthicidae: Lemodinae) from Indonesian New Guinea, with a revised key to the species
DANIEL K. YOUNG (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2821: 55–61 (15 Apr. 2011) 3 plates; 4 references                         Accepted: 22 Feb. 2011
New species of Colyphus Spinola (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae) from Central America, with taxonomic and distributional notes on some others
JACQUES RIFKIND (USA) & WILLIAM F. BARR (Russia)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2811: 66–68 (7 Apr. 2011) 1 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 7 Mar. 2011
Buprestis bruchi Obenberger 1928, a new synonym of Buprestis striata Fabricius 1775 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
C. L. BELLAMY & RICHARD L. WESTCOTT (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2811: 53–58 (7 Apr. 2011) 1 plates; 31 references                            Accepted: 6 Mar. 2011
A new Asian subgenus and species of Ischalia (Coleoptera: Ischaliidae)
with an assessment of subgeneric concepts, revised world checklist, and keys to the subgenera and “blue elytra” species
DANIEL K. YOUNG (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2811: 47–52 (7 Apr. 2011) 3 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 8 Mar. 2011
A new fossil genus of the family Glaphyridae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea)
from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation
G.V. NIKOLAJEV (Kazakhstan), BO WANG (P.R. China) & HAICHUN ZHANG (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2808: 57–63 (4 Apr. 2011) 5 plates; 7 references                             Accepted: 1 Mar. 2011
Description of the larva of Potamophilops cinereus (Blanchard) from Southeastern Brazil (Coleoptera, Elmidae, Larainae)
SERGIO ANTONIO VANIN & CLEIDE COSTA (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2805: 36–56 (30 Mar. 2011) 6 plates; 26 references                       Accepted: 7 Feb. 2011
Agrilus Curtis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) of the Baja California peninsula,
México
HENRY A. HESPENHEIDE, RICHARD L. WESTCOTT & CHARLES L. BELLAMY (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2805: 31–35 (30 Mar. 2011) 2 plates; 7 references                        Accepted: 14 Feb. 2011
A new species of Melzerella Lima from Bolivia (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Aerenicini) with a key to known species
JAMES E. WAPPES & STEVEN W. LINGAFELTER (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2803: 63–68 (29 Mar. 2011) 3 plates; 25 references                      Accepted: 2 Mar. 2011
The authorship and date of the genus-group name Pachylomera (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
STEFANO ZIANI (Italy) & TRISTÃO BRANCO (Portugal)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2803: 49–56 (29 Mar. 2011) 4 plates; 16 references                     Accepted: 28 Feb. 2011
A new species of Buprestis Linnaeus, 1758 from Veracruz, Mexico (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestini) and a brief discussion of the Mesoamerican species of the subgenus Knulliobuprestis Kurosawa, 1988
C. L. BELLAMY (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2801: 57–68 (25 Mar. 2011) 4 plates; 15 references                       Accepted: 2 Feb. 2011
The genus Plotina Lewis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), with descriptions of four new species from China
XINGMIN WANG, SHUNXIANG REN & XIAOSHENG CHEN (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2797: 57–64 (22 Mar. 2011) 3 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 7 Feb. 2011
Three new species of Cylloepus Erichson (Insecta: Coleoptera: Elmidae) from Southeastern Brazil
BRUNNO HENRIQUE LANZELLOTTI SAMPAIO, MARIA INÊS DA SILVA DOS PASSOS & NELSON
FERREIRA-JR. (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2797: 1–20 (22 Mar. 2011) 14 plates; 18 references                         Accepted: 14 Feb. 2011
Twelve new species of the Genus Nazeris Fauvel from Zhejiang Province, China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae)
JIAYAO HU, LIZHEN LI & MEIJUN ZHAO (P.R. China)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2795: 65–68 (18 Mar. 2011) 1 plates; 6 references                          Accepted: 8 Feb. 2011
Synopsis of Zikanita Lane (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae)
VANESSA S. MACHADO & MARCELA L. MONNÉ (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2794: 57–62 (18 Mar. 2011) 2 plates; 5 references                           Accepted: 7 Feb. 2011
Redescription and relationships of Pseudothilmanus Pic
(Coleoptera: Rhagophthalmidae)—a long-term neglected glow-worm beetle genus from the Himalayas
ROBIN KUNDRATA & LADISLAV BOCAK (Czech Republic)

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Article  
Zootaxa 2792: 63–67 (16 Mar. 2011) 3 plates; 6 references                          Accepted: 28 Jan. 2011
Description of a new species of Laccodytes Régimbart, 1895 (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Laccophilinae) from Cuba
MARIO TOLEDO (Italy), YOANDRI S. MEGNA (Cuba) & YVES ALARIE (Canada)

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Article  
Zootaxa 2792: 51–62 (16 Mar. 2011) 3 plates; 49 references                          Accepted: 7 Feb. 2011
Ripiphorus caboverdianus sp. nov.—the first ripiphorid record from
the Macaronesian volcanic islands (Coleoptera: Ripiphoridae: Ripiphorinae)
JAN BATELKA & JAKUB STRAKA (Czech Republic)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2790: 23–34 (14 Mar. 2011) 7 plates; 28 references                          Accepted: 2 Feb. 2011
Synopsis of the genus Amphicoma Latreille (Coleoptera: Glaphyridae)
of Taiwan with special reference to the male genitalia
CHUN-LIN LI, CHUAN-CHAN WANG & HOU-JAY CHEN (R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2786: 42–50 (9 Mar. 2011) 4 plates; 23 references                          Accepted: 28 Jan. 2011
A new species of Typhlocharis Dieck, 1869 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Anillini)
from South Spain, with notes on the phylogenetic value of sexually related characters and the presence of stridulatory organ (pars stridens) in the genus
JUAN P. ZABALLOS & SERGIO PÉREZ-GONZÁLEZ (Spain)

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Zootaxa 2780: 57–62 (1 Mar. 2011) 1 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 18 Jan. 2011
Andraegoidus Aurivillius: new species, synonymies and key to the species (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
JUAN PABLO BOTERO R. & MARCELA L. MONNÉ (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2780: 48–56 (1 Mar. 2011) 7 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 21 Jan. 2011
On the Iberian endemic subgenus Lathromene Koch (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae): description of the first hypogean Domene Fauvel, 1872 from Portugal
A. S. P. S. REBOLEIRA (Portugal), F. GONÇALVES (Portugal) & P. OROMÍ (Spain)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2780: 1–19 (1 Mar. 2011) 4 plates; 56 references                                Accepted: 7 Jan. 2011
Phylogenetic analysis of the Pantomorus-Naupactus complex (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) from North and Central America
MARÍA V. ROSAS (Mexico), JUAN J. MORRONE (Mexico), M. GUADALUPE DEL RÍO (Argentina) &
ANALÍA A. LANTERI (Argentina)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2777: 54–60 (25 Feb. 2011) 6 plates; 3 references                             Accepted: 2 Jan. 2011
A new genus and species of the subfamily Philinae (Coleoptera: Vesperidae)
MEIYING LIN & WENXUAN BI (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2777: 25–40 (25 Feb. 2011) 7 plates; 32 references                         Accepted: 24 Dec. 2010
The immature stages of Tropisternus (Pleurhomus) sahlbergi (Sharp) (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae), with considerations on the primary chaetotaxy of Tropisternus Solier
PATRICIA L. M. TORRES, MARIANO C. MICHAT & MIGUEL ARCHANGELSKY (Argentina)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2766: 30–56 (16 Feb. 2011) 10 plates; 68 references                        Accepted: 7 Jan. 2011
Revisional study on the genus Mimastra (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae:
Galerucinae). Part 3: Mimastra oblonga and M. tarsalis species groups
JAN BEZD
ĚK (Czech Republic)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2764: 61–68 (14 Feb. 2011) 7 plates; 4 references                            Accepted: 7 Jan. 2011
Redescription of the genus Formicocephalus Heller, and description of two new species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae)
THOMAS THÉRY & JEAN-CLAUDE LECOQ (France)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2764: 22–34 (14 Feb. 2011) 10 plates; 15 references                       Accepted: 29 Dec. 2010
New species of Tychini from Turkey and Japan
(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)
GIORGIO SABELLA (Italy), CLAUDE BESUCHET (Switzerland) & SERGEY A. KURBATOV (Russia)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2763: 66–68 (11 Feb. 2011) 1 plates; 2 references                           Accepted: 15 Jan. 2011
First record of the genus Copturomorpha Champion from the United States
and a new species from Texas (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Conoderinae)
HENRY A. HESPENHEIDE (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2763: 1–33 (11 Feb. 2011) 13 plates; 38 references                         Accepted: 11 Jan. 2011
Hlavaciellus Jałoszy
ński, 2006: eleven new species, detailed morphology and systematic position within Cephenniini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZY
ŃSKI (Poland)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2760: 29–38 (8 Feb. 2011) 3 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 14 Dec. 2010
Molecular and morphological analyses confirm two new species of the Hydraena
emarginata–saga clade (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae) from Spain and France
MARCO TRIZZINO (Italy), MANFRED A. JÄCH (Austria), PAOLO AUDISIO (Italy) & IGNACIO RIBERA
(Spain)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2750: 1–14 (27 Jan. 2011) 7 plates; 23 references                           Accepted: 29 Nov. 2010
Review of Incadorcus Arnaud & Bomans with the description of three new species from the Yungas of Peru and Bolivia (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Lucaninae)
PASCHOAL COELHO GROSSI (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2748: 53–60 (25 Jan. 2011) 6 plates; 7 references                          Accepted: 16 Nov. 2010
A new species of Trichopseniini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)
found with Schedorhinotermes termite (Isoptera, Rhinotermitidae) in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand
TAISUKE KANAO (Japan), MUNETOSHI MARUYAMA (Japan) & WATANA SAKCHOOWONG (Thailand)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2745: 53–62 (20 Jan. 2011) 5 plates; 45 references                         Accepted: 21 Dec. 2010
The first fossil buprestids from the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation
of China (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
XIAOXIONG PAN, HUALI CHANG, DONG REN & CHUNGKUN SHIH (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2745: 30–42 (20 Jan. 2011) 10 plates; 23 references                       Accepted: 14 Dec. 2010
A new Brazilian species of Loxandrus LeConte, 1852, with description of immatures and notes on natural history (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Loxandrini)
CLEIDE COSTA, SERGIO A. VANIN & THIAGO R. DE CARVALHO (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2745: 1–29 (20 Jan. 2011) 17 plates; 41 references                          Accepted: 21 Oct. 2010
Taxonomy of the dung beetle genus Ochicanthon Vaz-de-Mello (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) of the Indian subcontinent, with notes on distribution patterns and flightlessness
MATHEWS LATHA (India), GIULIO CUCCODORO (Switzerland), THOMAS K. SABU (India) & K. V.
VINOD (India)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2740: 59–67 (14 Jan. 2011) 5 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 14 Dec. 2010
Ilybius thynias sp. n. from European Turkey (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

HANS FERY (Germany) & MAREK PRZEWO
ŹNY (Poland)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2736: 63–68 (11 Jan. 2011) 2 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 24 Nov. 2010
A new genus and species of fossil Eodromeinae from the Yixian Formation of
Western Liaoning, China (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Trachypachidae)
TING JIA, HONGBING LIANG, HUALI CHANG & DONG REN (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2736: 31–43 (11 Jan. 2011) 8 plates; 3 references                            Accepted: 29 Nov. 2010
Seven new species of the genus Chrysolina Motschulsky from China
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae)
SI-QIN GE (P.R. China), MAURO DACCORDI (Italy), WEN-ZHU LI (P.R. China) & XING-KE YANG (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2721: 15–27 (14 Dec. 2010) 2 plates; 9 references                            Accepted: 20 Oct. 2010
Supplement to the revision of the genus Brachelytrium Obenberger, 1923 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae: Anthaxiini)
SVATOPLUK BÍLÝ (Czech Republic) & CHARLES L. BELLAMY (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2717: 1–33 (8 Dec. 2010) 10 plates; 71 references                           Accepted: 16 Nov. 2010
New genera of Palaeotropical Xyleborini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae:
Scolytinae) based on congruence between morphological and molecular characters
JIRI HULCR & A. I. COGNATO (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2693: 35–48 (1 Dec. 2010) 4 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 27 Oct. 2010
A review of the Neotropical dung beetle genera Deltorhinum Harold, 1869, and Lobidion gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
FRANÇOIS GÉNIER (Canada)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2692: 1–32 (30 Nov. 2010) 21 plates; 31 references                            Accepted: 5 Nov. 2010
Revision of the Australo-Papuan genus Spilopyra Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Spilopyrinae)
C. A. M. REID & M. BEATSON (Australia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2689: 15–26 (26 Nov. 2010) 7 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 25 Oct. 2010
A hypogean new species of Trechus Clairville, 1806 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from Portugal and considerations about the T. fulvus species group
ANA SOFIA P. S. REBOLEIRA (Portugal), VICENTE M. ORTUÑO (Spain), FERNANDO GONÇALVES
(Portugal) & PEDRO OROMÍ (Spain)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2686: 1–61 (24 Nov. 2010) 12 plates; 20 references                           Accepted: 6 Oct. 2010
Revision of the genus Renda Blackwelder, 1952
(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Xantholinini)
JUAN MÁRQUEZ (
Mexico)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2683: 61–65 (22 Nov. 2010) 3 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 25 Oct. 2010
Review of the genus Ceratopriomorphus Pic, 1922 (Coleoptera: Lycidae)

BARBORA BARANCIKOVA (Czech Republic), ELYNTON ALVES DO NASCIMENTO (Brazil) &
MILADA BOCAKOVA (Czech Republic)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2683: 56–60 (22 Nov. 2010) 4 plates; 14 references                          Accepted: 21 Oct. 2010
Gorditus rotundus, a new genus and species of Pentodontini from Cuba (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)
BRETT C. RATCLIFFE (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2683: 45–55 (22 Nov. 2010) 5 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 25 Oct. 2010
Diabrotica collicola (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), a new species of leaf beetle from Argentina and key to species of the Diabrotica virgifera group and relatives
NORA CABRERA & GUILLERMO CABRERA WALSH (Argentina)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2679: 32–50 (17 Nov. 2010) 12 plates; 14 references                        Accepted: 26 Oct. 2010
Two new flea beetle genera: Alasia alpina gen. et sp. nov. from a Costa Rican cloud forest and Pseudostenophyma gen. nov. from Brazil (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae)
DAVID G. FURTH & KIRA M. ZHAUROVA (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2678: 1–47 (17 Nov. 2010) 23 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 25 Oct. 2010
A revision of the genus Podaena Ordish (Insecta: Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
JUAN A. DELGADO (Spain) & RICARDO L. PALMA (New Zealand)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2675: 33–46 (12 Nov. 2010) 3 plates; 39 references                           Accepted: 25 Oct. 2010
Darwin’s forgotten weevil

ROLF G. OBERPRIELER (Australia), RICHARD T. THOMPSON (UK) & MAGNUS PETERSON
(Australia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2675: 26–32 (12 Nov. 2010) 2 plates; 19 references                           Accepted: 20 Oct. 2010
Coronabrotica, a new genus and species of Luperini, and a key to genera of Section Phyllecthrites (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae)
LUCIANO DE A. MOURA (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2670: 59–68 (8 Nov. 2010) 4 plates; 29 references                               Accepted: 9 Oct. 2010
Taxonomy of the Oulimnius tuberculatus species group (Coleoptera: Elmidae)
based on molecular and morphological data
FEDOR
ČIAMPOR Jr. & JÁN KODADA (Slovakia)
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Erratum 
Zootaxa 2663: 68 (1 Nov. 2010
Erratum: CHANI-POSSE, MARIANA (2010) Revision of the southern South American
species of Philonthus Stephens (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Zootaxa, 2595, 1–70.
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Article 
Zootaxa 2663: 53–58 (1 Nov. 2010) 3 plates; 1 references                             Accepted: 11 Sep. 2010
Two new species of Cuspidevia Jäch & Boukal, 1995 from China
(Coleoptera: Elmidae)
DONGJU BIAN & LANZHU JI (P.R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2662: 28–52 (29 Oct. 2010) 6 plates; 53 references                             Accepted: 1 Oct. 2010
Molecular phylogeny of the weevil genus Kyklioacalles Stüben, with descriptions of a new subgenus Glaberacalles and two new species (Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae)
PETER E. STÜBEN & JONAS J. ASTRIN (Germany)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2662: 1–27 (29 Oct. 2010) 11 plates; 40 references                             Accepted: 4 Oct. 2010
Diversity and taxonomic review of Leptusa Kraatz (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A., with descriptions of four new species
JONG-SEOK PARK, CHRISTOPHER E. CARLTON & MICHAEL L. FERRO (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2659: 53–59 (27 Oct. 2010) 6 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 27 Sep. 2010
New species of Cleridae (Coleoptera) from Morelos, Mexico
JACQUES RIFKIND (USA), VÍCTOR H. TOLEDO (Mexico) & ANGÉLICA Ma. CORONA (Mexico)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2659: 1–52 (27 Oct. 2010) 30 plates; 25 references                             Accepted: 8 Sep. 2010
Revision of Ootheca Chevrolat, 1837 from tropical Africa—redescriptions,
descriptions of new species and identification key (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae)
SABINE KORTENHAUS & THOMAS WAGNER (Germany)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2658: 51–68 (27 Oct. 2010) 1 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 27 Sep. 2010
A contribution to Sticholotis Crotch from Myanmar
(Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Sticholotidini)
WIOLETTA TOMASZEWSKA & PIOTR Ł
ĄCZYŃSKI (Poland)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2658: 38–50 (27 Oct. 2010) 3 plates; 28 references                             Accepted: 6 Oct. 2010
Descriptions of the first-instar larva of the hypogaeic species Neobidessodes limestoneensis (Watts & Humphreys) and of the third-instar larva of Hydroglyphus balkei Hendrich (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Bidessini) with phylogenetic considerations
MARIANO C. MICHAT (Argentina), YVES ALARIE (Canada) & CHRIS H. S. WATTS (Australia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2648: 1–31 (18 Oct. 2010) 5 plates; 48 references                             Accepted: 20 Sep. 2010
Taxonomic redefinition and natural history of the endemic silphid beetle
Silpha longicornis (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of Japan, with an analysis of its geographic variation
MASAAKI NISHIKAWA, HIROSHI IKEDA, KOHEI KUBOTA & TEIJI SOTA (Japan)
 
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Article 
Zootaxa 2643: 1–44 (13 Oct. 2010) 11 plates; 135 references                         Accepted: 14 Sep. 2010
Division of the genus Nothopleurus Lacordaire, 1869 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Prioninae)
ANTONIO SANTOS-SILVA (Brazil), IAN P. SWIFT (USA) & EUGENIO H. NEARNS (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2641: 1–14 (11 Oct. 2010) 6 plates; 29 references                             Accepted: 10 Sep. 2010
A new microphthalmic stygobitic Graptodytes Seidlitz from Morocco,
with a molecular phylogeny of the genus (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae)
IGNACIO RIBERA & ARNAUD FAILLE (Spain)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2639: 35–39 (7 Oct. 2010) 3 plates; 7 references                                Accepted: 11 Sep. 2010
A new species of Lepicerus (Coleoptera: Lepiceridae) from Ecuador
R. WILLS FLOWERS (USA), WILLIAM D. SHEPARD (USA) & ROBERTO TROYA MERA (Ecuador)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2635: 1–31 (4 Oct. 2010) 11 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 19 Aug. 2010
A review of the Oocyclus Sharp of Venezuela with description of twelve new species (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Laccobiini)
ANDREW E. Z. SHORT (USA) & MAURICIO GARCÍA (Venezuela)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2629: 47–60 (29 Sep. 2010) 10 plates; 32 references                         Accepted: 21 Aug. 2010
Description of a new species of Pentarthrum Wollaston (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cossoninae) from China with an annotated checklist to species of the World
YOUSSEF M. OMAR (Egypt), RUNZHI ZHANG (P.R. China) & STEVEN R. DAVIS (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2629: 1–28 (29 Sep. 2010) 5 plates; 24 references                              Accepted: 16 Jul. 2010
Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) medius (Kugelann, 1792)—a good western
palaearctic species in the Onthophagus vacca complex (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Onthophagini)
ECKEHARD RÖSSNER (Germany), JOACHIM SCHÖNFELD (Germany) & DIRK AHRENS (UK)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2627: 39–56 (27 Sep. 2010) 8 plates; 27 references                             Accepted: 2 Sep. 2010
Phylogeny of the weevil genus Rhinusa Stephens based on adult morphological
characters and host plant information (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
ROBERTO CALDARA (Italy), DAVIDE SASSI (Italy) & IVO TOŠEVSKI (Switzerland)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2622: 65–67 (23 Sep. 2010) 0 plates; 10 references                             Accepted: 3 Sep. 2010
Nomenclatural changes within West Indian Acanthocinini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae)
CHARYN J. MICHELI (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2621: 45–62 (22 Sep. 2010) 4 plates; 2 references                              Accepted: 30 Aug. 2010
Review of Taophila, a genus endemic to New Caledonia
(Coleoptera : Chrysomelidae : Eumolpinae)
G. ALLAN SAMUELSON (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2620: 29–44 (22 Sep. 2010) 6 plates; 38 references                            Accepted: 17 Aug. 2010
A description of Promanodes serafini gen. et sp. nov. from Baltic amber,
with a review of related New Zealand Promanus Sharp, 1877 (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae)
JI
ŘÍ KOLIBÁČ (Czech Republic), HEIKO SCHMIED (Germany), TORSTEN WAPPLER (Germany) & DANIEL KUBISZ (Poland) 
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Article 
Zootaxa 2619: 27–38 (21 Sep. 2010) 7 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 10 Aug. 2010
Taxonomy of the genus Indoquedius Blackwelder (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae:
Staphylininae) of China with description of four new species
ZONY-YI ZHAO & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU (P.R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2610: 50–68 (13 Sep. 2010) 8 plates; 53 references                             Accepted: 5 Aug. 2010
Larval morphology, development, and notes on the natural history of
Cephaloleia “rolled-leaf” beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)
CARLOS GARCÍA-ROBLEDO, CAROL C. HORVITZ & CHARLES L. STAINES (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2610: 27–49 (13 Sep. 2010) 7 plates; 172 references                           Accepted: 5 Aug. 2010
Introduced leaf beetles of the Maritime Provinces, 9: Chaetocnema concinna (Marsham, 1802) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
LAURENT LESAGE & CHRISTOPHER G. MAJKA (Canada)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2602: 1–47 (3 Sep. 2010) 1 plates; 269 references                              Accepted: 21 Jul. 2010
An annotated synopsis of Taiwanese bark and ambrosia beetles,
with new synonymy, new combinations and new records (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
R. A. BEAVER (Thailand) & L. Y. LIU (R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2601: 37–44 (2 Sep. 2010) 3 plates; 16 references                               Accepted: 6 Aug. 2010
Larval and pupal morphology of Pyractonema nigripennis Solier (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Photinini) and comparative notes with other Photinini larvae
MIGUEL ARCHANGELSKY (Argentina)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2601: 28–36 (2 Sep. 2010) 3 plates; 15 references                                Accepted: 5 Aug. 2010
Sphaerocetum gen. n., a new genus of the Protosternini from Peninsular
Malaysia (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae)
MARTIN FIKÁ
ČEK (Czech Republic)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2598: 1–80 (31 Aug. 2010) 62 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 6 Aug. 2010
Revision of the genus Exochomoscirtes Pic
(Coleoptera: Scirtidae: Scirtinae)
RAFAŁ RUTA (Poland) & HIROYUKI YOSHITOMI (Japan)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2595: 1–70 (31 Aug. 2010) 17 plates; 112 references                         Accepted: 15 Jun. 2010
Revision of the southern South American species of Philonthus Stephens (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

MARIANA CHANI-POSSE (Argentina)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2584: 1–121 (31 Aug. 2010) 71 plates; 35 references                         Accepted: 23 Jul. 2010
Revision of the Indo-Australian checkered beetle genus Xenorthrius Gorham, 1892 (Coleoptera: Cleridae, Clerinae)
ROLAND GERSTMEIER & JONAS EBERLE (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2575: 49–62 (24 Aug. 2010) 5 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 21 Jul. 2010
Description of two new species of Hypselotropis Jekel with a revised key and
phylogenetic reanalysis of the genus (Coleoptera, Anthribidae, Anthribinae)
JOSE RICARDO M. MERMUDES & JULIANA MOURÃO DOS SANTOS RODRIGUES (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2573: 57–68 (23 Aug. 2010) 7 plates; 14 references                             Accepted: 1 Jul. 2010
Three new species of Itagonia Reitter, 1887 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae: Blaptini) from Sichuan, China
AI-MIN SHI, SHI-BIN YUAN & CHUN-LIAN WU (P.R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2573: 35–56 (23 Aug. 2010) 3 plates; 84 references                           Accepted: 14 Jul. 2010
A review of the genus Oxychalepus Uhmann, 1937 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)
C. L. STAINES (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2572: 57–64 (20 Aug. 2010) 4 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 23 Jun. 2010
Tomicus armandii Li & Zhang (Curculionidae, Scolytinae), a new pine shoot borer from China
XIA LI, ZHEN ZHANG, HONGBIN WANG, WEI WU, PENG CAO & PEIYI ZHANG (P.R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2572: 1–24 (20 Aug. 2010) 8 plates; 26 references                             Accepted: 28 Jun. 2010
Fourteen new species of the genus Gabrius Stephens, 1829 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Philonthina) from China
LIANG LI (P.R. China), HARALD SCHILLHAMMER (Austria) & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU (P.R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2566: 64–68 (13 Aug. 2010) 2 plates; 19 references                           Accepted: 28 Jul. 2010
Taxonomy and distribution of the genus Pterydrias Reitter and
confirmation of its synonymy with Eorhipidius Iablokoff-Khnzorian (Coleoptera: Ripiphoridae: Ripidiinae)
JAN BATELKA & JI
ŘÍ HÁJEK (Czech Republic)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2566: 49–56 (13 Aug. 2010) 4 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 29 Jul. 2010
A new species of blind Trechinae from the Pyrenees of Huesca, and its position within Aphaenops (sensu stricto) (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechini)
ARNAUD FAILLE (France), CHARLES BOURDEAU (France) & JAVIER FRESNEDA (Spain)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2566: 45–48 (13 Aug. 2010) 0 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 3 Aug. 2010
Seven new synonyms within the genus Onthophagus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
from the Oriental Region
SERGEY I. TARASOV (Denmark)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2563: 53–68 (10 Aug. 2010) 9 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 3 Jul. 2010
Notes on Malthinus mucoreus (Coleoptera: Cantharidae), with descriptions of two new related species from the Ryukyus, Southwest Japan
NAOKI TAKAHASHI (Japan)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2553: 65–68 (29 Jul. 2010) 3 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 19 Jun. 2010
The oldest fossil Ochodaeidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) from the Middle Jurassic of China
G.V. NIKOLAJEV (P.R. China) & DONG REN (Kazakhstan)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2545: 39–46 (22 Jul. 2010) 3 plates; 21 references                              Accepted: 3 Jul. 2010
New Agrilus Curtis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from México and Costa Rica mimicking parasitic wasps
HENRY A. HESPENHEIDE (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2542: 33–47 (20 Jul. 2010) 4 plates; 27 references                           Accepted: 23 Jun. 2010
Synopsis of the genus Colobothea Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville in Bolivia, with descriptions of two new species and new country records (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)
MIGUEL A. MONNÉ & MARCELA L. MONNÉ (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2538: 47–59 (16 Jul. 2010) 5 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 23 Jun. 2010
A new species of Neobaryssinus Monné & Martins, and two new species of Baryssiniella new genus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), reared from trees in the Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae)
AMY BERKOV (USA) & MIGUEL A. MONNÉ (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2538: 38–46 (16 Jul. 2010) 5 plates; 2 references                              Accepted: 15 Jun. 2010
Xantholinini from the Australian and Oriental Regions. New genus, new species and new records (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). 208° contribution to the knowledge of the Staphylinidae
ARNALDO BORDONI (Italy)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2538: 1–37 (16 Jul. 2010) 9 plates; 12 references                              Accepted: 15 Jun. 2010
A revision of the Neotropical genus Sacosternum Hansen
(Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae: Megasternini)
MARTIN FIKÁ
ČEK (Czech Republic) & ANDREW E. Z. SHORT (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2535: 1–34 (14 Jul. 2010) 0 plates; 68 references                             Accepted: 25 May 2010
Catalog of the types of some families of Coleoptera (Insecta) deposited at Coleção de Entomologia Pe. J. S. Moure, Curitiba, Brazil
CIBELE S. RIBEIRO-COSTA, LÚCIA M. ALMEIDA, EDILSON CARON, GEOVAN H. CORRÊA,
ADELITA M. LINZMEIER & PAULA B. DOS SANTOS (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2531: 64–68 (9 Jul. 2010) 3 plates; 1 references                               Accepted: 19 Jun. 2010
A new species of scarab beetle, Madecorphnus cuccodoroi
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Orphninae), from northern Madagascar
ANDREY FROLOV (Russia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2531: 1–14 (9 Jul. 2010) 5 plates; 27 references                                Accepted: 19 Jun. 2010
Three new species of Naddia Fauvel (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from China
ZHUO YANG & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2530: 47–59 (8 Jul. 2010) 6 plates; 16 references                              Accepted: 12 Jun. 2010
Revalidation and revision of Ochralea Clark, 1865 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) from the Oriental Region
IZFA RIZA HAZMI & THOMAS WAGNER (Germany)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2530: 1–18 (8 Jul. 2010) 7 plates; 33 references                                  Accepted: 6 Jun. 2010
Aquatica gen. nov. from mainland China with a description of Aquatica wuhana sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae)
XINHUA FU (China), LESLEY BALLANTYNE (Australia) & CHRISTINE L. LAMBKIN (Australia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2529: 55–64 (7 Jul. 2010) 32 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 15 Jun. 2010
Notes concerning the genus Metataenia Théry, 1923 (Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Chrysochroina) from Papua New Guinea, with description of a new species and designation of a lectotype
ULF NYLANDER (Sweden)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2529: 1–39 (7 Jul. 2010) 15 plates; 32 references                                Accepted: 8 May 2010
Review of the Nearctic, Mexican and West Indian (Greater Antilles) species of Colliuris Degeer (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Odacanthini)
YVES BOUSQUET (Canada)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2527: 28–48 (5 Jul. 2010) 4 plates; 51 references                             Accepted: 17 Jun. 2010
A review of the Cautires obsoletus species group from Indo–Burma
(Coleoptera: Lycidae)
PAVLA DUDKOVA & LADISLAV BOCAK (Czech Republic)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2524: 63–65 (1 Jul. 2010) 1 plates; 10 references                               Accepted: 3 Jun. 2010
Two new synonymies and lectotype designation in Trachyderini
(Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
MARCELA L. MONNÉ, JUAN PABLO BOTERO & HINGRID Y. QUINTINO (Brazil)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2523: 65–68 (30 Jun. 2010) 2 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 18 Jun. 2010
A new species of the Genus Anchocerus Fauvel, 1905 from China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)
JIAYAO HU, LIZHEN LI & YUNLONG ZHAO (P.R. China)
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Erratum 
Zootaxa 2520: 66–68 (28 Jun. 2010
Erratum: Reid, C.A.M. & Beatson, M. (2010) Revision of the Australo-Papuan genus Macrolema Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Spilopyrinae), with description of a new genus. Zootaxa, 2486, 1-60.
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Article 
Zootaxa 2517: 33–43 (24 Jun. 2010) 4 plates; 6 references                               Accepted: 8 Jun. 2010
The genus Portelmis Sanderson, 1953 (Coleoptera: Elmidae: Elminae): first report in Brazil, description of two new Amazonian species and species key for males
ANDRÉ S. FERNANDES, MARIA INÊS S. PASSOS & NEUSA HAMADA (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2517: 25–32 (24 Jun. 2010) 3 plates; 13 references                             Accepted: 5 Jun. 2010
Notes on identity of Cephennomicrus sumatranus (Franz) (Coleoptera,
Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZY
ŃSKI (Poland)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2516: 1–26 (23 Jun. 2010) 14 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 28 May 2010
A taxonomic review and phylogeny of the genera Hoplopisthius Senna, 1892 and Carcinopisthius Kolbe, 1892 (Coleoptera: Brentidae, Hoplopisthiini)
ANTOINE MANTILLERI (France)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2515: 1–35 (23 Jun. 2010) 4 plates; 141 references                           Accepted: 27 May 2010
A reclassification of the weevil subfamily Cyclominae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
ROLF G. OBERPRIELER (Australia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2512: 1–25 (21 Jun. 2010) 17 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 13 May 2010
Taxonomical study on the genus Pselaphodes Westwood (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from China. Part I.
ZI-WEI YIN, LI-ZHEN LI & MEI-JUN ZHAO (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2507: 1–36 (16 Jun. 2010) 10 plates; 72 references                           Accepted: 26 May 2010
The Middle American species of Peridinetus Schönherr (Coleoptera:
Curculionidae: Baridinae)
JENS PRENA (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2506: 51–58 (15 Jun. 2010) 5 plates; 6 references                             Accepted: 12 May 2010
Two new species of Berosus Leach from Brazil (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Berosini)
PIERRE QUENEY (France)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2506: 1–25 (15 Jun. 2010) 13 plates; 34 references                          Accepted: 12 May 2010
Taxonomy of the genus Craspedomerus Bernhauer, 1911 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Philonthina) from China
LIANG LI & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2502: 1–23 (11 Jun. 2010) 11 plates; 31 references                             Accepted: 5 May 2010
New species of Anillinus Casey (Carabidae: Trechinae: Bembidiini) from the Southern Appalachians and phylogeography of the A. loweae species group
IGOR M. SOKOLOV & CHRISTOPHER E. CARLTON (USA)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2498: 65–68 (8 Jun. 2010) 1 plates; 4 references                               Accepted: 19 Apr. 2010
Megagraphydrus puzhelongi, sp. n., a new water scavenger beetle from China (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Hydrophilinae)
FENGLONG JIA (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2498: 28–46 (8 Jun. 2010) 0 plates; 125 references                          Accepted: 28 Apr. 2010
Additions and corrections to Borowski and W
ęgrzynowicz’s world catalogue of Bostrichidae (Coleoptera)
MICHAEL A. IVIE (USA)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2497: 66–68 (7 Jun. 2010) 0 plates; 33 references                            Accepted: 27 Apr. 2010
Trachelissa Aurivillius, 1912 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae): a protected name 
HINGRID Y. QUINTINO & MARCELA L. MONNÉ (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2490: 63–68  (1 Jun. 2010) 3 plates; 3 references                              Accepted: 17 Apr. 2010
The Indochinese members of the Onthophagus (Parascatonomus) aurifex species group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), with the description of a new species
SERGEY TARASOV (Denmark), JAN KRIKKEN (The Netherlands), & JOHANNES HUIJBREGTS (The
Netherlands)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2487: 1–18  (28 May 2010) 9 plates; 62 references                           Accepted: 17 Apr. 2010
Phylogenetic analysis of the Prionini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Prioninae) from China based on mitochondrial ribosomal RNA genes and Cytochrome oxidase I gene
BO FENG, LI CHEN, YAN-LI E & KAI-DI ZHENG (P.R. China)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2486: 1–60 (27 May 2010) 33 plates; 39 references                         Accepted: 16 Apr. 2010
Revision of the Australo-Papuan genus Macrolema Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Spilopyrinae), with description of a new genus
C. A. M. REID & M. BEATSON

