A new yellow-flowered ornithophilous Vriesea and an illustrated collection of the bromeliads from Pico Alto, Serra do Baturité, Ceará State, Northeastern Brazil

Phytotaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 117 (2) ◽  
pp. 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
LEONARDO M. VERSIEUX ◽  
EDUARDO C. TOMAZ ◽  
MÁRCIA FORTUNATO ◽  
CHRISTIANO VEROLA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Forest Patches ◽  
Humid Forest ◽  
Rich Flora ◽  
Floral Bracts ◽  
Dry Woodland

Vriesea baturitensis is described and illustrated as a new species. It is compared with V. friburgensis and V. rodigasiana, which we consider to be morphologically the most related species. The new taxon occurs in isolated Atlantic forest patches along the Baturité mountain range, in central-north Ceará state, Northeastern Brazil. It is characterized by the compact and regular rosette, a rounded leaf apex, stiff and erect peduncle, peduncle and primary bracts bright yellow, and the particular colors and sizes of the floral bracts and sepals. The humid habitat where the new species was found, known in Brazil as brejo de altitude, is surrounded by the Caatinga (Brazilian dry woodland) and due to its climatic conditions supports a rich flora of epiphytes. In Pico Alto we collected and photographed six different species of bromeliads, two of each being Guzmania and Vriesea, one of each being Aechmea and Racinaea. We conclude that the area of Pico Alto is an important remnant of humid forest and conservation measures to protect its epiphytes are urgently needed.

A new species of Erythrogonia Melichar, 1926 (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellini) from the Mantiqueira mountain range, southeastern Brazil, associated with olive orchards

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4996 (2) ◽  
pp. 374-382
Author(s):  
JOYCE A. FROZA ◽  
VICTOR QUINTAS ◽  
GABRIEL MEJDALANI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Costal Margin ◽  
Abdominal Sternite ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Sternite Viii ◽  
Basal Portion ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the diverse Neotropical sharpshooter genus Erythrogonia Melichar, 1926 is described and illustrated from the Mantiqueira mountain range, municipality of Maria da Fé, state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. The new taxon is associated with olive orchards and has been implicated as a vector of the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa Wells et al., 1987, which causes a disease known in Brazil as olive leaf scorch syndrome. Erythrogonia sinvali sp. nov. can be distinguished from the other 90 known species of the genus by the following combination of features: (1) crown black without conspicuous contrasting spots; (2) frons with large yellow median spot; (3) pronotum black with large yellow area covering most of disk; (4) forewing dark red, without contrasting spots or stripes, costal margin narrowly black, apical portion dark brown; (5) aedeagus elongate, curved dorsally, with pair of spiniform apical processes; (6) paraphyses greatly reduced; (7) basal portion of male anal tube with pair of spiniform curved processes; (8) posterior margin of female abdominal sternite VII broadly emarginate and with broad central lobe; (9) female sternite VIII with sclerotized areas, including a transverse bar located at bases of ovipositor valvulae I, followed by a pair of elongate sclerites and a posterior bilobed sclerite. Both males and females of the new species are described in detail. A putative group of five species within Erythrogonia is preliminarily proposed, including the new taxon, E. separata Melichar, 1926, E. dorsalis (Signoret, 1853), E. calva (Taschenberg, 1884), and E. melichari Schmidt, 1928. Among these species, the male terminalia of E. sinvali sp. nov. are more similar to those of E. separata.  

A new natricine snake of the genus Amphiesma (Squamata: Colubridae: Natricinae) from the central Truong Son, Vietnam

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1225 (1) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
THOMAS ZIEGLER ◽  
LE KHAC QUYET
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Slender Body ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Anal Plate ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Central Vietnam ◽  
Eye Diameter ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Amphiesma is described from the Truong Son (Annamite mountain range) of Quang Binh Province in central Vietnam. This new species is characterized by the combination of the distinct coloration and pattern, the slender body and tail (tail/total length ratio 0.31), the large eye diameter, a single loreal and preocular, three postoculars, a single anterior and posterior temporal, nine supralabials (fourth to sixth reach the eye), nine infralabials, 179 ventrals (plus two preventrals), anal plate divided, 99 divided subcaudals, dorsal scales in 19-19-17 keeled rows, 34 maxillary teeth (the two posteriormost enlarged), hemipenis simple, with undivided sperm groove, covered with small spines except for a single, strongly enlarged spine next to the sperm groove at the hemipenis base and except for irregularly arranged medium-sized spines that encircle the organ horizontally at the trunco-pedicel area. The new taxon is known only from a single male specimen that was collected in a limestone forest valley.

