scholarly journals Sinopyrophorinae, a new subfamily of Elateridae (Coleoptera, Elateroidea) with the first record of a luminous click beetle in Asia and evidence for multiple origins of bioluminescence in Elateridae

ZooKeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 864 ◽  
pp. 79-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen-Xuan Bi ◽  
Jin-Wu He ◽  
Chang-Chin Chen ◽  
Robin Kundrata ◽  
Xue-Yan Li
Keyword(s):  
Hind Wing ◽  
First Record ◽  
Wing Venation ◽  
Abdominal Sternite ◽  
Median Lobe ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Multiple Origins ◽  
Click Beetle ◽  
Luminous Organ ◽  
Luminescent Behavior

The new subfamily Sinopyrophorinae within Elateridae is proposed to accommodate a bioluminescent species, Sinopyrophorusschimmeli Bi & Li, gen. et sp. nov., recently discovered in Yunnan, China. This lineage is morphologically distinguished from other click-beetle subfamilies by the strongly protruding frontoclypeal region, which is longitudinally carinate medially, the pretarsal claws without basal setae, the hind wing venation with a well-defined wedge cell, the abdomen with seven (male) or six (female) ventrites, the large luminous organ on the abdominal sternite II, and the male genitalia with median lobe much shorter than parameres, and parameres arcuate, with the inner margin near its apical third dentate. Molecular phylogeny based on the combined 14 mitochondrial and two nuclear genes supports the placement of this taxon far from other luminescent click-beetle groups, which provides additional evidence for the multiple origin of bioluminescence in Elateridae. Illustrations of habitus and main diagnostic features of S.schimmeli Bi & Li, gen. et sp. nov. are provided, as well as the brief description of its luminescent behavior.

scholarly journals Seventeen new genera of microgastrine parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from tropical areas of the world

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 25-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Fernandez-Triana ◽  
Caroline Boudreault
Keyword(s):  
Hind Wing ◽  
Parasitoid Wasps ◽  
Wing Venation ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Phylogenetic Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
Tropical Areas ◽  
Near Future ◽  
World Fauna

As part of comprehensive studies on the world fauna of microgastrine parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) 17 new genera and 29 new species are described from the Afrotropical, Australasian, Neotropical and Oriental regions. The number of extant genera of Microgastrinae is increased by 21% and currently stands at 81. It is anticipated that more genera will be described in the near future, when phylogenetic studies of the group are advanced. The new taxa showcase unusual morphological traits such as atypical head and mouth part modifications, presence of partial occipital and epicnemial carinae, propodeum carination patterns, hind wing venation, trochantellus shape, tarsal claws, sculpture and shape of the first two metasomal tergites, and ovipositor teeth; in some cases, they also represent some of the largest species known in the subfamily. For every new genus putative autapomorphies, morphological diagnostic features, and DNA barcodes (whenever available) are presented, as well as brief discussions of some informal groupings of genera in the subfamily. However, no attempt is made to reassess the phylogeny of the entire Microgastrinae, as that will require more comprehensive analyses beyond the scope of the present work. The following 17gen. n., authored by Fernandez-Triana, are described:Agupta,Austinicotesia,Billmasonius,Carlmuesebeckius,Gilbertnixonius,Janhalacaste,Jenopappius,Jimwhitfieldius,Kotenkosius,Markshawius,Ohenri,Qrocodiledundee,Silvaspinosus,Tobleronius,Ungunicus,YpsilonigasterandZachterbergius. The following 29sp. n., authored by Fernandez-Triana and Boudreault, are described:Aguptadanyi,Aguptajeanphilippei,Aguptaraymondi,Aguptasolangeae,Austinicotesiaindonesiensis,Austinicotesiapapuanus,Billmasoniuscienci,Carlmuesebeckiussmithsonian,Gilbertnixoniusbiem,Janhalacastedanieli,Janhalacasteguanacastensis,Janhalacastewinnieae,Jenopappiusmagyarmuzeum,Jimwhitfieldiusjamesi,Jimwhitfieldiussydneyae,Kotenkosiustricarinatus,Markshawiuserucidoctus,Markshawiusfrancescae,Markshawiusthailandensis,Ohenrigouletorum,Qrocodiledundeeoutbackense,Silvaspinosusvespa,Tobleroniusorientalis,Ungunicusvietnamensis,Ypsilonigasternaturalis,Ypsilonigastersharkeyi,Ypsilonigastertiger,Ypsilonigasterzuparkoi, andZachterbergiustenuitergum. The following fourcomb. n.are proposed:Jenopappiusniger(de Saeger, 1944),Jenopappiusaethiopica(de Saeger, 1944),Ypsilonigasterbumbana(de Saeger, 1942), andYpsilonigasterpteroloba(de Saeger, 1944).

