On some Afrotropical Harpalus, with description of two new species, and remarks on Hypharpax australis (Coleoptera: Carabidae): misidentification, mislabeling, and introduction to the Australian region

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5020 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-56
Author(s):  
BORIS M. KATAEV
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Taxonomic Position ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Additional Material ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
The Status

New data on taxonomy of several Afrotropical species of Harpalus Latreille, 1802 are provided, with special attention to the species recorded outside the African continent. Two new species from East Africa are described: H. pseudoasemus sp. n. from Tanzania and Kenya (type locality: Oldonyo Dambu, 15 km north of Arusha, Tanzania), and H. merkli sp. n. from Ethiopia (type locality: Chercher). Harpalus impressus Roth, 1851, H. asemus Basilewsky, 1947, H. fuscoaeneus Dejean, 1829, H. australasiae Dejean, 1829, and H. parvulus Dejean, 1829 are re-described based on the types and additional material, and the diagnostic characters of Hypharpax australis (Dejean, 1829) are given. Harpalus australasiae sensu Larochelle & Larivière, 2005 (non Dejean, 1829) is treated as conspecific with the Afrotropical H. parvulus which was introduced to Australia and New Zealand. The genus Anisochirus Jeannel, 1946, stat. resurr. is restored for most of the Madagascan and Mascarene species included previously in Harpalus. The members of this genus differ from those of Harpalus in having glabrous paraglossae. The status and taxonomic position of Anisochirus is discussed. The following synonymies are proposed: Harpalus impressus Roth, 1851 = H. sundaicus Schauberger, 1933, syn. n., and H. asemus Basilewsky, 1947 (January 30) = H. hamasiensis G. Müller, 1947 (September 30), syn. n. Lectotypes are designated for H. impressus and H. fuscoaeneus.  

scholarly journals Protocirrineris (Polychaeta:Cirratulidae) in South Africa and description of two new species

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (S5) ◽  
pp. S70-S80
Author(s):  
Rodolfo Elías ◽  
María Andrea Saracho-Bottero ◽  
Carol Anne Simon
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscope ◽  
New Species ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscope ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Tropical Regions ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
The Status ◽  
Scanning Electron

Introduction: The knowledge of polychaetes in the subtropical region of Africa benefited from the activity of J. Day. However, 50 years after the publication of his Monograph of the Polychaeta of southern Africa, it is necessary to reconsider the identity of the Cirratulidae due to changes in the diagnostic characters and new approaches to the taxonomy of the group to corroborate the status of cosmopolitan species in this region. Objective: We hypothesize that biodiversity of multitentacular Cirratulidae polychaetes has been significantly underestimated in southern Africa. Methods: The present work analyzes material deposited in the Iziko museum, as well as recently collected specimens, using scanning electron microscope to identify them. Results: The material corresponds to two new species belonging to the genus Protocirrineris. Protocirrineris strandloperarum sp. nov. is characterized by having the tentacular filaments between the chaetigers 5 to 10-12 and the first pair of branchiae from chaetiger 7, and P. magalhaesi sp. nov. is characterized by having tentacular filaments between chaetigers 4-8 and the first pair of branchiae from chaetigers 2 or 3. Descriptions of these species, with light and scanning electron microscope images, are given. Schematic drawings of the two new species are shown comparatively with diagnostic characters. Conclusions: The use of new techniques enables discovery of new taxonomic characters and two new species of the genus. The diversity of Cirratulidae polychaetes is underestimated also in the subtropical and tropical regions of Africa.

Untying the Gordian Knot: on Tanais novaezealandiae Thomson (Crustacea, Tanaidacea, Tanaidae) from New Zealand, with descriptions of two new Zeuxoides species

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1877 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
GRAHAM J BIRD
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Distinct Species ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
Close Resemblance ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
New Material

Tanais novaezealandiae Thomson, 1879 is redescribed based on material from the type locality and re-assigned to the genus Zeuxo. The taxon Anatanais novaezealandiae sensu Sieg from the subantarctic Auckland Islands is a distinct species and requires new material to fully assess its taxonomy. Two new species which could be confused with Z. novaezealandiae, Zeuxoides aka sp.nov. and Zeuxoides rimuwhero n.sp., are described. Both show a close resemblance to some newly-described Australian species and Zeuxoides helleri and support the view that the Australasian/New Zealand region is a hot-spot for species richness within the Tribe Anatanaini. The confused taxonomy of the Subfamily Tanainae is remarked on, with a new phylogenetic review desirable.

A revision of the Australasian species of the freshwater genera Boeckella and Hemiboeckella (Copepoda: Calanoida)

1964 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 180 ◽  
Author(s):  
IAE Bayly
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Monotypic Genus ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
The Status ◽  
General Aspects ◽  
First Time

The taxonomic utility of various characters is discussed. The status of Hemiboeckella searli Sars is discussed, and the retention of the monotypic genus Hemiboeckella is considered to be justified. A list of generic characters is given for both Boeckella and Hemiboeckella, a key is given to the Australasian species of Boeckella and is accompanied by comparative drawings. Except for B. minuta Sars, this key does not enable female specimens to be identified. The number of Australasian species of Boeckella previously described is reduced from 25 to 14 by synonymy. Two new species, B. geniculata and B. montana, and a new subspecies, B. robusta maxima, are described. Another apparently new species is figured but not named (based on a single specimen only). Two species described from New Zealand are recorded from Australia for the first time. The male fifth legs of all species are described and, except for B. opaqua Fairbridge, all are figured. Additional features are also figured for some species. The distribution of species and some general aspects of their ecology are discussed.

