Starý, Jaroslav and Roháček, Jindřich. (2015). Rediscovery of Rhabdomastix (Rhabdomastix) incapax Starý, 2005 (Diptera, Limoniidae), a crane fly species flightless in both sexes and probably endemic to Sardinia. Zookeys 498: 93-101.
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Rai, Ishwari Datt, Singh, Gajendra and Rawat, Gopal Singh. (2015). Rediscovery, distribution and conservation status of Leptodermis riparia R.Parker (Rubiaceae) in Western Himalaya, India. Telopea 18: 79-83.
Kumar, E. S. Santhosh et al. (2015). Rediscovery of Thottea dalzellii (Hook.f.) Karthik. & Moorthy (Aristolochiaceae) from the Western Ghats. International Journal of Advanced Research 3(4): 1-4.
Korneyev, S. V., Karimpour, Y., Mohamadzade Namin, S. (2015). Rediscovery of Tephritis kogardtauica (Diptera, Tephritidae). Vestnik Zoologii 49(2): 119-124.
Abstract of the discription :
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Discription of a new species of Earwig found in Greenhouses in Germany and Austria. Its natural distribution is unknown :
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/zt03956p139.pdf
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/zt03956p139.pdf
As far as I can tell, this species (Litoria littlejohni) is also known from New South Wales, and hence isn't truly a Lazarus taxon, simply a local rediscovery.
Brown tree frog long-thought extinct rediscovered in East Gippsland
Rena Gaborov was looking for gliders during a night-time survey in the East Gippsland forest near Bonang when she first heard the call. It stopped her in her tracks.
Having devoted years to searching for a frog long-believed extinct, she convinced herself she was mistaken.
"I went all shaky when I heard the call. But then I thought 'no, this can't be right'," the ecologist said. "I can't just stumble upon this frog."
The large brown tree frog, with its distinctive orange markings on its hind legs, hasn't been seen or heard of for two decades. As far as many conservation scientists are concerned, the Victorian amphibian had gone the way of the dodo.
Ms Gaborov noted her GPS location before continuing her spotlight survey for yellow-bellied gliders and greater gliders, as part of her work with Wildlife Unlimited.
She went back to the site the same night but heard nothing. She did however glimpse a frog sitting on a fern frond in the torchlight moments before it hopped into the darkness.
"I'm always looking for local frogs and I know the large brown tree frog is supposed to be out here," she said. "Are they around here or are they extinct – that's always been the question in my head," she said.
Drawn back a week later, Ms Gaborov heard the frog call through the rain some time after 1.30am on April 12. As she was setting up a sound recorder to capture the call, the elusive frog went silent. Pulling out her spotlight, she again saw its brown body crouching on a fern frond. This time, she photographed it.
The photograph took the large brown tree frog from being presumed extinct to a member of what conservation scientists call "Lazarus species" – those rare creatures which prove the experts wrong by reappearing long after they were thought to have disappeared.
Ms Gaborov also spotted a second large brown tree frog, this time 10 kilometres south-west of Bonang, in a puddle by a roadside on April 21.
Ecologist Rohan Bilney said the first male frog in the photograph appeared to be a good size and in good health.
"I'd hope that this photograph spurs a bit of action from authorities in terms of conservation management," he said.
Stephen Henry, terrestrial biodiversity program manager at the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning in Gippsland, praised Ms Gaborov's skill and dedication in identifying the rare frogs.
Dr Henry said as a result of her work, the department had put interim protection measures in place. The department would also increase surveying to establish the size and extent of the species' population. He said special protection zones would also be implemented.
The large brown tree frog was one of four threatened species named in a 2013 Supreme Court case lodged by environmentalists against the state government. The Environment Defenders Office claimed the government had failed to draw up plans to adequately protect the threatened species.
Senior scientist at the state government's biodiversity research arm, the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, Nick Clemann said the find was "highly significant".
"I'm hopeful that the follow-up surveys will find more of the frogs," he said.
Source: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sc...overed-in-east-gippsland-20150508-ggx1u7.html
Brown tree frog long-thought extinct rediscovered in East Gippsland
Rena Gaborov was looking for gliders during a night-time survey in the East Gippsland forest near Bonang when she first heard the call. It stopped her in her tracks.
Having devoted years to searching for a frog long-believed extinct, she convinced herself she was mistaken.
"I went all shaky when I heard the call. But then I thought 'no, this can't be right'," the ecologist said. "I can't just stumble upon this frog."
The large brown tree frog, with its distinctive orange markings on its hind legs, hasn't been seen or heard of for two decades. As far as many conservation scientists are concerned, the Victorian amphibian had gone the way of the dodo.
Ms Gaborov noted her GPS location before continuing her spotlight survey for yellow-bellied gliders and greater gliders, as part of her work with Wildlife Unlimited.
She went back to the site the same night but heard nothing. She did however glimpse a frog sitting on a fern frond in the torchlight moments before it hopped into the darkness.
