Gollumjapyx smeagol gen. n., sp. n., an enigmatic hypogean japygid (Diplura: Japygidae) from the eastern Iberian Peninsula

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1372 (1) ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALBERTO SENDRA ◽  
VICENTE M. ORTUÑO ◽  
AGUSTÍN MORENO ◽  
SERGIO MONTAGUD ◽  
SANTIAGO TERUEL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
New Genus ◽  
The World ◽  
High Level ◽  
A New Species

A new species of subterranean japygid dipluran belonging to a new genus is diagnosed and described from the eastern Iberian Peninsula. The new species is highly adapted to hypogean life with very obvious troglobiomorphic features: unpigmented cuticle, an extraordinary lengthening of thorax and appendixes, multiplication of antennomeres and supernumerary placoid sensilla, not just in the apical antennomere but also in the preceding antennomeres. These traits make it the most exceptional of all the hypogean Japygidae known to date, with troglobiomorphic characteristics more accentuated than in other hypogean taxa known in the rest of the world. The cercal armature of the Burmjapyx type (Silvestri, 1930; sensu Paclt, 1957) together with the characteristics of the glandular organs of the first urosternite set it apart from the known Japygidae. However, those characteristics prove insufficient to establish a relation with other genera. It is therefore the only manifestly hypogean japygid species in the Iberian Peninsula, where only Metajapyx moroderi Silvestri, was known in certain caves of the eastern reaches of the Prebetic range. The new species has been located inside six average-sized underground caves, generally in the deepest areas, and may be one of the major hypogean predators in the Iberian Peninsula, with a diet that ranges from Acari to Anillini carabids. Its distribution along the limestone regions of the coastal ranges in the east of the Peninsula coincides with that of paleo-endemic troglobites. Therefore, it is possible to infer a remote origin for this species, as suggested by its high level of specialization in the subterranean ecosystems.

A new species and new records of Downeshelea Wirth & Grogan in Neotropical Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3394 (1) ◽  
pp. 64 ◽  
Author(s):  
HERÓN HUERTA ◽  
MARIA LUIZA FELIPPE-BAUER ◽  
GUSTAVO R. SPINELLI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New World ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Records ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
The World ◽  
Northern Brazil ◽  
A New Species

In the revision of the Ceratopogonini of the World, Wirth & Grogan (1988) placed the species of the Monohelea multilineata group in the new genus Downeshelea, which includes 33 species (Borkent, 2011), most of them known from the New World. Borkent and Spinelli (2000, 2007) listed 18 species from the Neotropical Region and Felippe-Bauer and Silva (2008) subsequently described D. oliveirai Felippe-Bauer from northern Brazil. From Mexico, only D. multilineata (Lutz) and D. panamensis (Lane & Wirth) have been reported.

The genus Uroseius Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata: Uropodina: Trachytidae) in the Iberian Peninsula with description of a new species associated with animal remains

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 929
Author(s):  
Maria L. Moraza ◽  
Sandra Pérez-Martínez
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
New Record ◽  
Northern Spain ◽  
Adult Females ◽  
Animal Remains ◽  
The World ◽  
Biological Aspects ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

Description of a new species of Uroseius Berlese based on deutonymph and female specimens from northern Spain is presented. Observations of some cuticular organs on idiosoma and legs are described for the first time for the genus. An attempt to notate idiosomal setae as in Gamasina mesostigmatid mites is made based on complete dorsal chaetome of larval and pronymphal instars of Uroseius and Apionoseius Berlese species. Uroseius acuminatus (C.L. Koch) is a new record for the Iberian Peninsula. General morphological and biological aspects of Uroseius are presented. A tentative key, provided for separation of the 15 deutonymphs and nine adult females of the world species of Uroseius, is given.