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Article 
Zootaxa 2485: 47–57 (27 May 2010) 5 plates; 26 references                          Accepted: 16 Apr. 2010
A new Typhlocharis (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Anillina) from Spain: combining adult and larval morphological data with DNA information
CARMELO ANDÚJAR (Spain), VASILY V. GREBENNIKOV (Canada), JOSÉ LUÍS LENCINA (Spain)
& JOSÉ SERRANO (Spain)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2484: 25–34  (26 May 2010) 4 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 5 May 2010
A new cave-dwelling species of Quaestus Schaufuss, 1861 from the Montes de Pas, Northern Spain (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Leptodirini)
JOSÉ Mª SALGADO COSTAS, LUCÍA LABRADA MOREDA & CARLOS G. LUQUE (Spain)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2476: 1–13  (18 May 2010) 2 plates; 2 references                              Accepted: 19 Apr. 2010
Review of the genus Hexarhopalus Fairmaire, 1891 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae,
Stenochiinae) from Borneo with description of new species
LUBOŠ PURCHART (Czech Republic)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2467: 1–74 (14 May 2010) 46 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 25 Feb. 2010
Revision of the Scirtes flavoguttatus
species-group (Coleoptera: Scirtidae: Scirtinae) 
HIROYUKI
YOSHITOMI (Japan) & RAFAŁ RUTA (Poland)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2458: 1–127 (14 May 2010) 61 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 6 Feb. 2010
A taxonomic monograph of the Middle American leaf-litter inhabiting weevil genus Theognete Champion
(Coleoptera: Curculionidae; Molytinae; Lymantini) 
ROBERT S. ANDERSON (Canada)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2451: 53–62  (11 May 2010) 5 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 27 Mar. 2010
A description of a larva of Ancyrona diversa Pic, 1921 and its phylogenetic
implications (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae)
JI
ŘÍ KOLIBÁČ (Czech Republic) & ARTEM A. ZAITSEV (Russia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2451: 26–42  (11 May 2010) 0 plates; 57 references                         Accepted: 23 Mar. 2010
Type specimens of Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) in the Academy of Natural
Sciences in Philadelphia
C. L. STAINES (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2448: 35–52  (7 May 2010) 4 plates; 31 references                             Accepted: 3 Mar. 2010
Nomenclatural changes in North American Phymatodes Mulsant (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
IAN P. SWIFT & ANN M. RAY (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2444: 51–57  (4 May 2010) 1 plates; 22 references                           Accepted: 18 Mar. 2010
A review of the genus Hadrodemius Wood, with new synonymy and a key to species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
ROGER A. BEAVER (Thailand)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2444: 1–44  (4 May 2010) 14 plates; 19 references                           Accepted: 23 Mar. 2010
Revision of the Afrotropical flea beetle genus Serraphula Jacoby and
description of Bechynella, a new genus from Western and Central Africa (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae)
MAURIZIO BIONDI & PAOLA D’ALESSANDRO (Italy)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2441: 53–62  (30 Apr. 2010) 6 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 20 Mar. 2010
Two new species of Cis Latreille (Coleoptera: Ciidae) from Chile
CRISTIANO LOPES-ANDRADE (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2441: 1–19  (30 Apr. 2010) 13 plates; 22 references                         Accepted: 17 Mar. 2010
A review of the genus Agetocera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) in
Taiwan—are there only two species?
CHI-FENG LEE (Taiwan), JAN BEZD
ĔK (Czech Republic) & CHARLES L. STAINES (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2438: 52–60 (27 Apr. 2010) 7 plates; 22 references                          Accepted: 10 Mar. 2010
Gonioctena koryeoensis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae), a new species from Korea, with a description of immature stages
HEE WOOK CHO & JONG EUN LEE (Rep. Korea)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2436: 28–56 (26 Apr. 2010) 11 plates; 22 references                        Accepted: 15 Mar. 2010
Revision of Eulasia genei Truqui, with description of Eulasia rittneri n. sp. from Israel and synonymic notes on related species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Glaphyridae)
MARCO ULIANA (Italy) & GUIDO SABATINELLI (Roma)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2432: 45–58 (21 Apr. 2010) 7 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 9 Mar. 2010
Contribution to the knowledge of the weevil subgenus Arammichnus Gozis, genus Otiorhynchus Germar (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) from Sicily and the Sicilian islands
COSIMO BAVIERA & LUIGI MAGNANO (Italy)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2423: 25–43 (12 Apr. 2010) 6 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 2 Mar. 2010
A review of Rhynchortalia Crotch (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Ortaliinae)

J. POORANI (India) & ADAM
ŚLIPIŃSKI (Australia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2420: 26–36 (7 Apr. 2010) 4 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 29 Jan. 2010
Microdytes Balfour-Browne of India with description of three new species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae)
KELLY B. MILLER (USA) & GÜNTHER WEWALKA (Austria)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2415: 33–42 (31 Mar. 2010) 2 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 3 Feb. 2010
Four new species of Desmopachria Babington (Insecta, Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) from the Amazon river floodplain
RAFAEL BENZI BRAGA & NELSON FERREIRA-JR (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2411: 59–67 (26 Mar. 2010) 0 plates; 102 references                       Accepted: 17 Feb. 2010
On the identity of Hybosorus hopei A. Costa, a forgotten Italian beetle (Coleoptera: Hybosoridae and Tenebrionidae)
GIANLUCA NARDI (Italy)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2411: 1–21 (26 Mar. 2010) 12 plates; 40 references                          Accepted: 15 Feb. 2010
Taxonomic remarks on some genera of Lixini Schoenherr, 1823
(Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
LEVENT GÜLTEK
İN (Turkey)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2410: 59–64 (25 Mar. 2010) 4 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 4 Feb. 2010
Description of Podosilis geukdongensis n. sp. (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from South Korea
TAE HWA KANG, YOUNG BO LEE, & HAE CHUL PARK (Korea)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2403: 59–68 (19 Mar. 2010) 5 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 29 Jan. 2010
One of a thousand - a new species of Trigonopterus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Cryptorhynchinae) from New Guinea
ALEXANDER RIEDEL (Germany)

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Correspondence  
Zootaxa 2402: 68 (18 Mar. 2010) 0 plates; 2 references                                     Accepted: 3 Feb. 2010
A new name in the genus Ocypus Leach, 1819 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae,
Staphylinini, Staphylinina)
ALEŠ SMETANA (Canada)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2402: 52–60 (18 Mar. 2010) 3 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 4 Feb. 2010
Two new species of Prionocyphon Redtenbacher from Taiwan (Coleoptera: Scirtidae), with notes on Prionocyphon, Mescirtes Motschulsky and
Prionoscirtes Champion from East and Southeast Asia 
RAFAŁ RUTA (Poland)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2402: 1–51 (18 Mar. 2010) 22 plates; 32 references                             Accepted: 3 Feb. 2010
The species of Acylophorus Nordmann (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae) in continental sub-Saharan Africa
DEREK A. LOTT (UK)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2401: 61–68 (17 Mar. 2010) 4 plates; 6 references                              Accepted: 4 Feb. 2010
Revision of Metadorodocia Machatschke, 1957, a genus endemic to Madagascar (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Adoretini)
LILIA AKHMETOVA (Russia) & OLIVIER MONTREUIL (France)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2400: 49–56 (16 Mar. 2010) 6 plates; 6 references                              Accepted: 3 Feb. 2010
New soldier beetles (Coleoptera, Cantharidae) from the Eocene Baltic amber

ANTONI KU
ŚKA & IWONA KANIA (Poland)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2397: 15–28 (12 Mar. 2010) 13 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 3 Feb. 2010
Key to species of the subgenus Chlaenioctenus (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Chlaeniini: Chlaenius), with description of two new species
YE LIU (P.R. China), HONGBIN LIANG (P.R. China), DAVID H. KAVANAUGH (USA) & MAOFA
YANG (P.R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2388: 49–58 (4 Mar. 2010) 4 plates; 29 references                           Accepted: 29 Jan. 2010
Larval morphology of Epomis circumscriptus (Duftschmid 1812) and of first instar E. dejeani, Dejean, 1831, (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Chlaeniini), with
morphofunctional remarks
PIETRO BRANDMAYR, TERESA BONACCI & TULLIA ZETTO BRANDMAYR (Italy)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2387: 51–56 (3 Mar. 2010) 1 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 29 Jan. 2010
Revision of the genus Carphontes Bates, with the proposal of a new genus, Paracleodoxus (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae)
MIGUEL A. MONNÉ & MARCELA L. MONNÉ (Brazil)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2386: 65–68 (2 Mar. 2010) 1 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 23 Jan. 2010
Two new synonymies in the genus Praocis (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
GUSTAVO E. FLORES (Argentina) & JAIME PIZARRO-ARAYA (Chile)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2384: 44–52 (1 Mar. 2010) 12 plates; 3 references                            Accepted: 13 Nov. 2009
Description of a neotype and designation of four lectotypes from Borneo in the genus Curculio (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

FRANK W. PELSUE, JR. (USA)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2376: 1–96 (26 Feb. 2010) 74 plates; 93 references                           Accepted: 6 Nov. 2009
Contribution to the systematic rearrangement of the Palaearctic Peritelini. VI.
A synthesis of the Spanish Peritelini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae)
HELIO PIEROTTI (Italy), CESARE BELLÒ (Italy) & MIGUEL A. ALONSO-ZARAZAGA (Spain)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2368: 59–68 (24 Feb. 2010) 6 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 15 Jan. 2010
Otiorhynchus (Nihus) grischunensis sp. n.—a new species of the O. rhilensis
species group from the Swiss Alps (Curculionidae, Entiminae)
CHRISTOPH GERMANN (Switzerland)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2360: 34–46 (16 Feb. 2010) 8 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 25 Jan. 2010
Taxonomy of the genus Hybridolinus Schillhammer (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Philonthina) from China
LIANG LI & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU (P.R. China)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 2359: 68 (15 Feb. 2010
Erratum—FERRER, J. & HOLSTON, K. (2009) Identities of Tenebrio Linnaeus types at Uppsala, and
the resulting changes in old darkling beetle names (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Zootaxa, 2308, 29–42.
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Zootaxa 2359: 1–34 (15 Feb. 2010) 30 plates; 39 references                           Accepted: 11 Jan. 2010
Revision of the genus Tillicera Spinola, 1841 (Coleoptera: Cleridae, Clerinae)
ROLAND GERSTMEIER & NADINE BERNHARD (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2358: 49–56 (12 Feb. 2010) 6 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 19 Dec. 2009
A new species of Hydroscapha LeConte from northwestern Venezuela (Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Hydroscaphidae)
W. EUGENE HALL & ANDREW E. Z. SHORT (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2358: 39–48 (12 Feb. 2010) 2 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 15 Dec. 2009
Revision of the genus Hemicladus Buquet, 1857 with a special focus on the species from French Guiana (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae)
GÉRARD LUC TAVAKILIAN, JULIEN TOUROULT & PIERRE-HENRI DALENS (France)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2357: 1–49 (11 Feb. 2010) 17 plates; 34 references                           Accepted: 31 Dec. 2009
Revision of the genus Indomias Marshall (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae, Tanymecini) from India
V.V. RAMAMURTHY & SHALOO AYRI (India)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2353: 62–64 (8 Feb. 2010) 1 plates; 6 references                             Accepted: 19 Dec. 2009
Two new species of Hydraena (s.str.) Kugelann (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
from northern Turkey
AHMET KASAPO
ĞLU (Turkey), MANFRED A. JÄCH (Austria) & ANDRÉ SKALE (Germany)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2353: 43–48 (8 Feb. 2010) 1 plates; 6 references                             Accepted: 24 Dec. 2009
A new species of Hintonelmis Spangler (Coleoptera: Elmidae: Elminae) from Central Amazonia, Brazil
ANDRÉ S. FERNANDES, MARIA INÊS S. PASSOS & NEUSA HAMADA (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2353: 34–42 (8 Feb. 2010) 5 plates; 11 references                             Accepted: 14 Dec. 2009
Trichocateres fasciculifer, a new genus and species of Trogossitidae:
Lophocaterini (Coleoptera)
JI
ŘÍ KOLIBÁČ (Czech Republic)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2353: 1–33 (8 Feb. 2010) 13 plates; 40 references                             Accepted: 1 1 Jan. 2010
Revision of the genus Paraclytra (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Clytrini), with description of P. cervenkai sp. nov. from
Sultanate of Oman
JAN BEZD
ĚK & FRANTIŠEK KANTNER (Czech Republic)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2351: 49–57 (4 Feb. 2010) 2 plates; 40 references                             Accepted: 24 Dec. 2009
Dasytidae of the Egadi Archipelago (Coleoptera, Cleroidea) with description of Danacea hierena n. sp.
COSIMO BAVIERA & GIANFRANCO LIBERTI (Italy)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2351: 1–13 (4 Feb. 2010) 7 plates; 20 references                             Accepted: 4 Nov. 2009
Ochthebius (Enicocerus) aguilerai sp.n. from central Spain, with a molecular phylogeny of the Western Palaearctic species of Enicocerus (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae)
IGNACIO RIBERA, AGUSTÍN CASTRO & CARLES HERNANDO (Spain)

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Correspondence  
Zootaxa 2350: 66–68 (3 Feb. 2010) 1 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 16 Dec. 2009
Helferella oborili sp. nov. from Indonesia (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Polycestinae: Haplostethini)
SVATOPLUK BÍLÝ & OTO NAKLÁDAL (Czech Republic)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2350: 59–65 (3 Feb. 2010) 2 plates; 6 references                           Accepted: 16 Dec. 2009
Allopachria Zimmermann, 1924 from Jiangxi, China, with descriptions of two new species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
DONGJU BIAN & LANZHU JI (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2350: 53–58 (3 Feb. 2010) 2 plates; 1 references                           Accepted: 24 Dec. 2009
Melobasina riedeli n. sp. from Indonesia (Coleoptera: Buprestidae:
Chrysochroinae)
VÍT
ĚZSLAV KUBÁŇ & SVATOPLUK BÍLÝ (Czech Republic)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2347: 59–63 (29 Jan. 2010) 2 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 14 Dec. 2009
A new genus and species of ototretine firefly from Borneo (Coleoptera:
Lampyridae)
MILADA BOCAKOVA & KRISTYNA JANISOVA (Czech Republic)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2347: 37–58 (29 Jan. 2010) 13 plates; 6 references                           Accepted: 3 Nov. 2009
Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical diving beetles genus Laccodytes Régimbart, 1895 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
MARIO TOLEDO (Italy), PAUL J. SPANGLER (USA) & MICHAEL BALKE (Germany)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2344: 61–64 (26 Jan. 2010) 2 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 24 Nov. 2009
Hydrochus farsicus sp.n. from Iran and notes on other Palearctic species of the genus (Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea: Hydrochidae)
AMPARO HIDALGO-GALIANA (Spain), MANFRED A. JÄCH (Austria) & IGNACIO RIBERA (Spain)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2344: 17–28 (26 Jan. 2010) 4 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 19 Dec. 2009
Two new species of Onthophagus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Indochina, with a discussion of some problems with the classification of Serrophorus and similar subgenera
SERGEY I. TARASOV (Denmark) & OLEG N. KABAKOV (Russia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2338: 63–68 (19 Jan. 2010) 2 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 17 Nov. 2009
Two newly detected bark and ambrosia beetles from southern Florida
(Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae)
THOMAS H. ATKINSON, ROBERT J. RABAGLIA & ANTHONY I. COGNATO (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2338: 35–42 (19 Jan. 2010) 4 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 9 Dec. 2009
An endemic predaceous water beetle from the Murchison River in Western Australia—Antiporus kalbarriensis sp.n. (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae,
Hydroporinae, Hydroporini)
LARS HENDRICH (Germany) & CHRIS H.S. WATTS (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2338: 23–34 (19 Jan. 2010) 7 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 10 Dec. 2009
Two new species of Eupholus Boisduval (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae), with observations on coloured cuticular exudates in weevils
ALEXANDER RIEDEL (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2335: 29–39 (13 Jan. 2010) 6 plates; 6 references                               Accepted: 7 Dec. 2009
Five new Stenus species of the cephalotes group (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from China with a key to Chinese species of the group
LIANG TANG (P.R. China), LI-ZHEN LI (P.R. China) & VOLKER PUTHZ (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2333: 59–68 (12 Jan. 2010) 3 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 19 Nov. 2009
New species of the genus Agrilus Curtis, 1825, from Nicaragua and Panamá (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae)
GIANFRANCO CURLETTI (Italy)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2331: 35–56 (8 Jan. 2010) 8 plates; 51 references                           Accepted: 30 Nov. 2009
A revision of the New Zealand click beetle genus Amychus Pascoe 1876 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Denticollinae): with a description of a new species from the Three Kings Islands
JOHN W. M. MARRIS (New Zealand) & PAUL J. JOHNSON (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2328: 1–48 (5 Jan. 2010) 9 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 17 Nov. 2009
Studies on Prionoceridae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea). II. A revision of the genus Prionocerus Perty, 1831

MICHAEL GEISER (Switzerland)

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2009

 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2325: 35-38 (23 Dec. 2009) 2 plates; 3 references                          Accepted: 21 Oct. 2009
Two new species of the genus Episcaphium Lewis (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae,
Scaphidiinae) of China
CHUN SHENG & FU-KANG GU (P.R. China)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2321: 1-80 (22 Dec. 2009) 0 plates; 319 references                           Accepted: 2 Dec. 2009
Catalogue of family-group names in Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) 
Yves Bousquet (Canada), Daniel J.
Heffern (USA), Patrice Bouchard (Canada) & Eugenio H. Nearns (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2318: 169-196 (22 Dec. 2009) 1 plates; 38 references                     Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
An updated checklist of the ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of Sardinia
AUGUSTO VIGNA TAGLIANTI (Italy)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2318: 197-280 (22 Dec. 2009) 0 plates; 116 references                     Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
An updated catalogue of the Histeridae (Coleoptera) of Sardinia, with faunistic, zoogeographical, ecological
and conservation remarks
FABIO PENATI (Italy)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2318: 281-289 (22 Dec. 2009) 2 plates; 37 references                     Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
A new species of Hydraena (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) of the H. evanescens complex from Sardinia

