A review of the Neotropical skipper genus Sodalia Evans, 1955 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae) with the description of a new species

A New Species ◽

Respective Species

The Neotropical skipper genus Sodalia Evans, 1955 and its respective species are revised. Sodalia includes five species: S. sodalis (Butler, 1877) (type species), S. argyrospila (Mabille, 1876), S. coler (Schaus, 1902), S. petiti Gaviria-Ortiz, Dolibaina & A. Warren sp. nov. (described from low to mid elevations of the western Andes of Ecuador and from the Cordillera de la Costa in Venezuela), and Sodalia spangla (Evans, 1955) comb. nov. hitherto combined with Mnasitheus Godman, 1900. Lectotypes for Pamphila sodalis Butler, 1877 and Achlyodes argyrospila Mabille, 1876 are designated. The genus and species are redescribed and illustrations of relevant morphological characters necessary for identification are provided, as well as updated distributional maps.

Redescription of Armillipora Quate (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae) with a new species from Bolivia

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4890.3.8 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4890 (3) ◽

pp. 417-427

Author(s):

JAN JEŽEK ◽

JOZEF OBOŇA ◽

FRANↅOIS LE PONT ◽

JEAN-MICHEL MAES ◽

EDDY MARTINEZ

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Costa Rica ◽

Type Species ◽

Monotypic Genus ◽

La Paz ◽

The Caribbean ◽

The former monotypic genus Armillipora Quate, known only from Costa Rica and Panama, is redescribed, including the type species A. selvica Quate, this time collected on the Caribbean side of Nicaragua, RAAN department, and illustrated based on male morphological characters. The male of a new species, A. suapiensis sp. nov., from Bolivia, La Paz department, is described here and also figured.

First finding of the shrimp genus Harperalpheus Felder & Anker, 2007 in the eastern Pacific, with description of a new species from Bahía Málaga, Colombia (Malacostraca: Decapoda: Alpheidae)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4329.2.7 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4329 (2) ◽

pp. 196 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

ARTHUR ANKER ◽

JUAN FELIPE LAZARUS

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Type Species ◽

Pacific Coast ◽

Eastern Pacific ◽

Western Atlantic ◽

Holotype Specimen ◽

First Finding ◽

A New Species ◽

Antennular Peduncle

A new infaunal species of the rare alpheid genus Harperalpheus Felder & Anker, 2007 is described from Bahía Málaga, Pacific coast of Colombia, based on single, incomplete holotype specimen. Harperalpheus leptodactylus sp. nov. may be easily separated from the western Atlantic type species and only other species of the genus, H. pequegnatae Felder & Anker, 2007, by several morphological characters on the first and fifth pereiopod, as well as on the antennular peduncle.

Neochloroglyphica, a new genus of Geometrinae from China (Lepidoptera, Geometridae), with description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4571.1.6 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4571 (1) ◽

pp. 99

Author(s):

HONGXIANG HAN ◽

PEDER SKOU ◽

RUI CHENG

Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Analysis ◽

New Species ◽

Type Species ◽

New Genus ◽

Nuclear Genes ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

Neochloroglyphica gen. nov. and its type species N. perbella sp. nov. are described from Yunnan, China. Morphological characters and molecular phylogenetic analysis, based on one mitochondrial and three nuclear genes, support the hypothesis that Neochloroglyphica is a member of the tribe Neohipparchini, and that it is a sister genus to Chloroglyphica. Morphological characters, including those of the genitalia, are figured and compared with related genera, especially Chloroglyphica, Neohipparchus and Chlororithra. Diagnoses for the genus and the species are provided and illustrations of external features and genitalia are presented.

