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August 2007 (107 papers)

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 Zootaxa 1572, 82 pp (31 Aug. 2007) 1 Monograph                                                                                      

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1572: 1-82 (31 Aug. 2007) 24 plates; 244 references                            Accepted: 3 Aug. 2007
Revision of the characters of Centrolenidae (Amphibia: Anura: Athesphatanura), with comments on its taxonomy and the description of new taxa of glassfrogs
DIEGO F. CISNEROS-HEREDIA (UK) & ROY W. MCDIARMID
(USA)
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 Zootaxa 1571, 78 pp (31 Aug. 2007) 1 Monograph                                                                                      

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1571: 1-78 (31 Aug. 2007) 35 plates; 62 references                            Accepted: 7 Jun. 2007
Skeletomusculature of Scelionidae (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea): head and mesosoma
ISTVAN MIKO (Hungary), LARS VILHELMSEN (Denmark), NORMAN F. JOHNSON (USA), LUBOMIR MASNER (Canada) & ZSOLT
PENZES (Hungary)
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 Zootaxa 1570, 84 pp (31 Aug. 2007) 1 Monograph                                                                                      

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1570: 1-84 (31 Aug. 2007) 128 plates; 243 references                            Accepted: 2 Jul. 2007
Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography
PAUL D. BROCK (UK) & JACK HASENPUSCH
(Australia)
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 Zootaxa 1569, 139 pp (31 Aug. 2007) 1 Monograph                                                                                     

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1569: 1-139 (31 Aug. 2007) 63 plates; 64 references                            Accepted: 25 May 2007
Taxonomic revision of the longicorn beetle genus Uracanthus Hope 1833 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Uracanthini) from Australia
DUANGRAT THONGPHAK & QIAO WANG
(New Zealand)
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 Zootaxa 1568, 872 pp (31 Aug. 2007) 1 Monograph                                                                                     

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1568: 1-872 (31 Aug. 2007) 13 plates; 1409 references                            Accepted: 9 Feb. 2007
An annotated checklist and keys to the species of Copepoda Harpacticoida (Crustacea)
J.B.J. WELLS
(New Zealand)
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 Zootaxa 1567, 116 pp (31 Aug. 2007) 1 Monograph                                                                                     

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1567: 1-116 (31 Aug. 2007) 27 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 26 Jul. 2007
Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 1, Taxonomy of the Pollexinae
MICHAEL FIBIGER
(Denmark)
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 Zootaxa 1566, 95 pp (31 Aug. 2007) 1 Monograph                                                                                     

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1566: 1-95 (31 Aug. 2007) 73 plates; 58 references                            Accepted: 28 Jun. 2007
A review of the Australian species of Ampithoe Leach, 1814 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Ampithoidae) with descriptions of seventeen new species
RACHAEL A. PEART
(Australia)
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 Zootaxa 1565, 151 pp (31 Aug. 2007) 1 Monograph                                                                                     

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1565: 1-151 (31 Aug. 2007) 81 plates; 103 references                            Accepted: 10 May 2007
Ostracoda (Myodocopa) from Anchialine Caves and Ocean Blue Holes
LOUIS S. KORNICKER, THOMAS M. ILIFFE & ELIZABETH HARRISON-NELSON
(USA)
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 Zootaxa 1564, 104 pp (31 Aug. 2007) 1 Monograph                                                                                     

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1564: 1-104 (31 Aug. 2007) 1 plates; 61 references                            Accepted: 26 Apr. 2007
Annotated checklist of the rotifers (Phylum Rotifera), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy and distribution
HENDRIK SEGERS
(Belgium)
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 Zootaxa 1563, 68 pp (29 Aug. 2007)  5 papers                                                                                               

 Article 
Zootaxa 1563: 1-16 (29 Aug. 2007) 7 plates; 49 references                            Accepted: 7 Aug. 2007
Identifying species of Bythinella (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea): A plea for an integrative approach
MARTIN HAASE (Germany), THOMAS WILKE (GERMANY) & PAUL MILDNER (AUSTRIA)

