scholarly journals The families Malachiidae and Dasytidae in the collections of the Goulandris Natural History Museum, Athens, Greece

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Vladyslav V. Mirutenko
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Species List ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The Family ◽  
Eleven Species

Entomological collections of the Goulandris Natural History Museum in Athens were reviewed. Eleven species of the family Malachiidae and six species of the family Dasytidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) were identified in the collections of the museum. A species list is provided, where the locations and dates of findings, as well as the distribution of each species and short comments are given.

Uropodina species from Vietnam (Acari: Mesostigmata)

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2807 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JENŐ KONTSCHÁN ◽  
JOSEF STARÝ
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Soil Biology ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Soil Mites ◽  
Asian Species ◽  
Hungarian Natural History Museum ◽  
Eleven Species

Sixteen species of Uropodina were found in samples of soil mites from Vietnam, in the Institute of Soil Biology of the Biology Centre AS CR (Èesk Budìjovice, Czech Republic) and the Soil Zoology Collections of the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Budapest, Hungary). Five of them are known species — Angulobaloghia vietnamensis (Kontschán, 2008), Metagynella vietnamensis Hiramatsu, 1981, Uroobovella similitakensis Hirschmann, 1981, Uroobovella topali Hirschmann, 1981, and Uropoda hirschmanni Hiramatsu, 1977. Eleven species are described as new — Trachytes vietnamensis sp. nov., Dinychus serratus sp. nov., Trichouropoda aspera sp. nov., Uroobovella oviformis sp. nov., Uroobovella multisetosa sp. nov., Paradinychus pilosus sp. nov., Phymatodiscus kuni sp. nov., Uropoda setata sp. nov., Uropoda lichenicola sp. nov., Angulobaloghia scrobia sp. nov. and Depressorotunda (Depressorotunda) alveolata sp. nov. The genus Paradinychus is resurrected and three species are moved into this genus, as P. sumatrensis (Vitzthum, 1921) comb. nov. and P. fistulata (Hiramatsu, 1982) comb. nov. Keys to the species of the genus Paradinychus, to the Asian species of Trachytes and to the Uropoda spiculata species group are given.

scholarly journals Rharodesmus tabarkensis n. sp., a new pyrgodesmid from Tunisia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida)

Zootaxa ◽  
10.11646/6 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3195 (1) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
NESRINE AKKARI ◽  
HENRIK ENGHOFF
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Full Description ◽  
Zoological Museum ◽  
The West ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

Recently, we (Akkari & Enghoff 2011) described a new species of the genus Rharodesmus Schubart, 1960, discussing the taxonomic state of the family Pyrgodesmidae and providing notes on the four genera occurring in the west Palaearctic area. However, we failed to present details on the holotype of the new species, which we now provide in this note in order to make the species name available. Thus, we describe here the new species Rharodesmus tabarkensis Akkari & Enghoff by reference to the full description given in Akkari & Enghoff (2011) with the following information on the type material: Holotype ♂, TUNISIA, NW, Jendouba Governorate, Tabarka, N36°57.8, E8°44.6, alt. < 40 m, coastal slope below the Genoese fort, under stones, 9.iii.2009, N. Akkari & H. Enghoff leg. (Natural History Museum of Denmark, Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, ‒ ZMUC); Paratypes: 12 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀, 14 juveniles, same locality and date as holotype, N. Akkari & H. Enghoff leg. (ZMUC).

A revision of the genus Tineovertex Moriuti (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Tineidae), with descriptions of five new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2991 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
GUO-HUA HUANG ◽  
TOSHIYA HIROWATARI ◽  
MIN WANG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Osaka Prefecture ◽  
Eleven Species

The genus Tineovertex Moriuti, 1982 is revised. Eleven species are recognized, including five new ones: T. hamoides, sp. nov., from Malaysia; T. expansa, sp. nov., from Malaysia and Brunei; T. fibriformis, sp. nov., from Malaysia; T. thailandia, sp. nov., from Thailand; and T. elongata, sp. nov., from China and Thailand. Adults and genitalia of all species are illustrated, and a key to the species is provided. Types of the new species are deposited in Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China; Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, Japan; and The Natural History Museum, London, UK.

Diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from the Transylvanian society collection of the Natural History Museum of Sibiu (Romania)

2011 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-87
Author(s):  
Gabriela Cuzepan
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Classification System ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Great Effort ◽  
Palaearctic Species ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Diving Beetles ◽  
The Family

Diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from the Transylvanian society collection of the Natural History Museum of Sibiu (Romania) The present study, which deals with the Dytiscidae specimens preserved in the Transylvanian Society Collection of the Natural History Museum of Sibiu, represents a faunistic list of the genera and species present in this collection. The 851 specimens identified from the family Dytiscidae are Palaearctic species, belong to 125 species following the classification system proposed by Nilsson in 2010: 6 subfamilies, 14 tribes, 30 genera and 10 subgenera. This study is also a recall for researchers regarding the museum entomological collection, which was realized through the great effort of the Transylvanian Society members.

scholarly journals A catalogue of the Coleoptera of the G.P. Moazzo Collection in the Goulandris Natural History Museum. Part III (Scarabaeidae)

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-90
Author(s):  
J. Tylianakis ◽  
M. Dimaki ◽  
V. Perdiou
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Reference Data ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Label Data ◽  
The Family ◽  
Detailed List

Summary This is a detailed list of 223 species (727 specimens) of the family Scarabaeidae, the subfamilies Dynastinae (21 species), Melolonthinae (11 species), Rutelinae (29 species), Aphodiinae (104 species), Cetoniinae (59 species), represented in G.P. Moazzo’s collection at the Goulandris Natural History Museum. All label data for each specimen are given. The aim of this paper is to present this collection as reference data for comparison with recent entomological material.

Some poorly known Asterocheres species (Siphonostomatoida: Asterocheridae) deposited in the Natural History Museum of London

2008 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 521-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenia Bandera ◽  
Conradi Mercedes
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
The Body ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
General Shape ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mandibular Palp ◽  
First Time

A total of seven poorly known species of the genus Asterocheres, the largest genus of the family Asterocheridae, are redescribed based on material deposited in the Natural History Museum of London. Among the material available, there were specimens of both sexes of A. bulbosus, A. ellisi and A. rotundus; the dissected holotypes for A. hongkongensis, A. indicus and A. ovalis which have no other specimens; and only cotype of A. micheli, turned out to be lost. Some taxonomically important appendages of these species are described and illustrated for the first time. Furthermore, discrepancies have been observed in: (1) the general shape of the body; (2) the antennule segmentation; (3) the omission of some elements in various oral appendages; and (4) the segmentation of the mandibular palp. These redescribed species were then compared with their closest congeners.

An ironic twist of fate: replacement name for Stenogyra gracilenta Morelet, 1885, not Achatina gracilenta Morelet, 1867 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Achatinidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4418 (3) ◽  
pp. 299
Author(s):  
ABRAHAM S.H. BREURE ◽  
JONATHAN D. ABLETT
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Type Material ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Junior Secondary ◽  
The Family

During work on a monograph of Morelet’s contributions to malacology (Breure, Audibert & Ablett, forthcoming) we found that two of his newly introduced taxa currently have to be considered as homonyms belonging to the genus Subulina H. Beck, 1837 (classified within the family Achatinidae according to Fontanilla et al. (2017: 385)). The older taxon is Achatina gracilenta which was described by Morelet (1867: 79, pl. 7 fig. 2) from [Angola] “Golungo-Alto, au bord du Rio Quiapose, près de Sange; les environs de Lopollo (district de Huilla)”. According to Naggs (1990a: 31; also pers. comm. 10 October 2017) this species has to be classified as Subulina gracilenta (Morelet, 1867). The type material of this species is present in the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK 1893.2.4.263–265). The younger taxon was described by Morelet (1885: 25, pl. 2 fig. 8) as Stenogyra gracilenta from [Gabon] “environs de Mayumba”. Pilsbry (1906: 82) already recognised this as Subulina gracilenta (Morelet, 1885); Naggs (pers. comm. 10 October 2017) confirmed this classification and concluded that this taxon is a junior secondary homonym of Achatina gracilenta Morelet, 1867. Type material for Stenogyra gracilenta Morelet, 1885 has not been located. We here propose Subulina bruggenorum nom. nov. as a replacement name for Stenogyra gracilenta Morelet, 1885 (not Achatina gracilenta Morelet, 1867).

Data on pyraloid moth specimens (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea) held in the collections of CNHM in Zagreb, Croatia

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4895 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-66
Author(s):  
DANIJELA GUMHALTER ◽  
MLADEN KUČINIĆ ◽  
MARTINA ŠAŠIĆ
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Helpful Tool ◽  
The Family ◽  
Moth Species

Natural history museum collections can be a helpful tool in documenting changes in biodiversity throughout decades or even centuries. This article uncovers information on the content of three different museum collections, collected over 100 years. It deepens the knowledge on the distribution of pyraloid moth species occurring predominantly in the Continental parts of Croatia, but also in other areas of this country.                The article presents the first published listing of pyraloid moth species held in three museum collections of the Croatian Natural History Museum in Zagreb. The list contains 148 taxa in total, 61 from the Igalffy collection, 96 from the Koča collection, and 96 from the Kučinić collection. Altogether, 96 species from the family Crambidae and 52 species from the family Pyralidae are listed. 

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