DESCRIPTIONS AND SUBFAMILY CLASSIFICATION OF SOME UNUSUAL PHORIDAE (DIPTERA)

1994 ◽  
Vol 126 (3) ◽  
pp. 703-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian V. Brown
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Subfamily Classification ◽  
A New Species

AbstractA new species, Platydipteron balli (type locality near San José, Costa Rica), and first male specimens of Platydipteron are described. Based on these specimens, the genus is transferred from the Aenigmatiinae to the Metopininae. Male terminalia of Postoptica platypezoidea are described, and the genus is placed in the subfamily Phorinae.

Redescription of the Central American genus Moribaetis Waltz & McCafferty 1985 (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4521 (2) ◽  
pp. 231
Author(s):  
NIKITA J. KLUGE ◽  
JUAN A. BERNAL VEGA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Central American ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
A New Species

A new definition for the genus Moribaetis Waltz & McCafferty 1985 is given. Its type species, Moribaetis maculipennis (Flowers 1979) is redescribed based on male and female imagoes reared from larvae near the type locality in Panama. Larvae, formerly wrongly attributed to Moribaetis salvini (Eaton 1885), and a male imago, formerly wrongly attributed to Moribaetis macaferti Waltz 1985, belong to a new species Moribaetis latipennis sp. n., which is described here based on a male imago reared from larva in Panama. Both species, M. maculipennis and M. latipennis sp. n., are distinct from M. salvini, which is known as a single male imago (lectotype) from Costa Rica. All other species, formerly attributed to Moribaetis, are excluded from this genus; a new combination Caribaetis macaferti comb. n. is proposed for the species originally described as Moribaetis macaferti Waltz (in Waltz & McCafferty) 1985, and a new combination Baetis (Rhodobaetis) mimbresaurus comb. n. is proposed for the species originally described as Moribaetis mimbresaurus McCafferty 2007. 

scholarly journals A new species of Leptogorgia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from Golfo Dulce, Pacific, Costa Rica

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3182 (1) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
ODALISCA BREEDY ◽  
HECTOR M. GUZMAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Single Species ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Deep Waters ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
A New Species

The description of this single species is necessary to facilitate the publication of ongoing research conducted by Rita Vargas at the Museum of Zoology, University of Costa Rica, dealing with the associated microfauna. Presently 24 species of Leptogorgia have been reported for the eastern Pacific, 13 of which have been found in Costa Rica (Breedy & Cortés 2011). Although octocoral surveys have been conducted as part of biodiversity studies, there is no published information regarding the occurrence of this taxon in Golfo Dulce. Here we describe a new species of Leptogorgia and compare it with other Leptogorgia species with similar characteristics. Golfo Dulce is a bay located on the southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica. It is about 50 km long, 10–15 km wide, and covers an area of approximately 680 km². The inner part of Golfo Dulce has a maximum depth of slightly over 200 m with a 60 m deep sill at the opening to the Pacific Ocean (Cortés 1999). It has been considered a tropical fjord because of the bathymetry and the presence of anoxic deep waters (Cortés 1999, Svendsen et al. 2006). Specimens were collected by Scuba diving, preserved in 70% ethanol or air dried, and treated and identified following the current methodology (Breedy & Guzman 2002). The holotype and paratypes are deposited in the Museo de Zoología, Universidad de Costa Rica (MZUCR, formerly UCR), San José, P.O. Box 11501-2060, Costa Rica.

scholarly journals The Dryophthoridae of Costa Rica and Panama: Checklist with keys, new synonymy and descriptions of new species of Cactophagus, Mesocordylus, Metamasius and Rhodobaenus (Coleoptera; Curculionoidea)

Zootaxa ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT S. ANDERSON
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Plant Associations ◽  
Cocos Island ◽  
New Synonymy

