Redescription of Anopheles oswaldoi (Peryassú, 1922) (Diptera: Culicidae), with formal lectotype designation

Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) oswaldoi (Peryassú, 1922) comprises a species complex in South America. To fully characterize other taxa within the Oswaldoi Complex, it is essential to fix the identity of the nominotypical member. Given that the no type was designated in the original description, a lectotype is formally designated from the remaining syntypes in the Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. These and other recently collected specimens from the type locality (Espírito Santo, Brazil) and the State of São Paulo, Brazil were used to redescribe the species using morphological characters of the adult female, male and male genitalia, and the fourth-instar larva and pupa. The larva, pupa, and male genitalia are illustrated. Diagnostic morphological characters of the adult female and male genitalia are provided to distinguish An. oswaldoi s.s. from the morphologically similar An. konderi, An. galvaoi, and An. ininii. DNA sequence data from the second nuclear internal transcribed spacer region (ITS2) are included to fix the molecular identity of An. oswaldoi s.s.

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Description and revalidation of Mansonia (Mansonia) fonsecai (Pinto) (Diptera: Culicidae)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.905.1.1 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 905 (1) ◽

pp. 1 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

ANDREIA APARECIDA BARBOSA ◽

MÁRIO ANTÔNIO NAVARRO DA SILVA ◽

MARIA ANICE MUREB SALLUM

Keyword(s):

Adult Female ◽

Male Genitalia ◽

Instar Larva ◽

Morphological Characters ◽

Fourth Instar ◽

Valid Species ◽

Fourth Instar Larva

Mansonia (Mansonia) fonsecai (Pinto 1932) is considered a valid species distinct from Mansonia indubitans Dyar & Shannon 1925. Morphological characters to distinguish Ma. fonsecai from Ma. indubitans are included. The adult female, male, genitalia, pupa, and fourth-instar larva of Ma. fonsecai are described and illustrated.

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Two new Chrysomyxa rust species on the endemic plant, Picea asperata in western China, and expanded description of C. succinea

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.292.3.2 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 292 (3) ◽

pp. 218 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

JING CAO ◽

CHENGMING TIAN ◽

YINGMEI LIANG ◽

CHONGJUAN YOU

Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Trees ◽

Sequence Data ◽

Morphological Characters ◽

Western China ◽

Endemic Plant ◽

Internal Transcribed Spacer Region ◽

Dna Sequence Data ◽

Species Cluster ◽

Picea Asperata ◽

First Time

Two new rust species, Chrysomyxa diebuensis and C. zhuoniensis, on Picea asperata are recognized by morphological characters and DNA sequence data. A detailed description, illustrations, and discussion concerning morphologically similar and phylogenetically closely related species are provided for each species. From light and scanning electron microscopy observations C. diebuensis is characterized by the nailhead to peltate aeciospores, with separated stilt-like base. C. zhuoniensis differs from other known Chrysomyxa species in the annulate aeciospores with distinct longitudinal smooth cap at ends of spores, as well as with a broken, fissured edge. Analysis based on internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) partial gene sequences reveals that the two species cluster as a highly supported group in the phylogenetic trees. Correlations between the morphological and phylogenetic features are discussed. Illustrations and a detailed description are also provided for the aecia of C. succinea in China for the first time.

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Phylogeny and evolution of male genitalia within the praying mantis genus Tenodera (Mantodea:Mantidae)

Invertebrate Systematics ◽

10.1071/is09004 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 23 (5) ◽

pp. 409 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Dana Jensen ◽

Gavin J. Svenson ◽

Hojun Song ◽

Michael F. Whiting

Keyword(s):

Male Genitalia ◽

Sequence Data ◽

Rapid Evolution ◽

Distinct Species ◽

Morphological Characters ◽

Optimality Criteria ◽

Praying Mantis ◽

Dna Sequence Data ◽

Phylogeny And Evolution ◽

First Time

The mantis genus Tenodera is composed of several species distributed across Africa, Asia and Australasia, along with recent human introductions to North America. Species of the genus are morphologically similar and utilise equivalent habitats across their distribution. Relationships among these species and the morphological characters used to diagnose them have never been formally tested, leaving authors to disagree as to the species composition of Tenodera. With DNA sequence data from five molecular loci and morphological characters from male genitalia, we reconstructed the phylogeny of Tenodera using multiple optimality criteria. All included species were found to be monophyletic in analyses of the combined data. Tenodera sinensis and T. bokiana were both supported as distinct species recovered in separate clades, resolving confusion as to their placement and classification. Our analysis identified a previously undescribed species of Tenodera collected in India, recovered as sister to T. aridifolia and T. sinensis, and exhibiting distinct male genital morphology. In light of the phylogeny, we characterise for the first time, and investigate the evolution of, the male genitalia, which allowed us to discover several transitions in structural forms. We also consider the connection of these transitions to sexual cannibalism and how this behaviour may have led to rapid evolution of the male genitalia.

