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ZOOTAXA A rapid international journal for animal taxonomists ISSN 1175-5326 (Print Edition) & ISSN 1175-5334 (Online Edition) Scratchpad highlights

Editors for Major Zootaxa/Subject Areas Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Curator, Natural History Museum and Biodiversity The Acarology Laboratory, Museum of Biological Diversity, Ohio State University, 1315 Rentz, D. ([email protected]) Insecta: Orthoptera Adams, Byron J. ([email protected]) Nematoda: entomopathogenic Research Center Haworth Hall University of Kansas 1200 Sunnyside Avenue Lawrence, Kinnear Rd., Columbus, OH 43212-1192, USA 19 Butler Dr Kuranda, Qld. 4881 Australia Microbiology and Molecular Biology Dept., 775 WIDB, Brigham Young University, Kansas 66045-7534 USA Kott, Patricia ([email protected]) Tunicata, A s c i d i a c e a Rix, M. ([email protected]) Araneae: Eresoidea, Palpimanoidea Provo, UT 84602-5253, USA Fletcher, Murray ([email protected]) Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Queensland Museum PO Box 3300 South Brisbane,Qld, Australia 4101 School of Animal Biology, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Ahyong, Shane T. ([email protected]) Crustacea: Anomura Fulgoromorpha Kropf, Christian ([email protected]) Araneae: Haplogynae Crawley WA 6009, Australia Marine Biodiversity and Biosecurity, NIWA, Private Bag 14901, Kilbirnie, Wellington, Orange Agricultural Institute, Forest Road, Orange NSW 2800, AUSTRALIA Natural History Museum Bern, Department of Invertebrates, Bernastrasse 15 CH-3005 Ribera, I. ([email protected]) Coleoptera: ADEPHAGA, ARCHOSTEMATA New Zealand Framenau, V. W. ([email protected]) Araneae: Lycosoidea Bern Switzerland Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Alderslade, Phil ([email protected]) Coelenterata: Octocorallia Arachnology, Department of Terrestrial Invertebrates, Western Australian Museum, K u l a , Robert R. ([email protected]) Parasitic Hymenoptera: Naturales, José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain PO Box 211 Margate Tasmania Australia 7054 Locked Bag 49, Welshpool DC, WA 6986, AUSTRALIA Ichneumonoidea Rocha, L. A. ([email protected]) Pisces: Marine and estuarine, except Gobioidei - Amrine, James W. ([email protected]) Acari: Eriophyoidea Friel, John ([email protected]) Pisces: African freshwater Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA Smithsonian Institution, NMNH 10th & see Gill; North American freshwater Division of P lant and Soil Sciences, PO B ox 6108 West Virginia University Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA Constitution Ave. NW Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA Hawaii Institute of M arine Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Coconut Island, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA P.O. Box 1346 Kaneohe, Hawaii 96744, USA Andersen, Trond ([email protected]) D i p t e r a : Nematocera Gall, Lawrence ([email protected]) Lepidoptera: Noctuidae and other Landry, J.-F. ([email protected]) Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea and other Ronquist, F. ([email protected]) Cladistics; theory and methods (Chironomidae) macrolepidoptera microlepidoptera Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 The Natural History Collections Bergen Museum Muséplass 3 N-5020 Bergen NORWAY Computer Systems Office, Peabody Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 208118, Yale Agriculture & A gri-Food Canada Canadian National Collection 960 Carling Avenue Ruthensteiner, B. ([email protected]) Mollusca University New Haven, CT 06520, USA Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6, Canada Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Münchhausenstrasse 21, D-81247 MUnchen, Baehr, Barbara ([email protected]) Araenae: Entelegynae reliquae Garrison, R.W. ([email protected]) Larsen, Kim ([email protected]) Crustacea: Tanaidacea & Cumacea Germany. Biodiversity, Arachnology, Queensland Museum, South Bank, PO Box 3 300, South Plant Pest Diagnostics, California Department of Food & Agriculture, 3294 Department of