scholarly journals Notes on Early Land Plants Today. 42. Validation of Nanomarsupella (Gymnomitraceae, Marchantiophyta)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDERS HAGBORG ◽  
LARS SÖDERSTRÖM ◽  
MATT VON KONRAT
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Land Plants ◽  
New Combination ◽  
New Subgenus ◽  
Early Land

 Schuster (1978) described Marsupella xenophylla together with his new subgenus Nanomarsupella stating they were valid as generico-specific descriptions (ICN Art. 38.5; McNeill et al. 2012). However, as it was not described with a new genus but instead with new subgenus it is not validly described. However, the species is regarded as validly described here. Schuster (1996) then intended to elevate the subgenus to a genus but as the proposed basionym is not valid and no description was provided, his new genus is invalid as well as his proposed new combination of type species.

Notes on Early Land Plants Today. 46. Transfer of Vitalianthus urubuensis (Marchantiophyta, Lejeuneaceae) to Cheilolejeunea

Phytotaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 152 (1) ◽  
pp. 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
YU-MEI WEI ◽  
Qiong He ◽  
S. ROBBERT GRADSTEIN ◽  
Laura V. Campos ◽  
Rui-Liang Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Land Plants ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Proximal Side ◽  
Eastern Brazil ◽  
Monophyletic Lineage ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Early Land

Vitalianthus was established by Schuster & Giancotti (1993) based on Drepanolejeunea bischleriana K.C.Pôrto & Grolle (1987: 301), which is endemic to the Atlantic coast of north-eastern Brazil. This genus is related to Drepanolejeunea (Spruce 1884: 76) Schiffner (1893: 119) (Gradstein et al. 2001, Gradstein & Costa 2003, He et al. 2012a, b) and characterized by the 1) hyaline papilla at the proximal side of lobule tooth, 2) unbroken basal vitta of 3-7 ocelli in leaf lobes, 3) bilobed underleaves with upright lobes, 4) gynoecial innovations with a pycnolejeuneoid leaf sequence, 5) perianth keels unarmed, and 6) absence of specialized cladia (He et al. 2012a). In addition to the type species, this genus currently also contains Vitalianthus urubuensis Zartman & Ackerman (2002: 267) from the Amazonian rainforests of Brazil and Colombia (Zartman & Ackerman 2002, Mota de Oliveira & ter Steege 2013, Campos et al. in prep.), and V. guangxianus Zhu et al. (2012a: 32). Our examination of type material and recent collections of Vitalianthus urubuensis from Brazil and Colombia reveals that the hyaline papilla of the leaf lobule is distal as in Cheilolejeunea (Spruce 1884: 79) Schiffner (1893: 118) (Fig. 1E,F). The moniliate, unbroken vitta of ocelli in the leaf lobes, one of the most important features of Vitalianthus, also occurs in some species of Cheilolejeunea, e.g. in Cheilolejeunea falsinervis (Sande Lacoste 1854: 321) Schuster & Kachroo (1961: 56) from Asia and Australasia. It thus appears that V. urubuensis is morphologically more similar to Cheilolejeunea than to Vitalianthus. The morphological affinity between Vitalianthus urubuensis and Cheilolejeunea is confirmed by our unpublished molecular data (ITS, trnG and trnL-F; Wei et al., in prep.) which show that V. urubuensis and several species of Cheilolejeunea form a monophyletic lineage. Therefore, the following new combination is necessary.

Apertochrysa (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae): A heterogeneric phantom? 

