Cissampelos keniensis (Menispermaceae), a new species from Mt. Kenya, East Africa

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 292 (1) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
YA-DONG ZHOU ◽  
YUVENALIS MBUNI ◽  
GUANG-WAN HU ◽  
ZHI-XIANG ZHONG ◽  
XUE YAN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Eastern Slope ◽  
East African ◽  
African Species ◽  
A New Species

Cissampelos keniensis, a new species of Menispermaceae described and illustrated here, was collected from the rainforest on the eastern slope of Mt. Kenya. It is distinguished from all other tropical East African species in the genus by its cordate leaves, 4-locular synandrium, glabrous drupes and suborbicular-bilaterally compressed endocarp. A key to distinguish among the eight species of Cissampelos known from tropical East Africa is proposed.

A new species of Stenampyx Karsch, 1890 from East Africa (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Pseudophyllinae, Phyllomimini)—evidence of a former connection of West-Central and East African forests

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4763 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-599
Author(s):  
CLAUDIA HEMP
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Africa ◽  
West African ◽  
East African ◽  
West Central ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
A New Species

A new Stenampyx, S. viridiflavum n. sp., is described from Tanzania. Stenampyx was monotypic and known from Central to West African forests. As with the genus Pseudotomias Hemp, the newly described species in Stenampyx shows a close relationship to the Central and East African forest fauna. 

First record of the genus Kimulodes Tjeder & Hansson in West Africa with description of a new species (Neuroptera, Ascalaphidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3497 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
BRUNO MICHEL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
West Africa ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Central African Republic ◽  
First Record ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
African Species ◽  
A New Species

The genus Kimulodes was described by Tjeder and Hansson (1992) to accommodate two species, Kimulodes sinuatus originally described as Helicomitus sinuatus by Kimmins (1949) and a new species they named K. angulicornis. Within the tribe Ascalaphini, this genus is characterized by the hairless genae, the absence of a tuft of hairs at the base of the forewing in males, in contrast to the African species of Ascalaphus, and the antennae of males being sinuate or sharply arched with stout tufts of hairs on the basal flagellomeres. The genus Kimulodes was known from Central and East Africa, but remained unrecorded from West Africa. The material collected by a colleague, Jean-Michel Maldès (CIRAD), during a prospecting mission in Togo in 1990 included a male of an undescribed species of Kimulodes, which is described below. Furthermore, examination of the collection of the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, yielded a male and a female of K. angulicornis from an unrecorded locality in the Central African Republic.

New and little known species of Azotus Howard, Ablerus Howard and Physcus Howard (Hym., Aphelinidae) from Africa and Mauritius

1970 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. P. Annecke ◽  
H. Patricia Insley
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Eastern Cape Province ◽  
Related Genus ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
East African ◽  
African Species ◽  
Ethiopian Region ◽  
Genus One ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

Descriptions are given of five new species of Azotus Howard from the Ethiopian region, including one from Mauritius. These bring the total number of Azotus species known from this region to eight. Two described species, A. capensis Howard and A. elegantulus Silvestri, are annotated and figured, and a key to the species is given. The related genus, Ablerus Howard, is recorded from Africa for the first time on the basis of a new species from the eastern Cape Province, and a new East African species of Physcus Howard, is described. A second East African species of the latter genus, one with flightless females, is characterised but not named to species.

Rhipicephalus carnivoralis sp.nov. (Ixodoidea, Ixodidae) A new species of tick from East Africa

Parasitology ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane B. Walker
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
East Africa ◽  
East Coast ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Research Organization ◽  
East Coast Fever ◽  
East African ◽  
Veterinary Research ◽  
A New Species

A description is given of the male, female, nymph and larva of Rhipicephalus carnivoralis sp.nov., a parasite of carnivores in East Africa, and its affinities within the genus are discussed.Its developmental periods under laboratory conditions are given and its hosts and distribution in the field are recorded.The author wishes to thank the Director of the East African Veterinary Research Organization for permission to publish this paper. She is also most grateful to all who made field collections of this species for her; to the British Museum (Natural History), London, for the loan of specimens from their collection; to J. P. J. Ross for the loan of specimens from his collection and to D. W. Brocklesby and K. P. Bailey, who carried out the experiments on the transmission of East Coast fever. Dr G. Theiler, Mr G. H. Yeoman, Mr G. M. Kohls, Dr C. M. Clifford and Dr H. Hoogstraal kindly checked the manuscript before publication and made helpful suggestions. Finally, she would like to thank Professor P. C. C. Garnham and Dr Charles Wilcocks for their advice on the name of this tick.

