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NEWS - Simulatus parasitoid wasp ( Doryctobracon simulatus Marinho sp. nov.) ditegakkan sebagai species baru bagi sains berdasarkan spesimen yang sebelumnya diidentifikasi sebagai Doryctobracon fluminensis (Lima). Deskripsikan ulang D. fluminensis dan definisi ulang batas-batas Doryctobracon maculatus Marinho menunjukkan pentingnya melestarikan spesimen voucher dalam koleksi untuk penelitian. Doryctobracon Enderlein adalah parasitoid larva Tephritidae (Diptera) yang hidup di wilayah Nearktik dan Neotropis. Dari 16 spesies yang diketahui, 13 adalah parasitoid lalat pemakan buah, satu spesies berasosiasi dengan tephritid pada bunga dan 2 spesies yang tersisa tidak diketahui jenis inangnya. Tujuh spesies tercatat di Brazil, semuanya parasitoid lalat buah: Doryctobracon areolatus (Szépligeti), Doryctobracon adaimei Marinho & Penteado-Dias, Doryctobracon brasiliensis (Szépligeti), Doryctobracon crawfordi (Viereck), Doryctobracon fluminensis (Lima), Doryctobracon maculatus Mari

NEWS - Nyingchi edelweiss ( Leontopodium nyingchiense X.Z.Lan, W.L.Zheng & W.Q.He, sp. nov.) from Xizang (Tibet) Autonomous Region of China as a new species to science based on comparative morphological and molecular analysis which is morphologically most similar to Leontopodium lingianum (Y.L.Chen) Dickoré. Leontopodium R.Br. ex Cass. is a herb or shrub with about 60 species worldwide, distributed in the mountains of Asia and Eurasia. In China, there are 37 species and 2 varieties, with 16 species endemic. This genus is a common component of grasslands and alpine slopes in western and southwestern China, with the Tibetan Plateau and 21 species distributed in Xizang. During a national survey from 2013 to 2015, an unidentified Asteraceae species was found in Lulang Town, Nyingchi City, Xizang (Tibet) Autonomous Region. In August 2024, the species was reinvestigated with additional specimens and molecular material from leaves. Leontopodium nyingchiense is a herb or subshrub in the

NEWS - Baixi ant-loving beetle ( Apharinodes baixiensis Zhu & Wang, sp. nov.) from Baixi Provincial Nature Reserve, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province, is the second species in the genus found in China after Apharinodes sinensis Yin & Jiang 2017. Apharinodes Raffrary 1890 belongs to Hybocephalini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae) which was established for Apharinodes squamosa Raffrary 1890 from Singapore. Then, the second species Apharinodes miranda Raffrary 1895 in Singapore. The third species, Apharinodes papageno Nomura 1989 from Japan and A. sinensis from China. Apharinodes baixiensis is a beetle with males having a body of 1.77 mm in length, 0.76 mm in width, widest at second visible adbominal tergite. Length of body parts (mm): head (0.38), eye (0.13), antennae (0.73), pronotum (0.37), elytra (0.54); width: head (0.38), eye (0.07), pronotum (0.37), elytra (0.68). Body dark reddish-brown, mostly covered by thick yellowish setae. Setae on legs and antennomeres 11

NEWS - Lake Van diatom ( Halamphora vantushpaensis Yilmaz, Solak & Gastineau, sp. nov.), a new diatom species discovered in the highly alkaline Lake Van in Eastern Turkey (Türkiye) based on light and scanning electron microscopy analysis, and a genome-skimming approach that provided access to the complete sequences of the nuclear rRNA gene cluster, mitochondrial and plastid genomes. Lake Van is the largest soda lake in the world with saline (21.4‰) and alkaline (155 m mEq-1, pH 9.81) water. The lake has existed for 600,000 years, spanning several glacial-interglacial cycles and hosting endemic fish species. However, studies on the phytoplankton flora of the lake, and in particular on diatoms, are still very rare. In recent years, new investigations have been carried out using an integrative approach combining light/scanning electron microscopy (LM/SEM) and molecular phylogeny derived from sequencing results. With these data, 3 new species have been discovered and described, Nitzsc