A revision of the family Galaxiidae (Pisces) in Tasmania

1976 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 297 ◽  
Author(s):  
AP Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Morphometric Variation ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Time

Nine species of the genus Galaxias and one species of the genus Paragalaxias are found to be represented in Tasmania. The taxonomy, meristic and morphometric variation of each species is examined and data on the distribution, life history and ecology are presented together with references and synonymy. At the commencement of the present study previous works credited a total of 16 species in four genera to Tasmania distributed as follows: Galaxias, 12 species, Paragalaxias, 1 species, Saxilaga, 2 species and Brachygalaxias, 2 subspecies. In the present study G. scopus Scott is shown to be a synonym of G. truttaceus Valenciennes, G. affinis Regan and G. coxii Macleay are shown to be synonyms of G. brevipinnis Gunther which is recorded for the first time from the Australian mainland. The two species currently referred to the genus Saxilaga, S. cleaveri Scott and S. anguilliformis Scott, together with G. upcheri Scott are found to represent one species of Galaxias. The type locality of G. auratus Johnston is shown to be Lake Sorell and the type locality of G. upcheri is more accurately defined than in previous works. The two subspecies of Brachygalaxias, B. pusillus tasmaniensis Scott and B. pusillus flindersiensis Scott, are treated as one species of Galaxias. The Tasmanian galaxiid fauna is compared and contrasted with the galaxiid faunas of mainland Australia and New Zealand and the distribution patterns and zoogeographic considerations are discussed.

scholarly journals Recovery of Globba wengeri (C.E.C. Fisch.) K.J. Williams, critically endangered plant species from Serchhip District in Mizoram, Northeast India

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-181
Author(s):  
Lalnun Mawia ◽  
Vanlalhruaii Ralte ◽  
H. Lalruatsanga ◽  
Zothan Mawia ◽  
P.C. Vanlalhluna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Endangered Plant ◽  
Endangered Plant Species ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Time

Globba wengeri (C.E.C. Fisch.) K.J. Williams, former state flower of Mizoram, a rare and critically endangered plant species, commonly known as ‘dancing girl’, belonging to the family Zingiberaceae, is reported in this communication for the first time from Serchhip District in Mizoram at an elevation of about 1187 m a.s.l. It was found on moist, watery and rocky slopes. The plant is under severe threat in the natural habitat and therefore, further studies are required to determine life history and particular survival threats of this species.

New species of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of the genera Austrachipteria (Achipteriidae), Cultroribula (Astegistidae) and Microlamellarea (Lamellareidae) from New Zealand

Biologia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 70 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey G. Ermilov ◽  
Maria A. Minor
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Oribatid Mites ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
The Family ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time

AbstractThree new species of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida), Austrachipteria novazealandica sp. n. (Achipteriidae), Cultroribula otagoensis sp. n. (Astegistidae) and Microlamellarea minuta sp. n. (Lamellareidae), are described from New Zealand. The family Lamellareidae and the genus Microlamellarea are recorded for the first time in the fauna of this country. Austrachipteria novazealandica sp. n. is morphologically most similar to A. bidentata (Hammer, 1967), but differs from the latter by shorter interlamellar and bothridial setae and by posteriorly concave notogaster. Cultroribula otagoensis sp. n. is morphologically most similar to C. bicuspidata Mahunka, 1978, C. castriensis Mahunka, 1985, C. tropica Balogh, 1958 and C. zicsii Balogh & Mahunka, 1981, but differs from all listed species by lamellae being separated medially. Microlamellarea minuta sp. n. differs from two known species of the genus, M. coetzeeae Mahunka & Mahunka-Papp, 2011 and M. engelbrechti Coetzee, 1987, by the presence of minute interlamellar setae, leaf-shaped rostral setae and two pairs of anal setae. An identification key to known species of Microlamellarea is presented. Transfer of the genus Cultroribella from Astegistidae to Lamellareidae is proposed.

scholarly journals Two new genera and five new species of Selachinematidae (Nematoda, Chromadorida) from the continental slope of New Zealand

