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.

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.

Revision of Recent and fossil Mixtacandona Klie 1938 (Ostracoda, Candonidae) from Italy, with description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4221 (3) ◽  
pp. 323
Author(s):  
ILARIA MAZZINI ◽  
FEDERICO MARRONE ◽  
MARCO ARCULEO ◽  
GIAMPAOLO ROSSETTI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Taxonomic Diversity ◽  
Northern Italy ◽  
Italian Peninsula ◽  
Italian Regions ◽  
Palearctic Region ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
Available Information ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Subterranean Waters

Although studies on ostracods dwelling in inland subterranean habitats of Italy have increased in the last decades, highlighting a considerable taxonomic diversity, available information is still far from sufficient to understand phylogenetic and biogeographic relationships. Mixtacandona Klie 1938 is one of the most common and diverse genera of ostracods in subterranean waters. Of the 20 living recognized species in the genus, all stygobiontic and restricted to the Palearctic Region, four are known for the Italian peninsula and Sardinia, one of which exclusively as fossil. Several other Recent and fossil taxa attributable to Mixtacandona, but identified at supraspecific level, have been reported from various Italian regions. Here we report Mixtacandona idrisi n. sp., collected in a cave near Palermo, the first cavernicolous ostracod from the island of Sicily; in addition, the description of material recently collected in northern Italy, consisting of M. laisi and of a putative new species that has been tentatively allocated to the same genus, is given. Mixtacandona (Trapezicandona) italica Karanovic & Pesce, 2000 is tentatively treated as a junior synonym of M. talianae Gliozzi & Mazzini, 1998. The validity of species-groups within Mixtacandona is discussed. Relying on the results of this study, the authors argue for the need of a comprehensive revision of the genus. 

Scilla merinoi (Liliaceae), a new species from Galicia, northwestern Iberian Peninsula

1993 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-163
Author(s):  
Santiago Ortiz ◽  
Juan Rodríguez-Oubiña ◽  
Jesús Izco
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Northwestern Iberian Peninsula

Lapita (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Sciapodinae) from Fiji and Vanuatu

2016 ◽  
Vol 159 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-195
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Bickel
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Strong Connection ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
High Level ◽  
A New Species

Lapita Bickel (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Sciapodinae), previously known only from New Caledonia, is newly described from Fiji and nearby Pacific archipelagoes, and includes 21 species in four species groups. The vakalevu group comprises four new species, Lapita vakalevu from Fiji and Tonga, and L. morleyi, L. savura and L. tavuki, all from Fiji. The tuimerekei group comprises two new Fijian species, L. batiqere and L. tuimerekei. The paradoxa group comprises two new species from Viti Levu, Fiji, L. paradoxa and L. maafusalatu. The denticauda group includes 13 species, L. greenwoodi (Bezzi), comb. n., from Viti Levu, L. sanma, a new species from Vanuatu (Espiritu Santo), and eleven additional new species, all from Fiji: L. adusta, L. macuata, L. coloisuva, L. delaco, L. timocii, L. bicolor, L. veilaselase, L. kuitarua, L. denticauda, L. sarnati, and L. vatudiri. Most Lapita species are known only from single or adjacent sites, suggesting a high level of local endemicity. As demonstrated elsewhere for the Sciapodinae, there is a strong connection between Fiji and Vanuatu, with species groups shared between the two archipelagoes. Biogeographical processes to account for the distribution of Lapita on Fiji and New Caledonia are discussed.

A new species of Leptopus (Heteroptera: Leptopodidae) from caves in Iran, with notes on other cavernicolous Iranian Heteroptera

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4763 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-258
Author(s):  
ZOHREH KHAZAEI ◽  
DAN A. POLHEMUS ◽  
MOHADESEH S. TAHAMI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
North Africa ◽  
North American ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Water Strider ◽  
Small Water ◽  
Western Palearctic ◽  
Palearctic Region ◽  
A New Species

The new species Leptopus gakalae is described from caves in Iran and compared to congeners occurring in the western Palearctic region. Figures are provided of the dorsal habitus and diagnostic morphological characters. Also provided are additional records for other species of Leptopus Latrielle, 1809, occurring from India westward through Europe and North Africa, as well as the first North American record of Leptopus marmoratus (Goeze, 1778) based on an agricultural quarantine intercept. A key is provided to all species of Leptopus occurring in the Western Palearctic region. Notes are also provided on other species of Heteroptera occurring in Iranian caves, with special reference to the small water strider Velia affinis Kolenati, 1857. 

A new Panolis Hübner, [1821] species from Vietnam (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Orthosiini)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4254 (5) ◽  
pp. 584
Author(s):  
BALÁZS BENEDEK ◽  
JÁNOS BABICS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Molecular Analysis ◽  
External Appearance ◽  
Recent Information ◽  
Western Palearctic ◽  
Dark Orange ◽  
Palearctic Region ◽  
Panolis Flammea ◽  
Lepidoptera Noctuidae ◽  
A New Species

Panolis is a well-defined and compact Palearctic trifine Noctuidae genus within the subfamily Hadeninae, tribus Orthosiini. It is currently represented by seven species and one subspecies: Panolis flammea ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775), Panolis japonica Draudt, 1935, Panolis variegatoides Poole, 1989, Panolis exquisita Draudt, 1950, Panolis pinicortex Draudt, 1950, Panolis pinicortex exornata Hreblay & Ronkay, 1997, Panolis estheri Ronkay, Ronkay, Gyulai & Hacker, 2010 and Panolis ningshan Wang, Fan, Owada, Wang & Nylin, 2014. Only one species (P. flammea) occurs in the Western Palearctic region, while all others are found in the eastern part of Asia. No Panolis species is known outside of the Palearctic region. The genus is connected to coniferous woodlands as the larvae are feed on various species of pines. Imagoes are on the wing during the spring, from late February until May. All Panolis species have an unmistakable, rather decorative external appearance with fine and conspicuous pink-red-purple or dark orange ground colouration, and remarkable noctuid patterns. Most recent information about the genus was provided by Wang et. al, 2014, including his description of a new species, and a morphological and molecular analysis in order to reconstructing the phylogeny of the genus, and exploring its Chines Oriental origin. Present paper contains the description of a new Panolis species found recently in Vietnam, from where the genus was not known so far. This discovery expands our knowledge about Panolis and support the statement of the Chines Oriental origin. 

A new species of Typhlocharis Dieck, 1869 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Anillini) from South Spain, with notes on the phylogenetic value of sexually related characters and the presence of stridulatory organ (pars stridens) in the genus

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2786 (1) ◽  
pp. 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUAN P. ZABALLOS ◽  
SERGIO PÉREZ-GONZÁLEZ
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
The South ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
Series Type ◽  
Established Species ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Scarce Data

A new species of the genus Typhlocharis Dieck, 1869 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Anillini) is described (T. deferreri nov. sp.) from the province of Cadiz in the south of the Iberian Peninsula. Its affinities with other species are discussed, mainly those with males having a median tubercle in sternum II: T. bivari Serrano and Aguiar, 2006, T. passosi Serrano and Aguiar, 2005, T. navarica Zaballos and Wrase, 1998 (outereloi group), T. monastica Zaballos and Wrase, 1998 and T. peregrina Zaballos and Wrase, 1998 (monastica group). The value of sexual dimorphism as a phylogenetic and taxonomic tool is revised; seemingly there is no relationship between this kind of sexual dimorphism and the traits that differentiate the established species groups (umbilicate series, type of gonocoxite, dimorphism in tibiae I and II, etc.). The presence and significance of stridulatory organ (pars stridens) is also commented upon, updating and increasing the scarce data available about this structure, poorly considered in the literature, with notes about distribution and relationships of the species which have it.

Linaria subbaetica (Plantaginaceae), a new species from the south of the Iberian Peninsula

Phytotaxa ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 530 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-176
Author(s):  
GABRIEL BLANCA ◽  
MIGUEL CUETO ◽  
JULIÁN FUENTES
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
The South ◽  
Pale Yellow ◽  
Disc Surface ◽  
Natural Park ◽  
Yellow Corolla ◽  
Black Seeds ◽  
A New Species

Linaria subbaetica, a new species from the south of the Iberian Peninsula, is here described, illustrated, and compared with its morphologically closest relatives from L. sect. Supinae: L. badalii, L. caesia, and L. supina. The species is characterised by being annual, and having usually revolute leaves, a short and corymbiform inflorescence at anthesis with a pilose-glandulose axis, a white to pale-yellow corolla (yellow to orangish palate), bearing a spur equalling to slightly longer that the rest of the corolla, and black seeds with a tuberculate and papillose disc surface and a thickened wing. L. subbaetica is an endemic species, growing on calcareous mountains, in the Sierras Subbéticas Natural Park, Córdoba province (Andalusia, Spain).

The survey of Seira Lubbock, 1870 (Collembola, Entomobryidae, Seirinae) from Iberian Peninsula and Canary Islands, including three new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4458 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
NIKOLAS GIOIA CIPOLA ◽  
JAVIER ARBEA ◽  
ENRIQUE BAQUERO ◽  
RAFAEL JORDANA ◽  
JOSÉ WELLINGTON DE MORAIS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Canary Islands ◽  
Abdominal Segment ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Western Palearctic ◽  
Palearctic Region ◽  
Biogeographic Regions ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time

Here we present a survey of Seira fauna from Iberian Peninsula and Canary Islands, including the description of three new species from Spain: Seira barrai sp. nov., Seira betica sp. nov. and Seira burgersi sp. nov., the latter with unprece-dented antennal morphology for Seira. Five species from Western Europe are redescribed and their dorsal detailed chaetotaxy is revealed for the first time: S. domestica (Nicolet), S. dinizi Gama, S. ferrarii Parona, S. mantis Zeppelini & Bellini and S. pini Jordana & Arbea, the first two from type locality, and the latter two based on analysis of the type material. A note on chaetal interpretation of the first abdominal segment for Seira is presented. An identification key to 31 species with known dorsal chaetotaxy from Western Palearctic region is also provided, including a discussion on dense macrochaetotaxy present in Palearctic and Oriental species and its reduction in species from others biogeographic regions.

Discovery of Systenus in the Afrotropical Region with a description of a new species (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-290
Author(s):  
I.Ya. Grichanov ◽  
M.B. Mostovski
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Afrotropical Region ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

The genus Systenus Loew, 1857 is recorded from Afrotropical Region for the first time. A description of a new species, Systenus africanus Grichanov sp. nov., and notes on females of another probably new Afrotropical species are provided. The genus is considered now as cosmopolitan. A key to species and species groups of the Systenus worldwide is compiled.

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