scholarly journals A New Species of Cryptopone Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) from Brazil with Observations of this Genus and a Key for New World Species

Sociobiology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 408
Author(s):  
Itanna Oliveira Fernandes ◽  
Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New World ◽  
First Record ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
The State ◽  
Phylogenetic Study ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic Study ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Large Genus ◽  
East And Southeast Asia

The monophyly of Ponerinae was strongly supported by a detailed molecular phylogenetic study. Within the subfamily, substantial changes were yet done to the taxonomy of several genera, such as Cryptopone Emery, and after phylogenetic and morphological considerations, the genus Cryptopone was revived. Cryptopone is a moderately large genus of pantropical distribution, with 25 described species and subspecies, with its diversity centered mostly in East and Southeast Asia. In the New World, only four species were known until now, Cryptopone gilva (Roger), Cryptopone guianensis (Weber), Cryptopone holmgreni (Wheeler) and Cryptopone mirabilis (Mackay & Mackay). Since the Mackay and Mackay’s revision of 2010 of the genus Pachycondyla which included the species currently attributed to Cryptopone, no new species was added to Cryptopone genus in the New World. Recently an unidentified Cryptopone species was collected in the state of Rondônia, Brazil. The material here described was sampled by manual collection of soil in the Floresta Nacional do Jamari (FLONA Jamari). Four individuals belonging to the worker caste are hereafter described under the name of Cryptopone pauli sp. nov. Currently this ant is known only to a single locality in the state of Rondônia, Brazil. This is also the first record of this genus for that state. We present new records of Cryptopone for the Neotropical Region with some comments on its biology and an updated key to workers of the five species of Cryptopone currently known in the New World.

scholarly journals A new species of Procambarus (Decapoda, Cambaridae) from the State of Querétaro, Mexico

ZooKeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1048 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Carlos Pedraza-Lara ◽  
Pedro Joaquín Gutiérrez-Yurrita ◽  
Vladimir Salvador De Jesus-Bonilla
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
The State ◽  
Phylogenetic Study ◽  
Lateral Side ◽  
Central Projection ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
River Catchment ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic Study ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic

With a Nearctic distribution, the family Cambaridae harbors a high species richness in Mexico, which is also evident along the Pánuco River catchment. A series of surveys carried on in five populations from the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve in the State of Querétaro resulted in localizing a putative new species for science. A molecular phylogenetic study and species delimitation analyses including all the known Procambarus species from the Pánuco River catchment were conducted based on three mitochondrial genes (16S rDNA, 12S rDNA, and COI; 2,462 bp in total). Phylogeny recovered all species as monophyletic, including the populations under study. All delimitation results based on barcoding, ABGD, GMYC, bPTP, and gonopod differentiation agree in the recognition of a new taxon, to which the name Procambarus xihuisp. nov. is given, and its diagnosis and description are provided. The new species can be distinguished from the remaining species in the genus, among other characters, by a unique configuration of the terminal elements of the first pleopod of form I male, which includes a central projection lamellate, hood-like, forming a concave blade-like structure mesially directed, as well as a caudal process crest-like, mesiodistally directed, forming a lateral side of the concavity.

Description of Ditylenchus acantholimonis n. sp. (Rhabditida: Anguinidae) from Iran, a morphological and molecular phylogenetic study

Nematology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Samira Aliverdi ◽  
Ebrahim Pourjam ◽  
Majid Pedram
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Rhizosphere Soil ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Phylogenetic Study ◽  
Pharyngeal Bulb ◽  
Lateral Field ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic Study ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Golestan Province ◽  
Tail Tip

Summary Ditylenchus acantholimonis n. sp. is described based on morphological, morphometric and molecular characters. It was isolated from the rhizosphere soil of Acantholimon sp. in Golestan province, Iran, and is mainly characterised by having four lines in the lateral field, a pyriform to bottle-shaped offset pharyngeal bulb, post-vulval uterine sac 36.6-56.1% of the vulva to anus distance long, and a subcylindrical to conical tail with widely rounded tip. It is further characterised by short to medium-sized females, 480-617 μm long, with a fine stylet having small rounded knobs, V = 80.8-83.6, c = 11.0-13.8, c′ = 3.3-4.6, and males with 16.0-17.0 μm long spicules. The new species was morphologically compared with six species having four lines in their lateral field, rounded tail tip and comparable morphometric data namely: D. dipsacoideus, D. emus, D. exilis, D. paraparvus, D. sturhani, and D. solani. It was also compared with two species, D. ferepolitor and D. angustus, forming a maximally supported clade in the 18S tree. The phylogenetic analyses using the maximal number of Anguinidae and several Sphaerularioidea genera based upon partial 18S and 28S rDNA D2-D3 sequences revealed that Ditylenchus is polyphyletic. In the 18S tree, the new species formed a clade with D. ferepolitor (KJ636374) and D. angustus (AJ966483); in the 28S tree it formed a poorly supported clade with D. phyllobios (KT192618) and Ditylenchus sp. (MG865719).

