scholarly journals Mopla guttata (Acrididae: Catantopinae) rediscovered in the Western Ghats, Kerala, India

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-23
Author(s):  
Dhaneesh Bhaskar ◽  
P.S. Easa ◽  
C.H.F. Rowell
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
South India ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Female Type ◽  
The Western Ghats

The endemic Catantopinae genus Mopla was described by Henry in 1940 from the Malabar region of South India. Henry described two species under this genus, M. guttata and M. rubra. The female type specimens of Mopla are deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, UK. There have been no further records of these two species since their description. Seventy-six years later, the first male specimen of the genus Mopla was discovered in the Western Ghats, Kerala, India, in 2016. This paper describes the specimen, thought to be of Mopla guttata, and reconsiders its systematic placement.

scholarly journals Database of amphibian vouchers and records available at the Kerala Agricultural University Natural History Museum in Thrissur and an updated checklist of amphibians of Kerala, India

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 19391-19430
Author(s):  
P.O. Nameer ◽  
M.S. Syamili ◽  
A.F. Katakath ◽  
U.S. Amal ◽  
M.S. Abhin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Biodiversity Monitoring ◽  
Biodiversity Data ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Voucher Specimens ◽  
Southern Western Ghats ◽  
The Western Ghats

The amphibian database of the Centre for Wildlife Studies of Kerala Agricultural University has the data that are either available as voucher specimens with the Kerala Agricultural University Natural History Museum (KAUNHM) or as photo vouchers and other opportunistic records from Kerala part of the southern Western Ghats between 2008 and 2020. This repository holds information on 91 species of amphibians belonging to 10 families, of which 87% are endemic to the Western Ghats and 34% are classified under the IUCN Red List threatened categories.  This study highlights the significance of such digital databases that can serve as an immense source of regional biodiversity data, and therefore, biodiversity monitoring and conservation. 

scholarly journals A preliminary study of the hawkmoth diversity (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) of Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 13592-13604
Author(s):  
Geetha Iyer ◽  
Ian James Kitching
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Peninsular India ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Tamil Nadu State ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
The Western Ghats

Kanyakumari District is situated at the southernmost tip of peninsular India in Tamil Nadu State and is bounded by the Western Ghats and the coasts of three seas.  There are no detailed historical records of the moths of this region, which, before India’s independence, was part of Travancore State.  This paper presents a brief account of the 27 species of hawkmoths of Kanyakumari District, recorded during surveys conducted from 2011-2015, and is the first formal record of the hawkmoths of this region.  A list of the species from the collection of the Natural History Museum, UK, collected in the erstwhile Travancore State that are likely to be found in the Kanyakumari region is also included.

The historical relics in Chongqing Natural History Museum: An annotated checklist of original materials for 37 names of Chinese seed plants

Phytotaxa ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 530 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-52
Author(s):  
FENG CHEN ◽  
HAI HE
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Seed Plants ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Annotated Checklist

A catalogue of type specimens deposited at the herbarium of Chongqing Natural History Museum (CQNM) is carried out. A total of 62 specimens belonging to 56 gatherings concerning 37 valid published names in 23 families of Chinese seed plants are documented as original materials. They include seven isotypes, 21 syntypes, of which 16 of them are isolectotypes and 34 paratypes. A checklist of the 37 names is presented with annotations on the typification, authorship citation, type localities and other taxonomic issues. Eight names were lectotypified, and one name’s second-step lectotype is proposed. Additionally, Distylium lanceolatum Chun, which is invalid pending for further study, and which has long been treated as a synonym of D. dunnianum H.Lév., is listed after the 37 names.

Notes on the genus Allotrichosiphum (Hemiptera: Aphididae: Greenideinae), with the description of one new species from Hong Kong, China

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1225 (1) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
GEXIA QIAO ◽  
LIYUN JIANG ◽  
JON H. MARTIN
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum ◽  
One New Species

The aphid genus Allotrichosiphum is reviewed here. Allotrichosiphum cyclobalanopsidis sp. nov. from Cyclobalanopsis neglecta in Hong Kong, China is described. Keys to the species of Allotrichosiphum worldwide are provided. The type specimens studied are deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, U.K.

