New species of Lonchaeidae (Diptera: Schizophora) from central and southern Africa

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 967 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
IAIN MACGOWAN

Eleven new species of Lonchaeidae are described, namely, Lamprolonchaea longicercus MacGowan sp. nov. (Tanzania), Lonchaea asymmetrica MacGowan, sp. nov. (Tanzania), Lonchaea grandiseta MacGowan, sp. nov. (Botswana & Namibia); Silba budongo MacGowan sp. nov (Uganda) , Silba calceus MacGowan, sp. nov. (Namibia); Silba figurata MacGowan sp. nov (Uganda), Silba gongeti MacGowan sp. nov (Uganda), Silba namibia MacGowan, sp. nov. (Namibia), Silba quadridentata MacGowan, sp. nov. (Uganda), Silba spatulata MacGowan, sp. nov. (Tanzania) and Silba uganda MacGowan sp. nov (Uganda) The previously unknown male of Lonchaea haplosetifera McAlpine is also described from South Africa. New records of Lonchaeidae species are provided for Botswana, Namibia, Tanzania and Zambia.

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4273 (2) ◽  
pp. 287
Author(s):  
HARRY SMIT

One new subgenus, i.e. Shebaturus and one new species, Amperaturus globulipes n. sp. is described from South Africa. Hexaxonopsis clavigera (Walter, 1922) is re-described. New records are given for South Africa and Namibia, including the first records of the genera Aturus Kramer and Kongsbergia Thor. 


Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1414 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
AHMED S. THANDAR

Collections of holothuroid echinoderms received from the Natal and South African Museums, the Universities of Cape Town and Witwatersrand and that present in the former University of Durban-Westville, contain several new species and many others that are new to the fauna of southern Africa, south of the tropic of Capricorn. A paper describing and/or recording several dendrochirotids and a dactylochirotid, from a portion of these materials originating from the east coast of southern Africa, has already been published. The current paper describes and/or reports on several new species and records of aspidochirotid, molpadid and apodid holothuroids, also from the east coast, extending from Inhaca Island, off the coast of Maputo (Mozambique), to the Port St. Johns-East London area (South Africa), the subtropical zoogeographic province. A few other species have been included if they represent juvenile material, or considered extensions of ranges (bathymetric or otherwise) of previously known species, or confirmation of a species previously recorded from a single locality in the region under consideration, or for the provision of taxonomic data that was excluded for some previous published records. Of the 30 species treated, four are new to science and seven are new records for the southern African region. The new species are Holothuria (Lessonothuria) tuberculata, H. (Theelothuria) duoturriforma, H.(T.) longicosta and H. (T.) pseudonotablis, whereas the new records include Stichopus cf. monotuberculatus (Quoy & Gaimard), Actinopyga bannwarthi Panning, A. lecanora (Jaeger), Bohadschia marmorata (Jaeger), H. (Vaneyothuria) integra Koehler & Vaney, Molpadia triforia (Cherbonnier) and Protankyra autopista (Marenzeller).


Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1697 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
AHMED S. THANDAR

This paper is the third and the final one in the series reporting on the numerous lots of unidentified holothuroids received from the South African and Natal Museums. While the first two papers were limited to the fauna of the subtropical east coast, this paper is limited to the fauna of the temperate region of southern Africa, west of the Port St. Johns-East London area, encompassing the warm and cold temperate faunistic provinces, stretching into Namibia. It records and/or describes 23 nominal and four indeterminate species of mostly dendrochirotid holothuroids. Altogether seven new species and three new records for the region under consideration are included and some new data presented for previously described but poorly known species, where this was lacking. The new species are Sclerothyone unicolumnus, Ocnus rowei, Cladodactyla brunspicula, Panningia trispicula, Psolidium pulcherrimum, P. pseudopulcherrimum and Synallactes samyni whereas the new records for South Africa are Pannychia moseleyi Théel; for the temperate region, Pawsonellus africanus Thandar; and for Namibia, Pseudoaslia tetracentriophora Heding.


2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 395-426
Author(s):  
Francisco Ferragut ◽  
Julia Baumann

The phytoseiid mites of the Cape Verde archipelago are scarcely known. We report the results of a survey conducted on the islands of Santiago and Santo Antão, where phytoseiids were collected from native, cultivated and invasive plants. Fourteen species were collected, four of which represent new records for the islands. One new species, Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) macrodactylus Ferragut sp. nov., is described and illustrated. We describe the unknown male of Amblyseius neolargoensis van der Merwe, provide a redescription of the male of Euseius fustis (Pritchard & Baker) and additional morphological information for all examined species.


