Publications, January 24 - 30, 2025

Publications, January 24- 30, 2025

• Study of the Guiana Shield members of Trichomycterus diversification suggests ;two geodispersal events into the Grand Pakaraima River; and a potential vicariance event between uplands and lowlands.
• The gliding marsupial species in family Acrobates are the only marsupials with internal ear discs; monotypic genus Acrobates and Distoechurusis show demonstrable differences in the morphology of this structure.
• The Continental Divide appears to be a major barrier driving speciation in Lomatium foeniculaceum complex; and a new species, L. semivaginatum sp.nov. is described.
• Taxonomic survey of Liogenys species complex reveals eight species of Liogenys in Chile, including new species Liogenys elguetai sp. nov.
• Study of genus Indigofera L. confirms that Indigofereae originated in the Africa-Madagascar centre, with the genus Indigofera resolving with a mainland African origin c. 38 Mya.
• Study of the isopod Tiroloscia diversity provides evidence against the monophyly of Tiroloscia, identifying five evolutionary lineages within T. exigua.
• DNA barcoding analysis and automatic species delimitation identifies 32 Molecular Operational Taxonomic Units (MOTUs) in a study of aquatic invertebrates of Setiu Wetlands in east Peninsular, Malaysia.
• Mycological surveys of Hermatomyces in southern Benin focused identifies a new species, Hermatomyces griseomarginatus. sp. nov.
• The complete plastome of the kaffir lime, Citrus hystrix DC. Is reported and the position of this species is described.
• A new species of Cryptocoryneum, C. polyramosum sp. nov. is reported from dead tea twigs in Sichuan Province, China.
• Speciation rate shifts in Loasaceae and Hydrangeaceae were likely driven by climate change in the Miocene, where species in drier microhabitats diversified into newly created habitats.
• Study of four distinct genetic groups in broomrape Phelipanche ramose supports multiple introductions to the Americas, presumably from Eurasia, followed by little to no subsequent gene flow among them.
• Two new three-dimensionally preserved aculiferan fossil species from the Silurian Herefordshire Lagerstätte are described, extending the morphological and ecological range of the clade and suggesting reversals in the states of fundamental characters such as the presence of valves and the nature of the foot.
• First study of Mecopini (sexually dimorphic weevils) from Taiwan and the Philippines, reveals polyphyletic relationships within Mecopini at both the tribal and generic levels.
• Two new species of Ergasilus (Ergasilus arenalbus sp. nov. and Ergasilus chintensis sp. nov.), which are the second and third ergasilid species reported for tetraodontid pufferfishes worldwide.
• Clarification of the boundary between the plant genus Stellaria and related genera, and support for treatment of S. longipedicellata as a new species of the genus Stellaria.
• A new species of palm fungus Neodeightonia guineensis sp. nov. is described based on phylogenetic results and morphology.
• Three new major clades and six new subclades of Leptochilus are discovered, three existing species redefined, and a number of cryptic species of the genus in the Indo-Burma hotspot.