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Zootaxa 1563: 17-30 (29 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 23 May 2007
Description of two species in the alpheid shrimp genus Athanas Leach, 1814, with remarks on A. amazone Holthuis, 1951 (Decapoda, Caridea)
ARTHUR ANKER (USA) & SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 1563: 31-36 (29 Aug. 2007) 2 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 2 Aug. 2007
The shocking pink dragon millipede, Desmoxytes purpurosea, a colourful new species from Thailand (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae)
HENRIK ENGHOFF (Denmark), CHIRASAK SUTCHARIT (Thailand) & SOMSAK PANHA (Thailand)

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Zootaxa 1563: 37-54 (29 Aug. 2007) 9 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 11 Aug. 2007
Two new sphyrapodid species (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Apseudomorpha) from southwestern Japan
KEIICHI KAKUI, HIROSHI KAJIHARA & SHUNSUKE F. MAWATARI (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1563: 55-68 (29 Aug. 2007) 2 plates; 29 references                            Accepted: 15 Jul. 2007
Revision of the family Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902 with the proposal of two new subfamilies and the description of a new species of Morishitium Witenberg, 1928 from the common snipe, Gallinago gallinago, from Texas, U.S.A.
NORMAN O. DRONEN (USA)

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 Zootaxa 1562, 68 pp (29 Aug. 2007)  4 papers                                                                                               

 Article 
Zootaxa 1562: 1-42 (29 Aug. 2007) 119 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 7 May 2007
Review of the Chinese Hyperomias Marshall (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) with description of a new species
LI REN (P.R. China), MIGUEL A. ALONSO-ZARAZAGA (Spain) & RUNZHI ZHANG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1562: 43-53 (29 Aug. 2007) 3 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 20 Jul. 2007
Eupholidoptera karatolosi sp.n. and E. mirzayani sp.n. (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae), two new bushcrickets from Greece and Iran
MOHSEN MOFIDI-NEYESTANAK & DONALD L. J. QUICKE (UK)

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Zootaxa 1562: 55-61 (29 Aug. 2007) 3 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 15 Jul. 2007
Stipesoculus, a new genus of micropterous Mezirinae (Hemiptera: Aradidae) from China
XIAOSHUAN BAI, ZHIYI WU & WANZHI CAI (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1562: 63-68 (29 Aug. 2007) 2 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 15 Jul. 2007
Description of new genus and species of Ochlerini from Central America (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Discocephalinae)1
VIVIANA CAUDURO MATESCO, JOCELIA GRAZIA & LUIZ ALEXANDRE CAMPOS (Brasil)

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 Zootaxa 1561, 68 pp (27 Aug. 2007)  3 papers                                                                                               

 Article 
Zootaxa 1561: 1-52 (27 Aug. 2007) 10 plates; 183 references                            Accepted: 28 May. 2007
Insects found in birds' nests from Argentina. Part I: a bibliographical review, with taxonomical corrections, comments and a hypothetical mechanism of transmission of cimicid bugs
PAOLA TURIENZO & OSVALDO DI IORIO (Argentina)
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1561: 53-61 (27 Aug. 2007) 4 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 24 Jul. 2007
New records of the genera Acerentulus and Brasilidia (Protura: Acerentomidae) from China, with descriptions of two new species
D.H. WU & W.Y. YIN (P.R. China)
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Zo
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1561: 63-68 (27 Aug. 2007) 2 plates; 4 references                              Accepted: 10 Jul. 2007
Two new Species of Tricorythodes Ulmer (Ephemeroptera: Leptohyphidae) from Colombia
DANIEL E. EMMERICH (Colombia)

