Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 81

Research Article

Total evidence analysis elucidates the tangled systematic scenario within Fidicinini (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadidae)

Tatiana Petersen Ruschel, Filipe Michels Bianchi, Luiz Alexandre Campos, Gervásio Silva Carvalho

10.3897/asp.81.e85755

20-01-2023

Unique: 1689 | Total: 2621

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35-77

Research Article

Phylogenetic analysis and revision of the leafhopper genus Acuera DeLong & Freytag (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Gyponini) based on morphological data

Alexandre Cruz Domahovski, Rodney Ramiro Cavichioli

10.3897/asp.81.e81961

20-01-2023

Unique: 1821 | Total: 2883

Reprint: € 32,00

79-164

Research Article

Parampelomyia, another new gall midge genus (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) associated with Vitaceae, with description of a new species developing in flower buds of the porcelain berry in Japan

Ayman Khamis Elsayed, Tadao Ichita, Makoto Tokuda

10.3897/asp.81.e86898

26-01-2023

Unique: 1490 | Total: 2267

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165-177

Research Article

On the mysterious Seychellois endemic spider genus Cenemus (Araneae, Pholcidae)

Bernhard A. Huber, Guanliang Meng

10.3897/asp.81.e86793

10-02-2023

Unique: 1444 | Total: 2395

Reprint: € 9,00

179-200

Research Article

Taxonomic revision of the Merodon tarsatus species group (Diptera, Syrphidae)

10.3897/asp.81.e93570

10-02-2023

Unique: 2006 | Total: 3399

Reprint: € 19,00

201-256

Research Article

A revision of the Pieris napi-complex (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) and similar species with distribution in China

Si Xun Ge, Zhuo Heng Jiang, Jia Qi Wang, Kui Song, Chao Zhang, Shao Ji Hu

10.3897/asp.81.e85191

15-03-2023

Unique: 2337 | Total: 3429

Reprint: € 12,00

257-287

Research Article

The first larva of the cucujiform superfamily Cleroidea from the Mesozoic and its ecological implications (Coleoptera)

Jiří Kolibáč, Kateřina Rosová, Jan Simon Pražák, Jörg U. Hammel, Jakub Prokop

10.3897/asp.81.e98418

15-03-2023

Unique: 1646 | Total: 2541

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289-301

Research Article

Evaluating the significance of wing shapes in inferring phylogenetic proximity among the generic taxa: an example of Cantharinae (Coleoptera, Cantharidae)

Wei Zhao, Hao Yu Liu, Xue Ying Ge, Yu Xia Yang

10.3897/asp.81.e101411

17-03-2023

Unique: 1680 | Total: 2765

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303-316

Research Article

Revision of the genera Eutrecha and Xenotrecha (Solifugae: Ammotrechidae), taxonomic notes on Ammotrechinae, and description of a remarkable new Eutrecha from Colombia

Ricardo Botero-Trujillo, Leonel Martínez, Hernán Augusto Iuri, Andrés Alejandro Ojanguren-Affilastro, Leonardo Sousa Carvalho

10.3897/asp.81.e95181

04-04-2023

Unique: 1550 | Total: 2576

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317-344

Research Article

Diversity and phylogeny of the extinct wasp subfamily Lancepyrinae (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) revealed by mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

Manuel Brazidec, Frédéric Legendre, Vincent Perrichot

10.3897/asp.81.e96737

04-04-2023

Unique: 1683 | Total: 2635

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345-369

Research Article

A review of the subgenus Parapisa of Apisa (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) with description of a remarkable species from Cameroonian Highlands

Anna Paśnik, Sebastian Tarcz, Łukasz Przybyłowicz

10.3897/asp.81.e96319

06-04-2023

Unique: 1396 | Total: 2070

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371-394

Research Article

Phylogeny and classification of Endromidae (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea) based on mitochondrial genomes

Min Deng, Andreas Zwick, Qi Chen, Cheng-Qing Liao, Wei Wang, Xing Wang, Guo-Hua Huang

10.3897/asp.81.e90721

20-04-2023

Unique: 1751 | Total: 2901

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395-408

Research Article

Looks are deceiving: a cladistic analysis, three new species, and a new diagnosis of Paravima Caporiacco, 1951 (Opiliones: Agoristenidae)

