Notes on the taxonomy of West African gecarcinucids of the genus Globonautes Bott, 1959 (Decapoda, Brachyura)

1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (9) ◽  
pp. 2210-2215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Cumberlidge
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Type Species ◽  
British Museum ◽  
West African

Globonautes leonensis n.sp. is described from three specimens from Sierra Leone, in the unnamed collection of the British Museum (Natural History), London. Globonautes monodosus Bott, 1959 is revived and redescribed from the holotype from Guinea. The gonopods of the holotype of Globonautes macropus (Rathbun, 1898) from Liberia (the type species of the genus Globonautes Bott, 1959) prove to be different from accounts in the literature, and throw into question the identity of Bott's species. The genus Globonautes is redefined, and a new key to distinguish between the species of the genus is provided.

scholarly journals Descriptions of syntypes of Brumptamyia brumpti (Lsrrousse, 1920) (Diptera: Psychodidae-Phlebotominae)

1988 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Williams
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Type Species ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Male And Female

The male and female of Brumptomyia brumpti (Larrousse, 1920), the type species of the genus Brumptomyia França & Parrot, 1921 (Diptera: Psychodidae - phlebotominae) are redescribed from syntypes in the British Museum (Natural History).

Eighteenth-century West African insects in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 356-362
Author(s):  
D. Coleman ◽  
R. Blackburn
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
New South ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
West African ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
The West ◽  
The Third ◽  
South Wales

Henry Smeathman (1742–1786), best known for his essay on the west African termites, travelled to Sierra Leone in 1771 to collect naturalia for a group of wealthy sponsors. One of these sponsors, Dru Drury (1724–1803), was keen on African insects. Drury later described and illustrated many of these in the third volume of his Illustrations of natural history (1782). Two years after Drury died, his collection was auctioned in London. A key purchaser at this sale was Alexander Macleay (1767–1848), later appointed Colonial Secretary to New South Wales. His insects travelled with him to Sydney and are now in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. A number of these insects, collected by Smeathman and despatched from Sierra Leone, appear to be extant in the Macleay Museum. Chief of our discoveries is the type specimen for Goliathus drurii originally figured by Drury in Illustrations of natural history, volume 3, plate XL (1782). By matching other extant insects to the text and illustrations in the same volume we believe we have found type specimens for Scarabaeus torquata Drury, 1782 , and Papilio antimachus Drury, 1782 .

NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF PYRAUSTINAE (LEPIDOPTERA: PYRALIDAE), MAINLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY)

1976 ◽  
Vol 108 (8) ◽  
pp. 873-884
Author(s):  
Eugene Munroe
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
South America ◽  
Type Species ◽  
British Museum ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
New Genera ◽  
New Name ◽  
Lepidoptera Pyralidae

AbstractThe following new genera and species are described: Glyphodes militaris n. sp., Borneo; Gypodes n. gen., type-species G. vexilliferalis n. sp., South America; Nagiella hortulatoides n. sp., Burma; Laniipriva n. gen., type-species L. antobliqua n. sp., Venezuela; Scaptesylodes n. gen., type-species Scaptesyle(?) incerta Semper, Philippine Is., and also including Scaptesylodes modica n. sp., Malaysia and Sumatra. Nagiella is proposed as a new name for Nagia Walker, 1866, not Walker, 1858. Nagia desmialis Walker, 1866, is the type-species of both nominal genera; Scopula quadrimaculalis Kollar, 1844, and Sylepta inferior Hampson, 1898, are referred to Nagiella as new combinations. The genus is differentiated from Pleuroptya Meyrick, 1890, and Haritalodes Warren, 1890.

A revision of the genus Khalilia Neveu-Lemaire, 1924 (Nematoda: Strongyloidea)

Parasitology ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 471-480
Author(s):  
Colin G. Ogden
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Type Species ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
University College

It is established that the genera Amira Lane, 1914, and Amiroides Strand, 1929, are synonyms of the genus Khalilia Neveu-Lemaire, 1924.The two valid species, K. sameera and K. pileata, are redescribed.K. sameera is designated as the type-species of the genus.K. buta and K. rhinocerotis are considered to be synonyms of K. sameera, whilst K. straelini is considered to be a species dubia.I wish to express my thanks to Dr W. G. Inglis, British Museum (Natural History), for his advice and criticism, and to Mr S. Prudhoe, British Museum (Natural History), for reading this paper in manuscript.I would also like to thank Dr P. L. G. Benoit, Musée Royal de I'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium, for the loan of material used in this study, and to Dr R. P. Lee, University College Dublin, Ireland, for the donation of specimens of K. sameera.

A new species of Palaeugoa Durante, 2012 from Sierra Leone (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4353 (2) ◽  
pp. 385
Author(s):  
ANTON V. VOLYNKIN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
West African ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
A New Species

The Asura / Miltochrista generic complex (family Erebidae, subfamily Arctiinae, tribe Lithosiini) is one of the largest and taxonomically most difficult Lithosiini groups widely distributed in Afrotropical, Palaearctic, Oriental, and Indo-Australian regions. In Africa, the generic complex is represented by the genera Tumicla Wallengren, 1863 (= Asuroides Durante, 2008, syn. rev.), Afrasura Durante, 2009, Parafrasura Durante, 2012 and Palaeugoa Durante, 2012. The genus Palaeugoa was erected as monobasic for Xanthetis spurrelli Hampson, 1914 described from Ghana (Durante 2012). During the studies of West African Lithosiini materials deposited in the collection of the African Natural History Research Trust, I found a second, yet undescribed species of Palaeugoa collected in Sierra Leone. The description of the new species is given below. 

Note on the Genus Diaphanocephalus (Nematoda: Strongylidae), Parasitic in Reptiles, with a Description of Three New Species

Parasitology ◽  
1923 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Daubney
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Buccal Capsule ◽  
Species Inquirenda ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
Emended Diagnosis

The genus Diaphanocephalus was erected by Diesing in 1851 to contain certain species included in Rudolphi's Synopsis in the old genus Strongylus. The species in question were Strongylus galeatus Rud., 1819, re-named Diaphanocephalus strongyloides by Diesing, and subsequently indicated as the type-species of the genus; S. costatus; and possible S. viperae Rud., which Diesing listed as a species inquirenda. In deciding upon the necessity for the new genus Diesing seems to have been influenced largely by the characters of the head. His diagnosis shows that he considered the supporting rays of the buccal capsule to be four only in number, regarding two of these as divided each into two distinct processes. Molin (1861) gave an emended diagnosis of Diesing's genus and proposed the new genus Kalicephalus for certain other strongyle parasites in reptiles. It has already been pointed out (Baylis and Daubney) that the generic characters used by Molin are unreliable and that Railliet and Henry (1909) were justified in abolishing Kalicephalus in favour of the older genus, Diaphanocephalus. Recently, Skrjabin (1916) has given a diagnosis of the genus. Through the kindness of Dr H. A. Baylis the writer has been able to examine specimens in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History), and the Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research. The material examined includes four specimens of the genus Diaphanocephalus.

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