The Dryophthoridae of Costa Rica and Panama are reviewed. A checklist is presented of the 127 species in Costa Rica and 103 species in Panama. Keys are presented to genera and species. Twenty-four new species are described as follows: Mesocordylus redelmeieri Anderson (type locality; Guanacaste, Costa Rica), Cactophagus dragoni Anderson (type locality; Chiriqui, Panama), C. gasbarrinorum Anderson (type locality; Chiriqui, Panama), C. lineatus Anderson (type locality; San Jose, Costa Rica), C. lingorum Anderson (type locality; Puntarenas, Costa Rica), C. morrisi Anderson (type locality; Chiriqui, Panama), C. riesenorum Anderson (type locality; Puntarenas, Costa Rica), C. silron Anderson (type locality; Puntarenas, Costa Rica), C. sunatoriorum Anderson (type locality; Chiriqui, Panama), Metamasius atwoodi Anderson (type locality; Cocos Island, Costa Rica), M. bellorum Anderson (type locality; Chiriqui, Panama), M. burcheri Anderson (type locality; Cartago, Costa Rica), M. gallettae Anderson (type locality; Darien, Panama), M. hooveri Anderson (type locality; Limón, Costa Rica), M. leopardinus Anderson (type locality; Guanacaste, Costa Rica), M. murdiei Anderson (type locality; Cartago, Costa Rica), M. richdeboeri Anderson (type locality; Puntarenas, Costa Rica), M. shchepaneki Anderson (type locality; Panama, Panama), M. vaurieae Anderson (type locality; Puntarenas, Costa Rica), M. wolfensohni Anderson (type locality; Guanacaste, Costa Rica), Rhodobaenus howelli Anderson (type locality; Puntarenas, Costa Rica), R. labrecheae Anderson (type locality; Puntarenas, Costa Rica), R. patriciae Anderson (type locality; Puntarenas, Costa Rica), and R. tenorio Anderson (type locality; Limón, Costa Rica). New country records are as follows: Toxorhinus grallarius (Lacordaire) (Costa Rica), Alloscolytoproctus peruanus Hustache (Panama), Cactophagus aurofasciatus (Breme) (Panama) and Metamasius scutiger Champion (Costa Rica). The genera Toxorhinus Lacordaire and Cosmopolites Chevrolat are transferred from Sphenophorini to Litosomini. Notes about the natural history and plant associations for all new species are given where available.

Clarification of Zamia acuminata and a new Zamia species from Coclé Province, Panama

Phytotaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 98 (2) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDERS J. LINDSTRÖM ◽  
MICHAEL CALONJE ◽  
DENNIS STEVENSON ◽  
CHAD HUSBY ◽  
ALBERTO TAYLOR
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Leaf Material ◽  
Sterile Leaf ◽  
A New Species

Zamia acuminata has remained an obscure, poorly understood species for over a century due to possibly misinterpreted or erroneous locality data on the unicate sterile type specimen, a very brief protologue description, the misidentification of the plants from El Valle de Antón in Panama as Z. acuminata, and the erroneous determinations of plants of Z. acuminata from Costa Rica as Z. fairchildiana. Recently collected material from San José Province in Costa Rica is here determined to be identical to the single sterile leaf material of the holotype of Zamia acuminata. We consider Z. acuminata to be a Costa Rican endemic species restricted to the western Talamanca mountain range in San José Province, and that the Zamia from El Valle de Antón in Panama, which has previously been referred to as Zamia acuminata, to be a new species, here described as Zamia nana.

New species of Hemilissopsis Lane, 1959 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae, Elaphidionini)

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1340 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
FRANK T. HOVORE ◽  
JOHN A. CHEMSAK
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
A New Species

A new species, Hemilissopsis fernandezae, in the elaphidionine genus Hemilissopsis Lane, is described from Costa Rica and Panama (Type locality, COSTA RICA: Limón Province, Sector Cerro Cocori).

