Psocoptères (Insecta: Psocoptera) de l'Inde. Mission Besuchet-Löbl (1978) et voyage entomologique Löbl 1979

A remarkable new Awas Löbl from southern China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae)

A new distinctive species of the rare Oriental goniacerine genus Awas Löbl, Awas gigas sp. n., is described and illustrated, based on three males and fourteen females taken at the Daoyao Shan Natural Reserve in the southern Chinese province of Guangxi. All specimens were collected from colonies of the ant genus Pachycondyla F. Smith nesting in decomposing woods.

Range extension and sexual dimorphism in Megabatrus caviceps Löbl (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae).

Megabatrus caviceps Löbl, originally described from Kuatun, Fou-kien (= Guadun, Fujian), eastern China, is recorded from the Nanling Nature Reserve, Guangdong, southern China, ca. 550 km SW from the type locality. The female of this species is discovered and described for the first time. For comparative purposes, male diagnostic characters of M. caviceps are figured and supplementary descriptio...

La presence de la perse dans Ies oeuvres des philosophes du XVIII siecle (Montesquieu Voltaire ,et Ies Encyclopedistes ) a travers du recit de voyage de Jean Chardin'

Molecular systematics of the suborder Trogiomorpha (Insecta: Psocodea: ‘Psocoptera’)

Phylogenetic relationships among extant families in the suborder Trogiomorpha (Insecta: Psocodea: ‘Psocoptera’) were inferred from partial sequences of the nuclear 18S rDNA and Histone 3 and mitochondrial 16S rDNA genes. Analyses of these data produced trees that largely supported the traditional classification; however, monophyly of the infraorder Psocathropetae ( = Psyllipsocidae + Prionoglar...

Silbermann's "Revue entomologique": publication dates for nomenclatural purposes and bibliographic notes (Insecta, mainly Coleoptera).

The rare yet entomologically important scientific journal "Revue entomologique" was published in French language in five volumes during the first half of the nineteenth century. We provide some bibliographic notes which reveal, for example, the motivation and goals of the editor, Gustave Silbermann. He wanted to contribute to an exchange of entomological knowledge between French and German scie...