 Zootaxa 1560, 68 pp (27 Aug. 2007)  6 papers                                                                                               

 Article 
Zootaxa 1560: 1-17 (27 Aug. 2007) 8 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 11 Jul. 2007
Some New Zealand Polyclads (Platyhelminthes, Polycladida)
JOHN J. HOLLEMAN (USA)
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Zootaxa 1560: 19-30 (27 Aug. 2007) 8 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 20 Jul. 2007
Cirrhigaleus australis n. sp., a new Mandarin dogfish (Squaliformes: Squalidae) from the south-west Pacific
WILLIAM T. WHITE, PETER R. LAST & JOHN D. STEVENS (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1560: 31-41 (27 Aug. 2007) 4 plates; 28 references                            Accepted: 26 Jul. 2007
A new and distinctive species of the hermit crab genus Catapaguropsis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from the South China Sea
PATSY A. MCLAUGHLIN & RAFAEL LEMAITRE (USA)
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Zootaxa 1560: 43-53 (27 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 9 Aug. 2007
Oligosarcus perdido (Characiformes, Characidae), a new species of freshwater fish from Serra da Bodoquena, upper Rio Paraguai basin, Brazil
ALEXANDRE C. RIBEIRO, MARCEL R. CAVALLARO & OTAVIO FROEHLICH (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1560: 55-61 (27 Aug. 2007) 3 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 27 Jul. 2007
Three new ground dweller Mesabolivar Gonzalez-Sponga, 1998 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil
EWERTON O. MACHADO, ANTONIO D. BRESCOVIT, RAFAEL C. FRANCISCO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1560: 63-68 (27 Aug. 2007) 3 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 9 Jul. 2007
Redescription of Tagulis mystacinus (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Sri Lanka
Suresh P. Benjamin (USA) & Ziyard Jalee (Sri Lanka)
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 Zootaxa 1559, 68 pp (24 Aug. 2007)  3 papers                                                                                               

 Article 
Zootaxa 1559: 1-30 (24 Aug. 2007) 4 plates; 49 references                            Accepted: 9 Jul. 2007
Review of the Capsalinae (Monogenea: Capsalidae)
LESLIE A. CHISHOLM & IAN D. WHITTINGTON (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1559: 31-57 (24 Aug. 2007) 13 plates; 78 references                            Accepted: 20 Jun. 2007
Morphology and morphogenesis of Strongylidium pseudocrassum Wang and Nie, 1935, with redefinition of Strongylidium Sterki, 1878 (Protista: Ciliophora: Stichotrichia)
THIAGO DA SILVA PAIVA & INACIO DOMINGOS DA SILVA-NETO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1559: 59-68 (24 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 4 references                            Accepted: 24 May 2007
Julmarichardia gutui, a new species of Apseudomorph Tanaidacean (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida) from the Australian northwest continental shelf
REBECCA KIRK RITGER & RICHARD W. HEARD (USA)

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 Zootaxa 1558, 68 pp (24 Aug. 2007)  3 papers                                                                                               

 Article 
Zootaxa 1558: 1-28 (24 Aug. 2007) 6 plates; 86 references                            Accepted: 12 Jun. 2007
Taxonomy of sympatric New Zealand species of Platynereis, with description of three new species additional to P. australis (Schmarda) (Annelida: Polychaeta: Nereididae)
GEOFFREY B. READ (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 1558: 29-37 (24 Aug. 2007) 3 plates; 22 references                            Accepted: 20 Jul. 2007
A remarkable new species of Multumbo showing sexual dimorphism, with the transfer of Multumbo and Piassagera to the Hernandariinae (Opiliones, Gonyleptidae)
Marcio B. daSilva & Adriano B. Kury (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1558: 39-68 (24 Aug. 2007) 13 plates; 60 references                            Accepted: 28 May 2007
Establishment of the Vultocinidae, a new family for an unusual new genus and new species of Indo-West Pacific crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacoidea), with comments on the taxonomy of the Goneplacidae
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & MARIVENE R. MANUEL-SANTOS (Philippines)

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 Zootaxa 1557, 68 pp (22 Aug. 2007)  4 papers        1 Correspondence                                                       

