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Q2Zootaxa
About Zootaxa
Zootaxa is a scholarly journal published by Magnolia Press. SCImago 2025 places it in Q2 with an SJR of 0.503 and an H-index of 115.
Its listed coverage is 2005-2026 and its research categories include Animal Science and Zoology (Q2); Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (Q2). The 2025 dataset reports 2121 documents and 5571 citations across the latest three-year reporting window.
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Aims & Scope
The journal publishes research related to Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy, Plant and animal studies, Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny.
Recent Research Articles
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A new species of Omalium Gravenhorst, 1802 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae) closely resembling O. japonicum Sharp, 1874, discovered in sympatry in Kyushu, Japan
MUNETOSHI MARUYAMA, TESSAI OKUMURA, TAKUTO HASHIZUME
2026-09-09 · DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5875.6.4Descriptions of three new species of Micardia Butler, 1878 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Eustrotiinae) from South China
WEN QI, ZHIQUAN JIANG, LIANG GUO, MIN WANG et al.
2026-09-09 · DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5875.6.2Nodynus sabatinellii sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Apateticinae) from Vietnam
IVAN LÖBL
2026-09-09 · DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5875.6.6Taxonomic notes on the Dorcus rubrofemoratus species group with the description of a new species (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Lucaninae)
FENG-QI GUO, FEI-YI XIN, BI-SHENG ZHAN, XIAO-TIAN ZHONG et al.
2026-09-09 · DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5875.6.3Egg chorion sculpturing of eight East Palearctic Alloperla Banks, 1906 species (Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae)
VALENTINA A. TESLENKO
2026-09-09 · DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5875.6.5Uroconger gracilis sp. nov., a slender conger eel (Anguilliformes: Congridae) from the South China Sea
MING BA
2026-09-09 · DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5875.6.1The genus Melanthrips Haliday (Thysanoptera: Melanthripidae) in Iran: first descriptions of the males of M. knechteli and M. titschacki and a key to the Iranian species
JALIL ALAVI, MANFRED R. ULITZKA
2026-09-08 · DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5875.5.3Description of the puparium of Hedriodiscus chloraspis (Wiedemann) (Diptera, Stratiomyidae) from Brazilian Cerrado
JOSÉ ROBERTO PUJOL-LUZ, FABIO SIQUEIRA PITALUGA DE GODOI, KARINE BRENDA BARROS-CORDEIRO
2026-09-08 · DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5875.5.6The superfamily Plumularioidea (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from Galician deep-waters (NW Spain)
ALÁN REY, JAVIER COSTAS-PÉREZ, MARTA GIL
2026-09-08 · DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5875.5.1A new remarkable species of the genus Ethmia Hübner, 1819 (Lepidoptera, Ethmiidae) from Kyrgyzstan
SERGEY YU. SINEV, PAVEL YU. GORBUNOV
2026-09-08 · DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5875.5.5Geometric morphometrics for taxonomy: an examination of opercular plate shapes of twelve species of Amphibalanus Pitombo, 2004 (Cirripedia: Balanidae)
PETER PRADO SANTANA, FÁBIO BETTINI PITOMBO
2026-09-08 · DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5875.5.2Two mitochondrial genomes and the phylogenetic relationships of Silpha (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Silphinae)
WEI ZHEN, RUIXIN ZHANG, QIQI LIAN, QIANG DING et al.
2026-09-08 · DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5875.5.4Redescription of the Australian endemic water flea Australochydorus aporus Smirnov & Timms, 1983 leads to a re-evaluation of the genus Australochydorus Smirnov & Timms, 1983 (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae)
ARTEM Y. SINEV
2026-09-07 · DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5875.4.2Rediscovery and taxonomic reassessment of Rana montivaga Smith, 1921 (Anura: Ranidae) with transfer to the genus Odorrana Fei, Ye & Huang, 1990, based on morphology and molecular data
TAN VAN NGUYEN, ANNA S. DUBROVSKAYA, TOSAPHOL SAETUNG KEETAPITHCHAYAKUL, SON XUAN LE et al.
2026-09-07 · DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5875.4.4Cantobrillia risa gen. nov. et sp. nov. of the Brillia-group (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from Oriental China
TSZ-YING CHAN, WU HAN, HONG-QU TANG, PETER S. CRANSTON et al.
2026-09-07 · DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5875.4.3Taxonomic notes on the genus Apometriocnemus Sæther, 1985 (Diptera, Chironomidae) from East Asia
HONGQU TANG, HIROMI NIITSUMA
2026-09-07 · DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5875.4.5Long time no see: rediscovery, first molecular data, and redescriptions of two rare Dibamus species from Thailand (Squamata: Dibamidae)
NIKITA S. KLIUKIN, PARINYA PAWANGKHANANT, AKRACHAI AKSORNNEAM, ANDAMAN KAOSUNG et al.
2026-09-07 · DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5875.4.1Reviews
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