scholarly journals Oecanthus mhatreae sp. nov. (Gryllidae: Oecanthinae): A new species of tree cricket from Mexico, with an irregular song pattern and unique chirp-like trill configuration

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-143
Author(s):  
Nancy Collins ◽  
Isabel Margarita Coronado González ◽  
Bruno Victor Alfons Govaerts
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Deciduous Forest ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Tropical Deciduous Forest ◽  
Mexican State ◽  
Tree Cricket ◽  
The Common ◽  
Pale Green ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Oecanthus is described from Mexico. Oecanthus mhatreaesp. nov. occurs in central Mexico in the understory of tropical deciduous forest. Oecanthus mhatreaesp. nov. is currently known only from the Corregidora area of the Mexican state of Querétaro. The widened tegmina and chirp-like brief trills song are consistent with some members of the rileyi species group; however, this new species of tree cricket is different in several aspects. The chirp-like brief trills are generally irregularly spaced, it does not have the expected grouping of the chirp pulses, and the colors of buff, light olive green, or light brown are vastly different than the four known pale green species in the rileyi species group of the Western Hemisphere. Morphology, habitat, and song details of this new species, with the common name of Otomi tree cricket, are provided in this paper. Video can be viewed at www.oecanthinae.com.

scholarly journals Oecanthus mhatreae sp. nov. (Gryllidae: Oecanthinae): A new species of tree cricket from Mexico, with an irregular song pattern and unique chirp-like trill configuration

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-143
Author(s):  
Nancy Collins ◽  
Isabel Margarita Coronado González ◽  
Bruno Victor Alfons Govaerts
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Deciduous Forest ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Tropical Deciduous Forest ◽  
Mexican State ◽  
Tree Cricket ◽  
The Common ◽  
Pale Green ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Oecanthus is described from Mexico. Oecanthus mhatreaesp. nov. occurs in central Mexico in the understory of tropical deciduous forest. Oecanthus mhatreaesp. nov. is currently known only from the Corregidora area of the Mexican state of Querétaro. The widened tegmina and chirp-like brief trills song are consistent with some members of the rileyi species group; however, this new species of tree cricket is different in several aspects. The chirp-like brief trills are generally irregularly spaced, it does not have the expected grouping of the chirp pulses, and the colors of buff, light olive green, or light brown are vastly different than the four known pale green species in the rileyi species group of the Western Hemisphere. Morphology, habitat, and song details of this new species, with the common name of Otomi tree cricket, are provided in this paper. Video can be viewed at www.oecanthinae.com.

scholarly journals Oecanthus rohiniae sp. nov. (Gryllidae: Oecanthinae): A new chirping tree cricket of the rileyi species group from Mexico

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Nancy Collins ◽  
Isabel Margarita Coronado-González ◽  
Aurora Y. Rocha-Sánchez ◽  
Bruno Govaerts ◽  
Wilbur Hershberger
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Deciduous Forest ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Tropical Deciduous Forest ◽  
Central Mexico ◽  
Chirp Rate ◽  
Tree Cricket ◽  
The Common ◽  
Response To Temperature ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Oecanthus is described from Mexico. Oecanthus rohiniaesp. nov. occurs in central Mexico in the understory of tropical deciduous forest and is currently known only from Mexico. This new species has the coloring, antennal markings, slightly widened tegmina, and calling song that are found in the rileyi species group. Although morphologically very similar to Oecanthus fultoni, the shapes of the distal hooks on the male copulatory blades differ between the two species. There are also differences in the song pulse patterns and chirp rate response to temperature. This new species has been given the common name Cri-Cri tree cricket. Video and song recordings are available online.

scholarly journals Oecanthus salvii sp. nov. (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Oecanthinae): A new tree cricket species from Modoc County in northeast California

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-99
Author(s):  
Nancy Collins ◽  
Ken R. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Tree Cricket ◽  
Subgenital Plate ◽  
The Common ◽  
Oecanthus Nigricornis ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Oecanthus is described from extreme northeast California. Oecanthus salviisp. nov. is currently known only from Lake Annie in Modoc County, California, and occurs on sagebrush (Artemisia) and rabbitbrush (Ericameria). It has the narrow tegmina, antennal markings, metanotal gland configuration, and trilling song found in the Oecanthus nigricornis species group. Song details and morphology, including the shape of the subgenital plate and copulatory blades, are provided in this paper. This new species has been given the common name of sage tree cricket.

