A novel symbiotic relationship between sociable weaver birds (Philetairus socius) and a new cheliferid pseudoscorpion (Pseudoscorpiones : Cheliferidae) in southern Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark S. Harvey ◽  
Patricia C. Lopes ◽  
Gregory R. Goldsmith ◽  
Ali Halajian ◽  
Mia J. Hillyer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Rrna Genes ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Mutualistic Relationship ◽  
Philetairus Socius ◽  
Two Populations ◽  
Commensal Relationship

Birds harbour a wide array of other taxa in their nests or in their plumage, which either have an ectoparasitic or commensal relationship with the host. We report on the discovery of a cheliferid pseudoscorpion found in the plumage and nests of the sociable weaver bird (Philetairus socius) in southern Africa. The nests of these communal birds are the largest of any bird, and may contain up to 500 individuals. The pseudoscorpion is likely to have a mutualistic relationship with the birds, most likely preying on other small invertebrates in the nests. Molecular data derived from two populations of the pseudoscorpion found divergence levels of 1.1% in cytochrome oxidase 1 (CO1), and an analysis of CO1 and two rRNA genes (18S and 28S) found a close relationship with Chelifer and Parachelifer in the tribe Cheliferini, which is supported by the morphology of the male genitalia. The molecular analysis also suggests that Beierius may not belong to the Cheliferini. The pseudoscorpion found in association with the sociable weaver represents a new genus and species, Sociochelifer metoecus Harvey, sp. nov.

Lollipopaia minuta from Thailand, a new genus and species of the Diaporthales (Ascomycetes, Fungi) based on morphological and molecular data

2001 ◽  
Vol 79 (9) ◽  
pp. 1099-1106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrik Inderbitzin ◽  
Mary L Berbee
Keyword(s):  
Dna Sequences ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Small Subunit ◽  
Bootstrap Support ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Tropical Mycology ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data

In this paper, we describe the new genus and species Lollipopaia minuta from a tropical rain forest in Thailand. The ascomata were long beaked and seated on a pseudoparenchymatous stroma that was erumpent through the bark of a decaying branch. Mature ascomata were readily formed under laboratory conditions. Lollipopaia minuta had ascomatal walls forming a textura intricata in surface view and deliquescent paraphyses. The asci floated freely at maturity and had a nonstaining apical ring. These characters are found in the Diaporthales. However, the habit of the stroma combined with the filiform ascospores distinguished L. minuta from all known genera of the Diaporthales. Thus, a close relationship to taxa outside the Diaporthales was considered. Lollipopaia minuta was similar to Ophioceras or Pseudohalonectria in shape of the ascomata, asci, and ascospores. However, phylogenetic analyses based on small subunit ribosomal DNA sequences confirmed the placement of L. minuta within the Diaporthales with 100% bootstrap support. A closest relative within the Diaporthales was not determined.Key words: Magnaporthaceae, microfungi, taxonomy, tropical mycology.

Molecular data provide new insights into the phylogeny of Cladonotinae (Orthoptera: Tetrigoidea) from China with the description of a new genus and species

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4809 (3) ◽  
pp. 547-559
Author(s):  
RONG-JIAO ZHANG ◽  
CONG-LIN ZHAO ◽  
FEI-PENG WU ◽  
WEI-AN DENG
Keyword(s):  
Ribosomal Rna ◽  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
18S Rrna Gene ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Phylogenetic Framework ◽  
Mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase

Considerable effort has been devoted to elucidating the phylogenetic relationships of tetrigides. However, there is still no commonly accepted phylogenetic hypothesis. Therefore, the phylogenetic relationships among some subfamilies remain unclear; e.g., Cladonotinae is a controversial group, in which the phylogenetic relationships between genera and the boundaries of some of the included genera are unclear, causing some of the taxa to be difficult to identify. Therefore, an in-depth phylogenetic analysis of Cladonotinae is urgently needed. In this study, a robust phylogenetic framework for the tetrigides was reconstructed based on the combined mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI), 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA), and nuclear 18S ribosomal RNA (18S rRNA) gene sequences of 25 species belonging to 16 genera of Tetrigoidea from China, which included 13 species from 8 genera of Cladonotinae. Phylogenetic inferences were performed using the combined dataset and Bayesian inference (BI) and Maximum Parsimony (MP) methods, and the phylogenetic tree of Cladonotinae was reconstructed. All inferences based on the results of the present study supported the Cladonotinae subfamily as a polyphyletic group; within the Cladonotinae subfamily, Tetradinodula, and Tuberfemurus were closely related to Tetriginae, while Austrohancockia and Gibbotettix showed a close relationship to the Scelimenidae subfamily. Additionally, a new genus and new species of the Cladonotinae subfamily are described and illustrated: Hainantettix Deng, gen. nov. and Hainantettix strictivertex Deng, sp. nov. 

