scholarly journals REVISION OF THE WORLD SPECIES OF ARADOPHAGINI (HYMENOPTERA: SCELIONIDAE)

1979 ◽  
Vol 111 (10) ◽  
pp. 1089-1100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lubomir Masner ◽  
Lars Huggert
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Type Species ◽  
South India ◽  
Taxonomic Position ◽  
World Species ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World

AbstractSeven species of Aradophagini are classified in three genera. Aradophagus Ashmead includes A. fasciatus (USA, Canada, Europe) A. pulchricornis n. sp. (Mexico, USA), and A. microps n. sp. (South India). Ladora n. gen. includes L. brunnea n. sp. (type-species: Morocco, Mallorca, Gambia), L. maura n. sp. (South Africa), and L. trjapitzini n. sp. (Central Asia). Abuko n. gen. with A. sarotes n. sp. (type-species: Gambia). The tribe Aradophagini is redefined and its taxonomic position in the family Scelionidae is discussed. Keys to genera and species of Aradophagini are given.

scholarly journals The world Polleniidae (Diptera, Oestroidea): key to genera and checklist of species

ZooKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 971 ◽  
pp. 105-155
Author(s):  
Silvia Gisondi ◽  
Knut Rognes ◽  
Davide Badano ◽  
Thomas Pape ◽  
Pierfilippo Cerretti
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
World Species ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World

A key to the world genera and a checklist of the world species for the family Polleniidae, including distributions, are provided. The following taxonomic and nomenclatural changes are proposed: Nitellia hermoniella Lehrer, 2007 = Pollenia mediterranea Grunin, 1966, syn. nov., Pollenia bentalia Lehrer, 2007 = Pollenia semicinerea Villeneuve, 1911, syn. nov., Dasypoda angustifrons Jacentkovský, 1941 = Pollenia tenuiforceps Séguy, 1928, syn. nov.; Anthracomyza Malloch, 1928, resurrected name (monotypic; type species Anthracomyia atratula Malloch) is considered a valid name and tentatively assigned to Polleniidae, giving Anthracomyza atratula (Malloch, 1927) as a resurrected combination; Morinia crassitarsis (Villeneuve, 1936), stat. rev. is considered a valid species, and Micronitellia Enderlein, 1936, stat. nov. is considered an available name.

A revision of and key to the world species of Mycterothrips Trybom (Thysanoptera, Thripidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1261 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
MASAMI MASUMOTO ◽  
SHÛJI OKAJIMA
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Indian Species ◽  
World Species ◽  
The World ◽  
Species Groups

The genus Mycterothrips Trybom is reviewed. Twenty-seven species are recognized in the genus, of which six species are newly described mainly from Australia and Japan: M. desleyae sp. n. (Australia); M. egonoki sp. n. (Japan); M. fasciatus sp. n. (Japan, West Malaysia); M. grandis sp. n. (Japan); M. shihoae sp. n. (Japan); M. yamagishii sp. n. (Japan). Five species-groups are recognized in this genus based on character states of males. M. ravidus Wang from Taiwan is treated as a synonym of the Indian species, M. nilgiriensis (Ananthakrishnan), and it is newly recorded from Australia and Nepal. Another Indian species, M. ricini (Shumsher Singh), is newly recorded from Japan. The type species of the genus from South Africa, M. laticauda Trybom, is newly recorded from Tchad. A key to world species is provided.

Review of Testudobracon Quicke (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with descriptions of four new species from south India

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4232 (3) ◽  
pp. 331 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. SHEEBA ◽  
A.P. RANJITH ◽  
T.C. NARENDRAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South India ◽  
Check List ◽  
World Species ◽  
Old World ◽  
The World

The Braconinae is a generically diverse subfamily of Braconidae. The Old World genus Testudobracon Quicke is reviewed and four new species viz., T. athashi Ranjith sp. nov., T. malabaricus Sheeba sp. nov., T. shameeri Ranjith sp. nov. and T. travencorensis Sheeba sp. nov., are described from south India. A check list and key to the world species are provided. 

