New Trypetidae (Dipt.) from South Africa, II

1931 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. K. Munro
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
Plant Material ◽  
British Museum ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
Publication Delay ◽  
State Of Affairs

The following descriptions axe based on material collected or reared by the author, together with specimens reared from host-plant material collected by colleagues to whom the author's thanks are due.From the descriptions it will be further evident that the generic location of new species is still difficult, but this state of affairs can only be remedied by a monographic revision of the African Trypetidae. It is felt, however, that although the author has such a work in progress, it is not desirable to hurry publication. Delay is advisable, especially in view of the number of new species continually being found, and the frequent need for the formation of new genera.Types of the new species are in the author's collection ; paratypes so far as available will be placed in the British Museum.

Carmenta chromolaenae Eichlin, a new species (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) for the biological control of Chromolaena odorata (L.) King & Robinson (Asteraceae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2288 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
THOMAS D. EICHLIN ◽  
OONA S. DELGADO ◽  
LORRAINE W. STRATHIE ◽  
COSTAS ZACHARIADES ◽  
JOSE CLAVIJO
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Biological Control ◽  
New Species ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
Control Agent ◽  
Chromolaena Odorata ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Invasive Range ◽  
Clearwing Moth ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Sesiidae, Carmenta chromolaenae Eichlin, is described to make the name available to researchers evaluating the moth's potential for biological control of its host plant, Chromolaena odorata, in South Africa and other parts of the plant's invasive range. This clearwing moth species was reared from the host plant in Venezuela. The adult moth, including the male and female genitalia, larva, and pupa are described and illustrated. Its biology and possible use as a control agent are discussed.

Whiteflies of Belize (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)Part 2óa review of the subfamily Aleyrodinae Westwood

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 1098 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JON H. MARTIN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Check List ◽  
Forest Reserve ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Putative Species ◽  
Taxonomic Changes

A field survey of Sternorrhyncha (Hemiptera) in Belize, principally conducted within the Chiquibul Forest Reserve (CFR), has revealed almost 200 species of whiteflies, all but 40 of them belonging to the subfamily Aleyrodinae. Provided here is an illustrated account of described Belize species of Aleyrodidae-Aleyrodinae. This account proposes three new generic synonymies, three new specific synonymies, nine ten combinations, one revalidated species and provides descriptions of three new genera and 12 new species. Two appendices are provided: a check list, which includes species remaining undescribed, and the associated host-plant genera or families (when known) of all putative species; and a summary of taxonomic changes proposed here. Line drawings and/or photographs of slide-mounted puparia are provided for all described species, and photographs alone are provided for a few of the more distinctive species that remain undescribed.

A new species of eriophyoid mite (Acari: Eriophyoidea: Eriophyidae) on Leucadendron argenteum (L.) R. Br. from South Africa

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3085 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
DANIEL R. L. PYE
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Species ◽  
Plant Material ◽  
Mite Species ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Eriophyoid Mites ◽  
Eriophyoid Mite ◽  
A New Species

A new vagrant eriophyoid mite species, collected from plant material imported into the United Kingdom, is described and illustrated: Aceria argentae n. sp. found on Leucadendron argenteum (L.) R. Br. (Proteaceae) from South Africa. A review of the eriophyoid mite species known from plants in the Proteaceae is also provided and recent findings of non-native eriophyoid mites in the United Kingdom are discussed.

scholarly journals New genera, species and host plant records of Nearctic and Neotropical Tephritidae (Diptera)

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2398 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALLEN L. NORRBOM ◽  
BRUCE D. SUTTON ◽  
GARY J. STECK ◽  
JOSÉ MONZÓN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
New Genera ◽  
New Distribution

