A new species of sand racer, Psammodromus (Squamata: Lacertidae), from the Western Iberian Peninsula

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3205 (1) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
PATRICK S. FITZE ◽  
VIRGINIA GONZALEZ-JIMENA ◽  
LUIS M. SAN-JOSE ◽  
DIEGO SAN MAURO ◽  
RAFAEL ZARDOYA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Species Level ◽  
Museum Specimens ◽  
Phenotypic Data ◽  
Nuptial Coloration ◽  
Lacertid Lizard ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Independent Species ◽  
Age Estimates

A new species of lacertid lizard of the genus Psammodromus is described from the Iberian Peninsula. Genetic and recentlypublished phenotypic data support the differentiation of Psammodromus hispanicus into three, and not as previously sug-gested two, distinct lineages. Age estimates, lineage allopatry, the lack of mitochondrial and nuclear haplotype sharingbetween lineages, ecological niche divergence, and the current biogeographic distribution, indicated that the three lineagescorrespond to three independent species. Here, we describe a new species, Psammodromus occidentalis sp. n., which isgenetically different from the other sand racers and differentiated by the number of femoral pores, number of throat scales,snout shape, head ratio, green nuptial coloration, and number of supralabial scales below the subocular scale. We also pro-pose to upgrade the two previously recognized subspecies, Psammodromus hispanicus hispanicus Fitzinger, 1826 fromcentral Spain and Psammodromus hispanicus edwardsianus (Dugès, 1829) from eastern Spain, to the species level: Psam-modromus hispanicus stat. nov. and Psammodromus edwardsianus stat. nov. Given that the holotype of Psammodromushispanicus was lost, we designate a neotype. We also analysed museum specimens of P. blanci, P. microdactylus and P. algirus to describe differentiation of the Psammodromus hispanicus lineages/species from their closest relatives.

A new species of Australian freetail bat Mormopterus eleryi sp. nov. (Chiroptera: Molossidae) and a taxonomic reappraisal of M. norfolkensis (Gray)

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1875 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
TERRY REARDON ◽  
MARK ADAMS ◽  
NORM MCKENZIE ◽  
PAULINA JENKINS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Species Level ◽  
Glans Penis ◽  
Museum Specimens ◽  
Echolocation Call ◽  
Norfolk Island ◽  
History Of ◽  
Central Australia ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
A New Species

The species-level taxonomy of Australian Mormopterus has a long history of uncertainty. In this paper we review in detail the historic problems associated with determining the relationship between the norfolkensis holotype (allegedly from Norfolk Island) and forms occurring on mainland Australia. Using external and cranial characters, we establish that the holotype is conspecific with mainland specimens and we provide a redescription of the species. We also describe a new species, Mormopterus eleryi sp. nov. from central Australia. Updated allozyme profiles (a total of 40 putative loci) show that M. norfolkensis and M. eleryi sp. nov. diverge from one another at an average of 49% fixed differences and each diverge from the ‘planiceps-beccarii-loriae’ complex at an average of 48% and 45% fixed differences respectively. While both species are readily diagnosable by external and cranial features, they are especially distinctive in the morphology of the upper molars and glans penis. Echolocation call profiles as recorded by ANABAT bat detectors also show both species to have unique search phase calls compared to other Australian Mormopterus species. Both M norfolkensis and M. eleryi sp. nov. are known from less than 30 museum specimens each.

scholarly journals New species of smiley-faced spider Spintharus (Araneae, Theridiidae) from Brazil, and comments on unobserved diversity in South America

ZooKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 915 ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Gabriel A. LeMay ◽  
Ingi Agnarsson
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South America ◽  
Short Range ◽  
Museum Specimens ◽  
Widespread Species ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Independent Species ◽  
Geographically Isolated

Spintharus is a genus of spiders that contained only two species until 2018 when it was demonstrated that a ‘widespread’ species was instead composed of multiple short-range endemics. This note redescribes Spintharus gracilis Keyserling and describes a new species of Spintharus (Araneae, Theridiidae), S. levergersp. nov., both based on specimens from Brazil. We also examine specimens from several additional localities in Brazil displaying variation consistent with patterns previously found within the Caribbean: geographically isolated and unique localities may contain independent species lineages. Given the limited number of specimens, profuse variation, and lack of DNA data from museum specimens, it is challenging to gauge the number of species in the observed material. Instead of describing these as new species here, we highlight this variation and hypothesize that in South America, a greater diversity of the genus across the geographical landscape will be found than predicted based on Levi’s “widespread Spintharus flavidus” hypothesis. Our results suggest that continental efforts to sample the genus would be profitable, as this charismatic group likely harbors unappreciated diversity throughout the continent.

