Phylogenetic placement of the spider genus Taczanowskia (Araneae:Araneidae) and description of a new species from Ecuador

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (7) ◽  
pp. 742
Author(s):  
Juan Pablo Jordán ◽  
Mariela Domínguez-Trujillo ◽  
Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Anterior Margin ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Evolutionary Relationships ◽  
Dark Light ◽  
Phylogenetic Placement ◽  
The Family ◽  
Amazonian Lowlands ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Colouration Pattern

The genus Taczanowskia Keyserling, 1879 is one of the rarest groups of spiders in the orb-weaving family Araneidae, with only five species described and 17 specimens cited in publications. Our study provides new insights into the evolutionary relationships and diversity of Taczanowskia. Using morphological data, we tested the evolutionary relationships of the genus within the family Araneidae and propose the first phylogenetic hypothesis depicting the relationships among species of Taczanowskia. Our results place Taczanowskia as sister to Mastophora Holmberg, 1876, and confirm the monophyly of Taczanowskia. We describe the first species of Taczanowskia from Ecuador, collected at a Waorani community on the River Curaray basin, Amazonian lowlands of Ecuador. The new species can be easily diagnosed from all other species of Taczanowskia by having two tubercles in the opisthosoma; a distinct patchy dark–light colouration pattern with dark spots concentrated towards the anterior margin and on the lateral tips; small bundles of white setae forming a reticulum across the dorsal part of the opisthosoma, and the first two femora thick but lacking teeth on the margin. ZooBank registration: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:46B8C1F7-A474-4DC3-90BC-940F84AC099D

A new species of the genus Polycheria (Peracarida, Amphipoda, Dexaminidae) from South Korea

Crustaceana ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 89 (5) ◽  
pp. 625-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tae Won Jung ◽  
Chang Ho Yi ◽  
Seong Myeong Yoon
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Anterior Margin ◽  
Far East ◽  
The Other ◽  
First Report ◽  
Korean Waters ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

Polycheria acercaudasp. nov., an amphipod symbiotic with sponges and ascidians in Korean waters, is established herein as a new species, along with a detailed description and illustrations. This new species is closely related to the following three known species of the genus from the Far East:Polycheria amakusaensisHirayama, 1984,P. japonicaBulycheva, 1952, andP. orientalisHirayama, 1984. However,Polycheria acercaudasp. nov. can be distinguished from the other congeners by the following combination of characteristics: (1) on antenna 2, the anterior margin of peduncular article 4 is pubescent; (2) on gnathopod 2, the palm is clearly distinct; (3) on uropod 3, the inner ramus is lined with plumose setae; and (4) on the telson, the apices are acute. This is the first report of the genusPolycheriaHaswell, 1879 belonging to the family Dexaminidae Leach, 1814 from Korean waters.

scholarly journals New species of Leporinus (Characiformes: Anostomidae) from the highlands of the Guiana Shield in Venezuela

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
José L. O. Birindelli ◽  
Heraldo A. Britski ◽  
Francisco Provenzano
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Lateral Line ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Guiana Shield ◽  
Caudal Peduncle ◽  
Digital Photograph ◽  
The Family ◽  
Fin Rays ◽  
A New Species

ABSTRACT A new species of Leporinus is described using morphological data and compared to all other species of the family. Specimens were illustrated using digital photograph, measured using digital calipers, and had teeth, scales, and fin rays counted under a stereomicroscope. The new species is distinguished from all other Anostomidae, except Anostomus anostomus, A. brevior, A. ternetzi, Hypomasticus despaxi, Leporinus arcus, and L. striatus, by having four dark longitudinal stripes on body. The new species is distinguished from aforementioned species by having terminal mouth with four teeth on the premaxilla, 12 series of scales around caudal peduncle, and 34 to 36 scales in the lateral line. The new species is remarkably similar to Leporinus arcus, which occurs on the opposite side of Guyana Shield highlands. The new species and L. arcus are possibly closely related to Leporinus gomesi, L. granti, L. lebaili, L. melanostictus, L. nijsseni, and L. santosi.

