The millipede family Polyxenidae (Diplopoda, Polyxenida) in the faunas of the Crimean Peninsula and Caucasus, with notes on other European Polyxenidae

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4772 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-332
Author(s):  
MEGAN SHORT ◽  
VARPU VAHTERA ◽  
THOMAS WESENER ◽  
SERGEI I. GOLOVATCH

The Polyxenidae in the fauna of the Crimeo-Caucasian region is represented by four species: Polyxenus lagurus (Linnaeus, 1758) (= P. lagurus caucasicus Lignau, 1924, syn. n.), Propolyxenus argentifer (Verhoeff, 1921) comb. n. (= P. trivittatus Verhoeff, 1941, = P. sokolowi Lignau, 1924, both syn. n.), a new species, Polyxenus lankaranensis sp. n., and an undescribed Polyxenus sp. The distributions of all these species in the region concerned are mapped, based on old and new records. A molecular phylogeny based on COI sequences is used to study the relationship within and among the genera Polyxenus and Propolyxenus from Western Europe to the southern Caucasus. The results highlight the presence of a number of undescribed species of Polyxenus across this region. 

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4303 (3) ◽  
pp. 417 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUIS PÉREZ ◽  
MARYZENDER RODRÍGUEZ ◽  
ANGÉLICO ASENJO

A new species of the genus Piestus Gravenhorst is described from Peru, P. chullachaqui sp. nov. (Cuzco). Photographs and drawings of the major diagnostic characters are provided. A key to Piestus species is modified to include the new species. New records are provided for Piestus angularis Fauvel, Piestus bicornis (Olivier), Piestus fronticornis (Dalman), Piestus lacordairei Laporte, Piestus longipennis (Fauvel), Piestus mexicanus Laporte, Piestus minutus Erichson, Piestus pennicornis Fauvel, Piestus spinosus (Fabricius), Piestus sulcatus Gravenhorst, Piestus surrufus Caron et al. and Piestus validus Sharp. Cladistic analysis is made to know the relationship of the P. chullachaqui sp. nov. within Piestus.  


Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4482 (1) ◽  
pp. 151 ◽  
Author(s):  
NUKUL SAENGPHAN ◽  
BHINYO PANIJPAN ◽  
SAENGCHAN SENAPIN ◽  
PARAMES LAOSINCHAI ◽  
PINTIP RUENWONGSA ◽  
...  

A small freshwater prawn in Thailand has been found to be a new species and is named Macrobrachium suphanense (Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Fully grown male M. suphanense appeared very different from the most closely related male of M. sintangense: size smaller, second pereiopod smaller and less robust, rostrum form different and, in females, fewer eggs. Less closely related, fully grown M. dolatum has sharper distal cutting edge on fixed finger and M. hungi has longer rostrum than M. suphanense. DNA analyses put M. suphanense, M. sintangense and M. nipponense in the same clade with M. nipponense sister to the other two. Two more clades consist of M. dienbienphuense and M. niphanae on the one hand and M. lanchesteri and M. rosenbergii on the other. The relationship among the three clades is not clearly resolved. 


Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5076 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-55
Author(s):  
THALES YANN ORLANDO ◽  
FREDERICO FALCÃO SALLES ◽  
RAFAEL BOLDRINI ◽  
TIAGO KÜTTER KROLOW

An annotated checklist with complementary information for leptophlebiid mayflies from Tocantins State, Brazil is provided. Additionally, we describe a new species of Thraulodes Ulmer, 1920 based on male adults. New reports are based on collections conducted between August 2017 and August 2019 in 13 localities of 10 municipalities. A total of 436 adults distributed in 11 genera, 16 species and five morphospecies treated as undescribed species were collected. Of the total species examined, 11 are new records.  


2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 377-385
Author(s):  
Wei-Cheng Wang ◽  
Ek Sangvichien ◽  
Tie-Zheng Wei ◽  
Jiang-Chun Wei

AbstractThe phylogeny of foliicolous taxa in Pilocarpaceae was reconstructed using Bayesian and maximum likelihood analyses of concatenated ITS and mtSSU sequences. Sixty-six new partial sequences representing 36 taxa were generated and 29 sequences were downloaded from GenBank. Our results indicate that Lasioloma R. Sant. is nested within a paraphyletic Calopadia Vězda, whereas Fellhanera Vězda is polyphyletic and the phylogenetic relationships of Eugeniella Lücking et al. and Sporopodium Mont. with Fellhanera require further investigation. In addition, Tapellaria parvimuriformis W. C. Wang & J. C. Wei is described as a new species from Khao Yai National Park, Thailand, and is characterized by its small muriform ascospores, grey campylidia with a pale base, and short conidia. Eight new records of foliicolous lichens for Thailand are also listed.


