A New Species of Plethodontid Salamander from the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico

A new phycitine species, Passadenoides montanus, is described from specimens collected in Albany Co., Wyoming and Grant Co., New Mexico. The adults and male and female genitalia are illustrated.

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A colorful new species of the digger wasp genus Pseudoplisus Ashmead from the Southwestern United States (Hymenoptera: Apoidea, Crabronidae)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.2009.1.2 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 2009 (1) ◽

pp. 27-34

Author(s):

MICHAEL OHL

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New Species ◽

New Mexico ◽

Geographic Distribution ◽

Color Pattern ◽

Single Specimen ◽

Southwestern United States ◽

Digger Wasp ◽

A New Species

A new species of apoid wasps, Pseudoplisus willcoxi sp. nov., is described from Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. It is compared with all other species currently assigned to the genus. It has a remarkable overall color pattern, unique in Pseudoplisus, and a restricted collecting record: only a single specimen was collected outside of the Willcox area in Arizona (defined here as including the Animas area, New Mexico). Additionally, of the 34 remaining specimens, one was collected in 1974 and all other after 2001. In the present paper, the new species is diagnosed, described, and the relevant characters are illustrated. The geographic distribution and its heterogeneous collecting record are briefly discussed.

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TAXONOMIC REVIEW OF THE RHYACIONIA FRUSTRANA GROUP OF PINE-TIP MOTHS, WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES (OLETHREUTIDAE)

The Canadian Entomologist ◽

10.4039/ent99590-6 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 99 (6) ◽

pp. 590-596 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

William E. Miller

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

New Mexico ◽

Central America ◽

Distinct Species ◽

Taxonomic Review ◽

Rhyacionia Frustrana ◽

Tip Moths ◽

A New Species

AbstractThe Rhyacionia frustrana group of pine-tip moths consists of at least three species: true R. frustrana (Comstock), which occurs from Central America and northern Florida north to Missouri and Massachusetts; R. sonia n. sp., present from southern Maine west to southern Manitoba; and R. bushnelli Busck, which occurs from New Mexico north to Nebraska and eastern Montana. Adults of all three species are superficially identical. A lectotype is designated to establish the identity of R. frustrana, and R. sonia is described as new to science on the basis of markedly differing genitalia. R. bushnelli, long regarded as a domestic introduction of R. frustrana, seems more likely a distinct species endemic to the western plains because of its differing overwintering habit and size.

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A new species of Elasmia Möschler from New Mexico and Texas, and a new subspecies of Elasmia mandela (Druce) from Texas and Oklahoma (Lepidoptera, Notodontidae, Nystaleinae)

ZooKeys ◽

10.3897/zookeys.149.1519 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 149 ◽

pp. 51-67 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Eric Metzler ◽

Edward Knudson

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

New Mexico ◽

New Subspecies ◽

A New Species

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Townsendia gypsophila (Compositae: Astereae): A New Species from Northern New Mexico

Brittonia ◽

10.2307/2807232 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 46 (3) ◽

pp. 194

Author(s):

Timothy K. Lowrey ◽

Paul J. Knight

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

New Mexico ◽

A New Species

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Limb skeletal variation in the Jemez Mountains salamander, Plethodon neomexicanus

Canadian Journal of Zoology ◽

10.1139/z90-191 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 68 (6) ◽

pp. 1281-1287 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Christine M. Dwyer ◽

James Hanken

Keyword(s):

New Mexico ◽

Hind Limb ◽

Hind Limbs ◽

Plethodontid Salamander ◽

Jemez Mountains ◽

Phalangeal Formula ◽

First Time ◽

And Cartilage ◽

Whole Mounts ◽

Isolated Species

We examine limb skeletal variability in Plethodon neomexicanus, a geographically isolated species of plethodontid salamander endemic to the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico, U.S.A. Data are derived from a series of 25 specimens prepared as whole mounts stained for bone and cartilage. Only 25% of hind limbs display the derived hind limb phalangeal formula 1-2-3-3-1, once considered characteristic of this species; two hind limb and one forelimb phalangeal formulae are reported for the first time. In addition, there are six variant carpal and tarsal patterns as well as the two predominant, primitive mesopodial patterns that are typical of most other species of Plethodon as well as of many other plethodontid genera. Limb skeletal variability in P. neomexicanus is among the highest recorded for urodeles and may represent an ancient and widespread polymorphism in the genus Plethodon.

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