New species 2017

1 extinct Moschid (pecoran ruminant) from Germany

Publication: Micromeryx? eiselei - a new moschid species from Steinheim am Albuch, Germany, and the first comprehensive description of moschid cranial material from the Miocene of Central Europe.

Authors: Aiglstorfer M., Costeur L., Mennecart B., & Heizmann E.P.J.

Natural History Museum Basel, Switzerland; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany

1 protist from Mexico

Publication: Quadrulella texcalense sp. nov. from a Mexican desert: An unexpected new environment for hyalospheniid testate amoebae.

Authors: Horacio Pérez-Juáreza, Angélica Serrano-Vázquez, Anush Kosakyan, Edward A.D. Mitchell, Víctor M. Rivera Aguilar, Daniel J.G. Lahr, Mayra M. Hernández Moreno, Humberto Macías Cuellar, Luis E. Eguiarte, Enrique Lara

Jardin Botanique de Neuchâtel & University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México & Real Jardín Botánico, Mexico; University of São Paulo, Brazil.

2 beetles from the Oriental region

Publication: Description of two new species and a new subspecies of Plagiosterna Motschulsky from the Oriental region (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae).

Authors: Eva Sprecher-Uebersax & Mauro Daccordi

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland; Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona, Italy.

1 mayfly from Southern Europe

Publication: Electrogena brulini sp. nov. and E. vipavensis Zurwerra & Tomka, 1986 syn. nov. revealed by integrative taxonomy of E. gridellii (Grandi, 1953) (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae).

Authors: Andre Wagner, Laurent Vuataz & Michel Sartori

Museum of Zoology, Lausanne, Switzerland

2 mayflies from tropical Africa

Publication: Redescription of the Afrotropical genus Crassabwa Lugo-Ortiz & McCafferty 1996 (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae: Protopatellata).

Authors: Nikita J. Kluge, Jean-Luc Gattoliat & Frederico F. Salles

Museum of Zoology & University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Saint Petersburg State University, Russia; Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil.

2 mayflies from South-East Asia

Publication: New species of Indocloeon Müller-Liebenau from South-East Asia (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae).

Authors: Thomas Kaltenbach & Jean-Luc Gattolliat

Museum of Zoology & University of Lausanne, Switzerland

2 beetles from Greece and Israel

Publication: A review of Conocetus Desbrochers des Loges, 1875, subgenus of Polydrusus Germar, 1817 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae).

Authors: Christoph Germann

Naturmuseum Solothurn & Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern, Switzerland

1 bat from Vietnam

Publication: A new genus and species of vespertilionid bat from the Indomalayan Region.

Authors: Manuel Ruedi, Judith L. Eger, Burton K. Lim, & Gábor Csorba

Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; Royal Ontario Museum, Canada; Hungarian Natural History Museum, Hungaria

1 fly from Turkey

Publication: West Palaearctic species of the Hercostomus species-group III (Diptera, Dolichopodidae), with description of a new species from Turkey.

Authors: Stefan Naglis & Oleg P. Negrobov

University of Zurich, Switzerland & Voronezh State University, Russia

1 beetle from Bhutan

Publication: Trilophidius gemmatus sp. n., a new species from Bhutan, with an updated identification key to the Asian species (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Scaritinae).

Author: Michael Balkenohl

Bonstetten, Switzerland

4 jumping plant-lice from the Neotropics

Publication: Four new neotropical Trioza species associated with Loranthaceae (Santalales) and comments on mistletoe inhabiting psyllids (Hemiptera, Psylloidea).

Authors: Daniel Burckhardt, Fiorella Díaz, Dalva L. Queiroz

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland; Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Peru; Embrapa Florestas, Colombo, Brazil.

1 beetle from New Guinea

Publication: New species of Scaphisoma Leach, 1815 from New Guinea and a new replacement name (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scaphidiinae).

Authors: Ivan Löbl & Ryo Ogawa

Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; Kobe University, Japan

1 beetle from Madagascar

Publication: Toxidium cavicola sp. nov., a new cave dwelling Malagasy Scaphidiinae (Coleoptera: Xtaphylinidae).

Authors: Ivan Löbl & Arnaud Faille

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona, Spain

1 grass from Peru

Publication: Synoptic taxonomy of Cortaderia Stapf (Danthonioideae, Poaceae).

