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The first record of the genus Belenois (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) from China Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Si-Xun Ge; Shao-Ji Hu; Hong-Liang Shi; Feng-Ying Han; Ming-Jun Li; Li-Li Ren
Background The family Pieridae is a large group of butterflies which plays an important role in evolutionary biology and contains many potential pests (Courtney 1986). Pieridae is a cosmopolitan family while the tropics harbour higher species richness. In a very recent expedition to the Chinese-Indian border area in Tibet Autonomous Region, a migratory species, Belenois aurota (Fabricius, 1793), was
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Additions to Italian Pleosporinae, including Italica heraclei sp. nov. Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Subodini Wijesinghe; Yong Wang; Laura Zucconi; Monika Dayarathne; Saranyaphat Boonmee; Erio Camporesi; Dhanushka N. Wanasinghe; Kevin D. Hyde
Background In the last few years, many microfungi—including plant-associated species—have been reported from various habitats and substrates in Italy. In this study of pleosporalean fungi, we researched terrestrial habitats in the Provinces of Arezzo (Tuscany region), Forlì-Cesena and Ravenna (Emilia-Romagna region) in Italy. New information Our research on Italian pleosporalean fungi resulted in the
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First report of the bat fly species Basilia italica in Romania Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Áron Péter; Andrei Mihalca; Attila Sándor
Bat flies are haematophagous ectoparasites, highly specialised to bats and are also considered to have vectorial potential for several pathogens like Bartonella spp. or Polychromophilus spp. In Romania, past studies mostly focused on the ectoparasitic fauna of cave-dwelling bats, listing the occurrence of 10 bat fly species in the country, with only scarce information on bat flies infesting crevice-roosting
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The effect of edaphic factors on the distribution and abundance of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Iran Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 Mohammad Reza Mohseni; Shahrokh Pashaei Rad
The current study is aimed at investigating the effect of edaphic factors on the distribution and abundance of ants in different habitats of the central areas of Iran, while considering the vegetation. During 2018 to 2019, 20 stations from four habitats, including deserts, mountainous and submontane, plains and rural areas and urban areas, were selected. In general, a total of 311 sample units were
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Distribution of wild bee (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) and hoverfly (Diptera: Syrphidae) communities within farms undergoing ecological transition Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2021-01-14 Grégoire Noel; Julie Bonnet; Sylvain Everaerts; Anouk Danel; Alix Calderan; Alexis de Liedekerke; Clotilde de Montpellier d'Annevoie; Frédéric Francis; Laurent Serteyn
Background In Havelange (Belgium), two farms are experiencing an ecological transition. We aimed to evaluate the impact of their agricultural activities on insect pollinator communities. This article depicts the situation at the very early stage of the farm transition. This study supports the fact that the maintenance of farm-level natural habitats provides environmental benefits, such as the conservation
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The family Conopidae (Diptera) in Egypt and Saudi Arabia Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2021-01-13 Magdi El-Hawagry; Ahmed Soliman; Hathal Al Dhafer
Background The present study is one in a series of planned studies aiming to catalogue the whole order Diptera in both Egypt and Saudi Arabia. New information All known Egyptian and Saudi Arabian conopid taxa are systematically catalogued in the present study. Three species are recorded herein for the first time from Saudi Arabia: Conops (Asiconops) elegans Meigen, 1804 and Thecophora atra (Fabricius
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Hydraena (s.str.) dinarica, new species (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) along with further records of Hydraena spp. from Durmitor National Park, Montenegro and comments on the DNA barcoding problem with the genus Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2021-01-12 Hendrik Freitag; Rick de Vries; Marta Paterno; Simone Maestri; Massimo Delledonne; Cameron Thompson; Helena Lamed; Rebekah Lambert; Michael Fox; Mariela Gonzalez; Emmanuel Delocado; Marc Sabordo; Clister Pangantihon; Iva Njunjić
Background Long-palped Water Beetles were collected during a taxon expedition in Montenegro which involved citizen scientists, students and taxonomists. The material was collected from springs, brooks, fens and the Tara River, at altitudes between 600 m and 1450 m above sea level, using fine-meshed hand-nets and by manual checking of submerged substrates. The morphological species delimitation was
