Description of two new species Pericopini from Guatemala and critical review of some recent nomenclature changes in the genus Dysschema Hübner (Lepidoptera: Erebiidae: Arctiinae: Pericopini)

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Laguerre ◽  
José Monzon Sierra ◽  
Simeao De Souza Moraes
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Nucleotide Sequence ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Ecological Data ◽  
Data Analyses ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Taxonomic Changes ◽  
Species Descriptions ◽  
Molecular Characters

Two new species of Pericopini (Erebiidae, Arctiinae) are described from Guatemala: Gnophaela baileyi sp. nov. and Dysschema faustinoi sp. nov. Detailed species descriptions are based upon morphological and molecular characters as well as distributional data. Analyses of the CO1 locus (a 658 nucleotide sequence commonly referred to as a barcode) in 397 individuals of the genus Dysschema Hübner reveal that many taxonomic changes recently proposed by V. O. Becker are not supported by molecular data. Dysschema appears not to be a genus of wide ranging species but rather a complex of more localized species that require redefinition using more detailed morphological, molecular, and ecological data.

Taxonomic changes and description of two new species for the Phyllodactylus lanei complex (Gekkota: Phyllodactylidae) in Mexico

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4407 (2) ◽  
pp. 151 ◽  
Author(s):  
TONATIUH RAMÍREZ-REYES ◽  
OSCAR FLORES-VILLELA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Molecular Phylogeny ◽  
Genetic Distance ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Integrative Taxonomy ◽  
Cryptic Diversity ◽  
Ecological Data ◽  
Temperature And Precipitation ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Taxonomic Changes

An integrative taxonomy approach was implemented based on analysis of genetic, phylogenetic, morphological and ecological data to identify the cryptic diversity within the Phyllodactylus lanei complex. At least six species can be identified, of which four are currently considered subspecies: Phyllodactylus lanei, Phyllodactylus rupinus, Phyllodactylus isabelae, Phyllodactylus lupitae and two corresponding to undescribed taxa, which are identified and described in this contribution. These differ from other Mexican geckos in several characters: genetic distance (DNAmt), position in molecular phylogeny (concatened data DNAmt+DNAnu), species tree, morphological characters such as snout-vent length, longitudinal scales, tubercles from head to tail, interorbital scales, scales across venter, third labial–snout scales and rows of tubercles across dorsum; there are also differences in their bioclimatic profiles (temperature and precipitation) and geographical distribution. The most recent studies on taxonomy and evolution of Mexican geckos (Phyllodactylus) show that the diversity of this group of reptiles is currently underestimated, suggesting that more research and conservation efforts are should be addressed at these lizards. 

Two new Neonerita Hampson species with redescription of Neonerita dorsipuncta Hampson, 1901 (Lepidoptera: Erebiidae: Arctiinae: Phaegopterina)

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Laguerre ◽  
Benoit VINCENT
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
Distribution Data ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Species Descriptions ◽  
Molecular Characters

Two new species of the genus Neonerita are described from Guatemala and French Guiana: Neonerita bernardoespinozai sp. nov. and Neonerita martinezi sp. nov. Detailed species descriptions are based upon morphological and molecular characters as well as distribution data. These new taxa are discussed and compared to Neonerita dorsipuncta, species with which both new species were confused with up to now.

scholarly journals Two new species of snail-eating snakes of the genus Tropidodipsas (Serpentes, Dipsadidae) from southern Mexico, with notes on related species

Herpetozoa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 233-257
Author(s):  
Christoph I. Grünwald ◽  
Sarahi Toribio-Jiménez ◽  
Carlos Montaño-Ruvalcaba ◽  
Hector Franz-Chávez ◽  
Miguel A. Peñaloza-Montaño ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Molecular Phylogeny ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Conservation Priorities ◽  
Southern Mexico ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Taxonomic Changes ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data ◽  
Mexican Species

We describe two new species of Tropidodipsas related to the T. fasciata species group as defined by Kofron (1987), and provide morphological and molecular data to support the novelty of both species. A partial molecular phylogeny of the Mexican species of snail-eating snakes (Serpentes, Dipsadidae) is presented, and we discuss evolutionary relationships as supported by our molecular results. We analyze specific relationships of the new species described herein with their closest relatives. We present a distribution map for all species of Tropidodipsas and include photographs of living individuals of each species. Finally, we discuss other taxonomic changes based on our molecular phylogeny as well as conservation priorities of the new species.

