scholarly journals New combinations, rank changes, and nomenclatural and taxonomic comments in the vascular flora of the southeastern United States. IV

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 461-480
Author(s):  
Alan S. Weakley ◽  
Bruce A. Sorrie ◽  
Richard J. LeBlond ◽  
Derick B. Poindexter ◽  
Aaron J. Floden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
Vascular Flora ◽  
The Family ◽  
Taxonomic Changes

As part of ongoing efforts to understand and document the flora of the southeastern United States, we propose a number of taxonomic changes and report a distributional record. In Rhynchospora (Cyperaceae), we elevate the well-marked R. glomerata var. angusta to species rank. In Dryopteris (Dryopteridaceae), we report a state distributional record for Mississippi for D. celsa, filling a range gap. In Oenothera (Onagraceae), we continue the reassessment of the Oenothera fruticosa complex and elevate O. fruticosa var. unguiculata to species rank. In Eragrostis (Poaceae), we address typification issues. In the Trilliaceae, Trillium undulatum is transferred to Trillidium, providing a better correlation of taxonomy with our current phylogenetic understanding of the family.

scholarly journals New combinations, rank changes, and nomenclatural and taxonomic comments in the vascular flora of the southeastern United States, III

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-67
Author(s):  
Alan S. Weakley ◽  
Derick B. Poindexter ◽  
Richard J. LeBlond ◽  
Bruce A. Sorrie ◽  
Edwin L. Bridges ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
Vascular Flora ◽  
Taxonomic Changes

As part of ongoing efforts to understand and document the flora of the southeastern United States, a number of taxonomic changes at generic, specific, and infraspecific rank are made. We also discuss and clarify the recommended taxonomy for other taxa (not requiring nomenclatural acts) and present a point of view about the practical and philosophic basis for making taxonomic changes in an allegedly well-understood flora. The genera (and families) affected are Endodeca (Aristolochiaceae), Erigeron, Pityopsis, and Solidago (Asteraceae), Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae), Carex (Cyperaceae), Baptisia and Indigofera (Fabaceae), Salvia and Scutellaria (Lamiaceae), Stenanthium (Melanthiaceae), Epidendrum (Orchidaceae), and Andropogon, Coleataenia, Dichanthelium, Digitaria, and Panicum (Poaceae).

scholarly journals Studies in the vascular flora of the southeastern United States: V

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-129
Author(s):  
Alan S. Weakley ◽  
R. Kevan Schoonover McClelland ◽  
Richard J. LeBlond ◽  
Keith A. Bradley ◽  
James F. Matthews ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
Vascular Flora ◽  
The North ◽  
Taxonomic Changes ◽  
Southern Florida ◽  
A New Species

As part of ongoing efforts to understand and document the flora of the southeastern United States, we propose a number of taxonomic changes. In Trichostema, we name a new species, narrowly endemic to maritime grasslands in the Carolinas and warranting formal conservation status and action. In Dichanthelium (Poaceae), we continue the reassessment of taxa formerly recognized in Panicum and provide new combinations along with a new key to taxa in the Dichanthelium scabriusculum complex. In Paspalum (Poaceae), we address the controversial taxonomy of P. arundinaceum and P. pleostachyum and treat the two as conspecific, with P. arundinaceum the correct name. In Portulaca (Portulacaceae), we report the discovery of the Bahamian P. minuta as a native component of the North American flora, occurring in southern Florida.

scholarly journals New combinations, rank changes, and nomenclatural and taxonomic comments in the vascular flora of the southeastern United States. II

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-325
Author(s):  
Alan S. Weakley ◽  
Derick B. Poindexter ◽  
Richard J. LeBlond ◽  
Bruce A. Sorrie ◽  
Cassandra H Karlsson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
Vascular Flora ◽  
Taxonomic Changes