Invertebrates, Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Brisbane Qld 4101, Australia Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832-1448, USA Universitetsparken 15, Denmark Svavarsson, Jörundur ([email protected]) Crustacea, Isopoda Bamber, Roger ([email protected]) Pycnogonida Gates, Michael ( [email protected]) Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea Longino, John T. ([email protected]) Hymenoptera: Formicidae Institute of Biology, University of Iceland, Sturlugata 7, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland Environment: Coastal & Marine, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road USDA, ARS, PSI, SEL c/o Smithsonian Institution NMNH, NHB 168 10th & Lab I, The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 98505 USA Schaefer, Carl W. ([email protected]) Hemiptera: He t e r o p t e r a London SW7 5BD, United K i n g d o m Constitution Ave. Washington DC 20013-7012, USA University of Connecticut, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 75 North Beasley, C. W. ([email protected]) T a r d i g r a d a Gaubert, Philippe ([email protected]) Mammalia Maciolek, Nancy J. ([email protected]) Polychaeta Eagleville Road Unit 3043, Storrs CT 06269-3043, USA Department of Biology, McMurry University, Abilene, Texas 79697, U.S.A. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 43, rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, FRANCE ENSR Marine and Coastal Center, 89 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA Schroedl, Michael ([email protected]) Mollusca Bickel, D.J. ([email protected]) Insecta: Diptera, Acalyptratae Geiger, Daniel L. ([email protected]) M o l l u s c a Maddocks, R. F. ([email protected]) Ostracoda Zoologisches Institut der Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München, Karlstr. 23, Australian Museum, 6-8 College Street Sydney, NSW 2000, Aus tr alia Research Associate, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol Dept. of Geosciences Room 3 12 Science & Research Bldg. 1, Univ. of Houston, 80333 Munchen, Germany. Bieler, Rüdiger ([email protected]) Mollusca: Bivalvia and shelled Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA Houston, TX 77204-5007 U.S.A. Schwendinger, Peter J. ([email protected]) Arachnida: Opiliones heterobranchs Gibson, Ray ([email protected]) Nemertea Mantovani, Barbara ([email protected]) Insecta: Phasmatodea Department of Arthropodology and Entomology I, Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box Field Museum of Natural History, Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605-2496, USA. School of B iological and Earth Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Dip. Biologia E. S., Via Selmi 3, Bologna, Italy 6434, CH-1211, Geneva 6, Switzerland Brown, J.W. ([email protected]) Lepidoptera Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK Martin, Jon H. ([email protected]) Insecta, Hemiptera (aphids, psylloids) Seeman, Owen ([email protected]) Acari: Acariformes Systematic Entomology Laboratory, PSI, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department Gill, Anthony C. ([email protected]) Pisces: Gobioidei; Asian freshwater Dept. of Entomology, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK Arachnida Collection, Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane 4101, of Agriculture, c/o National Museum of Natural History, MRC 168 Washington, DC School of Life Science, P.O. Box 874501, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287- Meland, Kenneth ([email protected]) Crustacea Australia 20560, U . S . A . 