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November 2007 (89 papers)

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 Zootaxa 1651, 68 pp (30 Nov. 2007)  3 papers     1 correspondence                                                        

 Article 
Zootaxa 1651: 1-42 (30 Nov. 2007)  18 plates; 49 references                            Accepted: 17 Oct. 2007
New species, new records and checklist of cicadas from Mexico (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Cicadidae)
ALLEN F. SANBORN (USA)

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Zootaxa 1651: 43-56 (30 Nov. 2007)  11 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 4 Nov. 2007
Redescriptions of last instar larvae of Ischyronota conicicollis (Weise, 1890) and Ischyronota desertorum (Gebler, 1833) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)
JOLANTA SWIETOJANSKA
& LECH BOROWIEC (Poland)

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Zootaxa 1651: 57-64 (30 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 4 references                            Accepted: 1 Oct. 2007
The genus Mimogonia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae) from the Neotropical region with descriptions of four new species
ULRICH IRMLER (Germany)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1651: 65-68 (30 Nov. 2007)  2 plates; 1 references                            Accepted: 22 Oct. 2007
A new species of Colotes Erichson (Coleoptera: Malachiidae) from Russia
SERGEI E. TSHERNYSHEV (Russia)

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 Zootaxa 1650, 68 pp (30 Nov. 2007)  4 papers                                                                                             

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Zootaxa 1650: 1-23 (30 Nov. 2007)  10 plates; 33 references                           Accepted: 12 Oct. 2007
Five new species of cotylean flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida) from the wider Caribbean
D. MARCELA BOLANOS, SIGMER Y. QUIROGA & MARIAN K. LITVAITIS (USA)

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Zootaxa 1650: 25-40 (30 Nov. 2007)  8 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 19 Oct. 2007
A new species of wolf spider from the Pyrenees, with remarks on other species in the Pardosa pullata-group (Araneae, Lycosidae)
TORBJORN KRONESTEDT (Sweden)

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Zootaxa 1650: 41-53 (30 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 40 references                            Accepted: 17 Oct. 2007
A collection of Sabellidae (Polychaeta) from Carrie Bow Cay (Belize, western Caribbean Sea) with the description of two new species
ADRIANA GIANGRANDE, MARGHERITA LICCIANO & MARIA CRISTINA GAMBI (Italy)

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Zootaxa 1650: 55-68 (30 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 60 references                            Accepted: 26 Oct. 2007
Additions to the hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the fjords region of southern Chile
HORIA R. GALEA, GUNTER FORSTERRA & VERENA HAUSSERMANN (Chile)

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 Zootaxa 1649, 96 pp (28 Nov. 2007)    1 monograph                                                                                 

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1649: 1-96 (28 Nov. 2007)  21 plates; 63 references                            Accepted: 19 Sep. 2007
Review of the Neotropical blackfly subgenus Inaequalium Coscarón & Wygodzinsky (Diptera: Simuliidae) based on adults and pupal morphology
LUIS MIGUEL HERNANDEZ (UK), ANTHONY JOHN SHELLEY (UK), ANTONIO PAULINO ANDRADE DE
LUNA DIAS (Brasil) & MARILZA MAIA-HERZOG (Brasil)
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 Zootaxa 1648, 120 pp (28 Nov. 2007)    1 monograph                                                                                 

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1648: 1-120 (28 Nov. 2007)  16 plates; 276 references                           Accepted: 29 Aug. 2007
Lovell Augustus Reeve (1814–1865): malacological author and publisher
RICHARD E. PETIT
(USA)
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 Zootaxa 1647, 88 pp (28 Nov. 2007)    1 monograph                                                                                   

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1647: 1-88 (28 Nov. 2007)  11 plates; 105 references                            Accepted: 20 Sep. 2007
Phylogenetics and classification of the world genera of Diparinae (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)
CHRISTOPHER A. DESJARDINS
(USA)
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 Zootaxa 1646, 68 pp (26 Nov. 2007)  6 papers     1 correspondence                                                        

