An overview of the Chrysididae (Hymenoptera) of the Red Sea Farasan Archipelago (Saudi Arabia)

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANCO STRUMIA ◽  
HASSAN DAWAH
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
New Species ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
New Records ◽  
Palaearctic Region ◽  
The South ◽  
South West ◽  
Key Word ◽  
Southern Arabia ◽  
Malaise Traps

A survey of the Chrysididae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of the Farasan Archipelago (Red Sea) was undertaken, mainly using Malaise traps and sweep nets from 2012 to 2017. Twenty-eight species belonging to eight genera were identified and recorded in this study (four of which are new records for the south-western Saudi Arabia). We have described four new species: (Hedychridium azizi sp. nov., Chrysis farasanensis sp. nov., Chrysis decolorata ssp. nov., Trichrysis flavicornis sp. nov.) A list of all species of Chrysididae recorded from the major Farasan Island is provided. The Chrysididae population of the Farasan Archipelago is composed mainly of species of South West Palaearctic Region. The presence of a few Afrotropical species is evidence of their expansion in the nearby Southern Arabia. Key word: Chrysididae, cuckoo wasp, Saudi Arabia, Jazan, Farasan Island, new species

An overview of the Chloropidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4791 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
HASSAN A. DAWAH ◽  
MOHAMMED A. ABDULLAH ◽  
JOHN C. DEEMING
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
New Species ◽  
Geographic Distribution ◽  
New Records ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Brazilian Purpuric Fever ◽  
Rearing Methods ◽  
First Time ◽  
Malaise Traps

Chloropidae are of major economic importance, since the larvae of some species are pests of cereals and grasses, some are parasitoids and predators, and adults of some Hippelates spp. visit and transmit or are suspected of transmitting yaws sores in man and animals and by feeding around the eyes are vectors of Brazilian Purpuric Fever. Within the framework of the exploration of the biodiversity of Diptera in Southwest Saudi Arabia a survey of the grass flies fauna in 18 sites in Jazan, Asir, and Najran in south-western Saudi Arabia was performed mainly using Malaise traps and sweep nets from 2010– to 2016. Sixty six species of 43 genera and three subfamilies of Chloropidae were identified and are recorded from Saudi Arabia, 20 of them for the first time and three are described as new species: Elachiptera arabica Deeming sp. n.; Kwarea ismayi Deeming sp.n. and Tricimba turneri Deeming sp.n.. This makes the total number of Chloropidae species in Saudi Arabia 95 (including 29 species previously recorded). Seventy images are presented. The species of Chloropidae listed are predominantly of Afrotropical/ Palaearctic origin. An updated checklist of Chloropidae species of Saudi Arabia is presented.This study adds new records of Chloropidae to the Saudi Arabian Diptera fauna, which will become reference points for research detailing the systematic geographic distribution and for identifying other specimens submitted for identification. Further species will undoubtedly be discovered with more research involving collecting and rearing methods. 

Nephtyidae (Polychaeta, Phyllodocida) from the Red Sea, with record of a new species

2017 ◽  
Vol 97 (5) ◽  
pp. 843-856 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Ravara ◽  
S. Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
New Species ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
West Coast ◽  
New Records ◽  
The West ◽  
Bathymetric Range ◽  
Current Finding ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

Six nephtyid species were identified from samples collected off the west coast of Saudi Arabia. Two of these species had been previously reported for the Red Sea (Inermonephtys aff. inermis, Nephtys palatii), three are new records (Aglaophamus lobatus, A. cf. verrilli, Micronephthys stammeri) and one is new to science (Inermonephtys aramco). Inermonephtys aramco was collected in the southern region of the Red Sea at depths between 60 and 83 m. It is characterized by the presence of branchiae from chaetiger 15 or 16, well-developed parapodial prechaetal lamellae, broadly rounded notopodial postchaetal lamellae and rudimentary neuropodial postchaetal lamellae. The species Nephtys palatii is transferred to the genus Micronephthys. Based on the current finding, the previously known bathymetric range of Micronephthys stammeri is extended from 4–7 to 17 m, and occurrence depths for N. palatii are given for the first time (4–90 m). Full descriptions are included for all species except M. stammeri. An identification key for all the species known to occur in the Red Sea is provided.

