scholarly journals Lophorrhinides muellerae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae): a new genus and species from southern Tanzania

ZooKeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 833 ◽  
pp. 75-84
Author(s):  
Renzo Perissinotto ◽  
Lynette Clennell ◽  
Gerhard Beinhundner
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
General Body ◽  
The Third ◽  
Unknown Species ◽  
Species Analysis

A male cetoniine specimen recently submitted for identification from the Ditsong Museum of Natural History (Pretoria, South Africa) has been found to represent a yet unknown species. A review of the recently published book of Beinhundner (2017) has further revealed that one of the specimens mistakenly figured as Lophorrhinadonckieri Bourgoin, 1913 in that work is most likely the female of this new species. Analysis of the diagnostic characters of the genus Lophorrhina Westwood, 1842 shows that the new species differs in several key areas. In particular, the clypeal armature is virtually identical in both sexes, the male protibiae are not typically elongate and narrow as in all the members of Lophorrhina, but are remarkably more robust, laterally expanded and with a tridentate margin in both sexes, even though the third tooth in the female and the second and third teeth in the male are virtually obsolete. The general body shape in the new species is also more globose and lacks the typical deplanate and apically tapering elytra of the Lophorrhina males. These and other characters are, in our view, sufficient to justify the erection of a new genus, Lophorrhinidesgen. n., to accommodate the new species, here described as L.muelleraesp. n. The new genus is presumably a mountain specialist, as both known specimens were collected in the southern highlands of Tanzania, at Manow and Rungwe respectively.

Xenosellidae, a new family of Janiroidea (Asellota: Isopoda:  Crustacea), for Xenosella coxospinosa gen. nov., sp. nov.,  from the marine bathyal of eastern Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 1085 (1) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEAN JUST
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Incertae Sedis ◽  
New Family ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Similar Body ◽  
South Eastern Australia

A new genus and species of janiroidean Asellota, Xenosella coxospinosa, is described from the mid-bathyal slope off the coast of south-eastern Australia. Following a comparison of the new species to several families of broadly similar body shape, with emphasis on monotypic Pleurocopidae, a new family, Xenosellidae, is proposed for the new species. In the course of comparing relevant taxa, the current placements of Prethura Kensley in the Santiidae and Salvatiella Müller in the Munnidae are rejected. The two genera are considered to be incertae sedis within the Asellota superfamily Janiroidea pending further studies.

Syringoplutarchusia nordmanni, a new genus and species of the feather mite family Syringobiidae (Acari, Astigmata, Pterolichoidea) from the Black-winged Pratincole Glareola nordmanni (Charadriiformes, Glareolidae)

2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacek Dabert ◽  
Maciej Skoracki
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Museum Specimen ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Host Family ◽  
Feather Mite ◽  
Mite Family

AbstractSyringoplutarchusia, a new genus of the syringicolous feather mite family Syringobiidae (Pterolichoidea), is described based on a single new species, S. nordmanni sp. nov., collected from the feather quills of a museum specimen of the Black-winged Pratincole Glareola nordmanni Fischer, 1842 (Glareolidae). Absence of adanal discs and complete reduction of setae d and e on tarsi IV in males of the new genus is unique in this family. The highly elongated body shape of both sexes is most similar to the genera Plutarchusia Oudemans, 1904 and Paidoplutarchusia Dabert, 2003 but strong sclerotization of coxal fields and hypertrophied posterior legs with variously shaped apophyses resemble more advanced syringobiid mites, e.g. Syringobia Trouessart et Neumann, 1888. Syringoplutarchusia represents the first syringobiid from this host family. The taxonomic status of the new taxon is discussed.

A new genus of cynipid inquiline, Lithosaphonecrus Tang, Melika & Bozsó (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini), with description of four new species from Taiwan and China

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miklós Bozsó ◽  
Chang-Ti Tang ◽  
Zsolt Pénzes ◽  
Man-Miao Yang ◽  
Péter Bihari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
The Third ◽  
Main Lineage ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data ◽  
Western Palaearctic

The cynipid inquilines genus Saphonecrus is known to be a polyphyletic group with distinct lineages. One lineage is associated with Synophrus in the Western Palaearctic on section Cerris oaks. Another involves the type species of Saphonecrus, S. connatus, and represents a distinct and probably early-diverging lineage with a Palaearctic distribution on white oaks. The third main lineage is predominantly Asian, and associated with Quercus subgenus Cyclobalanopsis and Quercus section Cerris and the oak-related Fagaceae including Lithocarpus. This third lineage shows large diversity, and includes the genus Ufo, the European lineage of S. undulatus and S. haimi, and the herein described new genus, Lithosaphonecrus Tang, Melika & Bozsó, known from Taiwan and China, with four new species: L. formosanus Melika & Tang, L. dakengi Tang & Pujade-Villar, L. huisuni Tang, Bozsó & Melika and L. yunnani Tang, Bozsó & Melika. All the four described species are associated only with Lithocarpus. Descriptions, diagnoses, biology, and host associations for the new genus and species are given, as well as a key to species and cynipid inquilines genera. All taxa are supported by morphological and molecular data.

