Review of the New World species of Microplitis Foerster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) attacking Sphingidae (Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Mostafa Ghafouri Moghaddam ◽  
Sloan Tomlinson ◽  
Samuel Jaffe ◽  
Diana Carolina Arias-Penna ◽  
James B. Whitfield ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
New World ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Plant Association ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
New Host ◽  
World Species ◽  
Allegheny Mountains

Abstract Microplitis Foerster is a highly diverse and cosmopolitan genus within Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea, Braconidae). Microplitis ceratomiae Riley, a widely distributed North American species, exclusively attacks sphingid caterpillars. In this paper, M. ceratomiae is reported parasitizing a caterpillar of Sphinx poecila Stephens (Sphingidae) which was collected feeding on Spiraea alba Du Roi (Rosaceae), a species of white meadowsweet native to the wet soils of the Allegheny Mountains and other portions of eastern North America. Here, we report and describe this new host-parasitoid-food plant association in southern New Hampshire, and include a distribution map for the species. Biological, ecological and phylogenetic analyses, and an identification key for the nine known species of Microplitis that attack sphingids in the New World are provided.

Isthmiella faullii. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].

1984 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. F. Cannon
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
North America ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Abies Balsamea ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Northern Ontario ◽  
Needle Blight ◽  
Juvenile Plants

Abstract A description is provided for Isthmiella faullii. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. HOSTS: Apparently confined to Abies balsamea. DISEASE: Causes a needle blight of Abies balsamea. According to Darker (1932), it 'is the commonest and most destructive of the Hypodermataceae on Abies balsamea in eastern North America'. It is particularly damaging to seedlings and juvenile plants. In northern Ontario, from where the disease was originally identified, infection occurs during the summer, but signs of the disease do not appear until the following spring, when needles become brown and conidiomata develop, conidia being discharged in July, and shortly after this ascomata begin to form, maturing in July of the following year. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: Reported from Canada: Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec and USA: Michigan and New Hampshire. TRANSMISSION: Through air dispersal of ascospores, which directly infect the leaves (Darker, 1932).

scholarly journals Six new species and reports of Hydnum (Cantharellales) from eastern North America

MycoKeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 35-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel A. Swenie ◽  
Timothy J. Baroni ◽  
P. Brandon Matheny
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Phylogenetic Species ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
Taxonomic Descriptions ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Herbarium Collections ◽  
Environmental Sequences

Five species of Hydnum have been generally recognized from eastern North America based on morphological recognition: H.albidum, H.albomagnum, H.repandum and varieties, H.rufescens, and H.umbilicatum. Other unique North American species, such as H.caespitosum and H.washingtonianum, are either illegitimately named or considered synonymous with European taxa. Here, seventeen phylogenetic species of Hydnum are detected from eastern North America based on a molecular phylogenetic survey of ITS sequences from herbarium collections and GenBank data, including environmental sequences. Based on current distribution results, sixteen of these species appear endemic to North America. Of these, six species are described as new: H.alboaurantiacum, H.cuspidatum, H.ferruginescens, H.subconnatum, H.subtilior, and H.vagabundum. Geographic range extensions and taxonomic notes are provided for five additional species recently described as new from eastern North America. A new name, H.geminum, is proposed for H.caespitosum Banning ex Peck, non Valenti. Overall, species of Hydnum are best recognized by a combination of morphological and molecular phylogenetic analyses. Taxonomic descriptions are provided for seventeen species, including epitype designations for H.albidum, H.albomagnum, and H.umbilicatum, taxa described more than 100 years ago, and molecular annotation of the isotype of H.washingtonianum. Photographs and a key to eastern North American Hydnum species are presented.

Phaeocryptopus gaeumanii. [Distribution map].

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
North America ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Pseudotsuga Menziesii ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
New Distribution

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Phaeocryptopus gaeumanii (Rohde) Petrak. Hosts: douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii). Information is given on the geographical distribution in Australasia & Oceania, Australia, Victoria, New Zealand, Europe, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Irish Republic, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Yugoslavia, North America, Canada, British Columbia, Ontario, USA, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Maine, Massechusetts, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Minnesota.

Puccinia emaculata. [Distribution map].

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
South Dakota ◽  
North Dakota ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Panicum Virgatum ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
New Distribution

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Puccinia emaculata Schwein. Basidiomycota: Pucciniomycetes: Pucciniales. Hosts: switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) and other Panicum spp. Information is given on the geographical distribution in Asia (China, Hebei), Africa (Uganda), North America (Canada, Ontario, Mexico, USA, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mississipi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin), South America (Brazil).

On the True Identity of Geophilus huronicus Meinert and the Presence of Geophilus longicornis Leach in North America (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Geophilidae)

1951 ◽  
Vol 83 (11) ◽  
pp. 314-315
Author(s):  
Ralph E. Crabill
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
New England ◽  
North American ◽  
New World ◽  
Original Description ◽  
World Species

In 1886 Meinert described a new centipede from New England which he called Geophilus huronicus. This centipede, characterized at some length and with considerable accuracy in the original description. is peculiar in that it is rather unlike any other known North American member of the genus. Perhaps for that reason, as well as because he had never seen huronicus, Attems placed it in his long roster of questionable New World species.

