2020 additions to the N.Z. biota (species only, with no assumption that names are compliant with the relevant code of nomenclature).
Coleoptera
Enigmahydrus larvalis Seidel et al., ...more ↓
2020 additions to the N.Z. biota (species only, with no assumption that names are compliant with the relevant code of nomenclature).
Coleoptera
Enigmahydrus larvalis Seidel et al., 2020
Eupines brevis Shen & Leschen, 2020
Eupines caesta Shen & Leschen, 2020
Eupines carinata Shen & Leschen, 2020
Eupines coalita Shen & Leschen, 2020
Eupines complector Shen & Leschen, 2020
Eupines dugdalei Shen & Leschen, 2020
Eupines gigas Shen & Leschen, 2020
Eupines graceae Shen & Leschen, 2020
Eupines huizhenae Shen & Leschen, 2020
Eupines hoarei Shen & Leschen, 2020
Eupines insolita Shen & Leschen, 2020
Eupines mayae Shen & Leschen, 2020
Eupines minuta Shen & Leschen, 2020
Eupines novem Shen & Leschen, 2020
Eupines obtusa Shen & Leschen, 2020
Eupines ovalis Shen & Leschen, 2020
Eupines pannicula Shen & Leschen, 2020
Eupines petila Shen & Leschen, 2020
Eupines protibialis Shen & Leschen, 2020
Eupines undecim Shen & Leschen, 2020
Eupines waikaremoana Shen & Leschen, 2020
Eupines whirinaki Shen & Leschen, 2020
Maurodus arcus Leschen, Reid & Nadein, 2020
Maurodus lepidus Leschen, Reid & Nadein, 2020
Maurodus nunni Leschen, Reid & Nadein, 2020
Maurodus occiduus Leschen, Reid & Nadein, 2020
Maurodus owenensis Leschen, Reid & Nadein, 2020
Maurodus supernus Leschen, Reid & Nadein, 2020
Nanomela tiniheke Leschen, Reid & Nadein, 2020
Peniticus microreticulatus Gómez-Zurita, 2020
Phormiobius brouni Shen, Choi & Leschen, 2020
Phormiobius graceae Shen, Choi & Leschen, 2020
Phormiobius matau Shen, Choi & Leschen, 2020
Phormiobius pseudhalli Shen, Choi & Leschen, 2020
Phormiobius ramsayi Shen, Choi & Leschen, 2020
Pselaphotumulus aorerei Owens & Carlton, 2020
Pselaphotumulus dubius Owens & Carlton, 2020
Pselaphotumulus unus Owens & Carlton, 2020
Pseudozena denticulata Grzymala & Leschen, 2020
Saphydrus moeldnerae Seidel et al., 2020
Saphydrus tanemahuta Seidel et al., 2020
Simkinion convexum Shen, Choi & Leschen, 2020
Simkinion corniculum Shen, Choi & Leschen, 2020
Simkinion schomannae Shen, Choi & Leschen, 2020
Simkinion tepaki Shen, Choi & Leschen, 2020
Sphingoquedius meto Jenkins Shaw & Solodovnikov, 2020 [Fossil only]
Transrenus thulater Grzymala & Leschen, 2020
Zeaphilon marskeae Leschen, Reid & Nadein, 2020
Zeaphilon mirandum Leschen, Reid & Nadein, 2020
Zenascus aurum Grzymala & Leschen, 2020
Zenascus elenae Grzymala & Leschen, 2020
Zenascus incensum Grzymala & Leschen, 2020
Zenascus roberti Grzymala & Leschen, 2020
REFERENCES
Gómez-Zurita, J. 2020: Taxonomic revision of species in the New Zealand endemic genera Peniticus Sharp, 1876 and Pilacolaspis Sharp, 1886 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Austral entomology, 59(4): 701-730. DOI
Grzymala, T.L.; Leschen, R.A.B. 2020: Sexual dimorphism of New Zealand puppet beetles (Aderidae, Coleoptera, Tenebrionoidea): systematic revision, description of three new genera, and phylogeny for Zenascus, gen. n. Zootaxa, 4889(1): 1-59. DOI
Jenkins Shaw, J. et al. 2020: An amblyopinine rove beetle (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Staphylininae, Amblyopinini) from the earliest Miocene Foulden Maar fossil-Lagerstätte, New Zealand. Journal of paleontology, 94(6): 1082-1088. DOI, ResearchGate
Leschen, R.A.B.; Reid, C.A.M.; Nadein, K.S. 2020: Generic review of New Zealand Chrysomelinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Zootaxa, 4740(1): 1-66. DOI, ResearchGate
