Entomologische Zeitschrift Research Articles

The start of the scientific journal ‘Fossil Record’

This article describes the early years of the journal Fossil Record and the circumstances at the Museum für Naturkunde and the Humboldt University Berlin under which the foundation of the journal took place. The former Department of Palaeontology of the Museum für Naturkunde had a strong interest to publish its own scientific journal, and this led to the foundation of the journal in 1998 which is known today as Fossil Record. For reasons of a corporate similar appearance it was decided that the new journal as well as the two older scientific journals of the Museum für Naturkunde use the common title Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin (Communications from the Museum of Natural History in Berlin) with subtitles for all three journals: Geowissenschaftliche Reihe for the palaeontological journal, Zoologische Reihe for the zoological journal and Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift for the entomological journal. With volume 9 (2006), the palaeontological journal appeared under the new title Fossil Record. From the beginning it was a goal of the editors to reach the international community by opening the journal to authors outside the museum and by publishing mainly in English. The palaeontological journal Fossil Record has developed from an in-house journal with international contributions to an internationally well cited journal.

On the publication year of Sericini genera and species described by Brenske in Die Serica-Arten der Erde (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae).

The year of publication of Brenskes species and genera described in his opus Die Serica-Arten der Erde is updated following up an overlooked delay of some of the fascicules of the Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, namely the volumes 42, 43, and 46. This change affects 201 species group names and 20 genus group names, many of which have been revised in the past three decades, but no change of priority of other names occurred. The spelling of Mericserica oberthueri Brenske, 1899 is corrected.

Polyura inopinatus Röber, 1940; a remarkable butterfly mystery resolved.

The most distinctive species of Polyura, P. inopinatus, described from a single specimen said to be from North Sulawesi, Indonesia, has been a great mystery since it was first described by Röber, in 1940. The holotype, originally illustrated in monochrome in the journal Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, Iris, was lost very soon after it was described, almost certainly destroyed during allied bombing of Dresden in the 1940s. No other specimen was known for almost eight decades. We suggest that the type locality (Sulawesi) is incorrect and that the holotype was more likely to have been collected in the Baining Mountains, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. We report the recent discovery of several male P. inopinatus from West New Britain Province, and describe and illustrate specimens. A neotype is designated.

From Open Access to Open Science from the viewpoint of a scholarly publisher

The present lecture summarises the key milestones of the movement from open access through open data to open science from the viewpoint of an academic publisher. It is also illustrated by the ARPHA Biodiversity Data Publishing and Dissemination Toolbox (ARPHA-BioDiv) which is a set of standards, guidelines, tools, workflows and journals, developed by Pensoft within its ARPHA Journal Publishing Platform. The history of development of ARPHA-BioDiv largely resembles the evolution of the open access to open science which started with the pre-publication semantic markup of important domain-specific terms and relationships between them, as implemented in 2010 by the ZooKeys open access journal and then followed by others, for example: PhytoKeys, MycoKeys, Nature Conservation, NeoBiota, Journal of Hymenoptera Research, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, Zoosystematics and Evolution. The next stage of integrated narrative and open data publishing was pioneered in 2013 by the Biodiversity Data Journal and its associated authoring tool, the ARPHA Writing Tool (AWT), launched as the first ever journal publishing workflow that supported the full life cycle of a manuscript, from writing through community peer-review, publication and dissemination within a single, entirely Web- and XML-based, online collaborative platform. The latest stage of open science publishing is demonstrated by the Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) journal that publishes all outputs of the research cycle – including project proposals, data, methods, workflows, software, project reports and research articles – together on a single collaborative platform, with the most transparent, open and public peer-review process.

Jump into the future: Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift goes for advanced open access in its 157th publishing year

With the beginning of this year, the Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (DEZ), one of the world’s oldest entomology journals, became a front-line fighter of modern scientific publishing. The transfer to Pensoft, the new publisher, brings changes about, as I see it, all of them for the benefit of the scientific community.

D.E.Z. - A history in numbers

The Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (D.E.Z.) celebrated its 150 th birthday in 2007. Its 176 volumes comprises 5,522 articles and 73,711 pages written by 1,390 authors. This article attempts to analyse and summarise its history in numbers including taxonomic as well as historical trends and developments of the D.E.Z. from the past to the present.

