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
3 cestodes from 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
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
6 stoneflies from the Alps
Author: J.-P. G. Reding
Corcelles, Switzerland
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
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
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
1 bee from Southern Europe
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
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
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.
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
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.
2 beetles from Chile
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.
2 beetles from Chile
Author: Vivien Cosandey
Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland
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