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05/09/2024

** New Issue **

“Life stages of Trypoxylon clavicerum” (Photograph by Amala Udayakumar) on the cover of the latest issue of Animal Biology (Vol. 74, No. 3). It can be found in one of the seven articles in this issue. brill.ws/AB74-3

Table of Contents
Articles
Variation in dietary composition of the Banna fanged frog (Limnonectes bannaensis Ye, Fei, Xie & Jiang, 2007) from Vietnam
Anh Van Pham, Nenh Ba Sung, Truong Quang Nguyen, Minh Duc Le, Thuy Van Tran, and Thomas Ziegler

An improved protocol for inducing the gut cleaning process in earthworm for various experiments
Karthikeyan Kandaswamy, Kayalvizhi Vadivelu, Jackson Durairaj Selvan Christyraj, Karthikeyan Subbiahanadar Chelladurai, Kamarajan Rajagopalan, Puja Das, Meikandan Chandrasekar, Nivedha Balamurugan, Vijayalakshmi Subramanian, and Johnson Retnaraj Samuel Selvan Christyraj

Using closed-circuit infrared camera to assess biparental provisioning behaviour and foraging pattern of house-farmed swiftlets (Aerodramus sp.)
Ummi Nur Syafiqah Daud, Nor Adibah Ismail, Kosila Ramasamy, Noor Fatihah Najihah Arazmi, Shukor Md. Nor, and Mohammad Saiful Mansor

Dietary partitioning in two gleaning bats, Japanese long-eared bats (Plecotus sacrimontis) and Ussuri tube-nosed bats (Murina ussuriensis): consuming insects of same order but different developmental stages
Hayato Takada, Akiyoshi Sato, Setsuko Katsuta, Keita Nakamura, Atsushi Ohwaki, Yuto Kane, Takashi Hayakawa, and Eiji Inoue

Evaluation of oviposition substrates for laboratory rearing of pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)
V. Chinna Babu Naik, G. Sham Supreeth, Prabhulinga Tenguri, and Y.G. Prasad

First report of Trypoxylon clavicerum (Crabronidae: Hymenoptera) from the Indian subcontinent: its nesting behaviour and prey preference
Amala Udayakumar, Venu Hunasikote Shamappa, A. Kandan, M. Sampathkumar, M. Arvind, and T.M. Shivalingaswamy

Behavioural assay of a newly identified lepidopteran, Pexicopia tungabhadrai (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) along with a first report of larval diapause
S. Rakhesh, S.S. Udikeri, S.T. Mahantesh, and I. Mahamed Ashiq

29/08/2024

* New Issue *

A new issue of Nematology (Vol. 26, No. 8) Is available now! It contains seven articles, a short communication, and a book review in . brill.ws/NEMY26-8

Table of Contents
Articles
The formulation of three Pochonia chlamydosporia isolates and their effectiveness as biocontrol agents of Meloidogyne javanica
Saeid Imani, Mohammad Reza Moosavi, Rasoul Zare, and Tahere Basirnia

Redescription of two species of the genus Tricirronema Siddiqi, 1993 (Rhabditida, Bicirronematidae) from Vietnam, including SEM study for both species
Joaquín Abolafia, Alba N. Ruiz-Cuenca, and Thi Anh Duong Nguyen

Paramerlinius shamimi n. sp. (Nematoda: Merliniidae) from India with a tabular key for the genus Paramerlinius
Ganesan Venkadesh, Satya Kumar, Shilpi Rawat, Gandhi Vyshali, Vishal S. Somvanshi, and Matiyar R. Khan

In vitro nematicidal efficacy of brassica-derived isothiocyanates against the root lesion nematode, Pratylenchus penetrans
Vongai Chekanai, Roy Neilson, David Roberts, Simon Edwards, and Matthew Back

Description of Pratylenchus platyceriumis sp. n. from the root and rhizosphere of Platycerium seedlings from Thailand
Yu Du, Min Li, Jian Zhou, Yan Yang, Jie Zhong, Jianjun Yang, and Jianfeng Gu

Host status of cover crops for the management of Meloidogyne izalcoensis in coffee orchards infested with root-knot nematodes
Sheila F. Almeida, Paolo L. Rodrigues-Silva, Vanessa S. Mattos, Caio F.B. Souza, Juvenil E. Cares, and Regina M.D.G. Carneiro

Temperature effects on interspecific hybridisation and growth of hybrid-derived populations between Bursaphelenchus xylophilus and B. mucronatus
Katsumi Togashi and Satomi Kasuga

