Description of the female of Myopsocus arthuri Nel, Waller & Poinar, 2006 from Miocene Dominican amber (Psocodea: Psocomorpha: Myopsocidae)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-147
Author(s):  
MARINA HAKIM ◽  
DIYING HUANG ◽  
ANDRE NEL ◽  
DANY AZAR
Keyword(s):  
Original Description ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Dominican Amber ◽  
Species Diagnosis ◽  
The Family

Nel et al. (2006) described Myopsocus arthuri from Dominican amber based on a single male specimen. We herein describe the female of this species, give a species diagnosis (missing in the original description) and recognize additional characters. Myopsocus arthuri represents the first and only described fossil in the family Myopsocidae.

First Record of the Family Camillidae in the New World (Diptera)

1960 ◽  
Vol 92 (12) ◽  
pp. 954-956 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. McAlpine
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
First Record ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Separate Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Single Genus ◽  
To Receive

The discovery of Camilla glabra (Fallen) in Ottawa, Canada, is the first record of the existence in the New World of any member of the interesting little family Camillidae. A single male specimen taken June 15, 1954, by D. G. F. Cobb while collecting insects in her garden, would seem to indicate the species is established here.The family Camillidae consists of the single genus Camilla Haliday, which for many years was assigned to the family Drosophilidae. Frey, (1921) considered it sufficiently differentiated from the Drosophilidae to warrant separate status and erected the family Camillidae to receive it. Duda (1934), Wheeler (1952, p. 164), and Collin (1956) all recognized the group as a family distinct from the Drosophilidae. More recently, Hennig (1958, p. 665) placed it as a separate family in the Drosophiloidea, pointing out that while it has certain characters in common with Curtonotidae and Drosophilidae, it shows even more affinities with Diastatidae and Ephydridae.

Remarks on Oriental species of Allophrys Förster described by A. Reshchikov (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Tersilochinae) 

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4294 (1) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
ANDREY I. KHALAIM ◽  
SERGEY A. BELOKOBYLSKIJ
Keyword(s):  
South China ◽  
Original Description ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Oriental Region ◽  
The Family ◽  
Distinct Member

Two species of the genus Allophrys Förster were recently described from Oriental region by A. Reshchikov with co-authors (Yue et al. 2017). According to its original description and photographs, A. falcatus Reshchikov from the Philippines actually is a distinct member of the family Braconidae, and we transfer this species preliminarily to the genus Microctonus Wesmael (comb. nov.) of the subfamily Euphorinae. Another species, A. cantonensis Reshchikov & Yue from South China, was described on basis of a single male, and its further identification is expected to be problematic until its female discovered and described. 

An illustrated key to the species of Trichogramma (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) of Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 1073 (1) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. B. QUERINO ◽  
R. A. ZUCCHI
Keyword(s):  
Original Description ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
New Material ◽  
The University

Lygodactylus klemmeri Pasteur, 1964 is a small diurnal gekkonid lizard described on the basis of a single male specimen from Antsingy forest in western Madagascar, deposited in the Paris museum. This specimen could not be retrieved during recent years in the Paris collection and might be lost. Hence, the only existing information on this gecko is the original description and some subsequent remarks on the holotype by G. Pasteur. We here report on new material of L. klemmeri from the collection of the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar, and provide a comparison to published morphological data of the holotype.

scholarly journals A second record of the Eastern Spadefoot Toad (Amphibia: Anura: Megophryidae: Leptobrachium bompu Sondhi & Ohler, 2011) with a note on its morphological variations and natural history

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 10692
Author(s):  
Bhaskar Saikia ◽  
Bikramjit Sinha ◽  
Ilona J. Kharkongor
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Arunachal Pradesh ◽  
Wildlife Sanctuary ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Morphological Variations ◽  
Spadefoot Toad ◽  
Present Collection ◽  
Specific Variation

A single male specimen of Leptobrachium bompu was collected from Talle Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Lower Subansiri District, Arunachal Pradesh in 2015.  This is the first report of this species after its original description in 2011 based on a male specimen.  The present collection locality is about 200km from the type locality.  Additional notes on morphological variations have added to the much-needed study on the intra-specific variation of the species.

A New Family of Trichoptera from Asia

1959 ◽  
Vol 91 (12) ◽  
pp. 745-757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn B. Wiggins
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Single Species ◽  
Immature Stages ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Family ◽  
The Family

In 1906 Nathan Banks described a species, Phryganea latipennis, based on a single male specimen which he had received in a collection of caddisflies from Japan. Assignment of this species to the family Phryganeidae has always seemed the logical course because the adults possessed the typical phryganeid characters of ocelli, four-segmented maxilary palpi in the male, and five-segmented palpi in the female, with a tibia1 spur cout of 2, 4, 4. That the species was a phryganeid has never been questioned in the past, and in a preliminary revision of the familyPhrygancidae, Martynov (1924) created a new genus Phryganopsis for the single species latipennis Banks . A second species, cornuta, from Burma, was added to the genus by Kimmins (1950). It was not until 1951 that the larva and case of P. latipennis were figured and briefly described by Tsuda. This was the first published information on the immature stages of the genus, and the structures of the pupa have still not been made known.