scholarly journals First record of Andrena rhenana Stöckhert, 1930 in Italy (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Andrenidae: Andreninae)

Osmia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 51-58
Author(s):  
Sirio Gamba ◽  
Enrico Carta
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
First Record ◽  
Previous Knowledge ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Nw Italy ◽  
New Discovery

This paper brings new sightings about Andrena rhenana in Liguria (NW Italy). This is the first record for the species in Italy, while its presence in other countries of Western Europe was previously known. The closest record, before this new discovery, was in South-eastern France. Three specimens, one male and two females, were collected in March 2020 and 2021 in the inland of the Imperia Area, in Perinaldo and San Biagio. This work also summarizes previous knowledge about the species and its diagnostic features.

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. 

Brasineura Silva-Neto & García Aldrete (Psocodea, ‘Psocoptera’, Ptiloneuridae): new species, new records and variation in the wing venations

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4819 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-384
Author(s):  
DANIEL MOURA LIMA ◽  
ALBERTO MOREIRA DA SILVA-NETO ◽  
ALFONSO N. GARCÍA ALDRETE ◽  
FREDDY BRAVO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Records ◽  
Hind Wing ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
The Other ◽  
Wing Venation ◽  
Two New Species

Two new species of Brasineura are described from Brazil based on male specimens: Brasineura calori sp. n. (Bahia: Brazil) and Brasineura morrense sp. n. (Bahia: Brazil). They differ from the other species in the genus, in which the males are known, by hypandrium and phallosome structures. New records and comments on variation in the fore- and hind- wing venation of B. troglophilica Silva-Neto & García Aldrete and B. diamantina Silva-Neto & García Aldrete are presented. The identification key to male Brasineura species is updated.

A new fossil wood of Peltophoroxylon (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae) from the El Palmar Formation (late Pleistocene), Entre Ríos, Argentina

IAWA Journal ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Soledad Ramos ◽  
Mariana Brea ◽  
Romina Pardo
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Growth Ring ◽  
First Record ◽  
Vessel Diameter ◽  
Middle Part ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Axial Parenchyma ◽  
Parenchyma Cells ◽  
Ray Parenchyma ◽  
Entre Rios

This paper describes the first record of Peltophoroxylon (Ramanujam) Müller-Stoll et Mädel 1967 from the late Pleistocene of Argentina. The fossil specimens were recovered from the Colonia Ayuí and Punta Viracho fossil localities of the El Palmar Formation, located in the middle part of the Uruguay Basin, eastern Argentina. The diagnostic features are: growth ring boundaries demarcated by marginal parenchyma, medium-sized vestured intervessel pits, vessel-ray parenchyma pits similar in size and shape to intervessel pits, vasicentric to lozenge type aliform axial parenchyma, biseriate (70%) and uniseriate (30%) homocellular rays, non-septate and septate fibers, and long chains (10+) of prismatic crystals in chambered axial parenchyma cells. These features suggest a relationship with Peltophorum (Vogel) Benth. (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae). The vessel diameter and vessel density of the El Palmar woods are consistent with the temperate-warm, humid-semiarid climate inferred for this region during the late Pleistocene.

