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New Species Swiss Made 2024

The annual list of species described by researchers working in Switzerland

The SSS presents the list of new species, plants or animals (including fossils), recently described by researchers working in Switzerland.

If you wish to contribute, send your publication and a picture of the organism to swisssystematics@yahoo.com.

Click below for previous years:

2015 (105 new species); 2016 (206); 2017 (143); 2018 (141); 2019 (96); 2020 (241); 2021 (160); 2022 (103); 2023 (333)

102 new species

Image: Jonas Damzen

3 fossil wasps

Publication : Three taphonomic stories of three new fossil species of Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae).

Authors: Alexandra Viertler, Fons Verheyde, Martin Schwarz, Georg Schulz, Seraina Klopfstein & Bastien Mennecart

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel & Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Switzerland; Ostend,
Belgium; Biologiezentrum Linz, Austria.

Image: B. Landry

5 moths from The Galapagos Islands

Publication: Taxonomic revision of the Crambinae (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae sensu lato) of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador

Authors: Bernard Landry, Théo Léger

Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève, Switzerland; Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germany

Image: Burckhardt D

1 jumping louse from China

Publication: Melanastera sinica He & Burckhardt, sp. nov., a new psylloid species (Hemiptera, Psylloidea) from China developing on Grewia sp. (Malvaceae).

Authors: He Z., Burckhardt D., Luo X., Xu R., Cai W. & Song F

2 jumping lice from Colombia

Publication : The jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera, Psylloidea) in Urban Green Spaces (UGS) of Bogotá (Colombia), with descriptions of two new species and redescription of Mastigimas colombianus.

Authors: Rendón-Mera D. I., Burckhardt D., Durán J., Ocampo V. & Vargas-Fonseca S. A.

1 jumping louse from Taiwan

Publication: Jumping plant lice of the genus Petalolyma Scott (Hemiptera, Triozidae) inducing galls on Ilex species (Aquifoliaceae) in Taiwan with comments on Torulus Li.

Authors: Liao Y.-C., Burckhardt D. & Yang M.-M.

1 jumping louse from Borneo

Publication: The jumping plant louse Platyobria drepanoides Burckhardt, sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Psylloidea), a new adventive eucalypt pest from Borneo (Indonesia, East Kalimantan).

Authors: Burckhardt D., Queiroz D. L., Listyaningrum W. & Tavares W. S.

1 jumping louse from Brazil

Publication: Thought to be extinct, but still alive today: the Miocene genus Primascena Klimaszewsi, 1997 (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) in the light of two extant species from Brazil.

Authors: Burckhardt D. & Queiroz D. L.

4 fossil jumping plant lice

Publication: First record of jumping plant lice of the family Liviidae (Insecta, Hemiptera, Psylloidea) from Dominican amber.

Authors: Burckhardt D., Drohojowska J., Serbina L. Š. & Malenovský I.

5 jumping lice from Malaysia

Publication: The Psyllinae (Hemiptera, Psyllidae) from Gunung Kinabalu (Malaysia, Sabah).

Author : Burckhardt D.

Image: M. Kottelat

1 loach from Borneo

Publication : Kapuasia falaris, a new species of nemacheilid loach from Borneo (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)

Authors : Maurice Kottelat, Tan Heok Hui & Veryl Hasan

Delémont, Switzerland ; National University of Singapore, Singapoer; Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia

Image: M. Balkenohl

2 beetles from New Guinea and Vietnam

Publication : On Asian Clivinini. Assignment of the vulgivaga-, mekongensis-, and westwoodi-species groups of the genus Clivina Latreille, 1802, with revision of the vulgivaga- and mekongensis-species groups (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Clivinini)

Author : Michael Balkenohl

Naturhistorisches Museum Bern, Switzerland

Image: J.-L. Gattolliat

3 mayflies from Thailand

Publication: Taxonomic notes on the genus Baetiella Uéno, 1931 (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae), with description of three new species from Thailand.

Authors : Sirikamon Phlai-ngam , Boonsatien Boonsoong , Jean-Luc Gattolliat , Nisarat Tungpairojwong

Muséum Cantonal des Sciences Naturelles & University of Lausanne, Switzerland ; Burapha University & Khon Kaen University, Thailand

Image: M. Callmander

10 Turraea schrubs from Madagascar

Publication: Descriptions of ten new species of Turraea L. (Meliaceae, Turraeeae) from Madagascar with notes on the species described by Buchenau.

Authors: Martin W. CALLMANDER & Louis NUSBAUMER

Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève and University of Geneva, Switzerland

Image: A. de Chambrier

3 cestodes from Ecuador

Publication : Three new species of Ophiotaenia La Rue, 1911 (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae) from dipsadine snakes (Squamata: Colubridae) in Ecuador.

Authors : Alain de Chambrier , Roman Kuchta and Tomáš Scholz

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Image: B. Mennecart

1 extinct bovid from Europe

Publication : Systematic contribution of the auditory region to the knowledge of the oldest European Bovidae (Mammalia,
Ruminantia).

Authors : Bastien Mennecart, Francis Duranthon, Loïc Costeur

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Muséum de Toulouse, France

Image: Carlalberto Ravizza

6 stoneflies from the Alps

Publication: Notes on the genus Dictyogenus Klapálek, 1904 (Plecoptera, Perlodidae) in the Austrian, Italian, Slovenian and Swiss Alps, with the description of six new species.

