Species inventories are a prerequisite for biodiversity monitoring and conservation, particularly in protected areas. However, the possibilities of standardized survey species diversity using DNA barcoding have so far hardly been implemented, especially species-rich groups. A first-time molecular-based nearly complete inventory megadiverse insect order Lepidoptera area Alps (Cottian Alps, Italy...

A review of the genus Mocyta Mulsant & Rey, 1874, which is represented in Ukraine; a description main morphological features and diagnostic made, data on ecological features, seasonal activity adults, distribution representatives Ukraine world keys to identify species are presented. The information territory has been clarified significantly supplemented by new findings. results can be used ...

In 2015 year, for the first time in Russia, systematic investigations into poorly studied group of Coleoptera family Heteroceridae were initiated. Initial results (for past 5 years) are presented this work. Data obtained from these studies can be divided several thematic groups: acts, faunistic findings (including zoogeographic notes), and materials on bioecological features heterocerida. Syste...

New synonymies in the genus Spilogona Schnabl, 1911 are proposed: S. novaesibiriae (Frey, 1915) = S. obsoleta (Malloch, 1920), syn. nov.; S. trianguligera (Zetterstedt, 1838) = S. setinervis (Huckett, 1932), syn. nov. Spilogona trianguligera and S. tendipes (Malloch, 1920) are newly recorded from Greenland, and S. trianguligera also from W Siberia. The female of S. vikhrevi Sorokina, 2010 is de...

New distributional data on 33 species of the infraorder Leptopodomorpha (3 species of the family Leptopodidae and 30 species and subspecies of Saldidae) from the Palaearctic Region and Himalayas are provided. The following new or confirmed records are listed: Chartoscirta cocksii (Curtis, 1835) from Kosovo; Halosalda halophila (Jakovlev, 1876), Saldula amplicollis (Reuter, 1891) and Saldula xan...

Many cultivated and natural fruits play an important role both in food security and in meeting nutritional requirements in households throughout PNG. Fruit fly species of the family Tephritidae account for significant preharvest and postharvest food losses, and a reduction of these losses will improve food availability at household levels. The Papua New Guinea Fruit Fly Project (PNGFFP) has con...

Data are presented on the flea species of the genera Paractenopsyllus (Ceratophyllidae, Leptopsyllinae) and Synopsyllus (Pulicidae, Xenopsyllinae) obtained from small mammals during two 2014 seasonal surveys at a montane humid forest site (Ambohitantely) in the Central Highlands of Madagascar. The mammal groups included the endemic family Tenrecidae (tenrecs) and subfamily Nesomyinae (rodents) ...