scholarly journals Winklerites serbicus, a new endogean species of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini) from southeastern Serbia

2013 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 773-780
Author(s):  
S. Curcic ◽  
D. Antic ◽  
T. Radja ◽  
S. Makarov ◽  
B. Curcic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Ground Beetle ◽  
Ground Beetles ◽  
Beetle Species ◽  
Southeastern Part ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Genital ◽  
Southeastern Serbia

A new endogean bembidiine ground beetle species, Winklerites serbicus sp. n., from a cave in the southeastern part of Serbia is both described and diagnosed. Male and female genital structures and other taxonomically important characters are illustrated. The new species is clearly distinct from its closest congeners. Fifteen species of the genus so far known are arranged in six groups. The new species is both endemic and relict, inhabiting southeastern Serbia only.

scholarly journals DUVALIUS BOZIDARI, A NEW CAVE-DWELLING SPECIES OF TRECHINE GROUND BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: CARABIDAE: TRECHINAE) FROM WESTERN SERBIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 573-579
Author(s):  
Srećko Ćurčić ◽  
Dragan Pavićević ◽  
Nikola Vesović ◽  
Matija Petković
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Ground Beetle ◽  
Ground Beetles ◽  
Female Genitalia ◽  
Limited Area ◽  
Beetle Species ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The City

A new trechine ground beetle species, Duvalius (Neoduvalius) bozidari sp. n. (from two underground objects in the surroundings of the city of Valjevo, western Serbia), is described and diagnosed in the current study. The male and female genitalia and other taxonomically important morphological structures are presented. The new species is clearly different from the closest relatives and is endemic to caves in a limited area in western Serbia.

scholarly journals Duvalius (Paraduvalius) petrovici sp.n. and D.(P.) sotirovi sp.n. (Carabidae: Trechinae: Trechini): Two new troglobitic ground beetles from eastern and southeastern Serbia

2014 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 889-900 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Curcic ◽  
Maja Vrbica ◽  
D. Antic ◽  
B. Curcic ◽  
N. Vesovic
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Ground Beetle ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Ground Beetles ◽  
Beetle Species ◽  
Southeastern Serbia

The following two new troglobitic trechine ground beetle species are described from two caves in eastern and southeastern Serbia: Duvalius (Paraduvalius) petrovici sp. n., from the Resavska Pecina Cave, village of Jelovac, near Despotovac, Kucajske Planine Mts., and D. (P.) sotirovi sp. n., from the Ogorelicka Pecina Cave, village of Sicevo, near Nis, Svrljiske Planine Mts. The new species considerably differ from the related taxa. All important morphological characteristics of the species, along with the diagnoses and images of the taxa are presented. These represent relicts and endemics of eastern and southeastern parts of Serbia and are of great age (probably Tertiary or even before).

scholarly journals Three new cave-dwelling trechine ground beetles from eastern and southeastern Serbia (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae)

2014 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 415-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.B. Curcic ◽  
Maja Vrbica ◽  
D.Z. Antic ◽  
Dj. Markovic ◽  
M. Petkovic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
Ground Beetle ◽  
Ground Beetles ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
Beetle Species ◽  
Cave System ◽  
Southeastern Serbia

Three new troglobitic trechine ground beetle species are described from three caves in eastern and southeastern Serbia: Duvalius (Paraduvalius) bogovinae sp. n., from the Bogovinska Pecina Cave, village of Bogovina, Kucajske Planine Mts., near Boljevac, eastern Serbia; D. (P.) milutini sp. n., from the Samar cave system, village of Kopajkosara, Mt. Kalafat, near Svrljig, southeastern Serbia, and D. (P.) beljanicae sp. n., from the Velika Atula Cave, village of Strmosten, Mt. Beljanica, near Despotovac, eastern Serbia. The new species are easily distinguished from relatives. All important morphological features, along with the diagnoses and illustrations of the new taxa are presented. The new species are relicts and endemics of eastern and southeastern Serbia. They probably belong to old phyletic lineages of Tertiary or even pre-Tertiary origin.

