Notes on the genus Zeravschania (Apiaceae) with description of two new species from Afghanistan and Iran

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 425 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-144
Author(s):  
EUGENE KLJUYKOV ◽  
ELENA TERENTIEVA ◽  
ULIANA UKRAINSKAJA ◽  
DMITRY LYSKOV
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Life Form ◽  
Morphological Evidence ◽  
Eastern Iran ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Short Internodes ◽  
Multiple Stems

Two species of Apiaceae are described as new to science: Zeravschania khorasanica from the Khorasan Province, eastern Iran, and Z. podlechii from the Ghor Province, central Afghanistan. Zeravschania khorasanica is related to Z. regeliana and Z. scabrifolia, but differs in rigid remains of petioles and sheaths, deeply laciniate ultimate segments of leaves, and broad-keeled ribs of mericarps. Zeravschania podlechii differs from other species of the genus in multiple stems, short internodes, dichotomous branching, and an unusual life form (сushion plant). In addition, Z. knappii is transferred to the genus Dichoropetalum on the basis of morphological evidence.

Molecular phylogeny of the weevil genus Kyklioacalles Stüben, with descriptions of a new subgenus Glaberacalles and two new species (Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2662 (1) ◽  
pp. 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER E. STÜBEN ◽  
JONAS J. ASTRIN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Molecular Phylogeny ◽  
Bayesian Analysis ◽  
Morphological Differentiation ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Mitochondrial Genes ◽  
Morphological Evidence ◽  
New Subgenus ◽  
Western Palearctic ◽  
Two New Species

A molecular phylogeny of the western Palearctic weevil genus Kyklioacalles Stüben, 1999 is presented, combining two mitochondrial genes (CO1 and 16S) in a Bayesian analysis. Based on molecular data, the validity of the subspecies Kyklioacalles punctaticollis punctaticollis (Lucas, 1849) and Kyklioacalles punctaticollis meteoricus (Meyer, 1909) is discussed and the morphological differentiation of the endophalli and known distributions of both subspecies are verified. Glaberacalles subg. n. (formerly Kyklioacalles punctaticollis-group) and two new species are described, Kyklioacalles atlasicus sp.n. from Morocco and Kyklioacalles plantapilosus sp.n. from Spain. Kyklioacalles berberi (Stüben, 2005), comb. n. and Kyklioacalles olcesei (Tournier, 1873) comb. n. are transferred from Acalles Schoenherr. The molecular results further advocate a transfer of Onyxacalles pyrenaeus (Boheman, 1844) to Kyklioacalles; however this is not supported by morphological evidence. Kyklioacalles almadensis Stüben, 2004 syn. n. (Spain) is synonymized with Kyklioacalles bupleuri Stüben, 2004 (Tunisia). A catalogue of all 40 (sub-)species of Kyklioacalles is given and a key of the species of the subgenus Glaberacalles is presented.

Accessing cryptic diversity in Neotropical rattlesnakes (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalus) with the description of two new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4729 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
RUBÉN ALONSO CARBAJAL-MÁRQUEZ ◽  
JOSÉ ROGELIO CEDEÑO-VÁZQUEZ ◽  
ARELY MARTÍNEZ-ARCE ◽  
EDGAR NERI-CASTRO ◽  
SALIMA C. MACHKOUR- M’RABET
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
Deciduous Forest ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Tropical Deciduous Forest ◽  
Morphological Evidence ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Crotalus Durissus

Members of the Crotalus durissus species complex are widely distributed from Mexico to Argentina in areas with mainly seasonally dry tropical deciduous forest. Although four species (C. culminatus, C. durissus, C. simus and C. tzabcan) are currently recognized, species limits remain to be tested. Previous genetic studies suggest that C. durissus and C. simus may be paraphyletic and that at least one cryptic species may be present. We analyzed 2596 bp of DNA sequence data from three mitochondrial and one nuclear gene to infer phylogenetic relationships in the Neotropical rattlesnakes. We also examined museum and wild specimens as well as captive animals to analyze morphological characters. Our results suggest that the current taxonomy of the Crotalus durissus species complex does not reflect evolutionary history. We found strong support for five independent lineages within Crotalus simus (sensu lato), with genetic and morphological evidence for three previously recognized taxa and two new species, as well as three major lineages within C. durissus that each represent species hypothesis to be tested with additional evidence. We also found support to retain C. totonacus in the Crotalus molossus species complex. We suggest conservative taxonomic changes to the complex and related species, but more evidence is needed (e.g., morphology, ecology and venom composition) to clarify relationships among species. 

