Martensopsalis, a new genus of Neopilionidae from New Caledonia (Opiliones: Eupnoi)

New Caledonia has an endemic opiliofauna with two named species of Triaenonychidae, 17 Troglosironidae and eight Zalmoxidae. The recent finding of Neopilionidae on Grande Terre was thus surprising, and required the formal description of a new genus, which we undertake here. Martensopsalis gen. nov. is characterized by a small unsclerotized body with a unique palp with a pointed basal apophysis on the ventral side of the femur and with a distal apophysis on the prolateral side of the patella. The distinct external morphology, simple penis and unique phylogenetic position justify the erection of the new genus with Martensopsalis dogny spec. nov. as its type species. In addition to the type locality we report several other localities of putative congeneric, yet undescribed species.

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Deilagaon, a New Genus of Indo-Malayan and Papuan Fig Wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Agaonidae)

Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde ◽

10.1163/26660644-04602014 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 46 (2) ◽

pp. 291-298 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

J.T. Wiebes

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Type Species ◽

New Genus ◽

New Guinea ◽

The Philippines ◽

Type Locality ◽

Fig Wasps ◽

Bismarck Archipelago

Introduction of the new genus Deilagaon with descriptions of new species chrysolepidis (type-species) from the Philippines (type-locality Luzon, ex Ficus chrysolepis Miq.), Celebes, New Guinea (ex F. novoguineensis Corner), Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Isis.; and annulatae from Thailand, Malaya (ex F.depressa Bl.), Sumatra, Borneo (type-locality N. Borneo, ex F. annulata Bl.), Philippines. Included is also Ceratosolen megarhopalus Grandi (1923) from Thailand, Malaya, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Philippines (Balabac Isl.).

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Two new Cotasteromimina from Borneo (Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Molytinae)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4933.4.7 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4933 (4) ◽

pp. 567-574

Author(s):

CHRISTOPH GERMANN

Keyword(s):

Type Species ◽

New Genus ◽

Type Locality ◽

Andaman Islands ◽

Canopy Fogging

Based on material collected by canopy fogging in forests on Borneo, Obhylius arboricola gen. nov., sp. nov., and Seticotasteromimus brunomanseri sp. nov., the second species of this genus, are described. Further records of the type species of Seticotasteromimus Germann, 2013, S. jarawa Germann, 2013, are presented from Borneo, some 2700 km distant from the type locality on the Andaman Islands. Along with Seticotasteromimus, the new genus is best placed in the subtribe Cotasteromimina.

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New genus and new species of the subfamily Metrodorinae from China (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4964.2.6 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4964 (2) ◽

pp. 345-362

Author(s):

XIANG-YI LU ◽

WEI-AN DENG

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Type Species ◽

Yunnan Province ◽

New Genus ◽

External Morphology ◽

Key To Species ◽

New Name ◽

Three New Species

The genus Concavetettix Deng, gen. nov. (type species: Concavetettix yunnanensis Deng, sp. nov.) is described from Daweishan, Pingbian County, Yunnan Province, China. The genus Macromotettix Günther, 1939 is reviewed. Three new species of the genus, M. microptera Deng, sp. nov., M. zhengi Deng, sp. nov. and M. brachyptera Deng, sp. nov. are described with detailed illustrations of external morphology. One new name is proposed: Macromotettix napoensis Deng, nom. nov.. Additionally, an updated key to species of the genus Macromotettix is given.

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Establishment of a new genus for Nudina xizangensis Fang, 2000 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Lithosiini)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4683.2.5 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4683 (2) ◽

pp. 271-276

Author(s):

SI-YAO HUANG ◽

SHUN-YUN TAN ◽

MIN WANG ◽

XIAO-LING FAN

Keyword(s):

Type Species ◽

New Genus ◽

Type Locality ◽

First Time

The little known species Nudina xizangensis Fang, 2000 is rediscovered from its type locality, Beibeng, Motuo County, Southeast Xizang, with genitalia of both sexes illustrated for the first time. Based on its unique genitalia structure, a new lichen moth genus, Paranudina Huang & Wang gen. nov., is described with N. xizangensis as the type species. Adults and genitalia of Paranudina xizangensis (Fang, 2000) comb. nov. and Nudina artaxidia (Butler, 1881) are compared and illustrated.