Short communication
Amendments to the diagnosis of Ektaphelenchus cupressi Golhasan et al., 2019 (Rhabditida: Ektaphelenchinae)
Fatemeh Soltani Tale, Fatemeh Bazeghi, Mohammad Reza Atighi, Negin Amirzadi, Natsumi Kanzaki,

Book review
( ) Nematodes as model organisms by Glazer, D. Shapiro-Ilan & P.W. Sternberg (Eds).
Vincent O’Connor

28/08/2024

** New Issue **

Cover image of the latest Behaviour issue shows Frans de Waal (1948–2024): “LOVEBIRDS: At a friend’s apartment I met two small parakeets, clearly more interested in each other than in me”. (Photo by Mariska Kret). Five contributions in this issue are in . brill.ws/BEH161-7

Table of Contents
( ) Obituary: Frans de Waal (1948–2024): Editor-in-Chief of Behaviour
Mariska E. Kret, Paul C.H. Albers, and Brian D. Wisenden

( ) Frans de Waal’s lasting legacy: inspiring a new generation of animal behaviour scholars
Marcela Eugenia Benítez and Tom Simon Roth

Regular articles
( ) Social fish use different submission signals depending on spatial position
Adam R. Reddon, Christian Richardson, Amy Jose, Joachim G. Frommen, and William T. Swaney

Shy–bold behaviours in dragonfly larvae: syndromes or personality?
Tatiene M. Zenni, Amanda Z. Crivelaro, Gabrielle C. Pestana, and Rhainer Guillermo-Ferreira

( ) Evidence of honest signalling in a suboscine bird: Southwestern willow flycatcher song frequency is positively related to apparent reproductive success
S.M. Mahoney, P. Davis, C. Dodge, C. Edwards, J.A. Holmes, Q. Jennings, M.J. Johnson, E.J. Lundgren, M.A. McLeod, D. Moore, P.J. Motyka, A. Pellegrini, D.N. Rakestraw, A.N.B. Smith, R.R. Winton, and E. Woodhouse

Comments/Reflections
( ) Idiosyncratic long call-like vocalisations in two zoo-housed Bornean orang-utan females
Tom S. Roth, Clemens von Wulffen, Megan Fox, James Askew, Michelle Spierings, and Juan Olvido Perea-Garcia

27/08/2024

** New Issue **

Our full journal Contributions to Zoology has published a new issue (Vol. 93, No. 4), which contains 4 articles, one of which is “Applying geometric morphometrics in megalopa larval stages: relevance for species distribution and biological invasion studies” brill.ws/CTOZ93-4.

Table of Contents
Articles
Six new species of the pill millipede genus Hyleoglomeris Verhoeff, 1910 (Diplopoda, Glomerida, Glomeridae) in Thailand revealed by DNA-barcoding
Natdanai Likhitrakarn, Ekgachai Jeratthitikul, Pichsinee Sapparojpattana, Warut Siriwut, Ruttapon Srisonchai, Parin Jirapatrasilp, Teerapong Seesamut, Pisit Poolprasert, Somsak Panha, and Chirasak Sutcharit

An integrated study of Atopobathynella (Parabathynellidae, Bathynellacea) species reveals restricted distributions in a complex hydrogeological setting: two new species from the Pilbara (Australia)
Giulia Perina, Ana I. Camacho, Nicole E. White, Shae K. Callan, Jenny S. Abello, Liesel Morgan, and Michelle T. Guzik

Integrative taxonomy of the groundwater amphipod Niphargus bihorensis Schellenberg, 1940 reveals a species-rich clade
Fabio Stoch, Mara Knüsel, Valerija Zakšek, Roman Alther, Alice Salussolia, Florian Altermatt, Cene Fišer, and Jean-François Flot

Applying geometric morphometrics in megalopa larval stages: relevance for species distribution and biological invasion studies
Jonah Díaz-Cruz, Effrosyni Fatira, Víctor M. Tuset, Adriana Rodríguez, and José M. Landeira

23/08/2024

** New Issue **

The latest issue of Multisensory Research (Vol. 37, No. 4-5) opens with article “Glassware Influences the Perception of Orange Juice in Simulated Naturalistic versus Urban Conditions”. brill.ws/MSR37-4_5

Table of Contents
Articles
( ) Glassware Influences the Perception of Orange Juice in Simulated Naturalistic versus Urban Conditions
Chunmao Wu, Pei Li, and Charles Spence