scholarly journals A New Species of the Genus Herina (Diptera, Ulidiidae) from Dominica (Lesser Antilles)

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
E. P. Kameneva
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
New World ◽  
First Record ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
North American Species ◽  
Lesser Antilles ◽  
Wing Pattern ◽  
World Species ◽  
A New Species

Herina caribbeana Kameneva, sp. n. from Dominica is described and figured. It is related to the narytia group of species, to date represented by 4 North American species, but differs from these by the wing pattern (dark spots at apex of R1 and on the crossbands r-m and dm-cu separated, not forming crossband), as well as male genitalia (prensisetae long and close together). This is the first record of the genus Herina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 from the Neotropical Region. A key to the New World species is provided.

scholarly journals Microcos magnifica (Sparrmanniaceae) a new species of cloudforest tree from Cameroon

PeerJ ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. e4137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Cheek
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Phylogenetic Study ◽  
Herbarium Specimens ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
Systematic Revision ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic Study ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Binocular Microscope ◽  
Made In

Background Although many new species to science have been discovered from thousands of specimens resulting from botanical inventories to support conservation management in Cameroon in recent years, additional species remain to be formally evaluated taxonomically and described. These include species from genera which have been taxonomically neglected for many decades in Africa, such as Microcos. Methods This study is based mainly on herbarium specimens and field observations made in Cameroon during a series of botanical surveys. Herbarium material was examined with a Leica Wild M8 dissecting binocular microscope fitted with an eyepiece graticule. Principal Findings Microcos magnifica Cheek (Malvaceae-Grewioideae or Sparrmanniaceae) is described as an Endangered (EN B2 ab(iii)) new tree species from the submontane forests of Cameroon. It is illustrated and described, and its conservation status and taxonomic affinities are assessed. It is the first new Microcos described from Africa in more than 90 years and is unique on the continent in having sculptured fruits. Discussion A systematic revision, with a molecular phylogenetic study, of Microcos Burm. ex L. in Africa is necessary if the affinities of the species, including M. magnifica, are to be reliably established.

Molecular phylogenetic study of Bealius Massey & Hinds, 1970 (Nematoda: Hexatylina: Sphaerulariidae), with description of B. pinus n. sp. from Iran

Nematology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-444
Author(s):  
Mehrab Esmaeili ◽  
Ramin Heydari ◽  
Behrouz Golhasan ◽  
Weimin Ye
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Nematode Species ◽  
Small Subunit ◽  
Phylogenetic Study ◽  
Pharyngeal Bulb ◽  
Phylogenetic Studies ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic Study ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Posterior Extension ◽  
Stylet Length

Summary Bealius pinus n. sp. is described and illustrated based on its morphological, morphometric, and molecular characters. The new species is characterised by a body length of 1040 (920-1124) μm (females) and 985 (990-1043) μm (males), lip region continuous, 7.2 (7.0-8.0) μm broad, 3.3 (3.0-4.0) μm high, stylet length 8.4 (7.0-9.0) μm or ca 1.0-1.3 times the lip region diam., lateral fields with five or six incisures, the outer incisures crenate and inner incisures weakly crenate, and excretory pore situated 156 (141-170) μm from the anterior end. The basal pharyngeal bulb has a short posterior extension projecting dorsally into the intestine. Post-uterine sac absent. Functional males common in the population, spicules 29 (28-30) μm long. Tail cylindrical with broadly rounded terminus in the female and conical, arcuate, completely enveloped by a well-developed bursa in the male. The new species is compared with two known species of the genus, B. bisulcus and B. pissodi. Molecular phylogenetic studies of the new species using partial sequences of small subunit (SSU) rDNA revealed that it forms a clade with several nematode species belonging to genera in the Sphaerularioidea, namely: Sphaerularia, Paurodontella, Nothotylenchus, and Deladenus.

Proposal of a new subfamily of Sciaridae (Diptera: Sciaridae), with description of one new species from South Korea

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4543 (1) ◽  
pp. 127 ◽  
Author(s):  
SEUNGGWAN SHIN ◽  
HEUNGSIK LEE ◽  
SEUNGHWAN LEE
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Study ◽  
Phylogenetic Studies ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic Study ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Unidentified Species ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
One New Species ◽  
Key Characters

Here we propose a new monophyletic subfamily, the Chaetosciarinae, based on previous morphological cladistic and molecular phylogenetic studies. This new subfamily includes the genera Chaetosciara Frey, Mouffetina Frey, Schwenckfeldina Frey, and Scythropochroa Enderlein. We also provide a definition of the new subfamily Chaetosciarinae and describe common morphological key characters. Three Korean Chaetosciarinae species in three genera are reported, all of which are new to Korea and one (Scythropochroa pseudoquercicola sp. nov.) of which is new to science. A previous molecular phylogenetic study designated Scy. pseudoquercicola as an unidentified species. Our study provides examined species information for members of this new subfamily to accompany the GenBank accession numbers published by a previous molecular phylogenetic study. Furthermore, we present a multigene molecular phylogenetic analysis for the Chaetosciarinae. 

