Integrative taxonomy and phylogeography of Colomys and Nilopegamys (Rodentia: Murinae), semi-aquatic mice of Africa, with descriptions of two new species

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas C Giarla ◽  
Terrence C Demos ◽  
Ara Monadjem ◽  
Rainer Hutterer ◽  
Desiré Dalton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Distinct Species ◽  
Integrative Taxonomy ◽  
North West ◽  
Equatorial Africa ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
The Status ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
Multilocus Phylogeny

Abstract The semi-aquatic African murine genera Colomys and Nilopegamys are considered monotypic and thought to be closely related to one another. Colomys occurs across forested regions of equatorial Africa, whereas Nilopegamys is known only from the Ethiopian holotype, making it among the rarest mammalian genera in the world – and possibly extinct. Using morphological and genetic data, we reassess the taxonomy of Colomys and Nilopegamys. A multilocus phylogeny with outgroups demonstrates that Nilopegamys is sister to Colomys. In addition, we recognize at least four morphologically diagnosable and genetically distinct species within Colomys: C. eisentrauti (elevated from subspecies and restricted to north-west Cameroon), C. goslingi (with a more restricted range than previously reported) and two new species (one from Liberia and Guinea and one from central and southern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola). We also review the status of four other taxa currently recognized within Colomys goslingi (bicolor, denti, goslingi and ruandensis) and demonstrate that these names lack phylogenetic and/or morphological support. Finally, we discuss potential biogeographic barriers that may have played a role in the evolution of Colomys and Nilopegamys, emphasizing the importance of rivers in both facilitating and, possibly, limiting dispersal within these genera.

Nouveaux taxons et synonymies dans le groupe de Liptena opaca (Kirby, 1890) (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Poritiinae)

2021 ◽  
Vol 126 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Libert
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
The Status ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
Specific Rank

New taxa and synonymies in the group of Liptena opaca (Kirby, 1890) (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Poritiinae). A lectotype of Liptena opaca (Kirby, 1890) is designated, and the status of three of its subspecies are revised: ugandana Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974, is raised to specific rank, centralis Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974, is synonymized with L. opaca gabunica, and sankuru Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974, becomes a subspecies of L. albomacula Hawker-Smith, 1933. Liptena ouesso Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974, is synonymized with L. immaculata Grünberg, 1910. Six new species are described, four from Cameroon (L. arnouxi n. sp., L. laguerrei n. sp., L. mariae n. sp. and L. perconfusa n. sp.), one from eastern Nigeria (L. brophyi n. sp.), and one species (L. restricta n. sp.) as well as a new subspecies (L. immaculata orientis n. ssp.) from north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Strigocossus ralffiebigi sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Cossidae: Zeuzerinae) from Democratic Republic of the Congo and Republic of Uganda

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Roman V. Yakovlev
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Equatorial Africa ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
A New Species

The article describes a new species of Cossidae (Lepidoptera: Zeuzerinae) from Equatorial Africa (Democratic Republic of the Congo and Republic of Uganda) – Strigocossus ralffiebigi sp. nov.

New insights on the genus Scolopendrelloides Bagnall 1913 (Scutigerellidae, Symphyla) with descriptions of two new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2558 (1) ◽  
pp. 48 ◽  
Author(s):  
MIGUEL DOMÍNGUEZ CAMACHO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
New Combination ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Republic Of The Congo

The study of two new species of Symphyla from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Scolopendrelloides congolensis n.sp. and Scolopendrelloides pseudocongolensis n.sp., has led to the detection of Scolopendrelloides Bagnall 1913 species currently misplaced under Hanseniella Bagnall 1913. Accordingly, it is proposed a new combination for six species originally described under Hanseniella: Scolopendrelloides angulosa (Hansen 1903), S. tenella (Ribaut 1914), S. producta (Ribaut 1914), S. dolosa (Ribaut 1914), S. graeca (Remy 1941) and S. elgolensis (Scheller 1952). An identification key to the species of Scolopendrelloides is given. A differential diagnostic for differencing Scolopendrelloides from Hanseniella and Scutigerella is also given, as well as a key to the genera of the family Scutigerellidae, mainly intended for observations using SEM.

New species of the subgenus Elgodexoris (genus Dexoris) and a new genus of the tribe Dexorini (Leptolycinae) from East Africa, with notes on the status of Mimolibnetinae (Coleoptera: Lycidae)

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-107
Author(s):  
S.V. Kazantsev
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Africa ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
The Status ◽  
Republic Of The Congo

A new genus Kurbatovia gen. nov. is erected for Dexoris chome Bocák, Grebennikov et Masek, 2013. Four new species, Dexoris (Elgodexoris) rwandensis sp. nov., D. (E.) nyungwensis sp. nov., D. (E.) svetlanae sp. nov. and D. (E.) maikoensis sp. nov., are described from Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A key to species of the subgenus Elgodexoris Bocák et Bocáková, 1988 is provided. Mimolibnetinae is revalidated as a distinct subfamily.

