Mystacinid bats (Microchiroptera) from the Australian Tertiary

1998 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 538-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. Hand ◽  
P. Murray ◽  
D. Megirian ◽  
M. Archer ◽  
H. Godthelp
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Middle Miocene ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
South American ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
The Family ◽  
Three New Species

A new genus and three new species of the microchiropteran family Mystacinidae are described from Miocene freshwater limestones in northern Australia. The type species,Icarops brevicepsnew genus and species, is from the middle Miocene Bullock Creek deposit, Northern Territory;I. aenaenew species andI. paradoxnew species are from the slightly older (early Miocene) Wayne's Wok and Neville's Garden Sites at Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Fossil mystacinids are rare in each deposit and represented so far only by lower teeth and dentary fragments. They are characterized by a suite of apomorphies shared only with Quaternary mystacinids endemic to New Zealand. The family Mystacinidae has no pre-Pleistocene record and its relationships to other groups of bats remain unclear. Possible sister-groups include South American noctilionoids and the cosmopolitan molossoids and/or vespertilionoids. The presence of plesiomorphic mystacinids in the Australian Tertiary suggests an Australian origin for the family.

Revision of the genus Megalopsalis (Arachnida: Opiliones: Phalangioidea) in Australia and New Zealand and implications for phalangioid classification

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2773 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHER K. TAYLOR
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
South American ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Auckland Island ◽  
The Family

A morphological phylogenetic analysis is conducted of Australasian harvestmen previously included in the family Monoscutidae. Monophyly of Monoscutidae is not supported, and the subfamilies Monoscutinae and Megalopsalidinae are synonymised with the South American subfamily Enantiobuninae. Monoscutidae is re-synonymised with the family Neopilionidae. The analysis also demonstrates the polyphyly of species previously assigned to the genus Megalopsalis. Megalopsalis epizephyros new species, M. eremiotis new species, M. leptekes new species and M. pilliga new species are described and M. serritarsus and M. hoggi are redescribed, all from Australia. Hypomegalopsalis tanisphyros new genus and species is described from Western Australia. Megalopsalis linnaei is transferred to Tercentenarium new genus. Forsteropsalis new genus is established to include species from New Zealand (including Auckland Island): Macropsalis chiltoni (type species), Pantopsalis distincta, Macropsalis fabulosa, Pantopsalis grayi, Megalopsalis grimmetti, Megalopsalis inconstans, Megalopsalis marplesi, Megalopsalis nigra and Pantopsalis wattsi.

scholarly journals A new genus of Liocranidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Tajikistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 583-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuri M. Marusik ◽  
Alexander A. Fomichev
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Family Group ◽  
The Family ◽  
Unique Pair ◽  
Three New Species

A new genus, Platnickgen. n., with three new species, P. shablyaisp. n. (♂, type species), P. astanasp. n. (♀) and P. sangloksp. n. (♀), are described from Tajikistan. The male of the type species has a unique pair of longitudinal ventral postgastral scuta. Females have such scuta also, but they are much shorter. The new genus is placed in Liocranidae Simon, 1897. A discussion on the subfamilies of Liocranidae and comments on the family-group names are provided.

Late Paleozoic edrioasteroids (Echinodermata) from the North American Midcontinent

1996 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 969-985 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin D. Sumrall
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North American ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Late Paleozoic ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
New Classification ◽  
The North ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
To Receive

A new classification is proposed for late Paleozoic Edrioasteroidea (Echinodermata), separating forms with the advanced clavate thecal design from those with the ancestral pyrgate thecal design, and a new Subfamily Discocystinae is erected to receive the clavate agelacrinitid edrioasteroids. Lepidodiscus Meek and Worthen is restricted to the pyrgate type species L. squamosus (Meek and Worthen) and two unnamed species, whereas the clavate L. laudoni (Bassler) is assigned to Clavidiscus, new genus. The clavate Discocystis priesti Strimple and three new species, Hypsiclavus kinsleyi, new genus and species, Hypsiclavus huntsvillensis, new genus and species, and Hypsiclavus guensburgi, new genus and species, are placed in Hypsiclavus, new genus. Bostryclavus, new genus, is erected to receive Echinodiscus sampsoni Miller. A redescription of Discocystis kaskaskiensis (Hall) and a diagnosis of Spiraclavus Sumrall are included for completeness.

