A synoptic, annotated catalogue is provided, documenting the long history of vacillated nomenclature usages between leafhopper family-group names Gyponidae Stål 1870c and Scaridae Amyot & Serville 1843a (nec Scaridae Rafinesque 1810b), between genus-group names Gypona Germar 1821a and Scaris Le Peletier & Serville 1828a (nec Scaris Chaudoir 1879), synonyms, and use of Docalidia ferruginea (Fabricius) in the literature for Iassus ferrugineus, beginning at the formation of each taxon and ending at the present. Authors' annotations, where applicable, follow each citation. A photograph of the lectotype of Iassus ferrugineus Fabricius (Coelidiinae) and a misidentified specimen (Gyponinae) by Germar are shown for comparative purposes.

Empis (Coptophlebia) hyalipennis species group is reported from Sichuan for the first time with the following 9 new species: Empis (Coptophlebia) apicinuda sp. nov., Empis (Coptophlebia) brevitarsalis sp. nov., Empis (Coptophlebia) dorsiseta sp. nov., Empis (Coptophlebia) emeiensis sp. nov., Empis (Coptophlebia) longiseta sp. nov., Empis (Coptophlebia) longispina sp. nov., Empis (Coptophlebia) quadrata sp. nov., Empis (Coptophlebia) wanglangana sp. nov., and Empis (Coptophlebia) xii sp. nov. A key is presented to separate these species.

Four new species of Mymaromma Girault viz, M. heptafuniculatus sp. nov., M. longipterus sp. nov., M. manipurense sp. nov. and M. shivajiense sp. nov. are described from India and key to Indian species of Mymaromma is provided.

Pentacomia (Mesochila) Rivalier, 1969 includes 12 species. Six of those were recently studied and had their distribution updated, while other six were only cited in very few papers, being only record for States or biogeographic provinces, without specific information about their distribution. We examined 392 specimens deposited on many important collections along with all the bibliography concerning the group. A synopsis of the species distribution along with informative maps is presented.

A new species of the genus Hieroglyphus, Hieroglyphus kolhapurensis sp. nov. (Orthoptera: Hemiacridinae; Acrididae) from India is been described. The holotype (♂) was collected from the south—western part of India: Kolhapur (Maharashtra). The key morphological characters of the head, pronotum, cerci, tegmina, hind femora, phallic complex and the epiphallus have been illustrated with suitable line drawings to distinguish the reported new species from the other species of Hieroglyphus complex. A key to separate the subgenera and species is also provided.

The fauna of Iranian Alticini (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) is summarized in this paper. In total, 180 taxa within 18 genera are listed with four new records for the flea beetle fauna of Iran: Altica carduorum Guérin-Méneville 1858, Aphthona euphorbiae (Schrank 1781), Aphthona kuntzei Roubal 1931 and Chaetocnema aridula (Gyllenhal 1827). All taxa are arranged alphabetically including data regarding distribution in Iran, general distribution, and chorotype classification.

This catalogue includes information about species diversity of two Braconidae subfamilies Doryctinae and Exothecinae from Iran. Fourty species belonging to 15 genera of Doryctinae and three species of one genus of Exothecinae are listed. Two species, Rhaconotus pictipennis (Reinhard, 1885) (Doryctinae) and Colastes (Xenarcha) lustator (Haliday, 1836) (Exothecinae), are recorded from Iran for the first time. A faunistic list with distribution data and host records is provided.

Monomorium ebeninum is a small black ant with a widespread distribution in the West Indies, Central America, and Mexico, as well as southernmost Texas and Florida. Monomorium ebeninum has been considered native to the Bahamas, yet exotic to Florida. To examine the geographic distribution of M. ebeninum, I compiled and mapped published and unpublished specimen records from >550 sites. I documented the earliest known M. ebeninum records for 34 geographic areas (countries, major West Indian islands and island groups, and US states), including several for which I found no previously published records: Barbuda, the Cayman Islands, St Kitts, St Lucia, St Martin, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. The northernmost records of M. ebeninum in both the Florida Keys and in the Bahamas are at the same latitude (25.1°N), which is at the northern edge of an essentially continuous range through the West Indies. If M. ebeninum is native in the Bahamas, then there is little justification for considering populations immediately to the west, in the Florida Keys, to be exotic.

Previously there were four known species in the Hercostomus ulrichi group all from China. In this paper, the species of the Hercostomus ulrichi group are reviewed. The following two species from China are described as new to science: Hercostomus baixionggouanus sp. nov. and Hercostomus pingwuensis sp. nov. A key to species of the group is provided.