Discovery and redescription of type material of Nausithoe simplex (Kirkpatrick, 1890), comb. nov. (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa: Coronatae: Nausithoidae) from the North Atlantic

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3320 (1) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDRÉ C. MORANDINI ◽  
GERHARD JARMS
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Morphometric Measurements ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Atlantic

With discovery and examination of type specimens in the Natural History Museum, London, UK, we reassign Stephanoscyph-istoma simplex (Kirkpatrick, 1890) to the genus Nausithoe Kölliker, 1853, as Nausithoe simplex, comb. nov., and designate alectotype for the species. Use of morphometric measurements is considered important in coronate systematics, but key featuresalso include the unique whorl of internal cusps and the shape of these cusps. All previous records of N. simplex must be re-evaluated, taking into consideration the morphology of these internal cusps.

Knightjonesia, a new genus (Polychaeta: Spirorbidae) with a winged opercular peduncle, and its taxonomy

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2059 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-50
Author(s):  
T. GOTTFRIED PILLAI
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum

It had hitherto been assumed in publications on serpulimorph systematics that spirorbids are characterized by an operculum borne on a wingless peduncle. However, while examining various spirorbid collections in the Natural History Museum, London, it was found that the type specimens of Helicosiphon platyspira Knight-Jones, 1978 possess a winged opercular peduncle, a character that had hitherto been used to distinguish between other serpulimorph genera. Accordingly, Helicosiphon platyspira is transferred to a new genus, Knightjonesia, in which the opercular peduncle is winged, in contrast with Helicosiphon in which it is wingless.

Critical revision of type material of Stemonitales (Myxogastria) at the Natural History Museum London (BM)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 344 (2) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
G. MORENO ◽  
A. CASTILLO ◽  
H. THÜS
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Critical Revision ◽  
First Time ◽  
Scanning Electron

For the first time both Light- and Scanning Electron Microscopy are aplied to re-assess diagnostic characters of type specimens for selected Stemonitales kept in the collections of the Natural History Museum London (BM). The results are used to revise published data and the type status is discussed for specimens of Amaurochaete comata G. Lister & Brândză, Comatricha longipila Nann.-Bremek., Comatricha lurida Lister, Comatricha pulchella (C. Bab.) Rostaf., Comatricha suksdorfii Ellis & Everh., Paradiacheopsis rigida (Brândză) Nann.-Bremek., Stemonaria irregularis (Rex) Nann.-Bremek., R. Sharma & Y. Yamam. and Stemonitopsis microspora (Lister) Nann.-Bremek at BM. A lectotype is proposed for Paradiacheopsis rigida (Brândză) Nann.-Bremek.

scholarly journals Upper Ordovician trilobites of zonal value in south-east Shropshire

1949 ◽  
Vol 136 (883) ◽  
pp. 291-315 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Related Species ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Upper Ordovician ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Type Section

The following descriptions of Shropshire trilobites, mostly collected from urchison’s (1839) type section of the Caradoc Series, are from Bancroft manu-sripts which will ultimately be deposited in the British Museum (Natural History), here the Bancroft Collection of fossils is housed. As far as possible the original xt has been preserved, apart from material necessary to bring it up to date and tsertion of references to various publications. Since in Bancroft’s paper on ryptolithinae (1929) the illustrations were reproduced from drawings, it has been bought well, as suggested by Richter (1930, pp. 556 - 557), to refigure some of the species from photographs. A few of Bancroft’s unpublished trilobites have been ealt with by Reed (1932) and Shirley (1936). In these cases only a minimum of reference is now given, but Bancroft’s illustrations have been retained. A recent paper by Harper (1947) describes some related species from the Lower Longvillian if Caernarvonshire. It may be added that Dr C. J. Stubblefield has given help with the text of the present publication. He, Mr R. Baker and Mr W. H. C. Ramsbottom searched for the type specimens in the Natural History Museum. Thanks to their co-operation, most of the figured examples have now been identified with the photographs.

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