Four new species of Luciuranus fireflies from the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4413 (1) ◽  
pp. 173 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUIZ F. L. DA SILVEIRA ◽  
PAULA M. SOUTO ◽  
J. R. M. MERMUDES
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Reproductive Isolation ◽  
Prima Facie ◽  
Atlantic Rainforest ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Serra Do Mar ◽  
Species Specific ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest

Luciuranus Silveira, Khattar & Mermudes, 2016 is a firefly genus whose species bear an intricate, species-specific lock-and-key mechanism of reproductive isolation. Here we propose four new species, Luciuranus magnoculus sp. nov., L. desideratus sp. nov., L. takiyae sp. nov. and L. carioca sp. nov., and provide illustrations of their diagnostic features and an updated key to species. As previously reported for their congenerics, each of the four new species have stereotypical morphology of both male and female terminalia, and are regarded as prima facie endemics of single massifs of the Serra da Mantiqueira and Serra do Mar, in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest. 

Akamboja gen. nov., a new genus of railroad-worm beetle endemic to the Atlantic Rainforest, with five new species (Coleoptera: Phengodidae, Mastinocerinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4306 (4) ◽  
pp. 501 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDRÉ SILVA ROZA ◽  
HINGRID YARA SOUZA QUINTINO ◽  
JOSÉ RICARDO MIRAS MERMUDES ◽  
LUIZ FELIPE LIMA DA SILVEIRA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Landscape Heterogeneity ◽  
Atlantic Rainforest ◽  
Disjunct Distribution ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Mountain Ranges ◽  
Phylogenetic Studies

The Atlantic Rainforest is a hotspot of biodiversity, housing several endemic species. Environmental stasis through broad time scales, vast latitudinal extension and landscape heterogeneity are thought to contribute in explaining the greater species richness of this biome. Unfortunately, it is threatened mainly due to anthropic-driven habitat loss. Ectotherms of low-mobility, such as tropical, small soft-bodied railroad-worms, may be especially threatened by anthropogenic climate changes. Many of such species have narrow climatic niches and therefore might become extinct before we know them. Here we describe a new genus endemic of the Atlantic Rainforest mountain ranges, and five spatially disjunct new species. Akamboja gen. nov. is unique by its ten-segmented antenna, IV to VIII with two short symmetrical branches, branches of antennomere IX fused in a singular flabellum, slightly depressed medially; elytron short, surpassing the second to fourth abdominal segment (depending on species); first tarsomere of anterior leg with a ventral comb; claws with six long and asymmetrical teeth; aedeagus with patch of bristles at paramere apex. We provide a key to species as well as illustrations for the diagnostic features. We highlight that Akamboja cleidae sp. nov., as defined here, has a disjunct distribution and its populations are surrounded by an unsuitable environmental matrix, thus are probably reproductively isolated. Future phylogenetic studies should address the evolutionary history and delimitation of this taxon. We also provide a key to genera of Mastinocerinae with ten antennomeres, including Akamboja gen. nov. 

Establishment of a subfamily Aphyssurinae for the Australian genus Aphyssura Hardy (Diptera : Calliphoridae), with a review of known forms and descriptions of new species

1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 511 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. R. Norris
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Uniform Structure ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Male And Female

The subfamily Aphyssurinae, herein established, comprises only the precinctively Australian genus Aphyssura Hardy. These flies are all small (overall length up to ca. 5 mm) and of fairly uniform structure. The subfamily and genus are characterised as follows: the long arista is sparsely plumose on the basal quarter of its third segment, and thence spiculate to the apex; the prosternum is sparsely bristled; some bristles (anterior presutural intraalar, immediately presutural intraalar, lateral scutellars and intrapostalar) are lacking; cell r 4+5 is closed or even has a short appendix; the calypteres are bare; the males have a relatively narrow frons, an uncleft fifth sternite armed with a down-turned subapical spine; the cerci are completely fused. The females often completely different from the males in coloration, and the dorsal sclerites of the ovipositor are greatly reduced; reproduction is by larviparity. The previously described species – A. minuta (Malloch), A. dubia (Walker) and A. pusilla (Macquart) – are characterised. The following new species are described: A. arenicola, A. attonita, A. banksi, A. contexta, A. crassigaster, A. cygnea, A. eyrei, A. halli, A. humei, A. ioannes, A. liepae, A. mongensis, A. narrogina, A. nigricans, A. rubida, A. rustica, A. southcotti, A. sturti, A. tanni, A. territorialis, A. therribriana, A. tonnoiri, A. ungarrana, and A. zentae. A key to species is given. Illustrations of diagnostic features of the male and female terminalia are given.

