Neoseiulus cunhaensis sp. nov. (Acari: Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) from Tristan da Cunha with a key to the paspalivorus species group

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 568-576
Author(s):  
Ismail Döker ◽  
Edward A. Ueckermann ◽  
Vladimir A. Khaustov ◽  
Omid Joharchi ◽  
Christine Hänel

A new species of the family Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata), Neoseiulus cunhaensis Döker & Ueckermann sp. nov. is described from female specimens. In addition, a key to the species of the paspalivorus species group in the genus Neoseiulus Hughes is presented.

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4712 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-412
Author(s):  
RONGRONG SHEN ◽  
YINGNAN HE ◽  
ZHAOHUI PAN ◽  
XINGYUE LIU

The holometabolous order Raphidioptera is recorded from Xizang Autonomous Region for the first time. A new species of the family Inocelliidae, Inocellia tibetana sp. nov., from southeastern Xizang is described and its two sexes illustrated. Based on the male gonocoxite 9 that is longer than width of its base, the new species belongs to the I. fulvostigmata species-group, and it appears to be closely related to I. fulvostigmata U. Aspöck, Rausch & H. Aspöck, 1968. Both species are distributed near the southern edge of the Himalayas. The male of the new species is characterized in the genitalia by the presence of a membranous, short and digitiform gonostylus 9, the gonarcus (fused gonocoxites 11) subtriangular in caudal view dorsally with a pair of short tubercular processes, and the reduction of bristle tuft on the endophallus. 


Crustaceana ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-295
Author(s):  
Zhong-Li Sha ◽  
Bo Lu ◽  
Chun-Sheng Wang ◽  
Xian-Qiu Ren

A new species of deep-water barnacle belonging to the family Scalpellidae is described from the western central Pacific. Based on the presence and absence of radial stripes on the surfaces of the plates, the 23 species of the genusAmigdoscalpellumcan be divided into two groups. In the species group with radial stripes, the new species here described,A. dorsituberculatumsp. nov., differs from other species by the dorsal part of the carina being round and arched, the roof without lateral ribs and median furrow; the infra-median latus wider triangular, its length on the basal margin greater than its height; and by the vestigial form of the caudal appendage. A key to the species ofAmigdoscalpellumis provided.


Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2211 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOMOYUKI KOMAI ◽  
MASAYUKI OSAWA

A new species of the pagurid hermit crab genus Catapagurus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880, C. insolitus, is described and illustrated based on specimens from shallow waters in Okinawa Island, the Ryukyus. It belongs to an informal species group characterized by the possession of blade-shaped ambulatory dactyli, and is morphologically most similar to C. kosugei (Asakura, 2001). However, the new species is unique within the genus in having a multispinose antennal acicle, rarely seen in species of the family Paguridae.


2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 269-290
Author(s):  
Jindřich Roháček

Species of the family Anthomyzidae (Diptera: Acalyptrata) occurring in Taiwan are reviewed. Eleven species have been recognized, 8 of them new to science. However, because of limited and poorly preserved material, only three species of the genus Anthomyza Fallén, 1810, viz. A. robusta sp. nov. (Chiayi and Nantou Counties, both sexes), A. caesarea sp. nov. (Taichung City area, both sexes) and A. elongata sp. nov. (Chiayi County, female only), are described. The remaining 5 undescribed species, viz. Amygdalops sp. nov. near cuspidatus (Taichung City area), Amygdalops sp. nov. near curtistylus (Nantou and Kinmen Counties), Anthomyza sp. nov. near elongata (Yilan County), Anthomyza sp. nov. (1) near flavosterna (Chiayi County) and Anthomyza sp. nov. (2) near flavosterna (Nantou County), are diagnosed but remain unnamed. A new species group of Anthomyza, viz. the A. flavosterna group, is established and diagnosed, to include the East Palearctic A. flavosterna Sueyoshi & Roháček, 2003, A. caesarea sp. nov., A. elongata sp. nov. and 3 additional unnamed species from Taiwan, while the remaining A. robusta sp nov. belongs to the A. bellatrix group. All six Taiwanese Anthomyza species seem to be associated with montane habitats and could be endemic. It is estimated that up to 20 species of Anthomyzidae could occur in Taiwan. The longitudinal dark pattern of the wing, found in A. caesarea sp. nov., is recorded for the first time in the genus Anthomyza which is the fourth lineage of Anthomyzidae in which this type of pattern has independently evolved. Preliminary keys to Taiwanese species of the genera Amygdalops Lamb, 1914 and Anthomyza are presented.


