Klimaszewskia, a new genus of the tribe Tyrini from the Oriental region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4942 (4) ◽  
pp. 592-598
Author(s):  
ZI-WEI YIN ◽  
WEN-XUAN ZHANG
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Maxillary Palpus ◽  
Apical Region ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Single Female ◽  
Oriental Region

A new genus and species of the pselaphine tribe Tyrini, Klimaszewskia punctata gen. et sp. nov., is described and illustrated from Java, Indonesia. Klimaszewskia gen. nov. differs from all other genera of Tyrini primarily by the long, extended maxillary palpus having the fourth palpomere that is mesally expanded near the base, and has an elongate and narrowed apical region, combined with the presence of an antebasal sulcus of the pronotum, and the long first visible tergite. A single female with much larger body size from Nepal, representing a second species of the new genus, is briefly characterized but left unnamed. 

Taxonomic notes on the tribe Dryptini Bonelli, 1810 with description of a new genus and species from China (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Dryptini)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4731 (4) ◽  
pp. 522-530
Author(s):  
RICCARDO SCIAKY ◽  
ALEXANDER ANICHTCHENKO
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Large Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Large Body Size

Megadrypta mirabilis n. gen. n. sp. from Guangdong (China) is described. The new genus is distinguished from all known genera by a combination of large body size, pronotal bead well marked, sloping shoulders, reduced hind wings, smooth claws and stylomeres, and a large number (7–8) of periscutellar pores. Some remarks are made upon the relationships with the other genera of Dryptini, raising to the genus rank the taxa Nesiodrypta Jeannel, 1949 and Prionodrypta Jeannel, 1949, formerly regarded as subgenera of Drypta Latreille, 1796. A new key to all the genera of this tribe is proposed. 

A new genus and species of bark mantis from Thailand, with an updated key to the bark mantis genera of the Oriental region (Insecta: Mantodea)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4291 (3) ◽  
pp. 581 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTIAN J. SCHWARZ ◽  
REINHARD EHRMANN
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Praying Mantis ◽  
Oriental Region

A new genus and species of praying mantis, Paratheopompa siamensis n. gen. n. sp. from Thailand is described and figured. The species is most closely related to the Oriental genera Humbertiella Saussure, 1869 and Theopompa Stål, 1877, filling the morphological gap between the two genera. A key to the Oriental bark mantises of the Humbertiella group is provided. 

Indopamphantus makutaensis, a new genus and species, and Indopamphantini, a new tribe of Pamphantinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Geocoridae), as the first representative of the subfamily from the Oriental Region

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4242 (2) ◽  
pp. 281
Author(s):  
M. B. MALIPATIL
Keyword(s):  
Western Ghats ◽  
New Genus ◽  
South India ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Oriental Region ◽  
New Tribe ◽  
The Western Ghats

Indopamphantini trib. nov., a new tribe of subfamily Pamphantinae of family Geocoridae, is erected for Indopamphantus gen. nov., containing one species, I. makutaensis sp. nov., as the first member of this subfamily from the Oriental Region. The strikingly myrmecomorphic I. makutaensis, collected only from Makuta range area within Coorg [Kodagu] district at altitudes of up to 909 metres in the canopy of Vateria indica L. (Dipterocarpaceae), a tree indigenous to the Western Ghats in south India, is described and illustrated. The affinities of the new tribe with other tribes within the Pamphantinae as well with other related subfamilies of Geocoridae and families of Lygaeoidea are discussed. The Geocoridae and Pamphantinae are redefined to accommodate this new tribe. 

scholarly journals Kosaniniella javorensis n. gen., n. sp., from southwest Serbia, with notes on the evolutionary status of Knirschiella Guéorguiev, Cholevidae, Coleoptera

2004 ◽  
Vol 56 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 115-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srecko Curcic ◽  
Miloje Brajkovic ◽  
Bozidar Curcic ◽  
H. Senman ◽  
Slobodan Makarov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
Evolutionary Status ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Alpine Orogeny ◽  
Generic Status ◽  
Early Tertiary ◽  
Median Part

A new genus and species of endogen cholevid beetles (Kosaniniella javorensis n. gen., n. sp) has been diagnosed and described from under stones in the valley of Suvodol, village of Debelja, near Nova Varos, Mt. Javor southwestern Serbia. This new genus clearly differs from all other closely related genera in the following correlative traits: Body size presence/absence of eye spots; length of distalmost antennomere; form of antennomere VIII; punctuation of elytra; presence/absence of sutural striae shape of elytra; form of aedeagus; shape of aedeagal sides; shape of parameral apex; form of paramerae; distribution of parameral setae; shape of anterior inner parameral seta; form of median part of copulatory piece length of basal bulbus; and form of spermatheca. Kosaniniella n. gen. belongs to a separate phyletic lineage which includes two other phenetically close genera, Magdelainella Jeannel and Knirschiella Gu?orguiev. The new genus is present in southwestern Serbia only, while Magdelainella inhabits Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Knirschiella is given full generic status in the present paper; its members are known from Albania. The Kosaniniella-Magdelainella-Knirschiella complex is probably of early Tertiary age, its species having originated during the Alpine Orogeny, which affected vast areas of the Balkan Peninsula, including the Dinarids otherwise their terra typica.

