Nala lividipes (Dufour, 1828), a new earwig for the Maltese Islands (Dermaptera: Labiduridae)

Nala lividipes is recorded for the first time from the Maltese Islands. Distributional, ecological and taxonomic notes are included for this species. New distributional data is provided for other earwig species which were locally known from few or single records.peer-reviewe

Notes on three carabids collected from the Maltese Islands (Coleoptera, Carabidae)

Following the recent work on the carabid fauna of the Maltese Islands (Magrini & Schembri, 1997), Campalita olivieri Dejean and Somotrichus elevatus (Fabricius) are here recorded for the first time. The record of Ocydromus andreae (Fabricius) by Magrini & Schembri is incorrect and should refer to Ocydromus atlanticus (Wollaston).peer-reviewe

A NEW SPECIES OF TRECHUS FROM THE ETHIOPIAN PLATEAU (Coleoptera, Carabidae)

A new species of Trechus from the Oromia Province (Ethiopia) is described in the present note. This new taxon shows some peculiar characters, such as a much swollen abdomen of pseudophysiogastric aspect, a feature shared by other high altitude Trechinae, as for instance Queinnectrechus Deuve, 1992 from Asia. The integuments are glabrous; the antennae are short; the pronotum is larger than long, with regularly rounded sides and hind angles; the elytrae are short and rounded (pseudophysiogastric) with the first six striae well engraved, on the third of them two discal foveolate setae are well visible. The aedeagus is big and stout, abruptly narrowing at the tip (in lateral view), with a small botton slanting upwards; the copulatory piece is big and well sclerified, triangular, with a more or less sharpened tip. Well recognizable for the "pseudophysiogastric" aspect, Trechus (Trechus) ericalis n.sp. belongs to the bipartitus group

A NEW SUBGENUS AND A NEW SPECIES OF TRECHUS FROM ETHIOPIA (COLEOPTERA, CARABIDAE)

In the present note Minitrechus, a new subgenus of Trechus, characterized in the 75 male by only the first tarsal segment dilated and dentate, and by much enlarged paramera, bearing three apical setae, clearly isolated from each other, is described. The new species, Trechus (Minitrechus) gypaeti, is light yellow in colour, rather flattened, with little eyes, pronotum not sinuate, with fore and hind angles blunt; third elytral stria with two discal setae. The median lobe of the aedeagus is short, stout, little arcuate, with a copulatory piece triangular, lanceolate and sharpened at the tip, little sclerified. Female gonostyli short and curved, bear a stout and long ensiform seta on the inner edge, flanked by two smaller ones