Three novel species of Bacillariophyta (Diatoms) in the genera Surirella and Thalassiosira from Pleistocene Paleolake Lorenyang (~2 - 1.6 Ma) Turkana Basin, Kenya

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 371 (3) ◽  
pp. 230
Author(s):  
MATTHEW BRINDLE ◽  
JOSEPH MOHAN ◽  
CATHERINE BECK ◽  
JEFFERY R. STONE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Novel Species ◽  
Sediment Cores ◽  
Large Lake ◽  
East African ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Turkana Basin ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Drilling Project

Three novel species of Bacillariophyta (diatom) are described from the sediments of Paleolake Lorenyang, a large lake that existed in the Turkana Basin, Kenya during the Gelasian age of the Pleistocene Epoch. Sediment cores extracted as part of the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP) were sampled to provide a diatom-based paleoecological record of Paleolake Lorenyang. Preliminary results of the paleoecological analysis unearthed three novel species of diatoms belonging to Surirella and Thalassiosira in the Natoo Member of the Nachukui Formation. Comparisons of Surirella from Paleolake Lorenyang are made to previous reports of Surirella from modern lakes in East Africa and comparisons of Thalassiosira species from the paleolake are made to modern and fossil species reported from East Africa. This is a first report of diatoms in the Natoo Member, which has previously been described as a floodplain deposit, and thus provides evidence of the last occurrence of Paleolake Lorenyang within the Turkana Basin. Herein we describe a new species of Surirella and two Thalassiosira with remarks on morphology and evolution of East African Surirella and Thalassiosira.

Two new species of clearwing moths (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae) associated with sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) in East Africa

1968 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. D. Bradley
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Sweet Potato ◽  
Ipomoea Batatas ◽  
Female Genitalia ◽  
Type Material ◽  
East African ◽  
African Species ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Two New Species

The species of Sesiidae reared from larvae feeding in the vines and tubers of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) in Kenya are described as new and named Synanthedon leptosceles and S. dasysceles, respectively. Illustrations are given of the adults and male and female genitalia of both species. S. leptosceles is differentiated from the superficially similar East African species S. erythromma Hmps., which also is associated with sweet potato. Aegeria pyrostoma Meyr. is synonymised under S. erythromma following the examination of type material. S. dasysceles is noted to be readily distinguishable from these and other known species of Synanthedon by the rough scaling and white markings of the legs.

A review of the Malagasy species of the genus Trigonochilus Brenske (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Adoretini) with description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4679 (3) ◽  
pp. 596-600
Author(s):  
OLIVIER MONTREUIL ◽  
ANDREY V. FROLOV
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Secondary Sexual Character ◽  
East African ◽  
Sexual Character ◽  
African Species ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Type Series ◽  
Precise Locality ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Secondary Sexual

Africa and Madagascar have a large and diverse fauna of the chafers of the ruteline beetle tribe Adoretini (Ohaus 1912, 1918). Many nominal taxa from Madagascar are still poorly known and many new ones were described recently (Akhmetova & Montreuil 2010; Montreuil 2010, 2013; Montreuil & Frolov 2014; Frolov & Montreuil 2018). One of the poorly known Adoretini taxa is the genus Trigonochilus Brenske, 1896. Trigonochilus was proposed to accommodate the East-African species T. coriaceus Brenske, 1896, based on the enlarged and curved metatibiae and a short, spur-like process of the labrum (Brenske 1896). Arrow (1901) noted that the enlarged metatibiae of this species (described from a single male) is a secondary sexual character and added another species to this genus, T. politus Arrow, 1901, from Angola. These species were revised by Krikken (1979). Fairmaire (1903) described Adoretus oedipus from Madagascar (without any precise locality) and noted its enlarged metatibia and the shape of the labrum similar to that in Trigonostonum Burmeister, 1844. Fairmaire was apparently unaware of the Brenske’s and Arrow’s works as he did not discuss the possible affinities of A. oedipus with Trigonochilus species. Ohaus (1912) moved A. oedipus to Trigonochilus after examination of the type series but he did not discuss the characters of the species in detail as well as its distribution on the island. Therefore, the genus Trigonochilus Brenske comprised three species described so far, two from Africa and one from Madagascar. 

The Identity of Some East African Species of Saissetia (Homoptera, Coccidae)

1956 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. De Lotto
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
New Species ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
East African ◽  
African Species ◽  
One New Species

A systematic review of some species of the Coccid genus Saissetia occurring in East Africa led to the rediscovery of two species—S. persimilis (Newst.) and S. somereni (Newst.)—which although of economic importance have been almost completely neglected since they were first described. Both are redescribed in this paper. One new species recently collected in Kenya is described; this is S. pterolobina.Seven species are dealt with in the paper, including the important and widely distributed S. oleae (Bern.). A provisional key for their separation is included, while one species—S. cuneiformis Leonardi—is sunk as a synonym of S. nigra (Nietn.).

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