New species and new record of Neotropical Metatrichia Coquillett (Diptera: Scenopinidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5039 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-128
Author(s):  
ROSALY ALE-ROCHA ◽  
FRANCISCO LIMEIRA-DE-OLIVEIRA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South America ◽  
Related Species ◽  
New Record ◽  
New World ◽  
World Species ◽  
First Time

Two species of the genus Metatrichia Coquillett, from South America, are described as new to science: Metatrichia barbata sp. nov. and Metatrichia brunneipennis sp. nov. Their relationships with related species are discussed. Metatrichia bulbosa (Osten Sacken, 1877) is registered to Brazil for the first time. A key to New World species of Metatrichia is presented.  

scholarly journals Contribution to the Knowledge of the Genus Proceratium Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Proceratiinae) in the New World

Sociobiology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 551
Author(s):  
Itanna Oliveira Fernandes ◽  
Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie ◽  
Fernando Castiblanco Fernández
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
South America ◽  
New Record ◽  
New World ◽  
Distribution Data ◽  
Caribbean Islands ◽  
The World ◽  
High Resolution Images ◽  
South Of Brazil ◽  
First Time

The genus Proceratium Roger comprises rare ants that are irregularly distributed in tropical and temperate regions of the world. Despite this global distribution, these ants are rarely collected, likely due to their cryptobiotic lifestyle. In the New World, the genus comprises 22 known species distributed from Southern Canada to the South of Brazil, and in some Caribbean islands. The taxonomy of the genus Proceratium is here updated for South America. We describe P. amazonicum sp. nov, from Rondônia state and provide distribution data for P. brasiliense, P. convexipes, and P. silaceum. We also present, for the first time, high-resolution images of the P. colombicum type and P. ecuadoriense, and provide a new record of P. micrommatum from Peru, and comment about its morphological variation and distribution. A key for the workers of the P. micrommatum clade is also provided. The species we describe belongs to P. micrommatum clade and represents the second species recorded from Brazil after 60 years, since only P. brasiliense was known previously in the country.

The Lecanora dispersa group (Lecanoraceae) in Argentina

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris Nadia DE LA ROSA ◽  
María Inés MESSUTI ◽  
Lucyna ŚLIWA
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Metabolites ◽  
South America ◽  
Related Species ◽  
New Record ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Distribution And Ecology ◽  
First Time

AbstractA preliminary study of the Lecanora dispersa group in Argentina is presented. Two species (L. dispersa and L. hagenii) have been previously recorded and their known distribution is extended, one species (L. semipallida) is a new record from Argentina, and five taxa (L. flowersiana, L. persimilis L. torrida, L. wetmorei and L. zosterae var. zosterae) are reported for the first time from South America. Three species (L. albescens, L. crenulata and L. populicola) previously recorded for Argentina have not been confirmed as occurring in this country. Lecanora aff. fugiens is also treated and compared to the related species. The morphology, anatomy, secondary metabolites, distribution and ecology of the nine studied taxa are described and discussed, and a key to the taxa is included.

Three new species and a new record of the genus Pangrapta Hübner, 1818 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Pangraptinae) from China

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4590 (3) ◽  
pp. 393
Author(s):  
YAN-QING HU ◽  
MIN WANG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Record ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New World ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Type Series ◽  
Asian Species ◽  
The North ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time

Pangrapta Hübner, 1818 was erected for the North American species P. decoralis Hübner, 1818 as its type species. The genus Pangrapta presently consists of about 100 species, and is widely distributed in China and surrounding regions, as well as in the New World (Hu & Wang, 2013). In this article, three new species, P. nanlingensis sp. n., P. jianfenglingensis sp. n. and P. hainanensis sp. n., are described from China. Each of them is superficially similar to the species, P. neorecusata (Hu & Wang, 2013), P. perturbans (Walker, 1858) and P. pannosoides (Holloway, 2005), correspondently. The known Southeast Asian species, P. shivula (Guenée, 1852), is reported for the first time from China. Adults and genitalia are illustrated. The type series of all described species (including holotypes) are deposited in Southwest University of Science and Technology (SWUST), Mianyang, China.

