Review of Indian Allacta Saussure & Zehntner, 1895 (Blattodea: Ectobiidae: Pseudophyllodromiinae), with description of three new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4920 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-266
Author(s):  
M. SENRAJ ◽  
S. MARIA PACKIAM ◽  
S. PRABAKARAN ◽  
CRISTIAN C. LUCANAS ◽  
DEEPA JAISWAL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Three New Species

The known species of Allacta Saussure & Zehntner, 1895 in India are reviewed. Three new species, A. jcenpro sp. nov., A. vellimalai sp. nov., and A. kollimalai sp. nov., are described. All are placed under hamifera species group. The new species can be differentiated from other members of hamifera species group by the pronotal and facial markings, the structure of the male genitalia and other morphological characters. Additional reports to A. kalakadensis Prabakaran & Senraj 2019 and A. figurata (Walker, 1871) are provided. A key to the known species of Indian Allacta is provided. 

Megacraspedus laseni sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) from the Dolomites of north-eastern Italy

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4927 (4) ◽  
pp. 559-566
Author(s):  
GIOVANNI TIMOSSI ◽  
PETER HUEMER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Dna Barcode ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Veneto Region ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
North Eastern

Megacraspedus laseni sp. nov. is described from Dolomiti Bellunesi (Veneto Region, Prov. Belluno, Italy). The habitus of the adult and male genitalia are described and illustrated whereas the female sex remains unknown. The new species belongs to the Megacraspedus pentheres species group and is closely related to the southern alpine M. eburnellus Huemer & Karsholt, 2001 from which it differs in morphological characters and in DNA barcode sequence. Megacraspedus carolustertius Gastón & Vives, 2020 is synonymized with M. quadristictus Lhomme, 1946, syn. nov. 

Phylogeny, taxonomy and flower-breeding ecology of the Colocasiomyia cristata species group (Diptera: Drosophilidae), with descriptions of ten new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5079 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
KOHEI TAKENAKA TAKANO ◽  
JIAN-JUN GAO ◽  
YAO-GUANG HU ◽  
NAN-NAN LI ◽  
MASAKO YAFUSO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Host Plant Selection ◽  
Breeding Ecology ◽  
Flower Breeding ◽  
Three New Species

The phylogeny of the Colocasiomyia cristata species group is reconstructed as a hypothesis, based on DNA sequences of two mitochondrial and six nuclear genes and 51 morphological characters. The resulting tree splits this species group into two clades, one of which corresponds to the colocasiae subgroup. Therefore, a new species subgroup named as the cristata subgroup is established for the other clade. Within the cristata subgroup, three subclades are recognized and each of them is defined as a species complex: the cristata complex composed of five species (including three new ones: C. kinabaluana sp. nov., C. kotana sp. nov. and C. matthewsi sp. nov.), the sabahana complex of two species (C. sabahana sp. nov. and C. sarawakana sp. nov.), and the xenalocasiae complex of five species (including C. sumatrana sp. nov. and C. leucocasiae sp. nov.). There are, however, three new species (C. ecornuta sp. nov., C. grandis sp. nov. and C. vieti sp. nov.) not assigned to any species complex. In addition, breeding habits are described for four cristata-subgroup species, each of which monopolizes its specific host plant. And, data of host-plant use are compiled for all species of the cristata group from records at various localities in the Oriental and Papuan regions. The evolution of host-plant selection and sharing modes is considered by mapping host-plant genera of each species on the phylogenetic tree resulting from the present study.

Description of three new species of Psilotreta (Trichoptera: Odontoceridae) from Japan

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4980 (3) ◽  
pp. 589-598
Author(s):  
NAOKI KAWASE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Chinese Mainland ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Japanese Species ◽  
The Chinese Mainland ◽  
Three New Species

Three new species of the caddisfly genus Psilotreta (Trichoptera: Odontoceridae) from Japan are described: P. voluta sp. nov., P. moritai sp. nov., and P. flavida sp. nov. These three species are easily distinguishable by the male genitalia from previously known Japanese species, P. japonica (Banks 1906) and P. kisoensis Iwata 1928. The three new species are similar to P. vertebrata Yuan et al. 2008, P. cuboides Yuan et al. 2008, and P. excavata Yuan et al. 2008 from the Chinese mainland, and P. clyssan Malicky 2014 from Taiwan, in the shapes of the lateral processes and intermediate appendages of segment X of the male genitalia, but can be distinguished from these species and each other. All Japanese species of Psilotreta listed above belong to the P. chinensis Species Group. 