Revision of the genus Crepis Jullien (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) with description of a new genus and family and notes on Chlidoniidae

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2993 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
OSCAR REVERTER-GIL ◽  
JAVIER SOUTO ◽  
EUGENIO FERNÁNDEZ-PULPEIRO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Original Material ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Strait Of Gibraltar ◽  
The Family ◽  
Three New Species

The genus Crepis is redescribed from original material held in different institutions and transferred to the family Calloporidae. Crepis longipes, the type species, is redescribed and stabilized by typification. The description of Crepis verticillata is amplified. Three new species are described, all of them previously identified as C. longipes: Crepis harmelini n. sp. from the Strait of Gibraltar, Crepis sidneyi n. sp. from the Indo-Pacific region, and Crepis sinensis n. sp. from the South China Sea. A new genus, Mourellina n. gen., is erected for Crepis decussata, which is split into two species: Mourellina decussata n. comb. and Mourellina gonzaloi n. sp. This genus is placed in its own family, Mourellinidae n. fam., of uncertain affinities. The diagnosis of the family Chlidoniidae, which up to now included the genera Chlidonia and Crepis, is modified by excluding the latter genus.

scholarly journals Re-evaluation of the Cancridae Latreille, 1802 (Decapoda: Brachyura) including three new genera and three new species

2000 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 223-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie E. Schweitzer ◽  
Rodney M. Feldmann
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Middle Eocene ◽  
Geographic Range ◽  
New Genera ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Generic Level ◽  
The Family ◽  
New Material ◽  
Three New Species

New fossils referable to the Cancridae Latreille, 1802 extend the known stratigraphic range of the family into the middle Eocene and the geographic range into South America. Each genus within the family has been reevaluated within the context of the new material. A suite of diagnostic characters for each cancrid genus makes it possible to assign both extant and fossil specimens to genera and the two cancrid subfamilies, the Cancrinae Latreille, 1802, and Lobocarcininae Beurlen, 1930, based solely upon dorsal carapace morphology. Cheliped morphology is useful in assigning genera to the family but is significantly less useful at the subfamily and generic level. Each of the four subgenera sensu Nations (1975), Cancer Linnaeus, 1758, Glebocarcinus Nations, 1975, Metacarcinus A. Milne Edwards, 1862, and Romaleon Gistl, 1848, are elevated to full generic status. Additionally, three new genera and three new species accommodate the new, as well as some previously described taxa, and include Anatolikos new genus, Anisospinos berglundi new genus and species, and Notocarcinus sulcatus new genus and species and several new combinations. Recognition of new genera and reassignment of several species within the Cancrinae indicates that that subfamily may have arisen in the southern hemisphere, contrary to the previous interpretation of the subfamily as a primarily North Pacific or Tethyan group. The Lobocarcininae was primarily a Tethyan group.

New genus and species of eriophyid mites (Acari, Eriophyidae) from Myrtaceae in Brazil, with notes on damages caused by Aculus pitangae Boczek & Davis

Zootaxa ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 153 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
CARLOS H.W. FLECHTMANN ◽  
GILBERTO J. DE MORAES
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Psidium Guajava ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Eugenia Uniflora ◽  
Eriophyid Mites ◽  
Three New Species

Surveys conducted on cultivated myrtaceous plants in southeast Brazil led to the discovery of a new genus and three new species of eriophyid mites. Diptilostatus Flechtmann, n. g., is described based on the type species Diptilostatus nudipalpus Flechtmann, n. sp., collected on Eugenia uniflora L. Calacarus kleithria Flechtmann, n. sp. is described from the same plant, while Aculus conspicillatus Flechtmann, n. sp. is described from Psidium guajava Raddi. Differently from what was mentioned in the original description of Aculus pitangae Boczek & Davis, A. pitangae was observed that it may distort and change the texture of leaves of E. uniflora, its host plant.

A review of the hyperiidean amphipod families Mimonectidae and Proscinidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea: Scinoidea)

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3533 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
WOLFGANG ZEIDLER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Zoological Museum ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Unique Type ◽  
New Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
Review Ofthe

