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Article Reference An annotated checklist of the Scatopsidae (Diptera) of the Botanic Garden Jean Massart at the outskirts of Brussels (Belgium)
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2023 OA
Article Reference An annotated checklist of the leaf beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) from El Salvador, with additions from the Bechyné collection in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
A checklist of the species of leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of El Salvador is presented based on data from literature and a digitization project of the Bechyné collection of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS). The RBINS collections contain a total of 2797 individual chrysomelid specimens from El Salvador, sorted into 89 species and 132 genera. In total, the current checklist contains 420 species, of which 33 are new records for El Slavador from the Bechyné collection. In these collections, there are also ten nomina nuda named by Bechyné, which need further study. The leaf beetle diversity in El Salvador, partly due to the country’s unstable political history, remains poorly studied, and many (new) species await discovery. This checklist provides a baseline for further study in El Salvador and nearby region.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2019
Article Reference AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE OLIGO-MIOCENE CEPHALOPODS OF THE MALTESE ISLANDS
A systematic checklist of cephalopod fossils (Phylum Mollusca: Class Cephalopoda) recorded from the Oligo-Miocene sedimentary sequence of the Maltese archipelago is given. It consists of species of the nautilid genera Aturia and Eutrephoceras, next to calcified parts of the nautilid animal’s upper jaw placed under the parataxon Rhyncolites, and of sepiid and spirulid coleoid genera Sepia (Sepiida) and Spirulirostra (Spirulirostrida). Cephalopod fossils from the Maltese archipelago, in particular abundant limonitic or phosphoritic specimens of Aturia and Sepia, have been recorded in scientific literature since the middle part of the 19th Century. The identification of several species of Sepia is hampered by lost type material and taphonomic distortion or loss of diagnostic traits.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2024
Article Reference An annotated taxonomic checklist of the Neotropical Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) with links to the information on host plants and parasitoids
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2016
Article Reference An archaeocete vertebra re-examined: indications for a small-sized species of Pachycetus from Spain, Europe
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2023
Article Reference An attempt of time calibration of the Tournaisian and Viséan stages (Lower and Middle Mississippian) based on long duration orbitally forced sequences
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2019
Article Reference An endemic species flock of Candonidae Kaufmann, 1900 (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from wells in Benin (West Africa), with the description of a new subfamily, a new genus and five new species
Between 2015 and 2022, over 200 wells were sampled in four catchment areas of Benin, using both Cvetkov plankton nets (funnel 200 μm mesh size, 150 μm below valve) and baited traps. As artificial wells serve as ecotones (interfaces between surface and groundwater ecosystems), the ostracod fauna is mostly represented by two families; Cyprididae (mainly epigeic) and Candonidae (hypogeic). Here, we describe a new subfamily of Candonidae from the wells in Benin, the Benincandoninae subfam. nov. Hotèkpo & Martens, represented by one genus, Benincandona gen. nov. Hotèkpo & Martens. we found 35 species belonging to this evolutionary radiation, of which we describe five new species: Benincandona martini gen. et spec. nov. Hotèkpo & Martens, B. ibikounlei gen. et spec. nov. Hotèkpo & Martens, B. sakitii gen. et spec. nov. Hotèkpo & Martens, B. cebios gen. et spec. nov. Hotèkpo & Martens and B. trapezoides gen. et spec. nov. Hotèkpo & Martens. The new subfamily and genus are characterised by a unique combination of characters, such as a seven-segmented antennula and a caudal ramus with a fully developed ramus, a single apical (anterior) claw and three short setae. Species within the genus can be distinguished by their carapace and hemipenis morphology, together with some limb characteristics. whereas extensive subterranean candonid radiations have previously been reported from Europe, North and Central America and Northwest Australia (Pilbara), this is the first time such a vast radiation of subterranean candonids is reported from (west) Africa.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2024
Article Reference An exceptional concentration of marine fossils associated with wood-fall in the Terhagen Member (Boom Formation; Schelle, Belgium), Rupelian of the southern North Sea Basin
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2023
Article Reference An ichthyological borderland: The fishfauna of Nyungwe National Park and surroundings (Rwanda, East Africa)
Nyungwe National Park (NP) is a mountainous region situated in the southwestern part of Rwanda on Congo-Nile watershed. In spite of the high biodiversity in pri- mates, birds and plants, no fish were reported to occur in the park, probably because of the cold temperatures of the rivers. An expedition in 2022 examined the fish diver- sity within the Nyungwe NP and its buffer zones. Additional sampling was performed in the main river draining the park into Lake Kivu: the Kamiranzovu. Three hundred and twenty specimens belonging to 13 species were collected. Specimens were col- lected only in the western part of the park, draining towards the Congo basin. The diversity within the park proper was limited to two putative species within the com- plex of Amphilius cf. kivuensis, which were caught on either side of the Kivu–Rusizi watershed. In contrast, a higher fish diversity, including one clariid species and two species of Enteromius, was observed in the rivers at a lower altitude of the buffer zone. However, the highest species diversity was found near the mouth of Kamiran- zovu River, including 11 species, of which 4 were non-native: the guppy Poecilia reti- culata, Astatotilapia burtoni, the blue-spotted tilapia Oreochromis leucosticus and the Egyptian mouth-brooder Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2025
Book Reference An illustrated guide to the land snails and slugs of Vietnam
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2017