 Article 
Zootaxa 1557: 1-32 (22 Aug. 2007) 1 plates; 80 references                            Accepted: 22 Jun. 2007
A taxonomic revision of Atelopus pachydermus, and description of two new (extinct?) species of Atelopus from Ecuador (Anura: Bufonidae)
LUIS A. COLOMA (Ecuador), STEFAN LOTTERS (The Netherlands), WILLIAM E. DUELLMAN (USA) & ALFONSO MIRANDA-LEIVA (Peru)

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Zootaxa 1557: 33-45 (22 Aug. 2007) 1 plates; 43 references                            Accepted: 17 May 2007
Benthic decapod crustaceans (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Cubagua Island, Venezuela
IVAN HERNANDEZ-AVILA, ALFREDO GOMEZ, CARLOS LIRA & LEE GALINDO (Venezuela)
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Zootaxa 1557: 47-58 (22 Aug. 2007) 4 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 25 Jun. 2007
New species of the genus Archimonocelis Meixner, 1938 (Proseriata, Archimonocelididae) from southern Apulia (Italy)
MARCO CURINI-GALLETTI, VALENTINA DELOGU, PAOLO CAMPUS & MARCO CASU (Italy)

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Zootaxa 1557: 59-66 (22 Aug. 2007) 4 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 2 Jul. 2007
Caenotropus schizodon, a new chilodontid fish from the Rio Tapajos drainage, Brazil (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Chilodontidae)
ALEXANDRE SCHARCANSKY & CARLOS ALBERTO SANTOS DE LUCENA (Brazil)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1557: 67-68 (22 Aug. 2007) 0 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 3 Aug. 2007
Lack of secondary sexual characters in a male of Tsingymantis antitra confirms its position as most basal mantelline frog lineage
ACHILLE P. RASELIMANANA (Madagascar), FRANK GLAW (Germany) & MIGUEL VENCES (Germany)

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 Zootaxa 1556, 68 pp (22 Aug. 2007)  4 papers                                                                                               

 Article 
Zootaxa 1556: 1-30 (22 Aug. 2007) 11 plates; 43 references                            Accepted: 22 Jun. 2007
A taxonomic revision of the hover wasp genus Eustenogaster van der Vecht (Insecta: Hymenoptera; Vespidae, Stenogastrinae)
FUKI SAITO & JUN-ICHI KOJIMA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1556: 31-50 (22 Aug. 2007) 10 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 27 Jun. 2007
The flagria group of Keilbachia Mohrig (Diptera, Sciaridae) in a biodiversity hot spot: nine new sympatric species from Kambaiti, Myanmar
HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden) & PEKKA VILKAMAA (Finland)

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Zootaxa 1556: 51-60 (22 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 4 references                            Accepted: 17 Jul. 2007
Revision of the Papua New Guinea genus Elemacoris Miller (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae)
PING ZHAO (P.R. China), JEROME CONSTANT (Belgium), & WANZHI CAI (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1556: 61-68 (22 Aug. 2007) 1 plates; 36 references                            Accepted: 24 Jul. 2007
Description of a New Species of Pararrhynchium Saussure (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from Taiwan with a Catalogue of the Pararrhynchium Species
KIM, JEONG KYU (Korea) & SEIKI YAMANE (Japan)

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 Zootaxa 1555, 68 pp (20 Aug. 2007)  4 papers                                                                                               

 Article 
Zootaxa 1555: 1-20 (20 Aug. 2007) 13 plates; 22 references                            Accepted: 29 Jun. 2007
A revision of the Neotropical spider genus Oligoxystre Vellard 1924 (Theraphosidae, Ischnocolinae)
JOSE PAULO LEITE GUADANUCCI (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1555: 21-38 (20 Aug. 2007) 8 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 28 Jun. 2007
A new species of Allobates (Anura: Aromobatidae: Allobatinae) exhibiting a novel reproductive behaviour
PHILIPPE J. R. KOK (Belgium) & RAFFAEL ERNST (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1555: 39-51 (20 Aug. 2007) 8 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 2 Jun. 2007
A new, toxic species of Colostethus (Anura: Dendrobatidae: Colostethinae) from the Cordillera Central of Colombia
TARAN GRANT (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1555: 53-68 (20 Aug. 2007) 9 plates; 22 references                            Accepted: 1 Aug. 2007
Rediscovery of Bathypsammis Huys & Gee, 1993 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Pseudotachidiidae) with description of a new species from the Antarctic deep sea
ELKE WILLEN & MAXIMILIAN SCHULZ (Germany)

