The #Unicode #codecharts are an amazing wealth of information. Apart from the representative glyphs which are nowhere else available, they can help to establish some kind of #taxonomy based on the names of #blocks and #subheaders, and also provide useful #annotations for #characters, creating #crossreferences between them.

🔗 https://www.unicode.org/Public/17.0.0/charts/CodeCharts.pdf

However, extracting this information from the NamesList.txt data file used to generate the charts proves to be uneasy…

🔗 https://www.unicode.org/Public/17.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt

Checking the #iNaturalist records for Australian #PlumeMoths in the genus #Hexadactilia, it seems there is an outlier that doesn't fit either of the two known species:

https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/285825134

This is further north than the other known records of the genus from #Australia and has rather different markings. It may well be an #undescribed species. The only other possibility is a third species described from #Sabah in #Borneo, but I can't locate a copy of the relevant paper. It's from a 1995 issue of Entomologische Zeitschrift Frankfurt am Main:

Arenberger, E. (1995) Eine neue Art der Gattung Hexadactilia Fletcher, 1910 von Sabah. Ent. Z., Frankf. a. M. 105: 138-140

I've located a copy thanks to Petr Ustjuzhanin. Looking to see if it's a match.

#literature #LiteratureRequest #entomology #Lepidoptera #Pterophoridae #Queensland #taxonomy #biodiversity

#NewSpecies!
New odorous frog from #vietnam just jumped in:

Odorrana nagao

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FA4DCB78-DCBD-507C-B31E-B01A4E265E47
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1280.192981
#ZooKeys #OdorranaNagao

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #herpetology #herps #amphibia #frogfriday #frogs

#NewSpecies!
New spider from #india just jumped in:

Theridion himalayana

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A8B55598-9720-5962-A4F8-1472FC94509F
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.10.174338
#EvolutionarySystematics #TheridionHimalayana

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #invertebrates #arachnology #arachnids #spider

#NewSpecies!
New clown beetle from #greece just came in:

Anapleus pescheli

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1D005EE5-AADB-5B4B-9B68-F23AC6572B38
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1280.187654
#ZooKeys #AnapleusPescheli

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#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #invertebrates #entomology #insects #coleoptera #beetles #bugs #clowns

#NewSpecies!
Breynia phongquangensis
A newly discovered phyllanthaceae from #vietnam!

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8407D939-8184-5EF5-A326-8493F462E301
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.275.195982
#PhytoKeys #BreyniaPhongquangensis

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #ecology #taxonomy #nature #biodiversity #conservation #botany #flora #wildflowers #flowers #wildplants #plants #wildlife #phyllanthaceae

#NewSpecies!
New snake from #india just sidled in:

Trachischium lalremsangai

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8E4ED142-5236-597B-9941-E3F74AB72167
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/herpetozoa.39.e187919
#Herpetozoa #TrachischiumLalremsangai

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #herpetology #herps #reptilia #snakes

#NewSpecies!
New goby from #china just swam in:

Rhinogobius mengyangensis

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E81ECBBC-BBB8-5648-B8A4-BC629D466CF0
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1280.188225
#ZooKeys #RhinogobiusMengyangensis

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #fish #TeamFish #fishfriday #ichthyology #goby #freshwater

#NewSpecies!
New pseudoscorpion from #china just pinched us:

Tyrannochthonius baiseensis

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/096987E3-E443-FF93-6D40-FCD1FC39F9D8
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2026.1058.3278
#EuropeanJournalOfTaxonomy #TyrannochthoniusBaiseensis

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #invertebrates #arthropods #arachnology #arachnids #pseudoscorpions

#NewSpecies!
New land snail from #india just crawled in:

Georissa meghalayaensis

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038887E9-FFB2-731B-4711-FD06FCE1A9DB
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2026.1060.3284
#EuropeanJournalOfTaxonomy #GeorissaMeghalayaensis

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #malacology #gastropods #snails #landsnails #caves