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04/08/2025

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23/07/2025

** New issue published **

Two articles and comments/reflections “A case of thanatosis in domestic sheep” by Janko Skok et al. are available in in the latest issue of Behaviour (Vol. 162, No. 6-8). View the full issue here: https://brill.com/view/journals/beh/162/6-8/beh.162.issue-6-8.xml

Table of Contents
Regular articles
Integrating knowledge of results with observed motor information enhances sensitive motor adjustment: exploring observational motor learning by the concept of schema
Tsubasa Wakatsuki, Kento Nakajima, Hiroki Murakami, and Norimasa Yamada

( ) Chimpanzees socially learn non-instrumental behaviour from conspecifics
Edwin J.C. van Leeuwen, Emile Bryon, Alex Rogers, Aurore Balaran, Peggy Motsch, and Jake S. Brooker

Neonatal oxytocin exposure influences oestrous cycle, oestrogen receptor-alpha and oxytocin expression, and cocaine-induced behavioural responses in female mice
Xikai Lin, Guangchao Cheng, Xiangyao Ju, and Jianli Wang

Dynamic landscapes of fear and safety alter prey refuge use in freshwater habitats
Madison J. Alexander and Paul A. Moore

The direct social benefits of friendships between female plains zebras (Equus quagga)
Anqi Shi and Severine B.S.W. Hex

( ) Personality in the parasitic avian vampire fly (Philornis downsi)
Lauren K. Common, Katherine Albán Morales, Andrew C. Katsis, and Sonia Kleindorfer

Comments/Reflections
( ) A case of thanatosis in domestic sheep
Janko Skok, Maja Prevolnik Povše, and Dejan Škorjanc

22/07/2025

* New Issue *

One of the articles in the latest issue of Nematology (Vol. 27, No. 6) is “Aphelenchoides epiphyticus n. sp. (Tylenchomorpha: Aphelenchoididae) isolated from figs of Ficus septica in Japan” by Natsumi Kanzaki and Ryusei Tanaka. You can find the complete issue here: https://brill.com/view/journals/nemy/27/6/nemy.27.issue-6.xml

Table of Contents
Articles
Characterisation of a new dorylaim, Crassolabium asiaticum n. sp. (Nematoda: Qudsianematidae) from Korea with remarks on its phylogenetic relationships
Abraham Okki Mwamula, Chang-Hwan Bae, Yi Seul Kim, and D**g Woon Lee

Redescription of Macrolaimus somniorum Andrássy, 1984 (Rhabditida, Panagrolaimidae) from a coastal dune in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula
María-Cristina Robles and Joaquín Abolafia

Description of Bursaphelenchus betulae sp. n. and Bursaphelenchus ophiostomae sp. n. (Tylenchina: Aphelenchoididae) associated with the Scolytus spp. in Poland
Jianfeng Gu, Marek Tomalak, Anna Filipiak, Xinxin Ma, and Yiwu Fang

Pristionchus kravanhensis n. sp., the first Pristionchus species reported from Cambodia
Penghieng Theam, Natsumi Kanzaki, Matthias Herrmann, Christian Weiler, Christian Rödelsperger, and Ralf J. Sommer

Re-isolation of Lenisaphelenchus ulomae Kanzaki & Hamaguchi, 2020 (Aphelenchoididae) from Uloma bonzica (Tenebrionidae) from Kyoto, Japan, with some notes on its typological characters
Yuta Fujimori and Natsumi Kanzaki

Distribution and diversity of plant-parasitic nematodes associated with soybean (Glycine max L.) in southwest Ethiopia
Sihen Getachew, Marjolein Couvreur, Beira H. Meressa, Abebe W. Aseffa, Misghina G. Teklu, and Wim Bert

Aphelenchoides epiphyticus n. sp. (Tylenchomorpha: Aphelenchoididae) isolated from figs of Ficus septica in Japan
Natsumi Kanzaki and Ryusei Tanaka

Book review
Ralf-Udo Ehlers

22/07/2025

17/07/2025

📣 Call for Papers for Special Issue Behaviour

Behaviour is looking for contributions to a special issue on “Maternal Behaviour, Mother-Young and Sibling Relations in the Felidae. Commonalities and Contrasts” guest edited by Anastasia L. Antonevich and Robyn E. Hudson. See full details here:https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/8582_BEH_SI_Felidae_CfP.pdf

04/07/2025

Call for Papers for Special Issue

In the Special Issue, “Primates and Invertebrate Prey”, guest edited by Leila Porter, we will present a wide range of new research. The articles will cover a broad range of taxa (e.g. tarsiers to orangutans), and foci (e.g. parasites, dental morphology, nutrition, behavior) to highlight the important importance of understanding howinvertebrate prey contributes to our understanding of primates as predators.

