Systematics of the New Zealand longicorn beetle genus Ophryops White (Coleoptera:Cerambycidae:Cerambycinae)

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen Lu ◽  
Qiao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
The North ◽  
Longicorn Beetle ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
First Time

The New Zealand longicorn beetle genus Ophryops White is revised. A diagnosis and redescription of Ophryops and a key to all species of the genus are given. Five species are redescribed: O. fuscicollis (Broun), O. dispar Sharp, O. aegrotus (Bates), O. medius (Broun), O. pallidus White, and one is described as new: O. pseudofuscicollis, sp. nov. Ophryops nigropictus Broun is synonymised with O. dispar; Didymocantha fuscicollis Broun is moved to Ophryops and its male is described for the first time. Terminalia of both sexes are illustrated and described for all species for the first time. The genus occurs in the North, South and Stewart Islands of New Zealand. Phylogenetic analysis shows that this genus is monophyletic and divided into two species-groups, the fuscicollis-group and the dispar-group.

Systematics of the New Zealand longicorn beetle genus Oemona Newman with discussion of the taxonomic position of the Australian species, O. simplex White (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Ceram-bycinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 971 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
WEN LU ◽  
QIAO WANG
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Taxonomic Position ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
Lord Howe Island ◽  
Island Species ◽  
Longicorn Beetle ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
First Time ◽  
North And South

The New Zealand longicorn beetle genus Oemona Newman is revised. A diagnosis, a redescription of the genus, and a key to all species are given. Four known species, O. separata Broun, O. simplicicollis Broun, O. hirta (Fabricius) and O. plicicollis Sharp, are redescribed and photographs of dorsal views of both sexes are provided. Terminalia of both sexes are illustrated and described for the first time. The Australian Lord Howe Island species, O. simplex White, is transferred from the genus Oemona to Ceresium Newman, and C. procerum Olliff is synonymised with O. simplex. Oemona occurs in both North and South Islands of New Zealand. The phylogenetic analysis suggests that Oemona be divided into two species groups, separata-group and hirta-group.

Taxonomy and phylogeny of the New Zealand longicorn beetle genus Calliprason White (Coleoptera : Cerambycidae : Cerambycinae)

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deping Song ◽  
Qiao Wang
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cladistic Analysis ◽  
The South ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
The North ◽  
Longicorn Beetle ◽  
Species Groups

The New Zealand cerambycid genus Calliprason White is revised, the scope of this genus is redefined, and all species are redescribed. Four monotypic genera, Stenopotes Pascoe, Drotus Sharp, Pseudocalliprason Broun, and Epheus Broun, are synonymised with Calliprason. As a result of this revision, the number of species in Calliprason has increased to five. A key to the five species is given. Terminalia of both sexes are illustrated and described. Cladistic analysis suggests that the revised Calliprason is a monophyletic genus supported by 15 synapomorphies. Subdivisions of species groups are discussed. This genus is mainly distributed in the North Island of New Zealand with some representatives in the South Island and the Chatham Islands.

A phylogenetic revision of Calydna and relatives (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae)

2002 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason P.W. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Basal Clade ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Group A ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Phylogenetic Revision

AbstractA phylogenetic revision of the Neotropical riodinid genus Calydna Doubleday and relatives is presented. A phylogenetic analysis for all twenty species of Calydna using thirty-eight characters of adult morphology generated four most parsimonious cladograms. Calydna is characterised to contain eighteen species, divided here into three monophyletic species groups with the relationship caieta group + (thersander group + hiria group). A new genus Echydna Hall gen. n. is described for the most basal clade, containing chaseba Hewitson and punctata C. & R. Felder, which are transferred from Calydna (combs. n.). The taxonomy, morphology, biogeography and biology of both genera are discussed, locality data is listed and mapped, and the adults and male and female genitalia are illustrated for all species. Concealed male abdominal androconial scales, which phylogenetically unite the thersander and hiria groups, are reported for the first time outside of the tribes Symmachiini and Nymphidiini. Two new species are described, Calydna jeannea sp. n. and Calydna nicolayi sp. n., and the replacement name fissilisima is provided for the unavailable name fissilis Stichel; maculosa Bates is transferred from Calydna to Callistium Stichel (comb. n.).

