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May 2007 (99 papers)

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 Zootaxa 1495, 68 pp (31 May 2007)  4 papers                                                                                                

 Article 
Zootaxa 1495: 1-34 (31 May 2007) 17 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 27 Mar. 2007
Euscelus species of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Attelabidae)
ROBERT W. HAMILTON (USA)

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Zootaxa 1495: 35-45 (31 May 2007) 3 plates; 28 references                            Accepted: 1 May 2007
A new thrips pest of Myoporum cultivars in California, in a new genus of leaf-galling Australian Phlaeothripidae (Thysanoptera)
LAURENCE A. MOUND & DAVID C. MORRIS (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1495: 47-52 (31 May 2007) 23 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 15 Dec. 2006
Two new species of the genus Mesonemoura and redescription of M. spiroglagellate (Plecoptera: Nemouridae) from China
YU-ZHOU DU, ZHI-JIE WANG & PEI ZHOU (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1495: 53-60 (31 May 2007) 5 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 24 Apr. 2007
Two new species of Bolbella Giglio-Tos, 1915 from Southern Africa (Dictyoptera: Mantodea)
MARTIN B. D. STIEWE (Germany)

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 Zootaxa 1494, 68 pp (31 May 2007)  2 papers 1 Correspondence                                                              

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Zootaxa 1494: 1-44 (31 May 2007) 26 plates; 33 references                            Accepted: 13 Mar. 2007
New species and host associations of commensal leucothoid amphipods from coral reefs in Florida and Belize (Crustacea:Amphipoda)
JAMES DARWIN THOMAS & KRISTINE N. KLEBBA (USA)

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Zootaxa 1494: 45-65 (31 May 2007) 14 plates; 32 references                            Accepted: 9 Mar. 2007
The Maugean Skate, Zearaja maugeana sp. nov. (Rajiformes: Rajidae) - a micro-endemic, Gondwanan relict from Tasmanian estuaries
PETER R. LAST & DANIEL C. GLEDHILL (Australia)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1494: 67-68 (31 May 2007) 0 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 17 May 2007
Comments on "Helping Solve the 'Other' Taxonomic Impediment: Completing the Eight Steps to Total Enlightenment and Taxonomic Nirvana" by Evenhuis (2007)
R. WILLS FLOWERS (USA)

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 Zootaxa 1493, 68 pp (31 May 2007)  3 papers 1 Correspondence                                                              

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Zootaxa 1493: 1-40 (31 May 2007) 21 plates; 89 references                            Accepted: 12 Mar. 2007
The diversity of a snake community in a karst forest ecosystem in the central Truong Son, Vietnam, with an identification key
THOMAS ZIEGLER (Germany), RALF HENDRIX (Germany), VU NGOC THANH (Vietnam), MARTINA VOGT (Vietnam), BERNHARD FORSTER (Vietnam) & DANG NGOC KIEN (Vietnam)

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Zootaxa 1493: 41-51 (31 May 2007) 2 plates; 49 references                            Accepted: 20 Mar. 2007
A phylogeny of the enigmatic Madagascan geckos of the genus Uroplatus (Squamata: Gekkonidae)
ELI GREENBAUM (USA), AARON M. BAUER (USA), TODD R. JACKMAN (USA), MIGUEL VENCES (Germany) & FRANK GLAW (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1493: 53-65 (31 May 2007) 6 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 3 Apr. 2007
A new species of Lissocidaris (Echinodermata: Echinoidea: Cidaridae) from the Philippines: convergent evolution among smooth-spined cidaroids
SIMON E. COPPARD (UK) & HENK VAN NOORDENBURG (The Netherlands)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1493: 66-68 (31 May 2007) 0 plates; 4 references                            Accepted: 26 Apr. 2007
The taxonomic status of the Venezuelan snakes Atractus matthewi and A. nororientalis (Serpentes, Colubridae)
PHILIPPE J. R. KOK (Belgium), GILSON A. RIVAS FUENMAYOR (Venezuela) and OLIVIER S. G. PAUWELS (Belgium)

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 Zootaxa 1492, 84 pp (31 May 2007)  1 Monograph                                                                                       

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Zootaxa 1492: 1-84 (31 May 2007) 1 plates; 488 references                            Accepted: 2 May 2007
An annotated check list of the world’s whiteflies (Insecta: Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)
JON H. MARTIN (UK) & LAURENCE A. MOUND (Australia)

