Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Biodiversity science laments how little is known about the planet’s biodiversity, yet routinely discards much of the taxonomic evidence generated during species...

Insect taxonomist Art Borkent has described and named more than 300 species of midges but fears his field of science is dying out, despite millions of insects, fungi and other organisms waiting to be ...

Natural history collections house material from centuries of collecting efforts. In the Phyletisches Museum Jena (PMJ), ca. 1 Mio specimens are deposited, some of them dating back as far as the 17th c...

The initial views are frontal. Published in: Irish, J., Zúñiga-Reinoso, Á., Cieszynski, H., Pohl, H. and Predel, R. (2025). New genera of Neotropical Maindroniidae, with a redescription of Maindronia ...

In the insect order Strepsiptera, we identified a paragenital organ in the family Stylopidae that serves as a secondary genital organ for traumatic insemination. We show that the cuticle at the penet...