Two New Species of Impatiens from China, and Taxonomic Insights into the Longifilamenta Group, Which Is Endemic to China

Impatiens longshanensis (The LSID for the name Impatiens longshanensis is: 77219154-1) sp. nov. and I. lihengiana (The LSID for the name I. lihengiana is: 77219153-1) sp. nov., from Hunan, China, are described and illustrated here. The molecular phylogenetic study suggests that I. longshanensis and I. lihengiana should be placed in the I. sect. Impatiens. A detailed description, diagnostic characters between the two new species and allied species, pollen and seed morphology, and color photographs are provided. In addition, based on wide sampling, we found that the longifilamenta group, an endemic group to China, whose members have basal lobes of lateral united petals with long filamentous hairs, shows significant morphological variability. In this paper, we discuss the taxonomic significance of morphological characteristics within this group. Based on a literature review and observation of living materials in the field, an updated identification key for this group is also proposed.

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Additions to the revision of Dima Charpentier, 1825 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dimini) in the Balkan Peninsula, with the descriptions of five new species

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4433.2.5 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4433 (2) ◽

pp. 325 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

JOSEF MERTLIK ◽

TAMÁS NÉMETH ◽

ROBIN KUNDRATA

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Morphological Variability ◽

Balkan Peninsula ◽

Phylogenetic Study ◽

Diagnostic Features ◽

Distribution Maps ◽

The Balkans ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic Study ◽

New Findings ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic

Complementary revisionary information is provided for the click-beetle genus Dima Charpentier, 1825 in the Balkan Peninsula. Five species are described as new for science: Dima bialookii sp. nov. (Greece), D. blazeji sp. nov. (Albania), D. gazureki sp. nov. (Albania), D. timfristosensis sp. nov. (Greece), and D. tomorrensis sp. nov. (Albania). The male of D. hirtipennis Platia, 2011 is described for the first time. Dima etoliensis Platia, 2012 syn. nov. is a subjective junior synonym of D. evritaniensis Schimmel & Platia, 2008. New specimens and distributional data are reported for D. assingi Schimmel & Platia, 2008, D. dalmatina Küster, 1844, D. elateroides Charpentier, 1825, D. evritaniensis, D. florinensis Platia, 2012, D. hirtipennis, D. hladilorum Schimmel, 1987, D. lebenbaueri Schimmel & Platia, 2008, D. macedonica Schimmel, 1993, D. marvani Mertlik & Dusanek, 2006, D. neumanni Platia, 2013, D. olympica Meschnigg, 1934, D. parnonensis Schimmel & Platia, 2008, D. pecoudi Fleutiaux, 1944, D. pelikani Mertlik, Németh & Kundrata, 2017, D. pelionensis Mertlik, Németh & Kundrata, 2017, D. vailatii Schimmel & Platia, 2008, and Dima sp. cf. orientalis Mertlik, Németh & Kundrata, 2017. Morphological variability in D. hladilorum is discussed. Figures of habitus and main diagnostic features are provided for all new species, D. evritaniensis from Nerosirtis surroundings in Panetolikó Mts. (i.e., type locality of D. etoliensis syn. nov.), and for the male of D. hirtipennis. Additionally, we update the distribution maps for the genus Dima in the Balkans based on the new findings. Currently, 37 described species of Dima are known from the Balkan Peninsula. We discuss the morphological diagnostic characters for Dima species and call for the molecular phylogenetic study for this group.

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Two new species of the genus Meleonoma Meyrick from China (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea, Xyloryctidae)

ZooKeys ◽

10.3897/zookeys.871.35738 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 871 ◽

pp. 79-87 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Aihui Yin ◽

Yanpeng Cai

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Male Genitalia ◽

Taxonomic Position ◽

Phylogenetic Study ◽

Guangxi Province ◽

Southeastern China ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic Study ◽

The Family ◽

Two New Species ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic

Two new species of Meleonoma Meyrick, 1914a (Gelechioidea, Xyloryctidae) from southeastern China are described: Meleonoma foliiformis Yin, sp. nov. from Guangxi Province and M. projecta Yin, sp. nov. from Fujian Province. Adults and male genitalia are described in detail. A list of the Meleonoma species occurring in China is given. The taxonomic position of Meleonoma has been unstable, and under debate. Nonetheless, it is here tentatively placed in the family Xyloryctidae, following the latest molecular phylogenetic study concerning this genus.

