Building a thesaurus is very costly and time-consuming task. To alleviate this problem, this paper proposes a new method for extending a thesaurus by adding taxonomic information automatically extracted from an MRD. The proposed method adopts a machine learning algorithm in acquiring rules for identifying a taxonomic relationship to minimize human-intervention. The accuracy of our method in ide...

After 15 years from its publication, the Szeptycki’s check-list of Protura World has been updated. Five new genera and 98 species since then were added. New taxonomical combinations have adopted. Updates to distribution also Globally, list shows 831 belonging 77 arranged in seven families three orders.&nbsp

BACKGROUND This paper includes 2742 specimens of 18 species of black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) collected from 132 lotic sites in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey, in the early summer of 2002 and 2003 and the spring of 2005 and 2006. NEW INFORMATION All species are recorded from this region for the first time, and Metacnephianigra (Rubtsov, 1940) is a new record for Turkey. Distri...