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      ZooKeys anniversary: 10 years of leadership toward open-access publishing of zoological data and establishment at Pensoft of like-minded sister journals across the biodiversity spectrum

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          Today we publish issue 770 of our dear cutting-edge journal ZooKeys! It has been exactly ten years since the launch of the journal on 4 July 2008 that emanated from a delightful breakfast at the Entomological Society of America meeting in December 2007 in San Diego, California, when our Managing Editor and founder of Pensoft, Lyubomir Penev, proposed the idea to Terry Erwin, our Editor-in-Chief. The journal’s tenth birthday is a great occasion to trace back its development and achievements since then, which has exceeded far beyond that initial breakfast dream of two colleagues enjoying the southern California sun. ZooKeys was the first of Pensoft’s open-access journals, set up to accelerate research and free information exchange in taxonomy, phylogeny, biogeography and evolution of animals. Starting as a taxonomic journal, it quickly expanded to other zoology-related sciences, such as ecology, molecular biology, genomics, evolutionary biology, palaeontology, behavioural science, bioinformatics etc. Later, ZooKeys was followed by the journals PhytoKeys and MycoKeys in the field of plant and fungal systematics, which are now also amongst the most popular titles in their respective domains. The journal has been thriving since its inception and is currently considered as one of the most prolific and liked Open Access journals in zoology. ZooKeys started with merely 32 published papers in 2008 and just in a few years time became a mega-journal, publishing 466 papers in 2011. The number has been increasing since reaching its maximum in 2016–581 (Table 1, Fig. 1). To date, the journal has received more than 5200 submissions (no accurate data available for 2008–2010) and published 4103 articles, including 110 monographs. The number of published pages increased from 657 in 2008 to 16582 in 2016. The average rejection rate for the period 2016–2017 was around 25%, which we believe is optimal and sustainable for a primarily taxonomic journal. Figure 1. Growth of submitted manuscripts and published articles in ZooKeys from 2008 to 2018 (*until 27.6.2018). Table 1. Total number of submitted manuscripts published articles, and printed pages since 2008. No accurate data for number of submissions 2008–2010. Year Submitted manuscripts Published articles Published pages 2008 32 657 2009 155 3738 2010 180 4871 2011 510 466 11145 2012 442 435 12205 2013 505 488 13382 2014 554 525 14178 2015 674 501 12634 2016 713 581 16582 2017 841 482 14091 2018 (as of 27 June 2018) 460 258 7250 Total 4904 4103 110733 The number of all authors publishing in ZooKeys is 5720 (ZooBank, courtesy of Richard Pyle, Bishop Museum, Honolulu) from altogether 131 countries. The highest numbers come first from China, then United States of America, followed by Brazil, Italy, Germany and Canada in that order. The Impact Factor of ZooKeys continues to grow, starting at 0.517 and currently it is 1.079. Altogether, 8977 new species-group, 650 new genus-group and 45 new family-group taxa have been published in the journal since its launch (Table 2, Fig. 2) (ZooBank, 29 June 2018, courtesy of Richard Pyle). This makes 9672 new taxa in total or 967.2 new taxa per year. This places ZooKeys as the second most prolific journal in Zoological Systematics after Zootaxa which began publishing in 2001. Figure 2. New taxa published in ZooKeys, registered in ZooBank (courtesy of Richard Pyle; *until 27.6.2018). Table 2. New taxa published in ZooKeys, registered in ZooBank (courtesy of Richard Pyle). Year Family Genus Species 2008 0 3 24 2009 1 51 360 2010 4 42 384 2011 12 90 840 2012 3 52 851 2013 3 75 1660 2014 3 71 1445 2015 2 50 911 2016 4 86 1035 2017 6 85 935 2018 7 45 532 Total 45 650 8977 Pensoft has been heavily investing in the technological advancement of its journals. A list of the most significant technologies implemented by its flagship ZooKeys in the recent years to facilitate editors, reviewers and authors is available in Table 3. Table 3. New technological solutions implemented in the journal. Feature For the benefit of: Link Use Automatic registrations of reviews at Publons Reviewers and Editors https://publons.com Publons helps reviewers and editors get recognition for every review they make for the journal. Dimensions Authors, editors, administrators, publisher https://www.dimensions.ai Powerful tracker of citations; provides ranking of given research in a given field Scopus CiteScore Metrics Authors, editors, administrators, publisher