4501, USA. University of Bergen, Department of Biology, PO Box 7800, N-5020 Bergen, NORWAY Scharff, N. ([email protected]) Araneae: Araneoidea Brunetti, R. ([email protected]) Ascidicea Gordon, Dennis P. ([email protected]) Bryozoa Minelli, A. ([email protected]) Myriapoda: Chilopoda Zoological Museum, Entomology Department, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Department of Biology, University of Padua (Italy), Via U. Bassi 58/b, 35131 Padova National Institute of Wa ter & Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 14-901 Kilbirnie, Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via Ugo Bassi 58 B, 35131 Padova, Italy Copenhagen Ø, Denmark I t a l y Wellington, New Zealand Monks, S. ([email protected]) Acanthocephala Shear, William ([email protected]) Myriapoda Buffington, Matt L. ([email protected]) parasitic Hymenoptera Gower, David ([email protected]) Reptilia Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Centro de I nvestigaciones Biológicas, Department of Biology, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943, USA Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA, c/o Smithsonian Institution, National Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London, UK. Apdo. Postal 1-69, Pachuca, C.P. 42001, Hidalgo, México. Short, Andrew ([email protected]) STAPHYLINIFORMIA, HYDROPHILOIDEA Museum of Natural History, 10th & Constitution Ave., NW, Washington DC 20013, USA. Goy, Joseph ([email protected]) Crustacea: Decapoda, Caridea Morse , Geoffrey ([email protected]) CUCUJIFORMIA, (incl. Histeroidea) and HYDRAENIDAE Department of Biology, Harding University, 900 E. Center Ave., Box 12251, Searcy, CHRYSOMELOIDEA, particulary Chrysomelidae s. l a t . Division of Entomology, 1501 Crestline Drive, Suite #140, University of Kansas, Calder, Dale R. ([email protected]) Scyphozoa, Cubozoa and Staurozoa Arkansas 72149-0001 USA Department of Integrated Natural Sciences, P.O. Box 37100, Arizona State University, Lawrence, KS, 66049 USA Department of N atural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park Toronto, Greenslade, Penny ([email protected]) Insecta: C o l l e m b o l a Phoenix, AZ 85069, USA Sket, Boris ( [email protected] ) Annelida (esp. Hirudinea & o ther non- Ontario, Canada M5S 2C6 Division of Botany and Zoology, Australian National University, GPO Box Morse, John C. ([email protected]) Trichoptera Polychaeta) A rapid international journalClemson Universityfor Arthropod animal Collection (CUAC), Department taxonomists of Entomology, Soils, Carranza, S. ([email protected]) R e p t i l i a Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, 1001 Ljubljana, Dept. Biologia Animal, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 645, E-08028 Barcelona, Gusarov, Vladimir I. ([email protected]) Insecta: Coleoptera and Plant Sciences, Clemson University, Long Hall, Box 340315, Clemson, SC 29634- Slovenia Spain (Staphyliniformia) 0315, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Smith, Andrew B.T. ([email protected]) Insecta: Coleoptera Carvalho, M. R. de ([email protected]) Pisces: Chondrichthyes; South AmericanISSN University 1175-5326 of Os lo, UNM, Zoological (Print Museum, Department Edition) of Entomology, P.O. B ox & ISSNMoulton, John 1175-5334K. ([email protected]) (OnlineDiptera: Nematocera (exceptEdition) (Scarabaeiformia ) freshwater 1172, Blindern, NO-0318, Oslo, Norway Chironomidae & Culicoidea) Canadian Museum of Nature, P.O. Box 3443, Station D, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6P4, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Güsten, Rob ([email protected]) Insecta: Neuropterida Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, 2431 Joe Johnson Drive, 205 Ellington Canada Matão, Trav. 14, no. 101, São Paulo, SP, 05508-900, Brasil Zoologische Abteilung, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Friedensplatz 1, 64283 Darmstadt, Plant Sciences Bldg., The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-4560, Song, Hojun ([email protected]) Insecta: Orthoptera Castro, P. ([email protected]) Crustacea: Brachyura G e r m a n y USA Department of Biology, 692 Widtsoe Building BYU, Provo, UT 84602, USA Biological Sciences Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona CA Mound, Laurence A. ([email protected]) Insecta: Thysanoptera & Sterrer, W. E. ([email protected]) Platyhelminthes, Gnathostomulida, Gastrotricha 91768, USA Hajdu, E. ([email protected]) Porifera Hemiptera (whitefly) Bermuda Natural History Museum, PO Box FL 145, Flatts FLBX, B e r m u d a Chesser, T. ([email protected]) Aves: New World birds Museu Nacional, UFRJ, Quinta da Boa Vista, s/n, 