scholarly journals A New Genus of Crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) in Mid-Cretaceous Myanmar Amber

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
George Poinar, Jr. ◽  
You Ning Su ◽  
Alex E. Brown
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Significant Damage ◽  
The World ◽  
Successful Group ◽  
Terrestrial Habitats ◽  
Omnivorous Diet

Crickets (Orthoptera: Grylloidea) are a highly diverse and successful group that due to their chirping are often heard more often than they are seen. Their omnivorous diet allows them to exist in a variety of terrestrial habitats around the world. In some environments, cricket populations can build up and become plagues, resulting in significant damage to seedling crops. A new genus and species of cricket, Pherodactylus micromorphus gen. et sp. nov. (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) is described from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber. The new genus is characterized by the following features: head without prominent bristles, pronotum longer than wide, middle of pronotal disk with two distinct large dark “eyespots”, fore leg robust and 3 apical spurs arranged on inner side of fore leg tibia. Shed portions of a lizard skin adjacent to the specimen reveal possible evidence of attempted predation.

scholarly journals A New Genus of Crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) in Mid-Cretaceous Myanmar Amber

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
George Poinar, Jr. ◽  
You Ning Su ◽  
Alex E. Brown
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Significant Damage ◽  
The World ◽  
Successful Group ◽  
Terrestrial Habitats ◽  
Omnivorous Diet

Crickets (Orthoptera: Grylloidea) are a highly diverse and successful group that due to their chirping are often heard more often than they are seen. Their omnivorous diet allows them to exist in a variety of terrestrial habitats around the world. In some environments, cricket populations can build up and become plagues, resulting in significant damage to seedling crops. A new genus and species of cricket, Pherodactylus micromorphus gen. et sp. nov. (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) is described from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber. The new genus is characterized by the following features: head without prominent bristles, pronotum longer than wide, middle of pronotal disk with two distinct large dark “eyespots”, fore leg robust and 3 apical spurs arranged on inner side of fore leg tibia. Shed portions of a lizard skin adjacent to the specimen reveal possible evidence of attempted predation.

Neotaxilanoides orientalis, a new genus and species of Tambiniini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Tropiduchidae) from China, with a key to the world genera

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3004 (1) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
QIU-LEI MEN ◽  
DAO-ZHENG QIN
Keyword(s):  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
The World

One new tropiduchid genus, Neotaxilanoides gen. n., with type species Neotaxilanoides orientalis sp. n., is described and illustrated from China. The new genus is externally similar to Neotaxilana Synave 1979, but can be distinguished from the latter by the differences in the head structure, forewing venation and male genitalia. A checklist along with a revised key to the known genera in the tribe is provided.

scholarly journals Renefouqueosis peruviensis, a new genus and species of Stenosini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Peru with a key to the Stenosini of the World and notes on the genera Anchomma and Fitzsimonsium

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolf L. Aalbu ◽  
Aaron D. Smith ◽  
Kojun Kanda ◽  
Patrice Bouchard
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
New World ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Old World ◽  
The World ◽  
Northern Peru ◽  
Coleoptera Tenebrionidae

Renefouqueosis peruviensis gen. et sp. nov., a new tenebrionid genus and species of the tribe Stenosini (subtribe Stenosina) is described from the arid mountains of Northern Peru. Including the new genus Renefouqueosis gen. nov., the tribe Stenosini now includes 40 valid genera of which nine are from the New World. The genera are placed in six subtribes (two worldwide, two New World and two Old World). Type species and subtribal assignment for each genus is presented. Notes on the placement of the genera Anchomma LeConte, 1858 and Fitzsimonsium Koch, 1962 are given. The proper placement of these genera is uncertain. Because of numerous morphological similarities to the Stenosini, we have decided to place these in a key to the world genera of Stenosini, which we provide.

Lingulate brachiopods from the Lampazar Formation (late Cambrian) of the Cordillera Oriental of northwestern Argentina

2015 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 537-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Mergl ◽  
Zarela Herrera ◽  
Enrique Villas ◽  
Gladys Ortega
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
High Latitude ◽  
New Genus ◽  
North African ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Lower Paleozoic ◽  
Northwestern Argentina ◽  
Late Cambrian ◽  
The World ◽  
Brachiopod Fauna

AbstractThe Angosto de Lampazar, a classic locality for the study of lower Paleozoic successions in the Cordillera Oriental, NW Argentina, has yielded a late Cambrian relatively diverse, lingulate brachiopod fauna. Sandy lenses with calcareous cement from the uppermost levels of the Lampazar Formation have yielded abundant remains of articulate and phosphatic brachiopods. Among the latter, the new speciesEurytreta harringtoniMergl and Herrera,Lingulella?melonicaMergl and Herrera,Libecoviella lenticularisMergl and Herrera, andSchizambon cardonalisMergl and Herrera, as well as the new genus and speciesSaltaia lampazarensisMergl and Herrera are formally introduced. Trilobites and conodonts from the same horizons characterize theCordylodus proavusZone, allowing a correlation with Stage 10 of the Furongian Series. Although the information on lingulate brachiopods from theC.proavusZone is scarce across the world, the composition of the studied association displays a relationship with coeval and slightly younger faunas of Utah and Kazakhstan. The Argentine brachiopods, the first described from the late Cambrian Proto-Andean margin of Gondwana, are more closely related to temperate Laurentian faunas than to those from the high latitude North African margin of Gondwana.