Owens, B.E.; Carlton, C.E. 2020: Pselaphotumulus, a new genus of pselaphine endemic to New Zealand (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae: Pselaphitae). New Zealand journal of zoology, 47(2): 121-140. DOI
Seidel, M. et al. 2020: Phylogeny, systematics and rarity assessment of New Zealand endemic Saphydrus beetles and related enigmatic larvae (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Cylominae). Invertebrate systematics, 34(3): 260-292. DOI
Shen, J.-W.; Choi, Y.-J.; Leschen, R.A.B. 2020: Revision of the genus Simkinion Park and Pearce (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae: Goniaceritae) from New Zealand. New Zealand entomologist, 43: 44-61. DOI
Shen, J.-W.; Choi, S.-H.; Leschen, R.A.B. 2020: Revision of the New Zealand endemic genus Phormiobius (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 60(2): 553-564. DOI
Shen, J.-W.; Leschen, R.A.B. 2020: Revision of Eupines King of New Zealand (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae: Goniaceritae). Zootaxa, 4777(1): 1-84. DOI
non-Coleoptera
Adeonellopsis macewindui Liow & Gordon, 2020
Adeonellopsis gracilis Liow & Gordon, 2020
Adeonellopsis gemina Liow & Gordon, 2020
Aedes arundinariae Kasper, 2020
Antarctothoa ballia Gordon, 2020
Antarctothoa pansa Gordon, 2020
Ascotaiwania latericolla Réblová, Hern.-Restr. & J. Fourn., 2020
Asperaturus petiolatus Smit & Pešić, 2020
Limnesia moanaensis Smit & Pešić, 2020
Limnesia pseudozelandica Smit & Pešić, 2020
Limnesia quinqueglandulosa Smit & Pešić, 2020
Minyaturus minutulus Smit & Pešić, 2020
Moanabates moanaensis Smit & Pešić, 2020
Paratryssaturus montanus Smit & Pešić, 2020
Penemideopsis novaezelandica Smit & Pešić, 2020
Zelandobates occidentalis Smit & Pešić, 2020
Zelandobates tongariro Smit & Pešić, 2020
Asproinocybe daleyae J.A.Cooper, 2020
Asterochiton arboreae Martin, 2020
Asterochiton areolatae Martin, 2020
Asterochiton asteliae Martin, 2020
Asterochiton foetidissimae Martin, 2020
Asterochiton propinquae Martin, 2020
Asterochiton rhamnoidis Martin, 2020
Asterochiton rotundifoliae Martin, 2020
Cellaria calculosa Achilleos, Gordon & Smith, 2020
Cellaria curiosa Achilleos, Gordon & Smith, 2020
Cellaria gracillima Achilleos, Gordon & Smith, 2020
Cellaria macricula Achilleos, Gordon & Smith, 2020
Cellaria major Achilleos, Gordon & Smith, 2020
Cellaria spatulifera Achilleos, Gordon & Smith, 2020
Cellaria stenorhyncha Achilleos, Gordon & Smith, 2020
Chromadorina tangaroa Leduc, 2020
Conopeum antipodum Gordon et al., 2020
Cortinarius violaceocystidiatus
Cylix tupareomanaia Short, Trnski & Ngātiwai, 2020
Dysidea teawanui Kelly, McCormack & Battershill, 2020
Dysidea tuapokere Kelly, McCormack & Battershill, 2020
Halanonchus scintillatulus Leduc, 2020
Halichoanolaimus funestus Leduc, 2020
Halichoanolaimus ossilagulus Leduc, 2020
Halichoanolaimus pumilus Leduc, 2020
Hemiandrus celaeno Trewick, Taylor-Smith & Morgan-Richards, 2020
Hemiandrus merope Trewick, Taylor-Smith & Morgan-Richards, 2020
Hemiandrus sterope Trewick, Taylor-Smith & Morgan-Richards, 2020
Hemiandrus taygete Trewick, Taylor-Smith & Morgan-Richards, 2020
Hippothoa catophilia Gordon, 2020
Jessethoa ausubeli Gordon, 2020
Lavareda iramscotti Leduc, 2020
Lechytia novaezealandiae Christophoryová & Krajčovičová, 2020
Leptochiton beui Sirenko, 2020
Leptochiton marshalli Sirenko, 2020
Leptolaimus dififtinus Leduc, 2020
Leucothoe agripeta Hauke, Peart & Ryan, 2020
Leucothoe tumultus Hauke, Peart & Ryan, 2020
Micarea rubiformis P.M.McCarthy & Elix, 2020