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Leduc
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
Continental Slope ◽  
Buccal Cavity ◽  
Posterior Extremity ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Posterior Testis ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Time

Two new genera and five new species of Selachinematidae are described from the New Zealand upper continental slope (350-1240 m depth). Synonchiella rotundicauda sp. nov. is characterised by cephalic setae 0.25 cbd long, mandibles each with two pairs of hooks and two wing-like projections laterally, eight cup-shaped pre-cloacal supplements and short rounded tail. Pseudocheironchus gen. nov. is similar to Cheironchus, but differs from the latter in having a cuticle without lateral differentiation, cephalic setae only slightly longer than the outer labial sensillae, and a posterior buccal cavity with three equal mandibles. Pseudocheironchus ingluviosus gen. et sp. nov. is characterised by mandibles with eight blunt teeth, multispiral amphideal fovea with five turns, and a short rounded tail. Males of this new species with 17-19 cup-shaped pre-cloacal supplements. Males of the genus Cobbionema are described for the first time; C. trigamma sp. nov. is characterised by four long cephalic setae and six smaller outer labial setae in one circle, six rhabdions surrounding the anterior buccal cavity, each with two pairs of pointed projections at their posterior extremities, posterior buccal cavity widening posteriorly, with three pairs of rhabdions fused posteriorly and widening anteriorly, males with two testes pointing anteriorly and with reflexed posterior testis, and no pre-cloacal supplements. Gammanema agglutinans sp. nov. is characterised by a short, stout body often covered in adhering mucus and detritus, cuticle with minute spines, leaf-shaped somatic setae with ducts, sexual dimorphism in the shape of the amphideal fovea (loop-shaped in males and spiral in females), posterior buccal cavity with three pairs of broad, column-shaped rhabdions fused anteriorly, intestine cells with orange-brown granules, and small tubular pre-cloacal supplements. Bendiella gen. nov. is most similar to Halichoanolaimus, but differs from the latter, and all other genera of the family Selachinematidae, in having a cuticle with lateral differentiation consisting of longitudinal rows of larger dots, and from all other genera of the Choniolaiminae in lacking pre-cloacal supplements. Bendiella thalassa gen. et sp. nov. is characterised by amphideal fovea with 5.25 turns, anterior buccal cavity with twelve rhabdions, each with a pair of pointed projections at posterior extremity, posterior buccal cavity with three Y-shaped pairs of slender rhabdions fused from two thirds of distance from anterior ends, and conico-cylindrical tail.

Annotated Checklist of Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Turkey with new records for the faunas of Europe and Turkish Thrace

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4347 (3) ◽  
pp. 465 ◽  
Author(s):  
AHMET DURSUN ◽  
MERAL FENT
Keyword(s):  
New Records ◽  
European Part ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
The Family ◽  
Annotated Checklist ◽  
First Time

In this study, all the so far manuscripts on Tingidae fauna in Turkey has been revised and adults samples from the family Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) were collected from different localities in Anatolia and Thrace of Turkey and an annotated checklist of Tingidae occurring is presented. As a results of this study, of Tingidae fauna from Turkey stated that it consists of 78 species has revealed that the number of species is 88 species and 1 subspecies. Nine species and subspecies, Catoplatus horvathi (Puton, 1878), Copium clavicorne clavicorne (Linnaeus, 1758), Derephysia foliacea foliacea (Fallén, 1807), Dictyla nassata (Puton, 1874), Dictyla rotundata (Herrich−Schaeffer, 1835), Dictyonota strichnocera Fieber, 1844, Lasiacantha capucina capucina (Germar, 1837) Stephanitis oschanini Vasiliev, 1935 and Tingis geniculata (Fieber, 1844) are new records for the fauna of Turkish Thrace (European part of Turkey) and of those, S. oschanini is recorded for the first time from Europe. The specimen Dictyonata astragali Štusák & Önder, 1982 type locality in Turkey has been mentioned second locality from Merzifon (Amasya). 