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Lasiodiplodia syzygii sp. nov. (Botryosphaeriaceae) causing post-harvest water-soaked brown lesions on Syzygium samarangense in Chiang Rai, Thailand Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2021-01-07 Chao-Rong Meng; Qian Zhang; Zai-Fu Yang; Kun Geng; Xiang-Yu Zeng; K. Thilini Chethana; Yong Wang
Background Syzygium samarangense (Wax apple) is an important tropical fruit tree with high economic and nutrient value and is widely planted in the tropics or subtropics of Asia. Post-harvest water-soaked brown lesions were observed on mature fruits of ornamental wax apples in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand. A fungus with morphological characters, similar to Lasiodiplodia, was consistently isolated
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One new species and one new record of Zasmidium in China Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2021-01-07 Yuan-Yan An; Xiang-Yu Zeng; Kun Geng; Kevin Hyde; Yong Wang
Background Two hyphomycetous species were collected from leaves of Smilax china (Liliales, Smilacaceae) and Cremastra appendiculata (Asparagales, Orchidaceae). ITS barcoding indicated that they belong to the genus Zasmidium. New information Morphological data in combination with molecular phylogenetic analyses based on ITS, LSU and rpb2 confirmed that our Chinese strains represented a new species,
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A list of land plants of Parque Nacional do Caparaó, Brazil, highlights the presence of sampling gaps within this protected area Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Marina Moreira; Tatiana Carrijo; Anderson Alves-Araújo; Alessandro Rapini; Alexandre Salino; Aline Firmino; Aline Chagas; Ana Versiane; André Amorim; Andrews da Silva; Amélia Tuler; Ariane Peixoto; Bethina Soares; Braz Cosenza; Camila Delgado; Claudia Lopes; Christian Silva; Daniel Barbosa; Daniele Monteiro; Danilo Marques; Dayvid Couto; Diego Gonzaga; Eduardo Dalcin; Elton John de Lirio; Fabrício
Background Brazilian protected areas are essential for plant conservation in the Atlantic Forest domain, one of the 36 global biodiversity hotspots. A major challenge for improving conservation actions is to know the plant richness, protected by these areas. Online databases offer an accessible way to build plant species lists and to provide relevant information about biodiversity. A list of land plants
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Diversity and composition of plant species in the forest over limestone of Rajah Sikatuna Protected Landscape, Bohol, Philippines Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-12-29 Wilbert Aureo; Tomas Reyes; Francis Carlo Mutia; Reizl Jose; Mary Beth Sarnowski
Rajah Sikatuna Protected Landscape (RSPL), considered the last frontier within the Central Visayas region, is an ideal location for flora and fauna research due to its rich biodiversity. This recent study was conducted to determine the plant species composition and diversity and to select priority areas for conservation to update management strategy. A field survey was carried out in fifteen (15) 20
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Occurrence of the amphibians in the Volga, Don River basins and adjacent territories (Russia): research in 1996-2020 Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-12-29 Alexander Ruchin; Oleg Artaev; Elvira Sharapova; Oleg Ermakov; Renat Zamaletdinov; Vjacheslav Korzikov; Ivan Bashinsky; Alexey Pavlov; Anton Svinin; Alexander Ivanov; Vasily Tabachishin; Anastasiya Klenina; Svetlana Ganshchuk; Nikolai Litvinov; Nikolai Chetanov; Andrei Vlasov; Olga Vlasova
Background Knowledge about the distribution of living organisms on Earth is very important for many areas of biological science and understanding of the surrounding world. However, much of the existing distributional data are scattered throughout a multitude of sources, such as taxonomic publications, checklists and natural history collections and often, bringing them together is difficult. A very
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TUL Herbarium: collections of vascular plants of Tula Oblast, Russia Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-12-24 Tatyana Svetasheva; Alexey Seregin
Background TUL Herbarium presents collections from Tula Oblast stored at the Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University, Russia, which is an educational and scientific institution that supports various types of scientific activities, including research on biodiversity and nature conservation. The university is a holder of some biological collections, such as herbarium of vascular plants, mosses
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Diversity patterns of free-living nematode assemblages in seagrass beds from the Cuban archipelago (Caribbean Sea) Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Maickel Armenteros; Patricia Rodríguez-García; José Andrés Pérez-García; Adolfo Gracia
Diversity patterns of free-living marine nematodes in tropical seagrass beds are understudied. Here, we describe the species richness and assemblage composition of nematodes in 13 seagrass sites covering the whole Cuban archipelago. Nematodes were collected from Thalassia testudinum seagrass beds and identified to species level. We provide a checklist of nematode species from seagrass beds. The species
