scholarly journals Taxonomic status and additional description of White’s Stalked-eyed Fly Cyrtodiopsis whitei (Curran, 1936) (Diptera: Diopsidae) from India with a key to the allied species and note on its habitat

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 12035
Author(s):  
Basant Kumar Agarwala
Keyword(s):  
Deciduous Forest ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Taxonomic Position ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Northeastern Part ◽  
Taxonomic Key ◽  
Dry Deciduous Forest

Systematics and ecology of Cyrtodiopsis whitei (Curran, 1936), initially described in brief from a tropical dry deciduous forest in eastern India as Diopsis whitei, remained obscure for want of the type specimens.  Recent collections of male and female specimens of this species from a new locality in the northeastern part of India, the country of the type locality, has allowed a fresh appraisal of its morphology, taxonomic position and habitat ecology in the background of several studies done on Diopsidae.  Herein are included some new characters, hitherto unknown in the species of Cyrtodiopsis, a taxonomic key to the separation of four species, considered monophyletic under the genus, and a note on the habitat of the species.

A new species of Lophopogon (Poaceae) from Ananthapuramu of Andhra Pradesh, India

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 500 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-240
Author(s):  
KOTHAREDDY PRASAD ◽  
NAGARAJU SIDDABATHULA ◽  
ANGAJALA NARAYANA SWAMY ◽  
ARAVEETI MADHUSUDHANA REDDY ◽  
MUDADLA SANKARA RAO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
Deciduous Forest ◽  
Taxonomic Key ◽  
Dry Deciduous Forest ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Lophopogon (Poaceae), L. prasannae is described from dry deciduous forest of Ananthapuramu district, Andhra Pradesh, India. This new species shows morphological similarities with L. tridentatus and L. kingii but differs in certain characters, which are discussed below. A detailed description, photographs and taxonomic key are provided for easy identification of the species.

Review of the genus Papagona Ball, 1935 (Hemiptera: Caliscelidae) including a new Neotropical species

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5023 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-120
Author(s):  
ABNER S. DE FREITAS ◽  
JAMES N. ZAHNISER ◽  
DANIELA M. TAKIYA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Neotropical Species ◽  
Taxonomic Key ◽  
The Usa ◽  
A New Species

Papagona Ball, 1935 was originally described based on two species from the USA (Arizona). Both species of Papagona (P. papoosa Ball, 1935, type species of genus, and P. succinea Ball, 1935) are redescribed herein based on type specimens, including their previously unknown internal male genitalia. A new species from Brazil (Roraima) is described herein including the male and female terminalia. A taxonomic key to all included species is provided and additional diagnostic characters for this genus are proposed.  

An annotated catalog of types of Neotropical Pierinae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 1022 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
STANISLAV P. ABADJIEV
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Original Publication ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
New Synonym

A catalog of the type material of 59 taxa of Neotropical Pierinae housed in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, is presented. Each entry includes the species-group name, the original combination quoted from the original publication, the type locality, the type specimens with their labels, and notes about current taxonomic status. One new synonym has been established, Euterpe dysoni Doubleday, 1847 = Leodonta marginata Schaus, 1902. Lectotypes are designated for 5 species group taxa: Archonias intermedia Schaus, 1913, Hesperocharis jaliscana Schaus, 1898, H. paranensis Schaus, 1898, Pieris sublineata Schaus, 1902, and P. limona Schaus, 1913.

A new species of the genus Phytocoris (Hemiptera: Miridae), with an identification key to amygdali-group species of the subgenus Compsocerocoris found in Iran

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4563 (2) ◽  
pp. 354
Author(s):  
REZA HOSSEINI ◽  
SAADI MOHAMMADI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Taxonomic Key ◽  
The University ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Group Species

A new species, Phytocoris (Compsocerocoris) darakiensis sp. nov. is described from Kurdistan province, Iran. A taxonomic key to the species of amygdali-group of the subgenus Compsocerocoris Reuter known in Iran, male and female habitus photographs and illustrations of male genitalia of the new taxon are provided. Diagnosis of the new species is based on a comparison with other congeneric found from Iran. The type specimens were deposited in the insect collection of the University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran. 