Modicella albostipitata J.A. Cooper, 2020
Nanometa forsteri Álvarez-Padilla, Kallal & Hormiga, 2020
Neothoa bilderbacki Gordon, 2020
Notogaster avilai Fernández-Triana & Ward, 2020
Notogaster charlesi Fernández-Triana & Ward, 2020
Notogaster macdonaldae Fernández-Triana & Ward, 2020
Notogaster martini Fernández-Triana & Ward, 2020
Notogaster poultonae Fernández-Triana & Ward, 2020
Notogaster sucklingi Fernández-Triana & Ward, 2020
Notogaster toddae Fernández-Triana & Ward, 2020
Notogaster walkeri Fernández-Triana & Ward, 2020
Notogaster withersae Fernández-Triana & Ward, 2020
Notogaster wornerae Fernández-Triana & Ward, 2020
Phyllodispus tenuisetus Khaustov & Minor, 2020
Plesiothoa densa Gordon, 2020
Polycoelia kurariirapa D’Archino, Zuccarello & Ngāti Kuri, 2020
Premicrodispus novaezealandicus Khaustov & Minor, 2020
Premicrodispus secundus Khaustov & Minor, 2020
Promicrodispus bisetus Khaustov & Minor, 2020
Pseudoceraphron kepanus Jałoszyński, 2020
Pseudoceraphron zealandicus Jałoszyński, 2020
Rinodina fineranii Elix, Ch.Edler & H.Mayrhofer, 2020
Rinodina malcolmii Elix, Ch.Edler & H.Mayrhofer, 2020
Scutus mirus Gard, 2020 [Fossil only]
Siphonolejeunea raharahanehemiae de Lange & M.A.M. Renner, 2020
Sternostylus niwa Schnabel, 2020
Taraire oculta Álvarez-Padilla, Kallal & Hormiga, 2020
Tenuisoma tarapungi Presswell, Bennett & Smales, 2020
Tingotingo aho Hormiga & Scharff, 2020
Tingotingo porotiti Hormiga & Scharff, 2020
Tingotingo pouaru Hormiga & Scharff, 2020
Tingotingo tokorera Hormiga & Scharff, 2020
Toropuku inexpectatus Hitchmough, Nielsen & Bauer, 2020
Uroptychus ahyongi Schnabel, 2020
Uroptychus anomalus Schnabel, 2020
Uroptychus aotearoa Schnabel, 2020
Uroptychus bathamae Schnabel, 2020
Uroptychus belli Schnabel, 2020
Uroptychus chathami Schnabel, 2020
Uroptychus havre Schnabel, 2020
Uroptychus helenae Schnabel, 2020
Uroptychus ihu Schnabel, 2020
Uroptychus koningen Schnabel, 2020
Uroptychus leptus Schnabel, 2020
Uroptychus nieli Schnabel, 2020
Uroptychus nirvana Schnabel, 2020
Uroptychus pars Schnabel, 2020
Uroptychus proberti Schnabel, 2020
Uroptychus ritchie Schnabel, 2020
Uroptychus rungapapa Schnabel, 2020
Uroptychus sadie Schnabel, 2020
Uroptychus taniwha Schnabel, 2020
Uroptychus taranaki Schnabel, 2020
Uroptychus taranui Schnabel, 2020
Uroptychus taratara Schnabel, 2020
Uroptychus tasmani Schnabel, 2020
Uroptychus torrancei Schnabel, 2020
Whakamoke guacamole Hormiga & Scharff, 2020
Whakamoke heru Hormiga & Scharff, 2020
Whakamoke hunahuna Hormiga & Scharff, 2020
Whakamoke orongorongo Hormiga & Scharff, 2020
Whakamoke paoka Hormiga & Scharff, 2020
Whakamoke rakiura Hormiga & Scharff, 2020
Whakamoke tarakina Hormiga & Scharff, 2020
Wheeleriola perplexa Jaschhof & Jaschhof, 2020
Zealastoa hirta Belokobylskij, Quicke & Ward, 2020
Zealastoa multiarticulata Belokobylskij, Quicke & Ward, 2020
Zealastoa waitakerensis Quicke & Ward, 2020
REFERENCES
Achilleos, K.; Gordon, D.P.; Smith, A.M. 2020: Cellaria (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata) from the deep: new species from the southern Zealandian region. Zootaxa, 4801(2): 201-236. DOI
Álvarez-Padilla, F.; Kallal, R.J.; Hormiga, G. 2020: Taxonomy and phylogenetics of Nanometinae and other Australasian orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, (438): 1-108. DOI
Brownsey, P.; Braggins, J.; Perrie, L. 2020: Pteris carsei (Pteridaceae), a new endemic fern from New Zealand previously treated as P. comans G.Forst. New Zealand journal of botany, 58(3): 214-222. DOI