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 Zootaxa 1554, 68 pp (20 Aug. 2007)  5 papers        2Correspondence                                                      

 Article 
Zootaxa 1554: 1-26 (20 Aug. 2007) 10 plates; 90 references                            Accepted: 22 Jun. 2007
Reticulitermes malletei (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae): a valid Nearctic subterranean termite from Eastern North America
J.W. AUSTIN (USA), A.-G. BAGNERES (France), A.L. SZALANSKI (USA), R.H. SCHEFFRAHN (USA), B.P. HEINTSCHEL (USA), M.T. MESSENGER (USA), J.-L. CLEMENT (France) & R.E. GOLD (USA)

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Zootaxa 1554: 27-40 (20 Aug. 2007) 11 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 4 Jul. 2007
Revision of the Holarctic genus Novakia Strobl (Diptera: Mycetophilidae)
PETER H. KERR (USA)

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Zootaxa 1554: 41-48 (20 Aug. 2007) 6 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 9 Jul. 2007
Myrciariamyia admirabilis, a new species of gall midge (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) associated with Erythroxylum suberosum (Erythroxylaceae)
VALERIA CID MAIA & G. WILSON FERNANDES (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1554: 49-55 (20 Aug. 2007) 2 plates; 35 references                            Accepted: 29 Jun. 2007
Morphology and surface structure of eggs and first instar larvae of Croce schmidti (Navas, 1927) (Neuroptera: Nemopteridae)
ALI SATAR, ZEKIYE SULUDERE, SELAMI CANDAN, SAVAS CANBULAT (Turkey)

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Zootaxa 1554: 57-62 (20 Aug. 2007) 29 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 11 Jul. 2007
New species of the Genus Amphinemura (Plecoptera: Nemouridae) from Yunnan, China
YU-ZHOU DU & ZHI-JIE WANG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1554: 63-65 (20 Aug. 2007) 1 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 12 Jul. 2007
A new species of the genus Hesperempis Melander (Diptera: Empididae) from Siberia
IGOR V. SHAMSHEV (Russia)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1554: 67-68 (20 Aug. 2007) 1 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 11 Jul. 2007
The status of Clinocera rufipes Bezzi, a new junior synonym of Clinocera nigra Meigen (Diptera: Empididae: Clinocerinae)
BRADLEY J. SINCLAIR (Canada)

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 Zootaxa 1553, 68 pp (20 Aug. 2007)  3 papers                                                                                               

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Zootaxa 1553: 1-45 (20 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 146 references                            Accepted: 14 Jun. 2007
Stomatopod and decapod crustaceans from Camamu Bay, state of Bahia, Brazil
Alexandre Oliveira de Almeida, Maria Cecilia Guerrazzi & Petronio Alves Coelho (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1553: 47-58 (20 Aug. 2007) 0 plates; 41 references                            Accepted: 12 Jun. 2007
The Ixodes (Acari: Ixodidae) of Mexico: parasite-host and host-parasite checklists
CARMEN GUZMAN-CORNEJO (Mexico), RICHARD G. ROBBINS (USA) & TILA M. PEREZ (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 1553: 59-68 (20 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 8 Jun. 2007
Hypostomus rhantos (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), a new species from southern Venezuela
JONATHAN W. ARMBRUSTER, LEIGH A. TANSEY & NATHAN K. LUJAN (USA)

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 Zootaxa 1552, 68 pp (17 Aug. 2007)  3 papers                                                                                               

