A new genus and species, Parameristomerinx copelandi gen. et sp. n. (Diptera: Stratiomyidae: Pachygastrinae) is described from material from Kenya. This genus is similar to the Afrotropical genera Meristomerinx Enderlein, 1914 and Meristomeringina James, 1952. A new generic synonym is also proposed, Nemodema Lindner, 1958 = Dolichodema Kertész, 1916, syn. n. A key is included for the six genera...

This work treats species of the genus Microsternus Lewis, 1887 from Asia and North America. A new genus is described: Neosternus (type species Microsternus higonius Lewis, 1887). A new species is described: Microsternus pengzhongi. A new synonym is provided: Microsternus tricolor taiwanicus Nakane (=Microsternus tricolor Lewis). Three species previously placed in Microsternus Lewis, 1887 are tr...

The Pardosa nebulosa-group consists of at least 66 species, including 14 species recorded from the South China. In this paper, we describe two new species of this group, P. tuberosa sp. nov. and P. parathompsoni sp. nov. from Yunnan Province of China. Also, P. shuangjiangensis Yin et al., 1997 is newly synonymised with P. pusiola (Thorell, 1891), based on the examination of specimens mainly fro...

The Argentine cicada fauna is determined. A total of 108 species belonging to 37 genera, eight tribes, and three subfamilies of cicadas are represented in the Argentine cicada fauna. One genus and 15 species are described as new to science: Torresia Sanborn & Heath gen. n., Fidicinoides ferruginosa Sanborn & Heath sp. n., Proarna alalonga Sanborn & Heath sp. n., Proarna parva Sanborn & Heath sp...

The status of two doubtful fish species is reviewed. Percis punctata Cuvier, 1829 is confirmed to be a valid species of Parapercis Bleeker, 1863 and a senior synonym of Parapercis guezei Fourmanoir, 1966. A redescription of Parapercis punctata is provided, based on four specimens collected from the western Indian Ocean. Examination of the holotype of Neosillago marmorata Castelnau, 1875 reveale...

Introduction: Protein and gene names change frequently as research reveals details about these entities. 1 Because authors often use synonyms, information retrieval requires identification of these alternate names. Many biological databases — such as GenBank 2 and SWISSPROT 3 — have synonym databases; however, the databases may not be complete. Furthermore, to our knowledge, the extraction of s...

Solenoxyphus kazakhstanicus sp. n. is described from the vicinity of Dzhezkazgan, Western Kazakhstan. The generic name Voruchia Reuter, 1879 is synonymized with Solenoxyphus Reuter, 1875. Illustrations of the male and female genitalia, photographs of the dorsal habitus, host, and distributional records are given for the new species and S. vittiger comb. nov., the type species of Voruchia. Femal...

Interest in domain-specific search is growing rapidly, creating a need for domain-specific synonym discovery. The best-performing methods for this task rely on query logs and are thus difficult to use in many circumstances. We propose a method for domain-specific synonym discovery that requires only a domain-specific corpus. Our method substantially outperforms previously proposed methods in re...

Mesoconius Enderlein, including Zelatractodes Enderlein new synonym, is revised for Central America with one described species (Mesoconius hemithorax Frey) and five new species (M. bicolor, M. dianthus, M. nigrihumeralis, M. tigrinus, and M. zadbi). The relatively large species of this entirely Neotropical genus, most of which are restricted to narrow high elevation ranges, lack the male genita...

A new species Phanerotoma andamanensis Gupta & van Achterberg sp. nov. is described from the Andaman Islands, India. Differences of the new species from the other Oriental species are discussed. Phanerotoma agarwali Varshney & Shujauddin, 1999, is a junior synonym of P. syleptae Zettel, 1990, syn. nov.