Authors: Daniel Testoni & H. Peter Linder

University of Zurich, Switzerland; Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina

1 orangutan from Borneo

Publication: Morphometric, Behavioral, and Genomic Evidence for a New Orangutan Species.

Authors: Alexander Nater, Maja P. Mattle-Greminger, David A. Marques, Michael Krützen & 33 collaborators

University of Zurich & University of Bern, Switzerland; and 33 other institutions

13 beetles from the Himalaya and Tibet

Publication: Notes on the Nebria subgenus Epinebriola K. Daniel, 1904 with the description of Barbonebriola subgen. nov. and 13 new species from the Himalaya-Tibet orogen (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Nebriini).

Authors: Charles Huber & Joachim Schmidt

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

1 fungus from Switzerland

Publication: Sclerotinia cirsii-spinosissimi, a new species from the Alps.

Authors: Beatrice Senn-Irlet & Martina Peter

Swiss Federal Research Institute, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

1 nematode parasite from Europe

Publication: Description of Acuaria europaea n. sp. (Spirurida: Acuariidae) from Dendrocopos syriacus (Hemprich & Ehrenberg) and Oriolus oriolus (L.) (Aves) in Europe, with results of re-examination of related European species of Acuaria Bremser, 1811.

Authors: Yasen Mutafchiev, Jean Mariaux & Boyko B. Georgiev

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

24 jumping plant-lice from the Neotropics

Publication: Systematics, biogeography and host-plant relationships of the Neotropical jumping plant-louse genus Russelliana (Hemiptera: Psylloidea).

Authors: Liliya Serbina & Daniel Burckhardt

Naturhistorisches Museum & Universität Basel, Switzerland

1 beetle from the Andaman Islands

Publication: On the genus Hirsutopes Pajni, 1990, (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Entiminae), with the description of a new species.

Author: Christoph Germann

Naturmuseum Solothurn & Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern, Switzerland

3 jumping plant-lice from South Korea

Publication: On the taxonomy of Korean jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera: Psylloidea).

Authors: Geonho Cho, Daniel Burckhardt & Seunghwan Lee

Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland; Seoul National University

8 jumping plant-lice from South America

Publication: The jumping plant-lice of the Neotropical genus Tainarys (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) associated with Anacardiaceae.

Authors: Daniel Burckhardt & Dalva L. Queiroz

Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland; Colombo, Brazil

1 epiphyt Gesneriaceae from Brazil

Publication: Description and phylogenetic position of a new species of Nematanthus (Gesneriaceae) from Bahia, Brazil.

Authors: Alain Chautems & Mathieu Perret

Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Geneva, Switzerland

3 jumping plant-lice from Israel

Publication: The Psylloidea (Hemiptera) of Israel.

Authors: Malkie Spodek, Daniel Burckhardt & Amnon Freidberg

Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland; Tel Aviv University, Israel

3 niphargids from Switzerland

Publication: Taxonomic, phylogenetic and ecological diversity of Niphargus (Amphipoda: Crustacea) in the Hölloch cave system (Switzerland).

Authors: Cene Fišer, Marjeta Konec, Roman Alther, Vid Švara, & Florian Altermatt

Eawag, Dübendorf, & University of Zurich, Switzerland; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

1 coelacanth from Switzerland

Publication: Heterochronic evolution explains novel body shape in a Triassic coelacanth from Switzerland.

Authors: Lionel Cavin, Bastien Mennecart, Christian Obrist, Loïc Costeur & Heinz Furrer

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, & Paläontologisches Institut und Museum der Universität Zürich, Switzerland.

Note: the illustration of this fossil fish was made by the artist Alain Bénéteau

1 hydroid from Abu Dhabi

Publication: Systematic notes on some leptomedusa species with a description of Neotima galeai n. spec. (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria).

Author: Peter Schuchert

Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland

4 spiders from Malaysia

Publication: A revision of the trapdoor spider genus Liphistius (Mesothelae: Liphistiidae) in peninsular Malaysia; part 1.

Author: Peter J. Schwendinger

Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland

1 tapeworm from Brazil

Publication: Reappraisal of Goezeella Fuhrmann, 1916 (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae), parasites of Neotropical catfi shes (Siluriformes), with description of a new species from Pimelodella cristata (Heptapteridae).

