First Record ofEllimenistes laesicollis(Coleoptera: Curculionidae) as a Garden Pest in the Western Cape, South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 536-538
Author(s):  
J.H. Giliomee
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
First Record ◽  
Western Cape

Nematodes associated with terrestrial slugs from canola fields and ornamental nurseries in South Africa

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4312 (1) ◽  
pp. 194 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNIKA PIETERSE ◽  
ANTOINETTE P. MALAN ◽  
LAURA M. KRUITBOS ◽  
WILLEM SIRGEL ◽  
JENNA L. ROSS
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Large Subunit ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Nematode Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
Small Subunit ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Molecular Sequence Data ◽  
Molecular Sequence

A survey of nematodes that use terrestrial slugs as definitive hosts, was conducted in canola fields and ornamental nurseries located in the Western Cape province of South Africa. A total of 3290 slugs were collected from 22 different sites. On the identification of the slugs, they were vivisected and examined for internal nematodes. After identifying the nematodes found, on the basis of their morphological characteristics, their identity was confirmed using molecular sequence data for the internal transcribed spacer (ITS-1, 5.8S, ITS-2), D2-D3 expansion segments of the large subunit (LSU or 28S) and small subunit (SSU or 18S) ribosomal DNA. Of the 22 sites investigated, 13 had nematodes present, with 8 % of the slugs being found to be infected with nematodes. Seven nematode species were confirmed, including Agfa flexilis, Angiostoma margaretae, Angiostoma sp. (SA1), Caenorhabditis elegans, mermithid sp. (SA1), Phasmarhabditis sp. (SA3) and Phasmarhabditis sp. (SA4). In addition, several Angiostoma spp. were also isolated, but could only be identified to genus level due to limited material. Of the seven confirmed species, four were previously undescribed. This is the first record of A. margaretae associating with Deroceras panormitanum, Deroceras reticulatum, Lehmannia valentiana and Oopelta polypunctata. Also, this is the first time that a mermithid has been found associating with molluscs in South Africa. 

Wallametopa (Amphipoda, Stenothoidae) from South Africa, with description of a new species

Crustaceana ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 89 (14) ◽  
pp. 1669-1676
Author(s):  
Michael L. Zettler ◽  
Franziska U. Glück
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the family Stenothoidae,Wallametopa cylindricasp. nov., is described from samples collected in 2015 in the Knysna Estuary, Western Cape, South Africa. This is the first record of the genusWallametopain South Africa, a genus now being represented by two species found in Africa, Madagascar and Australia.Wallametopa cylindricais closely related to the Australian and MadagascanW. cabonBarnard, 1974, from which it differs by having a distinct cylindrical elongation of the merus of gnathopod 1 in both sexes but more striking in males. Both the basis and the merus of gnathopod 2 are also acutely produced postero-distally. The palmar margin of the propodus of gnathopod 2 in males is strongly, irregularly incised and with a deep, broad excavation (larger male). The dactylus reaches the whole length of the propodus and is densely setose on the inner margin.

scholarly journals The First Record of Intestinal Ciliates from the Mountain Zebra (Equus zebra) in South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 149-155
Author(s):  
Olga Kornilova ◽  
Klara Tsushko ◽  
Ludmila Chistyakova
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Wild Population ◽  
First Record ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Red List ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
First Report ◽  
Ciliate Species ◽  
The World ◽  
First Time

This paper is a first report on species of endosymbiotic ciliates (Litostomatea, Trichostomatia) inhabiting the intestine of zebras in South Africa. Ciliates from Mountain Zebra were investigated for the first time in the world. The wild population of mountain zebras in general and the Cape Mountain Zebra subspecies in particular is low in numbers: this species is included as vulnerable in the IUCN Red List. Approximately 15 species of trichostome ciliates from 9 different genera were found in the samples collected from wild zebras in Western Cape, South Africa. Some of the ciliate species are also common to horses and other equids, while others are unique for zebras. The ciliates of Triplumaria genus common to elephants and rhinoceroses, and the species Blepharosphaera ceratotherii previously described in rhinoceroses were found in equids for the first time.

Pseudopolydora species associated with mollusc shells on the south coast of South Africa, with the description of Ps. dayii, sp nov.

2009 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 681-687 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol A. Simon
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
West Coast ◽  
First Record ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
The South ◽  
Western Cape Province ◽  
Additional Material ◽  
South West ◽  
Haliotis Midae ◽  
South West Coast

Two species of the genus Pseudopolydora, Ps. dayii, sp. nov. and Ps. antennata, were associated with gastropods on the south and south-east coasts of South Africa. Pseudopolydora dayii is characterized by prominent post-chaetal notopodial lobes on chaetiger 1 with very long chaetae, a prominent occipital tentacle, having hooded hooks that start on chaetiger 9, branchiae that start on chaetiger 6, stout hooks and lobes placed latero-posteriorly to the hooded hooks in posterior chaetigers. It is a surface-fouler and was found on several species of wild gastropods at four of the five sites sampled and from additional material from the south-west coast and on cultured abalone (Haliotis midae) at a farm on the south-west coast. Three individuals of Ps. antennata were found only with oysters at the easternmost site. This was the first record of this species outside of the Western Cape Province and it is possible that their association with the oysters was fortuitous.

