scholarly journals A foundation monograph of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the New World

PhytoKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 143 ◽  
pp. 1-823 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. I. Wood ◽  
Pablo Muñoz-Rodríguez ◽  
Bethany R. M. Williams ◽  
Robert W. Scotland
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Rational Solution ◽  
Individual Species ◽  
Storage Roots ◽  
Infrageneric Classification ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Strong Trend ◽  
The Status ◽  
Extensive Introduction

A monograph of the 425 New World species of Ipomoea is presented. All 425 species are described and information is provided on their ecology and distribution, with citations from all countries from which they are reported. Notes are provided on salient characteristics and taxonomic issues related to individual species. A full synonymy is provided and 272 names are lectotypified. An extensive introduction discusses the delimitation and history of Ipomoea arguing that a broad generic concept is the only rational solution in the light of recent phylogenetic advances. Although no formal infrageneric classification is proposed, attention is drawn to the major clades of the genus and several morphologically well-defined clades are discussed including those traditionally treated under the names Arborescens, Batatas, Pharbitis, Calonyction and Quamoclit, sometimes as distinct genera, subgenera, sections or series. Identification keys are provided on a regional basis including multi-entry keys for the main continental blocks. Six species are described as new, Ipomoea nivea J.R.I. Wood & Scotland from Peru, I. apodiensis J.R.I. Wood & Scotland from Brazil, I. calcicola J.R.I. Wood & Scotland, I. pochutlensis J.R.I. Wood & Scotland, I. zacatecana J.R.I. Wood & Scotland and I. ramulosa J.R.I. Wood & Scotland from Mexico, while var. australis of I. cordatotriloba is raised to specific status as I. australis (O’Donell) J.R.I. Wood & P. Muñoz. New subspecies for I. nitida (subsp. krapovickasii J.R.I. Wood & Scotland) and for I. chenopodiifolia (subsp. bellator J.R.I. Wood & Scotland) are described. The status of previously recognized species and varieties is changed so the following new subspecies are recognized: I. amnicola subsp. chiliantha (Hallier f.) J.R.I. Wood & Scotland, I. chenopodiifolia subsp. signata (House) J.R.I. Wood & Scotland, I. orizabensis subsp. collina (House) J.R.I. Wood & Scotland, I. orizabensis subsp. austromexicana (J.A. McDonald) J.R.I. Wood & Scotland, I. orizabensis subsp. novogaliciana (J.A. McDonald) J.R.I. Wood & Scotland, I. setosa subsp. pavonii (Hallier f.) J.R.I. Wood & Scotland, I. setosa subsp. melanotricha (Brandegee) J.R.I. Wood & Scotland, I. setosa subsp. sepacuitensis (Donn. Sm.) J.R.I. Wood & Scotland, I. ternifolia subsp. leptotoma (Torr.) J.R.I. Wood & Scotland. Ipomoea angustata and I. subincana are treated as var. angustata (Brandegee) J.R.I. Wood & Scotland and var. subincana (Choisy) J.R.I. Wood & Scotland of I. barbatisepala and I. brasiliana respectively. Attention is drawn to a number of hitherto poorly recognized phenomena in the genus including a very large radiation centred on the Parana region of South America and another on the Caribbean Islands, a strong trend towards an amphitropical distribution in the New World, the existence of a relatively large number of species with a pantropical distribution and of many species in different clades with storage roots, most of which have never been evaluated for economic purposes. The treatment is illustrated with over 200 figures composed of line drawings and photographs.

scholarly journals A synthesis of African and western Indian Ocean Island mammal taxa (Class: Mammalia) described between 1988 and 2008: an update to Allen (1939) and Ansell (1989)

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2205 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL HOFFMANN ◽  
PETER GRUBB ◽  
COLIN P. GROVES ◽  
RAINER HUTTERER ◽  
ERIK VAN DER STRAETEN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
New Genera ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
New Subgenus ◽  
African Mammals ◽  
The Status ◽  
Data Deficient

We provide a synthesis of all mammal taxa described from the African mainland, Madagascar and all surrounding islands in the 20 years since 1988, thereby supplementing the earlier works of G.M. Allen (1939) and W.F.H. Ansell (1989), and bringing the list of African mammals described over the last 250 years current to December 2008. We list 175 new extant taxa, including five new genera, one new subgenus, 138 new species and 31 new subspecies, including remarks, where relevant, on the current systematic position of each taxon. Names of seven species of primates are emended, according to the requirements of the ICZN. The taxonomic group in which the largest number of new taxa has been described is the Primates, with two new genera, 47 new species and 11 new subspecies, while geographically the biggest increase in new species descriptions has been on the island of Madagascar, accounting for roughly half (67) of all new species described in the past 20 years. Nearly half of all new species listed currently are assessed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (49 of 101 listed species) suggesting further research is urgently needed to help clarify the status of those recently described species.