On the Life-History and Structure of the Early Stages of Simuliidae (Diptera, Nematocera). Part I

Parasitology ◽  
1925 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. M. Puri
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Life History ◽  
Running Water ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
The Family ◽  
Long Time ◽  
First Time

Adults of the family Simuliidae have been known in Europe for a very long time as very serious pests affecting both men and cattle, and there were many interesting legends, even up to the middle of the eighteenth century, explaining their origin from grottos in the mountains (Tömösváry). Fabricius (1784) for the first time found a Simulium pupa (probably that of S. venustum Say) and described it under the name Tipula sericea, but to Schönbauer (1795) we owe the discovery that the earlier stages (egg, larva and pupa) of Simulium (Kolumbatczer-Mücke) are to be found in running water.

scholarly journals Description of the first species of Glomeridesmida from Thailand (Diplopoda, Glomeridesmida, Glomeridesmidae)

ZooKeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1024 ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
Thomas Wesener ◽  
Nattarin Wongthamwanich ◽  
Leif Moritz
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
South America ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Se Asia ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Time ◽  
Scanning Electron

With three genera and 35 previously known species from India, SE Asia, Central and South America, Glomeridesmida are one of the least diverse Diplopoda groups. Here we describe Glomeridesmus siamensissp. nov., the first species of the order Glomeridesmida from Thailand. The geographically nearest confamiliar species have been described from southern India, Sumatra and Java. The species is described combining photographs, light- and scanning electron microscopy of mature and younger males, females and juveniles. Several characters are illustrated for the first time for an Asian representative of the family Glomeridesmidae. In addition to the type locality of G. siamensissp. nov. from Krabi province, locality data of unidentified Glomeridesmus from Thailand are also given. These data are providing further evidence that the Glomeridesmida are not uncommon, but overlooked as they are small and difficult to collect. The unusual telopods and other morphological characters of G. siamensissp. nov. differ considerably from the few Glomeridesmus males described from Central and South America as well as from India, but the unclear status of two generic names available for species from Indonesia prevents us from adding another generic name to this small and understudied order.

scholarly journals The millipede genus Stemmiulus Gervais, 1844 in Cameroon, with descriptions of three new species (Diplopoda, Stemmiulida, Stemmiulidae)

ZooKeys ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 708 ◽  
pp. 11-23
Author(s):  
Armand Richard Nzoko Fiemapong ◽  
Paul Serge Mbenoun Masse ◽  
Joseph Lebel Tamesse ◽  
Sergei Ilyich Golovatch ◽  
Didier VandenSpiegel
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Species Diversity ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Juvenile Material ◽  
The Family ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time

The large pantropical millipede genus Stemmiulus, which currently encompasses more than 150 species, i.e. the bulk of the species diversity of the family Stemmiulidae and entire order Stemmiulida, is shown to comprise seven species in Cameroon, including three new ones: S.ongot Nzoko Fiemapong & VandenSpiegel, sp. n., S.uncus Nzoko Fiemapong & VandenSpiegel, sp. n., and S.mbalmayoensis Nzoko Fiemapong & VandenSpiegel, sp. n. In addition, S.beroni Mauriès, 1989, previously known only from the type locality in Nigeria, is recorded from Cameroon for the first time, also being redescribed based on new samples. A key is given to all species of the genus encountered in the country, based on male gonopodal conformation, except for S.camerunensis (Silvestri, 1916), which was described only from female and juvenile material.

scholarly journals Synonymy of the water mite families Malgasacaridae and Zelandothyadidae (Acari: Hydrachnidia) reveals an interesting disjunct distribution in the Southern Hemisphere

Acarologia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 617-631
Author(s):  
Reinhard Gerecke ◽  
Mark L.I. Judson ◽  
David R. Cook
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
Disjunct Distribution ◽  
Water Mite ◽  
Incertae Sedis ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Zelandothyas, Z. balloti, is described from South Island, New Zealand. The deutonymph and larva of Zelandothyas diamphida Cook, 1983 are described for the first time. The deutonymph of Malgasacarus rarus Tuzovskij et al., 2008 is redescribed. The family Malgasacaridae Tuzovskij, Gerecke and Goldschmidt, 2008 is synonymized with Zelandothyadidae Cook, 1983 and Malgasacarus Tuzovskij et al., 2008 is transferred to the subfamily Zelandothyadinae. Thus redefined, the family Zelandothyadidae shows an interesting disjunction in the southern hemisphere. Here, it is considered a family incertae sedis, provisionally comprising the monophyletic Zelandothyadinae and the enigmatic Australiothyadinae Cook, 1986. Zelandothyadidae are unusual in combining character states previously considered diagnostic for either Eylaoidea or Hydryphantoidea.