Two new Dikraneurini genera from Ecuador (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4281 (1) ◽  
pp. 232
Author(s):  
MARÍA INÉS CATALANO ◽  
CHRISTOPHER H. DIETRICH
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Hind Wing ◽  
Wing Venation ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Apical Cells

 Two new genera, Sakakidikra n. gen. and Tricella n. gen., of tribe Dikraneurini McAtee are described from Ecuador, each based on a single new species, Sakakidikra jazminae n. sp. and Tricella antonellae n. sp. Both new genera described have only three apical cells in the forewing, an unusual characteristic in Typhlocybinae, but given the differences in the forewing and hind wing venation and male genitalia characters we consider it more appropriate to place the specimens in two separate monotypic genera. 

scholarly journals Rediscovery of Coelostoma thienemanni (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae): the first record from continental Asia and correction of its subgeneric assignment

2019 ◽  
Vol 188 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Fikáček ◽  
Andre Skale ◽  
Feng-Long Jia
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
First Record ◽  
Aquatic Species ◽  
Median Lobe ◽  
Northern Vietnam ◽  
Dimensional Shape ◽  
Three Dimensional Shape

Abstract We are reporting a recent discovery of Coelostoma ( Lachnocoelostoma ) thienemanni Orchymont, 1932 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae: Coelostomatini) from northern Vietnam, which represents the first record of the species since 1929 and its first record from continental Asia. The species is redescribed and illustrated, and transferred from the subgenus Holocoelostoma Mouchamps, 1958 to Lachnocoelostoma Mouchamps, 1958. The species is unusual among Asian Coelostoma by its complex three-dimensional shape of the median lobe of the aedeagus, in which it is only similar to C. tangliangi Jia et al ., 2017 in Asia. The species is also unusual by its very long dorsal tarsal swimming hairs, indicating that it is an aquatic species.

scholarly journals New species and a new genus of Philopotamidae from the Andes of Bolivia and Ecuador (Insecta, Trichoptera)

ZooKeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 780 ◽  
pp. 89-108
Author(s):  
Ralph W. Holzenthal ◽  
Roger J. Blahnik ◽  
Blanca Ríos-Touma
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Hind Wing ◽  
First Record ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Bolivian Andes ◽  
The Andes ◽  
Segment Viii ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

A new genus and species of Philopotamidae (Philopotaminae),Aymaradellaboliviana, is described from the Bolivian Andes of South America. The new genus differs from other Philopotaminae by the loss of 2A vein in the hind wing and, in the male genitalia, the synscleritous tergum and sternum of segment VIII, and the elongate sclerotized dorsal processes of segment VIII. The first record ofHydrobiosella(Philopotaminae) in the New World is also provided with a new species from the Andes of Ecuador,Hydrobiosellaandina. In addition, a new species of the Neotropical genusChimarrhodella(Chimarrinae),Chimarrhodellachoco, is described from the Choco-Andean region of Ecuador, andChimarrhodellaperuviana(Ross) is recorded from Ecuador for the first time. Lastly,Wormaldiaimbrialis(Philopotaminae), new species, is described, also from the Ecuadorian Choco.

Redefinition of genus Tarasco Marsh (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Doryctinae) and description of two new Brazilian species

Zootaxa ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 411 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra M. Barbalho ◽  
Denise Scatolini ◽  
Angélica M. Penteado-Dias
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Fore Wing ◽  
Hind Wing ◽  
Wing Venation ◽  
Brazilian Species ◽  
Two New Species

A redefinition of the genus Tarasco Marsh is provided along with description of two new species found in Brazil (T. granulata Barbalho and Penteado-Dias, new species and T. costata Barbalho and Scatolini, new species). This redefinition of the genus considers variation in characters in wing venation, such as the presence of vein r-m in the fore wing and vein 1-SC+R being complete and tubular in the hind wing.

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