THE IDENTITY OF MICREMPIS ANATOLICA CHILLCOTT AND M. BOMBOXYNON CHILLCOTT (DIPTERA: EMPIDIDAE), WITH REMARKS ON ALLIED NEARCTIC SPECIES

1989 ◽  
Vol 121 (7) ◽  
pp. 565-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.M. Cumming ◽  
B.E. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Subjective Synonym

AbstractMicrempis anatolica Chillcott is considered a junior subjective synonym of M. bomboxynon Chillcott, based on re-examination of purported differences in the female terminalia given by Chillcott and Teskey (1983), as well as examination of a number of additional specimens collected from eastern North America. As a result of its new broader concept, M. bomboxynon is redescribed, a distribution map of the species is provided, and separation from other Nearctic species of Micrempis is discussed.

REVISION OF THE NEW WORLD CHRYSOLAMPINAE (HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA)

1986 ◽  
Vol 118 (9) ◽  
pp. 913-940 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Christopher Darling
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
New World ◽  
World Species ◽  
European Species ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
Climatic Information

AbstractThe taxonomy and biology of New World species of Chrysolampinae are reviewed with diagnoses given for the subfamily, genera, and species. A key to the species of Chrysolampus and a summary of geographic distribution and information on host and floral associations are presented. Three new species are described from North America (Chrysolampus improcerus, C. luridus and C. elegans); Chrysolampus lycti Crawford is transferred to Perilampus and synonymized with the European species P. micans Dalman. The genus Chrysomalla is recorded in the New World for the first time based on the new species Chrysomalla hesperis. An explanation of the historical biogeography of the genera is proposed that is consistent with Late Cretaceous and Tertiary geological, botanical, and climatic information. It is suggested that the extant species are descendents of elements of a widely distributed arid biota.

scholarly journals Caliciopsis moriondi, a new species for a fungus long confused with the pine pathogen C. pinea

MycoKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 87-108
Author(s):  
Duccio Migliorini ◽  
Nicola Luchi ◽  
Alessia Lucia Pepori ◽  
Francesco Pecori ◽  
Chiara Aglietti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Pinus Radiata ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Distinct Species ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Pathogenic Species ◽  
Eastern Usa ◽  
A New Species

The genus Caliciopsis (Eurotiomycetes, Coryneliales) includes saprobic and plant pathogenic species. Caliciopsis canker is caused by Caliciopsis pinea Peck, a species first reported in the 19th century in North America. In recent years, increasing numbers of outbreaks of Caliciopsis canker have been reported on different Pinus spp. in the eastern USA. In Europe, the disease has only occasionally been reported causing cankers, mostly on Pinus radiata in stressed plantations. The aim of this study was to clarify the taxonomy of Caliciopsis specimens collected from infected Pinus spp. in Europe and North America using an integrative approach, combining morphology and phylogenetic analyses of three loci. The pathogenicity of the fungus was also considered. Two distinct groups were evident, based on morphology and multilocus phylogenetic analyses. These represent the known pathogen Caliciopsis pinea that occurs in North America and a morphologically similar, but phylogenetically distinct, species described here as Caliciopsis moriondisp. nov., found in Europe and at least one location in eastern North America. Caliciopsis moriondi differs from C. pinea in various morphological features including the length of the ascomata, as well as their distribution on the stromata.

Phytophthora ramorum Identified Infecting Eastern Teaberry (Gaultheria procumbens) Plants Shipped to Oregon

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. K. Osterbauer ◽  
S. Lane ◽  
A. Trippe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
Phytophthora Ramorum ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
The South ◽  
New Host ◽  
Koch’S Postulates ◽  
Understory Species ◽  
The North ◽  
Gaultheria Procumbens

These results confirm the pathogenicity of Phytophthora ramorum on eastern teaberry and complete Koch's Postulates for this new host. Eastern teaberry is an understory species native to eastern North America, with its range extending from Alabama and Georgia (United States) in the south to Manitoba and Quebec (Canada) in the north. Infected nursery plants represent a potential pathway for P. ramorum introduction to this region. Accepted for publication 22 November 2013. Published 22 January 2014.

Evolutionary history of New World ticks of the genus Dermacentor (Ixodida: Ixodidae), and the origin of D. variabilis

2019 ◽  
Vol 127 (4) ◽  
pp. 863-875 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Lado ◽  
Hans Klompen
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
New World ◽  
Dermacentor Variabilis ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Land Bridge ◽  
Phylogenetic Reconstructions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Migration Event

Abstract This study integrates biogeographical and phylogenetic data to determine the evolutionary history of the New World Dermacentor, and the origin of D. variabilis. The phylogenetic reconstructions presented here strongly support the hypothesis of an Afrotropical origin for Dermacentor, with later dispersal to Eurasia and the Nearctic. Phylogenetic and biogeographical data suggest that the genus reached the New World through the Beringia land bridge, from south-east Asia. The monophyly of the genus is supported, and most of the New World Dermacentor species appear as monophyletic. Dermacentor occidentals constitutes the sister lineage of D. variabilis, and the latter is subdivided into two well-supported clades: an eastern and a western clade. The western clade is genetically more variable than the eastern. The genus Dermacentor probably originated in Africa, and dispersed to the Palearctic and then to the New World through the Beringian route. Dermacentor variabilis appears to have originated in western North America, and then dispersed to eastern North America, probably in a single migration event.

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