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 Zootaxa 1491, 63 pp (31 May 2007)  1 Monograph                                                                                       

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1491: 1-63 (31 May 2007) 9 plates; 54 references                            Accepted: 23 Apr. 2007
A taxonomic review of the genus Azteca (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Costa Rica and a global revision of the aurita group
JOHN T. LONGINO (USA)

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 Zootaxa 1490, 63 pp (31 May 2007)  1 Monograph                                                                                       

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Zootaxa 1490: 1-63 (31 May 2007) 31 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 20 Mar. 2007
Review of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Sauria: Gekkonidae) in Sri Lanka with the description of five new species
L. J. MENDIS WICKRAMASINGHE & D. A. I. MUNINDRADASA (Sir Lanka)

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 Zootaxa 1489, 207 pp (31 May 2007)  1 Monograph                                                                                      

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1489: 1-207 (31 May 2007) 86 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 13 Mar. 2007
A revision of the Australian species of the water beetle genus Hydraena Kugelann (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
PHILIP D. PERKINS (USA)
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 Zootaxa 1488, 164 pp (31 May 2007)  1 Monograph                                                                                      

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1488: 1-164 (31 May 2007) 67 plates; 67 references                            Accepted: 24 Feb. 2007
Revision of the genus Elaphropeza Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from the Oriental Region, with a special attention to the fauna of Singapore
IGOR V. SHAMSHEV & PATRICK GROOTAERT (Belgium)

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 Zootaxa 1487, 128 pp (31 May 2007)  1 Monograph                                                                                      

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1487: 1-128 (31 May 2007) 18 plates; 107 references                            Accepted: 27 Feb. 2007
Tropical and subtropical velvet ants of the genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) with descriptions of 45 new species
DONALD G. MANLEY & JAMES P. PITTS (USA)

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 Zootaxa 1486, 84 pp (31 May 2007)  1 Monograph                                                                                        

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Zootaxa 1486: 1-84 (31 May 2007) 0 plates; 220 references                            Accepted: 19 Dec. 2006
Chrysopidae of Canada and Alaska (Insecta, Neuroptera): revised checklist, new and noteworthy records, and geo-referenced localities
J.A. GARLAND & D.K. MCE. KEVAN (Canada)

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 Zootaxa 1485, 68 pp (28 May 2007)  6 papers                                                                                               

 Article 
Zootaxa 1485: 1-12 (28 May 2007) 0 plates; 69 references                            Accepted: 12 Apr. 2007
Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on the centipede genera Chomatobius, Ityphilus, Hapleurytion, Plateurytion, and Steneurytion (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha)
Lucio Bonato, Luis A. Pereira & Alessandro Minelli (Italy)

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Zootaxa 1485: 13-32 (28 May 2007) 10 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 28 Mar. 2007
Two new species of Platymantis (Anura: Ranidae) from New Britain
FRED KRAUS & ALLEN ALLISON (USA)

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Zootaxa 1485: 33-41 (28 May 2007) 2 plates; 35 references                            Accepted: 24 Apr. 2007
An enigmatic new species of Glassfrog (Amphibia: Anura: Centrolenidae) from the Amazonian Andean slopes of Ecuador
DIEGO F. CISNEROS-HEREDIA (USA) & PAcL MEZA-RAMOS (Ecuador)

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Zootaxa 1485: 43-49 (28 May 2007) 4 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 20 Apr. 2007
A new species of the spider genus Xenonemesia Goloboff and first record of X. platensis Goloboff from Brazil (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Microstigmatidae)
Rafael Prezzi Indicatti, SYLVIA MARLENE LUCAS & ANTONIO DOMINGOS BRESCOVIT (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1485: 51-57 (28 May 2007) 5 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 28 Mar. 2007
Rediscovery of Phrynopus peruanus Peters 1874 (Amphibia, Anura, Leptodactylidae)
EDGAR LEHR (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1485: 59-68 (28 May 2007) 3 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 7 May 2007
New mites of the genus Pachyseius Berlese from Bulgaria (Acari: Pachylaelapidae)
PETER MAŠÁN & IVAN MIHÁL (Slovakia)

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 Zootaxa 1484, 68 pp (28 May 2007)  3 papers                                                                                               

