A new species of burrowing wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae: Lycosa) from Iran

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4286 (4) ◽  
pp. 597 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANTON A. NADOLNY ◽  
ALIREZA ZAMANI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Complete List ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Wolf Spiders ◽  
Desert Region ◽  
The World ◽  
A New Species

With over 2400 species in 123 genera, Lycosidae is one of the largest spider families (WSC 2017). For over two hundred years, the type genus Lycosa Latreille, 1804 have accumulated large-sized wolf spiders from all over the world. Thus, with 218 nominal species, this genus is distributed in all zoogeographical regions (WSC 2017). Almost none of the species currently classified in Lycosa appear to be related to the type species—L. tarantula (Linnaeus, 1758); hence, the genus is polyphyletic and should be divided into several genera. This process has been already started; for example, in Australia and New Zealand where many of large wolf spiders have been removed from Lycosa (Roewer 1955, 1959, 1960; Vink 2002; Framenau & Baehr 2016). Also, some Holarctic, Neotropic and Afrotropic species were transferred from Lycosa to other genera (for a complete list of references see WSC 2017). In the Palaearctic, Lycosa is represented by 60 species (WSC 2017) and remains almost unrevised. From the southern Palaearctic, Saharo-Gobian desert region (Yemel’yanov 1974), 36 species of Lycosa have been recorded to date, 6 of which are poorly described (WSC 2017). 

A new species of the genus Parapachymorpha Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (Phasmida, Phasmatidae, Clitumninae) from Laos

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4732 (1) ◽  
pp. 196-200
Author(s):  
CHANG-MOON JANG ◽  
YANG˗SEOP BAE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Body Surface ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Lateral View ◽  
Lower Margin ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
The World ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Egg Capsule

Parapachymorpha is one of eight genera within the tribe Medaurini of subfamily Clitumninae (Phasmatidae). It was established by Brunner von Wattenwyl (1893), with the type species Parapachymorpha nigra by subsequent designation of Kirby (1904), from Myanmar. Species of this genus are widely distributed in oriental tropics (Laos, China, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam and Cambodia), with only 11 known species in the world (Brock et al. 2018, Ho 2017). Species of the genus Parapachymorpha can be recognized by following characters (Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893;1907, Henmemann & Conle 2008, Ho 2017): 1) body robust in female and slender in male with long leg in relation to the length; 2) body surface of female granulose or spinose; 3) mesonotum of female more and less expanded posteriorly; 4) abdominal tergites lacking expanded prostero–lateral angles in both sexes; 5) laminal supraanalis undeveloped in female; 6) semi–tergite of male irregularly rectangular, with an additional finger­–like ventro–apical appendix on the lower margin and reduced or absent; 7) egg capsule oval to oblong and covered with a raised net–like structure in lateral view; 8) micropylar plate oval; 9) operculum concave or convex. In the present study, we describe additional species, Parapachymorpha minuta sp. nov. from Laos, with photographs of both sexes of adults and egg. 

Revision of the genus Rhoptromeris Förster, 1869 with reference to north-western European species

1978 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Göran Nordlander
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
European Species ◽  
Western European ◽  
North Western ◽  
A New Species

AbstractThe type material of most European nominal species previously placed in Rhoptromeris and of some other species is studied. Notes are given on the type material, 10 lectotypes are designated and the identity of the species is discussed. Three valid Rhoptromeris species are found: R. heptoma (Hartig) [type species], R. villosa (Hartig) and R. rufiventris (Giraud) n.comb. The latter is the type species of Hexamerocera Kieffer which is synonymized with Rhoptromeris. The genus Rhoptromeris is described and compared with related genera. The three species found to be valid are figured and redescribed, and also a new species, R. nigriventris, is described from Sweden. R. heptoma is an important parasitoid of Oscinella frit (L.) (Dipt.: Chloropidae).

scholarly journals Stegodyphus semadohensis: A new species from family Eresidae, recorded from Satpuda, Maharashtra, India (Arachnida: Araneae: Eresidae)

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-111
Author(s):  
Ujjwala Shivaji Deshmukh
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Adaptive Radiation ◽  
Type Species ◽  
The World ◽  
One New Species ◽  
Stegodyphus Sarasinorum ◽  
A New Species

Eresidae are represented poorly in Indian fauna. All over the world about hundred species in ten genera are known and about 29 species have been studied under the genus Stegodyphus. The genus Stegodyphus was established by Simon 1873, with the type species S. lineatus Latneille. Pocock (1900) described five species of Stegodyphus. Tikader (1963) illustrated Pococks Stegodyphus pacificus socialis for easy identification. Gajbe (2007) redescribed and reillustrated Stegodyphus sarasinorum Karsch including male. The study examines species in a relatively diverse lineage of genus Stegodyphus, where they undergone adaptive radiation. One new species of spider from family Eresidae, genus Stegodyphus (Stegodyphus semadohensis sp. nov. female) is recorded from Satpuda (Maharashtra State) India, during 2009.

