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• A rare Mediterranean vagrant: Makaira cf. nigricans (Carangiformes: Istiophoridae) recorded off the Ebro Delta

  Francesco Tiralongo, Jacopo Bernardi

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2026.946

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• Predation of Philippine paradise flying snake Chrysopelea paradisi variabilis Mertens 1968 on Philippine emerald tree skink Lamprolepis smaragdina philippinica (Mertens 1928) on Negros Island, Philippines

  Paulo Miguel Kim, Abegail Y. Gatdula, Vince Angelo G. Gicaraya

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2026.978

  35

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• New records of Arvicola italicus Savi 1838 (Rodentia: Cricetidae) from barn owl pellets collected at an unusual wetland roost in Latium (central Italy), with notes on regional distribution inferred from owl diet

  Mattia Poletti, Giuseppe Dodaro, Corrado Battisti

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2026.989

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• Allometric growth of swimming-associated elements in Short-finnedpilot whales Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray 1846 (Cetacea: Delphinidae)

  Janitzio Egido-Villarreal, Juan Pablo Gallo-Reynoso

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2026.895

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• Interactions between the Golden Jackal Canis aureus (Carnivora: Canidae) and the Wild Boar Sus scrofa (Artiodactyla: Suidae) in northeastern Italy

  Stefano Pecorella, Emiliano Mori, Antonino Martini, Matteo De Luca, Mario Gemin-Foffano, Leonardo Ancillotto

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2026.905

  113

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• Re-description of Durinemella elongata Andrássy 2009, andUniqaxonchium megaspiculatum Dhanam & Jairajpuri 1998 (Nematoda: Belondiroidea) with emended generic diagnosis

  Sumit Kumar, Wasim Ahmad

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2026.933

  29

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• Vitis ×sullivaniana (Vitaceae), a name for the hybrid between V. acerifolia and V. riparia

  Nicola M.G. Ardenghi

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2026.969

  187

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• Contributions to the genus Pseudorhaetus Planet 1899 (Coleoptera: Lucanidae), with remarks on Weinreichius Lacroix 1978 and Yumikoi Arnaud & Miyashita 2006

  Jing-Zhi Lin

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2026.1001

  164

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• Summer presence of Greater Noctule bat Nyctalus lasiopterus (Schreber 1780) in NW Italy (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)

  Roberto Toffoli, Marco Cucco, Laura Martinelli, Marco Rastelli, Denise Trombin

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2026.1010

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• New distributional data and ecological insights on the microhisterid Bacanius (Bacanius) consobrinus (Aubé 1850), with notes on rarity and detectability (Coleoptera: Histeridae)

  Fabio Penati, Michel Secq, Tomáš Lackner

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2026.990

  156

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• Sequential twig selection and biomass consumption of willows by moose calves in winter: a test of optimal patch use theory

  Roy V. Rea, Lisa Koetke, Olav G. Hjeljord, Dexter P. Hodder

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2026.986

  157

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• Typification of the name Herniaria empedocleana (Caryophyllaceae)

  Filippo Scafidi, Alfonso La Rosa, Salvatore Pasta

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2026.996

  183

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• Distribution update of Trigonidium (Trigonidium) cicindeloides Rambur 1838 (Orthoptera: Trigonidiidae) in Italy from collections and citizen science

  Filippo Ceccolini

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2026.886

  208

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• First observation of a reddish-coated Italian Wolf Canis lupus italicus Altobello 1921 in Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park (Carnivora: Canidae)

  Tania Bascucci, Alice Veronese, Paolo Iannicca, Davide Magnaghi, Samuele Romagnoli

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2026.857

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• Phaiogramma faustinata (Millière 1868) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) and Mythimna umbrigera (Saalmüller 1891) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): first records for mainland Italy

  Giada Zucco, Domenico Bonelli, Stefano Scalercio

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2026.920

  186

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• New additions to the alien flora of Italy: Paspalum flavescens (Roseng., B.R.Arrill. & Izag.) P.R.Speranza & G.H.Rua and Paspalum inconstans Chase (Poaceae: Panicoideae)

  Enrico Banfi, Adriano Soldano

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2026.940

  148

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• Just found and already in danger: first observations of the Italian endemic Coenagrion castellani Roberts 1948 (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) in Lunigiana, northern Tuscany, with a new altitudinal record

  Giacomo Bruni, Alex Borrini

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2026.974

  165

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• Patrinia villosa (Thunb.) Dufr. (Valerianaceae) new to the European alien flora: report and taxonomic treatment

  Gabriele Galasso, Enrico Banfi

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2026.1002

  186

  Downloads: 138

• Historical insights into the terrestrial herpetofauna of the Madeira Island

  José Câmara, Beatriz Gordinho, José Jesus

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2026.936

  674

  Downloads: 630

• An overview of the calendar year timelines used in quaternary science and human history, with special reference to sub-annual dating

  Samuli Helama

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2026.919

  557

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• Documenting mating behavior in a rare dwarf gecko: first field data on Lygodactylus wetzeli (Smith, Martin & Swain 1977) (Squamata: Gekkonidae)

  Pier Cacciali, Lorena Sforza, Pamela Reyes, Pamela Marchi

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2026.881

  383

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• Albinism in a juvenile rhesus macaque Macaca mulatta (Zimmermann 1780) from the Brahmaputra Valley of Assam, India (Primates: Cercopithecidae)

  Neeraj Bora, Sanghamitra Buragohain, Deep Jyoti Borah, Chiranjib Bora, Sandip Choudhury, Jyotismita Das

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2026.879

  399

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• Diplacodes lefebvrii (Rambur 1842) in Sicily with first evidence of reproduction (Odonata: Libellulidae)