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Masonoceras, a new karagandoceratid ammonoid from the lower Mississippian (lower Osagean) of Kentucky

Journal of Paleontology ◽

10.1017/s0022336000037409 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 76 (3) ◽

pp. 574-577 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

David M. Work ◽

Walter L. Manger

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Type Species ◽

New Genus ◽

Systematic Position ◽

Ventral Lobe ◽

Formal Description ◽

Ventral Margin ◽

Borden Formation ◽

Conodont Zone ◽

A New Species

Karagandoceratids are a rare offshoot of the Prionoceratinae, resembling that subfamily in general conch form and sutural ontogeny, but differing by possession of an acute ventral margin and an increasingly trifid ventral lobe. The systematic position of the Karagandoceratidae has been controversial [see Bartzsch and Weyer (1988) for an exhaustive review]. The nominate genus, Karagandoceras Librovitch, 1940 (type species, K. galeatum), possesses a weakly divided ventral lobe which has led authors to refer it to both the Praeglyphioceratina (Ruzhencev, 1960, 1962; Bogoslovsky, 1971; Ruzhencev and Bogoslovskaya, 1978; Bogoslovskaya et al., 1999; Kusina, 2000) and the Goniatitina (Weyer, 1965, 1972; Kullmann, 1981). Discovery of an ancestral karagandoceratid genus, gen. nov. I aff. Karagandoceras Bartzsch and Weyer, 1988, in the early Tournaisian Siphonodella sandbergi conodont Zone in Germany provided clarification on the proximate origin of Karagandoceras and provided a plausible link to the early Tournaisian prionoceratin genus Nicimitoceras Korn, 1993 (type species, Imitoceras subacre Vöhringer, 1960). Bartzsch and Weyer (1988) proposed a karagandoceratid phylogeny beginning with gen. nov. I aff. Karagandoceras in the early Tournaisian, progressing through Karagandoceras in the middle Tournaisian, and culminating with a third, descendent genus, gen. nov. II aff. Karagandoceras (typical species, Karagandoceras bradfordi Manger, 1971), early in the late Tournaisian. Bartzsch and Weyer (1988) elected to leave both the initial and final members of this lineage, gen. nov. I and gen. nov. II aff. Karagandoceras, in open nomenclature pending discovery of more completely preserved material. Discovery of superbly preserved representatives of a new species of gen. nov. II aff. Karagandoceras from the Borden Formation in northeastern Kentucky provides additional sutural and morphological details that support Bartzsch and Weyer's phylogenetic interpretation and makes formal description of this terminal karagandoceratid taxon (herein designated Masonoceras new genus) possible.

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Neocordana gen. nov., the causal organism of Cordana leaf spot on banana

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.205.4.2 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 205 (4) ◽

pp. 229 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Margarita Hernandez Restrepo ◽

JOHANNES Z. GROENEWALD ◽

PEDRO W. CROUS

Keyword(s):

Leaf Spot ◽

Type Species ◽

New Genus ◽

Undescribed Species ◽

Causal Organism ◽

Musa Spp

Cordana leaf spot of banana is shown to be associated with several species of a new genus described here as Neocordana gen. nov. Furthermore, Neocordana belongs to Pyriculariaceae (Magnaporthales) rather than Cordanaceae where the type species of Cordana, C. pauciseptata resides. Neocordana is established to accommodate Cordana musae, C. johnstonii, C. versicolor, and a previously undescribed species, N. musicola, which is morphologically and phylogenetically distinct. Neocordana species are found to be associated with leaves of Musa spp. (Musaceae) and Canna denudata (Cannaceae). Based on these results, Cordanaceae is best recognized in a separate order, established here as Cordanales ord. nov.

