Revision of the Genus Amblypelta Stål (Hemiptera, Coreidae)

1958 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 509-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. S. Bkown
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
The West ◽  
Bismarck Archipelago ◽  
New Hebrides ◽  
Species Groups

SummaryIn view of the discovery of several new species and subspecies of Amblypelta (Hemiptera, COREIDAE), some of which are either known to be or else threaten to become of economic importance, a revision of the whole genus has become necessary.The genus Amblypelta, as defined in the present paper and as known so far, is confined to Australia north of Sydney, the islands between Australia and New Guinea, New Guinea and, to the west, the Kai Is., Timor and Java; the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands including Bougainville, Eennell and Bellona; the New Hebrides and New Caledonia. In the present revision of the genus, twelve species and five subspecies are included, of which all but seven species are new to science. Apart from the descriptions of the new species and subspecies, taxonomic notes on the previously known species are given as well as a key to all the species.The known distribution of each species is stated, and consideration given to the zoogeography of the genus as a whole, and of certain species-groups which can be recognised within the genus.

Revision of Tricimba Lioy and Aprometopis Becker (Diptera : Chloropidae) from Australia and the Papuan region

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 297 ◽  
Author(s):  
JW Ismay
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Bismarck Archipelago ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
One New Species

The genus Tricimba. in its broadest sense. is revised from Australia. New Guinea. and Bismarck and Solomon Islands and Vanuatu . In all, 66 species are recorded from Australia. 39 from New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago. five from the Solomon Islands and two from Vanuatu . A total of 96 species is included in the keys: seven described species. 87 new species of Tricimba (T . aberrans. T . acuta, T. acuticercalis, T. aliciae, T. angustigena, T. antennata, T. approximata, T. aurata, T. aureopilosa, T. auriculata, T. biannulata, T. biloba, T. biseta, T. breviradialis, T. cana, T. calcarula, T. cardamomi, T. concava, T. difficilis, T. digitata, T. distigma, T. diversa, T. edentata, T. elongata, T. excavata, T, exsinuata, T. exvittata, T. facialis, T. flaw, T. flavigena, T. flavitibia, T. flavoscutellata, T. fusciseta, T. grevei, T. hardyi, T. katepisternalis, T. lactipennata, T. laevigata, T. languida, T. lata, T. latigena, T. liepae, T. longicercalis, T. longigena, T. longiseta, T. lutea, T. maculata, T. major, T. melanochaeta, T. minuta, T. monochaeta, T. monosticha, T. muitiseta, T. nigriseta, T. nitens, T. nitidifrons, T. nitidissima, T. obscura, T. occidentalis, T. oligochaeta, T. pandanicola, T. papuensis, T. parksorum, T. pendula, T, pilioculata, T. pilosa, T. pinguiseta, T. planiscutellata, T. pleichaeta, T. priori, T. propinqua, T. pubiantennata, T. quadriseta, T. rectiantennata, T. scrobiculata, T, simplex, T. solomonensis, T. tasrnanensis, T. tenuis, T. thistletoni, T. tibialis, T. tomentosa, T. tuberoscula, T. uniseta, T. vanuatensis, T. vulgaris, T. wauensis), one new species of Aprometopis (A. australis) and one new genus and species (Pseudotricimba anomala). Tricimba steatodae Hickman, 1971 is newly synonymised with T. convexa Malloch, 1927. The species considered are grouped into three genera and 17 species-groups within Tricimba. The relationships of the species-groups with each other and with extra-limital species-groups, and the relationships of the genera are tabulated and discussed. The genera Nartshukiella, Euhippelates, Eutricimba and Crassivenula are considered to correspond to the level of species-groups of Tricimba in this revision and are synonymised with Tricimba. The relationships of the tribes Tricimbini and Incertellini are discussed.

Dysdercus sidae. [Distribution map].

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Host Plants ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Irian Jaya ◽  
New Hebrides ◽  
New Distribution

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Dysdercus sidae Montr. (D. insular is Stål) (Hemipt., Pyrrhocoridae). Host Plants: Cotton, kapok, Hibiscus spp. Information is given on the geographical distribution in AUSTRALASIA AND PACIFIC ISLANDS, Australia, Fiji, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Niue, Papua & New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Wallis Islands, Irian Jaya.

