Lamprochernes savignyi (Simon, 1881) (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones) recorded in Central Europe for the first time

The pseudoscorpion Lamprochernes savignyi (Simon, 1881) is reported in Central Europe for the first time. The new record from Switzerland is based on a single female specimen found in a compost heap in the Conservatory and Botanical Garden in Geneva. Until now, the species is distributed mainly in Africa, Americas, and Asia, less in Australia and Oceania, Europe, and the Arabian Peninsula. The new record fills in the gap in species distribution between Northern Europe and the Anatolian Peninsula. A description of the collected female is provided.

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Male of Spilarctia mikeli Bolotov, Kondakov & Spitsyn, 2018, an endemic species from Flores Island, Lesser Sunda Archipelago (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4975.1.9 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4975 (1) ◽

pp. 193-197

Author(s):

VITALY M. SPITSYN ◽

ALEXANDER V. KONDAKOV ◽

ALENA A. TOMILOVA ◽

ELIZAVETA A. SPITSYNA ◽

IVAN N. BOLOTOV

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Endemic Species ◽

Female Specimen ◽

Single Female ◽

Tiger Moth ◽

First Time

The Lepidoptera fauna of the island of Flores (Lesser Sunda Archipelago, Indonesia) shares a large proportion of endemic species, which may reach 80–100% in several groups (Zolotuhin & Witt 2005; Nässig et al. 2009; Zolotuhin 2009; Nässig & Bouyer 2010; Yakovlev 2015; Spitsyn & Potapov 2020; Spitsyn & Bolotov 2020). A plethora of new species was described from this island during the last 15 years, e.g. the tiger moth Spilarctia mikeli Bolotov, Kondakov & Spitsyn, 2018 (Zolotuhin & Witt 2005; Yakovlev 2006; Spitsyn & Bolotov 2020a, b, c). This species was described based on a single female specimen collected in West Flores (Bolotov et al. 2018). In the present paper, we describe the male of Spilarctia mikeli for the first time, and illustrate variability of marking patterns of both the male and the female of this species.

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New altitudinal distribution record and updated geographic distribution of the freshwater crab Trichodactylus fluviatilis Latreille, 1828 (Crustacea, Trichodactylidae)

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10.15560/14.6.977 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 14 (6) ◽

pp. 977-984

Author(s):

Vanessa Brito-Fonseca ◽

Carlos Alencar ◽

Savio Moraes ◽

Valéria Vale ◽

Fúlvio Freire

Keyword(s):

Geographic Distribution ◽

Species Distribution ◽

New Record ◽

Minas Gerais ◽

Freshwater Crab ◽

Altitudinal Distribution ◽

Minas Gerais State ◽

First Time ◽

Distribution Record

The freshwater crab Trichodactylus fluviatilis Latreille, 1828 is recorded here for the first time, at an altitude above 1000 m a.s.l. Sampling was performed in the Grota stream in Campos das Vertentes, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. This new record extends the known altitudinal distribution to 1115 m a.s.l., which significantly contributes to understanding the conditioning limits and factors for this species’ distribution. Moreover, the occurrence of an ectosymbiont platyhelminth of the genus Temnocephala is also reported on the crabs collected.

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Contributions to the knowledge of Neotropical Castianeirinae (Araneae: Corinnidae): redescription of Castianeira spinipalpis Mello-Leitão, 1945, with first description of the male, and description of a new Myrmecotypus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894 from the Bolivian Moxos plains

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.5082.2.4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5082 (2) ◽

pp. 145-158

Author(s):

BROGAN L. PETT ◽

ROBERT PERGER

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Tropical Savanna ◽

Female Specimen ◽

Single Female ◽

Neotropical Species ◽

First Time

Two Neotropical species of the subfamily Castianeirinae are treated herein. Castianeira spinipalpis Mello-Leitão, 1945 was described from a single female specimen; we provide a redescription of the female and the male is described for the first time. The species is newly recorded from Paraguay and Bolivia. Also, Myrmecotypus rubioi sp. nov. is described from the Bolivian Moxos plains, a tropical savanna ecoregion of the Beni department of northern Bolivia. The new species can be distinguished from others in the genus by having tibia I spination 3-2, coxa II whitish (the remainder dark), and a unique male palpal embolus with two broad embolic discs basal to the embolus tip.

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Chrysoclista karsholti, sp. n., from Turkey, and a new record of C. germanica from central Europe (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae: Parametriotinae)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4568.3.12 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4568 (3) ◽

pp. 587

Author(s):

JAN ŠUMPICH ◽

JOSEF JAROŠ

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Central Europe ◽

Male Genitalia ◽

New Record ◽

Dna Barcode ◽

Single Male ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Western Palaearctic ◽

First Time

Chrysoclista karsholti Šumpich, sp. n., is described from a single male collected in Turkey. This species most resembles C. germanica Šumpich & Huemer, 2016, but differs in the colouration of the dorsum of the forewing and in the shape of the valva in the male genitalia. Differences in the DNA barcode region between these two species are rather low compared to differences between other species of the genus. Chrysoclista germanica, previously known only from the holotype, is recorded from the Czech Republic for the first time. An updated checklist of western Palaearctic Chrysoclista Stainton, 1854 is provided.