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Zootaxa 1552: 1-33 (17 Aug. 2007) 18 plates; 39 references                            Accepted: 1 Jun. 2007
The genus Scirtothrips Shull (Insecta, Thysanoptera, Thripidae) and three related genera in Japan
MASAMI MASUMOTO & SHUJI OKAJIMA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1552: 35-52 (17 Aug. 2007) 1 plates; 98 references                            Accepted: 18 Jun. 2007
A checklist of Turkish Neuroptera with annotating on provincial distributions
SAVAS CANBULAT (Turkey)

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Zootaxa 1552: 53-68 (17 Aug. 2007) 7 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 27 Jun. 2007
Review of the Nearctic Claustropyga Hippa, Vilkamaa & Mohrig (Diptera, Sciaridae) with the description of three new species
PEKKA VILKAMAA (Finland) & HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden)

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 Zootaxa 1551, 68 pp (15 Aug. 2007)  4 papers                                                                                                

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Zootaxa 1551: 1-30 (15 Aug. 2007) 19 plates; 44 references                            Accepted: 12 May 2007
Calommata (Atypidae) and new spider species (Araneae) from Israel
GERSHOM LEVY (Israel)

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Zootaxa 1551: 31-47 (15 Aug. 2007) 6 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 2 May 2007
A review of the systematics of western North Pacific angel sharks, genus Squatina, with redescriptions of Squatina formosa, S. japonica, and S. nebulosa (Chondrichthyes: Squatiniformes, Squatinidae)
JONATHAN H. WALSH & DAVID A. EBERT (USA)

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Zootaxa 1551: 49-59 (15 Aug. 2007) 4 plates; 31 references                            Accepted: 7 Jun. 2007
A new genus and species of branchipodid fairy shrimp (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca) from Australia
D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS (USA), BRIAN V TIMMS (Australia), MERLIJN JOCQUE(Belgium) & LUC BRENDONCK (Belgium)

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Zootaxa 1551: 61-68 (15 Aug. 2007) 8 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 5 Jul. 2007
Two new species of oppioid mites from Turkey (Acari: Oribatida)
AYSE TOLUK (Turkey)
, NUSRET AYYILDIZ (Turkey) & LUIS S. SUBIAS (Spain)
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 Zootaxa 1550, 68 pp (15 Aug. 2007)  2 papers                                                                                                

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Zootaxa 1550: 1-47 (15 Aug. 2007) 25 plates; 74 references                            Accepted: 2 Jun. 2007
Phytoseiid mites of the subtribe Amblyseiina (Acari: Phytoseiidae: Amblyseiini) from sub-Saharan Africa
IGNACE D. ZANNOU (Brazil), GILBERTO J. DE MORAES (Brazil), EDDIE A. UECKERMANN (South Africa), ANIBAL R. OLIVEIRA (Brazil), JOHN S. YANINEK (USA) & RACHID HANNA (West Africa)

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Zootaxa 1550: 49-68 (15 Aug. 2007) 0 plates; 53 references                            Accepted: 7 Jul. 2007
Genitives of species and subspecies nomina derived from personal names should not be emended
ALAIN DUBOIS (France)

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 Zootaxa 1549, 68 pp (15 Aug. 2007)  5 papers                                                                                                

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Zootaxa 1549: 1-28 (15 Aug. 2007) 1 plates; 52 references                            Accepted: 25 May 2007
Three new percid fishes (Percidae: Percina) from the Mobile Basin drainage of Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee
James D. Williams, David A. Neely, Stephen J. Walsh & Noel M. Burkhead (USA)

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Zootaxa 1549: 29-42 (15 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 39 references                            Accepted: 5 Jul. 2007
Hypselodoris jacksoni, a new species from the south-western Pacific Ocean (Nudibranchia: Chromodorididae), with a discussion on intraspecific variation in mantle glands in Chromodoris willani Rudman, 1982
NERIDA G. WILSON (USA) & RICHARD C. WILLAN (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1549: 43-53 (15 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 17 Jul. 2007
On a new genus and species of euryplacid crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacoidea) from the Philippines
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & PETER CASTRO (USA)

