scholarly journals Stauromedusae of the genus Manania (= Thaumatoscyphus) (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa) in the northeast Pacific, including descriptions of new species Manania gwilliami and Manania handi

1989 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 1543-1549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald J. Larson ◽  
Daphne G. Fautin
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Shallow Water ◽  
Geographic Range ◽  
The West ◽  
San Juan Islands ◽  
Northeast Pacific ◽  
The Family ◽  
Senior Synonym ◽  
The One

Manania gwilliami n.sp. and Manania handi n.sp., stauromedusae belonging to the family Depastridae, are described from the west coast of North America. They are differentiated from the one species of the genus previously known from that area, M. distincta (Kishinouye, 1910) by shape, color, habitat, and geographic range. Specimens of M. gwilliami are generally red and those of M. handi are green; both lack the dark brown herringbone patterning of M. distincta medusae. Manania gwilliami is widely distributed from Mexico to Canada in exposed shallow-water coastal habitats, whereas M. handi has been found only off the San Juan Islands and Vancouver Island in protected shallow water. The occurrence of M. distincta in the northeast Pacific has been sporadic. The name Manania is a senior synonym of Thaumatoscyphus.

Peniculus asinus (Copepoda: Pennellidae), a new species of copepod parasitic on fishes of the genus Sebastes along the west coast of North America

1977 ◽  
Vol 55 (12) ◽  
pp. 1988-1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Kabata ◽  
S. N. Wilkes
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
The West ◽  
Unique Member ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

Peniculus asinus, a new species of copepod parasitic on Sebastes (Pisces: Teleostei) off the Pacific coast of Canada is described and illustrated. The copepod is an unique member of its genus in that it possesses cephalothoracic holdfast processes. The discovery of a Peniculus with these processes is taken as evidence confirming the place of this genus in the family Pennellidae.

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.

REVISION OF THE CHIGGER-LIKE LARVAE OF THE GENERA NEOTROMBIDIUM LEONARDI AND MONUNGUIS WHARTON, WITH A REDEFINITION OF THE SUBFAMILY NEOTROMBIDIINAE FEIDER IN THE TROMBIDIIDAE (ACARINA: PROSTIGMATA)

1971 ◽  
Vol 103 (11) ◽  
pp. 1557-1590 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. E. Lindquist ◽  
P. H. Vercammen-Grandjean
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Level ◽  
Caribbean Area ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The One

AbstractThe trombidiid subfamily Neotrombidiinae Feider is re-established and redefined, based primarily on larval characters but also on adult characters. It is closely related to the trombidiid Trombellinae on the one hand and to the Leeuwenhoekidae on the other. It consists of two genera, namely Monunguis Wharton, which is monobasic and known only from the larva, and Neotrombidium Leonardi, with 13 described species of which 7 are known from the larva and 8 from the adult (the larva and adult of 2 species are correlated by rearings).The history of the family-level placement of this group, and the controversy over whether or not to recognize two genera, are reviewed. The characters that justify the separate recognition of Monunguis and Neotrombidium are enumerated.The larva of each of the following species of Neotrombidiinae is described, illustrated and keyed: Monunguis streblida Wharton from the Caribbean area, Neotrombidium barringunense Hirst from Australia, N. tricuspidum Borland from North America, N. tenuipes (Womersley) from Malaya, N. samsinaki (Daniel) new combination from central Europe, N. anuroporum new species from Central America, N. bengalense new species from India, and N. tenebrione new species from eastern North America. Six other species of this group, known only from the adult, are listed separately but are not treated taxonomically here.The larvae of Neotrombidiinae parasitize adult insects: those of Monunguis are hyperparasites on streblid flies whereas those of Neotrombidium are ectoparasites of cerambycid, clerid, elaterid, and tenebrionid beetles that pass part of their life history under the bark of trees.In the Microtrombidiinae, Camerotrombidium Thor is noted as the valid replacement name for the preoccupied Ottonia Kramer.

Spengelidae (Hemichordata: Enteropneusta) from the Eastern Pacific including a new species, Schizocardium californicum, from California

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3569 (1) ◽  
pp. 79 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. B. CAMERON ◽  
M. PEREZ
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Geographic Range ◽  
Morphological Description ◽  
South American ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
The West ◽  
Relict Populations ◽  
Dichotomous Key ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

Twenty one enteropneusts have been described from the west coast of North America, but those reports include no Spengelidae. Here we describe two species of acorn worms in the genus Schizocardium (S. californicum and S. peruvianum) on the basis of morphology. The former represent the first spengelid worm described from North American waters.  The latter is a previously described species, and here we expand on its morphological description and extend its geographic range north from Peru to California. Notes on the habit and localization of each species, as well as a dichotomous key to the genera of the family Spengelidae are provided.  Based on morphology, spengelids appears to represent an intermediate between the enteropneust families Harrimaniidae and Ptychoderidae, and Schizocardium is sister taxon to the ptychoderids. The disjunct and widely distributed populations of S. peruvianum and S. brasiliense, with populations in South American and North America, but none between, could represent the relict populations of formerly wide spread species, or the two extremes of ranges.

scholarly journals Three new species of Glossobalanus (Hemichordata: Enteropneusta: Ptychoderidae) from western North America

Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3630 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHER B. CAMERON ◽  
ANGÉLICA OSTIGUY
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Salish Sea ◽  
The West ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
Dichotomous Key ◽  
The Family ◽  
Three New Species

Twenty three enteropneust species have been described from the west coast of North America, including one species from the family Ptychoderidae, Glossobalanus berkeleyi from the Salish Sea, Vancouver Island. Here we use morphology to describe three additional species of acorn worms in the genus Glossobalanus: G. williami from Cape Arago, Oregon; G. hartmanae and G. barnharti fromLa Jolla,California. Notes on the habit and localization of each species as well as a dichotomous key to the genera of the family Ptychoderidae are provided.