A new species of Tanacetipathes from Brazil, with a redescription of the type species T. tanacetum (Pourtales) (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Antipatharia)

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 890 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. D. PÉREZ ◽  
D. L. COSTA ◽  
D. M. OPRESKO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Saint Paul ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Saint Peter ◽  
A New Species

The type species of Tanacetipathes Opresko, 2001 is Antipathes tanacetum Pourtalès, 1880. Pourtalès did not designate a holotype for A. tanacetum, nor did he indicate which form he thought was the most “typical” of the species. Because of the similarities of some of the syntypes with other nominal species, it is necessary to select a lectotype from one of the two groups with predominantly uniserial pinnulation. A specimen with short curved primary pinnules was chosen because it has a very distinctive pinnulation pattern that has been previously associated with Tanacetipathes tanacetum. With a lectotype of T. tanacetum designated, potential new species of Tanacetipathes can now be evaluated and compared directly with the type species. This is the case for T. paula n. sp., which is described here from the littoral of Archipelago of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (Brazil). This species has a corallum pseudo-dichotomously branched, with primary pinnules arranged in four rows and in alternating biserial groups of two pinnules each. The primary pinnules are up to 1.9 cm in length. The secondary pinnules usually occur bilaterally, on both sides of the primary pinnules, and often in subopposite pairs, especially near the base of the primary pinnules. There are usually 3-9 secondary pinnules per lateral primary pinnules. The anterior primary pinnules always with only two secondary pinnules arranged in subopposite pair nearer the base of primary. The axial spines are relatively large, conical, acute and slightly papillose; the polypar spines up to 0.25 mm tall and abpolypar spines up to 0.17 mm. Polyps are not present on the type specimen.

A new species of Orybina Snellen, 1895 from India (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae, Pyralinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4392 (3) ◽  
pp. 595
Author(s):  
NAVNEET SINGH ◽  
RAHUL RANJAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Yellow Spot ◽  
Female Genitalia ◽  
North India ◽  
The World ◽  
Lepidoptera Pyralidae ◽  
A New Species

The genus Orybina Snellen, 1895, a member of tribe Pyralini of the subfamily Pyralinae and family Pyralidae, was established as the objective replacement name for Oryba Walker, 1863. The original genus Oryba was established for its type species Oryba flaviplaga Walker, 1863 (by monotypy) from North Hindostan [North India]. Recently, the genus is reviewed by Qi et al. (2017) with inclusion of eight species and one subspecies in the World: Orybina kobesi Roesler, 1984, Orybina plangonalis (Walker, 1859), Orybina regalis (Leech, 1889), Orybina bellatulla Qi & Li, 2017, Orybina puerensis Qi & Li, 2017, Orybina hoenei Caradja, 1935, Orybina flaviplaga (Walker, 1863), Orybina imperatrix Caradja, 1925 and Orybina flaviplaga kiangsualis Caradja, 1925. The genus can be diagnosed by the rosteriform labial palpi, forewings reddish-brown or saffron, with a yellow spot (except in Orybina bellatulla). In the male genitalia uncus is triangular or tongue-shaped, and valvae are enlarged apically. In the female genitalia, the anterior apophyses and posterior apophyses are short, the ductus bursae usually coiled anteriorly, and the ovate corpus bursae is without signum (Qi et al. 2017). 

scholarly journals CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE ORIBATID MITE GENUS ANGULLOZETES (ACARI: ORIBATIDA: SCHELORIBATIDAE)

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 75-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey G. Ermilov ◽  
Umukusum Ya. Shtanchaeva ◽  
Luis S. Subías
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Body Length ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Oribatid Mite ◽  
Generic Diagnosis ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Mite Genus

A new species of the genus Angullozetes (Oribatida: Scheloribatidae) is described from New Zealand. Angullozetes. arilloi sp. nov. differs from the type species, A. rostratus Hammer, 1967 by the smaller body length, the presence of four pairs of notogastral porose areas and the absence of aggenital setae. A revised generic diagnosis of Angullozetes is presented.

