New Species 2018

1 beetle from Brazil

Publication: A peculiar new beetle from Brazil associated with a cave habitat (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Clivinini).

Authors: MICHAEL BALKENOHL, THAIS GIOVANNINI PELLEGRINI & ROBSON DE ALMEIDA ZAMPAULO

Bonstetten, Switzerland; Universidade Federal de Lavras & Environmental Licensing and Speleology, Lavras, Brazil.

3 cyanobacteries from China

Publication: Three new cyanobacterial species of Lobaria (Lobariaceae, Peltigerales) from the Hengduan Mountains, China.

Authors: Miao Cong-Cong, Wang Xin-Yu, Christoph Scheidegger, Wang Li-Song & Zhao Zun-Tian

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Zurich & University of Bern, Switzerland; Shandong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong & Kunming Institute of Botany, Kunming, China.

1 fish from Myanmar

Publication: Amblyceps improcerum, a new sisoroid catfish from Kachin State, Myanmar (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Amblycipitidae).

Author: 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 fish from Myanmar

Publication: Mustura celata, a new genus and species of loaches from northern Myanmar, and an overview of Physoschistura and related taxa (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae).

Author: Maurice Kottelat

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

1 fish from Myanmar

Publication: A New Glyptosternine Catfish from Northern Myanmar (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Sisoridae).

Authors: Heok Hee Ng and Maurice Kottelat

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

3 fishes from Southeast Asia

Publication: Three new species of archerfishes from the freshwaters of Southeast Asia (Teleostei: Toxotidae) and notes on Henri Mouhot’s fish collections.

Authors: Maurice Kottelat & Tan Heok Hui

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

1 extinct ruminant from Bulgaria

Publication: Discovery of the oldest European ruminant in the late Eocene of Bulgaria: did tectonics influence the diachronic development of the Grande Coupure?

Authors: Mennecart B., Geraads D., Spassov N., Zagorchev I.

Natural History Museum Basel, Switzerland; Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France; Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Austria; National Museum of Natural History & Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

1 frog from Italy and Switzerland

Publication: Genomic Evidence for Cryptic Speciation in Tree Frogs From the Apennine Peninsula, With Description of Hyla perrini sp. nov.

Authors: Christophe Dufresnes and 23 co-authors

University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and nine other institutions

3 mayflies from the Canary Islands

Publication: From molecular hypotheses to valid species: description of three endemic species of Baetis (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) from the Canary Islands.

Authors: Jean-Luc Gattolliat, Sereina Rutschmann, Michael T. Monaghan & Michel Sartori

Museum of Zoology, Lausanne, & University of Lausanne, Switzerland; University of Vigo, Spain; Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries & Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research, Berlin, Germany.

26 mayflies from New Guinea

Publication: The incredible diversity of Labiobaetis Novikova & Kluge in New Guinea revealed by integrative taxonomy (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae).

Authors: Thomas Kaltenbach & Jean-Luc Gattolliat

Museum of Zoology, Lausanne, & University of Lausanne, Switzerland

4 beetles from the Himalayas

Publications: Description of two new Nebria (Eunebria) species from Central Nepal with remarks on N. xanthacra Chaudoir, 1850 and N. cinctella Andrewes, 1925 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae: Nebriini). Two new species of the genus Nebria Latreille, 1802, subgenus Asionebria Shilenkov, 1982 from Tibet (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Nebriini).

Authors: Charles Huber & Joachim Schmidt

Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern, Switzerland; University of Rostock, Germany

1 beetle from Portugal

Publication: A new species from Portugal and a replacement name in Rhamphus Clairville, 1798 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae).

Authors: Christoph Germann & Enzo Colonnelli

Naturmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland; Roma, Italy.

1 spider from Iran

Publication: A new species of Phyxioschema (Araneae: Dipluridae) from Iran.

Authors: Peter J. Schwendinger & Alireza Zamani

Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; University of Tehran, Iran.

1 beetle from Malaysia

Publication: Notes on Smetanabatrus from Southeast Asia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae).

Authors: Zi-Wei Yin & Giulio Cuccodoro

Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; Shanghai Normal University, P. R. China.