Can Multisensory Olfactory Training Improve Olfactory Dysfunction Caused by COVID-19?
Gözde Filiz, Simon Bérubé, Claudia Demers, Frank Cloutier, Angela Chen, Valérie Pek, Émilie Hudon, Josiane Bolduc-Bégin, and Johannes Frasnelli

Audiovisual Speech Perception Benefits are Stable from Preschool through Adolescence
Liesbeth Gijbels, Jason D. Yeatman, Kaylah Lalonde, Piper Doering, and Adrian K.C. Lee

Evidence for a Causal Dissociation of the McGurk Effect and Congruent Audiovisual Speech Perception via TMS to the Left pSTS
EunSeon Ahn, Areti Majumdar, Taraz G. Lee, and David Brang

21/08/2024

** Memorial Issue **

Out now! Over 800 pages in the Christoph D. Schubart Memorial Issue of Crustaceana (Vol. 97, No. 5-9) with the dedication and preface in . brill.ws/CR97-5_9

15/08/2024

Call for Papers for a special issue of Multisensory Research

To Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of "THE MERGING OF THE SENSES"
Guest Editor: Benjamin Rowland

This pioneering book has served as an important part of the foundation for the growing field of multisensory research. For this special issue, we invite papers that highlight the development of research on multisensory processing in humans, animals, and potentially in biologically-inspired technical applications over the last thirty years. More details here: brill.ws/msr-si-senses

12/08/2024

Call for Papers for a special issue of Multisensory Research

Celebrating the Life and Work of Vincent Hayward (1955‒2023)
Guest Editors: Luke Miller & Alessandro Farnè

Vincent Hayward was the prototype of an interdisciplinary researcher combining the fields of engineering and robotics with cognition and neuroscience, providing very creative applications and demonstrations about the working principles of human touch. More details here: brill.ws/msr-si-vincent

09/08/2024

** New Issue **

A new issue of IAWA Journal (Vol. 45, No. 3) is out now! It opens with an In memoriam for Pieter Baas, which is available in . One of the seven articles in this issue is in . brill.ws/IAWA45-3

Table of Contents
( ) Obituary: In memoriam Professor Dr. Pieter Baas (1944–2024)
Elisabeth Wheeler, Lloyd Donaldson, Peter Gasson, Frederic Lens, Marcelo Pace, and Yafang Yin

Regular articles
Fossil woods from Corcovado (Eocene?), Argentinean Patagonia: angiosperm diversity and biodeterioration
Roberto R. Pujana, Juan L. García Massini, Sol Noetinger, and Inés Aramendía

Wood structural diversity in fynbos, chaparral, and maquis: a preliminary estimation
Alexei A. Oskolski and Funmilade M. Akinlabi

Forestry control in the Brazilian Amazon III: anatomy of wood and charcoal of tree species from sustainable forest management
Alana Assunção da Silva, Kaick Coelho de Sousa, Fernanda Ilkiu Borges de Souza, João Rodrigo Coimbra Nobre, Thiago de Paula Protásio, and Luiz Eduardo de Lima Melo

Diversity of wood colour in tropical timber species and its relationship with wood density and anatomical features
Fernanda Bessa, Vicelina Sousa, Teresa Quilhó, and Helena Pereira

Bark anatomy of Pteroceltis tatarinowii, Cannabaceae
Bingwei Chen, Yu’na Kan, Shengcheng Zhai, Michaela Eder, and Changtong Mei

Age of heartwood initiation in trunks of young Pinus sylvestris L. trees in the taiga zone
Tatiana V. Tarelkina, Natalia A. Galibina, Maria A. Ershova, Sergei A. Moshnikov, Kseniya M. Nikerova, Nikita V. Afoshin, and Ludmila I. Semenova

( ) Barrier zone formation and development in the stems of Aquilaria sinensis (Thymelaeaceae) and the effect on agarwood formation
Peiwei Liu, Yuxiu Zhang, Yun Yang, Xingning Lin, Songning Lin, Yanqing Deng, Bo Chen, and Jianhe Wei

08/08/2024

* New Issue *

A new issue of Nematology (Vol. 26, No. 7) Is available now! It contains nine articles, one of which is ‘Characterisation of ‘giant’ cysts of the potato cyst nematode, Globodera rostochiensis, present in potato fields in Kenya ‘ by James A. Price is . brill.ws/NEMY26-7

Table of Contents
Articles
Plant-parasitic nematodes associated with maize, and their relationship with soil properties in southern and southwestern Ethiopia
Abebe W. Aseffa, Beira H. Meressa, Tadele Tefera, Kristina K. Green, Peter Anderson, and Esayas Mendesil

