New Species Swiss Made - 2025
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@gmail.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) ; 2024 (102)
170 new species in 2025

1 orchid from Madagascar
Publication: Benthamia mamilyae (Orchidaceae), a new species from southern Madagascar
Authors: Johan Hermans, Laurent Gautier, Ludovic Rapp
Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève and University of Geneva, Switzerland ; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK
1 sapotacae tree from Madagascar
Publication: Labramia samiana (Sapotaceae), a new endangered species from eastern Madagascar
Authors: Laurent Gautier, Aina Randriarisoa, Yamama Naciri
Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève and University of Geneva, Switzerland

2 trees from Madagascar
Publication: Two new species of Combretum (Combretaceae) from Loky Manambato (Daraina, north-east Madagascar)
Authors: Carel C.H. Jongkind, Louis Nusbaumer
Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève and University of Geneva, Switzerland; Botanic Garden Meise, Belgium
1 fossil snake from North America
Authors: G. Georgalis & B. Mennecart
Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland; Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
1 fungus from Spain and Madeira
Publication: Mycena laurivora sp. nov., a new white species in M. sect. Polyadelphia
Authors: VILLARREAL M., CAMPOS J. C. & ZAMORA J. C.
Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève and University of Geneva, Switzerland; Universidad de Alcalá & Grupo Microscopía Sociedad Micológica, Madrid, Spain

1 flower fly from the Dominican Republic
Publication: A New Species of the Wasp Mimic Flower Fly Genus Monoceromyia Shannon, 1922 (Diptera: Syrphidae) from the Dominican Republic
Authors: Ximo Mengual, Jiri Hodecek, Zachary R. Dankowicz, and Aaron Schusteff
Swiss Human Institute of Forensic Taphonomy, University Centre of Legal Medicine & Muséum Cantonal des Sciences Naturelles, Switzerland; Museum Koenig Bonn, Germany; University of Maryland, City College of San Francisco, USA

2 beetles from the Dominican Republic
Publication: Two additional new species of Cryptorhopalum (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from the Dominican Republic
Authors: JIŘÍ HÁVA & JIŘÍ HODEČEK
Swiss Human Institute of Forensic Taphonomy & Museum Cantonal des Sciences Naturelles, Lausanne, Switzerland; Prague-west, Czech Republic

1 fly from the Dominican Republic
Publication: A new species of Dreisbachia (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from the Dominican Republic
Authors: Augustijn De Ketelaere, Jiri Hodecek
Swiss Human Institute of Forensic Taphonomy & Muséum Cantonal des Sciences Naturelles, Lausanne, Switzerland; Beernem, Belgium
1 mayfly from India
Publication: Contribution to the genus Platybaetis Müller-Liebenau, 1980 (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) in India
Authors: M. VASANTH, T. KUBENDRAN, K.A. SUBRAMANIAN, J.-L. GATTOLLIAT, C. SUTTINUN &
LIMATEMJEN
Muséum Cantonal des Sciences Naturelles & University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Zoological Survey of India, Southern Regional Centre & Kohima Science College, India; Kasetsart University, Thailand
3 mayflies from India
Publication: Three new species of the subgenus Tenuibaetis Kang & Yang, 1994 (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) from India
Authors: M. VASANTH, T. KUBENDRAN, K.A. SUBRAMANIAN, J-L. GATTOLLIAT & DHRITI BANERJEE
Muséum Cantonal des Sciences Naturelles & University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Zoological Survey of India, Southern Regional Centre & Prani Vigyan Bhawan, India
1 fossil mayfly from the USA
Publication: The first mayfly (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae) from Late Cretaceous amber of North Carolina, USA
Authors: Pavel Sroka, Jean-Luc Gattolliat
Muséum Cantonal des Sciences Naturelles & University of Lausanne, Switzerland ; Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
26 mayflies from New Guinea
Publication: The Leptophlebiidae of New Guinea (Ephemeroptera, Choroterpinae, Thraulini)
Authors: Michel Sartori, Frederico F. Salles
Muséum Cantonal des Sciences Naturelles & University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Museu de Entomologia, Departamento de Entomologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil
20 mayflies from New Guinea
Publication: Redescription of Papuanatula Lugo-Ortiz & McCafferty (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae), with description of a new subgenus
and 20 new species.
Authors: Thomas Kaltenbach , Nikita J. Kluge , Jean-Luc Gattolliat
Muséum Cantonal des Sciences Naturelles & University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
2 mayflies from Morocco
Authors: MAJIDA EL ALAMI, LAURENT VUATAZ, SARA EL YAAGOUBI & MICHEL SARTORI
Muséum Cantonal des Sciences Naturelles & University of Lausanne, Switzerland ; Essaadi University, Morocco
1 mayfly from Thailand
Publication: A new species of Cincticostella Allen, 1971 (Ephemeroptera: Ephemerellidae) from Thailand
Authors: Chonlakran Auychinda , Nitikarn Buchawongpiwat, Michel Sartori, and Boonsatien Boonsoong
Muséum Cantonal des Sciences Naturelles & University of Lausanne, Switzerland ; Burapha University & Khon Kaen University, Thailand

60 jumping lice from Brazil
Publication: Jumping plant-lice of the tribe Paurocephalini (Hemiptera: Psylloidea: Liviidae) in Brazil.
Authors: Serbina L. Š., Malenovský I., Queiroz D. L. & Burckhardt D.

26 ground beetles from the Oriental region
Author: MICHAEL BALKENOHL
1 jumping louse from China
Authors: He Z., Burckhardt D., Luo X., Xu R., Cai W. & Song F.
1 jumping louse from Cameroon
Authors: Aléné D. C., Serbina L. Š., Djiéto-Lordon C., Malenovský I. & Burckhardt D.
5 beetles from Taiwan
Publication; On Taiwanese Scaphidiinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), with descriptions of five new species and new records
Authors: Ivan Löbl, Fang-Shuo Hu
Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève, Switzerland; Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen,Denmark
13 beetles from Myanmar
Publication: On the Myanmar Scaphidiinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)
Author: Ivan Löbl
Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland