A new species of the selenopid crab-spider genus Selenops Latreille, 1819 (Araneae: Selenopidae) from Guerrero, Mexico

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1449 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEJANDRO VALDEZ MONDRAGÓN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
Tropical Plants ◽  
Flat Surfaces ◽  
The World ◽  
Tropical Areas ◽  
Crab Spider ◽  
A New Species

The spider family Selenopidae Simon, 1897 consist of four genera, of which Selenops Latreille, 1819 has about 110 species in tropical to temperate regions around the world (Platnick 2007). The distribution of this genus in America is from Argentina and Paraguay in South America, northward through tropical and subtropical America to Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California in North America (Muma 1953). These spiders can be found in different habitats, from dry desert and chaparral to tropical areas. They are typically found under rocks and other objects on the ground, occasionally inside tree trunks, and between the bases of the leaves of tropical plants. They also occur in the entrances of caves, on flat surfaces and in narrow cracks and crevices. They are commonly found inside human habitations. Their flattened body allows them to slide into these cracks with very fast movements, which makes their collection in the field difficult. They are nocturnal and do not build webs (Muma 1953).

A new species of Phycodes from China (Lepidoptera: Sesioidea: Brachodidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2797 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
AXEL KALLIES ◽  
MIN WANG ◽  
YUTAKA ARITA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
Palaearctic Region ◽  
Tropical Regions ◽  
Oriental Region ◽  
Small Family ◽  
A New Species

Brachodidae are a small family of fewer than 140 described species that are distributed worldwide except in North America. They reach their greatest diversity in the tropical regions of Asia and South America; however, many species occur in the Palaearctic region and in Australia, but these are restricted to a small number of genera. More than 40 species are known from the Oriental region and many more await description (Kallies 1998, 2000, 2004).

scholarly journals A new species of Moraria (Crustacea: Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from the Laurentian Great Lakes

Zootaxa ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 205 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JANET W. REID ◽  
LYNN T. LESKO
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
Central America ◽  
Lake Michigan ◽  
Lake Huron ◽  
Laurentian Great Lakes ◽  
Southern Mexico ◽  
A New Species

Moraria hudsoni n. sp. is described from Trails End Bay in Lake Michigan and Prentiss Bay in Lake Huron, Michigan, USA. The new species differs from its congeners in chaetotaxy, body ornamentation, and other characters. We review published records of members of Moraria from North and Central America; no species is known from South America. Species of this genus have been found in the mountains of southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, but none of these has been validly described. In North America, eight species have been recorded from Alaska, Canada, and the conterminous USA as far south as North Carolina. We report new geographical records of M. affinis from Virginia, and of both M. cristata and M. virginiana from Maryland and Virginia. We provide a tabular key to aid in identification of the named species of Moraria in North America.

First record and a new species of Megarthrus Curtis (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Proteininae) from the Colombian Central Andes

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2916 (1) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
MARGARITA M. LÓPEZ-GARCÍA ◽  
DIANA M. Méndez-Rojas ◽  
JOSÉ LUÍS NAVARRETE-HEREDIA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South America ◽  
Central America ◽  
First Record ◽  
Central Andes ◽  
South American ◽  
The South ◽  
The World ◽  
Northern South America ◽  
A New Species

The genus Megarthrus Curtis 1829 with about 139 species described around the world, is the largest of the subfamily Proteininae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) (Cuccodoro 2011). Megarthrus is distributed worldwide (Cuccodoro 1999) but it is apparently more diverse in the Holartic region (Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002). However, the South American fauna is underestimated because many of the collected specimens are not yet described (Cuccodoro 2011). Newton et al. (2005) cited the genus as probable in Colombia because some species are known from Central America and northern South America, but until now, no species has been published from Colombia. Therefore, M. andinus sp. nov. represents the first record of the genus and subfamily for this country.

Little-known and new heliozoeans: Pinaciophora triangula Thomsen new to North America and a description of Pinaciophora pinea sp. nov.

1983 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 1387-1390 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. H. Nicholls
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Outer Margin ◽  
Central Hole ◽  
The World ◽  
A New Species

Scales of the heliozoeans Pinaciophora fluviatilis Greeff and P. triangula Thomsen found in Ontario are compared with descriptions of these species from other parts of the world (P. triangula was known previously only from a single lake in Sweden). A new species, Pinaciophora pinea sp. nov., is described from a softwater lake in Muskoka, Ontario. Pinaciophora pinea differs from its closest relative, P. monopora Thomsen, mainly in the structure of the plate-scales which in P. pinea have a thickened rim between the central hole and the outer margin.

The jumping lynx spider Oxyopes salticus Hentz, 1845 and its Neotropical relatives (Araneae: Oxyopidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4216 (5) ◽  
pp. 457
Author(s):  
ADALBERTO J. SANTOS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South America ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Colour Pattern ◽  
The World ◽  
Extreme Variation ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

The spider genus Oxyopes Latreille occurs throughout the world, but is insufficiently known in South America and the Caribbean. In this study, three apparently related species of this genus are reported from the region. Oxyopes salticus Hentz, 1845 is redescribed and illustrated, and extreme variation in colour pattern and in female genitalia is reported within this species. Oxyopes m-fasciatus Piza, 1938 and Oxyopes nigrolineatus Mello-Leitão, 1941 are both considered junior synonyms of O. salticus. The material examined in this study, together with information from the literature, show this species is widely distributed throughout the continental Americas and the Caribbean. Oxyopes crewi Bryant, 1948 is redescribed and illustrated, and its geographic distribution is extended to Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Saint Kitts. A new species, Oxyopes incantatus sp. nov., is described and illustrated for the first time based on specimens from the Galápagos Islands. 

