A revision of Australian Anchiale recognises two newly described species from tropical eastern Queensland. The study compares body features, eggs and mitochondrial DNA, and provides a key to the Australian species.
Tropical eastern Queensland
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Anchiale mabiensis · Anchiale robusta
Jones, Brock, Coupland, Emmott & Lo (2026). A Revision of Australian Anchiale Stål, 1875 (Phasmida: Phasmatidae), with the Description of Two New Species. Austral Entomology.
Five Yoyetta species receive formal descriptions from eastern New South Wales. The paper documents their woodland and forest habitats, body features and distinctive calling songs.
D. L. Emery, Bush & N. J. Emery (2026). Description of five new cicada species in the genus Yoyetta Moulds (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae), from eastern New South Wales, Australia. Zootaxa.
Temognatha sundholmi is described from South Australia's Great Victoria Desert. Its distinctive body features separate it from a close relative even though their COI DNA barcodes do not—an intriguing example of why taxonomy uses several kinds of evidence.
Great Victoria Desert, South Australia
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Temognatha sundholmi
Lang & Stevens (2026). Temognatha sundholmi Lang sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), a New Species From the Great Victoria Desert and New Host Plants: An Investigation Using DNA Barcoding With Implications for Taxonomy of Temognatha and Melobasis. Austral Entomology.
Eight Yoyetta species are described from eastern Australian eucalypt forests. One, Yoyetta zagona, is recorded in north-western Victoria as well as inland NSW and southern Queensland; the males' ticking or clicking calls help distinguish these canopy insects.
Eastern Australia, including north-western Victoria
Yoyetta corbinorum is one of four species described in this eastern Australian cicada study. It lives and calls high in mountain ash forests in the Yarra Ranges, connecting a new scientific name with a very Victorian habitat.
Yarra Ranges, Victoria
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Yoyetta corbinorum
D. L. Emery (2025). Description of four new cicada species in the genus Yoyetta Moulds (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae), from Eastern Australia. Zootaxa.
Acrophylla alta was formally described from female specimens and eggs from Queensland's upland rainforests. The original paper records its habitat and compares it with similar stick insects, showing how much can remain unknown even among large insects.
Wet Tropics, Queensland
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Acrophylla alta
Coupland & Emmott (2025). A new giant species of Acrophylla Gray, 1835 (Phasmida: Phasmatidae: Phasmatini) from the highlands of the Wet Tropics, Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa.
Researchers formally describe 34 Australian Apanteles parasitoid wasps using DNA evidence and body features. Citizen science and Bush Blitz surveys contributed to the work, connecting field observations with the science of naming species.
Australia
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Apanteles
Slater-Baker et al. (2025). DNA barcoding, integrative taxonomy, citizen science, and Bush Blitz surveys combine to reveal 34 new species of Apanteles (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) in Australia. ZooKeys.