New species of Thraulodes Ulmer, 1920 (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae: Atalophlebiinae) from Northeastern Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4565 (2) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
ROGÉRIO CAMPOS ◽  
RODOLFO MARIANO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
The State ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Atlantic Rainforest ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Lateral Margins ◽  
Dorsal Extension ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest

Two new species of the genus Thraulodes Ulmer are described from the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest and Caatinga biomes from the state of Bahia, northeastern Brazil. Thraulodes catoles sp. nov. is described based on the male imago and can be distinguished from all other congeners by possessing the forewings with three cross veins basal to bullae; a reddish band on the apex of the foreleg femora; styliger plate with digitiform dorsal extension and penes with an apicolateral “ear”, long spines, lapel on inner margin and lateral pouch present. Thraulodes calori sp. nov. is described based on male and female imagos and can be diagnosed by the three weak cross veins basal to bullae on forewings; the apex of styliger plate rounded without medial projection with lateral margins acuminated; and the penes short, wide and without lateral pouch. The key to Thraulodes from Brazil was updated to include the new species described for the genus. 

Description of Backusella constricta sp. nov. (Mucorales, ex Zygomycota) from the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest, including a key to species of Backusella

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 289 (1) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
DIOGO X. LIMA ◽  
KERSTIN VOIGT ◽  
CARLOS A.F. DE SOUZA ◽  
RAFAEL J.V. DE OLIVEIRA ◽  
CRISTINA M. SOUZA-MOTTA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Atlantic Rainforest ◽  
Lsu Rdna ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Simultaneous Production ◽  
Rdna Sequences ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest

The Backusella genus comprises mucoralean saprobes that inhabit in mainly soil and form transitorily curved (when young, erect at maturity) sporangiophores arising directly from the substratum, with simultaneous production of both sporangia and sporangiola. During a study of Mucorales in soil from an Atlantic Rainforest in Pernambuco, Brazil, one specimen of Backusella was isolated and characterized based on morphological, physiological and molecular data (ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 and LSU rDNA sequences). The phylogenetic analyses of the isolate revealed that it belongs to the Backusellaceae and is closely related to species of Backusella. The specimen grew better at 25ºC, with no development at 40ºC, and presented conical and cylindrical columellae possessing a central constriction as well as subglobose sporangiospores 7.5–15 × 5.5–10 µm. Based on the evidences of the analyzed datasets, a new species of Backusella is proposed and a taxonomic key for the species of this genus is provided.

A remarkable new species of cavernicolous Collartidini from Madagascar (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4425 (2) ◽  
pp. 372 ◽  
Author(s):  
DOMINIK CHŁOND ◽  
ERIC GUILBERT ◽  
ARNAUD FAILLE ◽  
PETR BAŇAŘ ◽  
LEONIDAS-ROMANOS DAVRANOGLOU
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Female Genitalia ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Diagnostic Characters

Mangabea troglodytes sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) is described based on four specimens collected in a cave of the Namoroka Karstic System, Madagascar, and deposited in the Collection of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris. The dorsal habitus as well as diagnostic characters of male and female genitalia are extensively illustrated and imaged. A key to species of the genus Mangabea Villiers, 1970 is provided and the degree of cave specialization of the new species is discussed. 

Systematics of Mallochianamyia Santos-Neto (=Gayomyia Malloch), an unplaced genus of Neotropical acalyptrate flies (Diptera: Schizophora)

2000 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry A. Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New World ◽  
Female Genitalia ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Male And Female

AbstractMallochianamyia Santos-Neto was proposed as a replacement name for Gayomyia Malloch, 1933 (preoccupied by Gayomyia Banks, 1913), an unplaced genus of acalyptrate Diptera from Chile and Argentina. The genus comprises 12 species: M. cladostyla sp. n.; M. fenestrata sp. n.; M. flavitibia sp. n.; M. furcata sp. n.; M. gallina sp. n.; M. latigena sp. n.; M. magnipalpis sp. n.; M. nigrohalterata (Malloch) comb. n.; M. penai sp. n.; M. setosa sp. n.; M. truncata sp. n.; M. vexans sp. n. All new species are illustrated and a key to species of Mallochianamyia is provided. The monophyly of the genus is supported by three characters of the male and female genitalia. Mallochianamyia is most closely related to the New World genera Paraleucopis Malloch and Schizostomyia Malloch and an undescribed Australian genus. The group cannot be placed in any established family as currently defined, although there are affinities to some families in the Asteioinea sensu J. F. McAlpine (1989). Research on the morphology and relationships of genera related to Mallochianamyia is required to clarify the familial status of the group.

