The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893: III. Four new species of Striaria Bollman, 1888 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striariidae) from Idaho, USA

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4920 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-406
Author(s):  
WILLIAM A. SHEAR
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Appalachian Region ◽  
The West ◽  
Northern Idaho

The millipede genus Striaria Bollman, 1888 heretofore had been thought to be confined to the Appalachian region of eastern North America, is replaced in western North America by species of the genus Amplaria Chamberlin, 1941. Collections from northern Idaho show that this is not the case, and that at least four species of Striaria occur in the west. These species are described herein as Striaria aculeata n. sp., S. bombillus n. sp., S. vagabundus n. sp. and S. orator n. sp.  

The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. II. New records and species of the genus Amplaria Chamberlin, 1941 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4908 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-224
Author(s):  
WILLIAM A. SHEAR
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
New Records ◽  
Western North America ◽  
San Luis ◽  
Senior Synonym ◽  
Northern Idaho

The millipede genus Amplaria Chamberlin, 1941 (senior synonym of Vaferaria Causey, 1958 and Speostriaria Causey, 1960) is endemic to western North America, from Mt. Palomar and San Luis Obispo, California, north to southwestern British Columbia, Canada, and east to northern Idaho. Seven species names are currently assigned to the genus. Below I describe ten additional new species: Amplaria crawfordi, Amplaria fontinalis, Amplaria rykkenae, Amplaria arcata, Amplaria baughi, Amplaria staceyi, Amplaria umatilla, Amplaria cervus, Amplaria mendocino and Amplaria flucticulus, and provide new records of Amplaria nazinta Chamberlin. 

NOTES ON SOME FLORIDA COLEOPTERA WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES

1928 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 60-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. S. Blatchley
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
West Coast ◽  
The Other ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
The West ◽  
Southern Florida

My last general paper on Florida Coleoptera was prepared in the autumn of 1924, and appeared in the Canadian Entomologist for July, 1925. Since that was written my time has been largely devoted to the final preparation and publication of the “Heteroptera of Eastern North America.” During the three years which have elapsed I have spent the winters at Dunedin on the west coast of Florida, but have made three additional collecting trips, of three or four weeks each, to Royal Palm Park. One of these was in December, the other two in March and April. This park comprises an area of 4,000 acres lying in extreme southern Florida, about 40 miles northeast of Cape Sable.

The youngest styliolines and nowakiids (Late Devonian) currently known from New York

1986 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 689-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellis L. Yochelson ◽  
William T. Kirchgasser
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
North America ◽  
Wall Structure ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Late Devonian ◽  
Appalachian Region ◽  
The West ◽  
First Report

This is the first report of styliolines in the Angola Shale Member of the West Falls Formation in western New York. These specimens are of late Frasnian age and are the youngest individuals known from the Appalachian Region. This upward extension of range places the extinction of styliolines in eastern North America more in accord with their time of extinction in Europe. Nowakiids have also been found in the younger Hanover Shale Member, in the upper part of the Java Formation, also of late Frasnian age. These are the youngest known nowakiids from the Appalachians. Within the limits of preservation, the external characters and wall structure of the Angola styliolines are comparable with those of older specimens. The associated rare small annulated nowakiids and homotcenids have a laminated wall structure fundamentally different from that of the styliolines.

The Pseudoomphalina kalchbrenneri complex in North America

Botany ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 98 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-101
Author(s):  
Andrus Voitk ◽  
Irja Saar ◽  
Renée Lebeuf ◽  
Peter Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Western North America ◽  
The West ◽  
Ancestral Species ◽  
Eurasian Species ◽  
One New Species