Redescription of Clubiona blesti Forster, 1979 (Araneae: Clubionidae) with a preliminary molecular phylogeny of New Zealand Clubiona

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3277 (1) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAGOBA MALUMBRES-OLARTE ◽  
COR J. VINK
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Wide Distribution ◽  
Dispersal Ability ◽  
Mtdna Sequences ◽  
Limited Sample ◽  
Limited Sample Size ◽  
Geographic Structure ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
First Time

The New Zealand spider Clubiona blesti Forster, 1979 is redescribed, with the male described for the first time, and a pre-liminary molecular phylogenetic analysis of cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) mtDNA sequences for eight species ofNew Zealand Clubiona and an outgroup from Tasmania is presented.There is considerable intraspecific variation in C. blesti, both genetic and in the morphology of copulatory organs,which may be explained by its wide distribution. The lack of a geographic structure based on consistent differences be-tween populations may suggest great dispersal ability. Given the limited sample size, further sampling and data on addi-tional genetic markers will be necessary to confirm this.The phylogenetic analysis of seven more species indicated that Clubiona cambridgei is the sister species of C. blestiand confirmed the existence of at least two monophyletic groups among the New Zealand Clubiona: species with a striped abdomen and with a spotted abdomen.

Australian pirates: systematics and phylogeny of the Australasian pirate spiders (Araneae:Mimetidae), with a description of the Western Australian fauna

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danilo Harms ◽  
Mark S. Harvey
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Morphological Character ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
Taxonomic Changes ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
First Time ◽  
Expanded Concept ◽  
Western Australian ◽  
The Web

Pirate spiders (Mimetidae) are well known for their specialised feeding ecology. They are vagrant araneophagic predators, enter the webs of their prey spiders and exhibit patterns of aggressive mimicry to overcome the web owner. The mimetid fauna of Australia and New Zealand currently consists of 26 species in the following three genera: Australomimetus Heimer, 1986 (18 species), Mimetus Hentz, 1832 (six species), and Ero C.L. Koch, 1836 (two species). The systematic position of the majority of Australasian mimetids was investigated through phylogenetic techniques utilising morphological character systems of 29 exemplar taxa and 87 characters, including the first examination of spinneret structure in species of Australomimetus. The results support an expanded concept for Australomimetus, which, apart from the introduced Ero aphana (Walckenaer, 1802), is found to contain the entire Australian and New Zealand mimetid fauna, also recorded from Asia. The following taxonomic changes are proposed: A. catulli (Heimer, 1989), comb. nov., A. hannemanni (Heimer, 1989), comb. nov., A. japonicus (Uyemura, 1938), comb. nov., A. mendicus (O. P. Cambridge, 1879), comb. nov. and A. sennio (Urquhart, 1891), comb. nov.; Ero luzoniensis Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 is synonymised with Ero aphana, and A. andreae Heimer, 1989 is synonymised with A. daviesianus Heimer, 1986; Mimetus tikaderi Gajbe, 1992 from India is excluded from Mimetidae, and referred to Liocranidae. The Western Australian mimetid fauna is described for the first time and comprises nine species of Australomimetus, including the following five new species: A. diabolicus, sp. nov., A. djuka, sp. nov., A. dunlopi, sp. nov., A. nasoi, sp. nov. and A. stephanieae, sp. nov. Several species-groups of Australomimetus are identified.