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Bothaella manhi, a new species of tribe Aedini (Diptera: Culicidae) from the Cuc Phuong National Park of Vietnam based on morphology and DNA sequence

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.2661.1.2 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 2661 (1) ◽

pp. 33 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

SHELLEY COOK ◽

NGO GIANG LIEN ◽

ERICA MCALISTER ◽

RALPH E. HARBACH

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Dna Sequence ◽

National Park ◽

Sequence Data ◽

Instar Larva ◽

Fourth Instar ◽

The Other ◽

Fourth Instar Larva ◽

Dna Sequence Data ◽

A New Species

A new species of genus Bothaella (Diptera: Culicidae) collected along with two other species of the genus during surveys for flavivirus isolations in the Cuc Phuong National Park in northern Vietnam is formally described and named as Bothaella manhi, sp. n. The adults, pupa and fourth-instar larva are characterized, the male genitalia and the two immature stages are illustrated and DNA sequence data are included for regions coding for sections of the COI and COII genes (mtDNA). The species is compared and distinguished from the other species of the genus, and sequence data are used to hypothesise its phylogenetic relationship with Bo. helenae and Bo. kleini, the other two species collected during the survey.

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Redescription of the female, male, larva and pupa of Sabethes (Sabethoides) glaucodaemon (Dyar & Shannon) (Diptera: Culicidae) and description of the female genitalia

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4789.2.12 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4789 (2) ◽

pp. 589-600

Author(s):

MARINA STEIN ◽

DEBORA N. BANGHER ◽

MAYCON SEBASTIÃO ALBERTO SANTOS NEVES ◽

CARLA N. ALVAREZ

Keyword(s):

Adult Female ◽

Male Genitalia ◽

Adult Stage ◽

Instar Larva ◽

Fourth Instar ◽

Female Genitalia ◽

Fourth Instar Larva ◽

Male And Female ◽

Male Larva ◽

First Time

Sabethes (Sabethoides) glaucodaemon was described for the first time by Dyar & Shannon (1925) based on the adult female. Later, descriptions of the male genitalia and parts of the fourth-instar larva and pupa were published by other authors. No one has described the female genitalia or made a complete description of the larva and pupa. The aim of this study was to redescribe Sa. glaucodaemon in the adult stage, including the male and female genitalia, and the pupa and fourth-instar larva. All stages are illustrated. Distinctions from Sa. (Sbo.) tridentatus are discussed.

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Phylogenetic analysis of the subgenus Kerteszia of Anopheles (Diptera: Culicidae: Anophelinae) based on morphological characters

Insect Systematics & Evolution ◽

10.1163/187631203x00018 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 34 (4) ◽

pp. iii-372 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

ELIANA COLLUCCI

Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Analysis ◽

Adult Female ◽

Instar Larva ◽

Morphological Characters ◽

Fourth Instar ◽

Bootstrap Support ◽

Fourth Instar Larva ◽

Male Adult ◽

Outgroup Species ◽

Parsimony Criterion

AbstractCollucci, E. & Sallum, M. A. M.: Phylogenetic analysis of the subgenus Kerteszia of Anopheles (Diptera: Culicidae: Anophelinae) based on morphological characters. Insect Syst. Evol. 34: 361-372. Copenhagen, December 2003. ISSN 1399-560X. A phylogenetic analysis was carried out for 12 species of Anopheles (Kerteszia) Theobald with Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) oswaldoi (Peryassü), An. (Stethomyia) kompi Edwards and An. (Lophopodomyia) squamifemur Antunes as outgroup species. Sixty-six characters were coded from the external morphology of the adult male, adult female, fourth-instar larva and pupa, and analyzed under the parsimony criterion using PAUP. The results confirm that Kerteszia, and the clade Kerteszia + Nyssorhynchus, are both monophyletic. Bootstrap support was ≥ 50% for all internal nodes, except for the (An. bellator + An. homunculus) clade which was < 50%. The results of this study allow a confident estimate of the relationships of species within Kerteszia.

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Two new species of the subgenus Sabethinus of Sabethes (Diptera: Culicidae) from Costa Rica, first confirmation of members of the subgenus in Central America

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4429.2.3 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4429 (2) ◽

pp. 269

Author(s):

RALPH E. HARBACH

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Costa Rica ◽

South America ◽

Central America ◽

Male Genitalia ◽

Instar Larva ◽

Morphological Characters ◽

Fourth Instar ◽

Fourth Instar Larva ◽

Two New Species

Two new species of Sabethes subgenus Sabethinus (Diptera: Culicidae) from Costa Rica are formally named Sa. andreae and Sa. theresae. Descriptions consisting of differential and diagnostic morphological characters are provided for adults, male genitalia and fourth-instar larvae. The male genitalia and the fourth-instar larva and pupa of both species are illustrated. The species are compared with the four previously described species known to occur only in South America, i.e. Sa. idiogenes, Sa. intermedius, Sa. melanonymphe and Sa. xhyphydes. A new country record for Colombia is reported for Sa. xhyphydes and keys are provided to distinguish the adults and larvae of the six species.