Description of a Bizarre New Genus and Species of Ambush Bugs from the Dominican Republic (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Phymatinae)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul K Masonick
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
The World ◽  
Predatory Bugs ◽  
The Caribbean

Abstract Enigmatic and rarely collected, ambush bugs of the tribe Macrocephalini (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Phymatinae) encompass a diverse group of predatory bugs armed with subchelate raptorial forelegs, a greatly enlarged scutellum, and elongate head. Macrocephalini is the most specious of the four tribes of ambush bugs, consisting of 20 genera and 154 species. They are represented in the Caribbean by several remarkable taxa that bear foretarsi, a trait unassociated with macrocephalines found elsewhere in the world. I here describe a new genus and species of Macrocephalini, Capricephala chiaroscuro gen. et sp. nov., native to the island of Hispaniola and one that bears striking differences to other phymatines known from that region.

Small problematic phosphatic sclerites from the Ordovician of Iapetus

2001 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Sutton ◽  
L. E. Holmer ◽  
L. Cherns
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The World

Problematic sclerites are common in Cambrian rocks around the world, but much less so in those of the Ordovician. Eurytholia prattensis new genus and species and E. elibata new species, described herein, are rare but widely distributed faunal elements in a narrow stratigraphical interval (Pygodus serra and P. anserinus conodont biozones) within Ordovician beds in an area bordering Iapetus (South Wales, UK; Alabama, USA; Dalarna, Sweden; and North Estonia). Specimens are minute plates (usually less than 1 mm wide), transversely ovoid, and hollow. They are not closely comparable with any previously described fossils. Eurytholia plates are interpreted as dorsal dermal sclerites from an animal of uncertain affinities. The scleritome is provisionally reconstructed as ovoid in form, with sclerites arranged in sub-longitudinal rows.

A new genus and species of larval Trombellidae ectoparasitic on moths from Iran

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 1102-1112
Author(s):  
Javad Noei ◽  
Mohammad Mahdi Rabieh
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
The World ◽  
First Time ◽  
South Khorasan

Birjandtrombella farniae Noei gen. et sp. nov. (Acari: Trombidiformes: Prostigmata: Trombellidae) is described and illustrated from larvae ectoparasitic on moths (Lepidoptera: Crambidae, Noctuidae, Pyralidae), from Birjand city, South Khorasan province, Iran. Moth families Crambidae and Pyralidae are recorded as the host of Trombellidae larvae, for the first time. Also, a key to genera of Trombellinae Thor, 1935 of the world (larva) is presented.

Bridging the transition between Didelphodonts and Taeniodonts

1999 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 936-944 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaelyn J. Eberle
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Sister Group ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Cladistic Analyses ◽  
Hanna Basin ◽  
Omnivorous Diet

The largest documented cimolestid, Alveugena carbonensis new genus and species, is both morphologically and temporally intermediate between small, early cimolestids (such as Procerberus and Cimolestes) and the earliest documented conoryctid taeniodont Onychodectes tisonensis; this represents a transition between the suborders Didelphodonta and Taeniodonta. Diagnosis and description of A. carbonensis is based upon a partial skull and two isolated upper molars recovered from fluvial sandstones at UW locality V-91005, in upper parts of the Ferris Formation, western Hanna Basin, Wyoming. An earliest middle Puercan age for UW locality V-91005 is based upon: presence of taxa that are morphologically intermediate between characteristic early and middle Puercan species; presence of a species of Ectoconus morphologically more primitive than Ectoconus ditrigonus; and co-occurrence of taxa characteristic of Pu1 and Pu2 stratigraphically below and above it. Morphologic trends in evolution of the upper dentition of cimolestids reflect a relative broadening of the crown. A trend toward increasing body size amongst Puercan cimolestids appears to have coincided with a change from a carnivorous (or perhaps insectivorous) to an omnivorous diet, suggested by increased grinding function of the cheek teeth. Cladistic analyses support A. carbonensis as the sister group to O. tisonensis. No known autapomorphies preclude A. carbonensis from having been a plausible ancestor to O. tisonensis.

A new genus and species of larval Neothrombiidae (Trombidiformes: Prostigmata) from Iran with a key to world genera

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 931-941
Author(s):  
Javad Noei
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
The World ◽  
South Khorasan

Razgthrombium ganjii gen. et sp. nov. (Acari: Neothrombiidae) is described and illustrated based on larval from soil and litter, Razg village, Birjand city, South Khorasan province, Iran. Also, a key to genera of Neothrombiidae of the world (larva) is presented.

A new genus and species of mites of the family Caraboacaridae (Acari: Heterostigmata) associated withClivina ypsilon(Coleoptera: Carabidae) with notes on distribution and host range of the family

2015 ◽  
Vol 147 (4) ◽  
pp. 370-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alihan Katlav ◽  
Hamidreza Hajiqanbar ◽  
Ali Asghar Talebi
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Host Range ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Shared Character

AbstractA new genus and species of mites of the family Caraboacaridae (Acari: Heterostigmata),Intercaraboacarus clivinusKatlav and Hajiqanbarnew genus,new species, associated withClivina ypsilonDejean, 1829 (Coleoptera: Carabidae), is described from Iran. It is the third genus of the family Caraboacaridae in the world. The new genus represents a combination of shared character states with the two previously described genera. An illustrated key to world genera of the family is provided. Differentiation of the new genus from other genera and distribution and host range of all known genera and species of the family are discussed.

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