Systematic Entomology

Edited By: Lars Vilhelmsen, Thomas J. Simonsen and Shaun L. Winterton

Impact Factor: 2.943

ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2011: 3/86 (Entomology); 21/45 (Evolutionary Biology)

Online ISSN: 1365-3113

Associated Title(s): Agricultural and Forest Entomology, Ecological Entomology, Insect Conservation and Diversity, Insect Molecular Biology, Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Physiological Entomology

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Current Issue:July 2013
Volume 38, Issue 3
April 2013
Volume 38, Issue 2
January 2013
Volume 38, Issue 1
October 2012
Volume 37, Issue 4
July 2012
Volume 37, Issue 3

Latest News from Systematic Entomology

Opinion Pieces

We encourage non-polemical debate on pressing issues in our field in the form of Opinion pieces. Further, we encourage authors to submit a well reasoned response to a systematic paper published in another journal that is less responsive to debate. To encourage wide dissemination, we are making all Opinion pieces, plus any underlying paper, free to all.

Read the latest Opinion Piece and Response below:

A plea for digital reference collections and other science-based digitization initiatives in taxonomy: Sepsidnet as exemplar
Yuchen Ang, Jayanthi Puniamoorthy, Adrian C. Pont, Miroslav Bartak, Wolf U. Blanckenhorn, William G. Eberhard, Nalini Puniamoorthy, Vera C. Silva, Lorenzo Munari & Rudolf Meier

Are noterids specialised meruids (Coleoptera, Adephaga)? A reply to Dressler et al.
Andrew Edward Z. Short, Yves Alarie, Mauricio García, Luis J. Joly

Anomalous areas and awkward ages: alleviating concerns
Niklas Wahlberg, Daniel Rubinoff

Anomalous areas and awkward ages: concerns about over-reliance on model-based biogeographical and temporal inferences
Andrew V. Z. Brower, R. I. Vane-Wright

Best Paper Award

NEW! SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY BEST PAPER AWARD

The prize for the best paper published in Systematic Entomology in 2011-2 has been awarded to:

Origin and diversification of the cryptic ant genus Stenamma Westwood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), inferred from multilocus molecular data, biogeography and natural history
MICHAEL G. BRANSTETTER. Systematic Entomology (2012), 37,478-496.

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Backfiles

Discover the extensive resource of backfiles from the Royal Entomological Society's illustrious history online, dating back to 1836, and including work by eminent scientists such as Wallace, Wigglesworth and Westwood.

• Systematic Entomology: 1976, Vol 1 Issue 1 to date

• Journal of Entomology, Series A: 1971 - 1976 (in full)

• Journal of Entomology, Series B: 1971 - 1976 (in full)

• Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society, Series A: 1936 - 1970 (in full)

• Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society, Series B: 1932 - 1970 (in full)

• Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society, Series C: 1936 - 1977 (in full)

• Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society: 1926 - 1936 (in full)

• Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London: 1836 - 1975

News

Coming Soon: Online Submission System
Systematic Entomology will soon be adopting ScholarOne Manuscripts, for online manuscript submission and peer review. The new system brings with it a whole host of benefits, including:
√ Quick and easy submission
√ Author tracking
√ Significant decrease in peer review times

All submissions to Systematic Entomology will have to be submitted using this new online system.

Click here to read more on the benefits of using ScholarOne Manuscripts.

The editors and production of Systematic Entomology are pleased to present our first scientific contribution with validation of newly described taxa in an e-publication. Read more!

Molecules, morphology and minute hooded beetles: a phylogenetic study with implications for the evolution and classification of Corylophidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)
James A. Robertson, Adam Ślipiński, Kevin Hiatt, Kelly B. Miller, Michael F. Whiting, Joseph V. Mchugh

Two New Bee Species Discovered

The article 'The Panama microplate, island studies and relictual species of Melipona (Melikerria) (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)' was featured by online news site Physorg and The New York Times

Click on the links above to read the article and the press release. New bee species

Virtual Issue

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Systematics papers concerning scale insects

The preparation of this virtual issue of Systematic Entomology is timed to coincide with the XIII International Symposium on Scale Insect Studies in Sofia, Bulgaria, in September 2013. Since the first issue of our journal we have received consistent high quality papers from the community of workers studying the Coccoidea. Initially these covered morphological taxonomy, but more recently molecular approaches have grown as have studies including fossil material... Read more.