scholarly journals Description of a new species of Sphaerosyllis Claparède, 1863 (Polychaeta: Syllidae: Exogoninae) from the Alicante coast (W Mediterranean) and first reports of two other species of Syllidae for the Mediterranean Sea and the Iberian Peninsula

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. DEL-PILAR-RUSO ◽  
G. SAN MARTIN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Species Level ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Soft Bottom ◽  
Eastern Atlantic Ocean ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
San Martín ◽  
A New Species

During a study aiming at the evaluation of the distribution of the soft-bottom community at different taxonomic scales, thefamily Syllidae was analysed to the species level. Among the identified material, one undescribed species belonging to the genus Sphaerosyllis Claparède, 1863 was found and two species constitute new reports for the Mediterranean Sea and for the Iberian Peninsula: Parapionosyllis cf. macaronesiensis Brito, Núñez and San Martín, 2000, and Syllis cf. mauretanica (Licher, 1999) n. comb., both only previously known from the subtropical Eastern Atlantic Ocean. The new species of Sphaerosyllis is mainly distinguished in having bulbous, small antennae, tentacular and dorsal cirri, small parapodial glands, with granular material, and compound chaetae with short blades. In this paper, we describe the new species and the specimens of the new reports.

New taxa and new records of butterflies from Vietnam (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) 

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5048 (4) ◽  
pp. 486-510
Author(s):  
ALEXANDER L. MONASTYRSKII ◽  
VU VAN LIEN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
New Records ◽  
Species Level ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
The Status ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

A new species and eight new subspecies of Papilionoidea discovered in Vietnam between 2002 and 2020 are described and illustrated. The status of two taxa are revised. New taxa include Pieridae: Delias sanaca bidoupa Monastyrskii & Vu subspec. nov. and Talbotia naganum aurelia Monastyrskii & Vu subspec. nov.; Nymphalidae: Abrota ganga pulcheria Monastyrskii & Vu, subspec. nov.; Bassarona recta consonensis Monastyrskii & Vu, subspec. nov.; Pantoporia bieti aurantina Monastyrskii & To subspec. nov.; Ragadia latifasciata cristata Monastyrskii & Vu, subspec. nov.; Ragadia latifasciata crystallina Monastyrskii & Vu, subspec. nov.; Faunis indistincta luctus Monastyrskii & Vu subspec. nov. & Aemona gialaica Monastyrskii, K. Saito & Vu, spec. nov. The taxon infuscata Devyatkin & Monastyrskii, previously described as the subspecies Aemona tonkinensis infuscata, was elevated to the species level, while the taxon critias (Ragadia critias Riley & Godfrey) was reduced to a subspecies. Three Satyrinae species were recorded from Vietnam for the first time: Palaeonympha opalina Butler, 1871; Ypthima motschulskyi Bremer & Grey, 1853; and Ragadia latifasciata Leech, 1891.  

A new species of genus Hexacentrus Serville, 1831 from Taiwan (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Hexacentrinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4933 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-556
Author(s):  
PO-WEI CHEN ◽  
HUI-CONG XIE ◽  
XUE WU ◽  
CHU-ZE SHEN ◽  
ZHU-QING HE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Gene Tree ◽  
Species Level ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
As Species ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Similar Appearance ◽  
One New Species ◽  
A New Species

There are 29 species or subspecies in genus Hexacentrus occurring in Asia, Africa and Australia. Because of its similar appearance, it is not easy to distinguish them by traditional methods. In this study, we collected samples and sequenced COI genes from wide range. By reconstructing the gene tree, we found one new species, H. formosanus Chen et He sp. nov., from Taiwan. The new species is similar to H. expansus or H. inflatissimus, but differs from the former in male Cu2 vein of left tegmina curved and slender, and spectrum of male left tegmina slender and subsquare; differs from the later by body size smaller and female tegmina narrow and short. The type specimens are deposited in National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan (NMNS). H. japonicus hareyamai is treated as species level, H. hareyamai stat. nov. 