Pristosia Motschulsky, 1865 from the Nepal Himalaya: Taxonomy and Biogeography (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Sphodrini)

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOACHIM SCHMIDT ◽  
MATTHIAS HARTMANN
Keyword(s):  
Species Group ◽  
Carabid Beetle ◽  
Female Specimen ◽  
The South ◽  
Ecological Data ◽  
Nepal Himalaya ◽  
The North ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
First Time ◽  
North Western

The genus Pristosia Motschulsky, 1865 was so far only known to be highly diverse in the North-Western Himalaya and present in the Eastern Himalaya. Only a single female specimen has been documented in the literature from the Nepal Himalaya and was described as P. dahud Morvan, 1994. During a study of comprehensive carabid beetle material collected throughout Nepal, which has been deposited at several museums and private collections, a large number of Pristosia specimens from six species have been identified. The only fully winged species P. crenata (Putzeys, 1873), which is widely distributed in South East Asia, was found near Dailekh and is herewith reported for the Nepalese fauna for the first time. The Eastern Himalayan species P. amaroides (Putzeys, 1877) is reported for the first time in Nepal as well and occurs in Eastern Nepal at several localities east of the Arun river. At least four species occur in the Western and Far Western Nepal Himalaya, of which three are described as new to science: P. glabella sp. n. and P. nepalensis sp. n. from the Api Himal, and P. similata sp. n. from the Saipal Himal. An presumably additional new species is known from the north-western slope of the Dhaulagiri Himal, but is represented by a single immature female specimen only, which does not allow for a sufficient species diagnosis. The male external and genital characters of P. dahud Morvan, 1994 are now described for the first time. This species is considered to be polytypic and the geographic subspecies P. dahud polita ssp. n. is described from the south slope of the Kanjiroba Himal. The species P. atrema (Andrewes, 1926) and P. championi (Andrewes, 1934), which occur in the Kumaon Himalaya close to the Nepalese border, are redescribed based on the examination of the type material. Diagnostic features, especially for the male genitalia of all taxa mentioned above, are figured and a key to the species from Nepal is presented. Instead of a phylogenetic analysis, which is needed for Pristosia but not achievable at present, preliminary species groups for species dealt with are proposed: The Eastern Himalayan P. amaroides species group (monotypic), the P. atrema species group with six species from the Kumaon and Western Nepal Himalaya, the P. championi species group with two species from the Kumaon and Western Nepal Himalaya, and the South East Asian P. crenata species group (monotypic). Based on the distributional and ecological data presented in this study, species of the genus Pristosia with reduced hind wings seem to be absent from the entire Central Nepal Himalaya, and the only Eastern Nepalese species, P. amaroides, prefers largely different habitat conditions compared to the species from Western Nepal. Based on biogeographical hypotheses of other Himalayan carabid beetle genera presented in previous studies by the senior author, the observed species groups of Pristosia are considered to be further examples for Tertiary Tibetan faunal components of the Himalaya. Following a diversification of the genus within the Tertiary of Southern Tibet, speciation occurred and these species groups originated from founder populations that moved into the Nepal Himalaya. The colonization of the geologically younger High Himalaya has taken place independently for each of the terminal groups via different dispersal routes and during different periods of mountain uplift.

scholarly journals Terrestrial Heat Flow in New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Om Prakash Pandey
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Heat Flow ◽  
Heat Generation ◽  
Plate Tectonics ◽  
High Heat ◽  
The North ◽  
Rock Types ◽  
Flow Heat ◽  
Geophysical Anomalies ◽  
First Time