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Zootaxa 1549: 55-62 (15 Aug. 2007) 1 plates; 34 references                            Accepted: 11 Jul. 2007
Halecium arcticum (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa), a new species of hydroid from Spitsbergen
MARTA RONOWICZ (Poland) & PETER SCHUCHERT (Switzerland)
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Zootaxa 1549: 63-68 (15 Aug. 2007) 1 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 29 Jun. 2007
Rediagnosis of Ichthyotrema Caballero & Bravo-Hollis, 1952 (Digenea: Gyliauchenidae Fukui, 1929), including the redescription of I. vogelsangi Caballero & Bravo-Hollis, 1952
KATHRYN A. HALL & THOMAS H. CRIBB (Australia)

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 Zootaxa 1548, 68 pp (13 Aug. 2007)  2 papers                                                                                                

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Zootaxa 1548: 1-49 (13 Aug. 2007) 15 plates; 107 references                            Accepted: 22 May 2007
Porcellanidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands
MASAYUKI OSAWA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1548: 51-68 (13 Aug. 2007) 6 plates; 36 references                            Accepted: 9 Jul. 2007
A taxonomic revision of the Paranoplocephala primordialis (Douthitt) complex (Cestoda: Anoplocephalidae) in voles and squirrels
VOITTO HAUKISALMI & HEIKKI HENTTONEN (Finland)

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 Zootaxa 1547, 68 pp (13 Aug. 2007)  6 papers   1Correspondence                                                             

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Zootaxa 1547: 1-19 (13 Aug. 2007) 2 plates; 81 references                            Accepted: 24 May 2007
Biogeographic area relationships in Venezuela: A Parsimony analysis of Culicidae-Phytotelmata distribution in National Parks
JUAN-CARLOS NAVARRO, JONATHAN LIRIA, HERMES PINANGO & ROBERTO BARRERA (Venezuela)
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Zootaxa 1547: 21-31 (13 Aug. 2007) 3 plates; 32 references                            Accepted: 12 Jul. 2007
Three new species of Euglossa Latreille (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from Brazil
ANDRE NEMESIO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1547: 33-42 (13 Aug. 2007) 3 plates; 26 references                            Accepted: 3 Jul. 2007
Revision of Coelana Kramer, 1964 (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Neocoelidiinae) and taxonomic notes on the genus
ANA PAULA MARQUES-COSTA & RODNEY RAMIRO CAVICHIOLI (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1547: 43-50 (13 Aug. 2007) 3 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 29 May 2007
Tyranniphilopterus polioptilus new species (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae) parasitic on the Masked Gnatcatcher, Polioptila dumicola (Passeriformes, Polioptilidae) in Argentina
ARMANDO C. CICCHINO (Argentina)

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Zootaxa 1547: 51-57 (13 Aug. 2007) 3 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 6 Jul. 2007
Review of the genus Synochoneura Obraztsov, with the description of a new species from China (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
XINPU WANG & HOUHUN LI (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1547: 59-64 (13 Aug. 2007) 2 plates; 3 references                            Accepted: 24 Jul. 2007
Two new species of the Chinese endemic delphacid genus Neuterthron Ding (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from Yunnan and Shaanxi Provinces
DAO-ZHENG QIN (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1547: 65-68 (13 Aug. 2007) 6 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 20 Jul. 2007
A new genus and new species of Phlaeobinae from China (Orthoptera: Acrididae)
XIANG-CHU YIN & HONG YIN (P.R. China)

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 Zootaxa 1546, 68 pp (9 Aug. 2007)  7 papers                                                                                                  

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Zootaxa 1546: 1-14 (9 Aug. 2007) 9 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 8 Jun. 2007
Rediscovery and revision of Foenobethylus Kieffer, 1913 (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae)
GERGELY VARKONYI (Finland) & ANDREW POLASZEK (UK)

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Zootaxa 1546: 15-22 (9 Aug. 2007) 2 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 13 May 2007
Review of four species of the genus Brachinus Weber (Coleoptera: Caraboidea: Brachinidae) from the Philippines
MINGYI TIAN (P.R. China) & THIERRY DEUVE (France)

