First record of a pygmy backswimmer (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pleidae) from Micronesia

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1617 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-68
Author(s):  
RICHARD S. ZACK ◽  
AUBREY MOORE ◽  
ROSS H. MILLER
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
First Record ◽  
Mosquito Larvae ◽  
Aquatic Habitats ◽  
Old World ◽  
The Family ◽  
Slow Moving

Pygmy backswimmers, pleids, can be common in aquatic habitats with stagnant or slow-moving water that is rich in vegetation.  They are small bugs, usually less than 3.5 mm in length and confine themselves to the vegetation in which they hide and where they prey on mosquito larvae and other small arthropods (Schuh and Slater 1995).  The family is represented by 37 species in three genera: Plea, confined to the Old World; Neoplea confined to the New World; and Paraplea, the largest and most widely distributed genus (Schuh and Slater 1995).

First Record of the Family Camillidae in the New World (Diptera)

1960 ◽  
Vol 92 (12) ◽  
pp. 954-956 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. McAlpine
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
First Record ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Separate Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Single Genus ◽  
To Receive

The discovery of Camilla glabra (Fallen) in Ottawa, Canada, is the first record of the existence in the New World of any member of the interesting little family Camillidae. A single male specimen taken June 15, 1954, by D. G. F. Cobb while collecting insects in her garden, would seem to indicate the species is established here.The family Camillidae consists of the single genus Camilla Haliday, which for many years was assigned to the family Drosophilidae. Frey, (1921) considered it sufficiently differentiated from the Drosophilidae to warrant separate status and erected the family Camillidae to receive it. Duda (1934), Wheeler (1952, p. 164), and Collin (1956) all recognized the group as a family distinct from the Drosophilidae. More recently, Hennig (1958, p. 665) placed it as a separate family in the Drosophiloidea, pointing out that while it has certain characters in common with Curtonotidae and Drosophilidae, it shows even more affinities with Diastatidae and Ephydridae.

A SYNOPSIS OF CYTOLOGICAL STUDIES IN GESNERIACEAE

2003 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. MÖLLER ◽  
M. KIEHN
Keyword(s):  
Chromosome Numbers ◽  
New World ◽  
Web Search ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Generic Level ◽  
Old World ◽  
Basic Chromosome ◽  
Cytological Data ◽  
The Family

Our knowledge of cytological data published on members of the family Gesneriaceae is summarized and critically evaluated in the light of current taxonomic treatments and phylogenetic hypotheses. There are about 1000 published chromosome counts, covering 56% of the genera but only 18% of the species. In particular the New World tribes Beslerieae and Napeantheae and the Old World tribe Didymocarpeae are underexplored at generic level. In Gesneriaceae chromosome data are a valuable source of taxonomic characters. From our current knowledge of the phylogenetic relationships in the family we know that basic chromosome numbers in the New World subfamily Gesnerioideae appear to be rather conserved, but that a more complex pattern of genome evolution seems to be present among the Old World tribes. Both polyploidy and dysploid changes have played a significant role in the evolution of the family. However, the number of species for which both cytological and molecular data are available is at present too low to reach firm conclusions on ancestral basic chromosome numbers, particularly for the Old World group. To facilitate wider access to cytological data on the Gesneriaceae, a website has been developed (http://www.rbge.org.uk/rbge/web/search/index.jsp), which is introduced in this paper.

scholarly journals The first record of the family Cithaeronidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea) to the new world

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 512-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo S. Carvalho ◽  
Alexandre B. Bonaldo ◽  
Antonio D. Brescovit
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
New World ◽  
First Record ◽  
The State ◽  
Northeast Brazil ◽  
Widespread Species ◽  
The Family ◽  
Accidental Introduction

Three females of Cithaeron praedonius O.P.-Cambridge, 1872 (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea, Cithaeronidae), the most widespread species of the family, were found in urban areas in Teresina, capital of the state of Piauí, northeast Brazil. This first record of the family Cithaeronidae to the new world is explained by accidental introduction.

