four species of flea beetles (col.: chrysomelidae, alticinae), viz. altica tsharynensis (ogloblin), aphthona pygmaea (kutschera), longitarsus pulmonariae weise and neocrepidodera interpunctata (motschulsky), collected from the south of caspian sea are newly recorded from iran. host plants, localities and diagnostic characters of each species are given.

In the present study, Hemilepistus elongatus Budde-Lund, 1885 is reported from Iran for the first time, redescribed and its diagnostic characters are figured. This species reveals a high variability in morphological characters. The division of the species at the subspecific level can not be supported anymore. This species differs from other species of the genus by the unique shape of male pleop...

Katphala or Kaiphala, botanically equated with plant Myrica esculenta Buch. - Ham., is an important bark drug of Indian systems of medicine. It is one of the plant species, which are under imminent danger of extinction from U. P. Himalayas. Since, no pharmacognostic study on this drug is on record, the present investigations has been undertaken. In this article, macroscopic and microscopic char...

Six species of the genus Picromerus Amyot and Serville from China were reported, in which, Picromerus elevatus sp. nov. from Yunnan province, was described as new to science. Drawings and photographs of genital characters, photographs of imagoes in dorsal and ventral views, and some diagnostic characters were provided, together with a detailed key to the six species occurring in China. The type...

The first instar larva of Berberomeloe insignis (Charpentier, 1818) is described and figured for the first time and compared to that of B. majalis (Linnaeus, 1758). Diagnostic larval characters of the genus and of both species are identified. Morphometric data from different populations are analyzed statistically. Results support species differentiation and characters definition. Additionally, ...

The previously unknown larva of Rhyacophila balcanica Radovanovic 1953 is described. The diagnostic features of the species are listed and illustrated and some information on its ecology and distribution is included. In addition, diagnostic characters for larvae of the known Greek Rhyacophila species are provided.

the genus syntretus foerster of the subfamily euphorinae (hym.: braconidae) is recorded from iran for the first time. the specimens were collected using malaise traps from different habitats of northern provinces during 2010 and 2011. two species, s. ocularis van achterberg & haeselbarth and s. xanthocephalus (marshall) were collected and identified. a brief discussion about diagnostic char...

The Holarctic Pardosa lapponica (Thorell, 1872) and the Nearctic P. concinna (Thorell, 1877) are the only North American members of the Pardosa lapponica species-group. The morphological similarity between the two species raises the question of whether or not they should be treated as separate species. To examine the boundary between P. lapponica and P. concinna, morphological and genetic varia...

Iotarphia rufobrunnea Lee & Ahn, sp. n. is described from Tasmania. The new species is compared with another species of the genus, Iotarphia australis Cameron. A description, habitus photograph and illustrations of the diagnostic characters are provided.

We describe four new species of winter-active Aphodius (sensu lato) from pocket gopher burrows in Arizona, Utah, Kansas, and Nebraska: A. caccabatus, A. paulseni, A. skillmani, and A. utopensis. Diagnostic characters of all four species are illustrated.