On the taxonomy of the subgenera Cyabarda Karisch, 2013, Idiovulpecula Karisch, 2013 and Paravulpeculella Karisch, 2013 of the genus Cyana Walker, 1854, with descriptions of three new species from africa (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Lithosiini)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4664 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-389
Author(s):  
ANTON V. VOLYNKIN ◽  
GYULA M. LÁSZLÓ
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Female Genitalia ◽  
Female Adult ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

The identification of the male of Cyana (Cyabarda) torrida (Holland, 1893) is corrected, the male is illustrated for the first time. Cyana suessmuthi Karisch, 2013 is transferred to the subgenus Cyabarda Karisch, 2013, its female adult and female genitalia are illustrated and diagnosed for the first time. A new species Cyana (Cyabarda) nambi sp. nov. similar to C. torrida is described from Uganda. Cyana torrida maculata Karisch, 2013 is upgraded to species rank and transferred to the subgenus Idiovulpecula Karisch, 2013: C. (Idiovulpecula) maculata Karisch, 2013, stat. nov. Two new species of the subgenus Idiovulpecula are described: C. (Idiovulpecula) lowa sp. nov. (Democratic Republic of the Congo) and C. (Idiovulpecula) foya sp. nov. (Liberia). Adults and genitalia of new and related species are illustrated. 

Two new species of the net-winged beetle genus Flagrax from the Albertine Rift Mountains, Central Africa (Coleoptera: Lycidae)

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-160
Author(s):  
S.V. Kazantsev
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
General View ◽  
Albertine Rift ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Republic Of The Congo

Two new species of net-winged beetles, Flagrax ziminae sp. nov. and F. vanschuytbroecki sp. nov., are described from the Albertine Rift (Rwanda and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo). General view and aedeagi of these new species and of F. grandis (Kleine, 1942) as well as the aedeagus of F. auberti (Bourgeois, 1881) are illustrated. A key to the Flagrax species with uniformly testaceous elytra is provided.

A review of the status of Coptotermes (Isoptera : Rhinotermitidae) species in Australia with the description of two new small termite species from northern and eastern Australia

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 180
Author(s):  
Timothy R. C. Lee ◽  
Theodore A. Evans ◽  
Stephen L. Cameron ◽  
Simon Y. W. Ho ◽  
Anna A. Namyatova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Integrative Taxonomy ◽  
Biological Data ◽  
External View ◽  
Dna Sequence Data ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
The Status

Integrative taxonomy, including molecular, morphological, distributional and biological data, is applied in a review of the taxonomy of the Australian species of the pest termite genus Coptotermes. The validity of the previously described species is discussed, and two new species, Coptotermes nanus, sp. nov. and Coptotermes cooloola, sp. nov., are described from the Kimberley region of Western Australia and south-east Queensland respectively. Their delimitation is based on morphological and distributional data, and the results of generalised mixed Yule-coalescent analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequence data. Images of the external view of the two new species are provided, as well as a key, based on soldier characters, for all Australian species of Coptotermes.

Four new species of Arthothelium (Arthoniales, Ascomycetes) from Africa and Socotra

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 331 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
DRIES VAN DEN BROECK ◽  
ANDERS TEHLER ◽  
TAHINA RAZAFINDRAHAJA ◽  
DAMIEN ERTZ
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Terminal Cell ◽  
Tropical Africa ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
Brownish Black

Four species of Arthothelium from Africa and Socotra are described as new to science: Arthothelium atrorubrum from Madagascar, characterized by irregularly rounded blackish ascomata with a deeply red hypothecium and submuriform ascospores; Arthothelium aurantiacopruinosum from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, characterized by black, irregularly rounded to stellate, orange pruinose ascomata and muriform ascospores with two larger terminal cells; Arthothelium frischianum from Madagascar, characterized by brownish-black minute irregular ascomata with remnants of thallus and muriform ascospores with one larger terminal cell; Arthothelium miesii from Socotra (Yemen), characterized by a thick thallus, immersed, stellate to cerebriform, brownish, greyish pruinose ascomata and submuriform ascospores. A key to all reported species of Arthothelium from tropical Africa (South Africa excluded) and Socotra is provided.

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