Andrés F. García, Osvaldo Villarreal

10.3897/asp.81.e85571

20-04-2023

Unique: 1537 | Total: 2286

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409-437

Research Article

Under the Cretaceous bark: Fossil evidence for the ancient origin of subcortical lifestyle of clown beetles (Coleoptera: Histeridae)

Jan Simon Pražák, Martin Fikáček, Jakub Prokop, Tomáš Lackner

10.3897/asp.81.e102404

28-04-2023

Unique: 1583 | Total: 2350

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439-453

Research Article

Dasyophthalma (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae): systematics, distribution, and conservation perspectives of a butterfly genus endemic from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Augusto Henrique Batista Rosa, Eduardo de Proença Barbosa, Patrícia Avelino Machado, Ricardo Russo Siewert, André Victor Lucci Freitas

10.3897/asp.81.e96397

23-05-2023

Unique: 1545 | Total: 2253

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455-473

Research Article

Christelenkidae, a new extinct family based on a new taxon from Eocene Baltic amber (Diptera: Acalyptratae), with X-ray synchrotron microtomography imaging of its structures

Jindřich Roháček, Jörg U. Hammel, Viktor Baranov

10.3897/asp.81.e101441

25-05-2023

Unique: 1936 | Total: 3052

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475-498

Research Article

The Neotropical antlion genus Ameromyia Banks, 1913 (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae), systematics and redefinition under a phylogenetic approach

Leon Gustavo de Miranda Tavares, Renato Jose Pires Machado, Adolfo Ricardo Calor

10.3897/asp.81.e89641

07-06-2023

Unique: 2123 | Total: 3176

Reprint: € 19,00

499-553

Research Article

Fossil Cymbiodyta from Baltic amber confirms Euro-American ancient distribution of the genus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

Martin Fikáček, Jan Simon Pražák, Andrew E. Z. Short, François Rion

10.3897/asp.81.e100385

09-06-2023

Unique: 1290 | Total: 1807

Reprint: € 6,00

555-563

Research Article

Notorhinus floresi sp. nov. gen. nov.: The first records of Siphonophorida in Chile and Siphonorhinidae in South America (Colobognatha)

Leif Moritz, Antonio Parra-Gómez

10.3897/asp.81.e100520

09-06-2023

Unique: 2302 | Total: 3268

Reprint: € 7,00

565-579

Research Article

Integrative species delimitation in the morphologically conservative Stegana subgen. Orthostegana (Diptera, Drosophilidae)

Ya-Lian Wang, Zi-Qi Peng, Feng-Liang Jin, Hong-Wei Chen, Jia Huang

10.3897/asp.81.e102683

15-06-2023

Unique: 1362 | Total: 1852

Reprint: € 12,00

581-610

Research Article

Phylogeny of the old and fragmented genus Austrocoenosia Malloch reveals new evidences on the morphology and evolution of the genera Coenosia Meigen and Neodexiopsis Malloch (Diptera: Muscidae)

Luciano Damián Patitucci, Pablo Ricardo Mulieri, Márcia Souto Couri, Martha Cecilia Domínguez

10.3897/asp.81.e104969

21-07-2023

Unique: 1866 | Total: 2801

Reprint: € 15,00

611-653

Research Article

Taxonomic revision and phylogeny of the sharpshooter genus Dasmeusa Melichar, 1926, with a scanning electron microscopy study of D. pauperata (Fabricius, 1803) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellini)

Nathalia H. Pecly, Daniela M. Takiya, Rodney R. Cavichioli, Gabriel Mejdalani

10.3897/asp.81.e102848

01-08-2023

Unique: 1523 | Total: 2206

Reprint: € 13,00

655-687

Research Article

The earliest evidence of Omophroninae (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber and the description of a larva of a new genus

Kateřina Rosová, Jakub Prokop, Jörg U. Hammel, Rolf G. Beutel

10.3897/asp.81.e101374

01-08-2023

Unique: 1425 | Total: 2278

Reprint: € 7,00

689-704

Research Article

Torymus sinensis and its close relatives in Europe: a multilocus phylogeny, detailed morphological analysis, and identification key

