scholarly journals First record of the cimicomorphan family Plokiophilidae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) from China, with description of a new species of Plokiophiloides

ZooKeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1021 ◽  
pp. 145-157
Author(s):  
Jiuyang Luo ◽  
Yanqiong Peng ◽  
Qiang Xie
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
Scanning Electron Micrographs ◽  
Natural Habitats ◽  
Spider Web ◽  
The Family ◽  
Afrotropical Region ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Zoogeographical Region ◽  
Female Abdomen

Plokiophiloides bannaensissp. nov., is described from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, representing the first record of the family Plokiophilidae from China. The new species also represents the first record of the genus Plokiophiloides in the Oriental Region, a second zoogeographical region besides the Afrotropical Region. Photographs of the live individuals inhabiting a spider web within natural habitats, male and female habitus, wings of adult, male genitalic structures, female abdomen structures and scanning electron micrographs of forewing, head, thorax and legs are provided. A key to all known species of Plokiophiloides is presented, with a distribution map.

A new species of the genus Isoperla (Plecoptera: Perlodidae) from TIANMU MOUNTAIN NATURE RESERVE, China

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4504 (2) ◽  
pp. 276
Author(s):  
QING-BO HUO ◽  
YU-ZHOU DU
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
First Record ◽  
Ventral Surface ◽  
Zhejiang Province ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Coastal China

A species of the genus Isoperla Banks, 1906, I. oncocauda Huo & Du, sp. nov. is described as new to science and is the first record for the family Perlodidae from the Tianmu Mountain Nature Reserve, Zhejiang Province of eastern coastal China. Both sexes of the new species are characterized by tergum 10 with a developed process. The partially extruded aedeagus of the male is membranous without conspicuous larger sclerites and with the ventral surface covered with dense scale-like and nail-shaped spines. 

scholarly journals A new species of the genus Smacigastes Ivanenko & Defaye, 2004 (Tegastidae, Harpacticoida, Copepoda) from the Onnuri Vent Field in the Indian Ocean

2020 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 699-714
Author(s):  
Jong Guk Kim ◽  
Jimin Lee
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Hydrothermal Vent ◽  
Hydrothermal Vents ◽  
First Record ◽  
Cold Seeps ◽  
Dichotomous Key ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
A New Species

The genus Smacigastes Ivanenko & Defaye, 2004 (Harpacticoida, Copepoda) is the most primitive genus in the family Tegastidae Sars, 1904, occurring in deep-sea chemosynthetic environments, such as hydrothermal vents, cold seeps, whale falls and wood falls. Our exploration of the Onnuri Vent Field, the sixth active hydrothermal vent system in the Central Indian Ridge, resulted in the discovery of a new species in the genus Smacigastes. A detailed morphological analysis of S. pumilasp. nov. reveals that it most resembles S. barti Gollner, Ivanenko & Martínez Arbizu, 2008, described from a hydrothermal vent in the East Pacific Ridge; the new species can be distinguished from the existing species by the 8-segmented female antennule, the absence of an abexopodal seta on the antennary basis, the mandibular exopod represented by a single seta and the exopod of the first leg with five setae. This is the first record of Smacigastes in the Indian Ocean. A dichotomous key to species of the genus Smacigastes worldwide is provided.

Voragocoris weirauchae sp. n. (Heteroptera: Schizopteridae: Schizopterinae), a further minute litter bug species from Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4729 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-144
Author(s):  
FLAVIO ROBERTO DE ALBUQUERQUE ALMEIDA ◽  
FERNANDO DA SILVA CARVALHO-FILHO ◽  
ALEXANDER KNYSHOV ◽  
JOSE ANTONIO MARIN FERNANDES
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Electron Micrographs ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
First Record ◽  
Scanning Electron Micrographs ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Scanning Electron

The genus Voragocoris Weirauch, 2012 is composed of Voragocoris schuhi Weirauch, 2012 and Voragocoris amrishi Makhan, 2013, previously recorded from Peru and Suriname, respectively. In this paper, a new species, Voragocoris weirauchae sp.n., is described based on specimens collected in the Brazilian Amazon, representing the first record of the genus from Brazil. We provide diagnosis, description, photographs of habitus, and scanning electron micrographs of the diagnostic features. A key to species based on males of Voragocoris is also presented. 

Filling the gap of whip spider distribution in Asia: Phrynichus persicus sp.n. (Arachnida, Amblypygi), a new Phrynichidae from Iran

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4413 (2) ◽  
pp. 339 ◽  
Author(s):  
GUSTAVO SILVA DE MIRANDA ◽  
ALIREZA ZAMANI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Middle East ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

The whip spider genus Phrynichus (Phrynichidae, Amblypygi) is widely distributed in Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and Asia with a total of 17 species. No records, however, are known from several countries in the Middle East. Here we provide the first record of a whip spider from Iran (Ilam Province), with the description and illustration of a new species, Phrynichus persicus sp. n. This discovery fills a gap in the distribution of the group that is known from both sides of this biogeographically interesting region and is also the northernmost record of the family Phrynichidae. Moreover, all distribution records of the Phrynichus species are mapped (including the first verified record of the order from the United Arab Emirates), an updated key to the species of the deflersi and ceylonicus groups is provided, and Phrynichus andhraensis Bastawade, Rao, Maqsood Javed and Krishna, 2005 (India) is assigned to the ceylonicus group. 