As part of ongoing efforts to understand and document the flora of the southeastern United States, a number of taxonomic changes at generic, specific, and infraspecific rank are made. We also discuss and clarify the recommended taxonomy for other taxa (not requiring nomenclatural acts) and present a point of view about the practical and philosophic basis for making taxonomic changes in an allegedly well-understood flora. The genera (and families) affected are Allium (Alliaceae), Erigeron, Liatris, and Trilisa (Asteraceae), Calycanthus (Calycanthaceae), Gaylussacia (Ericaceae), Dalea and Mimosa (Fabaceae), Hydrophyllum (Hydrophyllaceae), Didymoglossum (Hymenophyllaceae), Monarda (Lamiaceae), Kosteletzkya and Sida (Malvaceae), Narthecium (Nartheciaceae), Agalinis, Melampyrum, and Orobanche/Aphyllon/Myzorrhiza (Orobanchaceae), Dichanthelium and Elymus (Poaceae), Clematis (Ranunculaceae), and Maianthemum (Ruscaceae).

scholarly journals Overview and revision of the extant genera and subgenera of Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea)

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner P. Strümpher ◽  
Martin H. Villet ◽  
Catherine L. Sole ◽  
Clarke H. Scholtz
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Phylogeny ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
Genus Level ◽  
Generic Rank ◽  
The Family ◽  
Taxonomic Changes

Extant genera and subgenera of the Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) are reviewed. Contemporary classifications of this family have been based exclusively on morphological characters. The first molecular phylogeny for the family recently provided strong support for the relationships between morphologically defined genera and subgenera. On the basis of morphological, molecular and biogeographical evidence, certain taxonomic changes to the genus-level classification of the family are now proposed. The family is confirmed as consisting of two subfamilies, Omorginae Nikolajev and Troginae MacLeay, the former with two genera,OmorgusErichson andPolynoncusBurmeister, and the latter with two genera,TroxFabricius andPhoberusMacLeaystat. rev.Phoberusis restored to generic rank to include all Afrotropical (including Madagascan endemic) species;Afromorgusis confirmed at subgeneric rank within the genusOmorgus; and the monotypic Madagascan genusMadagatroxsyn. n.is synonymised withPhoberus.The current synonymies ofPseudotroxRobinson (withTrox),ChesasBurmeister,LagopelusBurmeister andMegalotroxPreudhomme de Borre (all withOmorgus) are all accepted to avoid creating speculative synonyms before definitive phylogenetic evidence is available. New combinations resulting from restoringPhoberusto a monophyletic genus are listed in Appendix A.

Muskogean Languages

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack B. Martin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Word Order ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Verbal Aspect ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family

The Muskogean languages are a family of languages indigenous to the southeastern United States. Members of the family include Chickasaw, Choctaw, Alabama, Koasati, Apalachee, Hitchiti-Mikasuki, and Muskogee (Creek). The trade language Mobilian Jargon is based on Muskogean vocabulary and grammar. The Muskogean languages all have SOV word order. Noun phrases are marked for subject or non-subject case. Alienable and inalienable possession is marked on possessed nouns. Agreement on verbs for subjects and objects is sensitive to agency. The languages have grammatical tone (used to indicate verbal aspect) and switch reference. Several of the languages have measured tense systems (indicating several degrees of distance in the past).

Phylogenetics and comparative morphology of crab spiders (Araneae: Dionycha, Thomisidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3080 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
SURESH P. BENJAMIN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Color Change ◽  
Comparative Morphology ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
Change Behavior ◽  
The Family ◽  
Taxonomic Changes ◽  
Crab Spiders ◽  
Plesiomorphic Character