A new species of Acanthopotamon Kemp, 1918 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae: Potaminae) from northeastern India, with a key to the species of the genus and notes on their distribution in relation to freshwater ecoregions

Journal of Crustacean Biology ◽

10.1093/jcbiol/ruz040 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 39 (4) ◽

pp. 450-458

Author(s):

Sameer K Pati ◽

Santanu Mitra ◽

Darren C J Yeo

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Type Species ◽

Terminal Segment ◽

Arunachal Pradesh ◽

Northeastern India ◽

Fourth Species ◽

Ganges Delta ◽

The Ganges ◽

Abstract The potamid genus AcanthopotamonKemp, 1918 is known from three species, A. fungosum (Alcock, 1909), A. martensi (Wood-Mason, 1875) (type species), and A. panningi (Bott, 1966), and is found in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Within this range, the genus is found in the ‘Ganges Delta and Plain,’ ‘Lower and Middle Indus,’ and ‘Namuda-Tapi’ freshwater ecoregions. Here we describe a fourth species, A. horaisp. nov., from northeastern India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, and Mizoram) in the ‘Middle Brahmaputra’ and ‘Ganges Delta and Plain’ freshwater ecoregions. The new species possesses a unique suite of external and gonopod morphological characters, with the slender and narrowly conical terminal segment of the first male gonopod being particularly diagnostic. A key to the species of Acanthopotamon is provided.

Eulepida mbala, a new species from Zambia (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4399.4.10 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4399 (4) ◽

pp. 591

Author(s):

RICHARD SEHNAL

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Type Species ◽

Species Group ◽

Undescribed Species ◽

Group Iii ◽

Group I ◽

Group Ii ◽

One New Species ◽

The genus Eulepida Kolbe, 1894 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Leucopholini) was established to accommodate 10 Afrotropical species, seven new and three previously placed in Lepidiota Kirby, 1828, Proagosternus Blanchard, 1851, and Tricholepis Hampson, 1891. Lacroix (2010) designated Leucopholis lepidota Klug, 1855 as the type species of the genus Eulepida. Currently the genus contains 20 species divided into three groups based on morphological characters (Lacroix 2010, 2013): species group I includes Eulepida lepidota (Klug, 1855), E. minor Moser, 1913, E. nitidicollis Kolbe, 1894, E. nyassica Kolbe, 1894, E. sinuatifrons (Fairmaire, 1887), and E. zambiensis Lacroix, 2010; species group II includes E. anatina Brenske, 1896, E. tschindeana Péringuey, 1904, and E. werneri Lacroix, 2010; and species group III includes E. baumanni Kolbe, 1894, E. flavovestita Moser, 1913, E. gracilipes Kolbe, 1894, E. kameruna (Frey, 1972), E. kenyensis Lacroix, 2010, E. mamboiae Brenske, 1896, E. manowensis Moser, 1913, E. mashona Arrow, 1902, E. montana Kolbe, 1894, E. reichei (Thomson, 1858), and E. savagei (Hope, 1842). Examination of material recently collected in Zambia revealed an undescribed species belonging to species group II (sensu Lacroix 2010). This group is defined by the combination of the following characters: protibia bidentate; antennal club distinctly longer than antennal shaft; pygidium narrow, longer than wide, with a pronounced elongate terminal invagination; and parameres symmetrical, long, evenly curved in ventral aspect (Lacroix 2010). The purpose of this paper is to describe one new species, to add new geographic records for some Eulepida species of group II, and to update the key for this group. New faunistic records are reported for Eulepida tschindeana and Eulepida werneri from Zimbabwe.

Contributions to the knowledge of Dichelops Spinola: description of a new species of Dichelops (Diceraeus) and of the male of Dichelops (Prodichelops) divisus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae: Carpocorini)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.3609.1.4 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 3609 (1) ◽

pp. 60-68 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

PRISCILA POOCK-DA-SILVA ◽

KIM RIBEIRO BARÃO ◽

JOCELIA GRAZIA

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Type Species ◽

The Other ◽

Internal Genitalia ◽

Heteroptera Pentatomidae ◽

A New Species ◽

Unknown Male

A new species of Dichelops (Diceraeus) Dallas and the so-far unknown male of Dichelops (Prodichelops) divisus (Walker, 1867) are described, based upon morphological characters. D. (Dice.) caatinguensis sp. nov. is compared to the other four species of Diceraeus. Revised keys to separate the subgenera of Dichelops and the species of Diceraeus are also presented. D. (P.) divisus male is described and compared to the type species. Comparative illustrations of external and internal genitalia of the species are provided.