20940-040, s/n Rio de Janeiro, RJ, CSIRO Entomology, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Smithsonian Institution, P. O. Box 3 7012, Division of Birds, NHB MRC 116, Brasil Mullin, Peter ([email protected]) Nematoda Taeger, A. ([email protected]) Hymenoptera: Symphyta Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA Halliday, R. Bruce ([email protected]) Acari: Mesostigmata 5136 14th Avenue S Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA Deutsches Entomologisches Institut im Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung Collins, A. ([email protected]) Hydrozoa CSIRO Division of Entomology, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Muster, C. ([email protected]) Dionycha (excl. Gnaphosoidea s.l.) (ZALF) e.V., Eberswalder Str. 84, D-15374 Müncheberg, Germany Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA Hutchings, Pat ([email protected]) Annelida: Polychaeta (all, but particularly Universität Leipzig, Institut für Biologie II, Molekulare Evolution und Systematik der T o l i v e r , Mike ([email protected]) Lepidoptera: Butterflies and other Cordeiro-Estrela, Pedro ([email protected]) Mammalia Terebellida) Tiere, Talstr. 33, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany macrolepidoptera Departamento de Genética - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Marine Invertebrates, Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney 2010 Australia Division of Math and Sciences Eureka College 300 East College Avenue Eureka, IL Brazil Hodda, Mike ([email protected]) Nematoda Neilson, Roy ([email protected]) Nematoda: plant-parasitic/predatory s o i l 61530, USA Courtney, G.W. ([email protected]) Diptera: Culicoidea Nematode Biosystematics & Ecology, CSIRO Entomology, GPO Box 1 700 Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland, UK Tang, Danny ([email protected]) Crustacea: Copepoda Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-3140, USA CANBERRA ACT AUSTRALIA Nygren, Arne ([email protected]) Annelida: Polychaeta (all, but pa rticularly School of Animal Biology (M092), The University of W estern Australia, 35 S tirling Cruickshank, R. ([email protected]) Molecular systematics Hodgson, Chris J. ([email protected]) Hemiptera: Coccoidea Phyllodocida) Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia Bio-Protection & Ecology Division, PO Box 84, Lincoln University, New Zealand Department of Biodiversity and Biological Systematics, The National Museum of Wales, Göteborg University, Department of Zoology, Box 463, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden. Dalgleish, R.C. ([email protected]) Phthiraptera Cathay's Park, Cardiff, CF1 3NP, UK Vences, Miguel ([email protected]) Amphibia 10601-G Tierrasanta Blvd, PMB#110, San Diego, CA 92124-2605, USA Hubbard, Michael D. ([email protected]) Insecta: Ephemeroptera O'Hara, James E. ([email protected]) Insecta: Diptera, Calyptratae Division of Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, Technical University of Dahlgren, T. ([email protected]) Polychaeta Laboratory of Aquatic Entomology, Entomology Center, Orr Drive, Florida A&M Invertebrate Biodiversity, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling avenue, Braunschweig, Spielmannstr. 8, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany Göteborg University, Department of Zoology, Box 463, 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden University, Tallahassee, Florida 32307, USA Ottawa (Ontario) K1A 0C6, Canada Dartnall, A. J ([email protected]) Echinodermata Jäger, Peter ([email protected]) Araenae: Araneomorphae (non- Olson, S. L. ([email protected] ) Aves Walker-Smith, G. ([email protected]) Crustacea: Copepoda 17 Kepler St, Wulguru, Qld, 4811, Australia Lycosoidea) Smithsonian Institution, P. O. Box 3 7012, Division of Birds, NHB MRC 116, The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery GPO Box 1164 Hobart 7001 Tasmania, de León, G.P.