The higher-level phylogenetic relationships of crab spiders (Thomisidae) are studied from morphological data. 33 taxa are coded for 74 characters (53 binary and 21 multistate). Several analyses using equal, successive and implied weights were carried out. The most parsimonious tree obtained by analysis with successive and implied weights is put forward as the preferred hypothesis of thomisid relationships (length 222 steps, CI 0.74, RI 0.83). Thomisidae emerge monophyletic in all analyses, supported by four unambiguous synapomorphies. It is now apparent that thomisid taxa have been mostly defined on the basis of plesiomorphic character states. A number of taxonomic changes, including the description of new taxa are proposed and the evolution of diverse behaviors of thomisids is studied in light of the new phylogenetic result. Color change behavior evolved once within the family, but eye arrangement patterns of the median ocular quadrangle, thought to be diagnostic for many genera, evolved as much as 10 times independently. The following new species are described: Borboropactus nyerere sp. nov., Cebrenninus srivijaya sp. nov., Geraesta lehtineni sp. nov. and Geraesta mkwawa sp. nov. The following new generic synonymies are proposed: Bucranium O. P.-Cambridge, 1881 = Aphantochilus O. P.-Cambridge, 1870; Sanmenia Song and Kim, 1992 = Pharta Thorell, 1891 and Cupa Strand, 1906 = Epidius Thorell, 1877. The following species are synonymized: Regillus divergens Hogg, 1914 and Borboropactus hainanus Song, 1993 = Borboropactus bituberculatus Simon, 1884 syn. nov., Epidius ganxiensis (Yin, Peng & Kim, 1999) = Epidius rubropictus Simon, 1909 syn. nov., Geraesta bilobata Simon, 1897 = Geraesta hirta Simon, 1889 syn. nov., Sanmenia kohi Ono, 1995 = Pharta bimaculata Thorell, 1891 syn. nov. and Sanmenia zhengi (Ono & Song, 1986) = Pharta brevipalpus (Simon, 1903) syn. nov. The following new combinations are proposed: Aphantochilus taurifrons (O. P.-Cambridge, 1881) comb. nov., Epidius typicus (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) comb. nov., Pharta brevipalpus (Simon, 1903) comb. nov., Pharta gongshan (Yang, Zhu and Song, 2006) comb. nov., Pharta nigra (Tang, Griswold & Peng, 2009) comb. nov. and Pharta tengchong (Tang, Griswold & Yin, 2009) comb. nov.

scholarly journals [IN1167--Minor] Rice Water Weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Distribution and Management in Florida

EDIS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew T. VanWeelden ◽  
Ron H. Cherry ◽  
Mike Karounos
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Oryza Sativa L ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Damage ◽  
External Influence ◽  
Lissorhoptrus Oryzophilus ◽  
Rice Water Weevil ◽  
The Family ◽  
Rice Water

The rice water weevil, Lissorhoptrus oryzophilus Kuschel, is the most widely distributed and destructive pest of rice, Oryza sativa L., in the United States (Way 1990). The following report provides a description of the rice water weevil, its distribution in the state of Florida, methodology for scouting, and options for managing this pest in commercial rice fields. The rice water weevil belongs to the family Curculionidae and feeds on a wide variety of plants belonging to the families Poaceae and Cyperaceae (Tindall and Stout 2003, Lupi et al. 2009). The rice water weevil is native to the southeastern United States and has been reported from all rice producing states in the United States (Whitehouse et al. 2019). Registered seed and foliar treatments can be applied as preventative control for anticipated economic damage by future weevil populations. Application of this permanent flood is the most important external influence on the interaction between the rice water weevil and rice (Stout et al. 2002).

scholarly journals Muskogean Languages

Linguistics ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Martin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
The Family

The Muskogean languages are a family of languages native to the southeastern United States. The members of the family include Choctaw, Chickasaw, Alabama, Koasati, Apalachee, Hitchiti-Mikasuki and Muskogee (Creek). Choctaw and Chickasaw are quite close: the term Western Muskogean is sometimes used to cover both varieties. Alabama and Koasati are much more different from each other but similar in vocabulary and grammar. Hitchiti and Mikasuki are different names for the same language, referred to here as Hitchiti-Mikasuki. Muskogee is in some ways the most divergent language within the family and includes varieties of the language spoken by Seminoles in Oklahoma and Florida. In addition to these seven languages, a trade language known as Mobilian Jargon was used in the vicinity of Louisiana.

Undocumented beetle diversity in the Southeastern United States: a case study of the minute clubbed beetles (Coleoptera: Monotomidae) 

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4472 (1) ◽  
pp. 127 ◽  
Author(s):  
THOMAS C. MCELRATH ◽  
JOSEPH V. MCHUGH
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Leaf Litter ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Southeastern Usa ◽  
Plant Matter ◽  
The Family

Studies of the saproxylic and predatory beetle family Monotomidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) in the southeastern USA increased the known diversity for the family in the state of Georgia by one genus and nine species. Online records of Monotomidae from Georgia increased from 0 to 885. This work highlights the lack of basic diversity information about small beetles that inhabit wood, leaf litter, and other decaying plant matter in this region. 

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