Paraneseuthia Franz of Japan: two new species and rediscovery of the enigmatic P. holzneri Franz (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4532 (2) ◽  
pp. 266
Author(s):  
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Ryukyu Archipelago ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Iriomote Island ◽  
Two New Species

To date, three nominal species of the eutheiine genus Paraneseuthia were known to occur in Japan (in Honshū and Kyūshū). A female of an undescribed species was also recorded from Iriomote Island of the Ryūkyū Archipelago. Two new species are here added to this list: P. ishigakianas p. n. (Ishigaki Is.) and P. ehimensis sp. n. (Shikoku). Paraneseuthia holzneri (Franz), described on the basis of a single male with erected and distorted aedeagus, is recorded from a new locality and its aedeagus is illustrated. 

A review of the genus Platyrhina (Chondrichthys: Platyrhinidae) from the northwestern Pacific, with descriptions of two new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2738 (1) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUKIO IWATSUKI ◽  
KEI MIYAMOTO ◽  
KAZUHIRO NAKAYA ◽  
JIE ZHANG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Northwestern Pacific ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
White Pigment ◽  
Light Yellow ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Pacific Species

The genus Platyrhina from the northwestern Pacific was reviewed, including a redescription and neotype proposal for Platyrhina sinensis (Bloch and Schneider 1801), and the description of two new species. Platyrhina limboonkengi Tang 1933 is relegated to the synonymy of P. sinensis, both species having two rows of hooked thorns on the mid-dorsum of the tail. Specimens previously widely identified as P. sinensis, but characterized by one row of such hooked thorns, represented an undescribed species, herein named Platyrhina tangi Iwatsuki, Zhang and Nakaya sp. nov. Platyrhina hyugaensis Iwatsuki, Miyamoto and Nakaya sp. nov., known from specimens limited primarily to the Hyuga Nada Sea, off Miyazaki, the Pacific coast of southern Japan, is similar to P. tangi in having one row of hooked thorns on the mid-dorsum of the trunk and tail, but differs in having larger hooked thorns, not encircled by light yellow or white pigment on the orbital, nape and scapular regions, and a pair of hooked thorns (absent in P. tangi) anteriorly on the scapular region. Nominal species are discussed and key to northwestern Pacific species of Platyrhina is provided.

A new species of Nogunius Jałoszyński in Japan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5071 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-288
Author(s):  
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI ◽  
SHÛHEI NOMURA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Okinawa Island ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Ishigaki Island ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Izu Islands

The genus Nogunius Jałoszyński was proposed to accommodate four species distributed exclusively in Japan: N. sokani Jałoszyński (Okinawa Island), N. aogashimanus Jałoszyński (Aogashima, Izu Islands), N. kerri Jałoszyński (Ishigaki Island), and N. fukuuzanus Jałoszyński (Okinawa Island). A female of an undescribed species collected in mainland Japan, on Shikoku, was also recorded. In the present paper we provide evidence that this interesting and apparently very rare genus occurs also on Kyushu. Nogunius sagaensis sp. n. is described, based on a single male collected in Saga Prefecture, NW Kyushu. Diagnostic characters of all nominal species are compared, and a distribution of Nogunius is summarized.  

Taxonomic revision of four species of the Neotropical land planarian genera Cratera and Geoplana (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) with a description of two new species and an emendation of Cratera

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4500 (4) ◽  
pp. 517 ◽  
Author(s):  
DOMINGO LAGO-BARCIA ◽  
FERNANDO CARBAYO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Morphological Variation ◽  
Morphological Feature ◽  
Ejaculatory Duct ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Terminal Portion ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Land Planarian

The Brazilian land planarians Cratera crioula, C. joia, Geoplana hina, and G. taxiarcha (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Geoplanidae) are revised taxonomically from type material and additional specimens. Geoplana hina sensu Carbayo et al. (2013) was found to be an undescribed species and therefore is described and named as Cratera picuia sp. n. A new species of the genus is also described and named as Cratera arucuia sp. n. G. hina and G. taxiarcha are transferred to Cratera. The most remarkable morphological feature of Cratera—a dilated terminal portion of the ejaculatory duct—is either absent, inconspicuous, or variable in C. hina, C. joia, C. picuia sp. n., and C. arucuia sp. n. Based on the monophyletic status of Cratera inferred elsewhere, an emendation of the genus is here proposed to encompass the morphological variation observed in the genus. 

