Brachypterous ground beetles of the Trichotichnus subgenus Bottchrus Jedlička (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from the Himalaya, with description of fifteen new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4323 (3) ◽  
pp. 301
Author(s):  
BORIS M. KATAEV ◽  
JOACHIM SCHMIDT
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Slope ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Southern Slope ◽  
Eastern Slope ◽  
The South ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
New Synonyms ◽  
Central Nepal ◽  
The Himalaya

The paper deals with the taxonomy of brachypterous species of the subgenus Bottchrus Jedlička, 1935 of the genus Trichotichnus Morawitz, 1863 occurring in the Himalayan region. The following new species are described: T. (B.) baglungensis sp. n. from the Baglung Lekh mountain range, Baglung District, western Central Nepal; T. (B.) parvulus sp. n. from Mt. Panchhase and the Krapa Danda mountain range, Kaski District, western Central Nepal; T. (B.) bubsaensis sp. n. from the eastern slope of the middle Dudh Koshi Valley near Bubsa, Solu Khumbu District, eastern Central Nepal; T. (B.) schawalleri sp. n. from the western slope of the Arun Valley, Bhojpur District, East Nepal; T. (B.) obliquebasalis sp. n. from the Khimti Khola Valley near Shivalaya, Dolakha District, eastern Central Nepal; T. (B.) panchhaseensis sp. n. from Mt. Panchhase, Kaski District, western Central Nepal; T. (B.) siklesensis sp. n. from the Sikles mountain range on the southern slope of Annapurna Peak II, western Central Nepal; T. (B.) pusillus sp. n. from the south-western slopes of Manaslu Himal (Bara Pokhari Lekh and Dudh Pokhari Lekh mountain ranges), and from the south-eastern slope of Annapurna Himal (Telbrung Danda mountain range), Lamjung District, western Central Nepal; T. (B.) ganeshensis sp. n. from the south-western slope of Ganesh Himal, Nuwakot District, Central Nepal; T. (B.) minutus sp. n. from the mountains surrounding the Kathmandu Valley (Shivapuri Lekh, Mt. Phulchoki), Central Nepal; T. (B.) gupchiensis sp. n. from the Gupchi Danda mountain range on the south-eastern slope of Manaslu Himal, Gorkha District, western Central Nepal; T. (B.) brancuccii sp. n. from the southern slope of the Helambu mountain range, Sindhupalchok District, Central Nepal; T. (B.) manasluensis sp. n. from the Bara Pokhari Lekh mountain range on the south-western slope of Manaslu Himal, Lamjung District, western Central Nepal; T. (B.) sikkimensis sp. n. from Pelling near Geyzing, West Sikkim, India; T. (B.) martensi sp. n. from the western slopes of the Singalila mountain range, Taplejung District, East Nepal. The following four species are redescribed: brachypterous T. (B.) holzschuhi Kirschenhofer, 1992; T. (B.) cyanescens Ito, 1998; T. (B.) hingstoni Andrewes, 1930; and dimorphic T. (B.) birmanicus Bates, 1892; and new data on their distribution are provided. The lectotype is designated for T. hingstoni Andrewes, 1930. The following two new synonyms are proposed: Trichotichnus birmanicus Bates, 1892 = T. (Bellogenus) probsti Kirschenhofer, 1992, syn. n., and T. hingstoni Andrewes, 1930 = T. (Pseudotrichotichnus) curvatus Ito, 1996, syn. n. The brachypterous and dimorphic species of Bottchrus known from the Himalaya are divided into eight informal groups based mostly on the degree of reduction of hindwings and the configuration of the median lobe of the aedeagus, and their relationships are briefly discussed. The distributional data of all these species are mapped. 

The Cephenniini of China. IX. Cephennomicrus Reitter of Yunnan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4629 (2) ◽  
pp. 280-286
Author(s):  
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
The South ◽  
Eastern Province ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Two New Species

Only two genera of the cosmopolitan tribe Cephenniini are known to occur in the People's Republic of China: Cephennodes Reitter and Cephennomicrus Reitter. The former is species-rich and abundant, especially in subtropical and sub-Himalayan areas, and so far nearly 80 species have been recorded in China. Cephennomicrus is rare, and only two species have been found in this vast country, in the south-eastern province of Fujian. Two new species are reported to occur in Yunnan: Cephennomicrus yunnanicus sp. n. and C. andreasi sp. n. 

scholarly journals Molecular phylogenetics and systematic revision of the south-eastern Australian Helicarionidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)

2017 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel T. Hyman ◽  
Irantzu de la Iglesia Lamborena ◽  
Frank Köhler
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetics ◽  
New South ◽  
Shell Morphology ◽  
The South ◽  
Systematic Revision ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Southeastern Australia ◽  
South Wales ◽  
One New Species

The south-eastern Australian helicarionid clade currently comprises six genera of snails and semislugs united by genital characters, including an epiphallic flagellum that produces a spiraling, spinose spermatophore, the absence of an epiphallic caecum, and the presence of at most a very short vagina. We comprehensively revise the taxonomy of this group based on comparative analyses of key morphological features and mitochondrial markers COI and 16S, revise the placement of several species described recently on the basis of shell morphology alone, and describe new taxa. The snail genus Brevisentis is monophyletic as currently understood, but includes an additional undescribed species from Wollemi National Park, New South Wales. Mysticarion is shown to contain four arboreal semislugs with wide, disjunct ranges, including one new species (Mysticarion obscurior sp. nov.). We synonymise Fastosarion staffordorum with Mysticarion hyalinus. The semislug Desidarion is synonymised with Parmavitrina, and we describe two new species of this genus, P. flavocarinata sp. nov. and P. maculosa sp. nov. The semi-arboreal semislug Cucullarion is herein included in the south-eastern Australian helicarionid clade based on morphological and genetic evidence, despite its more northerly distribution. Two small semislugs so far placed in Peloparion do not group together and a new genus, Ubiquitarion gen. nov., is described for Peloparion iridis. All of these genera, together with the semislug Helicarion (not included here), form a monophyletic radiation endemic to southeastern Australia.

