Flora of Bokor National Park VII: Thismia bokorensis (Burmanniaceae), a new species representing a new generic record

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 334 (1) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
KENJI SUETSUGU ◽  
HIROKAZU TSUKAYA ◽  
SHUICHIRO TAGANE ◽  
PHOURIN CHHANG ◽  
TOMOHISA YUKAWA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
National Park ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Tropical Rain Forests ◽  
Rain Forests ◽  
Generic Record ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Southeast Asian Countries

The genus Thismia Griffith (1844: 221) of the tribe Thismieae, Burmanniaceae sensu APG IV (2016) or Thismiaceae of other authors, represents one of the most species-rich mycoheterotrophic genera and consists of more than 60 species (Jonker 1948, Merckx 2008). Considering that the majority of these species were collected only once (Jonker 1948), and that many new species have recently been discovered, especially from various Southeast Asian countries (e.g., Tsukaya & Okada 2012, Dančák et al. 2013, Nuraliev et al. 2014, 2015, Truong et al. 2014, Chantanaorrapint & Sridith 2015, Li & Bi 2013, Hroneš et al. 2015, Tsukaya et al. 2017, Suetsugu et al. 2017), many more undescribed species are probably still hidden in the tropical rain forests of Southeast Asia.

Thismia bryndonii (Thismiaceae), a new species from Maliau Basin, Sabah, Borneo

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 312 (1) ◽  
pp. 135 ◽  
Author(s):  
HIROKAZU TSUKAYA ◽  
KENJI SUETSUGU ◽  
MONICA SULEIMAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Tropical Rain Forests ◽  
Rain Forests ◽  
Botanical Survey ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
Conservation Area ◽  
Botanical Exploration ◽  
A New Species

Thismia Griffith (1845: 341) in Thismiaceae or Burmanniaceae (sensu APG 2016) consists of more than 60 species (Ridley 1924, Jonker 1948, Stone 1980, van Steenis 1982; Merckx 2008). Many new species in this genus have been discovered, and 12 have been described after 2010 (e.g., Dančak et al. 2013, Nuraliev et al. 2014, 2015, Chantanaorrapint & Sridith 2015, Li & Bi 2013, Hroneš et al. 2015). Considering that the majority of these species were collected only once (Jonker 1948), it is likely that many more undescribed species remain hidden in the forests, particularly in the tropical rain forests of Southeast Asia. Borneo is one of the most biodiverse areas for mycoheterotrophs, and our recent botanical exploration in Borneo revealed many previously undescribed mycoheterotrophic species (e.g., Tsukaya et al. 2011, 2014a,b, 2016, Tsukaya & Okada 2005, 2012a,b,c, 2013a,b, Tsukaya & Hidayat 2016, Tsukaya & Suetsugu 2014). In 2016, we conducted a botanical survey in the Malaiu Basin, Sabah, Borneo, with the permission of the Maliau Basin Management Committee (YS/MBMC/2016/184) and the Sabah Biodiversity Council [access license JKM/MBS.1000-2/2JLD.5(23)]. The Maliau Basin Conservation Area (MBCA) is a huge basin surrounded by sandstone ridges and covers approximately 39,000 ha. Few botanical explorations have previously been conducted in this area. During the survey, we encountered a specimen from the MBCA that apparently belongs to Thismia section Euthismia Schltr. subsect. Odoardoa Schlechter (1921: 31) because it has a free inner perianth, spreading, creeping and vermiform roots, perianth lobes equal in length and size, but it differs from all known species. Here, we describe this new species with a revised key to the species of this genus in Malesia.

Allagelena monticola sp. n. (Araneae: Agelenidae), a new species of funnel-web spiders from northern Thailand

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1397 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
THANAPHUM CHAMI-KRANON ◽  
NATDANAI LIKHITRAKARN ◽  
PAKAWIN DANKITTIPAKUL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
National Park ◽  
Chiang Mai ◽  
Northern Thailand ◽  
Chiang Mai Province ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Doi Inthanon

A new species of the funnel-web spiders from Thailand, Allagelena monticola sp. n., is described and illustrated. The types of this species were collected from remnant patches of pristine evergreen hill forest in the Doi Inthanon National Park, Chiang Mai Province, northern Thailand. The new species resembles the widely distributed species A. opulenta (L. Koch), which is known from China, Korea and Japan. This discovery expands the known zoogeographical distribution of the genus Allagelena southwards into tropical Southeast Asia.