PAOLO AUDISIO, ALESSIO DE BIASE, MARCO TRIZZINO, EMILIANO MANCINI & GLORIA ANTONINI
(Italy)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2318: 290-316 (22 Dec. 2009) 3 plates; 181 references                     Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
The Cholevidae (Coleoptera) of Sardinia
ACHILLE CASALE, GIUSEPPE GRAFITTI & LEONARDO LATELLA (Italy)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2318: 317-338 (22 Dec. 2009) 16 plates; 64 references                     Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
The endogean beetle fauna of the Marganai-Oridda-Valle del Leni area (SW Sardinia), with description of
seven new species of Staphylinidae Leptotyphlinae (Coleoptera)
LUCA FANCELLO (Italy), CARLES HERNANDO (Spain) & PIERO LEO (Italy)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2318: 339-385 (22 Dec. 2009) 7 plates; 156 references                     Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
The Dasytidae (Coleoptera) of Sardinia
GIANFRANCO LIBERTI (Italy)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2318: 386-393 (22 Dec. 2009) 2 plates; 27 references                     Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
A new species of Meligethes (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Meligethinae) of the M. lugubris complex from
Sardinia
PAOLO AUDISIO, ALESSIO DE BIASE, MARCO TRIZZINO, EMILIANO MANCINI & GLORIA ANTONINI
(Italy)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2318: 394-399 (22 Dec. 2009) 1 plates; 29 references                     Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
New data on some Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) from the Mediterranean Region
CLAUDIO CANEPARI (Italy)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2318: 400-420 (22 Dec. 2009) 13 plates; 41 references                     Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
Observations on some Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) from Sardinia, with description of three new Asida
PIERO LEO (Italy)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2318: 421-426 (22 Dec. 2009) 1 plates; 30 references                     Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
New data on some Curculionoidea (Coleoptera: Anthribidae, Apionidae, Curculionidae) from Sardinia
ENZO COLONNELLI & GIUSEPPE OSELLA (Italy)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2317: 1-102 (22 Dec. 2009) 44 plates; 61 references                           Accepted: 8 Oct. 2009
Larval morphology of Rhantus Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Colymbetinae): descriptions of
22 species and phylogenetic considerations
YVES ALARIE (Canada), MARIANO C. MICHAT (Argentina), ANDERS N. NILSSON (Sweden), MIGUEL ARCHANGELSKY (Argentina) & LARS HENDRICH (Germany)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2311: 66-68 (15 Dec. 2009) 2 plates; 3 references                          Accepted: 4 Nov. 2009
A new species of Dryocoetoides Hopkins from southern Florida
(Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
T.H. ATKINSON (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2311: 1-18 (15 Dec. 2009) 14 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 21 Oct. 2009
A new North American genus of Hetaeriinae (Coleoptera: Histeridae), with
descriptions of six new species from the U.S.A. and Mexico
ALEXEY K. TISHECHKIN & MICHAEL S. CATERINO (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2310: 59-63 (14 Dec. 2009) 2 plates; 7 references                          Accepted: 4 Nov. 2009
Rare ground-beetle species of Leleuporella Basilewsky (Coleoptera: Carabidae:
Scaritinae: Scaritini) from Indian sub-continent
P. ABHITHA & T.K. SABU (India)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2308: 29-42 (10 Dec. 2009) 8 plates; 70 references                          Accepted: 27 Oct. 2009
Identities of Tenebrio Linnaeus types at Uppsala, and the resulting changes in
old darkling beetle names (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
JULIO FERRER & KEVIN HOLSTON (Sweden)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2306: 44-50 (8 Dec. 2009) 1 plates; 14 references                          Accepted: 4 Nov. 2009
A revision of Paratelius Kazantsev, 1992 (Coleoptera: Lycidae)
VLADIMÍR MALOHLAVA & LADISLAV BOCAK (Czech Republic)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2303: 57-60 (3 Dec. 2009) 2 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 9 Nov. 2009
First record of Ambrosiodmus (Hopkins, 1915) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae,
Scolytinae) in Europe
MASSIMO FACCOLI, GABRIELLA FRIGIMELICA, NICOLA MORI, EDOARDO PETRUCCO
TOFFOLO, MARCO VETTORAZZO & MAURO SIMONATO (Italy)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2303: 45-52 (3 Dec. 2009) 3 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 6 Nov. 2009
Additions to the description of Yunnaniata konstantinovi Lopatin, 2009,
and its classification in the section Capulites (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Hylaspini)
JAN BEZD
ĚK (Czech Republic) & RON BEENEN (The Netherlands)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2300: 51-67 (30 Nov. 2009) 6 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 27 Oct. 2009
Molecular phylogeny in 'nano-weevils': description of a new subgenus
Nanoacalles and two new species of Calacalles from the Macaronesian Islands (Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae)
JONAS J. ASTRIN & PETER E. STÜBEN (Germany)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2300: 47-50 (30 Nov. 2009) 5 plates; 2 references                          Accepted: 27 Oct. 2009
A new species of Hoplosaenidea Laboissiere, 1933 from Malaysia
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)
MOHAMED S. MOHAMEDSAID (Malaysia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2292: 57-64 (18 Nov. 2009) 1 plates; 18 references                         Accepted: 4 Nov. 2009
Three new species of Coraebini Bedel, 1921 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae:
Agrilinae) from the Leyte Island, Philippines
C. L. BELLAMY (USA) & SADAHIRO OHMOMO (Japan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2292: 1-14 (18 Nov. 2009) 6 plates; 45 references                          Accepted: 24 Sep. 2009
Discovery of Antireicheia in Cameroon with description of four new species and
discussion on phylogeny and distribution of endogean Reicheiina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Scaritinae: Clivinini)
VASILY V. GREBENNIKOV (Canada), PETR BULIRSCH (Czech Republic) & PAOLO MAGRINI
(Italy)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2288: 1-41 (12 Nov. 2009) 14 plates; 51 references                          Accepted: 28 Sep. 2009
The epigean Australasian species of Neobidessodes gen.n. diving beetles—a revision integrating morphology, cybertaxonomy, DNA taxonomy and
phylogeny (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini)
LARS HENDRICH, OLIVER HAWLITSCHEK & MICHAEL BALKE (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2287: 64-68 (11 Nov. 2009) 2 plates; 2 references                          Accepted: 29 Oct. 2009
Parallidiostoma tricornum Ocampo and Colby, a new genus and species of
Allidiostomatinae from Peru (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
FEDERICO C. OCAMPO (Argentina) & JULIA COLBY (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2286: 49-57 (10 Nov. 2009) 4 plates; 5 references                          Accepted: 5 Oct. 2009
Two new species of the Neotropical genus Philothalpus Kraatz from Peru
(Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Xanthopygina)
ANGELICO ASENJO & CIBELE S. RIBEIRO-COSTA (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2286: 31-48 (10 Nov. 2009) 6 plates; 22 references                          Accepted: 22 Sep. 2009
New Asian Hydroscapha, with comments on male-female association of
co-occuring species (Coleoptera, Myxophaga, Hydroscaphidae)
MARTIN FIKÁ
ČEK & HANA ŠÍPKOVÁ (Czech Republic)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2286: 1-30 (10 Nov. 2009) 11 plates; 51 references                          Accepted: 10 Oct. 2009
Contributions to the knowledge of the “Staphylinus-complex” (Coleoptera:
Staphylinidae: Staphylinini) of China. Part 21. The genus Ocypus Leach, 1819, subgenus Pseudocypus Mulsant & Rey, 1876. Section 4
ALEŠ SMETANA (Canada)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2284: 41-47 (9 Nov. 2009) 3 plates; 8 references                          Accepted: 10 Oct. 2009
A new species of Pachydema Laporte (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea:
Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Pachydemini) from the Canary Islands
ESTEFANÍA MICÓ & EDUARDO GALANTE (Spain)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2280: 63-68 (3 Nov. 2009) 1 plates; 3 references                          Accepted: 23 Sep. 2009
Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) pinda sp. nov. from the Arabian Peninsula
(Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
SVATOPLUK BÍLÝ (Czech Republic) & DANIELE BAIOCCHI (Italy)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2274: 1-44 (28 Oct. 2009) 21 plates; 39 references                          Accepted: 19 Sep. 2009
Larval morphology of Paroster Sharp, 1882 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae): reinforcement of the hypothesis of monophyletic origin and
discussion of phenotypic accommodation to a hypogaeic environment
YVES ALARIE (Canada), MARIANO C. MICHAT (Argentina) & CHRIS H.S. WATTS (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2268: 41-51 (20 Oct. 2009) 4 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 7 Sep. 2009
Three new species of Platyderus from South Italy
(Coleoptera: Carabidae: Sphodrini)
BORISLAV GUÉORGUIEV (Bulgaria)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2263: 66-68 (13 Oct. 2009) 2 plates; 2 references                          Accepted: 14 Sep. 2009
Transfer of Pyrochroa daglariensis to Hemidendroides Ferrari
(Coleoptera: Pyrochroidae: Pyrochroinae), with a dichotomous key to the four species of the genus
DANIEL K. YOUNG (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2263: 59-65 (13 Oct. 2009) 3 plates; 8 references                          Accepted: 14 Sep. 2009
Rediscovery of Pseudopyrochroa uniformis Pic (Coleoptera: Pyrochroidae:
Pyrochroinae)
DANIEL K. YOUNG (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2263: 42-58 (13 Oct. 2009) 8 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 30 Jan. 2009
New species and records of the genus Lispinus with a key to the species from
Peru (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae)
ULRICH IRMLER (Germany)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2261: 66-68 (9 Oct. 2009) 1 plates; 3 references                          Accepted: 18 Sep. 2009
Synopsis of the genus Meridiotroctes Martins & Galileo
(Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
VANESSA S. MACHADO & MARCELA L. MONNÉ (Brazil)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2261: 63-65 (9 Oct. 2009) 1 plates; 8 references                          Accepted: 15 Sep. 2009
A new species of Chrysobothris Eschscholtz, 1829, the first from Fiji
(Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
C. L. BELLAMY (USA)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2258: 1-134 (8 Oct. 2009) 0 plates; 514 references                           Accepted: 5 Aug. 2009
A catalogue of family and genus group names in Scolytinae
and Platypodinae with nomenclatural remarks (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
MIGUEL A. ALONSO-ZARAZAGA (Spain) & CHRISTOPHER H.C. LYAL
(UK)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2245: 59-64 (2 Oct. 2009) 1 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 25 Aug. 2009
Synopsis of the genus Pandrosos Bates, 1867 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)
JOSÉ RICARDO M. MERMUDES & DILMA SOLANGE NAPP (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2242: 1-54 (29 Sep. 2009) 69 plates; 43 references                          Accepted: 20 Aug. 2009
Revision of the Genera Diplocladus Fairmaire and Strotocera Schenkling
(Coleoptera: Cleridae, Tillinae)
ROLAND GERSTMEIER & INGMAR WEISS (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2239: 55-61 (24 Sep. 2009) 3 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 1 Sep. 2009
Fossil carabids from Baltic amber – I –
A new species of the genus Calathus Bonelli, 1810 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichinae)
VICENTE M. ORTUÑO & ANTONIO ARILLO (Spain)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2237: 67-68 (22 Sep. 2009) 0 plates; 14 references                          Accepted: 27 Aug. 2009
Battle of two replacement names for the genus Metagonia Kolbe, 1899
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)
MARC LACROIX (France) & ALEŠ BEZD
ĚK (Czech Republic)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2237: 34-42 (22 Sep. 2009) 5 plates; 6 references                          Accepted: 19 Aug. 2009
A new sap beetle (Nitidulidae: Nitidulinae) genus from the Neotropics,
with commentary on the Pocadius complex of genera
ANDREW R. CLINE (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2230: 51-56 (14 Sep. 2009) 4 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 12 Jun. 2009
Taxonomy of Trigonocnera Reitter, with the description of a new species
(Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae)
YI-BIN BA & GUO-DONG REN (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2230: 29-41 (14 Sep. 2009) 3 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 25 Aug. 2009
Synopsis of the genus Sangaris Dalman in South America (Coleoptera,
Cerambycidae), with description of two new species and new combinations
MIGUEL A. MONNÉ & MARCELA L. MONNÉ (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2230: 1-15 (14 Sep. 2009) 2 plates; 30 references                          Accepted: 19 Aug. 2009
A revision of the African species of Odontolochini Stebnicka & Howden, 1996
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae)
ZDZISŁAWA T. STEBNICKA (Poland)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2229: 1-64 (11 Sep. 2009) 48 plates; 29 references                           Accepted: 28 Jul. 2009
Catalogue of the primary types of Cerylonidae, Endomychidae
and Latridiidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) deposited in the National Museum of Natural History, with additional notes and clarification of the status of several types
FLOYD W. SHOCKLEY & NATALIA J. VANDENBERG
(USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2225: 63-68 (9 Sep. 2009) 2 plates; 31 references                          Accepted: 20 Aug. 2009
Glabrimycetoporus amoenus, a new tachyporine genus and species of Mesozoic
Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) from Liaoning, China
YANLI YUE, YUNYUN ZHAO & DONG REN (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2225: 1-48 (9 Sep. 2009) 21 plates; 56 references                          Accepted: 13 Jul. 2009
A taxonomic revision of the African leaf chafer genus Asthenopholis Brenske,
1898 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae): a SEM study
JAMES du G. HARRISON (South Africa)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2224: 1-29 (8 Sep. 2009) 15 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 12 Aug. 2009
Revision of the genus Penthoscapha Heller (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea,
Entiminae, Eupholini) with notes on the genera of Eupholini from New Guinea
ALEXANDER RIEDEL (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2219: 31-37 (3 Sep. 2009) 4 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 17 Aug. 2009
New species of Ateuchus and Canthidium (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae:
Scarabaeinae) from Costa Rica
BERT KOHLMANN & ANGEL SOLIS (Costa Rica)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2216: 57-63 (1 Sep. 2009) 1 plates; 40 references                          Accepted: 6 Aug. 2009
On the status of the tribes Orthognathini and Rhinostomini
(Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae)
JUAN J. MORRONE & PERLA I. CUEVAS (Mexico)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2214: 45-61 (31 Aug. 2009) 9 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 4 Aug. 2009
A review of the Bembidion (Odontium) aenulum subgroup (Coleoptera:
Carabidae), with description of a new species
DAVID R. MADDISON & A. ELIZABETH ARNOLD (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2210: 51-64 (27 Aug. 2009) 4 plates; 65 references                        Accepted: 5 Aug. 2009
The West Indian Peridinetini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Baridinae)
JENS PRENA (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2210: 26-50 (27 Aug. 2009) 16 plates; 15 references                        Accepted: 30 Jul. 2009
Revision of Scirtidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) described by Victor Ivanovitsch
Motschulsky
RAFAŁ RUTA (Poland)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2208: 65-68 (25 Aug. 2009) 1 plates; 5 references                           Accepted: 6 Jul. 2009
A new species of Hyposerica Brenske, 1897 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericini)
from Mauritius Island
DIRK AHRENS & SILVIA FABRIZI (UK)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2207: 53-66 (24 Aug. 2009) 8 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 22 Jul. 2009
A new genus of Chrysomelinae from Australia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
CHRIS A. M. REID (Australia), JOSÉ A. JURADO-RIVERA (Spain) & MAX BEATSON (Australia)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2204: 67-68 (20 Aug. 2009) 3 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 22 Jul. 2009
Nomenclatural notes in Neotropical Acanthocinini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)
MIGUEL A. MONNÉ & VANESSA S. MACHADO (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2204: 19-36 (20 Aug. 2009) 3 plates; 34 references                           Accepted: 5 Aug. 2009
Three new genera of oriental Xyleborina (Coleoptera: Curculionidae:
Scolytinae)
JIRI HULCR & ANTHONY I. COGNATO (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2200: 41-53 (17 Aug. 2009) 5 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 16 Jul. 2009
Taxonomic revision of Apteropilo Lea, 1908 (Coleoptera: Cleridae)
JUSTIN S. BARTLETT (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2197: 64-68 (13 Aug. 2009) 0 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 30 Jul. 2009
Catalogue of Madagascan and adjacent islands Buprestidae (Bellamy 2006):
Addenda & Corrigenda
P. VIETTE (France), C. L. BELLAMY (USA) & H.-P. ABERLENC (France)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2192: 1-44 (10 Aug. 2009) 10 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 11 Jul. 2009
Revision of the genus Eulichas Jacobson, 1913 (Coleoptera: Eulichadidae) II.
E. dudgeoni species group
JI
ŘÍ HÁJEK (Czech Republic)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2192: 45-55 (10 Aug. 2009) 6 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 1 Jun. 2009
First record of the hygropetric genus Oocyclus Sharp (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae) from Laos, with description of a new species
YÛSUKE MINOSHIMA (Japan)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2180: 1-82 (6 Aug. 2009) 26 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 23 Apr. 2009
Taxonomic revision of the genus Chileanthicus Werner
(Coleoptera: Anthicidae)
ZBYN
ĚK KEJVAL  (Czech Republic)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2178: 1-72 (6 Aug. 2009) 16 plates; 55 references                           Accepted: 2 Jul. 2009
Taxonomic and biogeographical review of the genus Trechus Clairville, 1806, from the Tibetan Himalaya and the southern
central Tibetan Plateau (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechini)
JOACHIM SCHMIDT
(Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2175: 51-56 (4 Aug. 2009) 3 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 13 Jul. 2009
Larva and pupa of Nilio (Linio) lanatus Germar, 1824
(Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
MARIANNA V. P. SIMÕES, HINGRID Y. S. QUINTINO & MARCELA L. MONNÉ (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2174: 45-50 (3 Aug. 2009) 3 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 17 Jun. 2009
Review of the genus Pseudognaptorina Kaszab from China
(Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae)
HAO-YU LIU & GUO-DONG REN (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2172: 32-44 (30 Jul. 2009) 5 plates; 30 references                           Accepted: 27 Jun. 2009
Description of two new species of Leptinopterus Hope (Coleoptera: Lucanidae:
Lucaninae) with notes on the taxonomy and natural history of the genus
PASCHOAL COELHO GROSSI (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2170: 53-60 (29 Jul. 2009) 3 plates; 9 references                           Accepted: 23 Jun. 2009
Two new species of the genus Gunarus Des Gozis, 1886
(Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Helopini) from Southern Turkey
MAXIM V. NABOZHENKO (Russia)& BEKIR KESKIN (Turkey)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2170: 37-45 (29 Jul. 2009) 2 plates; 22 references                           Accepted: 26 Jun. 2009
A review of the Chilean Egoliini (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae) with description of
a new species of Necrobiopsis Crowson
ELIZABETH T. ARIAS (USA), ADAM SLIPINSKI (Australia), JOHN F. LAWRENCE (Australia) &
MARIO ELGUETA (Chile)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2170: 28-36 (29 Jul. 2009) 6 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 26 Jun. 2009
A new species of the genus Gasterocercus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae,
Cryptorhynchinae) from the Iberian Peninsula, with notes on the ecology of the genus
MIGUEL A. ALONSO-ZARAZAGA, TERESA MARÍA JOVER & ESTEFANÍA MICÓ (Spain)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2170: 15-27 (29 Jul. 2009) 6 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 29 Jun. 2009
A taxonomic revision of Monolepta pallidula species group in Taiwan
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)
CHI-FENG LEE (R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2169: 45-54 (28 Jul. 2009) 5 plates; 9 references                           Accepted: 29 Jun. 2009
Larval morphology of Aphodius sus (Herbst) and A. variicolor Koshantschikov
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae)
ANDREY V. FROLOV (Russia)

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Zootaxa 2169: 55-62 (28 Jul. 2009) 5 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 12 Jun. 2009
A new species of the genus Agnaptoria Reitter from Xizang, China
(Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae: Blaptini)
GUO-DONG REN & HAO-YU LIU (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2168: 57-62 (27 Jul. 2009) 2 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 9 Jun. 2009
Two new and one resurrected species of Enoclerus Gahan
(Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae) from the western United States
WILLIAM F. BARR & JACQUES RIFKIND (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2168: 34-44 (27 Jul. 2009) 6 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 25 Jun. 2009
Larval and pupal descriptions for the genera Podischnus and Heterogomphus
(Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Oryctini)
JHON CÉSAR NEITA MORENO (Colombia) & JESÚS OROZCO (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2168: 1-33 (27 Jul. 2009) 10 plates; 49 references                           Accepted: 18 Jun. 2009
Revision of the Agrilus muscarius species-group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) with
description of thirteen new species from Palaearctic and Oriental regions
EDUARD JENDEK & VASILY V. GREBENNIKOV (Canada)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2162: 1-23 (20 Jul. 2009) 12 plates; 20 references                           Accepted: 27 Jun. 2009
A revision of the neotropical genus Ocyolinus
(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini)
STYLIANOS CHATZIMANOLIS & JAMES S. ASHE (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2160: 51-67 (16 Jul. 2009) 10 plates; 33 references                           Accepted: 9 Jun. 2009
Description of a new genus of spider beetle (Coleoptera: Ptinidae)
from South Africa
CLEMENT AKOTSEN-MENSAH & T. KEITH PHILIPS (USA)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2160: 68 (16 Jul. 2009) 0 plates; 4 references                                    Accepted: 3 Jul. 2009
Erratum: New Brunswick Endomychidae (Coleoptera)
CHRISTOPHER G. MAJKA (Canada)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2157: 43-58 (14 Jul. 2009) 9 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 27 May 2009
Review of the genus Drylichus Heller (Insecta: Coleoptera: Dryopidae)

JÁN KODADA (Slovakia), MANFRED A. JÄCH (Austria) &
ČIAMPOR FEDOR JR. (Slovakia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2155: 1-22 (13 Jul. 2009) 16 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 2 Jun. 2009
Eight species of the genus Glenea Newman, 1842 from the Oriental Region, with description of three new species
(Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Saperdini)
MEIYING LIN (China), GÉRARD TAVAKILIAN (France), OLIVIER MONTREUIL (France) &
XINGKE YANG (China)
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Zootaxa 2155: 23-27 (13 Jul. 2009) 1 plates; 9 references                           Accepted: 6 Jun. 2009
An interesting new species of Acmaeodera (s. str.) Eschscholtz 1829 from the
Afrotropical Region (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
BRIAN LEVEY (UK)

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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 2148: 68 (3 Jul. 2009
Erratum— OSCAR VORST (2009) Cercyon castaneipennis sp. n., an overlooked species from Europe (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) Zootaxa, 2054, 59–68.
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2147: 59-68 (2 Jul. 2009) 3 plates; 49 references                           Accepted: 20 May 2009
Morphology of the first instar larva in the tribe Clytrini, with two new descriptions in the subtribe Megalostomina (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae)
FEDERICO A. AGRAIN & ADRIANA E. MARVALDI (Argentina)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2145: 1-35 (30 Jun. 2009) 15 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 11 May 2009
Cephennomicrus Reitter (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae) of Japan and Taiwan: taxonomic notes, ten new species and comparative morphology of nomurai and taiwanensis species groups
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZY
ŃSKI (Poland)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2139: 61-68 (23 Jun. 2009) 3 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 27 May 2009
Three new species of Hemiosus Sharp (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) and new state records of Hemiosus fittkaui Oliva and H. moreirai d’Orchymont from Brazil
BRUNO CLARKSON & NELSON FERREIRA-JR. (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2139: 43-60 (23 Jun. 2009) 5 plates; 76 references                           Accepted: 10 Apr. 2009
Revision of the Agrilus cyanescens species-group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) with description of three new species from the east Palaearctic region
EDUARD JENDEK & VASILY V. GREBENNIKOV (Canada)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2139: 23-42 (23 Jun. 2009) 4 plates; 63 references                           Accepted: 1 May 2009
Generic limits in South American stag beetles: taxa currently misplaced in Sclerostomus Burmeister (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Lucaninae: Sclerostomini)
PASCHOAL C. GROSSI (Brazil) & M.J. PAULSEN (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2139: 1-22 (23 Jun. 2009) 9 plates; 36 references                           Accepted: 12 May 2009
Description of the preimaginal stages of Enochrus (Hugoscottia) variegatus (Steinheil, 1869) and E. (Methydrus) vulgaris (Steinheil, 1869) (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae), with emphasis on larval morphometry and chaetotaxy
BARBARA BYTTEBIER & PATRICIA L. M. TORRES (Argentina)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2137: 66-68 (22 Jun. 2009) 1 plates; 5 references                           Accepted: 30 May 2009
Agrilus (Agrilus) sundholmi, a new Agrilus from Australia (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
GIANFRANCO CURLETTI (Italy)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2137: 29-34 (22 Jun. 2009) 1 plates; 4 references                           Accepted: 28 May 2009
New Neotropical genera and species of Dryobiini and Rhopalophorini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae)
DILMA SOLANGE NAPP & MIGUEL A. MONNÉ (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 2137: 23-28 (22 Jun. 2009) 1 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 14 May 2009
First records of Anisandrus maiche Stark (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) from North America
ROBERT J. RABAGLIA, NATALIA J.VANDENBERG & ROBERT E. ACCIAVATTI (USA)

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Zootaxa 2137: 1-22 (22 Jun. 2009) 15 plates; 30 references                           Accepted: 5 May 2009
Reinstatement of the genus Heteroglenea Gahan, with four new combinations, four new synonyms and three new species (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Saperdini)
MEIYING LIN (China), OLIVIER MONTREUIL (France), GÉRARD TAVAKILIAN (France) &
XINGKE YANG (China)
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Zootaxa 2135: 57-64 (18 Jun. 2009) 2 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 8 May 2009
A review of the genus Actenoncus Chaudoir (Coleoptera: Caraboidea: Orthogoniini)
MING-YI TIAN (China) & THIERRY DEUVE (France)

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Zootaxa 2134: 49-59 (17 Jun. 2009) 5 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 26 May 2009
Kakadudessus tomweiri, a new genus and species of diving beetle from tropical northern Australia, based on molecular phylogenetic and morphological data (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini)
LARS HENDRICH & MICHAEL BALKE (Germany)

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Zootaxa 2134: 60-68 (17 Jun. 2009) 6 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 28 Apr. 2009
A new species Agrypnus (Sabikikorius) uidoensis sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from the Sand Dune Shore of Ui-do Island, Korea
TAE MAN HAN, HA SIK SIM, SEUNGHWAN LEE & HAE CHUL PARK (Korea)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2132: 65-68 (15 Jun. 2009) 2 plates; 3 references                           Accepted: 20 May 2009
A new genus and species of Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from the western dry forest of Ecuador
R. WILLS FLOWERS (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2132: 40-52 (15 Jun. 2009) 4 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 7 Apr. 2009
A revision of the genus Lycomorphon (Coleoptera: Lycidae)
ELYNTON ALVES DO NASCIMENTO (Brazil) & MILADA BOCAKOVA (Czech)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2131: 65-68 (12 Jun. 2009) 3 plates; 2 references                           Accepted: 20 May 2009
A second species of Apterodina (Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae) from Ecuador
R. WILLS FLOWERS (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2129: 47-62 (10 Jun. 2009) 5 plates; 39 references                           Accepted: 13 May 2009
Optical characterization and redescription of the South Pacific firefly Bourgeoisia hypocrita Olivier (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae)
DIMITRI D. DEHEYN (USA) & LESLEY A. BALLANTYNE (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2125: 1-56 (4 Jun. 2009) 35 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 15 May 2009
A taxonomic study of the Indian species of Euops Schoenherr (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Attelabidae)
ALEXANDER RIEDEL (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2121: 27-34 (29 May 2009) 2 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 28 Apr. 2009
A redescription of Blethisa multipunctata aurata Fischer von Waldheim, 1828
(Coleoptera: Carabidae: Elaphrinae)
HENRI GOULET (Canada), GERMAN S. LAFER SH (Russia) & SEIJI MORITA (Japan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2118: 53-64 (27 May 2009) 1 plates; 9 references                           Accepted: 23 Apr. 2009
Five new species of Pelthydrus Orchymont, 1919 from China and adjacent
countries (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)
DONGJU BIAN (China), HEINRICH SCHÖNMANN (Austria) & LANZHU JI (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2117: 56-64 (25 May 2009) 5 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 29 Apr. 2009
Cis pickeri sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Ciidae) from Southern Africa

CRISTIANO LOPES-ANDRADE (Brazil), NATALIA MATUSHKINA (Ukraine), GERDA BUDER
(Germany) & KLAUS-DIETER KLASS (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2112: 25-40 (20 May 2009) 10 plates; 41 references                         Accepted: 18 Apr. 2009
Redescription of Anovia circumclusa (Gorham) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Noviini), with first description of the egg, larva, and pupa, and notes on adult intraspecific elytral pattern variation

JUANITA A. FORRESTER (Georgia
), NATALIA J. VANDENBERG (USA), & JOSEPH V. MCHUGH (Georgia)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2108: 65-68 (15 May 2009) 1 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 16 Apr. 2009
A new genus and species of the tribe Trigonogeniini Cobos, 1956, from Belize
(Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
SVATOPLUK BÍLÝ (Czech Republic)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2105: 66-68 (13 May 2009) 2 plates; 1 references                          Accepted: 18 Apr. 2009
Description of a new species of Platycoelia Dejean (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae:
Rutelinae: Anoplognathini) from Bolivia
ANDREW B. T. SMITH (Canada)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2105: 61-62 (13 May 2009) 0 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 8 Apr. 2009
Contributions to the knowledge of the Quediina (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae,
Staphylinini) of China. Part 32. Genus Quedius Stephens, 1829. Subgenus Distichalius Casey, 1915. Section 3
ALEŠ SMETANA (Canada)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2102: 1-74 (11 May 2009) 46 plates; 49 references                          Accepted: 19 Mar. 2009
Review of the Sogdini of North and Central America (Coleoptera: Leiodidae:
Leiodinae) with descriptions of fourteen new species and three new genera
STEWART B. PECK & JOYCE COOK
(Canada)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2101: 1-152 (11 May 2009) 31 plates; 386 references                         Accepted: 4 Mar. 2009
Taxonomic revision and biogeography of the Tamarix-feeding
Diorhabda elongata (Brullé, 1832) species group (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Galerucini) and analysis of their potential in biological control of Tamarisk
JAMES L. TRACY & THOMAS O. ROBBINS
(USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2094: 60-68 (8 May 2009) 4 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 8 Apr. 2009
Two new species of Borboropora Kraatz from Mexico
(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
LEONARDO DELGADO & QUIYARI J. SANTIAGO-JIMÉNEZ (Mexico)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2094: 23-35 (8 May 2009) 6 plates; 8 references                           Accepted: 1 Apr. 2009
Anthomalachius, a new genus of soft-winged flower beetles
(Coleoptera, Malachiidae: Malachiinae)
SERGEI E. TSHERNYSHEV (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2089: 52-64 (4 May 2009) 5 plates; 52 references                           Accepted: 25 Mar. 2009
Intra- and interspecific analysis of first instar larval morphology in the genus
Berberomeloe Bologna 1989 (Coleoptera: Meloidae)
CHIARA SETTANNI (Spain), ANDREA DI GIULIO (Italy), MARIA GRAZIA FINOIA (Italy) &
MARCO A. BOLOGNA (Italy)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2087: 1-36 (1 May 2009) 13 plates; 43 references                           Accepted: 20 Mar. 2009
Notes on the morphology, taxonomy, and natural history of the genus Platycerus
Geoffroy from China, with the description of a new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Lucanidae)
HAO HUANG & CHANG-CHIN CHEN (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2084: 50-68 (27 Apr. 2009) 3 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 17 Mar. 2009
New species, taxonomic notes, and records for Agrilus Curtis
(Coleoptera: Buprestidae) of México and the United States
HENRY A. HESPENHEIDE & CHARLES L. BELLAMY (USA)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2083: 65-68 (27 Apr. 2009) 1 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 10 Apr. 2009
Buobellenden jingyuanensis gen. et sp. nov. of the subfamily Pselaphinae
(Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Northwestern China
ZI-WEI YIN (China), SHÛHEI NOMURA (Japan) and MEI-JUN ZHAO (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2083: 46-64 (27 Apr. 2009) 7 plates; 49 references                           Accepted: 27 Mar. 2009
A review of Chinese species of the subgenus Paederus s. str. (Coleoptera:
Staphylinidae: Paederinae) with description of a new species
XIAO-YAN LI & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2083: 1-18 (27 Apr. 2009) 12 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 2 Feb. 2009
New genera and species of leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from China
and South Korea
I. K. LOPATIN (Belarus) & A. S. KONSTANTINOV (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2080: 1-20 (22 Apr. 2009) 5 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 10 Mar. 2009
A revision of the genus Lamellipalpus Maulik, 1921 (Coleoptera, Lampyridae)
MICHEL BRANCUCCI & MICHAEL GEISER (Switzerland)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2078: 63-68 (20 Apr. 2009) 2 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 18 Mar. 2009
First record of Microscydmus Saulcy & Croissandeau, 1893 from China,
with descriptions of two new species (Coleoptera: Scydmaenidae)
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZY
ŃSKI (Poland)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2069: 18-42 (10 Apr. 2009) 11 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 2 Mar. 2009
Discovery of a second species of Aesalini from continental China, with description of the new species and its third instar larva
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Lucanidae)
HAO HUANG, WEN-XUAN BI, & LI-ZHEN LI (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2064: 27-38 (6 Apr. 2009) 12 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 16 Feb. 2009
Taxonomy of Promethis Pascoe (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) on Hainan Island, China
YI-BIN BA & GUO-DONG REN (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2062: 57-64 (3 Apr. 2009) 5 plates; 20 references                           Accepted: 7 Mar. 2009
Leptogenopapus mirabilis, a new genus and species of Lomechusini
(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) from Papua New Guinea associated with ants of the genus Leptogenys Roger
PETER HLAVÁ
Č (Slovakia ) & MILAN JANDA (Czech Republic)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2062: 37-45 (3 Apr. 2009) 6 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 2 Mar. 2009
Two new species of Phyllophaga Harris
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) from Costa Rica
ALEJANDRA GARCÍA-LÓPEZ (Spain), MIGUEL ÁNGEL MORÓN (Mexico), ESTEFANÍA MICÓ
(Spain) & EDUARDO GALANTE (Spain)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2056: 63-68 (30 Mar. 2009) 1 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 2 Mar. 2009
Pseudosparna, a new Neotropical genus of Acanthocinini (Coleoptera:
Cerambycidae: Lamiinae), with description of three new species
JOSÉ RICARDO M. MERMUDES & MIGUEL A. MONNÉ (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2055: 35-48 (27 Mar. 2009) 5 plates; 23 references                           Accepted: 23 Feb. 2009
Revision of Saprinus (Saprinus) splendens (Paykull, 1811) with description of Saprinus (Saprinus) secchii n. sp. (Coleoptera: Histeridae)
THOMAS THÉRY, YVES GOMY & NICOLAS DEGALLIER (France)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2054: 59-68 (27 Mar. 2009) 3 plates; 34 references                           Accepted: 10 Mar. 2009
Cercyon castaneipennis sp. n., an overlooked species from Europe
(Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)
OSCAR VORST (The Netherlands)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2054: 1-37 (27 Mar. 2009) 14 plates; 35 references                           Accepted: 17 Feb. 2009
Taxonomic revision of New World species of the genus Oosternum Sharp
(Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae) I. Definition of species groups and revision of the Oosternum aequinoctiale group
MARTIN FIKÁ
ČEK (Czech Republic), FRANZ HEBAUER (Germany) & MICHAEL HANSEN (Denmark)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2048: 47-64 (23 Mar. 2009) 7 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 19 Feb. 2009
Review of the species in the Cyclocephala bicolor Laporte species group
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)
LUIS J. JOLY (Venezuela)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2048: 65-68 (23 Mar. 2009) 2 plates; 5 references                          Accepted: 20 Feb. 2009
Description of the female of Tehuacania howdeni Endrödi
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Oryctini), with a key to the genera of Oryctini from Mexico
ALBERTO BITAR & MIGUEL ÁNGEL MORÓN (Mexico)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2048: 1-30 (23 Mar. 2009) 7 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 19 Feb. 2009
Taxonomic revision of the Australian predaceous water beetle genus
Carabhydrus Watts, 1978 (Col. Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae, Hydroporini)
LARS HENDRICH (Germany) & CHRIS H.S. WATTS (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2047: 48-62 (20 Mar. 2009) 3 plates; 129 references                         Accepted: 30 Jan. 2009
Introduced leaf beetles of the Maritime Provinces, 8: Gastrophysa polygoni
Linnaeus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
LAURENT LESAGE & CHRISTOPHER G. MAJKA (Canada)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2040: 1-111 (16 Mar. 2009) 65 plates; 179 references                         Accepted: 1 Dec. 2008
Revision in part of the genus Nebrioporus Régimbart, 1906, with emphasis on the
N. laeviventris-group (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
MARIO TOLEDO
(Italy)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2038: 1-119 (16 Mar. 2009) 61 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 16 Feb. 2009
Revisions of the genera Parhydraena Orchymont, Protozantaena Perkins,
Decarthrocerus Orchymont, and Parhydraenopsis nomen novum, aquatic and humicolous beetles from Africa and Madagascar, and comparative morphology of the tribe Parhydraenini (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
PHILIP D. PERKINS (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2034: 31-42 (13 Mar. 2009) 1 plates; 39 references                            Accepted: 27 Jan. 2009
Revision of some types of Philonthus Stephens and Gabrius Stephens from
southern South America (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), with nomenclatural notes
MARIANA CHANI-POSSE DE MAUS (Argentina)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2034: 43-48 (13 Mar. 2009) 1 plates; 3 references                              Accepted: 9 Feb. 2009
Three new species of Bidessodes Régimbart (Insecta, Coleoptera, Dytiscidae)
from the Amazon river floodplain
RAFAEL BENZI BRAGA & NELSON FERREIRA-JR. (Brasil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2033: 58-68 (11 Mar. 2009) 4 plates; 46 references                           Accepted: 30 Jan. 2009
A review of the genus Chelobasis Gray, 1832
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)
C. L. STAINES(USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2033: 49-57 (11 Mar. 2009) 3 plates; 17 references                             Accepted: 3 Feb. 2009
Australotarsius—a new genus of the rove beetle tribe Staphylinini from
Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)
ALEXEY SOLODOVNIKOV (DENMARK) & ALFRED F. NEWTON (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2033: 1-12 (11 Mar. 2009) 4 plates; 24 references                             Accepted: 10 Feb. 2009
Five new species of the longulus-group of Hydroporus Clairville, 1806 from
north-eastern Turkey (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
HANS FERY (Germany) & ÖMER KÖKSAL ERMAN (Turkey)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2032: 55-62 (11 Mar. 2009) 3 plates; 5 references                             Accepted: 30 Jan. 2009
Revision of the genus Munina (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), with
the description of M. laotica sp. nov. from Laos
JAN BEZD
ĚK (Czech Republic)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2031: 63-67 (9 Mar. 2009) 2 plates; 12 references                             Accepted: 30 Jan. 2009
On the genus Tetartopeus Czwalina, 1888 of Turkey. A new species and
additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae)
S
İNAN ANLAŞ (Turkey)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2023: 1-27 (27 Feb. 2009) 5 plates; 43 references                             Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
A review of the genus Glyptasida Casey (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Asidini)
STEPHANIE A. LOCKWOOD & DARREN A. POLLOCK (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2017: 47-57 (20 Feb. 2009) 5 plates; 15 references                             Accepted: 27 Jan. 2009
A taxonomic revision and revalidation of Nycterilampus Montrouzier
(Coleoptera: Elateridae, Agrypninae)
CLEIDE COSTA (Brasil), SIMONE POLICENA ROSA ( Brasil) & JACQUES CHASSAIN (France)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2017: 58-60 (20 Feb. 2009) 1 plates; 10 references                             Accepted: 3 Dec. 2008
A new species of Polyzonus Castelnau (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from China
GUANG-LIN XIE & WEN-KAI WANG (China)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2017: 65-68 (20 Feb. 2009) 0 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 19 Jan. 2009
Type specimens of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) at the museo entomológico
Francisco Luís Gallego, Medellín, Colombia
PAULA A. SEPÚLVEDA-CANO & MANUEL A. RAMÍREZ-MORA (Colombia)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2014: 65-68 (18 Feb. 2009) 1 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 19 Dec. 2008
A new species of Micropodabrus Pic from Hainan, China, and a new name to
replace M. coomani (Pic) (Coleoptera, Cantharidae)
YU-XIA YANG & XING-KE YANG (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2014: 41-50 (18 Feb. 2009) 6 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 28 Jan. 2009
The Madagascan genus Dolurgocleptes Schedl (Coleoptera: Curculionidae,
Scolytinae): description of a new species and transfer to the tribe Polygraphini
BJARTE H. JORDAL (Norway)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2011: 47-68 (13 Feb. 2009) 8 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 24 Dec. 2008
Revision of the genus Epexochus Reitter, with description of three new species
(Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Lixinae: Cleonini)
MASSIMO MEREGALLI & FABIO TALAMELLI (Italy)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2010: 31-45 (13 Feb. 2009) 20 plates; 38 references                          Accepted: 18 Dec. 2008
Two sibling species of Leiopus Audinet-Serville, 1835 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from Europe:
L. nebulosus (Linnaeus, 1758) and L. linnei sp. nov.
HENRIK WALLIN (Sweden), ULF NYLANDER (Sweden) & TORSTEIN KVAMME (Norway)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2010: 46-56 (13 Feb. 2009) 4 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 17 Dec. 2008
The Pselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of New Caledonia and Loyalty
Islands. II. Revision of the tribe Tyrini Reitter, 1882
PETER HLAVÁ
Č (Slovakia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2009: 1-26 (11 Feb. 2009) 8 plates; 29 references                             Accepted: 1 Dec. 2008
Pristosia Motschulsky, 1865 from the Nepal Himalaya: Taxonomy and
Biogeography (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Sphodrini)
JOACHIM SCHMIDT & MATTHIAS HARTMANN (Germany)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1999: 1-113 (4 Feb. 2009) 2 plates; 619 references                            Accepted: 8 Dec. 2008
An annotated checklist of the handsome fungus beetles of the world
(Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Endomychidae)
F.W. SHOCKLEY (USA), K.W. TOMASZEWSKA (Poland) & J.V. MCHUGH (USA)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1997: 1-188 (4 Feb. 2009) 45 plates; 137 references                           Accepted: 16 Oct. 2008
Systematics of Indo-Pacific fireflies with a redefinition of Australasian Atyphella
Olliff, Madagascan Photuroluciola Pic, and description of seven new genera from the Luciolinae (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)
LESLEY A. BALLANTYNE & CHRISTINE LAMBKIN
(Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1993: 1-16 (2 Feb. 2009) 8 plates; 51 references                             Accepted: 22 Dec. 2008
Baronniesia delioti gen. n. sp. n., a new subterranean Leptodirini from the French Pyrenees (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae)
JAVIER FRESNEDA (Spain), CHARLES BOURDEAU (France) & ARNAUD FAILLE (France)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1993: 17-26 (2 Feb. 2009) 1 plates; 51 references                             Accepted: 18 Dec. 2008
A new bark-gnawing beetle (Coleoptera, Trogossitidae) from the middle Eocene of Europe, with a checklist of fossil Trogossitidae
HEIKO SCHMIED (Germany), TORSTEN WAPPLER (Germany) & JIŘÍ KOLIBÁČ (Czech Republic)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1991: 1-27 (30 Jan. 2009) 13 plates; 16 references                             Accepted: 3 Dec. 2008
Descriptions of eight new species of Phaelota (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
with a new generic synonymy and a key to species of Indian subcontinent
K. D. PRATHAPAN (India) & A. S. KONSTANTINOV (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1985: 63-68 (21 Jan. 2009) 2 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 8 Dec. 2008
Chromosomal similarities and differences among three sibling species of the Acalles echinatus group (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Cryptorhynchinae)
DOROTA LACHOWSKA (Poland), MARIA ROŻEK (Poland) & MILADA HOLECOVÀ (Slovakia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1985: 21-33 (21 Jan. 2009) 19 plates; 25 references                          Accepted: 18 Dec. 2008
Revision of some types of the South American tribes Nycteliini, Praocini, and Scotobiini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), with new synonymies
GUSTAVO E. FLORES (Argentina)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1984: 57-60 (21 Jan. 2009) 1 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 17 Dec. 2008
Description of the larva of Oulimnius echinatus Berthélemy (Coleoptera: Elmidae: Elminae)