Drechslera incurvata. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].

1972 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. B. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Leaf Spot ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Cocos Nucifera ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
New Hebrides

Abstract A description is provided for Drechslera incurvata. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. HOSTS: Cocos nucifera. DISEASE: A leaf spot of young coconut (Cocos nucifera). The spots are at first small, oval, brown; enlarging and becoming pale buff in the centre with a broad, dark brown margin. In severe attacks the edges of leaves become extensively necrotic. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: Apart from records from Jamaica and Seychelles the fungus has been reported only from S.E. Asia, Australasia and Oceania: British Solomon Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Malaysia (W., Sabah, Sarawak), New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Papua-New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Thailand. TRANSMISSION: Presumably air dispersed.

Ficus subgen. pharmacosycea with reference to the species of New Caledonia

1970 ◽  
Vol 259 (831) ◽  
pp. 383-433 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Morphological Evolution ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Coral Sea ◽  
Evolutionary Line ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
New Hebrides

The biogeography of the subgenus is correlated with the morphological evolution of the species. From a source round the Coral Sea the subgenus has diversified into four evolutionary lines, namely sect. Pharmacosycea (America), ser. Nervosae (Indo-Pacific), ser. Vasculosae (Afro-Indo-Pacific) and ser. Austrocaledonicae (New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, New Hebrides). The last in its isolation shows the pachycaul-leptocaul evolution. F. pseudojaca (New Guinea) is critical in this interpretation. F. smithii is removed to ser. Nervosae. F. pritchardii (Fiji) is removed to sect. Sycocarpus subsect. Papuasyce in alliance with F. microdictya , but this group may relate with ancestral Pharmacosycea . The species of ser. Austrocaledonicae are described and illustrated to show this unique evolutionary line: F. lifouensis (Loyalty Isl.) is described as new. In ser. Nervosae , in the alliance of F. pachysycia , two new species are described, F. homodroma and F. mesotes .

Arpactophilus reassessed, with three bizarre new species from New Guinea (Hymenotpera : Sphecidae : Pemphredonindae)

1988 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 737 ◽  
Author(s):  
AS Menke
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
New Britain

Diagnostic characters of the Australian genus Arpactophilus are reviewed and augmented. Spilornena is demonstrated to be very similar morphologically, and the distinctions between the two genera are discussed. The known distribution of Arpactophilus now includes New Guinea, New Britain, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, and Fiji. Three new species of the genus are described from New Guinea: A. preposterus, A. rhinocerus and A. papua. The maxillary palpi of Arpactophilus, Spilomena, Xysrna and Microstigrnus are 5-segmented, not 6- as previously assumed. These four genera are removed from the subtribe Stigmina, and placed in a new subtribe, the Spilomenina.

The genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in Melanesia and Oceania

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1502 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
HEIKKI HIPPA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The Other

The following new species of Manota are described: M. biunculata (Papua New Guinea), M. evexa (Papua New Guinea), M. explicans (Papua New Guinea), M. gemella (Ambon, Maluku Utara, Indonesia), M. hirsuta (Papua New Guinea), M. orthacantha (Papua New Guinea), M. parilis (Papua New Guinea), M. pentacantha (Solomon Islands), M. perissochaeta (Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands), M. serawei (Papua New Guinea), M. sicula (Papua New Guinea), M. spathula (Papua New Guinea), M. subspathula (Papua New Guinea) and M. tricuspis (Fiji). Manota ctenophora Matile (New Caledonia), M. maorica Edwards (New Zealand) and M. taedia Matile (New Caledonia) are redescribed. Manota hamulata Colless, previously known from Palau, is redescribed and recorded from Papua New Guinea. Manota pacifica Edwards from Samoa is discussed and compared with the other species of the region. A key to the Melanesian and Oceanian species of Manota is given.