On a new species of Cheilolejeunea (Spruce) Steph. (Lejeuneaceae, Machantiophyta) from Amazonian savannas

Nova Hedwigia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 111 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-85
Author(s):  
Luciana Priscila Costa Macedo ◽  
Cid José Passos Bastos ◽  
Anna Luiza Ilkiu-Borges
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Dorsal Surface ◽  
Tropical Rain Forests ◽  
Rain Forests ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Obtuse Apex ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Seasonal Forests

During fieldwork to investigate bryophyte communities in disjunct areas of savannas in the Eastern Amazon, a new species of Cheilolejeunea was collected. The genus contains species mainly inhabiting tropical rain forests, which also occur in seasonal forests or xeromorphic forests, such as Cheilolejeunea adnata, Cheilolejeunea discoidea, and Cheilolejeunea rigidula. The aim of this paper is to describe and illustrate the new species, as well as to present comments on its morphology, taxonomy and distribution. The new species is characterized by profusely branched, creeping plants with leaves widely spreading to squarrose, imbricate, suborbicular to obovate with usually incurved, rounded to obtuse apex and mammillose leaf cells, often with a lenticular papilla on the dorsal surface. Further diagnostic characters, as well as comments on its distribution and similarities with related species, are given.

Trends in new species discovery of Orthoptera (Insecta) from Southeast Asia

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4238 (1) ◽  
pp. 127 ◽  
Author(s):  
MING KAI TAN ◽  
JIHEA CHOI ◽  
NIVEDITA SHANKAR
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
New Species ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Species Discovery ◽  
History Of ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Southeast Asian Countries

The orthopterans are diverse insects and play important roles in the ecosystem as well as having “love-hate relationship” with humans. Documentation of diversity in Southeast Asia has long history but remains incomplete. Using information of type specimens and Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques, we investigated the following questions on new species discovery for the region, specifically: (1) How are new species discoveries of orthopterans distributed in Southeast Asia? (2) How have new species discoveries changed with time? (3) How do new species discoveries relate to the countries of the type depositories? We found that new species discoveries, relative to sampling, are fragmentary in Southeast Asia and changes with different time periods. We also find type depositories tightly linked to the human (colonial) history of Southeast Asian countries. We provide some recommendations and hope that this can help to accelerate the study of orthopteran diversity in the region. 

scholarly journals The Trichoptera diversity of Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda, with description of a new species in the family Pisuliidae

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonce Ngirinshuti ◽  
Simon Rukera Tabaro ◽  
Kjell Arne Johanson
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Light Traps ◽  
East African ◽  
African Region ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Results ◽  
East African Region ◽  
A New Species

A total of nine families of Trichoptera were identified from material collected in Malaise and light traps in the western part of Nyungwe National Park, southwestern Rwanda, late October 2018. Included in the material was an undescribed species of Pisuliidae which is described herein as Silvatares laetae Ngirinshuti & Johanson sp. nov. The new species adds to the six Pisuliidae species previously recorded for the East African region, five endemic to Tanzania and one to Uganda. This study portrays the first results of an ongoing survey on the Trichoptera fauna of Rwanda.

Heleocoris (Heteroptera: Naucoridae: Laccocorinae) of Thailand, with description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2736 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT W. SITES ◽  
AKEKAWAT VITHEEPRADIT
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Diagnostic Information ◽  
Comprehensive Treatment ◽  
Ecological Research ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Taxonomic Key ◽  
History Of ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Southeast Asian Countries

The genus Heleocoris in Indochina has languished for more than a century with no substantial history of taxonomic, biological, or ecological research since the original descriptions of the species, despite its abundance and ubiquity in streams throughout the region. This is largely because of the inability to assign specific identities to these insects and the need for taxonomic revision. Presented here is a comprehensive treatment on the taxonomy and faunistics of the four species now known to occur in Thailand, including the description of Heleocoris mcphersoni, n. sp. Diagnostic information, records from Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries, ecological notes, habitus photographs, and a taxonomic key to identify the four species are presented.

