Corroboreethrips, a new genus of minute apterous thrips (Insecta : Thysanoptera : Phlaeothripinae) from the bark of Australian Acacia trees

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 709 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence A. Mound ◽  
Gerald Moritz
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Species Pairs ◽  
Waxy Substance ◽  
Acacia Tree

Six new species are described in the new genus Corroboreethrips: C. kallus, sp. nov., C. siagonus, sp. nov., C. stomius, sp. nov., C. subsolanus, sp. nov., C. suspectus, sp. nov. and C. zophus, sp. nov. They all live in cavities beneath thin, split bark of slender branches on particular Acacia tree species in arid parts of Australia, and two species-pairs show a vicariant distribution between Queensland and Western Australia. In life, adults of these minute black, wingless thrips are remarkable in appearance, decorated with irregular rows of tiny white dots, the product of numerous short, stout dorsal setae coated with a white waxy substance. The structure of the antennae of these species is unique within the Phlaeothripidae, with segments VII and VIII short and forming a small style that is closely joined to segment VI, segment III produced basally into a sleeve around the pedicel, and segment II strongly asymmetric. The mouth cone varies in length among the six species more than in any other known thrips genus. In two species it is relatively short, extending to the fore coxae, but in two others it extends as far as the hind coxae and is thus relatively longer than in any other phlaeothripid.

scholarly journals A new genus and two new species of groundwater paramelitid amphipods from the Pilbara, Western Australia: a combined molecular and morphological approach

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terrie L. Finston ◽  
Michael S. Johnson ◽  
Stefan M. Eberhard ◽  
James S. Cocking ◽  
Jane M. McRae ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Morphological Approach

Wundacaenis, a new genus of Caenidae (Insecta : Ephemeroptera) from Australia

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 787 ◽  
Author(s):  
PJ Suter
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Eastern Coast ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Three New Species

A new genus, Wundacaenis, is erected for three new species of Australian caenid mayflies. The genus is diagnosed by possession of distinctive lobes on the anterolateral margins of the mesonotum. The distribution of Wundacaenis extends from the Kimberleys in Western Australia, through the Alligator Rivers Region in the Northern Territory, and down the eastern coast to the Shoalhaven River in New South Wales.

A new genus and new species of Aeptini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae) from Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4658 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-192
Author(s):  
EDUARDO I. FAÚNDEZ ◽  
DAVID A. RIDER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Heteroptera Pentatomidae

The aeptine Mariomella singularis gen. et sp. nov. is described and illustrated from Western Australia. With this new addition, the Aeptini diversity increases to 21 species in nine genera.

Aurum, a new monotypic genus of Cetoniinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) endemic to Western Australia, Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4683 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAUL M. HUTCHINSON ◽  
CHRISTIAN H. MOESENEDER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Single Species ◽  
Monotypic Genus

The flower beetle genus Aurum new genus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Schizorhinini: Schizorhinina) is described. Aurum is endemic to Australia, and contains a single species, Aurum leonorensis new species, from Western Australia. The genus is compared to the most closely related Australian flower beetle genera, Diaphonia Newman, 1840, Aphanesthes Kraatz, 1880, and Chondropyga Kraatz, 1880. Ecological observations and the collecting localities are detailed for Aurum leonorensis. 

scholarly journals Reassignment of Western Australia Paracnephia gladiator Moulton & Adler to a new genus, Bunyipellum (Diptera: Simuliidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4375 (3) ◽  
pp. 341 ◽  
Author(s):  
DOUGLAS A. CRAIG ◽  
DOUGLAS C. CURRIE ◽  
JOHN K. MOULTON
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Historical Biogeography ◽  
South American ◽  
New Genera ◽  
The South ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
Unique Character ◽  
New Material

With new material available of most stages of many known Australian Paracnephia, including new species, it is now clear that certain segregates warrant assignment to new genera. This applies to Paracnephia gladiator Moulton & Adler, a Western Australia simuliid with numerous unique character states. The species is fully redescribed and assigned to Bunyipellum nov. gen. A diagnosis is provided and relationships discussed, as is historical biogeography. Bunyipellum appears to be more closely related to elements of the South American simuliid fauna than to any other Gondwanan Australian species.