The Nearctic Nemonychidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)

1989 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Kuschel
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
New Genus ◽  
The United States ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
The Family ◽  
Biogeographical Regions ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
Tulare County ◽  
Nearctic Region

AbstractThe Nemonychidae of the Nearctic Region are revised for the first time. The family is considered to contain the most primitive living weevil species, most of them associated with Araucariaceae, Podocarpaceae and Pinaceae, and spread over four biogeographical regions. The Nearctic fauna is composed of 17 species in five genera placed in two subfamilies, all associated with Pinaceae. The subfamily Rhinorhynchinae, here reported for the first time from the Nearctic, is represented by the new genus Atopomacer and its three species, all new - A. ites (type locality: Estes Park, Colorado), A. hoplites (type locality: Cerro Potosi, Nuevo León, Mexico), and A. orites (type locality: Cerro Potosí, Nuev León, Mexico). The nearest relatives seem to be those known to be associated with Podocarpaceae in New Zealand, Chile and Argentina. The subfamily Doydirhynchinae has 14 species in four genera. All species occur in the United States, and eight are also found in Canada. The only genus shared with the Palearctic is CimberisGozis, which has, apart from the type species C. attelaboides (Fabricius) from Europe, seven species in North America. These are C. bihirsuta Hatch, C. compta (LeConte), C. decipiens sp. n. (type locality: Mariposa County, California), C. elongata (LeConte), C. pallipennis (Blatchley), C. pilosa (LeConte), and C. turbans sp. n. (type locality: Wolverton, Sequoia National Park, California). Cimberis pallipennis is reinstated from synonymy with C. pilosa, and C. parvula Hatch is considered a junior synonym of C. compta. There are three new genera, Pityomacer with three new species - P carmelites (type locality: Carmel, Monterey County, California), P. nugax (type locality: Giant Forest, Tulare County, California), and P. pix (type locality: Vernon, British Columbia); Acromacer, with A. bombifrons (LeConte) transferred from Cimberis; and Lecontellus, proposed for the Nearctic species previously in the Palearctic genus Doydirhynchus Dejean, with the species L. byturoides (LeConte), L. pinicola sp. n. (type locality: W. Woffard Hts, Kern County, California), and L. slevini (Martin).

First report of the genus Kohliella Brauns, 1910 (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Crabroninae) from India with the species K. anula Pulawski, 1991 from Kerala

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4890 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-150
Author(s):  
N.V. AYISHA MAWADDA ◽  
P. GIRISH KUMAR ◽  
P.M. SURESHAN
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Life History ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Sparse Vegetation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Tree Cricket ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nesting Habits ◽  
First Time

The digger wasp genus Kohliella Brauns, 1910, a member of the tribe Larrini, subfamily Crabroninae of the family Crabronidae, is a rarely occurring genus comprising only three known species worldwide (Pulawski 1991; 2020). The genus has been recorded from the Ethiopian (South Africa and Zimbabwe; two species) and Oriental (Sri Lanka; one species) regions. Brauns (1910) erected the genus based on the type species Kohliella alaris from South Africa. The genus is characterized by a V-shaped swelling on the frons, an oblong tubercle on the mandible and a petiolate third submarginal cell of the forewing (Bohart & Menke 1976; Pulawski 1991). The nesting habits are known only for Kohliella alaris. Gess and Gess (1980) studied the life history of this species. It preys on nymphal tree cricket Oecanthus filiger Walker, and nests in the ground in flat, sandy areas with sparse vegetation; nests are constructed prior to hunting. In this paper, Kohliella anula Pulawski, 1991, previously known from Sri Lanka only, is recorded for the first time from India. 

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