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Importance of building a digital species index (spindex) for entomology collections: A case study, results and recommendations Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Stephen Mason; Jr.; Isabelle Betancourt; Jon Gelhaus
The Entomology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (ANSP) contains approximately four million insect specimens including some of the oldest in the Western Hemisphere. Like most large entomology collections, no complete inventory of the species represented in the collection was available and even a physical search for a species could not ensure that all available specimens
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New insights from museum specimens: a case of Viviparidae (Caenogastropoda: Mollusca) in Iwakawa’s collection preserved in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Takumi Saito; Osamu Kagawa
Background In this study, we clarify the classification of museum specimens of the family Viviparidae, which is composed of six species/subspecies in Japan, including three endangered species. We examined Viviparus sclateri specimens from the Tomotaro Iwakawa collection (1855-1933) in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo. The Iwakawa's collection was catalogued in 1919 and Viviparus sclateri
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Phytoplankton composition with an emphasis of Cyanobacteria and their toxins as an indicator for the ecological status of Lake Vaya (Bulgaria) – part of the Via Pontica migration route Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Ivanka Teneva; Detelina Belkinova; Rumen Mladenov; Plamen Stoyanov; Dzhemal Moten; Diyana Basheva; Stefan Kazakov; Balik Dzhambazov
As producers of biomass, cyanobacteria are a major part of the phytoplankton in a large number of water basins. Due to the cyanobacterial blooms and cyanotoxins produced, these organisms are recognized as a threat and ecological risk for water bodies. Released cyanotoxins may cause death of many organisms including birds and fish. Vaya Lake is the largest natural lake in Bulgaria. It is located on
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LifeWatch observatory data: phytoplankton observations in the Belgian Part of the North Sea Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Luz Amadei Martínez; Jonas Mortelmans; Nick Dillen; Elisabeth Debusschere; Klaas Deneudt
Background This paper describes a phytoplankton data series generated through systematic observations in the Belgian Part of the North Sea (BPNS). Phytoplankton samples were collected during multidisciplinary sampling campaigns, visiting nine nearshore stations with monthly frequency and an additional eight offshore stations on a seasonal basis. New information The data series contain taxon-specific
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Diatom diversity and distribution in Madeira Island streams (Portugal) Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Catarina Ritter; Pedro Raposeiro; Vítor Gonçalves
Background Here, we present the data obtained from the samples collected in a field campaign during the spring of 2015 which aims for a better understanding of the diversity and distribution patterns of freshwater diatoms in Madeira Island. Following European and Portuguese standards and recommendations for routine diatom sampling and analysis, we collected samples in 40 sites, distributed in 27 permanent
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A revision of European species of the genus Tetrastichus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) using integrative taxonomy Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Christer Hansson; Stefan Schmidt
Background The European species of the genus Tetrastichus (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Eulophidae, Tetrastichinae) are revised with 93 species, including 50 species described as new. The revision was conducted using an integrative taxonomic approach, based on DNA barcoding in combination with morphological characters. The Tetrastichinae are a biologically diverse and species-rich group of parasitoid wasps
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Arthrinium bambusicola (Fungi, Sordariomycetes), a new species from Schizostachyum brachycladum in northern Thailand Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-12-14 Xia Tang; Ishani Goonasekara; Ruvishika Jayawardena; Hong Jiang; Jun Li; Kevin Hyde; Ji Kang
Background Species of the fungal genus Arthrinium (Sordariomycetes, Amphisphaeriales, Apiosporaceae) are often found on bamboo in Asia. They are endophytes, saprobes and important plant pathogens. The genus Arthrinium currently contains 92 species and is widely distributed in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania. New information In this study, a new species, Arthrinium bambusicola
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Plant diversity in sedimentary DNA obtained from high-latitude (Siberia) and high-elevation lakes (China) Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-12-14 Kathleen Stoof-Leichsenring; Sisi Liu; Weihan Jia; Kai Li; Luidmila Pestryakova; Steffen Mischke; Xianyong Cao; Xingqi Liu; Jian Ni; Stefan Neuhaus; Ulrike Herzschuh
