THE AQUATIC DANCE FLY FAUNA OF A SUBARCTIC RIVER SYSTEM IN QUÉBEC, WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF HEMERODROMIA (DIPTERA: EMPIDIDAE)

1985 ◽  
Vol 117 (11) ◽  
pp. 1379-1386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Landry ◽  
P.P. Harper
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Aquatic Insects ◽  
River System ◽  
James Bay ◽  
Baseline Study ◽  
Hydroelectric Project ◽  
Emergence Patterns ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Dance Fly ◽  
Made In

AbstractAs part of a preimpoundment baseline study in the James Bay Hydroelectric Project in Northwestern Québec, systematic collections of aquatic insects were made in 1974 and 1975 in lakes and streams of the Rivière du Castor drainage. The aquatic Empididae are reported on here: they comprise 12 species, one of which is new (Hemerodromia fibrina n. sp.). Except for the boreal Metachela albipes, the fauna is remarkably temperate in character and composition. Emergence patterns are similar, though foreshortened, to those observed in southern Québec, and there are no bivoltine species. Most species are lotic and many thrive in fast waters (Neoplasm scapularis, Roederiodes recurvatus), but there is nevertheless a distinct lacustrine fauna (H. fibrina and perhaps also Chelifera rastrifera). The bog stations harbored only the widespread Chelifera palloris.

A tiny new species of Specklinia from Haiti’s Parc National Naturel Macaya and new combinations in Acianthera (Pleurothallidinae, Epidendreae, Epidendroideae, Orchidaceae)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 275 (3) ◽  
pp. 263
Author(s):  
ALFONSO DOUCETTE ◽  
JOEL TIMYAN ◽  
INGRID HENRYS ◽  
KENNETH M. CAMERON
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Geographic Distribution ◽  
Growth Habit ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
Phylogenetic Placement ◽  
New Synonym ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Made In

A new species of Specklinia with a repent growth habit and minute purple flowers is described and illustrated. The new species is distinguished from Specklinia wrightii based on its morphological and molecular distinctness from that species. The phylogenetic placement of the new species is provided based on an nrITS tree. The species described here represents the first new orchid to be described from material originating from the Parc National Naturel Macaya in six years. New combinations are made in Acianthera for species of Kraenzlinella and Pleurothallis subgen. Antilla embedded within the genus. In particular Kraenzlinella rinkei is provided as a new synonym for Specklinia montezumae and Specklinia simpliciflora is transferred to Acianthera sect. Antilla based on morphology and geographic distribution.

New species, records, and immature stages of Chimarra Stephens (Trichoptera: Philopotamidae) from Campos Amazônicos National Park, northern Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4500 (2) ◽  
pp. 258
Author(s):  
GLEISON ROBSON DESIDÉRIO ◽  
PATRIK BARCELOS-SILVA ◽  
NEUSA HAMADA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Aquatic Insects ◽  
National Park ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Immature Stages ◽  
Male Adult ◽  
Northern Brazil ◽  
Amazonas State ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

Campos Amazônicos National Park is a federal conservation unit that contains part of the largest Cerrado refuge in the southern part of Brazilian Amazonia. Recently, during a survey of aquatic insects in the park, specimens of the caddisfly genus Chimarra were collected. The primary objective of this paper, as a result of this effort, is to describe and illustrate the male adult of a new species in Chimarra (Chimarrita), Chimarra singularis sp. nov., and the immature stages of Chimarra usitatissima Flint 1971. Additionally, the distributions of C.(Chimarrita) akantha Blahnik 1997 and C. (Curgia) jugescens Flint 1998 are extended to the southern part of Amazonas state, and C. (Chimarrita) heppneri Blahnik 1997 is recorded for the first time in northern Brazil. 

scholarly journals A new species of Xyliphius, a rarely sampled banjo catfish (Siluriformes: Aspredinidae) from the rio Tocantins-Araguaia system

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos A Figueiredo ◽  
Marcelo R Britto
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
River System ◽  
Character State ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Posterior Border ◽  
Lower Lip ◽  
Araguaia River ◽  
State Variation ◽  
A New Species

Xyliphius anachoretes, a new species of aspredinid catfish is described from the Tocantins-Araguaia River system. Xyliphius anachoretes is diagnosed by the presence of six developed retrorse serrae on posterior border of pectoral-fin spine, presence of papillae on the lower lip bearing minute branches, and only two dorsal procurrent rays. Comments about the informativeness of character-state variation among Xyliphius species and aspredinid related genera are furnished. Also, a brief discussion about conservation status of the new taxon is made.

scholarly journals A new species of redfin (Teleostei, Cyprinidae, Pseudobarbus) from the Verlorenvlei River system, South Africa

ZooKeys ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 453 ◽  
pp. 121-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Chakona ◽  
Ernst R Swartz ◽  
Paul H. Skelton
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
River System ◽  
A New Species

Contributions to the taxonomy of Rhyncholacis (Podostemaceae): Evidence of monophyly, description of a new species, and transfer of the monotypic Macarenia

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 357 (2) ◽  
pp. 107 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. THOMAS PHILBRICK ◽  
BRAD R. RUHFEL ◽  
CLAUDIA P. BOVE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Phylogenetic Study ◽  
Trnl Intron ◽  
Nuclear Its ◽  
Lobed Leaf ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Made In

We conducted a phylogenetic study of neotropical subfamily Podostemoideae with a focus on Rhyncholacis and the monotypic Macarenia using molecular data (plastid: rbcL, trnL intron; nuclear: ITS). Our results placed the five included species of Rhyncholacis, one of which is newly described herein, in a moderately well supported (73 BP) clade with M. clavigera. These results support the transfer of M. clavigera to Rhyncholacis (R. clavigera); the nomenclatural changes are made. In addition, a new species of Rhyncholacis (R. paulana C.T. Philbrick & C.P. Bove) is illustrated and described. Rhyncholacis paulana is distinguished from all other species in the genus by its simple pinnately lobed leaf, which is fleshy and undulate. All other species of Rhyncholacis have leaves that are pinnately lobed, the lobes of which are repeatedly divided, or pinnately compound and characterized by finely dissected pinnate segments.

scholarly journals On the Bibliography of a Late Eighteenth-Century German Work on Natural History and an Early Record of Leuciscus Meidingeri Heckel, 1852 (Pisces, Cyprinidae) in the River System of the Upper Danube on 6th April 1786

1972 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-163
Author(s):  
S.J. de Groot
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
River System ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
A New Species

The bibliography of a hitherto inaccurately described anonymous eighteenth-century popular German work on natural history is given, dealing with mammals, birds, fishes, amphibians and reptiles. As an addendum to this work the publisher has given an engraving of an unknown fish from the river Lech, river system of the Upper Danube. The fish could be identified as the cyprinid Leuciscus meidingeri Heckel, 1852. The observation of the species was made 66 years before its recognition as a new species by Heckel.

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