(2019). End of the road. Systematics and Biodiversity: Vol. 17, No. 8, pp. 729-730.

The braconid subfamily Doryctinae is a cosmopolitan, highly diverse group of wasps mainly represented by parasitoid species. In this subfamily, however, there is a group of mainly Neotropical genera whose species are associated with galls of several vascular plant families. Previous molecular phylogenetic studies based on a few markers consistently recovered the monophyly of this group, though various

Despite their familiarity to most naturalists, the large rove beetles of the subtribe Staphylinina are poorly understood systematically and have never been the subject of a focused phylogenetic analysis. Within a total evidence analytical framework, an unusual Staphylinina from China was demonstrated to be the sister group of Ontholestes and was described as Lesonthotes vulneratus Smetana and Brunke

The transition zones between and within biogeographic realms are a topical issue. Long ascribed to eastern Palaearctic, Iran was recently proposed as entirely pertaining to its western counterpart (featuring the ´Great Western Palaearctic`). Molecular and phenotypic information from polytypic taxa may help untangle the bioclimatic and environmental dynamics that shaped faunal distributions. In this

Many cnidarians have been reported in association with hermit crabs from shallow waters to the deep sea. Some of these actiniarians and zoantharians produce a carcinoecium, a chitin-like pseudo-shell. Many studies have been conducted on hermit crab–actiniarian symbioses, while hermit crab–zoantharian symbioses have received less attention due to the difficulty of specimen collection as they are exclusively

Aloricate oligotrich ciliates are important components of marine microplankton. This paper summarizes the results of several biodiversity and faunal studies on this group in typical coastal habitats of southern China that were carried out from 2006 to 2016. The main findings are as follows: (1) a total of 39 species belonging to 17 genera, seven families and four orders of aloricate oligotrich (s.

The taxonomy of the Paeonia mascula group in the Tyrrhenian Islands has always been controversial, especially in Sardinia and Corsica. In this paper, 124 morpho-colorimetric quantitative and qualitative features of seeds of the Paeonia mascula group from the Balearic Islands, Corsica, Sicily, and Sardinia were measured by an image analysis system to evaluate whether differences in seed morphology were

Green algal species of spherical cell shape are generally considered to belong to the genus Chlorella, which are mostly freshwater or terrestrial organisms. Phylogenetic studies have shown that this genus is polyphyletic and belongs to different classes. However, until now, only freshwater or terrestrial strains have been studied. Here we investigated 11 strains of ‘marine’ Chlorella deposited in public

(2019). Reviewer Acknowledgements. Systematics and Biodiversity: Vol. 17, No. 8, pp. 830-831.

The Stilbonematinae are a monophyletic group of marine nematodes that are characterized by a coat of thiotrophic bacterial symbionts. Among the ten known genera of the Stilbonematinae, the genus Robbea Gerlach 1956 had a problematic taxonomic history of synonymizations and indications of polyphyletic origin. Here we describe three new species of the genus, R. hypermnestra sp. nov., R. ruetzleri sp