Revision of the genus Pseudolebinthus (Orthoptera, Gryllidae, Eneopterinae) with the description of a new species from Southeast Africa

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4521 (2) ◽  
pp. 265 ◽  
Author(s):  
RANJANA JAISWARA ◽  
JIAJIA DONG ◽  
TONY ROBILLARD
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sister Group ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Identification Keys ◽  
A New Species

Pseudolebinthus is an intriguing genus of the tribe Xenogryllini with a distribtuion restricted to southeast Africa and characterized by unique morphological features such as asymmetrical male forewings and harp veins shaped as elongated balloons. It is sister group to the widely distributed genus Xenogryllus and has been known by two species, P. africanus Robillard, 2006 and P. whellani Robillard, 2006. The genus was initially diagnosed based exclusively on male morphological features. In this study, we add a new species to the genus, P. gorochovi Robillard sp. nov. and revise the diagnostic features using both male and female characters. We also update identification keys for the species of the genus. 

Taxonomic review of the plant bug genus Campylomma Reuter from Japan (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae: Nasocorini), with descriptions of two new species

2015 ◽  
Vol 158 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomohide Yasunaga ◽  
Randall T. Schuh ◽  
Ram Keshari Duwal
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Ne China ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Plant Associations ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Russian Far East

The nasocorine plant bug genus Campylomma Reuter from Japan and neighboring regions is reviewed. Twelve species are currently recognized. Several species, which have pale basic coloration, are rediagnosed, with emphasis on the male and female genitalia as significant taxonomic characters. Two new species, C. fukagawai and C. tanakakiana, are described and figured, and C. marjorae Schuh is reported from Japan for the first time and diagnosed. The females of three taxonomically confused species, C. eurycephala Yasunaga, C. livida Reuter and C. lividicornis Reuter, are documented in detail and figured for the first time. Female specimens of the most frequently encountered congeners, C. lividicornis Reuter and C. livida Reuter, can now be unequivocally identified. Confidently associated final-instar immatures are figured for C. aterrima Yasunaga and C. livida Reuter. Confirmed host plant associations are reported for most treated species. Campylomma chinensis [= chinense] Schuh is proposed as a junior synonym of C. livida Reuter, and C. chichijima Carvalho is regarded as nomen dubium. A checklist and a key to species are provided, which are applicable to the faunas of Japan, and of Korea, NE China the Russian Far East and Taiwan as well.

Two new species of the leafhopper tribe Mileewini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Mileewinae) from Hainan Island, China, with a key to species

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4933 (3) ◽  
pp. 444-450
Author(s):  
HONG-LI HE ◽  
BIN YAN ◽  
MAO-FA YANG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Hainan Island ◽  
Female Genitalia ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Two New Species

Two new Mileewini leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Mileewinae), Mileewa triloba sp. nov. and Ujna cavipenis sp. nov. are described from Hainan Island, China. Habitus images and figures of both male and female genitalia are provided together with a key to species of Mileewini from Hainan. 

Species in the genus Bonomiella Conci, 1942 (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from Argentina and Chile

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3427 (1) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARMANDO C. CICCHINO ◽  
DANIEL ALFONSO GONZÁLEZ-ACUÑA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Family ◽  
Annotated Checklist

Species of the genus Bonomiella Conci, 1942, are a parasitic on bird species belonging to the family Columbidae (Aves, Columbiformes). In the present study we redescribe the species Bonomiella columbae Emerson, 1957 from Argentinean specimens, and describe the new species B. zenaidae sp. nov. from Zenaida auriculata virgate Bertoni, 1901, and Z. auriculata auriculata (des Murs 1847) from Argentina and Chile. Descriptions include male and female diagnostic features, and also descriptions of nymphal instars II and III. Also, we include a full diagnosis of the genus Bonomiella and an annotated checklist of the six species known to date, with their respective hosts.

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