Background Plant diversity in the Arctic and at high altitudes strongly depends on and rebounds to climatic and environmental variability and is nowadays tremendously impacted by recent climate warming. Therefore, past changes in plant diversity in the high Arctic and high-altitude regions are used to infer climatic and environmental changes through time and allow future predictions. Sedimentary DNA
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Species richness and biogeographical affinities of the marine molluscs from Bahía de Chamela, Mexico Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Eduardo Ríos-Jara; Cristian Galván-Villa; María del Carmen Esqueda-González; Manuel Ayón-Parente; Fabián Rodríguez Zaragoza; Dafne Bastida-Izaguirre; Adriana Reyes-Gómez
For more than 10 years (2007-2018), the benthic macroinvertebrates of Bahía de Chamela (Mexican Pacific) were sampled at 31 sites (0-25 m depth). A total of 308 species of the five main classes of benthic molluscs were obtained (106 bivalves, 185 gastropods, 13 polyplacophorans, two scaphopods and two cephalopods). This is a significant increase in the number of species (246 new records) compared to
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Detection and annotation of plant organs from digitised herbarium scans using deep learning Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Sohaib Younis; Marco Schmidt; Claus Weiland; Stefan Dressler; Bernhard Seeger; Thomas Hickler
As herbarium specimens are increasingly becoming digitised and accessible in online repositories, advanced computer vision techniques are being used to extract information from them. The presence of certain plant organs on herbarium sheets is useful information in various scientific contexts and automatic recognition of these organs will help mobilise such information. In our study, we use deep learning
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A global food plant dataset for wild silkmoths and hawkmoths and its use in documenting polyphagy of their caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea: Saturniidae, Sphingidae) Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Liliana Ballesteros Mejia; Pierre Arnal; Winnie Hallwachs; Jean Haxaire; Daniel Janzen; Ian Kitching; Rodolphe Rougerie
Background Herbivorous insects represent a major fraction of global biodiversity and the relationships they have established with their food plants range from strict specialists to broad generalists. Our knowledge of these relationships is of primary importance to basic (e.g. the study of insect ecology and evolution) and applied biology (e.g. monitoring of pest or invasive species) and yet remains
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A checklist of spiders in tea plantations of China Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-12-08 Xuhao Song; Tingbang Yang; Xiaoqin Xu; Yang Zhong
Background Spiders are the most dominant predatory natural enemies of insect pests in the tea plantation ecosystem. There has been a large amount of literature published about the investigation of spider species in Chinese tea plantations from 1982 to 2020. Here, the spider species in Chinese tea plantations has been summarised and the dominant spider species in each regional tea plantation recorded
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A first faunistic study on the tribe Oniticellini Kolbe, 1905 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of Baikunthapur Tropical Forest of the Himalayan foothills, West Bengal, India Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Subhankar Sarkar; Bhim Kharel
Background Oniticellini Kolbe, 1905 is a paucispecific tribe of the scarab beetle subfamily Scarabaeinae. The tribe is composed of 256 described species worldwide, while from India, 26 species were recorded to date. Beetles belonging to this tribe are commonly known as paracoprid dung beetles and perform some remarkable ecological functions. Nevertheless, there is a dearth of knowledge on the occurrence
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Vascular Plant Herbarium at the Kandalaksha Strict Nature Reserve (KAND), Russia Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Mikhail Kozhin; Alexander Sennikov
Background The present-day demand for digital availability of distributional data in biodiversity studies requires a special effort in assembling and editing the data otherwise scattered in paper literature and herbarium collections, which can be poorly accessible or little understood to present-day users and especially automatic data processors. Our project on developing the information resource for
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Brachymna tenuis Stål, 1861 (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), a new invasive bamboo pest in Korea with notes on insects associated with bamboos Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Soojeong Ahn; WonGun Kim; Sangsu Kim; Geonho Cho
Background We report first observations of the invasive bamboo pest, Brachymna tenuis Stål, 1861 in Korea as the first species of Brachymna Stål, 1861 (Pentatomidae) reported from the country. New information Comments on its pest status and distribution are provided. General information on this bamboo-feeding insect in Korea is analysed and provided for the first time.