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Zootaxa 1646: 1-15 (26 Nov. 2007)  12 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 1 Nov. 2007
Four new species of Xenotarsonemus (Acari: Tarsonemidae) from Brazil
ANTONIO C. LOFEGO (Brazil), GILBERTO J. DE MORAES (Brazil) & RONALD OCHOA (USA)

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Zootaxa 1646: 17-30 (26 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
The pitfalls of exaggeration: molecular and morphological evidence suggests Kaliana is a synonym of Mesabolivar (Araneae: Pholcidae)
JONAS J. ASTRIN, BERNHARD MISOF & BERNHARD A. HUBER (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1646: 31-39 (26 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 21 Oct. 2007
A new species of Astyanax (Characiformes: Characidae) from the endorheic RRo SalR basin, Tucuman, northwestern Argentina
JUAN MARCOS MIRANDE, GAST[N AGUILERA & MARQA DE LAS MERCEDES AZPELICUETA (Argentina)

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Zootaxa 1646: 41-49 (26 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 26 Oct. 2007
A new species of Cheiriphotis (Crustacea : Amphipoda: Corophiidae: Protomedeiinae) from the coast of Southeastern Brazil, with a key to species in the genus
MARIA TERESA VALERIO-BERARDO, ANA MARIA THIAGO DE SOUZA & CARINA WAITEMAN RODRIGUES (Brasil)

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Zootaxa 1646: 51-58 (26 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 30 Oct. 2007
Five species of spider mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Tetranychidae) from Japan with descriptions of two new species
SHOZO EHARA & TETSUO GOTOH (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1646: 59-65 (26 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 2 Oct. 2007
Doryphoribius smokiensis, a new species of Eutardigrada (Hypsibiidae) from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN, USA (North America)
PAUL J. BARTELS (USA), DIANE R. NELSON (USA), LUKASZ KACZMAREK (Poland) & LUKASZ MICHALCZYK (UK)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1646: 67-68 (26 Nov. 2007)  0 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 6 Nov. 2007
Neophryxus, a new name for Prophryxus Bruce, 1973 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Bopyridae)
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)

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 Zootaxa 1645, 68 pp (23 Nov. 2007)  6 papers                                                                                             

 Article 
Zootaxa 1645: 1-17 (23 Nov. 2007)  14 plates; 2 references                            Accepted: 12 Oct. 2007
The oldest Calosargus Mostovski, 1997 from the Middle Jurassic of China (Diptera: Brachycera: Archisargidae)
KUIYAN ZHANG, DING YANG, DONG REN & CHUNGKUN SHIH (China)

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Zootaxa 1645: 19-33 (23 Nov. 2007)  5 plates; 38 references                            Accepted: 19 Oct. 2007
Morphology and chaetotaxy of the larval stages of Andogyrus seriatopunctatus Regimbart (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Gyrinidae)
MIGUEL ARCHANGELSKY & MARIANO C. MICHAT (Argentina)

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Zootaxa 1645: 35-45 (23 Nov. 2007)  6 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 17 Oct. 2007
The first record of Tischeriidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera) from Madagascar, with description of Coptotriche alavelona sp. n. and an updated distributional checklist of Afrotropical Tischeriidae
DAVID C. LEES (UK) & JONAS R. STONIS (Lithuania)

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Zootaxa 1645: 47-56 (23 Nov. 2007)  14 plates; 18 references                         Accepted: 23 Oct. 2007
A review of the genus Mazarredia Bolivar (Orthoptera: Tetrigoidea: Tetrigidae: Metrodorinae) from China
WEIAN DENG, ZHEMIN ZHENG & SHIZHEN WEI (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1645: 57-61 (23 Nov. 2007)  2 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 26 Oct. 2007
A new genus for an Australian thrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae) presumed predatory on a waxy eriococcid (Hemiptera, Coccoidea)
LAURENCE A. MOUND & ALICE WELLS (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1645: 63-68 (23 Nov. 2007)  2 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 15 Oct. 2007
A new species of Willowsia (Collembola: Entomobryidae) from South China
FENG ZHANG, GUO-LIANG XU and JIAN-XIU CHEN (P.R. China)

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 Zootaxa 1644, 68 pp (23 Nov. 2007)  4 papers                                                                                             

