scholarly journals Colletes jankowskyi (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) newly recorded from Japan, with some biological notes and DNA barcodes

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Ryuki Murao ◽  
Shuichi Ikudome ◽  
Osamu Tadauchi

Colletes jankowskyi Radoszkowski is recorded from Japan for the first time.  It is similar to C. babai Hirashima & Tadauchi and C. floralis Eversmann of the Japanese congeners, but is separated from these allied species by the combination of following characters: malar space short, less than one-half of basal width of mandible; mesoscutum with whitish hairs mixed with darker ones; first metasomal tergum with dense punctures; and hair zone on disc of seventh metasomal sternum narrow in central area.  DNA barcodes are also useful for discrimination among these three species.  The habitat of Japanese C. jankowskyi may be limited to semi-natural grassland.  Adults appeared from mid-August to mid-September.  The number of individuals is richest from late August to early September, although the species had been collected earlier in the season on the Asian mainland.  Most specimens were collected on flowers of Lespedeza cyrtobotrya Miq. (Fabaceae).  In Japan, C. jankowskyi is suggested as a relict species judging from the distribution and habitat information.

2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (12) ◽  
pp. 1530-1542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves Plusquellec ◽  
Sylvain Desbiens ◽  
Rémy Gourvennec

Procteria (Pachyprocteria) vermifera n. sp. is described from the upper part of the York River Formation (Gaspé Sandstones Group), lower Eifelian (brachiopod Amphigenia Zone), Rimouski County (Quebec, Canada). This new species is considered part of a new lineage of Pachyprocteria characterized by the presence of interstitial corallites. This study reveals for the first time that the granules on the lower (proximal) side are distributed irregularly, their density being higher in the central area of this side than at the periphery. The unusual association of the tabulate coral Procteria (Pachyprocteria) with the “worm” Hicetes is pointed out. The record of the new species adds to the known paleogeographic distribution of Pachyprocteria in North America (Laurussia).


Acarologia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 602-613
Author(s):  
Lucia Montes-Ortiz ◽  
Tom Goldschmidt ◽  
Lourdes Vásquez-Yeomans ◽  
Manuel Elías-Gutiérrez

A new planktonic species of the marine water mites of the family Pontarachnidae Koenike, 1910 is described from Corozal Bay, an estuarine system in Belize. The morphological description includes Scanning Electronic Microscope (SEM) images and is augmented by an analysis of DNA cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) sequences, the DNA barcode, used for the first time for a species description in this group.


Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4585 (3) ◽  
pp. 547
Author(s):  
VALENTINA A. TESLENKO ◽  
DMITRY M. PALATOV ◽  
ALEXANDER A. SEMENCHENKO

Leuctra adjariae sp. n. and Leuctra georgiae sp. n. (Plecoptera: Leuctridae) are described as two new apterous stonefly species from the Meskheti Range (Lesser Caucasus) in southwestern Georgia. Descriptions and illustrations are provided for both sexes and diagnostic characters are discussed. Males and females of the two species are associated by DNA barcodes. Comparisons with corresponding regions of COI between L. adjariae sp. n. and L. georgiae sp. n. produced K2P genetic distances of 8.38%, values well associated with interspecific variation. The well-supported monophyly as well as results of an ABGD analysis confirms the validity of both new species. Capnioneura gouanerae Vinçon & Sivec, 2011, previously described and known only from Turkey, is reported for the first time for the Caucasus. 


2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (9) ◽  
pp. 1589-1610
Author(s):  
Andrzej Zawal ◽  
Izabela Szućko ◽  
Magdalena Szenejko ◽  
Lidia Skuza ◽  
Aleksandra Bańkowska ◽  
...  

New records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the standing waters of Sri Lanka are presented. Fifteen species have been registrated, among them four species, i.e. Piona srilankana (Pionidae), Neumania edytae (Unionicolidae), Krendowskia (Krendowskiella) srilankana (Krendowskiidae), and Mideopsis ewelinae (Mideopsidae) are described as new to science. DNA was extracted from 18 water mite specimens and DNA barcodes are given for the first time for nine species.


