scholarly journals Four new species of Asian horned toads (Anura, Megophryidae, Megophrys) from southern China

ZooKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 942 ◽  
pp. 105-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi-Tong Lyu ◽  
Yuan-Qiu Li ◽  
Zhao-Chi Zeng ◽  
Jian Zhao ◽  
Zu-Yao Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
Cryptic Species ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Southern Hunan ◽  
Northern Guangdong ◽  
Mtdna Genealogy

Recent phylogenetic analysis encompassing multilocus nuclear-gene and matrilineal mtDNA genealogy has revealed a series of cryptic species of the subgenus Panophrys within genus Megophrys from southern and eastern China. This study demonstrates that the Panophrys specimens from the hilly areas among Guangdong, Guangxi and Hunan can be morphologically distinguished from all recognized congeners, thereby providing additional supports for the recognitions of four new species of Panophrys, namely Megophrys (Panophrys) mirabilis Lyu, Wang & Zhao, sp. nov. from northeastern Guangxi, Megophrys (Panophrys) shimentaina Lyu, Liu & Wang, sp. nov. from northern Guangdong, and Megophrys (Panophrys) xiangnanensis Lyu, Zeng & Wang, sp. nov. and Megophrys (Panophrys) yangmingensis Lyu, Zeng & Wang, sp. nov. from southern Hunan. The descriptions of these species take the number of Megophrys species to 101, 46 of which belong to the subgenus Panophrys.

Three new species of the genus Boulenophrys (Anura, Megophryidae) from southern China

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5072 (5) ◽  
pp. 401-438
Author(s):  
SHUO QI ◽  
ZHI-TONG LYU ◽  
JIAN WANG ◽  
YUN-MING MO ◽  
ZHAO-CHI ZENG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Cryptic Species ◽  
South China ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
Northern Guangdong

The diversity of Asian horned toads is considered highly underestimated and to contain a large number of undescribed cryptic species. In this work, we describe three new species of Boulenophrys from south China, namely, Boulenophrys yaoshanensis sp. nov. from central Guangxi, Boulenophrys yingdeensis sp. nov. from northern Guangdong, and Boulenophrys yunkaiensis sp. nov. from western Guangdong. These three new species can be distinguished from all recognized congeners by a combination of morphological characteristics and significant genetic divergences. These descriptions increase the number of recognized species of Boulenophrys to 61. In addition, an updated checklist of the Asian horned toads of the subfamily Megophryinae is provided in this study.  

scholarly journals Three new Russula species in sect. Ingratae (Russulales, Basidiomycota) from southern China

MycoKeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
pp. 103-139
Author(s):  
Guo-Jie Li ◽  
Shou-Mian Li ◽  
Bart Buyck ◽  
Shi-Yi Zhao ◽  
Xue-Jiao Xie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
Internal Transcribed Spacer ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Its Region ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Phylogenetic Data ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time

Three new species of Russulasection Ingratae, found in Guizhou and Jiangsu Provinces, southern China, are proposed: R. straminella, R. subpectinatoides and R. succinea. Photographs, line drawings and detailed morphological descriptions for these species are provided with comparisons against closely-related taxa. Phylogenetic analysis of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region supported the recognition of these specimens as new species. Additionally, R. indocatillus is reported for the first time from China and morphological and phylogenetic data are provided for the Chinese specimens.

scholarly journals The first representatives of the millipede family Glomeridellidae (Diplopoda, Glomerida) recorded from China and Indochina

ZooKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 954 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Weixin Liu ◽  
Sergei Golovatch
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
Dna Barcoding ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Mitochondrial Gene ◽  
Guizhou Province ◽  
The Family ◽  
Structural Details ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
A New Species

A new species of glomeridellid millipede is described from Guizhou Province, southern China: Tonkinomeris huzhengkunisp. nov. This new epigean species differs very clearly in many structural details, being sufficiently distinct morphologically and disjunct geographically from T. napoensis Nguyen, Sierwald & Marek, 2019, the type and sole species of Tonkinomeris Nguyen, Sierwald & Marek, 2019, which was described recently from northern Vietnam. The genus Tonkinomeris is formally relegated from Glomeridae and assigned to the family Glomeridellidae, which has hitherto been considered strictly Euro-Mediterranean in distribution and is thus new to the diplopod faunas of China and Indochina. Tonkinomeris is re-diagnosed and shown to have perhaps the basalmost position in the family Glomeridellidae. Its relationships are discussed, both morphological and zoogeographical, within and outside the Glomeridellidae, which can now be considered as relict and basically Oriental in origin. Because of the still highly limited array of DNA-barcoding sequences of the COI mitochondrial gene available in the GenBank, the first molecular phylogenetic analysis of Glomerida attempted here shows our phylogram to be too deficient to consider meaningful.

