Biodiversity Data Journal
@bdj
Open-access, peer-reviewed journal for taxonomic, floristic/faunistic, genomic, phylogenetic, environmental etc. data on any taxon from any geological era and georgraphy. Published by @pensoft.net. Powered by @arphahub.com. Website: bdj.pensoft.net
🌿 We are delighted to welcome Naim Berisha, author in our open-access journal, to the @pensoft.net booth at the 21st Eurasian Grassland Conference! ➡️ Check out his co-authored article published in our journal here: bdj.pensoft.net/article/1817... #EGC2026 #IAVS #GrasslandResearch
Corixoidea are the only #waterbugs (Heteroptera, Nepomorpha) that aren't strictly predatory. In the Neotropics, two families occur: Corixidae and Micronectidae (three genera). Read the full #openaccess article: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
The rare tropical #amphipod Scina nana has been recorded for the first time in the Mediterranean, off Syria's Latakia coast. Its appearance suggests a recent non-indigenous arrival, possibly linked to warming waters and shifting thermohaline conditions: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
New faunistic survey out on cleptoparasitic #bees in protected rural areas near Rome (Latium, Italy) 🐝 417 individuals, 44 species, 10 genera, 3 families, 5 species newly recorded for the region. Read the #openaccess study here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
A tiny aphid species, Eutrichosiphum sinense, has been recorded in South Korea for the first time, found on chinquapin trees near Jinju. New illustrations and measurements will help researchers identify it in future surveys. Read more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
🪰🔬Taxonomic revision of Drino flies (Tachinidae) in China: 15 known species confirmed, plus 4 new to science, D. liaoningensis, D. uniseta, D. meridionalis & D. oharai. Includes ID key, 123 illustrations & distribution maps for the new species can be found here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
🔬 A tiny amphipod (Stenothoe gallensis) once thought to be a single, globally distributed species has now been revealed to be a complex of several closely related species. Find out more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e199461
🔍 The regional distribution of two specific #antlion #insect genera has been analysed to map their known presence across the Korean Peninsula. 🦋 This marks the very first documentation of Pseudoformicaleo in the country, see the full #openaccess study here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e203903
🙌 It was a pleasure to welcome author and reviewer for our journal, Andrea Tarallo from the National Research Council of Italy, to the @pensoft.net booth at #BEeS2026 - the LifeWatch ERIC Biodiversity and Ecosystem eScience Conference in Plovdiv, Bulgaria! @lifewatcheric.bsky.social
📊 The challenge of standardising marine species names has been evaluated, revealing that nearly one in five specific epithets within the same genus differ by three or fewer characters! 🧬 Read on here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e196932
Dr. Salvador Arenas-Castro stopped by the @pensoft.net booth at #ECCB2026, and it was lovely to meet him! Check out his research, published open-access in our journal, here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
It was lovely meeting two of our authors at #ECCB2026 -Annika Zuleger and Martina Viti, both from the @idiv-research.bsky.social!🌿 📄 Annika published a #data paper in BDJ: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... 📄 Martina published in @vcs.pensoft.net: doi.org/10.3897/VCS.... @society4conbio.bsky.social
Meet Lithobius (Ezembius) zebrinus, a newly described centipede species from Daweishan National Nature Reserve in Yunnan, south-western China, part of a group of ~79 species mostly found across Asia. See the description and illustrations here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
Field surveys on Japan's remote Ogasawara Islands (2023-2026) uncovered five polydesmid millipede species never before recorded in Japan. Full open-access study here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
30-year study of Bornean heath forests in Brunei (1992-2022) finds fewer, larger trees over time, shifting species composition, and mixed changes in diversity. Drought and human disturbance, even in protected areas, may be reshaping these threatened ecosystems: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
Researchers recorded 1,268 aquatic #beetles in the Martil River, northern Morocco, where human pressures and hydrological intermittency threaten #biodiversity. See what they found across four seasons and four habitat categories: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
100 years of #brachiopod #biodiversity, now digitised. A new #data paper presents 3,235 specimens from the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, spanning 1,852 locations across the World Ocean, providing a key resource for #marine #biogeography & taxonomy. 👉Find out more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
New #data paper from the SLAM long-term monitoring project in the Azores: 17,064 #arthropod specimens (2015-2021), with 26 species recorded for the first time on Graciosa Island. Find out more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
Türkiye sits at the crossroads of Europe & Asia and hosts one of the richest #bee faunas in the Western #Palaearctic. A new #dataset from the south adds 2,070 specimens, 246 species, and 6 new country records to the map. Check them out: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... #pollinators
🎉 It was fantastic to meet Ayman Khamis Elsayed at the @pensoft.net booth at #ECE2026Tours! Elsayed is a subject editor and author in our journal. Access some of his research here: bdj.pensoft.net/article/79184/ bdj.pensoft.net/article/35673/
🐝5,295 #bee specimens (collected between the 1920s and 2025) from the Natural History Museum in Lisbon, represent 425 species from the Palearctic region. Among them is a #newspecies, the first record for Portugal, Nomada chrysopyga, bringing the total number to 737: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
🎉 It was fantastic to meet Ayman Khamis Elsayed at the @pensoft.net booth at #ECE2026Tours! ✍️ Elsayed is a subject editor and author in our journal. Access some of his research here: ➡️ bdj.pensoft.net/article/79184/ ➡️ bdj.pensoft.net/article/35673/ ➡️ bdj.pensoft.net/article/68016/
This new #datapaper presents 6,422 occurrence records of Aedes vexans in Germany (2011-2023), combining #citizenscience & expert monitoring. Such research may prove valuable in tracking this pest #mosquito and its potential pathogen vector: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... #entomology
🦋 The XIII European Congress of Entomology has opened today in Tours, France. 📖 If you are in attendance, come and visit us at the @pensoft.net booth to find out more and say hello! #ECE2026Tours
🌊 A joint expedition along Colombia's northern Pacific coast identified ~500 morphospecies across #mangroves, #reefs, mudflats & more, including 96 new species records for northern Chocó and 44 for the Colombian Pacific coast. Full #openaccess data paper: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
Check out the first confirmed record of the #sea slug Onchidium reevesii in Korea, found in #saltmarsh #habitats across three sites: Jindo, Muan and Suncheon: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
🌊 We are delighted to see research published in our journal on Inútil Bay's macroalgae featured in ECO Magazine: ecomagazine.com/news/coastal... 👉 Access the original study here: bdj.pensoft.net/article/1833... #macroalgae #subantarctica
🦋First Korean record of Hypena nakajimai, a moth originally found by Sugi over 40 years ago but not formally described until Kishida named it in 2010. Read more here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....