Discovery of the subgenus Lithobius (Sigibius) Chamberlin, 1913 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) in East Asia: A review the Chinese species

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3348 (1) ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
HUIQIN MA ◽  
SUJIAN PEI ◽  
YAYING LI ◽  
BAOJUN SHI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Species Distribution ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
A New Species

The present paper reviews the centipede species of the subgenus Lithobius (Sigibius) Chamberlin, 1913 (Lithobiomorpha: Lith-obiidae) of the Chinese fauna, including a new species Lithobius (Sigibius) trichinocaput sp. n. recently discovered from HebeiProvince, the only East Asian record of this otherwise Central and North America subgenus of Lithobiomorpha. Diagnoses ofthe subgenus and the species, detailed account on species distribution and a key to the Chinese Lithobius (Sigibius) species are presented.

First East Asian record of the genus Alpagut (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dipsocoridae), with description of a new species and a note on the metacoxal adhesive pad of Dipsocoridae

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4768 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
KAZUTAKA YAMADA ◽  
MASAMI HAYASHI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Asia ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

The genus Alpagut Kıyak, 1995, is recorded from East Asia for the first time based on the description of A. masakazui sp. nov. from Japan. Habitus images and illustrations of diagnostic features, including genitalia structures, are provided. The loculus capsulae of A. masakazui sp. nov. is discussed. The presence of a metacoxal adhesive pad is reconfirmed in Dipsocoridae along with a discussion of its morphology. 

Polygonatum campanulatum (Asparagaceae), a new species from Yunnan, China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 236 (1) ◽  
pp. 94 ◽  
Author(s):  
CAI XIU-ZHEN ◽  
HU GUANG-WAN ◽  
KAMANDE ELIZABETH MWIHAKI ◽  
NGUMBAU VERONICAH MUTELE ◽  
WEI NENG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
East Asia ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
Northern Hemisphere ◽  
The World ◽  
Aerial Stem ◽  
Warm Temperate ◽  
A New Species

Polygonatum Miller (1754: without pagination) is characterized by thick fleshy creeping sympodial rhizomes with elongated aerial stem and fleshy berries (Tamura et al. 1997). This genus contains 60 or more species in the world and widely distributed in the warm-temperate to boreal zones of the Northern Hemisphere with five species in Europe and three species in North America and concentrated (about 50 species) in East Asia (from Russia and Japan to Himalaya) (Tang 1978, Conran & Tamura 1998, Chen & Tamura 2000, Utech 2002, Judd 2003, Ohara et al. 2007). Chen & Tamura (2000) recognized 39 species for China, 20 of them being endemic to the country (see also Tang 1978). Since then, Floden (2014) and Zhao & He (2014) described two new taxa, both from Yunnan, China.

scholarly journals A new species of Plesiosorex (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla) from the Early Miocene of Japan: first record of the genus from East Asia

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 292-299
Author(s):  
Mitsuharu Oshima ◽  
Yukimitsu Tomida ◽  
Takamichi Orihara
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Middle Miocene ◽  
Cladistic Analysis ◽  
First Record ◽  
Early Miocene ◽  
Central Japan ◽  
European Species ◽  
A New Species

Abstract A nearly complete dentary with preserved i2, p3 and m1 of a relatively large soricomorph from the Dota locality, Kani Basin, Early Miocene (ca. 18.5 Ma), Nakamura Formation of the Mizunami Group in central Japan, is described as a new species of Plesiosorex. It represents the first record of the genus in East Asia. Plesiosorex fejfari sp. nov. has a slender dentary, posteriorly elongated angular and condyloid processes, p3 with two roots, and m1 without hypoconulid or cingulid. Cladistic analysis of Butselia gracilis and seven species of Plesiosorex shows that Butselia is basally positioned with respect to Plesiosorex, and it seems likely that Plesiosorex originated in Europe at the beginning of the Miocene and expanded its distribution to East Asia and North America during the Early Miocene. Two Middle Miocene North American species are more closely related to each other than to European species of the same age.

A new species of the montane lacewing genus Rapisma McLachlan (Neuroptera, Ithonidae) from northwestern Yunnan, China

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4763 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-443
Author(s):  
XINGYUE LIU
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
East Asia ◽  
South Asia ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Northwestern Yunnan

The genus Rapisma McLachlan, 1866 (montane lacewings) is a rare and little known group of the family Ithonidae (Insecta: Neuroptera). There have been 21 described species of Rapisma, and all of them are distributed from East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia. Here I report a new species of Rapisma from northwestern Yunnan, China, namely Rapisma weixiense sp. nov. The new species belongs to a group of Rapisma species with very short antennae. 

Widespread infection of the Eastern red-spotted newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) by a new species of Amphibiocystidium, a genus of fungus-like mesomycetozoan parasites not previously reported in North America

Parasitology ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. R. RAFFEL ◽  
T. BOMMARITO ◽  
D. S. BARRY ◽  
S. M. WITIAK ◽  
L. A. SHACKELTON
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Emerging Infectious Diseases ◽  
Seasonal Distribution ◽  
Notophthalmus Viridescens ◽  
Amphibian Species ◽  
Mortality And Morbidity ◽  
Causative Agents ◽  
A New Species

SUMMARYGiven the worldwide decline of amphibian populations due to emerging infectious diseases, it is imperative that we identify and address the causative agents. Many of the pathogens recently implicated in amphibian mortality and morbidity have been fungal or members of a poorly understood group of fungus-like protists, the mesomycetozoans. One mesomycetozoan, Amphibiocystidium ranae, is known to infect several European amphibian species and was associated with a recent decline of frogs in Italy. Here we present the first report of an Amphibiocystidium sp. in a North American amphibian, the Eastern red-spotted newt (Notophthalmus viridescens), and characterize it as the new species A. viridescens in the order Dermocystida based on morphological, geographical and phylogenetic evidence. We also describe the widespread and seasonal distribution of this parasite in red-spotted newt populations and provide evidence of mortality due to infection.

Planalvus (Brachiopoda, Athyridida) from the Lower Devonian of the Armorican Massif, northwest France

1994 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick R. Racheboeuf ◽  
Paul Copper ◽  
Fernando Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Lower Devonian ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
Armorican Massif ◽  
A New Species

Cryptonella? cailliaudi Barrois, 1889, from the Lower Devonian of the Armorican Massif, is tentatively assigned to the athyridid brachiopod genus Planalvus Carter, thus far known only from the Lower Carboniferous of eastern North America. In addition, a new species, Planalvus rufus, is described from the Bois-Roux Formation (Pragian) of Brittany, France. These French species are small brachiopods with complex spiralial and jugal structures, which permit assignment to the order Athyridida.

scholarly journals Apheloria polychroma, a new species of millipede from the Cumberland Mountains (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4375 (3) ◽  
pp. 409
Author(s):  
PAUL E. MAREK ◽  
JACKSON C. MEANS ◽  
DEREK A. HENNEN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Mississippi River ◽  
Appalachian Mountains ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Ouachita Mountains ◽  
Model Species ◽  
Color Morphs ◽  
Cumberland Mountains ◽  
A New Species

Millipedes of the genus Apheloria Chamberlin, 1921 occur in temperate broadleaf forests throughout eastern North America and west of the Mississippi River in the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains. Chemically defended with toxins made up of cyanide and benzaldehyde, the genus is part of a community of xystodesmid millipedes that compose several Müllerian mimicry rings in the Appalachian Mountains. We describe a model species of these mimicry rings, Apheloria polychroma n. sp., one of the most variable in coloration of all species of Diplopoda with more than six color morphs, each associated with a separate mimicry ring.

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