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Description of Ditylenchus acantholimonis n. sp. (Rhabditida: Anguinidae) from Iran, a morphological and molecular phylogenetic study

Nematology ◽

10.1163/15685411-bja10115 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

Samira Aliverdi ◽

Ebrahim Pourjam ◽

Majid Pedram

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Rhizosphere Soil ◽

Phylogenetic Analyses ◽

Phylogenetic Study ◽

Pharyngeal Bulb ◽

Lateral Field ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic Study ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

Golestan Province ◽

Tail Tip

Summary Ditylenchus acantholimonis n. sp. is described based on morphological, morphometric and molecular characters. It was isolated from the rhizosphere soil of Acantholimon sp. in Golestan province, Iran, and is mainly characterised by having four lines in the lateral field, a pyriform to bottle-shaped offset pharyngeal bulb, post-vulval uterine sac 36.6-56.1% of the vulva to anus distance long, and a subcylindrical to conical tail with widely rounded tip. It is further characterised by short to medium-sized females, 480-617 μm long, with a fine stylet having small rounded knobs, V = 80.8-83.6, c = 11.0-13.8, c′ = 3.3-4.6, and males with 16.0-17.0 μm long spicules. The new species was morphologically compared with six species having four lines in their lateral field, rounded tail tip and comparable morphometric data namely: D. dipsacoideus, D. emus, D. exilis, D. paraparvus, D. sturhani, and D. solani. It was also compared with two species, D. ferepolitor and D. angustus, forming a maximally supported clade in the 18S tree. The phylogenetic analyses using the maximal number of Anguinidae and several Sphaerularioidea genera based upon partial 18S and 28S rDNA D2-D3 sequences revealed that Ditylenchus is polyphyletic. In the 18S tree, the new species formed a clade with D. ferepolitor (KJ636374) and D. angustus (AJ966483); in the 28S tree it formed a poorly supported clade with D. phyllobios (KT192618) and Ditylenchus sp. (MG865719).

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Molecular phylogenetic study of Frullania subsect. Inflatae (Frullaniaceae, Marchantiophyta) in the Holarctic with description of a new subgenus and three new species

Nova Hedwigia Beihefte ◽

10.1127/nova-suppl/2020/201 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 150 ◽

pp. 201-242

Author(s):

Yuriy S. Mamontov ◽

Anna A. Vilnet ◽

John J. Atwood ◽

Nadezhda A. Konstantinova

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Phylogenetic Study ◽

New Subgenus ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic Study ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

Three New Species

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Two new species of Tomentella (Thelephorales, Basidiomycota) from Lesser Xingan Mts., northeastern China

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.369.2.2 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 369 (2) ◽

pp. 80 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

XU LU ◽

YAN-HONG MU ◽

HAI-SHENG YUAN

Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Analysis ◽

New Species ◽

Maximum Likelihood ◽

Morphological Characteristics ◽

Northeastern China ◽

Phylogenetic Position ◽

Closely Related Species ◽

Molecular Analyses ◽

Two New Species ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic

Two new species of Tomentella from the Lesser Xingan Mts. of northeastern China, T. pallidocastanea and T. tenuirhizomorpha, are described and illustrated using morphological characteristics and molecular phylogenetic analysis. T. pallidocastanea is characterized by mucedinoid basidiocarps adherent to the substrate, a light reddish brown to pinkish grey hymenophoral surface, absence of rhizomorphs and cystidia, generative hyphae with clamps, rarely with simple septa and echinulate, and subglobose to lobed basidiospores (echinuli up to 1.5 μm long). T. tenuirhizomorpha is characterized by mucedinoid basidiocarps separable from the substrate, a greyish brown to dark brown hymenophoral surface, thin rhizomorphs in the subiculum and margins, an absence of cystidia, generative hyphae with clamps rarely with simple septa and echinulate, and subglobose to globose basidiospores (echinuli up to 1.5 μm long). Molecular analyses using Maximum Likelihood, Maximum Parsimony and Bayesian Analysis confirm the phylogenetic position of the two new species. The discriminating characters of these two new species and their closely related species are discussed in this study.

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Microcos magnifica (Sparrmanniaceae) a new species of cloudforest tree from Cameroon

PeerJ ◽

10.7717/peerj.4137 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 5 ◽

pp. e4137 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Martin Cheek

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Phylogenetic Study ◽

Herbarium Specimens ◽

Additional Species ◽

Systematic Revision ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic Study ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

Binocular Microscope ◽

Made In

Background Although many new species to science have been discovered from thousands of specimens resulting from botanical inventories to support conservation management in Cameroon in recent years, additional species remain to be formally evaluated taxonomically and described. These include species from genera which have been taxonomically neglected for many decades in Africa, such as Microcos. Methods This study is based mainly on herbarium specimens and field observations made in Cameroon during a series of botanical surveys. Herbarium material was examined with a Leica Wild M8 dissecting binocular microscope fitted with an eyepiece graticule. Principal Findings Microcos magnifica Cheek (Malvaceae-Grewioideae or Sparrmanniaceae) is described as an Endangered (EN B2 ab(iii)) new tree species from the submontane forests of Cameroon. It is illustrated and described, and its conservation status and taxonomic affinities are assessed. It is the first new Microcos described from Africa in more than 90 years and is unique on the continent in having sculptured fruits. Discussion A systematic revision, with a molecular phylogenetic study, of Microcos Burm. ex L. in Africa is necessary if the affinities of the species, including M. magnifica, are to be reliably established.

