Geotomus granulosus, a peculiar sehirine-like new species of the subfamily Cydninae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae) from Burundi

Zootaxa ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 5087 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-493
Author(s):  
JERZY A. LIS ◽  
BARBARA LIS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Habitus ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
The Third

Geotomus granulosus sp. n. is described from Burundi, and is the third burrower bug species recorded hitherto from this country. This burrower bug resembles species of two Sehirinae genera, i.e. Ochetostethus Fieber, 1860 and Ochetostethomorpha Schumacher, 1913, in its dorsal body habitus. However, all its crucial diagnostic characters (the body chaetotaxy, the shape of evaporatoria and the peritreme, the meso- and metathoracic wings venation, and the shape of spermatheca) demonstrate it represents the genus Geotomus Mulsant et Rey, 1866 (subfamily Cydninae, tribe Geotomini sensu lato).  

Three new species of chydorid cladocerans of subfamily Aloninae (Branchipoda: Anomopoda: Chydoridae) from Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2390 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARTEM Y. SINEV ◽  
LOURDES M. A. ELMOOR-LOUREIRO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
The Body ◽  
Basal Segment ◽  
The Third ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
True Diversity ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
Head Pores ◽  
Lateral Head ◽  
South Brazil

Three new species of Aloninae cladocera from Central and South Brazil are described. Two of them, Acroperus tupinamba sp. n. and Alona yara sp. n., were previously recorded from the area as European taxa Acroperus harpae (Baird, 1834) and Alona quadrangularis (O.F. Müller, 1776), respectively. Acroperus tupinamba differs from the other species of Acroperus in smaller size, long posterior setae of the valves, shorter and wider postabdomen, short setules near the base of postabdominal claw, long apical spines of antenna, and peculiar morphology of limb IV exopodite. Alona yara differs from A. quadrangularis and A. kolweizii Van Damme & Dumont, 2008 in the number of ventral setules on ventral face of limb I, from A. boliviana Sinev et Coronel, 2006 in the shape of the body and postabdomen, narrow labral keel, and absence of projections on epipodites IV–V. The third new species, Celsinotum candango sp.n. differs from all other species of the genus in proportions of postabdomen. It differs from Australian species (C. hypsophilum Frey, 1991, C parooensis Frey, 1991, and C. platamoides Frey, 1991) in a less developed dorsal keel, lateral head pores located close to midline, longer spine on basal segment of antennal exopodite, and in the presence of extremely large projections on exopodites IV–V. Celsinotum candango differs from Brazilian C. laticaudatum Smirnov & Santos-Silva, 1995 in a shorter spine on basal segment of antenna exopodite, in the shape of postabdomen and in morphology of postabdominal denticles. At present, Aloninae fauna of Brazil includes 35 species, and true diversity is undoubtedly higher, with more new species to be expected in the country.

Pseudotrichonympha sertaneja n.sp. (Protozoa, Mastigophora), from the intestine of a new termite (Rugitermes sp.) collected in Brazil

Parasitology ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol 44 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 24-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Col. I. Froilano De Mello
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
The Body ◽  
Basal Part ◽  
Taxonomic Position ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Uniform Size ◽  
The Third ◽  
Triangular Area ◽  
A New Species

This paper contains a discussion of the generic and specific characters of Tricho-nympha and Pseudotrichonympha, with a detailed account of the morphology of P. sertaneja n.sp. from a new species of Rugitermes.The basic generic and specific characters of each organelle of Pseudotrichonympha are considered in detail. The genus Pseudotrichonympha has been separated from Trichonympha by the absence of the rostral articulation (citartrosi) and parabasal body. But in at least two species of Pseudotrichonympha a parabasal body has been found, and as Grassi himself believed that citartrosi, however feebly developed, must exist in all Pseudotrichonympha, the taxonomic position of Pseudotrichonympha needs further investigation.The morphology of P. sertaneja n.sp. has the basic generic characters. The specific characters are discontinuous myonemes, oblique instead of longitudinal leiotropic striae, flagella of the first series covering not only the neck but the upper portion of the body, flagella of the second series confined to the basal part of the anterior triangular area of the body, flagella of the third series very short and of uniform size and simple outline of the ectoplasm.The flagellate is regarded as a new species, named P. sertaneja n.sp. The host is a new species of Rugitermes from São Paulo, Brazil.

scholarly journals Studies on Marine Flagellates IV. Morphology and Microanatomy of a new Species of Chrysochromulina

1958 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Parke ◽  
Irene Manton ◽  
B. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
New Species ◽  
Internal Structure ◽  
Surface Membrane ◽  
The Body ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Unsaturated Fat ◽  
Fat Bodies ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