Author: J.-P. G. Reding

Corcelles, Switzerland

Image: I. Larridon

1 Cyperaceae from Madagascar

Publication: A new remarkable species of Scleria (Cyperaceae) from northern Madagascar.

Authors: Isabel Larridon, Kenneth Bauters, Fitiavana Rasaminirina, Javier Galán Díaz, José Ignacio Márquez-Corro, Laurent Gautier

Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève and University of Geneva, Switzerland; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK; University of Madrid, Spain

Image: C. Boluda

1 Sapotaceae tree from Madagascar

Publication: Revision of the emblematic Malagasy tree genus Tsebona (Sapotaceae) with the description of a second species.

Authors: Carlos G. Boluda, Roger Lala Andriamiarisoa, Yamama Naciri, Laurent Gautier

Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève and University of Geneva, Switzerland; Missouri Botanical Garden, Madagascar Research and Conservation Program, Madagascar

Image: C. Taylor

7 Rubiaceae from Madagascar

Publication: A new review of the Western Indian Ocean genus Danais (Rubiaceae: Danaideae), with seven new species from Madagascar.

Authors: Charlotte M. Taylor, Sylvain G. Razafimandimbison, Martin W. Callmander, Heidi H. Schmidt

Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève, Switzerland; Missouri Botanical Garden, USA; Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden

Image: M. Aubert

1 bee from Southern Europe

Publication : A new osmiine bee with a spectacular geographic disjunction: Hoplitis (Hoplitis) onosmaevae sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Anthophila, Megachilidae).

Authors : Matthieu Aubert, Andreas Müller, Christophe Praz

Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, & info fauna, Swiss Zoological Records Center, Switzerland; Observatoire des Abeilles, Pégairolles-de-Buèges, France

Image: L. Lustri

1 extinct arthropod from Morocco

Publication : Lower Ordovician synziphosurine reveals early euchelicerate diversity and evolution.

Authors: Lorenzo Lustri, Pierre Gueriau & Allison C. Daley

Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland ; Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, MNHN, & Institut photonique d’analyse non-destructive européen des matériaux anciens, Saint-Aubin, France.

6 fossil fishes from Borneo

Publication : Late Miocene teleost fish otoliths from Brunei Darussalam (Borneo) and their implications for palaeoecology and palaeoenvironmental conditions.

Authors : László Kocsis, Chien-Hsiang Linc, Emma Bernard & Adibah Johari

Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Geology Group, Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Darussalam, Brunei; Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; Natural History Museum of London, UK.

Image: M. Kottelat

1 catfish from Laos

Publication: Oreoglanis brevicula, a new species of rheophilic catfish from Laos (Actinopterygii: Sisoridae)

Authors: Heok Hee Ng, Maurice Kottelat

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (corresponding member); Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National
University of Singapore, Singapore

Image: M. Kottelat

1 loach from Laos

Publication: Lepidocephalichthys balios, a new species of loach from central Laos (Teleostei: Cobitidae)

Author: Maurice Kottelat

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (corresponding member)

1 lungfish from Zimbabwe

Publication: A new lungfish from the Upper Triassic of the Mid-Zambezi Basin, Zimbabwe.

Authors: Tom J. Challands, Lionel Cavin, Michel Zondo, Darlington Munyikwa, Jonah N. Choiniere & Paul M. Barrett

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; University of Edinburgh, UK; Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe & 5National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe.

Image: Sabella et al.

2 beetles from Chile

Publication: A revision of the Chilean Brachyglutini – Part 8. Revision of Achilia Reitter, 1890: A. sinuaticornis, A. kindermanni, A. humidula, A. praeclara, A. nigrita, A. rufula species groups, and Achilia incertae sedis species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae).

Authors: Giorgio Sabella, Giulio Cuccodoro & Sergey A. Kurbatov

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche ed Ambientali dell’Università – sezione Biologia Animale, Catania, Italy; Museum of Entomology, All-Russian Plant Quarantine Center, Bykovo, Russia.

Image: V. Cosandey

2 beetles from Chile

Publication: The genus Fuscatelia Nikitsky & Belov, 1982, stat. nov. with descriptions of two new species (Coleoptera: Melandryidae: Melandryinae).

Author: Vivien Cosandey

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland

Image: G. Bassi

19 moths from Africa

Publication: New species of Afrotropical Ancylolomia Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Crambinae).

Author: Graziano Bassi

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland

2 barklice from Africa

Publication: Two new African species of Psyllipsocus Selys-Longchamps, 1872 (Psocodea: ‘Psocoptera’: Psyllipsocidae).

Author: Charles Lienhard

Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland

5 spiders from South-east Asia

Publication: The genus Titanidiops in South-east Asia (Arachnida: Araneae: Idiopidae)

Auhtors: Peter J. Schwendinger, Siegfried Huber, Komsan Hongpadharakiree

1Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève, Switzerland
2Ottenbohlstrasse 12, D-88690 Mühlhofen, Germany
3Sirinart Rajini Mangrove Ecosystem Learning Center, Pranburi, Prachuab Khiri Khan Province, Thailand

3 beetles from Chile

Publication: Revision of the Chilean Brachyglutini – Part 9. The last unrevised species of Achilia Reitter, 1890 and of the other genera of Chilean Brachyglutini, with description of Estamentula stultissima gen. nov. sp. nov. and three new species of Achilia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)

Authors: Sergey A. Kurbatov, Giulio Cuccodoro, Giorgio Sabella

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland; Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche ed Ambientali dell’Università – sezione Biologia Animale, Catania, Italy; Museum of Entomology, All-Russian Plant Quarantine Center, Bykovo, Russia.