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First record of the myrmicine ant genus Meranoplus Smith, 1853 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Arabian Peninsula with description of a new species and notes on the zoogeography of southwestern Kingdom of [corrected] Saudi Arabia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The ant genus Meranoplus is reported for the first time from the Arabian Peninsula (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) by the new species M. pulcher sp. n., based on the worker caste.
Mostafa R Sharaf +2 more
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Description of Perithreticus neglectus sp. n. from the West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania (Diptera, Psychodidae) [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022 The Psychodinae of the Afrotropical Region remain poorly understood. Slightly under 200 species have been described, but many countries have received very little attention from collectors and even countries where significant collection efforts have taken
Gunnar Kvifte
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Five new records of bee flies (Bombyliidae, Diptera) from Saudi Arabia with zoogeographical remarks
ZooKeys, 2015 Five bee-fly species (Bombyliidae, Diptera) have been listed in this paper as new to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Four of the recorded species have been identified to the level of species, namely: Bombomyia discoidea (Fabricius, 1794), Spogostylum ...
Magdi El-Hawagry, Hathal Al Dhafer
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European Journal of Taxonomy, 2023 Ten new species of Thinophilus Wahlberg, 1844 from the Afrotropical region are described and illustrated: T. saegeri sp. nov. from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, T. medvedevi sp. nov., T. longicercus sp. nov., T. cataractae sp. nov.
Igor Ya. Grichanov
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Two new Thiratoscirtus species from Gabon (Araneae, Salticidae, Thiratoscirtinae)
European Journal of Taxonomy, 2015 Two new species of jumping spiders, Thiratoscirtus oberleuthneri (♂) and Th. lamboji (♀), are described from Gabon, one of the least explored areas of the Afrotropics. Both species live in rainforest, at the forest floor.
Michael Seiter, Wanda Wesolowska
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Insects, 2020 Three new species of Rhinophoridae (Aporeomyia elaphocerasp. nov., Baniassa pennatasp. nov. from the Oriental Region, and Phyto mambillasp. nov. from the Afrotropical Region) are described, illustrated and compared with congeners. Genus-level affiliation
Silvia Gisondi +3 more
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European Journal of Taxonomy, 2021 Simulium (Trichodagmia) Enderlein, 1934 has an unstable classification system. The broader concept of the subgenus includes five species-groups resulting from an extensive history of synonymisations, often outside of a phylogenetic framework.
Óscar S. Molina +1 more
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ZooKeys, 2015 Four new Afrotropical species of the ant genus Temnothorax are described and illustrated, all from Kenya. Based upon high resemblance to taxa known from the North African and Iberian territories of the Mediterranean region, these new tropical elements ...
Matthew Prebus
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Afrotropical Centistidea Rohwer, 1914 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) with description of four new species [PDF]
ZooKeysThe braconid parasitoid wasp genus Centistidea Rohwer, 1914 is revised for the Afrotropical region, with four new species described; Centistidea areolaris Liu & Polaszek, sp. nov., C. linearis Liu & Polaszek, sp. nov., C.
Zhen Liu, Andrew Polaszek
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The Afrotropical species of Habritella Girault & Dodd (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)
European Journal of Taxonomy, 2022 The previously endemic Australian genus Habritella Girault & Dodd, 1915 is reported for the first time in the Afrotropical region with four new species: H. africana sp. nov., H. mandibulata sp. nov., H. noyesi sp. nov., and H. viridifrons sp. nov.
Mircea-Dan Mitroiu
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