Authors must follow all requirements of the current International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. The recommendations of the Code should also normally be followed. If an author wants to circumvent any recommendation, convincing reasons should be stated. This journal requires that at least holotypes be deposited in public collections that provide long-term care and access for study. Original references should be always included for all newly synonymized or combined names.
Good illustrations are essential unless the paper solves purely nomenclatoric problems.
All morphological illustrations, if not schematic, must be provided with scale bars. We encourage particularly authors dealing with poorly known, rare or exotic taxa to provide as complete illustrations as possible, including habitus drawings or photographs of selected representatives of the taxon under study. Authors should consider at least the complete regional fauna of the genus or subgenus under study. A more comprehensive geographic scope is required for taxa with broader distributions or with close relatives in other zoogeographic regions. In the long run the phylogenetic approach to classification is the only valid one, and cladistic analysis is the only consistent methodology for reconstructing phylogeny.