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Vol. 5579 No. 1

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Announcements

Special volume celebrating 80th birthday of Dr. Luis F. de Armas 2025-01-04

Published today is a special volume celebrating Dr. Luis F. de Armas on the occasion of his 80th birthday, which is edited by ABEL PÉREZ-GONZÁLEZ, LUIS E. ACOSTA, DANIEL N. PROUD & IVAN L.F. MAGALHÃES.

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5563.1

Special volume on fossil insects (open access) 2024-12-31
Special volume on tropical fish diversity published (with 29 new species) 2024-12-10
Over 5000 documents for open access! 2024-11-14

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Predatory thrips in action: Scolothrips sexmaculatus (Pergande) and Scolothrips tenuipennis zur Strassen, 1965 (Thripidae) feeding on Tetranychus urticae (Acari) in Brazil
- ADRIANO CAVALLERI
- PATRICIA SANTOS DE CASTRO FERNANDEZ
- ALEXANDRE JACINTHO TEIXEIRA
- THIAGO SAMPAIO DE SOUZA
- ELEN DE LIMA AGUIAR-MENEZES
Published : 2025-02-03
Revisiting the genus Diplodoma Zeller, 1852 in Europe: DNA barcoding reveals the presence of an undescribed species from forested habitats of southern Italy (Lepidoptera: Psychidae)
- SARA LA CAVA
- GIUSEPPE RIJLLO
- GIADA ZUCCO
- STEFANO SCALERCIO
Published : 2025-02-03
Two new species of the genus Thalerosphyrus Eaton, 1881 (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae: Ecdyonurinae) from India
- M. VASANTH
- T. KUBENDRAN
- K.A. SUBRAMANIAN
- R. BABU
Published : 2025-02-03
A new species of the alpheid shrimp genus Athanas Leach, 1814 (Decapoda: Caridea) from Japan, and additional record of Athanas exilis Komai & Henmi, 2023, clarifying male characteristics
- TOMOYUKI KOMAI
- YUMI HENMI
Published : 2025-02-03
Spaghetti worms from the reef: two new species of Loimia (Polychaeta: Terebellidae) from Bora-Bora and Moorea (Society Islands, French Polynesia) and a range extension of L. tuberculata Nogueira, Hutchings & Carrerette, 2015
- PAT HUTCHINGS
- GUILLEMINE DAFFE
- CHRISTOPHER GLASBY
- NICOLAS LAVESQUE
Published : 2025-02-03
A new tuberculate house gecko species (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Hemidactylus) from the northern Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India
- AMIT SAYYED
- RAHUL KHOT
- JAYADITYA PURKAYASTHA
Published : 2025-02-03
Review of Thaumatographa tortricids in Taiwan (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Chlidanotinae: Hilarographini)
- J. B. HEPPNER
- YUTAKA ARITA
- YANG-SEOP BAE
Published : 2025-02-03
Chasing the Rainbow: Decoupled phenotypic and genotypic evolution in New Guinea’s rainbow skinks (Squamata: Scincidae)
- TAYLOR PROBST
- PAUL B. FRANDSEN
- ALISON WHITING
Published : 2025-02-03