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Zootaxa 1644: 1-40 (23 Nov. 2007)  30 plates; 73 references                            Accepted: 27 Sep. 2007
Revision of the Tropidolaemus wagleri-complex (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae). I. Definition of included taxa and redescription of Tropidolaemus wagleri (Boie, 1827)
GERNOT VOGEL (Germany), PATRICK DAVID (France), MARIO LUTZ (Philippines), JOHAN VAN ROOIJEN (The Netherlands) & NICOLAS VIDAL (France)

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Zootaxa 1644: 41-49 (23 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 1 Oct. 2007
Crosniera wennerae, a new species of thalassinidean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thomassiniidae) from the South Atlantic Bight
RICHARD W. HEARD & RACHAEL A. KING (USA)

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Zootaxa 1644: 51-57 (23 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 23 Oct. 2007
On a new genus and new species of deep-water spider crab from the Philippines (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Majidae)
BERTRAND RICHER DE FORGES (New Caledonia) & PETER K. L. NG (Republic of Singapore)

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Zootaxa 1644: 59-68 (23 Nov. 2007)  5 plates; 42 references                            Accepted: 10 Oct. 2007
Re-examination of Borradaile's Urocaris longicaudata specimens from the 1905 J.S. Gardiner Collection (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae)
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)
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 Zootaxa 1643, 68 pp (21 Nov. 2007)  2 papers                                                                                             

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Zootaxa 1643: 1-38 (21 Nov. 2007)  18 plates; 9 references                            Accepted: 31 Oct. 2007
New species of Laparocerus Schonherr, 1834 from La Gomera, Canary Islands (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae)
ANTONIO MACHADO (Spain)

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Zootaxa 1643: 39-68 (21 Nov. 2007)  8 plates; 48 references                            Accepted: 15 Oct. 2007
Preliminary considerations on phylogeny of Simuliidae Genera from Southern Hemisphere (Insecta, Diptera)
LEONARDO H. GIL-AZEVEDO & MARILZA MAIA-HERZOG (Brazil)

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 Zootaxa 1642, 68 pp (21 Nov. 2007)  6 papers     2 correspondence                                                        

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Zootaxa 1642: 1-12 (21 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 1 Oct. 2007
A review of the genus Mystrium (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Indo-Australian region
JOCHEN H. BIHN & MANFRED VERHAAGH (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1642: 13-22 (21 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 24 Oct. 2007
A new genus of isophlebioid damsel-dragonflies (Odonata: Isophlebioptera: Campterophlebiidae) from the Middle Jurassic of China
A. NEL (France), D.-Y. HUANG (P.R. China) & Q.-B. LIN (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1642: 23-31 (21 Nov. 2007)  2 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 26 Oct. 2007
The genus Psalidothrips Priesner in China (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) with three new species
JUN WANG, XIAO-LI TONG & WEI-QIU ZHANG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1642: 33-41 (21 Nov. 2007)  5 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 27 Oct. 2007
Four new species and a new record of Anaedus from China (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
FENG-YAN WANG & GUO-DONG REN (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1642: 43-51 (21 Nov. 2007)  10 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 30 Oct. 2007
A new species of Phasmatocoris Breddin (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) from the Amazon, Brazil
Helcio R. Gil-Santana, Veracilda Ribeiro Alves, Toby Vincent Barrett & Luiz A. A. Costa (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1642: 53-59 (21 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 26 Oct. 2007
Review of Chinese species of the genus Denierella Kaszab with a key to the worldwide species (Coleoptera, Meloidae)
YU-XIA YANG & GUO-DONG REN (P.R. China)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1642: 61-64 (21 Nov. 2007)  1 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 21 Oct. 2007
Description of the nymph of Ulmeritoides uruguayensis (Traver) (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae)
RODOLFO MARIANO & CLAUDIO G. FROEHLICH (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1642: 65-68 (21 Nov. 2007)  1 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 17 Oct. 2007
A new species of Tyrannomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) from India
MAREK L. BOROWIEC (Poland)

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 Zootaxa 1641, 64 pp (19 Nov. 2007)    1 monograph                                                                                   

