Open-access, online, rapid taxonomy

Australian Journal of

Taxonomy

Australian Journal of Taxonomy is an online platform for the rapid publication of new Australian taxa

The Australian Journal of Taxonomy welcomes papers describing new Australian taxa of plants, animals, fungi and other organisms, and dealing with associated nomenclatural acts. It is ideal for single-taxon or miscellany papers, and for small taxonomic revisions.

Published

AJT 62: 1–8

Boea cavernarum Zich & B.Gray (Gesneriaceae), a remarkable new species from north Queensland, Australia

29 April 2024

F.A. Zich & B. Gray

AJT 61: 1–5

Two new species and a new combination in the Western Australian Hibbertia glomerosa (Dilleniaceae) species group

17 April 2024

K.R. Thiele & T.A. Hammer

AJT 60: 1–10

Bothriembryon rocketi sp. nov. (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Bothriembryontidae) from the semi-arid Pilbara region of Western Australia

17 April 2024

C.S. Whisson, A.S.H. Breure & L.A. Kirkendale

AJT 59: 1–9

A new species of the spiny trapdoor spider genus Blakistonia (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) from Kangaroo Island, South Australia

16 April 2024

Jessica R. Marsh, Sophie E. Harrison, Jeremy D. Wilson & Michael G. Rix

AJT 58: 1–6

Four new Western Australian species related to Hibbertia axillibarba (Dilleniaceae)

24 March 2024

K.R. Thiele & T.A. Hammer

AJT 57: 1–5

Hemigenia glaucissima (Lamiaceae), a rare new species from south-west Western Australia

24 March 2024

Andrew J. Perkins

AJT 56: 1–9

Cephalodesmius carminya, a new flightless dung beetle species from the Central Mackay Coast, Queensland.

24 March 2024

Kathryn M. Ebert, Nicole L. Gunter

AJT 55: 1–5

Styphelia kinkuna (Ericaceae), a new species from the Wide Bay region of Queensland, Australia

24 March 2024

A.R. Bean

AJT 54: 1–8

Excastra albopilosa, a remarkable new genus and species of Lamiinae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from southeastern Queensland, Australia

20 March 2024

James M.H. Tweed, Lauren G. Ashman & Adam Ślipiński

AJT 53: 1–12

Four new small-flowered species of Western Australian Hibbertia (Dilleniaceae)

6 March 2024

K.R. Thiele & T.A. Hammer

AJT 52: 1–11

A taxonomic resolution of Hibbertia acerosa (Dilleniaceae) in Western Australia

3 March 2024

K.R. Thiele

AJT 51: 1–9

Description of a new species of Agathodesmus Silvestri, 1910 from Australia (Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae) with an urban distribution and a key to species in New South Wales

29 February 2024

Juan ROMERO-RINCON & James K. DOUCH

AJT 50: 1–5

A new species of Phascolion (Phascolion) (Sipuncula, Golfingiidae) from bathyal benthos off the coast of Western Australia

28 February 2024

Pan-Wen Hsueh & Christopher J. Glasby

AJT 49: 1–6

A new species in the wolf spider genus Artoriopsis from Western Australia (Araneae, Lycosidae, Artoriinae)

15 February 2024

André W. do Prado & Volker W. Framenau

AJT 48: 1–5

Notes on the Queensland species of Hydrocotyle (Araliaceae)

30 January 2024

A.R. Bean

AJT 47: 1–25

The search for Australian relatives of the eucalypt-associated Russula prolifica (Russulales) from Madagascar reveals new Oceanian taxa in subsection Auratinae

20 December 2023

Buyck Bart, Hofstetter Valerie, Horak Egon, Cooper Jerry & Bougher Neale

AJT 46: 1–18

New taxa and combinations in Eucalyptus (Myrtaceae) from southern Australia

20 December 2023

Dean Nicolle and Malcolm E. French

AJT 45: 1–7

A new member of the spider-parasitoid genus Panops Lamarck, 1804 (Diptera: Acroceridae) from Kangaroo Island

8 December 2023

R.V. Glatz

AJT 44: 1–16

Re-description of the deep-sea Australian Rhynchonellid brachiopod Basiliolella colurnus (Hedley, 1905) (Rhynchonellida: Basiliolidae)

21 November 2023

Tristan Joseph Verhoeff

AJT 43: 1–13

Two new species of the open-holed trapdoor spider genus Proshermacha (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Anamidae) from southern Western Australia

21 November 2023

Mark S. Harvey, Jeremy D. Wilson and Michael G. Rix

AJT 42: 1–5

New records of the endemic Australian water mite genus Australotiphys Cook, with the description of one new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Pionidae)

20 November 2023

Harry Smit

AJT 41: 1–14

Dichapetalum Thouars (Dichapetalaceae) in Australia

14 November 2023

W.E. Cooper & F.A. Zich

AJT 40: 1–19

Freshwater fungi from southern Australia: Minivolcanus unicellularis gen. et. sp. nov. and Achrochaeta rivulata sp. nov.

