Notes on Strychnos L. (Loganiaceae) in Australia

1993 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 309
Author(s):  
BJ Conn ◽  
EA Broen
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The South ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
Asian Species

Four species of Strychnos are recognised for Australia (S. arboren, S. lucida, S. minor and S. psilosperma). The South-east Asian species, Strychnos axillaris is excluded from Australia, being regarded as extending no further south than New Guinea. A key to the Australian species, together with descriptions, distributional, habitat. and other notes are provided.

scholarly journals New species of the genus Ypsolopha Latreille, 1796 (Lepidoptera: Ypsolophidae) from the south of the Russian Far East

2020 ◽  
Vol 421 ◽  
pp. 14-26
Author(s):  
M.G. Ponomarenko ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Genetic Distance ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
The South ◽  
Asian Species ◽  
A New Species ◽  
The Russian Far East

An analysis of the mtCOI sequences in the species from the genus Ypsolopha Latreille, 1796 made it possible to confirm a new species for science, Y. occultatella sp. n., morphologically similar to the East Asian species Y. yasudai Moriuti, 1964. The genetic distance between the mtCOI sequences in Y. occultatella sp. n. and Y. yasudai is 0,066–0,069 (6,6–6,9 %). However, the minimal genetic distance, 0,038–0,042 (3,8–4,2 %), was determined between the mtCOI sequences of the new species and Y. blandella (Christoph, 1882), while these species differ well in the forewing pattern.

Drosophilidae of Australia. 4. Mycodrosophila

1980 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 261 ◽  
Author(s):  
IR Bock
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
East Asian ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The South ◽  
Asian Species ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
First Time

The Australian Mycodrosophila fauna comprises 21 species distributed in northern and eastern Australia to southern New South Wales. Only one species, M. argentifrons Malloch, is previously described from Australia; the south-east Asian species M. separata (de Meijere) is recorded for the first time. The remaining 19 species are new: adequate material has been available to permit the description and naming of 18 of them.

scholarly journals Cuticular features of Cryptocarya (Lauraceae) from Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and Indo-China and its taxonomic implications

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 244 (1) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sachiko Nishida ◽  
ROGIER DE KOK ◽  
YONG YANG
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
The Other ◽  
Leaf Epidermis ◽  
Species Comparison ◽  
The South ◽  
Stomatal Complex ◽  
Asian Species ◽  
Taxonomic Implications ◽  
Species Groups

Cuticular features potentially offer valuable information on phytotaxonomy, especially for plants that are difficult to classify or identify. Cryptocarya is one such difficult and poorly known genus, and we investigated its cuticular features to evaluate their taxonomic implications. We examined cutinized leaf epidermis and the stomatal complex for 21 species from Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and Indo-China, as well as one species endemic to Borneo and one to Sumatra, and compared features among members of this group, between this group and congeners in the other countries, and between this group and the other genera of Lauraceae. Many of the Cryptocarya species studied have straight to slightly curved anticlinal epidermal walls and butterfly-shaped stomatal ledges, although some variation was seen in the ornamentation of the periclinal epidermal walls and the appearance of the stomatal complex. Based on these results, we recognized four groups and two subgroups among the South-east Asian species. Comparison with congeneric taxa in the other countries indicates that butterfly-shaped stomatal ledges are often shared among the species across the regions. However, no cuticular features occur exclusively in any of the species groups of Cryptocarya studied here, nor in the genus as a whole. We consider that cuticular features are useful in the recognition of infrageneric groups within Lauraceae, bearing in mind that they might have evolved in parallel in different genera.

Drosophilidae (Insecta: Diptera) of Three Torres Strait Islands, With Description of a New Species of Drosophila.

1981 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 907 ◽  
Author(s):  
SF Mcevey
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The South ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
Torres Strait ◽  
A New Species

Drosophilidae were collected from three Torres Strait islands: Thursday, Moa and Mount Adolphus. A total of 17 species of the six genera Drosophila, Mycodrosophila, Lissocephala, Sphaerogastrella, Microdrosophila and Leucophenga were collected, the largest island having the most diverse fauna. The new Torres Strait records given here extend the known distributions of several Australian species and link the ranges of other species found in Australia with south-east Asian records. A new species of the subgenus Scaptodrosophila, Drosophila moana, is described. An unidentified taxon of the south-east Asian nmuta subgroup, possessing entire frontal pollinosity, is also recorded.

The Rainforest Ant Fauna of Australia's Northern Territory

1996 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Reichel ◽  
AN Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Introduced Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
New Records ◽  
East Asian ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Pheidole Megacephala ◽  
Asian Species ◽  
As Species ◽  
Total Species

An ant survey of Northern Territory (NT) rainforests, which occur as numerous small and isolated patches within a predominantly savanna landscape, yielded 173 species from 46 genera. The richest genera were Polyrhachis (22 species), Pheidole (21 species), Rhytidoponera (12 species) and Monomorium (12 species). Seven genera represented new records for the NT: Discothyrea, Prionopelta, Machomyrma, Strumigenys, Bothriomyrmex, Turneria and Pseudolasius. The most common ants were Generalised myrmicines, particularly species of Pheidole and Monomorium, and Opportunists such as species of Paratrechina, Tetramorium, Odontomachus and Rhytidoponera. This is also the case in rainforests of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Of NT rainforest species, 59% have Torresian (tropical) affinities, which is only slightly higher than in Kimberley rainforests (48%). However, the NT harbours a far higher proportion of specialist rainforest species (27 v. 9%), including many more with arboreal nests (13 v. 5% of total species). Many of the rainforest specialists are of considerable biogeographic interest, with a substantial number having disjunct distributions in the NT and Queensland (and often also New Guinea) A small number represent the only known Australian records of south-east Asian species. Interestingly, very few species appear to be endemic to NT rainforests, with a previously unrecorded species of Aphaenogaster being a probable exception. The NT rainforest fauna also includes several introduced species, with at least one (Pheidole megacephala) posing a serious conservation threat.

scholarly journals First record of Anax nigrofasciatus Oguma, 1915 (Odonata: Aeshnidae) from Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 439 ◽  
pp. 24-28
Author(s):  
E.I. Malikova ◽  
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Yu.A. Chistyakov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
First Record ◽  
The South ◽  
Primorsky Krai ◽  
Asian Species ◽  
Body Coloration ◽  
The Russian Far East

Dragonfly Anax nigrofasciatus Oguma, 1915 (Odonata: Aeshnidae) was collected on a small pond in the vicinity of Vityaz settelment, Gamov Peninsula, Primorsky Krai in 2021. It is the first record of this East Asian species from Russia. A. nigrofasciatus clearly differs from A. parthenope julius Brauer, 1865, more common in the south of the Russian Far East, by body coloration and by details of morphology.

Late Quaternary change in the mountains of New Guinea

Antiquity ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 69 (265) ◽  
pp. 818-830 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Hope ◽  
Jack Golson
Keyword(s):  
Late Quaternary ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Mountainous Areas ◽  
The South ◽  
Environmental Sequence ◽  
The North ◽  
Australian Continent

At the south and north limits of our region are mountainous areas very different from the open arid spaces of the Australian continent between. In the north, the high country of New Guinea offers a complex and well-studied environmental sequence as the arena for early and puzzling human adaptations, precursor of the extraordinary societies of the island today.

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