Neogreenia lonicera sp. nov., a new species of Margarodidae sensu lato (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) from China, with a key to species of Neogreenia MacGillivray and placement of the genus in the family Kuwaniidae

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3274 (1) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
SAN’AN WU ◽  
NAN NAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Cladistic Analysis ◽  
Instar Nymph ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Adult Females ◽  
First Instar ◽  
The Family ◽  
Helan Mountain ◽  
A New Species

A new species, Neogreenia lonicera Wu & Nan, is described and illustrated based on the adult female, second-instarfemale and first-instar nymph. This new species was collected at Helan Mountain, Inner Mongolia, China, in bark crevicesof Lonicera microphylla (Caprifoliaceae). A key is provided to separate the five species now known in NeogreeniaMacGillivray. A cladistic analysis of morphological data from adult females and first-instar nymphs of 28 archaeococcoidgenera has Neogreenia in a clade with Jansenus Foldi and Neosteingelia Morrison and usually also with KuwaniaCockerell, and thus Neogreenia should be placed in the family Kuwaniidae. A key to distinguish the adult females of the four genera of the Kuwaniidae is provided.

The formerly enigmatic Unidentiidae in the limelight again: a new species of the genus Unidentia from Thailand (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4551 (5) ◽  
pp. 556 ◽  
Author(s):  
TATIANA KORSHUNOVA ◽  
RAHUL MEHROTRA ◽  
SPENCER ARNOLD ◽  
KENNET LUNDIN ◽  
BERNARD PICTON ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Sea Slugs ◽  
The Family ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Morphological Differences ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

An integrative molecular and morphological study is presented for the family Unidentiidae. Molecular phylogenetic analyses were conducted with the inclusion of all previous and newly obtained molecular data for the family Unidentiidae Millen & Hermosillo 2012. A new species of the genus Unidentia Millen & Hermosillo 2012, U. aliciae sp. nov., is described from Thailand as part of an inventory of sea slugs at Koh Tao. All up-to-date available morphological data for the species of the genus Unidentia is for the first time summarized. Morphological differences among the different species of Unidentia are clarified showing that every species has its own distinguishable morphological traits. According to the new molecular and morphological data, the family Unidentiidae is re-confirmed as a well-supported taxon of the aeolidacean nudibranchs. The taxonomy and phylogeny of the Aeolidacea in the light of the family Unidentiidae is briefly discussed and necessity of a fine-scale and narrowly-defined taxa approach instead of a ‘‘superlumping’’ one is highlighted. 

A new Chifengiinae species (Orthoptera: Prophalangopsidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation (Liaoning, P.R. China)

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Fang ◽  
Haichun Zhang ◽  
Bo Wang ◽  
Daran Zheng
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Lower Cretaceous ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
Anterior Margin ◽  
Upper Jurassic ◽  
Yixian Formation ◽  
Liaoning Province ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the family Prophalangopsidae, Ashanga borealis sp.n., is described from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Fomation (Liaoning Province, P.R. China). The male forewing of the new species is similar to that of the Middle/Upper Jurassic species Ashanga clara Zherikhin 1985, but differs from it in possessing a forewing arched anterior margin, RS branching more basally, and MP + CuA1 with more branches. The fossil record of Chifengiinae is reviewed.

Tuber sinoniveum, a new white Chinese truffle species from Yunnan, China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 298 (3) ◽  
pp. 253 ◽  
Author(s):  
WENJUN XU ◽  
SHANPING WAN ◽  
LANLAN HUANG ◽  
YI ZHENG ◽  
HEDE GONG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Phylogenetic Placement ◽  
Snow White ◽  
Tuber Species ◽  
A New Species

We describe a new species of Tuber from Yunnan Province, China, based on molecular and morphological data. This species is characterized by its snow-white ascomata, pubescent peridia and subglobose or globose ascospores. Tuber sinoniveum sp. nov. is phylogenetically closely related to T. sinosphaerosporum but differs in having ascospores with more meshes (3–9 along) and glabrous peridia. Phylogenetic placement of this novel Tuber species is in the Puberulum group.