A new species of night-lizard of the genus Lepidophyma (Squamata: Xantusiidae) from the Cuicatlan Valley, Oaxaca, Mexico

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1750 (1) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUIS CANSECO-MÁRQUEZ ◽  
GUADALUPE GUTIÉRREZ-MAYEN ◽  
ANDRÉS ALBERTO MENDOZA-HERNÁNDEZ
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Deciduous Forest ◽  
Small Body ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Tropical Deciduous Forest ◽  
Small Body Size ◽  
Coffee Plantations ◽  
Poorly Differentiated ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Lepidophyma from the Biosphere Reserve area of Tehuacan-Cuicatlan, Oaxaca, Mexico, is described. This new species, Lepidophyma cuicateca sp. nov., is known from two areas in the Cuicatlan Valley. Lepidophyma cuicateca sp. nov. is a member of the Lepidophyma gaigeae species Group and is characterized by its small body size, small size of tubercular body scales, poorly differentiated caudal whorls and interwhorls, and relatively large dorsal, ventral and gular scales. It lives in shady places, below rocks along the Apoala River, and is commonly found in plantain, sapodilla, cherimoya, mango and coffee plantations, as well as tropical deciduous forest. The description of L. cuicateca sp. nov. increases the number of species in the L. gaigeae Group to five.

scholarly journals Neoxabea mexicana sp. nov. (Gryllidae: Oecanthinae): A new species from Mexico and a key for Neoxabea in North and Central America

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-106
Author(s):  
Nancy Collins ◽  
Carlos Gerardo Velazco-Macias
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Central America ◽  
Calling Song ◽  
Sound Recordings ◽  
Tree Cricket ◽  
The Status ◽  
Male Calling ◽  
The Common ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Rule Out

A new species of tree cricket, Neoxabea mexicanasp. nov., is described from northeast Mexico. Although it has morphological similarities to two other species found in Mexico, there are distinguishing characters, such as a well-developed tubercle on the pedicel, black markings on the maxillary palpi, one of the two pairs of spots on the female wings positioned at the base of the wings, stridulatory teeth count, and the pulse rate of the male calling song. The calling song description and pre-singing stuttering frequencies are provided. Character comparisons that rule out other species in the genus are presented. The common name given to this new species is Mexican tree cricket. Sound recordings and video are available online. We also make some clarification of the status of Neoxabea formosa (Walker, 1869), described as Oecanthus formosus, and present a key of Neoxabea in North and Central America.

scholarly journals Calliandra mayana (Leguminosae, Mimosoideae), a new narrowly endemic species from Campeche, Mexico

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 307 (4) ◽  
pp. 278
Author(s):  
HÉCTOR M. M. HERNÁNDEZ ◽  
CARLOS GÓMEZ-HINOSTROSA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Deciduous Forest ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Tropical Deciduous Forest ◽  
Seasonally Flooded ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Iucn Criteria

A new species of Calliandra (Leguminosae, Mimosoideae, tribe Ingeae) from a restricted locality of Campeche, Mexico is herein described and illustrated. The species appears to be closely related to C. molinae, a species from Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua, from which it may be distinguished by being allopatric, and by a more limited development of suberose bark in stems and branches, comparatively smaller leaflets, consistently glabrous leaflets and corollas, and by the scarcely villous pods. Calliandra mayana appears to be restricted to an extremely small seasonally flooded savannah surrounded by tropical deciduous forest and, based on IUCN criteria, it is provisionally considered Critically endangered.

scholarly journals First record of Neurosystasis Satchell in Mexico, with the description of one new species (Diptera, Psychodidae), and the validation of Chuspilepia Omad, Mangudo & Gleiser as subgenus

