A new species of Dixella, the first Mexican record of Dixella shannoni, and a summary of dixid records from Mexico (Diptera: Dixidae)

We describe a new species of the genus Dixella Dyar & Shannon of Mexico. Specimens were collected in Lagunas de Santo Domingo, Municipality of Huatusco, Veracruz, a small vegetation-lined lake within an increasingly relictual mountain cloud forest. This species is most closely related to Dixella cumbrica Peters & Cook, 1966, based upon the shape of the apical lobe of the gonocoxite and flattened gonostylus. Also, we include the first record of Dixella shannoni (Lane, 1942), in Mexico, based upon specimens collected in Santiago Yaveo, Oaxaca. Additionally, we present a list of all localities in which dixids have been collected in Mexico.

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Four New Species of Dicranocentrus and Heteromurus from the State of Mérida, Venezuela (Collembola: Entomobryidae)

The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico ◽

10.46429/jaupr.v67i2.7703 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 67 (2) ◽

pp. 148-164 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

José A. Mari Mutt

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Central America ◽

West Indies ◽

Cloud Forest ◽

First Record ◽

The State ◽

Congeneric Species ◽

The West ◽

The City ◽

A New Species

The new species Dicranocentrus paramoense, D. bidentatus, Heteromurus (Heteromurtrella) echinatus and H. (H.) pruinosus are described from specimens collected in the State of Mérida, Venezuela. A new species of each genus comes from a cloud forest near the city of Mérida and a new species of each taxon was collected in paramos northeast of Mérida. Congeneric species are phyletically very near and their closest relatives live in Central America and the West Indies. Dicranocentrus bidentatus is the sole species of its genus with only two teeth (the basal pair) along the inner margin of the unguis. Heteromurus (Heteromurtrella) echinatus is unique among members of its subgenus in possessing dental spines, although some individuals lack these structures. This is the first record of such intraspecific variation. Four tables detail variations of a number of characters and 41 figures complement the text.

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A new species of Atelopus (Anura: Bufonidae) from southern Peru

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4853.3.4 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4853 (3) ◽

pp. 404-420

Author(s):

VALIA HERRERA-ALVA ◽

VLADIMIR DÍAZ ◽

ERNESTO CASTILLO ◽

CÉSAR RODOLFO ◽

ALESSANDRO CATENAZZI

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis ◽

Cloud Forest ◽

Pathogenic Fungus ◽

First Record ◽

Skin Texture ◽

Southern Peru ◽

A New Species ◽

General Appearance ◽

Single Locality

We describe a new harlequin frog (genus Atelopus) from the cloud forest near Anchihuay (Anco District, Ayacucho Department) from 2000 to 2150 m elevation in southern Peru, representing the first record for the genus in the Department of Ayacucho. The new species has a maximum snout-vent length of 21.5 mm in females and 21.6 mm in males, and resembles A. erythropus in general appearance, small size, and dorsal coloration. The new species can be distinguished from A. erythropus by its unique pattern of ventral coloration, dorsal skin texture, and snout shape. We detected the presence of the pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in individuals of the new species. This pathogen is threatening the survival of harlequin frogs throughout the Neotropics. In addition to chytridiomycosis, habitat loss further threatens the single locality where the new species is known to occur.

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Una nueva especie de Drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae) en las Inflorescencias de Xanthosoma sagittifolium (Araceae)

Revista Ecuatoriana de Medicina y Ciencias Biológicas ◽

10.26807/remcb.v38i1.21 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

pp. 55-60 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Luz Marina Llangarí ◽

Violeta Rafael

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Research Station ◽

Santo Domingo ◽

Xanthosoma Sagittifolium ◽

A New Species

A new species of the genus Drosophila, Drosophila sagittifolii sp. nov. is described. Adult specimens of D. sagittifolii were aspirated from the inflorescences of Xanthosoma sagittifolium (L.) Schott (camacho), from which they also emerged, at the Río Guajalito Research Station, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Ecuador.

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First Record of the Genus Oxytauchira Ramme, 1941 (Acridoidea: Acrididae: Oxyinae) from Uttar Pradesh, India with Description of a New Species

Entomological News ◽

10.3157/021.128.0510 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 128 (5) ◽

pp. 508

Author(s):

Sahar Mobin ◽

Mohd Kamil Usmani

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Uttar Pradesh ◽

First Record ◽

A New Species

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First record of a nonpaleotropical intejocerid cephalopod from Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) strata of central Spain

Journal of Paleontology ◽

10.1017/jpa.2019.66 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 94 (2) ◽

pp. 273-278

Author(s):

Björn Kröger ◽

Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Marco

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New Species ◽

New Genus ◽

First Record ◽

The United States ◽

Central Spain ◽

Middle Ordovician ◽

A New Species

AbstractThe order Intejocerida is an enigmatic, short-lived cephalopod taxon known previously only from Early–Middle Ordovician beds of Siberia and the United States. Here we report a new genus, Cabaneroceras, and a new species, C. aznari, from Middle Ordovician strata of central Spain. This finding widens the paleogeographic range of the order toward high-paleolatitudinal areas of peri-Gondwana. A curved conch, characteristic for the new genus, was previously unknown from members of the Intejocerida.UUID: http://zoobank.org/21f0a09c-5265-4d29-824b-6b105d36b791

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