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4238 (1) ◽  
pp. 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
ATSUSHI MOCHIZUKI ◽  
CHARLES S. HENRY ◽  
PETER DUELLI
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
Morphological Traits ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Wing Venation ◽  
Monophyletic Clade ◽  
Molecular Sequence Data ◽  
Molecular Sequence ◽  
Group Relationships

The small lacewing genus Apertochrysa comprises species from Africa, Asia and Australia. All lack a tignum, but otherwise resemble distantly related genera. We show that Apertochrysa does not form a monophyletic clade, based on analyses of molecular sequence data and morphological traits such as the presence and shape of the male gonapsis, wing venation, and larval setae. Apertochrysa kichijoi forms a clade with Eremochrysa, Suarius and Chrysemosa, whereas A. albolineatoides belongs to a clade that includes Cunctochrysa. Apertochrysa albolineatoides should become a new combination as Cunctochrysa albolineatoides, while A. kichijoi will have to be transferred to a new genus. The Australian A. edwardsi, the African A. eurydera and the type species of the genus Apertochrysa, A. umbrosa, join the large Pseudomallada group. Relationships of A. umbrosa are less certain, because for it we could amplify only one of the three nuclear genes used in the overall analysis. However, in all morphological traits tested, that species strongly resembles A. edwardsi and A. eurydera and thus is very likely just another exceptional Pseudomallada lacking a tignum. The fate of the genus name Apertochrysa depends on additional molecular and morphological analyses of A. umbrosa. 

Neotherevella, a new genus of Therevidae (Diptera) from the Palaearctic and Afrotropical Regions

1978 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-76
Author(s):  
Leif Lyneborg
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Combination ◽  
New Synonymy

AbstractNeotherevella n.gen. is proposed as a replacement for Neothereva Kröber sensu Lyneborg (1976). Neothereva Kröber, 1912, is placed in new synonymy with Thereva Latreille, 1796, as the consequence of an overlooked designation of a type-species for Neothereva Kröber, 1912, by Kröber (1935). Neotherevella is fully described. Five specific names are placed in new combination with Neotherevella, which is known from Namibia, Mauritania, Algeria, Sudan, Egypt, Israel, Uzbechistan and Mongolia. It is demonstrated that two species described in combination with Neothereva by Zaitzev (1970) do not belong to Neotherevella.

scholarly journals Notes on Early Land Plants Today. 10. A new combination in Acromastigum

Phytotaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELIZABETH BROWN ◽  
LARS SÖDERSTRÖM ◽  
ANDERS HAGBORG ◽  
MATT VON KONRAT
Keyword(s):  
Land Plants ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Early Land

A new genus and two new species of planthopper in the tribe Cenchreini (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Derbidae) from lowland tropical rainforest in Costa Rica

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4908 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-392
Author(s):  
BRIAN W. BAHDER ◽  
MARCO A. ZUMBADO ECHAVARRIA ◽  
EDWIN A. BARRANTES BARRANTES ◽  
ERICKA E. HELMICK ◽  
CHARLES R. BARTLETT
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Additional Data ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Genus Level ◽  
Two New Species

Recent survey work for planthoppers at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica found two new species allied with Cenchrea Westwood. The cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) and 18S were sequenced for the new taxa and used these data to assess the genus-level standing of the new taxa. The new taxa do not cluster with Cenchrea dorsalis Westwood, the type species of Cenchrea. A new genus Tico gen. n. described for the reception of new species described as Tico emmettcarri sp. n. (the type species) and Tico pseudosororius sp. n. Cenchrea sororia Fennah is moved to Tico gen. n., to form the new combination Tico sororius (Fennah). Tico gen. n. is compared with allied genera, and review genus-level diagnostic features and the species composition of Cenchrea, which appears to be compositionally heterogenous, but additional data is needed to evaluate genus-level placement of most species. 

Revision of the fungus-growing ant genera Mycetophylax Emery and Paramycetophylax Kusnezov rev. stat., and description of Kalathomyrmex n. gen. (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini)

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2052 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTIANA KLINGENBERG ◽  
C. ROBERTO F. BRANDÃO
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
Anterior Margin ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Monotypic Genus ◽  
New Synonym

