• Mature larvae and nesting biologies of bees currently assigned to the Osmiini (Apoidea, Megachilidae). (American Museum novitates, no. 3864) 

  Rozen, Jerome George, 1928-; Praz, Christophe J. (American Museum of Natural History., 2016-09-27)

  The purpose of this study is to describe the mature larvae of all taxa of the tribe Osmiini (Megachilidae) whose postdefecating larvae have been collected and are available. The hope is that data uncovered will eventually ...
• Larval diversity in the bee genus Megachile (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Megachilidae). (American Museum novitates, no. 3863) 

  Rozen, Jerome George, 1928-; Ascher, John S.; Kamel, Soliman M.; Mohamed, Kariman M. (American Museum of Natural History., 2016-09-23)

  Mature larvae of five species representing each of the three principal groups within the genus Megachile sensu lato (i.e., including Creightonella and Chalicodoma, which are often recognized at generic rank) are described ...
• Springtails from the early Cretaceous amber of Spain (Collembola, Entomobryomorpha), with an annotated checklist of fossil Collembola. (American Museum novitates, no. 3862) 

  Sánchez-García, Alba.; Engel, Michael S. (American Museum of Natural History., 2016-05-30)

  Entomobryomorphan springtails (Hexapoda: Entognatha: Collembola) of the family Isotomidae are the most numerous group of Collembola in Spanish amber, a pattern typical in other studied Cretaceous amber deposits. Here we ...
• Mature larvae of euglossine bees : a comparative study (Apoidea, Apidae, Euglossini). (American Museum novitates, no. 3861) 

  Rozen, Jerome George, 1928- (American Museum of Natural History, 2016-06-14)

  Herein are described and illustrated the mature larvae of the following species assigned to the Euglossini: Eufriesea surinamensis (Linnaeus), Eufriesea mussitans (Fabricius), Euglossa (Euglossa) cordata (Linnaeus), Eulaema ...
• Two new species of Pulvillophylus from Western Australia (Insecta, Hemiptera, Miridae, Phylinae, Cremnorrhinini). (American Museum novitates, no. 3860) 

  Schwartz, Michael D.; Schuh, Randall T. (American Museum of Natural History., 2016-06-01)

  Two new species of phyline Miridae were collected from unique localities in Kadji Kadji and Lochada Reserves of Western Australia during the Avon Wheatbelt Bush Blitz survey of September 2009. Based on head shape and male ...
• Revision of the Drosophila bromeliae species group (Diptera, Drosophilidae). Central American, Caribbean, and Andean species. (American Museum novitates, no. 3859) 

  Grimaldi, David A. (American Museum of Natural History., 2016-05-26)

  Species in the Drosophila bromeliae group visit flowers, where most or all of the species probably breed. They are not collected in significant numbers. The group has thus far included five Neotropical species: aguape Val ...
• Generic redefinition and a new species of Nesolinoceras Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae). (American Museum novitates, no. 3858) 

  Santos, Bernardo F. (American Museum of Natural History., 2016-05-11)

  The generic limits of Nesolinoceras Ashmead are redefined. The genus is characterized by the supraclypeal and supraantennal areas covered by distinct, uniformly spaced striae; antenna without white band; foretibia distinctly ...
• A new family of large omnivorous bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from the late Eocene of the Fayum Depression, Egypt, with comments on use of the name "Eochiroptera". (American Museum novitates, no. 3857) 

  Simmons, Nancy B.; Seiffert, Erik Remington.; Gunnell, Gregg F. (American Museum of Natural History., 2016-05-09)

  A new fossil from the late Eocene BQ-2 locality in the Birket Qarun Formation in the Fayum Depression of northern Egypt (dated to ~37 mybp) does not fit within the diagnosis of any previously described family of bats from ...
• Hesperapis rhodocerata : behavioral biology, egg, and larval instars, including behavioral and larval comparisons with H. larreae (Hymenoptera, Melittidae, Dasypodainae). (American Museum novitates, no. 3856) 

  Rozen, Jerome George, 1928-; Stage, Gerald Irving, 1935-2014.; Snelling, Roy R. (American Museum of Natural History., 2016-04-13)

  This paper reports on a large nesting site of the ground-nesting solitary bee Hesperapis (Carinapis) rhodocerata (Cockerell) from southern New Mexico first discovered in the late summer of 2010 and active again in late ...
• A new bethylid wasp in Lebanese early Cretaceous amber (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea), with comments on other Mesozoic taxa. (American Museum novitates, no. 3855) 

  Engel, Michael S.; Ortega-Blanco, Jaime.; Azevedo, C. O. (Celso O.) (American Museum of Natural History., 2016-04-07)

  A new genus and species of bethylid wasps is described and figured from a female preserved in early Cretaceous (Barremian) amber from Lebanon. Holopsenella primotica, new genus and species, is distinguished from other ...
• A second endemic land mammal for the Hawaiian Islands : a new genus and species of fossil bat (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). (American Museum novitates, no. 3854) 