Ionela-Mădălina Viciriuc, Mircea-Dan Mitroiu, Richard Robinson Askew, Nicolas Ris, Lucian Fusu, Nicolas Borowiec

10.3897/asp.81.e98141

04-08-2023

Unique: 2364 | Total: 3540

Reprint: € 11,00

705-730

Research Article

First mitochondrial genomes of the crane fly tribe Elephantomyiini (Diptera, Tipuloidea, Limoniidae): comparative analysis and phylogenetic implications

Zehui Kang, Yuanyuan Xu, Guoquan Wang, Ding Yang, Xiao Zhang

10.3897/asp.81.e97946

08-09-2023

Unique: 1813 | Total: 6734

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731-746

Research Article

Comparative analysis of the complete mitochondrial genomes of three Zeugodacus species (Insecta: Tephritidae: Dacinae) and their phylogenetic relationships with other congeners

Hoi-Sen Yong, Sze-Looi Song, Kah-Ooi Chua, Yvonne Jing Mei Liew, I. Wayan Suana, Phaik-Eem Lim, Kok-Gan Chan, Praphathip Eamsobhana

10.3897/asp.81.e105025

08-09-2023

Unique: 2280 | Total: 13523

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747-759

Research Article

On a taxonomic feature that has been overestimated in classification practice: an integrative taxonomic revision of Stephoblemmus Saussure, 1877 based on morphology and molecular phylogeny (Orthoptera: Grylloidea; Gryllidae; Gryllinae)

Yan-Na Zheng, Jun-Jie Gu, Zhu-Qing He, Huateng Huang, Li-Bin Ma

10.3897/asp.81.e104772

13-09-2023

Unique: 1293 | Total: 1802

Reprint: € 8,00

761-779

Research Article

Breakaway from a globular body shape: molecular phylogeny reveals the evolutionary history of the enigmatic springtail Mackenziella psocoides

Clément Schneider, Cyrille A. D’Haese

10.3897/asp.81.e104522

19-09-2023

Unique: 997 | Total: 1333

Reprint: € 8,00

781-799

Research Article

Two new subterranean Typhlonesticus (Araneae: Nesticidae) from the Alps with notes on their ecology, distribution and conservation

Marco Isaia, Giuseppe Nicolosi, Alessandro Infuso, Carles Ribera

10.3897/asp.81.e106948

02-11-2023

Unique: 1272 | Total: 1752

Reprint: € 8,00

801-818

Research Article

New insights into the phylogeny of Stephanidae (Hymenoptera: Apocrita), with a revision of the fossil species

Si-Xun Ge, Zhuo-Heng Jiang, Li-Li Ren, Cornelis van Achterberg, Jiang-Li Tan

10.3897/asp.81.e107579

02-11-2023

Unique: 1223 | Total: 1621

Reprint: € 11,00

819-844

Research Article

Plant bugs with swollen antennae: a morphology-based phylogenetic analysis of Heterocapillus Wagner, 1960 and related genera (Hemiptera: Miridae: Phylinae)

Fedor V. Konstantinov

10.3897/asp.81.e104396

09-11-2023

Unique: 1321 | Total: 1748

Reprint: € 13,00

845-879

Research Article

New fossil stoneflies (Plecoptera: Arctoperlaria) from Australia testify ancient dispersal across Pangea

Pavel Sroka, Jakub Prokop

10.3897/asp.81.e109833

14-11-2023

Unique: 1179 | Total: 1663

Reprint: € 5,00

881-888

Research Article

Molecular barcoding of the Persian Gulf mangrove associated brachyuran crabs

Sana Sharifian, Ehsan Kamrani, Maria A. Nilsson, Hanieh Saeedi

10.3897/asp.81.e96839

14-11-2023

Unique: 974 | Total: 1310

Reprint: € 5,00

889-896

Research Article

A morphometric approach to the comparative morphology of aedeagi shapes in net-winged beetles: A case study on the Macrolycus dotatus species group (Coleoptera: Lycidae)