The Vietnamese population of Megophrys kuatunensis (Amphibia: Megophryidae) represents a new species of Asian horned frog from Vietnam and southern China

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4344 (3) ◽  
pp. 465 ◽  
Author(s):  
BENJAMIN TAPLEY ◽  
TIMOTHY CUTAJAR ◽  
STEPHEN MAHONY ◽  
CHUNG THANH NGUYEN ◽  
VINH QUANG DAU ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Vietnamese Population ◽  
Group A ◽  
A New Species

The Asian frog genus Megophrys is a diverse group of morphologically conserved, forest-dwelling frogs. The genus harbours highly localised species diversification and new species continue to be described on a regular basis. We examined the taxonomic status of a population of Megophrys frogs from the Hoang Lien Range in northern Vietnam and southern China previously identified as M. kuatunensis (subgenus Panophrys). Preliminary phylogenetic analyses using a fragment of 16S rDNA places the species in question within the Megophrys (subgenus Panophrys) species group, a primarily Chinese radiation within the genus. On the basis of morphological, molecular and bioacoustic data, we conclude that this population does not represent M. kuatunensis, or any known species in the genus. We herein describe this species of Megophrys as new. Known only from Sa Pa District, Lao Cai Province in Vietnam and Jinping County, Yunnan Province in China, the new species is likely to be threatened by ongoing deforestation in the region. We provide an updated species description of M. kuatunensis based on type specimens, and suggest that M. kuatunensis is likely to be restricted to eastern China.  

First species of Ctenisomorphus Raffray, 1890 from China, with comments on Largeyeus J.-K. Li, 1993 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5016 (4) ◽  
pp. 588-596
Author(s):  
QI-QI LI ◽  
YAN WANG ◽  
ZI-WEI YIN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Hainan Island ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Natural Reserve

The Ctenistini fauna of China is insufficient documented. In this paper the first Chinese species of the genus Ctenisomorphus Raffray, 1890, C. yinggelingensis sp. nov., is described and separated from congeners based on two male and four female specimens collected at Yinggeling Natural Reserve, Hainan Island, southern China. Images of the habitus and major diagnostic characters of the new species are provided. The taxonomic status of Largeyeus anhuianus J.-K. Li, 1993 distributed in Anhui, eastern China is discussed, and the genus is placed as a junior synonym of Poroderus Sharp, 1883 syn. nov., resulting in P. anhuianus comb. nov.  

scholarly journals Semiaquilegia danxiashanensis (Ranunculaceae), a new species from Danxia Shan in Guangdong, southern China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 405 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIAN-JUN ZHOU ◽  
ZHANG-PING HUANG ◽  
JIA-HUI LI ◽  
SCOTT HODGES ◽  
WEI-SHENG DENG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Separate Species ◽  
F Region ◽  
Phylogenetic Studies ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Nuclear Its ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Northern Guangdong

Based on morphological and molecular phylogenetic studies, Semiaquilegia danxiashanensis, a new species from Danxia Shan in northern Guangdong, southern China, is described and illustrated. This species is easily distinguishable from each of other three known species in the genus by characters of the flowers and fruits. In addition, molecular phylogenetic analyses of both the nuclear ITS and the plastid trnL-F region strongly supported S. danxiashanensis as a separate species from other species of Semiaquilegia. We provide a detailed morphological and habitat description, distribution, as well as colour photographs and illustrations of the new species.

Three novel species of Russula from southern China based on morphological and molecular evidence

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 392 (4) ◽  
pp. 264 ◽  
Author(s):  
JING-WEI LI ◽  
JIAN-FEI ZHENG ◽  
YU SONG ◽  
FA YUAN ◽  
LI-HONG QIU
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
Internal Transcribed Spacer ◽  
Novel Species ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Its Sequences ◽  
Molecular Evidence ◽  
Three New Species

Three new species of Russula collected from southern China are proposed based on morphological characters and phylogenetic analysis of internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences. Russula bubalina sp. nov. is characterized by cinnamon buff to pink pileus with striate margin, interveined and forked lamellae, basidiospores with warty ornamentations not forming reticulum, hymenial cystidia becoming brown in sulphovanillin (SV) and slender terminal cells in suprapellis. R. pseudobubalina sp. nov. is closely related to Russula bubalina in macro-morphology, but it can be recognized by its unforked lamellae, shorter cheilocystidia, bigger basidia and basidiospores with lower ornamentations. Russula subatropurpurea sp. nov. can be recognized by the purplish brown pileus, mild-tasted and white context changing to light purplish red with FeSO4, white and forking lamellae without lamellulae, long hymenial cystidia becoming brown in SV. Both morphological and phylogenetic analysis consistently confirmed the distinct positions of three new species in subg. Heterophyllidia subsection Heterophyllinae.

scholarly journals On the evolution of the species complex Pachycondyla chinensis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae), including the origin of its invasive form and description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2685 (1) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOSHIHISA YASHIRO ◽  
KENJI MATSUURA ◽  
BENOIT GUÉNARD ◽  
MAMORU TERAYAMA ◽  
ROBERT R. DUNN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
Cryptic Species ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
The United States ◽  
Invasive Ant ◽  
The World ◽  
Pachycondyla Chinensis ◽  
A New Species

Ants are one of the most successful and widespread organisms in the world. Although ants of the genus Pachycondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) are predominantly tropical in distribution, Pachycondyla chinensis (Emery) is especially abundant in temperate zones in Asia. Recently, P. chinensis has also become an abundant invasive ant species in the United States. However, it was well-known that the Pachycondyla chinensis species complex remained unresolved. Our molecular and morphological results allow us to distinguish two species in the species complex: the species P. chinensis and the new cryptic species P. nakasujii sp. nov., and these two species are widely and sympatrically distributed and abundant in temperate forests in Japan. Moreover, phylogenetic analysis showed that P. chinensis has been introduced into the United States from Japan. In conclusion, our finding of the new species P. nakasujii suggests that much remains undiscovered even in biologically fascinating and well-studied organisms.

scholarly journals First report of the genus Pelecystola Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Tineidae) in China, with description of a new species

ZooKeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1046 ◽  
pp. 189-206
Author(s):  
Lin-Lin Yang ◽  
Hou-Hun Li
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
Maximum Likelihood ◽  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Dna Barcodes ◽  
Likelihood Methods ◽  
Mitochondrial Coi ◽  
Maximum Likelihood Methods ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
A New Species

The genus Pelecystola Meyrick, 1920 and the species Pelecystola strigosa (Moore, 1888) are newly recorded from China, and Pelecystola peculiarissp. nov. is described as new to science. Adults, head, venation, and genitalia of the two species are illustrated. A molecular phylogenetic analysis is presented to ascertain the generic affiliation of the new species. Forty-four species of 38 genera in Tineidae are analyzed using maximum likelihood methods based on one mitochondrial (COI) and two nuclear gene fragments (CAD and wingless). DNA barcodes of the two species are provided, and the genetic distance of barcode divergence among four species of Pelecystola is calculated.

Arachniodes libingii sp. nov. and A. vietnamensis sp. nov. (Dryopteridaceae), two new ferns from southern China and central Vietnam

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 522 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-262
Author(s):  
NGAN THI LU ◽  
LINH PHUONG NGUYEN ◽  
CHI TOAN LE ◽  
THANH TRUNG NGUYEN ◽  
LIANG ZHANG
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Morphological Studies ◽  
Central Vietnam ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Close Relationship

We here describe two new species Arachniodes libingii and A. vietnamensis (Dryopteridaceae) from southern China and central Vietnam, respectively. Our previous phylogenetic analysis found a close relationship between the two new species. Further morphological studies showed that the two species share short creeping rhizomes, blackish brown and lanceolate scales, papery laminae, aristate pinnules, dense scales along fronds, and entire indusia. However, A. libingii has deltoid-oblong laminae and apices abruptly acuminate-caudate, while A. vietnamensis has shortly ovate laminae and apices gradually acuminate.

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