FEDOR ČIAMPOR JR., ZUZANA ČIAMPOROVÁ-ZAŤOVIČOVÁ
& JÁN KODADA (Slovakia)
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Zootaxa 1983: 54-62 (19 Jan. 2009) 3 plates; 13 references                             Accepted: 4 Dec. 2008
Two new species of Aphanarthrum Wollaston (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) associated with Euphorbia in South Africa
BJARTE H. JORDAL (Norway)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1978: 48-62 (14 Jan. 2009) 6 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 25 Nov. 2008
Systematic position and cladistic analysis of Gyrasida Koch, a remarkable
genus of Praocini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Chile
GUSTAVO E. FLORES (Argentina) & PEDRO VIDAL (Chile)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1974: 1-16 (9 Jan. 2009) 9 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 14 Nov. 2008
The Scirtes (Coleoptera: Scirtidae: Scirtinae) of Micronesia
HIROYUKI YOSHITOMI (Japan)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1972: 65-68 (7 Jan. 2009) 0 plates; 59 references                              Accepted: 24 Nov. 2008
Proposed conservation of the name Penthe Newman, 1838 (Coleoptera:
Tetratomidae: Penthinae) threatened by the discovery of an older available name
PATRICE BOUCHARD (Canada) & DARREN A. POLLOCK (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1972: 20-34 (7 Jan. 2009) 9 plates; 20 references                              Accepted: 10 Nov. 2008
A new species of Orthomus Chaudoir, 1838 (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from Madeira island (Macaronesia) and notes on related species
Artur R. M. Serrano (Portugal), Carlos A.S. Aguiar (Portugal), MÁrio C. Boieiro (Portugal), Paulo A.V. Borges (Portugal), Carla Rego (Portugal), Isabel R. AMORIM (Portugal), SÉrvio P. RIBEIRO (Brazil) & Fernando Pereira (Portugal)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1968: 45-57 (22 Dec. 2008) 9 plates; 7 references                          Accepted: 25 Nov. 2008
Arrowcryptus, a new genus of Xenoscelinae of Erotylidae from Africa
RICHARD A. B. LESCHEN (New Zealand) & PIOTR WEGRZYNOWICZ (Poland)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1959: 39-57 (8 Dec. 2008) 5 plates; 40 references                          Accepted: 7 Nov. 2008
A taxonomic revision of the weevil genus Picia Tournier, 1895
(Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Erirhinidae)
ROBERTO CALDARA (Italy)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1958: 1-16 (8 Dec. 2008) 7 plates; 25 references                          Accepted: 7 Nov. 2008
Phylogeny and distribution of the Australian longicorn beetle genus Uracanthus Hope (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
DUANGRAT THONGPHAK & QIAO WANG (New Zealand)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1955: 1-75 (5 Dec. 2008) 14 plates; 107 references                            Accepted: 2 Oct. 2008
Synopsis of the new subtribe Scatimina (Coleoptera:
Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Ateuchini), with descriptions of twelve new genera and review of Genieridium, new genus
FERNANDO Z. VAZ-DE-MELLO (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1941: 25-30 (24 Nov. 2008) 6 plates; 6 references                           Accepted: 9 Oct. 2008
Synopsis of the genus Caperonotus Napp, 1993 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
DILMA SOLANGE NAPP & MIGUEL A. MONNÉ (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1941: 55-66 (24 Nov. 2008) 4 plates; 21 references                        Accepted: 3 Nov. 2008
A review of the genus Hoplasoma (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia, with the description of H. bosi sp. nov.
JAN BEZDĚK (Czech)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1933: 33-42 (14 Nov. 2008) 0 plates; 5 references                             Accepted: 7 Oct. 2008
A new species and new subgenus of the Genus Elaphrus from North China, with cladistic analysis of taxa of the tribe Elaphrini (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
HONGLIANG SHI & HONGBIN LIANG (China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1929: 47-68 (10 Nov. 2008) 4 plates; 42 references                            Accepted: 7 Oct. 2008
A new species of Xenorhipis LeConte and of Mastogenius Solier from Mexico, with a discussion of Chrysobothris ichthyomorpha Thomson and its allies and notes on other Mexican and Central American Buprestidae (Coleoptera)
RICHARD L. WESTCOTT (USA)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1928: 1-72 (10 Nov. 2008) 23 plates; 83 references                          Accepted: 30 Sept. 2008
A phylogenetic analysis of the tribe Zopherini with a review of the species and generic classification (Coleoptera: Zopheridae)
IAN A. FOLEY & MICHAEL A. IVIE (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1926: 20-26 (7 Nov. 2008) 2 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 7 Oct. 2008
Two new high-altitude species of the genus Omphreus Dejean (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalinae) from Serbia
SRECKO B. CURCIC (Serbia), WOLFGANG WAITZBAUER (Austria), PAMELA ZOLDA (Austria), NASTAS ILIC (Serbia) & BOZIDAR P. M. CURCIC (Serbia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1923: 62-68 (5 Nov. 2008) 3 plates; 6 references                                Accepted: 2 Oct. 2008
New data on the genus Ascaphium Lewis (Coleoptera, staphylinidae, Scaphidiinae) of China
WEN-JIA HE, LIANG TANG & LI-ZHEN LI (China)

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Zootaxa 1922: 21-32 (3 Nov. 2008) 5 plates; 26 references                            Accepted: 30 Sept. 2008
Revision of the genus Apterodorcus Arrow (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Lucaninae) of southern South America
JOSÉ MONDACA E.(Chile) & M.J. PAULSEN (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1922: 33-46 (3 Nov. 2008) 7 plates; 26 references                            Accepted: 18 Sept. 2008
Morphological and molecular characterization of a new species of Diabrotica (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae)
NORA CABRERA (Argentina), DANIEL R. SOSA GÓMEZ (Brazil) & ADRIANA MICHELI (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1922: 47-61 (3 Nov. 2008) 6 plates; 42 references                            Accepted: 25 Sept. 2008
Description of the larvae of three species of Laccophilus Leach and comments on the phylogenetic relationships of the Laccophilinae (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
MARIANO C. MICHAT (Argentina)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1917: 65-68 (29 Oct. 2008) 1 plate; 8 references                         Accepted: 8 Sept. 2008
Three new species of Neotropical Tropisternus Solier (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)
PAUL J. SPANGLER & ANDREW EDWARD Z. SHORT (USA)

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Zootaxa 1916: 57-62 (27 Oct. 2008) 4 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 17 Sept. 2008
The genus Xenaclopus Arrow (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): redescription and removal from the Aclopinae, with systematic notes
Federico C. OCAMPO & FERNANDO Z. VAZ-DE-MELLO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1913: 36-48 (24 Oct. 2008) 1 plate; 11 references                          Accepted: 23 Sept. 2008
The species of the genus Athousius Reitter, 1905 of China, and re-establishment of the genus Thacana Fleutiaux, 1936 (Insecta: Coleoptera, Elateridae)
RAINER SCHIMMEL (Germany) & DARIUSZ TARNAWSKI (Poland)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1913: 49-68 (24 Oct. 2008) 8 plates; 6 references                          Accepted: 16 Sept. 2008
Contribution to the knowledge of Seychellois Scirtidae (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea)
RAFAL RUTA (Poland)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1912: 59-65 (22 Oct. 2008) 3 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 11 Sept. 2008
Three new species of the Old World Oedemeridae (Coleoptera)
VLADIMÍR ŠVIHLA (Czech Republic)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1910: 53-58 (20 Oct. 2008) 7 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 18 Sept. 2008
Aplosonyx amorphophallus, an interesting new species of Galerucinae from Timor, Indonesia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
MOHAMED S. MOHAMEDSAID (Malaysia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1899: 43-49 (15 Oct. 2008) 7 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 4 Aug. 2008
Description of the immatures of Charidotella (Charidotella) flaviae Maia & Buzzi,
2005 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae)
OZANA MARIA DE ANDRADE MAIA & ZUNDIR JOSÉ BUZZI (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1898: 55-62 (13 Oct. 2008) 3 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 17 Sept. 2008
A review of the genus Scaphidium Oliver (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scaphidiinae) from Tianmushan, East China
WEN-JIA HE, LIANG TANG & LI-ZHEN LI (China)

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Zootaxa 1898: 63-68 (13 Oct. 2008) 3 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 18 Sept. 2008
A new species of genus Aplosonyx Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) from China, with a key to the Chinese known species
LIJIE ZHANG, WENZHU LI, YALIN ZHANG & XINGKE YANG (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1896: 58-62 (10 Oct. 2008) 1 plate; 14 references                              Accepted: 16 Sept. 2008
Borneosabahia Franz is a junior synonym of Elacatophora Schaufuss (Coleoptera, Scydmaenidae, Cyrtoscydmini, Cephenniini)
PAWEL JALOSZYNSKI (Poland)

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Zootaxa 1895: 1-9 (8 Oct. 2008) 3 plates; 38 references                              Accepted: 19 Sept. 2008
New position of an abdominal defensive gland complex in Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) with redescription of Piestus heterocephalus Fauvel, 1902 (Piestinae)
EDILSON CARON (Brazil), CIBELE S. RIBEIRO-COSTA (Brazil) & ALFRED F. NEWTON (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1895: 10-24 (8 Oct. 2008) 7 plates; 29 references                            Accepted: 17 Sept. 2008
A review of the genus Epitrichius Tagawa, with an analysis of the internal sac armature of the male genitalia (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae)
CHUN-LIN LI, PING-SHIH YANG, KUO-SHENG HSU and CHUAN-CHAN WANG (R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1895: 39-52 (8 Oct. 2008) 8 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 16 Sept. 2008
A review of Hippeutister Reichensperger with new species from California and Costa Rica (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Hetaeriinae)
MICHAEL S. CATERINO & ALEXEY K. TISHECHKIN (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1895: 59-65 (8 Oct. 2008) 5 plates; 4 references                              Accepted: 8 Sept. 2008
A new species of Ranomafana from Madagascar (Coleoptera: Pyrochroidae: Pilipalpinae)
HERMES E. ESCALONA (Venezuela) & ADAM SLIPINSKI
(Australia)
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Zootaxa 1892: 1-25 (6 Oct. 2008) 7 plates; 46 references                               Accepted: 18 Aug. 2008
A review of the genus Tragidion Audinet-Serville, 1834 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Trachyderini)
IAN SWIFT & ANN M. RAY (USA)

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Zootaxa 1892: 53-64 (6 Oct. 2008) 4 plates; 17 references                             Accepted: 10 Sept. 2008
On the Cryptobiina of the Arabian peninsula (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae)
VOLKER ASSING (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1879: 52-56 (17 Sept. 2008) 2 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 6 Aug. 2008
New Agrilus Curtis species from mistletoe in Mexico (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
HENRY A. HESPENHEIDE (USA)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1879: 65-68 (17 Sept. 2008) 2 plates; 2 references                              Accepted: 6 Aug. 2008
A new species of flightless Hadromeropsis from the Colombian p
áramo (Coleoptera: Curculionidae; Entiminae; Tanymecini)
ROBERT S. ANDERSON (Canada)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1876: 35-59 (15 Sept. 2008) 3 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 23 Jul. 2008
Taxonomy and faunistics of the southern African genus Iselma, with the description of nine new species (Coleoptera: Meloidae: Eleticinae)
MONICA PITZALIS & MARCO A. BOLOGNA (Italy)
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Zootaxa 1876: 60-68 (15 Sept. 2008) 2 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 28 Aug. 2008
Synopsis of the Neotropical genus Lepturgantes Gilmour (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) with description of a new species
MIGUEL A. MONNÉ & MARCELA L. MONNÉ (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1874: 16-34 (10 Sept. 2008) 6 plates; 87 references                           Accepted: 22 Jul. 2008
Primary chaetotaxy of the larval head capsule and head appendages of the Hydrophilidae (Coleoptera) based on larva of Hydrobius fuscipes
(Linnaeus, 1758)
MARTIN FIKACEK (Czech Republic), MIGUEL ARCHANGELSKY (Argentina) & PATRICIA L. M. TORRES (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 1874: 57-62 (10 Sept. 2008) 3 plates; 6 references                              Accepted: 8 Jul. 2008
Two new species of Notosacantha Chevrolat, 1834 from India (Coleoptera: Cassidinae: Notosacanthini)
LUKAS SEKERKA (Czech Republic)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1871: 63-68 (8 Sept. 2008) 2 plates; 4 references                              Accepted: 18 Apr. 2008
A new species of Augustinus Korotyaev from China, with a key to the species groups of the genus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Ceutorhynchinae)
JUNHAO HUANG (China), HIRAKU YOSHITAKE (Japan), RUNZHI ZHANG (China) & MOTOMI ITO (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1871: 1-55 (8 Sept. 2008) 10 plates; 151 references                             Accepted: 2 Jul. 2008
Insects found in birds' nests from Argentina: Anumbius annumbi (Vieillot, 1817) (Aves: Furnariidae)
PAOLA TURIENZO & OSVALDO DI IORIO (Argentina)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1864: 1-124 (3 Sep. 2008) 115 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 9 May 2008
New species and new collection records of Prosthetopine water beetles from southern Africa (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
PHILIP D. PERKINS (USA)
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Zootaxa 1859: 63-68 (29 Aug. 2008) 3 plates; 3 references                             Accepted: 29 Jul. 2008
A new species of Agaporomorphus Zimmermann from Venezuela, and a review of the A. knischi species group (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Copelatinae)
Kelly B. Miller & Quentin D. Wheeler (USA)

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Zootaxa 1859: 40-48 (29 Aug. 2008) 2 plates; 26 references                             Accepted: 8 Jul. 2008
Revision of the genus Pilemostoma Desbroches, 1891 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Cassidini)
LUKAS SEKERKA (Czech Republic)
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Zootaxa 1858: 64-68 (27 Aug. 2008) 1 plates; 17 references                             Accepted: 6 Aug. 2008
Description of a new genus and species of the tribe Parmenini, with nomenclatural notes (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
MARCELA L. MONNE & MIGUEL A. MONNE (Brasil)
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Zootaxa 1858: 37-52 (27 Aug. 2008) 3 plates; 30 references                             Accepted: 6 Aug. 2008
The tribe Lepturini in South America (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lepturinae)
MARCELA L. MONNE & MIGUEL A. MONNE (Brasil)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1855: 65-68 (22 Aug. 2008) 2 plates; 4 references                              Accepted: 15 Jul. 2008
A new apterous species of the genus Orphnus MacLeay (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Orphninae) from South Africa
ANDREY V. FROLOV (Russia)

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Zootaxa 1855: 41-55 (22 Aug. 2008) 21 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 22 Jul. 2008
Revision of the Afrotropical genus Tritonus Mulsant (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)
ANDREW EDWARD Z. SHORT (USA)

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Zootaxa 1851: 51-57 (18 Aug. 2008) 3 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 17 Jun. 2008
A new species of Dinothenarus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from Mexico
QUIYARI J. SANTIAGO-JIMENEZ (Mexico)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1848: 66-68 (13 Aug. 2008)  1 plates; 4 references                             Accepted: 3 Jul. 2008
Ohanlonella, a new clerid genus from Mexico (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae)
JACQUES RIFKIND (USA)

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Zootaxa 1848: 1-15 (13 Aug. 2008) 2 plates; 31 references                             Accepted: 30 Jun. 2008
New taxa, distribution and biological records of Afrotropical Coraebini Bedel, 1921 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae)
C. L. BELLAMY (USA)

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Zootaxa 1845: 1-32 (8 Aug. 2008) 11 plates; 46 references                             Accepted: 8 Jul. 2008
Comparative morphology of internal reproductive systems in leaf beetles of the Donaciinae and Criocerinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) and its implication for the phylogeny
YOKO MATSUMURA & KUNIO SUZUKI (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1842: 35-44 (4 Aug. 2008) 5 plates; 17 references                              Accepted: 10 Jun. 2008
Typhlocharis Dieck, 1869 (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Anillini): a new species from the Iberian Peninsula, with notes about its relationships and the evolution of the diecki species group
CARMELO ANDUJAR, JOSE LUIS LENCINA & JOSE SERRANO (Spain)
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Zootaxa 1832: 1-110 (30 Jul. 2008) 60 plates; 46 references                          Accepted: 11 Apr. 2008
An essay on the tribe Xylographellini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Ciidae)
CRISTIANO LOPES-ANDRADE (Brasil)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1831: 1-530 (30 Jul. 2008) 2 plates; 4557 references                      Accepted: 12 Feb. 2008
Arthropods of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti): A checklist and bibliography
DANIEL E. PEREZ-GELABERT
(USA)
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Zootaxa 1830: 1-20 (28 Jul. 2008) 1 plates; 38 references                              Accepted: 23 Jun. 2008
The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Morelos, Mexico, with description of six new species, and a partially annotated checklist

RICHARD L. WESTCOTT (USA), HENRY A. HESPENHEIDE (USA), JESUS ROMERO N. (Mexico), ARMANDO BURGOS SOLORIO (Mexico), C. L. BELLAMY (USA) & ARMANDO EQUIHUA M. (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 1827: 45-52 (23 Jul. 2008) 2 plates; 6 references                              Accepted: 30 Jun. 2008
Fontidessus Miller and Spangler, a new genus of Bidessini from Venezuela (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae) with three new species
KELLY B. MILLER & PAUL J. SPANGLER (USA)

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Zootaxa 1825: 51-58 (18 Jul. 2008) 2 plates; 17 references                             Accepted: 23 Jun. 2008
5100 m above sea level: Agabus joachimschmidti sp. n. and notes on other high altitude diving beetles from Tibet and Bhutan (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae)
MICHEL BRANCUCCI (Switzerland) & LARS HENDRICH (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1825: 59-64 (18 Jul. 2008) 2 plates; 6 references                              Accepted: 10 Jun. 2008
Contribution to the knowledge of Iranian Pygopleurus Motschulsky, with description of P. rapuzzii n. sp. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Glaphyridae)
DENIS KEITH (France) & MARCO ULIANA (Italy)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1821: 67-68 (11 Jul. 2008) 2 plates; 6 references                              Accepted: 17 Jun. 2008
The identity of Languria femoralis Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Erotylidae: Languriinae)
MATTHEW L. GIMMEL & CHRISTOPHER E. CARLTON (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1819: 25-39 (9 Jul. 2008) 7 plates; 57 references                              Accepted: 7 May 2008
Description of the Yunnan shoot borer, Tomicus yunnanensis Kirkendall & Faccoli sp. n. (Curculionidae, Scolytinae), an unusually aggressive pine shoot beetle from southern China, with a key to the species of Tomicus
LAWRENCE R. KIRKENDALL (Norway), MASSIMO FACCOLI (Itay) & HUI YE (China)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1818: 65-68 (7 Jul. 2008) 2 plates; 3 references                              Accepted: 3 Jun. 2008
Revision of the Paleartic species of the genus Ochthebius Leach (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) XXIV. Description of Ochthebius (Asiobates) sanabrensis n. sp. from northwestern Spain
LUIS F. VALLADARES (Spain) & MANFRED A. JACH (Austria)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1817: 65-68 (7 Jul. 2008) 1 plates; 18 references                              Accepted: 26 May 2008
A new monotypic genus of ant-mimicking Coraebini (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae ) from Madagascar
C. L. BELLAMY (USA)

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Zootaxa 1817: 49-58 (7 Jul. 2008) 5 plates; 17 references                              Accepted: 15 May 2008
Minute larvae of Leptotyphlinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae): description of three genera with discussion on the monophyly and phylogenetic position of the subfamily as inferred from larval morphology
VASILY V. GREBENNIKOV (Canada) & ALFRED F. NEWTON (USA)

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Zootaxa 1816: 35-43 (4 Jul. 2008) 4 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 6 May 2008
A review of the Neotropical genus Alloscolytroproctus Hustache, 1929 (Coleoptera; Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae)
ROBERT S. ANDERSON (Canada)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1816: 44-56 (4 Jul. 2008) 18 plates; 10 references                              Accepted: 22 May 2008
A revision of the Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) kheiliana Obenberger, 1931 species-group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
SVATOPLUK BILY (Czech Republic)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1811: 1-33 (27 Jun. 2008) 0 plates; 78 references                              Accepted: 11 Apr. 2008
The Elateridae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: faunal composition, new records, and taxonomic changes
CHRISTOPHER G. MAJKA (Canada) & PAUL J. JOHNSON (USA)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1811: 34-36 (27 Jun. 2008) 1 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 26 May 2008
The synonymy of Cyalithoides fulgida Fisher, 1922 with Chrysodema robusta Deyrolle, 1864 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Chrysochroinae)
C. L. BELLAMY (USA) & T. LANDER (Switzerland)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1811: 37-56 (27 Jun. 2008) 3 plates; 141 references                          Accepted: 12 May 2008
Introduced leaf beetles of the Maritime Provinces, 7: Cassida rubiginosa Muller and Cassida flaveola Thunberg (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
CHRISTOPHER G. MAJKA & LAURENT LESAGE (Canada)

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Zootaxa 1808: 33-43 (23 Jun. 2008) 7 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 20 May 2008
Three new species of the genus Euscelophilus Voss (Coleoptera: Attelabidae) from China
MENG XIE & XINGCAI LIANG (P.R. China)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1806: 66-68 (20 Jun. 2008) 0 plates; 6 references                              Accepted: 7 May 2008
Notes on enigmatic weevil taxa described from Spain and Morocco (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)
MIGUEL A. ALONSO-ZARAZAGA (Spain)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1805: 61-68 (18 Jun. 2008) 3 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 23 Apr. 2008
On the identity of Rhinusa hispida (Brulle and its current synonyms (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
ROBERTO CALDARA (Italy), MILANA DESANCIC (Serbia), ANDRE GASSMANN (Switzerland), LORENZA LEGARRETA (UK), BRENT C. EMERSON (UK) & IVO TOSEVSKI (Switzerland)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1799: 1-120 (16 Jun. 2008) 23 plates; 81 references                           Accepted: 7 Feb. 2008
Revision of the sap beetle genus Pocadius Erichson, 1843
(Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Nitidulinae)
ANDREW R. CLINE (USA)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1798: 1-100 (16 Jun. 2008) 34 plates; 110 references                         Accepted: 1 Apr. 2008
A revision of the New World genus Fidia Baly 1863
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae: Adoxini)
M. S. STROTHER & C. L. STAINES (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1794: 1-48 (13 Jun. 2008) 27 plates; 36 references                           Accepted: 18 Apr. 2008
A revision of the southern South American genus Bolborhinum Boucomont (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae: Bolboceratinae)
JOSE MONDACA (Chile) & ANDREW B. T. SMITH (Canada)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1791: 53-56 (12 Jun. 2008) 2 plates; 2 references                              Accepted: 29 Apr. 2008
Contributions to the knowledge of the "Staphylinus-complex" (Insecta: Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Staphylinini) of China. Part 20. The genus Wasmannellus Bernhauer, 1920. Section 2
ALES SMETANA (Canada)

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Zootaxa 1791: 57-67 (12 Jun. 2008) 5 plates; 11 references                              Accepted: 6 May 2008
A review of the Neotropical genus Eucalandra Faust, 1899 (Coleoptera; Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae)
ROBERT S. ANDERSON (Canada)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1791: 68 (12 Jun. 2008) 0 plates; 5 references                                Accepted: 28 May 2008
A replacement genus-group name in Buprestidae (Coleoptera)
C. L. BELLAMY (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1785: 54-62 (6 Jun. 2008) 5 plates; 36 references                            Accepted: 14 May 2008
A new genus and two new species of fossil Elaterids from the Yixian Formation of Western Liaoning, China (Coleoptera: Elateridae)
HUALI CHANG, FAN ZHANG & DONG REN (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1783: 18-30 (6 Jun. 2008) 3 plates; 53 references                              Accepted: 7 May 2008
A synopsis of the orchid weevil genus Orchidophilus Buchanan (Curculionidae, Baridinae), with taxonomic rectifications and description of one new species
JENS PRENA (USA)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1782: 65-68 (3 Jun. 2008) 2 plates; 10 references                              Accepted: 29 Apr. 2008
Ocypus (Matidus) primoriensis Smetana, a new species from the Russian Far East (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Staphylinini)
ALES SMETANA & VASILY GREBENNIKOV (Canada)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1782: 1-33 (3 Jun. 2008) 15 plates; 36 references                              Accepted: 7 May 2008
Revision, phylogeny and natural history of Cotithene Voss (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
NICO M. FRANZ (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1781: 55-62 (3 Jun. 2008) 6 plates; 20 references                              Accepted: 23 Apr. 2008
A new species of Hedyselmis Hinton and notes on the phylogeny of the genus (Coleoptera: Elmidae)

FEDOR CIAMPOR JR. & ZUZANA
CIAMPOROVA-ZATOVICOVA (Slovakia)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1781: 63-66 (3 Jun. 2008) 0 plates; 14 references                              Accepted: 18 Apr. 2008
A new synonym and new records of Tychiini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) from Madeira Archipelago and Selvagens Islands
Roberto Caldara (Italy) & DORA AGUIN-POMBO (Portugal)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1779: 1-32 (30 May 2008) 0 plates; 204 references                         Accepted: 14 Mar. 2008
Miscellaneous notes on World Anthicidae (Coleoptera)
GIANLUCA NARDI (Italy)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1776: 52-58 (26 May 2008) 3 plates; 26 references                         Accepted: 29 Apr. 2008
First record of the tribe Diglottini from South America with description of Diglotta brasiliensis n. sp. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)
EDILSON CARON & CIBELE STRAMARE RIBEIRO-COSTA (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1776: 59-68 (26 May 2008) 3 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 18 Apr. 2008
Two new species of Hainokisaruzo Yoshitake & Colonnelli from China, with a checklist of the species of the genus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Ceutorhynchinae)
JUNHAO HUANG (P.R. China), HIRAKU YOSHITAKE (Japan), RUNZHI ZHANG (P.R. China) & MOTOMI ITO (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1773: 55-62 (21 May 2008) 2 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 6 May 2008
The species of Pandeleteius Schoenherr of coastal Chile and Peru (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)
ANNE T. HOWDEN (Canada)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1773: 1-17 (21 May 2008) 12 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 27 Apr. 2008
Taxonomic review of three saperdine genera, Mandibularia Pic, Mimocagosima Breuning and Parastenostola Breuning (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Saperdini)
MEIYING LIN, WENZHU LI & XINGKE YANG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1772: 55-62 (19 May 2008) 5 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 23 Apr. 2008
First record of Xyleborus atratus Eichhoff from Europe, with an illustrated key to the European Xyleborini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
MASSIMO FACCOLI (Italy)