First record of Mantibaria Kirby, 1900 (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae, Scelioninae) in the New World: a probable case of accidental introduction

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4237 (3) ◽  
pp. 575 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRUNO GARCIA DE OLIVEIRA ◽  
KARINE SCHOENINNGER
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
First Record ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Old World ◽  
Probable Case ◽  
Accidental Introduction

Mantibaria Kirby, 1900 has four valid species: M. seefelderiana (De Stefani), M. mantis (Dodd), M. solygiea Risbec and M. kerouaci Veenakumari & Rajmohana. It is found in the Palaearctic, Afro-tropical, Oriental and Australian regions, and now is known from the New World. There are some taxonomic barriers that hinder the understanding and the boundaries between the four species, some of which were discussed by Masner (1976), Mineo (1980) and Galloway & Austin (1984). These authors argued that there are no reliable differences to separate M. solygiea (Europe), M. seefelderiana (= M. anomala, Africa) and M. mantis (Australia), hypothesizing that these three species actually comprise only one species that is widely distributed in the Old World. 

scholarly journals First record of Cithaeron reimoseri (Araneae: Cithaeronidae) from the New World and first record of the family from southern Brazil

Check List ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 1594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Ott ◽  
Antonio Domingos Brescovit
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
First Record ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Worldwide Distribution ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Time ◽  
Median Eyes

The African spider Cithaeron reimoseri Platnick, 1991 is registered for the first time in the New World, based in two females collected at Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Until now C. reimoseri was known only by the holotype from Eritrea. The species C. praedonius O. P.-Cambridge, 1872 was, until now, the only known species of the family with worldwide distribution and is considered prone to introduction in anthropic environments. Cithaeronidae are considered lower gnaphosoids being identifiable by the depressed posterior median eyes and the pseudosegmented tarsi.

First record of spongillaflies (Neuroptera: Sisyridae) from Colombia

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4276 (1) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
ADRIAN ARDILA-CAMACHO ◽  
CALEB C. MARTINS
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
New World ◽  
First Record ◽  
Basal Group ◽  
The Family

The family Sisyridae (spongillaflies) is a small group of neuropterans distributed in all Biogeographic realms (Cover & Resh 2008). As in Nevrorthidae, Sisyridae is distinguished among other Neuroptera families by their strictly aquatic larvae (Wichard et al. 2002). The phylogenetic relationships of Sisyridae have been controversial i.e. the family was recovered at different positions within the Neuropterida phylogeny as a basal group among members of Neuroptera or whitin the suborder Hemerobiiformia with a very variable placement (Randolf et al. 2013). Currently the species richness of this group reaches 70 representatives in four genera, namely Climacia McLachlan, 1869 (New World), Sisyra Burmeister, 1839 (cosmopolitan), Sisyrina Banks, 1939 (Africa, Asia and Australia), and Sisyborina Monserrat, 1981 (endemic to Africa) (Parfin & Gurney 1956; Cover & Resh 2008). 

First fossil record of the genus Reissa Evenhuis & Báez (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae: Mythicomyiinae) from the Eocene Green River Formation of North America, and discussion of biogeographical implications

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-228
Author(s):  
NEAL L. EVENHUIS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
New World ◽  
First Record ◽  
Green River Formation ◽  
Green River ◽  
Fossil Specimen ◽  
The Family ◽  
Fossil Genus

The genus Reissa Evenhuis & Báez in Greathead & Evenhuis (2001) was originally described based on a short series of extant specimens from the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. No further species of the genus have been discovered since. A related fossil genus (Riga Evenhuis) was described from Eocene Rovno amber (Evenhuis, 2013) and has some characters in common with the fossil specimen but differs in thoracic and antennal features. The new species described and illustrated here is represented by a single compression fossil of the new species Reissa kohlsi sp. nov. from the Parachute Creek member of the Green River Formation of Wyoming/Utah/Colorado, USA, the site of which dates from 51.2–48.7 my (Smith et al., 2008). It marks the first fossil record of the genus and its first record from the New World, and the first fossil record of the family Mythicomyiidae from North America. The family was previously known in the New World fossil record from the Miocene Dominican amber (cf. Evenhuis, 2013), including two representatives from the Mythicomyiinae (Mythicomyia dominicana Evenhuis, 2002 and Pieza dominicana Evenhuis, 2002).

