scholarly journals A new species of Drosera section Arachnopus (Droseraceae) from the western Kimberley, Australia, and amendments to the range and circumscription of Drosera finlaysoniana

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 501 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-84
Author(s):  
THILO KRUEGER ◽  
ANDREAS FLEISCHMANN

A new annual species of Drosera section Arachnopus, Drosera margaritacea, from the western Kimberley region (Western Australia) is described and illustrated, including detailed comparisons with the morphologically most similar species, D. finlaysoniana. The latter name is lectotypified here. The global range of D. finlaysoniana is provided, including a doubtful first record for Thailand, while the species, in contrast with statements made in some published references, does not occur in India, Laos, Cambodia and the Philippines. Additionally, the first record from Indonesia of the frequently misidentified D. aquatica is reported.

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Kai Tan ◽  
Josef Tumbrinck ◽  
Jessica B. Baroga-Barbecho ◽  
Sheryl A. Yap

The genus Cladonotella (Tetrigidae: Cladonotinae) consists of four species of pygmy grasshoppers from Java and New Guinea. A new species of Cladonotella is described from Siargao Island, Philippines: Cladonotella spinulosasp. nov. This represents the first record of Cladonotella in the Philippines. To quantify differences between species of Cladonotella, we used morphological characters to construct a neighbor-joining tree, and recovered our new species as distinct from congeners. To address the lack of natural history information on Cladonotella, we described habitat and other ecological observations made in Siargao Island on our new species.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (17) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Marco Selis

A new species of the genus Pareumenes de Saussure, 1855, from the Philippine Islands (Mindanao and Samar), P. impunctatus sp. nov., is described. This is the first record of the genus from the Philippines. A key to the species of the genus occurring in insular South-East Asia is provided.


2020 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 74-79
Author(s):  
Sergey G. Ermilov

A new species of Lamellarea (Oribatida, Lamellareidae) is described from hick twigs of southern live oak in Florida, U.S.A. (part of the Neotropical region). Lamellarea americana sp. nov. differs from most similar species, Lamellarea digitata and L. forceps by the ventrally inserted lamellar setae, the number of genital setae, the length of interlamellar setae, and the body size. Remarks on generic diagnosis and distribution of Lamellarea are presented.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 317 (1) ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
TERRY D. MACFARLANE ◽  
DMITRY D. SOKOLOFF ◽  
MARGARITA V. REMIZOWA

During recent decades, Althenia with two species in Eurasia and Africa was accepted as one of four genera of submerged aquatics comprising the family Zannichelliaceae. Molecular phylogenetic data confirmed monophyly of Zannichelliaceae in its traditional circumscription but placed the clade together with Potamogeton and its segregate genera, so that Zannichelliaceae is currently placed in synonymy of Potamogetonaceae. Recent molecular data demonstrated that Eurasian and African species traditionally placed in Althenia s.str. are nested within the Australasian (Australia and New Zealand) Lepilaena. As a result, the two genera were combined under the name Althenia s.l. The present study describes a new species, A. hearnii T. Macfarlane & D.D. Sokoloff from southwestern Western Australia which fills a morphological gap between species traditionally placed in Althenia s.str. and Lepilaena, thus supporting molecular phylogenetic evidence for lumping the two genera. The new species has a polysymmetric circular stigma like Althenia s.str. but 12-sporangiate anther like most species traditionally classified in Lepilaena. Like some other Australian species, Althenia hearnii is dioecious with dimorphic male and female inflorescences. The dimorphism includes the presence of a ligule in leaves within male inflorescences and the absence of a ligule in leaves within female inflorescences as well as strong differences in internode length between male and female inflorescences. A new combination Althenia patentifolia (E.L. Robertson) T. Macfarlane & D.D. Sokoloff is also made in order to allow Althenia to be fully applied in Australia. A revised key to the species of Althenia is provided.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 408 (4) ◽  
pp. 276-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
DARIO J. SCHIAVINATO ◽  
ADRIANA BARTOLI