Check out all details here:https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/37808_IJFP_SI_Invertebrates_CfP.pdf

03/07/2025

** New Issue **

A new issue of Crustaceana is out now (Vol. 98, No. 4). It contains nine articles, one of which is “The ecotoxicity of dispersed and undispersed crude oil on Euterpina acutifrons (Copepoda, Harpacticoida)
” by Qusaie Karam et al.
View the complete issue here: https://brill.com/view/journals/cr/98/4/cr.98.issue-4.xml

Table of Contents
Articles
New records of Microcyclops pachyspina (Lindberg, 1937) and Cryptocyclops cf. linjanticus (Kiefer, 1928) (Copepoda, Cyclopoida) in Luzon Island, Philippines
Grei Angelo E. Cuadrasal, Maria Hołyńska, Justine R. de Leon, and Rey Donne S. Papa

Morphometric traits associated with the reproductive strategy of the blue spiny lobster, Panulirus inflatus (Bouvier, 1895) at Mazatlan, Gulf of California (Decapoda, Achelata)
Jorge Payán-Alejo, Jennifer Z. Borrego-Durán, Martín I. Borrego, and E. Alberto Aragón-Noriega

The Atlantic harlequin shrimp Gnathophylleptum tellei d’Udekem d’Acoz, 2001 (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) in the Canary Islands: biological notes and local distribution
Aketza Herrero-Barrencua, Raül Triay-Portella, José J. Castro-Hernández, Dennis Rabeling, and Arthur Anker

The ecotoxicity of dispersed and undispersed crude oil on Euterpina acutifrons (Copepoda, Harpacticoida)
Qusaie Karam, Mohammad Ali, Yousef Al-enezi, Hameeda Taqi, Suad Al-Dufailij, Abdulaziz Al-Senafi, Ali Taqi, Wafa Al-Rashed, Lamya Al-Musallam, and Neila Annabi-Trabelsi

Some new and known species of Chondracanthidae (Copepoda, Cyclopoida), parasitic on fishes of Rajiformes and Gadiformes in Japan
Kunihiko Izawa

Two new records of dromiid crabs (Brachyura, Dromiidae, Dromiinae) from Taiwan, with notes on the taxonomy of Stimdromia McLay, 1993 and Epigodromia McLay, 1993
Peter K.L. Ng, Yu-Cheng Chen, Tin-Yam Chan, and Chien-Hui Yang

Influence of magnesium oxide (MgO) nanoparticles on growth parameters, survival rates and immunological response of Penaeus vannamei Boone, 1931 (Decapoda, Penaeidae)
L. Nischal, A. Chandrasekhara Rao, P. Anand Prasad, Ch. Lavanya, P. Sindhuja, P. Shanthanna, and A. Asritha

Native forest relicts in urban zones as potential natural sites for the preservation of non-marine crustacean species in northern Patagonia (38°S, Araucania, Chile)
Authors: Patricio R. De los Ríos-Escalante, César Cuevas, Marcos González-Arratia, and Emmanuel Omenna

On a new species of Indian pea crab of the genus Viridotheres Manning, 1996 (Brachyura, Pinnotheridae)
Santanu Mitra and Peter K.L. Ng

Notes and News
Explanatory addition to a publication from 2020: “Polysaccharides from the green alga Caulerpa racemosa (Agardh, 1873) improve the immune response and antioxidant status in the white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone, 1931) (Dendrobranchiata, Penaeidae)”
Po-Tsang Lee, Meng-Chou Lee, Yi-Tien Ho, Zhen-Hao Liao, Huai-Ting Huang, Yuan-Shing Ho, and Fan-Hua Nan

