A new species of Hesterniasca (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Tachyporinae) from the Early Cretaceous of China with discussion of its systematic position

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexey Solodovnikov ◽  
Diying Huang ◽  
Chenyang Cai
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
Northeastern China ◽  
Liaoning Province ◽  
Rove Beetle ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Better Than

AbstractA new species of the extinct rove beetle genus Hesterniasca Zhang, Wang & Xu, 1992 is described and illustrated on the basis of a well-preserved specimen from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation at Huangbanjigou of Beipiao City, Liaoning Province, Northeastern China. Based on the examination of this new species that is preserved better than the type species of the genus, Hesterniasca is firmly placed in the recent subfamily Tachyporinae, tentatively in the recent tribe Tachyporini MacLeay, 1825. Arguments for the Early Cretaceous age of the Laiyang Formation in Shandong Province, Eastern China, from where the type species of the genus, Hesterniasca obesa Zhang, Wang & Xu, 1992, has been discovered are provided.

A Mesozoic species ofAnotylus(Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Oxytelinae) from Liaoning, China, with the earliest evidence of sexual dimorphism in rove beetles

2012 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 508-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanli Yue ◽  
György Makranczy ◽  
Dong Ren
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Northeastern China ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
Yixian Formation ◽  
Liaoning Province ◽  
Rove Beetles ◽  
Rove Beetle ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the staphylinid subfamily Oxytelinae is described and figured from a series of well-preserved compression fossils of the Yixian Formation (Early Cretaceous), Beipiao City, Liaoning Province, northeastern China. The species is placed in the recent genusAnotylusThomson, 1859 based on typical morphological features for the genus as well as secondary sexual characters. The strong projection of the anterior pronotal angles is a feature also possessed by males of several recent Neotropical taxa in the genus. This is the earliest fossil rove beetle with clearly demonstrable sexual dimorphism.

A new genus of Scolebythidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) from the Early Cretaceous of China

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3504 (1) ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
YAPING CAI ◽  
YUNYUN ZHAO ◽  
CHUNGKUN SHIH ◽  
DONG REN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Northeastern China ◽  
Yixian Formation ◽  
Liaoning Province ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two New Species

A new genus Mirabythus Cai, Shih et Ren, gen. nov. (type species, M. lechrius Cai, Shih et Ren, sp. nov.) and M. liae Cai, Shih et Ren, sp. nov. from the family Scolebythidae are described from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Huangbanjigou Village, Liaoning Province, northeastern China. These findings extend the existence of Scolebythidae to the Early Cretaceous of China, while providing evidence to support Engel and Grimaldi’s hypothesis that the family was widely distributed throughout the Cretaceous. Our two new species with clear venation also provide a comprehensive understanding of the venational changes from the Early Cretaceous to now. A key to the fossil and extant genera of Scolebythidae is provided.

Masonoceras, a new karagandoceratid ammonoid from the lower Mississippian (lower Osagean) of Kentucky

2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 574-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Work ◽  
Walter L. Manger
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
Ventral Lobe ◽  
Formal Description ◽  
Ventral Margin ◽  
Borden Formation ◽  
Conodont Zone ◽  
A New Species

Karagandoceratids are a rare offshoot of the Prionoceratinae, resembling that subfamily in general conch form and sutural ontogeny, but differing by possession of an acute ventral margin and an increasingly trifid ventral lobe. The systematic position of the Karagandoceratidae has been controversial [see Bartzsch and Weyer (1988) for an exhaustive review]. The nominate genus, Karagandoceras Librovitch, 1940 (type species, K. galeatum), possesses a weakly divided ventral lobe which has led authors to refer it to both the Praeglyphioceratina (Ruzhencev, 1960, 1962; Bogoslovsky, 1971; Ruzhencev and Bogoslovskaya, 1978; Bogoslovskaya et al., 1999; Kusina, 2000) and the Goniatitina (Weyer, 1965, 1972; Kullmann, 1981). Discovery of an ancestral karagandoceratid genus, gen. nov. I aff. Karagandoceras Bartzsch and Weyer, 1988, in the early Tournaisian Siphonodella sandbergi conodont Zone in Germany provided clarification on the proximate origin of Karagandoceras and provided a plausible link to the early Tournaisian prionoceratin genus Nicimitoceras Korn, 1993 (type species, Imitoceras subacre Vöhringer, 1960). Bartzsch and Weyer (1988) proposed a karagandoceratid phylogeny beginning with gen. nov. I aff. Karagandoceras in the early Tournaisian, progressing through Karagandoceras in the middle Tournaisian, and culminating with a third, descendent genus, gen. nov. II aff. Karagandoceras (typical species, Karagandoceras bradfordi Manger, 1971), early in the late Tournaisian. Bartzsch and Weyer (1988) elected to leave both the initial and final members of this lineage, gen. nov. I and gen. nov. II aff. Karagandoceras, in open nomenclature pending discovery of more completely preserved material. Discovery of superbly preserved representatives of a new species of gen. nov. II aff. Karagandoceras from the Borden Formation in northeastern Kentucky provides additional sutural and morphological details that support Bartzsch and Weyer's phylogenetic interpretation and makes formal description of this terminal karagandoceratid taxon (herein designated Masonoceras new genus) possible.