Christophoryová, J.; Krajčovičová, K. 2020: The first species of the pseudoscorpion genus Lechytia Balzan, 1892 (Pseudoscorpiones, Chthoniidae) from New Zealand. ZooKeys, 1000: 19-29. DOI
Cooper, J.A.; Park, D. 2020: Modicella albostipitata, a new species of sporocarp-forming fungus from New Zealand (Mortierellaceae: Mortierellomycota). Phytotaxa, 453(3): 293-296. DOI
D'Archino, R. et al. 2020: A new species of Polycoelia (Kallymeniaceae, Rhodophyta), P. kurariirapa, from the Three Kings Islands/Manawatāwhi, New Zealand. Phycologia, 59(2): 127-132. DOI
Dima, B.; Soop, K. 2020: The ‘xenosmatoid’ group of Cortinarius (Agaricales) in New Zealand. Phytotaxa, 438(4): 223-236. DOI
Elix, J.A.; Elder, C.; Mayrhofer, H. 2020: Two new corticolous species of Rinodina (Physciaceae, Ascomycota) from New Zealand. Australasian lichenology, (86): 95-101. Full issue (PDF) (archived)
Fernández-Triana, J.L.; Ward, D.F. 2020: Notogaster, a new genus of Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from New Zealand. Zootaxa, 4801(2): 251-279. DOI
Frogley, K.; Glenny, D. 2020: A new species of Stolonivector (Lophocoleaceae: Hepaticophyta) from New Zealand. New Zealand journal of botany, DOI
Gard, H.J.L. 2020: A new species of fossil Scutus Montfort, 1810 from New Zealand (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Fissurellidae). Molluscan research, 40(3): 223-230. DOI
Gordon, D.P. 2020: New Hippothoidae (Bryozoa) from Australasia. Zootaxa, 4750(4): 451-476. DOI
Gordon, D.P. et al. 2020: The bryozoan genus Conopeum (Electridae) in New Zealand, with description of a new species and discussion of the morphological and genetic characters of Conopeum seurati (Canu, 1928). Journal of natural history, 54(15-16): 947-970. DOI
Hauke, R.; Peart, R.A.; Ryan, K.G. 2020 (Online) 2021 (Print): An examination of the genus Leucothoe Leach, 1814 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Leucothoidae), in New Zealand, with the description of two new species associated with ascidians and sponges. Journal of crustacean biology, 41(1): ruaa093. DOI
Hitchmough, R.A.; Nielsen, S.V.; Bauer, A.M. 2020: Earning your stripes: a second species of striped gecko in the New Zealand gecko genus Toropuku (Gekkota: Diplodactylidae). Zootaxa, 4890(4): 578-588. DOI
Hormiga, G.; Scharff, N. 2020: The malkarid spiders of New Zealand (Araneae: Malkaridae). Invertebrate systematics, 34(4): 345-405. DOI
Jałoszyński, P. 2020: Three new species of Pseudoceraphron from Japan and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae). Zootaxa, 4810(3): 546-558. DOI
Jaschhof, M.; Jaschhof, C. 2020: Wheeleriola perplexa gen. et sp. nov., the first member of Catotrichinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) found in New Zealand. Zootaxa, 4852(5): 565-570. DOI
Kasper, J. 2020 (Online): Description of a new species of mosquito, Aedes (Ochlerotatus) arundinariae (Diptera: Culicidae) from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. New Zealand entomologist, DOI
Khaustov, A.A.; Minor, M.A. 2020: New species of Microdispidae (Acari: Heterostigmata) from alpine New Zealand. Zootaxa, 4750(4): 477-498. DOI
Lebel, T. et al. 2020: Two new species of Asproinocybe (Tricholomataceae) from Australasia. Muelleria, 38: 77-85. Full article (PDF)
Leduc, D. 2020: A new nematode species, Chromadorina tangaroa sp. nov. (Nematoda: Chromadoridae) from the hull of a research vessel, New Zealand. PeerJ, 8(e9233). DOI
Leduc, D. 2020: Two new nematode species (Plectida: Leptolaimidae, Rhadinematidae) from Chatham Rise, New Zealand. PeerJ, 8: e9923. DOI
