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{"title":"Atlas of Australasian hormurid scorpions. I. The genus Hormurus Thorell, 1876 in Papua New Guinea. Exceptional morphological diversity in male and female copulatory structures suggests genital coevolution","authors":"L. Monod, Christina Lehmann-Graber, Christopher C. Austin, Bulisa Iova, L. Prendini","doi":"10.35929/RSZ.0111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0111","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: New Guinea is the largest Pacific island, and the world's second largest, with a land area of about 785,000 km2. Located north of Australia, the island was gradually shaped since the Eocene by the geologically recent sequential accretion of several island arc systems onto the northern part of the Australian Craton. This complex geological history has resulted in a tremendous biological diversity with high rates of endemism. On the other hand, the rugged mountainous landscape and lack of infrastructure has hampered scientific research in the country and for the most part Papuan biotas remain thus far only superficially known. This is the case for scorpions of the genus Hormurus Thorell, 1876 (Hormuridae Laurie, 1896; Scorpiones C. L. Koch, 1837). Although they are the dominant scorpion group in Wallacea and Melanesia, only two species are currently recognized from New Guinea and its adjacent islands. A thorough revisionary study of the Hormurus material present in the scientific collections of various museums and of a large series of specimens more recently collected led to the discovery of 16 new species, i.e. Hormurus ancylolobus Monod & Prendini, sp. nov.; Hormurus araiaspathe Monod & Prendini, sp. nov.; Hormurus barai Monod, Iova & Prendini, sp. nov.; Hormurus cameroni Monod, Austin & Prendini, sp. nov.; Hormurus hypseloscolus Monod & Prendini, sp. nov.; Hormurus krausi Monod & Prendini, sp. nov.; Hormurus maiwa Monod & Prendini, sp. nov.; Hormurus menapi Monod & Prendini, sp. nov.; Hormurus muyua Monod & Prendini, sp. nov.; Hormurus oyatabu Monod & Prendini, sp. nov.; Hormurus oyawaka Monod & Prendini, sp. nov.; Hormurus sibonai Monod & Prendini, sp. nov.; Hormurus slapcinskyi Monod & Prendini, sp. nov.; Hormurus sporacanthophorus Monod & Prendini, sp. nov.; Hormurus tagula Monod & Prendini, sp. nov.; Hormurus yela Monod & Prendini, sp. nov. Fully illustrated descriptions of these new taxa are presented in the present contribution, as well as a redescription of Hormurus papuanus Kraepelin, 1914. Hormurus species are characterized by relatively few diagnostic external characters which hampers species differentiation. However, the unusual interspecific diversity of hemispermatophores observed in Papuan taxa partially alleviate this issue and enable reliable species discrimination. The position of the laminar hook is particularly variable and is correlated with the elongation of the female genital operculum which also shows an atypical diversity for the genus. This interdependence strongly suggests genital coevolution driven by a lock-and-key mechanism. This would be the first such case reported for the order Scorpiones Koch, 1837. Multivariate and geometric morphometric analyses were carried out to visually emphasize subtle interspecific differences in external morphology and hemispermatophore morphology. Additionally, the correlation between hemispermatophore laminar hook position and shape of the female genital operculum was assesse","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139278473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Estimates of global biodiversity and costs of biodiversity research revisited, with a review of Sabah Scaphisoma Leach and descriptions of 56 new species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scaphidiinae)","authors":"Ivan Löbl","doi":"10.35929/rsz.0097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/rsz.0097","url":null,"abstract":"Estimates of species richness and of costs of descriptions are popular, in disregard of their divergences and uncertainty. A review of the Sabah, Malaysia species of Scaphisoma provides hard data that question these estimates and highlight incongruities impacting studies of faunal richness. The present review is based on extensive collections that yielded the following 56 species described below as new: S. adami sp. nov., S. affectuosum sp. nov., S. affluens sp. nov., S. alesi sp. nov., S. alternum sp. nov., S. amicale sp. nov., S. ancoroides sp. nov., S. assingi sp. nov., S. atavum sp. nov., S. bihamatum sp. nov., S. brevistyle sp. nov., S. burckhardti sp. nov., S. caudatulum sp. nov., S. ciampori sp. nov., S. constrictum sp. nov., S. cornutum