REVISION OF THE NEW WORLD CHRYSOLAMPINAE (HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA)

1986 ◽  
Vol 118 (9) ◽  
pp. 913-940 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Christopher Darling
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
New World ◽  
World Species ◽  
European Species ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
Climatic Information

AbstractThe taxonomy and biology of New World species of Chrysolampinae are reviewed with diagnoses given for the subfamily, genera, and species. A key to the species of Chrysolampus and a summary of geographic distribution and information on host and floral associations are presented. Three new species are described from North America (Chrysolampus improcerus, C. luridus and C. elegans); Chrysolampus lycti Crawford is transferred to Perilampus and synonymized with the European species P. micans Dalman. The genus Chrysomalla is recorded in the New World for the first time based on the new species Chrysomalla hesperis. An explanation of the historical biogeography of the genera is proposed that is consistent with Late Cretaceous and Tertiary geological, botanical, and climatic information. It is suggested that the extant species are descendents of elements of a widely distributed arid biota.

scholarly journals The discovery of Megalota in the Neotropics, with a revision of the New World species (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutini)

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2279 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN W. BROWN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
New World ◽  
Posterior Edge ◽  
World Species ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
One New Species

Megalota Diakonoff, previously known from the Indoaustralian Region (India, Sri Lanka, New Guinea, and Australia), Madagascar, and Africa, is reported from the Neotropics for the first time. Three previously described New World species (i.e., Megalota submicans (Walsingham), n. comb.; M. delphinosema (Walsingham), n. comb.; and M. plenana (Walker), n. comb.) were concealed within incorrect generic assignments or as “unplaced” species (i.e., lacking contemporary generic assignments). Twenty-one new species are described and illustrated: M. synchysis (TL: Venezuela), M. peruviana (Peru), M. aquilonaris (Mexico), M. vulgaris (Costa Rica), M. cacaulana (Brazil), M. macrosocia (Ecuador), M. ochreoapex (Costa Rica), M. spinulosa (Costa Rica), M. simpliciana (Costa Rica), M. jamaicana (Jamaica), M. ricana (Costa Rica), M. ceratovalva (Venezuela), M. bicolorana (Costa Rica), M. longisetana (Costa Rica), M. deceptana (Costa Rica), M. crassana (Costa Rica), M. gutierrezi (Costa Rica), M. chamelana (Mexico), M. beckeri (Brazil), M. flintana (Brazil), and M. pastranai (Argentina). Males of the genus are characterized by three distinctive features of the genitalia: the uncus consists of a pair of greatly expanded, flattened, variably round or square lobes, densely covered with spines and setae; the valvae are narrow with an elongate, apically spined process arising from the base of the costa; and the juxta is membranous with a narrowly sclerotized Uor J-shaped posterior edge. Five species have been reared from Croton spp. (Euphorbiaceae) in Costa Rica, and this is consistent with a single record of this host for an Australian species of Megalota.

Revision of the New World species of Craspedochaeta (Diptera: Clusiidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1291 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
OWEN LONSDALE ◽  
STEPHEN A. MARSHALL
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
New World ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Agonistic Behaviour ◽  
World Species ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
First Time

The New World species of Craspedochaeta Czerny, 1903 are revised and the first New World representative of the C. biseta group (C. argoniae spec. nov.) is described from Ecuador and Bolivia. Ten new species (C. amazonensis spec. nov., C. apsilutea spec. nov., C. candida spec. nov., C. chela spec. nov., C. feminea spec. nov., C. melanosoma spec. nov., C. pacaraima spec. nov., C. pollostos spec. nov., C. protomis spec. nov., C. weemsi spec. nov.) are described from the C. transversa species group and eight new species (C. biloba spec. nov., C. brunneivibrissa spec. nov., C. chauliodon spec. nov., C. loreto spec. nov., C. phaios spec. nov., C. pullipleura spec. nov., C. xanthonotum spec. nov., C. zongo spec. nov.) are described from the C. concinna species group. Craspedochaeta basalis brasiliensis Sóos, 1961 syn. nov. and C. piceoflava (Sóos, 1962) syn. nov. are synonymized with Craspedochaeta annulipes (Johnson, 1913) comb. nov.; C. minuta Sóos, 1962 syn. nov., C.atra (Kertesz, 1903) syn. nov. and C. albohalteria Sóos, 1962 syn. nov., are synonymized with C. concinna (Williston, 1896). Craspedochaeta sasakawai nomen nov. is provided as a replacement name for C. pleuralis (Curran, 1936), which is a junior homonym of C. pleuralis (Williston, 1896) comb. nov. Agonistic behaviour is recorded for the first time in Craspedochaeta, with photographs showing male-male interactions in the Bolivian species C. pullipleura. A key is provided for all 31 New World Craspedochaeta species and the relationships of the C. concinna and C. transversa groups are discussed on the basis of male and female morphological characters. Species of Craspedochaeta are recorded for the first time in North America, with C. weemsi found in Florida, C. concinna found in Florida and New Mexico, and C. annulipes found in Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Texas.