A new species of the spider genus Neriene from Southwestern China (Araneae: Linyphiidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2483 (1) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIE LIU ◽  
JIAN CHEN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Southwestern China ◽  
The World ◽  
One New Species ◽  
A New Species

The linyphiid genus Neriene Blackwall, 1833 was created by Blackwall without indication of a type species. There have been debates about this genus since then. Thorell (1870) synonymized Neriene with Linyphia Latreille, 1804, while van Helsdingen split up the genus Linyphia and re-established Neriene (van Helsdingen, 1969). This system has been generally accepted. Currently, 55 species of Neriene have been reported in the world, of which 28 species are recorded in China (Platnick, 2010). Field collections in Yunnan Province, southwestern China were carried out in 2005, 2009 by colleagues of Hubei University. These surveys yielded one new species of the genus Neriene, which is described here.

A new species of Chaetiliidae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Valvifera) from the Río de la Plata estuary, Argentina-Uruguay, and reconsideration of Macrochiridothea and Chiriscus

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2119 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
GARY C. B. POORE ◽  
F. RAMÍREZ ◽  
A. SCHIARITI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
South America ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Rio De La Plata ◽  
Río De La Plata ◽  
Southern South America ◽  
La Plata ◽  
A New Species

A new species, Macrochiridothea estuariae, is described from the estuary of the Río de la Plata. It differs from other species of the genus in having weakly defined incisions on the side of the head. The genus Chiriscus Richardson, 1911, previously synonymised with Macrochiridothea Ohlin, 1901 is revived on the basis of a lobed article 4 on antenna 2 and a longer pereonite 7 to include the type species, Chiriscus australis Richardson, 1911, and C. giambiagiae (Torti & Bastida, 1972) transferred from Macrochiridothea. Nine other species of Macrochiridothea from southern South America and another from New Zealand are briefly diagnosed. A key is provided.

Algal-dwelling Eophliantidae (Amphipoda): description of a new species and key to the world species, with notes on their biogeography

2009 ◽  
Vol 90 (5) ◽  
pp. 1055-1063 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.N. Lörz ◽  
N.M. Kilgallen ◽  
M. Thiel
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Posterior Margin ◽  
Wide Distribution ◽  
Shallow Waters ◽  
Morphological Description ◽  
World Species ◽  
The World ◽  
Marine Algal ◽  
A New Species

Eophliantidae are poorly studied marine algal-dwelling amphipods with a wide distribution. A new species was found to excavate burrows across the main stem of Carpophyllum maschalocarpum (Turner) Grev. in the New Zealand subtidal, and a detailed morphological description of this amphipod is given. Bircenna macayai sp. nov. can be distinguished from other Bircenna species by a combination of the following characters: bilobed coxa 1, merus and carpus of pereopods 5–7 strongly extended posteriorly, crenulate basis of pereopod 7 and smooth posterior margin of epimeron 3, pereopod 7 basis longer than wide. A key to the fourteen world species of Eophliantidae is provided. Taxonomy, evolutionary sequences, functional morphology and biogeography of the Eophliantidae are briefly discussed. New Zealand and Australian shallow waters show the highest species diversity of Eophliantidae, containing both species bearing plesiomorphic and highly derived characters, suggesting that Australasia is an evolutionary centre for this amphipod family.

First record of genus Phlyctaenopora in South Pacific waters

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4990 (3) ◽  
pp. 596-600
Author(s):  
MICHELLE KELLY
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
First Record ◽  
The West ◽  
Pacific Waters ◽  
A New Species

Four species of Phlyctaenopora Topsent, 1904 (Demospongiae Sollas, Poecilosclerida Topsent, Mycalidae Lundbeck) are recognised today (Van Soest et al. 2021a) (Table 1): two Atlantic Ocean species in subgenus Phlyctaenopora [type species P. (P.) bitorquis Topsent, 1904, from the Azores; P. (P.) halichondrioides van Soest & Stentoft, 1988, from Barbados]; and two Southern Hemisphere species in subgenus Barbozia Dendy, 1922: P. (Barbozia) primitiva Dendy, 1922, from the Seychelles, and P. (B.) bocagei Lévi & Lévi, 1983, from New Caledonia. Here we describe a new species of Phlyctaenopora from Wanganella North in International Waters on the West Norfolk Ridge, northwest of New Zealand. Phlyctaenopora (B.) spina sp. nov. provides a first record of the genus in the South Pacific, providing further confirmation of the integrity of the subgenus Barbozia.  

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