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Zootaxa 1484: 1-38 (28 May 2007) 15 plates; 92 references                            Accepted: 31 Mar. 2007
Molecular systematics of Serrasalmidae: Deciphering the identities of piranha species and unraveling their evolutionary histories
BARBIE FREEMAN, LEO G. NICO, MATTHEW OSENTOSKI, HOWARD L. JELKS & TIMOTHY M. COLLINS (USA)

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Zootaxa 1484: 39-49 (28 May 2007) 4 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 18 Apr. 2007
On some morphologically aberrant, auto-epizootic forms of Plumularia setacea (Linnaeus, 1758) (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from southern Chile
HORIA R. GALEA (Chile) & LUCAS LECLERE (France)

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Zootaxa 1484: 51-68 (28 May 2007) 6 plates; 32 references                            Accepted: 19 Feb. 2007
Ascid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Ascidae) from Costa Rican hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae), with description of three new species and a key to the Proctolaelaps belemensis species group
FRANTISEK DUSBABEK (Czech Republic), IVAN LITERAK (Czech Republic), MIROSLAV CAPEK (Czech Republic) & MARTIN HAVLICEK (Australia)

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 Zootaxa 1483, 68 pp (28 May 2007)  3 papers                                                                                               

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Zootaxa 1483: 1-32 (28 May 2007) 20 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 21 Mar. 2007
Review of the caddisfly genus Tagalopsyche with the description of new species and a related new genus (Trichoptera: Leptoceridae: Mystacidini)
Ralph W. Holzenthal (USA) & Trond Andersen (Norway)

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Zootaxa 1483: 33-39 (28 May 2007) 3 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 11 Apr. 2007
Two new species of Itagonia Reitter (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae: Blaptini) from Tibet, China
AI-MIN SHI & GUO-DONG REN (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1483: 41-68 (28 May 2007) 8 plates; 47 references                            Accepted: 10 Apr. 2007
Revision of the Habropoda and Tetralonioidella species of Taiwan with comments on their host-parasitoid relationships (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apidae)
ANDREAS DUBITZKY (Germany)

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 Zootaxa 1482, 68 pp (24 May 2007)  2 papers                                                                                               

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Zootaxa 1482: 1-23 (24 May 2007) 41 plates; 81 references                            Accepted: 18 Apr. 2007
Anatomy and function of the penial twin papillae system of the Helicinae (Gastropoda: Helicoidea: Helicidae) and description of two new, small Hemicycla species from the laurel forest of the Canary Islands
MARIA R. ALONSO & MIGUEL IBANEZ (Spain)

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Zootaxa 1482: 25-68 (24 May 2007) 0 plates; 117 references                            Accepted: 28 Mar. 2007
Type specimens of amphibians in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, The Netherlands
M. EULALIA GASSO MIRACLE, LARS W. VAN DEN HOEK OSTENDE & JAN WILLEM ARNTZEN (The Netherlands)

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 Zootaxa 1481, 68 pp (24 May 2007)  5 papers                                                                                               

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Zootaxa 1481: 1-19 (24 May 2007) 10 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 18 Jan. 2007
A new species of Prionococcus (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea: Coccidae) from Mexico, with a discussion of its affinities
GIUSEPPINA PELLIZZARI (Italy) & CHRIS HODGSON (UK)

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Zootaxa 1481: 21-34 (24 May 2007) 0 plates; 67 references                            Accepted: 12 Apr. 2007
Nomenclatorial and faunistic notes on some world Aderidae (Coleoptera)
GIANLUCA NARDI (Italy)

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Zootaxa 1481: 35-47 (24 May 2007) 5 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 18 Apr. 2007
Neoapterocis, a new genus of apterous Ciidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from Chile and Mexico
CRISTIANO LOPES-ANDRADE (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1481: 49-58 (24 May 2007) 2 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 16 Apr. 2007
Resurrection and review of the genus Knowltonia Fisher, with description of a new subspecies of Chrysobothris Eschscholtz and new species of Acmaeodera Eschscholtz from North America (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
RICHARD L. WESTCOTT & WILLIAM F. BARR (USA)

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Zootaxa 1481: 59-68 (24 May 2007) 6 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 16 Apr. 2007
Geoparnus
rhinoceros sp. nov., a new edaphic dryopid with unusual sexual dimorphism (Coleoptera: Dryopidae)
JAN KODADA, MANFRED A. JACH, FEDOR CIAMPOR JR. & ZUZANA CIAMPOROVA-ZATOVICOVA (Slovakia)
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 Zootaxa 1480, 68 pp (24 May 2007)  2 papers                                                                                               

