A partial revision of the tribe Massonieae (Hyacinthaceae) 1. Survey, including three novelties from Namibia: A new genus, a second species in the monotypic Whiteheadia, and a new combination in Massonia

The small lacewing genus Apertochrysa comprises species from Africa, Asia and Australia. All lack a tignum, but otherwise resemble distantly related genera. We show that Apertochrysa does not form a monophyletic clade, based on analyses of molecular sequence data and morphological traits such as the presence and shape of the male gonapsis, wing venation, and larval setae. Apertochrysa kichijoi forms a clade with Eremochrysa, Suarius and Chrysemosa, whereas A. albolineatoides belongs to a clade that includes Cunctochrysa. Apertochrysa albolineatoides should become a new combination as Cunctochrysa albolineatoides, while A. kichijoi will have to be transferred to a new genus. The Australian A. edwardsi, the African A. eurydera and the type species of the genus Apertochrysa, A. umbrosa, join the large Pseudomallada group. Relationships of A. umbrosa are less certain, because for it we could amplify only one of the three nuclear genes used in the overall analysis. However, in all morphological traits tested, that species strongly resembles A. edwardsi and A. eurydera and thus is very likely just another exceptional Pseudomallada lacking a tignum. The fate of the genus name Apertochrysa depends on additional molecular and morphological analyses of A. umbrosa.

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Molecular support for the recognition of the Mycoblastus fucatus group as the new genus Violella (Tephromelataceae, Lecanorales)

The Lichenologist ◽

10.1017/s0024282911000478 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 43 (5) ◽

pp. 445-466 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Toby SPRIBILLE ◽

Bernard GOFFINET ◽

Barbara KLUG ◽

Lucia MUGGIA ◽

Walter OBERMAYER ◽

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Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

New Genus ◽

Russian Far East ◽

Far East ◽

Elongation Factor ◽

New Combination ◽

Translation Elongation ◽

Secondary Chemistry ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

AbstractThe crustose lichen genus Mycoblastus in the Northern Hemisphere includes eight recognized species sharing large, simple ascospores produced 1–2 per ascus in strongly pigmented biatorine apothecia. The monophyly of Mycoblastus and the relationship of its various species to Tephromelataceae have never been studied in detail. Data from ITS rDNA and the genes coding for translation elongation factor 1-α and DNA replication licensing factor mini-chromosome maintenance complex 7 support the distinctness of Mycoblastus s. str. from the core of the Tephromelataceae, but recover M. fucatus and an undescribed Asian species as strongly supported within the latter group. We propose accommodating these two species in a new genus, Violella, which is characterized by its brownish inner ascospore walls, Fucatus-violet hymenial pigment granules and secondary chemistry, and discuss the position of Violella relative to Calvitimela and Tephromela. We describe the new species Violella wangii T. Sprib. & Goffinet to accommodate a new species with roccellic acid from Bhutan, China, India and the Russian Far East. We also exclude Mycoblastus indicus Awasthi & Agarwal from the genus Mycoblastus and propose for it the new combination Malmidea indica (Awasthi & Agarwal) Hafellner & T. Sprib.

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Neotherevella, a new genus of Therevidae (Diptera) from the Palaearctic and Afrotropical Regions

Insect Systematics & Evolution ◽

10.1163/187631278x00241 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 75-76

Author(s):

Leif Lyneborg

Keyword(s):

Type Species ◽

New Genus ◽

New Combination ◽

New Synonymy

AbstractNeotherevella n.gen. is proposed as a replacement for Neothereva Kröber sensu Lyneborg (1976). Neothereva Kröber, 1912, is placed in new synonymy with Thereva Latreille, 1796, as the consequence of an overlooked designation of a type-species for Neothereva Kröber, 1912, by Kröber (1935). Neotherevella is fully described. Five specific names are placed in new combination with Neotherevella, which is known from Namibia, Mauritania, Algeria, Sudan, Egypt, Israel, Uzbechistan and Mongolia. It is demonstrated that two species described in combination with Neothereva by Zaitzev (1970) do not belong to Neotherevella.

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Iljinskaea (Brassicaceae), a new genus based on Conringia planisiliqua

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.500.2.7 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 500 (2) ◽

pp. 142-146

Author(s):

IHSAN A. AL-SHEHBAZ ◽

BARIŞ ÖZÜDOĞRU ◽

DMITRY A. GERMAN

Keyword(s):

New Genus ◽

Critical Evaluation ◽

New Combination ◽

Phylogenetic Data ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic Data

Iljinskaea is described as a new monospecific genus based on a critical evaluation of morphology and in light of the extensive molecular phylogenetic data. The new combination I. planisiliqua is proposed, and the distinguishing characters separating the new genus from Conringia are discussed. The new tribal assignment of Iljinskaea in the Isatideae is discussed and compared with the previous placement in the Conringieae.

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Synonymy and descriptions in Cerambycinae (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from Costa Rica

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4319.1.10 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4319 (1) ◽

pp. 177

Author(s):

MARIA HELENA M. GALILEO ◽

ANTONIO SANTOS-SILVA

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Costa Rica ◽

New Genus ◽

Junior Synonym ◽

New Combination ◽

Monotypic Genus

Hudepohlellus Chemsak & Hovore, 2010, a monotypic genus, is considered a junior synonym of Monneellus Hüdepohl, 1985 and M. semilunatus (Chemsak & Hovore, 2010) is a new combination. Kozlovellus bicolor, a new genus and new species of Rhopalophorini is described from Costa Rica.

