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A new species of Acrotaeniostola Hendel, A. connexa sp. n. of tribe Gastrozonini, is described from India. Acroceratitis incompleta Hardy of tribe Gastrozonini and Ceratitella sobrina (Zia) of tribe Ceratitidini have been recorded for the first time from India. The genus Ceratitella Malloch and tribe Ceratitidini are recorded for the first time from India.Larvae of the Notacanthella Jacobus McCafferty, 2008 species N. commodema (Allen, 1971) and N. quadrata (Kluge Zhou, 2004) from Thailand are compared and redescribed. Both species have serrations on maxillary canines, as does N. perculta (Allen, 1971) from Vietnam, and this contributes to synonymizing the subgenus Samiocca Jacobus McCafferty, 2008 under Notacanthella s.s. (= Samiocca n. syn.). The Thailand species can be differentiated by the numbers of thoracic and abdominal tubercles. In addition, the chorionic structure of N. quadrata is investigated for the first time by scanning electron microscopic technique.Speciose populations of small xanthoid crabs on offshore banks and reefs of the northern Gulf of Mexico include a new species that is not assignable to presently named genera. Morphological diagnoses of the new genus and species are underpinned by previously published gene sequence analyses, originally misattributed to another species but now known to apply to this taxon. Herein named Guinope tiara n. gen., n. sp., the species shows molecular phylogenetic affinities with the family Linnaeoxanthidae Števčić, 2005, an ally of panopeid and pseudorhombilid crabs. Specimens from Occulina banks off the Florida Atlantic coast, previously regarded to represent Garthiope barbadensis (Rathbun, 1921), are not that species but instead morphologically assignable to Guinope n. gen. Whether they represent variants of Guinope tiara n. gen, n. sp. or a second species of the genus awaits the collection of fresh materials for DNA analyses.Two lace bug genera, Baeochila Drake Poor, 1937 and Idiocysta China, 1930 (Hemiptera Heteroptera Tingidae) are recorded from Japan for the first time, and two new species, B. horvathi sp. nov. and I. takarai sp. nov., are described. The former was collected from the vines of Hedera rhombea (Miq.) Bean (Araliaceae) and the bark of Trachycarpus fortunei (Hook.) H.Wendl. (Arecaceae) in suburbanized areas of Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu, and the latter was collected from the leaves of Freycinetia formosana Hemsl. (Pandanaceae) in the laurilignosa ecosystem of the Ryukyu Islands. The distribution ranges and host plant relationships of the two new species are discussed. Keys to all species of the two genera and photographs of living individuals for the new species are also presented.While patterns in diversity and biogeography of macroscopic organisms may be fairly well-documented, this is much less the case for microscopic organisms, for which mechanisms working at entirely different scales may be relevant. Data deficiency remains a major obstacle to the study of these mechanisms, and this situation is exacerbated in regions for which accessibility is not self-evident. We here report on the Lepadellidae rotifers in zooplankton samples collected during the Boyekoli ebale Congo 2010 expedition and a subsequent visit to Yangambi, DR Congo in June 2012. The material contained eight hitherto unknown species amongst 33 Lepadellidae taxa. This remarkable result illustrates a previously unknown and largely endemic microfauna of the Congo Basin and refutes the "African anomaly" hypothesis on the purported poverty of the Central African rotifer fauna. We describe the new species, viz. Colurella asymmetrica n. sp., Lepadella hanneloreae n. sp., L. jingruae n. sp., L. weijiai n. sp., L.wilungulai n. sp., L. yangambi n. sp., Squatinella curviseta n. sp. and S. longipila n. sp., and comment on the diversity and biogeographical relationships of this fauna. Two of the new species appear to have a South American congener as their closest relative, potentially constituting two more examples of rare African-South American vicariant species-pairs in Rotifera.A new species of the genus Cephalanticoma is described for the Atlantic Ocean in the Potiguar Basin off the continental shelf of northeast Brazil. Cephalanticoma rugatusa sp. n. is characterized by bearing head capsule ending on the level of amphideal fovea, a tubular precloacal supplement and two rows of thin precloacal setae. Cephalanticoma rugatusa sp. n. differs from all other species of the genus by having a precloacal cuticular papilla in front of the cloaca and a cuticular transversal wrinkle which extends from the papilla elevation to the conical-cylindrical portion of the tail occupying both subventral regions. An emended diagnosis and a dichotomous key to species based on both genders are provided.A new species of the snapping shrimp genus Alpheus Fabricius, 1798 is described based on material from Galicia Bank, an offshore seamount off northwestern Spain. The type series of Alpheus gallicus n. sp. was collected at a depth of 768-785 m, making it one of the deepest occurring snapping shrimps. The new species belongs to the Alpheus macrocheles species group and is morphologically most similar to several deep-water members of this group, viz. A. lentiginosus Anker Nizinski, 2011, A. platydactylus Coutière, 1897, A. romensky Burukovsky, 1990, as well as to the shallow-water A. macrocheles (Hailstone, 1835). buy Fingolimod The new species can be distinguished from all of them by some features on the minor cheliped and dactyli of the third to fifth pereiopods. In addition to morphology, DNA barcoding of the COI gene distinguished A. gallicus n. sp. from all related species with available barcode sequences.A new species of Entomobrya Rondani E. tristriata sp. nov., from Jilin, one province of the Northeast China and first record of Entomobryoides sotoadamesi Jordana, Potapov Baquero, 2011, are herein described. Entomobrya tristriata sp. nov. is characterised by three longitudinal dark blue stripes from Th. II to Abd. III, prelabral smooth chaetae and larger subapical tooth on mucro. However, in most species of Entomobrya, prelabral chaetae are ciliated and subapical tooth is subequal to the apical one. Entomobryoides sotoadamesi was first described from Far East of Russia and Chinese specimens agree with the original description.