Two new species of Zeravschania (Umbelliferae) and some additional notes on the genus 

Phytotaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 130 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
MICHAEL G. PIMENOV ◽  
EUGENE V. KLJUYKOV
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Life Form ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Pale Yellow ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Leaf Segments ◽  
Pure White

Two new species, Zeravschania latifolia from Ghorat province of Afghanistan, and Z. kopetdaghensis from Turkmenistan, are described and illustrated. Zeravschania latifolia differs from the closely related Z. membranacea in having broadly ovate (not narrowly linear) terminal leaf segments, and pure white (not pale yellow) petals. Zeravschania kopetdaghensis differs from the related Z. stricticaulis in the life form (polycarpic vs. monocarpic), petiolate subbipinnate leaves, lobed terminal leaf segments, and shorter umbel rays. A study of newly determined collections in Ferdowsi University in Mashhad (FUMH) has enabled us to add to a description of Z. stricticaulis. In total, the genus numbers now 11 species. A new key to all Zeravschania species has been compiled. A distribution map of the genus is presented with known localities of the two new species.

scholarly journals Two new species of Liodessus Guignot, 1939 diving beetles from Northern Peru (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 173-178
Author(s):  
Michael Balke ◽  
Yoandri S. Megna ◽  
Nilver Zenteno ◽  
Luis Figueroa ◽  
Lars Hendrich
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Colour Pattern ◽  
Morphological Evidence ◽  
High Altitudes ◽  
Andean Region ◽  
Diving Beetles ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Northern Peru ◽  
North Western

The diving beetles Liodessus altoperuensissp. nov. and Liodessus caxamarcasp. nov. (Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae, Bidessini) are described from the high altitudes of the Puna regions of north western Peru. They occur in shallow and exposed mossy peatland puddles. We delineate the two species using structures such as male genitalia, beetle size, shape and colour pattern. Mitochondrial Cox1 data were also generated, and revealed clusters congruent with morphological evidence. Altogether fourteen Liodessus species are now known from the Andean region.

‘Burning Violin’: The Medically Important Spider Genus Loxosceles (Araneae: Sicariidae) in Iran, Turkmenistan, and Afghanistan, With Two New Species

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alireza Zamani ◽  
Omid Mirshamsi ◽  
Yuri M Marusik
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Records ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Local Distribution ◽  
Eastern Iran ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Southwestern Iran

Abstract The taxonomic status of the medically important spider genus Loxosceles Heineken et Lowe, 1832 (Sicariidae) in Iran, Turkmenistan, and Afghanistan is revised. Two species are described as new to science: Loxosceles coheni sp. n. (♂♀, southwestern Iran) and Loxosceles turanensis sp. n. (♂♀, southern Turkmenistan and eastern Iran). Additionally, Loxosceles alicea Gertsch, 1967 syn. n. (♀, Peru) is synonymized with Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour, 1820). The local distribution of all treated species is mapped (including several new records), and reported cases of loxoscelism from this region are briefly reviewed.

Two new species of the genus Chironephthya (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea, Nidaliidae, Siphonogorgiinae) from the Gulf of Thailand

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4780 (2) ◽  
pp. 324-340
Author(s):  
YUKIMITSU IMAHARA ◽  
SUCHANA CHAVANICH ◽  
VORANOP VIYAKARN ◽  
YUKA KUSHIDA ◽  
JAMES D. REIMER ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Gulf Of Thailand ◽  
Rdna Sequences ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
28S Rdna Sequences ◽  
The Gulf Of Thailand ◽  
Multiple Stems

Two new species of the genus Chironephthya, C. sirindhornae sp. nov. and C. cornigera sp. nov., are described based on three specimens collected from the Gulf of Thailand. Both species are well distinguished from the previously described species of the genus Chironephthya by their colonies consisting of multiple stems that stand upright from a common base, and by a significantly thinner canal wall without large spindles. As a result of phylogenetic analyses using COI, mtMutS, and 28S rDNA sequences of these two species, these three specimens constituted an independent small clade within a large mixed clade of Siphonogorgia and Chironephthya, with the two species slightly different from each other. The discrepancy in the morphology suggested the erection of a new genus to accommodate these species, however, as the subclade was included in a large mixed clade of Siphonogorgia and Chironephthya, we place these species within genus Chironephthya. Our results further highlight the continuing confusion between Siphonogorgia and Chironephthya, and demonstrate the need for taxonomic revision of these genera. 

