Insects: Diptera; Hymenoptera; Coleoptera; Isoptera

Article 
Zootaxa 3242: 1–38 (21 Mar. 2012) 26 plates; 28 references                 Accepted: 12 Jan. 2012
A review of the Pachyprotasis pallidistigma species group (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) from China, with descriptions of three new species 
YIHAI ZHONG & MEICAI WEI (China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3242: 39–46 (21 Mar. 2012) 4 plates; 14 references                 Accepted: 1 Feb. 2012
Description of the pupa and male of Paryphoconus grandis Macfie (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
MARÍA M. RONDEROS, PABLO I. MARINO & FLORENTINA DÍAZ (Argentina)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3242: 47–52 (21 Mar. 2012) 2 plates; 12 references                 Accepted: 7 Feb. 2012
A new species of fig-feeding Lonchaeidae (Diptera: Schizophora) from India and a checklist for the family in the Indian sub-continent 
IAIN MACGOWAN, NAKEER RAZAK, GRAHAM E. ROTHERAY & IRFAN AHMAD (India)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3242: 53–61 (21 Mar. 2012) 1 plates; 18 references                 Accepted: 10 Feb. 2012
Nomenclatural changes in Neotropical Tracheini with the description of Hylaeogena aeneonitens sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from the Orinoco basin in Venezuela 
MICHAEL HORNBURG (Germany)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3242: 62–67 (21 Mar. 2012) 3 plates; 13 references                 Accepted: 3 Feb. 2012
Petrodessus conatus sp. n., a new genus and species of Bidessini from hygropetric habitats in tropical Australia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae) 
KELLY B. MILLER (USA)
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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3242: 68 (21 Mar. 2012)
Erratum: Constantino, R. & Carvalho, S. H. C. (2012) A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical termite genus Cyrilliotermes Fontes (Isoptera, Termitidae, Syntermitinae). Zootaxa, 3186, 25–41.
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