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Zootaxa 1772: 63-68 (19 May 2008) 3 plates; 2 references                              Accepted: 18 Apr. 2008
A new Chilean species of Cycloneda Crotch (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Coccinellinae: Coccinellini)
NATALIA J. VANDENBERG (USA) & GUILLERMO GONZAlEZ (Chile)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1755: 68 (24 Apr. 2008) 0 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 1 Apr. 2008
Maritime Provinces Carabidae (Coleoptera): a correction
CHRISTOPHER G. MAJKA & YVES BOUSQUET (Canada)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1755: 35-46 (24 Apr. 2008) 4 plates; 24 references                       Accepted: 31 Mar. 2008
The first record of Cis chinensis Lawrence from Brazil, with the delimitation of the Cis multidentatus species-group (Coleoptera: Ciidae)
CRISTIANO LOPES-ANDRADE (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1754: 1-40 (21 Apr. 2008) 18 plates; 37 references                         Accepted: 31 Mar. 2008
Classification, natural history, and evolution of Epiphloeinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Part VII. The genera Hapsidopteris Opitz, Iontoclerus Opitz, Katamyurus Opitz, Megatrachys Opitz, Opitzia Nemesio, Pennasolis Opitz, new genus, Pericales Opitz, new genus, Pteroferus Opitz, new genus, and Turbophloeus Opitz, new genus
WESTON OPITZ (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1751: 46-54 (16 Apr. 2008) 5 plates; 32 references                          Accepted: 17 Mar. 2008
The reinstatement of Julodimorpha saundersii Thomson 1879 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) as a valid species
C. L. Bellamy (USA) & Tom Weir (Australia)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1751: 55-58 (16 Apr. 2008) 1 plates; 5 references                           Accepted: 21 Mar. 2008
Bubastoides kadleci sp. nov. from Yemen (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Bubastini)
Svatopluk Bily (Czech Rep.)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1745: 30-46 (9 Apr. 2008) 6 plates; 42 references                            Accepted: 6 Mar. 2008
A new Helluodes Westwood species from Western Ghats with notes on habitat, distribution and phylogenetic relationships of genera Helluodes Westwood and Physocrotaphus Parry of the tribe Physocrotaphini Chaudoir (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae: Anthiinae)
THOMAS K. SABU (India), PRABHAKAR ABHITHA (India) & DANYANG ZHAO (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1745: 47-54 (9 Apr. 2008) 4 plates; 12 references                              Accepted: 6 Mar. 2008
Description of the mature larva of Gonioctena pseudogobanzi Kippenberg, 2001 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae) and key to the larvae of the subgenus Spartoxena
ANDRES BASELGA (Spain)
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Zootaxa 1745: 1-18 (9 Apr. 2008) 8 plates; 26 references                              Accepted: 3 Mar. 2008
Six new Stenus species of the cirrus group (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from China with a key to species of the group
TANG LIANG (P.R. China), YUN-LONG ZHAO (P.R. China) & VOLKER PUTHZ (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1741: 37-50 (4 Apr. 2008) 6 plates; 32 references                              Accepted: 28 Feb. 2008
Fine morphology of the myrmecophilous larva of Paussus kannegieteri (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Paussinae: Paussini)
ANDREA DI GIULIO (Italy)

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Zootaxa 1741: 51-58 (4 Apr. 2008) 4 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 3 Mar. 2008
Three new Stenus species of the indubius group (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from China
LIANG TANG & ZHAO YUN-LONG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1741: 59-67 (4 Apr. 2008) 3 plates; 42 references                              Accepted: 27 Feb. 2008
Taxonomic status of Euzonitis haroldi (Heyden, 1870) (Coleoptera: Meloidae) inferred from morphological and molecular data

MARINA ALCOBENDAS, JOSE L. RUIZ, )CHIARA SETTANNI & MARIO GARCIA-PARIS (Spain)
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Zootaxa 1740: 37-44 (2 Apr. 2008) 4 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 18 Feb. 2008
Two new species of blind, forest litter-inhabiting ground beetles from the subtribe Anillina (Carabidae: Trechinae: Bembidiini) from eastern U.S.A.
IGOR M. SOKOLOV & CHRISTOPHER E. CARLTON (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1740: 15-27 (2 Apr. 2008) 6 plates; 47 references                              Accepted: 12 Feb. 2008
A new Wagnerinus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from northern Japan: Description including a DNA barcode
HIRAKU YOSHITAKE, TOSHIHIDE KATO, UTSUGI JINBO & MOTOMI ITO (Japan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1733: 1-44 (28 Mar. 2008) 44 plates; 43 references                          Accepted: 30 Jan. 2008
Taxonomy and behaviour of lucioline fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae) with redefinition and new species of Pygoluciola Wittmer from mainland China and review of Luciola LaPorte
XIN HUA FU (P.R. China) & LESLEY BALLANTYNE (Australia)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1733: 57-60 (28 Mar. 2008) 2 plates; 6 references                              Accepted: 4 Mar. 2008
A new species of Eremobothynus Ohaus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) from Argentina, with notes on Eremobothynus cornutus (Steinheil)

PASCHOAL COELHO GROSSI & ESTEBAN IGNACIO ABADIE (Brazil)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1733: 68 (28 Mar. 2008) 0 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 17 Mar. 2008
A new replacement name in Lampetis Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
C. L. BELLAMY (USA)

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Zootaxa 1732: 45-53 (25 Mar. 2008) 5 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 11 Feb. 2008
A featherwing beetle without wings: re-discovery and second species of Rioneta (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) from the Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania
VASILY V. GREBENNIKOV (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1730: 27-42 (20 Mar. 2008) 8 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 15 Jan. 2008
Seven new species of Canthochilum Chapin from Hispaniola (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
T. Keith Philips & Michael A. Ivie (USA)

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Zootaxa 1727: 49-56 (14 Mar. 2008) 4 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 11 Feb. 2008
A new species for Limulopteryx from Cameroon with the first record of termitophilous Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) outside the Neotropics
VASILY V. GREBENNIKOV (Canada)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1725: 48-52 (12 Mar. 2008) 1 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 24 Jan. 2008
Two new Stenus (Hypostenus) species from China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Steninae)
CAI-YUN ZHAO, WAN-ZHI CAI & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1723: 42-46 (10 Mar. 2008) 1 plates; 4 references                             Accepted: 4 Jan. 2008
A new species of Coprophanaeus Olsoufieff (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Bolivia
W. D. EDMONDS (USA)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1720: 66-68 (5 Mar. 2008) 1 plates; 6 references                             Accepted: 22 Jan. 2008
First Florida records for Anovia circumclusa (Gorham) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Noviini): A natural enemy of Icerya genistae Hempel (Hemiptera: Margarodidae)
JUANITA A. FORRESTER & NATALIA J. VANDENBERG (USA)

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Zootaxa 1716: 35-43 (29 Feb. 2008) 5 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 10 Jan. 2008
First record of the genus Myrmedonota Cameron (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from North America, with descriptions of two new species
MUNETOSHI MARUYAMA (Japan), L. Brian Patrick (USA), Jan Klimaszewski (Canada)

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Zootaxa 1714: 1-18 (27 Feb. 2008) 26 plates; 32 references                           Accepted: 26 Jan. 2008
Taxonomic review of the stem-inhabiting trehala-constructing Larinus Dejean, 1821 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): New species, systematics and ecology
LEVENT GULTEKIN (Turkey)

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Zootaxa 1713: 39-46 (27 Feb. 2008) 4 plates; 6 references                              Accepted: 4 Jan. 2008
Immatures of Lamprosoma amethystinum Perty, 1832 (Chrysomelidae, Lamprosomatinae)
SONIA A. CASARI & EDSON POSSIDONIO TEIXEIRA (Brazil)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1712: 65-68 (25 Feb. 2008) 1 plates; 1 references                              Accepted: 13 Jan. 2008
An unusual new species of Gyrinidae (Coleoptera), Orectochilus orbisonorum n. sp., from India
Kelly B. Miller (USA), Paolo Mazzoldi (Italy) & Quentin D. Wheeler (USA)

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Zootaxa 1712: 42-48 (25 Feb. 2008) 2 plates; 5 references                              Accepted: 7 Jan. 2008
New and little known species of the subgenus Aegialia (Silluvia) (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) from the Sino-Tibetan mountains
ANDREY V. FROLOV (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1704: 1-26 (15 Feb. 2008) 16 plates; 72 references                              Accepted: 4 Jan. 2008
A preliminar overview of species composition and geographical distribution of Malvinian weevils (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
PAULA POSADAS (Argentina)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1704: 27-41 (15 Feb. 2008) 6 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 14 Jan. 2008
Paroster baylyi sp. n., P. ursulae sp. n. (Col. Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae) and the water beetle diversity of pan-gnammas on isolated granite outcrops in the Mallee of south-western Australia
LARS HENDRICH & HANS FERY (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1704: 42-46 (15 Feb. 2008) 3 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 22 Jan. 2008
A new species of Harpasus Mulsant (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae, Chilocorinae) from Peru

GUILLERMO GONZALEZ, GEOVAN HENRIQUE CORREA & LUCIA MASSUTTI DE ALMEIDA (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1702: 1-25 (13 Feb. 2008) 8 plates; 69 references                            Accepted: 10 Jan. 2008
Description of the preimaginal stages of three species of the genus Tropisternus Solier, subgenus Strepitornus Hansen (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae), with emphasis on morphometry and chaetotaxy
PATRICIA L. M. TORRES, MARIANO C. MICHAT & MIGUEL ARCHANGELSKY (Argentina)

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Zootaxa 1701: 1-14 (11 Feb. 2008) 4 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 28 Dec. 2007
Three new species of Canthonella Chapin from Hispaniola, with new records and Nomenclatural changes for West Indian dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
MICHAEL A. IVIE & T. KEITH PHILIPS (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1696: 25-36 (1 Feb. 2008) 2 plates; 37 references                              Accepted: 10 Jan. 2008
Taxonomic notes on the Cephenniini (Coleoptera, Scydmaenidae): Status of Coatesia Lea, Cephennomicrus Reitter, and Neseuthia Scott
PAWEL JALOSZYNSKI (Poland)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1689: 1-28 (25 Jan. 2008) 8 plates; 92 references                            Accepted: 17 Nov. 2007
A revision of the genus Phellopsis LeConte (Coleoptera: Zopheridae)
IAN A. FOLEY & MICHAEL A. IVIE (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1683: 1-31 (18 Jan. 2008) 18 plates; 49 references                           Accepted: 16 Nov. 2007
Postembryonic development of the dorsal chaetotaxy in Seira dowlingi (Collembola,
Entomobryidae); with an analysis of the diagnostic and phylogenetic significance of primary chaetotaxy in Seira
FELIPE N. SOTO-ADAMES (USA)
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Zootaxa 1683: 32-38 (18 Jan. 2008) 2 plates; 22 references                             Accepted: 7 Dec. 2007
A new species of Platambus from China (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
DONG-JU BIAN & LAN-ZHU JI (China)
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Zootaxa 1683: 39-50 (18 Jan. 2008) 8 plates; 29 references                             Accepted: 7 Dec. 2007
Osakatheta yasukoae, a new intertidal genus and species of athetine rove beetles
(Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) from Japan
MUNETOSHI MARUYAMA (Japan), JAN KLIMASZEWSKI (Canada) & VLADIMIR GUSAROV (Norway)
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Zootaxa 1681: 1-30 (16 Jan. 2008) 26 plates; 46 references                           Accepted: 11 Nov. 2007
The flea beetle genus Lanka (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in India with descriptions
of three new species and notes on the identity of the pollu beetle infesting black pepper, Piper nigrum
K. D. PRATHAPAN & C. A. VIRAKTAMATH (India)
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Zootaxa 1681: 31-36 (16 Jan. 2008) 1 plate; 4 references                                Accepted: 10 Dec. 2007
Two new species of Agrilus Curtis 1825 from Arizona and Texas, with a new
synonymy in Agrilus (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae)
WILLIAM F. BARR (USA)
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Zootaxa 1679: 39-53 (14 Jan. 2008) 7 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 25 Nov. 2007
Taxonomic studies of the Balkan Reicheina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Clivinini), with a review of the Albanian species
Petr Bulirsch  (Czech rep.) & Borislav V. GUEORGUIEV (Bulgaria)
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2007

 Article 
Zootaxa 1668: 491-520 (21 Dec. 2007) 4 plates; 142 references                     Accepted: 28 Nov. 2007
Weevils, Weevils, Weevils Everywhere
ROLF G. OBERPRIELER (Australia) , ADRIANA E. MARVALDI (Argentina) & ROBERT S. ANDERSON (Canada)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1661: 39-45 (14 Dec. 2007)  7 plates; 8 references                               Accepted: 3 Oct. 2007
A new species of Parandrinae from the Central Andes of Colombia (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
JULIANA CARDONA-DUQUE (Colombia), ANTONIO SANTOS-SILVA (Brazil) & MARTA WOLFF (Colombia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1661: 17-28 (14 Dec. 2007)  6 plates; 22 references                          Accepted: 12 Nov. 2007
Stenelmis puberula Reitter (Coleoptera: Elmidae)-description of larva and its association with adults, using DNA sequences
ZUZANA CIAMPOROVA-ZATOVICOVA, FEDOR CIAMPOR JR.
& JAN KODADA (Slovakia)
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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 1654: 68 (5 Dec. 2007)  
Erratum ( Ramsdale, A.S. (2007) A new species of Calochromus Guerin-Meneville (Coleoptera: Lycidae) from Fiji. Zootaxa, 1625, 43-46.)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1654: 1-20 (5 Dec. 2007)  4 plates; 43 references                            Accepted: 27 Oct. 2007
The Ciidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: new records, distribution, zoogeography, and observations on beetle-fungi relationships in saproxylic environments
CHRISTOPHER G. MAJKA (Canada)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1652: 1-26 (3 Dec. 2007)  3 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 28 Aug. 2007
A revision of the Chrysobothris femorata (Olivier, 1790) species group from North America, north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
STANLEY G. WELLSO & GARY V. MANLEY (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1651: 43-56 (30 Nov. 2007)  11 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 4 Nov. 2007
Redescriptions of last instar larvae of Ischyronota conicicollis (Weise, 1890) and Ischyronota desertorum (Gebler, 1833) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)
JOLANTA SWIETOJANSKA
& LECH BOROWIEC (Poland)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1651: 57-64 (30 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 4 references                            Accepted: 1 Oct. 2007
The genus Mimogonia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae) from the Neotropical region with descriptions of four new species
ULRICH IRMLER (Germany)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1651: 65-68 (30 Nov. 2007)  2 plates; 1 references                            Accepted: 22 Oct. 2007
A new species of Colotes Erichson (Coleoptera: Malachiidae) from Russia
SERGEI E. TSHERNYSHEV (Russia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1645: 19-33 (23 Nov. 2007)  5 plates; 38 references                         Accepted: 19 Oct. 2007
Morphology and chaetotaxy of the larval stages of Andogyrus seriatopunctatus Regimbart (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Gyrinidae)
MIGUEL ARCHANGELSKY & MARIANO C. MICHAT (Argentina)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1642: 53-59 (21 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 26 Oct. 2007
Review of Chinese species of the genus Denierella Kaszab with a key to the worldwide species (Coleoptera, Meloidae)
YU-XIA YANG & GUO-DONG REN (P.R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1642: 33-41 (21 Nov. 2007)  5 plates; 23 references                          Accepted: 27 Oct. 2007
Four new species and a new record of Anaedus from China (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
FENG-YAN WANG & GUO-DONG REN (P.R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1643: 1-38 (21 Nov. 2007)  18 plates; 9 references                            Accepted: 31 Oct. 2007
New species of Laparocerus Schonherr, 1834 from La Gomera, Canary Islands (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae)
ANTONIO MACHADO (Spain)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1640: 1-39 (19 Nov. 2007)  17 plates; 73 references                            Accepted: 2 Oct. 2007
Comparative morphology of larval Camiarinae (Coleoptera: Leiodidae) Part I. Genus Paragyrtodes Szymczakowski 1966
ALEKSANDRA KILIAN (Poland)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1637: 21-36 (14 Nov. 2007)  12 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
Description of immatures and the bionomy of the Oriental leaf beetle Chaeridiona thailandica Kimoto, 1998 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Oncocephalini), a leaf-mining hispine beetle
JOLANTA SWIETOJANSKA (Poland) & DAMIR KOVAC (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1636: 33-46 (12 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 5 Oct. 2007
The Eucnemidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: new records, observations on composition and zoogeography, and comments on the rarity of saproxylic beetles
CHRISTOPHER G. MAJKA (Canada)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1636: 47-58 (12 Nov. 2007)  8 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 25 Sep. 2007
A new Luprops species from Western Ghats with redescriptions and identification key to the species of Indian Peninsula and Sri Lanka (Tenebrionidae: Lagriinae: Lupropini)
THOMAS K. SABU (India), OTTO MERKL (Hungary) & PRABHAKAR ABHITHA (India)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1631: 47-55 (5 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 3 Oct. 2007
Additional data to the genus Baezia with description of a new species from a cave on El Hierro, Canary Islands (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Molytinae)
RAFAEL GARCIA, HERIBERTO LOPEZ & PEDRO OROMI(Canary Islands)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1630: 1-21 (5 Nov. 2007)  7 plates; 31 references                            Accepted: 21 Sep. 2007
Notes on tiger beetles from Guinea-Bissau, with description of a new species of Cylindera Westwood (Insecta: Coleoptera, Cicindelidae)
ARTUR R. M. SERRANO (Portugal)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1630: 23-37 (5 Nov. 2007)  5 plates; 26 references                            Accepted: 18 Sep. 2007
A new species of Chrysobothris Eschscholtz feeding on Dudleya spp. (Crassulaceae) from California and Baja California, with biological, distributional and taxonomic notes on other North American Buprestidae (Coleoptera)
RICHARD L. WESTCOTT (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1630: 39-46 (5 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 9 references                            Accepted: 3 Oct. 2007
Revision of the Lachnaia tristigma (Lacordaire, 1848) species-group (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) and description of a new species
ANDRES BASELGA & JAVIER RUIZ-GARCIA (Spain)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1625: 1-33 (29 Oct. 2007)  4 plates; 52 references                            Accepted: 12 Sep. 2007
The Meloidae (Coleoptera) of the United Arab Emirates with an updated Arabian checklist
MARCO A. BOLOGNA & FEDERICA TURCO (Italy)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1625: 35-42 (29 Oct. 2007)  3 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 20 Sep. 2007
A review of the coastal marsh water beetle Ochthebius queenslandicus Hansen (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
PHILIP D. PERKINS (USA)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1625: 43-46 (29 Oct. 2007)  1 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 5 Oct. 2007
A new species of Calochromus Guerin-Meneville (Coleoptera: Lycidae) from Fiji
ALISTAIR S. RAMSDALE (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1624: 59-68 (29 Oct. 2007)  1 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 20 Sep. 2007
Palaearctic Xantholinini of the Museum of Zoology in Lund, Sweden, with description of two new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). 182ocontribution to the knowledge of the Staphylinidae
ARNALDO BORDONI (Italy)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1620: 1-35 (23 Oct. 2007)  9 plates; 45 references                            Accepted: 30 Aug. 2007
Revision of the genus Eulichas Jacobson, 1913 (Coleoptera: Eulichadidae) I. Introduction, morphology of adults, key to subgenera and species groups, and taxonomy of E. funebris species group
JIRI HAJEK (Czech Republic)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1619: 45-51 (19 Oct. 2007)  2 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 24 Sep. 2007
On the taxonomy of the dityline genera Diasclera Reitter, Dityloidea Fairmaire and Germain and Nerdanus Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Oedemeridae)
VLADIMIR SVIHLA (Czech Republic)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1617: 57-66 (17 Oct. 2007)  1 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 6 Sep. 2007
The identity of Agrilus impexus Horn, a new species, and taxonomic notes and records for other Agrilus Curtis species (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
HENRY A. HESPENHEIDE (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1615: 41-48 (15 Oct. 2007)  4 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 27 Aug. 2007
Apatrobus osuzuyamanus
sp. nov., a new patrobine species from Japan, with a comparative study of the male genital morphology of the tribe Patrobini (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
KOJI SASAKAWA & WATARU TOKI (Japan)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1615: 49-54 (15 Oct. 2007)  0 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 13 Sep. 2007
Some necessary corrections of the spelling of species-group names within the family Dytiscidae (Coleoptera)
ANDERS N. NILSSON (Sweden)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1615: 55-68 (15 Oct. 2007)  7 plates; 31 references                            Accepted: 7 Sep. 2007
First descriptions of immatures for Megistops (Boheman) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae) in a new host-plant family, with notes on life history and redescription of M. vandepolli Duvivier*
ADELITA M. LINZMEIER, CIBELE S. RIBEIRO-COSTA & LUCIANO de A. MOURA (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1611: 1-24 (10 Oct. 2007)  4 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 30 Aug. 2007
Sulabanus
gen. nov., a new genus of Lycidae (Coleoptera) from Sulawesi
MILAN DVORAK & LADISLAV BOCAK (Czech Rep.)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1611: 25-44 (10 Oct. 2007)  1 plates; 57 references                            Accepted: 3 Sep. 2007
Catalog of the types of Staphylinidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) deposited at Museo de La Plata (Argentina)
LILIANA A. FERNANDEZ, NORA CABRERA, MARIANA CHANI POSSE & CECILIA GABELLONE (Argentina)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1611: 55-62 (10 Oct. 2007)  5 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 27 Aug. 2007
Description of Luciola aquatilis sp. nov., a new aquatic firefly (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae) from Thailand
ANCHANA THANCHAROEN (Thailand), LESLEY A. BALLANTYNE (Australia), MARC A. BRANHAM (USA) & MING-LUEN JENG (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1606: 1-28 (3 Oct. 2007)  10 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 15 Aug. 2007
Descriptions of larvae of the tribe Hyperini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): III. Mature larvae of the genus Donus Jekel, 1865
JIRI SKUHROVEC (Czech Republic)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1606: 29-39 (3 Oct. 2007)  5 plates; 34 references                            Accepted: 6 Sep. 2007
Taxonomy of the myrmecophilous genus Lomechusa (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Lomechusini) from China
YONG-JIE CHEN & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU (P.R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1606: 41-50 (3 Oct. 2007)  3 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 14 Aug. 2007
Resurrection of Crypturgus subcribrosus Eggers 1933 stat. n., and its close phylogenetic relationship to Nearctic Crypturgus (Coleoptera, Scolytinae)
Bjarte H. Jordal (Norway) & Milos Knizek (Czech Republic)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1604: 1-20 (1 Oct. 2007)  8 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 24 Jul. 2007
Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Harpalus in China, with description of new taxa (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalini)
Boris M. Kataev (Russia) & Hongbin Liang (P.R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1594: 1-38 (26 Sep. 2007)  6 plates; 77 references                            Accepted: 23 Aug. 2007
A synopsis of the Endomychidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) of Mexico
EMMANUEL ARRIAGA-VARELA (Mexico), K. WIOLETTA TOMASZEWSKA (Poland) & JOSE LUIS NAVARRETE-HEREDIA (Mexico)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1594: 61-68 (26 Sep. 2007)  3 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 15 Aug. 2007
Description of the mature larva of Gastrophysa janthina (Suffrian, 1851) [=G. unicolor auct.] (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae) and key to the larvae of the European Gastrophysa
ANDRES BASELGA (Spain)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1590: 1-36 (21 Sep. 2007)  0 plates; 73 references                            Accepted: 21 Jul. 2007
The ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: review of collecting, new records, and observations on composition, zoogeography, and historical origins
CHRISTOPHER G. MAJKA, YVES BOUSQUET, & SUSAN WESTBY (Canada)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1590: 37-59 (21 Sep. 2007)  13 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 4 Aug. 2007
The genus Ancyronyx Erichson, 1847 (Coleoptera, Elmidae) in Palawan and Busuanga, (Philippines) with descriptions of six new species
HENDRIK FREITAG & MANFRED A. JACH (Austria)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1588: 53-62 (19 Sep. 2007)  1 plates; 51 references                          Accepted: 10 Aug. 2007
Ongoing invasions of old-growth tropical forests: establishment of three incestuous beetle species in southern Central America (Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
LAWRENCE R. KIRKENDALL & FRODE ODEGAARD (Norway)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1588: 63-68 (19 Sep. 2007)  3 plates; 23 references                          Accepted: 14 Aug. 2007
A new species of the genus Otiorhynchus Germar, 1822 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) from Western Anatolia (Turkey)
BEKIR KESKIN (Turkey)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1586: 39-46 (17 Sep. 2007)  4 plates; 23 references                          Accepted: 17 Aug. 2007
Redescription of the Hispaniolan ladybird genus Bura Mulsant (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and justification for its transfer from Coccidulinae to Sticholotidinae
NATALIA J. VANDENBERG & DANIEL E. PEREZ-GELABERT (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1586: 47-58 (17 Sep. 2007)  4 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 24 Jul. 2007
Two new species of Cassida Linnaeus, 1758 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) from Madagascar and notes on subgenera of the genus Cassida
LECH BOROWIEC (Poland)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1586: 59-66 (17 Sep. 2007)  2 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 25 Jul. 2007
Two new species of Charidotella Weise (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Cassidini), with a key to Charidotella sexpunctata group
LECH BOROWIEC (Poland)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1584: 1-53 (14 Sep. 2007)  1 6 plates; 43 references                            Accepted: 3 Aug. 2007
Phylogenetic systematics of the genera Plochionocerus Dejean and Agrodes Nordmann (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Xantholinini)
JULIETA ASIAIN, JUAN MARQUEZ & JUAN J. MORRONE (Mexico)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1583: 43-50 (12 Sep. 2007)  1 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 7 Aug. 2007
New genus and species of the subtribe Anthaxomorphina Holynski, 1993 from Eastern Indonesia, with taxonomic and bionomical notes on the genus Anthaxomorphus Deyrolle, 1864 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Aphanisticini)
SVATOPLUK BILY (Czech Republic.)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1576: 25-56 (5 Sep. 2007) 12 plates; 55 references                            Accepted: 26 Jul. 2007
A review of the genus Genyocerus Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae), with new synonyms and keys to species
R. A. BEAVER (Thailand) & L.-Y. LIU (R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1575: 35-45 (5 Sep. 2007) 4 plates; 26 references                            Accepted: 27 Jul. 2007
Taxonomic studies on the Bembidion ('Cillenus') complex (Coleoptera: Carabidae): A revision of the subgeneric taxonomy and description of a new species from Japan
KOJI SASAKAWA (Japan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1573: 1-38 (3 Sep. 2007) 14 plates; 62 references                            Accepted: 11 Jun. 2007
The Derodontidae, Dermestidae, Bostrichidae, and Anobiidae of the Maritime Provinces of Canada (Coleoptera: Bostrichiformia)
CHRISTOPHER G. MAJKA (Canada)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1573: 39-50 (3 Sep. 2007) 8 plates; 32 references                            Accepted: 29 Jun. 2007
The Korean species of the genus Thinodromus Kraatz (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae)
SEUNG-IL LEE & KEE-JEONG AHN (Korea)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1573: 65-68 (3 Sep. 2007) 0 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 10 Aug. 2007
Review of certain lectotype designations in Hinda (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae, Hyperaspinae), primarily those deposited in Museum fur Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin, Germany
LUCIA MASSUTTI DE ALMEIDA (Brazil), JULIANNE MILLEO (Brazil) & ROBERT D. GORDON (USA)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1569: 1-139 (31 Aug. 2007) 63 plates; 64 references                         Accepted: 25 May 2007
Taxonomic revision of the longicorn beetle genus Uracanthus Hope 1833 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Uracanthini) from Australia
DUANGRAT THONGPHAK & QIAO WANG
(New Zealand)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1562: 1-42 (29 Aug. 2007) 119 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 7 May 2007
Review of the Chinese Hyperomias Marshall (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) with description of a new species
LI REN (P.R. China), MIGUEL A. ALONSO-ZARAZAGA (Spain) & RUNZHI ZHANG (P.R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1546: 15-22 (9 Aug. 2007) 2 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 13 May 2007
Review of four species of the genus Brachinus Weber (Coleoptera: Caraboidea: Brachinidae) from the Philippines
MINGYI TIAN (P.R. China) & THIERRY DEUVE (France)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1546: 39-50 (9 Aug. 2007) 4 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 9 Jul. 2007
The Erotylidae and Endomychidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: New records, zoogeography, and observations on beetle-fungi relationships and forest health
CHRISTOPHER G. MAJKA (Canada)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1546: 63-68 (9 Aug. 2007) 2 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 2 Jul. 2007
Ptiliola flammifera
(MIynarski) reinstated as a species distinct from P. kunzei (Heer) (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae)
OSCAR VORST (The Netherlands)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1544: 1-40 (6 Aug. 2007) 17 plates; 95 references                            Accepted: 5 Jul. 2007
Taxonomy of the tribe Paromalini Reitter (Coleoptera: Histeridae, Dendrophilinae) from China
YE-JUN ZHANG & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1544: 41-58 (6 Aug. 2007) 9 plates; 31 references                            Accepted: 9 Jul. 2007
Notes on Falsocis Pic (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Ciidae), with the description of an endangered Brazilian species
CRISTIANO LOPES-ANDRADE (Brasil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1542: 1-20 (6 Aug. 2007) 13 plates; 22 references                            Accepted: 23 May 2007
New species of Anillinus Casey (Carabidae: Trechinae: Bembidiini) from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A. and phylogeography of the A. langdoni species group
IGOR M. SOKOLOV, YULIYA Y. SOKOLOVA & CHRISTOPHER E. CARLTON (USA)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1536: 1-296 (30 Jul. 2007) 3 plates; 835 references                           Accepted: 3 Mar. 2007
Annotated checklist of weevils from the Papuan region (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea)
GREGORY P. SETLIFF 
(USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1533: 53-61 (26 Jul. 2007) 18 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 11 Jun. 2007
A new species of the genus Diaphanes Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) from Gaoligong Mountains of Yunnan, Southwest China
XUEYAN LI & XINGCAI LIANG (P.R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1527: 17-29 (16 Jul. 2007) 7 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 11 Jun. 2007
A revision of the Australian intertidal water beetle genus Hughleechia Perkins (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
PHILIP D. PERKINS (USA)
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Zootaxa 1527: 31-38 (16 Jul. 2007) 4 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 11 Jun. 2007
A new genus and species of the aleocharine tribe Thamiaraeini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from South Africa
GRZEGORZ PASNIK (Poland)
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Zootaxa 1527: 39-44 (16 Jul. 2007) 2 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 1 Jun. 2007
Description of the first Chlamydopsinae (Coleoptera: Histeridae) from the Philippines
ALEXEY K. TISHECHKIN & MICHAEL S. CATERINO (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1521: 19-29 (5 Jul. 2007) 2 plates; 40 references                            Accepted: 17 May 2007
A review of the genus Chaeridiona Baly, 1869 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)
C. L. STAINES (USA)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1521: 59-62 (5 Jul. 2007) 8 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 5 Jun. 2007
A new species of Hydrocyphon Redtenbacher, 1858 (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) from Kopet Dagh Mountains
RAFAL RUTA (Poland)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1516: 1-21 (28 Jun. 2007) 7 plates; 36 references                            Accepted: 18 May 2007
Larval morphology of Liodessus Guignot, 1939: generic characteristics, descriptions of five species and comparisons with other members of the tribe Bidessini (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae).
YVES ALARIE (Canada), MARIANO C. MICHAT (Argentina), MIGUEL ARCHANGELSKY (Argentina) & HELEN M. BARBER-JAMES (South Africa)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1510: 51-56 (18 Jun. 2007) 2 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 11 Apr. 2007
Taxonomic notes on some Chinese species of Neolucanus Thomson and Prismognathus Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Lucanidae)
XIA WAN (P.R. China), LUCA BARTOLOZZI (Italy) & XINGKE YANG (P.R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1504: 1-51 (11 Jun. 2007) 1 plates; 321 references                            Accepted: 20 Apr. 2007
Taxonomic changes and an updated catalogue for the Palaearctic Sericini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)
DIRK AHRENS (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1503: 55-68 (11 Jun. 2007) 4 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 31 May 2007
The Elaphidion Audinet-Serville of the Puerto Rican Bank: new species, distributions, taxonomic corrections, and a key to species (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Elaphidiini)
MICHAEL A. IVIE & MICHELLE L. SCHWENGEL-REGALA(USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1499: 47-59 (7 Jun. 2007) 3 plates; 9 references                            Accepted: 19 Apr. 2007
Digging down under: Australian Bolboceratini, their habits and a list of species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Geotrupidae)
Henry Howden (Canada), ANNE HOWDEN (Canada) & GEOFFREY HOLLOWAY (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1497: 23-33 (4 Jun. 2007) 2 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 17 Apr. 2007
Ardistomis quixotei
(Coleoptera: Carabidae: Clivinini), a new species from Cuba and Mexico: structural and habitat features of adults, larvae and pupae, comparisons with previously described species, and notes about classification and biogeography
PAVEL VALDES R. (Cuba)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1497: 57-68 (4 Jun. 2007) 4 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 25 Apr. 2007
Cladistic analysis of the species of Calendyma Lacordaire (1857) and Epiclines Chevrolat (1838) (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae)
JAIME A. SOLERVICENS (Chile)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1496: 53-62 (4 Jun. 2007) 0 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 16 Apr. 2007
Type species designations of Afrotropical Ablaberini and Sericini genera (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)
DIRK AHRENS (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1495: 1-34 (31 May 2007) 17 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 27 Mar. 2007
Euscelus
species of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Attelabidae)
ROBERT W. HAMILTON (USA)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1489: 1-207 (31 May 2007) 86 plates; 21 references                         Accepted: 13 Mar. 2007
A revision of the Australian species of the water beetle genus Hydraena Kugelann (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
PHILIP D. PERKINS (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1483: 33-39 (28 May 2007) 3 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 11 Apr. 2007
Two new species of Itagonia Reitter (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae: Blaptini) from Tibet, China
AI-MIN SHI & GUO-DONG REN (P.R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1481: 21-34 (24 May 2007) 0 plates; 67 references                            Accepted: 12 Apr. 2007
Nomenclatorial and faunistic notes on some world Aderidae (Coleoptera)
GIANLUCA NARDI (Italy)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1481: 35-47 (24 May 2007) 5 plates; 27 references                           Accepted: 18 Apr. 2007
Neoapterocis
, a new genus of apterous Ciidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from Chile and Mexico
CRISTIANO LOPES-ANDRADE (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1481: 49-58 (24 May 2007) 2 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 16 Apr. 2007
Resurrection and review of the genus Knowltonia Fisher, with description of a new subspecies of Chrysobothris Eschscholtz and new species of Acmaeodera Eschscholtz from North America (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
RICHARD L. WESTCOTT & WILLIAM F. BARR (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1481: 59-68 (24 May 2007) 6 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 16 Apr. 2007
Geoparnus
rhinoceros sp. nov., a new edaphic dryopid with unusual sexual dimorphism (Coleoptera: Dryopidae)
JAN KODADA, MANFRED A. JACH, FEDOR CIAMPOR JR. & ZUZANA CIAMPOROVA-ZATOVICOVA (Slovakia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1478: 21-31 (21 May 2007) 6 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 27 Mar. 2007
Biodiversity patterns of cavernicolous ground-beetles and their conservation status in the Azores, with the description of a new species: Trechus isabelae n. sp. (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae)
PAULO A. V. BORGES (Portugal), PEDRO OROMI (Spain), ARTUR R. M. SERRANO (Portugal), ISABEL R. AMORIM (USA) & FERNANDO PEREIRA (Portugal)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1478: 49-59 (21 May 2007) 4 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 16 Apr. 2007
A new species of Metadorcinus Kriesche from Brazil with notes on the genus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Lucanidae)
PASCHOAL C. GROSSI (Brazil) & FERNANDO Z. VAZ-DE-MELLO (Mexico)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1478: 61-64 (21 May 2007) 4 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 7 Feb. 2007
A new species of Ptomaphagus (Appadelopsis) (Coleoptera: Leiodidae) from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A.
ALEXEY K. TISHECHKIN (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1474: 1-54 (14 May 2007) 22 plates; 33 references                            Accepted: 7 Mar. 2007
On the Xantholinini of Turkey and adjacent regions (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)
VOLKER ASSING (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1469: 43-50 (10 May 2007) 3 plates; 7 references                             Accepted: 27 Mar. 2007
A new species group of the genus Trechosia from the Cape region of South Africa (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechinae)
GERNOT GEGINAT (Germany)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1458: 1-80 (25 Apr. 2007) 43 plates; 142 references                        Accepted: 10 Jan. 2007
A review of the Aphodiinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of southern South America
ANDREW B. T. SMITH (Canada) & PAUL E. SKELLEY (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1457: 1-34 (25 Apr. 2007) 15 plates; 72 references                          Accepted: 11 Apr. 2007
Biodiversity, conservation, and hotspot atlas of Costa Rica: a dung beetle perspective (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
BERT KOHLMANN (Costa Rica),
ÁNGEL SOLÍS (Costa Rica), ORTWIN ELLE (Costa Rica), XINIA SOTO (Germany) & RICARDO RUSSO (Costa Rica)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1457: 35-48 (25 Apr. 2007) 11 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 17 Jan. 2007
New species of Laparocerus Schonherr, 1834 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) from the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands)
ANTONIO MACHADO (Spain)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1453: 1-31 (23 Apr. 2007) 0 plates; 192 references                            Accepted: 10 Jan. 2007
Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of Portugal: genus-group names and their type species
TRIST
AO BRANCO (PORTUGAL)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1449: 31-43 (16 Apr. 2007) 8 plates; 32 references                            Accepted: 5 Dec. 2006
Reconsidering Pholeuon C. Hampe (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae), with the description of a new subgenus
OANA TEODORA MOLDOVAN, GHEORGHE RACOVITA & GEJZA DUNAY (Romania)