Report on two African mealybug species (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4750 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-440
Author(s):  
D.J. WILLIAMS ◽  
D. MATILE-FERRERO
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Scale Insects ◽  
Online Database ◽  
World Species ◽  
Afrotropical Region

Most mealybug species in the Afrotropical Region have been described or redescribed adequately and their identities are now well established. The species are listed in the catalogue of world species by Ben-Dov (1994) and in ScaleNet, an online database of the scale insects (García-Morales et al. 2019). The genera found in South Africa, and their type species, were discussed by Millar (2002). However, two species remain that have not been discussed since they were described, and their identities remain obscure. Here we discuss these species. 

Checklist of the family Megalopodidae Latreille (Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea); a synthesis of its diversity and distribution

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4434 (2) ◽  
pp. 265
Author(s):  
GEOVANNI M. RODRÍGUEZ-MIRÓN
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
Knowledge Gaps ◽  
Alphabetical Order ◽  
New Synonym ◽  
The Family ◽  
Biogeographic Region ◽  
The World ◽  
Ethiopian Region

A checklist of the Megalopodidae of the world is presented. A total of 582 species in 29 genera and 11 subgenera are recognized belonging to the three subfamilies. The subfamilies, genera, and species are listed in alphabetical order. For each species, synonymous names and the geographical distribution by country is provided. The most diversified subfamily is Megalopodinae with 480 species and 24 genera. The Neotropical biogeographic region has the highest diversity of Megalopodidae, followed by the Ethiopian region. The knowledge of Megalopodidae is limited, and is remarkably biased by country. A significant increase in geographic and taxonomic information is needed in order to fill these knowledge gaps. The following taxonomic and nomenclatural changes are proposed: 1) type species are designated for the genera Macrolopha Weise and Falsomegalopus Pic. 2) Zeugophora novobicolor Rodríguez-Mirón is proposed as new replacement name of Zeugophora bicolor. 3) The following taxa are reinstated in the genera Temnaspis: T. speciosus Baly, T. arida Westwood, and T. nigriceps Baly. 4) Falsotemnaspis luteimembris Pic is proposed as new synonym (= F. lacordairei (Westwood)). 5) The next new combinations are proposed: Macrolopha bicolor (Jacoby), M. carinata (Bryant), M. centromaculata (Jacoby), M. costatipennis (Pic), M. dollmani (Bryant), M. hargreavesi (Bryan), M. mashuana (Jacoby), M. murrayi (Baly), M. neavei (Bryant), M. nyassae (Bryant), M. suturalis (Clavareau), M. variabilis (Westwood), M. aeneipennis (Weise), M. notaticollis (Pic), M. parvula (Weswood), M. theresae (Pic), M. tricoloripes (Pic) and Falsotemnaspis lacordairei (Westwood). 

Cissococcus Cockerell (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae), a unique gall-inducing soft scale genus on Vitaceae from South Africa, with description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2996 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. HODGSON ◽  
I. M. MILLAR ◽  
P. J. GULLAN
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Scale Insect ◽  
Instar Nymph ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Soft Scale ◽  
First Instar ◽  
The Family ◽  
Gall Induction ◽  
A New Species

The gall-inducing genus Cissococcus Cockerell is revised to include two species. The family placement of Cissococcus has been uncertain, but characters of the first-instar nymph and adult male clearly show that Cissococcus is a soft scale insect (Coccidae) and is therefore the only member of the Coccidae known to induce a complex covering gall. All stages of the type species, C. fulleri Cockerell, are described and illustrated, plus the adult and third-instar female and first-instar nymph of a new, closely-related species, C. braini Hodgson & Millar sp. n. Both species are known only from wild vines in the southeast and C. fulleri also in the northeast of South Africa, but each induces a unique gall and each appears to be restricted to a different species of Rhoicissus (Vitaceae). The galls of each species are described and figured, and gall induction in the Coccidae is briefly discussed.

scholarly journals The first report of Morishitium vagum (Trematoda: Cyclocoelidae) in Turdus merula in Iran

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Kalani ◽  
F. Kalani ◽  
R. Faridnia ◽  
N. Pestechian ◽  
M. A. Mohaghegh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
Mazandaran Province ◽  
Morphometric Characters ◽  
First Report ◽  
Turdus Merula ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
North Of Iran ◽  
Whole Mounts ◽  
Common Blackbird