Unveiling novel and known Cryptaphelenchus species from China and USA
Jianfeng Gu, Pablo Castillo, Xinxin Ma, and Maria Munawar

Skrjabinomermis pirnaimi sp. n. (Nematoda: Mermithidae) from Iran: A morphological and molecular phylogenetic study
Faegheh Abootalebi, Gholamreza Niknam, Nasir Vazifeh, Nora B. Camino, and Saideh Shaaf Gorashi

Description of Aphelenchoides yixingensis n. sp. (Tylenchina: Aphelenchoididae) found in Pinus massoniana from China, and proposal for genus Ptychaphelenchus as a synonym of Aphelenchoides
Yiwu Fang, Jianfeng Gu, Xinxin Ma, and Hongmei Li

Impact of Solidago gigantea invasion on nematode communities in grasslands
Michaela Jakubcsiková, Lenka Demková, Marek Renčo, and Andrea Čerevková

( ) Characterisation of ‘giant’ cysts of the potato cyst nematode, Globodera rostochiensis, present in potato fields in Kenya
James A. Price, Kelsey Hunt, Newton Nyagah, Calvince Orage, Onesmus Mwaura, Solveig Haukeland, Danny Coyne, and John T. Jones

Discovery of the malacopathogenic nematode Pellioditis akhaldaba from the Caucasus in alien slugs in the Main Botanical Garden in Moscow
Elena S. Ivanova and Sergei E. Spiridonov

Occurrence and diversity of the entomopathogenic nematode Oscheius myriophilus (Nematoda: Rhabditida) in the Italian outbreak area of Popillia japonica (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
Giacomo Santoiemma, Itamar Glazer, Andrea Battisti, Alessandro Bianchi, Elena Fanelli, Nicola Mori, Stefano Sacchi, Eustachio Tarasco, Alberto Troccoli, and Francesca De Luca

Evaluation of the lethal effect of hydrogen peroxide on the root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne javanica, and the disruption in the activity of enzymes related to its biosynthesis
Hosseini Zahra and Sahebani Navazollah

16/07/2024

** New Issue **

Comment/Reflection “Coastal dolphins provide foraging opportunities to benthic-feeding seabirds in a tropical seagrass ecosystem” by Eric A. Ramos et al. is in in Behaviour’s latest issue (161/6). brill.ws/BEH161-6

Table of Contents
Regular articles
Moving vs still prey: do common wall lizards show any preference?
Bianca Guadin, Andrea Gazzola, Alessandro Balestrieri, and Daniele Pellitteri-Rosa

Do vocal mimics learn their mimetic songs from heterospecifics or conspecifics?
David E. Gammon and Gabrielle E. Resh

Weak males do not work hard: Reproductive investment of deficient male fiddler crabs, Austruca lactea
Toshimasa Wakabayashi and Daisuke Muramatsu

Comments/Reflections
( ) Coastal dolphins provide foraging opportunities to benthic-feeding seabirds in a tropical seagrass ecosystem
Eric A. Ramos, Jeremy J. Kiszka, Diana Reiss, and Marcelo O. Magnasco

05/07/2024

* New Issue *

Have you seen the latest issue of Nematology (Vol. 26, No. 6) yet? It contains seven articles, one of which is ‘Molecular characterisation and diagnostics of the red ring nematode, Bursaphelenchus cocophilus, from Mexico‘ by Sergei A. Subbotin and Ignacio Cid del Prado-Vera. brill.ws/NEMY26-6

Table of Contents
Articles
Description of Pauronemoides siddiqii n. gen., n. sp. (Tylenchomorpha, Paurodontidae), a morphological and molecular phylogenetic study
Mohammad Amiri Bonab, Fatemeh Bazeghi, Farshad Gharibazadeh, Mohammad Reza Atighi, Natsumi Kanzaki, Robin M. Giblin-Davis, and Majid Pedram

Pristionchus seladoniae n. sp. (Diplogastridae) isolated from a eusocial soil-dwelling bee, Halictus (Seladonia) aerarius, in Nagano, Japan
Natsumi Kanzaki, Yuta Fujimori, Taisuke Ekino, and Yousuke Degawa

Molecular characterisation and diagnostics of the red ring nematode, Bursaphelenchus cocophilus, from Mexico
Sergei A. Subbotin and Ignacio Cid del Prado-Vera

Four criconematid species from avocado orchards in Florida, USA
Phougeishangbam Rolish Singh, Denis Gitonga, and Abolfazl Hajihassani