A new species of Tapiena (Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea: Phaneropterinae) from Brunei Darussalam (Borneo, Southeast Asia)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4413 (1) ◽  
pp. 193 ◽  
Author(s):  
MING KAI TAN ◽  
RODZAY BIN HAJI ABDUL WAHAB
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
National Park ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Biodiversity Hotspots ◽  
Brunei Darussalam ◽  
Dipterocarp Forests ◽  
Recent Collection ◽  
Incomplete Sampling ◽  
A New Species

There are now more than 28,000 described orthopterans globally (Cigliano et al., 2018) and this figure is likely to increase in the future. The same is true for Southeast Asia, where we are still at a stage of discovering species new to science, and this is partly an artefact of incomplete sampling (Tan et al., 2017a). In one of the most popular biodiversity hotspots, i.e., Borneo, is the Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre. It is located in the primary lowland and ridge dipterocarp forests of the Ulu Temburong National Park, Brunei Darussalam. Recent collection of orthopterans in the area led to the discovery of several new species of katydids (Tan et al., 2017b; Tan & Wahab, 2017a) and crickets (Tan et al., 2017c; Tan & Wahab, 2017b). Here, we describe another new species of katydid, from the genus Tapiena Bolívar, 1906. Tapiena currently consists of 26 species (Tan et al., 2015) and is distributed around Asia and even Africa. In Borneo, only one species is known: Tapiena incisa Karny, 1923 from Sarawak (see Karny, 1923). The new species Tapiena paraincisa sp. nov. represents the second species described from Borneo. 

Allagelena monticola sp. n. (Araneae: Agelenidae), a new species of funnel-web spiders from northern Thailand

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1397 (1) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
THANAPHUM CHAMI-KRANON ◽  
NATDANAI LIKHITRAKARN ◽  
PAKAWIN DANKITTIPAKUL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
National Park ◽  
Chiang Mai ◽  
Northern Thailand ◽  
Chiang Mai Province ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Doi Inthanon

A new species of the funnel-web spiders from Thailand, Allagelena monticola sp. n., is described and illustrated. The types of this species were collected from remnant patches of pristine evergreen hill forest in the Doi Inthanon National Park, Chiang Mai Province, northern Thailand. The new species resembles the widely distributed species A. opulenta (L. Koch), which is known from China, Korea and Japan. This discovery expands the known zoogeographical distribution of the genus Allagelena southwards into tropical Southeast Asia.

A new species of the montane lacewing genus Rapisma McLachlan (Neuroptera, Ithonidae) from northwestern Yunnan, China

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4763 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-443
Author(s):  
XINGYUE LIU
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
East Asia ◽  
South Asia ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Northwestern Yunnan

The genus Rapisma McLachlan, 1866 (montane lacewings) is a rare and little known group of the family Ithonidae (Insecta: Neuroptera). There have been 21 described species of Rapisma, and all of them are distributed from East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia. Here I report a new species of Rapisma from northwestern Yunnan, China, namely Rapisma weixiense sp. nov. The new species belongs to a group of Rapisma species with very short antennae. 

A new species of Liolaemus (Reptilia: Iguanidae) from San Guillermo National Park, western Argentina

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1361 (1) ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
JULIO C. MONGUILLOT ◽  
MARIO R. CABRERA ◽  
JUAN C. ACOSTA ◽  
JOSE VILLAVICENCIO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Small Body ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Posterior Surface ◽  
Small Body Size ◽  
Long Tail ◽  
Sparse Vegetation ◽  
Dorsal Pattern ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Iguanidae Liolaemini lizard from the San Guillermo National Park in western Argentina, is described. The new species is a member of the Liolaemus darwinii complex within the monophyletic boulengeri species group. It is distinguished by its small body size, relatively long tail, low number of scales around midbody, dorsal scales moderately keeled, precloacal pores only in male, bulged patch of enlarged scales on the proximal posterior surface of the thigh in both sexes, dorsal pattern lacking of light vertebral or dorsolateral stripes, antehumeral fold without black pigment in female but greyish in male, a prescapular dark dot dorsal to antehumeral fold in both sexes, and postscapular spot absent. The new species is terrestrial, living in habitats with gravel and sandy soil in an Andean Monte landscape with sparse vegetation, above 2270 meters of altitude.

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