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A New Species of Cryptopone Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) from Brazil with Observations of this Genus and a Key for New World Species

Sociobiology ◽

10.13102/sociobiology.v66i3.4354 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 66 (3) ◽

pp. 408

Author(s):

Itanna Oliveira Fernandes ◽

Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

New World ◽

First Record ◽

Neotropical Region ◽

The State ◽

Phylogenetic Study ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic Study ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

Large Genus ◽

East And Southeast Asia

The monophyly of Ponerinae was strongly supported by a detailed molecular phylogenetic study. Within the subfamily, substantial changes were yet done to the taxonomy of several genera, such as Cryptopone Emery, and after phylogenetic and morphological considerations, the genus Cryptopone was revived. Cryptopone is a moderately large genus of pantropical distribution, with 25 described species and subspecies, with its diversity centered mostly in East and Southeast Asia. In the New World, only four species were known until now, Cryptopone gilva (Roger), Cryptopone guianensis (Weber), Cryptopone holmgreni (Wheeler) and Cryptopone mirabilis (Mackay & Mackay). Since the Mackay and Mackay’s revision of 2010 of the genus Pachycondyla which included the species currently attributed to Cryptopone, no new species was added to Cryptopone genus in the New World. Recently an unidentified Cryptopone species was collected in the state of Rondônia, Brazil. The material here described was sampled by manual collection of soil in the Floresta Nacional do Jamari (FLONA Jamari). Four individuals belonging to the worker caste are hereafter described under the name of Cryptopone pauli sp. nov. Currently this ant is known only to a single locality in the state of Rondônia, Brazil. This is also the first record of this genus for that state. We present new records of Cryptopone for the Neotropical Region with some comments on its biology and an updated key to workers of the five species of Cryptopone currently known in the New World.

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Molecular phylogenetic study of Bealius Massey & Hinds, 1970 (Nematoda: Hexatylina: Sphaerulariidae), with description of B. pinus n. sp. from Iran

Nematology ◽

10.1163/15685411-00003224 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 21 (4) ◽

pp. 435-444

Author(s):

Mehrab Esmaeili ◽

Ramin Heydari ◽

Behrouz Golhasan ◽

Weimin Ye

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Nematode Species ◽

Small Subunit ◽

Phylogenetic Study ◽

Pharyngeal Bulb ◽

Phylogenetic Studies ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic Study ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

Posterior Extension ◽

Stylet Length

Summary Bealius pinus n. sp. is described and illustrated based on its morphological, morphometric, and molecular characters. The new species is characterised by a body length of 1040 (920-1124) μm (females) and 985 (990-1043) μm (males), lip region continuous, 7.2 (7.0-8.0) μm broad, 3.3 (3.0-4.0) μm high, stylet length 8.4 (7.0-9.0) μm or ca 1.0-1.3 times the lip region diam., lateral fields with five or six incisures, the outer incisures crenate and inner incisures weakly crenate, and excretory pore situated 156 (141-170) μm from the anterior end. The basal pharyngeal bulb has a short posterior extension projecting dorsally into the intestine. Post-uterine sac absent. Functional males common in the population, spicules 29 (28-30) μm long. Tail cylindrical with broadly rounded terminus in the female and conical, arcuate, completely enveloped by a well-developed bursa in the male. The new species is compared with two known species of the genus, B. bisulcus and B. pissodi. Molecular phylogenetic studies of the new species using partial sequences of small subunit (SSU) rDNA revealed that it forms a clade with several nematode species belonging to genera in the Sphaerularioidea, namely: Sphaerularia, Paurodontella, Nothotylenchus, and Deladenus.

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Proposal of a new subfamily of Sciaridae (Diptera: Sciaridae), with description of one new species from South Korea

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4543.1.8 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4543 (1) ◽

pp. 127 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

SEUNGGWAN SHIN ◽

HEUNGSIK LEE ◽

SEUNGHWAN LEE

Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Analysis ◽

New Species ◽

Phylogenetic Study ◽

Phylogenetic Studies ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic Study ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

Unidentified Species ◽

Definition Of ◽

One New Species ◽

Key Characters

Here we propose a new monophyletic subfamily, the Chaetosciarinae, based on previous morphological cladistic and molecular phylogenetic studies. This new subfamily includes the genera Chaetosciara Frey, Mouffetina Frey, Schwenckfeldina Frey, and Scythropochroa Enderlein. We also provide a definition of the new subfamily Chaetosciarinae and describe common morphological key characters. Three Korean Chaetosciarinae species in three genera are reported, all of which are new to Korea and one (Scythropochroa pseudoquercicola sp. nov.) of which is new to science. A previous molecular phylogenetic study designated Scy. pseudoquercicola as an unidentified species. Our study provides examined species information for members of this new subfamily to accompany the GenBank accession numbers published by a previous molecular phylogenetic study. Furthermore, we present a multigene molecular phylogenetic analysis for the Chaetosciarinae.

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