A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS MAMERSELLIDES LUNDBLAD, 1937 (ACARI: HYDRACHNIDA) WITH REMARKS ON THE FAMILY ANISITSIELLIDAE

1993 ◽  
Vol 125 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-783 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Cramer ◽  
Ian M. Smith
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Cladistic Analysis ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Preliminary Assessment ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

AbstractLarvae and adults of Mamersellides costenius sp.nov., from Mexico and Florida, USA, are described. The resulting new morphological data are incorporated into revised diagnoses for the genus Mamersellides, the subfamily Anisitsiellinae, and the family Anisitsiellidae. Preliminary assessment of character states exhibited by larvae and adults of Mamersellides and other genera of Lebertioidea, and by those of genera of the family Limnesiidae, suggests that a comprehensive cladistic analysis would provide a phylogenetic basis for extensive revision of the classification of these mites.

Hurleytrematoides justinei n. sp. (Digenea: Monorchiidae) from Valentinni’s sharpnose puffer, Canthigaster valentini (Bleeker) (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) from Heron Island, Queensland, Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2027 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARISSA K. A. McNAMARA ◽  
THOMAS H. CRIBB
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Ventral Sucker ◽  
Genital Pore ◽  
Posterior Margin ◽  
Anterior Margin ◽  
Ejaculatory Duct ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Family ◽  
Pore Opening ◽  
A New Species

A new species, Hurleytrematoides justinei n. sp., is described from Valentinni’s sharpnose puffer, Canthigaster valentini, from Heron Island, Queensland, Australia. It is characterized within the genus by a sinistral genital pore opening anterior to the posterior margin of the ventral sucker, a spiny ejaculatory duct ranging from 34 to 61 µm in length, and vitelline follicles extending from about the anterior margin of the testis to the posterior margin of the ventral sucker. Monorchiids are rare in the tetraodontids. This is the third species reported from the family and the first from the genus Canthigaster.

Coniosternum masneri sp. nov., a new species of the family Scathophagidae (Diptera) from Canada

2017 ◽  
Vol 186 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-116
Author(s):  
František Šifner
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

Abstract A new Nearctic species of the genus Coniosternum Becker, 1894, C. masneri sp. nov., is described from Canada, and its important diagnostic characters are illustrated.

scholarly journals Ophiocordyceps salganeicola, a parasite of social cockroaches in Japan and insights into the evolution of other closely-related Blattodea-associated lineages

IMA Fungus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
João P. M. Araújo ◽  
Mitsuru G. Moriguchi ◽  
Shigeru Uchiyama ◽  
Noriko Kinjo ◽  
Yu Matsuura
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Similarity ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Fungal Species ◽  
Evolutionary Relationships ◽  
Ryukyu Archipelago ◽  
Phylogenetic Placement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Host Jump ◽  
High Degree ◽  
A New Species

AbstractThe entomopathogenic genus Ophiocordyceps includes a highly diverse group of fungal species, predominantly parasitizing insects in the orders Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera. However, other insect orders are also parasitized by these fungi, for example the Blattodea (termites and cockroaches). Despite their ubiquity in nearly all environments insects occur, blattodeans are rarely found infected by filamentous fungi and thus, their ecology and evolutionary history remain obscure. In this study, we propose a new species of Ophiocordyceps infecting the social cockroaches Salganea esakii and S. taiwanensis, based on 16 years of collections and field observations in Japan, especially in the Ryukyu Archipelago. We found a high degree of genetic similarity between specimens from different islands, infecting these two Salganea species and that this relationship is ancient, likely not originating from a recent host jump. Furthermore, we found that Ophiocordyceps lineages infecting cockroaches evolved around the same time, at least twice, one from beetles and the other from termites. We have also investigated the evolutionary relationships between Ophiocordyceps and termites and present the phylogenetic placement of O. cf. blattae. Our analyses also show that O. sinensis could have originated from an ancestor infecting termite, instead of beetle larvae as previously proposed.

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