Three new species of Gladiolus (Iridaceae) from South Africa, a major range extension for G. rubellus and taxonomic notes for the genus in southern and tropical Africa

Bothalia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Manning ◽  
P. Goldblatt
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Late Summer ◽  
First Record ◽  
Range Extension ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Tropical Africa ◽  
Three New Species

Three new species of Gladiolus L. are described from South Africa.  G. dolichosiphon is the second known member of series Blandus from the mountains of the Little Karoo in Western Cape, and is distinguished from other members of the long tubed, pink-flowered G. carneus complex by its 5 or 6 linear leaves, creamy pink to salmon flowers with a tube 30-50 mm long and longer than the dorsal tepal, and its late summer flowering. G. karooicus from the Klein Roggeveld and the northern foothills of the Witteberg, is a spring-flowering species allied to G. permeabilis but has bright, canary-yellow flowers with the lower part of the lower tepals involute and conspicuously auriculate.  G. reginae is an edaphic endemic of the Sekhuk- huneland Centre of Floristic Endemism in Mpumalanga, and flowers in autumn. It is evidently a glabrous member of section Densiflorus series Scabridus, distinguished by its long-tubed flowers, streaked with red on the lower tepals and blotched with red in the throat. Anomalously, however, it has the tubular inner bracts and large capsules diagnostic of section Ophiolyza series Oppositiflorus. A re-examination of the morphology suggests that series Scabridus is better placed in section Ophiolyza and a slightly revised classification of Gladiolus in southern Africa is proposed. We also propose the replacement name G. sulculatus for the Tanzanian species, G. sulcatus Goldblatt, a later homonym of G. sulcatus Lam. Finally, a recent sighting of what appears to be G. rubellus from northern Namibia constitutes the first record of this species in the country and a major range extension from its previous known occurrence in southeastern Botswana.

scholarly journals First Record of Botrytis Flower Blight Caused by Botrytis cinerea on Geraldton Waxflower in South Africa

Plant Disease ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 440-440
Author(s):  
L. Swart ◽  
S. Coertze
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
First Record ◽  
Gray Mold ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Cut Flower ◽  
Transparent Plastic ◽  
Disease Symptoms ◽  
Plastic Bags ◽  
Growing Conditions ◽  
Chamelaucium Uncinatum

Geraldton waxflower (Chamelaucium uncinatum Schauer, family Myrtaceae), indigenous to western Australia, is cultivated commercially in South Africa as a cut-flower crop and exported to markets in the Northern Hemisphere. In September 2000, disease symptoms were observed on 4-year-old plants in a commercial orchard of C. uncinatum cv. Ofir in Philippe, in the Western Cape Province. The base of the petals and the calyxes of the waxflowers showed brown necrotic lesions. Eventually the calyx and all the petals turned brown, and the flowers shriveled and abscised. B. cinerea Pers.:Fr was consistently isolated from affected petal and calyx tissues. When placed in a moist chamber, conidia and mycelia formed on the surface of dead and infected tissue. Koch's postulates were confirmed by spraying flower stems of C. uncinatum cv. Ofir with a spore suspension (1 × 106 conidia per ml). Inoculated flower stems were placed in a bottle filled with water and enclosed in transparent plastic bags for 24 h at 21°C. Typical symptoms developed on the petals and calyx within 3 days after inoculation. B. cinerea was reisolated from affected tissues. Botrytis flower blight or gray mold, causing a flower petal disease, has been recorded on C. uncinatum in Australia (1), but this is the first record of Botrytis flower blight of C. uncinatum in South Africa. Because Geraldton waxflower is a major cut-flower crop grown for export, this disease can cause significant losses to the industry, especially under cool, wet growing conditions. Reference: (1) A. Tomas et al. Aust. Plant Pathol. 24:26, 1995.

scholarly journals Agistemus collyerae (Acari: Trombidiformes: Stigmaeidae) in South Africa: first record, introduction pathways and a re-description including additional life stages

Acarologia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-130
Author(s):  
Davina L. Saccaggi ◽  
Edward A. Ueckermann
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
First Record ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Western Cape Province ◽  
Introduction Pathways ◽  
Introduction Pathway ◽  
The Usa ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

Agistemus collyerae Gonzáles-Rodrigues (Stigmaeidae) is reported for the first time in South Africa on grapevines in the Western Cape Province. We investigate a possible introduction pathway of this mite as a contaminant on imported agricultural goods. Based on South African interception data, we report new country records of A. collyerae in the USA, Chile, Yemen, Spain and France. We re-describe it based on the South African specimens, including first-time descriptions of the male and deutonymph. Female specimens have shorter dorsal setae than those documented in the original descriptions, but we do not consider this enough evidence to justify a new species.

scholarly journals The spiders of the Swartberg Nature Reserve in South Africa (Arachnida: Araneae)

Koedoe ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A.S. Dippenaar-Schoeman ◽  
A.E. Van der Walt ◽  
M. De Jager ◽  
E. Le Roux ◽  
A. Van der Berg
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
New Records ◽  
First Record ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Western Cape Province ◽  
Succulent Karoo ◽  
Annotated Checklist

The Swartberg Nature Reserve is situated in the Large Swartberg mountain range, in the Oudtshoorn district of the Western Cape Province. Spiders were collected from the reserve over a 10-year period. This is one of the inventory projects of the South African National Survey (SANSA) for spiders of the Succulent Karoo Biome. A total of 45 families comprising 136 genera and 186 species were collected, all which are new records for the area. This represents about 9.4 of the total known South African spider fauna. Of the spiders collected 142 species (76.5 ) were wanderers and 44 (23.5 ) web dwellers. The plant dwellers comprised 43.3 of the total number of species and the ground dwellers 56.7 . The Gnaphosidae was the most diverse family represented by 33 species, followed by the Salticidae with 23 and Thomisidae with 15. Ten species are possibly new to science and the Filistatidae is a first record for South Africa. An annotated checklist with information on the guilds, habitat preference and web types are provided.

Gasteria langebergensis, a new status for a Gasteria from the Western Cape, South Africa

Bradleya ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (37) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
E.J. Van Jaarsveld ◽  
B.J.M. Zonneveld ◽  
D.V. Tribble
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Western Cape
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