<p>In this regional heat flow study of New Zealand temperatures have been measured in available boreholes using a specially constructed thermistor probe, and existing temperature information has been incorporated from various sources including oil prospecting boreholes. Thermal conductivity has been measured in the laboratory on 581 samples. Newly determined values of heat flow are given for 105 locations; values for the South Island are here presented for the first time. Most of the heat flow values have been grouped in eight regions based on the level of heat flow. This classification can be related to the occurrence of certain surface manifestations and geophysical anomalies, and to regional plate tectonics. High heat flow in three regions is consistent with melting conditions being reached at depths between 35km and 45km. These are the Taranaki Region, the West Coast Region and the Great South Basin. The average regional heat flow for these regions varies from 86.4 mW/m2 to 110.7 mW/m2. Much lower heat flow is obtained in the Hikurangi and Marlborough-Canterbury Regions; these may possibly be interconnected. Elsewhere the heat flow is low to normal with isolated highs. The broad distribution of heat flow in the North Island is typical for an active subduction region. Radioactive heat generation has been measured on rock types from various localities, and large variations have been found. The heat flow - heat generation relationship has been studied for 42 sites. A linear relationship is found only in the Taranaki and Hikurangi Regions. Temperature calculations show large differences in the deep-seated temperature distribution beneath New Zealand, and this has also been reflected in the distribution of "reduced heat flow". Temperature and heat flow can be correlated with upper mantle inhomogeneity. The inferred variation of radioactive heat generation with depth has been studied for areas beneath the Western Canterbury Region. A mean heat generation of 1.56 plus-minus .07 muW/m3 has been found in a sequence which has been inferred to occur between 17km and 30km in depth under the region; this is very much higher than the usually adopted values for the lower crust. Normal heat flow observed in the Western Cook Strait Region, and the existence of good seismic wave transmission beneath the same region, can be attributed to crustal and lithospheric thickening. The relevance of present study to petroleum occurrences has been examined and it is found that in areas of proven hydrocarbon potential the heat flow is high.</p>

scholarly journals Terrestrial Heat Flow in New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Om Prakash Pandey
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Heat Flow ◽  
Heat Generation ◽  
Plate Tectonics ◽  
High Heat ◽  
The North ◽  
Rock Types ◽  
Flow Heat ◽  
Geophysical Anomalies ◽  
First Time

<p>In this regional heat flow study of New Zealand temperatures have been measured in available boreholes using a specially constructed thermistor probe, and existing temperature information has been incorporated from various sources including oil prospecting boreholes. Thermal conductivity has been measured in the laboratory on 581 samples. Newly determined values of heat flow are given for 105 locations; values for the South Island are here presented for the first time. Most of the heat flow values have been grouped in eight regions based on the level of heat flow. This classification can be related to the occurrence of certain surface manifestations and geophysical anomalies, and to regional plate tectonics. High heat flow in three regions is consistent with melting conditions being reached at depths between 35km and 45km. These are the Taranaki Region, the West Coast Region and the Great South Basin. The average regional heat flow for these regions varies from 86.4 mW/m2 to 110.7 mW/m2. Much lower heat flow is obtained in the Hikurangi and Marlborough-Canterbury Regions; these may possibly be interconnected. Elsewhere the heat flow is low to normal with isolated highs. The broad distribution of heat flow in the North Island is typical for an active subduction region. Radioactive heat generation has been measured on rock types from various localities, and large variations have been found. The heat flow - heat generation relationship has been studied for 42 sites. A linear relationship is found only in the Taranaki and Hikurangi Regions. Temperature calculations show large differences in the deep-seated temperature distribution beneath New Zealand, and this has also been reflected in the distribution of "reduced heat flow". Temperature and heat flow can be correlated with upper mantle inhomogeneity. The inferred variation of radioactive heat generation with depth has been studied for areas beneath the Western Canterbury Region. A mean heat generation of 1.56 plus-minus .07 muW/m3 has been found in a sequence which has been inferred to occur between 17km and 30km in depth under the region; this is very much higher than the usually adopted values for the lower crust. Normal heat flow observed in the Western Cook Strait Region, and the existence of good seismic wave transmission beneath the same region, can be attributed to crustal and lithospheric thickening. The relevance of present study to petroleum occurrences has been examined and it is found that in areas of proven hydrocarbon potential the heat flow is high.</p>

Systematics and host relationships of Australasian Diolcogaster (Hymenoptera : Braconidae : Microgastrinae)

1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 117 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Saeed ◽  
P. C. Dangerfield ◽  
A. D. Austin
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
The World ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
Host Relationships ◽  
Braconid Wasp ◽  
First Time ◽  
Australasian Region ◽  
World Fauna