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Does Transition to Retirement Promote Grandchild Care? Results from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

10.31235/osf.io/akme6 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Antti O Tanskanen ◽

Mirkka Danielsbacka ◽

Hans Hämäläinen ◽

Aïda Solé-Auró

Keyword(s):

Eastern Europe ◽

Central Europe ◽

Northern Europe ◽

Intergenerational Support ◽

Grandchild Care ◽

Effect Regression ◽

Transition To Retirement ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

First Time

Grandparental child care is an important form of intergenerational support. Thisarticle explored first time whether the transition to retirement affects the amount of grandchildcare that European grandparents provide to their descendants. The association between entryinto retirement and grandchild care was studied using the longitudinal Survey of Health,Ageing and Retirement in Europe conducted in 16 countries and four regimes: SouthernEurope, Central Europe, Northern Europe, and Eastern Europe. Data collected in five wavesbetween 2004 and 2015 were utilized. We ran panel fixed-effect regression models, whichconsider individual’s variation and person-specific changes over time, providing a test forcausality in the associations between retirement and grandchild care. Transition to retirementwas associated with increased grandchild care among both grandmothers and grandfathers.Grandmothers more often looked after grandchildren than grandfathers, but entry intoretirement increased grandchild care more among grandfathers than grandmothers. Transitionto retirement was associated with increased grandchild care in all parts of Europe, but themagnitude of the effect was strongest in Southern Europe, followed by Northern Europe,Central Europe, and Eastern Europe, respectively. This study indicated that when the roleconflict as grandchild caregivers and employees disappears, the amount of grandchild careolder Europeans provide to their descendants increased. The fact that at retirement older adultshave more time resources to provide informal family support should be carefully acknowledgein policymaking and discussions considering the societal role of older people.

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First record of Thysanoplusia orichalcea in Hungary (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Plusiinae)

Folia Entomologica Hungarica ◽

10.17112/foliaenthung.2019.80.287 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 80 ◽

pp. 287-291

Author(s):

Diána Balogh ◽

Balázs Tóth

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Central Europe ◽

First Record ◽

Female Specimen ◽

First Time ◽

Lepidoptera Noctuidae

One Thysanoplusia orichalcea female specimen was collected in Szakály, Tolna county, for the first time in Hungary. Occurrence of the species in Hungary is not unexpected, and it could repeatedly migrate to Central Europe in the next years due to climate change. With 3 figures.

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Presence of the four-spined pygmy devil, Arulenus validispinus (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae), confirmed in Bukidnon region on the island of Mindanao, Philippines

Journal of Orthoptera Research ◽

10.3897/jor.29.53718 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 133-136

Author(s):

Alma B. Mohagan ◽

Romeo R. Patano Jr. ◽

Mescel S. Acola ◽

Daniel O. Amper ◽

Fulgent P. Coritico ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Endemic Species ◽

New Record ◽

The Philippines ◽

Female Specimen ◽

Single Female

The four-spined pygmy devil (Arulenus validispinus Stål, 1877) is an endemic species to the Philippines. It was described more than 140 years ago from a single female specimen. Since its description, only a single new record was known, reported by Skejo from the Lanao region in 2017 and based on a specimen from eBay. Here, we record the species from the Bukidnon Mountains. We present measurements of a male and a female we collected, with the description of the species morphology and habitat. This species differs from its congeneric Mia’s pygmy devil (A. miae Skejo & Caballero, 2016) by the sharp dorsal and lateral spines.

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First report of Oxyophthalma engaea (Wood-Mason, 1889) (Insecta: Mantodea: Eremiaphilidae) from Kerala, India

ENTOMON ◽

10.33307/entomon.v46i2.603 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 46 (2) ◽

pp. 173-176

Author(s):

A. P. Kamila ◽

P. M. Sureshan

Keyword(s):

Female Specimen ◽

Single Female ◽

First Report ◽

First Time

The mantid species Oxyophthalma engaea (Wood-Mason, 1889) (Insecta: Mantodea: Eremiaphilidae) is reported for the first time from Kerala, India, and redescribed based on a single female specimen.

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A new Endoclita (C. &. R. Felder, 1874) from the High Mountains of Taiwan with notes about its evolutionary origins (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4521.3.9 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4521 (3) ◽

pp. 441

Author(s):

ULF BUCHSBAUM ◽

LI-PENG HSU ◽

DING-JIA CHEN ◽

JOHN R. GREHAN

Keyword(s):

Sister Group ◽

Sister Group Relationship ◽

Female Specimen ◽

High Mountains ◽

Single Female ◽

Southeastern China ◽

Evolutionary Origins ◽

First Time ◽

A New Species ◽

Northern Taiwan

A new species Endoclita atayala Buchsbaum & Hsu sp. n. is based on a single female specimen collected at light in the high mountains of northern Taiwan. Comparisons with all other Endoclita (C. & R. Felder, 1874) species confirms that E. atayala sp. n. exhibits distinctive and unique wing pattern characteristics and probably has a sister group relationship with E. crenilimbata (Le Cerf, 1919) of southeastern China and illustrated here for the first time, and E. nodus (Chu & Wang, 1985) of northeastern China. The species diversity of Taiwanese Hepialidae is described and the biogeographic implications of the E. atayala sp. n. relationship for the origin of endemic species in Taiwan are reviewed.

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Chernes similis (Beier, 1932) (Pseudoscorpiones, Chernetidae) new to the fauna of Lithuania

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10.15560/16.3.707 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 707-710

Author(s):

Katarína Krajčovičová ◽

Povilas Ivinskis ◽

Jolanta Rimšaité ◽

Jana Christophoryová

Keyword(s):

New Record ◽

Botanical Garden ◽

Baltic Region ◽

Single Male ◽

Male Specimen ◽

Vilnius University ◽

The Baltic ◽

First Time

The pseudoscorpion Chernes similis (Beier, 1932) is reported from the Baltic region for the first time. The new record from Lithuania is based on a single male specimen found in a mould growing in a hollow of a Tilia L. tree in the Botanical Garden of Vilnius University. This finding represents the northernmost record of C. similis. With the new record of C. similis, nine pseudoscorpion species, belonging to six genera and three families, are currently known from Lithuania.

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