Two new Neotropical species of oak gall wasps of the genus Loxaulus Mayr (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) from Panama

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2811 (1) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
ENRIQUE MEDIANERO ◽  
JOSÉ LUIS NIEVES-ALDREY ◽  
GEORGE MELIKA

Two new species of Loxaulus Mayr, Loxaulus championi and Loxaulus panamensis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) are described from Panama. Both new species induce galls on Quercus bumelioides Liebm. (Fagaceae, sect. Quercus, White Oaks). The diagnostic characters, gall descriptions, distribution, biological data and a key for the identification of the new species are given. The new species represent the first records of the genus Loxaulus outside North America.

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5081 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-222
Author(s):  
ENRIQUE MEDIANERO ◽  
JAMES A. NICHOLLS ◽  
GRAHAM N. STONE ◽  
JOSÉ LUIS NIEVES-ALDREY

A new genus, Prokius Nieves Aldrey, Medianero & Nicholls, gen. nov., and two new species of oak gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), Prokius cambrai Medianero & Nieves-Aldrey sp. nov. and Prokius lisethiae Medianero & Nieves-Aldrey sp. nov., are described from adults reared from galls on Quercus bumelioides Liebm (Fagaceae, sect. Quercus, white oaks) collected in Panama. The new genus is phylogenetically and morphologically close to Dros Kinsey and forms part of a large clade that includes species from several other genera that appear to require revision, including Andricus Hartig and Phylloteras Ashmead. Molecular and morphological data, diagnostic characters, gall descriptions, distribution and biological data of the new genus and the new species are given. This new genus represents the fourth recently described genus of Cynipidae endemic to the Neotropical region.  


Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2802 (1) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
ENRIQUE MEDIANERO ◽  
JOSÉ LUIS NIEVES-ALDREY

Two new species of Disholcaspis Dalla Torre & Kieffer 1910, Disholcaspis bettyannae and D. bisethiae (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) are described from Panama. The two new species induce galls on Quercus bumelioides Liebm. and Q. lancifolia Schledl & Cham. (Fagaceae, sect. Quercus, White Oaks). Diagnostic characters, gall descriptions, distribution, biological data, as well as inquiline and parasitoid associated community data of the new species are given. The new species represent the first records of the genus Disholcaspis from the Neotropical region.


Author(s):  
Alexey Reshchikov ◽  
Ilari E. Sääksjärvi ◽  
Marc Pollet

Nanium Townes, 1967 is a small New World parasitoid wasp genus in the subfamily Ctenopelmatinae Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Previously, it comprised five species: one from North America and four from Costa Rica. The current study reviews the Neotropical species of the genus, and includes descriptions of two new species, N. medianum Reshchikov & Sääksjärvi sp. nov. from Ecuador and N. atitlanensis Reshchikov & Sääksjärvi sp. nov. from Guatemala. A key to the species is provided.


Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3545 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSÉ LUIS NIEVES-ALDREY ◽  
E. PASCUAL ◽  
Y. MALDONADO-LOPEZ ◽  
E. MEDIANERO ◽  
K. OYAMA

The species of Amphibolips Reinhard 1865 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) of Mexico not included in the “niger complex” Kinsey 1937 are revised. The “nassa complex” recently created by Melika et al. (2011) for these species is questioned. As a result of faunistic surveys of oak gall wasps in Mexico, seven new species of Amphibolips are described: Amphibolips durangensis Nieves-Aldrey & Maldonado, A. malinche Nieves-Aldrey & Pascual, A. jaliscensis Nieves-Aldrey & Pascual, A. oaxacae Nieves-Aldrey & Pascual, A. nevadensis Nieves-Aldrey & Pascual, A. tarasco Nieves-Aldrey & Pascual and A. michoacaensis Nieves-Aldrey & Maldonado. The types of A. dampfi Kinsey 1937, A. nebris Kinsey 1937 and A. fusus Kinsey 1937 are revised, redescribed and compared with the new species described herein. A new key for the identification of adults of all species not included in the “niger complex” from Mexico, including the related species A. castroviejoi Medianero & Nieves-Aldrey and A. aliciae Medianero & Nieves-Aldrey from Panama, is presented.  Diagnostic characters, distribution data, host plants and species biology are provided for of all of the studied species. The richness and distribution of Amphibolips in Mexico and the Neotropical region, their known biological data, and the taxonomic limits of this genus are also discussed.


1981 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Chandler

AbstractEpicypta is treated in the sense employed by Edwards (1925) under the name Delopsis Skuse. The species of Epicypta in the Holarctic region are discussed and keyed. Type material of Mycetophila aterrima Zett., M. selecta Walker, M. vitrea Coquillett and Epicypta pulicaria Loew has been examined and found to be conspecific. Lectotypes are designated for aterrima, vitrea and pulicaria. Mycetophila anomala Johannsen (holotype examined) is a distinct species but a new name, limnophila nom.n. is proposed as it is a homonym. Both aterrima and limnophila are Holarctic. Four other European species, scatophora (Perris), fumigata (Dziedzicki), torquata Matile and nigrobasis (Dziedzicki) (last not examined) are recognised. These six species and the Japanese ornatipennis (Okada) (not examined) belong to one species group related to Oriental and Afrotropical species. Two new species, lepida n.sp. and helvopicta n.sp., described from north America, belong to different, otherwise Neotropical, species groups. Descriptions and figures are given for all species known from the Holarctic, except nigrobasis and ornatipennis.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 334 (3) ◽  
pp. 233 ◽  
Author(s):  
BINCE MANI ◽  
SINJUMOL THOMAS ◽  
S. JOHN BRITTO

Impatiens saulierea and I. josephia, two new species, are described from the Western Ghats, India. The former is collected from Kakkayam, Kozhikode and the latter from Idukki, Kerala. A detailed description of both taxa along with diagnostic characters between allied species, conservation status, pollen morphology and colour photographs are provided.


Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4317 (2) ◽  
pp. 321
Author(s):  
JAN BEZDĚK ◽  
RENATO REGALIN

This publication reviews the Labidostomis species from Southeastern Europe similar to L. longimana. Two new species, L. daccordii sp. nov. (Central Greece) and L. leonardii (Greece: Kos Island, Turkey), are described. The type specimens of L. balcanica Tomov, 1987 (Croatia), L. graeca Tomov, 1990 and L. tymphristica Tomov, 1990 (both from Greece) were studied, all three species are confirmed as valid and their diagnostic characters are described. The aedeagus sclerites are introduced as useful character to separate Labidostomis species. 


Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4350 (3) ◽  
pp. 500
Author(s):  
JULISSA M. CHURATA-SALCEDO ◽  
LUCIA M. ALMEIDA ◽  
GUILLERMO GONZÁLEZ ◽  
ROBERT D. GORDON

The subgenus Sidonis Mulsant, 1850 is elevated to generic status and two new species from Brazil are described and illustrated: Sidonis bira sp. nov. and Sidonis biguttata sp. nov. New geographic distribution records are provided. In addition, lectotypes of Sidonis consanguinea (Mulsant, 1850) and S. guttata (Sicard, 1912) are designated. Illustrations of diagnostic characters from five of six species of the genus, comments on the differences from similar species and a key to all recognized taxa are included.  


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