Molecular phylogenetic study in Spirocercidae (Nematoda) with description of a new species Spirobakerus sagittalis sp. nov. in wild canid Cerdocyon thous from Brazil

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Nascimento Gomes ◽  
Michele Maria dos Santos ◽  
Natalie Olifiers ◽  
Roberto do Val Vilela ◽  
Mayara Guimarães Beltrão ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Study ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic Study ◽  
Wild Canid ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Cerdocyon Thous ◽  
A New Species

Reestablishment of Mansoa ventricosa (Bignonieae, Bignoniaceae) based on molecular and morphological data

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 327 (2) ◽  
pp. 141 ◽  
Author(s):  
JESSICA NAYARA CARVALHO FRANCISCO ◽  
LÚCIA G. LOHMANN
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Phylogenetic Study ◽  
Phylogenetic Placement ◽  
Morphological Studies ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic Study ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Wet Forests ◽  
New Distribution ◽  
Broad Scale

Pachyptera ventricosa is a rare and poorly known species of liana that occurs in wet forests from the state of Pará, in Brazil. This species is characterized by features that are diagnostic of four genera within tribe Bignonieae: Mansoa, Martinella, Pachyptera, and Tanaecium. The currently recognized P. ventricosa was originally described in Mansoa, but subsequently transferred to Pachyptera based on morphological similarities. In this study, we use a combination of molecular and morphological data to evaluate the current placement of P. ventricosa. We conduct a broad scale molecular phylogenetic study based on 114 sequences of ndhF and PepC representing 112 taxa and members of all genera recognized in Bignonieae. In addition, we also conduct detailed morphological studies of selected characters. Our molecular phylogenetic study indicates that the currently recognized Pachyptera ventricosa is more closely related to members of Mansoa than to Pachyptera. New morphological data corroborates the molecular phylogenetic placement indicating that this species is indeed best placed within Mansoa. We here propose the reestablishment of Mansoa ventricosa, and show the detailed description for this species, along with new distribution information, and the first illustration for this taxon.

Additions to the revision of Dima Charpentier, 1825 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dimini) in the Balkan Peninsula, with the descriptions of five new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4433 (2) ◽  
pp. 325 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSEF MERTLIK ◽  
TAMÁS NÉMETH ◽  
ROBIN KUNDRATA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Morphological Variability ◽  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
Phylogenetic Study ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic Study ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic

Complementary revisionary information is provided for the click-beetle genus Dima Charpentier, 1825 in the Balkan Peninsula. Five species are described as new for science: Dima bialookii sp. nov. (Greece), D. blazeji sp. nov. (Albania), D. gazureki sp. nov. (Albania), D. timfristosensis sp. nov. (Greece), and D. tomorrensis sp. nov. (Albania). The male of D. hirtipennis Platia, 2011 is described for the first time. Dima etoliensis Platia, 2012 syn. nov. is a subjective junior synonym of D. evritaniensis Schimmel & Platia, 2008. New specimens and distributional data are reported for D. assingi Schimmel & Platia, 2008, D. dalmatina Küster, 1844, D. elateroides Charpentier, 1825, D. evritaniensis, D. florinensis Platia, 2012, D. hirtipennis, D. hladilorum Schimmel, 1987, D. lebenbaueri Schimmel & Platia, 2008, D. macedonica Schimmel, 1993, D. marvani Mertlik & Dusanek, 2006, D. neumanni Platia, 2013, D. olympica Meschnigg, 1934, D. parnonensis Schimmel & Platia, 2008, D. pecoudi Fleutiaux, 1944, D. pelikani Mertlik, Németh & Kundrata, 2017, D. pelionensis Mertlik, Németh & Kundrata, 2017, D. vailatii Schimmel & Platia, 2008, and Dima sp. cf. orientalis Mertlik, Németh & Kundrata, 2017. Morphological variability in D. hladilorum is discussed. Figures of habitus and main diagnostic features are provided for all new species, D. evritaniensis from Nerosirtis surroundings in Panetolikó Mts. (i.e., type locality of D. etoliensis syn. nov.), and for the male of D. hirtipennis. Additionally, we update the distribution maps for the genus Dima in the Balkans based on the new findings. Currently, 37 described species of Dima are known from the Balkan Peninsula. We discuss the morphological diagnostic characters for Dima species and call for the molecular phylogenetic study for this group. 

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