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1641: 1-64 (19 Nov. 2007)  36 plates; 47 references                            Accepted: 26 Sep. 2007
A review of the Nearctic species of Erythmelus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae), with a key and new additions to the New World fauna
SERGUEI V. TRIAPITSYN, VLADIMIR V. BEREZOVSKIY, MARK S. HODDLE & JOSEPH G. MORSE
(USA)

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 Zootaxa 1640, 68 pp (19 Nov. 2007)  3 papers                                                                                             

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Zootaxa 1640: 1-39 (19 Nov. 2007)  17 plates; 73 references                            Accepted: 2 Oct. 2007
Comparative morphology of larval Camiarinae (Coleoptera: Leiodidae) Part I. Genus Paragyrtodes Szymczakowski 1966
ALEKSANDRA KILIAN (Poland)

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Zootaxa 1640: 41-53 (19 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 26 references                            Accepted: 21 Oct. 2007
Two new genera of Swammerdamellini (Diptera, Scatopsidae), with a discussion of the position of the species of Rhexoza
DALTON DE SOUZA AMORIM (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1640: 55-68 (19 Nov. 2007)  5 plates; 34 references                            Accepted: 21 Oct. 2007
Eurytoma caninae sp. n. (Hymenoptera, Eurytomidae), a common species previously overlooked with E. rosae
HosseinAli Lotfalizadeh (Iran), GERARD DELVARE (France) & JEAN-YVES RASPLUS (France)

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 Zootaxa 1639, 68 pp (16 Nov. 2007)  4 papers    1 erratum                                                                       

 Article 
Zootaxa 1639: 1-21 (16 Nov. 2007)  11 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 10 Oct. 2007
Halaelurus maculosus n. sp. and H. sellus n. sp., two new species of catshark (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from the Indo-West Pacific
WILLIAM T. WHITE, PETER R. LAST & JOHN D. STEVENS (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1639: 23-39 (16 Nov. 2007)  7 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 6 Oct. 2007
Taraxapseudes n. gen., Taraxapseudes diversus (Lang, 1968) n. comb. and two new species of Atlantapseudes B|cescu, 1978 (Tanaidacea: Apseudidae) from Brazil and Madagascar, with a key for the genus
Katia Christol dos Santos (Brazil) & Tom Hansknecht (USA)

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Zootaxa 1639: 41-55 (16 Nov. 2007)  7 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 18 Oct. 2007
Two new species of Platymantis (Anura: Ceratobatrachidae) from the Admiralty Archipelago, Papua New Guinea
Stephen J. Richards (Australia), ANDREW L. MACK (USA) & CHRISTOPHER C. AUSTIN (USA)

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Zootaxa 1639: 57-67 (16 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 29 references                            Accepted: 10 Oct. 2007
Revalidation of the subgenus Dactylotergitius Verhoeff, and redescription of Otostigmus (D.) caudatus Brolemann and Otostigmus (D.) cavalcantii Bucherl (Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae: Otostigminae)
AMAZONAS CHAGAS-JUNIOR, IRENE KNYSAK & SAMUEL P. G. GUIZZE (Brazil)

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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 1639: 68 (16 Nov. 2007)  
Erratum ( Song, S.J., Rho, H.S. & Kim, W. (2007) A new species of Huntemannia (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Huntemanniidae) from the Yellow Sea, Korea. Zootaxa, 1616, 37-48.)
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 Zootaxa 1638, 68 pp (14 Nov. 2007)  5 papers                                                                                              

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Zootaxa 1638: 1-20 (14 Nov. 2007)  6 plates; 69 references                            Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
Redescription of the tadpoles of three species of frogs from Uruguay (Amphibia: Anura: Leiuperidae and Leptodactylidae), with notes on natural history
CLAUDIO BORTEIRO & FRANCISCO KOLENC (Uruguay)
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Zootaxa 1638: 21-37 (14 Nov. 2007)  10 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 14 Oct. 2007
The megalopa stage of Portunus spinimanus Latreille, 1819 and Portunus gibbesii (Stimpson, 1859) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Portunidae) from the southeastern Atlantic coast of the United States
MARIA LUCIA NEGREIROS-FRANSOZO (Brazil), NADIA MEYERS (USA), VIVIAN FRANSOZO (Brazil) & SUSAN THORTON-DE VICTOR (USA)