Pseudoomphalina kalchbrenneri is a Eurasian species. In North America the Pso. kalchbrenneri complex is represented by Pseudoomphalina anticostica sp. nov. and Pso. compressipes in the east and Pso. intermedia in the west. Pseudoomphalina farinacea and Pso. felleoides are later synonyms for Pso. compressipes. The somewhat similar Pseudolaccaria pachyphylla occupies a temperate band through Eurasia, confirmed by sequencing in both eastern and western North America. It differs from species of the Pso. kalchbrenneri complex by smaller size, finely granular pileus, non-decurrent gills, and lack of hymenial cystidia. All species of the Pso. kalchbrenneri complex are uncommon, and macroscopically similar. Pseudoomphalina kalchbrenneri and Pso. intermedia can be identified by their distribution (Europe and western North America, respectively) and lack of cystidia. The cystidiate eastern North American Pso. anticostica and Pso. compressipes can be differentiated by the smaller spores of the latter. Pseudoomphalina cokeri is the most ancestral species on the Pseudoomphalina lineage, while Clitocybe thujana and Agaricus apertus (Clitocybe/Clitocybula aperta) fall outside Pseudoomphalina and Pseudolaccaria. We add 21 new sequences to GenBank, including six types (Agaricus compressipes, Clitocybe felleoides, C. farinacea, C. intermedia, C. thujana, Agaricus apertus), and one new species (Pso. anticostica).

A NEW SPECIES OF PHYLLONORYCTER HBN. (= LITHOCOLLETIS HBN.) (LEPIDOPTERA: GRACILARIIDAE) FROM WESTERN NORTH AMERICA

1980 ◽  
Vol 112 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miktat Doğanlar ◽  
Akira Mutuura
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Pupal Stage ◽  
Lower Surface ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
Apple Leaves ◽  
A New Species

AbstractPhyllonorycter elmaella n sp. is described from specimens reared from ptychonomous mines on the lower surface of apple leaves from the vicinity of Vancouver, B.C. The species is compared with European P. sorbi (Frey) and the Japanese P. sorbicola (Kumata) n. comb., to which it is more closely similar than to species attacking apple and related trees in Eastern North America. The species has three generations a year and overwinters in the pupal stage.

Cortinarius hesleri from eastern North America and related species from Europe and western North America

Botany ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 91 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph F. Ammirati ◽  
Karen W. Hughes ◽  
Kare Liimatainen ◽  
Tuula Niskanen ◽  
P. Brandon Matheny
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Western North America ◽  
A New Species

The following four species of Cortinarius are presented: Cortinarius californicus and Cortinarius hesleri from North America and Cortinarius cinnabarinus and Cortinarius coccineus from Europe. Cortinarius cinnabarinus and C. coccineus form a clade with C. bulliardii, whereas C. californicus and C. hesleri form a clade with C. colymbadinus. An epitype is selected for C. cinnabarinus, and Cortinarius hesleri is described as a new species from eastern North America.

Five new species of Ceratoppia (Acari: Oribatida: Peloppiidae) from western North America

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3036 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZOE LINDO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Forest Floor ◽  
Western North America ◽  
The West ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Southern Border ◽  
Temperate Rainforests

I present the systematics and distribution of five new species of oribatid mites in the genus Ceratoppia (Oribatida: Peloppiidae) from western North America. The species are described on the basis of adult morphology using the following character states: number of hypostomal setae, number, length and expression of posterior notogastral setae, length of lamellae and lamellar cusp, length of interlamellar setae, and the shape and dentition of the rostrum. Ceratoppia indentata n. sp. is described from forest floor habitats, while Ceratoppia longicuspis n. sp. and Ceratoppia tofinoensis n. sp. are described from arboreal bryosphere habitats; Ceratoppia offarostrata n. sp. is associated with bark habitats. Ceratoppia valerieae n. sp. was collected from both arboreal and forest floor samples. Distributions of all species are provided based on museum and collection records; C. indentata, C. longicuspis, C. tofinoensis are recorded from coastal temperate coniferous rainforests of the Pacific Northwest of North America, while C. valerieae was found in coastal temperate rainforests and extending along the southern border of British Columbia into eastern Alberta. Ceratoppia offarostrata is collected only from a small number of locations on the west coast of Canada. Comments on other North American Ceratoppia species is given. A morphological key is presented to the described adult species for the genus Ceratoppia in North America.

