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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 2024

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.

55 new species

Ophiotaenia jeanmarctouzeti
Image: A. de Chambrier

3 cestodes from Ecuador

Publication : Three new species of Ophiotaenia La Rue, 1911 (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae) from dipsadine snakes (Squamata: Colubridae) in Ecuador.

Authors : Alain de Chambrier , Roman Kuchta and Tomáš Scholz

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Pusillutragus_montrealensis
Image: B. Mennecart

1 extinct bovid from Europe

Publication : Systematic contribution of the auditory region to the knowledge of the oldest European Bovidae (Mammalia,
Ruminantia).

Authors : Bastien Mennecart, Francis Duranthon, Loïc Costeur

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Muséum de Toulouse, France

Dictyogenus nadigi.
Image: Carlalberto Ravizza

6 stoneflies from the Alps

Publication: Notes on the genus Dictyogenus Klapálek, 1904 (Plecoptera, Perlodidae) in the Austrian, Italian, Slovenian and Swiss Alps, with the description of six new species.

Author: J.-P. G. Reding

Corcelles, Switzerland

Scleria nusbaumeri
Image: I. Larridon

1 Cyperaceae from Madagascar

Publication: A new remarkable species of Scleria (Cyperaceae) from northern Madagascar.

Authors: Isabel Larridon, Kenneth Bauters, Fitiavana Rasaminirina, Javier Galán Díaz, José Ignacio Márquez-Corro, Laurent Gautier

Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève and University of Geneva, Switzerland; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK; University of Madrid, Spain

Tsebona mpanjaka
Image: C. Boluda

1 Sapotaceae tree from Madagascar

Publication: Revision of the emblematic Malagasy tree genus Tsebona (Sapotaceae) with the description of a second species.

Authors: Carlos G. Boluda, Roger Lala Andriamiarisoa, Yamama Naciri, Laurent Gautier

Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève and University of Geneva, Switzerland; Missouri Botanical Garden, Madagascar Research and Conservation Program, Madagascar

Danais coriacea
Image: C. Taylor

7 Rubiaceae from Madagascar

Publication: A new review of the Western Indian Ocean genus Danais (Rubiaceae: Danaideae), with seven new species from Madagascar.

Authors: Charlotte M. Taylor, Sylvain G. Razafimandimbison, Martin W. Callmander, Heidi H. Schmidt

Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève, Switzerland; Missouri Botanical Garden, USA; Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden

Hoplitis onosmaevae
Image: M. Aubert

1 bee from Southern Europe

Publication : A new osmiine bee with a spectacular geographic disjunction: Hoplitis (Hoplitis) onosmaevae sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Anthophila, Megachilidae).

Authors : Matthieu Aubert, Andreas Müller, Christophe Praz

Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, & info fauna, Swiss Zoological Records Center, Switzerland; Observatoire des Abeilles, Pégairolles-de-Buèges, France

Setapedites
Image: L. Lustri

1 extinct arthropod from Morocco

Publication : Lower Ordovician synziphosurine reveals early euchelicerate diversity and evolution.

Authors: Lorenzo Lustri, Pierre Gueriau & Allison C. Daley

Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland ; Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, MNHN, & Institut photonique d’analyse non-destructive européen des matériaux anciens, Saint-Aubin, France.

6 fossil fishes from Borneo

Publication : Late Miocene teleost fish otoliths from Brunei Darussalam (Borneo) and their implications for palaeoecology and palaeoenvironmental conditions.

Authors : László Kocsis, Chien-Hsiang Linc, Emma Bernard & Adibah Johari

Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Geology Group, Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Darussalam, Brunei; Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; Natural History Museum of London, UK.

Oreaglanis brevicula
Image: M. Kottelat

1 catfish from Laos

Publication: Oreoglanis brevicula, a new species of rheophilic catfish from Laos (Actinopterygii: Sisoridae)

Authors: Heok Hee Ng, Maurice Kottelat

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (corresponding member); Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National
University of Singapore, Singapore

Lepidocephalichthys balios
Image: M. Kottelat

1 loach from Laos

Publication: Lepidocephalichthys balios, a new species of loach from central Laos (Teleostei: Cobitidae)

Author: Maurice Kottelat

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (corresponding member)

1 lungfish from Zimbabwe

Publication: A new lungfish from the Upper Triassic of the Mid-Zambezi Basin, Zimbabwe.

Authors: Tom J. Challands, Lionel Cavin, Michel Zondo, Darlington Munyikwa, Jonah N. Choiniere & Paul M. Barrett

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; University of Edinburgh, UK; Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe & 5National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe.

Achilia lapsus
Image: Sabella et al.

2 beetles from Chile

Publication: A revision of the Chilean Brachyglutini – Part 8. Revision of Achilia Reitter, 1890: A. sinuaticornis, A. kindermanni, A. humidula, A. praeclara, A. nigrita, A. rufula species groups, and Achilia incertae sedis species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae).

Authors: Giorgio Sabella, Giulio Cuccodoro & Sergey A. Kurbatov

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche ed Ambientali dell’Università – sezione Biologia Animale, Catania, Italy; Museum of Entomology, All-Russian Plant Quarantine Center, Bykovo, Russia.

Fuscatelia cupula
Image: V. Cosandey

2 beetles from Chile

Publication: The genus Fuscatelia Nikitsky & Belov, 1982, stat. nov. with descriptions of two new species (Coleoptera: Melandryidae: Melandryinae).

Author: Vivien Cosandey

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland

Ancylolomia sonia
Image: G. Bassi

19 moths from Africa

Publication: New species of Afrotropical Ancylolomia Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Crambinae).

Author: Graziano Bassi

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland

2 barklice from Africa

Publication: Two new African species of Psyllipsocus Selys-Longchamps, 1872 (Psocodea: ‘Psocoptera’: Psyllipsocidae).

Author: Charles Lienhard

Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland