Insects: Coleoptera; Lepidoptera; Diptera; Hymenoptera; Odonata; Neuroptera

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Zootaxa 1985: 1-20 (21 Jan. 2009) 6 plates; 35 references                             Accepted: 1 Dec. 2008
The phylogeny of Opoptera butterflies, and an assessment of the systematic position of O. staudingeri (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae)
CARLA M. PENZ (USA)
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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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Zootaxa 1985: 34-42 (21 Jan. 2009) 3 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 4 Dec. 2008
Pheidole bilimeki Reconsidered (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
JOHN T. LONGINO & DANIEL J. COX (USA)
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Zootaxa 1985: 43-51 (21 Jan. 2009) 4 plates; 29 references                            Accepted: 15 Dec. 2008
Four new species of Nanocladius Kieffer from Oriental China (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae)
YUE FU & XINHUA WANG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1985: 52-56 (21 Jan. 2009) 5 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 15 Dec. 2008
The oldest Calopterygidae in the Eocene Baltic amber (Odonata: Zygoptera)
GÜNTHER FLECK (France), ALAIN WALLER (France), JACEK SERAFIN (Poland) & ANDRÉ NEL (France)
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Zootaxa 1985: 57-62 (21 Jan. 2009) 4 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 3 Dec. 2008
Two new species of Parosmylus Needham (Neuroptera, Osmylidae) from China, with a key to Chinese species
YONGJIE WANG & ZHIQI LIU (P.R. China)
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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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