Litylenchus coprosma gen. n., sp. n. (Tylenchida: Anguinata), from leaves of Coprosma repens (Rubiaceae) in New Zealand

Nematology ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerrie Davies ◽  
Zeng Qi Zhao ◽  
Brett Alexander ◽  
Ian Riley
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Large Subunit ◽  
Small Subunit ◽  
Rrna Genes ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Pore Opening ◽  
Terminal Bulb ◽  
Stylet Length ◽  
Tail Tip

AbstractA new genus and species of anguinid nematode, Litylenchus coprosma gen. n., sp. n., was recovered from leaves of Coprosma repens A. Rich. from an amenity planting in Wellington, New Zealand. The genus is characterised by having slender males and slender or semi-obese females, pharynx with a weak non-muscular median bulb, a terminal bulb containing the pharyngeal glands, female with a single gonad having a quadricolumella and post-uterine sac; male with arcuate spicules and the bursa arising 1-2 anal body diam. anterior to the cloacal aperture and extending nearly to the tail tip, and does not induce galls, only foliar chlorosis. The species is characterised by having a short, robust stylet with conus forming ca 40% of stylet length and three well developed rounded knobs, secretory/excretory pore opening posterior to the nerve ring, terminal bulb abutting the intestine, and tail tip of variable form. Molecular phylogeny of near full length small subunit, D2/D3 expansion segments of the large subunit and internal transcribed spacer rRNA genes support the description of L. coprosma gen. n., sp. n. as a new genus and species.

A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES FROM ALASKA (LEPID., ARCTIIDAE, NYCTEMERINAE)

1935 ◽  
Vol 67 (9) ◽  
pp. 195-197
Author(s):  
Foster H. Benjamin
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
National Museum ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Relationship Of

In handling some miscellaneous material belonging to the U. S. National Museum the writer noticed a unique specimen of a new genus and species of much interest as presenting additioiial evidence of the close relationship of those two large and important families, the Arctiidae and the Lymantriidae. A similar specimen, submitted by Dr. J. McDunnough, has served to amplify the descriptions.

A new genus and species of polyclad flatworm found in the mantle cavities of gastropod molluscs in the high-intertidal zone of the Pacific coast of Central America

2007 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 429-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anno Faubel ◽  
Ronald Sluys ◽  
David G. Reid
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Intertidal Zone ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Upper Eulittoral ◽  
High Intertidal Zone ◽  
Commensal Relationship

A commensal relationship is described between the polyclad flatworm Paraprostatum echinolittorinae Faubel & Sluys gen. et sp. nov. and gastropod molluscs living on the Pacific coast of central America. Although the worms are relatively large in comparison with their hosts, the latter sustained no apparent damage. Considering the fact that the molluscs live in the upper eulittoral zone and littoral fringe of the shore, it is unlikely that the polyclads could survive for long outside the hosts. Diagnostic characters for the new genus and species are a long penial stylet joined to the proximal vesicle and absence of Lang's vesicle. It is pointed out that Aprostatum clippertoni Bock, 1913 and A. longipenis (Kato, 1943) have been incorrectly transferred to the genus Euplana Girard, 1893 and that Discoplana malagensis Doignon, Artois & Deheyn, 2003 should be transferred to the genus Ilyella Faubel, 1983.

Cerogobius petrophilus (Perciformes: Gobiidae), a new gobiid genus and species from the Red Sea

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4565 (2) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
MARCELO KOVAČIĆ ◽  
SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY ◽  
EMILY M. TROYER ◽  
LUKE TORNABENE
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Sensory System ◽  
Full Description ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Caudal Peduncle ◽  
System A ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic Data

A new genus and species of cryptobenthic goby, Cerogobius petrophilus is described from the Red Sea based on nine specimens not exceeding 2.5 cm in total length, collected from a stone-rubble habitat at Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, at depths of 8–15 m. It was also observed underwater at the southern tip of Ras Mohammed and Marsa Alam in Egypt. Cerogobius petrophilus sp. nov. is unique among other gobies in its habitat, and in this regard it superficially resembles some species of blennies, occupying tight holes in stones covered with short algae. Molecular phylogenetic data suggest a close relationship between Cerogobius petrophilus sp. nov. and Hetereleotris, but the former differs from the latter morphologically in head shape with specific proportions of orbit and snout, forward-set position of eyes, a moderately large mouth, a long horn-like tentacle at the nostrils in the middle of snout, caudal peduncle deep and short, and in details of cephalic sensory system. A full description of the new genus and species is provided and is accompanied with osteological data that potentially can be informative in further comparisons with Hetereleotris. 

