Dussia atropurpurea (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae), a new species from Central America and notes on sarcotesta coloration in Dussia systematics

1999 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Zamora ◽  
R. T. Pennington ◽  
C. S. Stirton
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central America ◽  
Species Delimitation ◽  
Important Character ◽  
A New Species

Dussia atropurpurea is a new species found in Costa Rica and Panamá. It differs from all other Dussia species in this region in its dark purple sarcotesta. The only other species of Dussia with a sarcotesta of this colour is the Amazonian D. tessmannii which is clearly distinct morphologically. Sarcotesta colour is an important character for species delimitation in Dussia, but is infrequently recorded.

A new species of Chrysanthrax Osten Sacken (Diptera: Bombyliidae) from Costa Rica parasitic on an ant lion (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4363 (4) ◽  
pp. 583
Author(s):  
NEAL L. EVENHUIS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central America ◽  
First Record ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Ant Lion ◽  
A New Species

A new species of bee fly of the genus Chrysanthrax Osten Sacken, C. pennyi, n. sp., is described and illustrated. It was reared from the larva of a myrmeleontid, which marks the first record of parasitism by the genus of that family. The pupal exuvium is described and illustrated and a key to species known from Central America is given. 

scholarly journals A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Allacanthos Smalley, 1964 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Pseudothelphusidae) from southern Costa Rica, Central America

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2604 (1) ◽  
pp. 52 ◽  
Author(s):  
CÉLIO MAGALHÃES ◽  
LUIS RÓLIER LARA ◽  
INGO S. WEHRTMANN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central America ◽  
Lateral Lobe ◽  
Distal Portion ◽  
Freshwater Crab ◽  
Marginal Process ◽  
Distal Border ◽  
A New Species

A new species of pseudothelphusid crab, Allacanthos yawi n. sp., from the Río Volcán drainage, Puntarenas Province, southern Costa Rica, Central America, is described and illustrated. This is the second species to be assigned to the genus Allacanthos Smalley, 1964. The new species is distinguished by its congener by having a first gonopod with a mesiolaterally flattened distal portion, a concave and nearly smooth subdistal portion of the lateral and cephalic sides, a narrow marginal process with a nearly straight distal border, and a lateral lobe with a sharp tip on the apex. An amended diagnosis for Allacanthos is provided.

A new species of the genus Bothriomyrmex Emery, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) from Costa Rica

Zootaxa ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 776 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
DMITRY A. DUBOVIKOFF ◽  
JOHN T. LONGINO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central America ◽  
Wing Venation ◽  
Old World ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
Palearctic Species ◽  
A New Species

Bothriomyrmex paradoxus Dubovikov and Longino sp. nov. is described from Costa Rica, based on two collections from widely separated localities. These are the first collections of the genus Bothriomyrmex in the Americas. The genus Bothriomyrmex can be divided into Palearctic species (Both- riomyrmex s.s.) and Oriental and Australian species, based on differences in palp formula and queen wing venation. Bothriomyrmex paradoxus shares palp and wing characters with the Palearctic species. It is probably native to Central America and long separated from its Old World relatives.

The new genus Acrocephalomyia, and a new species of Ropalomera from Costa Rica, with additional records for other Mesoamerican species (Diptera: Ropalomeridae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3478 (1) ◽  
pp. 553-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
SERGIO IBÁÑEZ-BERNAL ◽  
VICENTE HERNÁNDEZ-ORTIZ
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central America ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
New Genus ◽  
The Body ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
The Family ◽  
Forward Projection ◽  
A New Species

New taxa of the family Ropalomeridae from Costa Rica are described, and additional records of ropalomerid flies fromMexico and Central America are provided. The new genus and species Acrocephalomyia zumbadoi can be easily distin-guished from all other ropalomerid genera by the following combination of characters: angular forward projection of head,absence of ocelli, flat face, bare arista, long scutum, and scutellum triangular-shaped and dorsally flattened with only onepair of apical bristles with bases approximated. The new species Ropalomera aterrima can be recognized from congenersby remarkable differences of the head, the shape of the scutellum, the absence of scutal vittae, fumose wings, and by theblack coloration of the body, ocellar bristles large, one postpronotal bristle, scutum without pollinose vittae and flat scutellum. Lenkokroeberia chryserea Prado and Kroeberia fuliginosa Lindner are newly confirmed for Costa Rica.

Macrobiotus huziori, a new species of Tardigrada (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae) from Costa Rica (Central America)

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1169 (1) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
ŁUKASZ MICHALCZYK ◽  
ŁUKASZ Kaczmarek
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central America ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
A New Species

A new species, Macrobiotus huziori sp. nov. is described from moss samples collected in Costa Rica (Central America). The eggs of the new species have a unique, never described before, type of multi-level areolation which makes M. huziori sp. nov. easily distinguishable from all the known species. We also provide SEM pictures revealing the complex structure of the granulation on the legs (each granule consists of many smaller cones/granules).