Authors: Philippe V. Alves, Alain de Chambrier, José L. Luque & Tomáš Scholz

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

1 goldfish from Laos

Publication: Carassius praecipuus, a dwarf new species of goldfi sh from the Mekong drainage in central Laos (Teleostei: Cyprinidae).

Author: Maurice Kottelat

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (corresponding member) & Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Singapore

1 gecko from Mozambique

Publication: Description of a new flat gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Afroedura) from Mount Gorongosa, Mozambique.

Authors: William R. Branch, Jennifer A. Guyton, Andreas Schmitz, Michael F. Barej, Piotr Naskrecki, Harith Farooq, Luke Verburgt & Mark-Oliver Rödel

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa and 10 other institutions

1 lizard from Saudi Arabia

Publication: Cutting the Gordian Knot: Phylogenetic and ecological diversification of the Mesalina brevirostris species complex (Squamata, Lacertidae).

Authors: Jiří Šmíd, Jiří Moravec, Václav Gvoždík, Jan Štundl, Daniel Frynta, Petros Lymberakis, Paschalia Kapli, Thomas Wilms, Andreas Schmitz, Mohammed Shobrak, Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani, Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani, Aurora M. Castilla, Johannes Els, & Werner Mayer

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic and 11 other institutions

1 cobra from Sao Tome Island

Publication: The “Cobra-preta” of São Tomé Island, Gulf of Guinea, is a new species of Naja Laurenti, 1768 (Squamata: Elapidae).

Authors: Luis M. P. Ceríaco, Mariana P. Marques, Andreas Schmitz & Aaron M. Bauer

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; Villanova University, USA; Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Note: thought to be an introduced species, it turns out to be a new species, endemic to the island.

1 fish from the upper Congo River

Publication: A new species of Pseudocrenilabrus (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Mweru in the Upper Congo River System.

Authors: Cyprian Katongo, Ole Seehausen & Jos Snoeks

University of Bern & EAWAG, Switzerland; University of Zambia, Zambia; Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium.

1 tapeworm from the Neotropics

Publication: Untangling convoluted taxonomy of Chambriella Rego, Chubb & Pavanelli, 1999 (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae), with erection of Riggenbachiella n. g. and the description of a new species from pimelodid catfishes in the Neotropical Region.

Authors: Philippe Vieira Alves, Alain de Chambrier, Jose Luis Luque & Tomas Scholz

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic.

Note: The new genus name was given in honour of the late Emil E. Riggenbach, University of Basel, Switzerland, for his contribution to the systematics of proteocephalid cestodes at the end of the 19th Century.

1 shrub from the western Amazon

Publication: A new species of Besleria (Gesneriaceae) from the western Amazon rainforest.

Authors: Gabriel Emiliano Ferreira, Andréa Onofre de Araújo, Michael John Gilbert Hopkins & Alain Chautems

Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Geneva, Switzerland; Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia & Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil.

1 piranha-jawed pycnodont fish from Morocco

Publication: A unique Cretaceous–Paleogene lineage of piranha-jawed pycnodont fishes.

Authors: Romain Vullo, Lionel Cavin, Bouziane Khalloufi, Mbarek Amaghzaz, Nathalie Bardet, Nour-Eddine Jalil, Essaid Jourani, Fatima Khaldoune & Emmanuel Gheerbrant

Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; Université de Rennes, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, France; Khouribga, Morocco.

Note: fossil fish from the early Late Cretaceous

1 rove beetle from Madagascar

Publication: Toxidium cavicola sp. nov., a New Cave Dwelling Malagasy Scaphidiinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae).

Authors: Ivan Löbl & Arnaud Faille

Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Spain.

5 fossil parasitoid wasps from North America

Publication: Ichneumonid parasitoid wasps from the Early Eocene Green River Formation: five new species and a revision of the known fauna (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae).

Authors: Tamara Spasojevic, Gavin R. Broad, Andrew M. R. Bennett & Seraina Klopfstein

Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern & University of Bern, Switzerland; Natural History Museum, UK; Canadian National Collection of Insects, Canada.

1 stonefly from the Jura Mountains

Publication: A new species of Protonemura Kempny, 1898 (Plecoptera: Nemouridae) from the French and Swiss Jura Mountains.

Authors: Jean-Paul G. Reding, Audrey Bolard & Gilles Vinçon

Corcelles, Switzerland; Villers-Farlay & Grenoble, France.