Hao Yu Liu, Ruo Lan Du, Wei Zhao, Xing Ke Yang, Yu Xia Yang

10.3897/asp.81.e111281

27-11-2023

Unique: 1414 | Total: 2580

Reprint: € 8,00

897-916

Research Article

Gill Structure Linked to Ecological and Species Diversification in a Clade of Caddisflies

Steffen U. Pauls, Wolfram Graf, Anna E. Hjalmarsson, Alan Lemmon, Emily Moriarty Lemmon, Malte Petersen, Simon Vitecek, Paul B. Frandsen

10.3897/asp.81.e110014

08-12-2023

Unique: 1165 | Total: 1636

Reprint: € 7,00

917-929

Research Article

DNA barcodes and species boundaries of black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Malaysia

Noor Izwan-Anas, Van Lun Low, Zubaidah Ya’cob, Emmanuel Y. Lourdes, Mohamad Rasul Abdullah Halim, Mohd Sofian-Azirun, Hiroyuki Takaoka, Peter H. Adler

10.3897/asp.81.e104426

08-12-2023

Unique: 947 | Total: 1371

Reprint: € 7,00

931-943

Research Article

Comparative morphology of male genital skeletomusculature in the Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a standardized muscular terminology for the male genitalia of Hymenoptera

Zachary H. Griebenow, Adrian Richter, Thomas van de Kamp, Evan P. Economo, Ziv E. Lieberman

10.3897/asp.81.e104810

13-12-2023

Unique: 1787 | Total: 2564

Reprint: € 26,00

945-1018

Research Article

The Grasshopper Paradigm in damselflies: evidence for phalanx-like postglacial recolonization of Europe from a Balkan refugium in Platycnemis pennipes Pallas (Odonata: Zygoptera: Platycnemidae)

Thomas J. Simonsen, Marie Djernæs, Ole Fogh Nielsen, Kent Olsen

10.3897/asp.81.e101438

14-12-2023

Unique: 966 | Total: 1297

Reprint: € 6,00

1019-1029

Research Article

The pine processionary moth Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Notodontidae) species complex: a phylogeny-based revision

Andrea Basso, Dimitrios Avtzis, Christian Burban, Carole Kerdelhué, Kahraman İpekdal, Emmanuelle Magnoux, Jérôme Rousselet, Enrico Negrisolo, Andrea Battisti

10.3897/asp.81.e102928

20-12-2023

Unique: 1362 | Total: 1873

Reprint: € 8,00

1031-1050

Research Article

Mitochondrial genomes provide new insights into the phylogeny and evolution of Anthomyiidae (Insecta: Diptera)

He-Nan Li, Wen-Ya Pei, Ming-Fu Wang, Bang-Qing Chen, Hong-Lin Peng, Rong-Jun Cao, Ming-Teng Zhao, Jun Yang, Xiao-Chen Zhang, Dong Zhang

10.3897/asp.81.e106356

20-12-2023

Unique: 973 | Total: 1284

Reprint: € 6,00

1051-1062

Research Article

More than Olceclostera bifenestrata: New species and morphology of immature stages of Olceclostera Butler, 1879 (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea, Apatelodidae)

Elton Orlandin, Mônica Piovesan, Daniel Herbin, Eduardo Carneiro

10.3897/asp.81.e107507

20-12-2023

Unique: 1182 | Total: 1722

Reprint: € 11,00

1063-1088

Research Article

New insights into the evolution of the surface antennal sensory equipment in free-living and cave-dwelling beetles (Leiodidae: Leptodirini)

Xiao-Zhu Luo, Mariam Gabelaia, Arnaud Faille, Rolf Beutel, Ignacio Ribera, Benjamin Wipfler

10.3897/asp.81.e98166

28-12-2023

Unique: 1215 | Total: 1628

Reprint: € 7,00

1089-1102

Research Article

Eusociality unveiled: discovery and documentation of two new eusocial shrimp species (Caridea: Alpheidae) from the Western Indian Ocean

Hossein Ashrafi, Kristin M. Hultgren

10.3897/asp.81.e111799

29-12-2023

Unique: 1048 | Total: 1409

Reprint: € 8,00

1103-1120