A new species of Heminicsara (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Agraeciini) from West Papua (New Guinea)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4991 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-168
Author(s):  
MING KAI TAN ◽  
SIGFRID INGRISCH ◽  
CAHYO RAHMADI ◽  
TONY ROBILLARD
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Abdominal Tergite ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The South ◽  
South West ◽  
West Papua ◽  
A New Species

Heminicsara Karny, 1912 is a katydid genus of Agraeciini from the Axylus genus group. It currently comprises 62 species from mainly New Guinea and surrounding archipelagos. Based on recent fieldwork in Lobo in West Papua, Indonesia, a new species of Heminicsara is described here: Heminicsara incrassata sp. nov. It is most readily characterised from congeners and other species of the Axylus genus group by the male tenth abdominal tergite forming a large shield-shaped plate. This represents the first species of Heminicsara described and known from the south-west of New Guinea.  

Presence of the telescope fish Mendosoma lineatum in Patagonian waters, a new species in the ichthyological fauna from the south-west Atlantic Ocean

2017 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 1224-1227 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. D. Bovcon ◽  
P. D. Cochia ◽  
J. Ruibal Núñez ◽  
M. Vucica ◽  
D. E. Figueroa
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
The South ◽  
South West ◽  
A New Species

Four new species and three new records of benthic ctenophores (Family: Coeloplanidae) from the Red Sea

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 261-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ada Alamaru ◽  
Eran Brokovich ◽  
Yossi Loya
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
New Records

scholarly journals The Dendrothripinae (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) of Saudi Arabia, with new records, one new species, and revised status of Pseudodendrothrips stuardoi (Moulton)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4999 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-227
Author(s):  
IFTEKHAR RASOOL ◽  
LAURENCE A. MOUND ◽  
AHMED M. SOLIMAN ◽  
HATHAL M. ALDHAFER
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Records ◽  
Morus Alba ◽  
Ficus Carica ◽  
Mediterranean Countries ◽  
One New Species

Two genera Dendrothrips Uzel and Pseudodendrothrips Schmutz are recorded from Saudi Arabia. A key is provided to eight members of Dendrothrips that have antennae with 9-segments and D. saudicus sp. n. is described in this group. P. aegyptiacus (Priesner) and P. stuardoi are newly reported from Saudi Arabia, with P. stuardoi rev. stat. from the leaves of Ficus carica being newly distinguished from P. mori (Niwa) that lives on the leaves of Morus alba. Some published records of P. mori from Mediterranean countries are possibly misidentifications of P. stuardoi.

scholarly journals New species and new records of Campopleginae from the Palaearctic region (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 ◽  
pp. 247-271
Author(s):  
Zoltán Vas
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Records ◽  
Palaearctic Region ◽  
Unknown Male

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.

A new Altivasum Hedley, 1914 (Turbinellidae, Vasinae) from the coast of southern Western Australia

The Festivus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 212-217
Author(s):  
Merv Cooper ◽  
Stephen Maxwell
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
The South ◽  
South West ◽  
Geographically Isolated

This paper presents a new Altivasum found off Jurien Bay, Western Australia at 60 m. This new species expands our understanding of the distribution, and in particular extends the northern range of Altivasum, in the South-west Marine Region. Altivasum pauladellaboscae n. sp. is more rhomboidal than A. hedleyi Maxwell and Dekkers, 2019, which is elongated, and has the formation of tubular spines on the shoulder of axial fold on the later whorls of the spire; these spines are not formed in A. pauladellaboscae n sp. Altivasum pauladellaboscae n sp. differs from A. profundum Dekkers and Maxwell, 2018 in having acute shoulder nodules. The South Australian, A. flindersi Verco, 1914 lacks the fibriated subsutural band found in A. pauladellaboscae n. sp. Altivasum clarksoni Maxwell and Dekkers, 2019 is geographically isolated and morphologically distinct, being more elongated and fibriated. This paper brings the number of described Altivasum species to five

Studies in the liverwort genus Riccia (Marchantiales) from the south-west Cape

Bothalia ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 15 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 117-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. H. Volk ◽  
S. M. Perold
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
The South ◽  
Unique Structure ◽  
South West ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Riccia, R. parvo-areolata Volk Perold, as well as sporophytes and spores of R. villosa Steph. ex Brunnthaler, are described. Earlier descriptions of R. villosa were based on sterile plants. The unique structure of the dorsal epithelium consisting of loose cell pillars in these two species (and also present in allied species grouped together in the section Pilifer) is described and illustrated.

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