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Fannia bohemica sp. nov. (Czech Republic, Slovakia) is described and illustrated. Male of F. latifrontalis Hennig, 1955 is described and illustrated for the first time. Fannia jezoensis Nishida, 1976 is first reported from West Palaearctic, Fannia morrisoni Malloch, 1913 is first recorded from Palaearctic Region. Fannia umbrosa (Stein, 1895) and F. armata (Meigen, 1826; first record based on morphologically identified specimens) are new records from Nearctic Region. Six species (Fannia fuscitibia Stein, 1920, F. latifrontalis, F. limbata (Tiensuu, 1938), F. verrallii (Meade, 1891), F. gotlandica Ringdahl, 1926 and F. spathiophora, Malloch, 1918) are recorded for the first time from Slovakia.Chrysozephyrus mushaellus paolongkoui, ssp. nov. is described and illustrated from Hainan island of southern China. This new subspecies possesses diagnosable characters different from previously recognized subspecies of C. mushaellus in wing marking and genitalia of both sexes. It utilizes Lithocarpus litseifolius (Fagaceae) as the larval hostplant.Acanthopsyche ecksteini (Lederer, 1885) is morphologically redescribed and Acanthopsyche semiglabra Solyanikov, 2004, syn. n., is synonymized to Psyche ecksteini. The lectotype of Psyche ecksteini is designated and illustrated. The distribution is updated with the most eastern current reliable record in Orenburg Region (Russia).The present study describes Serranochromis alvum n. sp., Serranochromis swartzi n. sp., Serranochromis cuanza n. sp., and Serranochromis cacuchi n. IMD 0354 sp. from Angolan tributaries of the Cuanza and Okavango systems in Angola. The presence of four or five scale rows between the posterior margin of the orbit and the ascending arm of the preoperculum, the presence of widely set unicuspid teeth on the jaws, widely separated gill rakers, and anal fins with egg ocelli place these four species in Serranochromis. The Serranochromis described herein are distinguishable based on a combination of morphological and meristic characters, as well as pigmentation patterns. The interorbital width (14.3-15.9 % HL) of S. alvum is narrower than that of S. swartzi (17.6-19.8), S. cuanza (16.3-18.0), and S. cacuchi (20.0-21.7). Moreover, the interorbital width of S. cacuchi is greater than the other three described species. Serranochromis swartzi has a smaller preorbital depth (16.2-18.9 % HL) and snout length (29.6-31.9 % HL) than Serranochromis cuanza (PD 19.1-22.2, SNL 35.2-39.6 % HL). Serranochromis alvum is known only from the type locality at Cuito-Cuanavale at the junction of the Cuito and Cuanavale rivers, tributary to the Okavango River in Angola. Serranochromis swartzi is known only from the type locality in the Cuanza River, Angola. Serranochromis cuanza is restricted to the Cuanza River, below Capanda Dam, Angola, while S. cacuchi is known only from the Cacuchi River, a tributary of the Cuchi-Cubango River in Angola. The limited distribution of all four species and the absence of many congeners suggest, that in addition to previous studies that invoked a lacustrine speciation model, vicariance through drainage isolation seems to have played an important role in driving speciation in this group. The minimum polygon clusters that are formed when the first principal components of the meristic data are plotted against the second sheared principal components of the morphometric data show separation of the four new species.The genus Rhopalapion Schilsky, 1906 is revised and its name is applied to Apionidae with elongate body, elongate antennal club and strong sexual dimorphism in the length of rostrum, whose biology is related to Malvaceae belonging to the genus Alcea L., 1753. The morphological study of various populations hitherto attributed to Rhopalapion longirostre (Olivier, 1807) allowed the identification of a further species, Rhopalapion celatum n. sp. (♂♀, type locality S-Iran Fars Province Pâsârgâd vicinity tomb of Cyrus), distributed in Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. Lectotype (♂) of Apion longirostre Olivier, 1807 is designated. The following new combinations are proposed for the species formerly assigned to Rhopalapion Pseudaspidapion leptorostre (Voss, 1959) n. comb. and Harpapion coelestipenne (Voss, 1962) n. comb. The genera Anacrapion Mazur, 2011 and Lopatinapion Friedman, 2013 are provisionally removed from the tribe Malvapiini Alonso-Zarazaga, 1990 and considered members of the supertribe Aspidapiitae Alonso-Zarazaga, 1990 with no tribal attribution.The subfamily Sericothripinae Karny (Thysanoptera Thripidae) is recorded for the first time from the Saudi Arabian fauna. Four species belonging to two genera, Hydatothrips Karny and Neohydatothrips John, are recognized, and H. bahaensis Rasool, sp. n. is described from Al Baha region (southwestern of Saudi Arabia). Host-plant associations are given for the new species and also N. amygdali Minaei, and the male and larvae of N. amygdali are reported for the first time. An illustrated key to the genera and species is provided.Three new species of the Asian genus Mata Distant, 1906 (Hemiptera Cicadidae) viz. Mata lenonia sp.nov.; Mata ruffordii sp.nov. and Mata meghalayana sp.nov. are described from Indian state of Meghalaya. Keys and taxonomic descriptions of these species are provided with detailed accounts of their natural history and acoustics.The predaceous midges (Diptera Ceratopogonidae; tribe Ceratopogonini) in the genera Schizonyxhelea Clastrier Stilobezzia Kieffer in Mexico were recently addressed by Huerta Grogan (2017) who described one new species in each of these genera. A re-examination of specimens in the Colección de Artrópodos con Importancia Medica (CAIM), from the states of Morelos and Yucatan, revealed an undescribed species that was previously identified as Stilobezzia (Stilobezzia) femoralis Lane Forattini from Yucatan by Huerta (2002) and Huerta Grogan (2017). Herein, we describe and illustrate this species from the states of Morelos Yucatan, Mexico, as Stilobezzia (Stilobezzia) tobiasi Huerta Grogan n. sp.A new species of the genus Aneuclis Förster, 1869, A. flavopedes Sheng, Zhou Wei, sp.nov. collected from the field of the Research Station of Liaohe-River Plain Forest Ecosystem, Zhangwu, Liaoning Province, China, is described and illustrated. The new species is inserted into the key provided by Khalaim (2004).