https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/19700170477 Interactive tool providing information on journal’s performance Export of published figures & supplementary materials to Biodiversity Literature Repository at ZENODO Authors, data scientists, community in general https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit/?page=1&size=20 Increases visibility and traceability of article and sub-article elements Hypothes.is Authors, readers http://hypothes.is Annotations on selected texts from the published article Over the past ten years, ZooKeys published a variety of papers on systematic zoology, including several world records, such as the deepest cave-dwelling centipede, the tiniest free-living insect and the smallest land snail. The journal also served as a platform for many of the world’s first-of-a-kind, like the first insect description solely from photographs, the first study supported by crowd-funding in Japan, the first-of-a-kind footage of shrimp filter-feeding at depth of a 4826 m in the Mariana Trench, the first amphibious centipede and the second fossil beetle found on Antarctica. While ZooKeys is regularly featured in the annual “Top 10 species” by the International Institute for Species Exploration, in 2017, there were two species published in the journal, which appeared on the list: the world’s second leggiest millipede – the 414-legged Illacme tobini and the first known amphibious centipede Scolopendra cataracta . The ten most viewed ZooKeys articles can be seen in Table 4. Table 4. ZooKeys articles by number of views. Article Nr of uniques views Nr of total views Helgen et al. (2013) Taxonomic revision of the olingos ( Bassaricyon ), with description of a new species, the Olinguito 56191 62724 Ledford et al. (2012) An extraordinary new family of spiders from caves in the Pacific Northwest ( Araneae , Trogloraptoridae , new family) 51668 55952 Bouchard et al. (2011) Family-Group Names In Coleoptera ( Insecta ) 32446 36687 Nazari (2016) Review of Neopalpa Povolný, 1998 with description of a new species from California and Baja California, Mexico ( Lepidoptera , Gelechiidae ) 24654 33103 Sereno (2012) Taxonomy, morphology, masticatory function and phylogeny of heterodontosaurid dinosaurs 27168 30394 Hagedorn et al. (2011) Creative Commons licenses and the non-commercial condition: Implications for the re-use of biodiversity information 27173 29685 Winterton et al. (2012) A charismatic new species of green lacewing discovered in Malaysia ( Neuroptera , Chrysopidae ): the confluence of citizen scientist, online image database and cybertaxonomy 25329 28429 Laciny et al. (2018) Colobopsis explodens sp. n., model species for studies on “exploding ants” ( Hymenoptera , Formicidae ), with biological notes and first illustrations of males of the Colobopsis cylindrica species-group 22795 28258 Hamilton et al. (2016) Taxonomic revision of the tarantula genus Aphonopelma Pocock, 1901 ( Araneae , Mygalomorphae , Theraphosidae ) within the United States 14515 25536 Wizen and Gasith (2011) Predation of amphibians by carabid beetles of the genus Epomis found in the central coastal plain of Israel 24477 14876 Total 281087 282920 Thanks to the collaboration between Pensoft and Altmetric, it is possible to track the popularity of each article published in ZooKeys within the public domain (Fig. 3). Provided the DOI link of a paper is included in an online publication, its citations from across a diverse range of both conventional and social online media platforms, including news outlets, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Reddit etc., are all visible in the article menu to give our readers a clear insight into the attention and interest which the research published in the journal brings about beyond academia. Figure 3. Total number of ZooKeys mentions in social media and popular magazines (Altmetric, June 2018). The description of a species of moth named after then US President-elect Donald Trump is an excellent example for a study with remarkable popularity across platforms (available from https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.646.11411). While as many as 964 tweets have been registered (likely many more, given that the count only registers the tweets featuring the DOI link to the paper), a total of 124 international news outlets (again, many have gone unaccounted) ran the story, including The Washington Post, FOX News, CNN, BBC News, The Independent, The Huffington Post, Ria.RU (RIA Novosti), Gazeta.ru, Wired (Italy), Le Figaro, Die Welt, Spiegel, National Geographic Australia, The Japan Times and The Hindustan Times. A more recent study describing a new species of exploding ant was not only featured in 89 news stories by news outlets from around the world, such as National Geographic, The New