2 trematode parasites from Brazil

Publication: A new genus and two new species of dactylogyrid monogeneans from gills of Neotropical catfishes (Siluriformes: Doradidae and Loricariidae).

Authors: Aline Angelina Acosta, Tomáš Scholz, Isabel Blasco-Costa, Philippe Vieira Alves, Reinaldo José da Silva

Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; São Paulo State University & Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic.

4 mayflies from Israel

Publication: Taxonomy of Baetis Leach in Israel (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae).

Authors: Zohar Yanai, Jean-Luc Gattolliat & Netta Dorchin

Museum of Zoology, Lausanne, & University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Tel Aviv University, Israel.

1 fossil ray-finned fishes from Laos

Publication: A new Lepisosteiformes (Actinopterygii : Ginglymodi) from the Early Cretaceous of Laos and Thailand, SE Asia.

Authors: Cavin, L., Deesri., D, Veran, M., Khentavong, B, Jintasakul, P., Chanthasit, P. & Allain, R.

Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; Mahasarakham University, Nakhon Ratchasima Rajabhat University & Sirindhorn Museum Thailand; Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, France; Savannakhet Dinosaur Museum, Laos.

Note: a new genus was also described in this study.

5 sea snails from the Philippines

Publication: Description of five new species of Pseudorhaphitoma (Gastropoda: Mangeliidae) from the Philippines.

Authors: Peter Stahlschmidt & Emmanuel Tardy

Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany.

10 beetles from Sulawesi

Publication: A review of Scaphisomatini from Sulawesi, with descriptions of ten new species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scaphidiinae).

Author: Ivan Löbl

Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland

7 fossil parasitoid wasps from Germany

Publication: Seven remarkable new fossil species of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Eocene Messel Pit.

Authors: Tamara Spasojevic, Sonja Wedmann & Seraina Klopfstein

Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern & University of Bern, Switzerland; Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Messel, Germany.

Note: two new genera were also described in this study.

2 fossil parasitoid wasps from Russia

Publication: New ichneumonids (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Eocene Tadushi Formation, Russian Far East.

Authors: D.S. Kopylov, T. Spasojevic & S. Klopfstein

Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern & University of Bern, Switzerland; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia.

Note: a new genus was also described in this study.

2 mayflies from Saudi Arabia

Publication: Labiobaetis from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Insecta, Ephemeroptera, Baetidae).

Authors: Jean-Luc Gattolliat, Boris C. Kondratieff, Thomas Kaltenbach, Hathal M. Al Dhafer

Museum of Zoology, Lausanne, & University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Colorado State University, USA; King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

1 lupin from Colombia

Publication: The acaulescent rosette species of Lupinus L. (Fabaceae) of Colombia and Ecuador including a new species from Colombia.

Authors: N. Contreras-Ortiz, O. A. Jara-Muñoz & C. E. Hughes

University of Zurich, Switzerland; Universidad de los Andes & 2Jardín Botánico de Bogotá, Columbia

3 tree species from Madagascar

Publication: Three Critically Endangered new species of Capurodendron (Sapotaceae) from Madagascar.

Authors: Laurent Gautier & Yamama Naciri

Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Geneva, Switzerland

5 foraminifers from the Pacific Ocean

Publication: Five new species and two new genera of xenophyophores (Foraminifera: Rhizaria) from part of the abyssal equatorial Pacific licensed for polymetallic nodule exploration.

Authors: Andrew J. Gooday, Maria Holzmann, Aurélie Goineau, Richard B. Pearce, Ivan Voltski, Alexandra A.-T. Weber & Jan Pawlowski

University of Geneva, Switzerland; National Oceanography Centre & Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, UK

Note: Bizarria bryiformis gen. et sp. nov. (picture) displays unusual features for the group.

1 foraminifer from the Antarctic Sea

Publication: Eyes of the Deep-sea Floor: The Integrative Taxonomy of the Foraminiferal Genus Vanhoeffenella.

Authors: Ivan Voltskia, Andrew J. Goodayb & Jan Pawlowski

University of Geneva, Switzerland; National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, UK

1 foraminifer from the Mediterranean Sea

Publication: Cyrea szymborska gen. et sp. nov., a new textulariid foraminifer from the Mediterranean Sea.