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Zootaxa 1638: 39-49 (14 Nov. 2007)  9 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
The first case of aggressive mimicry among lamprologines in a new species of Lepidiolamprologus (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika
ROBERT SCHELLY (USA), TETSUMI TAKAHASHI (Japan), ROGER BILLS (South Africa) & MICHIO HORI (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1638: 51-57 (14 Nov. 2007)  2 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
The rediscovery and conservation status of the Bahian giant tree rat Phyllomys unicolor (Mammalia: Rodentia: Echimyidae) in the Atlantic forest of Brazil
YURI L. R. LEITE, SIMONE LOSS, RENAN P. REGO, LEONORA P. COSTA & CIBELE R. BONVICINO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1638: 59-68 (14 Nov. 2007)  6 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 3 Sep. 2007
A new species of poison frog (Amphibia: Dendrobatidae) from the Andean mountains of Tolima, Colombia
MANUEL HERNANDO BERNAL, VICTOR FABIO LUNA-MORA,OSCAR GALLEGO & ALONSO QUEVEDO (Colombia)

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 Zootaxa 1637, 68 pp (14 Nov. 2007)  6 papers                                                                                              

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Zootaxa 1637: 1-19 (14 Nov. 2007)  9 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 31 Aug. 2007
Revision of the Genus Psectrotarsia Dognin, 1907 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Heliothinae)
MICHAEL G. POGUE (USA)
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Zootaxa 1637: 21-36 (14 Nov. 2007)  12 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
Description of immatures and the bionomy of the Oriental leaf beetle Chaeridiona thailandica Kimoto, 1998 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Oncocephalini), a leaf-mining hispine beetle
JOLANTA SWIETOJANSKA (Poland) & DAMIR KOVAC (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1637: 37-46 (14 Nov. 2007)  6 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 15 Oct. 2007
Taxonomic notes on the genus Tineovertex Moriuti (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Tineidae) with description of a new species
GUO-HUA HUANG (China), TOSHIYA HIROWATARI (Japan) & MIN WANG (China)
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Zootaxa 1637: 47-54 (14 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 9 references                            Accepted: 27 Aug. 2007
Brumptomyia carvalheiroi sp. nov. (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) from Atlantic forest domain, Sao Paulo State, Brazil
PALOMA HELENA FERNANDES SHIMABUKURO, ANA MARIA MARASSA & EUNICE APARECIDA BIANCHI GALATI (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1637: 55-62 (14 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 12 Oct. 2007
New taxa of Aboilinae (Insecta, Orthoptera, Prophalangopsidae) from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China
YAN FANG, HAICHUN ZHANG, BO WANG & YUTAO ZHANG (China)
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Zootaxa 1637: 63-68 (14 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 29 Sep. 2007
A new species of Denisiella (Collembola: Sminthurididae) from Panama and new records for D. sexpinnata (Denis, 1938)
JOSE G. PALACIOS-VARGAS (Mexico)
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 Zootaxa 1636, 68 pp (12 Nov. 2007)  4 papers                                                                                              

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Zootaxa 1636: 1-32 (12 Nov. 2007)  10 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 28 Sep. 2007
A review of Ascodipterinae (Diptera: Streblidae) of the Oriental and Australasian regions with a description of three new species of Ascodipteron Adensamer and a key to the subfamily
MICHAEL W. HASTRITER (USA)

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Zootaxa 1636: 33-46 (12 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 5 Oct. 2007
The Eucnemidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: new records, observations on composition and zoogeography, and comments on the rarity of saproxylic beetles
CHRISTOPHER G. MAJKA (Canada)

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Zootaxa 1636: 47-58 (12 Nov. 2007)  8 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 25 Sep. 2007
A new Luprops species from Western Ghats with redescriptions and identification key to the species of Indian Peninsula and Sri Lanka (Tenebrionidae: Lagriinae: Lupropini)
THOMAS K. SABU (India), OTTO MERKL (Hungary) & PRABHAKAR ABHITHA (India)

