A revision of West Palaearctic species of the Micropsectra atrofasciata species group (Diptera: Chironomidae)

The Cercyon shinanensis species group with two included species is erected within the nominotypical subgenus of Cercyon Leach, 1817. This group is compared with other Palaearctic species groups of Cercyon s. str. The little-known C. shinanensis Nakane, 1965 from Japan (Honshu) is redescribed and its diagnostic features are given. Cercyon sundukovi sp. nov. is described from the Russian Far East (Kunashir Island).

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A new Palaearctic species of the subgenus Lunatipula (Diptera, Tipulidae) from the West Caucasus with a survey of the caucasica species group

ZooKeys ◽

10.3897/zookeys.1048.67564 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1048 ◽

pp. 145-175

Author(s):

Vladimir I. Lantsov ◽

Valentin E. Pilipenko

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Parallel Evolution ◽

Distribution Patterns ◽

Species Group ◽

Palaearctic Species ◽

The West ◽

The Caucasus ◽

Males And Females ◽

First Time ◽

Two Populations

The caucasica species group in the subgenus Lunatipula is redefined and now consists of five species native to the Caucasus. Tipula (L.) eleniyasp. nov. is described as new to science, and variations in the male terminalia in two populations are noted. Two subspecies (quadridentataquadridentata and quadridentatapaupera) are elevated to species rank. Detailed photo’s complement the descriptions of all five species (caucasica, eleniya, paupera, quadridentata, talyshensis), and data on ecology and distribution patterns are included as well as identification keys to males and females. Tipula caucasica is recorded from the West Caucasus and Tipula quadridentata is recorded from Dagestan (Russia) for the first time. Parallel evolution is traced in the male terminalia of the new species and in several non caucasica species group of Palaearctic Lunatipula.

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A review of the luteitarsis group of the genus Pipiza Fallen (Diptera: Syrphidae) with description of a new species from the Balkan Peninsula

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.1845.1.2 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 1845 (1) ◽

pp. 33 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

ANTE VUJIĆ ◽

SNEŠANA RADENKOVIĆ ◽

DUBRAVKA POLIĆ

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Balkan Peninsula ◽

Species Group ◽

Palaearctic Species ◽

The West ◽

European Species ◽

Conservation Implications ◽

A New Species

The luteitarsis species group of the aphidophagous genus Pipiza Fallén is defined as a monophyletic unit and the European species of this group are revised. Based on material from Serbia found at two lowland localities, P. luteibarba n. sp. is described. This species is closely related to P. luteitarsis Zetterstedt and P. accola Violovitsh. A key for the West Palaearctic species of the Pipiza luteitarsis species group is provided and records of all species from the Balkan Peninsula are presented. The distribution of the new species is discussed and conservation implications considered.

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Studies toward a World Catalog of Symphyta (Hymenoptera)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.2254.1.1 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 2254 (1) ◽

pp. 1-96 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

STEPHAN M. BLANK ◽

ANDREAS TAEGER ◽

ANDREW D. LISTON ◽

DAVID R. SMITH ◽

ALEXANDR P. RASNITSYN ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Type Species ◽

Species Group ◽

Species Level ◽

Identification Key ◽

New Combinations ◽

Palaearctic Species ◽

The West

Taxonomic and nomenclatorial changes affecting Symphyta, resulting from work on a forthcoming world catalog, are proposed and explained. Dolerus zhelochovtsevi Heidemaa & Viitasaari, sp. nov. is described. One former subgenus and two former subspecies are now treated at genus or species level, respectively. Eighteen replacement names are given, 73 new synonymies and 78 new combinations are proposed, 3 synonymies are re-established, and 5 names are resurrected from synonymy. The precedence of 18 species names (nomina protecta) over their older synonyms (20 nomina oblita) is explained. Type species are designated for 8 genus-group names. One neotype and 17 lectotypes are designated. Five names described as varieties are assigned infrasubspecific rank. Twenty-five genus-group names associated with Arge, Corynis, Dolerus, Trichiosoma and Xyela are unavailable. Two genus-group names and 33 species-group names are considered as unplaced taxa. An identification key is presented for the West Palaearctic species of Profenusa MacGillivray, 1914. Notes on publication dates and authorships of names of certain taxa are also included.

