Feb 2, 2021 | Opportunities
Due to the Covid-19 crisis, the 2020 conference has been delayed, and will be a virtual event. The virtual conference will be held in early March 2021, using the Zoom platform. Our facilities allow us to invite 20 people from the Eastern Cape to attend in person....
Feb 2, 2021 | Opportunities
I am offering a training course which will introduce you to the Environmental Impact Classification for Alien Taxa (EICAT), a scheme that was adopted by the IUCN as an official Standard in 2020. The course will take place online from 12-14 April 2021 – it is a full...
Feb 2, 2021 | Events, Webinars
The Manual Development Webinar was held on 20 January 2021 and was attended by 44 people and according to the survey results (screenshot below), the attendants found it useful and expressed appreciation for the information shared by the panelists. Click to...
Feb 2, 2021 | Latest, New Species
As part of discovery and exploration of the extremely species rich, yet largely unknown wasp fauna in Africa, we recently described a number of new species of parasitoid wasps in the superfamilies Chalcidoidea and Ichneumonoidea, including the first records of two...
Jul 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Feb 20, 2019 | New Species
A new species of tarantula (the Mega Horned Baboon Tarantula, Ceratogyrus attonitifer) is described in a paper published in the open-access journal African Invertebrates by Drs John Midgley and Ian Engelbrecht. The spider was discovered by Dr John Midgley...
Feb 12, 2019 | New Species
Two new legless lizard species from the genus Acontias from the Mpumalanga Escarpment were recently described by Werner Conradie and colleagues. These species live under rocks in mountain grasslands and feed on termites. Type material is deposited at Port Elizabeth...
Feb 12, 2019 | New Species
A new species of tangle-veined fly was described in the journal Zootaxa from the Hantam National Botanical Garden, Nieuwoudtville, Bokkeveld Plateau, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. The species is a narrow-range endemic and is restricted to the Nieuwoudtville...
Feb 12, 2019 | New Species
Sinelobus stromatoliticus sp. nov., a tanaidacean (small shrimp-like animal) living within laminated stromatolites along the South African coastline, has been described. A revised key to all the species currently recognised within this genus is also provided. The type...