Discovery in China of Dorypteryx Aaron (Psocoptera: Trogiomorpha: Psyllipsocidae), with one new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 1983 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
FASHENG LI ◽  
XINGYUE LIU
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Species Diversity ◽  
North America ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Yunnan Province ◽  
New Genus ◽  
First Record ◽  
The West ◽  
The Family ◽  
One New Species

The psocid genus Dorypteryx Aaron is a small group in the family Psyllipsocidae, comprising only three species until now. The first Dorypteryx species, D. pallida, was described from North America by Aaron (1883), and subsequently recorded in Europe by Dessart (1976). Smithers (1958) described Dolopteryx domestica from Zimbabwe as the only species in a new genus. However, this genus was later synonymized with Dorypteryx by Lienhard (1977), who re-defined Dorypteryx and redescribed the two known species. After that revision, a third species, D. longipennis, was described by Smithers (1991) from Australia on imported specimens. Despite the low species diversity of Dorypteryx, the geographical range of this genus is rather wide, from the West Palaearctic, Afrotropical, Australian, Nearctic, and Neotropical realms. However, until now Dorypteryx had not been found in the Oriental realm. In the present paper, the genus Dorypteryx is recorded from a domestic habitat in Yunnan Province, China. Based on the contribution by Li (2002), there are three genera and 14 species of Psyllipsocidae in China (Pseudopsyllipsocus Li, Psyllipsocus Selys-Longchamps, and Psocathropos Ribaga). This discovery of Dorypteryx represents the first record of this genus in China, and also in Asia and the Oriental realm.The types of the new species described below, all females, are preserved in alcohol and deposited in the Entomological Museum of China Agricultural University (CAU), Beijing. The terminology of the adult generally follows Smithers (1972).

NEW SPECIES OF DOLICHOPODIDAE FROM NORTH AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES

1930 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 84-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. C. van Duzee
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The West ◽  
Tarsal Joint ◽  
Pale Yellow ◽  
Posterior Pair ◽  
Snow White

Male: Length 2.6-3 mm. Head, thorax, abdomen, legs and feet thickly white pruinose, but the ground color showing through; face moderately wide, wholly pollinose, this pollen yellow in the middle, reaching the orbits at the suture, sides of upper part narrowly, below the suture widely white pollinose, sonsetimes the yellow pollen covers most of upper part and extends onto the inner part of the palpi; palpi with snow white pollen, each nearly as large as upper part of face; antennae wholly yellow, small, arista whitish; orbital cilia white, rather long on the sides; occiput, front, thorax and abdomen reddish coppery, posterior margins of abdominal segments sometimes green ; bristles of thorax small, black; hairs of ahdomen very short, white; pleura and coxae black with ground color nearly concealed with white pollen, tips of coxae yellow; hypopygium small, with a long, straight, black appendage extending forward under the abdomen and small yellowish appendages inside of this long one; femora, tibiae and tarsi pale yellow, last two joints of all tarsi blackish; the minute hairs on all femora and tibiae white, the small bristles on tibiae black; fore tibiae with a row of long white hairs on upper surface, which are as long as diameter of tibiae and extend to fourth tarsal joint, becoming shorter towards the end; apical joint of middle tarsi very slightly widened; pulvilli not enlarged ; joints of fore tarsi as 20-8-6-5-7 ; of middle ones as 32-14-9-6-6; joints of posterior pair as 25-19-11-6-7.

Mites of the family Pachylaelapidae in Bayburt Province, Turkey (Acari: Mesostigmata), with a new record and three new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4514 (2) ◽  
pp. 243 ◽  
Author(s):  
GÜLHAN ŞAHİN ◽  
HASAN HÜSEYİN ÖZBEK
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Record ◽  
New Records ◽  
Geographic Range ◽  
The Family ◽  
Three New Species

This paper reports on mites of the family Pachylaelapidae collected in Bayburt Province, Turkey, during 2013–2015. Nine species were recorded in the genera Pachyseius, Olopachys, Pachylaelaps, and Onchodellus. Pachylaelaps (Longipachylaelaps) bayburtensis sp. nov., Onchodellus turcicus sp. nov. and O. montanus sp. nov. are described to new, and Pachylaelaps (Longipachylaelaps) vicarus is a new record for the Turkish mite fauna. New records extend the geographic range of Pachyseius masani, Olopachys hallidayi, and O. elongatus in Turkey. 

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