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I recently ordered some Royal Entomological Society insect handbooks and they all arrived today. They were discounted due to damp damage which seems superficial; one of the covers had some marks which I removed with a damp cloth and some of the staple-bound books have rusty staples that I plan to replace. The books also have a slight damp smell that I hope will disappear after some airing.

Most of the discounted books are for Diptera but they also had some on aphids and sawflies. The handbook list can be found on the RES publications page.

The Local reports that a new species of longhorn beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) has been confirmed in Sweden. The new species, Leiopus linnei, is very similar to L. nebulosus but DNA barcoding combined with the examination of male genetalia and female spermathecae support its establishment as a separate species. The original article was published in Zootaxa.