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A new southern record of the holopelagic annelid Poeobius meseres Heath, 1930 (Flabelligeridae) Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Charlotte Seid; Dhugal Lindsay; Greg Rouse
Background The unusual holopelagic annelid Poeobius meseres Heath, 1930 (Flabelligeridae) was first collected from Monterey Bay, California and has been subsequently recorded across the northern Pacific from Japan to the Gulf of California. Rare occurrences in the eastern tropical Pacific have extended as far as 7° S off Peru. New information Using molecular phylogenetic analysis of a newly-collected
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Soil invertebrates occurrences in European North-East of Russia Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Tatyana Konakova; Alla Kolesnikova; Anastasia Taskaeva
Background The European North-East of Russia is the territory which includes the Nenets Autonomous District, represented by the East European tundra (from Kanin Peninsula to Vaigach Island), Komi Republic with its taiga ecosystems and the Urals (Northern, SubPolar and Polar). Over 20 years of systematic studies of soil fauna in the studied region has resulted in a huge amount of data being accumulated
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Dataset of host records for introduced parasitoid wasp species (Hymenoptera) in New Zealand Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Darren Ward; Talia Brav-Cubitt; Sarah Tassell
Background The introduction of species to new regions is occurring at an increasing rate. These introductions typically consist of species that are deliberately introduced for the purposes of biological control of pests or of species that are accidentally introduced through human-mediated transport networks. Understanding the potential and actual impacts of these introduced species requires comprehensive
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DNA barcodes for Aotearoa New Zealand Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-27 Renate Wöger; Roland Wöger; Matthias Nuss
Identification of pyraloid species is often hampered by highly similar external morphology requiring microscopic dissection of genitalia. This becomes especially obvious when mass samples from ecological studies or insect monitoring have to be analysed. DNA barcode sequences could accelerate identification, but are not available for most pyraloid species from New Zealand. Hence, we are presenting a
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Communities of ground beetles (Carabidae, Coleoptera) in broad-leaved forests of protected and urban areas of the Kaluga Oblast (European Russia) Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-26 Maxim Shashkov; Sergei Alexeev; Natalya Ivanova
Background This sampling-event dataset provides primary data about species diversity, population and seasonal activity of ground beetles (Carabidae, Coleoptera). The study was carried out in broad-leaved forests of protected ("Kaluzhskiye Zaseki" Nature Reserve and Ugra National Park) and urban areas (the Kaluga City) of the Kaluga Oblast. Carabids were collected from April to October during 1995-1998
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Updated distribution of the invasive Megachile sculpturalis (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in Italy and its first record on a Mediterranean island Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-26 Enrico Ruzzier; Mattia Menchetti; Laura Bortolotti; Marco Selis; Elisa Monterastelli; Leonardo Forbicioni
Megachile sculpturalis (Smith, 1853) (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) is an invasive solitary bee that is rapidly spreading all over Europe. The present study aims to update the distribution of this species in Italy. The research led to the collection of 177 records, obtained through bibliographic research and data-mining from websites, blogs and social networks. We here present the first record of M. sculpturalis
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New records of six moth (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Lasiocampidae) species in south African countries, with comments on their distribution Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-25 Sylvain Delabye; Ondřej Sedláček; Vincent Maicher; Robert Tropek
Background Southern Africa hosts a high diversity of ecosystems and habitats with a tremendous diversity of Lepidoptera. Although it is one of the most studied parts of the Afrotropics, the knowledge on diversity and distribution of south African moth fauna remains insufficient. To partly fill this gap, we surveyed macromoths by automatic light traps in five localities in two relatively less sampled
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A new species of the genus Neotropiella Handschin, 1942 (Collembola: Neanuridae) from Peru Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-25 José G. Palacios-Vargas; Yony T. Callohuari
Background Neotropiella is a genus of springtails which can be of medium size (2 mm) or relatively long (5 mm). These springtails live in leaf litter, under the bark of dead trees or in decomposing wood, mainly in the Neotropical Region and are often collected by litter samples on Berlese funnels or by pitfall traps. Most species have been described, based on relatively few specimens and chaetotaxy