New genera, new species and new combinations for some African Coccomorpha (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5020 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-80
Author(s):  
CHRIS J. HODGSON
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New World ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genera ◽  
African Species ◽  
Soft Scale ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

In the past, various authors have placed many species in genera that are now understood to be restricted to other regions of the world. Thus, in Africa, species of soft scale (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) with this problem are those in Ceronema Maskell, a genus probably restricted to Australia; Ceroplastodes Cockerell, probably restricted to the New World; and Inglisia Maskell, which is restricted to New Zealand. The placement of these species is reviewed here. Four of the known Ceronema species are placed in three new monotypic genera, Neoceronema gen. nov., Illovococcus gen. nov. and Bugandacoccus gen. nov., as Neoceronema africanum (Macfie) comb. nov., N. brachystegiae (Hall) comb. nov., Illovococcus mobilis (Brain) comb. nov. and Bugandacoccus gowdeyi (Newstead) comb. nov.; Ceroplastodes ritchiei Laing and C. zavatarii Bellio are transferred to Drepanococcus Williams & Watson, as D. ritchiei (Laing) comb. nov. and D. zavattarii (Bellio), comb. nov., and Inglisia grevilliae Hall, I. pluvialis Hodgson and I. theobromae Newstead are transferred to Cryptinglisia Cockerell as C. grevilliae (Hall) comb. nov., C. pluvialis (Hodgson) comb. nov. and C. theobromae (Newstead) comb. nov. Keys are provided to all Drepanococcus and Cryptinglisia species, and all the African species discussed are illustrated. In addition, another new genus of African Coccidae is described, Testudovestis gen. nov., to take a new species somewhat similar to Eucalymnatus Cockerell: T. africana spec. nov. In addition, a new species of Coccus L.: Coccus moorei, spec. nov., and a new species of mealybug (Heliococcus tinglei spec. nov., Pseudococcidae), are described, both from mainland Africa. The lecanodiaspid Lecanodiaspis zygophylli Hodgson is also recorded from Nigeria for the first time.  

scholarly journals A new species of Reticulolaelaps Costa (Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) from the Iberian Peninsula, with a key to world species

Acarologia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 374-382
Author(s):  
Maria Lourdes Moraza
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
World Species ◽  
Mantis Religiosa ◽  
Adult Females ◽  
The World ◽  
A New Species

A new species, Reticulolaelaps caditanus n. sp., is described based on adult females found in an oothecal cell of Mantis religiosa. The species has several morphological characteristics, including the presence of presternal shields, endopodal III-IV widely connected with sternal shield, 50 pairs of dorsal setae and at least 11 setae x, curly and barbed, and thin and smooth ventral setae including six pairs of setae on the genitoventral shield. A revised diagnosis of the genus with the addition of new characters and a key to the world species of the genus are provided.

The earliest fossil record of the wasp subfamily Pelecininae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea: Pelecinidae) from the Yixian Formation of China

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2080 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHENXI LIU ◽  
CHUNGKUN SHIH ◽  
DONG REN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Upper Jurassic ◽  
Yixian Formation ◽  
Liaoning Province ◽  
Wing Margin ◽  
The World ◽  
A New Species

A new genus with a new species (Shoushida regilla gen. et sp. nov.) of pelecinid wasps is described and illustrated. The fossil has been collected from the Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous of Yixian Formation at Huangbanjigou Village, Liaoning Province, China. The new species has vein Rs forking to two branches: Rs 1 straight and reaching wing margin much before apex and Rs 2 long, forming an “X” pattern together with 2r-rs. This finding represents the earliest fossil record of subfamily Pelecininae in the world up to date. Sexual dimorphism in Pelecinidae is briefly discussed.