A new species of Tagetes, T. imbricata, is described and photographed. This species that grows in northwestern Argentina and Bolivia is characterized by annual habit, lax terminal corymbiform inflorescences, partially purplish 5-lobed involucres, and imbricated ray flowers with yellowish-white corollas. A taxonomic description complemented with photographs and a map of geographical distribution is provided. In addition, a detailed comparison of the new species and its closely morphologically similar species is also presented, as well as a key to differentiate annual species of Tagetes that grow in northwestern Argentina and Bolivia.


1992 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 719 ◽  
Author(s):  
GCB Poore ◽  
WF Humphreys

The crustacean order Thermosbaenacea is reported for the first time from the Southern Hemisphere, from almost fresh water in a cave habitat in tropical Western Australia. Halosbaena tulki, sp. nov. belongs to a genus previously known only from saline waters in the West Indies, Columbia and Canary Is. The discovery is consistent with a very ancient origin of the order and distribution of the genus by plate movements following the breakup of Pangaea.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 253 (4) ◽  
pp. 285 ◽  
Author(s):  
XIN-LEI FAN ◽  
ZHUO DU ◽  
KEVIN D. HYDE ◽  
YING-MEI LIANG ◽  
YAN-PIING PAN ◽  
...  

Members of Cryptosporella are well-known as common endophytes, and occasionally, as pathogens on a narrow range of hosts in Betulaceae, Tiliaceae and Ulmaceae. Two fresh specimens associated with canker and dieback of Betula platyphylla were made in Beijing, China in 2015. Morphological and multi-gene, combined, phylogenetic analyses (ITS, tef1-α and β-tub) support these speciemens as a distinct and new species of Cryptosporella, from a unique host, Betula platyphylla. Cryptosporella platyphylla sp. nov. is introduced with an illustrated account and differs from similar species in its host association and multigene phylogeny.


Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4526 (1) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
YOSHINO FUKUI

A new labrid fish, Terelabrus zonalis sp. nov., the fourth species of the genus, is described on the basis of two specimens collected from the Philippines. The new species is characterized by 44 longitudinal series scale rows, 42 pored lateral-line scales, 11–12 gill rakers (including rudiments), the main supratemporal sensory canal with 8 branches posteriorly, the area bounded by the main supratemporal and postotic sensory canals (dorsal view) with 3 scale rows, the least distance between the orbit anteroventral margin and interopercle 7.0% of standard length and 18 faint silver vertical bands on the body in preserved specimens. An underwater photograph of T. dewapyle is reported as the first record of the species from the Philippines. A key to species of Terelabrus is provided. 


Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4674 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHER J. GLASBY ◽  
MARY ANNE E. MANDARIO ◽  
INGO BURGHARDT ◽  
ELENA KUPRIYANOVA ◽  
LAETITIA M. GUNTON ◽  
...  

A new species of the Marphysa sanguinea group, M. iloiloensis n. sp. (Annelida: Eunicida: Eunicidae), is described from the Marine Annelids Hatchery of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC- AQD), Iloilo Province, Philippines. It represents the first record of this group in the Philippines. The new species is most similar morphologically to M. hongkongensa Wang, Zhang & Qiu, 2018, but can be distinguished from it by having fewer branchial filaments, a pair of faint eyes (absent in M. hongkongensa), and in slight differences in jaw morphology and chaetation. The embryos of the new species develop inside a jelly cocoon attached to the entrance of the adult burrow; this is the first time that egg-containing cocoons have been found in any species of the sanguinea-group. Phylogenetic analysis based on the mitochondrial gene cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) revealed that Marphysa iloiloensis n. sp. is genetically distinct from all other analysed Marphysa species and forms a sister group to M. hongkongensa. A revised identification key to members of the sanguinea-group in Southeast Asia is provided. 


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