York Times, FOX News, BBC News, Sky News, The Guardian, ABC, Gazeta.ru, Publico, Stern, El Pais, The Hindu, but also tweeted along with its DOI as many as 52 times. In fact, the remarkable species was even ‘assigned’ with its own hashtag (#ExplodingAnts) to trigger further discussion and engagement over the social media platform. Table 5 shows the top ten ZooKeys papers, which attracted the largest media interest, according to data available from the global science news service Eurekalert. Table 5. The top ten ZooKeys papers that attracted largest media interest. Article Press release Media coverage Brannoch and Svenson (2016) A new genus and species ( Cornucollis gen. n. masoalensis sp. n.) of praying mantis from northern Madagascar ( Mantodea , Iridopterygidae , Tropidomantinae ) A new species and genus of ‘horned necked’ praying mantis from a French museum collection Science Daily, Physorg, Health Medicine Network Chen et al. (2017) Oreoglanis hponkanensis , a new sisorid catfish from north Myanmar ( Actinopterygii , Sisoridae ) Chinese scientists discover a new species of catfish in Myanmar Science Newsline, Physorg, Health Medicine Network, I4U News Laciny et al. (2018) Colobopsis explodens sp. n., model species for studies on “exploding ants” ( Hymenoptera , Formicidae ), with biological notes and first illustrations of males of the Colobopsis cylindrica species-group New ant species from Borneo explodes to defend its colony New York Times, The Guardian, Galileo, Gazeta.ru, New York Daily News Van Dam et al. (2016) Four new species of Trigonopterus Fauvel from the island of New Britain ( Coleoptera , Curculionidae ) New curiously scaled beetle species from New Britain named after ‘Star Wars’ Chewbacca The Scientist Magazine, Fox News, Science News Savary and Bryson Jr (2016) Pseudouroctonus maidu , a new species of scorpion from northern California ( Scorpiones , Vaejovidae ) A new scorpion from California reveals hidden biodiversity in the Golden State Science Daily, Physorg, Health Medicine Network Hamilton et al. (2016) Taxonomic revision of the tarantula genus Aphonopelma Pocock, 1901 ( Araneae , Mygalomorphae , Theraphosidae ) within the United States New tarantula named after Johnny Cash among 14 spider species found in the United States CNN, BBC News, CBS News, The Guardian, The Columbian, Spiegel, Gazeta.ru Guayasamin et al. (2017) A marvelous new glassfrog ( Centrolenidae , Hyalinobatrachium) from Amazonian Ecuador New species of frog from the Neotropics carries its heart on its skin BBC Focus Science & Technology, Science News, Gazeta.ru, Science Daily Nazari (2017) Review of Neopalpa Povolný, 1998 with description of a new species from California and Baja California, Mexico ( Lepidoptera , Gelechiidae ) New species of moth named in honor of Donald Trump ahead of his swearing-in as president CNN, CBS News, The Straits Times, The Independent, Gazeta.ru, Focus, Galileo Goto and Ishikawa (2016) Borniopsis mortoni sp. n. ( Heterodonta , Galeommatoidea , Galeommatidae sensu lato), a new bivalve commensal with a synaptid sea cucumber from Japan Living together in mud: New bivalve species dwelling on a sea cucumber discovered in Japan Nature World News, Health Medicine Network, Physorg Marek et al. (2016) A new species of Illacme Cook & Loomis, 1928 from Sequoia National Park, California, with a world catalog of the Siphonorhinidae ( Diplopoda , Siphonophorida ) New species of extremely leggy millipede discovered in a cave in California New York Times, Washington Post, Gizmodo, Nature World News, Le Point Apart from their remarkable findings, some of our authors have also been given a place in the spotlight by the news media. A Skype interview with Dr Chris Hamilton – the discoverer of the Johnny Cash tarantula – was aired live on Sky News, while Dr Vazrick Nazari, who added the name Neopalpa donaldtrumpi to the scientific records, was interviewed on BBC Radio 5. A podcast with Alice Laciny, the lead author of the study describing the exploding ant Colobopsis explodens , where she explains the curious behaviour of the new species and in the background, the ant is seen to actually defend itself against a larger offender, was made available on BBC News. New species described in ZooKeys enjoy the attention of their celebrity namesakes, as well. Earlier this year, shortly after a water beetle discovered in Borneo was named after the famous actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio, the insect appeared on his profile photo on Facebook – an act, which was itself reported by several news outlets, including the Daily Mail, W Magazine and La Republica. The success of ZooKeys would not be possible without the help of our authors, reviewers, subject editors, and readers, to whome we are very very thankful!