A new species of Keysercypria Karanovic (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from Argentina

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3063 (1) ◽  
pp. 64 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANALÍA R. DÍAZ ◽  
ESTELA C. LOPRETTO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Freshwater Ecosystems ◽  
The World ◽  
A New Species

In her revision on Recent Cyclocypridinae, Karanovic (2011) erected the new genus Keysercypria, endemic of the Neotropical Realm. The aim of this study is to describe and illustrate a new species within the genus recorded from the lower Parana region, according to the recently proposed division of the world freshwater ecosystems (www.feow.org). The new species represents the most southern record of the genus.

scholarly journals Notice and Description of Cyrena Dulwich-Iensis

The Geologist ◽  
1860 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 211-212
Author(s):  
Charles Rickman
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Main Shaft ◽  
Maximum Thickness ◽  
Black Clay ◽  
High Level ◽  
A New Species

In a former communication to the “Geologist,” treating of the fossil fauna and flova observed in Lower Eocesie sttata passed through at Dulwich and Peckhem in the constraction of the Great South High Level Sewesu I mentioned the fact of having discovered in a shelly conglomerate, at Dulwich, a new species of the estuarine genus Gyrena which I proposed to call Cyrena, Dulurichieæsis. In sinking the main shaft, at a depth of fifty to sixty, feet this eonglomerate occurred in nodular masses in green shelly sand, intercalated with wedge-like bands of stiff black clay, highly charged with vegetable remains; bat on driving the gallery eastward the conglomerate became regularly bedded, and attained a maximum thickness of four feet, made up plentifully of the shells of Cyrena cumeiformis, C. cordata, C. Dulwichiensis, Melania inquinata, and the new genus Pitharella, now figured and described by Mr. Edwards. I annex a description of the distinguishing generic characteristics of the Cyrena Dulwichiensis, and, as an accompaniment to the figure, some of the prominent peculiarities noticeable in the species.

Caprellidae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Amphipoda) from deep-sea waters off Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsula) with the description of a new genus and three new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4532 (2) ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
JOSÉ M. GUERRA-GARCÍA ◽  
RAMIRO TATO ◽  
JUAN MOREIRA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Continental Slope ◽  
Canary Islands ◽  
Deep Sea ◽  
New Genus ◽  
First Record ◽  
Balearic Islands ◽  
The World ◽  
Three New Species

The Caprellidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Senticaudata) from the upper continental slope of Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsula) was studied. The material collected, based on surveys conducted from 2002 to 2009, comprised 11 species. A new genus Selvacaprella gen. nov., and three new species Selvacaprella jimenoi sp. nov., Liropus vitucoi sp. nov. and Liropus willyi sp. nov. are described. Pedoculina cf. bacescui and Parvipalpina cf. verrucosa are also figured in detail. Parvipalpina cf. verrucosa and Caprella cf. ciliata enlarge their distribution range ca. 2000 km to the South. Pedoculina cf. bacescui represent the first record of the genus for the Atlantic. These three species are also first records for the Iberian Peninsula. The total number of known caprellid species in the Iberian Peninsula (including adjacents waters of Ceuta, Canary Islands, Balearic Islands, Azores and Madeira) is 50 so far, making this area one of the most diverse in the world for this group of amphipods. 

Revision of the Paleartic species of the genus Ochthebius Leach (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) XXIV. Description of Ochthebius (Asiobates) sanabrensis n. sp. from northwestern Spain

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1818 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
LUIS F. VALLADARES ◽  
MANFRED A. JÄCH
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Western Palearctic ◽  
Palearctic Region ◽  
Northwestern Spain ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
High Level ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Northwestern Iberian Peninsula

In the Palearctic region, the hydraenid subgenus Asiobates Thomson, 1859 comprises two species groups (Jäch, 1990): the O. minimus Fabricius group and the O. bicolon Germar group. The O. bicolon group is quite diverse in the Iberian Peninsula (12 species) displaying a high level of endemism (six Iberian endemic species). In contrast, only two Iberian species of the O. minimus group are known to date, with both rather widely distributed in the western Palearctic Region: O. (Asiobates) aeneus Stephens, 1835 and O. (A.) minimus (Fabricius, 1792). A new species, apparently endemic to the northwestern Iberian Peninsula, is now added to this group.

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