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The next generation open access peer-reviewed journal in systematic zoology. Published by @Pensoft via @ARPHAplatform.

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📖 In a new upgrade, #ARPHA, our scholarly publishing platform, improves user experience across its entire portfolio of around 100 open-access peer-reviewed journals, conference outputs and preprint publication venues.
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It was fantastic to attend “Unlocking frontiers in bee informatics with TaxonWorks” at #EntSoc2026! Presenter Matthew Yoder is an editor and author in @ZooKeys_Journal, and co-author Deborah Paul is Editor-in-Chief of @NHCMjournal.
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🐚 A new genus and species of freshwater snail, Canglangia heyuemingi, has been described from Yunnan, China, characterised by its rare and highly ornamented protoconch and developed posterior canal - these are shell features almost never seen in strictly freshwater gastropods!
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➡️ Read more: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1282…
A new freshwater snail genus of Squamapicidae (Gastropoda, Truncatelloidea) with a novel posterior...

A new freshwater snail genus of Squamapicidae (Gastropoda, Truncatelloidea) with a novel posterior...

Highly ornamented protoconchs and a developed posterior canal are exceptionally rare and unique shell characteristics in strict freshwater gastropods. This study combines morphological and molecular...

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A new genus of millipede, Vietpetalum, has been proposed within the family Paracortinidae, with two newly described species, V. marmoratum and V. simplex, and one existing Vietnamese species, V. kyrang, being transferred into it: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1295…
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🪱 Two new species of free-living marine nematodes, Comesoma gracilis and Paracomesoma sinica, have been described and illustrated from the South China Sea: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1295…
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🪲 A new genus and species of clown beetle, Aethesoma prosternistriatum, has been described from the Guangdong, Guangxi, and Jiangxi provinces of southern China, where it was collected using flight-interception traps.
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🔑 A key to the Chinese Platysomatini is also provided to aid future identification in the following study: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1295…
Aethesoma prosternistriatum, a new genus and species from southern China (Coleoptera, Histeridae,...

Aethesoma prosternistriatum, a new genus and species from southern China (Coleoptera, Histeridae,...

A new histerid genus Aethesoma gen. nov., with a new species Aethesoma prosternistriatum gen. et sp. nov. (Histeridae, Histerinae, Platysomatini) is described. The new species is most likely a...

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🔬 A new species of beetle, named after the band Twenty One Pilots, has been described from amber in France that is about 53 million years old! 👉 @Pensoft's latest blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/11/10/… 🔗 Access the full #openaccess study in our journal: zookeys.pensoft.net/article/…
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🌿 Singapore’s treehopper fauna has been updated, with 16 new records bringing the total to 52 species (including 8 morphospecies) across 11 tribes and 17 genera.
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🔍 A detailed annotated checklist and a visual identification key for 40 local species can be accessed in the following open-access study: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1295…
The treehoppers (Hemiptera, Membracidae) of Singapore: An annotated checklist, new records, and an...

The treehoppers (Hemiptera, Membracidae) of Singapore: An annotated checklist, new records, and an...

An updated account of the treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae) of Singapore is presented here. The addition of 16 new records increases the known fauna to 52 species (inclusive of 8 morphospecies)...

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🦋 @Pensoft is at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America - #EntSoc26! 📚 Over the next couple of days, we invite all attendees to stop by booth #518 to learn more about our journal! @EntCollNet
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🐞 @Pensoft was delighted to be at #EntSoc26 in Columbus, Ohio! 👋 We were thrilled to welcome our Editor-in-Chief, Torsten Dikow, to the booth, and we also attended his talk, “Bridging the Dark Data Gap: Digitising pollinating insects on a Pinned Insect Conveyor”.
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👀 We also welcomed one of our Subject Editors, Davide Dal Pos, to the booth and attended his talk, “Back on the Map: The Past, Present and Future of the Enns Entomology Museum”. 🙌 Thank you to everyone who stopped by! #EntSoc26 #ECN2026 @RoyEntSoc
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🐞 @Pensoft is all the way in Columbus, Ohio at the annual meeting of the @EntCollNet - #ECN2026! 👋 If you have made the journey, stop by Pensoft's booth inside the main event room, where you can see our journal featured.
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🐝 A checklist of South Korea’s fairyflies has been compiled, now totalling 36 species, including three newly recorded for the country and two species of Zeyanus that are new to science, found in South Korea and Japan: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1295…
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🦐 Two new deep-sea crustacean species, Natalianira bicornuta and N. megalocera, have been described from the Southwest Atlantic Ocean, marking the first record of the Katianiridae family in the region.
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🌊 The discovery from the Mar del Plata submarine canyon and the Namuncurá-Burdwood Bank Marine Protected Area extends the known geographic and depth range of the genus Natalianira. 🔗 Read on: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1295…
First record of the little-known family Katianiridae Svavarsson, 1987 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Asello...

First record of the little-known family Katianiridae Svavarsson, 1987 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Asello...

For the first time, species of Katianiridae are recorded from the Southwest Atlantic Ocean: Natalianira bicornuta sp. nov. from the Mar del Plata submarine canyon and Natalianira megalocera sp. nov....

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Great to see Cornelis van Achterberg at the @Pensoft stand at #iBOL2026! A super prolific author across @ZooKeys_Journal, @BioDataJournal and the @HymenopteraJour Articles in ZooKeys: zookeys.pensoft.net/browse_j…
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🐠 A new pygmygoby species, Trimma charon, has been discovered in the Red Sea and named after Charon, the ferryman of the underworld in Greek mythology. 🔍 Full study: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1293… 🔗 @Pensoft's blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/11/05/…
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