Ceramotylenchus tesselatus n. gen., n. sp. and Pleurotylenchus minor n. sp. (Nematoda: Tylenchida) from Alabama

1986 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 238-242
Author(s):  
B. A. Ebsary
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Body Size ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Oral Disc ◽  
Lateral Field ◽  
A New Species

A new genus and species of Duosulciinae and a new species of Pleurotylenchus are described and illustrated. Ceramotylenchus tesselatus n. gen., n. sp. is distinguished by having a cuplike oral disc, two crenate lateral incisures, absence of lateral vulval flaps, and alternating rows of blocks on the head and body that gives a tilelike appearance. Pleurotylenchus minor n. sp. is distinguished from P. sachsi by a smaller body size, more posterior vulva, shorter stylet, laterally indented head annules, and by the lateral field that begins on the first body annule.

A 100 million year old gecko with sophisticated adhesive toe pads, preserved in amber from Myanmar

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1847 (1) ◽  
pp. 62 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. NICHOLAS ARNOLD ◽  
GEORGE POINAR
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Lower Limb ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Skeletal Remains ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Lower Eocene ◽  
Adult Body ◽  
Firm Evidence ◽  
Large Adult

A new genus and species of gecko is described from a posterior lower limb and foot, and a partial tail, preserved in Lower Cretaceous amber from Myanmar that is 97–110My old. It appears to be the oldest unequivocal fossil gecko, predating fragmentary skeletal remains from the Upper Cretaceous and being 43–56 My older than Yanatarogecko from the Lower Eocene, previously the oldest known gecko preserved in amber. It also provides firm evidence that gekkotans and possibly gekkonids were in Asia at this time. The Myanmar specimen shows, that the distinctive foot proportions and sophisticated adhesive mechanism, involving pads on the toes with transverse lamellae probably bearing numerous hairlike setae found in many modern geckos, had already evolved around 100My ago. The specimen is very small, even compared with juveniles of the smallest living geckos. However, the high numbers of lamellae on its toe pads suggest it is from a juvenile of a species with relatively large adult body size.

An Early Condor-Like Vulture from North America

The Auk ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 105 (3) ◽  
pp. 529-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven D. Emslie
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
North America ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
New World ◽  
Middle Miocene ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Large Body ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Large Body Size ◽  
Near Extinction

Abstract A new genus and species of condor-like vulture (Ciconiiformes: Vulturidae) is described from the middle Miocene (Barstovian) of North America and is the earliest condor now known in the New World. The fossil record at present indicates that the Vulturidae originated in the Old World, but diversified in the New World. Large body size in vultures developed in North America at least 4 million years (Ma) earlier than thought previously, and the condors probably evolved in North America. Condors were most diverse in the late Pleistocene but are now near extinction.

scholarly journals First thaneroclerid beetle from Cretaceous Charentese amber (Coleoptera: Cleroidea: Thanerocleridae)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 390-398
Author(s):  
ERIK TIHELKA ◽  
GAO-MING CHENG ◽  
DIYING HUANG ◽  
VINCENT PERRICHOT ◽  
CHEN-YANG CAI
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Distribution Range ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Burmese Amber ◽  
Cosmopolitan Distribution ◽  
Small Family

Thanerocleridae is a small family of predaceous cleroid beetles with a cosmopolitan distribution. Here we describe a new genus and species, Mesozenodosus insularis gen. et sp. nov., from early Cenomanian Charentese amber from the Fouras deposit, Charente-Maritime department in south-western France. The new genus belongs to the relictual subfamily Zenodosinae represented in the Recent fauna by a single Nearctic species, Zenodosus sanguineus (Say). Mesozenodosus gen. nov. can be differentiated from Zenodosus and the two fossil zenodosine genera from the approximately contemporaneous Burmese amber by its smaller body size, more elongate body, non-carinate pronotal margins, and apical antennomere with an oval depression. The new fossil confirms a wider diversity and distribution range of Zenodosinae in the mid-Cretaceous than in the present day and provides further evidence of the relictual status of the subfamily.

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