A new species of mealybug (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) from Tectona grandis L.f. (Lamiaceae) in southern India

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4718 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-400
Author(s):  
SUNIL JOSHI ◽  
BINDU K. JOSE ◽  
PENNY GULLAN ◽  
T.V. SAJEEV ◽  
E.V. ANOOP
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Tectona Grandis ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Adult Females ◽  
A New Species

A new species of mealybug, Formicococcus tectonae Joshi, Bindu & Gullan sp. n., is described and illustrated based on adult females collected from teak, Tectona grandis (Lamiaceae), in plantations in Thrissur district, Kerala, southern India. The mealybug lives in tunnels made by the teak trunk borer, Cossus cadambae (Moore) (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). Ants of a Tapinoma species were found in the tunnels, tending the mealybugs. The new mealybug is most similar morphologically to F. polysperes Williams and F. robustus (Ezzat & McConnell) comb. rev. A key to adult females of all the Formicococcus species recorded from India is provided. 

Description of a new species of Callocleonymus Masi (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae) from India

ENTOMON ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-116
Author(s):  
Ankita Gupta ◽  
Namitha George ◽  
P. M. Sureshan
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Indian Species ◽  
A New Species

The first Indian species of the genus Callocleonymus Masi viz. C. indiaensis sp. nov., is formally described from Bengaluru in southern India.

A new species of fan-throated lizard of the genus Sitana Cuvier, 1829 from coastal Kerala, southern India 

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4374 (4) ◽  
pp. 545 ◽  
Author(s):  
KALESH SADASIVAN ◽  
M. B. RAMESH ◽  
MUHAMED JAFER PALOT ◽  
MAYURESH AMBEKAR ◽  
ZEESHAN A. MIRZA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide ◽  
Sequence Divergence ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Nicotinamide Adenine ◽  
Pairwise Sequence Divergence ◽  
Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide Dehydrogenase ◽  
A New Species

We here describe Sitana attenboroughii sp. nov., a new species of fan-throated lizard of the genus Sitana Cuvier, 1829 from coastal Kerala in southern India. The new species morphologically is closer to Sitana visiri Deepak, 2016 (in Deepak et al. 2016a), however, differs in having higher numbers of ventral scales and a comparatively short but richly colored dewlap. Genetically the new species shows affinity to Sitana marudhamneydhal Deepak, Khandekar, Varma & Chaitanya, 2016 from which it differs in an uncorrected pairwise sequence divergence of 2.2% for a fragment of mitochondrial Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide dehydrogenase (NADH) subunit 2 gene. 

A new species of Terminalichus (Trombidiformes: Tenuipalpidae) from Thailand, with a key to the known species 

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 1431
Author(s):  
Elizeu B. Castro ◽  
Ronald Ochoa ◽  
Reinaldo J.F. Feres
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Terminalia Catappa ◽  
Adult Females ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
A New Species

A new species, Terminalichus simplex sp. nov., is described based on adult females, deutonymphs and protonymphs, collected on Terminalia catappa L. (Combretaceae) from Thailand. The relationship of Terminalichus with other brevipalpine genera is discussed and a key to species of Terminalichus, Tenuilichus, Amblypalpus, Colopalpus and Priscapalpus is provided.  

First new species of the family Stigmocheylidae (Acari: Prostigmata: Paratydeoidea) from Asia

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 2159
Author(s):  
Mohammad Reza Damavandian ◽  
Saeid Paktinat-Saeij
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Mazandaran Province ◽  
Northern Iran ◽  
Adult Females ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

A new species, Stigmocheylus persicus sp. nov. (Trombidiformes: Prostigmata: Stigmocheylidae) is described based on adult females from Noor, Mazandaran province, northern Iran. The new species can be distinguished from other species by the following features: non-segmented peritremes; absence of setae c3; presence of setae g2; coxa II with four setae; genu I with nine setae; tarsi I–IV with 24(+2ω)–11(+1ω)-11-10 setae. This finding presents the first new species of the family Stigmocheylidae Berlese, 1910 from Asia. Additionally, an identification key to known species of Stigmocheylus is updated.