1 fossil rodent from Mongolia

Publication: A new species of Argyromys (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the oligocene of the valley of lakes (Mongolia): its importance for palaeobiogeographical homogeneity across Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan.

Authors: Paloma López-Guerrero, Olivier Maridet, Zhaoqun Zhang & GudrunDaxner-Höck

Jurassica Museum, Porrentruy, & University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland; Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Austria; Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing, China.

5 beetles from Greece

Publication: Five new species of Amicromias Reitter, 1912 from Greece (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Omiini).

Authors: Roman Borovec, George Kakiopoulos & Christoph Germann

Naturmuseum Solothurn & Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern, Switzerland; Research Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Czech Republic; Athens, Greece.

1 chub from Anatolia

Publication: Squalius semae, a new species of chub from the Euphrates River, Eastern Anatolia (Teleostei:Cyprinidae).

Author: Davut Turan, Maurice Kottelat & Esra Bayçelebi

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (corresponding member) & Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Singapore; Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University,Turkey.

10 loaches from Laos and Myanmar

Publications: Schistura epixenos, a new species of loach from the Nakai Plateau, Laos (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Schistura titan, a new species of loach from Dakchung Plateau, southern Laos (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Schistura systomos , a new species of loach from southern Laos (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Schistura colossa and S. klydonion, two new species of loaches from Bolaven Plateau, southern Laos (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Schistura indawgyiana, a new loach from Lake Indawgyi basin, Myanmar(Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). A new genus and three new species of nemacheilid loaches from northern Irrawaddy drainage, Myanmar (Teleostei: Cypriniformes). Vanmanenia orcicampus, a new species of loach from the Plain of Jars, Laos (Teleostei: Gastromyzontidae). Schistura thavonei, a new species of loach from northwestern Laos (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae).

Author: Maurice Kottelat

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

1 trout from Turkey

Publication: Salmo munzuricus, a new species of trout from the Euphrates River drainage, Turkey (Teleostei: Salmonidae).

Authors: Davut Turan, Maurice Kottelat and Cüneyt Kaya

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (corresponding member) ; Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Turkey; Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, Singapore.

2 catfishes from Laos

Publication: The Glyptothorax of the Bolaven Plateau, Laos (Teleostei: Sisoridae): new and endangered.

Authors: Heok Hee Ng & Maurice Kottelat

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

2 tapeworms from Russia

Publication: Proteocephalid tapeworms (Cestoda: Onchoproteocephalidea) of loaches (Cobitoidea): Evidence for monophyly and high endemism of parasites in the Far East.

Authors: Tomáš Scholz, Alain de Chambrier, Takeshi Shimazu, Alexey Ermolenko & Andrea Waeschenbach

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic; Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; Natural History Museum, UK; Nagano, Japan.

Note: This species lives in the intestine of freshwater fishes (loaches).

2 tapeworms from Costa Rica

Publication: A new genus and two new species of Proteocephalidean tapeworms (Cestoda) from cichlid fish (Perciformes: Cichlidae) in the neotropics.

Authors: Alain de Chambrier, Carlos Daniel Pinacho-Pinacho, Jesus Servando Hernández-Orts &Tomás Scholz

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México & Universidad de la Sierra Sur, México; Instituto de Biologı́a Marina y Pesquera Almirante Storni, Argentina; Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic.

Note: This species lives in the intestine of freshwater fishes.

1 nematode parasite from Gabon

Publication: Orientatractis brycini sp. nov. (Nematoda: Atractidae) from characiform freshwater fishes in Gabon, Africa.

Authors: David González-Solís & Jean Mariaux

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico & Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic.

Note: This species lives in the intestine of freshwater fishes.

1 bamboo bat from Indochina

Publication: Comparative phylogeography of bamboo bats of the genus Tylonycteris (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in Southeast Asia.

Authors: Vuong Tan Tu, Gábor Csorba, Manuel Ruedi, Neil M. Furey, Nguyen Truong Son, Vu Dinh Thong, Céline Bonillo & Alexandre Hassanin

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam; Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France; Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary; Fauna & Flora International, Cambodia Programme, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

2 beetles from Anatolia

Publication: Two new species of Otiorhynchus Germar, 1822 (Tecutinus Reitter, 1912) from south-western Anatolia (Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Entiminae).

Author: Christoph Germann

Naturmuseum Solothurn & Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern, Switzerland.