scholarly journals A new species of Wesmaelius Krüger from Mexico, with a key to the New World species of the subgenus Kimminsia Killington (Neuroptera, Hemerobiidae)

ZooKeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 841 ◽  
pp. 61-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yesenia Marquez-López ◽  
Atilano Contreras-Ramos
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
New World ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
World Species ◽  
The Third ◽  
Central Plate ◽  
Middle America ◽  
Subgenital Plate ◽  
A New Species

Wesmaelius (Kimminsia) nanacamilpa Marquez & Contreras, sp. n., a brown lacewing from Tlaxcala state, Mexico is described and illustrated. This is the second recorded species of Wesmaelius from Mexico, and the third from Middle America. Males of the new species may be identified by parameres separate apically, styliform sclerites directed basally, as well as a rounded gonarcus with a short entoprocessus. Females may be distinguished from closely related species by a subgenital plate with the central plate broadly incised basally. There are now 16 species of Wesmaelius known from the New World.

scholarly journals TWO NEW SPECIES AND A NEW RECORD OF SPATULAPHORUS (ACARI: PYGMEPHORIDAE) PHORETIC ON SCARAB BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: SCARABAEIDAE) FROM FRENCH GUIANA

Acarina ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-245
Author(s):  
Alexander A. Khaustov ◽  
Andrey V. Frolov
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Record ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
World Species ◽  
The World ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
Scarab Beetles

Two new species, Spatulaphorus dignus sp. n. and S. porosus sp. n. (Acari: Pygmephoridae), collected from scarab beetles Oxysternon durantoni and Coprophanaeus jasius, respectively, are described from French Guiana. Spatulaphorus brasiliensis Khaustov and Frolov, collected from the beetle Dichotomius borreus, is recorded from French Guiana for the first time. A key to the world species of the genus Spatulaphorus is also provided.

The jumping lynx spider Oxyopes salticus Hentz, 1845 and its Neotropical relatives (Araneae: Oxyopidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4216 (5) ◽  
pp. 457
Author(s):  
ADALBERTO J. SANTOS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South America ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Colour Pattern ◽  
The World ◽  
Extreme Variation ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

The spider genus Oxyopes Latreille occurs throughout the world, but is insufficiently known in South America and the Caribbean. In this study, three apparently related species of this genus are reported from the region. Oxyopes salticus Hentz, 1845 is redescribed and illustrated, and extreme variation in colour pattern and in female genitalia is reported within this species. Oxyopes m-fasciatus Piza, 1938 and Oxyopes nigrolineatus Mello-Leitão, 1941 are both considered junior synonyms of O. salticus. The material examined in this study, together with information from the literature, show this species is widely distributed throughout the continental Americas and the Caribbean. Oxyopes crewi Bryant, 1948 is redescribed and illustrated, and its geographic distribution is extended to Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Saint Kitts. A new species, Oxyopes incantatus sp. nov., is described and illustrated for the first time based on specimens from the Galápagos Islands. 

Two new species of orb-weaving spiders of the genus Larinia (Araneae, Araneidae) in meridional Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4247 (1) ◽  
pp. 89 ◽  
Author(s):  
RICARDO OTT ◽  
EVERTON NEI LOPES RODRIGUES
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South America ◽  
New World ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
South American ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
South American Species ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
World Distribution

The araneid genus Larinia Simon currently includes 56 species, eleven of them with New World distribution (World Spider Catalog, 2016). North American species of the genus were revised first time by Levi (1975) and South American species by Harrod et al. (1991). According to these authors there are four species known from subtropical South America (Larinia bivittata Keyserling 1885; L. montecarlo (Levi, 1988); L. t-notata (Tullgren, 1905); L. tucuman Harrod, Levi & Leibensperger, 1991) and also four species known from tropical South America (L. ambo Harrod, Levi & Leibensperger, 1991; L. directa (Hentz, 1847); L. lampa Harrod, Levi & Leibensperger, 1991; L. neblina Harrod, Levi & Leibensperger, 1991). According to Buckup et al. (2010) a total of 209 species of Araneidae are recorded for state of Rio Grande do Sul, including the three species L. bivittata, L. montecarlo and L. t-notata. 

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