Europeanjournaloftaxonomy

Spelaeometra D. Polhemus & Ferreira, 2018 is a rare genus within the family Hydrometridae, currently composed exclusively of cave-dwelling species. Herein, we describe two new troglobitic species of this enigmatic genus from southwestern Bahia, Brazil: Spelaeometra ybykoara sp. nov. from the municipality of Carinhanha, and Spelaeometra iuiu...

The family Cirratulidae is a diverse group of benthic polychaetes with about 400 species described worldwide. Fifty-eight nominal species are recorded in Europe, but recent DNA analyses have revealed that between 83 and 96 additional species inhabit European benthic environments and probably most of them are still undescribed. In this paper, two historical species are re-desc...

The ʻcampo rupestreʼ is a montane vegetation mosaic associated with rocky outcrops, with outstanding levels of species diversity and endemism. Among its most diverse lineages, Rubiaceae ranks among the ten richest families. Hexasepalum Bartl. ex DC. is nested in the Spermacoce clade of Spermacoceae, the largest predominantly herbaceous tribe in the Rubiaceae...

We describe three new species of mollusks and report 11 species identifications, from Upper Miocene strata of the Dar Pahn Unit at the Makran margin of southeastern Iran. The new species are the gastropods Bufonaria chabaharensis sp. nov., Cancilla makranensis sp. nov. and the bivalve Corbula darpahnensis sp. nov. The new identifications include the...

Elaphropoda Lieftinck, 1966 and Habropoda Smith, 1854 are two rarely collected genera belonging to the family Apidae. Elaphropoda is found to be restricted to the Oriental region with 13 extant species. Habropoda is a rather extensively distributed genus with a total of 55 species worldwide. We describe two new species (Elaphropoda tria...