Description of a new species of Anisitsiellidae Koenike, 1910 (Acari, Hydrachnidia), the first record of the family from China

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2158 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
TIANCI YI ◽  
DAOCHAO JIN ◽  
JIANJUN GUO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
First Record ◽  
Water Mites ◽  
Water Mite ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Rich Fauna

Considering the geographical location of China, a very rich fauna of water mites should be expected. Previously, seventeen families have been reported from China (Jin, 1997; Smit, 2002; Guo & Jin, 2005): Eylaidae Leach, 1815, Limnocharidae Grube, 1859, Hydryphantidae Piersig, 1896, Hydrodromidae Viets, 1936, Hydrachnidae Leach, 1815, Sperchontidae Thor, 1900, Lebertiidae Thor, 1900, Oxidae Viets, 1926, Teutoniidae Koenike, 1910, Limnesiidae Thor, 1900, Hygrobatidae Koch, 1842, Unionicolidae Oudemans, 1909, Pionidae Thor, 1900, Mideopsidae Koenike, 1910, Arrenuridae Thor, 1900 and Pontarachnidae Koenike, 1910. The species described in this paper belongs to the subgenus Dartia Soar, 1917 in the genus Nilotonia Thor, 1905 of the family Anisitsiellidae Koenike, 1910, which increases the number of known water mite families in the Chinese fauna to eighteen.

First Discovery of the Family Tanaostigmatidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from China with a Description of a New Gall-Making Species Utilizing Kudzu Leaves

2004 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Zhong-qi ◽  
Sun Jiang-hua ◽  
James P. Pitts
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
New Species ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Biological Control Agent ◽  
First Record ◽  
Control Agent ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Tanaostigmodes (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Tanaostigmatidae) is described from China—Tanaostigmodes puerariae sp. nov. This is the first record of this family in China. This new species has potential as a biological control agent for control of kudzu, Pueraria lobate, in the U. S., because its preference for making leaf galls on kudzu. It was determined that the wasp has two generations per year, with the second generation overwintering as mature larvae in the gall on leaves that have dropped to the ground. Normally, only one wasp was found per gall, and a single kudzu leaf could have as many as 20 to 50 galls on its surface.

A new species of the genus Lucasioides Kwon, 1993 (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Agnaridae) from Siberia, Russia

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4903 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-150
Author(s):  
KONSTANTIN B. GONGALSKY ◽  
PAVEL S. NEFEDIEV ◽  
ILYA S. TURBANOV
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Altai Mountains ◽  
The Family ◽  
Southwestern Siberia ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Preliminary Phylogenetic Analysis

A new species of the family Agnaridae, Lucasioides altaicus sp. nov., is described from the Altai Mountains, southwestern Siberia, based both on morphological characters and molecular data. This species is the first record of Lucasioides from Russia, whose location is the northernmost habitat of terrestrial isopods in indigenous habitats presently known to Eurasia. The diagnostic characters of the new species and a preliminary phylogenetic analysis within Agnaridae are provided. 

scholarly journals A new species of Novamundoniscus Schultz, 1995 (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Dubioniscidae) from the state of Tocantins, Brazil

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. e20185860
Author(s):  
Ivanklin Soares Campos-Filho ◽  
Giovanna Monticelli Cardoso ◽  
José Otávio Aguiar
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
The State ◽  
The Family ◽  
Northern Brazil ◽  
A New Species

The genus Novamundoniscus includes eight species with distribution in Brazil and Venezuela. The new species Novamundoniscus adhara Campos-Filho & Cardoso sp. nov. from the state of Tocantins, northern Brazil, is described, which represents the first record to the family for the state of Tocantins.

scholarly journals First Record of Mites of the Family Stigmaeidae (Acari, Raphignathoidea) from Rovno Amber with Description of a New Species of the Genus Mediolata

2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. e-49-e-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Kuznetsov ◽  
A. Khaustov ◽  
E. Perkovsky
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
First Record ◽  
Late Eocene ◽  
Rovno Amber ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

First Record of Mites of the Family Stigmaeidae (Acari, Raphignathoidea) from Rovno Amber with Description of a New Species of the Genus Mediolata A new species, Mediolata eocenica Kuznetsov, Khaustov et Perkovsky, sp. n., is described from the Late Eocene Rovno amber. It is the first fossil record of Stigmaeidae.

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