sp. nov., S. crassum sp. nov., S. cursitor sp. nov., S. danum sp. nov., S. dichroum sp. nov., S. distortum sp. nov., S. ernsti sp. nov., S. immotum sp. nov., S. jankoi sp. nov., S. kalabitoides sp. nov., S. kecil sp. nov., S. keciloides sp. nov., S. klausnitzeri sp. nov., S. lescheni sp. nov., S. majale sp. nov., S. makar sp. nov., S. makkul sp. nov., S. malam sp. nov., S. malaysianum sp. nov., S. mediale sp. nov., S. melas sp. nov., S. memar sp. nov., S. meritum sp. nov., S. mirandoides sp. nov., S. mujur sp. nov., S. newtoni sp. nov., S. obsoletum sp. nov., S. omissum sp. nov., S. onerosum sp. nov., S. oxurum sp. nov., S. pallidulum sp. nov., S. panas sp. nov., S. parakalabitum sp. nov., S. paratrox sp. nov., S. pennatum sp. nov., S. placibile sp. nov., S. ruficoloroides sp. nov., S. setifer sp. nov., S. setigerum sp. nov., S. setosum sp. nov., S. tajam sp. nov., S. wagneri sp. nov. Scaphisoma laminatum Löbl, 1972 is placed in synonymy of Scaphisoma malaccanum (Pic, 1915a). Scaphisoma rufipenne (Pic, 1916b), described from “Borneo” though coming from Banggi Island, is fixed by lectotype designation and is placed in synonymy of S. ruficolle (Pic, 1915b). The species is redescribed. The aedeagus of S. lineatopunctatum (Pic, 1916b) is illustrated for the first time. Fourteen species are reported from Sabah for the first time: S. caudatoides Löbl & Ogawa, 2016, S. chujoi Löbl, 1982, S. complicans Löbl, 1982, S. jacobsoni Löbl, 1975, S. javanum Löbl, 1979, S. luteomaculatum Pic, 1915, S. malaccanum (Pic, 1915), S. malayanum Löbl, 1986, S. mindanaosum Pic, 1926, S. nigrum Löbl, 1986, S. obliquemaculatum Motschulsky, 1863, S. quadrimaculatum Pic, 1922, S. solutum Löbl, 1990, and S. surigaosum (Pic, 1926). A key to the Sabah species of Scaphisoma and a checklist of the Bornean Scaphidiinae are also provided.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135883885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Additions to the knowledge of South Indian Scaphisomatini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scaphidiinae)","authors":"Ivan Löbl, Vivien Cosandey","doi":"10.35929/rsz.0106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/rsz.0106","url":null,"abstract":"A study of a collection of South Indian Scaphidiinae yielded six new species and several interesting records. The following species are described: Scaphisoma boukali sp. nov., S. divali sp. nov., S. holi sp. nov., S. kejvali sp. nov., S. onam sp. nov. and S. pooram sp. nov. Scaphobaeocera stipes Löbl, 1971 is reported from India for the first time. An updated key to identification of South Indian species of Scaphisoma is provided.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135883018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Himachalus pradeshicus, an unusual new harvestman genus and species from the Indian Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh (Arachnida, Opiliones, Phalangiidae)","authors":"Jochen Martens, Jatinder M. Julka, Shivani Devi","doi":"10.35929/rsz.0101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/rsz.0101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135883013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reconsideration of the actual type locality of the lesser Japanese shrew-mole, Dymecodon pilirostris","authors":"Masahiro A. Iwasa, Kuniko Kawai","doi":"10.35929/rsz.0100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/rsz.0100","url":null,"abstract":"In the original description of the lesser Japanese shrew-mole, Dymecodon pilirostris, by True (1886), its type locality is described as “Yenosima, at the mouth of the Bay of Yeddo, Japan.” Yenoshima is the current Enoshima, a small island located not in Tokyo Bay (the Bay of Yeddo) but in the mouth of Sagami Bay facing the Pacific Ocean, Kanagawa Prefecture, in eastern Honshu, Japan. The type locality has been considered to be doubtful because Enoshima is not included in D. pilirostris' distribution, which mainly consists of rocky terrain in mountainous areas. In this paper, we tried to elucidate the cause of the error of the type locality and the actual type locality based on travels of Edward S. Morse who brought the type specimen to the United States. On the basis of his activities during his first stay in Japan before the relegation of the specimen from the Boston Museum of Natural History to the National Museum of Natural History in 1878, we can see that, on most days, he stayed in Tokyo and its neighboring areas, which lay outside the distribution of D. pilirostris. On the other hand, he once went to collect invertebrates in a location that is included in mountainous area – Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Honshu. If he obtained the shrew-mole himself, the type locality is likely not Enoshima but Nikko. Here, we suggest that the type locality of D. pilirostris should be corrected from “Enoshima” to “Nikko”, according to the recommendation 76A.2 in the article 76 of ICZN.