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Under the umbrella of the SSS, biologists from different fields are dedicated to the interests of systematics and taxonomy. The SSS serves as a competent contact for the scientists and the society, and maintains an international exchange.more

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New species Swiss Made

The annual list of species described by researchers working in Switzerland

The SSS presents the list of new species, plants or animals (including fossils), recently described by researchers working in Switzerland.

If you wish to contribute, send your publication and a picture of the organism to swisssystematics@yahoo.com.

Click below for previous years:

2015 (105 new species); 2016 (206); 2017 (143); 2018 (141); 2019 (96); 2020 (220); 2021 (159)

16 New Species 2022

Parasyleter perak
Image: M. Balkenohl

4 beetles from Asia

Publication: Revision of the genus Parasyleter Balkenohl, 2021 with the descriptions of four new species (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Clivinini).

Author: Michael Balkenohl

Bonstetten, Switzerland

Capurodendron andrafiamenae
Image: L. Gautier

6 Capurodendron trees from Madagascar

Publication: A 638-gene phylogeny supports the recognition of twice as many species in the Malagasy endemic genus Capurodendron (Sapotaceae).

Authors: Carlos G. Boluda, Camille Christe, Yamama Naciri & Laurent Gautier

Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Geneva, Switzerland

Seticotasteromimus crassirostris
Image: C. Germann

1 beetle from Malaysia

Publication: A new species of Seticotasteromimus Germann from the Cameron Highlands of Malaysia (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Molytinae).

Author: CHRISTOPH GERMANN

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland

Madma oisella
Image: S. Klopstein

2 fossil wasps from France

Publication: Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in Lower Eocene amber from the Paris basin.

Authors: Alexandra Viertler, Seraina Klopfstein, Corentin Jouault, Tamara Spasojevic

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel & University of Bern, Switzerland; Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, France

Pherhombus parvulus
Image: S. Klopstein

1 fossil wasp from Denmark

Publication: New fossil wasp species from the earliest Eocene Fur Formation has its closest relatives in late Eocene ambers (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pherhombinae).

Authors: Noah Meier, Anina Wacker, Seraina Klopfstein

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, University of Basel, Switzerland

Scaphisoma jacqi
Image: I. Löbl

1 beetle from Polynesia

Publication: A new species of Scaphisoma Leach from the Society Islands with commentary on Staphylinidae of the French Polynesia (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scaphidiinae).

Aurthors: Thibault Ramage & Ivan Löbl

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; Concarneau, France

1 beetle from Georgia

Publication: On the genus Scaphisoma Leach, 1815 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scaphidiinae) from Georgia, with description of a new species.

Author: Ivan Löbl

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland