The genus Plinthisus Stephens in the Australian Region (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae)

1977 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Slater ◽  
Merrill H. Sweet
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
South American ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Scent Gland ◽  
Australian Region ◽  
Metathoracic Scent Gland ◽  
Ecological Habitats ◽  
Host Plant Relationships

AbstractFifteen species of Plinthisus are reported from Australia, all of them previously undescribed. The new species are: P. woodwardi, P. australiensis, P. tasmaniensis, P. kangarooensis, P. acrocephalus, P. nudus, P. sericeus, P. platycephalus, P. mullewa, P. dampieris, P. reticulatus, P. tindalís, P. flíndersi, P. bassianus and P. grossi. P. woodwardi is also reported from New Zealand. The species are segregated into five groups. Their distributions within Australia and relationships to Oriental, African and South American taxa are discussed. A key to species is included. Plinthisus tineoides (Distant), an Oriental species, is redescribed and Locutius atratus Distant, 1918 and Locutius pallescens Distant, 1918 placed as junior synonyms. The ecological habitats and host plant relationships of P. australiensis, P. nudus, P. bassianus and P. grossi are discussed. Descriptions of nymphs are given for P. woodwardi, P. australiensis and P. grossi. Sixty figures are included illustrating dorsal views, spermatheca, metathoracic scent gland areas, eggs, wings, aedeagus, sperm reservoirs, parameres and abdominal details.

Revision of the Australian planthopper genus Chidaea Emeljanov with a redescription of Cixius sidnicus Stål, 1859 (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4691 (5) ◽  
pp. 401-443
Author(s):  
BIRGIT LÖCKER ◽  
WERNER E. HOLZINGER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Monotypic Genus ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Endemic Genus ◽  
Host Plant Relationships

As part of the ongoing revision of the Australian Cixiidae, here we revise the endemic genus Chidaea Emeljanov, 2000. Examination of the holotype of Cixius sidnicus Stål, 1859 revealed that it is not congeneric with Cixius nervosus (Linnaeus, 1758) but belongs to the hitherto monotypic genus Chidaea resulting in the new combination Chidaea sidnicus (Stål, 1859). Chidaea dayi Emeljanov, 2000 is redescribed and thirteen new species are described: Chidaea algida sp. nov., Ch. armidalensis sp. nov., Ch. belairensis sp. nov., Ch. bobadeenensis sp. nov., Ch. carinata sp. nov., Ch. crassa sp. nov., Ch. dickinsonorum sp. nov., Ch. etelis sp. nov., Ch. kimbaensis sp. nov., Ch. orangensis sp. nov., Ch. pulyonna sp. nov., Ch. punctata sp. nov., and Ch. wilarra sp. nov. An identification key to species of Chidaea and to Australian genera of Cixiini is presented. Host plant relationships and distribution are discussed. Chidaea is endemic to Australia and occurs in all states and territories apart from the Northern Territory. 

Ahnea, a new genus from New Zealand (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), with description of a new species

2014 ◽  
Vol 147 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jong-Seok Park ◽  
Christopher E. Carlton
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
A New Species

AbstractAhnea keejeongi Park and Carlton (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), a new genus and new species of New Zealand endemic beetle belonging to the supertribe Faronitae is described. Six previously described species are included to this genus and four species are synonymised as follow: Sagola dissonans Broun, 1921 and S. planicula Broun, 1921 under Ahnea ventralis (Broun, 1912); S. carinata Broun, 1912 and S. lineiceps Broun, 1921 under Ahnea lineata (Broun, 1893). A key to species, habitus photographs, line drawings of diagnostic characters, and distribution maps are provided.

The composition, generic placement and host-plant relationships of the joviana-group in the Parallelia generic complex (Lepidoptera : Noctuidae, Catocalinae)

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy D. Holloway ◽  
Scott E. Miller
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
Significant Preference ◽  
Larval Host ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Lepidoptera Noctuidae ◽  
Generic System ◽  
Host Plant Relationships

The biosystematic position of the Parallelia generic complex is reviewed and a revised generic classification of its component taxa is presented. Bastilla Swinhoe (= Xiana Nye, syn. nov., Naxia Guenée, syn. nov.) is identified as the most appropriate genus for a large number of these taxa, including the joviana-group, which is reviewed in detail, with description of two new species, B. nielseni, sp. nov. and B. binatang, sp. nov. Parallelia prouti Hulstaert, syn. nov. and P. cuneifascia Hulstaert, syn. nov. are recognised as junior synonyms of Bastilla vitiensis Butler and two newly described Tahitian taxa are transferred into the joviana-group. Larval host records are examined in relation to this new generic system and significant preference for the Euphorbiaceae is noted for several groups: Bastilla, Buzara Walker (= Caranilla Moore, syn. nov., another segregate from Parallelia) and an Australian group within Grammodes Guenée.

New and little-known bryozoans from Monte León Formation (early Miocene, Argentina) and their paleobiogeographic relationships

2015 ◽  
Vol 89 (6) ◽  
pp. 956-965 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leandro M. Pérez ◽  
Juan López-Gappa ◽  
Miguel Griffin
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Early Miocene ◽  
South American ◽  
The South ◽  
New Material ◽  
Recent Species ◽  
Stratigraphic Range

AbstractThe bryozoan fauna from the South American Cenozoic is poorly known. The study of new material collected in the Monte León Formation (early Miocene), gave us the opportunity to describe four new species: Valdemunitella canui n. sp., Foveolaria praecursor n. sp., Neothoa reptans n. sp., and Calyptotheca santacruzana n. sp. Two of them (V. canui and C. santacruzana) were first recorded by F. Canu and interpreted as recent species from the Australian bryozoan fauna, but are herein described as new species. The stratigraphic range of Otionella parvula (Canu, 1904) is extended to the early Miocene. The present study emphasizes the close relationships between the South American Neogene bryozoan faunas and those of other Gondwanan sub-continents such as New Zealand and Australia.

