First record of Sigara assimilis (Fieber, 1848) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Corixidae) in Poland

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Sowa ◽  
Grzegorz Tończyk ◽  
Dariusz Halabowski ◽  
Mariola Krodkiewska
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mine ◽  
First Record ◽  
First Report ◽  
Southern Poland ◽  
Settling Pond ◽  
The Family ◽  
Males And Females

Abstract Sigara assimilis (Fieber, 1848) is an aquatic true bug from the family Corixidae. Our paper is the first report on this species from Poland. Numerous males and females of the species were found in a hypohaline coal mine settling pond in southern Poland.

First record of subfamily Brachypterainae (Plecoptera: Taeniopterygidae) in Baltic amber: a new genus and species

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4527 (4) ◽  
pp. 569
Author(s):  
ZHI-TENG CHEN
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
First Record ◽  
Baltic Amber ◽  
Female Specimen ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
First Report ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
The Family

Based on a well-preserved female specimen, a new stonefly genus and species of the family Taeniopterygidae, Balticopteryx dui gen. et sp. nov. is described and illustrated, which is also the first report of subfamily Brachypterainae from the Eocene Baltic amber. Diagnostic characters of this new genus are discussed and compared with related taxa. 

Notes on the Occurrence and Morphology of Bryobia lagodechiana Reck in British Columbia (Acarina: Tetranychidae)

1960 ◽  
Vol 92 (8) ◽  
pp. 634-636
Author(s):  
C. V. G. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
First Record ◽  
Immature Stages ◽  
Equisetum Arvense ◽  
First Report ◽  
Coniferous Trees ◽  
Run Off ◽  
The Family ◽  
Southern Russia

Bryobia lagodechiana Reck, 1953, was originally found on bedstraw, or cleavers, Galium sp., growing at an elevation of about 6,890 to 7,220 feet above sea level in the Lagodekhsky reserve of the Armenian S.S.R. (Reck, 1953; Bagdasarian, 1957). A mite believed, on the basis of illustrations and descriptions only, to be the same species was found by the author in one locality in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. It was first observed on June 6, 1958, when about 10 female mites were noticed feeding on common horsetail, Equisetum arvense L., growing at an elevation of 3,300 to 3,500 feet near Orofino Creek on Mount McCaig, known locally as Orofino Mountain. The site, which was partially shaded by fairly heavy stands of tall coniferous trees, was somewhat boggy, and would undoubtedly be flooded during the spring run-off of Orofino Creek. Luxurious pure stands of this horsetail are common in such sites and, except for moss, it is often the predominant plant in many creek-bottom areas. An additional 20 female mites were collected at the same site on June 12, 1958. No males, or immature stages, were seen on either date. This is the first record outside southern Russia of the occurrence of a mite closely resembling B. lagodechiana, and the first report of the occurrence of any species of Bryobia on plants of the family Equisetaceae. The slide-mounted specimens are in the Canadian National Collection.

First record of the family Schizodactylidae (Orthoptera: Ensifera) from Thailand, with the description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4472 (1) ◽  
pp. 60 ◽  
Author(s):  
PATTARAWICH DAWWRUENG ◽  
NONN PANITVONG ◽  
KANIN MOOLTHAM ◽  
PONGPIPAT MEEBENJAMART ◽  
WEEYAWAT JAITRONG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sand Dunes ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Family ◽  
Subgenital Plate ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Salween River ◽  
Northwestern Thailand

A new species of dune cricket in the family Schizodactylidae, Schizodactylus salweenensis sp. nov. is described from Salween River, Mae Hong Son Province, northwestern Thailand based on both males and females. The Schizodactylidae is recorded for the first time in Thailand. The new species is most similar to Schizodactylus tuberculatus Ander, 1938 and Schizodactylus burmanus Uvarov, 1935 in the morphology of male subgenital plate, but mainly differs in the shape of subgenital plate apex, and the spurs of hind tibiae. The type series was collected from sand dunes along the river. This cricket reaches adulthood during the rainy season. 

scholarly journals Research Note. The first report of three acanthocephalan parasite species isolated from Philippine fishes

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 384-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. A. Briones ◽  
R. D. S. Papa ◽  
G. A. Cauyan ◽  
M. Urabe
Keyword(s):  
Fish Species ◽  
Parasite Species ◽  
New Records ◽  
First Record ◽  
Research Note ◽  
First Report ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
The Family ◽  
Acanthocephalan Parasite ◽  
First Time

Summary Three acanthocephalan parasites, namely Neoechinorhynchus (Neoechinorhynchus) quinghaiensis, Rhadinorhynchus ganapatti, and Bolbosoma sp. are reported for the first time from Philippine fishes. N. (N.) quinghaiensis (Neoechinorhynchidae) may have been introduced into the country through the importation of carp species from China, where this parasite was first described and is presumed to be naturally occurring. The adult worms of R. ganapatti and the isolated cystacanth of Bolbosoma sp. represent the first record of parasites from both the family Rhadinorhynchidae and Polymorphidae in Philippine waters, respectively. These three new records encompass a third of all listed acanthocephalan parasites that have been reported in Philippine fish species to date, highlighting the need for more biodiversity-focused parasitology research, in light of potentially numerous more undocumented parasite species.