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          Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)

          Abstract We synthesize data on all known extant and fossil Coleoptera family-group names for the first time. A catalogue of 4887 family-group names (124 fossil, 4763 extant) based on 4707 distinct genera in Coleoptera is given. A total of 4492 names are available, 183 of which are permanently invalid because they are based on a preoccupied or a suppressed type genus. Names are listed in a classification framework. We recognize as valid 24 superfamilies, 211 families, 541 subfamilies, 1663 tribes and 740 subtribes. For each name, the original spelling, author, year of publication, page number, correct stem and type genus are included. The original spelling and availability of each name were checked from primary literature. A list of necessary changes due to Priority and Homonymy problems, and actions taken, is given. Current usage of names was conserved, whenever possible, to promote stability of the classification. New synonymies (family-group names followed by genus-group names): Agronomina Gistel, 1848 syn. nov. of Amarina Zimmermann, 1832 (Carabidae), Hylepnigalioini Gistel, 1856 syn. nov. of Melandryini Leach, 1815 (Melandryidae), Polycystophoridae Gistel, 1856 syn. nov. of Malachiinae Fleming, 1821 (Melyridae), Sclerasteinae Gistel, 1856 syn. nov. of Ptilininae Shuckard, 1839 (Ptinidae), Phloeonomini Ádám, 2001 syn. nov. of Omaliini MacLeay, 1825 (Staphylinidae), Sepedophilini Ádám, 2001 syn. nov. of Tachyporini MacLeay, 1825 (Staphylinidae), Phibalini Gistel, 1856 syn. nov. of Cteniopodini Solier, 1835 (Tenebrionidae); Agronoma Gistel 1848 (type species Carabus familiaris Duftschmid, 1812, designated herein) syn. nov. of Amara Bonelli, 1810 (Carabidae), Hylepnigalio Gistel, 1856 (type species Chrysomela caraboides Linnaeus, 1760, by monotypy) syn. nov. of Melandrya Fabricius, 1801 (Melandryidae), Polycystophorus Gistel, 1856 (type species Cantharis aeneus Linnaeus, 1758, designated herein) syn. nov. of Malachius Fabricius, 1775 (Melyridae), Sclerastes Gistel, 1856 (type species Ptilinus costatus Gyllenhal, 1827, designated herein) syn. nov. of Ptilinus Geoffroy, 1762 (Ptinidae), Paniscus Gistel, 1848 (type species Scarabaeus fasciatus Linnaeus, 1758, designated herein) syn. nov. of Trichius Fabricius, 1775 (Scarabaeidae), Phibalus Gistel, 1856 (type species Chrysomela pubescens Linnaeus, 1758, by monotypy) syn. nov. of Omophlus Dejean, 1834 (Tenebrionidae). The following new replacement name is proposed: Gompeliina Bouchard, 2011 nom. nov. for Olotelina Báguena Corella, 1948 (Aderidae). Reversal of Precedence (Article 23.9) is used to conserve usage of the following names (family-group names followed by genus-group names): Perigonini Horn, 1881 nom. protectum over Trechicini Bates, 1873 nom. oblitum (Carabidae), Anisodactylina Lacordaire, 1854 nom. protectum over Eurytrichina LeConte, 1848 nom. oblitum (Carabidae), Smicronychini Seidlitz, 1891 nom. protectum over Desmorini LeConte, 1876 nom. oblitum (Curculionidae), Bagoinae Thomson, 1859 nom. protectum over Lyprinae Gistel 1848 nom. oblitum (Curculionidae), Aterpina Lacordaire, 1863 nom. protectum over Heliomenina Gistel, 1848 nom. oblitum (Curculionidae), Naupactini Gistel, 1848 nom. protectum over Iphiini Schönherr, 1823 nom. oblitum (Curculionidae), Cleonini Schönherr, 1826 nom. protectum over Geomorini Schönherr, 1823 nom. oblitum (Curculionidae), Magdalidini Pascoe, 1870 nom. protectum over Scardamyctini Gistel, 1848 nom. oblitum (Curculionidae), Agrypninae/-ini Candèze, 1857 nom. protecta over Adelocerinae/-ini Gistel, 1848 nom. oblita and Pangaurinae/-ini Gistel, 1856 nom. oblita (Elateridae), Prosternini Gistel, 1856 nom. protectum over