A new species from Turkey, Anteon leleji sp. nov . (Hymenoptera, Dryinidae), is described and illustrated. Its relationship with Palaearctic Afrotropical of discussed. The close to A. xericum Olmi & van Harten Yemen, known also other countries. key the modified include species. New records Turkey are registered.

Missing species, distributional data, references and corrections in the beetle family Mycetophagidae new Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5, Tenebrionoidea are provided. The following species newly recorded: Mycetophagus piceus Fabricius, 1777 (Nepal), M. quadriguttatus P.W.J. Muller, 1821 (Lebanon); Litargus balteatus LeConte, 1856 (Arab Emirates), connexus Geoffroy, 1785 (Israel), ...

Questions Which environmental factors influence fine-grain beta diversity of vegetation and do they vary among taxonomic groups? Location Palaearctic biogeographic realm. Methods We extracted 4,654 nested-plot series with at least four different grain sizes between 0.0001 m² 1,024 from the GrassPlot database, covering a wide range grassland other open habitat types. derived extensive structural...

Authors analysed 33 supraspecific taxa of Palaearctic Platycleidini with unarmed prosternum, most of them hitherto considered genera or subgenera of Platycleis and Metrioptera. For each of them they give a short description of the characters revealing the correct classification of males and females. Then, they propose a more consistent classification, when both males and females of a supraspeci...

In common with other mammalian sex chromosomes, the mouse sex chromosomes are enriched for genes with male-specific function such as testis genes. However, in mouse there has been an unprecedented expansion of ampliconic sequence containing spermatid-expressed genes. We show via a phylogenetic analysis of gene amplification on the mouse sex chromosomes that multiple families of sex-linked sperm...

The first comprehensive revision of the Western Palaearctic species of the genus Dinotrema Foerster, 1862 is provided. 174 species of this genus are redescribed and illustrated. Ten species are described as new, viz, D. acompressum sp. nov., D. cahitum sp. nov., D. collybiae sp. nov., D. digitatum sp. nov., D. glabrideum sp. nov., D. helote sp. nov., D. lepiotae sp. nov., D. norwegicum sp. nov....

The crocidurine shrews include the most speciose genus of mammals, Crocidura. The origin and evolution of their radiation is, however, poorly understood because of very scant fossil records and a rather conservative external morphology between species. Here, we use an alignment of 3560 base pairs of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA to generate a phylogenetic hypothesis for the evolution of Old Wor...

A new species of Opiinae, Diachasma dentatum Shirley, Restuccia & Ly, is described from Australia. This species is similar to several other Australian opiines previously described or included in the genus Diachasma, but the mandibles are unusually broad, nearly exodont. Notable differences between Australian and Palaearctic Diachasma are discussed. Diachasma tasmaniae Fischer, 1995, originally ...