scholarly journals First report of the root parasite Cansjera rheedei (Santalales: Opiliaceae) in Taiwan

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Po-Hao Chen ◽  
An-Ching Chung ◽  
Sheng-Zehn Yang
Keyword(s):  
Southern China ◽  
First Record ◽  
First Report ◽  
Taxonomic Description ◽  
The Family ◽  
Root Parasite

The family Opiliaceae in Santalales comprises approximately 38 species within 12 genera distributed worldwide. In Taiwan, only one species of the tribe Champereieae, Champereia manillana, has been recorded. Here we report the first record of a second member of Opiliaceae, Cansjera in tribe Opilieae, for Taiwan. The newly-found species, Cansjera rheedei J.F. Gmelin (Opiliaceae), is a liana distributed from India and Nepal to southern China and western Malaysia. This is the first record of both the genus Cansjera and the tribe Opilieae of Opiliaceae in Taiwan. In this report, we provide a taxonomic description for the species and colour photographs to facilitate identification in the field.

First record of the family Sphindidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) from Socotra

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (s1) ◽  
pp. 133-137
Author(s):  
Jiří Hájek ◽  
Josef Jelínek
Keyword(s):  
First Record ◽  
Slime Mold ◽  
First Report ◽  
Socotra Island ◽  
The Family

Abstract The cryptic slime-mold beetle Sphindus cf. rendilianus Lesne, 1922, described originally from Kenya, and so far known only from the holotype, is recorded from Socotra Island based on five specimens from recent collecting efforts. This is the first report of the family Sphindidae from the archipelago.

First report of Schulzia travassosi (Nematoda, Trichostrongylina, Molineoidea) for amphibians of the Chaco region in Argentina and proposal of Oswaldocruzia melanostictusi nov. comb.

2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthya E. González ◽  
Monika I. Hamann
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
First Record ◽  
Nematode Parasite ◽  
First Report ◽  
Chaco Region ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Chaco Province ◽  
Scanning Electron

AbstractThis is the first record of the nematode parasite Schulzia travassosi (Trichostrongylina, Molineidae) in two Argentinean amphibians, Leptodactylus bufonius and Rhinella major, collected in two localities of the Chaco region, Las Lomitas (Formosa Province) and Taco Pozo (Chaco Province). The species was observed using light and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and compared with previous studies of Paraguayan specimens. Regarding metric characters, the measurements found in Argentinean specimens generally did not differ from those of Paraguayan specimens; some differences were observed in the total length of males and females (some longer and some shorter than Paraguayan specimens), length of the oesophagus (in almost all specimens shorter than in Paraguayan ones) and position of the vulva (nearer to posterior end in Argentinean specimens). The branches and sphincter of ovejector are slightly longer than in Paraguayan female specimens. In males, ray 4 is almost the same length as rays 2, 3 and 5, 6. Cephalic end, cephalic vesicle, synlophe and vulvar depression were viewed under SEM. Schulzia melanostictusi Chopra, Shing and Kumar, 1986 is reassigned as Oswaldocruzia melanostictusi (Chopra, Shing and Kumar, 1986) nov. comb.

scholarly journals Spirura carajaensis n. sp. (Nematoda: Spiruridae), parasite of Proechimys roberti Thomas 1901 (Rodentia: Echimyidae) from Brazilian Amazon

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. da Costa Cordeiro ◽  
F. Tiago de Vasconcelos Melo ◽  
A. Maldonado Jr. ◽  
J. Nascimento Dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Light Microscopy ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
First Record ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Esophageal Mucosa ◽  
The Family ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Left Spicule ◽  
A New Species

SummaryA new species of nematode, from the family Spiruridae, is described using parasites from the esophageal mucosa of Proechimys roberti (Rodentia: Echimyidae), which were obtained during a fauna survey in the Tapirapé-Aquirí National Forest, Carajás Reserve, Brazil, Eastern Brazilian Amazon. The helminthes were collected from the esophagus, fixed and processed for light microscopy. Spirura carajaensis n. sp. differs from other species in the genus because it has a left spicule with a well-developed sheath, which is leaf-shaped and covers the terminal half of the spicule. Males and females have a small appendix on the caudal end. This structure has not been reported before for this genus. The present study reports the first record of parasitism by Spirura in rodents of the genus Proechimys in Brazil and in the Amazon biome.

scholarly journals First report of watermelon crinkle leaf-associated virus 1 (WCLaV-1) and WCLaV-2 infecting watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) in the United States

Plant Disease ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regina Nicole Hernandez ◽  
Thomas Isakeit ◽  
Maher Al Rwahnih ◽  
Cecilia Villegas ◽  
Olufemi Joseph Alabi
Keyword(s):  
Cdna Library ◽  
Citrullus Lanatus ◽  
Disease Incidence ◽  
First Record ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Report ◽  
The Family ◽  
Leaf Tissues ◽  
Negative Sense ◽  
The U.S

Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) and other cucurbits are cultivated globally, and Texas ranks among its top 5 producers in the U.S. In July 2020, plants with virus-like disease symptoms consisting of mild leaf crinkling and yellow mosaic patterns were observed in a 174-ha watermelon field in Burleson Co., TX; disease incidence was visually estimated at 5%. Total nucleic acids were extracted from leaf tissues of 5 randomly sampled plants (Dellaporta 1983) and their equimolar amounts were made into a composite sample that was used for cDNA library construction with TruSeq Stranded Total RNA with Ribo-Zero Plant Kit (Illumina). The cDNA library was sequenced on the Illumina NextSeq 500 platform, generating ~37M single-end reads (each 75 nt), which were analyzed as per Al Rwahnih et al. (2018). Of these, 58,200 and 27,500 reads mapped to the genomes of watermelon crinkle leaf-associated virus 1 (WCLaV-1) and WCLaV-2 (Xin et al. 2017), respectively, along with 4 other virus-specific reads (data not shown). The near complete RNA1-RNA3 segments of WCLaV-1 (354-652X) and WCLaV-2 (144-258X) were generated from the mapped reads and they shared ≥96% nt identities with published RNA segments of both viruses. The results were verified by RT-PCR using newly designed primers WCLaV-1vRP: 5′-GGTGAGTTAGTGTGTCTGAAGG/WCLaV-1cRP: 5′-GAGGTTGCCTGAGGTGATAAG to target 881 bp of the RNA1-encoded RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRP), WCLaV-1vMP: 5′-GAAGGTTTGCTCCCTTGAAATG/WCLaV-1cMP: 5′-GACTGTGGCTGAAGAGTCTATG target 538 bp of the RNA2-encoded movement protein (MP), and WCLaV-1vNP: 5′-CGAATAGACTCTGGAGGGTAGA/WCLaV-1cMP: 5′-GAAAGCAAGAAAGCTGGCTAAA target 786 bp of the RNA3-encoded nucleoprotein (NP). Similarly, the WWCLaV-2-specific primers WCLaV-2vRP: 5′-GTCTCACATTCCTGCACTAACT/WCLaV-2cRP: 5′-ATCGGTCCTGGGTTATTTGTATC target 968 bp of the RdRP, WCLaV-2vMP: 5′-GACTTCAGAACCTCAACATCCA/WCLaV-2cMP: 5′-CAAGGGAGAGTGCTGACAAA target 562 bp of the MP, and WCLaV-2vNP: 5′-ATTCCCAGTGAGAGCAACAA/WCLaV-2cMP: 5′-GAGGTGGAGGTAGGAAAGAAAG target 449 bp of the NP. Fresh cDNA synthesized from the 5 samples with PrimeScript First Strand cDNA synthesis kit (Takara Bio) were tested by PCR with all 6 primer pairs using the PrimeSTAR GXL DNA Polymerase kit (Takara Bio). Three of the 5 samples were positive for both viruses and one sample was positive for each virus. The obtained products from 4 samples were cloned individually into pJET1.2/Blunt vector (Thermo Scientific, USA), followed by bidirectional Sanger-sequencing of the plasmids with the GenElute Five-Minute Plasmid Miniprep kit (Sigma-Aldrich). In pairwise comparisons, the partial RNA1-RNA3 sequences of WCLaV-1 (GenBank accession nos. MW559074-82) shared 100% nt/aa identities with each other and with corresponding sequences of WCLaV-1 isolate KF-1 from China (KY781184-86). The partial RNA1-RNA3 sequences of WCLaV-2 (MW559083-91) shared 97-100% nt/96-100% aa identities with each other and with corresponding sequences of WCLaV-2 isolate KF-15 from China (KY781187-89). This is the first report of WCLaV-1 and WCLaV-2 in Texas and the first record of both viruses in the U.S. and elsewhere outside of China. Both negative-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses represent a novel taxon in the family Phenuiviridae (order Bunyavirales) (Xin et al. 2017). While aspects of the biology of both viruses are yet to be elucidated, our results expand their geographical range. The detection primers developed here will be useful for screening cucurbits germplasm to avert their spread.

First Iranian species of Neosilphitrombium (Acari: Prostigmata: Neothrombiidae) with a key to world species

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2738 (1) ◽  
pp. 60 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALIREZA SABOORI ◽  
HAMIDREZA HAJIQANBAR ◽  
MASOUD HAKIMITABAR
Keyword(s):  
First Record ◽  
World Species ◽  
First Report ◽  
The Family ◽  
Larval Species ◽  
Coleoptera Tenebrionidae

Neosilphitrombium tenebrionidum sp. nov. (Acari: Neothrombiidae) is described and illustrated from larvae ectoparasitic on Opatroides punctatus Brullé, 1832 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Mashhad and Gonabad, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. It is the first report of the representatives of the genus Neosilphitrombium from Iran and the first record of the family Tenebrionidae as a host for the genus Neosilphitrombium. A key to world larval species of Neosilphitrombium is presented.

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