Description of a new species of Pagurus Fabricius, 1775 (Crustacea: Paguroidea: Paguridae) from the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, Central America, with notes on Pagurus albus (Benedict, 1892)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4712 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-113
Author(s):  
MANUEL AYÓN-PARENTE ◽  
INGO S. WEHRTMANN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central America ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Antennal Segment ◽  
Distal Margin ◽  
Eastern Tropical Pacific ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Right ◽  
A New Species

A redescription of Pagurus albus (Benedict, 1892) is presented together with a description of a new species of hermit crab, Pagurus pseudoalbus sp. n., from the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Pagurus pseudoalbus sp. n. differs from P. albus and P. perlatus by the length of antennal acicles, which do not exceed the distal margin of the 4th antennal segment, whereas in the latter two species, the antennal acicles exceed the 4th antennal segment; the antennular peduncle is proportionally longer than the ocular peduncle in the new species compared to P. perlatus, but shorter than in P. albus; the palm of the right cheliped in P. pseudoalbus sp. n. is 1.3 times as long as broad, while in P. albus and P. perlatus it is 1.0 and 1.4 times as long as broad, respectively. Including the new species, the genus Pagurus in the Eastern Tropical Pacific currently includes 16 species. 

scholarly journals A new species of Eurystyles (Orchidaceae: Spiranthinae) from Costa Rica

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-68
Author(s):  
D. Bogarín
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central America ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Habitat Ecology ◽  
A New Species

Eurystyles comprises about 23 species ranging from Mexico to northern Argentina. Six species are recognized in Mexico and Central America and three in Costa Rica. A new species, named E. uxoris, is here described and illustrated based on Costa Rican material. The species is similar to Eurystyles auriculata and E. standleyi, however, it differs by the smaller plants up to 3 cm tall, smaller leaves of less than 1.6 cm long, flowers with brown dorsal sepal and brown lip apex, petals callose or thickened at apex, and a pandurate lip. Information about distribution, habitat, ecology, etymology and phenology of the newspecies is provided. An updated key to the Costa Rican species of Eurystyles is presented.

scholarly journals A molecular study of Neophyllaphis varicolor (Hemiptera, Aphididae) in Costa Rica

ZooKeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 865 ◽  
pp. 123-135
Author(s):  
Adonay Zúñiga-Centeno ◽  
Izayana Sandoval-Carvajal ◽  
Mauricio Montero-Astúa ◽  
William Villalobos-Muller ◽  
Nguyễn Bảo Quốc ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central America ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Elongation Factor ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Molecular Study ◽  
First Report ◽  
Factor I ◽  
A New Species

The genus Neophyllaphis (Takahashi) (Aphididae: Neophyllaphidinae) is composed of 18 species; however, in the Americas only nine species have been reported previously. A new species, Neophyllaphisvaricolor Miller & Halbert, was described in 2014 in USA. Colonies resembling those of this new species have been observed in Costa Rica on Podocarpus spp. In order to determine if N.varicolor is also present in Costa Rica, we sampled Neophyllaphis colonies from Podocarpusfalcatus and P.chinensis. Additionally, we sampled individuals from Podocarpus sp. in Spain and Vietnam. DNA of each sample was extracted and used to amplify and sequence the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) and elongation factor I (EF-1α) partial regions. According to morphological characteristics, sequences comparisons done in GenBank and BOLD, and phylogenetic analyses, the colonies collected from Podocarpus spp. in Costa Rica and the colony from Vietnam corresponded to the species N.varicolor. To the best of our knowledge this is the first report of the presence of N.varicolor in Central America and Vietnam.

A new species of fringe-limb frog, genus Ecnomiohyla (Anura: Hylidae), from the Atlantic slope of Costa Rica, Central America

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2719 (1) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAY M. SAVAGE ◽  
BRIAN KUBICKI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central America ◽  
Sexually Dimorphic ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Additional Material ◽  
Incertae Sedis ◽  
A New Species

A new moderate-sized species of fringe-limb treefrog of the genus Ecnomiohyla is described from the Atlantic premontane slope of central Costa Rica. It differs primarily from other members of the genus in having the combination of cephalic and dorsal osteoderms, extensive digital webbing, a pointed prepollical bony projection in adult males, and the fleshy scalloped fringe on the hindlimb continuing across the heel. Additional material of the related but much larger species, Ecnomiohyla miliaria, is documented from localities of virtual sympatry for the two taxa. The presence or absence of sexually dimorphic male features: bony humeral projection, prepollical bony projection, and keratinized black spines on the thumb and prepollex are summarized for the ten members of the genus. Hyla tuberculosa, recently referred to the genus does not belong to this clade and is regarded as incertae sedis.

Description of new genus and species of Ochlerini from Central America (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Discocephalinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1562 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
VIVIANA CAUDURO MATESCO ◽  
JOCÉLIA GRAZIA ◽  
LUIZ ALEXANDRE CAMPOS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central America ◽  
New Genus ◽  
External Genitalia ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
A New Species

Parastalius gen. nov. is described for Stalius trisinuatus Rolston; the external genitalia of the latter are redescribed; and a new species is described from Costa Rica, Parastalius rolstoni sp. nov.

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