Biodiversity Data Journal

#Lycodon yunnanensis is recorded for the first time from Ha Tinh Province, Vietnam. New records of L. truongi from Da Nang and Quang Ngai in central Vietnam show some morphological variation, but genetic divergence from other populations is under 2% Full article: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... #snake

Valenzuela badiostigma and Valenzuela flavidus are recorded from South Korea for the first time, increasing the number of Valenzuela species known from the country from one to three. Read on: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

Two new COI haplotypes of the #invasive #bluecrab, Callinectes sapidus, have been found in Spain’s Guadalquivir Estuary, matching populations from the Gulf of Mexico and Brazil. They point to new possible introduction pathways into European waters. Read on: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

A new standardised dataset documents #moth community composition on islands along the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula. It aims to support research on island #biogeography, community dynamics, and #conservation in a region where multi-island datasets are scarce. 👉 doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

🪲📚🍂 Meet @pensoft.net in Columbus, Ohio this November and see our journal featured! We will be at the Entomological Collections Network Annual Meeting (6 to 7 November) and Entomology 2026 (8 to 11 November). Read more: bdj.pensoft.net/news/1534 #ECN2026 #EntSoc26

The high-Andean Malvaceae of Ecuador is represented by a single #plant genus, Nototriche. Earlier #conservation assessments are 14 and 21 years old and were never processed through the #IUCN Red List. Full conservation profile for the 5 Nototriche representatives in Ecuador: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

Happy #OAWeek! 👇

Nominations are open for the @tdwg.org Executive Committee (2027-2028 term): Secretary, Treasurer, TAG and Outreach chairs, and regional reps for Asia, Latin America, and North America. Application deadline by Nov 13, 2026. Learn more: bdj.pensoft.net/news/1517

Three decades of data on Taiwan’s Mianhua & Huaping Islets Wildlife Refuge are now on @gbif.org. Over 20k records track post-livestock succession and Taiwan’s only known breeding ground for Streaked Shearwaters - plus surrounding #mantaray habitat. Full data-paper: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

🦉 Don't forget that #ZoologyCon2026 is coming to Bucharest early next month! 📋 Accommodation details have now been added and can be accessed on the official site: zoologycon.ro/scientific-p... #zoology #conservation #taxonomy

🌊 A FAIR-compliant dataset of #phytoplankton functional traits and environmental variables across transitional coastal waters has been established to enhance #ecological data interoperability. Access the full #data paper here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e196603

Two new #springtail species have been described from Colombia as part of an ongoing revision of Neotropical Lepidocyrtus. Lepidocyrtus deiverandersoni and L. rosanae are told apart by tiny differences in their bristle patterns under the microscope. Read on: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... #newspecies

For Africa's Acropimpla Darwin #wasps, only females were known, and only from the east. Malaise traps in Uganda and Côte d'Ivoire have now revealed the first males and the genus's first record in West Africa. Read more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

🤔Working on #biodiversity #data, collections, or monitoring? #LivingData2027 (9-12 June, Montréal, Canada) has an open call for sessions. 🗓 Deadline 31 October, 2026 👉Learn more: bdj.pensoft.net/news/1500 @tdwg.org

Oceanic islands like Madeira hold many species found nowhere else, and light pollution is a growing pressure on them after dark. A new study looks at the island's moths to see how artificial light at night affects them. Full #data paper: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... #Lepidoptera #lightpollution

Next Ugandan genus out in @bdj.pensoft.net 🥳 Now we know what the African males look like! Also first observation from West Africa. 🧪 Lisää pistiäisiä pukkaa! Mm. tämän suvun ekat afrikkalaiskoiraat. Flera afrikanska steklar! Nu vet vi t. ex. hur hanarna ser ut i Afrika.

🌊 Between 21-25 September, our team was at the @aneris.eu booth presenting the latest project developments & chatting with visitors about how technology can help protect our oceans, at #EGI2026. 👉See the conference highlights on our blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/10/08/a... @egieinfra.bsky.social

🎉 We are delighted to welcome Higor Rodrigues as a new Subject Editor in our journal! 👉 Find out more about his expertise here: bdj.pensoft.net/news/1495

🌳 The #aphid Kurisakia querciphila is confirmed from South Korea, based on specimens collected from Quercus variabilis in 2024. A detailed re-description and COI sequence support adding it to the National Species List of Korea. Read more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... #Taxonomy

🗓 Join us in Varna, 14-17 October 2026, for the LTER-BG International Scientific #Conference! Scientists, practitioners and policy-makers will share findings and shape the future of long-term #ecosystem research. 👉 Details: bdj.pensoft.net/news/1488 #eLTERcommunity #ecosystemresearch @elter-ri.eu

🐒 First systematic survey of two #macaque species in Xizang, China: 11 troops of Arunachal macaques (avg. ~14 individuals) and 10 troops of white-cheeked macaques (~17), with infants in both, giving baseline data for conservation: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... #Primates

🕷️ The male of the cave #spider Troglocoelotes doul has been described for the first time. Known only from a female since 2024, the species belongs to a genus of 12 species from Guangxi and Guizhou, China, where eight are still known from females alone. Read more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... #Arachnid

