A pseudoscorpion from arctic Canada (Pseudoscorpionida, Chernetidae)

1990 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 389-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. Muchmore

Many terrestrial arthropods have been reported from arctic regions of North America, but until now, no named pseudoscorpion has been recorded north of latitude 62°. A new species, Wyochernes arcticus, is described from the Yukon Territory at 69°10′N.

2008 ◽  
Vol 140 (5) ◽  
pp. 557-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphanie Boucher

AbstractCerodontha (Icteromyza) pilosan. sp. is described from the Yukon Territory. The Palaearctic species C. (I.) lineella (Zetterstedt) is recorded for the first time in North America, based on specimens from northern Canada and Alaska, and C. (I.) pollinosa (Melander) is synonymized with C. lineella. Cerodontha pilosa is most similar to C. (I.) longipennis (Loew) and C. (I.) lineella. Distinguishing characters and a modification of Spencer’s key to Canadian species of Cerodontha are given to separate these species.


1961 ◽  
Vol 93 (7) ◽  
pp. 497-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. R. Richards

This paper includes descriptions of a new species of Iziphya Nevsky and one of Euschizaphis Hille Ris Lambers. The former genus is well represented in North America, but Euschizaphis, which is best known for its association with the Juncaginaceae, has not been previously recorded from the western hemisphere.Iziphya punctatella, new speciesApterous Viviparous Female.–Colour when alive: Ground colour of head and body yellow with black spots around the bases of most of the setae (Fig. 4). Antennae dark except for the basal half of segment III which is yellow; apex of rostrum dark; legs black except apical two-thirds of tibiae which are colourless. Colour when macerated: Essentially as when alive, but yellow areas colourless or nearly so.


2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (7) ◽  
pp. 557-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison M. Murray ◽  
Stephen L. Cumbaa ◽  
C. Richard Harington ◽  
Gerald R. Smith ◽  
Natalia Rybczynski

Percid remains from Pliocene deposits on Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada, are identified as a species of Sander , similar to the walleye and sauger of North America and the pike–perch of Europe and western Asia. They are named as a new species, Sander teneri . These remains are the most northerly percid elements found to date and suggest the palaeoenvironment was significantly warmer in the Pliocene than it is currently. The fossil remains show the presence in North America of the family Percidae as well as the genus Sander prior to the Pleistocene, indicating a previously proposed Pleistocene immigration from Europe or Asia can be discounted. These fossils contradict an earlier hypothesis that percids, in particular Sander, crossed from Eurasia to North America in the Pleistocene; instead, the fossils show percids were already in the area by the Pliocene.


1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 1501-1503 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Peel

The helcionellacean mollusc Eotebenna Runnegar and Jell, 1976 is described from the Lower Cambrian Henson Gletscher Formation of central North Greenland, part of the Franklinian Basin sequence of Arctic Canada and adjacent northern Greenland. The Henson Gletscher Formation specimens of Eotebenna are the first Lower Cambrian and North American records of a genus originally described from the Middle Cambrian of Australia. A new species, Eotebenna arctica, is described.


Parasitology ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. R. RAFFEL ◽  
T. BOMMARITO ◽  
D. S. BARRY ◽  
S. M. WITIAK ◽  
L. A. SHACKELTON

SUMMARYGiven the worldwide decline of amphibian populations due to emerging infectious diseases, it is imperative that we identify and address the causative agents. Many of the pathogens recently implicated in amphibian mortality and morbidity have been fungal or members of a poorly understood group of fungus-like protists, the mesomycetozoans. One mesomycetozoan, Amphibiocystidium ranae, is known to infect several European amphibian species and was associated with a recent decline of frogs in Italy. Here we present the first report of an Amphibiocystidium sp. in a North American amphibian, the Eastern red-spotted newt (Notophthalmus viridescens), and characterize it as the new species A. viridescens in the order Dermocystida based on morphological, geographical and phylogenetic evidence. We also describe the widespread and seasonal distribution of this parasite in red-spotted newt populations and provide evidence of mortality due to infection.


1994 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick R. Racheboeuf ◽  
Paul Copper ◽  
Fernando Alvarez

Cryptonella? cailliaudi Barrois, 1889, from the Lower Devonian of the Armorican Massif, is tentatively assigned to the athyridid brachiopod genus Planalvus Carter, thus far known only from the Lower Carboniferous of eastern North America. In addition, a new species, Planalvus rufus, is described from the Bois-Roux Formation (Pragian) of Brittany, France. These French species are small brachiopods with complex spiralial and jugal structures, which permit assignment to the order Athyridida.


Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4375 (3) ◽  
pp. 409
Author(s):  
PAUL E. MAREK ◽  
JACKSON C. MEANS ◽  
DEREK A. HENNEN

Millipedes of the genus Apheloria Chamberlin, 1921 occur in temperate broadleaf forests throughout eastern North America and west of the Mississippi River in the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains. Chemically defended with toxins made up of cyanide and benzaldehyde, the genus is part of a community of xystodesmid millipedes that compose several Müllerian mimicry rings in the Appalachian Mountains. We describe a model species of these mimicry rings, Apheloria polychroma n. sp., one of the most variable in coloration of all species of Diplopoda with more than six color morphs, each associated with a separate mimicry ring.


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