Diacanthini Gistel, 1848 nom. oblitum (Elateridae), Calopodinae Costa, 1852 nom. protectum over Sparedrinae Gistel, 1848 nom. oblitum (Oedemeridae), Adesmiini Lacordaire, 1859 nom. protectum over Macropodini Agassiz, 1846 nom. oblitum (Tenebrionidae), Bolitophagini Kirby, 1837 nom. protectum over Eledonini Billberg, 1820 nom. oblitum (Tenebrionidae), Throscidae Laporte, 1840 nom. protectum over Stereolidae Rafinesque, 1815 nom. oblitum (Throscidae) and Lophocaterini Crowson, 1964 over Lycoptini Casey, 1890 nom. oblitum (Trogossitidae); Monotoma Herbst, 1799 nom. protectum over Monotoma Panzer, 1792 nom. oblitum (Monotomidae); Pediacus Shuckard, 1839 nom. protectum over Biophloeus Dejean, 1835 nom. oblitum (Cucujidae), Pachypus Dejean, 1821 nom. protectum over Pachypus Billberg, 1820 nom. oblitum (Scarabaeidae), Sparrmannia Laporte, 1840 nom. protectum over Leocaeta Dejean, 1833 nom. oblitum and Cephalotrichia Hope, 1837 nom. oblitum (Scarabaeidae).
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              Taxonomic revision of the olingos (Bassaricyon), with description of a new species, the Olinguito

              Abstract We present the first comprehensive taxonomic revision and review the biology of the olingos, the endemic Neotropical procyonid genus Bassaricyon , based on most specimens available in museums, and with data derived from anatomy, morphometrics, mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, field observations, and geographic range modeling. Species of Bassaricyon are primarily forest-living, arboreal, nocturnal, frugivorous, and solitary, and have one young at a time. We demonstrate that four olingo species can be recognized, including a Central American species ( Bassaricyon gabbii ), lowland species with eastern, cis-Andean ( Bassaricyon alleni ) and western, trans-Andean ( Bassaricyon medius ) distributions, and a species endemic to cloud forests in the Andes. The oldest evolutionary divergence in the genus is between this last species, endemic to the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador, and all other species, which occur in lower elevation habitats. Surprisingly, this Andean endemic species, which we call the Olinguito, has never been previously described; it represents a new species in the order Carnivora and is the smallest living member of the family Procyonidae. We report on the biology of this new species based on information from museum specimens, niche modeling, and fieldwork in western Ecuador, and describe four Olinguito subspecies based on morphological distinctions across different regions of the Northern Andes.
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                Zookeys
                Zookeys
                ZooKeys
                ZooKeys
                Pensoft Publishers
                1313-2989
                1313-2970
                2018
                4 July 2018
                : 770
                : 1-8
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                [1 ] National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
                [2 ] National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
                [3 ] Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria
                [4 ] Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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                Corresponding author: Lyubomir Penev ( info@ 123456pensoft.net )
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                10.3897/zookeys.770.28105
                6041359
                e5cd8df7-41bb-412b-bda7-3d2d404f225d
                Terry Erwin, Pavel Stoev, Lyubomir Penev

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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