Swallowtail butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) species diversity and distribution in Africa: The Papilionidae collection at the National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

Species information from the Museum collections have been proven to be of nice worth as a instrument for prioritising conservation actions in Africa (Fjeldsa and Tushabe 2005). The National Museums of Kenya (NMK) have an entomology collection, housed in 4,000 drawers in cupboards that comprise over 1.5 million specimens, together…

Relicts from Tertiary Australasia: undescribed families and subfamilies of songbirds (Passeriformes) and their zoogeographic signal

A quantity of hitherto unrecognized, deeply divergent taxa of Australasian songbirds have been revealed by DNA sequence research within the final decade. Differentiation amongst them is at ranges equal to household and subfamily rank amongst songbirds usually. Accordingly, the aim of this paper is to call and describe eleven of…

Recommended terminology and advances in the systematics of the Cyathostominea (Nematoda: Strongyloidea) of horses

Terminology for widespread names for the Tribe Cyathostominea (cyathostomins), and illness brought on by the nematodes (cyathostominosis), had been advisable to switch the beforehand used names cyathostomes and cyathostomosis, that are ambiguous, inaccurate or synonymous, by the Third Internal Workshop on the Systematics of Cyathostominea of Horses, held in Stresa,…