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Zootaxa 1480: 1-55 (24 May 2007) 29 plates; 22 references                            Accepted: 3 Apr. 2007
Revision of the Fedrizziidae (Acari: Mesostigmata: Fedrizzioidea)
OWEN D. SEEMAN (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1480: 57-68 (24 May 2007) 7 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 16 Apr. 2007
Five crab spiders of the Genus Lysiteles from Yunnan Province, China (Araneae: Thomisidae)
GUO TANG (P.R. China), CHANG-MING YIN (P.R. China), XIAN-JIN PENG (P.R. China), DARRELL UBICK (USA) & CHARLES GRISWOLD (USA)

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 Zootaxa 1479, 68 pp (21 May 2007)  4 papers   1 erratum                                                                          

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Zootaxa 1479: 1-7 (21 May 2007) 2 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 18 Jan. 2007
Macrobiotus alvaroi
, a new species of eutardigrade (Tardigrada, Macrobiotidae) of the polyopus group from Costa Rica (Central America)
Giovanni Pilato (Italy) & Lukasz Kaczmarek (Poland)

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Zootaxa 1479: 9-19 (21 May 2007) 3 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 12 Feb. 2007
New species of Pseudosinella (Collembola: Entomobryidae) from Iberian Peninsula
JOSE CARLOS SIMON BENITO (Spain) & JOSE G. PALACIOS-VARGAS (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 1479: 21-33 (21 May 2007) 9 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 17 Apr. 2007
Acoela (Acoelomorpha) from Belize
MATTHEW D. HOOGE & Seth Tyler (USA)

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Zootaxa 1479: 35-66 (21 May 2007) 23 plates; 35 references                            Accepted: 24 Feb. 2007
Convolutidae (Acoela) from Belize
JOHANNES G. ACHATZ, MATTHEW D. HOOGE & SETH TYLER (USA)

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1479: 67-68 (21 May 2007)

Erratum (Convolutidae (Acoela) from Tanzania by Achatz & Hooge (2006) Zootaxa, 1362, 1-21)
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 Zootaxa 1478, 68 pp (21 May 2007)  5 papers     2 Correspondence                                                         

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Zootaxa 1478: 1-19 (21 May 2007) 12 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 27 Mar. 2007
A review of Eotrechus Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerridae) of Thailand with descriptions of three new species
AKEKAWAT VITHEEPRADIT & ROBERT W. SITES (USA)

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Zootaxa 1478: 21-31 (21 May 2007) 6 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 27 Mar. 2007
Biodiversity patterns of cavernicolous ground-beetles and their conservation status in the Azores, with the description of a new species: Trechus isabelae n. sp. (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae)
PAULO A. V. BORGES (Portugal), PEDRO OROMI (Spain), ARTUR R. M. SERRANO (Portugal), ISABEL R. AMORIM (USA) & FERNANDO PEREIRA (Portugal)

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Zootaxa 1478: 33-40 (21 May 2007) 4 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 4 Apr. 2007
The genus Leucodellus Reuter, 1906 in China (Hemiptera: Miridae: Phylinae)
XIAO-MING LI & GUO-QING LIU (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1478: 41-48 (21 May 2007) 4 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 4 Apr. 2007
A new genus and species of Heptageniidae (Ephemeroptera) from Borneo, with revisions to the classification of the Ecdyonurinae
J.M. Webb & W.P. MCCAFFERTY (USA)

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Zootaxa 1478: 49-59 (21 May 2007) 4 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 16 Apr. 2007
A new species of Metadorcinus Kriesche from Brazil with notes on the genus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Lucanidae)
PASCHOAL C. GROSSI (Brazil) & FERNANDO Z. VAZ-DE-MELLO (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 1478: 61-64 (21 May 2007) 4 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 7 Feb. 2007
A new species of Ptomaphagus (Appadelopsis) (Coleoptera: Leiodidae) from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A.
ALEXEY K. TISHECHKIN (USA)

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Zootaxa 1478: 65-68 (21 May 2007) 2 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 9 Apr. 2007
Megalyra baltica Poinar and Shaw n. sp. (Hymenoptera: Megalyridae), a long-tailed wasp from Baltic amber
GEORGE POINAR, JR. & SCOTT RICHARD SHAW (USA)