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135884458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Estimation of demographic fluctuations within a reproductive roost of Pipistrellus kuhlii inferred from capture-mark-recapture data","authors":"Alessandro Lago, Raffaella Molteni, Roberto Toffoli, Andrea G. Locatelli","doi":"10.35929/rsz.0096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/rsz.0096","url":null,"abstract":"Despite bats representing one fifth of all mammals, little is known about the ecology and the population status for many species belonging to this order. This is often a consequence of our poor knowledge of population densities and demographic parameters, bats being typically elusive subjects for ecological studies. Capture-mark-recapture studies provide important demographic and ecological data to fill up this information gap. In this study, we monitored animals and gathered data over five years from a reproductive roost of Kuhl's pipistrelle (Pipistrellus kuhlii Kuhl, 1817) located in a Natura 2000 site in north-west Italy. One-hundred-thirty-three individuals were captured and demographic parameters collected, including the annual survival probability for both young and adults, the recapture rates for different sex and age cohorts and the adult population size trend. The influence of environmental variables on the population was also assessed, highlighting the relevant impact of winter temperatures and spring rainfalls on individual survival ability. Notably, our study provides for the first time an estimation of the survival rate of adult females of Kuhl's pipistrelle, a crucial information for future design of studies related to this species' ecology and for informing conservation efforts.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135884916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A revision of the “Valeria” dilutiapicata Filipjev, 1927 species complex, with the description of new genus Ciboisia and a new species from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Psaphidini)","authors":"Gábor Ronkay, László Ronkay, Oleg Pekarsky","doi":"10.35929/rsz.0107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/rsz.0107","url":null,"abstract":"The “Valeria” dilutiapicata Filipjev species complex is revised and the new genus Ciboisia gen. n. is established for this enigmatic psaphidine group. Euplexia splendida Sugi, 1958 is transferred to Ciboisia and its taxonomic rank is clarified as a species distinct from C. dilutiapicata. A third species, C. vidlickai sp. n. from China, Shaanxi, is described. The moth and the genitalia of both sexes are illustrated for the three species.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135883014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A review of the genus Eremohadena Ronkay, Varga & Fábián, 1995 subgenus Megahadena Ronkay, Varga & Gyulai, 2002 with description of a new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Xyleninae)","authors":"Gábor Ronkay, László Ronkay, Bernard Landry","doi":"10.35929/rsz.0110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/rsz.0110","url":null,"abstract":"The subgenus Megahadena Ronkay, Varga & Gyulai, 2002 of Eremohadena Ronkay, Varga & Fábián, 1995 is revised and a new species, E. (M.) peterschucherti sp. nov. from Pakistan, Baltistan, is described. The adults and the genitalia of both sexes are illustrated for all three species: E. (M.) rjabovi (Boursin, 1970), E. (M.) megaptera (Boursin, 1970), and the new species.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135885207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Two new species of Lederina Nikitsky & Belov, 1982 (Coleoptera: Melandryidae: Melandryinae) from Yunnan, China","authors":"Vivien Cosandey","doi":"10.35929/rsz.0105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/rsz.0105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135883017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An annotated list of the flea taxa (Insecta: Siphonaptera) described by Fritz Peus, with an account of the holdings of the Peus collection of the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève","authors":"John Hollier","doi":"10.35929/rsz.0095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/rsz.0095","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135884597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}