Three new species of Icaia Linnavuori (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from Peru and distinction of the genus from Athysanella Baker

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1390 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-39
Author(s):  
JAMES N. ZAHNISER ◽  
ANDREW HICKS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
New World ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
South American ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Consensus Tree ◽  
Strict Consensus Tree ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
Montane Grasslands

Four undescribed species of Icaia Linnavuori were identified from collections in montane grasslands of Peru. Three of these are illustrated and described as new species, and the remaining species, known only from one female, is illustrated. The new species are I. straminea sp. nov., I. laoroya sp. nov., and I. cygnus sp. nov. A comparative study of 18 morphological characters for 14 species of Icaia and Athysanella Baker was undertaken to reassess their current circumscriptions. Parsimony analysis of these characters recovered each genus as a monophyletic group and the strict consensus tree is presented to provide a preliminary view of the generic and subgeneric phylogeny of this New World group of Chiasmini. Several derived characters of the male genitalia were found that unite most of the species currently placed in Athysanella. However, three species currently placed in A. (Diphipyga) retain the plesiomorphic states for these characters. A. (Diphipyga) is reinterpreted to contain only these three species, A. (D.) mexicana Johnson, A. (D.) nimbata Ball & Beamer, and A. (D.) secunda Blocker & Wesley. Athysanella rubicunda Ball & Beamer and A. triodana Ball & Beamer are reinstated in Athysanella (Amphipyga). No uniquely identifying and universally shared characters were found that unite all species of Icaia, but a combination of similarities in external morphology and male genitalia to described species of Icaia, a lack of characters that define other genera of Chiasmini, and their South American distribution allow placement of the new species into Icaia.

scholarly journals Three New Species and One New Record of Genus Chimarra Stephens (Trichoptera: Philopotamoidea: Philopotamidae) from Indian Himalaya

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Manpreet Singh Pandher ◽  
Simarjit Kaur
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
New Record ◽  
Ventral View ◽  
First Record ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Lateral View ◽  
Indian Himalaya ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
Three New Species

Three new species and one new record are added to the philopotamid fauna of India from the Indian Himalaya. The newly described species under the genus Chimarra Stephens include Chimarra butticulata sp.n. and C. gangotriensis sp.n. both from Uttarakhand and C. sangtami sp.n. from Nagaland. The record of C. nigra Kimmins (from Sikkim) constitutes the first record of that species from India, although it was previously known from Nepal. It is redescribed here from India as there are minor differences in the male genitalia from previously described species (in original paper of Kimmins only lateral view of the phallus was illustrated and in the redescribed species the ventral view of phallus is illustrated along with the lateral view). The four species belong to two different species groups and one species is unplaced in the species group. These species are distinguishable from each other as well as from the previously known allied species by consistent taxonomic features of the inferior appendages, tergite X, and the phallic apparatus of males.

scholarly journals Two new species of Agaporomorphus Guignot from Suriname (Coleoptera, Adephaga, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)

ZooKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 923 ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
Kelly B. Miller
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Species Group ◽  
The Other ◽  
Median Lobe ◽  
Parsimony Analysis ◽  
Basal Surface ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
New Distribution

Two new species are described in the Neotropical genus Agaporomorphus Guignot from Suriname: A. hamatocolessp. nov. and A. tortussp. nov. The species are included in a phylogenetic parsimony analysis of 13 morphological characters and all 12 known species. Two equally parsimonious arrangements are found with the only difference a rearrangement among the A. knischi clade. Agaporomorphus tortus belongs to the A. dolichodactylus group based on presence of an elongate, club-like lobe on the dorsal, basal surface of the male median lobe and long, subsinuate male mesotarsal claws and a small lobe at the apex of male mesotarsomere V. Agaporomorphus hamatocoles does not belong to a known species group and is phylogenetically isolated lacking synapomorphies characterizing the other groups, so the species is placed in its own species group. Male genitalia are illustrated for the new species and redrawn for all the species of the A. dolichodactylus group, and male mesotarsal claws are illustrated for A. tortus and redrawn for other members of the A. dolichodactylus group. New distribution records are reported for Suriname for the species A. colberti Miller and Wheeler and A. pereirai Guignot.