🪰 The call for abstracts for the 11th International Congress of Dipterology (ICD XI) is now open! 📅 Abstracts can be submitted from today until 31 March 2027. 🔗 Read our latest news announcement: bdj.pensoft.net/news/1479

🧬 Processing Sanger #DNA sequences is routine but time-consuming, error-prone and hard to reproduce, especially for degraded samples, under-described taxa and teams with limited computational access. A new tool aims to streamline it. Full #software description here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

🔍Every time a species is redetermined, someone, somewhere, has to update the specimen record - often manually & years later. Our new collection on #OpenDigitalCuration is looking for workflows, tools, and case studies that make this process transparent and automatic. 🗓 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟏 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔

🌳 New of leaf diversity established for a critically endangered Greek oak species, Quercus trojana subsp. euboica, which was severely impacted by catastrophic wildfires in Euboea in 2021: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e199459

🌊 Over two decades of research in Antarctica's Ross Sea has yielded the first comprehensive checklist of pelagic organisms accidentally captured by sediment traps, documenting over 210,000 individuals representing 68 species. Read more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e197009

🪰 The adult stage of a mayfly species (Otamanthellus unicutibius) has been discovered and studied for the first time, revealing evolutionary adaptations that shed light on how male reproductive structures have changed across mayfly lineages over millions of years: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e211811

🕷️ A new trapdoor spider species belonging to the genus Raveniola has been discovered in Jinggangshan National Nature Reserve, marking the first formal record of the Nemesiidae family from Jiangxi Province, China: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e211761

🐝 A global group of parasitoid wasps belonging to the genus Aximopsis has been under renewed scientific scrutiny, with molecular studies revealing that the current taxonomic classification does not accurately reflect the wasps' evolutionary relationships: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e206796

New data from the LIFE SNAILS project on Santa Maria Island surveys arthropod communities in mixed forests as habitat-quality indicators, supporting conservation of three endemic molluscs - two land snails and a semi-slug. Builds on a prior baseline, plus 2 new sites: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

📚 We're pleased to attend the "BHL and the Planetary Knowledge Base: Structuring Biodiversity Literature for the Next Generation" talk by our Editor-in-Chief, Dr Vincent Smith, at #TDWG2026. ✨ An insightful presentation on the future of biodiversity data infrastructure! @tdwg.org @nhm.org

🌊 Another great talk today at #TDWG2026 - our senior editorial board member Daniel Mietchen on river basin naming. ✨ It's truly been a fantastic day of talks here at #TDWG2026. @tdwg.org #OpenAccess #Biodiversity #OpenData

👏 Huge thanks to Olaf Banki for this fantastic talk at #TDWG2026 - an author and reviewer in our open-access journal. 📚 Read Banki's recent article on harmonising scientific name usage here: bdj.pensoft.net/article/1848... @tdwg.org #OpenAccess #Biodiversity #Taxonomy

📚 Delighted to attend this fascinating talk at #TDWG2026 on liberating biodiversity knowledge from scientific literature. 🧬 Heartfelt thanks to Donat Agosti for these insightful perspectives! ➡️ Read one of Agosti's articles in our journal here: bdj.pensoft.net/article/1530... @tdwg.org

🎤 It was also a pleasure to attend Nedko Nedyalkov's presentation today at #SMCC2026, where they discussed the strong decline of the distribution and abundance of Cricetus cricetus and Mesocricetus newtoni in Bulgaria. 📝 Nedyalkov is notably a subject editor in our journal!

🎉 Today at #TDWG2026, we had the fantastic opportunity to attend the talk, "National and policy-relevant species checklists: why official, updated and validated data matter", for which the author and reviewer in our journal Olaf Bánki was a co-organiser! @tdwg.org

Still at #TDWG2026 in Oslo? Don't miss our new article on GBIF's incredible 25-year journey! 📊 Read the full piece in our open-access journal: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... @tdwg.org #GBIF25 #OpenData

📍 We're featured at @pensoft.net's booth at #SMCC2026, running this week in Sofia! 📚 This Thursday and Friday, come and find out more about the scope of our journal and how we can support your research in small mammal conservation. #SmallMammalConservation @habitatfoundation.bsky.social

🌊 Data-intensive science meets marine conservation at the EGI Conference in Ghent this week! 📚 Visit the @pensoft.net booth to learn more about how our journal can support your research. @egieinfra.bsky.social #EGI2026 #MarineBiodiversity

🗺️ At #TDWG2026 we attended an excellent presentation by Sabine von Mering: "Here, There, and Everywhere: Modelling Research Expeditions in Wikidata". 🔗 Sabine is also an author in our journal: bdj.pensoft.net/article/1144... @tdwg.org

📍 We're featured at @pensoft.net's booth at #TDWG2026, running this week in Oslo! 📚 Come and find out more about the scope of our journal and how we can support your research. @tdwg.org #BiodiversityData

🎉 25 years of GBIF! As #TDWG2026 continues in Oslo, we celebrate our longstanding partnership. 🔗 Article: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... 🔗 Blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/09/23/g...

🎤 We were delighted to attend Quentin Groom's presentation at #TDWG2026 on reducing lag in biodiversity information systems. 👉 Groom is notably an author in our open-access journal. You can access one of their articles here: bdj.pensoft.net/article/1416... @tdwg.org