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New and Formerly Unknown Ormyridae Species from the United Arab Emirates (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea)

Vestnik Zoologii ◽

10.2478/v10058-012-0011-3 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 46 (2) ◽

pp. e-14-e-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

M. Zerova ◽

L. Seryogina ◽

A. Van Harten

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

United Arab Emirates ◽

Species Group ◽

Palaearctic Species ◽

Three New Species ◽

First Time

New and Formerly Unknown Ormyridae Species from the United Arab Emirates (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) Three new species (Ormyrus qurrayahi Zerova, sp. n., O. punctellus Zerova, sp. n. and O. novus Zerova, sp. n.) are described. Two first species belong to diffinis species group (female gaster without dorsal median keel). O. novus sp. n. belongs to orientalis species group (female gaster with dorsal median keel). In addition, two Palaearctic species of the genus Ormyrus are recorded from the United Arab Emirates for the first time. A key to Palaearctic Ormyrus species is provided.

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Revision of the cluster-flies of the Pollenia venturii species-group, with a cladistic analysis of Palaearctic species of Pollenia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Calliphoridae)

Insect Systematics & Evolution ◽

10.1163/187631292x00083 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 233-248 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Knut Rognes

Keyword(s):

Cladistic Analysis ◽

Single Species ◽

Sister Group ◽

Reproductive Organs ◽

Species Group ◽

Palaearctic Species ◽

Internal Wall ◽

Species Groups ◽

First Time ◽

Female Reproductive Organs

AbstractWithin Pollenia Robineau-Desvoidy a venturii species-group is defined and revised. It consists of a single species P. venturii Zumpt. P. solitaria Grunin is proposed as a junior synonym. It is characterized by unique features in the male aedeagus and the lateral sacs of the internal female reproductive organs. Male and female terminalia are illustrated, the latter for the first time. A preliminary cladistic analysis of all known Palaearctic species of Pollenia (except P. japonica Kano & Shinonaga) suggests that the sister-group of P. venturii is a clade consisting of the viatica + vagabunda + amentaria + haeretica species-groups. A sclerotized internal wall of the lateral sacs in the internal reproductive system of female Pollenia appears to be a parallelism developed independently in the venturii, rudis, most members of the tenuiforceps and some members of the semicinerea groups, rather than an underlying synapomorphy. P. venturii is known from France, Germany, Greece, Italy and Russia. A key is provided to species-groups in Pollenia.

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On the taxonomy of Heterarthrus (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae), with a review of the West Palaearctic species

Journal of Hymenoptera Research ◽

10.3897/jhr.72.39339 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 72 ◽

pp. 83-126

Author(s):

Andrew Liston ◽

Marko Mutanen ◽

Matti Viitasaari

Keyword(s):

Species Group ◽

Nominal Species ◽

Acer Pseudoplatanus ◽

Palaearctic Species ◽

Populus Balsamifera ◽

The West ◽

European Species ◽

The Status ◽

Trees And Shrubs ◽

Eastern Finland

The sawfly genus Heterarthrus is naturally distributed in the Palaearctic, with a single described Oriental species. Their larvae mine in the leaves of trees and shrubs of Salicaceae, Betulaceae, and Sapindaceae (Acer). We here recognise twelve West Palaearctic species as valid, with the status of two additional nominal species group taxa in need of further study: fruticicolum Ermolenko, and smithi Ermolenko. A key to adults of the species occurring in the West Palaearctic is presented. Two new species are described: Heterarthus vikbergi Liston, Mutanen & Viitasaari, sp. nov. from females and males reared from leaf-mines in Populus balsamifera collected in eastern Finland, and Heterarthrus fiora Liston, sp. nov. from females reared from Acer pseudoplatanus. The latter is a widespread European species, previously misidentified as Heterarthrus aceris (Kaltenbach, 1856). New junior subjective synonyms are Phyllotoma aceris Kaltenbach, 1856 of Heterarthrus leucomela (Klug, 1818), H. aihinoensis Haris, 2006 of H. kamtchaticus (Malaise, 1931) sp. rev., and H. imbrosensis Schedl, 1981 of H. wuestneii (Konow, 1905). Lectotypes are designated for Phyllotoma flavicollis Gussakovskij, 1947, P. kamtchatica Malaise, 1931, and Tenthredo ochropoda Klug, 1818.