"I'm always looking for local frogs and I know the large brown tree frog is supposed to be out here," she said. "Are they around here or are they extinct – that's always been the question in my head," she said.
Drawn back a week later, Ms Gaborov heard the frog call through the rain some time after 1.30am on April 12. As she was setting up a sound recorder to capture the call, the elusive frog went silent. Pulling out her spotlight, she again saw its brown body crouching on a fern frond. This time, she photographed it.
The photograph took the large brown tree frog from being presumed extinct to a member of what conservation scientists call "Lazarus species" – those rare creatures which prove the experts wrong by reappearing long after they were thought to have disappeared.
Ms Gaborov also spotted a second large brown tree frog, this time 10 kilometres south-west of Bonang, in a puddle by a roadside on April 21.
Ecologist Rohan Bilney said the first male frog in the photograph appeared to be a good size and in good health.
"I'd hope that this photograph spurs a bit of action from authorities in terms of conservation management," he said.
Stephen Henry, terrestrial biodiversity program manager at the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning in Gippsland, praised Ms Gaborov's skill and dedication in identifying the rare frogs.
Dr Henry said as a result of her work, the department had put interim protection measures in place. The department would also increase surveying to establish the size and extent of the species' population. He said special protection zones would also be implemented.
The large brown tree frog was one of four threatened species named in a 2013 Supreme Court case lodged by environmentalists against the state government. The Environment Defenders Office claimed the government had failed to draw up plans to adequately protect the threatened species.
Senior scientist at the state government's biodiversity research arm, the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, Nick Clemann said the find was "highly significant".
"I'm hopeful that the follow-up surveys will find more of the frogs," he said.
Source: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sc...overed-in-east-gippsland-20150508-ggx1u7.html
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where is this article from? It is pretty rubbish.Surroundx said:
The species has, as far as I can tell, never been considered extinct in Victoria. It has simply always been poorly recorded in both Victoria and NSW. Even the girl in the article says "I'm always looking for local frogs and I know the large brown tree frog is supposed to be out here."
The Department of Sustainability and Environment itself states in a 2011 survey standards document:
"There are very few recent, verified records of this species in Victoria. Most records date from the 1960s to the early 1990s, with the most recent record from 1996. It is not known whether the species has undergone a decline in abundance or distribution since that time."
Sorry, I forgot to add a link to the source article! I fixed it now. But here it is again any way:
Brown tree frog long-thought extinct rediscovered in East Gippsland
Preview of the discription of a new species of frog from Thailand :
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/z03956p270f.pdf
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/z03956p270f.pdf
Discription of a new Freshwater crab from South Africa :
Description of a new species of Potamonautes MacLeay, 1838, from the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa
Description of a new species of Potamonautes MacLeay, 1838, from the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa
Preview of the discription of 2 new Igamid-lizards from Peru :
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/z03956p427f.pdf
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/z03956p427f.pdf
Preview of the discription of a new species of Lizardfish from the Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea :
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/z03956p568f.pdf
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/z03956p568f.pdf
Wild yak rediscovered in Nepal :
?Extinct? wild yak found in Humla: Study | Editor's Pick
?Extinct? wild yak found in Humla: Study | Editor's Pick
Preview of the discription of a new species of Seabream from Australia :
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/z03957p119f.pdf
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/z03957p119f.pdf
Preview of the discription of a new sub-species of Hutia from Hispaniola :
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/z03957p214f.pdf
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/z03957p214f.pdf
Another article about the new sub-species :
BBC - Earth - Meet the James Bond rodent
BBC - Earth - Meet the James Bond rodent
Preview of the discription of a new Gecko-species from Indonesia :
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/z03964p124f.pdf
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/z03964p124f.pdf
On the island of Lemnos in Greece the Bush-cricket Isophya lemnotica has been rediscovered 
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.Abstract
Nickajack Cave in Marion County, Tennessee is the type locality for the isopod Caecidotea nickajackensis Packard 1881. The cave was flooded after the completion of Nickajack Dam in 1967, leaving only a portion of the entrance above water. The flooding of the cave caused the disappearance of the only known habitat of C. nickajackensis and the species was presumed extinct. This paper amends that record in light of the rediscovery of C. nickajackensis from sites in Alabama and Tennessee.
Source:
Coleman, William T. and Zigler, Kirk S. (2015). The Rediscovery of Caecidotea nickajackensis in Tennessee and Alabama. Speleobiology Notes 7: 10–13.
Nickajack Cave in Marion County, Tennessee is the type locality for the isopod Caecidotea nickajackensis Packard 1881. The cave was flooded after the completion of Nickajack Dam in 1967, leaving only a portion of the entrance above water. The flooding of the cave caused the disappearance of the only known habitat of C. nickajackensis and the species was presumed extinct. This paper amends that record in light of the rediscovery of C. nickajackensis from sites in Alabama and Tennessee.
Source:
Coleman, William T. and Zigler, Kirk S. (2015). The Rediscovery of Caecidotea nickajackensis in Tennessee and Alabama. Speleobiology Notes 7: 10–13.