D.E.Z. - A history. 150 years of scientific publishing in entomology

The article sketches the 150 year long history of the Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift from its foundation in 1857 as Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift by Ernst Gustav Kraatz. It gives insight into the struggle for defining good taxonomic practice in those early days and the founder's rather modern philosophy towards the purpose of natural history collections. A chronological table featuring the most important events is provided as well as historic photographs of the journal's founder and other long-time editors. (© 2007 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

Editorial

Previous articleNext article No AccessEditorialDouglas OsborneDouglas Osborne Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 1, Number 6May 29, 1937 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/newmexianthr.1.6.4291143 Views: 1Total views on this site Citations: 1Citations are reported from Crossref Journal History This article was published in the New Mexico Anthropologist (1937-1943), which is continued by the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology (1945-1972). PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Stephan M. Blank, Akihiko Shinohara, Andreas Taeger Revisionary Notes on Pamphiliid Sawflies (Hymenoptera, Symphyta: Pamphiliidae), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 45, no.11 (Apr 2008): 17–31.https://doi.org/10.1002/mmnd.19980450104

Eine verschollene entomologische Zeitschrift

Berliner entomologische ZeitschriftVolume 1928, Issue 3 p. 218-219 Article Eine verschollene entomologische Zeitschrift Ferdinand Pax, Ferdinand Pax BreslauSearch for more papers by this author Ferdinand Pax, Ferdinand Pax BreslauSearch for more papers by this author First published: 1928 https://doi.org/10.1002/mmnd.192819280304AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume1928, Issue31928Pages 218-219 RelatedInformation

Biological Notes

CRAYFISH—The Museum of Comparative Anatomy at Haryard having an uncommonly rich collection of the genera and species of the family Astacidte, Mr. Faxon presents us with a revision of the group, which falls little short of being a well-illustrated monograph. In the first part, which has just reached us, we find the crayfishes of the northern hemisphere treated of, and in a second part the author pronises to write of those of the southern hemisphere. As will be known to all readers of Huxley's work, “The Crayfish,” the family Astacidte (which in a strict sense is equivalent to the genus Astacus, as limited by Milne-Edwards) falls naturally into two subordinate groups. These groups of Huxley's Faxon makes into sub-families: (1) the Potamobiime, comprising the crayfishes of Europe, Asia, and North America; and (2) the Parastacin, comprising those of the southern hemisphere, viz. those of South America, Fiji Islands, New Zealand, Tasmania, Australia, and Madagascar. The Potamobiinre are treated of in this memoir, and include the genera Astacus and Cambarus. The Parastacinæ will be treated of in a second memoir. Of the genus Cambarus, established by Erichson in 1846, fifty-two species are accepted by Faxon, and all of these except one are American forms, ranging from Lake Winnipeg to Cuba and Guatemala, from New Brunswick to Wyoming Territory (in Mexico to the Pacific Ocean). The genus Cambarus would not seem to have been developed under the influences affecting cavern life, though several cave and blind species are known, and in Europe it would appear that one solitary species still lingers in the under- ground waters of some of the Carniola caves. It seems strange that on so interesting a question any doubt should remain, and yet it is true that, except a short notice in the Berlin Entomologische Zeitschrift, by Dr. G. Joseph, of a specimen of a crayfish referred to Cambarus, and labelled, as found, “Aus der Grotte von St. Kanzian bei Metaun,” we know nothing of this interesting form, which must, if the determination is correct, be taken as an indication that at one time species of Cambarus inhabited the European rivers. Of the genus Astacus fourteen species are given. These occupy three widely-separated geographical areas: (1) Western North America, from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean; (2) the western portion of the Europeo-Asiatic continent from the Ural Mountains and the basin of the Sea of Aral to the Spanish peninsula and (?) Ireland; (3) Eastern Asia, in the Amoor River system, and injapan. No Astaci are known from any part of Siberia between Lake Baikal and the Urals, or from any of the Siberian rivers flowing into the Arctic Ocean. To this memoir an interesting note on the fossil forms referred to Astacidm and a table showing the geographical distribution, as far as has been ascertained, of the species of Cambarus and Astacus are appended.—[“A Revision of the Astacidæ,” by Walter Faxon. Part I. “The Genera Cambarus and Astacus” (with ten plates). Cambridge, for the Harvard Museum, August, 1885 (being vol. x. No. 4, of the Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Anatomy).]