New Zealand’s Endemic Pronkia Wasps Get Their Own Subfamily After DNA Study Upends Classification
A new molecular phylogeny shows that New Zealand's endemic wasp genus Pronkia does not belong in the subfamily Meteorideinae but ...
Tag: taxonomy
New mullein species from Xinjiang joins China’s Verbascum flora
Deep in the alpine grasslands of Kuerdening, in Gongliu County of China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, botanists have identified a ...
Hidden Fungal Diversity in China Reveals 17 New Species and Rewrites the Lepiota Family Tree
A massive phylogenetic study of nearly 950 specimens has resolved the evolutionary boundaries of Verrucosporaceae, describing 17 new species and ...
A Pyrenean moth isolated for millennia earns its own subspecies name
A noctuid moth population isolated in the Spanish Central Pyrenees for more than four decades is formally described as a ...
Lost for a century, a type specimen of an Arctic flatworm returns to science
A type specimen of the polyclad flatworm Plehnia arctica, collected during an 1889 Spitzbergen expedition and described by pioneering zoologist ...
Fly collected 200 years ago by Austrian explorer turns out to be a brand-new species
Specimens gathered by Johann Natterer in Brazil two centuries ago have revealed a new species of tachinid fly, Prophorostoma nattereri, ...
Eritrea’s true bugs: 384 species catalogued from 155 years of records
A review of 136 historical publications has compiled the first comprehensive checklist of Eritrea's Heteroptera, documenting 384 true bug species ...
Botanists Pin Down a Linnaean Name with a 270-Year-Old Herbarium Sheet
A new study in Italian Botanist designates a specimen from Linnaeus's own herbarium as the lectotype of Achillea impatiens, finally ...
Tiny Isopod Treasures: Eight New Crustacean Species Emerge from Sulawesi’s Coral Rubble
Eight new species of minute isopod crustaceans have been described from the coral rubble of Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, alongside a ...
New Tiny Wasp Species Discovered in China Could Protect Precious Agarwood Trees
Chinese researchers have formally described Trichogramma vitessoides, a new species of minute egg parasitoid wasp discovered attacking the defoliating moth ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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