02/07/2025

* New Issue *

Cover Illustration of the latest issue of Insect Systematics & Evolution (Vol. 56, No. 3) is “a pleasing lacewing Neonallachius krooni (Minter, 1986), from the article “The pleasing lacewings (Neuroptera: Dilaridae) of Africa: systematics, new distribution records, and biogeographical implications on the Old World fauna of the family“ by Di Li et al. See the complete issue here:
https://brill.com/view/journals/ise/56/3/ise.56.issue-3.xml

Articles
The first Mesozoic record of Ochthephilus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber
Xin-Hui Chen, Alfred F. Newton, Diying Huang, Liang Lü, and Chenyang Cai

Molecular phylogenetic analysis and taxonomy of the Palearctic Pamphagidae grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acridoidea) based on DNA markers
Igor Sukhikh, Alexander Bugrov, Dragan Chobanov, Victor Fet, Mikhail Biryukov, and Alexander Blinov

The pleasing lacewings (Neuroptera: Dilaridae) of Africa: systematics, new distribution records, and biogeographical implications on the Old World fauna of the family
Di Li, Horst Aspöck, Ulrike Aspöck, Axel Gruppe, and Xingyue Liu

Molecular species delimitation of the Idioscopus clypealis species group (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Eurymelinae) reveals two new morphologically cryptic species from China
Qingle Xie, Qingquan Xue, and Yalin Zhang

An integrative investigation reveals one new oriental species of Epeorus (Belovius) from China (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae)
Zhenxing Ma and Changfa Zhou

Current status of COI Barcoding and molecular species delimitation methods in Alepia Enderlein (Diptera: Psychodidae), with the description of five new species
Santiago Jaume-Schinkel

01/07/2025

** New Issue **

On of the articles in the latest issue of our full journal “Contributions to Zoology” (Vol. 94, No.) is “Unveiling Icelandic land snail fauna: new discoveries and biogeographical insights” by Michal Horsák and Veronika Horsáková
Read the full issue here: https://brill.com/view/journals/ctoz/94/3/ctoz.94.issue-3.xml

Table of Contents
Insights into the second-known polychaete-asteroid symbiosis, involving a new species of Inermosyllis associated with Luidia maculata
Daniel Martin, Tatiana I. Antokhina, Sofia Zvonareva, and Temir A. Britayev

The influence of environment and phylogeny on the bauplan of anuran larvae in lentic versus lotic conditions
Jörn Laudor, Philipp Böning, Jörn Köhler, Arne Schulze, Michael Veith, Bruno Viertel, and Stefan Lötters

Genetic diversity of hyperiid amphipods along a meridional transect in the Atlantic Ocean
Marloes Tump, Ronald Vonk, Alice K. Burridge, Kevin K. Beentjes, Erica Goetze, and Katja T. C. A. Peijnenburg

Unveiling Icelandic land snail fauna: new discoveries and biogeographical insights
Michal Horsák and Veronika Horsáková

24/06/2025

** New Issue **

In the latest issue of the Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution (71/1-2) you will find short communication “Possible behavioral hierarchy in the food handling by Messor arenarius ants” by Ittai Warburg. See the complete issue here: https://brill.com/view/journals/ijee/71/1-2/ijee.71.issue-1-2.xml.

Table of Contents
Research Articles
Neighborhood competition and spatial patterns of tree species in an evergreen broadleaved forest of Bidoup-Nui Ba National Park, southern Vietnam
Nguyen Van Quy, Pham Van Dien, Vu Manh, Nguyen Van Linh, Nguyen Thi Van, and Nguyen Hong Hai

Differential avifaunal diversity and water quality analysis in various sampling sites on Lake Tana in Ethiopia
Yismaw Alemayehu and Monika Sadananda

Length-weight relationship and condition factor of four Actinopterygii, Perciformes ray-finned fish species of India
Farah Bano, Shreya Yadav, Anurag Yadav, and Mohd Serajuddin

Determinants of human-elephant conflict in tropical forest of South India
Moharangan Ashokkumar, Chinnaiyan Sakthivel, and Kaliyaperumal Sudhakar

Population estimate and social organization of the Southern Gelada (Theropithecus gelada obscurus, Heuglin 1863) in Abune Yosef Zigit community conservation area, North Wollo, Ethiopia
Setie Ewnetu and Zerihun Girma

