Two new species of Lygaeinae endemic to the Peninsula of Baja California, Mexico, are described. Dalmochrimnus insularis sp. nov. endemic to San Ildefonso Island in the Gulf of California and Melacoryphus lagunensis sp. nov. endemic to the Reserve area of Sierra La Laguna in the South of the Peninsula. A discussion about their relationships within their genera and their endemic status is also p...

Two new species of Gabrius Stephens from the Korean Peninsula are described: Gabrius koreanus (S-Korea) and G. makranczyi (N- and S-Korea). Gabrius ponghwaricus Pasnik, 2000 is synonymized with G. ancoripenis Cho & Lee, 1997. New records: Gabrius mandschuricus Bernhauer, 1914 (S-Korea), G. philomimus Schillhammer, 2000 (Korean Peninsula).

1 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, P.O. Box 1906, Cape Town, 7535 South Africa. 2 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Ilorin, P.M.B. 1515, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. 3 Department of Biodiversity and Conservation, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, P. O. Box 652, Cape Town 80...

Description of a peculiar Rhithrogena nymph from the Iberian Peninsula (Ephemeroptera, Heptageniidae) Recent collecting in southern Portugal (Algarve) let to the discovery of an unusual Rhithrogena that possibly belongs to the so-called Rh. sowai group. The nymph of the species is described but not named, and affinities and relationships with other members from the Iberian Peninsula are discussed.

The effects of ice ages on speciation have been well documented for many European and North American taxa. In contrast, very few studies have addressed the consequences of such environmental and topographical changes in North East Asian species. More precisely, the Korean Peninsula offers a unique model to assess patterns and processes of speciation as it hosts the northern- and eastern-most di...

The Larsemann Hills range is an ice-free oasis on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctica, which includes Bharti Island, Fisher Island, McLeod Island, Broknes Peninsula, Stornes Peninsula, and several other islands, promontories, and nunataks. The Larsemann Hills is an ice-free area of approximately 50 km2, located halfway between the Vestfold Hills a...

There is an very old opinion that we diagnose only most prominent BEN cases and miss latent and mild ones, that unrecognized BEN is possible in endemic villages and the number of such cases, their characteristics, and origin are unknown. From 1955 to 1998 year we evaluated 1235 patients with histologicaly proven upper urothelial tumors, who underwent surgery. The diagnosis of sporadic BEN, was ...

The Antarctic Peninsula has warmed significantly since the 1950s. This pronounced and isolated warming trend is collectively simulated by 29 twentieth-century climate hindcasts done for the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change. The qualitative similarity to the observed distribution of Southern Hemisphere temperature change suggests the simulated mechanisms ...