Crossing the Atlantic

2020 ◽  
pp. 143-166
Author(s):  
Karen Polinger Foster
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
New World ◽  
Wild Turkey ◽  
Native Peoples ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Early Maps

This chapter explores the existence of exotica in America. The flora and fauna of the Americas offered fresh scope for demonstrating the centrality of European culture. New species had to be ordered, classified, named, and fitted within established parameters. From the start, the same was true for native peoples. Furthermore, pictorial and textual descriptions were used to advance several agendas with far-reaching consequences. Primarily to encourage settlement in the New World, exotica were portrayed as variations on European plants and animals. Early maps of North America thus featured deer, bears, beavers, and rabbits, with only the occasional wild turkey—unique to the New World—intruding upon the familiar bestiary. Throughout the seventeenth and into the eighteenth centuries, European colonizing and commercial interests continued to purvey a vision of American resources as easy to transform into marketable commodities.

On a collection of Lepismatidae from the New World with description of a new species (Zygentoma)

1982 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-102
Author(s):  
Luis F. Mendes
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
New World ◽  
The Other ◽  
South Central ◽  
A New Species

AbstractThe Lepismatidae of coll. Zool. Mus., Copenhagen from South, Central and southern North America are listed. Prolepismina tuxeni n.sp. is described and compared with the other known species of the genus, P. pulchella (Silv.).

REVISION OF THE NEW WORLD CHRYSOLAMPINAE (HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA)

1986 ◽  
Vol 118 (9) ◽  
pp. 913-940 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Christopher Darling
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
New World ◽  
World Species ◽  
European Species ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
Climatic Information

AbstractThe taxonomy and biology of New World species of Chrysolampinae are reviewed with diagnoses given for the subfamily, genera, and species. A key to the species of Chrysolampus and a summary of geographic distribution and information on host and floral associations are presented. Three new species are described from North America (Chrysolampus improcerus, C. luridus and C. elegans); Chrysolampus lycti Crawford is transferred to Perilampus and synonymized with the European species P. micans Dalman. The genus Chrysomalla is recorded in the New World for the first time based on the new species Chrysomalla hesperis. An explanation of the historical biogeography of the genera is proposed that is consistent with Late Cretaceous and Tertiary geological, botanical, and climatic information. It is suggested that the extant species are descendents of elements of a widely distributed arid biota.

TWO NEW SPECIES OF EPICLERUS FROM THE NEW WORLD (HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA, TETRACAMPIDAE)

1978 ◽  
Vol 110 (11) ◽  
pp. 1207-1211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl M. Yoshimoto
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
New World ◽  
Greater Antilles ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two New Species

AbstractTwo new species of Epiclerus Haliday from North America and the Greater Antilles are described and illustrated, these being the first records of the family Tetracampidae native to the New World.

II.—On Two Undescribed Coniferous Fruits from the Secondary Rocks of Britain

1871 ◽  
Vol 8 (90) ◽  
pp. 540-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Carruthers
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
New World ◽  
The Other ◽  
The West ◽  
Imperfect Data ◽  
The One ◽  
Cretaceous Period ◽  
A New Species

It is a singular coincidence that in a former communication to this Magazine (Vol. VI., p. 1) I described, among other Coniferous fruits, two from the Gault at Folkestone, the one the cone of a pine, and the other of a Wellingtonia, and that in this communication I propose to describe two hitherto unknown fruits from the same deposit and found at the same locality, belonging also the one to a Wellingtonia and the other to a pine. Although the small pinecone already described (Pinites gracilis) differs in form and in the arrangement of the scales from any known cone, recent or fossil, it is more nearly related to that group of the section Pinea, the members of which are now associated with the Wellingtonias in the west of North America, than with any other member of the great genus Pinus. I, however, hesitated to refer to this interesting fact, because the occurrence of the two cones in the Gault might have been due to their being accidentally brought into the same silt by rivers having widely separated drainage areas. And it is easier to keep back generalizations based on imperfect data, than to suppress them after publication, when in the progress of investigation they are shown to be false. But I have now to describe a second pinecone more closely related to the Californian species of Pinea, and with it a new species of Wellingtonia. These surely point with tolerable certainty to the existence of a Coniferous vegetation on the high lands of the Upper Cretaceous period having a fades similar to that now existing in the mountains on the west of North America, between the thirtieth and fortieth parallels of latitude. No fossil referable to Sequoia has hitherto been found in strata older than the Gault, and here on the first appearance of the genus we find it associated with pines of the same group that now flourish by its side in the New World.

Two New Species of Ceraticelus (Araneae: Erigonidae) from Western North America

1958 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. D. Dondale
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Natural History ◽  
New World ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Western North America ◽  
American Museum ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
Two New Species

Crosby and Bishop (1925) published a comprehensive revision of the New World genus Ceraticelus, and from time to time other species have been described as they appeared. The following descriptions of two additional species were based upon specimens in the American Museum of Natural History in New York. All type material was deposited in that institution.

scholarly journals THE NEARCTIC SPECIES OF DUTA NIXON (HYMENOPTERA: SCELIONIDAE), EGG PARASITOIDS OF GROUND CRICKETS (ORTHOPTERA: GRYLLIDAE)

1991 ◽  
Vol 123 (4) ◽  
pp. 777-793 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lubomir Masner
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
New World ◽  
Egg Parasitoids ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe Nearctic species of the genus Duta are revised. Two new species are described: D. foveolata (Canada, USA) and D. policeps (Canada, USA). Duta virginiensis (Ashmead), new combination, is shown to be widely distributed in the Western Hemisphere, extending to the New World tropics. A diagnosis of Duta and a key to the Nearctic species are given. The impact of environmental degradation on the frequency of Duta species in North America is discussed.