Authors: Maria Holzmann, Sylvain Rigaud, Shahrouz Amini, Ivan Voltski & Jan Pawlowski

University of Geneva, Switzerland; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Note: a new genus was also proposed for this new species

1 hydroid from North America

Publication: DNA barcoding of some Pandeidae species (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Anthoathecata).

Author: Peter Schuchert

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva & University of Geneva, Switzerland

6 catfishes from from the Guianas

Publication: An integrative framework to reevaluate the Neotropical catfish genus Guyanancistrus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) with particular emphasis on the Guyanancistrus brevispinis complex.

Authors: Sonia Fisch-Muller, Jan H. A. Mol & Raphaël Covain

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva & University of Geneva, Switzerland; University of Suriname, Paramaribo, Suriname

Note: a new genus was also described in this work.

2 beetles from Chile

Publication: A revision of the Chilean Brachyglutini – Part 3. Revision of Achilia Reitter, 1890: A. frontalis species group (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae).

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

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva & University of Geneva, Switzerland; Museum of Entomology, Bykovo, Russia; University of Catania, Italy.

1 trematode parasite from the North Pacific

Publication: Microphallus ochotensis sp. nov. (Digenea, Microphallidae) and relative merits of two-host microphallid life cycles.

Authors: Kirill V. Galaktionov & Isabel Blasco-Costa

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva & University of Geneva, Switzerland; Russian Academy of Sciences & St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Note: this species is an internal parasite of Pacific eiders.

7 cestode parasites from Australia

Publication: Seven new species of cestode parasites (Neodermata, Platyhelminthes) from Australian birds.

Authors: Jean Mariaux & Boyko B. Georgiev

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva & University of Geneva, Switzerland; Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.

2 amphipods from Switzerland

Publication: Translating Niphargus barcodes from Switzerland into taxonomy with a description of two new species (Amphipoda, Niphargidae).

Authors: Cene Fišer, Roman Alther, Valerija Zakšek, Špela Borko, Andreas Fuchs & Florian Altermatt

Eawag Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, & University of Zurich, Switzerland; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany.

Note: The species were named after Hans Lukas “Luc” Hoffmann (1923–2016), naturalist and ecologists, founder of the MAVA foundation and co-founder of the World Wild Fund for NAture (WWF), and after Tony Whitten (1953–2017), who devoted his life to nature conservation including conserving life in caves, also being a co-chair of the Cave Invertebrate Specialist Group at IUCN.

1 mayfly from North Africa

Publication: Habrophlebia hassainae, a new mayfly species (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae) from North Africa.

Authors: Nadhira Benhadji, Karima Abdellaoui Hassaine & Michel Sartori

Museum of Zoology, Lausanne, & University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Université de Tlemcen, Algérie

2 moths from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania

Publication: Two new species of Prototheora Meyrick from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania representing the northernmost records for the genus (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae).

Authors: Bernard Landry & Donald R. Davis

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA

1 mayfly from Thailand

Publication: A new species of Platybaetis Müller-Liebenau, 1980 (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) from Thailand, with description of the imago of Platybaetis bishopi Müller-Liebenau, 1980.

Authors: Chanaporn Sutthinun, Jean-Luc Gattolliat & Boonsatien Boonsoong

Museum of Zoology, Lausanne, & University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

2 ascomycetes from Europe

Publication: Cryptodiscus muriformis and Schizoxylon gilenstamii, two new species of Stictidaceae (Ascomycota).

Authors: Samantha Fernández-Brime, Ibai Olariaga, Hans-Otto Baral, Gernot Friebes, Walter Jaklitsch,
Beatrice Senn-Irlet & Mats Wedin

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland; Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden; BOKU-University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences & University of Vienna, Austria; Tübingen, Germany.

5 Chironomids from Switzerland

Publication: On the genus Chaetocladius s. str. Kieffer, 1911 from Switzerland with descriptions of five new relic species occurring in glacial alpine springs and streams (Diptera, Chironomidae).

Authors: Joel Moubayed-Breil & Brigitte Lods-Crozet

Museum of Zoology, Lausanne, Switzerland; Freshwater & Marine biology, Montpellier, France