Revision of the genus Clinocera Meigen from Australia and New Zealand (Diptera : Empididae : Clinocerinae)

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley J. Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Biogeographic Patterns ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Campbell Island

The Australian and New Zealand species of Clinocera Meigen are revised. Clinocera gressitti Smith is known from Campbell Island (New Zealand) and the following seven new species are recognised from eastern Australia: C. australiana, sp. nov., C. bickeli, sp. nov., C. irrorata, sp. nov., C. monticola, sp. nov., C. queenslandica, sp. nov., C. rubriventris, sp. nov. and C. spinosa, sp. nov. All species are described and illustrated. A key to species of Clinocera from Australia and New Zealand is provided and phylogenetic relationships and biogeographic patterns are discussed.

Four new species of Actaeciidae (Isopoda : Oniscidea) from Australia, with a review of the family

1994 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 1421 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Lewis ◽  
AJA Green
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
New South ◽  
Eastern Coast ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
Lord Howe Island ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Family ◽  
New Diagnosis

Four new species of Actaecia Dana are described from Australia; three of these (A. bipleura, A. cyphotelson and A. nasuta) are from beaches in south-eastem Australia and one (A. forrnida) is from the mid-eastern coast of Queensland. Specimens from Tasmania identified previously as Actaecia pallida Nicholls & Barnes belong to A. bipleura. The same probably applies to others from New South Wales and Lord Howe Island. The distributions of the six Australian species are noted. A review of the monogeneric family Actaeciidae includes a new diagnosis of Actaecia and a key to species. The distributions of the two New Zealand species are listed.

Discoveries of the genera Baeochila and Idiocysta from Japan, with descriptions of two new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4731 (3) ◽  
pp. 388-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUN SOUMA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
Ryukyu Islands ◽  
Lace Bug ◽  
Distribution Ranges ◽  
The Ryukyu Islands ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
Hedera Rhombea ◽  
Host Plant Relationships

Two lace bug genera, Baeochila Drake & Poor, 1937 and Idiocysta China, 1930 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) are recorded from Japan for the first time, and two new species, B. horvathi sp. nov. and I. takarai sp. nov., are described. The former was collected from the vines of Hedera rhombea (Miq.) Bean (Araliaceae) and the bark of Trachycarpus fortunei (Hook.) H.Wendl. (Arecaceae) in suburbanized areas of Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu, and the latter was collected from the leaves of Freycinetia formosana Hemsl. (Pandanaceae) in the laurilignosa ecosystem of the Ryukyu Islands. The distribution ranges and host plant relationships of the two new species are discussed. Keys to all species of the two genera and photographs of living individuals for the new species are also presented. 

An account of the Pacific mealybug genus Laminicoccus Williams (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 804 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
D.J. WILLIAMS ◽  
J.H. MARTIN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Western Samoa ◽  
A New Species

The Pacific mealybug genus Laminicoccus Williams is reviewed. At present six species are assigned to the genus including a new species, Laminicoccus samoanus sp. nov., described from Western Samoa. Most of the host-plant records of these mealybugs are from monocotyledons and many of the species seem to prefer plants belonging to the families Arecaceae, Pandanaceae, and Poaceae. One or two host-plant records, nevertheless, are from dicotyledons. A key to species of Laminicoccus is provided. The mealybug Pseudococcus pandanicola Takahashi, described originally from Palau, had been included in Laminicoccus but is here reassigned to Pseudococcus and redescribed.

scholarly journals The youngest South American rhynchocephalian, a survivor of the K/Pg extinction

2014 ◽  
Vol 281 (1792) ◽  
pp. 20140811 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastián Apesteguía ◽  
Raúl O. Gómez ◽  
Guillermo W. Rougier
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
South America ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
South American ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Northern Patagonia ◽  
Extinction Event ◽  
New Form

Rhynchocephalian lepidosaurs, though once widespread worldwide, are represented today only by the tuatara ( Sphenodon ) of New Zealand. After their apparent early Cretaceous extinction in Laurasia, they survived in southern continents. In South America, they are represented by different lineages of Late Cretaceous eupropalinal forms until their disappearance by the Cretaceous/Palaeogene (K/Pg) boundary. We describe here the only unambiguous Palaeogene rhynchocephalian from South America; this new taxon is a younger species of the otherwise Late Cretaceous genus Kawasphenodon . Phylogenetic analysis confirms the allocation of the genus to the clade Opisthodontia. The new form from the Palaeogene of Central Patagonia is much smaller than Kawasphenodon expectatus from the Late Cretaceous of Northern Patagonia. The new species shows that at least one group of rhynchocephalians not related to the extant Sphenodon survived in South America beyond the K/Pg extinction event. Furthermore, it adds to other trans-K/Pg ectotherm tetrapod taxa, suggesting that the end-Cretaceous extinction affected Patagonia more benignly than the Laurasian landmasses.

Ovomanonychus, a new genus of South American Sericoidini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4759 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-76
Author(s):  
FÁBIO CORREIA COSTA ◽  
MARIANA ALEJANDRA CHERMAN ◽  
LUCIANA IANNUZZI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
New Combination ◽  
South American ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Mato Grosso

Ovomanonychus new genus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericoidini) is described based on Ovomanonychus rosettae (Frey, 1976), new combination (type species), Ovomanonychus inajae new species, and Ovomanonychus striatus new species. The genus occurs in Bahia, Mato Grosso, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo States, Brazil. Description is provided for the new genus and for its placement in Sericoidini. A key to species is presented along with illustrations, distributional data, and a map for each species. 

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