New taxa and new records of butterflies from Vietnam (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) 

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5048 (4) ◽  
pp. 486-510
Author(s):  
ALEXANDER L. MONASTYRSKII ◽  
VU VAN LIEN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
New Records ◽  
Species Level ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
The Status ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

A new species and eight new subspecies of Papilionoidea discovered in Vietnam between 2002 and 2020 are described and illustrated. The status of two taxa are revised. New taxa include Pieridae: Delias sanaca bidoupa Monastyrskii & Vu subspec. nov. and Talbotia naganum aurelia Monastyrskii & Vu subspec. nov.; Nymphalidae: Abrota ganga pulcheria Monastyrskii & Vu, subspec. nov.; Bassarona recta consonensis Monastyrskii & Vu, subspec. nov.; Pantoporia bieti aurantina Monastyrskii & To subspec. nov.; Ragadia latifasciata cristata Monastyrskii & Vu, subspec. nov.; Ragadia latifasciata crystallina Monastyrskii & Vu, subspec. nov.; Faunis indistincta luctus Monastyrskii & Vu subspec. nov. & Aemona gialaica Monastyrskii, K. Saito & Vu, spec. nov. The taxon infuscata Devyatkin & Monastyrskii, previously described as the subspecies Aemona tonkinensis infuscata, was elevated to the species level, while the taxon critias (Ragadia critias Riley & Godfrey) was reduced to a subspecies. Three Satyrinae species were recorded from Vietnam for the first time: Palaeonympha opalina Butler, 1871; Ypthima motschulskyi Bremer & Grey, 1853; and Ragadia latifasciata Leech, 1891.  

Nouveaux taxons et synonymies dans le groupe de Liptena opaca (Kirby, 1890) (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Poritiinae)

2021 ◽  
Vol 126 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Libert
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
The Status ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
Specific Rank

New taxa and synonymies in the group of Liptena opaca (Kirby, 1890) (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Poritiinae). A lectotype of Liptena opaca (Kirby, 1890) is designated, and the status of three of its subspecies are revised: ugandana Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974, is raised to specific rank, centralis Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974, is synonymized with L. opaca gabunica, and sankuru Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974, becomes a subspecies of L. albomacula Hawker-Smith, 1933. Liptena ouesso Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974, is synonymized with L. immaculata Grünberg, 1910. Six new species are described, four from Cameroon (L. arnouxi n. sp., L. laguerrei n. sp., L. mariae n. sp. and L. perconfusa n. sp.), one from eastern Nigeria (L. brophyi n. sp.), and one species (L. restricta n. sp.) as well as a new subspecies (L. immaculata orientis n. ssp.) from north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Review of Mexican species of the genus Phytodietus Gravenhorst (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-58
Author(s):  
D.R. Kasparyan
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New World ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
First Time ◽  
Mexican Species

A key to 11 Mexican species of Phytodietus is given. Four new species and one new subspecies are described: Ph. (Weisia) whartoni sp. n., Ph. (Neuchorus) javieri sp. n., Ph. (Phytodietus) ninyoi sp. n., Ph. (Ph.) ruizi sp. n., Ph. (Ph.) yamilethi chiapasi ssp. n. The subgenus Weisia is recorded for the first time from the New World and the subgenus Phytodietus s. str., from Mexico.

Multispecies and Watershed Approaches to Freshwater Fish Conservation

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Diversity ◽  
Reserve Design ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Individual Species ◽  
Aquatic Communities ◽  
Fish Conservation ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Current Conservation ◽  
The Status ◽  
Effective Conservation

<em>Abstract</em>.—Traditional approaches to fish conservation have focused on the protection of small habitat patches or on individual species at risk of extinction. These strategies have been important yet largely have been too little and too late for widespread protection of aquatic faunas. Such small-scale and reactive approaches also are costly in terms of recovery programs and aggressive in terms of regulatory controls. Further, the linear nature of streams and the networked configuration of drainage systems suggest that a fundamentally different approach to reserve design and protected areas is necessary for effective conservation of freshwater communities when compared to terrestrial systems. Larger-scale, multispecies approaches to native fish conservation offer a more efficient and effective conservation strategy because entire fish communities and the ecological processes that support maintenance of habitat diversity can be sustained before the status of individual species deteriorates to critical levels. Protecting entire communities and watersheds also offers some resistance to climate change impacts, which rapidly are altering flow regimes and disturbance dynamics in aquatic systems. Identification and protection of high-value aquatic communities will provide an important supplement to current conservation strategies during times of increasing threats and future uncertainty.