Delving into the diversity of genus Ironus Bastian, 1865 with special reference to Ironus dentifurcatus Argo & Heyns, 1972 (Ironidae: Enoplida), collected from coal mines
Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Mahboob, P. Fazal Rehman, and Qudsia Tahseen

Unveiling two novel Ditylenchus (Nematoda: Anguinidae) species inhabiting the growing medium of Rhododendron simsii imported from Japan
Jianfeng Gu, Xinxin Ma, Pablo Castillo, and Maria Munawar

Description of Longidorus sanlitanensis n. sp. (Dorylaimida: Longidoridae) from the rhizosphere of Melilotoides ruthenica and Chamaerhodos erecta in China
Ruihang Cai, Jianfeng Gu, Weimin Ye, Xinxin Ma, and Yinzhan Liu

05/07/2024

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04/07/2024

* New Issue*

The latest issue of Insect Systematics & Evolution (Vol. 55, No. 3) contains “A revision of the Trioserica species from continental southeast Asia (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae: Sericini)” by Dirk Ahrens, Daniel Lukic, Benedict Wipfler, and Phu Pham. Brill.ws/ISE55-3

06/06/2024

* New Issue *

The article ‘Diversity of plant-parasitic nematodes associated with chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) in the main growing areas of Ethiopia‘ in the latest Nematology issue (Vol. 26, No. 5), is available in . brill.ws/NEMY26-5

Table of Contents
Forum article
Nanonematicides: production, mechanisms, efficacy, opportunities and challenges
Mahfouz M.M. Abd-Elgawad

Articles
( ) Diversity of plant-parasitic nematodes associated with chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) in the main growing areas of Ethiopia
Habtamu Kefelegn, Beira Hailu Meressa, Wim M.L. Wesemael, Misghina G. Teklu, Sunheng Yon, Marjolein Couvreur, Abebe Woldesenbet Aseffa, and Wim Bert

S***m development and structure in Bursaphelenchus luxuriosae (Nematoda: Aphelenchoidea: Aphelenchoididae)
Vladimir V. Yushin, Lyubov A. Gliznutsa, Natsumi Kanzaki, and Alexander Ryss

Pseudaphelenchus taedae n. sp. (Tylenchina: Aphelenchoididae) found in loblolly pine logs from the USA and peat from Lithuania
Jianfeng Gu, Lirong Zhao, Fei Yan, Yiwu Fang, Xinxin Ma, Mutao Wu, and Yong Bian

Ektaphelenchoides factum n. sp. in Pinus taeda from the USA and E. pini in Pinus koraiensis from China
Jianfeng Gu, Maria Munawar, Xinxin Ma, and Yiwu Fang

Evolution of modes of nutrient absorption in entomoparasitic nematodes of the order Tylenchida revealed by structural and phylogenetic analysis
Ayumi Takahashi, Yuta Fujimori, Natsumi Kanzaki, Ryoji Shinya, and Taisuke Ekino

Cotylenchus cleo gen. n., sp. n., a new plant-parasitic nematode (Tylenchida: Anguinidae) parasitising on leaves of western sword fern plants from rainforests in Washington State, USA
Sergio Álvarez-Ortega and Sergei A. Subbotin

Bursaphelenchus glaucae n. sp. isolated from larval faeces of a longhorn beetle, Aeolesthes chrysothrix chrysothrix (Bates), in its pupal chamber constructed in the dead wood of Quercus glauca Thunb. from Japan
Natsumi Kanzaki and Yuta Fujimori

05/06/2024

** New Issue **

Behaviour has recently published a new issue (Vol. 161, No. 5), which contains article ‘The influence of conspecific and heterospecific neighbours on avian reproductive success’ by Stephen J. Joly et al. – and more!. brill.ws/BEH161-5

Table of Contents
Review
Are ants not only ‘social insects’, but also ‘nomic insects’? In search of clues of normativity in the ant world
Giuseppe Lorini, Donato A. Grasso, and Andrea Loi

Regular articles
Within-population variation in signal timing preferences and its implications for sexual selection on male displays
Gerlinde Höbel

Individual behavioural variation does not affect social organization or reproductive success in a cooperative small mammal
Annemarie van der Marel, Nicholas E. Johnson, Sara Grillo, Juan Riquelme, Rodrigo A. Vásquez, Erin H. Gillam, Luis A. Ebensperger, and Loren D. Hayes

( ) The influence of conspecific and heterospecific neighbours on avian reproductive success
Stephen F. Joly, Ann E. McKellar, Sean M. Mahoney, Nancy J. Flood, Raven Möller, Mateen R. Shaikh, and Matthew W. Reudink