scholarly journals Review of the fish parasitic genus Elthusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae) from South Africa, including the description of three new species

ZooKeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 841 ◽  
pp. 1-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serita van der Wal ◽  
Nico J. Smit ◽  
Kerry A. Hadfield
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
South African ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
Anterior Margin ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Worldwide Distribution ◽  
Lateral Margins ◽  
Three New Species

The branchial-attaching cymothoid genus, Elthusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 is a genus with a worldwide distribution of 36 species, including the three species described here. Elthusaraynaudii (Milne Edwards, 1840) is the only species that has been described from southern Africa. All South African material held at the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France (MNHN) and the Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC) identified as, or appearing to belong to, Elthusa was examined. Four species were identified, Elthusaraynaudii and three species that proved to be undescribed. Elthusaxenasp. n. can be distinguished by an evenly rounded pereonite 1 anterior margin, a roughly rectangular pleotelson, and narrowly rounded uropod apices that extend to more than half the length of the pleotelson. Elthusaacutinasasp. n. is identified by the produced and narrowly rounded cephalon anterior margin, acute uropods that are shorter than half the length of the pleotelson, and pereonite 1 anterior margin with medial projection. Elthusarotundasp. n. is characterised by the round body shape, broadly rounded uropod apices, and protrusions on the proximal and lateral margins of the merus and carpus of pereopod 7. A key to the South African Elthusa species is provided, together with a table summarising the hosts and localities of the 33 previously known species of Elthusa.

scholarly journals A new genus and species of tanager (Passeriformes, Thraupidae) from the lower Yungas of western Bolivia and southern Peru

The Auk ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel F Lane ◽  
Miguel Angel Aponte Justiniano ◽  
Ryan S Terrill ◽  
Frank E Rheindt ◽  
Luke B Klicka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Rainy Season ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Deciduous Forest ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Breeding Population ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Sister Relationship ◽  
The Andes

Abstract We describe a colorful and distinctive new species of tanager from the lower slopes of the Andes of southeastern Peru and western Bolivia. The species was first noted from southeastern Peru in 2000, but little of its natural history was uncovered until the 2011 discovery of a breeding population in deciduous forest in an intermontane valley, the Machariapo valley, in Bolivia. This species appears to be an intratropical migrant, breeding in deciduous forest during the rainy season (November–March) and spending the dry season dispersed along the lower slopes of the Andes, apparently favoring Guadua bamboo-dominated habitats in both seasons. Phylogenetic evidence suggests this tanager is embedded within a clade of thraupids that includes Ramphocelus, Coryphospingus, Loriotus, Tachyphonus, and related genera in the subfamily Tachyphoninae. Within this subfamily, the new species falls in a clade with two monotypic genera, Eucometis penicillata (Gray-headed Tanager) and Trichothraupis melanops (Black-goggled Tanager). There is strong support for a sister relationship between the new tanager and T. melanops, but because all three species in this clade are highly distinctive phenotypically, we propose erecting a new genus and species name for the new tanager.

New species and records of Clavigeritae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from Africa and Asia

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4402 (3) ◽  
pp. 595
Author(s):  
OTO NAKLÁDAL ◽  
PETER HLAVÁČ
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Ivory Coast ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Records ◽  
New Combination ◽  
New Genus And Species

New species of Clavigeritae, Monodiger ivoricus sp. n. from Ivory Coast and Disarthricerus bruneicus sp. n. from Brunei are described. New records are given for the following species: Zuluclavodes Hlaváč, 2007 new genus for Zambia, Fustigerinus formicarius Bryant, 1943 (new combination), new genus and species for Ivory Coast and Hoplitoxenus joannae Jeannel, 1960, new genus and species for Cameroon. A new locality in South Africa is recorded for Ischyroceros mirus Reichensperger, 1915. 

Opaepupu, a new genus and species of bivalve-associated shrimp (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) from Hawai’i

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4903 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-70
Author(s):  
ARTHUR ANKER ◽  
SAMMY DE GRAVE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Posterior Margin ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Dorsal Surface ◽  
Phylogenetic Position ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
The Third ◽  
Small Tooth ◽  
Female Holotype ◽  
A New Species