Leduc, D. 2020: New and known Halichoanolaimus de Man, 1886 species (Nematoda: Selachinematidae) from New Zealand’s continental margin. European journal of taxonomy, 726: 59-82. DOI
Leduc, D.; Zhao, Z.Q.; Sinniger, F. 2020: Halanonchus scintillatulus sp. nov. from New Zealand and a review of the suborder Trefusiina (Nematoda: Enoplida). European journal of taxonomy, (661) DOI
Liow, L.H.; Gordon, D.P. 2020: New species of Adeonellopsis (Bryozoa: Adeonidae) from southern Zealandia and the western Tasman Sea. Zootaxa, 4895(3): 301-331. DOI
Ma, M.; Fan, Q.-H.; Zhang, Z.-Q. (In Press): Neoseiulus kikuyu sp. nov. (Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae): descriptions of all life stages from New Zealand . Systematic & applied acarology, 25(11): 2098-2114. DOI
Martin, N.A. 2020: Revision of the whitefly genus, Asterochiton Maskell (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) from New Zealand, a study of intraspecific variation. Zootaxa, 4859(3): 301-341. DOI
McCarthy, P.M.; Elix, J.A. 2020: A new species of Micarea (Pilocarpaceae) from soil in New Zealand. Australasian lichenology, (87): 26-29. Full issue (PDF)
McCormack, S.; Kelly, M.; Battershill, C.N. 2020: Description of two new species of Dysidea (Porifera, Demospongiae, Dictyoceratida, Dysideidae) from Tauranga Harbour, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Zootaxa, 4780(3): 523-542. DOI
Nilsen, A.R. et al. 2020: Purple haze: Cryptic purple sequestrate Cortinarius in New Zealand. Mycologia, 112(3): 588-605. DOI
Pérez, L.M. et al. 2020: New species of the austral bryozoan genus Taylorus nom. nov. (Escharinidae): phylogenetic and palaeobiogeographical implications. New Zealand journal of geology and geophysics, DOI
Presswell, B.; Bennett, J.; Smales, L.R. 2020: Morphological and molecular characterisation of a new genus and species of acanthocephalan, Tenuisoma tarapungi n. g., n. sp. (Acanthocephala: Polymorphidae) infecting red-billed gulls in New Zealand, with a key to the genera of the Polymorphidae Meyer, 1931. Systematic parasitology, 97: 25-39. DOI
Quicke, D.L.J. et al. 2020: Zealastoa Quicke & Ward, gen. nov., a new basal cyclostome braconid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from New Zealand. Austral entomology, 59(3): 455-466. DOI
Réblová, M. et al. 2020: New insights into the systematics of Bactrodesmium and its allies and introducing new genera, species and morphological patterns in the Pleurotheciales and Savoryellales (Sordariomycetes). Studies in mycology, 95: 415-466. DOI
Renner, M.A.M.; de Lange, P.J. 2020: A revised circumscription for Siphonolejeunea and a new species from New Zealand. Australian systematic botany, 33(3): 311-326. DOI
Schnabel, K.E. 2020: The marine fauna of New Zealand: Squat lobsters (Crustacea, Decapoda, Chirostyloidea). NIWA biodiversity memoir, (132) Full issue (PDF)
Sirenko, B. 2020: New Zealand and Australian species of the genus Leptochiton (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Zootaxa, 4851(3): 401-449. DOI
Smit, H.; Pešić, V. 2020: New records of water mites from New Zealand, with the description of three new genera and ten new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia). Acarologia, 60(4): 903-950. DOI
Trewick, S.A.; Taylor-Smith, B.; Morgan-Richards, M. 2020: Ecology and systematics of the wine wētā and allied species, with description of four new Hemiandrus species. New Zealand journal of zoology, DOI less ↑
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