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 Zootaxa 1477, 70 pp (17 May 2007)  1 monograph                                                                                       

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Zootaxa 1477: 1-70 (17 May 2007) 25 plates; 106 references                            Accepted: 31 Jan. 2007
A review of the species of Belostoma Latreille, 1807 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Belostomatidae) from the four southeastern Brazilian states
JOSI RICARDO INACIO RIBEIRO (Brazil)

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 Zootaxa 1476, 68 pp (17 May 2007)  2 papers                                                                                                

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Zootaxa 1476: 1-50 (17 May 2007) 17 plates; 62 references                            Accepted: 20 Mar. 2007
Taxonomy and anatomy of Amphiboloidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Archaeopulmonata)
ROSEMARY E. GOLDING, WINSTON F. PONDER & MARIA BYRNE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1476: 51-68 (17 May 2007) 0 plates; 39 references                            Accepted: 5 Mar. 2007
Checklist of digenean parasites of amphibians and reptiles from Argentina
Lia I. Lunaschi & Fabiana B. Drago (Argentina)

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 Zootaxa 1475, 68 pp (17 May 2007)  5 papers                                                                                                

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Zootaxa 1475: 1-19 (17 May 2007) 6 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 19 Mar. 2007
New ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Micronesia
RONALD M. CLOUSE (USA)

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Zootaxa 1475: 21-26 (17 May 2007) 4 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 12 Apr. 2007
Thaumastaneis nigricans, a new species of a remarkable ant-mimetic Larginae (Hemiptera: Largidae) and the discovery of an ant-mimetic complex
PABLO MATIAS DELLAPE & MARIA CECILIA MELO (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 1475: 27-42 (17 May 2007) 4 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 13 Mar. 2007
Revision of the New World leafhopper genus Neozygina Dietrich & Dmitriev (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Erythroneurini)
C. H. Dietrich & D. A. Dmitriev (USA)
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Zootaxa 1475: 43-59 (17 May 2007) 9 plates; 33 references                            Accepted: 7 Mar. 2007
Revision of the Australian Andini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with a description of five new species
BIRGIT LOCKER, MURRAY J. FLETCHER, WERNER E. HOLZINGER & GEOFF M. GURR (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1475: 61-68 (17 May 2007) 2 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 2 Apr. 2007
Karyotypes of Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea) in Northeast China
NA LI & BING-ZHONG REN (P.R. China)

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 Zootaxa 1474, 68 pp (14 May 2007)  3 papers                                                                                                

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Zootaxa 1474: 1-54 (14 May 2007) 22 plates; 33 references                            Accepted: 7 Mar. 2007
On the Xantholinini of Turkey and adjacent regions (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)
VOLKER ASSING (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1474: 55-62 (14 May 2007) 5 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 16 Apr. 2007
A remarkable new species of Empidideicus (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae) from Madagascar
NEAL L. EVENHUIS (USA)

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Zootaxa 1474: 63-68 (14 May 2007) 3 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 2 Apr. 2007
A review of the genus Paraxizicus Gorochov & Kang, 2005 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae)
SHAO-LI MAO & FU-MING SHI (P.R. China)

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 Zootaxa 1473, 68 pp (14 May 2007)  3 papers                                                                                                

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Zootaxa 1473: 1-24 (14 May 2007) 11 plates; 33 references                            Accepted: 31 Jan. 2007
New species of terebellid polychaetes (Polychaeta: Terebellidae) from Australia
JOAO MIGUEL DE MATOS NOGUEIRA (Brazil) & PAT A. HUTCHINGS(Australia)

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Zootaxa 1473: 25-44 (14 May 2007) 15 plates; 33 references                            Accepted: 7 Mar. 2007
A new species of Formicivora antwren from the Chapada Diamantina, eastern Brazil (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae)
LUIZ PEDREIRA GONZAGA (Brazil), ANDRE M. P. CARVALHAES (USA) & DANTE R. C. BUZZETTI (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1473: 45-68 (14 May 2007) 2 plates; 46 references                            Accepted: 4 Apr. 2007
A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of Iran
VLADIMIR PESIC (Serbia and Montenegro) & ALIREZA SABOORI (Iran)

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 Zootaxa 1472, 68 pp (14 May 2007)  3 papers                                                                                                