Revision of Spinosphaera and establishment of the new genus Hutchingsiella (Polychaeta: Terebellidae: Terebellinae)

2003 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 747-759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario H. Londoño-Mesa
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
Caribbean Coast ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Mexican Caribbean ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
Three New Species

Spinosphaera is a Terebellinae genus with three species described from the Pacific Ocean, S. pacifica from Japan, S. oculata from California, and the doubtful S. cowarrie from Western Australia. The genus is presently unknown in the Grand Caribbean region. Spinosphaera is characterized by the absence of branchiae, by the great number of notopodia, and the presence of a special type of notochaetae, called ‘Spinosphaera-chaeta’. These chaetae have three different regions: distal denticulate blade, neck separating the former from a middle swollen spinous region, and a proximal smooth or bilimbate region; two sizes are present. The genus is redefined, with redescription of all species currently known. Three new species are described here, two from the Mexican Caribbean coast, S. hutchingsae and S. carrerai, and one from California, S. harrisae. A taxonomic key to identify all species is given. Hutchingsiella gen. nov. is proposed for S. cowarrie; it differs from Spinosphaera in having notochaeta from segment 5 and neurochaetae from segment 6, and for lacking Spinosphaera chaeta.

Molecular and morphological evidence for a new genus of small trapdoor spiders from arid Western Australia (Araneae : Mygalomorphae : Nemesiidae : Anaminae)

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Castalanelli ◽  
Joel A. Huey ◽  
Mia J. Hillyer ◽  
Mark S. Harvey
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Molecular Analysis ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Morphological Evidence ◽  
Character System ◽  
Three New Species

The trapdoor spider family Nemesiidae comprises 14 genera in Australia, the majority of which are included in the subfamily Anaminae. Here we provide evidence from a multigene molecular analysis of most Australian genera of Anaminae for a previously unrecognised clade that also differs from its sister-genus, Aname L. Koch, by the lack of a prominent asetose ventral depression on the pedipalpal tibia and the medium-sized mating spur on tibia I of males. This depression is a characteristic of all species of Aname examined to date, and represents a newly recognised character system in the subfamily. The new genus, named Hesperonatalius, is represented by three new species – H. maxwelli, sp. nov., H. harrietae, sp. nov. and H. langlandsi, sp. nov. – all from arid Western Australia. http://zoobank.org/References/D5352390-5D21-49DD-A123-A074422EB860

scholarly journals The lithurgine bees of Australia (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), with a note on Megachile rotundipennis

2013 ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor H Gonzalez ◽  
Michael S. Engel ◽  
Terry L Griswold
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
Inner Surface ◽  
Pacific Species

Austrothurgus Gonzalez & Engel, new genus, is described and figured for three species of lithurgine bees (Megachilidae: Lithurginae: Lithurgini) from Australia. Austrothurgus is distinguished from other Lithurginae by the presence of arolia in males (absent in females), first flagellomere long in both sexes, female facial prominence mostly involving the base of clypeus, and male metabasitarsus with distinct, elevated carina on its inner surface. Austrothurgus malgaru Gonzalez, Engel, & Griswold, new species, from Western Australia is also described and figured. A neotype is designated for Lithurgus dentipes Smith and lectotypes for L. atratus Smith, L. cognatus Smith, and L. rubricatus Smith. The following two new combinations are established: A. cognatus (Smith) and A. rubricatus (Smith). An updated key to the genera of Lithurgini as well as diagnoses, illustrations, and a key to the species occurring in Australia are provided. Taxonomic notes and a new lectotype designation for the Indo-Pacific species Megachile (Eutricharaea) rotundipennis Kirby are also appended.

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