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Zootaxa 1449: 45-50 (16 Apr. 2007) 4 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 22 Feb. 2007
A review of the genus Bruchia Weise 1906 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)
C. L. STAINES (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1449: 51-56 (16 Apr. 2007) 4 plates; 10 references                             Accepted: 6 Mar. 2007
A new species of Merobruchus Bridwell near Merobruchus boucheri Kingsolver (Coleoptera:Chrysomelidae:Bruchinae)
CIBELE STRAMARE RIBEIRO-COSTA (Brasil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1438: 49-63 (2 Apr. 2007) 9 plates; 30 references                             Accepted: 31 Jan. 2007
Taxonomic review of the Neotropical genus Moriosomus Motschulsky (Insecta:
Coleoptera, Carabidae, Morionini) with notes on the way of life of the species
TERRY L. ERWIN & WENDY MOORE (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1437: 61-67 (2 Apr. 2007) 3 plates; 15 references                             Accepted: 19 Jan. 2007
A new species of Photinus (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Photinini) from Jalisco, Mexico, with comments on intraspecific aedeagal variability and a key to the species of the subgenus Paraphotinus
SANTIAGO ZARAGOZA-CABALLERO (Mexico)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1431: 1-44 (26 Mar. 2007) 21 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 16 Jan. 2007
Revision of the species of Hydraena Kugelann (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) from
Palawan and Busuanga, with descriptions of eleven new species, and redescription of Hydraena (Hydraenopsis) scabra d'Orchymont, 1925
HENDRIK FREITAG & MANFRED A. JACH (Austria)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1431: 65-68 (26 Mar. 2007) 1 plate; 20 references                            Accepted: 15 Jan. 2007
Notes on some Western Palaearctic Xantholinini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae).
181° contribution to the knowledge of the Staphylinidae
ARNALDO BORDONI (Italia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1427: 1-36 (19 Mar. 2007) 9 plates; 57 references                            Accepted: 19 Jan. 2007
Phylogenetic analysis of the genera of endemic Hawaiian sap beetles (Coleoptera:
Nitidulidae) based on morphology with redescription and key to the genera of endemic Hawaiian Nitidulidae
CURTIS EWING (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1427: 37-47 (19 Mar. 2007) 7 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 19 Jan. 2007
Two new species and additional records of Lesteva Latreille, 1797 from the mountains of South Siberia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae:
Omaliinae: Anthophagini)
ALEXEY V. SHAVRIN, VIKTOR G. SHILENKOV & ALEXANDER V. ANISTSCHENKO (Russia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1427: 49-56 (19 Mar. 2007) 4 plates; 26 references                          Accepted: 10 Jan. 2007
Two Pseudoliodine genera Dermatohomoeus Hlisnikovsky and Pseudcolenis
Reitter (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Leiodinae) in Korea, with a description of Pseudcolenis hoshinai new species
SUN-JAE PARK & KEE-JEONG AHN (R. Korea)
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 Article 
Zootaxaotaxa 1423: 27-38 (12 Mar. 2007)  26 references                              Accepted: 15 Jan. 2007
Ptiliidae of the Maritime Provinces of Canada (Coleoptera): new records and
bionomic notes
CHRISTOPHER G. MAJKA (Canada) & MIKAEL SORENSSON (Sweden)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1423: 63-66 (12 Mar. 2007) 1 plate; 7 references                              Accepted: 15 Jan. 2007
A new species of Arpedium from Kyrgyzstan
(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Omaliinae)
V. ASSING (Germany)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1421: 1-72 (8 Mar. 2007) 25 plates; 27 references                              Accepted: 6 Feb. 2007
Contributions to the knowledge of the "Staphylinus-complex" (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini) of China. Part XX. The genus Ocypus Leach, 1819,
subgenus Pseudocypus Mulsant & Rey, 1876. Section 1
A. SMETANA (Canada)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1415: 43-47 (5 Mar. 2007) 4 plates; 6 references                                Accepted: 24 Jan. 2007
Descriptions of two new species of click-beetle (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Turkey 

GIUSEPPE PLATIA (Italy), MAHMUT KABALAK (Turkey) & OSMAN SERT (Turkey)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1415: 49-56 (5 Mar. 2007) 3 plates; 24 references                             Accepted: 31 Jan. 2007
A new fossil mordellid (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Mordellidae) from the
Yixian Formation of Western Liaoning Province, China
MING LIU, WENHUA LU & DONG REN (P.R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1415: 57-64 (5 Mar. 2007) 5 plates; 7 references                               Accepted: 26 Jan. 2007
Two new Tachygonidius species from the Atlantic coast of Brazil
(Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
S.A. VANIN & J.R.M. MERMUDES (Brazil)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1415: 65-68 (5 Mar. 2007) 2 plates; 16 references                             Accepted: 15 Jan. 2007
A new species of Lathrobium from Kyrgyzstan
(Coleoptera, Staphylinidae: Paederinae)
V. ASSING (Germany)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1413: 65-68 (1 Mar. 2007) 1 plate; 15 references                             Accepted: 15 Jan. 2007
A new species of Nudobius from China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae: Staphylininae, Xantholinini)
VOLKER ASSING (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1412: 1-54 (26 Feb. 2007) 41 plates; 23 references                         Accepted: 15 Jan. 2007
Revision and phylogenetic analysis of the African genus Ischnopoderona (Scheerpeltz, 1974) new status (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) 

GRZEGORZ PASNIK (Poland)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1412: 55-60 (26 Feb. 2007) 2 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 12 Feb. 2007
The female genital structures of several species of the genus Cionus Clairville,
1798 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
OSMAN SERT (Turkey)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1411: 33-41 (22 Feb. 2007)    7 plates; 11 references                       Accepted: 15 Jan. 2007
On the Aploderus species of Turkey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Oxytelinae)
V. ASSING (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1411: 25-32 (22 Feb. 2007)   4 plates; 13 references                        Accepted: 15 Jan. 2007
A revision of Amarochara of the Holarctic region. III. A new species, a new synonym, and additional records (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
V. ASSING (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1411: 1-24 (22 Feb. 2007)    11 plates; 39 references                       Accepted: 15 Jan. 2007
On the Oxypoda species of Turkey and adjacent regions. II. Three new species, additional records, and a checklist (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)
V. ASSING (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1407: 23-42 (15 Feb. 2007)  11 plates; 59 references                         Accepted: 5 Dec. 2006
Systematic review to the genus Liothorax (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae)
M. DELLACASA (Italy), R.D. GORDON (USA), & G. DELLACASA (Italy)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1398: 1-14 (25 Jan. 2007)  6 plates; 21 references                             Accepted: 15 Dec. 2006
Cladistic analysis of species of Natalis Laporte (1836) and related genera Eunatalis Schenkling (1909), Metademius Schenkling (1899) and Eurymetomorphon Pic (1950) (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae) with redescription of a restored Clerinae genus.
J. SOLERVICENS A. (Chile)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1390: 17-20 (11 Jan. 2007)  1 plate; 4 references                           Accepted: 10 Nov. 2006
A new species of the genus Philothermus Aube (Coleoptera: Cerylonidae) from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A.
M.L. GIMMEL (USA) & A. SLIPINSKI (Australia)
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2006 (107 papers, 2803 pages)

Zootaxa 1385: 1-30 (21 Dec. 2006) 7 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 11 Oct. 2006
Revision of the endemic Hawaiian sap beetle genus
Apetasimus Sharp 1908 (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)
C. EWING (USA)
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Zootaxa 1385: 31-46 (21 Dec. 2006) 8 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 4 Oct. 2006
The checkered beetles (Coleoptera: Cleridae) of the Maritime
Provinces of Canada
C.G. MAJKA (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1384: 1-39 (18 Dec. 2006) 13 plates; 32 references                          Accepted: 14 Sept. 2006
A review of Pseudolechriops Champion (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Conoderinae)
H.A. HESPENHEIDE & L.M. LAPIERRE (USA)
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Zootaxa 1377: 61-68 (11 Dec. 2006) 4 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 30 Dec. 2006
Kashmirobia, a new genus of flea beetles from the Oriental Region (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
A. S. KONSTANTINOV (USA) & K. D. PRATHAPAN (India)
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Zootaxa 1375: 59-68 (7 Dec. 2006) 5 plates; 9 references                            Accepted: 31 Oct. 2006
Descriptions of two new species of Pseudocossonus Wollaston (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cossoninae) from mainland China with a key to the world species
Y.M. OMAR (P.R.China), R. ZHANG (P.R.China) & S.R. Davis (USA)
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Zootaxa 1373: 37-52 (7 Dec. 2006) 3 plates; 34 references                             Accepted: 18 Oct. 2006
Nacerdochroa concolor (Brull? 1839) (Coleoptera: Oedemeridae): taxonomy, ecology, life cycle and larval instars
P. PLATA-NEGRACHE & M.A. ALONSO-ZARAZAGA (Spain)
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Zootaxa 1373: 1-35 (7 Dec. 2006) 14 plates; 38 references                             Accepted: 6 Oct. 2006
Taxonomic revision of Mycolybas Crotch, 1876 (Coleoptera: Erotylidae)
P.L. LOPES (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1371: 65-68 (4 Dec. 2006) 3 plates;3 references                             Accepted: 25 Oct. 2006
Male description of Eutetrapha velutinofasciata Pic, with a new synonym (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Saperdini)
M.Y. LIN, W.Z. LI, X.K. YANG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1369: 1-17 (30 Nov. 2006) 4 plates; 31 references                             Accepted: 26 Oct. 2006
Review of the Hemiosus Sharp and Derallus Sharp of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Berosini)

A. ED. Z. SHORT & P.J. TORRES (USA)
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Zootaxa 1368: 41-48 (30 Nov. 2006) 2 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 3 Nov. 2006
Brasilaccoderus, a new genus of Eurypinae (Coleoptera: Mycteridae) from Brazil
D.A. POLLOCK (USA)
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Zootaxa 1367: 1-35 (30 Nov. 2006) 1 plate; 14 references                            Accepted: 27 Oct. 2006
The description of a new species of Agrilus Curtis, with distributional records, and taxonomic and biological notes for Agrilinae and Trachyinae (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) of Mexico and Central America
R.L. WESTCOTT & H.A. HESPENHEIDE (USA)
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Zootaxa 1365: 37-47 (27 Nov. 2006) 3 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 11 Oct. 2006
Notes on Acanthoderini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) described by Ernst Fuchs, now in the Herbert Schmid Collection, Vienna, Austria
M.L. MONNÉ & M.A. MONNÉ (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1363: 49-68  (23 Nov. 2006) 8 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 9 Oct. 2006
Notes on identity, new synonymy and larva of Ivalia Jacoby (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) with description of a new species
C.N. DUCKETT (USA), K.D. PRATHAPAN (India) & A.S. KONSTANTINOV (USA)
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Zootaxa 1357: 45-60 (13 Nov. 2006) 3 plates; 3 references                              Accepted: 5 Oct. 2006
Four new species of Discomorpha Chevrolat, 1837 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Omocerini), with key to Discomorpha s. str.
L. BOROWIEC (Poland)
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Zootaxa 1357: 31-43 (13 Nov. 2006) 5 plates; 25 references                              Accepted: 6 Oct. 2006
Phylogenetic studies of the subgenus Petrophilus Chaudoir (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichus), with description of a new species sympatric with P. thunbergi Morawitz
K. SASAKAWA & K. KUBOTA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1355: 39-47 (9 Nov. 2006) 2 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 22 Aug. 2006
Hydroporus neclae sp. n. from north-eastern Turkey, a new member of the memnonius-group of Hydroporus Clairville (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
O. K. ERMAN (Turkey) & H. FERY (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1354: 63-68 (9 Nov. 2006) 3  plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 9 Oct. 2006
A new sibling species of Halyzia straminea (Hope) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Halyziini) from the Indian subcontinent
J. POORANI (India) & R.G. BOOTH (UK)
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Zootaxa 1351: 1-13 (6 Nov. 2006)  3 plates; 30 references                         Accepted: 21 Sept. 2006
The larvae of Amarodytes duponti (Aube (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae), with comments on Bidessini larval morphology and chaetotaxy
M. MICHAT (Argentina) & Y. ALARIE (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1350: 55-68 (2 Nov. 2006)  20 references                                     Accepted: 14 Sept. 2006
The species of Larinus Dejean, 1821 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) described by J. Desbrochers : lectotype designations and new synonymies
L. GULTEKIN (Turkey) & H. PERRIN (France)
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Zootaxa 1349: 53-62 (2 Nov. 2006)  4 plates; 8 references                         Accepted: 4 Oct. 2006
Puelchesia gracilis, a new genus and species of Pachydemini endemic to the Monte biogeographic province in Argentina (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)
F.C. OCAMPO (USA) & A.B.T. SMITH (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1346: 1-396 (30 Oct. 2006)  219 plates; 16 references                     Accepted: 15 Aug. 2006
A revision of the Australian humicolous and hygropetric water beetle genus Tympanogaster Perkins, and comparative morphology of the Meropathina (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
P.D. PERKINS (USA)
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Zootaxa 1344: 23-31 (26 Oct. 2006)  4 plates; 19 references                       Accepted: 14 Sept. 2006
Description of the mature larva of Hydrothassa fairmairei (Brisout) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae) and key to the larvae of the genus
A. BASELGA & F. NOVOA (Spain)
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Zootaxa 1341: 49-68 (23 Oct. 2006) 10 plates; 19 references                       Accepted: 19 Sept. 2006
Description of last instar larva and pupa of Chaeridiona picea Baly, 1869 and Oncocephala quadrilobata (Guerin, 1844) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Oncocephalini) from India
J. SWIETOJANSKA (Poland), M. CHORZEPA (Poland) & H. GHATE (India) 
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Zootaxa 1340: 45-49 (23 Oct. 2006) 1 plate; 5 references                        Accepted: 6 Sept. 2006
New species of Hemilissopsis Lane, 1959
(Coleoptera: Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae, Elaphidionini)
F.T. HOVORE & J.A. CHEMSAK (USA)
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Zootaxa 1340: 57-68 (23 Oct. 2006) 5 plates; 14 references                        Accepted: 18 Sept. 2006
Review of Chinese species of the genus Embrikstrandia
Plavilstshikov, 1931 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae) with description of a new species
J.H. HUANG, S.Y. ZHOU & B. CHEN (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1337: 61-68  (19 Oct. 2006)   2 plates; 6 references                       Accepted:  25 Sept. 2006
Psammocoryza vanemdeni, a new genus and species of scaritine beetle from the Atlantic coast of Brazil (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Clivinini)
J.E. HOGAN (UK)
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Zootaxa 1333: 63-67 (12 Oct. 2006)  2 plates; 14 references                       Accepted:  21 Aug. 2006
One new species of the genus Neotriplax (Coleoptera: Erotylidae) from China
J. LI, G.-D. REN & J.-Z. DONG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1327: 41-62 (2 Oct. 2006)  9 plates; 14 references                      Accepted:  24 Aug. 2006
Two new genera of Laophontidae (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) without sexual dimorphism in the endopods of the swimming legs
H. GHEERARDYN, F. FIERS, M. VINCX & M. DE TROCH (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 1326: 55-68 (2 Oct. 2006) 9 plates;  23  references                        Accepted:  14 Sept. 2006
First record of fossil Priacma (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Cupedidae) from the Jehol Biota of western Liaoning, China
J.J. TAN, D. REN & C.K. SHIH (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1325: 369-384 (28 Sept. 2006)  3 plates; 9  references                      Accepted:  25 Jul. 2006
New species of the genus Laena Latreille
(Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Southeastern Asia
W. SCHAWALLER (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1319: 15-28 (25 Sept. 2006) 2 plates; 7  references                          Accepted:  29 Aug. 2006
Descriptions of Palliolatrix gen.n. and seven new species from Middle America (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Baridinae)
J. PRENA (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1317: 41-47 (21 Sept. 2006) 1 plates; 3  references                          Accepted:  28 Aug. 2006
Contributions to the knowledge of the "Staphylinus-complex" (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini) of China. Part 13. The genus Sphaerobulbus Smetana 2003. Section 3
A. SMETANA (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1317: 35-40 (21 Sept. 2006) 1 plates; 1  references                          Accepted:  28 Aug. 2006
Contributions to the knowledge of the "Staphylinus-complex" (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini) of China. Part 14. The genus Ocychinus Smetana 2003. Section 2
A. SMETANA (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1316: 33-43 (18 Sept. 2006) 2 plates; 13  references                       Accepted:  28 Aug. 2006
Contributions to the knowledge of the "Staphylinus-complex" (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Staphylinini) of China. Part 11. The genus Wasmannellus Bernhauer, 1920 and Nelmanwaslus gen. nov.
A. SMETANA (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1312: 59-68 (11 Sept. 2006) 3 plates; 23  references                        Accepted:  25 Aug. 2006
Taxonomic revision of the monotypic genus Acyphus Heller (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) with comments on infraspecific variation
A.A. LANTERI & M. GUADALUPE DEL RIO (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 1312: 49-58 (11 Sept. 2006) 6 plates; 14  references                         Accepted:  16 Jul. 2006
Iberorhyzobius Raimundo & Canepari gen. nov., for Coccidula rondensis Eizaguirre (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)

A. RAIMUNDO (Portugal), C. CANEPARI (Italy), Z. MENDEL (Israel), M. BRANCO (Portugal) & J.C. FRANCO (Portugal)
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Zootaxa 1311: 13-50 (11 Sept. 2006) 11 plates; 19  references                         Accepted:  6 Jul. 2006
Review of lady beetles in the Cycloneda germainii species complex (Coleoptera; Coccinellidae: Coccinellinae: Coccinellini) with descriptions of new and unusual species from Chile and surrounding countries
G. GONZÁLEZ (Chile) & N.J. VANDENBERG (USA)
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Zootaxa 1309: 25-35 (7 Sept. 2006)  3 plates; 11  references                         Accepted:  15 Aug. 2006
Two new species in the Anthaxia (Anthaxia) candens (Panzer, 1793) species-group from Iran and Turkey, with taxonomic notes on the group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
S. BÍLÝ (Czech)
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Zootaxa 1308: 1-29 (4 Sep. 2006)  14 plates; 51  references                          Accepted:  15 Aug. 2006
Review of the species of Ardistomina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Clivinini) in America north of Mexico
Y. BOUSQUET (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1307: 1-33 (4 Sep. 2006)  36 plates; 14  references                          Accepted:  15 Aug. 2006
The Bostrichidae (Coleoptera) of Taiwan: a key to species, new records, and a lectotype designation for Sinoxylon mangiferae Chujo
L.Y. LIU (R. China), R.A. BEAVER (Thailand) & J.T. YANG (R. China)
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Zootaxa 1306: 41-50 (31 Aug. 2006)  4 plates; 6  references                          Accepted:  9 Aug. 2006
Nebria tenuicaulis sp. nov., a sympatric species with Nebria sadona ohdaiensis Nakane, with studies on the phylogeny of the subgenus Sadonebria Ledoux & Roux (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