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Zootaxa 1472: 1-28 (14 May 2007) 6 plates; 93 references                            Accepted: 17 Mar. 2007
A review of the subgenus Euprepiosaurus of Varanus (Squamata: Varanidae): morphological and molecular phylogeny, distribution and zoogeography, with an identification key for the members of the V. indicus and the V. prasinus species groups
THOMAS ZIEGLER (Germany), ANDREAS SCHMITZ (Switzerland), ANDRE KOCH (Germany) & WOLFGANG BOHME (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1472: 29-54 (14 May 2007) 1 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 16 Mar. 2007
A catalogue of the fishes held in the Istanbul University, Science Faculty, Hydrobiology Museum
NURETTIN MERIC, LUTFIYE ERYILMAZ & MUFIT OZULUG (Turkey)

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Zootaxa 1472: 55-68 (14 May 2007) 5 plates; 32 references                            Accepted: 3 Apr. 2007
Oribatid mites of the family Astegistidae (Acari: Oribatida) in Mongolia
BADAMDORJ BAYARTOGTOKH (Mongalia)

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 Zootaxa 1471, 68 pp (10 May 2007)  6 papers                                                                                                

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Zootaxa 1471: 1-14 (10 May 2007) 6 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 19 Mar. 2007
Description of two new Temnothorax species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Italy
ANDREAS SCHULZ, JURGEN HEINZE & KATJA PUSCH (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1471: 15-25 (10 May 2007) 6 plates; 9 references                            Accepted: 28 Feb. 2007
Echiniscus ganczareki, a new species of Tardigrada (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae, bigranulatus group) from Costa Rica
L
UKASZ MICHALCZYK (UK) & LUKASZ KACZMAREK (Poland)

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Zootaxa 1471: 27-41 (10 May 2007) 9 plates; 17 references                             Accepted: 10 Nov. 2006
Freshwater Sawfish Pristis microdon Latham, 1794 (Chondrichthyes : Pristidae) in the Kimberley region of Western Australia
DEAN C. THORBURN, DAVID L. MORGAN, ANDREW J. ROWLAND & HOWARD S. GILL (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1471: 43-51 (10 May 2007) 4 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 7 Mar. 2007
Two new species of the enigmatic genus Stenophareus (Opiliones: Laniatores: Stygnidae) from the Venezuelan Guiana Shield
OSVALDO VILLARREAL MANZANILLA, CARLOS DONASCIMIENTO & CARLOS J. RODRIGUEZ (Venezuela)

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Zootaxa 1471: 53-59 (10 May 2007) 3 plates; 17 references                              Accepted: 31 Dec. 2006
Ituglanis paraguassuensis sp. n. (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae): a new catfish from the rio Paraguacu, northeastern Brazil
Rafael M. Campos-Paiva & Wilson J. E. M. Costa (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1471: 61-68 (10 May 2007) 2 plates; 28 references                              Accepted: 20 Mar. 2007
New taxonomic position of several Macrobiotus species (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae)
ROBERTO GUIDETTI (Italy), ROBERTO BERTOLANI (Italy) & PETER DEGMA (Slovakia)

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 Zootaxa 1470, 68 pp (10 May 2007)  4 papers                                                                                                

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Zootaxa 1470: 1-33 (10 May 2007) 7 plates; 39 references                             Accepted: 23 Feb. 2007
Type specimens of "insectivoran" mammals at the Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin
Hendrik Turni (Germany), RAINER HUTTERER (Germany) & ROBERT ASHER (UK)

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Zootaxa 1470: 35-46 (10 May 2007) 4 plates; 24 references                             Accepted: 12 Feb. 2007
Redescription and variation of Micrurus paraensis Cunha & Nascimento 1973 (Serpentes: Elapidae)
DARLAN TAVARES FEITOSA, ANA LUCIA DA COSTA PRUDENTE & ANA CAROLINE DE LIMA (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1470: 47-57 (10 May 2007) 7 plates; 16 references                             Accepted: 13 Feb. 2007
A new species of Leiosaurus (Iguania: Leiosauridae) from central-western Argentina
ALEJANDRO LASPIUR, JUAN CARLOS ACOSTA & CRISTIAN S. ABDALA (Argentina)

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Zootaxa 1470: 59-68 (10 May 2007) 3 plates; 16 references                             Accepted: 17 Jan. 2007
A new species of Paguristes Dana, 1851 (Anomura, Paguroidea, Diogenidae) from the Mexican Pacific
MANUEL AYON PARENTE & MICHEL E. HENDRICKX (Mexico)