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Juana Durán-Luz ◽  
Sergio Ibáñez-Bernal ◽  
Guillermo Hugo Omad
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Deciduous Forest ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
First Record ◽  
Tropical Deciduous Forest ◽  
Central Mexico ◽  
Wing Membrane ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
One New Species ◽  
A New Species

Neurosystasis Satchell is newly recorded in Mexico by means of the description of a new species. Specimens captured in a tropical deciduous forest in southern Puebla, central Mexico, were examined and determined as a species new to science. The male and female are described based on morphological characteristics. Neurosystasis longistylis sp. nov. is similar in appearance to Neurosystasis saltenia (Omad, Mangudo & Gleiser, 2015), but is readily distinguished based on characters of the head, wing, and male genitalia. In both species, R2+3 is attached to vein R4, the wing membrane is infuscate with dark spots on vein apices, and lacks sensory organs near the apex of Sc, characters not present in other species of Neurosystasis, and for that reasons we proposed the recovery of Chuspilepia from its synonym and validate it as a subgenus of Neurosystasis to include both continental species.

scholarly journals A new species of Amblyseius Berlese (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1445 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETERSON R. DEMITE ◽  
ANTONIO C. LOFEGO ◽  
REINALDO J.F. FERES
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Deciduous Forest ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
Width Ratio ◽  
Phytoseiid Mites ◽  
Protected Natural Area ◽  
Length Width ◽  
A New Species

Phytoseiid mites have received considerable world wide attention because of their potential as natural enemies of phytophagous mites (McMurtry, 1984). The Amblyseius obtusus group Chant  is the largest species group in the genus Amblyseius. Chant & McMurtry (2004) divided the group into seven subgroups based on spermathecal morphology. The andersoni subgroup of Chant & McMurtry, 2004 is characterized by a spermatheca with the calyx dish-, cup-, bell-, or V-shaped, with the length/width ratio at the mid-point of the calyx < 3:1. A total of 24 species of the andersoni subgroup are known from the Neotropical region, 13 of these from Brazil (Moraes et al., 2004). A new species of this subgroup, Amblyseius paulofariensis sp. nov., is described and illustrated in this paper, from specimens collected in the semi-deciduous forest area of “Estação Ecológica de Paulo de Faria”, a protected natural area in the State of São Paulo, southeastern Brazil, on three species of Euphorbiaceae: Acalypha diversifolia Jacq., Actinostemon communis (Müll. Arg.) and Alchornea glandulosa Poepp. & Endl.. In the region where this mites was found, the climate is of the type Cwa-Aw of Köppen, with two distinct seasons: one wet, from October to March, and the other dry, from April to September. The annual mean temperature is 25°C, with a maximum mean of 30°C and a minimum mean of 20°C (Barcha & Arid, 1971; Arid & Barcha, 1973).

A new species of long-tailed shrew of the genus Sorex (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) from Sierra de Omoa, Honduras

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4809 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-70
Author(s):  
ALEXANDRA J. ANDINO-MADRID ◽  
JULIO E. MÉRIDA COLINDRES ◽  
SERGIO G. PÉREZ-CONSUEGRA ◽  
JOHN O. MATSON
Keyword(s):  
Principal Component Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Cloud Forest ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Mexican State ◽  
Isthmus Of Tehuantepec ◽  
Celaque National Park ◽  
A New Species

The only known species of the genus Sorex in Honduras is Sorex mccarthyi Matson & Ordóñez-Garza, which is endemic to Celaque National Park. This species shows the presence of a postmandibular foramen and canal, a characteristic that is useful to distinguish between species south of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and unique to the Sorex salvini species group. Recently, two specimens of Sorex were collected in 2018 at Cusuco National Park, northwestern Honduras. These specimens lack the distinctive characteristics possessed by the S. salvini species group and belong to the Sorex veraepacis species group. Previously, the S. veraepacis species group was only known from the highlands of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and Guatemala. Principal component analysis shows that specimens from Sierra de Omoa are different in size and shape with respect to other known species (i.e., S. veraepacis Alston, S. ibarrai Matson & McCarthy and S. madrensis Matson & Ordóñez-Garza). We describe these two specimens, currently known only from an isolated cloud forest in the Sierra de Omoa, Honduras, as a new species. 

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