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Notes on Cretaceous amber Braconidae (Hymenoptera), with descriptions of two new genera

Novitates Paleoentomologicae ◽

10.17161/np.v0i15.5704 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 1 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Michael S. Engel

Keyword(s):

Late Cretaceous ◽

New Genus ◽

Hind Wing ◽

New Combination ◽

New Genera ◽

New Genus And Species ◽

Incertae Sedis

A new genus and species of basal cyclostome Braconidae is described and figured from a male preserved in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar. Rhetinorhyssalus morticinus Engel, new genus and species, is interesting for its combination of primitive features such as a minute apical costal cell and anal stubs in the forewing, while lacking 2Cu in the hind wing, a putatively derived trait. As such, the genus may represent a lineage diverging from the braconid stem subsequent to many protorhyssalines, while remaining basal relative to generalized cyclostome groups such as Rhyssalinae. In addition, the Late Cretaceous Diospilus allani Brues, in Campanian Canadian amber, is transferred to Diorhyssalus Engel, new genus, and its similarity to Rhetinorhyssalus is discussed. This transfer results in the new combination, Diorhyssalus allani (Brues). Both genera are tentatively considered as subfamily incertae sedis.

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Flabelloporina, a new genus in the Porinaceae (Ascomycota, Ostropales), with the first record of F. squamulifera from Brazil

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.358.1.4 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 358 (1) ◽

pp. 67 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

PRISCYLLA NAYARA BEZERRA SOBREIRA ◽

MARCELA EUGENIA DA SILVA CÁCERES ◽

LEONOR COSTA MAIA ◽

ROBERT LÜCKING

Keyword(s):

Costa Rica ◽

New Genus ◽

First Record ◽

Lichenized Fungi ◽

New Combination ◽

The Family ◽

First Time

A new genus of lichenized fungi of the family Porinaceae is described, known from Costa Rica and Brazil. Flabelloporina Sobreira, M. Cáceres & Lücking is a thus far monospecific genus with an isolated position of its only species in the family, morphologically different from all other genera in Porinaceae. The genus is characterized by the production of numerous, flabelliform squamules on the surface of the thallus, together with black perithecia and transversally septate ascospores (with three septa in the only species). The new combination Flabelloporina squamulifera (Breuss, Lücking & Navarro) Sobreira, M. Cáceres & Lücking is proposed, based on Porina squamulifera Breuss, Lücking & Navarro, and the species is for the first time reported from Brazil.

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Clarification of the confusion surrounding the generic name Bryomorphe Harv. (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae), and the new genus Muscosomorphe J.C.Manning

Bothalia ◽

10.38201/btha.abc.v51.i2.8 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 51 (2) ◽

Author(s):

John Manning ◽

Rafael Govaerts

Keyword(s):

New Genus ◽

New Combination ◽

Monotypic Genus

The monotypic genus Bryomorphe Harv. is found to be homotypic with Klenzea lycopodioides Sch.Bip., which is considered to be a later synonym of Dolichothrix ericoides (Lam.) Hilliard & Burtt, and Bryomorphe is thus a synonym of Dolichothrix. The new genus Muscosomorphe J.C.Manning is proposed to accommodate the species previously included in Bryomorphe as B. aretioides (Turcz) Druce, along with the new combination M. aretioides (Turcz) J.C.Manning.

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Description of a new genus and species of Candonopsini (Crustacea, Ostracoda, Candoninae) from the alluvial valley of the Upper Parana River (Brazil, South America)

European Journal of Taxonomy ◽

10.5852/ejt.2012.33 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Janet Higuti ◽

Koen Martens

Keyword(s):

New Genus ◽

Terminal Segment ◽

Paraná River ◽

New Combination ◽

New Genus And Species ◽

Alluvial Valley ◽

Parana River ◽

Mandibular Palp ◽

Upper Paraná River ◽

Basal Width

The genus Candobrasilopsis gen. nov. is here described, with C. rochai gen. nov. sp. nov. as type species, from the alluvial valley of the Upper Paraná River. The enigmatic Candonopsis brasiliensis Sars, 1901 is here redescribed and transferred to this new genus, the new combination being Candobrasilopsis brasiliensis (Sars, 1901). The new candonid genus belongs to the tribe Candonopsini, because of the absence of the proximal seta on the caudal ramus. It is closely related to Latinopsis Karanovic & Datry, 2009, because of the relatively short terminal segment of the mandibular palp (length less than 1.5 times the basal width, while this segment is longer than three times the basal width in Candonopsis) and the large and stout b-seta on the T1. However, it differs markedly from Latinopsis in the size and shape of the calcified inner lamellae of both valves and in the type of hemipenis. We also discuss the doubtful allocation of several other genera to the Candonopsini, raise Abcandonopsis Karanovic, 2004 to generic status and reassess the uncertain position of Candonopsis anisitsi Daday, 1905 within Latinopsis.

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