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The bastard grunt Pomadasys incisus (Bowdich, 1825) (Teleostei: Haemulidae) in Cyprus (eastern Mediterranean Sea) - a late arrival or just a neglected species? Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Nikos Doumpas; Valentina Tanduo; Fabio Crocetta; Ioannis Giovos; Joachim Langeneck; Francesco Tiralongo; Periklis Kleitou
Pomadasys incisus is a thermophilous coastal subtropical fish species belonging to the family Haemulidae. Originally described from Gambia, this species is widely distributed in the Eastern Atlantic from Galicia to South Africa. It has also been recorded in the Mediterranean Sea since 1840, presumably expanding its distribution in the next decades, although the species could have been already present
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A new species of Leiochrides Augener, 1914 (Annelida: Capitellidae) from the Beibu Gulf, South China Sea Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-19 Jun-Hui Lin; María García-Garza; He-Shan Lin; Jian-Jun Wang
Background Polychaetes of the family Capitellidae are poorly studied in Chinese waters. Amongst the known capitellid genera in China, Leiochrides Augener, 1914 is an unusual genus encountered in marine surveys. New information In this study, a Leiochrides specimen was obtained during a survey conducted in the Beibu Gulf, northern South China Sea and described herein as a new species Leiochrides guangxiensis
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Mobilisation of distributional data for vascular plants of Murmansk Region, Russia: Digital representation of the Flora of Murmansk Region Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-18 Mikhail Kozhin; Sampsa Lommi; Alexander Sennikov
Background The present-day demand for digital availability of distributional data in biodiversity studies requires a special effort in assembling and editing the data otherwise scattered in paper literature and herbarium collections, which can be poorly accessible or little understood to present-day users and especially automatic data processors. Although the vascular plants of Murmansk Region (northern
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"Flora of Russia" on iNaturalist: a dataset Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-17 Alexey Seregin; Dmitriy Bochkov; Julia Shner; Eduard Garin; Igor Pospelov; Vadim Prokhorov; Pavel Golyakov; Sergey Mayorov; Sergey Svirin; Alexander Khimin; Marina Gorbunova; Ekaterina Kashirina; Olga Kuryakova; Boris Bolshakov; Aleksandr Ebel; Anatoliy Khapugin; Maxim Mallaliev; Sergey Mirvoda; Sergey Lednev; Dina Nesterkova; Nadezhda Zelenova; Svetlana Nesterova; Viktoriya Zelenkova; Georgy Vinogradov;
Background The "Flora of Russia" project on iNaturalist brought together professional scientists and amateur naturalists from all over the country. Over 10,000 people were involved in the data collection. New information Within 20 months, the participants accumulated 750,143 photo observations of 6,857 species of the Russian flora. This constitutes the largest dataset of open spatial data on the country’s
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Morphological keys for identifying long-tailed gorals (Naemorhedus caudatus) and population composition in the Osaek Region of South Korea Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-17 Ki-Yoon Kim; Sang-Jin Lim; Jae-Yong Ahn; Ji-Hong Min; Yung-Chul Park
The objectives of this study were to select morphological keys for the identification of individual endangered long-tailed gorals through analysis of photographic data and to use these morphological keys to determine the number and population composition of gorals living in the Osaek Region of Seoraksan National Park. Amongst 8149 photos taken using 73 cameras in the Osaek Region, 2057 photos of faces
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Analysis of Chagas disease vectors occurrence data: the Argentinean triatomine species database Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Soledad Ceccarelli; Agustín Balsalobre; Maria Cano; Delmi Canale; Patricia Lobbia; Raúl Stariolo; Jorge Ravinovich; Gerardo Marti
Background Chagas disease is a neglected tropical disease and Trypanosoma cruzi (its etiological agent) is mainly transmitted by triatomines (Hemiptera: Reduviidae). All triatomine species are considered as potential vectors; thus, their geographic distribution and habitat information should be a fundamental guide for the surveillance and control of Chagas disease. Currently, of the 137 species distributed
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Carabid beetles of the environs of Lake Elton: fauna, population dynamics, demography Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-10 Kirill Makarov; Andrey Matalin
Background The present paper includes the results of a year-round pitfall trapping survey of ground beetles in the region of Lake Elton, Volgograd Area, Russia. The main objectives of the project lie in studying the local fauna of Carabidae in the Lake Elton region, as well as their demographic structure and dispersal potential of the local populations of particular carabid species. A total of ten
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Theosbaena loko sp. n. a new stygobiotic microshrimp (Thermosbaenacea: Halosbaenidae) from southern Thailand Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-10 Sopark Jantarit; Rueangrit Promdam; Koraon Wongkamhaeng