2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 269-290
Author(s):  
Jindřich Roháček

Species of the family Anthomyzidae (Diptera: Acalyptrata) occurring in Taiwan are reviewed. Eleven species have been recognized, 8 of them new to science. However, because of limited and poorly preserved material, only three species of the genus Anthomyza Fallén, 1810, viz. A. robusta sp. nov. (Chiayi and Nantou Counties, both sexes), A. caesarea sp. nov. (Taichung City area, both sexes) and A. elongata sp. nov. (Chiayi County, female only), are described. The remaining 5 undescribed species, viz. Amygdalops sp. nov. near cuspidatus (Taichung City area), Amygdalops sp. nov. near curtistylus (Nantou and Kinmen Counties), Anthomyza sp. nov. near elongata (Yilan County), Anthomyza sp. nov. (1) near flavosterna (Chiayi County) and Anthomyza sp. nov. (2) near flavosterna (Nantou County), are diagnosed but remain unnamed. A new species group of Anthomyza, viz. the A. flavosterna group, is established and diagnosed, to include the East Palearctic A. flavosterna Sueyoshi & Roháček, 2003, A. caesarea sp. nov., A. elongata sp. nov. and 3 additional unnamed species from Taiwan, while the remaining A. robusta sp nov. belongs to the A. bellatrix group. All six Taiwanese Anthomyza species seem to be associated with montane habitats and could be endemic. It is estimated that up to 20 species of Anthomyzidae could occur in Taiwan. The longitudinal dark pattern of the wing, found in A. caesarea sp. nov., is recorded for the first time in the genus Anthomyza which is the fourth lineage of Anthomyzidae in which this type of pattern has independently evolved. Preliminary keys to Taiwanese species of the genera Amygdalops Lamb, 1914 and Anthomyza are presented.


Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4970 (2) ◽  
pp. 340-352
Author(s):  
CHENG-QING LIAO ◽  
LIU-SHENG CHEN ◽  
GUO-HUA HUANG

A new species, Neopseustis rectagnatha Liao, Chen & Huang sp. nov., is described from the Nanling Mountains, China. The photos of the adults, male and female genitalia, and abdominal special structures are presented. The new species is similar to N. meyricki Hering, 1925 and N. sinensis Davis, 1975, but it can be distinguished easily by characters in the male genitalia as the straight gnathos and the lateroposterior process of anellus h-type bifurcated. Key to males of all species of Neopseustis Meyrick, 1909 and some biological information are also given. Molecular analysis based on COI sequences is used to infer the relationship of the new species within Neopseustis. 


Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3367 (1) ◽  
pp. 252 ◽  
Author(s):  
YOICHI KOGURE ◽  
YOSHIHISA FUJITA

Sea stars were collected at depths ranging from 91 to 160 m around Kumejima Island situated in the middle of the RyukyuIslands chain in the Western Pacific. Sampling was carried out using a dredge or beam trawl in November 2009, as partof the KUMEJIMA 2009 Expedition. The specimens included an undescribed species of the genus Neoferdina, and threespecies that have never been reported in Japanese waters. Features that characterise this new species, Neoferdina longi-brachia, include: extremely long and narrow arms, no alternating arrangement of large and small superomarginal plates,body surface (except for the marginal plates) completely covered with granules, and an adambulacral armature with 3 furrow spines.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 405 (2) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
ABDOLLAH AHMADPOUR

Alternaria section Nimbya, currently contains six species which are pathogens of members of the Juncaceae and Cyperaceae plant families. The prominent morphological character in the members of this section is internal compartmentation of conidia into conspicuous angular lumina interconnected by narrow channels through the transverse distosepta and fewer transverse eusepta. In the study on fungi from culm lesions of Carex sp. (Cyperaceae) from West Azarbaijan province, Iran, four isolates with typical characteristics of Alternaria were isolated and studied taxonomically. Based on combination of morphological characters and molecular phylogeny based on ITS–rDNA and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) gene sequences, the isolates represent a new undescribed species of Alternaria in the section Nimbya, which is described here as Alternaria caricicola sp. nov. The new species is characterized by straight to slightly curved obclavate conidia with 6–14 transverse distosepta, 1–4 darkened eusepta, and an unbranched, tapering apical beak. A detailed description and illustrations are provided and compared with similar taxa in the section Nimbya.


2020 ◽  
Vol 191 ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Cédric Chény ◽  
Elvis Guillam ◽  
André Nel ◽  
Vincent Perrichot

Embolemidae is a cosmopolitan but species-poor group of chrysidoid wasps with a scarce fossil record, despite a long evolutionary history since at least the Early Cretaceous. Here, the new species, Ampulicomorpha quesnoyensis sp. nov., is illustrated and described based on a single female found in Early Eocene amber of Oise (France). The new species is compared with the three other known fossil species of the genus, and a key to all fossil species of Ampulicomorpha is provided. This is the third European fossil species of Ampulicomorpha, which suggests that the genus was once well established in Western Europe while it is more widely distributed in the Eastern Palaearctic region today. A list of all fossil and extant Embolemidae of the world, as well as a map of their geographical distribution map, are provided.


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