Two new species of Anatrichis LeConte (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Oodini) from Japan, with notes on the taxonomic position of Oodes infimus Andrewes 

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4226 (2) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
BORISLAV GUÉORGUIEV ◽  
SEIJI MORITA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Taxonomic Position ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Fukuoka Prefecture ◽  
Iriomote Island ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Okinawa Prefecture

Two new species of the genus Anatrichis LeConte, 1853 are described from Japan, A. morii, sp. n. (type locality: Fukuoka Prefecture, Shimotoubaru) and A. ryukyuensis, sp. n. (type locality: Okinawa Prefecture, Iriomote Island). Relevant diagnostic features of the new species are described, illustrated and compared with those of other species. A new combination is proposed: Anatrichis infima (Andrewes, 1936), comb. n. from Oodes infimus, and a lectotype designation is made for this species. The “indica” group of species is defined to include all the Asiatic congeners.  

Two more new species of Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the northern Western Ghats, Maharashtra, India

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4656 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-70
Author(s):  
AKSHAY KHANDEKAR ◽  
TEJAS THACKERAY ◽  
ISHAN AGARWAL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Species Diversity ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Sequence Divergence ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Total Species ◽  
Dorsal Tubercle

We describe two new species of the gekkonid genus Cnemaspis from the northern Western Ghats in Maharashtra, India. Cnemaspis amba sp. nov. and C. koynaensis sp. nov. are members of the C. girii clade and differ genetically from each other and other members of the clade by ­7.9–19.6 % uncorrected ND2 sequence divergence. The two new species are also morphologically distinguishable from all regional congeners on the basis of condition of spine-like scales on flanks, heterogeneity of dorsal pholidosis, number of dorsal tubercle rows, number of tubercles in paravertebral rows, femoral pores, number of poreless scales between femoral pores in the precloacal-femoral scale row, and keeling and size of sub-caudal scales. Cnemaspis amba sp. nov. differs from C. koynaensis sp. nov. in lacking  spine-like scales on flanks and in the number of longitudinal ventral scales and  ventral scales across mid-body. Both species are known only from their mid-elevation (~800 m asl.) type localities. Discovery of two new species increases the total species of Northern Western Ghats (NWG) Cnemaspis to ten. Specific status of numerous genetically divergent lineages needs to be evaluated and it is likely that many more species remain to be discovered from the poorly explored NWG, which are typically considered low in species diversity relative to more southern regions. We also provide a table describing major diagnostic characters across all NWG Cnemaspis species and corrected type locality data for three recently named species—Cnemaspis ajijae, C. limayei and C. mahabali. 

Two new species of Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) from the Western Ghats, India

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 334 (3) ◽  
pp. 233 ◽  
Author(s):  
BINCE MANI ◽  
SINJUMOL THOMAS ◽  
S. JOHN BRITTO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Pollen Morphology ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Species Conservation ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
The Western Ghats

Impatiens saulierea and I. josephia, two new species, are described from the Western Ghats, India. The former is collected from Kakkayam, Kozhikode and the latter from Idukki, Kerala. A detailed description of both taxa along with diagnostic characters between allied species, conservation status, pollen morphology and colour photographs are provided.

Ahnea, a new genus from New Zealand (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), with description of a new species

2014 ◽  
Vol 147 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jong-Seok Park ◽  
Christopher E. Carlton
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
A New Species

AbstractAhnea keejeongi Park and Carlton (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), a new genus and new species of New Zealand endemic beetle belonging to the supertribe Faronitae is described. Six previously described species are included to this genus and four species are synonymised as follow: Sagola dissonans Broun, 1921 and S. planicula Broun, 1921 under Ahnea ventralis (Broun, 1912); S. carinata Broun, 1912 and S. lineiceps Broun, 1921 under Ahnea lineata (Broun, 1893). A key to species, habitus photographs, line drawings of diagnostic characters, and distribution maps are provided.

The tribe Aschistodesmini in the Solomon Islands (Diplopoda, Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae)

1999 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-479
Author(s):  
C.A.W. Jeekel
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Solomon Island ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
The Status

AbstractThe Aschistodesmini from the Solomon Island are reviewed. Besides clarifying notes on the status of the type and closely related species of Aschistodesmus, descriptive notes and illustrations of the gonopods of the Solomon species of this genus, particularly of those published by Chamberlin, 1920, under the generic name of Solomonosoma, are given. Two new species, A. spatulifer and A. tridentifer are described, and a key to the species is provided. From Rennell Island Dorcadogonus modestus gen. n., sp. n. is described.

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