Background Thermosbaenaceans are subterranean crustaceans, widespread and occur in freshwater, oligohaline or anchialine caves or thermal springs. Currently, four families, seven genera,and 45 species are recognised worldwide. During our studies of the isolated karst, Tham Loko (Loko Cave) in Khao Chiason District, Phatthalung Province, we found an undescribed thermosbanacean species in the genus Theosbaena
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Distribution of alien plant species of the Middle Volga Region (South-East of the European part of Russia): a dataset Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-09 Stepan Senator; Alyona Tretyakova; Dmitry Vorontsov
Background The dataset presented in the current study contains information regarding alien vascular plant species found in the Middle Volga Region (South-East of the European part of Russia). The dataset overall includes 413 species belonging to 247 genera and 67 families. The described dataset is based on the data published during floristic studies from 1851 to 2019. The dataset does not include alien
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Avian Surveys in the Korean Inner Border Area, Gimpo, Republic of Korea Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-06 Hyun-Ah Choi; Bernhard Seliger; Nial Moores; Amaël Borzée; Chong Hwi Yoon
Background Birds are useful environmental indicators as their presence reflects the health of the food web. Bird occurrence, rarity and abundance are reliable indicators of ecosystem health. Monitoring of avian populations in the Republic of Korea (ROK) is a primary requirement due to plummeting populations and the risks to threatened species. The Ministry of Environment of ROK started conducting winter
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Thesium longiperianthium (Santalaceae), a new replacement name for T. brevibracteatum P.C.Tam Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-06 Xuehong Xu; Wenjun Li; Khabibullo F Shomurodov; Ozodbek Abduraimov; Shukui Niu
Background Thesium brevibracteatum P.C.Tam was described, based on the specimen L.C.Chiu 5128 collected from Inner Mongolia, China. The name Thesium brevibracteatum Sumnev. is validly published and described for the type (Korotkova E. E. et Titov V. S. 1502) collected from Uzbekistan. T. brevibracteatum P.C.Tam is a later homonym of T. brevibracteatum Sumnev. New information We propose T. longiperianthium
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Contributions to the knowledge of water bugs in Mindoro Island, Philippines, with a species checklist of Nepomorpha and Gerromorpha (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera) Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-04 Arthien Lovell Pelingen; Herbert Zettel; Clister Pangantihon; Kyra Mari Dominique Aldaba; Earl Kevin Fatallo; Jemillie Madonna de Leon; Hendrik Freitag
Background This survey aims to provide an updated species checklist of aquatic and semi-aquatic bugs in the intra-Philippine biogeographic Region of Mindoro. An assessment survey of water bugs (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) was conducted mostly by manual collection in selected areas of Oriental Mindoro from 2017 to 2018, in which some of the collecting activities were undertaken by graduate students of Ateneo
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New records of Celoporthe guangdongensis and Cytospora rhizophorae on mangrove apple in China Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-03 Long Tian; Jin Xu; Dan Zhao; Hua Qiu; Hua Yang; Chang Qin
Background Sonneratia apetala Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (Sonneratiaceae, Myrtales), is a woody species with high adaptability and seed production capacity. S. apetala is widely cultivated worldwide as the main species for mangrove construction. However, the study of diseases affecting S. apetala is limitted, with only a few fungal pathogens being recorded. Cryphonectriaceae (Diaporthales) species are
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A new freshwater snail (Gastropoda, Pomatiopsidae) endemic to Fuxian Lake (Yunnan, China) identified, based on morphological and DNA evidence Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-03 Ling Shi; Yu Shu; Chen Qiang; Ping Xu; Ying Tian; Yaqing Chang
Background Lacunopsis Deshayes, 1876 is restricted to South Asia and shows a remarkable regional distribution. Fifteen species have been reported from the lower Mekong River area of Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. Two species, Lacunopsis auris Y.-Y. Liu, Y.-X. Wang & W.-Z. Zhang, 1980 and L. yunnanensis Y.-Y. Liu, Y.-X. Wang & W.-Z. Zhang, 1980 occur in the Yunnan Province of China. The most
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Understorey to canopy vertebrate fauna of a lowland evergreen forest in Mt. Makiling Forest Reserve, Philippines Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-11-03 Juan Carlos Gonzalez; Anna Pauline de Guia; Judeline Dimalibot; Khryss Pantua; Whizvir Gustilo; Nathaniel Bantayan
We examined the vertical stratification of forest wildlife, from the ground up to the canopy layer, within a 2-hectare permanent plot of lowland evergreen rainforest on the Mt. Makiling Forest Reserve. Our aim was to determine the species richness of the different forest layers and evaluate their ecosystem services. Understorey, sub-canopy and canopy sampling were conducted during July 2016, March
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Diversity of Collembola under various types of anthropogenic load on ecosystems of European part of Russia Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-10-30 Nataliya Kuznetsova; Natalya Ivanova