2017 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
ΤΗ. Papadoulis ◽  
Ν. G. Emmanouel

The adult female of Typhlodromus erymanthii, which belongs to the simplex species – group, is described and illustrated. It was collected from Quercus coccifera L. leaf erinea, and its association with other mites there is discussed. The dorsal setae, shield and leg setae were covered by a (waxy?) material.


Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4471 (3) ◽  
pp. 585
Author(s):  
XINGYUE LIU ◽  
YANAN LYU ◽  
HORST ASPöCK ◽  
ULRIKE ASPÖCK

A new snakefly species of the family Inocelliidae is described from China: Inocellia occidentalis sp. nov. The new species belongs to the Inocellia crassicornis species group. 


ZooKeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 855 ◽  
pp. 95-107
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Yoshitomi ◽  
Haruki Karube ◽  
Masakazu Hayashi

A new species of the genus Ochthebius, O. (O.) sasakiisp. nov., is described from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, with a description of the larva. This record is the first of the family Hydraenidae from the Ogasawara Islands. This species belongs to the punctatus species group and is similar to two Japanese species, O. (O.) inermis Sharp, 1884 and O. (O.) danjo Nakane, 1990, but it differs from them in both adult and larval characters. The larva of O. (O.) inermis is also described for comparison.


Crustaceana ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 653-675 ◽  
Author(s):  

AbstractThree new species of the family Pontellidae, Labidocera javaensis, L. muranoi and Pontella labuanensis, are described and illustrated from specimens collected in coastal waters of Java, Indonesia, and their relationships to related species are discussed. Labidocera javaensis, which belongs to the Labidocera pectinata-group, is distinguishable from other species of this group by a combination of characters of the genital complex and the fifth legs in the female and of the fifth metasomal somite, the first urosomal somite, and the fifth legs in the male. It seems to be a neritic species inhabiting coastal waters shallower than 15 m in depth, and within 1 km offshore. Labidocera muranoi, which was collected from Cilacap Bay, a mangrove estuary facing the Indian Ocean, belongs to the Labidocera kroyeri-group and is distinguished from other species of this group by the urosomal somites and the fifth legs in the female and by the fifth metasomal somite and the fifth legs in the male. This may be an endemic species which has a preference for low salinities. Pontella labuanensis does not belong to any of the known three species-groups of Indo-West Pacific Pontella, in having the symmetrical genital somite and the exopods of the fifth legs virtually naked in the female, and the rostrum with double convex lenses and the exopods of the fifth legs with two subequal thumbs, in the male. The establishment of a new species-group, the P. labuanensis-group, is proposed.


Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5026 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-285
Author(s):  
OMID JOHARCHI ◽  
EDWARD A. UECKERMANN ◽  
ISMAIL DÖKER ◽  
VLADIMIR A. KHAUSTOV ◽  
CHRISTINE HÄNEL

This paper reports on four species of free-living mites of the family Laelapidae from Tristan da Cunha and Nightingale Islands: Cosmolaelaps claviger (Berlese), Gaeolaelaps aculeifer (Canestrini), G. furcatus sp. nov., and Nidilaelaps annectans (Womersley). The new species has the unique character states of the paradactyli on pretarsi II–IV being very elongated and the pulvillar lobe well developed in shape of a fork on ambulacra II–IV. The genus Nidilaelaps Shaw is here reported for the first time from Afrotropical realm.  


2017 ◽  
Vol 186 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-116
Author(s):  
František Šifner

Abstract A new Nearctic species of the genus Coniosternum Becker, 1894, C. masneri sp. nov., is described from Canada, and its important diagnostic characters are illustrated.


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