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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

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

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

4 September 2023

A.R. Bean

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

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

9 August 2023

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

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

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

10 July 2023

Michael Batley

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

9 July 2023

Shaun L. Winterton & Christine L. Lambkin

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

9 July 2023

K.R. Thiele & T.A. Hammer

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

3 July 2023

Volker W. Framenau & John Douglas

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

3 July 2023

Volker W. Framenau

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

21 June 2023

A.R. Bean

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

12 June 2023

Sally C. Fryar & David E.A. Catcheside

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

10 June 2023

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

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

9 June 2023

W.E. Cooper and P.A. Lamei

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

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

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

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

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

13 May 2023

Mark S. Harvey

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 .

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

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

15 March 2023

K.R. Thiele & R.W. Davis

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

9 March 2023

Shaun L. Winterton

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

Hibbertia aplacophylla (Dilleniaceae), a new species from south-western Western Australia segregated from H. notibractea

11 February 2023

K.R. Thiele

New records and descriptions of recent Australian brachiopods (Terebratulida, Dallinidae and Aulocothyropsidae; and Rhynchonellida, Frieleiidae)

1 January 2023

Tristan Joseph Verhoeff

Quokkaraneus, a new monotypic genus of Australian orb-weaving spider (Araneae, Araneidae)

7 December 2022

Pedro de S. Castanheira & Volker W. Framenau

Hibbertia advena (Dilleniaceae), a new and rare species from Queensland with transcontinental affinities

16 November 2022

T.A. Hammer, H.R. Toelken, K.R. Thiele

Hibbertia subvillosa (Dilleniaceae), a new Western Australian species segregated from H. striata

25 September 2022

K.R. Thiele & T.A. Hammer

Taxonomic revision of the Australian native bee subgenus Callalictus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Halictini: genus Lasioglossum)

22 September 2022

Kenneth L. Walker

Three new species of the pseudoscorpion genus Synsphyronus (Pseudoscorpiones: Garypidae) from semi-arid Western Australia

31 August 2022

Mark S. Harvey

Euoplos eungellaensis (Idiopidae), a new golden trapdoor spider from central-eastern Queensland

30 August 2022

J.D. Wilson, M.S. Harvey & M.G. Rix

A new species of the spiny trapdoor spider genus Eucyrtops (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) from south-western Australia

29 July 2022

Michael G. Rix (1) and Mark S. Harvey (2,3*)

Xylosma craynii (Salicaceae), a new and restricted species for Queensland's Wet Tropics Bioregion

25 July 2022

W.E. Cooper

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

18 June 2022

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

Introducing the Australian Journal of Taxonomy, a new, fully-online, fully open-access journal for the rapid publication of new Australian species and other taxa

11 May 2022

Kevin R. Thiele, Mark S. Harvey, Pat Hutchings, Tom W. May, Jane Melville & Kenny J. Travouillon

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