Bottlebrush and Myrtle twig canker caused by species: an emerging canker-causing group of fungi in Italy.

Pestalotioid fungi were isolated in pure culture from symptomatic plants of , , (marketed as ""), Myrtuscommunissubsp.tarentina, and M.communisvar.

Solved at last: The Philippine endemic is a synonym of (Rubiaceae, Scyphiphoreae).

(Rubiaceae) was described by Chamisso and Schlechtendal in 1829, was the first name published for the Philippines and is currently considered a Philippine endemic. The name remained in a taxonomic limbo for almost two centuries as it was variously accepted, synonymized or considered obscure, probably because the type specimen in the Berlin herbarium was destroyed and no original material has survived or is currently known. A combined analysis of the information on morphology, type locality and ecology contained in the protologue and a review of relevant literature on the study of the name by various authors over the last two centuries finally clarified the identity of .

Lectotypification of (Cycadaceae).

The type of Y.C.Zhong & C.

The genus and the epithet " ".

The epithet "" has been recurrently used in the genus to name plants located in northern regions of Europe, Asia and North America, as a species ( (L.) Roem. & Schult.

Numerous new records of tropical non-indigenous species in the Eastern Mediterranean highlight the challenges of their recognition and identification.

New data on 52 non-indigenous mollusks in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea is reported. sp. (aff.

gen. et sp. nov., a new pathogen causing crown rot of fennel in Italy.

A new disease of fennel is described from Sicily (southern Italy). Surveys of the disease and sampling were conducted during spring 2017 and 2018 in Adrano and Bronte municipalities (Catania province) where this crop is widely cultivated. Isolations from the margin of symptomatic tissues resulted in fungal colonies with the same morphology.

The genus (Diaporthales).

The genus (Melanconidaceae, Diaporthales) in the strict sense is here re-evaluated regarding phylogenetic structure, taxonomy, distribution and ecology. Using a matrix of sequences from ITS, LSU, , , and , eight species are recognised and their phylogenetic positions are determined. Based on phylogenetic, morphological and geographical differentiation, is subdivided into four subspecies.

Exploring the taxonomic composition of two fungal communities on the Swedish west coast through metabarcoding.

Background: Fungi are heterotrophic, unicellular or filamentous organisms that exhibit a wide range of different lifestyles as, e.g., symbionts, parasites, and saprotrophs.

European species of (Diaporthales).

European species of the genus (Erythrogloeaceae, Diaporthales) occurring on and spp. based on freshly collected material are presented. Using a matrix of sequences from ITS, LSU, , and , five species are recognized, and their phylogenetic positions are determined.

New data on the western Balkan leuciscids and (Teleostei, Leuciscidae) from the Vjosa River, Albania.

The first voucher-confirmed record of and the first morphological description of for the Vjosa River system in Albania are reported with a brief discussion of the diagnostic morphological traits and taxonomic assignment of both species.

Morphology and phylogeny reveal two novel species from China.

is currently the sole genus of Coryneaceae in Diaporthales, distinguished from other diaporthalean genera by transversely distoseptate brown conidia. However, species are presently difficult to identify because of variability and overlap of morphological characters and the lack of sequence data for most described species. During fungal collection trips in China, 13 isolates were obtained from cankered branches of and .

Species composition and elevational distribution of bumble bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Latreille) in the East Himalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, India.

The East Himalaya is one of the world's most biodiverse ecosystems. However, very little is known about the abundance and distribution of many plant and animal taxa in this region. Bumble bees are a group of cold-adapted and high elevation insects that fulfil an important ecological and economical function as pollinators of wild and agricultural flowering plants and crops.

A new species of (Crustacea, Copepoda, Calanoida, Paracalanidae) from coastal waters of the Colombian Pacific, including a worldwide key for the identification of the species.

Plankton samples obtained from estuarine waters of the Colombian Pacific yielded adults specimens of an undescribed species of a paracalanid copepod of the genus . It most closely resembles two Asian species; (Shen & Lee, 1966) from China and (Ali, Al-Yamani & Prusova, 2007) from the Arabian Gulf. These three species share the absence of spinules on the posterior surfaces of exopod segments of legs 2, 3 and 4.

Rediscovery of Chamisso's type specimens of Hawaiian (Rubiaceae, Psychotrieae) in the herbarium of the Natural History Museum, Vienna.

Between 1815 and 1818, Count Nikolai Romanzoff funded an expedition of the Russian brig . Besides their primary goal to discover the Northeast Passage, their aim was to collect scientific specimens, for which the botanist Adelbert von Chamisso and the entomologist Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz were commissioned. On the Hawaiian Islands, they collected two unknown endemic species that Chamisso and Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal later described as and , both now assigned to the large and complex genus (Rubiaceae, Psychotrieae).

sp. nov., the causal agent of pistachio cankers and decline in Italy.

A new canker and decline disease of pistachio () is described from Sicily (Italy). Observations of the disease and sampling of the causal agent started in spring 2010, in the area where this crop is typically cultivated, Bronte and Adrano (Catania province) and later extended to the Agrigento and Caltanissetta provinces. Isolations from the margins of twig, branch and stem cankers of declining plants resulted in fungal colonies with the same morphology.