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Revised circumscription of Nothofagus and recognition of the segregate genera Fuscospora, Lophozonia, and Trisyngyne (Nothofagaceae)

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.146.1.1 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 146 (1) ◽

pp. 1 ◽

Cited By ~ 63

Author(s):

PETER B. HEENAN ◽

ROB D. SMISSEN

Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Analysis ◽

South America ◽

Papua New Guinea ◽

New Genus ◽

New Caledonia ◽

Sequence Data ◽

Morphological Characters ◽

New Combinations ◽

Southern South America ◽

Dna Sequence Data

The generic taxonomy of the Nothofagaceae is revised. We present a new phylogenetic analysis of morphological characters and map these characters onto a recently published phylogenetic tree obtained from DNA sequence data. Results of these and previous analyses strongly support the monophyly of four clades of Nothofagaceae that are currently treated as subgenera of Nothofagus. The four clades of Nothofagaceae are robust and well-supported, with deep stem divergences, have evolutionary equivalence with other genera of Fagales, and can be circumscribed with morphological characters. We argue that these morphological and molecular differences are sufficient for the four clades of Nothofagaceae to be recognised at the primary rank of genus, and that this classification will be more informative and efficient than the currently circumscribed Nothofagus with four subgenera. Nothofagus is recircumscribed to include five species from southern South America, Lophozonia and Trisyngyne are reinstated, and the new genus Fuscospora is described. Fuscospora and Lophozonia, with six and seven species respectively, occur in New Zealand, southern South America and Australia. Trisyngyne comprises 25 species from New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. New combinations are provided where necessary in each of these genera.

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Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) deaneorum: a new species in the albitarsis complex (Diptera: culicidae)

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz ◽

10.1590/s0074-02761989000400011 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 84 (4) ◽

pp. 535-543 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Maria Goreti Rosa-Freitas

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Genetic Distance ◽

Adult Female ◽

Instar Larva ◽

Fourth Instar ◽

Type Locality ◽

Fourth Instar Larva ◽

External Appearance ◽

A New Species ◽

Nei's Genetic Distance

Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) deaneorum sp. n. is described from specimens collected in Guajará-Mirim, Rondônia state and Rio Branco, Acre state, Brazil, on human and animal baits, inside dwellings and from the progenies of engorged females. A detailed description of the shape of egg, external appearance of adult female and male, genitalias, female cibarial armature and complete chaetotaxy of pupa and larva show that it can be distinguished from Anopheles albitarsis from the type-locality and other areas by the paler general external appearance of the adult, the posterolateral tufts of scales, on the female abdominal terga and the branching of the outer anterior clypeal seta (3-C) of the fourth instar larva (as shown in illustrations). If species can also be distinguished from An. albitarsis from the type locality by the allele frequencies at 11 enzymic loci as represented by Nei's Genetic Distance.

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Combined molecular and morphological phylogeny of Ephemerellinae (Ephemerellidae: Ephemeroptera), with remarks about classification

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.1991.1.2 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 1991 (1) ◽

pp. 28-42 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

T. HEATH OGDEN ◽

JONATHAN T. OSBORNE ◽

LUKE M. JACOBUS ◽

MICHAEL F. WHITING

Keyword(s):

Morphological Analysis ◽

Sequence Data ◽

Histone H3 ◽

Morphological Characters ◽

Morphological Data ◽

Rdna Genes ◽

Dna Sequence Data ◽

Extant Genus ◽

Species Groups ◽

Combined Data

This study represents the first combined molecular and morphological analysis for the mayfly family Ephemerellidae (Ephemeroptera), with a focus on the relationships of genera and species groups of the subfamily Ephemerellinae. The phylogeny was constructed based on DNA sequence data from 3 nuclear (18S rDNA, 28S rDNA, histone H3) and 2 mitochondrial (12S rDNA, 16S rDNA) genes, and 23 morphological characters. Taxon sampling for Ephemerellidae included exemplars from all 25 extant genus groups and additional representatives from those genera with the highest diversity. Ephemerellidae appears to consist of three major clades. Ephemerella, the largest genus of Ephemerellidae, and Serratella were not supported as monophyletic, and each had representatives in two of the three major clades. However, the genera Drunella and Cincticostella were supported as monophyletic. Lineages strongly supported as monophyletic include a grouping of the Timpanoginae genera Timpanoga, Dannella, Dentatella and Eurylophella, and groupings of the Ephemerellinae genera Torleya, Hyrtanella and Crinitella and the genera Kangella, Uracanthella and Teloganopsis. The placement of the Timpanoginae genus Attenella fell within Ephemerellinae, based on molecular and combined data, but it grouped with other Timpanoginae based on morphological data alone. Further study and analysis of Ephemerellidae morphology is needed, and classification should be revised, if it is to reflect phylogenetic relationships.

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