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Article Reference Introduced or established? Convergent evidence indicates imported pine wood nematode vectors occupy gaps in native distribution
Monitoring regulated quarantine plant pathogens and, when relevant, their vectors is compulsory in the European Union. Local Monochamus species (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) vector the pine wood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, a non-native pest already established in most of Portugal. Only 29 M. galloprovincialis individuals were trapped in Belgium in ten years (2013–2022), despite a dense coverage of pheromone-baited traps, suggesting absence or a very rare local occurrence in the country. In the northern neighbouring countries, only one single established population is known in The Netherlands and one in Denmark. A species distribution model based on pheromone-trap catches (negative and positive) of M. galloprovincialis from 4,914 traps in 29 European countries between 2008 and 2019 was developed, using the overall climate conditions and the distribution of seven pine tree species as explanatory variables. The effect of spatial scale was tested with a multi-scale approach. With a 225*225 km spatial grain, the major explanatory variables were the mean diurnal temperature range and, to a lesser extent, the presence of Pinus spp. The model predicted a low probability of presence in Belgium, the Netherlands, Great Britain and north-western Germany compared to southern Europe. Genotyping allowed to conclude that at least some of the beetles caught in Belgium originated from foreign locations. All catches were located close to entry points, suggesting introduction with imported material. The small size of most of the Belgian pine stands may also explain the absence or apparently transient status, or rareness of Monochamus spp. This study thus suggests that surveys in Belgium should privilege entry points rather than local forest stands.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2026 OA
Article Reference A Revision of the Prionus gahani Species Group (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Prioninae: Prionini)
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2026
Article Reference Sarimini from Vietnam: first record of the genus Tetrichina with a new species, and a new species of Dactylissus (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Issidae)
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2025
Article Reference The Muricidae, excluding Coralliophilinae (Gastropoda: Muricoidea), collected during the SPANBIOS expedition in New Caledonia with the description of a new genus and eleven new species
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2025
Article Reference Observations of Afrocymbella Krammer (Cymbellales, Bacillariophyta) in the guts of the cichlid fish Oreochromis leucostictus (Trewavas, 1933) from the Edward-George system, East Africa, with the description of a new species
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2026
Article Reference Octet Stream Hastula jejuensis sp. nov, a new species of Hastula (Conoidea: Terebridae) from South Korea
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2025
Article Reference C source code First record of the long-legged fly genus Systenus Meigen, 1803 in mangrove, with the description of a new species from Mandai mangrove in Singapore (Insecta: Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
The new species Systenus bakau is described from a mangrove habitat in Singapore. A genetic barcode and illustrations of the male terminalia are provided.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2025
Article Reference A new species of Granuliterebra (Conoidea: Terebridae) from Australia
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2025
Article Reference A double-sided ivory comb with two animal pursuit scenes from a 6th century CE burial at Deiningen, Germany
In the Roman world, as in many other cultures, ivory was perceived as raw material suitable for the carving of prestigious personal items. The types of Roman and Late Antique carved ivory objects that survived as well as their quantity and stylistic range is probably a result of their preservation contexts as well as their appreciation and sometimes ongoing use in later epochs. Regarding ivory combs decorated with bas-relief carvings, only nine specimens are ascribed to the Mediterranean and NW-Europe during Late Antiquity, all exclusively present biblical iconography. Information about their origin, object history and age is usually very limited. The first evidence that hunting scenes were still part of the ivory carving tradition in Late Antiquity is provided by a comb discovered in a mid-6th-century male inhumation burial at Deiningen, Nördlinger Ries. In addition to stylistic and technological comparison, SEM-imaging, ZooMS, ancient DNA (aDNA) sequencing and 87Sr/86Sr isotope ratios were applied to identify the species and possible origin. While size and structure point toward Loxodonta africana as a likely source, poor preservation of the material hindered more refined results by ZooMS or aDNA analyses and consequently a precise triangulation of the source area in combination with the strontium isotope ratios. Besides being a singular piece of craftsmanship, the ivory comb fits into an assumed network of production and distribution that spanned from Northern Africa to the Frankish realm north of the Alps.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2026 OA
Incollection Reference Archéologie virtuelle et réelle dans la grotte de Bruniquel (Tarn-et-Garonne)
Once we have recalled the surprising results obtained from the constructions of the Bruniquel cave, an Early Middle Palaeolithic (EMP) age, therefore of Neanderthal origin (MIS 6), we summarise from a heritage, archaeological and methodological point of view our multi-disciplinary or interdisciplinary interventions on this specific site, now protected as a historic monument. The constrained access to the site, the taphonomical parameters and the originality of the building material used (calcite) all complicate the methodological advances of the archaeological research that is still in progress.,Une fois rappelés les résultats étonnants accordant aux constructions de la grotte de Bruniquel (Tarn-et-Garonne) un âge Paléolithique moyen ancien, donc néandertalien (MIS 6), nous résumons d’un point de vue patrimonial, archéologique ou méthodologique nos interventions pluri- ou interdisciplinaires sur ce site désormais classé au titre des monuments historiques. La contrainte d’accès au site, les paramètres taphonomiques et l’originalité du matériau de construction sollicité (la calcite) ajoutent à la complexité méthodologique de l’opération d’étude qui est toujours en cours.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2023