Apr 19, 2018 | New Species
A new hermit crab species, Diogenes albimanus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Diogenidae) was described from the coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa by Jannes Landschoff and Dwi Listyo Rahayu. High quality macro photographs, a high-resolution microCT scan of the whole animal,...
Mar 3, 2018 | New Species
Four new species from the genus Kazimierzus were recently described from the Western and Northern Cape of South Africa, by Thembeka Nxele and her colleagues. All material are deposited at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, which houses the biggest Oligochaeta...
Mar 3, 2018 | New Species
A new reed frog species, Hyperolius stictus (Hyperoliidae) from the Coastal Forests of north-eastern Mozambique, was recently described by Werner Conradie and colleagues. The paper also includes acoustic and phylogenetic analyses. Type material is deposited at the...
Mar 3, 2018 | New Species
Recently two new species of Collembola (springtails) from the genus Friesea was dscribed from the Western Cape. One species, Friesea stevenchowni was collected from the Afromontane forest vegetation in Jonkershoek Nature Reserve, while a blind species, Friesea...
Oct 17, 2017 | New Species
A new grapevine leafminer from South Africa by Erik J. van Nieukerken of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, The Netherlands and Henk Geertsema, Stellenbosch University A new species of grapevine leafminer was described from material collected from table grape orchards...
Oct 17, 2017 | New Species
A new species of fruit chafer from iSimangaliso Wetland Park by Prof Renzo Perissinotto, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. This new species of beetle is only known from the iSimangaliso Wetland Park in KwaZulu-Natal. Material from Ditsong National Museum of...