Three new genera and five new species of Tephritidae (Diptera) are described from the Nearctic and Neotropical Regions. The new genera are: Agallamyia Norrbom (type species: A. pendula Norrbom, n. sp.), Neosphaeniscus Norrbom (type species: Euribia m-nigrum Hendel), and Phacelochaeta Norrbom (type species: Procecidochares quinquefasciata Hendel). The new species include: Acidogona stecki Norrbom (Guatemala, Mexico: Chiapas), Agallamyia pendula Norrbom (Guatemala), Phacelochaeta obliqua Norrbom (Ecuador), Procecidochares suttoni Norrbom (Guatemala), Stenopa mexicana Norrbom (Mexico). Five new generic synonyms are proposed: Cecidocharella Hendel, 1936 =4 · Zootaxa 2398 © 2010 Magnolia PressDracontomyia Becker, 1919; Gerrhoceras Hering, 1942 = Pyrgotoides Curran, 1934; Stoneola Hering, 1941 = Rhagoletis Loew, 1862; Strobelia Rondani, 1868 = Rachiptera Bigot, 1859; and Xenochaeta Snow, 1894 = Acidogona Loew, 1873. The following 41 new combinations are proposed: Acidogona dichromata (Snow), Dictyotrypeta crenulata (Wulp), D. incisa (Wulp), Dioxyna crockeri (Curran), Dracontomyia tucumana (Aczél), D. borrichia (Bush & Huettel), and D. elegans (Hendel), Homoeothrix aberrans (Schiner), Neosphaeniscus m-nigrum (Hendel) and N. flexuosus (Bigot), Paracantha trinotata (Foote), Phacelochaeta quinquefasciata (Hendel) and P. quinquevittata (Norrbom), Plaumannimyia ameghinoi (Brèthes), P. coelestina (Hering), P. delicatella (Blanchard), P. difficilis (Malloch), P. dolores (Hering), P. eugenia (Wulp), P. flava (Adams), P. hestiae (Hendel), P. imitatrix (Hering), P. miseta (Hering), P. plagiata (Blanchard), P. scutellata (Séguy), P. setulosa (Malloch), P. subaster (Malloch), P. suspecta (Malloch), P. thomsoni (Hendel), P. titschacki (Hering), and P. valdesiana (Gandolfo & Norrbom), Pyrgotoides paradoxus (Hering) and P. peruvianus (Korytkowski), Rachiptera alboguttata (Hendel), R. baccharidis (Rondani), R. bimaculata (Hendel), R. ferruginea (Hendel), R. lutulenta (Hendel), R. parallela (Hendel), and R. rubiginosa (Rondani), and Rhagoletis fuscobasalis (Hering). A lectotype is designated for R. fuscobasalis. New distribution and host plant records also are reported.

Two new Afrotropical genera and species of braconine wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with descriptions of new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2476 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
KHALID MAHMOOD ◽  
JENO PAPP ◽  
DONALD L. J. QUICKE
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Two New Species

Two new genera Presoter gen. nov. and Admonitosoter gen. nov. (Braconinae, Braconidae) are erected to include two new species from the southern part of Africa. These species are Presoter yusufi sp. nov., from South Africa and Admonitosoter rafiqui sp. nov. from Congo. These new genera appear closely related to Serrundabracon Achterberg and Soter Saussure.

Lichenicolous ascomycetes onSiphula-like lichens, with a key to the species

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-73
Author(s):  
Jurga MOTIEJŪNAITĖ ◽  
Mikhail P. ZHURBENKO ◽  
Ave SUIJA ◽  
Gintaras KANTVILAS
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Species Richness ◽  
New Species ◽  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
Northern Hemisphere ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
Lichenicolous Fungi ◽  
Species Being

AbstractSixteen species of lichenicolous fungi are documented fromSiphula-like lichens. Two new genera based on new species are introduced.AmylogallaSuija, Motiej. & Kantvilas, characterized by I+ blue, K/I+ violet vegetative hyphae and ascomatal wall, immersed, cleistohymenial, yellowish to orange ascomata, unitunicate, non-amyloid, 8-spored asci and hyaline, ellipsoid, aseptate ascospores, is described fromParasiphulain Tasmania.SaaniaZhurb., characterized by superficial, stromatic, multilocular ascomata, non-amyloid hymenial gel, persistent periphysoids, bitunicate, non-amyloid, 4(–8)-spored asci and narrowly obovate to ellipsoid, 1(–3)-septate, initially hyaline and smooth-walled, later sometimes brown and verruculose ascospores, is described fromSiphulain South Africa. Four additional species are described as new: two fromSiphula(Cercidospora santessoniiMotiej., Zhurb., Suija & Kantvilas andStigmidium kashiwadaniiZhurb.) and two fromParasiphula(Endococcus hafellnerianusMotiej., Suija & Kantvilas andPyrenidium macrosporumMotiej., Zhurb., Suija & Kantvilas). Additional hosts and/or expanded geographical ranges are reported forAabaarnia siphulicola,Epigloea soleiformis, Plectocarpon gayanumandPyrenidium actinellum. The Southern Hemisphere is the centre of species richness for siphulicolous fungi, with 12 species restricted to this region. Taxa recorded for the Northern Hemisphere areSphaerellothecium siphulae(arctic and boreal) and the subcosmopolitanEpigloea soleiformisandPyrenidium actinellum, both of which are also known from various lichen hosts. The distribution of siphulicolous fungi strongly underpins the current generic classification ofSiphula-like lichens, with five species being confined exclusively toParasiphulaand nine toSiphula. A key to the taxa occurring onSiphulaandParasiphulais provided.

