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Re-examination of the genus-level taxonomy of the pollen beetle subfamily Meligethinae – Part 1. Sagittogethes Audisio & Cline 2009 and allied genera; with description of a new genus (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)

Recent molecular and morphological data derived from members of the pollen-beetle subfamily Meligethinae suggest the need to separate
the genus Sagittogethes Audisio & Cline, 2009, including species mostly distributed in Western Palaearctic areas, into two distinct
(although related) genera, Sagittogethes and Teucriogethes gen. n. This new genus, comprising the Western European Meligethes obscurus
Erichson, 1845 as its type species, includes less than ten species distributed between the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa westward,

Molecular identification of Aedes phoeniciae (Diptera: Culicidae) in rockpools along the northern Israeli coast

Mosquitoes inhabiting rockpools within supra?littoral zones along the Mediterranean coast belong to the Aedes mariae complex (Coluzzi and Sabatini 1968, Coluzzi et al. 1974b, Schaffner et al. 2001, Mastrantonio et al. 2015). The species in the Ae. mariae complex can be responsible for vectoring bird malaria as vectors of Plasmodium relictum (Clements 1999). Furthermore, they are a biting nuisance for humans in areas densely populated by tourists from spring through autumn.