A New Species of Araeococcus (Bromeliaceae) from Bahia, Brazil and a Comparative Morphological and Anatomical Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 790-797
Author(s):  
Ricardo A. S. de Pontes ◽  
Sandra Santa-Rosa ◽  
Adriana Pinheiro Martinelli ◽  
Leonardo M. Versieux
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Seed Morphology ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Anatomical Analysis ◽  
Type Population ◽  
Anatomical Characters ◽  
Floral Bracts ◽  
Unprotected Area ◽  
A New Species

Abstract—Araeococcus lageniformis is a new species described and illustrated here based on collections from the Atlantic Forest from the south of Bahia State, northeastern Brazil, and on morphological and anatomical characters. It is distinguished from A. nigropurpureus by the diameter of the tank, the morphology of the leaf, floral bracts, and sepals, by its sessile to nearly sessile flowers, its seed morphology, and by the presence of trichomes on both sides of the leaves. So far, the species is only known from Apuarema and Ibirapitanga municipalities. The type population was found in an unprotected area, fragmented by tracks and roads, where illegal logging takes place. Here we preliminarily assessed its conservation status as critically endangered.

A large and enigmatic new eleutherodactyline frog (Anura, Strabomantidae) from Serra do Sincora Espinhaco range, Northeastern Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1761 (1) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSÉ CASSIMIRO ◽  
VANESSA K. VERDADE ◽  
MIGUEL T. RODRIGUES
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Central America ◽  
The Other ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Head Width ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Campos Rupestres ◽  
Espinhaço Range ◽  
Large Size ◽  
A New Species

We describe a new species of a large eleutherodactyline frog from the mountain rocky meadows (“campos rupestres”) of the Serra do Sincorá, Espinhaço mountain range, Mucugê municipality, State of Bahia, Brazil. The new species is promptly diagnosed from all the other Brazilian eleutherodactylines by its large size (males SVL 40.3–41.1; females SVL 75.2–79.7mm), broad head (head width 43–49% of SVL), presence of frontoparietal crests, pars fascialis of the maxilla deepened, discs absent on fingers, toes with poorly developed discs, first and second toes ridged, and tarsal fold absent. On the basis of these characters the new species is attributed to the genus Strabomantis up to now restricted to southern part of Central America and northwest part of South America.

A synopsis of Actenosigynes Moure, Graf & Urban, 1999 (Hymenoptera: Colletidae)—new species, possible oligolecty and biogeographic comments

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2292 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
FERNANDO A. SILVEIRA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Disjunct Distribution ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Light Yellow ◽  
Speciation Event ◽  
Identification Analysis ◽  
First Time

A second species of Actenosigynes from the Mantiqueira mountain range, in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, is described. This new taxon can be readily distinguished from the type species of the genus, A. fulvoniger (Michener, 1989), by its entirely black-pubescent mesosoma and by the light-yellow pilosity on its terga, among other characters. Females of the two known species are illustrated for the first time and a key is presented for their identification. Analysis of the pollen extracted from the scopa of the holotype of the new species and field observations of A. fulvoniger indicate that both species of Actenosigynes are oligolectic on flowers of Loasaceae as pollen sources. This presumed couple of sister species is the first example of a speciation event related to the isolation of populations of temperate and subtropical bee species on the top of southeastern-Brazilian mountains. It suggests that complexes of sibling species may exist among the other bee species with similar disjunct distribution.

Two new species of Cryptanthus (Bromelioideae, Bromeliaceae) from northeastern Brazil

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 523 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-109
Author(s):  
DÉBORA MARIA CAVALCANTI FERREIRA ◽  
ERTON MENDONÇA DE ALMEIDA ◽  
RAFAEL BATISTA LOUZADA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Leaf Blade ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Transition Area ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Floral Bracts ◽  
Inflorescence Length

Two new species of Cryptanthus from Bahia State, in northeastern Brazil, are described and illustrated. Cryptanthus apiculatantherus occurs in Atlantic Forest and Cryptanthus brevibracteatus was discovered in a transition area between Atlantic Forest and Caatinga. Cryptanthus apiculatantherus and C. bibarrensis have similar stem lengths and leaf blade shapes, but differ mainly by the stem diameter, width of the leaf sheaths, sepal and petal color, anther apex shape, and length and width of the ovary. Cryptanthus brevibracteatus and C. warren-loosei have a similar leaf blade color and are geographically close to each other, but differ by the number of flowers in the apical cluster of flowers of the inflorescence, length and width of the floral bracts, length of the sepals, connation of the sepals and length of the sepal lobes. Data about the geographic distribution, habitat, phenology, conservation status, taxonomic comments, a distribution map and photographs of the new species are provided. In addition, there are tables included that compare the new species to morphologically similar species.