2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (11) ◽  
pp. 2167-2183
Author(s):  
Yeong-deok Han ◽  
Sergey V. Mironov ◽  
Gi-sik Min

Two new species of feather mites from the superfamily Analgoidea are described from the grey-headed woodpecker, Picus canus, in Korea: Neopteronyssus koreanus sp. nov. (Pteronyssidae) and Proterothrix picinus sp. nov. (Proctophyllodidae: Pterodectinae). Feather mites of the genera Neopteronyssus Mironov, 2002 and Proterothrix Gaud, 1968 are described for the first time in Korea. Morphological descriptions of both new species are complemented with partial sequences of their mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene as DNA barcodes.


2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-238
Author(s):  
Xhavit Mala ◽  
Qenan Maxhuni

This paper reports Sternbergia colchiciflora Waldst. et Kit. as a new genus and species for the flora of Kosovo. Almost 30 adult individuals of this species were recorded for the first time in southwestern Kosovo during 2015, within the Canyon of the White Drin at Fshajt Bridge. Considering the low number of individuals and very limited distribution, this species should be treated as a critically endangered taxon in Kosovo.


Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4674 (4) ◽  
pp. 426-438
Author(s):  
CHENGLONG CAO ◽  
SIYAO HUANG ◽  
YONGQIANG XU ◽  
HAOMIN WU ◽  
TIANPENG CHEN ◽  
...  

The specimens of the family Hesperiidae collected from Tibet during 2016–2018 are identified using morphology. COI sequences of 76 individuals are newly obtained. The result of our morphological study is congruent with COI gene analyses. Maximum likehood (ML) and Bayesina inferences (BI) analyses reveal that individuals identified morphologically as the same species cluster cohesively. The minimum interspecific genetic distance is 1.7% between Halpe aucma and H. filda, and the genetic distance between conspecific individuals ranged from 0 to 0.2% for the genus Halpe. A total of 51 species are recognized, and six of them, Celaenorrhinus consanguineus Leech, 1891, Barca bicolor (Oberthür, 1896), Aeromachus propinquus Alphéraky, 1897, Pedesta bivitta (Oberthür, 1886), Baoris penicillata chapmani Evans, 1937, and Ochlodes brahma Moore, 1878, are reported from Tibet for the first time, and the last species is new to China. 


Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4238 (1) ◽  
pp. 109 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHUNCAI YAN ◽  
CHAO SONG ◽  
TING LIU ◽  
GUANGJUN ZHAO ◽  
ZIYUAN HOU ◽  
...  

Polypedilum (Tripodura) enshiense Song & Wang sp. n. and P. (Tripodura) jianfengense Song & Wang sp. n. are described and illustrated as male imagines from China. P. (Uresipedilum) paraconvictum Yamamoto, Yamamoto & Hirowatari, 2016 is recorded from China for the first time. Cytochrome coxidase subunit I (COI) sequence of above species are uploaded to Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD). 


Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1337 (1) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIMON VAN NOORT ◽  
YAN-QIONG PENG ◽  
JEAN-Y RASPLUS

Diaziella bizarrea van Noort & Rasplus sp. nov. is described from specimens reared from Ficus glaberrima and Diaziella yangi van Noort & Rasplus sp. nov. is described from specimens reared from Ficus curtipes in Xishuangbanna, China. Together with a new record of Diaziella macroptera Grandi from Thailand this is the first time the genus has been recorded from the Asian mainland. Previously the twelve described species of Diaziella were known from the islands of Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi and the Philippines. Images are provided for both sexes of the two new species and for the female of D. macroptera. A key is included to all described species of Diaziella. An online key is available at: http://www.figweb.org/Fig_wasps/Pteromalidae/Sycoecinae/Key/ Diaziella.htm. Host relationships and biology are discussed.


Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4890 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-265
Author(s):  
QI LEI ◽  
JINXIAN CHEN ◽  
CHAO SONG ◽  
XIN QI ◽  
RUILEI ZHANG

The larva and female of Polypedilum (Probolum) bullum Zhang & Wang associated with morphological characteristics and DNA barcodes are described and illustrated for the first time. The female is characteristic with developed dorsomesal lobe and ventrolateral lobe both densely covered with apical setae, ventrolateral lobe partially covered by dorsomesal lobe. The larva is distinguished by the shape of mentum, pecten epipharyngis, labral SI and labral SII. 


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