scholarly journals A new species of Mermiglossa from Kenya, with comments on the arrangement of Old World Panurginae (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae)

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
John S. Ascher ◽  
Michael S. Engel
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Africa ◽  
New World ◽  
Group Classification ◽  
Compound Eyes ◽  
Namib Desert ◽  
Old World ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the panurgine bee genus Mermiglossa Friese (Panurginae) is described and figured from females captured near Voi in the southern part of the former Coast Province, Kenya, a historical type locality for several bee species.  Mermiglossa voicola Ascher & Engel, new species, is distinguished from the only other species of the genus, M. rufa Friese from central Namibia.  The new species is readily identified due to its black rather than red metasoma and compound eyes slightly convergent above rather than parallel-sided.  The new species raises the total number of described bee species for Kenya to 343, extends the known distribution of its genus and subtribe from the Namib Desert of southwestern Africa to the western edge of the Nviri Desert of East Africa, and provides further evidence of extensive biogeographic connections between these disjunct xeric areas.  Recent changes in the family-group classification of Old World Panurginae are discussed in relation to recognition of Mermiglossina as a valid subtribe within an expanded tribe Panurgini also including the New World perditines.

The Relationships of the Starlings (Sturnidae: Sturnini) and the Mockingbirds (Sturnidae: Mimini)

The Auk ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles G. Sibley ◽  
Jon E. Ahlquist
Keyword(s):  
Dna Hybridization ◽  
New World ◽  
Common Ancestor ◽  
Late Oligocene ◽  
Hybridization Study ◽  
Old World ◽  
Hybridization Data ◽  
Successful Search ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Old World starlings have been thought to be related to crows and their allies, to weaverbirds, or to New World troupials. New World mockingbirds and thrashers have usually been placed near the thrushes and/or wrens. DNA-DNA hybridization data indicated that starlings and mockingbirds are more closely related to each other than either is to any other living taxon. Some avian systematists doubted this conclusion. Therefore, a more extensive DNA hybridization study was conducted, and a successful search was made for other evidence of the relationship between starlings and mockingbirds. The results support our original conclusion that the two groups diverged from a common ancestor in the late Oligocene or early Miocene, about 23-28 million years ago, and that their relationship may be expressed in our passerine classification, based on DNA comparisons, by placing them as sister tribes in the Family Sturnidae, Superfamily Turdoidea, Parvorder Muscicapae, Suborder Passeres. Their next nearest relatives are the members of the Turdidae, including the typical thrushes, erithacine chats, and muscicapine flycatchers.

scholarly journals Serum Relationships within the Family Cercopithecidae

1935 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-228
Author(s):  
S. ZUCKERMAN ◽  
ANN E. SUNDERMANN
Keyword(s):  
Human Serum ◽  
New World ◽  
World Monkey ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Old World ◽  
New World Monkey ◽  
Old World Monkey ◽  
The Family ◽  
Group Reaction

Quantitative tests show that an antiserum for an individual of one species of the Old World monkey family Cercopithecidae may react no more strongly with the blood of another individual of the same species than it does with the blood of monkeys belonging to other species or genera of the same family. They also show that in this family of Primates interspecific precipitin responses may be no stronger than intergeneric ones. Furthermore, the specific and generic serum interrelationships of these monkeys may be no closer than their interfamilial serum relationships to the chimpanzee. The latter relationship appears, however, to be closer than the monkeys' interfamilial serum relationship to man. Human serum nevertheless does give a group reaction to anti-Old World monkey serum, whereas such a response is not given either by the brown capuchin, a New World monkey, or by the lemur, Perodicticus potto.

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