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 Zootaxa 1469, 68 pp (10 May 2007)  4 papers 1 Correspondence                                                               

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Zootaxa 1469: 1-42 (10 May 2007) 22 plates; 38 references                             Accepted: 12 Feb. 2007
An illustrated annotated check-list of the species of Catasticta (s.l.) Butler (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) of Venezuela
MAURIZIO Bollino (Italy) & MAURO Costa (Venezuela)

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Zootaxa 1469: 43-50 (10 May 2007) 3 plates; 7 references                             Accepted: 27 Mar. 2007
A new species group of the genus Trechosia from the Cape region of South Africa (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechinae)
GERNOT GEGINAT (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1469: 51-57 (10 May 2007) 3 plates; 14 references                             Accepted: 4 Apr. 2007
Two new European species of Delia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) with a bipartite male sternite III
VERNER MICHELSEN (Sweden)

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Zootaxa 1469: 59-64 (10 May 2007) 3 plates; 12 references                             Accepted: 4 Apr. 2007
A new family of Cavilabiata from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation, China (Odonata: Anisoptera)
QI-BIN LIN (P.R. China), DI-YING HUANG (P.R. China) & A. NEL (France)

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Zootaxa 1469: 65-68 (10 May 2007) 1 plates; 14 references                             Accepted: 4 Apr.  2007
A new species of the genus Stachorutes Dallai, 1973 from China (Collembola, Neanuridae)
YAN GAO & WENYING YIN (P.R. China)

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 Zootaxa 1468, 68 pp (7 May 2007)  2 papers                                                                                                 

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Zootaxa 1468: 1-55 (7 May 2007) 30 plates; 21 references                             Accepted: 9 Dec. 2006
Fifteen new species of Chilicola (Hymenoptera: Apoidea; Colletidae)
LAURENCE PACKER & JULIO A. GENARO (Canada)

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Zootaxa 1468: 57-68 (7 May 2007) 6 plates; 24 references                             Accepted: 1 Dec. 2006
Kiskeya palassaina, new genus and new species of Saicinae (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from the Dominican Republic
CHRISTIANE WEIRAUCH & DIMITRI FOREROA (USA)

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 Zootaxa 1467, 68 pp (7 May 2007)  6 papers                                                                                                 

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Zootaxa 1467: 1-18 (7 May 2007) 4 plates; 13 references                             Accepted: 5 Dec. 2006
Myrsidea Waterston (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from the Emberizidae (Passeriformes), with descriptions of 13 new species
ROGER D. PRICE & ROBERT C. DALGLEISH (USA)

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Zootaxa 1467: 19-34 (7 May 2007) 11 plates; 53 references                             Accepted: 13 Feb. 2007
Two new relict Syncordulia species found during museum and field studies of threatened dragonflies in the Cape Floristic Region (Odonata: Corduliidae)
KLAAS-DOUWE B. DIJKSTRA (The Netherlands), MICHAEL J. SAMWAYS (South Africa) and JOHN P. SIMAIKA (South Africa)

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Zootaxa 1467: 35-41 (7 May 2007) 13 plates; 12 references                             Accepted: 15 Jan. 2007
A new genus and species of Plumariidae (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea) from western xeric Argentina
PATRICIA DIEZ, PATRICIO FIDALGO & ARTURO ROIG-ALSINA (Argentina)

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Zootaxa 1467: 43-49 (7 May 2007) 2 plates; 17 references                             Accepted: 29 Mar. 2007
On Gerridae (Insecta: Heteroptera) from Bhutan, with description of a new species of Onychotrechus Kirkaldy, 1903
Herbert Zettel (Austria) & Tran Anh Duc (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 1467: 51-62 (7 May 2007) 5 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 17 Mar. 2007
A taxonomic review of Longchuanacris Zheng et Fu (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Catantopinae), with descriptions of two new species from Yunnan, China
BEN-YONG MAO, GUO-DONG REN & XIAO-HONG OU (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1467: 63-68 (7 May 2007) 3 plates; 11 references                             Accepted: 27 Mar. 2007
The genus Nicostratus Distant from China (Hemiptera: Miridae: Deraeocorinae)
JING-YANG XU & GUO-QING LIU (P.R. China)

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 Zootaxa 1466, 68 pp (7 May 2007)  6 papers