Two new high-altitude species of the genus Omphreus Dejean (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalinae) from Serbia

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1926 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
SREĆKO B. ĆURČIĆ ◽  
WOLFGANG WAITZBAUER ◽  
PAMELA ZOLDA ◽  
NASTAS ILIĆ ◽  
BOŽIDAR P. M. ĆURČIĆ
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
High Altitude ◽  
Ground Beetle ◽  
Female Genitalia ◽  
Beetle Species ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Two New Species

Two new ground beetle species from western Serbia are described, Omphreus (Omphreus) ovcarensis sp. n. (from Mt. Ovčar) and Omphreus (Omphreus) serbooccidentalis sp. n. (from Bukovi Peak, Mt. Maljen). Male and female genitalia and other taxonomically important characters are illustrated. The two new species are clearly distinct from their closest congeners. They have a restricted and probably relict distribution, endemic to the Dinaric Alps in Serbia. A key to five species and two subspecies of the genus Omphreus Dejean from Serbia is presented.

A new species of Orthomus Chaudoir, 1838 (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from Madeira island (Macaronesia) and notes on related species

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 1972 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARTUR R. M. SERRANO ◽  
CARLOS A. S. AGUIAR ◽  
MÁRIO C. BOIEIRO ◽  
PAULO A. V. BORGES ◽  
CARLA REGO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Ground Beetle ◽  
Pitfall Traps ◽  
Beetle Species ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Madeira Island ◽  
Island Type ◽  
A New Species

The present study describes a new ground-beetle species (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from Madeira island (type localities: FANAL and RIBEIRO BONITO), Orthomus (Nesorthomus) susanae Serrano & Borges, n. sp. Adults were sampled by means of pitfall traps. This work provides diagnostic characters, in particular the structure of male genitalia, and the distribution of this new species. Affinities to putative relatives and a key for the identification of males of the eight Orthomus (Nesorthomus) species of the Madeira island are also given.

A new species of Lovenula Schmeil (Copepoda, Calanoida, Diaptomidae) from the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa

Crustaceana ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 324-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Suárez-Morales ◽  
R. J. Wasserman ◽  
T. Dalu
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Eastern Cape Province ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Ephemeral Habitat ◽  
The Right ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Female Genital

Recent collections from the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa yielded an undescribed species of the freshwater diaptomid copepod genus Lovenula. It is probably the largest paradiaptomine known and closely resembles L. falcifera (Lovén, 1845). This species, L. raynerae n. sp., differs in several characters, including the shape of the female genital operculum, but particularly in details of the male and female leg 5: on the female the size of the endopod, a distinctive protuberance on the first exopodal segment; on male leg 5, the features of the seta adjacent to the claw of the right leg, a subdistal endopodal spine of the same ramus and details of the claw, with a middle gap on the inner margin. As with L. falcifera, the new species was collected from an ephemeral habitat. A record of L. falcifera from Ethiopia probably represents an undescribed species. A key to the species of the genus is provided.

Synonymy of Orthomus susanae Serrano & Borges, 2009 with Orthomus annae (Donabauer, 2008) (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3219 (1) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARTUR R.M. SERRANO ◽  
CARLOS A.S. AGUIAR ◽  
MÁRIO BOIEIRO ◽  
PAULO A.V. BORGES ◽  
CARLA REGO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Ground Beetle ◽  
Predictive Distribution ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Forest Fragments ◽  
Beetle Species ◽  
Distribution Models ◽  
Laurel Forest ◽  
Xixth Century ◽  
Terrestrial Biodiversity