31/05/2024

** New Issue **

article “Perceptual Adaptation to Noise-Vocoded Speech by Lip-Read Information: No Difference between Dyslexic and Typical Readers” can be found in the latest issue of Multisensory Research (Vol. 37, No. 3). brill.ws/MSR37-3

Table of Contents
Articles
Tactile Landmarks: the Relative Landmark Location Alters Spatial Distortions
Paula Soballa, Christian Frings, and Simon Merz

Is Front associated with Above and Back with Below? Association between Allocentric Representations of Spatial Dimensions
Lari Vainio and Martti Vainio

( ) Perceptual Adaptation to Noise-Vocoded Speech by Lip-Read Information: No Difference between Dyslexic and Typical Readers
Faezeh Pourhashemi, Martijn Baart, and Jean Vroomen

Short Note
Revisiting the Deviation Effects of Irrelevant Sound on Serial and Nonserial Tasks
Yu Nakajima and Hiroshi Ashida

30/05/2024

** New Issue **

Amphibia-Reptilia has published a new issue (Vol. 45, No. 2), which contains seven articles, two of which are in , and three short notes. brill.ws/AMRE45-2

Table of Contents
Articles
( ) Body size variation in a lineage of spur-thighed tortoises (Testudo graeca whitei) contrasts with that expected from the species level
Mohamed Jaouhar Semaha, Roberto C. Rodríguez-Caro, Soumia Fahd, Andrea Mira-Jover, Andrés Giménez, and Eva Graciá

Diet variations across remote populations of a widely distributed snake species, the Asp viper (Vipera aspis aspis, Linnaeus, 1758)
Florian Laurence, Xavier Bonnet, Sylvain Ursenbacher, Gaetan Guiller, Gopal Billy, Guy Naulleau, and Nicolas Vidal

Population genetics of the endemic Large-crested toad (Incilius cristatus): a declining and critically endangered species
Meghan Ivette Zolá-Rodríguez, Luis Manuel García-Feria, and Alberto González-Romero

Molecular phylogeny of the common wall lizard Podarcis muralis (Squamata: Lacertideae) in the southern Balkans
Maria Keroglidou, Loukia Spilani, Petros Lymberakis, and Nikos Poulakakis

Reptiles in danger: Implications of road mortality in wetlands of South America
Authors: Vanesa Arzamendia, Exequiel Oscar Furlan, Andrés Agustín Ulibarrie, and Gisela Paola Bellini
189–203

( ) Groundwater decline has negatively affected the well-preserved amphibian community of Doñana National Park (SW Spain)
Carmen Díaz-Paniagua, Margarita Florencio, Miguel de Felipe, Mamen Ramírez-Soto, Isidro Román, and Rosa Arribas

Lizard abundance in forest fragments: effects of patch size, patch shape, thermoregulation, and habitat quality
José A. Díaz, Tomás Santos, and Alejandro Llanos-Garrido

Short Note
Blue pill or red pill? Green, thanks. Behavioural test on coloured light preference in the Calabrian Alpine newt to increase the capture rate
Viviana Cittadino, Mattia Iannella, Antonio Romano, and Ilaria Bernabò

Underwater advertisement call of the threatened Telmatobius rubigo (Anura: Telmatobiidae)
Mauricio Sebastián Akmentins, María Soledad Gastón, and Martín Boullhesen

Arrival of crocodilians to São Tomé Island, Gulf of Guinea, Western Africa, highlights the role of sea currents to the natural colonization of islands
Luis M.P. Ceríaco, Matheus R. Barbosa, Ana Carolina A. Sousa, Bruna S. Santos, Sofia Perestrelo, and Mariana P. Marques

29/05/2024

This updated and revised second edition of the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera (in two parts) focuses on the second part of the beetle superfamily Chrysomeloidea reported from the Palaearctic biogeographic region. For the genus and species-groups taxa all relevant names are given and all nomenclatural data are cross-checked and the distribution of species and subspecies is given per country or smaller region. A group of 14 experts have worked to collect data based on a critical review of published sources including a significant amount of new information.
Part 1: brill.ws/CPC6-2-1
Part 2: brill.ws/CPC6-2-2

28/05/2024

* Special Issue *

Art & Perception has published a special issue (Volume 12, No. 2) on ‘Pictorial Space’ with the Editorial in . brill.ws/ARTP12-2

Table of Contents
( ) Editorial: A Plea for Picturistics: Why Do We still not Understand Pictures?
Robert Pepperell