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Sphyrna alleni sp. nov., a new hammerhead shark (Carcharhiniformes, Sphyrnidae) from the Caribbean and the Southwest Atlantic.
- CINDY GONZALEZ
- BAUTISSE POSTAIRE
- WILLIAM DRIGGERS
- SUSANA CABALLERO
- DEMIAN CHAPMAN
Published : 2024-09-23
New species, new synonymy, taxonomic notes and new records of bark and ambrosia beetles from the southwestern United States and northern Mexico (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae and Scolytinae)
- THOMAS H. ATKINSON
Published : 2024-03-13
Taxonomy of Iranian Asaccus (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) with description of a new species from southern Iran
- ROMAN A. NAZAROV
- HOSSEIN NABIZADEH
- MEHDI RAJABIZADEH
- DANIEL A. MELNIKOV
- VALENTINA R. VOLKOVA
- NIKOLAY A. POYARKOV
- ESKANDAR RASTEGAR-POUYANI
Published : 2024-09-26
Akarotaxis gouldae, a new species of Antarctic dragonfish (Notothenioidei: Bathydraconidae) from the western Antarctic Peninsula
- ANDREW D. CORSO
- THOMAS DESVIGNES
- JAN R. MCDOWELL
- CHI-HING CHRISTINA CHENG
- ELLEN E. BIESACK
- DEBORAH K. STEINBERG
- ERIC J. HILTON
Published : 2024-08-30
The nomenclatural status of “Anoplophallus maculatus” Cope, 1895, its consequences on the systematics of Lycodon subcinctus auctorum, and the description of a new species (Squamata: Colubridae)
- TAN VAN NGUYEN
- JUSTIN L. LEE
- OLIVIER S. G. PAUWELS
- STEVIE R. KENNEDY-GOLD
- NIKOLAY A. POYARKOV
- PATRICK DAVID
- GERNOT VOGEL
Published : 2024-10-10
A new species of giant gecko of the genus Rhacodactylus from New Caledonia (Squamata, Gekkota, Diplodactylidae)
- GUNTHER KÖHLER
- JOACHIM SAMEIT
- ROBERT SEIPP
- KATHARINA GEISS
Published : 2024-11-18
Two new species of the sponge associated axiid shrimp genus Eiconaxius Bate, 1888 (Decapoda: Axiidea) from seamounts in the Nishi-Shichito Ridge, Japan
- TOMOYUKI KOMAI
- SHINJI TSUCHIDA
- YOSHIHIRO FUJIWARA
Published : 2024-11-11
Two new species of Boaedon from Ethiopia and Somalia, with a review of the species of East Africa
- JAKOB HALLERMANN
- OLIVER HAWLITSCHEK
Published : 2025-01-13

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Announcements

Special volume celebrating 80th birthday of Dr. Luis F. de Armas 2025-01-04

Special volume on fossil insects (open access) 2024-12-31

Special volume on tropical fish diversity published (with 29 new species) 2024-12-10

Over 5000 documents for open access! 2024-11-14

latest

**Predatory thrips in action: Scolothrips sexmaculatus (Pergande) and Scolothrips tenuipennis zur Strassen, 1965 (Thripidae) feeding on Tetranychus urticae (Acari) in Brazil**

**Revisiting the genus Diplodoma Zeller, 1852 in Europe: DNA barcoding reveals the presence of an undescribed species from forested habitats of southern Italy (Lepidoptera: Psychidae)**

**Two new species of the genus Thalerosphyrus Eaton, 1881 (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae: Ecdyonurinae) from India**

**A new species of the alpheid shrimp genus Athanas Leach, 1814 (Decapoda: Caridea) from Japan, and additional record of Athanas exilis Komai & Henmi, 2023, clarifying male characteristics**

Spaghetti worms from the reef: two new species of Loimia (Polychaeta: Terebellidae) from Bora-Bora and Moorea (Society Islands, French Polynesia) and a range extension of L. tuberculata Nogueira, Hutchings & Carrerette, 2015

**A new tuberculate house gecko species (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Hemidactylus) from the northern Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India**

**Review of Thaumatographa tortricids in Taiwan (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Chlidanotinae: Hilarographini)**

Chasing the Rainbow: Decoupled phenotypic and genotypic evolution in New Guinea’s rainbow skinks (Squamata: Scincidae)

most viewed

Sphyrna alleni sp. nov., a new hammerhead shark (Carcharhiniformes, Sphyrnidae) from the Caribbean and the Southwest Atlantic.

New species, new synonymy, taxonomic notes and new records of bark and ambrosia beetles from the southwestern United States and northern Mexico (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae and Scolytinae)

**Taxonomy of Iranian Asaccus (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) with description of a new species from southern Iran**

Akarotaxis gouldae, a new species of Antarctic dragonfish (Notothenioidei: Bathydraconidae) from the western Antarctic Peninsula

The nomenclatural status of “Anoplophallus maculatus” Cope, 1895, its consequences on the systematics of Lycodon subcinctus auctorum, and the description of a new species (Squamata: Colubridae)

**A new species of giant gecko of the genus Rhacodactylus from New Caledonia (Squamata, Gekkota, Diplodactylidae)**

**Two new species of the sponge associated axiid shrimp genus Eiconaxius Bate, 1888 (Decapoda: Axiidea) from seamounts in the Nishi-Shichito Ridge, Japan**

**Two new species of Boaedon from Ethiopia and Somalia, with a review of the species of East Africa**

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