Based on the morphology of workers, gynes and males, we revise the taxonomy of nominal taxa traditionally included by authors in the fungus-growing ant genus Mycetophylax. Our results indicate that Mycetophylax Emery (Myrmicocrypta brittoni Wheeler, 1907, type species, by designation of Emery, 1913; junior synonym of Cyphomyrmex conformis Mayr, 1884 by Kempf, 1962) includes M. conformis, M. simplex (Emery, 1888), and M. morschi (Emery, 1888) new combination (formerly in Cyphomyrmex), with several synonymies. Mycetophylax bruchi (Santschi, 1916) does not belong to the same genus and is diagnosed, in addition to other characters, by a psammophore arising at the anterior margin of the clypeus. For this species we are resurrecting from synonymy Paramycetophylax Kusnezov, 1956 (Mycetophylax bruchi as type species, by original designation, with M. cristulatus as its new synonym). Myrmicocrypta emeryi Forel, 1907 is the only attine in which females lack the median clypeal seta and have the antennal insertion areas very much enlarged and anteriorly produced, with the psammophore setae arising from the middle of the clypeus and not at its anterior margin as in Paramycetophylax. Notwithstanding its inclusion in Mycetophylax by recent authors, it is here recognized as belonging to a hitherto undescribed, thus far monotypic genus, Kalathomyrmex new genus (Myrmicocrypta emeryi as its type species, here designated). We redescribe workers, gynes and males of all species in the

BLANCHARDIA POIKILA GEN.NOV., SP.NOV. (HEMIPTERA: APHIDIDAE, MACROSIPHINI) IN MENDOZA, ARGENTINA

1997 ◽  
Vol 129 (6) ◽  
pp. 1093-1103 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Ortego ◽  
J.M. Nieto Nafría ◽  
M.P. Mier Durante
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Combination

AbstractBlanchardia gen.nov. and its type species Blanchardia poikila sp.nov. are described and the new combination Blanchardia capitophoroides is established for Macrosiphum capitophoroides Blanchard, 1944. The new genus forms part of the Macrosiphum group and it is characterized by the presence of one to three poorly defined rows of cells on the apex of siphunculus. Both species live on Senecio in Patagonia, Mendoza Province, Argentina.

Septemoecia a new genus of halocyprid ostracod (Myodocopa, Halocyprididae, Bathyconchoeciinae) for the seven-spined species formerly attributed to Bathyconchoecia

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4444 (5) ◽  
pp. 537 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARTIN V. ANGEL ◽  
SIMONE N. BRANDÅO
Keyword(s):  
Adult Female ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Combination

The five species with seven large carapace spines that were previously assigned to the genus Bathyconchoecia are re-classified in a new genus Septemoecia. Septemoecia longispinata (Ellis, 1987) (new combination) is designated as the type species. The previously unknown adult female of S. georgei (Kornicker & Rudjakov, 2004) (new combination) and adults of S. septemspinosa (Angel, 1970) (new combination) are described. Meristic and zoogeographical data are presented and a key to the species based on external carapace characters is provided.  

scholarly journals Notes on Early Land Plants Today. 47. Transfer of Iwatsukia to Odontoschisma (Cephaloziaceae, Marchantiophyta)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 162 (4) ◽  
pp. 232 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. ROBBERT GRADSTEIN ◽  
SILVIA CALVO ARANDA ◽  
ALAIN VANDERPOORTEN
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Land Plants ◽  
Taxonomic Study ◽  
Early Land

The genus Iwatsukia (Cephaloziaceae) is a small tropical liverwort genus of 4 species, Iwatsukia exigua from Sabah and New Guinea, Iwatsukia bifida from Venezuela and Costa Rica, the pantropical Iwatsukia jishibae, and Iwatsukia spinosa from Venezuela (Schuster 1968, 2002). Vilnet et al. (2012) showed that Iwatsukia jishibae is nested in Odontoschisma (Dumortier 1831: 68) Dumortier (1835: 19) and Váňa et al. (2013) made the necessary nomenclatural transfer. In the framework of a phylogenetic and taxonomic study of Odontoschisma and related genera which is in preparation, we were able to confirm the position of Iwatsukia jishibae in Odontoschisma. In addition, we found that Iwatsukia bifida is nested in Odontoschisma, forming a separate lineage within the genus together with Iwatsukia jishibae. We also found that Iwatsukia exigua, the type species of Iwatsukia, is a synonym of Iwatsukia jishibae. We therefore transfer the genus Iwatsukia to Odontoschisma.

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