Kootenaia burkei, a new genus and species of slug from northern Idaho, United States (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Arionidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 355 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM P. LEONARD ◽  
LYLE CHICHESTER ◽  
JIM BAUGH ◽  
THOMAS WILKE
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Mitochondrial Genes ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Molecular Analyses ◽  
The Family ◽  
Taxonomic Decision ◽  
Northern Idaho ◽  
High Degree

A new genus and species of arionid slug, Kootenaia burkei n. gen. et n. sp., are formally described from northern Idaho, United States. This taxonomic decision is based on comparative anatomical and molecular data involving representatives of a total of ten species and three additional genera (Hemphillia, Prophysaon, and Zacoleus) of the family Arionidae. The anatomical analyses show that the new genus is characterized by a major autapomorphy, the complete absence of an epiphallus, which is found in all other arionids. The molecular analyses using two mitochondrial genes and the anatomical data produce congruent topologies. Overall, there is a high degree of concordance between the anatomical and molecular datasets.

A new genus of cynipid inquiline, Lithosaphonecrus Tang, Melika & Bozsó (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini), with description of four new species from Taiwan and China

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miklós Bozsó ◽  
Chang-Ti Tang ◽  
Zsolt Pénzes ◽  
Man-Miao Yang ◽  
Péter Bihari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
The Third ◽  
Main Lineage ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data ◽  
Western Palaearctic

The cynipid inquilines genus Saphonecrus is known to be a polyphyletic group with distinct lineages. One lineage is associated with Synophrus in the Western Palaearctic on section Cerris oaks. Another involves the type species of Saphonecrus, S. connatus, and represents a distinct and probably early-diverging lineage with a Palaearctic distribution on white oaks. The third main lineage is predominantly Asian, and associated with Quercus subgenus Cyclobalanopsis and Quercus section Cerris and the oak-related Fagaceae including Lithocarpus. This third lineage shows large diversity, and includes the genus Ufo, the European lineage of S. undulatus and S. haimi, and the herein described new genus, Lithosaphonecrus Tang, Melika & Bozsó, known from Taiwan and China, with four new species: L. formosanus Melika & Tang, L. dakengi Tang & Pujade-Villar, L. huisuni Tang, Bozsó & Melika and L. yunnani Tang, Bozsó & Melika. All the four described species are associated only with Lithocarpus. Descriptions, diagnoses, biology, and host associations for the new genus and species are given, as well as a key to species and cynipid inquilines genera. All taxa are supported by morphological and molecular data.

A new tribe, new genus and two new species of Barbourofelinae (Felidae, Carnivora, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of East Africa and Spain

2001 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Morales ◽  
M. J. Salesa ◽  
M. Pickford ◽  
D. Soria
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
New Tribe ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Felid Species

ABSTRACTA new genus and species of felid, Ginsburgsmilus napakensis, is described from Napak, Uganda. Material from Songhor, Kenya, previously identified as Afrosmilus turkanae by Schmidt-Kittler (1987) is assigned to this species. A new species of Afrosmilus, A. hispanicus, is described from Artesilla, Spain. These new felid species combine sabre-tooth canines of maochairodont type with cheek teeth similar to those of Pseudailurus. Phylogenetically they are close to Afrosmilus turkanae which shows a greater specialisation towards markedly machairodont forms. On the basis of dental features, we propose a close relationship between these two genera (which we group into the new tribe Afrosmilini) and the tribe Barbourofelini (Sansanosmilus and Barbourofelis), the transition between the two being represented in the fossil record by Prosansanosmilus peregrinus Heizmann et al. 1980.

Revision of the genera Cyphonethes Verhoeff, 1926 and Titanethes Schioedte, 1849 (Isopoda: Oniscoidea: Trichoniscidae) with a description of a new genus and three new taxa

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4459 (2) ◽  
pp. 261 ◽  
Author(s):  
IVO M. KARAMAN ◽  
MLADEN HORVATOVIĆ
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Dorsal Surface ◽  
Comparative Morphology ◽  
Taxonomic Study ◽  
Conducting System ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Tergal Glands ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
A New Species

A taxonomic study of two troglobite genera resulted in remarkable changes to their composition and our perception of their relationship. The genus Titanethes is treated as monotypic, with one newly described taxon, Titanethes albus matovici n. ssp. One species is transferred from Titanethes to the genus Cyphonethes, Cyphonethes biseriatus (Verhoeff, 1900) comb. nov. A species and a genus are synonymized, Microtitanethes licodrensis syn. nov. The diagnosis of the genus Cyphonethes is amended and revised using comparative morphology of adult males. A new species, Cyphonethes tajanus n. sp, is described. A close relationship between the genera Titanethes and Spelaeonethes is established. Cetinjella monasetrii n. g., n. sp, is described as a new genus and species close to the genus Cyphonethes. It is assumed to be a higropetric cave inhabitant, based on its pereopode structure, with elongated fused dactylus and unguis, and partly by its slightly modified mouthparts. Unique water uptake (for the water conducting system) by the dorsal surface of the frontal pereionite is also assumed for the species, based on the presence, distribution and orientation of specific small scales. The presence and structure of male tergal glands in the genus Tithanethes are treated as taxonomically irrelevant. 

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