Pseudochirita trifoliata (Gesneriaceae), a new species from karst limestone in northern Vietnam

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 489 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-190
Author(s):  
TRUONG VAN DO ◽  
MAI THI HOANG ◽  
ZI-BING XIN ◽  
YI-GANG WEI ◽  
DE-CHANG MENG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Conservation Assessment ◽  
Endemic Genus ◽  
Northern Vietnam ◽  
Pistil Length ◽  
A New Species

Pseudochirita trifoliata, a new Gesneriaceae species from Pu Luong-Cuc Phuong limestone mountain range in northern Vietnam is described and illustrated here. This new taxon is the second species of the narrowly endemic genus Pseudochirita which is known from limestone areas in southern China and northern Vietnam. It is easily distinguished from P. guangxiensis by a set of differences on the leaves, bracts, calyx, external corolla indumentum, staminode number, pistil length, ovary indumentum, style indumentum, and capsule length. A detailed description, illustration, information on distribution, ecology, phenology, provisional conservation assessment using IUCN categories and criteria of the proposed new species, and comparison with its similar species, are also provided.

A new four-pored Amphisbaena (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae) from northeastern Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4514 (4) ◽  
pp. 553 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOÃO PAULO FELIX AUGUSTO DE ALMEIDA ◽  
MARCO ANTONIO DE FREITAS ◽  
MÁRCIO BORBA DA SILVA ◽  
MARIA CELESTE COSTA VALVERDE ◽  
MIGUEL TREFAUT RODRIGUES ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
16S Rrna ◽  
Genetic Divergence ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data ◽  
Tail Tip ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Amphisbaena from the Espinhaço Mountain Range in Bahia State is described based on morphological and molecular data. Amphisbaena caetitensis sp nov. is a small four-pored amphisbaenian with 186–194 body annuli, 10–12 tail annuli, 16 dorsal and 19–22 ventral segments on a midbody annulus and a strikingly distinctive tail tip. The most similar species is A. uroxena, but they can be distinguished by some morphological features besides the genetic divergence of 7.65% on the mitochondrial 16S rRNA. 

Tillandsia mantiqueirae (Bromeliaceae), a New Species from Minas Gerais State, Brazil

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 525 (3) ◽  
pp. 196-204
Author(s):  
BRUNO PAIXÃO-SOUZA ◽  
NÍLBER GONÇALVES DA SILVA ◽  
ALESSANDRA RIBEIRO GUIMARÃES ◽  
RUY JOSÉ VÁLKA ALVES ◽  
ANDREA FERREIRA DA COSTA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Leaf Anatomy ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Minas Gerais State ◽  
A New Species

A new species of rupicolous Tillandsia from the Mantiqueira mountain range in Southern Minas Gerais State is described based on morphology and leaf anatomy. This new taxon is close to T. nuptialis. The known distribution and conservation status of this new species are discussed.

A new species of Scinax Wagler (Hylidae: Scinaxini) from the tropical forests of Northeastern Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4903 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-41
Author(s):  
GABRIEL NOVAES-E-FAGUNDES ◽  
KATYUSCIA ARAUJO-VIEIRA ◽  
OMAR M. ENTIAUSPE-NETO ◽  
IGOR J. ROBERTO ◽  
VICTOR G.D. ORRICO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Dorsal View ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Dominant Frequency ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Advertisement Call ◽  
Humid Forest ◽  
Southern Bahia ◽  
A New Species

We describe a new species of the Scinax ruber clade from Northeastern Brazil that occurs in widely separated geographic areas in the Atlantic Forest of southern Bahia state and the Highland Humid Forest of Serra de Baturité, northeast Ceará state. Scinax tropicalia sp. nov. (holotype coordinates: -14.795694°, -39.172645°) is diagnosed from all 75 currently recognize species of the S. ruber clade by bioacoustical and morphological adult traits, such as duration (0.11–0.31 s) and dominant frequency (1.59–1.85 kHz) of the advertisement call, snout shape rounded, nearly rounded, or semi-circular in dorsal view and rounded to slightly protruding in profile, bilobate vocal sac, absence of pectoral glands and spicule-shaped papillary epidermal projections on nuptial pads, and color pattern on the dorsum of body and hidden surfaces of hindlimbs. 

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