scholarly journals The Status of Latin in Portugal: Resilience and Resistance

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (37) ◽  
pp. 30-34
Author(s):  
Susana Marta Pereira
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Practical Usefulness ◽  
The Status ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
As If ◽  
The Way

In our present times Languages and Humanities seem to be neglected in lieu of Science and Technology courses, and both teachers and parents redirect students towards courses that are said to make them more employable. This utilitarian view of education does not always provide the expected results and, in the short to medium term, ends up having nefarious consequences in the way humanity sees itself and how it supports humanist values. Whenever we ignore our past and look at it as if it were something useless and without relevance, we end up being, in a sense, overwhelmed with an admirable but ephemeral new world, where everything is illusory and without support. It is in this respect that the teaching of Latin in Portugal, as has been the case in other European countries, has been relegated to the old and the outdated, supposedly without any practical usefulness.

A morphological and biometrical study of the blood forms ofTrypanosoma suisOchmann, 1905

Parasitology ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 53 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 217-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. E. Stephen
Keyword(s):  
Length Distribution ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
London School ◽  
Normal Length ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
The Status ◽  
Belgian Congo ◽  
Biometrical Study ◽  
Free Flagellum ◽  
Selection Of

The status ofTrypanosoma suiswas held in doubt from the time it was first seen in 1905 until it was re-discovered and carefully studied in the Belgian Congo in 1954.A description is given of the morphology of single and dividing forms ofT. suisas seen in stained thin films made from the blood of infected pigs, and a selection of these is illustrated by line drawings. Briefly this trypanosome is short and stumpy with a free flagellum.A biometrical study was made on 200 organisms, showing a normal length distribution with a range from 8·5 to 18·5μ, and mean = 14·43μ.The monomorphism of the trypanosome is verified, and—because of its development in the salivary glands ofGlossina—its systematic position as a monomorphic subgroup of theBruceigroup is confirmed.I am much indebted to Dr C. A. Hoare, F.R.S., for the loan of the blood films used in this study and for his interest in the work. I am also grateful to Professor P. C. C. Garnham for providing me with accommodation and equipment at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Lectotype designations in the New World Gymnetini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 729 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRETT C. RATCLIFFE
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Label Data ◽  
Type Series ◽  
The Status

Lectotypes are designated for the following species-group names of New world Gymnetini. Genus Allorrhina Burmeister, 1842: A. baeri Bourgoin, 1911; A. gounellei Bourgoin, 1911; A. nickerli Moser, 1911; A. soror Moser, 1911; and A. tridentata Moser, 1908. Genus Amithao Thomson, 1878: Cotinis cavifrons Burmeister, 1842; Desicasta metallica Janson, 1885; and Cotinis erythropus moreletii Blanchard, 1850. Genus Astroscara Sch rhoff, 1937: G. flavoradiata Moser, 1918. Genus Blaesia Burmeister, 1842: B. subrugosa Moser, 1905. Genus Gymnetis MacLeay, 1819: G. aureotorquata Bourgoin, 1912; G. balzarica Janson, 1880; G. bouvieri Bourgoin, 1912; G. callispila Bates, 1889; G. chanchamayensis Pouillaude, 1913; G. chontalensis Janson, 1875; G. colombiana Pouillaude, 1913; G. coturnix Burmeister, 1842; G. difficilis Burmeister, 1842; G. dysoni Schaum, 1848; G. ecuadoriensis Pouillaude, 1913; Cetonia flava Weber, 1801; G. limbolaniata Pouillaude, 1913; G. mathani Pouillaude, 1913; G. meleagris Burmeister, 1842; G. nigrina Bates, 1886; G. olivina Pouillaude, 1913; Paragymnetis rubrocincta Sch rhoff, 1937; G. poecila Schaum, 1848; G. punctipennis Burmeister, 1842; G. radiicollis Burmeister, 1847; G. ramulosa Bates, 1872; G. salicis Bates, 1889; G. scheini Sch rhoff, 1937; P. burmeisteri Sch rhoff, 1937; G. vandepolli Bates, 1889; G. variabilis Moser, 1921; and G. zikani Moser, 1921. Genus Heterocotinis Mart nez, 1948: G. terminata Gory and Percheron, 1833. Genus Hoplopyga Thomson, 1880: G. aequatorialis Moser, 1918; G. boliviensis Moser, 1918; G. foeda Schaum, 1848; and G. peruana Moser, 1912. Genus Marmarina Kirby, 1827: Cetonia insculpta Kirby, 1819; G. tigrina Gory and Percheron, 1833; and Maculinetis litorea Sch rhoff, 1937. Lectotype designation, label data, and type depository are given for each species. A photograph of the lectotype is provided for most species. Commentary clarifying the status of the type series is given for some species.

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