Taxonomic notes and validation of Oenothera acutifolia (Onagraceae)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 427 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-79
Author(s):  
MONIKA WOŹNIAK-CHODACKA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
Evening Primrose ◽  
The World ◽  
North And South America ◽  
North And South

Oenothera Linnaeus (1753: 346) (Onagraceae) is indigenous to North America (Dietrich et al. 1997), where the great diversity of the genus is reflected by its division into 18 sections and several subsections and series (Wagner et al. 2007). At different times and circumstances, particular evening-primrose species have naturalized in other parts of the world—currently they are known from nearly all continents: North and South America, Asia, Australia, Africa and Europe as well (Cleland 1972, Dietrich et al. 1997, Rostański et al. 2004). Reaching new lands, they began to spread and hybridize with each other, which might have resulted in the origin of new species, unknown from the native area (Dietrich et al. 1997).

Polygonatum campanulatum (Asparagaceae), a new species from Yunnan, China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 236 (1) ◽  
pp. 94 ◽  
Author(s):  
CAI XIU-ZHEN ◽  
HU GUANG-WAN ◽  
KAMANDE ELIZABETH MWIHAKI ◽  
NGUMBAU VERONICAH MUTELE ◽  
WEI NENG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
East Asia ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
Northern Hemisphere ◽  
The World ◽  
Aerial Stem ◽  
Warm Temperate ◽  
A New Species

Polygonatum Miller (1754: without pagination) is characterized by thick fleshy creeping sympodial rhizomes with elongated aerial stem and fleshy berries (Tamura et al. 1997). This genus contains 60 or more species in the world and widely distributed in the warm-temperate to boreal zones of the Northern Hemisphere with five species in Europe and three species in North America and concentrated (about 50 species) in East Asia (from Russia and Japan to Himalaya) (Tang 1978, Conran & Tamura 1998, Chen & Tamura 2000, Utech 2002, Judd 2003, Ohara et al. 2007). Chen & Tamura (2000) recognized 39 species for China, 20 of them being endemic to the country (see also Tang 1978). Since then, Floden (2014) and Zhao & He (2014) described two new taxa, both from Yunnan, China.

A new species of Andinobates (Anura: Dendrobatidae) from the Urabá region of Colombia

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4290 (3) ◽  
pp. 531 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERTO MÁRQUEZ ◽  
DANIEL MEJÍA-VARGAS ◽  
PABLO PALACIOS-RODRÍGUEZ ◽  
VALERIA RAMÍREZ-CASTAÑEDA ◽  
ADOLFO AMÉZQUITA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South America ◽  
Genetic Distance ◽  
Advertisement Call ◽  
Unique Combination ◽  
Taxonomic Affinity ◽  
The World ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Distinct Lineage ◽  
A New Species

Northwestern South America is among the most biodiverse, albeit unexplored, regions of the world. The genus Andinobates is made up of 14 species, all distributed in Northwestern South America (Colombia and Northern Ecuador), and adjacent Panamá. Within the last decade, five species of this genus have been described. In this paper we describe yet another species, belonging to the Andinobates fulguritus group, from the Urabá region of Northwestern Colombia. The new species can be distinguished from other members of Andinobates on the basis of a unique combination of coloration, size, and advertisement call parameters. Molecular phylogenetic and genetic distance analyses corroborate the species’ taxonomic affinity, and further support its status as a distinct lineage. Finally, we discuss the implications of our findings on the systematics of the A. fulguritus group. 

Lythrum netofa (Lythraceae) a new species from a temporary flooded plain of Israel

Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 437 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-50
Author(s):  
ANTOINE GAZAIX ◽  
SHMUEL MAZAR ◽  
SHIR VERED
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
Lythrum Salicaria ◽  
Temporary Pools ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
A New Species

Species of the genus Lythrum Linnaeus (1753: 446) (Lythraceae) occur in temporary pools and wetlands (Morris, 2007) with about 35 species around the world (Graham, 2007). In the Mediterranean area, there are more than 10 species that mostly occur in temporary pools (Castroviejo Bolibar et al., 1997; Tison et al. 2014). Most of the species are also present in East and Central Asia (Webb, 1968). However, some species are limited to Europe, mostly Western Europe, e.g. L. flexuosum Lagasca (1816: 16) and L. baeticum González-Albo (1936: 141) (Castroviejo Bolibar et al., 1997), some are limited to West Asia, e.g. L. silenoides Boissier & Noë (in Boissier 1856: 55) (Ghazanfar, 2016), while Lythrum salicaria Linnaeus (1753: 446), the loosestrife, is widely distributed in Asia, Europe, Africa, Oceania and introduced in North America.

New species of Radiospongilla (Porifera: Spongillidae) from Brazilian inland waters

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3132 (1) ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
GILBERTO NICACIO ◽  
WILLIAM SEVERI ◽  
ULISSES PINHEIRO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South America ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
Inland Waters ◽  
The World ◽  
A New Species

Radiospongilla Penney & Racek, 1968, characterized by gemmoscleres radially arranged on gemmules and absence of microscleres, is widely distributed in the world across all zoogeographical regions except for Antarctica. In the Neotropical Region only two species are known so far: R. crateriformis (Potts, 1882) and R. amazonensis Volkmer-Ribeiro & Maciel, 1983. Here we describe a new species of Radiospongilla, R. inesi sp. nov., from 28 specimens collected between May 2007 to April 2010 from channels and ponds at the Aquaculture Station of Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Rio do Prata Basin, Recife, Pernambuco State, Brazil. This new species differs from other species of Radiospongilla from South America in the morphology of its megascleres and gemmoscleres.

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