scholarly journals A new species of Andrena (Trachandrena) from the Southwestern United States (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae)

2020 ◽  
Vol 77 ◽  
pp. 87-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cory S. Sheffield
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Malaise Trap ◽  
Southwestern United States ◽  
New Members ◽  
Female Holotype ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Andrena Fabricius, 1775, subgenus Trachandrena Robertson, 1902 is described and illustrated, A. hadfieldisp. nov., from Arizona, United States. The new species, presently known only from the female holotype, was collected in a Malaise trap in 1994, and remained unstudied until recently. In addition, Trachandrena is compared to similar subgenera in North America to assist in recognizing new members.

A new species of Deltaspis Audinet-Serville (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae) from Mexico

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4247 (2) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
BRYAN K. EYA
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Southwestern United States ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Shared Character

As currently defined, the genus Deltaspis Audinet-Serville, 1834, contains 16 species ranging in distribution from the southwestern United States to eastern Mexico. However, the generic distinction between Deltaspis and its closely allied genera, such as Crossidius LeConte, 1851 and Muscidora Thomson, 1864, is in need of clarification. According to Audinet-Serville, Deltaspis is so named due to its distinctive triangular scutellum (i.e., Δετα, delta, ασπιζ écusson), which is actually a commonly shared character of all these genera. Members of the tribe Trachyderini Dupont (1836), which includes the above genera, also have mandibles with an emarginate-truncate apex with the edge chisel-like or bifid. This modification of mouthpart appears to be for consumption of pollen and/or petals from composite flowers visited by the adult beetles (Krenn et al., 2005; Beierl & Barchet-Beierl, 1999). Other genera from this tribe with this modification of mandibles from North America, and mostly from Mexico, include: Chemsakiella Monné, 2006, Giesbertia Chemsak & Linsley, 1984, Hoegea Bates, 1885, Neocrossidius Chemsak, 1959, Paroxoplus Chemsak, 1959, Plionoma Casey, 1912, Schizax LeConte, 1873, and Tylosis LeConte, 1850. The remainder of Trachyderini genera have unmodified or simple mandibles with apex acute. 

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

Zootaxa ◽  
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.

scholarly journals A New Species of The Spider Genus Xysticus (Araneae: Thomisidae) From Arizona

1965 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 291-294
Author(s):  
J. H. Redner ◽  
C. D. Dondale
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
North American ◽  
Sibling Relationship ◽  
Southwestern United States ◽  
The North ◽  
Large Genus ◽  
Crab Spiders ◽  
A New Species

The North American crab spiders are now comparatively well known taxonomically. This is particularly true of the species in the large genus Xysticus, which has been twice revised continentally by Gertsch (1939, 1953) and treated in more regional works by Buckle and Redner (1964), Schick (1965), and Turnbull, et al. (1965). It seems probable that any additional new forms that will be discovered will be from remote parts of the continent or in sibling relationship with known species. Several species have, however, been described only from one sex.The purpose of this paper is to describe a distinctive new species of Xysticus from the mountainous parts of Arizona. Its structure clearly places it in the locuples group of the apophysate division of the genus, and its range suggests it to be an inland endemic of the southwestern United States.

THE GENUS GRAMMOTAULIUS IN NORTH AMERICA, WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES (TRICHOPTERA, LIMNEPHILIDAE)

1941 ◽  
Vol 73 (12) ◽  
pp. 232-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald G. Denning
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
A New Species

Four species of the Genus Grammotaulius, one of which is now considered a synonym, have been recognized in North America. These have been recorded only from Greenland, Canada, and northwestern United States. In August, 1940, Dr. C. E. Mickel and Mr. H. E. Milliron collected a series including both sexes of a new species in Colorado.

New reptiles from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation of Arizona

1987 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 773-786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip A. Murry
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
New Records ◽  
Upper Triassic ◽  
Late Triassic ◽  
Southwestern United States ◽  
Chinle Formation ◽  
A New Species

New records of Late Triassic reptiles from the Chinle Formation of Arizona include a new species of small trilophosaurid, a sphenodontid, and two taxa of eolacertilians. ?Trilophosaurus jacobsi n. sp. is a small trilophosaurid showing affinities to the type of Trilophosaurus buettneri of the southwestern United States and Variodens inopinatus from the Upper Triassic of Great Britain. A sphenodontid is also reported along with maxillae tentatively referred to the Kuehneosauridae and a jaw fragment from a subpleurodont eolacertilian with polycuspate teeth.

North American species of Diamphidaxona (Acari: Hydrachnida: Hygrobatidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1279 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
IAN M. SMITH ◽  
DAVID R. COOK
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
North American Species ◽  
Southwestern United States ◽  
Species Groups

Members of the genus Diamphidaxona Cook, 1963 are found from southeastern Canada to Argentina, with greatest diversity of species and species groups in the southwestern United States and Mexico. In this paper the three species of Diamphidaxona previously known from North America, D. pallida Cook, D. dolichosoma Cook and D. imamurai Cook, are redescribed. Eleven new species, including D. arizonica sp. nov., D. brevitarsa sp. nov., D. californica sp. nov., D. cavecreekensis sp. nov., D. chihuahua sp. nov., D. chiricahua sp. nov., D. cramerae sp. nov., D. neomexicana sp. nov., D. parvacetabula sp. nov., D. platysoma sp. nov. and D. sabinalensis sp. nov., are also described. North American species are allocated to two subgenera, the nominate subgenus and Diamphidaxonella subgen. nov., for which diagnoses are provided. New distributional data and a key for all North American species are presented.

A New Species of Hypolithus From the Southwestern United States (Coleoptera: Elateridae)

1966 ◽  
Vol 98 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward C. Becker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
Southwestern United States ◽  
A New Species

AbstractA new species, Hypolithus pallidus, from Nevada, California, and Arizona is described and illustrated. This species is not closely related to any other in the genus.

scholarly journals A new species of Callona Waterhouse (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from Costa Rica and Panama BRYAN K. EYA & WILLIAM H. TYSON (USA)

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2987 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
BRYAN K. EYA ◽  
WILLIAM H. TYSON
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Confounding Factor ◽  
Southwestern United States ◽  
A New Species

As currently defined, the genus Callona Waterhouse, 1840, contains nine species ranging in distribution from southwestern United States to Venezuela. However, the generic distinction between Callona and its closely allied Crioprosopus Audinet-Serville, 1834, is in need of clarification due to descriptions of both genera being based solely on females (monobasic), absence of allotypes from the type species of these genera, and from the sexual dimorphism displayed by several subsequently described species.  Also, scarcity of specimens in collections is a confounding factor in making a determination in the assignment of species to either Callona or Crioprosopus.

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