scholarly journals New species and records of Afrotropical Campopleginae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 105-114
Author(s):  
Zoltán Vas ◽  
Filippo Di Giovanni
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Central African Republic ◽  
Wasp Species

Two new Afrotropical ichneumon wasp species are described: Casinaria latericia Vas, sp. n. from Uganda, and Venturia mortifera Vas, sp. n. from Burundi. First records of Charops ater Szépligeti, 1908 from Burundi, Charops electrinus Vas, 2020 from Central African Republic, and Charops juliannae Vas, 2020 from Uganda are reported. With 2 figures.

scholarly journals A cryptic new species of Chlidonoptera Karsch, 1892 from the south west protected zone of the Central African Republic (Insecta, Mantodea, Hymenopodidae)

ZooKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 917 ◽  
pp. 63-83
Author(s):  
Nicolas Moulin
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Barcoding ◽  
National Park ◽  
Central African Republic ◽  
Measurement Data ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Tropical Regions ◽  
History Information ◽  
A New Species

Between 1998 and 2012, several scientific expeditions in Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve and Dzanga-Ndoki National Park led to the collection of many Mantodea specimens from Central African Republic (CAR). Among these specimens, several males of an undescribed species were discovered. Morphologically, this species most closely resembles to Chlidonoptera vexillum Karsch, 1892 and Chlidonoptera lestoni Roy, 1975. A new lineage was revealed by DNA barcoding. Therefore, a new species is described, Chlidonoptera roxanaesp. nov. Habitus images, genitalia illustrations and descriptions, measurement data, a key to species, natural history information, and locality data are provided. These results add to the evidence that cryptic species can be found in tropical regions, a critical issue in efforts to document global species richness. They also illustrate the value of DNA barcoding, especially when coupled with traditional taxonomic tools, in disclosing hidden diversity.

Revision of the Amphibolips species of the ‘nassa’ complex from Mexico and central America (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4877 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-50
Author(s):  
VÍCTOR CUESTA-PORTA ◽  
ARMANDO EQUIHUA-MARTÍNEZ ◽  
EDITH G. ESTRADA-VENEGAS ◽  
DAVID CIBRIÁN-TOVAR ◽  
URIEL M. BARRERA-RUÍZ ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
Central America ◽  
Distribution Data ◽  
Gall Wasp ◽  
Wasp Species ◽  
Complex Species ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
New Synonym ◽  
New Distribution

The cynipid gall wasp species of Amphibolips (Cynipidae: Cynipini) belonging to the “nassa” complex are reviewed for Mexico and Central America. Five new species are described: A. bassae Cuesta-Porta & Pujade-Villar n. sp., A. bromus Pujade-Villar & Cuesta-Porta n. sp., A. kinseyi Cuesta-Porta & Pujade-Villar n. sp., A. rulli Pujade-Villar & Cuesta-Porta n. sp., and A. turulli Pujade-Villar & Cuesta-Porta n. sp. Amphibolips quercuspomiformis (Bassett) comb. nov. is redescribed and Amphibolips malinche Nieves-Aldrey & Maldonado is proposed as a new synonym of A. hidalgoensis Pujade-Villar & Melika. The validity of A. dampfi is discussed. Diagnostic characters, distribution, host-plant relationships, and biology are provided. Also new diagnostic characters and new distribution data for earlier described species are given. Keys to adults and galls for all known “nassa” complex species from Mexico and Central America are presented. 

First record of the genus Kimulodes Tjeder & Hansson in West Africa with description of a new species (Neuroptera, Ascalaphidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3497 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
BRUNO MICHEL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
West Africa ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Central African Republic ◽  
First Record ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
African Species ◽  
A New Species

The genus Kimulodes was described by Tjeder and Hansson (1992) to accommodate two species, Kimulodes sinuatus originally described as Helicomitus sinuatus by Kimmins (1949) and a new species they named K. angulicornis. Within the tribe Ascalaphini, this genus is characterized by the hairless genae, the absence of a tuft of hairs at the base of the forewing in males, in contrast to the African species of Ascalaphus, and the antennae of males being sinuate or sharply arched with stout tufts of hairs on the basal flagellomeres. The genus Kimulodes was known from Central and East Africa, but remained unrecorded from West Africa. The material collected by a colleague, Jean-Michel Maldès (CIRAD), during a prospecting mission in Togo in 1990 included a male of an undescribed species of Kimulodes, which is described below. Furthermore, examination of the collection of the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, yielded a male and a female of K. angulicornis from an unrecorded locality in the Central African Republic.

A new species of Hexacola Foerster (Hymenoptera: Figitidae), parasitoid of Lemnaphila neotropica Lizarralde de Grosso (Diptera: Ephydridae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2622 (1) ◽  
pp. 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANA L. GADDI ◽  
NORMA B. DÍAZ ◽  
FABIANA E. GALLARDO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Parasitoid Wasp ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
Wasp Species ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
La Plata ◽  
Shore Fly ◽  
A New Species

A new parasitoid wasp species, the eucoiline Hexacola lemnaphilae Gaddi & Díaz, is described. Specimens were reared from pupae of Lemnaphila neotropica Lizarralde de Grosso (Diptera: Ephydridae), a shore fly that mines least duckweed, Lemna minuta Kunth (Lemnaceae); the material examined was collected in Berisso (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and is housed in the collection of the División Entomología of the Museo de La Plata, Argentina. Photographs of diagnostic characters and data about the ecological and economic importance of these organisms are included.