Abstract This paper describes a trematode isolated from the air sacs of a common blackbird (Turdus merula) by the authors in Qaemshahr city, Mazandaran province, north of Iran. The specimens were in the best form to make whole-mounts for species identification. The identified species was Morishitium vagum (Morishita 1924) Witenberg 1928, belonging to the family Cyclocoelidae Stossich 1902, according to morphologic and morphometric characters, as explained in references. This is the first report of a species belonging to the family Cyclocoelidae in Iran, and the first report of this type-species isolated from Turdus merula in the world.

scholarly journals A survey of the Porrhoclubiona Lohmander, 1944 from Central Asia (Araneae, Clubiondae)

ZooKeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 802 ◽  
pp. 19-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuri M. Marusik ◽  
Mikhail M. Omelko
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
Separate Genus ◽  
Locking Mechanism ◽  
Sem Study ◽  
The World ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Species Groups

ClubionaLatreille, 1804, with more than 500 named species, is one of the largest genera of Araneae. The genus has 15 synonyms, most of which are not listed in the World Spider Catalog (2018) and unknown to many arachnologists. The most comprehensive survey ofClubionasensu lato by Wunderlich (2011) also lacked a few synonyms. In this paper all genus group names described inClubionaare listed with their type species. Most of these names correspond to the species groups recognised inClubionasensu lato. We agree thatPorrhoclubionaLohmander, 1944 (=Clubionagenevensis-group) deserves a status of a separate genus and provide the diagnosis of this taxon. Three species ofPorrhoclubionathat occur in Central Asia are surveyed, and two of them are described as new to science:P.laudata(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885),comb. n. (♂♀, Xinjiang, Tibet, China),P.bosmansisp. n.(♂♀, Tajikistan), andP.moradmandisp. n.(♂♀, Fars, Iran). It seems that all records ofP.genevensisL. Koch, 1866 from China refer toP.laudata. The records ofClubionavegetaSimon, 1918 from Tajikistan and Iran refer toP.bosmansisp. n. andP.moradmandisp. n., respectively. The following new combinations have been established:Porrhoclubionadecora(Blackwall, 1859),comb. n.,P.diniensis(Simon, 1878),comb. n.,P.leucaspis(Simon, 1932),comb. n.,P.minor(Wunderlich, 1987),comb. n.,P.pseudominor(Wunderlich, 1987),comb. n.,P.pteronetoides(Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001),comb. n.,P.vegeta(Simon, 1918),comb. n.,P.viridula(Ono, 1989),comb. n., andP.wunderlichi(Mikhailov 1992),comb. n.(all ex.Clubiona). SEM study of the structure considered earlier as scopula inClubionaandPorrhoclubionareveals that it is represented by several lateral rows of movable macrosetae (spines) with a locking mechanism.

Validity and interpretation of Murcia Koch, Trichoribates Berlese and their type species (Acari: Oribatida: Ceratozetidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2107 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-68
Author(s):  
GERD WEIGMANN ◽  
ROY A. NORTON
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
Oribatid Mite ◽  
Mite Species ◽  
Taxonomic Position ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oribatid Mite Species

In the literature there is much confusion about the identity and taxonomic position of two common oribatid mite species in the family Ceratozetidae: Oribates setosus C.L. Koch, 1839, and Murcia trimaculata C.L. Koch, 1835. Related to these problems, there are contrary opinions about the validity of two ceratozetid genera, Murcia Koch, 1835 and Trichoribates Berlese, 1910, and the identity of their type species. Important conclusions on these issues have been proposed in the past (Jacot 1929; Pérez-Iñigo 1993) but these were not followed in an important recent catalog (Subías 2004). In the following, we summarize and comment on the history of these problems, and argue in the context of the current ICZN rules to preserve nomenclatural stability.

Two new species of Pezothrips (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) in Japan and Europe, with designation of lectotype of type species

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4743 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-91
Author(s):  
MASAMI MASUMOTO ◽  
SHÛJI OKAJIMA
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
World Species ◽  
The World ◽  
Two New Species

Pezothrips nadeshiko n. sp. is described from Dianthus superbus var. longicalycinus at Honshu, Japan and P. pelikani n. sp. is described from Czech Republic. A lectotype is designated for P. frontalis (Uzel), the type species of this genus, and this species is re-described. An illustrated identification key to the world species of Pezothrips is also provided. 

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