Ficus in the Solomon Islands and its bearing on the post-jurassic history of Melanesia

1967 ◽  
Vol 253 (783) ◽  
pp. 23-159 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Caledonia ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Geographical Unit ◽  
New Hebrides ◽  
Tropical America ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Britain ◽  
Asian Mainland ◽  
The Tropical Pacific

The fig-flora of the Solomon Islands (Bougainville to San Cristobal) is exceptionally rich (63 species, 23 endemic). It is related to that of New Guinea but differs in the species of four groups, namely subgen. Pharmacosycea (3 endemics), subgen. Ficus sect. Sycidium ser. Scabrae (6 endemics), sect. Sycocarpus subsect. Auriculisperma (5 endemics), and subsect. Sycocarpus (8 endemics); the other endemic is in sect. Adenosperma . The effect is a flora that defines the Solomons as a geographical unit. These four subgeneric groups appear to have arisen in this part of Melanesia and to have spread thence with varying success through Malaysia to the Asian mainland. Eastwards ser. Scabrae has evolved in Polynesia and subgen. Pharmacosycea in New Caledonia. Most of the 36 species common with New Guinea terminate their eastward distribution in San Cristobal; nine extend to New Hebrides and two of these to Polynesia. Four dispersal arcs are recognized: (i) the Melanesian Foreland linking northern New Guinea, New Ireland, New Britain, the Solomons, New Hebrides and, perhaps, Fiji; (ii) the Australian Foreland linking southern New Guinea, Queensland and New Caledonia; (iii) a subsidiary connexion between the Solomons, New Hebrides and New Caledonia; (iv) the tropical Pacific fig-route which, as the oldest, connected with tropical America. These conclusions put Melanesia as a centre of Ficus -evolution and, therefore, the distribution of the Melanesian groups of Ficus becomes a prime chronological factor in the post-Jurassic history of Melanesia. Ficus is taken as an example of the durian theory in the sense of the evolution of the modern tree. The rule is formulated that, without a pachycaul predecessor, there can have been no major subgeneric evolution. Surviving pachycauls are descendents of the stocks from which the new groups have spread. Hence pachycaul geography becomes a basis for phytogeography. New taxa are : F. cristobalensis, F. dissipata, F. illiberalis, F. immanis, F. macrothyrsa var. lancifolia, F. novae-georgiae, F. oleracea var. villosa, F. pseudowassa, F. scaposa and F. tanypoda .

A revision of Neoaratus Ricardo, with the description of six allied new genera from the Australian region (Diptera : Asilidae : Asilini)

1987 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 473
Author(s):  
G Daniels
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Female Reproductive System ◽  
Pupal Exuviae ◽  
New Synonyms ◽  
As Species ◽  
New Hebrides