  Ziegler, Alan C.; Howarth, Francis G., 1940-; Simmons, Nancy B. (American Museum of Natural History., 2016-03-21)

  Located over 3800 km from the nearest continent, the Hawaiian Islands have previously been thought to support only one endemic land mammal, the extant Hawaiian hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus semotus), a taxon that apparently ...
• Three new species of the Tropidurus spinulosus group (Squamata, Tropiduridae) from eastern Paraguay. (American Museum novitates, no. 3853) 

  Carvalho, André L. G. (André Luiz G.) (American Museum of Natural History., 2016-02-20)

  Tropidurus Wied, 1825, is one of the most ubiquitous lizard genera endemic to South America. Herpetologists from different regions of the continent have progressively mapped new populations, including undescribed species ...
• A new Tropidurus (Tropiduridae) from the semiarid Brazilian Caatinga : evidence for conflicting signal between mitochondrial and nuclear loci affecting the phylogenetic reconstruction of South American collared lizards. (American Museum novitates, no. 3852) 

  Carvalho, André L. G. (André Luiz G.); Sena, Marco A.; Peloso, Pedro L. V.; Machado, Fabio A.; Montesinos, Rachel.; Silva, Hélio R. (Biologist); Campbell, Gwyneth.; Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut Urbano. (American Museum of Natural History., 2016-02-20)

  Tropidurus Wied, 1825, is one of the most ubiquitous lizard genera distributed in open habitats of tropical and subtropical South America. Nevertheless, the broad representation of specimens of this group in scientific ...
• A new specimen of the ornithischian dinosaur Haya griva, cross-Gobi geologic correlation, and the age of the Zos Canyon beds. (American Museum novitates, no. 3851) 

  Norell, Mark.; Barta, Daniel E. (American Museum of Natural History., 2016-02-18)

  Although Mesozoic fossils are quite common in the Gobi Desert of Central Asia, it is often difficult to correlate among different localities because of a dearth of rocks amenable to absolute dating. Specifically, correlating ...
• The bee Svastra sabinensis : nesting biology, mature oocyte, postdefecating larva, and association with Triepeolus penicilliferus (Apidae, Apinae, Eucerini and Nomadinae, Epeolini). (American Museum novitates, no. 3850) 

  Rozen, Jerome George, 1928- (American Museum of Natural History., 2016-02-18)

  Information on the nesting biology of the large, ground-nesting, communal eucerine Svastra (Epimelissodes) sabinensis sabinensis (Cockerell) from Arizona is added to a previous account (Rozen, 1983). Details of nest size, ...
• Morphological variation in a unisexual whiptail lizard (Aspidoscelis exsanguis) and one of its bisexual parental species (Aspidoscelis inornata) (Reptilia, Squamata, Teiidae) : is the clonal species less variable? (American Museum novitates, no. 3849) 

  Cole, Charles J.; Taylor, Harry Leonard.; Townsend, Carol R. (American Museum of Natural History., 2016-02-04)

  Two clonal lineages, each comprising multiple generations of unisexual A. exsanguis, were produced in the laboratory from two lizards that were collected at the same locality in the field. Based on 10 meristic and four ...
• A new small barb (Cyprininae, Smiliogastrini) from the N'sele and Mayi Ndombe rivers in the lower reaches of the middle Congo basin (Democratic Republic of Congo, Central Africa). (American Museum novitates, no. 3848) 

  Stiassny, Melanie L. J.; Liyandja, Tobit L. D.; Monsembula Iyaba, Raoul J. C. (American Museum of Natural History., 2016-02-04)

  A new species of smiliogastrin cyprinid is described from tributaries of the middle Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Restriction of the genus name, Barbus, to certain large-bodied, (polyploid) barbins, and ...
• The importance of late Quaternary climate change and karst on distributions of Caribbean mormoopid bats. (American Museum novitates, no. 3847) 

  Soto-Centeno, J. Angel.; O'Brien, Margaret (Margaret Elizabeth); Simmons, Nancy B. (American Museum of Natural History., 2015-12-28)

  The bat family Mormoopidae includes three species with distributions in the Caribbean. These taxa--Mormoops blainvillei, Pteronotus parnellii, and P. quadridens--roost predominantly in hot cave chambers where temperatures ...
• Bats (Chiroptera) from Olduvai Gorge, early Pleistocene, Bed I (Tanzania). (American Museum novitates, no. 3846) 

  Gunnell, Gregg F.; Butler, P. M., 1912-2015.; Greenwood, Marjorie.; Simmons, Nancy B. (American Museum of Natural History., 2015-12-16)

  Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania is most famous for producing some of the first discoveries of fossil hominins in East Africa. Zinjanthropus (= Paranthropus) boisei was initially discovered in 1959 from Olduvai Bed I. During ...
• First observation of fluorescence in marine turtles. (American Museum novitates, no. 3845) 

  Gruber, David F.; Sparks, John S. (American Museum of Natural History., 2015-12-07)

  In recent years, biofluorescence has been observed in an increasing diversity of animals. Biofluorescence has been primarily examined in cnidarians, and it is also known to occur in other marine animal phyla, including ...

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