A new species of the hermit crab genus Diogenes Dana, 1851 (Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) from southern India

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4504 (2) ◽  
pp. 243
Author(s):  
TOMOYUKI KOMAI ◽  
RAVEENDHIRAN RAVINESH ◽  
APPUKUTTANNAIR BIJU KUMAR
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Hermit Crab ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Distal Spine ◽  
Callyspongia Diffusa ◽  
Different Color ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the hermit crab genus Diogenes Dana, 1851, D. spongicola, is described and illustrated on the basis of material collected from two locations off southern India. It appears close to D. takedai Rahayu, 2012 among about 70 congeners, but easily differentiated from the latter by the spinulose anterolateral margins of the shield, the article 2 of the antennal peduncle armed only with one distal spine, the longer, spinose antennal acicle, the absence of prominent spines on the ventrolateral margin of the cheliped meri, and the different color of the cheliped palm. Specimens of the new species were all collected from cavities of a callyspongiid sponge Callyspongia diffusa (Ridley, 1884), suggesting a possible association between the hermit crab and sponge. 

scholarly journals A new species of Parabonzia (Trombidiformes: Cunaxidae) based on adults and nymphs with a key to the world species

Acarologia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 806-824
Author(s):  
Jian-Xin Chen ◽  
Jian-Jun Guo ◽  
Tian-Ci Yi ◽  
Dao-Chao Jin
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
World Species ◽  
Adult Females ◽  
The World ◽  
A New Species

A new species, namely Parabonzia xinningensis Chen and Jin sp. nov., is described from China, based on female, male, tritonymph, deutonymph and protonymph. A key to adult females of Parabonzia species of the world is provided.

A new species of Acanthormius (Braconidae: Lysiterminae) reared as a gregarious parasitoid of psychid caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Psychidae) from India

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4388 (3) ◽  
pp. 425 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANKITA GUPTA ◽  
DONALD L. J. QUICKE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Larval Parasitoid ◽  
Gregarious Parasitoid ◽  
Bagworm Moth ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Host Associations

Acanthormius indicus Gupta & Quicke sp. nov. is described and illustrated. It is a gregarious larval parasitoid of an unidentified bagworm moth caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Psychidae) from southern India. The biology and host associations of members of subfamily Lysiterminae are also discussed. 

A new species of the hermit crab genus Diogenes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) from southern India

Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3613 (4) ◽  
pp. 380-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOMOYUKI KOMAI ◽  
REMA RESHMI ◽  
APPUKUTTANNAIR BIJU KUMAR
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Hermit Crab ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Kerala State ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the hermit crab genus Diogenes Dana, 1851 (Diogenidae), D. canaliculatus, is described and illustrated on the basis of material from off the Kerala State, southern India. It is referred to the D. edwardsii (De Haan, 1849) species group, and compared with D. bicristimanus Alcock, 1905, D. fasciatus Rahayu & Forest, 1995, D. laevicarpus Rahayu, 1996 and D. moosai Rahayu & Forest, 1995. The characteristically sculptured left chela and the unarmed dorsal margins of the propodi of the second and third pereopods distinguish the new species from these congeners.

A new species of Sparsorythus Sroka & Soldán, 2008 (Ephemeroptera: Tricorythidae) from Eastern Ghats of Southern India

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4915 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-245
Author(s):  
T SIVARUBAN ◽  
PANDIARAJAN SRINIVASAN ◽  
S BARATHY ◽  
M BERNATH ROSI ◽  
RAJASEKARAN ISACK
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Abdominal Segment ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Eastern Ghats ◽  
Femur Length ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Length Width ◽  
A New Species

A new mayfly species, Sparsorythus sivaramakrishnani sp. nov. from the stream of Pullian cholai, Thuraiyur, Namakkal district, Tamil Nadu, India is described based on male and female nymphs. Sparsorythus sivaramakrishnani sp. nov. differs from the closely related S. gracilis by the shape of the left prostheca, the number of bristle-like processes at base of left prostheca, the ratio and shape of right prostheca, the ratio of femur length: width, the size of the female nymph, the mesonotum overlapping in fifth abdominal segment of the female, and by the shape of hypopharyngeal lingua. 

Dario urops, a new species of badid fish from the Western Ghats, southern India (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Badidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3348 (1) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
RALF BRITZ ◽  
ANVAR ALI ◽  
SIBY PHILIP
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Caudal Peduncle ◽  
Small Stream ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Anterior Dorsal ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Fin Spines

Dario urops, new species, is described from a small stream of the Barapole tributary of Valapattanam River in southern Karna-taka and from Wayanad District, Kerala. It can be distinguished from its congeners by the presence of a conspicuous blackblotch on the caudal peduncle and a horizontal suborbital stripe, by the anterior dorsal fin lappets in males not being produced beyond fin spines, and by its vertebral count.

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