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Zootaxa 1636: 59-68 (12 Nov. 2007)  2 plates; 26 references                            Accepted: 24 Jul. 2007
High nucleotide divergence in a dimorphic parasite with disparate hosts
JEYARANEY KATHIRITHAMBY (UK), JOSEPH. J. GILLESPIE (USA), EVA JIMENEZ-GURI (UK), ANTHONY. I. COGNATO (USA) & J. SPENCER JOHNSTON (USA)

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 Zootaxa 1635, 68 pp (12 Nov. 2007)  5 papers                                                                                              

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Zootaxa 1635: 1-21 (12 Nov. 2007)  11 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 14 Sep. 2007
The coral-associated shrimp genus Pontonides (Caridea, Palaemonidae, Pontoniinae) in Nhatrang Bay, Vietnam, with description of two new species
IVAN MARIN (Russia)

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Zootaxa 1635: 23-43 (12 Nov. 2007)  14 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
Two new genera of small, six-eyed pholcid spiders from West Africa, and first record of Spermophorides for mainland Africa (Araneae: Pholcidae)
BERNHARD A. HUBER (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1635: 45-53 (12 Nov. 2007)  6 plates; 9 references                            Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
On Old World ninetine spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae), with a new genus and species and the first record for Madagascar
Bernhard A. Huber (Germany) & HISHAM K. EL-HENNAWY (Egypt)

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Zootaxa 1635: 55-61 (12 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 4 references                            Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
A new species of Cynopotamus Valenciennes, 1849 (Characiformes, Characidae) with a key to the species of the genus
NAERCIO A. MENEZES (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1635: 63-68 (12 Nov. 2007)  2 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
A new species and new records of syringophilid mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Syringophilidae) from birds of Jordan
ELIZA GLOWSKA
(Poland), MACIEJ SKORACKI (Poland) & FARES KHOURLY (Jordan)

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 Zootaxa 1634, 68 pp (9 Nov. 2007)  2 papers                                                                                                

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Zootaxa 1634: 1-59 (9 Nov. 2007)  31 plates; 29 references                            Accepted: 3 Oct. 2007
A revision of the Neotropical caddisfly genus Rhyacopsyche, with the description of 13 new species (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae)
ANNE M. WASMUND & RALPH W. HOLZENTHAL (USA)

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Zootaxa 1634: 61-68 (9 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 3 Oct. 2007
A new species of Macrosiphoniella and redescription of Coloradoa heinzei (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aphididae) as a new record in Iran
MOHSEN MEHRPARVAR & ALI REZWANI (Iran)

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 Zootaxa 1633, 68 pp (9 Nov. 2007)  3 papers                                                                                                

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Zootaxa 1633: 1-38 (9 Nov. 2007)  16 plates; 75 references                            Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
A review of the genus Botanophila Lioy (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from China, with descriptions of three new species
WAN-QI XUE & WEN-HUI SONG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1633: 39-61 (9 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 90 references                            Accepted: 4 Oct. 2007
Description of Nasocoris lautereri sp. nov. from the Balkan peninsula, with a review of the genus Nasocoris (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae)
Petr Kment & Josef Bryja (Czech Republic)

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Zootaxa 1633: 63-68 (9 Nov. 2007)  2 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 14 Sep. 2007
A new Dicranocentrus species (Collembola: Entomobryidae) from China with a key to all species in the genus from Asia
YITONG MA & JIAN-XIU CHEN (P.R. China)

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 Zootaxa 1632, 68 pp (7 Nov. 2007)  5 papers   1 Erratum                                                                          

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Zootaxa 1632: 1-20 (7 Nov. 2007)  8 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 5 Oct. 2007
Description of five new spiders from Canada (Araneae: Linyphiidae)
NADINE DUPERRE(Canada) & PIERRE PAQUIN (USA)

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Zootaxa 1632: 21-36 (7 Nov. 2007)  7 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 21 Sep. 2007
Diversity within the Ponto-Caspian Paramysis baeri Czerniavsky sensu lato revisited: P. bakuensis G.O. Sars restored (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae)
MIKHAIL E. DANELIYA, ASTA AUDZIJONYTE & RISTO VAINOLA (Finland)