  Andrea Cusmano, Andrea Corso, Salvatore Surdo

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2025.820

  496

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• Combined use of redundancy and indicator species analyses for the selection of optimal pressure-specific bioindicators: a case study on Carabidae

  Stefano Macchio, Michela Gori, Luisa Nazzini, Susanna D’Antoni

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2025.894

  486

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• Catalogue of snakes (Squamata: Serpentes) in the historical collection of Kosmos - Natural History Museum of the University of Pavia

  Lorenzo Seneci, Edoardo Razzetti, Stefano Maretti

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2025.921

  632

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• [The fossil species established by Antonio Stoppani: complete list and publication chronology]

  Vittorio Pieroni

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2025.850

  588

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• First record of Petrorhagia dubia (Raf.) G.López & Romo (Caryophyllaceae) in Lombardy

  Lara A. Quaglini, Gabriele Galasso

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2025.927

  491

  Downloads: 280

• Tardigrades of North America: more new records of occurrence for species of green tardigrades (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscoidea: Echiniscidae: Viridiscus)

  Jacob D. Loeffelholz, Seth J. Raynor, Erin R. Morris, Erin A. Manzitto-Tripp, William R. Miller

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2025.898

  919

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• The Whale-Bone Seat of Great Yarmouth

  Raffaele d’Isa

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2025.913

  1235

  Downloads: 473

• The Palaearctic Dermestes undulatus Brahm 1790 (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Dermestinae) species complex: descriptions of neotype and three new species

  Graham J. Holloway, Andreas Herrmann

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2025.872

  1002

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• Living near humans: new diet items for the Big-headed Treefrog Polypedates megacephalus (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) and its tadpoles in Vietnam

  Tran Gia Thinh

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2025.869

  667

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• Taxonomical revision of the Longitarsus atricillus species group with resurrection of Longitarsus nigricollis (Foudras) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)

  Laura Farina

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2025.834

  1013

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• Ichnofabric variability and paleoenvironmental insights from the Middle Bhuban rocks of Aizawl, Mizoram, India

  Chinmoy Rajkonwar, Raghavendra Prasad Tiwari

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2025.830

  691

  Downloads: 806

• Monitoring without being monitored: how the Pallas’s cat Otocolobus manul (Pallas 1776) avails of rocks

  Tiziano Londei

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2025.840

  1026

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• New reproductive locations for the common spadefoot toad Pelobates fuscus (Anura: Pelobatidae) in Como province, Italy

  Nicola Larroux, Daniele Seglie, Alberto Ferrario, Paolo Eusebio Bergò, Riccardo Cavalcante, Andrea Mologni, Giovanni Soldato

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2025.902

  944

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• First evidence of Sette Fratelli cave salamander Speleomantes sarrabusensis (Urodela: Plethodontidae) consumption by the Sardinian grass snake Natrix helvetica cetti (Squamata: Natricidae)

  Matteo Riccardo Di Nicola, Sergio Mezzadri, Anna Cerullo

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2024.808

  2412

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• The lichen biota of the Special Area of Conservation Rio Pentemina (Ligurian Apennines, N Italy)

  Paolo Giordani, Giulia Canali, Luca Di Nuzzo, Gabriele Gheza, Elisabetta Bianchi, Stefano Di Natale, Helmut Mayrhofer, Renato Benesperi, Juri Nascimbene

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2025.846

  1261

  Downloads: 633

• An insight into the bioacoustics of some anurans of Meghalaya, India (Amphibia: Anura)

  Holiness Warjri, Jayaditya Purkayastha, Madhurima Das

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2024.778

  2581

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• Considerations and distributional innovations for some taxa of the genus Parapholis (Poaceae) in the Adriatic basin with special reference to Parapholis strigosa, for which a new infraspecific taxon is proposed

  Piero Cuccuini, Lorella Dell’Olmo, Stefano Dominici

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2025.774

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• Observations on the breeding biology of the Luzon flameback Chrysocolaptes haematribon (Wagler 1827) (Piciformes: Picidae) with notes on active nest defense against dollarbird Eurystomus orientalis (Linnaeus 1766) (Coraciiformes: Coraciidae)

  Vince Angelo G. Gicaraya, Carmela P. Española

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2024.748

  5006

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• Moss flora of two Alpine glacial and periglacial sites on crystalline and carbonatic bedrock

  Barbara Valle, Olga Ligi, Anna Invernizzi, Tiberio Fiaschi, Mauro Gobbi, Marco Caccianiga

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2024.809

  2094

  Downloads: 998

• Observations about Neomys milleri (Mammalia: Soricidae) predation on Austropotamobius pallipes (Crustacea: Astacidae)

  Fabio Ballanti, Armando Nappi

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2024.794

  1533

  Downloads: 650

• Species Distribution Models in plant conservation science: a comprehensive review with a focus on Iran

  Hooman Babanezhad, Alireza Naqinezhad

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2024.788

  3978

  Downloads: 1425

• Atlas of the Odonata of western Sicily

  Salvatore Surdo

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2025.782

  2488

  Downloads: 899

• First record of Pancratium maritimum L. (Amaryllidaceae) for the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, Italy

  Manuela Davanzo, Giosuè Cuccurullo, Elena Zwirner, Davide Scridel

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2024.768

  2374

  Downloads: 1012

• Demographic explosion of the brown shrimp Penaeus aztecus Ives 1891 (Decapoda: Penaeidae) in the central and northern Adriatic: implications for ecosystems and fisheries

  Francesco Tiralongo, Homa Nik Zad, Alberto Felici

  https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2025.841

  2365

  Downloads: 683