The present paper provides a description of the male caste and re-description of the worker and queen castes of the poorly known ant species Lasiusalienoflavus Bingham, 1903. This species has hitherto been reported only from the Himalayas, and the present data are also based on specimens collected in the north-western part of the mountain range. Likewise other Himalayan ants, this species also ...

While knowledge of the fauna of California’s ephemeral wetlands has lagged behind that of the flora, recent work has revealed extraordinarily diverse and highly endemic communities. Two recent surveys of crustaceans have shown a number of important attributes of these systems. 1) Species richness and species composition differ among habitat types. 2) Not all pools in an area contain all the sam...

Oceanic archipelagos are the ideal setting for investigating processes that shape species assemblages. Focusing on keyhole limpets, genera Fissurella and Diodora from Cape Verde Islands, we used an integrative approach combining molecular phylogenetics with ocean transport simulations to infer species distribution patterns and analyse connectivity. Dispersal simulations, using pelagic larval du...

In this contribution the results of a zoogeographical analysis, carried out on the 123 endemic leaf beetle species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) occurring in Italy and its immediately adjacent regions, are reported. To assess the level of faunistic similarity among the different geographic regions studied, a cluster analysis was performed, based on the endemic component. This was done by calculat...

A new species of Miliariconus from tropical Western Australia, is described based on morphological differences with known taxa that region. The differs Australian in sculptural form and colour. This further highlights the endemism much being discovered remote northern Australia.