K. SASAKAWA & K. KUBOTA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1304: 49-59 (28 Aug. 2006)  4 plates; 7  references                          Accepted:  28 Jul. 2006
Two new species of Hybochaetodus Arrow (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Hybosoridae: Anaidinae) from Peru
F.C. OCAMPO (USA)
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Zootaxa 1304: 21-29 (28 Aug. 2006)  1 plates; 30  references                       Accepted:  15 Aug. 2006
A new species of Stenus (Hemistenus) with new records and a key to Chinese species of the viridanus group (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)
C.-Y. ZHAO & H.-Z. ZHOU (P.R.China)
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Zootaxa 1302: 61-68 (24 Aug. 2006)  5 plates; 4  references                             Accepted:  2 Aug. 2006
New species of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from Mexico and Costa Rica
B. KOHLMANN & Á. SOLÍS (Costa Rica)
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Zootaxa 1297: 23-35 (17 Aug. 2006) 3 plates; 4 references                              Accepted:  24 Jul. 2006
Descriptions of three new species of Bembidion Latreille
(Coleoptera: Carabidae) occurring in Canada
Y. BOUSQUET & R. WEBSTER (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1295: 29-39 (14 Aug. 2006) 4 plates; 24 references                            Accepted:  4 Jul. 2006
The first larval description in the genus Diaphorocera Heyden (Coleoptera: Meloidae: Cerocomini): D. chrysoprasis Fairmaire
F. TURCO, A. DI GIULIO & M.A. BOLOGNA (Italy)
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Zootaxa 1292: 1-119 (14 Aug. 2006) 20 plates; 176 references                      Accepted:  26 Apr. 2006
A taxonomic revision of the Australian Chrysomelinae, with a key to the genera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
C.A.M. REID (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1286: 43-55 (11 Aug. 2006) 4 plates; 13 references                           Accepted:  18 Jul. 2006
A taxonomic review of the genus Oesyperus (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalini)
B. M. KATAEV (Russia)
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Zootaxa 1282: 17-28 (7 Aug. 2006) 5 plates; 9 references                                Accepted:  3 Jul. 2006
Hypera kayali sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Hyperini) from Syria, with bionomic data
J. SKUHROVEC (Czech Republic)
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Zootaxa 1279: 53-68 (3 Aug. 2006) 6 plates; 14 references                              Accepted: 17 Jun. 2006
Four new species of Scaphisoma Leach with maculate elytra (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scaphidiinae) from Mexico, with new records and comments on S. balteatum Matthews
H.E. FIERROS-LÓPEZ (Mexico) 
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Zootaxa 1275: 43-60 (31 Jul. 2006) 4 plates; 26 references                              Accepted: 5 Jul. 2006
A new species of the pollen-beetle genus Meligethes (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) of the M. aeneus group from Greece, with review of the M. subaeneus complex
P. AUDISIO, E. MANCINI & A. DE BIASE (Italy)
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Zootaxa 1270: 1-17 (24 Jul. 2006) 13 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 21 Jun. 2006
Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) types of the Fernando de Zayas collection, Havana, Cuba
E.H. NEARNS, M.A. BRANHAM & S.M. BYBEE (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1270: 35-43 (24 Jul. 2006) 9 plates; 7 references                               Accepted: 28 Jun. 2006
Description of a new species, Tarchius yunnanensis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cossoninae), from China
Y.M. OMAR (P.R. China), K.D. HAN (R. Korea) & R.Z. ZHANG (P.R. China) 
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Zootaxa 1268: 1-38 (20 Jul. 2006) 8 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 15 Jun. 2006
A revision of the Neotropical genus Motonerus Hansen (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae)
M. FIKÁCEK (Czech Republic) & A.E.Z. SHORT  (USA) 
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Zootaxa
1266: 1-63 (20 Jul. 2006) 13 plates; 49 references                              Accepted: 8 May 2006
A revision of the Chilean tribe Lichniini Burmeister, 1844 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)
S.J. HAWKINS (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1256: 49-57 (10 Jul. 2006)  2 plates; 2 3 references                            Accepted: 2 Jun. 2006
A new species of Curius Newman (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from Venezuela with notes on sexual dimorphism within the genus
E.H. NEARNS & A.M. RAY (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1252: 49-61 (6 Jul. 2006) 1 plate; 14 references                                Accepted: 23 May 2006
Review of the genus Sympagus Bates, 1881 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Acanthocinini)
F.T. HOVORE & V.H. TOLEDO (Mexico) 
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Zootaxa 1252: 63-68 (6 Jul. 2006) 1 plate; 7 references                                    Accepted: 8 Jun. 2006
A new flightless trechodine genus and species from the South African Cape region (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechitae)
G. GEGINAT (Germany) 
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Zootaxa 1251: 1-70 (3 Jul. 2006) 59 references                                                Accepted: 15 May 2006
Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Biologia Centrali-Americana: Current status of the names
J.L. NAVARRETE-HEREDIA (Mexico), C. GÓMEZ-RODRÍGUEZ (Mexico) & A.F. NEWTON (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1250: 37-51 (3 Jul. 2006) 6 plates; 32 references                              Accepted: 16 May 2006
The Mycteridae, Boridae, Pythidae, Pyrochroidae, and Salpingidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada
CHRISTOPHER G. MAJKA
(Canada) 
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Zootaxa 1248: 21-26 (29 Jun. 2006) 1 plate; 8 references                               Accepted: 26 May 2006
A new species of the weevil genus Larinus Dejean from Turkey and Syria (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Lixinae)
L. GÜLTEKIN (Turkey) 
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Zootaxa 1248: 45-68 (29 Jun. 2006) 50 references                                           Accepted: 10 May 2006
Understanding saproxylic beetles: new records of Tetratomidae, Melandryidae, Synchroidae, and Scraptiidae from the Maritime Provinces of Canada (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea)
C.G. MAJKA (Canada) & D.A. POLLOCK (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1246: 55-68 (29 Jun. 2006) 3 plates; 19 references                           Accepted: 31 May 2006
The Northeastern Palaearctic light coloured Neocrepidodera Heikertinger, 1911 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), with description of a new species
A. BASELGA (Spain) 
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Zootaxa 1242: 53-68 (23 Jun. 2006) 3 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 15 May 2006
A review of the American species of Xenelmis Hinton (Coleoptera: Elmidae), with a new species from Argentina
V. MANZO (Argentina) 
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Zootaxa 1234: 1-63 (15 Jun. 2006) 16 plates; 237 references                            Accepted: 2 Feb. 2006
A revision of the weevil genus Procas Stephens (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Erirhinidae)
R.T. THOMPSON (UK) 
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Zootaxa 1228: 1-24 (9 Jun. 2006) 15 plates; 19 references                                 Accepted: 1 May 2006
A taxonomic review of the Chinese species from the genus Ascelosodis Redtenbacher (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), with descriptions of three new species
G.-D. REN & A.-M. SHI (P.R. China) 
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Zootaxa 1227: 57-62 (9 Jun. 2006) 4 plates; 8 references                               Accepted: 10 May 2006
Camioleum choi, a new species in the omaliine tribe Anthophagini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from Korea
C. SHIN & K.-J. AHN (Korea) 
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Zootaxa 1226: 61-68 (9 Jun. 2006) 2 plates; 19 references                             Accepted: 10 May 2006
Description of the pupa and observations on the distribution, ecology, and life history of Quedius spelaeus spelaeus Horn (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in Nova Scotia, Canada
M. MOSELEY, J. KLIMASZEWSKI & C.G. MAJKA (Canada) 
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Zootaxa 1220: 45-53 (30 May 2006)  28 references                                          Accepted: 26 Apr. 2006
Type species designations and other nomenclatural notes on Palaearctic Melolonthinae and Cetoniinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Scarabaeidae) 
A. SMETANA
& A.B.T. SMITH (Canada) 
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Zootaxa 1217: 1-76 (26 May 2006) 18 plates; 27 references                         Accepted: 31 Mar. 2006
A revision of the click beetle genus Ctenoplus Candèze, 1863 (Coleoptera: Elateridae, Synaptina)
E. FULLER (Canada) & G. PLATIA (Italy) 
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Zootaxa 1212: 1-244 (26 May 2006) 1111 references                                          Accepted: 9 Feb. 2006
Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part III. Subfamilies Parandrinae, Prioninae, Anoplodermatinae, Aseminae, Spondylidinae, Lepturinae, Oxypeltinae, and addenda to the Cerambycinae and Lamiinae
M.A. MONNÉ (Brazil) 
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Zootaxa 1207: 1-64 (22 May 2006)  20 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 27 Jan. 2006
Review of the Neotropical species of the genus Stereodermus Lacordaire, 1866 (Coleoptera: Brentidae, Stereodermini)
A. MANTILLERI (France) & A. SFORZI (Italy) 
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Zootaxa 1206: 23-46 (18 May 2006)  2 plates; 69 references                         Accepted: 20 Mar. 2006
Studies on the Australian Chalcophorini: a new genus for Chalcophora subfasciata Carter, 1916 and a review of the Pseudotaenia Kerremans, 1903 generic-group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
C.L. BELLAMY (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1204: 41-52 (18 May 2006) 4 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 18 Apr. 2006
The larva of Hydora annectens Spangler and Brown (Coleoptera: Elmidae, Larainae) and a key to New World Larainae larvae
M. ARCHANGELSKY & V. MANZO (Argentina) 
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Zootaxa 1202: 61-68 (15 May 2006) 2 plates; 27 references                           Accepted: 10 Apr. 2006
Checklist of the genus Cybocephalus Erichson (Coleoptera: Cybocephalidae) of China, with description of a new species from Yunnan Province
M.Y. TIAN (P.R. China) 
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Zootaxa 1202: 21-31 (15 May 2006)  3 references                                               Accepted: 6 Feb. 2006
Addenda and corrigenda to ‘A World Catalogue of Families and Genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera)’. 2
C.H.C. LYAL (UK) & M.A. ALONSO-ZARAZAGA (Spain) 
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Zootaxa 1195: 31-37 (8 May 2006) 2 plates; 16 references                              Accepted: 4 Apr. 2006
A new Brazilian species of Harpasus Mulsant (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae, Chilocorinae), a predator of Tinocallis kahawaluokalani (Kirkaldy) (Hemiptera, Aphididae) 
L.M. DE ALMEIDA & R.C.Z. DE CARVALHO (Brazil) 
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Zootaxa 1195: 61-68 (8 May 2006) 3 plates; 14 references                              Accepted: 6 Apr. 2006
A new combination and two new species of Aslamidium Borowiec (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)
C.L. STAINES (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1194: 33-47 (4 May 2006) 4 plates; 40 references                              Accepted: 1 Mar. 2006
New Coleoptera records from owl nests in Nova Scotia, Canada
C.G. MAJKA, J. KLIMASZEWSKI, & R.F. LAUFF (Canada) 
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Zootaxa 1193: 59-68 (4 May 2006) 2 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 5 Apr. 2006
A new dung beetle genus with two new species from Chile (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
F.Z. VAZ-DE-MELLO & G. HALFFTER (Mexico) 
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Zootaxa 1191: 1-19 (1 May 2006) 5 plates; 16 references                              Accepted: 29 Mar. 2006
Revision of the South American Ceratognathini (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Aesalinae) with the description of a new genus and a new species
M.J. PAULSEN (USA) & J. MONDACA E. (Chile) 
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Zootaxa 1185: 61-68 (24 Apr. 2006) 3 plates; 8 references                           Accepted: 19 Feb. 2006
A new species of Aphodius Illiger (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) from the central United States
M.J. PAULSEN (USA)
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Zootaxa 1182: 1-130 (21 Apr. 2006) 36 plates; 77 references                        Accepted: 28 Jan. 2006

Revision and cladistic analysis of the genus: Ptychoderes Schoenherr, 1823 (Coleoptera, Anthribidae, Anthribinae, Ptychoderini)
J.R.M. MERMUDES & D.S. NAPP (Brazil)
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Zootaxa
1181: 1-102 (21 Apr. 2006) 31 plates; 52 references                        Accepted: 10 Dec. 2005

Revision of the subgenus Metaeuops Legalov of Euops Schoenherr (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea, Attelabidae) from the Papuan region
A. RIEDEL (Germany)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1179: 1-96 (21 Apr. 2006) 43 plates; 52 references                            Accepted: 9 Oct. 2005

Taxonomy and phylogeny of the World species of the genus Ischnopoda Stephens, 1837 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
G. PASNIK (Poland)
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Zootaxa 1173: 63-68 (13 Apr. 2006) 1 plate; 7 references                             Accepted: 28 Feb. 2006
New South American genus and species of Pteroplatini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae)
D.S. NAPP & U.R. MARTINS (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1171: 31-37 (10 Apr. 2006) 2 plates; 2 references                             Accepted: 14 Mar. 2006
A new species of Phanaeus Macleay (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Phanaeini) from Oaxaca, Mexico
W. D. EDMONDS (USA)
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Zootaxa 1170: 27-56 (10 Apr. 2006) 6 plates; 22 references                             Accepted: 8 Mar. 2006
Revision of the longiusculus-group of the genus Hydroporus Clairville, 1806 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
H.V. SHAVERDO (Austria)
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Zootaxa 1168: 21-30 (6 Apr. 2006) 3 plates; 32 references                           Accepted: 28 Feb. 2006
Adventive and native Byrrhidae (Coleoptera) newly recorded from Prince Edward Island, Canada
C.G. MAJKA, C NORONHA & M. SMITH (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1163: 61-68 (30 Mar. 2006) 2 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 23 Feb. 2006
A new species of Plectromerus Haldeman (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from Navassa Island, Greater Antilles
E.H. NEARNS & W.E. STEINER, Jr. (USA)
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Zootaxa 1161: 65-68 (30 Mar. 2006) 2 plates; 2 references                              Accepted: 9 Feb. 2006
Reinstatement of Solenoptera michelii (Chemsak, 1979) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Prioninae: Solenopterini) as a valid species
J.A. MICHELI & C.J. MICHELI (USA)
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Zootaxa 1158: 1-38 (23 Mar. 2006) 10 plates; 21 references                              Accepted: 6 Feb. 2006
New species of darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from San Salvador Island, Bahamas
W.E. STEINER, JR. (USA)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1157: 1-74 (23 Mar. 2006) 27 plates; 59 references                          Accepted: 16 Jan. 2006

An updated catalogue of the Histeridae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Arabian Peninsula, with biogeographical remarks
F. PENATI & P. VIENNA (Italy)
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Zootaxa 1155: 51-60 (20 Mar. 2006) 2 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 3 Feb. 2006
A new Mexican species of Oxyporus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxyporinae)
J. MARQUEZ & J. ASIAIN (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 1154: 27-33 (20 Mar. 2006) 2 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 10 Dec. 2005
Description of the male of the rare Madagascan species Pseudorphnus hiboni with notes on the genus Pseudorphnus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Orphninae)
A.V. FROLOV (Russia) & O. MONTREUIL (France)
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Zootaxa 1154: 49-68 (20 Mar. 2006) 32 references                                            Accepted: 7 Feb. 2006
The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: new records, biogeographic notes, and conservation concerns 
C.G. MAJKA & D.B. MCCORQUODALE (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1153: 33-42 (17 Mar. 2006) 32 references                                          Accepted: 27 Jan. 2006
Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on the genera Sarawakita Obenberger and Agrilus Curtis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae)
E. JENDEK (Slovakia)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1146: 1-152 (10 Mar. 2006) 78 plates; 58 references                           Accepted: 8 Oct. 2005

A revision of the World species of the genus Tachyusa Erichson, 1837 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
GRZEGORZ PASNIK (Poland)
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Zootaxa 1142: 1-33 (8 Mar. 2006) 61 references                                            Accepted: 27 Dec. 2005
New records and other notes for Oregon Coleoptera
R.L. WESTCOTT, J.R. LaBONTE, G.L. PARSONS & P.J. JOHNSON (USA)
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Zootaxa 1139: 27-33 (6 Mar. 2006) 3 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 20 Jan. 2006
New synonymies in Oriental Sticholotidini (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Sticholotidinae)
J. POORANI  (India) & R.G. BOOTH (UK)
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Zootaxa 1139: 63-68 (6 Mar. 2006) 3 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 27 Dec. 2005
Description of a new species and new country records of Ancognatha Erichson (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) from Colombia
L.C. PARDO-LOCARNO, R. GONZALEZ & J. MONTOYA-LERMA (Colombia)
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Zootaxa 1137: 37-52 (2 Mar. 2006) 4 plates; 2 references                               Accepted: 6 Jan. 2006
New species and a new subgenus of South American Neoathyreus Howden and Martinez (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae: Athyreini)
H.F. HOWDEN (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1133: 39-43 (23 Feb. 2006) 2 plates; 13 references                             Accepted: 9 Jan. 2006
Hydraena (s. str.) emineae sp. n. from Antalya, southern Turkey (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
M.A. JACH  (Austria) & A. KASAPOGLU  (Turkey)
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Zootaxa 1129: 61-68 (16 Feb. 2006) 1 plate; 33 references                                Accepted: 5 Jan. 2006
A new species of Prismognathus Motschulsky from Xizang (Tibet), China (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Lucanidae)
L. BARTOLOZZI (Italy) & X. WAN   (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1124: 41-46 (8 Feb. 2006) 2 plates; 7 references                                Accepted: 18 Dec. 2006
A new species of the genus Watanabesaruzo (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Ceutorhynchinae) from China
J.H. HUANG (P.R. China), R.Z. ZHANG  (P.R. China) & F.W. PELSUE, JR.(USA)
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Zootaxa 1123: 57-68 (8 Feb. 2006) 4 plates; 9 references                                Accepted: 1 Aug. 2006
Neobruchidius lovie, new genus and new species from Latin America (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae)
C.D. JOHNSON (USA) & J. ROMERO-NAPOLES (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 1111: 1-19  (20 Jan. 2006) 6 plates; 23 references                           Accepted: 18 Nov. 2005
Description and behaviour of Goniotropis kuntzeni larvae (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Paussinae: Ozaenini) and a key to genera of Paussinae larvae
W. MOORE (USA) & A. DI GIULIO  (Italy)
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Zootaxa 1109: 39-47 (17 Jan. 2006) 4 plates; 7 references                             Accepted: 30 Nov. 2005
Orisaltata, a new genus of flea beetles from the Oriental Region (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
K. D. PRATHAPAN (India) & A. S. KONSTANTINOV  (USA)
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2005 (66 papers; 3219 pages)

Zootaxa 1103: 1-15 (22 Dec. 2005) 8 plates; 13  references                             Accepted: 8 Nov. 2005
Male description and generic review of Agyrtolasia Szymczakowski, with key to genera of Agyrtodini (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Camiarinae: Agyrtodini)
A. E. SEAGO (USA)
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Zootaxa 1100: 1-151 (19 Dec. 2005) 42 plates; 37 references                        Accepted: 10 Aug. 2005
The Middle American species of Embates Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Baridinae)
J. PRENA (Germany)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1099: 1-120 (19 Dec. 2005) 24  plates; 118 references                       Accepted: 26 Jul. 2005
Taxonomic review of the Tribe Melaenini (Coleoptera: Carabidae), with observations on morphological, ecological and chorological evolution
G. E. BALL & D. SHPELEY (USA)
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Zootaxa 1096: 17-28 (16 Dec. 2005) 5 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 29 Nov. 2005
New species and new records of Copris (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from Mexico and the United States
S. MCCLEVE
(USA) & B. KOHLMANN (Costa Rica)
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Zootaxa 1089: 37-47 (2 Dec. 2005) 5 plates; 8 references                                 Accepted: 5 Oct. 2005
A new genus and species of Hoplapoderini from Madagascar (Coleoptera: Attelabidae: Apoderinae)
S. BIONDI (Italy)
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Zootaxa 1088: 55-59 (29 Nov. 2005) 1 plate; 5 references                            Accepted:  23 Oct. 2005
Synopsis of the genus Erythropterus Melzer, 1934 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae, Heteropsini)
D. S. NAPP & M. A. MONNE  (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1088: 17-24 (29 Nov. 2005) 3 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 6 Oct. 2005
A new species of Plectromerus Haldeman (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from Dominican amber with notes on the fossil Plectromerus tertiarius Vitali 
E. H. NEARNS & M. A. BRANHAM (USA)
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Zootaxa 1086: 37-46 (25 Nov. 2005) 19 references                                             Accepted: 8 Nov. 2005
On Euconnus (Napochus) campestris Schaufuss and its synonymy (Coleoptera: Scydmaenidae)
H. MEYBOHM  (Germany) & S. VIT (Switzerland)
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Zootaxa 1081: 47-59 (15 Nov. 2005) 6 plates; 11 references                        Accepted: 10 Jul. 2005
Description of two leaf-miner larvae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) from the Brazilian Atlantic forest
S. A. CASARI & J. M. QUEIROZ (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1078: 1-24 (7 Nov. 2005) 5 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 4 Oct. 2005
A revision of the Oocyclus Sharp of Thailand with description of six new species (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)
A. E. Z. SHORT & A. P. SWANSON (USA)
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Zootaxa 1076: 1-62 (4 Nov. 2005) 8 plates; 14 references                             Accepted: 27 Sept. 2005
Taxonomic revision of the genus Anomalophylla Reitter, 1887 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini)
D. AHRENS (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1073: 1-29 (1 Nov. 2005) 113 references                                              Accepted: 8 Sept. 2005
Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on the genus Agrilus Curtis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilini)
E. JENDEK (Slovakia)
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Zootaxa 1066: 1-42 (18 Oct. 2005) 9 plates; 69 references                           Accepted: 19 Sept. 2005
Revision of Zorion Pascoe (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), an endemic genus of New Zealand
F.-R. SCHNITZLER & Q. WANG (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1064: 31-37 (14 Oct. 2005) 1 plate; 9 references                             Accepted: 27 Sept. 2005
Description of the two new Microserica species from Laos and Thailand (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini)
D. AHRENS (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1064: 51-64 (14 Oct. 2005) 8 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 4 Oct. 2005
Neolyrium gen. n., first South American genus of net-winged beetles with 10-segmented antennae (Coleoptera: Lycidae)
S. V. KAZANTSEV (Russia)
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Zootaxa 1062: 1-56 (11 Oct. 2005) 25 plates; 89 references                             Accepted: 2 Sept. 2005
Cladistic analysis of the tribe Torneutini Thomson (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Trachyderoinia)
M. L. MONNÉ & D. S. NAPP (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1062: 57-68 (11 Oct. 2005) 2 plates; 6 references                             Accepted: 6 Oct. 2005
Nine new species of Castiarina Gory & Laporte, 1838 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
SHELLEY BARKER (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1060: 1-26 (7 Oct. 2005) 4 plates; 39 references                             Accepted: 13 Sept. 2005
A revision of the southern South American stag beetles of the genus Sclerostomus Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Lucanidae)
M.J. PAULSEN (USA)
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Zootaxa 1059: 39-47 (7 Oct. 2005) 2 plates; 4 references                             Accepted: 30 Aug. 2005
Four new species of Desmopachria Babington from Peru (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
KELLY B. MILLER (USA)
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Zootaxa 1059: 49-59 (7 Oct. 2005) 3 plates; 4 references                             Accepted: 30 Aug. 2005
Two new species of Agaporomorphus Zimmermann (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from Peru
KELLY B. MILLER (USA)
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Zootaxa 1056: 19-42 (30 Sept. 2005) 11 plates; 20 references                         Accepted: 6 Aug. 2005
New species of Middle Asian Longitarsus Latreille with discussion of their subgeneric placement (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
A. S. KONSTANTINOV (USA)
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Zootaxa 1054: 25-29 (27 Sept. 2005) 2 plates; 3 references                           Accepted: 19 Aug. 2005
A new species of Brachysiderus Waterhouse, 1881 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) from Maranhao State, Brazil
P. C. GROSSI & E. J. GROSSI (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1053: 1-21 (23 Sept. 2005) 12 plates; 27 references                        Accepted: 9 Sept. 2005
A cladistic analysis of the genera of the tribe Entimini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae), with description of a new genus and species from the Amazonian Region
S. A. VANIN & F. GAIGER (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1053: 23-34 (23 Sept. 2005) 6 plates; 16 references                        Accepted: 15 Sept. 2005
Eurycleonus talamellii n. sp. of Cleonine weevil from the Moroccan desert (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Lixinae: Cleonini)
M. MEREGALLI (Italy)
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Zootaxa 1050: 45-60 (16 Sept. 2005) 6 plates; 18 references                         Accepted: 4 Aug. 2005
A new species of stag beetle from sand dunes in west Texas, and a synopsis of the genus Nicagus (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Aesalinae: Nicagini)
M.J. PAULSEN & A. D. SMITH (USA)
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Zootaxa 1049: 1-17 (13 Sept. 2005) 4 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 20 Aug. 2005
The Neotropical genera Oxycrepis Reiche and Stolonis Motschulsky: a taxonomic review, key to the described species and description of new Stolonis species from Ecuador (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Loxandrini)
K. W. WILL (USA)
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Zootaxa 1048: 21-25 (13 Sept. 2005) 2 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 23 Aug. 2005
Contributions to the knowledge of the "Staphylinus-complex" (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Staphylinini) of China. Part 10. A new species of the genus Platydracus Thomson, 1858
A. SMETANA  (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1048: 45-51 (13 Sept. 2005) 2 plates; 4 references                           Accepted: 15 Aug. 2005
A new species of the Neotropical genus Daimothoracodes Petrovitz (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Hybosoridae)
F.C. OCAMPO  (USA)
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Zootaxa 1044: 1-15 (2 Sept. 2005) 2 plates; 23 references                             Accepted: 3 Aug. 2005
A new species of Chrysobothris Eschscholtz from Oregon and Washington, with notes on other Buprestidae (Coleoptera) occurring in the United States and Canada
R.L. WESTCOTT (USA)
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Zootaxa 1043: 1-16 (30 Aug. 2005) 3 plates; 59 references                          Accepted: 9 Aug. 2005
Autalia villosa, a new species from Korea, and an annotated catalog of the genus Autalia Leach (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
J.-S. PARK & K.-J. AHN (R. Korea)
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Zootaxa 1042: 64 (30 Aug. 2005) 1 plate; 1 reference                
Correction to "A description of four new species of Clavicornaltica Scherer from Continental Asia"
A.S. KONSTANTINOV & C. N. DUCKETT (USA)
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Zootaxa 1038: 41-52 (19 Aug. 2005) 2 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 7 Jul. 2005
Lectotype designations, new synonymies, and new species in the genera Trichillum Harold and Pedaridium Harold (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
F.Z. VAZ-DE-MELLO (Mexico)  & F. GENIER (Canada) 
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Zootaxa 1038: 23-40 (19 Aug. 2005) 2 plates; 22 references                          Accepted: 10 Aug. 2005
The Philippine Coraebini Bedel, 1921 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilini) Part 6: new and resurrected genera and new species
C.L. BELLAMY (USA)
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Zootaxa 1037: 29-36 (19 Aug. 2005) 5 plates; 9 references                           Accepted:24 Jun. 2005
A new species of Megasoma Kirby (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) from Sinaloa, Mexico
M.-A. MORON (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 1037: 49-64 (19 Aug. 2005) 10 plates; 15 references                         Accepted:27 Jun. 2005
New species of Clavicornaltica Scherer (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from continental Asia
A.S. KONSTANTINOV & C.N. DUCKETT (USA)
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Zootaxa 1035: 1-49 (15 Aug. 2005) 4 references                                             Accepted: 20 Jul. 2005
Franz Spaeth: Publications and proposed taxa
C. L. STAINES  (USA)
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Zootaxa 1034: 43-60 (11 Aug. 2005) 7 plates; 42 references                           Accepted: 28 Jul. 2005
Phellinocis, a new genus of Neotropical Ciidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea)
C. LOPES-ANDRADE (Brazil) & J.F. LAWRENCE (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1032: 29-60 (8 Aug. 2005) 101 references                                            Accepted: 3 Aug. 2005
A supplement to the checklist of the New World chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) with notes on their tribal classification
A.B.T. SMITH & A.V. EVANS (USA)
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Zootaxa 1028: 23-36 (2 Aug. 2005) 4 plates, 17 references                               Accepted: 15 Jun. 2005
Two new species of Plectromerus Haldeman (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from the West Indies
C.J. MICHELI  & E.H. NEARNS
(USA)
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Zootaxa 1024: 1-161 (29 Jul. 2005) 80 plates; 15 references                         Accepted: 18 May 2005
A revision of the water beetle genus Gymnochthebius Orchymont (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) for Australia and Papua New Guinea  
P.D. PERKINS
(USA)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1023: 1-760 (29 Jul. 2005) 1753 references                                          Accepted: 8 Jun. 2005
Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae
M.A. MONNE (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1021: 29-36 (22 Jul. 2005) 2 plates, 4 references                              Accepted: 6 Jul. 2005
Notes on the genus Lagocheirus Dejean: records and descriptions (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Acanthocinini)
V. H. TOLEDO (Mexico) & F. T. HOVORE (USA)
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Zootaxa 1012: 23-37 (28 Jun. 2005) 3 plates, 3 references                             Accepted: 19 May 2005
New species and new records of species of Macrodactylus Dejean (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Macrodactyini) from Honduras and Nicaragua
R. ARCE-PEREZ & M.A. MORÓN (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 1006: 53-64 (10 Jun. 2005) 2 plates; 2 references                            Accepted: 19 May 2005
Contributions to the knowledge of the "Staphylinus-complex" (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini) of China. Part 7. The genus Sphaerobulbus Smetana 2003. Section 2
ALEŠ SMETANA  (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1004: 29-36 (7 Jun. 2005) 4 plates; 7 references                               Accepted: 7 May 2005
The discovery of a second species of Cryptophilharmostes Ballerio from Tanzania (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Ceratocanthidae)
A. BALLERIO  (Italy)
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Zootaxa 1002: 21-44 (1 Jun. 2005) 10 plates; 3 references                             Accepted: 10 May 2005
Three new genera and four new species of aleocharine staphylinids with unusually long mandibles from Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Homalotini)
J.S. ASHE (USA)
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Zootaxa 986: 1-60 (19 May 2005) 12 plates; 12 references                             Accepted: 18 Apr. 2005
Omolabus Jekel in north and central America (Coleoptera: Attelabidae)
R.W. HAMILTON (USA)
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Zootaxa 971: 1-31 (6 May 2005) 13 plates; 47 references                               Accepted: 18 Apr. 2005
Systematics of the New Zealand longicorn beetle genus Oemona Newman with discussion of the taxonomic position of the Australian species, O. simplex White (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Ceram-bycinae)
W. LU (P.R. China) & Q. WANG  (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 968: 1-10 (6 May 2005) 2 plates; 28 references                                 Accepted: 28 Apr. 2005
A new species of the genus Odonteus (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae) from northern Pakistan
G.M. CARPANETO & R. MIGNANI  (Italy)
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Zootaxa 966: 1-8 (2 May 2005) 4 plates; 6 references                                 Accepted: 11 Apr. 2005
A new species of Longitarsus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) feeding on Chinese potato, Plectranthus rotundifolius (Lamiaceae) in southern India
K. D. PRATHAPAN, M. H. FAIZAL & K. N. ANITH (India)
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Zootaxa 965: 1-7 (2 May 2005) 2 plates; 10 references                                 Accepted: 14 Apr. 2005
Two new species in the Anthaxia (Anthaxia) manca (Linnaeus, 1767) species-group from China (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
S. BÍLÝ (Czech Republic)
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Zootaxa 956: 1-7 (26 Apr. 2005) 7 plates; 3 references                                   Accepted: 4 Apr. 2005
A new species of Longitarsus Latreille, 1825 from Mexico (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Alticinae, Longitarsini)
V. SAVINI & H.E. ESCALONA (Venezuela)
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Zootaxa 954: 1-12 (26 Apr. 2005) 5 plates; 22 references                                 Accepted: 10 Apr. 2005
A new species of Oxyporus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxyporinae) from Mexico, with notes on some poorly known species
J. MÁRQUEZ, J. ASIAIN & H.E. FIERROS-LÓPEZ  (Mexico)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 949: 1-103 (20 Apr. 2005) 60 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 24 Mar. 2005
A revision of the African hygropetric genus Coelometopon Janssens, and description of Oomtelecopon new genus (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
P.D. PERKINS (USA)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 948: 1-92 (20 Apr. 2005) 12 plates; 44 references                             Accepted: 12 Mar. 2005
A catalog and distributional analysis of the Rutelinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of Ecuador
A. PAUCAR-CABRERA (Ecuador)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 946: 1-765 (20 Apr. 2005) 1984 references                                      Accepted: 24 Feb. 2005
Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part I. Subfamily Cerambycinae
M.A. MONNÉ (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 927: 1-27 (31 Mar. 2005) 11 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 28 Feb. 2005
The genus Canidia Thomson, 1857 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Acanthocinini)
J.E. WAPPES & S.W. LINGAFELTER (USA
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Zootaxa 923: 1-5 (29 Mar. 2005) 1 plate; 4 references                                   Accepted: 14 Mar. 2005
A new species of the genus Phyllotreta Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from southwestern Turkey
A. GÖK (Turkey
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Zootaxa 915: 1-48 (24 Mar. 2005) 29 plates; 2 references                               Accepted:14 Mar. 2005
A revision of the South African endemic humicolous beetle genus Discozantaena Perkins and Balfour-Browne (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
P.D. PERKINS (USA
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Zootaxa 902: 1-13 (14 Mar. 2005) 3 plates; 22 references                              Accepted: 26 Feb. 2005
New and little known species of Quedius from West Palaearctic (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)
A.YU. SOLODOVNIKOV (USA
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Zootaxa 900: 1-8 (14 Mar. 2005) 1 plate; 23 references                                Accepted: 7 Mar. 2005
A new genus and species of Nothomorphina Cobos, 1955 from northwestern South Africa (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Polycestinae)
C. L. BELLAMY (USA
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Zootaxa 883: 1-5 (7 Mar. 2005) 1 plate; 2 references                                   Accepted: 10 Feb. 2005
A new species of the weevil genus Ceutorhynchus Germar from Eastern Mediterranean Turkey (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
L. GÜLTEKIN (Turkey) 
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Zootaxa 875: 1-5 (1 Mar. 2005) 1 plate; 9 references                                   Accepted: 19 Feb. 2005
On the identity of Dysis excellens Crotch (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Coccinellini), a little known Oriental lady beetle
J. POORANI (India) & R.G. BOOTH (UK)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 874: 1-76 (1 Mar. 2005) 14 plates; 94 references                               Accepted: 11 Feb. 2005
Synopsis of the genera of Geniatini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) with an annotated catalog of species
M.L. JAMESON & S.J. HAWKINS (USA)
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Zootaxa 865: 1-7 (23 Feb. 2005) 2 plates; 8 references                                     Accepted: 12 Feb. 2005
Two new species of Enochrus Thomson, subgenus Hugoscottia Knisch, from Costa Rica and Mexico (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)
A.E.Z. SHORT (USA)
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Zootaxa 850: 1-4. (4 Feb. 2005)  1 plate, 3 references                                  Accepted: 19 Jan. 2005
Coomaniella (Coomaniella) janka sp. nov. from China (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
E. JENDEK (Slovakia)
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Zootaxa 830: 1-23 (20 Jan. 2005) 9 plates, 7 references                                    Accepted: 3 Jan. 2005
Review of Aferos Kazantsev (Coleoptera, Lycidae), with a note on Staepteron cyanoxanthum (Bourgeois)
S.V. KAZANTSEV (Russia)
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2004 (50 papers; 1153 pages)