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Zootaxa 1546: 23-30 (9 Aug. 2007) 3 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 22 Jun. 2007
A review of the genus Pseudokuzicus Gorochov, 1993 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematidae)
FU-MING, SHI, SHAO-LI, MAO & YAN-LIN, CHANG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1546: 31-38 (9 Aug. 2007) 3 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 27 Jun. 2007
Ammophila nancy Menke, a new species in the pruinosa complex (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Ammophilinae)
ARNOLD S. MENKE (USA)

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Zootaxa 1546: 39-50 (9 Aug. 2007) 4 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 9 Jul. 2007
The Erotylidae and Endomychidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: New records, zoogeography, and observations on beetle-fungi relationships and forest health
CHRISTOPHER G. MAJKA (Canada)

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Zootaxa 1546: 51-61 (9 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 3 Jul. 2007
Review of the leafhopper genus Pythamus Melichar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Evacanthinae) in the Indian subcontinent
C. A. VIRAKTAMATH (India) & M. D. WEBB (UK)

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Zootaxa 1546: 63-68 (9 Aug. 2007) 2 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 2 Jul. 2007
Ptiliola flammifera (MIynarski) reinstated as a species distinct from P. kunzei (Heer) (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae)
OSCAR VORST (The Netherlands)

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 Zootaxa 1545, 68 pp (9 Aug. 2007)  5 papers   1Correspondence                                                               

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Zootaxa 1545: 1-16 (9 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 43 references                            Accepted: 18 May 2007
Morphological variation and sexual dimorphism in the California skate, Raja inornata Jordan and Gilbert, 1881 from the Gulf of California, Mexico
JOSE LEONARDO CASTILLO GENIZ, OSCAR SOSA NISHIZAKI & JUAN CARLOS PEREZ JIMENEZ (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 1545: 17-31 (9 Aug. 2007) 8 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 16 Mar. 2007
Three new species of Neoscirula (Prostigmata: Cunaxidae) from a Tropical dry forest in Jalisco, Mexico
BLANCA E. MEJIA-RECAMIER & JOSE G. PALACIOS-VARGAS (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 1545: 33-47 (9 Aug. 2007) 3 plates; 78 references                            Accepted: 26 Jun. 2007
A review of the brachylepadomorph cirripede genus Pycnolepas, including the first record of an Early Cretaceous species from the Russian Far East*
JOHN W.M. JAGT (Netherlands), TATIANA D. ZONOVA (Russia) & ELENA A. JAGT-YAZYKOVA (Poland)

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Zootaxa 1545: 49-57 (9 Aug. 2007) 3 plates; 32 references                            Accepted: 18 Jun. 2007
A new species of Trichomycterus (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from the Andean Cordillera of Peru with comments on relationships within the genus
LUIS FERNANDEZ (USA) & ROBERTO QUISPE CHUQUIHUAMANI (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 1545: 59-66 (9 Aug. 2007) 2 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 17 Jul. 2007
Two new species of the spider genus Otiothops MacLeay (Araneae: Palpimanidae) from Caxiuana National Forest, Para Brazil
ANTONIO D. BRESCOVIT, ALEXANDRE B. BONALDO & JOSE AUGUSTO P. BARREIROS (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1545: 67-68 (9 Aug. 2007) 1 plate; 5 references                            Accepted: 17 Jul. 2007
Jose Augusto Pereira Barreiros (1977-2007)
ALEXANDRE B. BONALDO (Brazil)

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 Zootaxa 1544, 68 pp (6 Aug. 2007)  3 papers                                                                                                  

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Zootaxa 1544: 1-40 (6 Aug. 2007) 17 plates; 95 references                            Accepted: 5 Jul. 2007
Taxonomy of the tribe Paromalini Reitter (Coleoptera: Histeridae, Dendrophilinae) from China
YE-JUN ZHANG & HONG-ZHANG ZHOU (P.R. China)

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