Two new species of Micropeplus from the Pliocene of western Alaska with remarks on the evolution of Micropeplinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

1970 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 779-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
John V. Matthews Jr.
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
New Species ◽  
Coniferous Forest ◽  
Morphological Evidence ◽  
Evolutionary Sequence ◽  
Plant Fossils ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
Insect Fossils

A radiometrically dated Pliocene fossil locality in western Alaska contains specimens representing two new species of insects: Micropeplus hoogendorni n. sp. and Micropeplus hopkinsi n. sp. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Micropeplinae). Fossils of the extant Micropeplinae species Kalissus nitidus LeConte and Micropeplus tesserula Curtis occur with the fossils of the newly described species. Other insect fossils and plant fossils from the locality suggest that M. hoogendorni and M. hopkinsi lived in a coniferous forest somewhat similar to those in present-day British Columbia or Southeastern Alaska.The holotype and paratypes of Micropeplus hopkinsi provide morphological evidence for the evolutionary sequence of elylral puncture development in the genus Micropeplus. This and other information is used to construct a provisional phylogeny for the subfamily Micropeplinae. The probable derivation of the species groups of Micropeplus is discussed.

scholarly journals Multiple-marker phylogeny and morphological evidence reveal two new species in Steccherinaceae (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) from Asia

MycoKeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 169-186
Author(s):  
Ting Cao ◽  
Jia-Rui Yu ◽  
Trang Thị Thu Nguyễn ◽  
Hai-Sheng Yuan
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Morphological Evidence ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Hyphal System ◽  
Full Support ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Thin Walled ◽  
Inference Methods

Two new wood-inhabiting fungi, Mycorrhaphium subadustumsp. nov. and Trullella conifericolasp. nov., are proposed and described from Asia based on ITS, nrLSU and tef1 molecular phylogeny and morphological characteristics. Mycorrhaphium subadustum is characterized by a stipitate basidiocarp, velutinate pileal surface concentrically zoned, hydnoid hymenophore, a dimitic hyphal system in spine trama and monomitic in context, absence of gloeocystidia, presence of cystidioles and the non-amyloid, cylindrical to ellipsoid basidiospores. Trullella conifericola is characterized by a laterally stipitate basidiocarp with flabelliform to semicircular pileus, hirtellous pileal surface with appressed coarse hair and concentrically zoned and sulcate, tiny pores (10–12 per mm), a dimitic hyphal system, absence of any type of cystidia, short clavate basidia and thin-walled, smooth, cylindrical to allantoid basidiospores. Phylogenetic analyses based on a three-marker dataset were performed using maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference methods. The two new species formed isolated lineages with full support in Steccherinaceae. The distinguishing characters of the two new species as well as allied species are discussed, and a key to species of Mycorrhaphium is provided.

Taxonomic review of the “Probetoriformes” species group of Symmachia Hübner, [1819] (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae), with the description of two new species from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4780 (3) ◽  
pp. 471-507
Author(s):  
FERNANDO MAIA SILVA DIAS ◽  
DIEGO RODRIGO DOLIBAINA ◽  
OLAF HERMANN HENDRIK MIELKE ◽  
MIRNA MARTINS CASAGRANDE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Morphological Evidence ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Forest ◽  
Taxonomic Review ◽  
Dichotomous Key ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
First Time

The “Probetoriformes” species group of Symmachia Hübner, [1819] proposed by Stichel (1910; 1930) is redefined based on morphological evidence, and the species herein included in the group are revised. Two new species from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest are described: S. atlantica Dias, Dolibaina & Mielke sp. nov. and S. uirassu Dolibaina, Dias & Casagrande sp. nov. Additionally, one restituted status, S. championi Godman & Salvin, 1886 stat. rest., one revalidated status, S. belti Godman & Salvin, 1886 stat. rev., and one new status, S. meyi Brévignon, 1998 stat. nov., are proposed; therefore, the “Probetoriformes” species group, as herein conceived, includes 10 of the about 60 species of the “catch-all” genus Symmachia. A neotype for Papilio probetor Stoll, 1782 and lectotypes for S. probetor form astiama Seitz, 1913, S. belti and S. championi are designated. The female of the recently described species S. divisora Dolibaina & Leite, 2012 is recognized and described for the first time. Additionally, morphologic illustrations and a dichotomous key for species of the “Probetoriformes” species group are provided. 

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