-P. ([email protected]) Nematoda Arachnologie, Senckenberg Museum, Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt am Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA Australia Laboratorio de H elmintología Instituto de Biología, UNAM Ap. Postal 70-153. C.P. Main, Germany Oberprieler, Rolf ([email protected])CUCUJIFORMIA, Wallace, Carden ([email protected]) Coelenterata: Scleractini a 04510 México D.F. México Johnson, Paul J. ([email protected]) Insecta: Coleoptera (Elateriformia, CURCULIONOIDEA Museum of Tropical Queensland, 70-102 Flinders St. Townsville, Australia 4810, deMaintenon, Marta ([email protected]) M o l l u s c a Scirtiformia, Bostrichiformia, Myxophaga) CSIRO Entomology, Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Australia Marine Science Department, University of Hawaii at Hilo, 200 West Kawili Street, Insect Research Collection, Box 2207A, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD Wang, Qiao ([email protected]) Insecta: Coleoptera (Cucujiformia, Hilo, HI 96720-4091, USA 57007, USA Packer, Laurence ([email protected]) aculeate Hymenoptera particularly all Cerambycidae ) DeWalt, R. Edward ([email protected]) Plecoptera, Megaloptera Jones, Diana S. ([email protected]) Thecostraca (Cirripedia and others) Rm 209A Lumbers Building, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University, PB 11122, Palmerston North, New Illinois Natural History Survey , Critical Trends Assessment Program (CTAP), Natural Western Australian Museum, Francis Street, Perth, Western Australia 6000 (Australia) Ontario. M3J 1P3, Canada Zealand Resources Bldg, Rm. 296a 607 E. Peabody Dr. Champaign IL 61820, USA Judson, Mark ([email protected]) Pseudoscorpiones, Ricinulei, Palpigradi Page, Larry ([email protected]) Pisces (no longer accepting new submissions; see Weiner, Wanda M. ([email protected]) Insecta: Collembola Dietrich, Chris ([email protected]) H e m i p t e r a: Auchenorrhyncha: Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Dept. Systematique & Evolution, USM 602 - C.P. Carvalho, Friel or Rocha) Department of Invertebrates, Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Cicadomorpha 53 (Arthropodes) PARIS, F-75005 France Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA Academy of Sciences, Slawkowska 17, Pl- 31 016 Krakow, Poland Center for Biodiversity, Illinois Natural History Survey, 1816 S. Oak Street, Champaign, Kambhampati, Srini ([email protected]) Pitts, James P. ([email protected]) Insecta: Hymenoptera Winterton, Shaun L. ([email protected]) Insecta: N e u r o p t e r a IL 61820 U.S.A. Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, U S A Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA Queensland Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries 80 Meiers Rd. Indooroopilly, Dronen, Norm Jr. ([email protected]) Parasitic Platyhelminthes Karaman, G.S. ([email protected]) Crustacea: A m p h i p o d a Pollock, D. A. ([email protected]) Coleoptera: CUCUJIFORMIA, particularly Queensland 4068, AUSTRALIA Dept. of Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas P.O.Box 40, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro, Yugoslavia Tenebrionoidea, Cucujoidea Wright, Anre-Dennis G. ([email protected]) Protozoa 77807, USA Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA Department of Biology Eastern New Mexico University Portales, NM 88130, USA CSIRO Livestock Industries, Queensland Bioscience Precinct, 306 Carmody Road St. Dubois, Alain ([email protected]) Zoological nomenclature Karanovic, Tom ([email protected]) Copepoda Prendini, Lorenzo ([email protected]) Scopiones, Uropygi, Amblypygi, Schizomida, Lucia, QLD 4067, AUSTRALIA Reptiles & Amphibiens, USM 602 Taxonomie et Collections (Vertébrés), Département University of Tasmania, School of Zoology, Private Bag 5, Hobart Tasmania 7001, Solifugae Wörheide, Gert ([email protected]) Porifera de Systématique et Evolution, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 25 rue Cuvier, A u s t r a l i a Division of Invertebrate Zoology American Museum of Natural History Central Park Geoscience Centre Göttingen, Dept. of Geobiology, Goldschmidtstr.3, 37077 Göttingen, 75005 Paris, France West at 79th Street New York, New York 10024-5192 USA G e r m a n y Eleaume, M. 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