Short communication
( ) Possible behavioral hierarchy in the food handling by Messor arenarius ants
Ittai Warburg

18/06/2025

** New issue published **

One of the articles in the latest issue of Behaviour (Vol. 162, No. 5) is “Response triggering potential of pulse train variants in pelagic fish: a behavioural test using wild-caught herring” by Jozefien M. Demuynck et al. See the full issue here: https://brill.com/view/journals/beh/162/5/beh.162.issue-5.xml

Table of Contents
Regular articles
( ) Investigating behavioural responses of tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) to novel stimuli by means of benthic baited remote underwater video systems
India N. Brawermann, Alexander J. Horne, Grant Smith, and Alexander D.M. Wilson

Male affiliation bias towards orphans in Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) on Shodoshima Island
Shintaro Ishizuka and Eiji Inoue

( ) Response triggering potential of pulse train variants in pelagic fish: a behavioural test using wild-caught herring
Jozefien M. Demuynck, Tom van Tilburg, Daniël Mirck, Hans Slabbekoorn, Lise Doksæter Sivle, and Jeroen Hubert

S*x and age differences in habitat use priorities of sika deer (Cervus nippon) in highly seasonal habitats of Mount Fuji
K. Nakamura, H. Takada, and S. Koike

17/06/2025

* New Issue *

The latest issue of Nematology (Vol. 27, No. 5) contains a forum article and nine research articles, one of which is in (Screening and host suitability assessment of nematicidal plants for root-knot nematode control by Cliven Njekete et al.). Full issue here: https://brill.com/view/journals/nemy/27/5/nemy.27.issue-5.xml

Table of Contents
Forum article
Potato cyst nematodes: Diaspora in India, from introduction and current status to future predictions using MaxEnt analysis
Raman K. Walia, Hari S. Gaur, and Abhishek Mukherjee

Articles
Nematode inoculum density and plant growth period to screen coffee genotypes to Meloidogyne paranaensis
Santino A. Silva, Arthur C. Gouveia, and Andressa C.Z. Machado

A multi-year study on the effects of fluazaindolizine on Meloidogyne incognita in ginger
Hui Xue, Tim C. Thoden, Dabing Zheng, John A. Wiles, and Hua Mo

Residual-resistance effect of two known QTLs in cotton genotypes on Meloidogyne enterolobii reproduction
Caio F. de Barros Souza, Nelson Dias Suassuna, Vanessa S. Mattos, Ana L. Porto Cruz, Juvenil E. Cares, and Regina M.D.G. Carneiro

Trends in the proportion of female white-tip nematode Aphelenchoides besseyi during rice growth stages
Shigeru Hoshino

Comparative pathogenicity of entomopathogenic nematodes, Heterorhabditis indica and Steinernema siamkayai, against younger instars of the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda
Sharad Mohan, Sulaikha B. Suby, Manimaran Balakumaran, Ramya Syamala, and Jeevan Halappa

( ) Screening and host suitability assessment of nematicidal plants for root-knot nematode control
Cliven Njekete, Claire Caravel, François Massol, Anne-Violette Lavoir, and Caroline Djian-Caporalino

Pratylenchus mahindii n. sp. from coffee and maize in Kenya
Joseph Maosa, Hannah Karuri, Denis Gitonga, Huu Tien Nguyen, Marjolein Couvreur, Danny Coyne, and Wim Bert

Redescription of Neocephalobus aberrans Steiner, 1929 (Rhabditida, Panagrolaimidae) with restoration of the genus and its taxonomic implications
A.H. Bhat, Kajol Yadav, Joaquín Abolafia, Ashok K. Chaubey, Dailia Fouad, and Ricardo A.R. Machado

Redescription and revalidation of Plectonchus zondagi (Dale, 1967) Abolafia, Alizadeh & Khakvar, 2016 (Rhabditida, Brevibuccidae) from Iran with notes on taxonomic position of the genus
Razieh Ghaemi, Ebrahim Pourjam, Majid Pedram, Sergio Álvarez-Ortega, Joaquín Abolafia, and Mohammad Reza Atighi

( ) Obituary notice: Maria Susana Newton de Almeida Santos (1935–2025)
Isabel Abrantes and Ken Evans