The description of a new species of the genus Chrysochromulina, C. chiton, includes for the first time some evidence from the electron microscopy of sections in addition to the techniques previously used. Important diagnostic characters are the exceptionally large scales, which are shown to be of two kinds, the larger being saucer-shaped, and the smaller plate-like with a narrow rim flexed towards the upper surface; the structure and arrangement of the two types of scale on the body are described. Anatomical facts are given for the first time for the internal structure of the haptonema; in this species this organ consists of three concentric membranes surrounding a ring of seven fibres or tubes, the centre of the haptonema being hollow; this combination of characters distinguishes the organ fundamentally from a flagellum. Microanatomical facts are also given for the following major cell organs: the nucleus, the chromatophores including the pyrenoids, mitochondria, putative golgi material, muciferous bodies, the flagellar bases (preliminary observations only). Other distinguishable cytoplasmic components include the surface membrane, unsaturated fat bodies, vesicles of various kinds and granular protoplasm in the interstices.

scholarly journals On a New Species of Mite (Tarsonemus) Injurious to Sugar-Canes in Barbados

1912 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley Hirst
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sugar Cane ◽  
Present Note ◽  
The Body ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
The Third ◽  
Sufficient Detail ◽  
The One ◽  
A New Species

Mr. A. D. Michael has already recorded* the presence of mites of the genus Tarsonemus upon diseased sugar-cane from Barbados. He states that two species belonging to this genus were present in the material sent to him, and that the larger of the two species was certainly identical with one which Mr. Bancroft found doing serious damage to sugar-cane in Queensland. Mr. Michael proposed the name Tarsonemus bancrofti for this larger species. So far as I am aware, no description of this nominal species has been published and I am obliged to rely on Mr. Bancroft's published sketches† for information concerning it. Unfortunately his drawings are not executed in sufficient detail and I am not certain that his mite is the same species as the one which is dealt with in the present note; but as the figures of the Queensland mite differ appreciably from the Barbados specimens, it seems advisable to describe the latter under another name (T. spinipes). The species of the genus Tarsonemus often resemble one another very closely in structure, and they cannot be recognised with certainty unless a fully detailed account of their principal characters, accompanied by careful drawings, is given. Dr. Bancroft gives drawings of both sexes of his mite. He does not figure any spines on the third leg of the male, but he shows a lobeshaped expansion, similar to that of T. spinipes, on the inner side of the short fourth leg. The hairs of the body are not depicted. According to his drawings, the body of the female resembles that of T. spinipes in being very long and narrow, but is apparently much narrower at the anterior end. He represents the two terminal setae of the fourth leg of the female as being both very long and slender, the outer one being seemingly almost as long as the inner. The size of T. bancrofti is not stated, nor is the scale of enlargement of the figures given.

A new arboreal species of Cyrtopodion (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Deh Akro-II Wetlands Complex, Sindh, Pakistan

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2243 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-67
Author(s):  
RAFAQAT MASROOR
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
The Body ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Ventral Midline ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Prosopis Cineraria ◽  
Number Of Species

A distinctive new thin-toed gecko, Cyrtopodion dehakroense sp. nov. is described from Deh Akro-II Wetlands Complex, Nawabshah, Sindh, bringing the number of species of this genus in Pakistan to nine. The major diagnostic characters of the new species include the presence of 7–9 very narrow, V-shaped, dark brown, transverse dorsal bands on the body from the nape to the level of the vent, four precloacal pores in males, absence of femoral pores, 21–25 rows of ventral scales across midbody, 92–102 scales along ventral midline of body, and presence of paired subcaudal scales under the post-pygal portion of the tail. The species is a desert form and has thus far been found only in sandy areas of this wetlands complex at mean elevations of about 10 m. Strictly nocturnal, it inhabits old-growth trees of Prosopis cineraria (Jand/Kandi) and feeds mainly on a variety of insects.

Note on the genus Lecanophryella (Ciliophora: Suctorea) with description of a new species from west coast of India

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4612 (4) ◽  
pp. 494
Author(s):  
TAPAS CHATTERJEE ◽  
IGOR DOVGAL ◽  
MANDAR NANAJKAR ◽  
KALISA BOGATI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Body Surface ◽  
West Coast ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cyclopoid Copepod ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
West Coast Of India ◽  
Zuari Estuary ◽  
A New Species

The article presents a review of the literature on known representatives of the genus Lecanophryella containing general characteristics of the members of this genus, information on morphology and data on distribution. Diagnostic characters of L. satyanandani is emended based on material collected from a new locality. A new species, Lecanophryella indica as epibiont on the body surface of cyclopoid copepod from the Zuari estuary, west coast of India is also described. 