2019 ◽  
Vol 80 ◽  
pp. 247-271
Author(s):  
Zoltán Vas

Campoletis ensifera sp. n., Meloboris sagittaria sp. n. and Venturia atrata sp. n. are described from Mongolia. The hitherto unknown male of Leptoperilissus ibericus Horstmann, 1987 and of Casinaria camura Vas, 2019 are firstly described. First records of Alcima orbitale (Gravenhorst, 1829) from Republic of North Macedonia and Mongolia, Campoletis annulata (Gravenhorst, 1829), Campoletis crassicornis (Tschek, 1871), Campoletis dilatator (Thunberg, 1822), Campoletis ensator (Gravenhorst, 1829), Campoletis fuscipes (Holmgren, 1856), Campoletis latrator (Gravenhorst, 1829), Campoletis pectalis Riedel, 2017, Campoletis procera (Brischke, 1880), Campoletis varians (Thomson, 1887), and Campoletis viennensis (Gravenhorst, 1829) from Mongolia, Leptocampoplex cremastoides (Holmgren, 1860) from Kosovo and Republic of North Macedonia, Leptoperilissus ibericus Horstmann, 1987 from Algeria, Leptoperilissus maroccanus Horstmann, 1993 from Spain, Meloboris collector (Thunberg, 1822) from Armenia, Jordan, Kosovo and Serbia, Meloboris moldavica (Constantineanu et Mustata, 1972) from Mongolia, Hungary, Portugal and Turkmenistan, Phobocampe bicingulata (Gravenhorst, 1829) from Armenia, Phobocampe tempestiva (Holmgren, 1860) from Hungary and Switzerland, Porizon transfuga (Gravenhorst, 1829) from Bulgaria and Hungary, Pyracmon fumipennis (Zetterstedt, 1838) from Montenegro, Republic of North Macedonia and Slovakia, Rhimphoctona longicauda Horstmann, 1980 and Rhimphoctona megacephalus (Gravenhorst, 1829) from Romania, Rhimphoctona rufocoxalis (Clément, 1924) and Rhimphoctona teredo (Hartig, 1847) from Slovakia, and Venturia mongolica (Kokujev, 1915) from Mongolia are reported. With 3 figures.


2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-24
Author(s):  
A.F. Emeljanov

Capocles podlipaevi sp. n. is described from South Africa, and new records are given for C. socrates (Fennah).


Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4722 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-351
Author(s):  
OLAVI KURINA

A comprehensive material of Afrotropical Sciophila including 262 male specimens of 15 species collected from 7 countries are studied. Two new species—S. geiri sp. n. and S. tchabalensis sp. n.—are described from Madagascar and Cameroon, respectively. New records of the following 13 species are presented: S. digitilenta Søli, 1997 (Uganda), S. fenestralis Søli, 1997 (South Africa), S. kakumensis Søli, 1997 (Cameroon, Uganda), S. kjaerandseni Søli, 1997 (Uganda), S. koundensis Søli, 1997 (Uganda), S. leptosoma Søli, 1997 (Democratic Republic of Congo), S. longistyla Søli, 1997 (South Africa), S. mazumbaiensis Søli, 1997 (Uganda), S. ocreata Philippi, 1865 (France: La Réunion), S. papula Søli, 1997 (Democratic Republic of Congo), S. pinniger Søli, 1997 (South Africa, Cameroon, Uganda, Kenya), S. quadra Søli, 1997 (Democratic Republic of Congo), S. stellata Søli, 1997 (Uganda). The majority of the new records represent the first ones since initial description of the species. S. ocreata is considered to be introduced to the Island of La Réunion. The number of Afrotropical Sciophila species is set at 23. 


Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2352 (1) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
PHILLIP C. HEEMSTRA

The genus Acanthistius Gill, 1862 comprises ten putative valid species occurring in shallow warm-temperate waters of the Southern Hemisphere: South America (coasts of Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Brazil, and Argentina) southern Africa (Namibia and South Africa), southern Australia, New Zealand, Lord Howe, Norfolk, Kermadec and Easter, and Sala y Gómez islands. Two species: Acanthistius sebastoides (Castelnau, 1861) and Acanthistius sp are known from shallow waters of the east coast of South Africa (Heemstra and Randall, 1986). The latter taxon, previously known from a brief description of a single specimen, is here described from 23 specimens and named Acanthistius joanae. Acanthistius sebastoides is redescribed from 13 specimens and compared with A. joanae and species of Acanthistius known from South America and Australia. A neotype is designated for Serranus sebastoides Castelnau, 1861, as the two syntypes are apparently lost.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 303 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
JOSÉ IGNACIO MÁRQUEZ-CORRO ◽  
ENRIQUE MAGUILLA ◽  
TAMARA VILLAVERDE ◽  
SANTIAGO MARTÍN-BRAVO ◽  
MODESTO LUCEÑO

Carex sect. Schoenoxiphium (18 spp.) is a monophyletic group that has its centre of diversity in eastern south Africa. We describe two new species from the Republic of South Africa and Lesotho on the basis of morphological characters. Both new species (C. badilloi and C. parvirufa) are closely related to C. ludwigii, C. kukkoneniana and C. pseudorufa.


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