A new palaemonid shrimp genus, Opaepupu gen. nov., is established to accommodate a new species of bivalve-associated shrimp, Opaepupu huna sp. nov. from Hawaii. A single mated pair, the female holotype and the male allotype, were found inside the trapezid bivalve Trapezium oblongum (Linnaeus, 1758) at a depth of 14 m in Kâne’ohe Bay, Hawai’i. The new genus is characterised by the rostrum being proximally broad, distally pointed, mid-dorsally carinate, and non-dentate; the anterolateral margin of the carapace without supraorbital, hepatic or epigastric teeth, but with a strong sharp antennal tooth; the sixth pleonite posteriorly unarmed; the telson medially depressed, with the dorsal surface armed with two pairs of submarginal cuspidate setae and with the posterior margin armed with two pairs of spiniform setae; the distolateral angle of the first article of the antennular peduncle without a sharp tooth; the mandible without a palp; the maxillular palp furnished with one long stiff seta dorsal to a small tooth-like extension; the first maxilliped without a palp; the third maxilliped not being operculate; the second pereiopods moderately robust, relatively slender, subequal, subsymmetrical, with simple teeth on the cutting edges of the fingers; the ambulatory pereiopods being slender, each ending in an elongate biunguiculate dactylus; and the uropodal exopod with a faint diaeresis and greatly reduced distolateral spiniform seta. The phylogenetic position of Opaepupu gen. nov. remains unclear, although it does not appear to be closely related to other bivalve-associated palaemonid genera. 

scholarly journals Molecular systematics of the armored neotropical catfish subfamily Neoplecostominae (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3390 (1) ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
FÁBIO F. ROXO ◽  
CLÁUDIO H. ZAWADZKI ◽  
GUILHERME J. DA COSTA SILVA ◽  
MARCIO C. CHIACHIO ◽  
FAUSTO FORESTI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
16S Rrna ◽  
Molecular Systematics ◽  
Maximum Parsimony ◽  
New Genus ◽  
12S Rrna ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Family ◽  
Molecular Studies

Morphological and molecular studies in the family Loricariidae have revealed that the relationships among its membersare not yet well resolved, and the present study was conducted with the main objective of improving our knowledge aboutthis highly diversified group of catfishes. Maximum parsimony and Bayesian analysis were conducted on a matrix of 53terminal taxa and 4676 characters with partial sequences of the genes COI, CytB, 16S rRNA, 12S rRNA and F-reticulon4. As outgroups, samples of the species Hemipsilichthys gobio and H. papillatus (subfamily Delturinae), Rineloricariajaraguensis (subfamily Loricariinae), Hypostomus nigromaculatus (subfamily Hypostominae), Hypoptopomainexpectatum (subfamily Hypoptopomatinae), and Corumbataia cuestae (subfamily Otothyrinae) were used. The resultsshowed that the subfamily Neoplecostominae is monophyletic, including Pseudotocinclus, and three clades wererecognized. The first one is composed of Pareiorhina rudolphi, P. cf. rudolphi and Pseudotocinclus. The second iscomposed of Isbrueckerichthys, Pareiorhaphis, Kronichthys and Neoplecostomus ribeirensis. The third is composed ofthe remaining species of the genera Neoplecostomus, except N. ribeirensis, Pareiorhina carrancas, P. cf. carrancas,Pareiorhina sp. 1 (possible new species) and an undescribed taxon referred to in this paper as new genus and species 2. In our analyses, Pareiorhina and Neoplecostomus are paraphyletic taxa.

A new genus and species of gall midge (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) inducing leaf galls on Peking lilac, Syringa reticulata subsp. pekinensis (Oleaceae), in China

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4742 (1) ◽  
pp. 194-200
Author(s):  
KE-LONG JIAO ◽  
XIAO-YI ZHOU ◽  
HAO WANG ◽  
HUAI-JUN FU ◽  
DA-KANG ZHOU ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Mitochondrial Gene ◽  
Gall Midge ◽  
Ribosomal Gene ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Unknown Species ◽  
Beijing China

Larvae of a previously unknown species of gall midge were found causing large numbers of pustulate leaf galls on Peking lilac, Syringa reticulata subsp. pekinensis (Oleaceae), in parklands and street greenery in Beijing, China. Heavily galled leaves become senescent and fall off prematurely. The gall midge is named Pekinomyia syringae Jiao & Kolesik, its morphology is described and the COI mitochondrial gene and 12S ribosomal gene segments are sequenced. A new genus, Pekinomyia Jiao & Kolesik (Cecidomyiinae: Lasiopteridi), is erected for the new species. The new genus differs from other Lasiopteridi in the strongly sclerotized aedeagus and the lack of mesobasal lobes in the male terminalia and is not assigned to any known tribe. 

A new genus and species of Tetrastichinae (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) inducing galls in seed capsules of Eucalyptus

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1745 (1) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
IL-KWON KIM ◽  
JOHN LA SALLE
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Gall Inducer ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Leprosa milga Kim & La Salle gen. & sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae: Tetrastichinae) is described from Eucalyptus seed capsules. The new species is an Australian seed gall inducer which has become established in South Africa and Italy. The relationship of Leprosa to two other genera of seed gall inducing tetrastichines, Quadrastichodella and Moona, is discussed.

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