Types of Neotropical Pierinae in the collection of Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum, London (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1143 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
STANISLAV P. ABADJIEV
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Original Publication ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Publication Type ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The Stability

A catalog of types of Neotropical Pierinae at the Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum, London, is presented. The collection contains type material of 324 taxa (296 represented by primary types). Each entry includes the species-group name, followed by the generic name, original combination quoted from the original publication, type locality, type specimens as specified with their labels, and notes about current taxonomic status. To increase the stability of nomenclature, and to fix the identity of several species-group names, lectotypes are designated for 116 taxa.

scholarly journals A high mountain population of the ring-tailed lemur Lemur catta on the Andringitra Massif, Madagascar

Oryx ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 259-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven M. Goodman ◽  
Olivier Langrand
Keyword(s):  
Deciduous Forest ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Lemur Catta ◽  
Food Plants ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
Exposed Rock ◽  
Dry Deciduous Forest ◽  
Pelage Coloration ◽  
Mountain Population

The ring-tailed lemur Lemur catta is generally considered to be a species of dry deciduous forest, gallery forest and spiny thorn scrub at relatively low altitudes. During a survey of the summit zone of the Andringitra Massif, one of the most climatically extreme areas on Madagascar, we recorded this species above the tree-line at 2520 m in an area composed mostly of exposed rock, low ericoid bush and subalpine vegetation. Information was collected on food plants consumed by this species. This pelage coloration of the local population of L. catta differed from museum specimens and photographs taken from other areas of this species's range. The taxonomic status of the Andringitra population is in need of further study.

HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE UNCERTAIN TAXONOMIC STATUS OF CYSTOPTERIS DICKIEANA R.SIM (DICKIE'S BLADDER FERN)

2000 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. F. DYER ◽  
J. C. PARKS ◽  
S. LINDSAY
Keyword(s):  
Northern Hemisphere ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Distinct Species ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Considerable Debate

Cystopteris dickieana R.Sim is a rare fern protected in Britain under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act. Most current floras treat it as a distinct species but ever since it was first discovered in Scotland in the 1830s, there has been considerable debate about its taxonomic status within the C. fragilis complex. This debate centres on the relative importance of two characters, the architecture of the fronds and the surface sculpturing of the spores, in delimiting C. dickieana from other taxa in the C. fragilis complex. The type specimens of C. dickieana have distinctive fronds. Plants with similar frond architecture have, to date, been recorded growing naturally only at the site in Scotland from which the type specimens were collected and at one other site nearby. The type specimens of C. dickieana also have mature spores with surface sculpturing often described as ‘rugose’. These are distinctive and unusual in the genus Cystopteris, in which most taxa have ‘echinate’ spores. However, rugose-spored plants have been recorded not only at, and near, the type locality in Scotland but also at many other sites in the northern hemisphere in populations of plants defined largely on the basis of frond architecture as C. fragilis or C. baenitzii. This indicates that spore sculpturing should not be used alone to delimit C. dickieana from other taxa within the C. fragilis complex but, despite this, the literature on ‘C. dickieana’ contains many reports of studies on material identified as C. dickieana solely on the basis of spore sculpturing. This, combined with the fact that most comparative studies have also failed to include material known to have come from the type locality, has resulted in considerable and continuing uncertainty over the taxonomic status and distribution of C. dickieana.

scholarly journals Type material housed in the Carcinological Collection of the Museo de La Plata, Argentina

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4303 (1) ◽  
pp. 88 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANALÍA R. DIAZ ◽  
VICTOR HUGO MERLO ÁLVAREZ ◽  
CRISTINA DAMBORENEA
Keyword(s):  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Bibliographic Reference ◽  
Type Host ◽  
La Plata ◽  
Commensal Species ◽  
Collection Number ◽  
Species Type

The Carcinological Collection of División Zoología Invertebrados, Museo de La Plata (FCNyM-UNLP) includes of 110 type lots of 42 species. A list of types of the crustacean orders Anostraca (8 species), Diplostraca (5 species), Arguloida (3 species), Cyclopoida (1 species), Poecilostomatoida (8 species), Siphonostomatoida (2 species), Podocopida (4 species), Amphipoda (2 species), Isopoda (2 species), Mysida (2 species) and Decapoda (5 species) is presented. Species names are listed in systematical order, including type locality, collection number, current taxonomic status and original bibliographic reference. For parasite and commensal species, type host and site of infection are also provided. 

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