Background Despite the key role played by soil organisms in the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems and provisioning of ecosystem services (Barrios 2007, Bardgett and Putten 2014), available open data on soil biodiversity are incongruously scarce (Eisenhauer 2017, Cameron 2018). This is especially true for Russia, but contrasts long traditions of soil zoological research and large volumes of data
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Reptile occurrences data in the Volga River basin (Russia) Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-10-30 Andrey Bakiev; Alexander Kirillov; Nadezhda Kirillova; Alexander Ruchin; Anastasia Klenina; Roman Gorelov; Natalya Kostina
Background The Volga basin is one of the most industrially-developed regions of Russia with a high degree of anthropogenic impact on natural ecosystems. Human influence negatively affects the species diversity and number of animals, including reptiles. There are no endemic species in the reptile fauna of the Volga basin. The herpetofauna of the region makes up 25% of the reptile fauna of Russia (Dunaev
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Environmental DNA revealed the fish community of Hokkaido Island, Japan, after invasion by rainbow trout Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-10-29 Akio Imamura; Kana Hayami; Masayuki Sakata; Toshifumi Minamoto
In freshwater ecosystems, invasive salmonid fishes can have a significant impact on native fish species. Detecting the invasion and its negative effects is critical for the conservation of native fish communities. We examined the species composition and seasonal changes in the freshwater fish community, including salmonids, on the Kamikawa Plain, Hokkaido Island, Japan, using environmental DNA (eDNA)
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Distribution, richness and conservation of the genus Salvia (Lamiaceae) in the State of Michoacán, Mexico Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-10-29 Mayra Flores-Tolentino; Sabina I. Lara-Cabrera; José Luis Villaseñor
Little attention has been paid in Mexico to species’ geographical distribution, particularly documenting geographic ranges, as a tool to estimate their conservation status. The objective of this study was to review known species distribution and propose potential and conservation status for Salvia species in Michoacán sState using Ecological Niche Models (ENM). We reviewed taxonomic studies for Salvia
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Syrphidae of Southern Illinois: Diversity, floral associations, and preliminary assessment of their efficacy as pollinators Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-10-29 Jacob Chisausky; Nathan Soley; Leila Kassim; Casey Bryan; Gil Felipe Miranda; Karla Gage; Sedonia Sipes
Syrphid flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) are a cosmopolitan group of flower-visiting insects, though their diversity and importance as pollinators is understudied and often unappreciated. Data on 1,477 Syrphid occurrences and floral associations from three years of pollinator collection (2017-2019) in the Southern Illinois region of Illinois, United States, are here compiled and analyzed. We collected 69
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Genetic assessment of the variation and distribution of the species of Salinator (Panpulmonata: Amphibolidae) in south-eastern Australia Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-10-29 Donald Colgan; Hugo Lumsdaine
Amphibolidae is one of the most abundant families of gastropods in estuarine environments of south-eastern Australia. However, the range limits of the species of Salinator, one of the family’s two genera in the region, remain unclear partly due to uncertainty of identifications based solely on shell morphology. Insufficient data have been collected to address questions regarding the genetic variability
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Biodiversidata: A novel dataset for the vascular plant species diversity in Uruguay Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-10-26 Florencia Grattarola; Andrés González; Patricia Mai; Laura Cappuccio; César Fagúndez-Pachón; Florencia Rossi; Franco Teixeira de Mello; Lucía Urtado; Daniel Pincheira-Donoso
Background South America hosts some of the world’s most prominent biodiversity hotspots. Yet, Uruguay – a country where multiple major ecosystems converge – ranks amongst the countries with the lowest levels of available digital biodiversity data in the continent. Such prevalent data scarcity has significantly undermined our ability to progress towards evidence-based conservation actions – a critical
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A database of weed plants in the European part of Russia Biodivers. Data J. (IF 1.331) Pub Date : 2020-10-26 Alyona Tretyakova; Nickolay Grudanov; Pavel Kondratkov; Olga Baranova; Natalya Luneva; Yevgenia Mysnik; Gulnaz Khasanova; Sergey Yamalov; Maria Lebedeva
Background Weeds are plants that, although not specially cultivated, grow and often adapt to growing in arable lands. They form an ecological variant of flora, as a historically-formed set of species growing on cultivated soils. For the rational use of the chemical and biological crop protection products and to produce safe and high-quality food, up-to-date data on the floristic diversity of weeds
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