Article
Spatial Semantics: Tafereel, Einder and El Lissitzky
Jan Koenderink and Andrea van Doorn

Commentary
‘Here is the Thing’: On Object, Ground and Background in the History of Art and Images
Jeroen Stumpel

13/05/2024

10/05/2024

** New Issue **

Two of the eight articles in the latest issue of IAWA Journal (Vol. 45, No. 2), are available in , one of which is “Effect of different stand densities on xylem and phloem formation in Norway spruce plantations” by Kyriaki Giagli et al. brill.ws/IAWA45-2

Table of Contents
Regular articles
Mid-Cretaceous wood of Waihere Bay, Pitt Island, Chatham Islands, New Zealand
Mathew R. Vanner, John G. Conran, Matthew J. Larcombe, and Daphne E. Lee

Cordiaceae wood from the Miocene sediments of northeast India and its phytogeographical significance
Harsh*ta Bhatia, Gaurav Srivastava, and R.C. Mehrotra

The first record of Mammeoxylon lanneoides Lemoigne (Clusiaceae) from Egypt, with a summary of the Egyptian Oligocene wood flora
Nermeen A. Ziada

The three-dimensional distribution of bordered pits across growth rings of stem segment in Platycladus orientalis (Cupressaceae) seedlings
Shan Li, Sen Lu, Chuhuan Yuan, Jing Wang, and Junkang Guo

Properties of Catalpa bungei (Bignoniaceae) earlywood and latewood in the same growth ring during moisture adsorption/desorption: swelling and shrinkage at the cell level

( ) Latewood intra-annual density fluctuations indicate wet summer conditions and enhanced canopy activity in a Mediterranean ring-porous oak
J. Julio Camarero, Xavier Serra-Maluquer, Michele Colangelo, Antonio Gazol, and Manuel Pizarro

( ) Effect of different stand densities on xylem and phloem formation in Norway spruce plantations
Kyriaki Giagli, Hanuš Vavrčík, Dimitrios Tsalagkas, Jakub Černý, Jan Leugner, Jana Hacurová, and Vladimír Gryc

Study of antioxidant enzymes’ activity in reaction wood of poplar tree (Populus alba L.)
Abasali Masoumi, Kambiz Pourtahmasi, and Reza Maali Amiri

08/05/2024

** New Issue **

“Three adults of red-billed blue magpie (Urocissa erythrorhyncha) share in the feeding of nestlings” is the cover image of the latest issue of Animal Biology (Vol. 74, No. 2). See the first article by Weibin Guo et al. in this issue: brill.ws/AB74-2

Table of Contents
Articles
First detailed report of cooperative breeding in red-billed blue magpie (Urocissa erythrorhyncha) in central China
Weibin Guo, Buge Lin, Zhiqing Hu, Hanqing Cao, and Changcao Wang

Regulating, braking and pushing mechanisms of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) feet based on center of pressure
Guoyu Li, Rui Zhang, Hao Pang, Junfeng Wang, Xumin Sun, Zhisong Li, Yexuan Luo, and Lige Wen

Dietary niche of the endangered Psychedelic Rock Gecko (Cnemaspis psychedelica) in southern Vietnam
Hai Ngoc Ngo, Truong Quang Nguyen, Khoi Vu Nguyen, and Thomas Ziegler

Effect of silicon application on rice plant defence against brown planthopper feeding under climate change conditions
Prabhulinga Tenguri, Subhash Chander, Ranjith Kumar Ellur, Eresh Patil, Arya Pattathanam Sundaran, Yogesh Yele, Shivaji H. Thube, V. Chinna Babu Naik, and Madhu Tadagavadi Nagaraju

( ) Summer habitat selection by Mrs Hume’s Pheasant (Syrmaticus humiae) on Jinzhong Mountain, northwest Guangxi, China: implications for determining effective conservation actions using radio transmitters
Yuan Baodong, Miao Xiulian, and Zhang Yichuan

Adaptive thermogenesis of the brown adipose tissue in Apodemus chevrieri during cold acclimation
Wen-rong Gao and Wan-long Zhu

Taxonomy of Naumann’s and dusky, red-throated and black-throated thrush complexes (Aves: Turdidae) using morphological and molecular characteristics
Boyang An, Danyang Yin, Songlin Huang, Nassoro Mohamed, and Bo Li

07/05/2024

We were saddened to learn that wood anatomist Professor Pieter Baas, who served for many years as Editor-in-Chief of our IAWA Journal, has passed away. We are immensely grateful for his contribution to the journal.

