The salamander genus Salamandra is widespread across Europe, North Africa, and the Near East renowned for its conspicuous polymorphic colouration diversity of reproductive modes. phylogenetic relationships within genus, especially in highly species S. salamandra, have been very challenging to elucidate, leaving real evolutionary history classification at subspecies levels a topic debate content...

The genus Trionymus (Berg, 1899) (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) was investigated based on samples collected plants from Poaceae, Cyperaceae and Juncaceae in Aydın Province, Turkey, between 2019 2020. specimens of the new species were Juncus acutus L. (Poales: Juncaceae) slide-mounted. In total, 10 examined under a microscope illustrations prepared. As result study, oncueri sp. n. Kayd...

The Nearctic Sceliphron caementarium (Drury, 1773) is widely distributed in the Western Palearctic and spreading to new territories. Despite large quantities of data on citizen-science platforms, these records have been mostly overlooked. In this publication, first S. from six Eastern European Balkan countries (Albania, Greece, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia) are presented. Data derived o...

Plagiognathus ozgurkocaki sp. nov. is described based on a long series of specimens from Karaman, Turkey. The new species remarkable among its congeners in Palearctic Region due to the combination following characters: remarkably small size, dense and unicolorous pale yellow vestiture, darkened cuneus first antennal segment with basal ring pre-apical dots. associated endemic Phlomis leucophract...