Description of two new peruvian Phaegoptera (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Phaegopterina)

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-59
Author(s):  
BENOÎT VINCENT
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Molecular Phylogeny ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Neotropical Fauna ◽  
Species Descriptions ◽  
Molecular Characters

Two new species of the genus Phaegoptera are described from Peru: Phaegoptera touroulti sp. nov. and Phaegoptera doroshkini sp. nov. Detailed species descriptions are based upon morphological and molecular characters as well as distributional data. Key words: Arctiinae, Phaegopterina, Neotropical fauna, molecular phylogeny

Assessing a generic synapomorphy of Pseudodebis Forster, 1964 (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae : Satyrinae) and a recent speciation with a shift in elevation between two new species in the western Andes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinichi Nakahara ◽  
Pável Matos-Maraví ◽  
Johanna Schwartz ◽  
Keith R. Willmott
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Elevational Gradient ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Dna Sequence Data ◽  
Speciation Event ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Taxonomic Changes ◽  
Bayesian Confidence Interval

The field of systematics and our understanding of phylogenetic relationships have been invigorated by the use of molecular data, but analyses based on DNA sequence data are not always corroborated by diagnostic morphological characters. In particular, several taxonomic changes in butterflies (Papilionoidea) have been made solely on the basis of molecular data without identifying morphological synapomorphies that might have aided in diagnosing taxa from butterfly collections or specimens with no accessible DNA. We here focus on the butterfly genus Pseudodebis Forster, 1964 in the so-called ‘Taygetis clade’, which is one of the major clades in the diverse Neotropical nymphalid subtribe Euptychiina. We inferred the evolution of a male genitalic character using the most comprehensive molecular phylogeny for the ‘Taygetis clade’ to date. This approach allowed us to identify a synapomorphy for Pseudodebis Forster, 1964, which can be used to morphologically diagnose this genus and to distinguish it from other genera in the ‘Taygetis clade’. In addition, we describe two new species of Pseudodebis, P. nakamurai Nakahara & Willmott, sp. nov. and P. pieti Nakahara & Willmott, sp. nov., recovered as sister species based on molecular data, with an estimated time of divergence of 0.3 Ma (Bayesian confidence interval 0.03–1.61 Ma). Despite the low genetic divergence between these two Pseudodebis species, they can be readily distinguished by wing morphology. Pseudodebis nakamurai, sp. nov. and P. pieti, sp. nov. occur in partial sympatry across an elevational gradient along the western Andes, and the inferred recent speciation event might be related to a shift in elevation and possibly a change in larval hostplant preference. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:38B4AF76-79E9-4D4D-BF16-FCD8F53A7277

Xylodon bambusinus and X. xinpingensis spp. nov. (Hymenochaetales) from southern China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 511 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
XIANG MA ◽  
CHANG-LIN ZHAO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Bayesian Inference ◽  
Maximum Likelihood ◽  
Growth Habit ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Thin Walled ◽  
Inference Methods

Two new species, Xylodon bambusinus and X. xinpingensis, are proposed based on morphological and molecular evidences. Both species share the annual growth habit, resupinate basidiomata and monomitic hyphal system with clamped, colorless generative hyphae, smooth, thin-walled basidiospores, but X. bambusinus is characterized by the smooth to tuberculate hymenial surface, presence of capitate and fusiform cystidia, broad ellipsoid basidiospores, while X. xinpingensis by the reticulate hymenophore with cream hymenial surface, and subglobose basidiospores (4.5–6 × 3.5–5 µm). Sequences of ITS and LSU nrRNA gene regions of the studied samples were generated, and phylogenetic analyses were performed with maximum likelihood, maximum parsimony and Bayesian inference methods. The phylogenetic analyses based on molecular data of ITS and ITS+nLSU sequences showed that X. bambusinus was sister to X. subclavatus, while X. xinpingensis grouped with X. astrocystidiatus and X. paradoxus. The nLSU dataset revealed that X. bambusinus grouped with X. asperus and X. brevisetus with lower supports, and that X. xinpingensis grouped with X. astrocystidiatus and X. paradoxus and then with X. rimosissimus without supports. Both morphological and molecular evidences confirmed the placement of two new species in Xylodon. Description and figures from the new species and a key to the known species of Xylodon from China are presented.