Knowledge of the biodiversity of Madeiran islands has for long attracted entomologists in search of new, rare or biologically interesting beetle species. During the XIXth century, Trevor Wollaston extensively sampled the Madeiran islands, compiling a list of almost 700 beetle species, many of them new to science and described by him (e.g., Wollaston 1854, 1865). Thus, for many decades it was thought that the inventory of Madeiran beetle diversity was complete (Machado 2006, but see Lobo & Borges 2010). However, particularly in recent decades, a number of beetle species (most of them of small size and from groups taxonomically more difficult) have been described (see a complete list in Borges et al. 2008b) and important taxonomic revisions have also been made incorporating critical analysis by taxonomic experts. For these reasons, it was as a surprise to find a medium-size and yet undescribed ground beetle species following an extensive survey of epigean arthropods occurring in Madeiran laurel forest fragments. The new species was described in a generic revision of Madeiran Orthomus Chaudoir, 1838 submitted to Zootaxa (Serrano et al. 2009) and the species was included in the comprehensive list of Madeiran terrestrial biodiversity (Borges et al. 2008a), a reference publication on Madeiran fauna and flora published in May 2008. This book also presented a chapter where the distribution of the new species was modelled using predictive distribution models (Jiménez-Valverde et al. 2008).

Perlesta placida (Hagen), an eastern nearctic species complex (Plecoptera: Perlidae)

1989 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill P. Stark
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Egg Morphology ◽  
Variable Species ◽  
Female Genital

AbstractPerlesta placida (Hagen), long regarded as a widespread variable species, is a complex of at least 12 species which differ in pigmentation, egg morphology and male and female genital structures. Species removed from the synonymy of P. placida (= Chloroperla virginica Banks, 1898; = P. virginica immaculata Klapálek, 1921) include P. cinctipes (Banks, 1905), P. decipiens (Walsh, 1862) (= Perla brunnipennis Walsh, 1862, syn. n.; = Isoperla texana Banks, 1914, syn. n.; = P. costalis Klapálek, 1921, syn. n.) and P. nitida Banks, 1948. New species described include P. adena, P. baumanni, P. bolukta, P. browni, P. lagoi, P. nelsoni and P. shubuta. Lectotypes are designated for most older species, including P. frisoni Banks, 1948, which is also valid, and all are redescribed from types.

scholarly journals A new cave-dwelling species of the genus Parapropus ganglbauer (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Leptodirini) from Bosnia and Herzegovina

2012 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 1229-1233
Author(s):  
S. Curcic ◽  
V. Pesic ◽  
B.P.M. Curcic ◽  
Nina Curcic ◽  
T. Radja
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
Female Genitalia ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Beetle Species ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Alpine Orogeny ◽  
The Republic

A new leptodirine leiodid beetle species, Parapropus vitorogensis sp. n., from a cave in the western part of the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, is described and diagnosed. Both male and female genitalia and other taxonomically important characters are illustrated. The new species is clearly distinct from its closest congeners. The new taxon is of Tertiary or even pre-Tertiary age and originated during the Alpine Orogeny that affected vast areas of the Balkan Peninsula, including the Dinarides, its terra typica. The new species is both endemic and relict, inhabiting western Bosnia and Herzegovina only.

scholarly journals Landscape patterns of species-level association between ground-beetles and overstory trees in boreal forests of western Canada (Coleoptera, Carabidae)

ZooKeys ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 147 ◽  
pp. 577-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Bergeron ◽  
John Spence ◽  
Jan Volney
Keyword(s):  
Tree Species ◽  
Rank Order ◽  
Ground Beetle ◽  
Basal Area ◽  
Ground Beetles ◽  
Landscape Patterns ◽  
Systematic Sampling ◽  
Beetle Species ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Biodiversity Surrogates

Spatial associations between species of trees and ground-beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) involve many indirect ecological processes, likely reflecting the function of numerous forest ecosystem components. Describing and quantifying these associations at the landscape scale is basic to the development of a surrogate-based framework for biodiversity monitoring and conservation. In this study, we used a systematic sampling grid covering 84 km2 of boreal mixedwood forest to characterize the ground-beetle assemblage associated with each tree species occurring on this landscape. Projecting the distribution of relative basal area of each tree species on the beetle ordination diagram suggests that the carabid community is structured by the same environmental factors that affects the distribution of trees, or perhaps even by trees per se. Interestingly beetle species are associated with tree species of the same rank order of abundance on this landscape, suggesting that conservation of less abundant trees will concomitantly foster conservation of less abundant beetle species. Landscape patterns of association described here are based on characteristics that can be directly linked to provincial forest inventories, providing a basis that is already available for use of tree species as biodiversity surrogates in boreal forest land management.

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