The tribe Meteorini comprises the two genera Meteorus Haliday, 1835 and Zele Curtis, 1832, and materials of these genera has been examined in the collections of the Natural History Museum in Oslo. Nine species not previously ...

The workshop-hackathon was convened by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) at its secretariat in Copenhagen over 22-24 May 2013 with additional support from several projects (RCN4GSC, EAGER, VertNet, BiSciCol, ...

The present distribution of the invasive slug Arion vulgaris Moquin-Tandon was studied in Norway. This important pest species has spread to many parts of Europe during the last decades, inflicting damage to agriculture and ...

The present survey gives distributional records for 49 species of the family Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) previously not recorded from Norway. Eight of these have hitherto not been reported from Scandinavia, namely Adelognathus ...

The collection of the family Encyrtidae at the Natural History Museum of Oslo is revised, and this study focuses on the ethanol preserved material in particular. Eighteen species are reported for the first time from Norway, ...

Females of the autumn crane fly Tipula (Platytipula) moiwana (Matsumura, 1916) were collected along the river Ljanselva in Oslo. This species was hitherto only known from the easternmost Palaearctic and from the Moscow and ...

The collection of the family Encyrtidae at the Natural History Museum of Oslo is revised, and this study focuses on the ethanol-preserved material in particular. Sixteen species are reported for the first time from Norway, ...

Eleven specimens of Camilla flavicauda Duda 1922 were accidentally reared indoors in Oslo, and a twelfth one was later found free living. In addition, four old specimens of Camilla glabra (Fallén, 1823) were found in the ...

The terrestrial environment of the High Arctic consists of a mosaic of habitat types. In addition to the natural habitat diversity, various human-influenced types may occur. For the resident invertebrate fauna, these ...

Background The granivorous house sparrow Passer domesticus is thought to have developed its commensal relationship with humans with the rise of agriculture in the Middle East some 10,000 years ago, and to ...