Newly discovered / described species 2017

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Discription of a new species of deep-sea shrimp from the North-west Pacific :

A new species of deep-sea sponge-associated shrimp from the North-West Pacific (Decapoda, Stenopodidea, Spongicolidae)

Discription of 3 new species of Mysidae from South Africa :

Three new species of Heteromysis (Mysida, Mysidae, Heteromysini) from the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, with first documentation of a mysid-cephalopod association

Discription of 2 new species of parasitoid wasps from Japan :

Revision of the genus Amphirhachis Townes, 1970 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Banchinae) from Japan

Discription of a new frog-species from Peru :

Bryophryne phuyuhampatu sp. n., a new species of Cusco Andes frog from the cloud forest of the eastern slopes of the Peruvian Andes (Amphibia, Anura, Craugastoridae)

Discription of a new species of comb-footed spider from India :

The spiny theridiid genus Meotipa Simon, 1895 in India, with description of a strange new species with translucent abdomen and a phylogenetic analysis about the genus placement (Araneae, Theridiidae) | KULKARNI | Zootaxa

Abstract of the discription of a new Kukri snake from Thailand :

A new kukri snake (Colubridae: Oligodon ) from Hua Hin District, and the first record of O. deuvei from Thailand | PAUWELS | Zootaxa

Abstract of the discription of a new lizard-species from Venezuela :

A new species of Gonatodes (Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae) from the western versant of the Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuela | SCHARGEL | Zootaxa

Abstract of the discription of a new genus and new species of bark mantis from Thailand :

A new genus and species of bark mantis from Thailand, with an updated key to the bark mantis genera of the Oriental region (Insecta: Mantodea) | SCHWARZ | Zootaxa
 
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vogelcommando said:
New species of Bird-of-Paradise ?! :

Dance Moves Support Evidence for New Bird-of-Paradise Species – Macaulay Library
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this is interesting, but I was confused over this line in the article - "They, too, say the western population should be recognized as a full species called Lophorina neidda inopinata." - which nomenclaturally does not make much sense.

The paper about the splits is available online only as an abstract, so I had a little look around and found a Birdforum thread discussing it (link below).

It looks like there is a good case for splitting, but it is actually three species not two which L. superba is proposed as being split into (the two new ones being L. neidda and L. minor). And the trinomial that the Macauley Library article mistakenly refers to as "a full species" is a new subspecies (i.e. the previous subspecies neidda is split as a full species, and then further split into two subspecies, which is where the article's author got confused).

See the very interesting Birdforum discussion here, from post #4: Birds of paradise - BirdForum
 
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Rediscovery of the Tachira antpitta :) :

Táchira Antpitta mystery solved in western Venezuela

Abstract of the discription of a new genus and 2 new species of featherwing beetles from Angola and Madagascar :

Erro gen. n. a new genus of featherwing beetles (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) from Angola and Madagascar | DARBY | Zootaxa

Abstract of the discription of 4 new blindsnake-species from islands near Papua New Guinea :

New Species of Blindsnakes (Squamata: Gerrhopilidae) from the offshore islands of Papua New Guinea | KRAUS | Zootaxa

Abstract of the discription of a new genus and 3 new species of tiger moths from China :

Barsura Volynkin, Dubatolov & Kishida, gen. nov., with descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) | VOLYNKIN | Zootaxa
 
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Pui, Yong Ming and Das, Indraneil. (2017). Rediscovery and Redescription of Tropidophorus micropus van Lidth de Jeude, 1905 (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) from Sarawak, East Malaysia (Borneo). Asian Herpetological Research 8(2): 147-150. [Abstract]
 
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