A new species of Megachile Latreille, subgenus Pseudocentron Mitchell (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Megachilidae) is described, exhibiting marked sexual dimorphism: Megachile karlquesteli new species. Only about five species of Megachile whose females have a dark black integument and predominantly black pubescence occur in the Antilles. A distinctive combination of morphological characters separates this species from other taxa. Female is characterized by a dark black tegument and pubescence, while the male possesses a dark brown tegument, darker on the metasoma, except for the tarsi and most of the foreleg, which are reddish-brown; yellow pubescence covers the frons, mesosoma, T1, and T2. The most pronounced differences, however, occur in the males, in which the structure of the apical sterna, particularly sterna 5, 6, and 8, provides reliable diagnostic features. The new species inhabits the Anguilla Bank in the Caribbean Sea. The bee was observed visiting a variety of flowers: Acanthaceae: Asystasia gangetica (L.) T. Anderson; Asteraceae: Borrichia arborescens (L.) DC., Tridax procumbens L.; Aizoaceae: Trianthema portulacastrum L.; Euphorbiaceae: Euphorbia milii Des Moul.; Goodeniaceae: Scaevola plumieri (L.) Vahl; Malvaceae: Waltheria indica L., Corchorus hirsutus L., Melochia tomentosa L.; Polygonaceae: Antigonon leptopus Hook. & Arn.; Zygophyllaceae: Guaiacum officinale L.

The gopher tortoise robber fly, Machimus polyphemi Bullington and Beck (Diptera: Asilidae), is one of 12 species of obligate invertebrate commensals that inhabit burrows excavated by the gopher tortoise (Go-pherus polyphemus Daudin), a medium-large terrestrial turtle native to the Coastal Plain of the southeastern United States. Described in 1991, the ecology and distribution of </I>M</I>. polyphemi remains poorly known. From 2019–2025, using a simple method we developed to flush flies from their resident burrows, we detected </I>M</I>. polyphemi at 43 sites in four states, including the first records for Alabama and South Carolina. These data, combined with historic records and community scientist website observations, show that </I>M</I>. polyphemi is more widely distributed than previously thought and essentially a longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) eco-system endemic. The majority of sites where </I>M</I>. polyphemi has been documented are sandhill communities, including grossly disturbed examples of this habitat type. We provide size data for adult </I>M</I>. polyphemi, sum-marize the species’ natural history, and discuss the conservation status of this fascinating insect.

The subtribe Actenonycina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalinae: Odacanthini) is revised for New Zealand. Two genera and six species are recognized. One genus and three species are described as new: Neactenonyx Larochelle and Lariviere new genus, Neactenonyx mcfarlani Larochelle and Lariviere new species, Neactenonyx sharpi Larochelle and Lariviere new species, Actenonyx whitei Larochelle and Lariviere new species. One new combination is established: Actenonyx aotearoa Kavanaugh, 2022 = Neactenonyx aotearoa (Kavanaugh, 2022). Sphallax peryphoides Bates, 1871, previously synonymized with Actenonyx bembidioides White, 1846, is reinstated as a full species. A revision of all taxa is provided. Descriptions, identification keys, illustrations of male genitalia, habitus photos, distributional data and maps are given. Information on ecology, biology, dispersal power, and collecting techniques is included for each species.

A new species, Anthrenus (Nathrenus) turneri Holloway (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae), is described from South Africa and compared with other Nathrenus Casey, 1900 species from the same region. South African Nathrenus species are understudied, but of the known species, many could be eliminated as confounding species based on color pattern. The new species is compared with A. boyesi Hava, 2004 and A. margarethae Hava and Kadej, 2006, both South African species. Images of genitalia, antenna, and habitus arepresented. Anthrenus turneri represents the fifteenth Nathrenus species described from South Africa.

A new species, Anthrenus (Anthrenus) tigrinellus Holloway (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) is described from Afghanistan and compared with A. flavipes (LeConte, 1854) and A. flavidulus Reitter, 1889, the most likely confounding species from the region. Differentiation is performed using genital structure since color pattern could be subject to plasticity, as noted in several Dermestidae. Images of habitus, ventrites, antenna, and male and female genital structures are presented. Seven species of subgenus Anthrenus Geoffroy are now recorded from Afghanistan.