scholarly journals CHANGES IN THE STRUCTURE AND ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS OF STANDS IN THE TRANSITION ZONE BETWEEN THE FOREST AND MOUNTAIN STEPPES IN THE KRAKA MASSIF, SOUTH URALS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.K. Gaysin ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Transition Zone ◽  
Aboveground Biomass ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Soil Conditions ◽  
South Urals ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Southern Slope ◽  
The South ◽  
Mountain Steppes ◽  
Taxation Data

The structure of tree stands in the ecotone between the forest and extrazonal steppes on southern slope the South Kraka mountain range (eastern macro slope of the South Urals) was investigated. On the basis of taxation data and the identified close relationships between the biomass of trees and the diameters of their trunks, aboveground biomass of stands was calculated. It has been shown that the deterioration of microclimatic and soil conditions for the growth and regeneration of trees in the transition zone between the forest and mountain steppes leads to a significant change in taxation characteristics and aboveground biomass of tree stands.

The Rediscovery of Sphenomorphus malayanus Doria, 1888 (Squamata: Scincidae) from the Titiwangsa Mountain Range of Peninsular Malaysia and its re-description as S. senja sp. nov.

Zootaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3931 (1) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. LEE GRISMER ◽  
EVAN S. H. QUAH
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
The South ◽  
Additional Specimen ◽  
The North ◽  
West Sumatra ◽  
Cameron Highlands

The discovery of an additional specimen of Sphenomorphus malayanus Doria, 1888 from Gunung Brinchang, Cameron Highlands, Pahang in Peninsular Malaysia reveals that it is not conspecific with the type specimen from Gunung Singgalan, West Sumatra, 600 km to the south. The new specimen and an additional specimen previously collected from Gunung Gerah, Perak, Peninsular Malaysia, 56 km to the north, are described here as the new species S. senja sp. nov. and differ from S. malayanus by having a larger SVL (60.0–65 mm versus 53 mm); a deeply recessed as opposed to a shallow tympanum; 72 or 73 versus 76 paravertebral scales; eight or nine superciliary scales as opposed to 10; and the posteriormost superciliary scale being large as opposed to small. Cameron Highlands is unique among other upland areas in Peninsular Malaysia in that it harbors an unprecedented number of closely related ecological equivalents living in close sympatry or syntopy. 

Review of the deep-water asellote genus Notopais Hodgson, 1910 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Munnopsididae) with description of three new species from the south-western Pacific.

Zootaxa ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 513 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
KELLY L. MERRIN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Continental Slope ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Ventral Side ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
The South ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Three New Species

The munnopsidid genus Notopais Hodgson, 1910 is taken out of synonymy with Echinozone Sars, 1897. The type species Notopais spicata Hodgson, 1910 and Notopais quadrispinosa (Beddard, 1886) are redescribed and three new species described: Notopais beddardi n. sp. collected from Antarctica at a depth of less than 37 metres; Notopais minya n. sp. collected from the south-eastern Australian continental slope between the depths of 429 466 metres; and Notopais zealandica n. sp. collected from the Chatham Rise between the depths of 1386 1640 metres, off the south-eastern New Zealand coast. Notopais is distinguished from Echinozone by three defining characters: the flattened appearance of the ventral side of the cephalon, the presence of pedestal setae on the pereonites and antenna 2 article 1 with produced distolateral angle with prominent spine and distal robust seta. This genus is exclusively found in the Southern Hemisphere and is known from Antarctica and the south-western Pacific.

New digeneans (Opecoelidae) from hydrothermal vent fishes in the south eastern Pacific Ocean, including one new genus and five new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3768 (1) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. BRAY ◽  
A. WAESCHENBACH ◽  
P. DYAL ◽  
D. T.J. LITTLEWOOD ◽  
S. MORAND
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Hydrothermal Vent ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Eastern Pacific ◽  
Eastern Pacific Ocean ◽  
The South ◽  
South Eastern

Nematodes of the order Rhabditida from Andalucía Oriental, Spain. The genus Cephalobus Bastian, 1865 with description of C. harpagonis sp. n. and key to species

Nematology ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-508
Author(s):  
Joaquín Abolafia ◽  
Reyes Peña-Santiago
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Body Length ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
The South ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Female Tail ◽  
A New Species

AbstractA new species of the genus Cephalobus is described from natural areas in the south-eastern Iberian Peninsula. Cephalobus harpagonis sp. n. is characterised by female body length of 0.38-0.47 mm, lips amalgamated in pairs, labial probolae present as low ridges connecting tips of adjacent lips, ovary lacking flexures, spermatheca 11-12 μm long, postuterine sac very short (0.3-0.4 times corresponding body diam.), female tail conical or subcylindrical (22-31 μm, c = 13.2-17.1, c′ = 1.7-2.5) and ending in a tuberculate, often harpoon-like, mucro. Descriptions, measurements and illustrations, including SEM photographs, are also provided for C. persegnis and C. troglophilus from Spain. An identification key to Cephalobus species and a compendium of their measurements are also provided.

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