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Vol. 5533 No. 1

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Discoveries Unleashed: 153 New Beetle Species from China 2024-10-23

In a massive 813-page fully open-access special volume of Zootaxa published today, a team of 127 coleopterists from 48 institutions described 153 new species of beetles from China, with 105 of them collected from the Nanling Priority Area for Biodiversity Conservation (https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5528.1).

Zootaxa has 4730 documents for open access 2024-02-01
Mite Ontogeny Special volume 2023 2023-02-17

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Revision of the punctatus species-group of Dissomphalus Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae)
- CHIRLEI D. DE BRITO
- CELSO O. AZEVEDO
Published : 2024-11-05
Revisiting the taxonomy of Pseudotiphia villosa (Fabricius, 1793) and notes on another Pseudotiphia Ashmead, 1903 species (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Tiphiinae)
- M. BONI BARTALUCCI
Published : 2024-11-05
Six new species of the genus Meleonoma Meyrick, 1914 (Lepidoptera: Autostichidae) from China
- XIAOJU ZHU
- SHUXIA WANG
Published : 2024-11-05
Trichomyia Haliday in Curtis (Diptera: Psychodidae) from southern Brazil: four new species and seven new records
- LUCAS ROSSITO
- ANDREY J. ANDRADE
- LUIZ CARLOS PINHO
Published : 2024-11-05
A survey of the Sumatran Ctenidae (Araneae). 4. A new species of Acantheis Thorell, 1891 with unique copulatory organs morphology
- ALEXANDER A. FOMICHEV
- MIKHAIL M. OMELKO
- YURI M. MARUSIK
Published : 2024-11-05
Dentispicotermes trapezia (Isoptera: Termitidae: Amitermitinae), a new termite species from the Pantanal-Chaco Region of South America
- RUDOLF H. SCHEFFRAHN
Published : 2024-11-05
The millipede genus Skleroprotopus Attems, 1901 (Diplopoda, Julida, Mongoliulidae) in China, with description of a new species
- ELENA V. MIKHALJOVA
- VITALY M. KAZARIN
- YURY M. MARUSIK
Published : 2024-11-05
Range extension of the Mexican-endemic killifish Profundulus chimalapensis (Cyprinodontiformes: Profundulidae), with comments on its phylogenetic placement and possible intergeneric hybridization with Tlaloc Álvarez & Carranza 1951
- JAIRO ARROYAVE
- SONIA GABRIELA HERNÁNDEZ-ÁVILA
- MANUEL MATUS-MARTÍNEZ
- WILFREDO A. MATAMOROS
Published : 2024-11-05

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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
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
A new subfamily of ulmarid scyphomedusae, the Santjordiinae, with a description of Santjordia pagesi gen. et sp. nov. (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa: Discomedusae: Semaeostomeae: Ulmaridae) from the Sumisu Caldera, Ogasawara Islands, Japan
- DHUGAL JOHN LINDSAY
- MARY MATILDA GROSSMANN
- JAVIER MONTENEGRO
- ANDRÉ CARRARA MORANDINI
Published : 2023-11-20
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
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
A revision of the genus Ima Tindale (Mantodea: Nanomantidae: Fulciniinae) with the description of a new genus
- MATTHEW G. CONNORS
- PETER YEELES
- LORI LACH
- DAVID C.F. RENTZ
Published : 2023-11-30
A new miniaturized species of leaf chameleon, genus Brookesia, from a littoral forest fragment in eastern Madagascar
- ANDOLALAO RAKOTOARISON
- ALIDA FRANKLINE HASINIAINA
- FRANK GLAW
- MIGUEL VENCES
Published : 2024-09-10

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Announcements

Discoveries Unleashed: 153 New Beetle Species from China 2024-10-23

Zootaxa has 4730 documents for open access 2024-02-01

Mite Ontogeny Special volume 2023 2023-02-17

latest

**Revision of the punctatus species-group of Dissomphalus Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae)**

**Revisiting the taxonomy of Pseudotiphia villosa (Fabricius, 1793) and notes on another Pseudotiphia Ashmead, 1903 species (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Tiphiinae)**

**Six new species of the genus Meleonoma Meyrick, 1914 (Lepidoptera: Autostichidae) from China**

Trichomyia Haliday in Curtis (Diptera: Psychodidae) from southern Brazil: four new species and seven new records

**A survey of the Sumatran Ctenidae (Araneae). 4. A new species of Acantheis Thorell, 1891 with unique copulatory organs morphology**

Dentispicotermes trapezia (Isoptera: Termitidae: Amitermitinae), a new termite species from the Pantanal-Chaco Region of South America

**The millipede genus Skleroprotopus Attems, 1901 (Diplopoda, Julida, Mongoliulidae) in China, with description of a new species**

Range extension of the Mexican-endemic killifish Profundulus chimalapensis (Cyprinodontiformes: Profundulidae), with comments on its phylogenetic placement and possible intergeneric hybridization with Tlaloc Álvarez & Carranza 1951

most viewed

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

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

A new subfamily of ulmarid scyphomedusae, the Santjordiinae, with a description of Santjordia pagesi gen. et sp. nov. (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa: Discomedusae: Semaeostomeae: Ulmaridae) from the Sumisu Caldera, Ogasawara Islands, Japan

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)

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)

**A revision of the genus Ima Tindale (Mantodea: Nanomantidae: Fulciniinae) with the description of a new genus**

**A new miniaturized species of leaf chameleon, genus Brookesia, from a littoral forest fragment in eastern Madagascar**

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