About the journal

PDF version of the Instructions for authors

Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (AEMNP) in an open access journal publishing research focused on insect systematics. It was established in 1923. From 2008 onwards, AEMNP is published biannually, accompanied with irregular Supplements. From 2018, papers are published online first, and subsequently printed in two volumes published at the end of June and December.

Formerly, the Department of Entomology of the National Museum in Prague has been issuing four publication series (the PDFs of all of them are available on this webpage):

  1. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (= Sborník entomologického oddělení Národního musea) – this journal continues until today.
  2. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, Supplementum: now merged with the main series.
  3. Acta Faunistica Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae: now merged with AEMNP.
  4. Acta Faunistica Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, Supplementum: now merged with AEMNP.

Publisher: National Museum, Václavské náměstí 68, CZ – 115 79, Praha 1, Czech Republic

Contact to editors (including MS submissions): aemnp.editors@gmail.com

Scope of the journal: AEMNP is publishing papers on:

  1. Insect systematics, taxonomy and nomenclature;
  2. Morphology of adult and immature stages and/or their biology with possible applications in taxonomy and phylogeny;
  3. Phylogeny at least partly based on morphological characters (or with morphological characters mapped on the tree);
  4. Catalogues applicable for further taxonomy and biodiversity studies;
  5. General papers on methodology of insect taxonomy.

Editorial board:

Chairman of the editorial board:   Josef Jelínek (Czech Republic)
Editor-in-chief:   Petr Kment (Czech Republic)
Associate editors:   Martin Fikáček (Czech Republic)
    Jiří Hájek (Czech Republic)
    Petr Kočárek (Czech Republic)
    Igor Malenovský (Czech Republic)
    Lukáš Sekerka (Czech Republic)
    Michal Tkoč (Czech Republic)
Technical editor:   Martin Fikáček (Czech Republic)
English language editors:   Jitka Ansari (United Kingdom)
    Leonidas R. Davranoglou (Greece)
    Grey T. Gustafson (USA)

Advisory board:

Michael Balke (Germany)   Lubomír Masner (Canada)
Jan Bezděk (Czech Republic)   Wolfram Mey (Germany)
David S. Boukal (Czech Republic)   Ricardo Palma (New Zealand)
Freddy Bravo (Brazil)   Dávid Rédei (China)
Gregory R. Curler (USA)   Aleš Smetana (Canada)
Vladimir M. Gnezdilov (Russia)   Alexey Yu. Solodovnikov (Denmark)
Zdeněk Laštůvka (Czech Republic)   Sonja Wedmann (Germany)

Digital archive compliant with ICZN requierements: https://www.biotaxa.org/