THREE NEW SPECIES OF CHASSALIA AND PSYCHOTRIA (RUBIACEAE) FROM CENTRAL AFRICA

2010 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Lachenaud ◽  
D. J. Harris
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Central African Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Corolla Tube ◽  
Herbarium Specimens ◽  
African Species ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
Three New Species

Three new species of Rubiaceae from Central Africa are described and illustrated. Chassalia lutescens O.Lachenaud & D.J.Harris (widespread from Cameroon to Democratic Republic of Congo) is recognised inter alia by the T-shaped ventral furrow of the seeds and the orange-yellow discoloration of inflorescences in herbarium specimens. Psychotria nodiflora O.Lachenaud & D.J.Harris (Central African Republic, Congo-Brazzaville and Democratic Republic of Congo), belonging to Psychotria subgen. Psychotria sect. Involucratae, is unique among African species of the genus in having paired axillary inflorescences. Psychotria pteropus O.Lachenaud & D.J.Harris (Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo) belongs to Psychotria subgen. Tetramerae; it is closely related to P. leptophylla Hiern but differs in its narrow corolla tube and globose to ellipsoid fruits.

scholarly journals The tropical African genus Morgenia (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Phaneropterinae) with emphasis on the spur at the mid tibia

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-175
Author(s):  
Bruno Massa ◽  
Klaus-Gerhard Heller ◽  
Elżbieta Warchałowska-Śliwa ◽  
Nicolas Moulin
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Chromosome Number ◽  
National Park ◽  
Central African Republic ◽  
Chromosome Evolution ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Ancestral Chromosome ◽  
African Genus

The authors revised the genus Morgenia Karsch, 1890 which now consists of eight species, of which three are here newly described (Morgeniaplurimaculata Massa & Moulin, sp. n., M.angustipinnata Massa, sp. n., and M.lehmannorum Heller & Massa, sp. n.). Six of the eight species occur in the Tri National Sangha (TNS) comprising Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve and Dzanga Ndoki National Park (Central African Republic), whose high biodiversity has been recently highlighted. In particular the genus is characterised by the presence of a more or less long spur at the inner mid tibia, different in each species; in M.modulata, it moved lower down into a new position at about ¼ of tibia, which has a hollow underneath where the rest of the spur remains hidden. This is a unique known case in Phaneropterinae. Morphological characters distinguishing males of different species are presented. Bioacoustics of the new species M.lehmannorum are described. The patterns of the chromosome evolution in M.lehmannorum differ from other investigated African Phaneropterinae in terms of chromosome number and morphology, reduced ancestral chromosome number (2n = 25) implying a more derived condition.

scholarly journals First contribution to the doryctine fauna (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Doryctinae) of Farasan Archipelago, Saudi Arabia, with new records and the description of a new species

ZooKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 977 ◽  
pp. 41-74
Author(s):  
Yusuf A. Edmardash ◽  
Usama M. Abu El-Ghiet ◽  
Ahmed M. Soliman ◽  
Zarrag I. A. Al-Fifi ◽  
Neveen S. Gadallah
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
New Species ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
New Records ◽  
Wasp Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

The doryctine wasp species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of Farasan Archipelago (Saudi Arabia) are studied here for the first time. Six species are reported, of which Mimodoryctes arabicus Edmardash, Gadallah & Soliman is described and illustrated as a new species. Neoheterospilus sp. is most probably a new species but further collecting should be done to obtain the female. Four species are new records for Saudi Arabia as well as for the whole Arabian Peninsula: Dendrosotinus ferrugineus (Marshall, 1888), Hecabalodes anthaxiae Wilkinson, 1929, Mimodoryctes proprius Belokobylskij, 2001, and Rhaconotus (Rhaconotus) carinatus Polaszek, 1994. The newly recorded species are re-described and illustrated.

Two new species of Zatypota (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae) sharing the same host spider in Northeast Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4609 (1) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
JOBER FERNANDO SOBCZAK ◽  
DIEGO GALVÃO DE PÁDUA ◽  
GERMAN ANTONIO VILLANUEVA- BONILLA ◽  
FRANCISCO AGEU DE SOUSA NÓBREGA ◽  
YURI FANCHINI MESSAS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Host Range ◽  
Development Time ◽  
Larval Instar ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Parasitoid Wasps ◽  
Northeast Brazil ◽  
Wasp Species ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Species Specific

 Some polysphinctine wasps of the genus Zatypota complete their life cycles upon theridiid host spiders. The host range of these wasps is usually species-specific, although in some less common associations more than one wasp species interacts with the same host spider. Here we describe and illustrate the polysphinctine wasps Zatypota baezae sp. n. and Zatypota mulunguensis sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), both koinobiont ectoparasitoids of the spider Anelosimus baeza (Theridiidae). The two parasitoid wasps show the same development time (12 days) which was longer when compared with other parasitoid wasps Z. anomala Holmgren and Z. riverai Gauld (nine days). As described for other species of Zatypota and Hymenoepimecis, the second larval instar remains attached to the spider by the remains of the chorion and also by a rigid brownish-semitransparent membrane called a saddle. 

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