Neoaratus Ricardo is redefined and considered as monotypic. Six new genera, Abrophila, Colepia, Dolopus, Mauropteron, Reburrus and Zosteria, are erected to accommodate 19 species previously placed in Neoaratus as well as 39 new species described below. The following are proposed as new synonyms: Asilus grandis Macquart, 1848 = A. rufiventris Macquart, 1838; Asilus leon Walker, 1849 = A. rubrithorax Macquart, 1838; Mochtherus lautus van der Wulp, 1872 = A. biligata Walker, 1864; Asilus ferrugineiventris Macquart, 1850 = A. fulvipubescens Macquart, 1850. Asilus grandis Macquart is removed from synonymy with Neoaratus hercules (Wiedemann) and proposed as a synonym of A. rufiventris Macquart, 1838. Abrophila whitei is proposed as a replacement name for the preoccupied Asilus aureus White, 1918. The following are new combinations: Colepia abludo (Daniels, 1983), C. ingloria (Macleay, 1826), C. malleola (Walker, 1849), C. rufiventris (Macquart, 1838); Dolopus genitalis (Hardy, 1920), D. rubrithorax (Macquart, 1838); Mauropteron pelago (Walker, 1849); Reburrus bancrofti (Hardy, 1935), R. kochi (de Meijere, 1913), R. macquarti (Bigot, 1860), R. wieneckii (van der Wulp, 1872); Zosteria alcetas (Walker, 1849), Z. biligata (Walker, 1864); Z. fulvipubescens (Macquart, 1850), Z. iflingworthi (Hardy, 1922), Z. murina (Macquart, 1838), Z. rosevillensis (Hardy, 1935), Z. sydneensis (Macquart, 1838). The following new species are described: Colepia chrysochaites, C. comatacauda, C. compernis, C. cultripes, C. flavifacies, C. horrida, C. ignicolor, C. lanata, C. naevia, C. novaeguineae; Dolopus mirus, D. silvestris, D. simulans; Mauropteron farinum; Reburrus aquilonius, R. caledonicae, R. peninsularis; Zosteria affinis, Z. alpina, Z. caesariata, Z. calignea, Z, claudiana, Z. clausum, Z. clivosa, Z. eastwoodi, Z. hispida, Z. lineata, Z. longiceps, Z. montana, Z, nigrifemorata, Z. novazealandica, Z. punicea, Z. queenslandi, Z. rubens, Z. ruspata, Z. suda, Z. varia and Z. venato. All seven genera occur in Australia. Species of three genera, Colepia, Reburrus and Zosteria, also occur elsewhere, as follows: Timor (R. wieneckii], New Guinea (C. novaeguineae, R. kocki, Z. biligata and Z. illingworthi), New Caledonia and New Hebrides (R. caledonicae and R. macquarti], and New Zealand (Z. novazealandica). Z. illingworthi is common to Australia and New Guinea. The female reproductive system and the components of the male terminalia are illustrated and briefly described for most species. Pupal exuviae of C. ingloria, C. malleola, C, rufiventris, N. hercules, Z. fulvipubescens and Z. sydneensis are illustrated and/or described. Keys to the genera of Australian Asilini and the species of the new genera are given. Lectotypes are designated for Antipalus wieneckii, Asilus ferrugineiventris, A. leon, A. murinus, A. pelago, A. rufiventris, Neoaratus bancrofti and N. rosevillensis. Asilus regius Jaennicke and Asilus tasmaniae Macquart, formerly considered as species of Neoaratus, are not treated because their status is uncertain.

The phanerogamic flora of the New Hebrides and its relationships

1975 ◽  
Vol 272 (918) ◽  
pp. 315-328 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Caledonia ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Floristic Composition ◽  
Regional Differentiation ◽  
The West ◽  
Plant Dispersal ◽  
Total Absence ◽  
Composition And Structure ◽  
New Hebrides ◽  
Occurrence Of Species

The phanerogamic flora of the New Hebrides is mainly of the Malesian type both in floristic composition and structure of the vegetation. It is however a depauperate sample with fewer families and genera, most of which have a high proportion of elements with very wide geographical ranges of distribution. Most of the species have also been observed to have great ecological amplitude. At the level of family and genus, there is a total absence of endemic and relic elements; and only at the species level is there an appreciable degree of endemism. Unlike the Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides flora does show some regional differentiation. The northern islands appear to differ from the southern islands not only in frequencies of occurrence of species but also in the actual presence/absence of many significant groups. The flora of the New Hebrides has been found to have closer affinities with those of Fiji, Samoa and Tonga to the east than to islands to the west and northwest, despite the fact that the New Hebrides are closer geographically to the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia. It is suggested that the New Hebrides have a very young immigrant flora and that the colonization of the archipelago has taken place very rapidly in very recent times. It is also maintained that plant dispersal to the islands has been trans-marine rather than by migration over land.

scholarly journals Definition of the Bradysia luctifica group (Diptera, Sciaridae), with the description of five new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4576 (1) ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
PEKKA VILKAMAA ◽  
ANNA SUURONEN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
South Australia ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
Bismarck Archipelago ◽  
Definition Of

The Bradysia luctifica group is characterized for a number of species with an Oriental-Australasian distribution. The group includes the following species: Bradysia abrupta sp. n. (Malaysia: Pahang, Selangor), B. calicula sp. n. (Malaysia: Sabah), B. conflexa sp. n. (Malaysia: Pahang), B. fornicata sp. n. (Malaysia: Pahang), B. luctifica (Skuse, 1888) (Australia: South Australia, Indonesia: Ceram, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea), B. robusta Mohrig, 2015 (Papua New Guinea) and B. torosa sp. n. (Papua New Guinea: Bismarck Archipelago). The species are keyed and the new species are described and illustrated. 

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