Synonymous relationships among biomedical terms are extensively annotated within specialized terminologies, implying that synonymy is important for practical computational applications within this field. It remains unclear, however, whether text mining actually benefits from documented synonymy and whether existing biomedical thesauri provide adequate coverage of these linguistic relationships....

The genus Sphex Linnaeus (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) is studied from India and key to Indian species provided. state-wise distributions of four are augmented here. A new synonymy proposed: zubaidiyacus Augul, 2013 = S. obscurus (Fabricius, 1804).

Estimates of extant liverwort species range from 4,500 to 9,000, with estimates in the past decade converging on 5,000 to 6,000. Potential problems and pitfalls of deriving species estimates are addressed, including binomial accumulation, the impact of synonymy, taxonomic inflation, the impact of unrevised species-rich genera, species concepts and cryptic species. We present a revised mean esti...

In 2007, Wagner and Hoch proposed the new name Oenotheraxenogaura W.L.Wagner & Hoch for the species then known as Gauradrummondii (Spach) Torrey & A. Gray (non Oenotheradrummondii Hooker, 1834). However, the authors overlooked the availability of Gaurahispida Bentham (1840) for this species. Accordingly, we herewith make the appropriate new combination for this species, Oenotherahispida (Bentha...

The Neotropical genus Cassidinoma Hincks is revised. A new synonymy is proposed: Cassidinoma denticulata (Boheman) = Cassidinoma monstrosa (Boheman) syn. n. The diagnosis, description, distribution, and biology are reviewed, and new distribution records are included. Illustrations of the habitus of adult and morphological structures are also added.

— New synonymies and new combinations affecting North American Pityophthorus are proposed as follows: carinifrons Blandford. incomposilus Blaiidford, and incornmodus Blandford are removed from Pi/rop/ithorus and placed in Araplus; P. boycei Swaine {=Myeloborus catulus Blackman and M. iniquus Blackman) ; P. lautus Eichhoff = P. rhois Swaine and P. natalis Blackman) ; P. californicus new name for...

A new subgenus of the genus Manulea Wallengren, 1863, Tortrilema subgen. n. is described and briefly reviewed. species, M. nubes sp. from North Vietnam. synonymy established: (Nyea) Agenjo, 1983 = (Agenjoa) Dubatolov & Zolotuhin, 2011, syn. nov.

The Palaearctic Hylaea fasciaria (Linnaeus, 1758) species group is revised (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Ennominae). Four taxa are considered valid at species level: H. fasciaria (Linnaeus, 1758), H. pinicolaria (Bellier, 1861), H. compararia (Staudinger, 1894) and one new species, H. mediterranea, from Italy: Sicily, Calabria and Molise. The following taxonomic changes are proposed: Ellopia cedri...