Description of the first flightless platynine ground beetle preserved in Baltic amber (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4318 (1) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
JOACHIM SCHMIDT ◽  
TORBEN GÖPEL ◽  
KIPLING WILL
Keyword(s):  
Computed Tomography ◽  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Ground Beetle ◽  
Species Level ◽  
Baltic Amber ◽  
Monotypic Genus ◽  
X Ray ◽  
X Ray Computed ◽  
A New Species

Species of the megadiverse ground beetle tribe Platynini occur on all continents except Antarctica. It has been long recognized that platynine beetles were preserved in the Eocene Baltic amber. However, thus far only a single Eocene fossil has been described to the species level. In the present paper, a new species of Platynini known only as an amber inclusion fossil is described and imaged using light microscopy and micro X-ray computed tomography. Since this species cannot be assigned to any of the recently described genera, the monotypic genus Praeanchodemus gen. n., with the type species P. punctaticeps sp. n., is erected. There is some evidence from external morphology that Praeanchodemus gen. n. is part of a lineage comprising the recent genera Paranchodemus, Rhadine, and Tanystoma. However, since some synapomorphies were not found, the true relationships of the fossil taxon remain moot. 

scholarly journals Hydropsyche fontinalis, a New Species of the instabilis-Group from the Iberian Peninsula (Trichoptera, Hydropsychidae)

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Zamora-Muñoz ◽  
M.A. González ◽  
J. Picazo-Muñoz ◽  
J. Alba-Tercedor
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Synelmis (Annelida: Polychaeta: Pilargidae) from the continental slope off Galicia (north-western Iberian peninsula)

2007 ◽  
Vol 87 (5) ◽  
pp. 1117-1120
Author(s):  
Juan Moreira ◽  
Julio Parapar
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Continental Slope ◽  
Western Spain ◽  
North Western ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Synelmis (Annelida: Polychaeta: Pilargidae), Synelmis urgorrii sp. nov., is described from the continental slope off north-western Spain. The new species is characterized by having antennae, peristomial cirri and parapodial cirri cirriform, lateral antennae located in the proximal third of the prostomium, notospines starting on chaetigers 7–11, well-developed neuropodial lobe and asymmetrical furcate chaetae, those of anterior chaetigers distinctly spinulated.

A new species of Anchitherium (Equidae: Anchitheriinae) from the Middle Miocene of Abocador de Can Mata (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula)

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 567-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheyenn Rotgers ◽  
David M. Alba ◽  
Josep M. Robles ◽  
Isaac Casanovas-Vilar ◽  
Jordi Galindo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Middle Miocene ◽  
Ne Iberian Peninsula ◽  
A New Species

scholarly journals New representatives of the species Kerpia samarica from the location Novyi Kuvak (kazanian stage, Samara Region)

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
Liubov Mikhailovna Bukhman ◽  
Nikolay Sergeevich Bukhman
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southern Urals ◽  
Species Level ◽  
Middle Urals ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
Kazanian Stage ◽  
New Findings ◽  
The One ◽  
Kungurian Stage ◽  
A New Species

The article is devoted to the study of new representatives of the genus Kerpia Naugolnykh from Novyi Kuvak located in Shentalinsky district (northeast of Samara region). The genus Kerpia for ginkgo similar leaves was set by S.V. Naugolnykh in 1995 on the material from the Kungurian stage of the Middle Urals. Typical species of this genus is Kerpia macroloba Naugolnykh. In the diagnosis of the genus S.V. Naugolnykh showed the most important signs of this genus: presence of lobes and sinuses of the 1st and 2nd order, distinct petiole and two veins included in lamina from the petiole. Later, in 2001, from the sediments of Kazanian stage of the Southern Urals S.V. Naugolnykh described a new species Kerpia belebeica Naugolnykh. In 2013 in Novyi Kuvak location we found impressions of ginkgo similar leaves with on the one hand a great similarity with the known members of the genus Kerpia ( Kerpia macroloba and Kerpia belebeica ), but on the other hand they are clearly not identical to this representative at the species level. According to the results of the study of these impressoins in 2014 we described a new species of the genus Kerpia - Kerpia samarica N.S. Bukhman et L.M. Bukhman, 2014. In this paper we give description of both known and new findings of species Kerpia samarica and a comparison of this species with other species of the genus Kerpia .

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