scholarly journals Revision of Chondrocyclus s.l. (Mollusca: Cyclophoridae), with description of a new genus and twelve new species

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary L. Cole
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Land Snails ◽  
Distribution Data ◽  
Systematic Revision ◽  
Habitat Specialists ◽  
Indigenous Forest ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data ◽  
Species Descriptions

Chondrocyclus Ancey, 1898 is a genus of nine species of African operculate land snails restricted to indigenous forest and mesic thicket. Worn specimens (i.e., without a periostracum or operculum), on which some species descriptions and records were based, appear to be indistinguishable morphologically. A comprehensive revision of Chondrocyclus s.l. is provided here based on comparative morphological examinations of the shell, protoconch, periostracum, operculum, radula and penis, and on mitochondrial genes cytochrome c oxidase subunit I and 16S rRNA. Two genus-level lineages are recognised, Chondrocyclus s.s. and Afrocyclus gen. nov. Revised species descriptions are given for seven species. Two species, C. meredithae Bruggen, 1983 and C. chirindae Bruggen, 1986 both from north of South Africa, are removed from Chondrocyclus. Twelve new species are described: C. herberti sp. nov., C. silvicolus sp. nov., C. amathole sp. nov., C. pondoensis sp. nov., C. devilliersi sp. nov., C. pulcherrimus sp. nov., C. cooperae sp. nov., C. langebergensis sp. nov., C. kevincolei sp. nov., A. oxygala gen. et sp. nov., A. potteri gen. et sp. nov. and A. bhaca gen. et sp. nov. This is the first detailed systematic revision of an Afrotropical cyclophorid group to include morphological and molecular data. This study complements research on other taxa of low-vagility forest-dwelling habitat specialists by providing comparative distribution data for an independent, widespread group. Such evidence is urgently needed for conservation of South Africa’s threatened forest biome.

scholarly journals Two new species of Bimastos (Oligochaeta, Lumbricidae) from the Southern Appalachian Mountains, North America

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5052 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-405
Author(s):  
ROBERTO CARRERA-MARTÍNEZ ◽  
DANIEL JONES ◽  
SEAN D. SCHOVILLE ◽  
BRUCE A. SNYDER ◽  
MAC A. JR. CALLAHAM
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Body Size ◽  
North America ◽  
Appalachian Mountains ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Southern Appalachian Mountains ◽  
Southern Appalachian ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data ◽  
Posterior Position

Two new species of Bimastos Moore are described based on morphological and molecular data. Bimastos nanae n. sp. resembles B. lawrenceae Fender, B. zeteki (Smith and Gittins) and B. welchi (Smith). Bimastos nanae n. sp. differs from these species in the position of the clitellum, size and number and position of thickened septa. Bimastos magnum n. sp. is similar to B. schwerti Csuzdi & Chang and B. palustris Moore in having a fully annular clitellum and male pores on huge porophores. Bimastos magnum n. sp. differs from both species by having a more posterior position of the clitellum (in xxiv-xxxiii, xxxiv) and larger body size. With the description of these new species, the number of Bimastos species is raised to 14.  

scholarly journals A taxonomic revision of Gaultheria series Trichophyllae (Ericaceae)

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-341
Author(s):  
Peter W. Fritsch ◽  
Lu Lu
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
High Elevation ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
East Central ◽  
Present Treatment ◽  
Taxonomic Changes ◽  
Species Descriptions ◽  
The Himalaya

The last taxonomic revision of Gaultheria series Trichophyllae (Ericaceae), a clade of high-elevation species endemic to the Himalaya-Hengduan Shan region of east-central Asia, was published in 1941. Since then, a number of new species have been described and other taxonomic changes have occurred in the group, prompting the need for a comprehensive revision. The present treatment of the series comprises 21 species, including Gaultheria x biluoensis, a newly described hybrid between G. crassifolia and G. major. A key to species and species descriptions is provided, and lectotypes are newly designated for G. cardiosepala, G. gonggashanensis, G. marronina, and G. stenophylla.

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