A revision of the abandoned snailfish genus Menziesichthys with description of a new species (Teleostei, Scorpaeniformes, Liparidae)

Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” ◽

10.3897/travaux.63.e48237 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 63 (1) ◽

pp. 93-115

Author(s):

Artem M. Prokofiev ◽

Alexandru Iftime

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Relative Position ◽

Sea Of Okhotsk ◽

Type Species ◽

Minor Characters ◽

Southeastern Pacific ◽

Fin Ray ◽

Infraorbital Canal ◽

The genus Menziesichthys is revised and re-diagnosed, its type-species, M. bacescui, is redescribed and a new species is described. Menziesichthys shares intermediate morphological characters between the genera Psednos and Rhodichthys. It is unique within all liparid genera in the combination of strongly humpbacked body, uninterrupted infraorbital canal with huge pore openings, relative position of sec- ond nasal pore and nostril, very large gill slits, and diminutive size of adult specimens. A new species, M. alaid, is described from the Sea of Okhotsk off the northern Kuriles. It differs from the type-species (distributed in the southeastern Pacific) in having a lower pectoral-fin ray count, more anteriorly situ- ated anus, minute (vs. well-developed) protrusion at the posterior end of the maxilla and in other minor characters.

Michaelshaffera gen. n. - a pyraloid taxon lacking an abdominal tympanal organ (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)

Insect Systematics & Evolution ◽

10.1163/187631297x00268 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 28 (4) ◽

pp. 391-402 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

M. Alma Solis

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

South America ◽

Type Species ◽

French Guiana ◽

New Combination ◽

Immature Stages ◽

Tympanal Organ ◽

Lepidoptera Pyralidae ◽

AbstractMichaelshaffera gen. n. is comprised of two species, M. maidoa (Schaus), new combination, the type species, described from French Guiana, and a new species, M. beckeri, here described from South America. The assignment of taxa to the Pyraloidea is based primarily on characters of the tympanal organs and immature stages. Michaelshaffera lacks a tympanal organ and the immatures are unknown. The rationale for the placement of this genus in the Pyraloidea and lower hierarchical ranks is discussed based on other morphological characters.

A new genus for a new species of the family Aphelinidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from Mexico

Zoosystematica Rossica ◽

10.31610/zsr/2014.23.1.131 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 131-136 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

S.N. Myartseva ◽

J.M. Coronado-Blanco ◽

J.R. Lomelí-Flores ◽

D.Y. Martínez-Hernández

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Type Species ◽

New Genus ◽

The Family ◽

A new genus in the subfamily Coccophaginae (Aphelinidae), Mexidalgus gen. nov., is described based on the type species Mexidalgus toumeyellus sp. nov. from Mexico. Morphological characters of the new genus and its differences from the closely related genera Coccophagus Westwood, 1833 and Coccobius Ratzeburg, 1852 are discussed.

Englerulaceae (Dothideomycetes)

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.176.1.14 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 176 (1) ◽

pp. 139 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

DONG-QIN DAI ◽

SARANYAPHAT BOONMEE ◽

QING TIAN ◽

YUAN-PIN XIAO ◽

D. JAYARAMA BHAT ◽

...

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Type Species ◽

Type Specimen ◽

Molecular Study ◽

Incertae Sedis ◽

The Family ◽

Taxonomic Framework ◽

The family Englerulaceae presently includes seven genera that produce brown to dark-brown colonies on living leaves. Ascomata are superficial and scattered on the colonies and lack ostioles. Asci are 2–8-spored, bitunicate, ovate to globose and ascospores are multi-seriate, oblong to ellipsoid, brown, and smooth-walled with a single septum. This paper brings all genera of the family together in one place with descriptions and illustrations and discusses their current taxonomic placement. The type species of Englerula, Parenglerula, Rhizotexis, Rhytidenglerula, Schiffnerula and a new species of Thrauste are redescribed and illustrated with light photomicrographs, in this paper. It is suggested that Butleria should be accommodated in Myriangiaceae. Rhizotexis is excluded from the family and moved to Dothideomycetes genera incertae sedis, as morphological characters are not similar to type genus and other genera in the family. The type specimen of Goosia is missing and is redrawn from the protologue. By illustrating and redescribing the genera we expect renewed interest for recollection and molecular study so that these dothideomycetous genera can be placed in a natural taxonomic framework.