Rediscovery and redescription of the Malagasy dwarf gecko Lygodactylus klemmeri

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 1073 (1) ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARTA PUENTE ◽  
ACHILLE P. RASELIMANANA ◽  
MIGUEL VENCES
Keyword(s):  
Original Description ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
New Material ◽  
The University

Lygodactylus klemmeri Pasteur, 1964 is a small diurnal gekkonid lizard described on the basis of a single male specimen from Antsingy forest in western Madagascar, deposited in the Paris museum. This specimen could not be retrieved during recent years in the Paris collection and might be lost. Hence, the only existing information on this gecko is the original description and some subsequent remarks on the holotype by G. Pasteur. We here report on new material of L. klemmeri from the collection of the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar, and provide a comparison to published morphological data of the holotype.

scholarly journals Rediscovered after almost 100 years: new faunistic data of Thaumalea rumanica with additional records of Thaumaleidae from Romania

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-129
Author(s):  
Lujza Keresztes ◽  
Avar-Lehel Dénes
Keyword(s):  
Recent Literature ◽  
Restricted Range ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Carpathian Region ◽  
South West ◽  
The Family ◽  
New Finding ◽  
Family Based ◽  
A New Species

Thaumalea rumanica is a member of the family Thaumaleidae and it has been described from a few localities surrounding Băile Herculane, south-west Romania. Since its discovery, no further data were published on this endemic species of restricted range from the Carpathian region. On August 18, 2020 a single male specimen was collected at Poiana Mărului, in Olteana valley, south-west Romania, at 720 m altitude by the present authors, which is farther north from its typical location. This new finding suggests a larger distribution of the species in the Southern Carpathians. Based on our recent faunistic survey, a new species, Thaumalea remota was added to the Thaumaleidae fauna of Romania, with a revised checklist of the family, based on both personal and recent literature data.

scholarly journals Chromosomes of three gall wasps of the tribe Aylacini (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae)

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-178
Author(s):  
Vladimir E. Gokhman
Keyword(s):  
Karyotype Evolution ◽  
Dicentric Chromosome ◽  
Dapi Staining ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
First Report ◽  
The Family ◽  
Gall Wasps ◽  
First Time

Chromosomes of two species of the tribe Aylacini (Cynipidae), Isocolus jaceae (Schenck, 1863) and I. scabiosae (Giraud, 1859) (both have 2n = 18) were studied for the first time. In addition, 2n = 20 is confirmed in a member of the same tribe, Aulacidea hieracii (Bouché, 1834). All chromosomes of these gall wasps are biarmed; however, they gradually decrease in size in the case of A. hieracii, whereas a pair of large metacentrics is characteristic of karyotypes of both Isocolus Förster, 1869 species. Chromosomes of the two latter gall wasps are either metacentric or submetacentric, but elements with lower centromeric indices prevail in the karyotype of A. hieracii. Chromomycin A3 (CMA3)/DAPI staining revealed single CMA3-positive bands on a particular pair of chromosomes of all species, and these bands apparently refer to the nucleolus organizing regions (NORs). However, localization of CMA3-positive bands differs substantially between the studied members of Isocolus and Aulacidea Ashmead, 1897. Together with normal haploid and diploid mitotic divisions, several metaphase plates with 2n = 17 containing a peculiar dicentric chromosome were found in a single male specimen of I. scabiosae; this appears to be the first report of an obvious dicentric in the order Hymenoptera in general. Certain aspects of the chromosome diversity and karyotype evolution within the family Cynipidae and the tribe Aylacini in particular are briefly discussed.

Taxonomic re-evaluation of Parastagmatoptera abnormis Beier, 1963 (Dictyoptera, Mantidae: Stagmatopterinae): An unusual case of “parasite-induced” synonymy

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2735 (1) ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANCESCO LOMBARDO ◽  
RITA UMBRIACO
Keyword(s):  
Unusual Case ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen

The Neotropical genus Parastagmatoptera Saussure includes medium-sized species distributed in tropical and subtropical areas of Central and Southern America. Thirteen nominal species have been so far described (Agudelo et al. 2007), with most species currently known from few specimens, often of one sex only. Beier (1963) described Parastagmatoptera abnormis Beier, 1963 based on a single male specimen from Surinam. Unfortunately, Beier’s original description lacks enough details to allow an accurate literature-based identification and, since its original description, no additional specimens ascribable to P. abnormis have been recorded.

A new genus and new species assigned to Macrophthalmidae (Decapoda: Brachyura: Thoracotremata) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4531 (1) ◽  
pp. 109 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOMOYUKI KOMAI ◽  
YOSHIHISA FUJITA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Ryukyu Islands ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Ishigaki Island ◽  
The Ryukyu Islands ◽  
The Family

Mirograpsus asper is described as a new genus and new species in the subfamily Ilyograpsinae Števčić, 2005, of the family Macrophthalmidae Dana, 1851, on the basis of a single male specimen from Ishigaki Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. The new genus most closely resembles the monotypic Apograpsus Komai & Wada, 2008 (type species, Ilyograpsus paantu Naruse & Kishino, 2006), sharing a similar carapace shape, but is differentiated chiefly by the fusion of the male pleomeres 4–6 and the unarmed meri of the ambulatory legs. The functional fusion of the male pleomeres 4–6 is unique in the Macrophthalmidae. 

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