Zootaxa 790: 1-20 (22 December 2004) 14 plates; 26 references                   Accepted: 15 Dec. 2004
The beetle family Carabidae of Costa Rica: The genus Epikastea Liebke of the Plochonida Group, with new Neotropical species and notes on their way of life (Insecta: Coleoptera, Lebiini, Agrina)
T.L. ERWIN
(USA)
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Zootaxa 789: 1-26 (22 December 2004)  2 plates, 104 references                   Accepted: 20 Nov. 2004
Synopsis on Passalidae family (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) of Brazil with description of a new species of Veturius Kaup, 1871
C.R.V.D. FONSECA (Brazil) & P. REYES-CASTILLO (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 787: 1-7 (22 December 2004) 4 plates; 8 references                        Accepted: 7 Dec. 2004
Ceraspis jaliscoensis, a new species from México (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)
L. DELGADO & J.L. NAVARRETE-HEREDIA (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 783: 1-45 (20 December 2004) 21 plates; 8 references                       Accepted: 9 Dec. 2004
A revision of Oocyclus Sharp of Mexico and Central America (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)
A.E.Z. SHORT  & P.D. PERKINS (USA)

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Zootaxa 782: 1-10 (20 December 2004) 4 plates; 7 references                       Accepted: 26 Nov. 2004
A new Argentinian species of Bembidion (Chilioperyphus) (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini) with accessory setae
S. ROIG-JUÑENT & E. SCHEIBLER (Argentina)

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Zootaxa 781: 1-15 (20 December 2004) 4 plates; 46 references                        Accepted: 7 Dec. 2004
Phloeocharis subtilissima Mannerheim (Staphylinidae: Phloeocharinae) and Cephennium gallicum Ganglbauer (Scydmaenidae) new to North America: a case study in the introduction of exotic Coleoptera to the port of Halifax, with new records of other species
C. MAJKA & J. KLIMASZEWSKI (Canada)
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Zootaxa 777: 1-10 (17 December 2004) 1 plate; 12  references                        Accepted: 2 Dec. 2004
The Xixuthrus species of Fiji (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Prioninae)
D. YANEGA (USA), D. OLSON (Fiji), S. SHUTE (UK) & Z. KOMIYA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 775: 1-12 (17 December 2004) 2 plates; 1 reference                       Accepted: 2 Dec. 2004
New or rare Madagascar tiger beetles—9. Two new species of the genus Physodeutera Lacordaire, with revised keys to the species of subgenera Diarrhiza Jeannel and Minideutera Moravec (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)
J. MORAVEC
(Czech Republic)
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Zootaxa 771: 1-8 (14 December 2004) 2 plates; 5 references                          Accepted: 6 Dec. 2004
Two new species of Anthaxia Eschscholtz, 1829 from the A. salicis (Fabricius, 1776) species-group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
S. BÍLÝ & V. KUBÁN (Czech Republic)
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Zootaxa 769: 1-14 (14 December 2004) 6 plates; 16 references                       Accepted: 2 Dec. 2004
Description of immature stages of three species of American Cetoniinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae)
J. OROZCO & L.C. PARDO-LOCARNO
(Colombia)
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Zootaxa 768: 1-11 (14 December 2004) 3 plates; 26 references                       Accepted: 1 Dec. 2004
Description of pleural defensive organs in three species of firefly larvae (Coleoptera, Lampyridae)
E. TRICE, J. TYLER & J.C. DAY
(UK)
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Zootaxa 767: 1-8 (14 December 2004) 3 plates; 2 references                            Accepted: 7 Dec. 2004
A revision of Callicerus Gravenhorst, Pseudosemiris Machulka, and related genera. III. A new genus and species from China, and additional records (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
V. ASSING
(Germany)
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Zootaxa 758: 1-9 (10 December 2004) 3 plates; 8   references                      Accepted: 30 Nov. 2004
A remarkable new species of Trirammatus Chaudoir (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichini) from the Valdivian Forest of Chile
K.W. WILL
  (USA)
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Zootaxa 749: 1-12 (1 December 2004) 4 plates; 3 references                      Accepted: 22 Nov. 2004
Limnebius acupunctus, a new species of water beetle from Australia and Papua New Guinea (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
P.D. PERKINS
(USA)
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Zootaxa 748: 1-4 (1 December 2004) 9 references                                   Accepted: 23 Nov. 2004
Yosiityphlus Sawada, 1971, a new synonym of Thinobius Kiesenwetter, 1844 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)
V.I. GUSAROV (Norway) & G. MAKRANCZY (USA)

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Zootaxa 747: 1-36 (1 December 2004) 18 plates; 31 references                     Accepted: 24 Nov. 2004
A revision of the genus Lypoglossa Fenyes, 1918 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
 V.I. GUSAROV (Norway)

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Zootaxa 746: 1-25 (1 December 2004) 14 plates; 52 references                     Accepted: 23 Nov. 2004
A revision of the Nearctic species of the genus Halobrecta Thomson, 1858 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) with notes on some Palaearctic species of the genus
 V.I. GUSAROV (Norway)

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Zootaxa 745: 1-15 (1 December 2004) 6 plates; 26 references                     Accepted: 24 Nov. 2004
Review of the genus Sableta Casey, 1910 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Athetini)
J.S. ASHE (USA) & V.I. GUSAROV (Norway)

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Zootaxa 729: 1-19 (18 November 2004) 5 plates; 42 references                      Accepted: 29 Oct. 2004
Lectotype designations in the New World Gymnetini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae)
B.C. RATCLIFFE
(USA)
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Zootaxa 717: 1-10 (8 November 2004) 4 plates; 9 references                            Accepted: 9 Oct. 2004
Two new Brazilian species of Cis Latreille, 1796 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Ciidae)
S.D.S. PINHEIRO DE ALMEIDA & C. LOPES-ANDRADE
(Brazil)
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Zootaxa 694: 1-22 (21 October 2004) 10 plates; 11 references                      Accepted: 5 Oct. 2004
Revision of the Afrotropical species of the genus Trichodes HERBST, 1792 (Coleoptera, Cleridae)
R. GERSTMEIER & A. HUESMANN  (Germany)
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Zootaxa 683: 1-80 (12 October 2004) 31 plates; 73 references                 Accepted: 12 Sept. 2004
A revision of the genus Paratyndaris Fisher, 1919 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Polycestinae)
G.H. NELSON & C.L. BELLAMY
(USA)
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Zootaxa 676: 1-46 (8 October 2004) 28 plates; 19 references                      Accepted: 9 Sept. 2004
Morphology of the prothorax and procoxa in the New World Cryptocephalini (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae)
M.L. CHAMORRO-LACAYO & A.S. KONSTANTINOV
(USA)
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Zootaxa 672: 1-16 (6 October 2004)  9 plates; 1 reference                           Accepted: 24 Sept. 2004
A revision of the Western Australian endemic humicolous beetle genus Tympallopatrum Perkins (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
P.D. PERKINS (USA)
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Zootaxa 667: 1-14 (1 October 2004)  5 plates; 8 references                        Accepted: 24 Sept. 2004
Revision of the Microserica lineata Moser, 1915-group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericini)
D. AHRENS
(Germany)
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Zootaxa 662: 1-54 (1 October 2004) 40 plates; 38 references                      Accepted: 16 Sept. 2004
The beetle family Carabidae of Costa Rica: The genera of the Cryptobatida group of subtribe Agrina, tribe Lebiini, with new species and notes on their way of life (Insecta: Coleoptera)
T.L. ERWIN
(USA)
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Zootaxa 631: 1-54 (6 September 2004) 13 plates; 25 references                      Accepted: 10 Aug. 2004
A review of the Neotropical genus Prionodera Chevrolat (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae) with description of a new genus
R.W. FLOWERS
(USA)
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Zootaxa 610: 1-43 (18 August 2004) 14 plates; 10 references                        Accepted: 21 Jul. 2004
Eugnamptine weevils of La Selva, Costa Rica (Coleoptera: Rhynchitidae)
R.W. HAMILTON & A.L. NOVINGER
(USA)
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Zootaxa 601: 1-16 (11 Aug. 2004) 7 plates; 9 references                                 Accepted: 29 July 2004
Taxonomy of the Hister criticus group, with description of a new species (Coleoptera: Histeridae)
M.S. CATERINO
(USA)
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Zootaxa 591: 1-5 (3 August 2004) 1 plate; 8 references                              Accepted: 23 July 2004
A new species of Tribotropis Jekel, 1855 from Colombia (Coleoptera: Anthribidae, Anthribinae, Ptychoderini)
J.R.M. MERMUDES
(Brazil)
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Zootaxa 585: 1-39 (27 July 2004)  15 plates; 9 references                                Accepted: 21 July 2004
A revision of the Australian endemic water beetle genus Gymnanthelius Perkins (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
P.D. PERKINS (USA)
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Zootaxa 577: 1-11 (19 July 2004)  5 plates; 14 references                                   Accepted: 3 July 2004
Cryptopeniculus nigrosetus n.g., n. sp. (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) from the Namaqualand region of South Africa
T.K. PHILIPS & D.E. FOSTER
(USA)
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Zootaxa 575: 1-4 (19 July 2004)  3 plates; 4 references                                   Accepted: 1 July 2004
A new Brazilian stag beetle of the genus Sclerostomus Burmeister, 1847 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Lucanidae)
P.C. GROSSI & F. RACCA-FILHO
(Brazil)
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Zootaxa 559: 1-12 (7 July 2004)  4 plates; 3 references                                  Accepted:25 June 2004
A revision of the South African endemic humicolous beetle genus Nucleotops Perkins and Balfour-Browne (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
P.D. PERKINS
(USA)
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Zootaxa 556: 1-10 (2 July 2004)  3 plates; 31 references                                  Accepted:19 June 2004
The egg morphology of some species of Sennius Bridwell (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) based on scanning electron micrographs 
E. CARON, C.S. RIBEIRO-COSTA & A.M. LINZMEIER (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 555: 1-11 (2 July 2004)  41 references                                          Accepted: 6 June 2004
Taxonomic studies on Anthaxiina Gory & Laporte de Castelnau and Curina Holynski (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
S. BÍLY (Czech Republic)

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Zootaxa 553: 1-16 (28 June 2004) 9 plates; 12 references                              Accepted: 19 June 2004
Cicindis horni Bruch (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Cicindini): The Fairy Shrimp Hunting Beetle, its way of life on the Salinas Grandes of Argentina
T.L. ERWIN (USA) & V. ASCHERO (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 549: 1-18 (25 June 2004) 7 plates; 11 references                               Accepted: 11 June 2004
New flightless Eumolpinae of the genera Apterodina Bechyné and Brachypterodina n. gen. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from the Neotropics
R.W. FLOWERS (USA)

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Zootaxa 538: 1-38 (14 June 2004)  2 4 plates, 2 references                               Accepted: 25 May 2004
A revision of the South African endemic water beetle genus Pneuminion Perkins (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
P.D. PERKINS (USA)
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Zootaxa 537: 1-18 (14 June 2004) 3 plates; 1 2 references                               Accepted: 3 May 2004
The beetle family Carabidae of Costa Rica and Panamá: Descriptions of four new genera and six new species with notes on their way of life (Insecta: Coleoptera)
T.L. ERWIN (USA)
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Zootaxa 507: 1-19 (7 May 2004) 4 plates; 20 references                               Accepted: 21 April 2004
Revision of Agrilus acutus (Thunberg, 1787) and related species (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
E. JENDEK
(Slovakia)
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Zootaxa 502: 1-66 (4 May 2004) 17 plates; 28 references                               Accepted: 20 April 2004
Revision of the genus Peltonotus Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) from Southeastern Asia
M.L. JAMESON (USA) & K. WADA
(Japan)
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Zootaxa 498: 1-11 (30 April 2004) 7 plates; 9 references                               Accepted: 13 April 2004
New species of Stizocera (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from Bolivia
S.W. LINGAFELTER
(USA)
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Zootaxa 496: 1-48 (27 April 2004) 10 plates; 20 references                               Accepted: 9 April 2004
Phylogeny of the tribe Erotini (Coleoptera, Lycidae), with descriptions of new taxa
S.V. KAZANTSEV (Russia )
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Zootaxa 494: 1-14 (27 April 2004) 9 plates; 4 references                              Accepted: 15 April 2004
Omniops gen. n. and two new species of Hydrophilini from Papua New Guinea (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)
P.D. PERKINS & A.E.Z. SHORT (USA)
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Zootaxa 493: 1-32 (21 April 2004) 10 plates; 19 references                              Accepted: 6 April 2004
Contribution to the knowledge of Macrolycini with description of Calcaeron, new genus (Coleoptera, Lycidae)
S.V. KAZANTSEV (Russia)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 463: 1-90 (16 March 2004) 203 references                              Accepted: 14 February 2004
Catalogue of Diplotaxini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) of the Old World
A. BEZDEK
(Czech Republic)
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Zootaxa 447: 1-18 (1 March 2004) 7 plates; 7 references               Accepted: 18 February 2004
Revision of Phaelota Jacoby (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) with descriptions of three new species
K.D. PRATHAPAN & C.A. VIRAKTAMATH (India)
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Zootaxa 440: 1-6 (25 February 2004) 1 plate; 4 references               Accepted: 10 February 2004
A new species of the genus Psylliodes Latreille (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from Turkey
A. GÖK& E.G. ÇILBIROGLU (Turkey)
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Zootaxa 427: 1-6 (6 February 2004) 1 plate; 7 references                  Accepted: 27 January 2004
Lampyroidea maculata (Coleoptera: Lampyridae): A new species of lampyrid from Iran
M. GEISTHARDT (Germany) & J.C. DAY (Poland)
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2003  (41 papers; 1324 pages)                                     

Zootaxa 395: 1-7 (23 December 2003) 2 plates; 7 references                Accepted: 15 December 2003
The first record of Ennearthron Mellié, 1847 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Ciidae) in the Southern Hemisphere, with the description of a distinctive new species
C. LOPES-ANDRADE & A.A. ZACARO  (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 392: 1-8 (23 December 2003) 2 plates; 14 references           Accepted: 11 December 2003
The identity of Maladera infuscata (Moser, 1915), with description of a new species from Taiwan (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericini)
DIRK AHRENS  (Germany)
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Zootaxa 390: 1-7 (19 December 2003) 2 plates; 6 references                 Accepted: 11 December 2003
A new species of Philonthus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from Sonora, México
J.L. NAVARRETE-HEREDIA (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 380: 1-9 (8 December 2003) 1 plate; 17 references                Accepted: 3 November 2003
Agrilus (s. str.) betulanigrae MacRae (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilini), a new species from North America, with comments on subgeneric placement and a key to the otiosus species-group in  North America
T.C. MACRAE (USA)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 353: 1-134 (17 November 2003) 35 plates; 141 references        Accepted: 24 October 2003
Revision of some types of North American aleocharines (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), with synonymic notes
V.I. GUSAROV (USA)
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Zootaxa 345: 1-8 (3 November 2003) 4 plates; 13 references                  Accepted: 28 October 2003
Idahotyphlus alleni Gusarov, gen. n., sp. n., a new leptotyphline staphylinid beetle from Idaho (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Leptotyphlinae)
V.I. GUSAROV (USA)
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Zootaxa 342: 1-18 (28 October 2003) 6 plates; 14 references             Accepted: 22 October 2003
New data on the distribution of species of Gastroserica Brenske, 1897, with descriptions of five new taxa from China and Laos (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericini)
DIRK AHRENS (Germany) & P. PACHOLÁTKO (Czech Republic)
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Zootaxa 340: 1-38 (24 October 2003) 1 plate; 25 references             Accepted: 25 September 2003
The beetle fauna of the state of Rhode Island, USA (Coleoptera): 656 new state records
DEREK S. SIKES (USA)
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Zootaxa 337: 1-142 (24 October 2003) 1 plate; 112 references         Accepted: 24 September 2003
A revised checklist of Italian Curculionoidea (Coleoptera)
E. COLONNELLI  (Italy)
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Zootaxa 325: 1-5 (10 October 2003) 1 plate; 26 references                 Accepted: 1 October 2003
A new species of the genus Protoplotina Miyatake (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from India
J. POORANI (India)
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Zootaxa 319: 1-10 (3 October 2003) 5 plates; 25 references              Accepted: 30 September 2003
Neda Mulsant (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae): Redescriptions and revised combinations of two species formerly placed in Cycloneda Crotch 
M. ARAÚJO & L.M. DE ALMEIDA  (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 317: 1-22 (3 October 2003) 2 plates; 55 references              Accepted: 26 September 2003
Revision of Agrilus cuprescens (Ménétriés, 1832) and related species (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
E
DUARD JENDEK (Slovakia)
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Zootaxa 316: 1-4 (1 October 2003) 2 plates; 1 reference           Accepted: 26 September 2003
A new species of Phalangogonia Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Anoplognathini) from Costa Rica
A.B.T. SMITH  (USA)
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Zootaxa 313: 1-6 (1 October 2003) 22 references              Accepted: 27 September 2003
A correction to the authorship of Agrilus graminis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
E. JENDEK (Slovakia)
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Zootaxa 312: 1-8 (1 October 2003) 3 plates; 6 references      Accepted: 24 September 2003
A new species of Promacropoides Sigwalt (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) from Panamá
D. CUROE (USA) & M.A. MORÓN (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 311: 1-7 (26 September 2003) 1 plate, 4 references              Accepted: 19 September 2003
A revision of Calodera Mannerheim. III. A new species from Russia and a key to the Palaearctic species of the genus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
V. ASSING (Germany)
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Zootaxa 310: 1-8 (26 September 2003) 5 plates, 1 reference             Accepted: 19 September 2003
A revision of Zoosetha Mulsant & Rey and Poromniusa Gangl-bauer. II. A new species from Spain and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
V. ASSING (Germany)
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Zootaxa 298: 1-8 (16 September 2003) 1 plate, 8 references              Accepted: 10 September 2003
Amphiscolytus a new genus, and Amphiscolytini a new tribe of Scolytidae (Coleoptera) for Dacryophthorus capensis Schedl
M. YU. MANDELSHTAM  (Russia) & R.A. BEAVER (Thailand) 
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Zootaxa 273: 1-15 (22 August 2003) 28 plates; 11 references                    Accepted: 10 August 2003
The Neotropical species Askalaphium depressum (Bates): Larval description, first diagnosis and illustrations of immature Ctenodactylini, with natural history notes on the genus and tribe (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
T. L. ERWIN  & R. F. MEDINA (USA)
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Zootaxa 267: 1-7 (14 August 2003) 2 plates, 5 references                         Accepted: 4 August 2003
Two new species of Anthaxia Eschscholtz, 1829 from Spain (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) 
L. ARNÁIZ-RUIZ & P. BERCEDO-PÁRAMO (Spain)
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Zootaxa 250: 1-27  (30 July 2003) 9 references                                            Accepted: 23 July 2003
New Records of ground beetles for Colombia (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
C. MARTINEZ  (Colombia )
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Zootaxa 239: 1-43 (16 July 2003) 24 plates; 25 references                              Accepted: 9 July 2003
A revision of the Nearctic species of the genus Stethusa Casey, 1910 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
V.I. GUSAROV (USA)
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Zootaxa 221: 1-11 (26 June 2003) 5 plates; 8 references                                Accepted: 17 June 2003
A new genus and a new Costa Rican species of Endocephalites (Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae: Eumolpini)
R.W. FLOWERS (USA)
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Zootaxa 212: 1-6 (12 June 2003) 1 plate, 8 references                                        Accepted: 6 June 2003
A new species of the genus Synonychimorpha Miyatake (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from South India
J. POORANI  (India)
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Zootaxa 211: 1-458 (12 June 2003) 592 references                                           Accepted: 2 May 2003
A checklist of the New World chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)  
A.V. EVANS (USA)
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Zootaxa 201: 1-18 (26 May 2003) 2 plates, 69 references                              Accepted: 16 May 2003
Mexican Acmaeodera Eschscholtz, 1829: A new species and checklist, with miscellaneous taxonomic and biological notes on other North American Buprestidae (Coleoptera)
J.M. DAVIDSON (USA)
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Zootaxa 192: 1-8 (8 May 2003) 16 references                                            Accepted: 1 May 2003
Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) types in the Royal Museum of Scotland Collection
C.L. STAINES  (USA) & A.E. WHITTINGTON (UK)
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Zootaxa 190: 1-16 (2 May 2003) 2 plates, 33 references                           Accepted: 24 April 2003
Molecular taxonomy of two sympatric sibling species of the pollen-beetle genus Meligethes (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)
A. DE BIASE, G. ANTONINI, E. MANCINI & P. AUDI-SIO (Italy)
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Zootaxa 185: 1-35 (24 April 2003) 19 plates; 31 references                         Accepted: 14 April 2003
A revision of Nearctic species of the genera Adota Casey, 1910 and Psammostiba Yosii & Sawada, 1976 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) 
V. I. GUSAROV (USA) 
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Zootaxa 176: 1-8 (3 April 2003) 3 plates; 6 references                         Accepted: 28 March 2003
Two new species of the genus Orizabus Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) from southern and central Mexico
M.A. MORÓN, A.M. TAPIA & A. ARAGÓN (Mexico) 
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Zootaxa 174: 1-19 (3 April 2003) 3 plate; 16 references                          Accepted: 25 March 2003
The Madagascan Coraebini (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae): Part 4, New genera and species
C. L. BELLAMY (USA)
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Zootaxa 167: 1-16 (24 March 2003) 5 plates; 9 references                     Accepted: 11 March 2003
New species and records of Copris (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae; Scarabaeinae) from Central America
B. KOHLMANN (Costa Rica), E. CANO (Guatemala) & L. DELGADO (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 165: 1-7 (17 March 2003) 2 plates; 20 references                     Accepted: 7 March 2003
Mayatyphlus carltoni Gusarov, a new genus and species of leptotyphline staphylinid beetle from Belize (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Leptotyphlinae)
VLADIMIR I. GUSAROV (USA)
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Zootaxa 164: 1-20 (17 March 2003) 10 plates; 24 references                     Accepted: 7 March 2003
A revision of the genus Goniusa Casey, 1906 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
VLADIMIR I. GUSAROV (USA)
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Zootaxa 161: 1-7 (12 March 2003) 2 plates; 10 references                   Accepted: 6 March 2003
Cis leoi, a new species of Ciidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from the Neotropical Region
C. LOPES-ANDRADE, F. GUMIER-COSTA & A.A. ZACARO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 158: 1-8 (12 March 2003) 5 plates; 9 references                         Accepted: 4 March 2003
A new species of flea beetle, genus Pedilia Clark (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), from Osa Pennisula, Costa Rica
C.N. DUCKETT (USA)
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Zootaxa 148: 1-6 (27 February 2003)  1 plate; 5 references                Accepted: 19 February 2003
A new species of Calliaspis Dejean, 1837 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) from French Guyana
L. BOROWIEC (Poland)
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Zootaxa 147: 1-20 (27 February 2003)  37 references                  Accepted: 18 February 2003
Correction to the Buprestidae and Schizopodidae (Coleoptera) listings from Nomina Insecta Nearctica (1996)
C. L. BELLAMY & R. L. WESTCOTT (USA)
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Zootaxa 142: 1-102 (5 February 2003) 71 plates; 8 references               Accepted: 27 January 2003
A revision of the genus Seeversiella Ashe, 1986 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
VLADIMIR I. GUSAROV (USA)
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Zootaxa 139: 1-14 (24 January 2003) 6 plates; 6 references               Accepted: 21 January 2003
New species of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from Costa Rica and Panama
Á. SOLÍS & B. KOHLMANN (Costa Rica)
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Zootaxa 130: 1-6 (10 January 2003) 3 plates; 5 references           Accepted: 23 December 2002
A new Cylindromorphoides Kerremans, 1903 from the "Gran Sabana" in Venezuela (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
MICHAEL HORNBURG (Germany)
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2002 (28 papers; 1010 pages)

Zootaxa 124: 1-24 (20 December 2002) 17 plates; 17 references           Accepted: 11 December 2002
A new genus of flea beetles from the Greater Antilles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
A. S. KONSTANTINOV (USA)
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Zootaxa 121: 1-28 (16 December 2002) 34 references                         Accepted: 4 December 2002
Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) types in the Hope Entomological Collections, Oxford
C.L. STAINES (USA)
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Zootaxa 120: 1-12 (16 December 2002)  50 references                         Accepted: 2 December 2002
Nomenclatural and taxonomic notes on Agrilus ater (Linné), A. biguttatus (Fabricius) and A. subauratus Gebler (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae)
E. JENDEK (Slovakia)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 119: 1-68 (16 December 2002)  31 plates; 23 references         Accepted: 27 November 2002
The Beetle Family Carabidae of Costa Rica: Twenty-nine new species of Agra Fabricius 1801 (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina)
T.L. ERWIN (USA)
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Zootaxa 114: 1-24 (3 December 2002)  13 plates; 49 references          Accepted: 26 November 2002
A revision of Nearctic species of the genus Tropimenelytron Pace, 1983 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), a new genus for North America
V. I. GUSAROV (USA)
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Zootaxa 110: 1-12 (26 November 2002)  1 plate; 63 references            Accepted: 14 November 2002
The Mastogenius Solier, 1849 of North America (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Polycestinae: Haplostethini)
C.L. BELLAMY (USA)
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Zootaxa 92: 1-16 (5 November 2002)  7 plates; 29 references                 Accepted: 23 October 2002
A revision of Nearctic species of the genus Earota Mulsant & Rey, 1874 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
V.I. GUSAROV (USA)
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Zootaxa 90: 1-16 (31 October 2002)  6 plates; 5 references                     Accepted: 24 October 2002
Two new species of Eupholus Boisduval (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae) from West New Guinea, a discussion of their taxonomic characters, and notes on nomenclature
A. RIEDEL (Germany)
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Zootaxa 89: 1-32 (31 October 2002)  5 plates; 26 references                   Accepted: 17 October 2002
Nomenclatural notes and new species of Sceloenoplini (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)
C.L. STAINES (USA)
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Zootaxa 84: 1-8 (21 October 2002)  2 plates; 18 references                      Accepted: 10 October 2002
On the new status of Agrilus perisi Cobos, 1986 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
L. ARNÁIZ-RUIZ & P. BERCEDO-PÁRAMO (Sapin)
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Zootaxa 81: 1-88 (17 October 2002)  51 plates; 54 references                    Accepted: 7 October 2002
A revision of Nearctic species of the genus Geostiba Thomson, 1858 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
VLADIMIR I. GUSAROV (USA)
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Zootaxa 80: 1-94 (17 October 2002)  3 2 plates; 20 references            Accepted: 18 September 2002
The Dryophthoridae of Costa Rica and Panama: Checklist with keys, new synonymy and descriptions of new species of Cactophagus, Mesocordylus, Metamasius and Rhodobaenus (Coleoptera; Curculionoidea)
ROBERT S. ANDERSON (Canada)
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Zootaxa 77: 1-11 (11 October 2002)  39 references                                      Accepted: 1 October 2002
Nomenclatural and taxonomic notes on Agrilus cyanescens (Ratzeburg, 1837), A. pratensis (Ratzeburg, 1837) and A. convexicollis Redtenbacher, 1849 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae)
E. JENDEK (Slovakia)
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Zootaxa 69: 1-19 (20 September 2002) 11 plates; 108 references        Accepted: 13 September 2002
A revision of the genus Heinzia Korge, 1971 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Quediina), with description of a new species and itsprobable larva
V. I. GUSAROV (USA)  & A. G. KOVAL (Russia)
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Zootaxa 65: 1-304 (29 August 2002) 1 plate; 1150 references                      Accepted: 1 August 2002
A catalog of the Nicrophorinae (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of the world
D. S. SIKES (USA), R. B. MADGE (Canada) & A. F. NEWTON (USA)
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Zootaxa 63: 1-37 (22 August 2002) 49 references                                             Accepted: 23 July 2002
Addenda and corrigenda to ‘A World Catalogue of Families andGenera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera)’
M. A. ALONSO-ZARAZAGA (Spain) & C.H.C. LYAL (UK)
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Zootaxa 59: 1-26 (1 August 2002) 4 plates; 160 references                              Accepted: 19 July 2002
Review of the genus Dilophotes Waterhouse (Coleoptera: Lycidae) of the Palaearctic Region and Indochina
V. BIC (Czech Republic)
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Zootaxa 58: 1-9 (1 August 2002) 2 plates; 10 references                                  Accepted: 23 July 2002
New species and new records for the genus Nascioides Kerremans, 1903 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
G. WILLIAMS (Australia) & C.L. BELLAMY (USA)
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Zootaxa 57: 1-8 (1 August 2002) 26 references                                                 Accepted: 24 July 2002
Nomenclatural notes on Agrilus angustulus (Illiger, 1803) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae)
E. JENDEK (Slovakia)
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Zootaxa 52: 1-8 (19 July 2002) 28 references                                                    Accepted: 12 July 2002
Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on Agrilus suvorovi Obenberger (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae)
E. JENDEK (Slovakia)
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Zootaxa 43: 1-28  (21 June 2002) 4 plates; 25 references                                Accepted: 13 June 2002
A review of North and Central American Paragrilus Saunders, 1871 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae)
HENRY A. HESPENHEIDE (USA)
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Zootaxa 37: 1-24 (15 May 2002) 61 references                                                     Accepted: 3 May 2002
The Entomological Contributions of Josef Nissley Knull (1891-1975)
J.M. DAVIDSON & C.L. BELLAMY (USA)
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Zootaxa 34: 1-24 (10 May 2002) 16 plates; 19 references                               Accepted: 26 April 2002
A revision of the genus Microlia Casey, 1910 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Hoplandriini)
VLADIMIR I. GUSAROV (USA)
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Zootaxa 33: 1-6 (10 May 2002) 2 plates; 2 references                                     Accepted: 26 April 2002
Baezia vulcania sp. n., an endogeous weevil from La Palma I. (Canary Is.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae)
MIGUEL. A. ALONSO-ZARAZAGA  & RAFAEL GARCÍA (Spain)
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Zootaxa 32: 1-48 (8 May 2002) 1 plate; 21 references                                     Accepted: 25 April 2002
A checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of Panama
BRETT C. RATCLIFFE (USA)
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Zootaxa 30: 1-19 (24 April 2002) 8 plates; 27 references                                Accepted: 15 April 2002
A revision of Nearctic species of the genus Tomoglossa Kraatz, 1856 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
VLADIMIR I. GUSAROV (USA)
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Zootaxa 24: 1-6 (7 March 2002) 27 references                                          Accepted: 26 February 2002
Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on Agrilus salicis Frivaldszky (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae)
E. JENDEK (Slovakia)
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Zootaxa 21: 1-11 (11 February 2002) 2 plates; 16 references                   Accepted: 4 February 2002
Xantholinus dvoraki Coiffait, 1956, the only valid species of the subgenus Meneidophallus Bordoni, 1999, with remarkably variable internal sac of aedeagus (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)
VLADIMIR I. GUSAROV (USA)
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2001 (2 papers; 23 pages)

Zootaxa 16: 1-12 (14 December 2001) 2 plates; 11 references                 Accepted: 6 December 2001
Review of the genus Plateros Bourgeois (Coleoptera; Lycidae) from Sulawesi 
DAVID TVARDIK & LADISLAV BOCAK (Czech Republic)
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Zootaxa 13: 1-11 (22 November 2001) 3 plates; 8 references                  Accepted: 7 November 2001
Revision of the Agrilus plasoni species group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) 
EDUARD JENDEK  (Slovakia)
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