13 November 2023

Sally C. Fryar, Martina Réblová & David E.A. Catcheside

AJT 39: 1–10

Xanthesma (Xenohesma) perpulchra and Xanthesma (Xanthesma) brachycera are conspecific based on DNA barcodes

27 October 2023

Kit S. Prendergast & James B. Dorey

AJT 38: 1–8

Two new species in the spider genus Nanometa (Araneae: Tetragnathidae: Nanometinae) from Tasmania

5 October 2023

Pedro de S. Castanheira, Giullia de F. Rossi & Renner L. C. Baptista

AJT 37: 1–7

Xylota norma sp. nov., a second hoverfly species (Diptera: Syrphidae) in its genus for Tasmania and for Australia

28 September 2023

Simon J. Grove & Jeffrey H. Skevington

AJT 36: 1–23

Five new species of mouse spiders in the genus Missulena (Mygalomorphae: Actinopodidae) from national parks and conservation reserves in Western Australia

14 September 2023

Jessica R. Marsh, Mark I. Stevens, Volker W. Framenau

AJT 35: 1–2

A new name in Seringia J.Gay (Malvaceae; Byttnerioideae)

4 September 2023

A.R. Bean

AJT 34: 1–25

Phylogeny and morphology of the Australian snake genus Neelaps Günther, 1863 (Squamata: Elapidae), with resurrection of Narophis Worrell, 1961

20 August 2023

Brad Maryan, J. Scott Keogh & Peri E. Bolton

AJT 33: 1–15

Three new species of north-eastern Australian earless dragons (Agamidae: Tympanocryptis)

9 August 2023

Kirilee Chaplin, Steve K. Wilson, Joanna Sumner & Jane Melville

AJT 32: 1–7

One less monotypic genus: a new species of the enigmatic Magnopholcomma (Araneae, Theridiidae) from Tasmania (Australia) with comments on its genital morphology and the generic placement in Pholcommatinae

12 July 2023

Pedro de Souza Castanheira & Renner Luiz Cerqueira Baptista

AJT 31: 1–8

New species in the bee subgenus Leioproctus (Exleycolletes) Maynard (Hymenoptera: Colletidae)

10 July 2023

Michael Batley

AJT 30: 1–66

Revision of the stiletto fly genus Medomega Winterton & Lambkin from Australia (Therevidae)

9 July 2023

Shaun L. Winterton & Christine L. Lambkin

AJT 29: 1–8

Two new Western Australian species related to Hibbertia priceana (Dilleniaceae)

9 July 2023

K.R. Thiele & T.A. Hammer

AJT 28: 1–5

The first species in the wolf spider genus Venator from Tasmania (Araneae, Lycosidae)

3 July 2023

Volker W. Framenau & John Douglas

AJT 27: 1–6

A new species in the ground spider genus Austrammo from Barrow Island, Western Australia (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)

3 July 2023

Volker W. Framenau

AJT 26: 1–8

Four new species of Hydrocotyle (Araliaceae) from Queensland and New South Wales, Australia

21 June 2023

A.R. Bean

AJT 25: 1–6

Neospadicoides australiensis (Xenospadicoidaceae), a new freshwater fungus from South Australia

12 June 2023

Sally C. Fryar & David E.A. Catcheside

AJT 24: 1–16

Pseudobaeospora taluna (Fungi: Agaricales) newly described from southern Australia

10 June 2023

S. Craig, L.J. Vaughan, G.D. Holmes, T.W. May

AJT 23: 1–4

Anacolosa australis W.E.Cooper (Aptandraceae), a new species from Cape York Peninsula, Queensland

9 June 2023

W.E. Cooper and P.A. Lamei

AJT 22: 1–13

A new species of trapezitine skipper (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from the Kimberley in the Australian Monsoon Tropics

2 June 2023

Michael F. Braby Andreas Zwick, Diana Hartley and James A. Nicholls

AJT 21: 1–9

Three new species of the open-holed trapdoor spider genus Kwonkan (Mygalomorphae: Anamidae) from central Australia

27 May 2023

Mark S. Harvey, Jeremy D. Wilson and Michael G. Rix

AJT 20: 1–10

A new species of open-holed trapdoor spider of the genus Proshermacha (Mygalomorphae: Anamidae) from Western Australia

26 May 2023

Xavier J. R. Leenders, Donna Beach & Mark S. Harvey

AJT 19: 1–7

A new spider species of the genus Proshermacha (Mygalomorphae: Anamidae) from the Coolgardie and Murchison bioregions of Western Australia, collected on a Bush Blitz expedition

25 May 2023

Jeremy D. Wilson, Michael G. Rix & Mark S. Harvey

AJT 18: 1–5

A new species of Synsphyronus (Pseudoscorpiones: Garypidae) from eastern Australia

13 May 2023

Mark S. Harvey

AJT 17: 1–12

Integrative and accelerated taxonomy recognises a new species of Psyllaephagus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), parasitic on Lasiopsylla striata (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) from Australia.

11 May 2023

Alana R. McClelland, Andrew D. Austin, Juanita Rodriguez, Steven J. B. Cooper, Erinn P. Fagan-Jeffries .

AJT 16: 1–9

Aglaia fellii W.E.Cooper & Joyce (Meliaceae), a new species for Cape York Peninsula

19 March 2023

W.E. Cooper, D.M. Crayn & E.M. Joyce

AJT 15: 1–4

Darwinia chantiae (Myrtaceae), a new species from Western Australia

15 March 2023

K.R. Thiele & R.W. Davis

AJT 14: 1–9

A diminutive, long-legged stiletto fly from Western Australia (Therevidae: Agapophytinae)

9 March 2023

Shaun L. Winterton

AJT 13: 1–5

Hibbertia glaucophylla is the correct name for the Western Australian species currently known as H. rupicola (Dilleniaceae)

12 February 2023

K.R. Thiele & T.A. Hammer