On the systematics of Sylvenomyia Mamaev & Zaitzev (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae, “Porricondylinae”), with the description of a new species from Finland

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2032 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOUNI PENTTINEN ◽  
MATHIAS JASCHHOF
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Generic Concept ◽  
Incertae Sedis ◽  
A New Species

Sylvenomyia fennica sp. n., the second species of the genus Sylvenomyia Mamaev & Zaitzev is described from Finland. Sylvenomyia sueciae Mamaev & Zaitzev, the type species, is a new junior synonym of Chastomera spinigera Spungis. Sylvenomyia spinigera (Spungis) comb. n. is redescribed. The generic concept and systematic position of Sylvenomyia is reviewed. The genus Sylvenomyia is transferred from the tribe Winnertziini to the “Porricondylinae” incertae sedis.

Monotypic no longer: a new species of Panca Evans (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae: Moncini) from South America

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4269 (1) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
DIEGO RODRIGO DOLIBAINA ◽  
EDUARDO CARNEIRO ◽  
OLAF HERMANN HENDRIK MIELKE ◽  
MIRNA MARTINS CASAGRANDE ◽  
GERARDO LAMAS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South America ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Sympatric Species ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
Female Genitalia ◽  
Monotypic Genus ◽  
Natural Habitats ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
A New Species

A new species belonging to the previously monotypic genus Panca Evans, 1955, P. moseri Dolibaina, Carneiro & O. Mielke sp. nov., from grasslands areas of Peru, Bolivia and Brazil is described. Adults and male and female genitalia of the new species are illustrated, described in detail, and compared with the type species of the genus, Lerodea subpunctuli Hayward, 1934, and with its externally most similar and sympatric species, Vidius mictra Evans, 1955. The systematic position of the genus Panca and its association with lowland open natural habitats of South America are discussed.

Asiorrhina, a new Oriental genus of Lygistorrhinidae (Diptera: Sciaroidea) and its phylogenetic position

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2295 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
VLADIMIR BLAGODEROV ◽  
HEIKKI HIPPA ◽  
JAN ŠEVČÍK
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Sister Group ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
Monophyletic Group ◽  
Phylogenetic Position ◽  
Fossil Genus ◽  
A New Species

A new genus of Lygistorrhinidae, Asiorrhina gen. n., and a new species, Asiorrhina parasiatica sp. n., are described. Asiorrhina asiatica (Senior-White) comb. n. is redescribed and selected as the type species for the new genus. The systematic position of the new genus is discussed. All recent taxa of Lygistorrhinidae form a monophyletic group with the fossil genus Palaeognoriste Meunier as the sister group.

Anatomy of the Early Cretaceous bird Rapaxavis pani, a new species from Liaoning Province, China

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 545-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric M. Morschhauser ◽  
David J. Varricchio ◽  
Gao Chunling ◽  
Liu Jinyuan ◽  
Wang Xuri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Liaoning Province ◽  
A New Species

scholarly journals On the rare Neotropical genus Ophionthus Bernhauer (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae): redescription of the type species and description of a new species

2021 ◽  
Vol 735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryzender Rodríguez-Melgarejo ◽  
Mariana Chani-Posse
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
Museum Collection ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
A New Species

Two female specimens of the Neotropical genus Ophionthus Bernhauer were found during museum collection surveys, representing different species of the genus. These species are Ophionthus serpentinus Bernhauer, 1908 and O. asenjoi sp. nov. The genus Ophionthus was monotypic until the present study and only known from a single male specimen from Central Peru. The genus is redescribed with the inclusion of female characters from both the type species and the new species here proposed. Additionally, the systematic position of Ophionthus within the Neotropical lineage of Philonthina and its geographical distribution in Peru are reassessed. Descriptions, diagnoses, illustrations, pictures, a cladogram, and a distribution map are provided.

A new species of Alloperla (Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae) from China

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3040 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
WEIHAI LI ◽  
RONGFENG WANG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Northeastern China ◽  
Liaoning Province ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Taxonomic Relationship ◽  
A New Species

A chloroperline stonefly species from Liaoning Province, northeastern China is described as new to science: Alloperla yangi sp. n. Its taxonomic relationship to similar species is discussed.

A new species of Sorbinichthys (Teleostei: Clupeomorpha: Ellimmichthyiformes) from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco

2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison M. Murray ◽  
Mark V.H. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Marine Species ◽  
Western Tethys ◽  
Eastern Morocco ◽  
A New Species

A new species of ellimmichthyiform fish, represented by three specimens, has been recovered from deposits of the Akrabou Formation of Morocco. The new species is described in the existing genus Sorbinichthys , family Sorbinichthyidae, as Sorbinichthys africanus , sp. nov., closely related to the type species Sorbinichthys elusivo . The Ellimmichthyiformes is an extinct order of clupeomorph fishes that includes both freshwater and marine species ranging from the Early Cretaceous through the Eocene. Sorbinichthys elusivo is known from Cenomanian deposits of the eastern Mediterranean Tethys (Lebanon), whereas the new species is possibly early Turonian but more probably late Cenomanian in age, from the western Tethys (eastern Morocco). At lower taxonomic levels, the assemblage from the Akrabou Formation has a primarily Tethyan composition, exemplified by the genus Sorbinichthys, whereas supra-generic taxa found there include groups with trans-Atlantic (e.g., Sorbinichthyidae, Macrosemiidae) or near-cosmopolitan (e.g., Paraclupeidae) distributions.

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