Liparthrum squamosum Blackman (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Hypoborini) is reported for the first time from Pennsylvania. A single specimen was found in 2015 and four subsequent specimens were collected in 2024 through several insect trap and lure combinations. These records increase the known range for this species in the eastern United States.

Tropical regions are home to an exuberant diversity of insect species, which unfortunately remains poorly catalogued in most regions. Here, a checklist of aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera) is presented for Hong Kong, a territory of 1100 km2 located just below the Tropic of Cancer. To date, 350 species and morphospecies of aculeate wasps distributed across 13 families and 151 genera have been recorded for the territory and are here illustrated and discussed. Short annotations on their taxonomy (when needed), biology (if known), and on historical records are provided, complemented by distributional data. This list provides an important baseline to track the evolution of aculeate wasps in Hong Kong but also more broadly for Southeast Asia, a region of the world experiencing major anthropogenic changes of its environment and biota.

A new species of Tetraleurodes Cockerell (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aleyrodidae), T. gilli, occurring on Quercus L. (Fagaceae) in California is described and illustrated based on its puparium, adults, and nymphs. The puparium of the new species can be recognized from that of other black whiteflies devoid of dorsal wax that occur on oaks by the combination of a filamentous marginal wax fringe as wide as a third to full width of puparium, cephalothoracic setal formula 1 0 1 1, longitudinal suture margined by tubercles, presence of eyespots, a concentric dorsal submarginal fold, ventral spinules medially to legs decreasing in size from large to small medially, sides not deflexed ventrally, and absence of dorsal submarginal papillae, of dorsomedial tubercles on each abdominal segment, and of dorsomedial clusters of pores on fourth abdominal segment. A key to all species of whiteflies with black puparia known to occur on oaks in North America is provided.

Several Nearctic spider wasp genera and subgenera in the subfamily Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) in the arid western United States and northern Mexico are characteristically blue, violet, or purple in color: Aporus Spinola; Plectraporus Bradley; Chelaporus Bradley; Psorthaspis Banks; Chalcochares Banks; Evagetes Lepeletier; and Allochares Banks. Other genera and subgenera of Pompilinae in western U. S. and northern Mexico have one or more bluish or violaceous species: Episyron Schiødte; Notiochares Banks; Pompilinus Ashmead; Anoplius Dufour; Hesperopompilus Evans; Ammosphex Wilcke; and Arachnospila Kincaid. In California, 27/79 (34.2%) species of Pompilinae are blue, violet, or purple. The number of blue, violet, or purple Nearctic species in the subfamily Pepsinae in the western U. S. and northern Mexico is significantly fewer than in the subfamily Pompilinae. Only Pepsis Fabricius (Pepsini) and Auplopus Spinola and Ageniella Banks (Ageniellini) have bluish, bluish-green, greenish, or violaceous species. Black spider wasps predominate in the moist, densely vegetated, often forested, and mountainous areas of the eastern United States and Canada. Only 6/81 (7.4%) species of Pompilinae in the eastern U. S. and Canada are blue, violet, or purple. Four of the species are in the genus Evagetes.

In North America, the genus Lepidocyrtus Bourlet (Collembola: Entomobryidae) is represented by 18 species, but only three (Lepidocyrtus floridensis Snider, Lepidocyrtus millsi Snider, and Lepidocyrtus pallidus Reuter) have been reported from Florida. We investigated species diversity in leaf litter samples from counties in the north-central and southern part of the state, as the reportedly low species diversity in Florida may be due to under-sampling. As a result, in this contribution we describe three species of Lepidocyrtus new to science: Lepidocyrtus bobwoodruffi Soto-Adames, Jenks and Daly, new species, Lepidocyrtus brambilae Soto-Adames, Jenks and Daly, new species and Lepidocyrtus mikethomasi Soto-Adames, Jenks and Daly, new species. In addition, we provide notes to complement the description of L. floridensis.