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Neoapterocis, a new genus of apterous Ciidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from Chile and Mexico

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.1481.1.3 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 1481 (1) ◽

pp. 35-47 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

CRISTIANO LOPES-ANDRADE

Keyword(s):

Convex Body ◽

Male Genitalia ◽

Type Species ◽

New Genus ◽

The State ◽

External Morphology ◽

Female Genitalia ◽

Diagnostic Characters

Neoapterocis gen. nov. is described based on two species: Neoapterocis mexicanus sp. nov. (type species) from the state of Oaxaca (Mexico); and Neoapterocis chilensis sp. nov. from Concepción Province (VIII Biobío Region), Chile. Diagnostic characters of the genus include the distinct oval, highly convex body, small eyes and scutellum, absence of hind wings, short prosternum and metaventrite, and first abdominal ventrite longer than the next two together. Comparisons are made with other apterous and micropterous ciid genera, particularly Apterocis Perkins, Lipopterocis Miyatake, Nipponapterocis Miyatake and Polynesicis Zimmerman. The new genus is placed in the tribe Ciini. A key to males of the species of Neoapterocis gen. nov. is provided, together with descriptions of external morphology of adults, morphology of male genitalia of both species and the female genitalia of Neo. mexicanus sp. nov. Neoapterocis gen. nov. is the first apterous ciid genus to be described from continental lands

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Redescription of Ceroderma asperata Raffray, and description of Cerochusa cilioceps gen. et sp. n. from Hainan, South China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.3355.1.4 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 3355 (1) ◽

pp. 62 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

ZI-WEI YIN ◽

SHÛHEI NOMURA ◽

LI-ZHEN LI

Keyword(s):

South China ◽

Type Species ◽

New Genus ◽

Hainan Island ◽

Type Locality ◽

Monotypic Genus ◽

New Genus And Species

The monotypic genus Ceroderma Raffray and the type species C. asperata Raffray are redescribed and illustrated, based onexamination of the holotype and additional specimens collected near the type locality. An allied new genus and species, Cero-chusa cilioceps Yin & Nomura, gen. et sp. nov. is described from Hainan Island, South China, and distinguished from related batrisine genera.

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Phellinocis, a new genus of Neotropical Ciidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.1034.1.3 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 1034 (1) ◽

pp. 43 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

CRISTIANO LOPES-ANDRADE ◽

JOHN F. LAWRENCE

Keyword(s):

Costa Rica ◽

Intraspecific Variation ◽

Male Genitalia ◽

Type Species ◽

New Genus ◽

Outer Edge ◽

External Morphology ◽

Key To Species ◽

Diagnostic Characters

Phellinocis gen. n. is described based on three species: P. romualdoi sp. n. (type species) from Brazil, P. erwini sp. n. from Panama and P. thayerae sp. n. from Costa Rica and Panama. Diagnostic characters of the genus include the oblong, highly convex, subglabrous body, strongly declined, convex to slightly concave and often fluted elytral apices, 8or 9-segmented antennae, short and concave prosternum, laminate prosternal process, and protibia with simple outer edge and two stout teeth at apex. Phellinocis romualdoi has two features not found in any other described species of Ciidae: intraspecific variation in antennal segmentation and presence of a setal patch on the first ventrite of the female. Comparisons are made with a number of other ciid genera, and the genus is placed in the tribe Ciini. A key to species of Phellinocis is provided, together with descriptions of external morphology of adults, and morphology of male genitalia.

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Huangilene, a new genus for the Miltochrista alikangiae (Strand, 1917) species-group, with descriptions of three new species from Indochina, continental China and Taiwan (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4869.1.4 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4869 (1) ◽

pp. 91-111

Author(s):

ANTON V. VOLYNKIN ◽

KAREL ČERNÝ

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Type Species ◽

New Genus ◽

Species Group ◽

Type Locality ◽

New Combinations ◽

Species Type ◽

Three New Species

The new genus Huangilene Volynkin & Černý, gen. n. is erected for the Miltochrista alikangiae (Strand, 1917) species-group with Lyclene kepica Dubatolov & Bucsek, 2013 as the type species. Three new species are described: H. odontotilepida Volynkin & Černý, sp. n. (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos), H. kutzscheri Volynkin & Černý, sp. n. (continental China and Taiwan Isl.) and H. apoklinousa Volynkin & Černý, sp. n. (Vietnam). Four new combinations are established: Huangilene kepica (Dubatolov & Bucsek, 2013), comb. n., H. pseudolutara (N. Singh & Kirti, 2016), comb. n., H. alikangiae alikangiae (Strand, 1917), comb. n. H. alikangiae intermedia (Marumo, 1923), comb. n. The lectotype is designated for Asura obsoleta Form alikangiae Strand, 1917, the species’ type locality is fixed as “Karapin” (Taiwan, Chiayi County, Chaoliping).

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