04/05/2024

** New Issue **

Multisensory Research has published a new issue (Vol. 37, No. 2), with three articles in , one of which is “The Multimodal Trust Effects of Face, Voice, and Sentence Content” by Isar Syed et al. brill.ws/4dkahAZ

Table of Contents
Articles
( ) Addressing the Association Between Action Video Game Playing Experience and Visual Search in Naturalistic Multisensory Scenes
Mohammad Hamzeloo, Daria Kvasova, and Salvador Soto-Faraco

( ) The Multimodal Trust Effects of Face, Voice, and Sentence Content
Isar Syed, Martijn Baart, and Jean Vroomen

( ) Perceived Audio-Visual Simultaneity Is Recalibrated by the Visual Intensity of the Preceding Trial
Ryan Horsfall, Neil Harrison, Georg Meyer, and Sophie Wuerger

Four-Stroke Apparent Motion Can Effectively Induce Visual Self-Motion Perception: an Examination Using Expanding, Rotating, and Translating Motion
Shinji Nakamura

03/05/2024

** New Issue **

Crustaceana has published a new (double) issue (Vol. 97, No. 3-4) with no less than 12 articles, one of which is “On the identity of Paranotonyx curtipes Nobili, 1906 (Brachyura, Thoracotremata, Varunidae)” by Peter K. L. Ng and Peter J. F. Davie. brill.ws/3w8sf91

Table of Contents
Articles
Morphometric relationships and condition factor of the green tiger shrimp, Penaeus semisulcatus De Haan, 1844 (Decapoda, Penaeidae), from Palk Bay waters of Tamil Nadu
M. Rajkumar, S. Lakshmi Pillai, Midun Muthaiyan, R. Rajkumar, S. Thirumalaiselvan, and M. Saravanan

Probabilistic models for studying the potential spatial distribution of three intertidal decapods in the north of Chile (Taltal, 25°S, Antofagasta region)
Patricio De los Ríos-Escalante, Rodolfo Wilson, and Farhana S. Ghory

First record of the three-spined box crab, Arcania undecimspinosa De Haan, 1841 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Leucosiidae) from the Arabian Sea, with a key to the species of Arcania recorded from the Indian coast
B. Sureandiran, T. H. Dave, J. B. Solanki, K. Karuppasamy, V. Vidhya, and N. K. Suyani

Effect of water temperature on the development of Portunus trituberculatus larvae in the off-season breeding mode (Decapoda, Portunidae)
Jialin Wu, Litao Wan, Bin Li, Dongxu Zhang, Huilai Shi, Tao Zhang, Hongling Ping, and Jie He

A new species of freshwater crab, Sundathelphusa roberti (Brachyura, Gecarcinucidae) from highlands in Batangas, Luzon, Philippines
Peter K. L. Ng and Jose C. E. Mendoza

First in situ observations of the consumption of brittle stars by the rare shrimp Phyllognathia simplex Fujino, 1973 in Indonesia and its possible presence in the western Atlantic (Decapoda, Palaemonidae)
Arthur Anker, Yury Ivanov, Jailson V. Adamoli, Tim Krutz, and Linda Ianniello

Inconsistent effects of environmental variations on body size and density of pillbugs, Armadillidium vulgare (Latreille, 1804) (Isopoda, Oniscidea) in urban green spaces
Li Yang, Zhangyan Zhu, Shuang Wang, Hongshan Li, and Baoming Ge

Orbitacolax kyphosi sp. nov. (Copepoda, Cyclopoida, Bomolochidae) recovered from the brassy chub Kyphosus vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) (Actinopterygii) in Japan
Kunihiko Izawa

Reproductive status of the blood-spotted swimming crab, Portunus sanguinolentus (Herbst, 1783) (Brachyura, Portunidae) landed off Cochin, India
Jose Josileen, T. M. Najmudeen, N. Ragesh, L. Sreesanth, and P. K. Baby

On the identity of Paranotonyx curtipes Nobili, 1906 (Brachyura, Thoracotremata, Varunidae)
Peter K. L. Ng and Peter J. F. Davie

A new species of freshwater crab, Demanietta moror, from a karst formation in southern Thailand (Brachyura, Potamidae)
Zhi Wan Tan, Vachira Lheknim, and Peter K. L. Ng

First occurrence of the family Botryllophilidae Sars G.O., 1921 (Copepoda, Cyclopoida) in Sicily, central Mediterranean Sea
S. Lo Brutto, A. Badalucco, and L. Musco