First fossil record of the genus Reissa Evenhuis & Báez (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae: Mythicomyiinae) from the Eocene Green River Formation of North America, and discussion of biogeographical implications

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-228
Author(s):  
NEAL L. EVENHUIS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
New World ◽  
First Record ◽  
Green River Formation ◽  
Green River ◽  
Fossil Specimen ◽  
The Family ◽  
Fossil Genus

The genus Reissa Evenhuis & Báez in Greathead & Evenhuis (2001) was originally described based on a short series of extant specimens from the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. No further species of the genus have been discovered since. A related fossil genus (Riga Evenhuis) was described from Eocene Rovno amber (Evenhuis, 2013) and has some characters in common with the fossil specimen but differs in thoracic and antennal features. The new species described and illustrated here is represented by a single compression fossil of the new species Reissa kohlsi sp. nov. from the Parachute Creek member of the Green River Formation of Wyoming/Utah/Colorado, USA, the site of which dates from 51.2–48.7 my (Smith et al., 2008). It marks the first fossil record of the genus and its first record from the New World, and the first fossil record of the family Mythicomyiidae from North America. The family was previously known in the New World fossil record from the Miocene Dominican amber (cf. Evenhuis, 2013), including two representatives from the Mythicomyiinae (Mythicomyia dominicana Evenhuis, 2002 and Pieza dominicana Evenhuis, 2002).

REVISION OF THE MACROPSINI AND NEOPSINI OF THE NEW-WORLD (RHYNCHOTA: HOMOPTERA: CICADELLIDAE), WITH NOTES ON INTERSEX MORPHOLOGY

1983 ◽  
Vol 115 (S123) ◽  
pp. 5-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. G. A. Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
New World ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Northeastern North America ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
Polymorphic Species ◽  
Northwestern North America

AbstractThe Neopsini encompasses two genera, both exclusively Neotropical: Neopsis Oman (5 species) and Nollia n. gen. (2 species). Neopsis amazonica n. sp., Neopsis tumidifrons n. sp., Neopsis magna n. sp. (Brazil), and Nollia rustica n. sp. (Chile) are described, and the genera and species of the Neopsini are keyed.The New-World Macropsini encompasses five genera: Pediopsis Burmeister (1 species), Pediopsoides Matsumura (2 species), Reticopsis Hamilton (2 species), Macropsis Lewis (55 species), and Oncopsis Burmeister (36 species). Biological and morphological data are used to define the species in this taxonomically difficult tribe, with the result that 45 new species are described: Macropsis acapulco, M. dimorpha, M. igniscutellata, M. mexicana, M. oncopsimilis, and M. zebra from Mexico; Macropsis aureocephala, M. californiensis, M. ferrax, M. inversalis, M. palustris, M. pulchra, Oncopsis arizona, O. aureostria, and Reticopsis udrobates from southern California and Arizona; Oncopsis insignifica, O. mica, and O. tangenta from Utah; Macropsis borealis, M. rufescens, Oncopsis albicollis, O. incidens, O. interior, O. juno, O. marilynae, O. monticola, and O. tenuifoliae from northwestern North America; Macropsis dixiensis and O. infumata from southeastern North America; Macropsis decisa, M. jocosa, M. microceps, M. tunicata, M. xena, Oncopsis citrella, O. concurrens, O. dentata, O. deluda, O. prolixa, O. quebecensis, and O. vartyi from northeastern North America; and Macropsis deviridis, Oncopsis citra, O. crispae, and O. prairiana from Canada. Five new subspecies are described: O. cinctifrons kootenensis, O. prairiana ferrosus, and O. prairiana occidentalis, all from southern British Columbia; Oncopsis nigrinasi florida from Florida; and Macropsis deviridis alberta from western Canada. Five new synonymies are created. Keys to all taxa, host associations, and distribution maps are provided and the colour phases of the various polymorphic species are analyzed.The morphology and significance of intersex individuals of Oncopsis spp. are discussed.

A NEW SPECIES OF MIDEOPSIS (NUDOMIDEOPSIS) (ACARI: PARASITENGONA: MIDEOPSIDAE) FROM NORTH AMERICA

1977 ◽  
Vol 109 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian M. Smith
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
New World ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
A New Species

AbstractMale and female adults of Mideopsis (Nudomideopsis) magnacetabula n. sp. are described. This is the first species of this subgenus described from the New World, and knowledge of the new species necessitates modification of the subgeneric concept.

scholarly journals Review of the New World genus Nanium Townes, 1967 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Ctenopelmatinae), with two new species from the Neotropical region

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexey Reshchikov ◽  
Ilari E. Sääksjärvi ◽  
Marc Pollet
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
North America ◽  
New World ◽  
Parasitoid Wasp ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
Neotropical Species ◽  
Two New Species

Nanium Townes, 1967 is a small New World parasitoid wasp genus in the subfamily Ctenopelmatinae Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Previously, it comprised five species: one from North America and four from Costa Rica. The current study reviews the Neotropical species of the genus, and includes descriptions of two new species, N. medianum Reshchikov & Sääksjärvi sp. nov. from Ecuador and N. atitlanensis Reshchikov & Sääksjärvi sp. nov. from Guatemala. A key to the species is provided.

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