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Zootaxa 1632: 37-48 (7 Nov. 2007)  6 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 12 Sep. 2007
Redescription of Orthoprotella mayeri K.H. Barnard, 1916 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Caprellidae) from Cape Province, South Africa and description of O. berentsae sp. nov. from New South Wales, Australia
ICHIRO TAKEUCHI (Japan) & JAMES K. LOWRY (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1632: 49-60 (7 Nov. 2007)  5 plates; 22 references                            Accepted: 21 Sep. 2007
On Macrothrix agsensis Dumont, Silva-Briano & Babu, 2002 (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Macrothricidae), with description of the male and ephippial females, and comments on the distribution of the genus in Mexico
TANIA GARFIAS-ESPEJO, MANUEL ELIAS-GUTIERREZ & MARCELO SILVA-BRIANO (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 1632: 61-67 (7 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 23 Oct. 2007
The resurrection of the pontoniine genus Urocaris Stimpson, 1860, (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)
A. J. BRUCE (Australia)

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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 1632: 68 (7 Nov. 2007)

Erratum ( Willems, W., Sandberg, M.I. & Jondelius, U. (2007) First report on Rhabdocoela (Rhabditophora) from deep parts of Skagerrak, with the description of four new species. Zootaxa, 1589, 33–46.)
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 Zootaxa 1631, 68 pp (5 Nov. 2007)  4 papers                                                                                               

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Zootaxa 1631: 1-32 (5 Nov. 2007)  11 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 10 Sep. 2007
New species of Lonchaeidae (Diptera: Schizophora) from Asia
IAIN MacGOWAN (UK)

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Zootaxa 1631: 33-45 (5 Nov. 2007)  9 plates; 22 references                            Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
Description of the larvae of Corydalus batesii MacLachlan and C. ignotus Contreras-Ramos (Megaloptera: Corydalidae) with notes on life history and behavior
CARLOS AUGUSTO SILVA DE AZEVEDO & NEUSA HAMADA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1631: 47-55 (5 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 3 Oct. 2007
Additional data to the genus Baezia with description of a new species from a cave on El Hierro, Canary Islands (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Molytinae)
RAFAEL GARCIA, HERIBERTO LOPEZ & PEDRO OROMI(Canary Islands)

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Zootaxa 1631: 57-68 (5 Nov. 2007)  2 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 25 Sep. 2007
Chewing lice (Phthiraptera) from buntings, cardinals and tanagers (Passeriformes: Emberizidae, Cardinalidae, Thraupidae) from Costa Rica, with descriptions of two new species of the genus Myrsidea (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae)
OLDRICH SYCHRA (Czech Republic), IVAN LITERAK (Czech Republic), MIROSLAV CAPEK (Czech Republic) & MARTIN HAVLICEK (Australia)

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 Zootaxa 1630, 68 pp (5 Nov. 2007)  6 papers                                                                                                

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Zootaxa 1630: 1-21 (5 Nov. 2007)  7 plates; 31 references                            Accepted: 21 Sep. 2007
Notes on tiger beetles from Guinea-Bissau, with description of a new species of Cylindera Westwood (Insecta: Coleoptera, Cicindelidae)
ARTUR R. M. SERRANO (Portugal)

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Zootaxa 1630: 23-37 (5 Nov. 2007)  5 plates; 26 references                            Accepted: 18 Sep. 2007
A new species of Chrysobothris Eschscholtz feeding on Dudleya spp. (Crassulaceae) from California and Baja California, with biological, distributional and taxonomic notes on other North American Buprestidae (Coleoptera)
RICHARD L. WESTCOTT (USA)

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Zootaxa 1630: 39-46 (5 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 9 references                            Accepted: 3 Oct. 2007
Revision of the Lachnaia tristigma (Lacordaire, 1848) species-group (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) and description of a new species
ANDRES BASELGA & JAVIER RUIZ-GARCIA (Spain)
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Zootaxa 1630: 47-54 (5 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 26 Sep. 2007
Review of the tribe Aphoebantini Becker (Bombyliidae, Diptera) from Egypt, with description of a new species
MAGDI S. A. El-HAWAGRY (Egypt)