Studies in Aristolochia (Aristolochiaceae) of Hispaniola

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 420 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
ELADIO FERNÁNDEZ ◽  
IRINA FERRERAS ◽  
BRIAN D. FARRELL ◽  
BRUNO A. S. De MEDEIROS ◽  
GUSTAVO A. ROMERO-GONZÁLEZ
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Senior Author ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Photographic Record ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
A New Species

A review of the literature at large and the field photographic record of the senior author of this study indicate that there are several undescribed species of Aristolochia in Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti), related to A. bilobata. Here we show that A. mirandae is a synonym of A. bilobata and that what appears as A. bilobata in Marión H. (2011: 76–77) is a new species here described as Aristolochia adiastola. In addition, two new species, A. bonettiana and A. marioniana, also related to A. bilobata, are described and illustrated herein.

Two new millipede species of the genus Riukiaria (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Xystodesmidae) endemic to the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2877 (1) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZOLTÁN KORSÓS ◽  
YASUYUKI NAKAMURA ◽  
TSUTOMU TANABE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Ryukyu Archipelago ◽  
Color Patterns ◽  
Unique Color ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Island Group

We describe two new species of the millipede genus Riukiaria from two islands of the Ryukyu Archipelago: R. maculata sp. n. from Tane-ga-shima, northern Ryukyus, and R. mundyi sp. n. from Yonaguni-jima, the southwesternmost member of the Yaeyama Island Group. Both species show the simple forceps-like male gonopod structure typical for the genus, but they are readily distinguishable from other members by their unique color patterns. We have also compiled a list of species in the genus described up to now.

scholarly journals Three new species and one new subspecies of Depressariinae (Lepidoptera) from Europe

ZooKeys ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 684 ◽  
pp. 119-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Buchner ◽  
Martin Corley ◽  
Jari Junnilainen
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Canary Islands ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Additional Data ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Northern Spain ◽  
Single Male ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
Three New Species

The species Depressaria albarracinella Corley, sp. n., Agonopterix carduncelli Corley, sp. n. and Agonopterix pseudoferulae Buchner & Junnilainen, sp. n. and the subspecies Depressaria saharae Gastón & Vives ssp. tabelli Buchner, ssp. n. are described. Depressaria albarracinella was first found in Spain in 1969 and recognised as apparently new but the specimens in NHMUK have remained undescribed. Additional Spanish material has been located in ZMUC and other collections and three specimens have been found from Greece. Agonopterix carduncelli. A single male of an unidentified Agonopterix of the pallorella group was found in Algarve, Portugal in 2010. A search for larvae in March 2011 was successful and one male and one female were reared from Carthamus caeruleus. Additional specimens of the new species have been located in collections from Spain, Greece and Morocco. Agonopterix pseudoferulae. A specimen from Greece with the name Agonopterix ferulae (Zeller, 1847) found in the Klimesch collection in ZSM had forewing markings which suggested that it might be a different species. Further specimens from Italy and Greece have been examined, among them two reared from Elaeoselinum asclepium (Apiaceae). Both genitalia and barcode show that this is an undescribed species. Depressaria saharae Gastón & Vives, 2017 was described very recently (Gastón and Vives 2017) from northern Spain with a brief description, and figures of two males and male genitalia. Here the new species is redescribed, and additional data on distribution and relationships of the new species added. The opportunity is also taken to show that Canary Islands specimens with the same male genitalia should be treated as a new subspecies D. saharae ssp. tabelli Buchner, ssp. n.

scholarly journals Redescription of Orobdella ijimai (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Gastrostomobdellidae), and two new species of Orobdella from the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2998 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
TAKAFUMI NAKANO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Genital Organ ◽  
Ryukyu Archipelago ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Male Genital Organ ◽  
Male Genital

Sexannulate Orobdella leech, Orobdella ijimai, is redescribed based on newly collected specimens from the type locality, Nikko, Tochigi Pref., Japan, since this species was originally described based on limited number of characters. In addition, two new sexannulate species, Orobdella dolichopharynx sp. nov. from Amamioshima Island in the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan, and Orobdella shimadae sp. nov. from Okinawajima Island also in the Ryukyu Archipelago, are described. They resemble O. ijimai in the annulation of mid-body somites, but they differ from the latter in the annulation of somite VIII, position of gonopores, the lack of gastropore, the length of pharynx, the shape of gastroporal duct, and the morphology of male genital organ. Two new Orobdella species differ from each other in the annulation of somite VII, the position of gonopores, and the shape of gastroporal duct. In accordance with the two new species, the diagnosis of Orobdella is slightly emended.

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