A New Species of Gerris F. from Yukon and Alaska (Hemiptera: Gerridae)

1961 ◽  
Vol 93 (8) ◽  
pp. 663-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard A. Kelton
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Antennal Segment ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Genital Segment ◽  
A New Species ◽  
General Appearance

Two species that formerly were confused in the literature with Gerris rufoscutellatus Latreille are G. notabilis Drake and Hottes (1925) from western North America, and G. dissortis Drake and Harris (1930) from eastern North America. Drake and Harris (1934) concluded that Palaearctic rufoscutellatus did not occur in America.The species described herewith as Gerris nearcticus n. sp. is similar to notabilis, dissortis and rufoscutellatus in general appearance and coloration. However, the males are readily separated from notabilis and dissortis by the prominent median keel on the first genital segment (Figs. 1, 2). Another Nearctic species with a similar median keel is G. conformis (Uhl.), but it has a very long first antennal segment, which is longer than segments two and three together. The first antennal segment of nearcticus is much shorter than segments two and three together.

The biogeographic distribution of Cavinula (Bacillariophyceae) in North America with the descriptions of two new species

Phytotaxa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 184 (4) ◽  
pp. 181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Cvetkoska ◽  
Zlatko Levkov ◽  
PAUL B. Hamilton ◽  
Marina Potapova
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Low Ph ◽  
Specific Conductance ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Western North America ◽  
The Third ◽  
Alpine Environments ◽  
Small Genus

Cavinula Mann & Stickle is small genus presently comprising 25 taxa distinguished by the linear to round-elliptical valve shape, uniseriate striae, presence of nodules and distinctive terminal pores. Most often the species from the genus have been reported from colder northern or alpine oligotrophic aquatic systems, or moist sub-aerial habitats. Observation of samples from different localities reveals fourteen Cavinula taxa are distributed across North America. Descriptions of confirmed species including designated types are provided with regard to their taxonomy, autecology, and distribution in Canada and USA. Light and Scanning Electron Microscope observations of different samples and type material reveal high morphological variation within some of the taxa. Two and three morphotypes are recognized within C. cocconeiformis and C. pseudoscutiformis. Cavinula kernii and C. maculata are recognized as new species and formal description and differential diagnosis are presented. The biogeography of the genus Cavinula in North America is represented by three groups of species. The first group comprises taxa with more restricted distribution in oligotrophic, cold and/or alpine environments from the Arctic Archipelago and the Rocky Mountains in western North America. The second group comprises more tolerant species with broader distributions across a wider range of ecological conditions. The third group from south-eastern North America, represented by C. maculata, is found in low pH and specific conductance conditions with low nutrients. Globally, forty-one percent of the known taxa are present in North America. This number is subject to change after a better understanding of the different morphotypes and global taxa distributions.

ESTABLISHMENT AND DISTRIBUTION IN 1977 OF CHRYSOCHARIS LARICINELLAE (HYMENOPTERA: EULOPHIDAE), A PARASITE OF THE LARCH CASEBEARER, COLEOPHORA LARICELLA (LEPIDOPTERA: COLEOPHORIDAE), IN WESTERN FORESTS

1981 ◽  
Vol 113 (12) ◽  
pp. 1129-1130 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. B. Ryan ◽  
L. J. Theroux
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
North America ◽  
Relative Abundance ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Forest Service ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Usda Forest Service ◽  
Coleophora Laricella ◽  
Northern Idaho

Chrysocharis laricinellae (Ratz) is a European parasite of the larch casebearer, Coleophora laricella (Hbn.), and was one of several species introduced into eastern North America in the 1930's for biological control. Following their release, C. laricinellae and the braconid Agathis pumila (Ratz.) became established and reduced casebearer poulations drastically (Graham 1949). Both parasites are now being used for biological control of the casebearer in western North America. A. pumila was first released in northern Idaho in 1960 (Denton 1979). C. laricinellae was not intentionally released until 1972 (Ryan and Denton 1973), although it probably became established in certain areas earlier (Ryan et al. 1974). The purpose of this paper is an historical documentation of the early distribution and relative abundance of C. laricinellae, made possible largely because of an extensive, one-time survey in 1977 by entomologists of the USDA Forest Service, Northern Region (Flavell 1979).

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