Vicoa sahyadrica (Asteraceae), a new species from Western India with a note on Dalzell’s Vicoa cernua and Heracleum grandiflorum

Recently described two new species, viz. Pinda shrirangii (Apiaceae) and Vicoa gokhalei (Asteraceae), are reviewed for their taxonomy. An illegitimate Heracleum grandiflorum Dalzell & Gibson (non Steven ex M. Bieb.) is recognised as conspecific with P. shrirangii and proposed as a new synonym of the latter. Vicoa gokhalei is found to be conspecific with V. cernua Dalzell. Consequently, Vicoa cernua sensu Gosavi et al. with inconspicuously ligulate ray florets and more pappose achenes is described here as a new species, viz. Vicoa sahyadrica Nandikar & Sardesai.

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Two new species and a new synonym of Neoperla (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from China, with proposal of a new species group

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.5047.4.3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5047 (4) ◽

pp. 431-443

Author(s):

WEIHAI LI ◽

YANHUA YAN

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Northwest China ◽

Species Group ◽

Shaanxi Province ◽

New Synonym ◽

Two New Species ◽

A New Species

Two new species of the stonefly genus Neoperla, N. jiangae sp. nov. and N. jiaoxihe sp. nov., are described from Shaanxi Province of northwest China. The new species are compared with related congeners. Neoperla flagellata Li & Murányi, 2012 (in Li et al. 2012b) is placed as a synonym of N. bicornua Wu, 1973. The Neoperla sinensis species subgroup in the N. montivaga group is proposed and defined.

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A Synopsis of Dicliptera (Acanthaceae) in Brazil, with the Description of Two New Species

Systematic Botany ◽

10.1600/036364420x15862837791186 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 340-348

Author(s):

James Lucas da Costa-Lima ◽

Earl Celestino de Oliveira Chagas

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

South America ◽

The State ◽

Northeastern Brazil ◽

Mato Grosso ◽

The North ◽

New Synonyms ◽

Two New Species ◽

Mato Grosso Do Sul ◽

A New Species

Abstract—A synopsis of Dicliptera (Acanthaceae) for Brazil is presented. Six species are recognized: Dicliptera ciliaris, D. sexangularis, and D. squarrosa, widely distributed in South America; D. purpurascens, which ranges from the North Region of Brazil (in the state of Acre) to eastern Bolivia; D. gracilirama, a new species from the Atlantic Forest of northeastern Brazil; and D. granchaquenha, a new species recorded in dry and semideciduous forests in Bolivia and western Brazil, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Furthermore, we propose new synonyms and designate lectotypes for eleven names. An identification key to the six accepted Dicliptera species in Brazil is provided.

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Two new species of the subgenus Egadroma (genus Stenolophus) from South Asia, with redescription of Stenolophus (Egadroma) ovatulus (Bates, 1889) (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Zoosystematica Rossica ◽

10.31610/zsr/2013.22.2.258 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 258-261

Author(s):

B.M. Kataev ◽

D.W. Wrase

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

South Asia ◽

New Synonym ◽

Two New Species

Two new species of the subgenus Egadroma Motschulsky, 1855 of the genus Stenolophus Dejean, 1821 are described: S. (Egadroma) melniki sp. nov. from Thailand and S. (Egadroma) ovchinnikovi sp. nov. from Pakistan and India. Stenolophus (E.) ovatulus (Bates, 1889), comb. nov., which was originally described within Acupalpus Latreille, 1829, is redescribed on the basis of material from China (Hainan and Fujiang provinces), Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia (first records from Thailand and Cambodia). The following new synonym is proposed: Stenolophus (E.) ovatulus (Bates, 1889) = Egadroma fukiensis Jedlička, 1953, syn. nov.

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A new genus and two new species of Tarsonemidae (Acari: Heterostigmata) associated with bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) from Peru

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4966.1.4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4966 (1) ◽

pp. 41-53

Author(s):

ALEXANDER A. KHAUSTOV ◽

ALEXANDER V. PETROV ◽

VASILIY B. KOLESNIKOV

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Bark Beetles ◽

New Genus ◽

New Genus And Species ◽

Key To Species ◽

Two New Species ◽

A New Species

A new genus and species, Unguitarsonemus paradoxus n. gen., n. sp. and a new species, Pseudotarsonemoides peruviensis n. sp. (Acari: Trombidiformes: Tarsonemidae), are described based on phoretic females collected on bark beetles Phloeotribus pilula and Ph. biguttatus, respectively, from Peru. A key to species of the genus Pseudotarsonemoides is provided.

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Taxonomic studies of two genera, Elongationa gen. nov. and Midoria Kato (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Ledrinae), with two new species from China

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4294.3.6 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4294 (3) ◽

pp. 361 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

JING SUN ◽

WEIJIAN HUANG ◽

YALIN ZHANG

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Key To Species ◽

Two New Species ◽

Taxonomic Studies ◽

One New Species ◽

A New Species

Elongationa gen. nov., a new leafhopper genus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Ledrinae) with one new species, E. hyalina sp. nov., is described and illustrated in detail. A checklist and key to species in the genus Midoria are provided including a new species, Midoria curvidentata sp. nov., described in this paper.

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Chorthippus brunneus subgroup (Orthoptera, Gomphocerinae) in Anatolia with description of two new species: data suggest an Anatolian origin for the lineage

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.2410.1.1 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 2410 (1) ◽

pp. 1 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

DENIZ SIRIN ◽

OTTO VON HELVERSEN ◽

BATTAL CIPLAK

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Glacial Refugia ◽

Biodiversity Hotspot ◽

Ancestral Population ◽

The West ◽

East Europe ◽

South East Europe ◽

Two New Species ◽

Chorthippus Biguttulus ◽

A New Species

The Chorthippus biguttulus group distributed in the west Palaearctic, while intensively examined in Europe, is poorly known in the glacial refugia such as Anatolia. This produces constraints in making accurate statements about evolution and the biogeography of the group. The C. brunneus subgroup of this lineage is examined using large amounts of morphological and song data from Anatolia (Asian Turkey) and representatives from Europe. Song and morphology in combination suggested three species to be found in Anatolia. The first is C. bornhalmi Harz which is also known from south-east Europe. The other two are new species: Chorthippus antecessor sp. n. and Chorthippus relicticus sp. n.. Morphologically, C. antecessor sp. n. is the most aberrant species of the C. brunneus subgroup, but is similar to C. bornhalmi in song. The specific song and morphology (the aberrant number of stridulatory pegs) define C. relicticus as a new species and both also indicate that it is closely related to C. brunneus and C. jacobsi. A song and morphology based phyloylogenetic assumption for C. brunneus subgroup suggests C. antecessor, C. bornhalmi and C. miramae to constitute one clade and C. brunneus, C. jacobsi and C. relicticus another. The scenario suggested for their evolution assume the following steps: (i) divergence of C. bornhalmi from a C. antecessor like ancestor, (ii) derivation of an ancestral population (which later give rise to C. brunneus + C. jacobsi + C. relicticus) from a C. bornhalmi like ancestor, and (iii) later fragmentation of this ancestral population to result in the present three species (C. brunneus + C. jacobsi + C. relicticus). All of these events seem to be correlated with the climatic cycles during Pleistocene. The conclusion is that the two new species are range-restricted, vulnerable species as is the case for many other taxa present in the Mediterranean Taurus biodiversity hotspot.

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