Photinini is the largest tribe of Lampyrinae fireflies, with over 30 genera and nearly 750 species, includes taxa where adults may or not have light organs. A focus on bioluminescent left taxonomy dark fireflies in poor condition compared to lit adults. recent phylogenetic study based molecular data supported transfer Scissicauda McDermott, 1964—traditionally placed Amydetinae due flabellate an...

Since the adoption of some ambiguous and quantitative characters in Flora Republicae Popularis Sinicae 3(1), species identifications of the series Gravesiana have been in disarray, requiring clarification. Two hundred and fifty-nine individuals from 47 different populations were collected for the estimation of morphological characters and phylogenetic analyses. Spores of 26 populations were obs...

Sticta is a subcosmopolitan genus most diverse in the tropics. Traditionally, many taxa were considered to be widespread and morphologically variable, following broadly circumscribed morphodemes. Among these S. weigelii morphodeme, characterized by cyanobacterial photobiont rather narrow, flabellate truncate or tapering lobes producing predominantly marginal isidia. Molecular phylogenetic analy...

Separate morphological and molecular phylogenetic analyses are presented and the classification of trichaline net-winged beetles is revised. The clade, earlier given a subfamily, tribe or subtribe rank, is a terminal lineage in Metriorrhynchina and contains Diatrichalus Kleine, 1926, Eniclases Waterhouse, 1879, Flabellotrichalus Pic, 1921, Lobatang Bocak, 1998, Microtrichalus Pic, 1921, Schizot...

Bioluminescence is common and well studied in mesopelagic species. However, the extent of bioluminescence in benthic sites of similar depths is far less studied, although the relatively large eyes of benthic fish, crustaceans and cephalopods at bathyal depths suggest the presence of significant biogenic light. Using the Johnson-Sea-Link submersible, we collected numerous species of cnidarians, ...

Two new species of oribatid mites, Plasmobates zarae sp. n. and Basilobelba spasmenosi sp. n. are described from the Republic of Rwanda. They can easily be differentiated from other species by a number of characters. Plasmobates zarae sp. n. is differentiated the following characters. four types of particular cerotegumental layers. Integument slightly foveate to smooth on prodorsum; foveate on ...

—A new species of Conopora is described from off Queensland, Australia, the first known unattached stylasterid. It always occurs in a symbiotic relationship with a polynoid polychaete, which determines the colony morphology. Conopora adeta is also the first deep-water stylasterid reported from off Australia (398 m) and the ninth record of a stylasterid from the Australian region. Of the approxi...