THREE NEW SPECIES OF APHIDS FROM IDAHO

1933 ◽  
Vol 65 (11) ◽  
pp. 249-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Forrest W. Miller
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
Plant Material ◽  
Carnegie Museum ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Three New Species

The species here described were collected by Walter R. Sweadner, Department of Zoology, University of Pittsburgh, during 1932. The writer is also indebted to Doctor E. H. Graham, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for the identification of the host plant material.

Revisionary systematics of the endemic soft coral fauna (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Alcyoniina) of the Agulhas Bioregion, South Africa

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4363 (4) ◽  
pp. 451 ◽  
Author(s):  
CATHERINE S. MCFADDEN ◽  
LEEN P. VAN OFWEGEN
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Soft Corals ◽  
Endemic Genus ◽  
Coral Fauna ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Endemic Genera

The Agulhas Bioregion of southern South Africa supports a unique octocoral fauna that is entirely endemic to the region. Recent molecular phylogenetic studies indicate that this endemism extends to deeper taxonomic levels than had previously been recognized, and that most of these endemic species belong to genera and families that are also endemic to South Africa. Here we revise the taxonomy of soft corals (subordinal group Alcyoniina) that were previously assigned to the cosmopolitan families Alcyoniidae, Nephtheidae and Nidaliidae, describing three new families endemic to South Africa, along with four new genera and four new species. We reassign the endemic genera Acrophytum, Pieterfaurea and Lampophyton to Acrophytidae n. fam, and describe a new species of Lampophyton, L. spinatum n. sp. The endemic species Protodendron bruuni is reassigned to a new, monotypic genus, Corymbophyton bruuni n. comb., and family, Corymbophytidae n. fam. The endemic genus Leptophyton is placed in a third new family, Leptophytidae n. fam., along with three new genera that are established for species previously assigned to Alcyonium: Circularius wilsoni n. comb., Porphyrophyton distinctum n. comb., and Tenerodus fallax n. comb. In addition, we describe new species of Leptophyton, L. fustis n. sp.; Tenerodus, T. pollex n. gen. n. sp.; and Alcyonium, A. dolium n. sp.; reassign Protodendron verseveldti to Tenerodus verseveldti n. comb.; and reassign the endemic genus Dimorphophyton to family Paralcyoniidae. Although molecular phylogenetic analyses unite Acrophytidae, Corymbophytidae and Leptophytidae within a well-supported monophyletic group, both morphological and molecular distinctions support maintaining them as three separate families. These revisions increase the number of endemic species of shallow-water soft corals known from the Agulhas Bioregion to 40, and the number of endemic genera to 13. 

scholarly journals Mantophasmatodea from the Richtersveld in South Africa with description of two new genera and species

ZooKeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 746 ◽  
pp. 137-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Wipfler ◽  
Tobias Theska ◽  
Reinhard Predel
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Small Area ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Common Occurrence ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
The Village

Two new species and two new genera (Kuboesphasma, Minutophasma) of Mantophasmatodea that occur in the Richtersveld region of South Africa are described. Kuboesphasmacompactum gen. n., sp. n. was found only in a small area near the village of Kuboes, while Minutophasmarichtersveldense gen. n., sp. n. apparently inhabits a larger area in the Richtersveld. With these two new species, a total of four different mantophasmatodeans are known to live in this area. This is a remarkable exception to the remaining representatives of this order, where even a common occurrence of only two species is rare. We discuss this sympatry in the context of the phylogeny of the group. Additionally, we provide a map of the known distributions and a table with the most important taxonomic features of the mantophasmatodeans in the Richtersveld.

A new Nodulosphaeria contrasted with N. olivacea and Leptosphaeria erigerontis

1990 ◽  
Vol 68 (7) ◽  
pp. 1574-1577
Author(s):  
R. A. Shoemaker ◽  
C. E. Babcock
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Plant Material ◽  
Species Concepts ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Type Studies ◽  
A New Species

A new species of pyrenomycete, Nodulosphaeria edgari, is described from western Canada and western U.S.A. A closely related species, Nodulosphaeria olivacea (Ellis) L. Holm, is redescribed from the lectotype and additional collections from western U.S.A. The two species sometimes occur together on the same host plant material. Nodulosphaeria edgari was previously reported from western U.S.A. under the misapplied names Leptosphaeria erigerontis (Berlese) Berlese and Nodulosphaeria olivacea. Species concepts are stabilized based on type studies of the three taxa. Host plant and geographic records are revised.

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