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New species and records of Stenus (Nestus) of the canaliculatus group, with the erection of a new species group (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Steninae)

European Journal of Taxonomy ◽

10.5852/ejt.2012.13 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Alexandr B. Ryvkin

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Russian Far East ◽

Far East ◽

Species Group ◽

Tien Shan ◽

Evolutionary Trends ◽

Palaearctic Species ◽

First Time ◽

A New Species ◽

The Russian Far East

The canaliculatus species group of Stenus (Nestus) is redefined. Four new Palaearctic species of the group are described and illustrated: S. (N.) alopex sp. nov. from the Putorana Highland and Taymyr Peninsula, Russia; S. (N.) canalis sp. nov. from SE Siberia and the Russian Far East; S. (N.) canosus sp. nov. from the Narat Mt Ridge, Chinese Tien Shan; S. (N.) delitor sp. nov. from C & SE Siberia. New distributional data as well as brief analyses of old records for fourteen species described earlier are provided from both Palaearctic and Nearctic material. S. (N.) milleporus Casey, 1884 (= sectilifer Casey, 1884) is revalidated as a species propria. S. (N.) sphaerops Casey, 1884 is redescribed; its aedeagus is figured for the first time; the aedeagus of S. (N.) caseyi Puthz, 1972 as well as aedeagi of eight previously described Palaearctic species are illustrated anew. A key for the identification of all the known Palaearctic species of the group is given. A morphology and ecology based analysis of the main evolutionary trends within the group is provided. A lectotype is designated for S. (N.) melanopus Marsham, 1802; its Siberian and NE European records are supposed to be erroneous; the monotypic melanopus species group is erected.

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West Palaearctic species of the Hercostomus species-group III (Diptera, Dolichopodidae), with description of a new species from Turkey

Alpine Entomology ◽

10.3897/alpento.1.20463 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 33-38

Author(s):

Stefan Naglis ◽

Oleg P. Negrobov

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Male Genitalia ◽

Species Group ◽

Palaearctic Species ◽

The West ◽

Species List ◽

Group Iii ◽

A New Species

The West-Palaearctic species of the Hercostomus species-group III are reviewed, a species-list and a revised key to males is provided. Hercostomusangustus (Loew, 1857) is restored from synonymy with Hercostomusnanus (Macquart, 1827) based on differences in male genitalia. Hercostomusgriseifrons Becker, 1910 is redescribed and a lectotype is designated. Hercostomustongucisp. n. is described from Turkey.

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A review of the genus Botanophila Lioy (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from China, with descriptions of three new species

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.1633.1.1 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 1633 (1) ◽

pp. 1-38 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

WAN-QI XUE ◽

WEN-HUI SONG

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Species Group ◽

Palaearctic Species ◽

Type Specimens ◽

Group Key ◽

Species Groups ◽

Normal University ◽

Three New Species

This paper includes a key to the Palaearctic species groups of Botanophila, characteristics of each species group (key and characteristics compiled by Michael Ackland), and keys to the species of Botanophila from China. This paper also provides the characters of the genus Botanophila and describes three new species, namely B. densispinula sp. nov., B. platysurstyla sp. nov. and B. subspinulibasis sp. nov.; Botanophila nigrifrontata (Fan & Zheng) is synonymized with B. melametopa (Fan); and B. zhuoniensis (Jin) and B. nigribella (Deng) are redescribed. The type specimens of the new species are deposited in the Institute of Entomology, Shenyang Normal University.

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