Revision of the African genus Oxypiloidea Schulthess, 1898 (Dictyoptera, Mantodea, Hymenopodidae).

The genus Oxypiloidea Schulthess, 1898 is fully revised after the study of about 700 specimens preserved in more than 30 scientific institutions and some private collections. The genus is located in connexion with the nearest ones, and the two subgenera Oxypiloidea and Catasigerpes Giglio-Tos, 1927 are distinguished after the conformation of male genitalia, with respectively ten and eleven species, for which identification keys are given for males in French and in English, while four other species, known only by a single female, cannot be put in either genus. Twelve new species are described, six for each subgenus: Oxypiloidea (Oxypiloidea) murphyi n. sp., O. (O.) dargei n. sp., O. (O.) denticulata n. sp., O. (O.) angelica n. sp., O. (O.) carvalhoi n. sp., O. (O.) namibiana n. sp., O. (Catasigerpes) maroccana n. sp., O. (C.) orientalis n. sp., O. (C.) maldesi n. sp., O. (C.) ivoirensis n. sp., O. (C.) sinuata n. sp., O. (C.) centrafricana n. sp.

Eighteen species of Pectinoidea (six Propeamussiidae Abbott, 1954, one Entoliidae Teppner, 1922, eleven Pectinidae Rafinesque, 1815) are listed from the Tarava Seamounts, Society Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia. Four Propeamussiidae species (Parvamussium lamellatum n. sp., Parvamussium scutulatum n. sp., Parvamussium vesiculosum n. sp., Cyclopecten comptulus n. sp.) are new to science.

Members of the genus Hatschekia Poche, 1902 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Hatschekiidae) are gill parasites found on eight orders of marine actinopterygian fishes: Anguilliformes, Aulopiformes, Beryciformes, Ophidiiformes, Perciformes, Pleuronectiformes, Scorpaeniformes, and Tetraodontiformes. The genus Hatschekia is particularly species rich in tropical and subtropical regions. Eight species of Hatschekia are described from the gill filaments of seven perciform fish hosts (four serranids, two lutjanids and a lethrinid) collected off New Caledonia. Seven of them are newly described: Hatschekia maculatus n. sp. from Epinephelus maculatus (Bloch, 1790), Hatschekia cyanopodus n. sp. from Epinephelus cyanopodus (Richardson, 1846), Hatschekia louti n. sp. from Variola louti (Forsskål, 1775), Hatschekia euanus n. sp. from Gymnocranius euanus (Günther, 1879), Hatschekia etelisicola n. sp. from Etelis carbunculus (Cuvier, 1828) and Etelis coruscans Valenciennes, 1862, Hatschekia fuscoguttatus n. sp. from Epinephelus fuscoguttatus (Forsskål, 1775), and Hatschekia niger n. sp. from Macolor niger (Forsskål, 1775). The widely distributed species Hatschekia cadenati Nunes-Ruivo, 1954 is redescribed based on material from Epinephelus cyanopodus and was also newly recorded from another five species of Epinephelus Bloch, 1793 and two species of Variola Swainson, 1839 (all members of the serranid subfamily Epinephelinae Bleeker, 1875). Partial sequences of the mitochondrial gene COI (cytochrome c oxidase subunit I) of Hatschekia maculatus n. sp., H. cyanopodus n. sp. and H. cadenati were obtained and submitted to GenBank.

The study of publications and of museum specimens allows unequivocal identification of the type specimens of Pyxicephalus khasianus Anderson, 1871. These specimens were collected by Thomas Jerdon at the same time as the type specimens of Rana laticeps Boulenger, 1882 and belong to the same biological species. We describe and figure the lectotypes of Pyxicephalus khasianus and of Rana laticeps and give measurements of the other specimens seen by the authors of the original descriptions of both taxa. Thus, both names having been regularly used in literature, the valid name of this species is Limnonectes khasianus (Anderson, 1871), and Rana laticeps Boulenger, 1882 is its junior subjective synonym.

Nomenclatural changes in neotropical Arctiinae (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae); second part.

In order to update the neotropical Arctiinae catalogue, 38 synonymies, 52 genus changes, 10 species revalidations and 4 status changes are proposed. A lectotype is designated and the new genus Pseudepimolis n. gen. is described. These modifications are supported by morphological and molecular data.