A taxonomic review of the hyperiidean amphipod families Mimonectidae and Proscinidae, superfamily Sciniodea, is pre-sented, based predominantly on collections held by the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Priorto this review the family Mimonectidae consisted of two genera, Mimonectes with five species and Pseudomimonecteswith one species, and the family Proscinidae consisted of three genera, Proscina with five species, Mimoscina with twospecies and Cheloscina with one species. The five nominal species of Mimonectes are also recognised in this review withthe addition of three new species, M. alexanderi sp. nov., M. colemani sp. nov. and M. neosphaericus sp. nov. No morespecimens of Pseudomimonectes were found, and this genus is still known only from the unique type. A critical review ofthe family Proscinidae is presented arguing that its taxonomic distinction from the family Mimonectidae cannot be main-tained. Amongst the genus Proscina, P. scinoides (Woltereck, 1906) is considered a species of Mimoscina and P. magnaStephensen and Pirlot, 1931 a junior synonym of Mimonectes loveni Bovallius, 1885. The remaining three species are con-sidered valid for the time being and are transferred to the genus Mimonectes. Thus, eleven species of Mimonectes are rec-ognised in this review. Cheloscina, still known only from the unique type, is also similar to Mimonectes, apart from themorphology of the first antennae, and is here included in the family Mimonectidae. Mimoscina however possesses severalcharacters distinguishing it from other members of the Mimonectidae and a new family, Mimoscinidae fam. nov. is pro-posed to accommodate it. The two nominal species of Mimoscina are also recognised in this review with the addition ofone new species, M. galbraithae sp. nov. Amongst the extensive Dana collections is one specimen that clearly belongswith the Scinoidea but possesses several unique characters that preclude it from all other currently recognised families.Thus, a new family, Microscinidae fam. nov. is proposed to accommodate this new genus and species, Microscina rostratagen. et sp. nov. Keys are provided for all families, genera and species, together with diagnoses, and all species are illustrated.

Review of Australian genera Tessaromma Newman and Phlyctaenodes Newman with description of a new genus and species (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Phlyctaenodini)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4277 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
MENGJIE JIN ◽  
ADAM ŚLIPIŃSKI ◽  
ROGER DE KEYZER ◽  
HONG PANG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Three New Species

Two Australian genera, Tessaromma Newman and Phlyctaenodes Newman of the tribe Phlyctaenodini Lacordaire, 1868 (=Tessarommatini Lacordaire, 1868) syn. nov. are revised. All known species are redescribed and illustrated. Keys to the genera of Australian Phlyctaenodini and species of Tessaromma Newman and Phlyctaenodes are provided. One new genus Escalonia gen. nov. (type species: Tessaromma loxleyae McKeown, 1942) and three new species Phlyctaenodes queenslandicus sp. nov., Escalonia carolinae sp. nov. and Escalonia surprise sp. nov. are described. Tessaromma truncatispina McKeown, 1940 is regarded as a junior synonym of Tessaromma sordida McKeown, 1940; Tessaromma nigroapicale Aurivillius, 1917 is synonymized with Tessaromma nanum Blackburn, 1899; and Tessaromma sericans (Erichson, 1842) is synonymized with Tessaromma triste (Hope, 1841). Tessaromma setosa McKeown, 1942 is moved to Ectinope Pascoe, and Zoedia intricata Gressitt, 1959 is moved to Escalonia gen. nov. 

New zerconid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Zerconidae) from Canada, with a review of the genus Mixozercon Halašková, 1963

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2555 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
IRMA DÍAZ-AGUILAR ◽  
ZSOLT UJVÁRI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Boreal Forest ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Experimental Site ◽  
Forest Sites ◽  
The Family ◽  
Three New Species

Three new species of the genus Mixozercon Halašková, 1963 (Zerconidae) are described from boreal forest sites of the EMEND experimental site in northwestern Alberta, Canada – M. albertaensis sp. nov., M. jasoniana sp. nov. and M. borealis sp. nov. The new genus Boreozercon gen. nov. is described, with type species B. emendi sp. nov. Short diagnoses and distributional records are given for Mixozercon heterosetosus (Balan 1995), M. sellnicki (Schweizer 1948) and M. stellifer (Aoki 1964). Keys are provided for identification of the known species of Mixozercon and the Nearctic genera of the family Zerconidae.

A New Genus and Species of Chiggers (Trombidiformes: Leeuwenhoekiidae) From Peru

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Bassini-Silva ◽  
Matheus Huang-Bastos ◽  
Barry M OConnor ◽  
Pavel Klimov ◽  
Cal Welbourn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
South American ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

Abstract South American chiggers have historically been poorly studied, and this has continued into present times. Of the 33 genera in the family Leeuwenhoekiidae Womersley, only Odontacarus Ewing and Sasacarus Brennan & Jones have been reported in Peru. Here, we describe a new genus, Peruacarus n. gen., and a new species, Peruacarus anthurium n. sp., parasitizing Koford’s grass mouse, Akodon kofordi Myers & Patton, in Peru.

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