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Zootaxa 1630: 55-62 (5 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 26 Sep. 2007
Two new species of the genus Caryanda StDl (Orthoptera: Acrididae) from Yunnan, China
BEN-YONG MAO, GUO-DONG REN & XIAO-HONG OU (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1630: 63-68 (5 Nov. 2007)  2 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 26 Sep. 2007
A new species of the genus Hypogastrura from coastal wetlands of East China (Collembola: Hypogastruridae)
JIGANG JIANG, BOPING TANG & JIAN-XIU CHEN (P.R. China)

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 Zootaxa 1629, 68 pp (2 Nov. 2007)  5 papers                                                                                               

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Zootaxa 1629: 1-25 (2 Nov. 2007)  16 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 29 Sep. 2007
A taxonomic revision of the Elachista bedellella (Sircom) complex (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae: Elachistinae)
LAURI KAILA (Finland)

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Zootaxa 1629: 27-37 (2 Nov. 2007)  5 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 29 Sep. 2007
Leptopezella, a new Southern Hemisphere genus of Ocydromiinae (Diptera: Empidoidea: Hybotidae)
BRADLEY J. SINCLAIR & JEFFREY M. CUMMING (Canada)

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Zootaxa 1629: 39-50 (2 Nov. 2007)  8 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 4 Oct. 2007
New genus and species of Hexagenitidae (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) from Yixian Formation, China
JIANDONG HUANG (P.R. China), DONG REN (P.R. China), NINA. D. SINITSHENKOVA (Russia) & CHUNGKUN SHIH (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1629: 51-55 (2 Nov. 2007)  0 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 4 Oct. 2007
New synonyms and several nomenclatural clarifications on family-group names in the Aphididae (Hemiptera Sternorrhyncha)
JUAN M. NIETO NAFRIA, NICOLAS PEREZ HIDALGO, M. PILAR MIER DURANTE (Spain)
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Zootaxa 1629: 57-68 (2 Nov. 2007)  7 plates; 4 references                            Accepted: 24 Oct. 2007
Studies in Australian Tettigoniidae: Ozphyllum, a new genus of Phaneropterine katydids with comments on its relationships and ecology (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae; Phaneropterinae)
D.C.F. RENTZ (Australia), YOU NING SU (Australia) & NORHIRO UESHIMA (Japan)

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 Zootaxa 1628, 68 pp (2 Nov. 2007)  4 papers                                                                                              

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Zootaxa 1628: 1-22 (2 Nov. 2007)  5 plates; 63 references                            Accepted: 17 Sep. 2007
Phytoseiid mites of the tribes Afroseiulini, Kampimodromini and Phytoseiulini, and complementary notes on mites of the tribes Euseiini and Neoseiulini (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from sub-Saharan Africa
GILBERTO J. DE MORAES (Brazil), IGNACE D. ZANNOU (Brazil), EDDIE A. UECKERMANN (South Africa), ANIBAL R. OLIVEIRA (Brazil), JOHN S. YANINEK (USA) & RACHID HANNA (West Africa)

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Zootaxa 1628: 23-41 (2 Nov. 2007)  7 plates; 29 references                            Accepted: 4 Oct. 2007
Huffmanela spp. (Nematoda, Trichosomoididae) parasites in coral reef fishes off New Caledonia, with descriptions of H. balista n. sp. and H. longa n. sp.
JEAN-LOU JUSTINE (New Caledonia)

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Zootaxa 1628: 43-58 (2 Nov. 2007)  8 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
New Mysida (Crustacea) in the genera Amblyops and Pseudomma from the Iceland Basin
KENNETH MELAND & TORLEIV BRATTEGARD (Norway)

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Zootaxa 1628: 59-68 (2 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 9 references                            Accepted: 26 Sep. 2007
Scarus maculipinna, a new species of parrotfish (Perciformes, Scaridae) from the eastern Indian Ocean
MARK W. WESTNEAT (USA), UKKRIT SATAPOOMIN (Thailand) & JOHN E. RANDALL (USA)
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