Revision of the Australian Eviphididae (Acari: Mesostigmata)

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2596 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
R. B. HALLIDAY
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
The Body ◽  
Dorsal Shield ◽  
Typical Member ◽  
The Third ◽  
Unidentified Species ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Rich Fauna ◽  
Mite Family

The Australian fauna of the mite family Eviphididae (Acari: Mesostigmata) is revised. A total of 14 species is recorded, 10 of which are described as new: Alliphis halleri (G. & R. Canestrini), A. transversus sp. nov., Evimirus pentagonius Karg, E. scutellatus sp. nov., E. uropodinus (Berlese), Scarabaspis masani sp. nov., S. orientalis (Berlese), S. sternalis sp. nov., S. victoriensis sp. nov., Thinoseius helenae sp. nov., T. jarretti sp. nov., T. papillatus sp. nov., T. peltatus sp. nov., and T. variabilis sp. nov.. These species occur in soil, leaf litter, dung, compost, and seaweed, where they appear to prey on nematodes. A key for identification of these genera and species is provided. Several of the new species have character states that are unusual for their genera. In Alliphis transversus, the first pair of sternal lyrifissures are large, and oriented transversely to the long axis of the body, instead of obliquely, as is normal for the genus. Scarabaspis sternalis is unusual in having the third pair of sternal pores on the sternal shield. It also shows extensive geographic variation in the amount of ornamentation of the dorsal shield. Scarabaspis victoriensis has only one of the setae on coxa I modified into a flat oval-shaped disc instead of both, as is usual for the genus. Scarabaspis masani has normal setiform setae on both coxae I and II, but otherwise appears to be a typical member of the genus. The five species of Thinoseius described here show strong sexual dimorphism, which makes it impossible to associate the males and females of some species. Deutonymphs of an unidentified species of Thinoseius sp. are recorded as phoretic on flies of the genus Thoracochaeta (Sphaeroceridae). The eviphidid fauna of Australia is much smaller than that of Europe. This appears to be the result of the absence of small or monotypic genera, and the fact that Australian native mammals do not produce large quantities of wet dung suitable for the development of a rich fauna of coprophilous mites and dung beetles.

A new species of Cosmocerca (Nematoda, Cosmocercidae) and other helminths from Genyophryne thomsoni (Anura, Microhylidae) from Papua New Guinea

2006 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Bursey ◽  
Stephen Goldberg ◽  
Fred Kraus
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Large Intestine ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The Body ◽  
Fourth Quarter ◽  
The Third ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
Posterior Pair ◽  
A New Species

AbstractCosmocerca tyleri sp. nov. (Ascaridida, Cosmocercidae) from the large intestine of Genyophryne thomsoni (Anura, Microhylidae) is described and illustrated. Cosmocerca tyleri sp. nov. represents the 23rd species assigned to the genus and the 6th from the Australian realm. Of the 5 Australian species previously described, C. tyleri sp. nov. differs from C. limnodynastes and C. novaeguineae in number of plectanes, 4 pairs in C. tyleri, 5 pairs in C. limnodynastes and C. novaeguineae. Cosmocerca australis has 3–4 pairs of plectanes, C. archeyi and C. zugi each have 4 pairs of plectanes; however, in each species the plectanes lie in the fourth quarter of the body and just anterior to the cloaca. In C. tyleri sp. nov. the plectanes lie in the third quarter of the body and there is significant space between the cloaca and the posterior pair of plectanes.

A new species of Alopoglossus lizard (Squamata, Alopoglossidae) from the Southern Guiana Shield, northeastern Amazonia, with remarks on diagnostic characters to the genus

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4422 (1) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCO ANTÔNIO RIBEIRO-JÚNIOR
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Species Diversity ◽  
Guiana Shield ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Brazilian Amazonia ◽  
The Third ◽  
A New Species

I describe a new species of Alopoglossus from the Southern Guiana Shield in northern Brazilian Amazonia. The new species morphologically resembles A. angulatus in having scales on sides of neck similar in shape to dorsals, nongranular, keeled, and imbricate. Nonetheless, the presence of four pairs of chin shields, with the third pair heptagonal and separated from gulars by large scales, can distinguish the new species from A. angulatus. This description increases the species diversity of the genus Alopoglossus in eastern Amazonia, from where only one taxon was recognized to occur. In addition, I discuss the nomenclature of some diagnostic characters, on the chin region, to the genus, and I present an updated key to Alopoglossus. 

scholarly journals Three new species of Willowsia (Collembola: Entomobryidae) from Guizhou Province, China

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Chang ◽  
Yitong Ma
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
The Body ◽  
Guizhou Province ◽  
Colour Pattern ◽  
Body Colour ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Three New Species

Three new species of Willowsia collected from Guizhou Province, China are described here: W. sexachaeta sp. nov., W. christianseni sp. nov., and W. tanae sp. nov. They have spinulate scales on the body. Colour pattern and dorsal chaetotaxy are the main diagnostic characters for these species. A table summarizing the main differences between all Chinese Willowsia species is given.

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