The braconid wasp genus Diolcogaster Ashmead is revised for the Australasian region, and is recorded from New Zealand and New Caledonia for the first time. A key to species is presented, the relationships within the Microgastrinae and among species-groups of the genus, the size of the world fauna, the biology and host relationships, and the distribution of Australasian species are discussed. The connexus-group sensu Nixon is expanded and redefined to include two monotypic, non-Australasian groups (D. ippis Nixon and D. reales Nixon), while the spretus-group sensu Nixon is expanded to include the monotypic group for D. coenonymphae (Watanabe) from Japan. Twenty-six species are recognised from Australasia:D. adiastola, sp. nov., D. alkingara, sp. nov., D. ashmeadi, sp. nov., D. dichromus, sp. nov., D. eclectes (Nixon), D. euterpus (Nixon), D. hadrommatus, sp. nov., D. harrisi, sp. nov., D. iqbali, sp. nov., D. lucindae, sp. nov., D. masoni, sp. nov., D. merata, sp. nov., D. muzaffari, sp. nov., D. naumanni, sp. nov., D. newguineaensis, sp. nov., D. nixoni, sp. nov., D. notopecktos, sp. nov., D. perniciosus(Wilkinson), D. rixosus (Wilkinson), D. robertsi, sp. nov., D. sons (Wilkinson), D. tearae (Wilkinson), D. tropicalus, sp. nov., D. vulpinus (Wilkinson), D. walkerae, sp. nov. and D. yousufi, sp. nov.

Primitive cladid crinoids from the early Osagean Burlington Limestone and the phylogenetics of Mississippian species of Cyathocrinites

2003 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Kammer ◽  
Forest J. Gahn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Species Level ◽  
East Central ◽  
The North ◽  
Middle Mississippian ◽  
Evolutionary Radiation ◽  
Central United States ◽  
Morphologic Data ◽  
First Time

All 19 known species of the primitive cladid crinoid genera Atelestocrinus, Cyathocrinites, Goniocrinus, Parisocrinus, Pellecrinus, and Zygotocrinus from the early Osagean Burlington Limestone of the North American midcontinent are reviewed and redescribed or, where necessary, redefined. Nine of these species are illustrated for the first time herein. Sixteen are considered valid, including C. deroseari n. sp. Of the remaining three species, one is left in open nomenclature, and two are considered nomen dubia. Pellecrinus is recognized for the first time from the Burlington Limestone, although the specimens can not be identified to the species level and are left in open nomenclature.Cyathocrinites ranges from the Middle Silurian to at least the Middle Mississippian. During the Early Mississippian Cyathocrinites experienced an evolutionary radiation with a maximum diversity of nine species in the Burlington Limestone. Phylogenetic relationships were investigated in a parsimony-based phylogenetic analysis by combining morphologic data from the Burlington species with data from the four other species of Cyathocrinites from the late Osagean and early Meramecian of the east-central United States. The Kinderhookian C. chouteauensis (Miller and Gurley, 1896) served as the outgroup. A phylogenetic analysis of 14 species of Mississippian Cyathocrinites yielded a single most parsimonious tree with a length of 28 steps (C. I. = 0.607, H. I. = 0.392, R. I. = 0.718, R. C. = 0.436). Results of this analysis suggest that at least two major clades existed within Mississippian Cyathocrinites. One clade contains C. sampsoni (Miller, 1891b), C. gilesi (Wachsmuth and Springer, 1878), C. farleyi (Meek and Worthen, 1866), and C. barydactylus (Wachsmuth and Springer, 1878). The second clade contains C. iowensis, C. kelloggi (White, 1862), C. barrisi (Hall, 1861a), C. rigidus, C. deroseari n. sp., C. asperrimus (Springer, 1911), C. lamellosus (White, 1863), and C. harrodi (Wachsmuth and Springer, 1880). Cyathocrinites multibrachiatus forms a polytomy with these two clades. Members of the first clade exhibit a unique overall morphology present only during the Mississippian, suggesting the clade arose during this time. Members of the second clade, plus C. multibrachiatus, exhibit some characters present in Cyathocrinites species as old as the Middle Silurian and, thus, may have its roots among Silurian and Devonian species.

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