Copelatus Erichson, 1832 from Maharashtra, India, with description of three new species and notes on other taxa of the genus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Copelatinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4459 (2) ◽  
pp. 235 ◽  
Author(s):  
SAYALI D. SHETH ◽  
HEMANT V. GHATE ◽  
JIŘÍ HÁJEK
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
Three New Species

The Copelatus species occurring in Maharashtra State, India, are reviewed. Altogether, nine species are recorded, three of which are described as new: Copelatus deccanensis sp. nov. (C. nigrolineatus species group), C. maushomi sp. nov. (C. consors group) and C. bezdeki sp. nov. (C. irinus group). Habitus and male genitalia are illustrated for all Copelatus species from Maharashtra, a key to the species and distribution maps are presented. New distributional records along with short diagnoses of already known species are provided. In addition, the study of extensive material of Copelatus species from the Indian subcontinent outside Maharashtra revealed the following new synonymies: Copelatus freudei Guignot, 1955 = C. gibsoni Vazirani, 1974 syn. nov. = C. gibsoni Vazirani, 1975 syn. nov. = C. spangleri Vazirani, 1974 syn. nov. = C. spangleri Vazirani, 1975 syn. nov.; Copelatus oblitus Sharp, 1882 = C. karnatakus Holmen & Vazirani, 1990 syn. nov.; C. sociennus J. Balfour-Browne, 1952 = C. bangalorensis Vazirani, 1970 syn. nov.; Copelatus tenebrosus Régimbart, 1880 = C. ceylonicus Vazirani, 1969 syn. nov. = C. assamensis Vazirani, 1970 syn. nov. 

Description of three new species of Periga Walker from the Intervales State Park, Ribeirão Grande, São Paulo, southeastern Brazil and the resurrection of Automeris intermedius (Bouvier) (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae, Hemileucinae, Hemileucini)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4294 (4) ◽  
pp. 471
Author(s):  
CARLOS G. C. MIELKE ◽  
ELYANA G. JOERKE ◽  
ALINE V. MIRANDA ◽  
JANE COSTA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
The Status ◽  
Three New Species

Three species of Saturniidae (Hemileucinae), all belonging to Periga Walker, 1855, are recognized as new and are described as: P. paranapiacaba sp. nov., P. faustinoi sp. nov., and P. intervales sp. nov. The Periga gueneei species-group is proposed to accommodate P. gueneei (Lemaire, 1973) and the new species P. intervales sp. n. described here. The status of another Saturniidae species is revised: Automeris intermedius (Bouvier, 1929), stat. rev., which is removed from the synonymy with A. nubila Walker, 1855. Habitus and illustrations of male genitalia are provided for all new species and both Automeris species. All holotypes are deposited in the Entomological Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

Three new species of Icaia Linnavuori (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from Peru and distinction of the genus from Athysanella Baker

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1390 (1) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES N. ZAHNISER ◽  
ANDREW HICKS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
New World ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
South American ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Consensus Tree ◽  
Strict Consensus Tree ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
Montane Grasslands

Four undescribed species of Icaia Linnavuori were identified from collections in montane grasslands of Peru. Three of these are illustrated and described as new species, and the remaining species, known only from one female, is illustrated. The new species are I. straminea sp. nov., I. laoroya sp. nov., and I. cygnus sp. nov. A comparative study of 18 morphological characters for 14 species of Icaia and Athysanella Baker was undertaken to reassess their current circumscriptions. Parsimony analysis of these characters recovered each genus as a monophyletic group and the strict consensus tree is presented to provide a preliminary view of the generic and subgeneric phylogeny of this New World group of Chiasmini. Several derived characters of the male genitalia were found that unite most of the species currently placed in Athysanella. However, three species currently placed in A. (Diphipyga) retain the plesiomorphic states for these characters. A. (Diphipyga) is reinterpreted to contain only these three species, A. (D.) mexicana Johnson, A. (D.) nimbata Ball & Beamer, and A. (D.) secunda Blocker & Wesley. Athysanella rubicunda Ball & Beamer and A. triodana Ball & Beamer are reinstated in Athysanella (Amphipyga). No uniquely identifying and universally shared characters were found that unite all species of Icaia, but a combination of similarities in external morphology and male genitalia to described species of Icaia, a lack of characters that define other genera of Chiasmini, and their South American distribution allow placement of the new species into Icaia.

Cis pickeri sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Ciidae) from Southern Africa

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2117 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
CRISTIANO LOPES-ANDRADE ◽  
NATALIA MATUSHKINA ◽  
GERDA BUDER ◽  
KLAUS-DIETER KLASS
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Species Group ◽  
External Morphology ◽  
Secondary Sexual Characters ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Secondary Sexual

A new species of ciid beetle from southwestern South Africa is described. Images of the habitus, male genitalia and other characters of the external morphology are provided. The observed variations of male secondary sexual characters are briefly discussed. The similarities of external morphological characters of Cis pickeri sp. nov. to other species of Cis Latreille are discussed, and the new species is tentatively included in the bilamellatus species group.

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