Two new species of the genus Aphanonchus Coomans & Raski, 1991 (Nematoda: Aphanolaimidae) and a revised taxonomy of the genus

Nematology ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-373
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Holovachov ◽  
Dieter Sturhan
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Ivory Coast ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Epidermal Glands ◽  
Emended Diagnosis

Abstract Two new species of Aphanonchus are described from Germany and Ivory Coast. Aphanonchus europaeus sp. n., from Germany, is best characterised by 1.1-1.4 mm long body, presence of 50-96 lateral epidermal glands; female without neck setae, with straight vagina without sclerotisations and three to nine prevulval alveoli; male with a pair of neck setae, 15 tubular and 20 alveolar supplements, one pair of precloacal and four pairs of caudal setae, 39 μm long spicules. Aphanonchus africanus sp. n., from Ivory Coast, is characterised by 1.0-1.3 mm long body, presence of 37 to 71 lateral epidermal glands; female with a pair of neck setae, straight to slightly sinuous vagina without sclerotisations, and without alveoli; male with a pair of neck setae, 12-18 tubular and 54-80 alveolar supplements, a pair of precloacal and four pairs of caudal setae, 35.5-43 μm long spicules. Morphological data, based on specimens of A. bayensis from Costa Rica, A. multipapillatus from Colombia and Suriname, A. obesus from Ivory Coast and the type locality in Vietnam, and type specimens of A. longiceras, are presented and supplement the descriptions of these four species. An emended diagnosis and a revised classification of Aphanonchus are proposed and a key to the species of the genus is provided.

Descriptions of five new species of the Neotropical Mictopsichia group of genera (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3058 (1) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
JÓZEF RAZOWSKI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
San Jose ◽  
British Guiana

Five new species of the Mictopsichia group of genera are described and illustrated: Mictopsichia misahuallia (type locality: Napo Province, Ecuador), Mictopsichia chirripoana (type locality: San José Province, Costa Rica), Rubropsichia kartaboana (type locality: Bartica District, British Guiana), Chamaepsichia cetonia (type locality: Heredia Province, Costa Rica), and Chamaepsichia chitonregis (type locality: T. F. Amazonas, Venezuela). Although the systematic placement of the group is enigmatic, continued assignment to Archipini is recommended.

Taxonomic status of the enigmatic salamander Cryptotriton adelos (Amphibia: Plethodontidae) from northern Oaxaca, Mexico, with observations on its skull and postcranial skeleton

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3579 (1) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID B. WAKE ◽  
SEAN M. ROVITO ◽  
JESSICA A. MAISANO ◽  
JAMES HANKEN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Postcranial Skeleton ◽  
Additional Specimen ◽  
East Central ◽  
Plethodontid Salamander ◽  
A New Species

Papenfuss and Wake (1987) described a new species of plethodontid salamander from northern Oaxaca, Mexico, which they named Nototriton adelos. The species was assigned to Nototriton primarily on the basis of its similarity to members of that widespread genus, which as then constituted ranged from Oaxaca, Mexico, to east-central Costa Rica. At that time, Nototriton had no unique synapomorphies but rather included diminutive species that could be excluded from membership in all other genera. Wake and Elias (1983), who erected Nototriton, acknowledged that the genus might eventually be shown to be paraphyletic, but they were unable to further resolve the phylogeny with information then available. The original description of N. adelos was based on the holotype and three paratypes; in the subsequent 25 years, despite many futile attempts, only one additional specimen of this species has been discovered: UTAVC A-3956, the largest known specimen, a female, 25.6 mm snout-vent length, from near the type locality.

Eucalyptus deuaensis (Myrtaceae), a new species of Mallee Stringybark from Deua National Park, South-eastern NSW.

Brunonia ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
DJ Boland ◽  
PM Gilmour ◽  
JJ Brophy
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Taxonomic Position ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Oil Composition ◽  
Seedling Morphology ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
A New Species

A new species, Eucalyptus deuaensis Boland & Gilmour, is described. Its taxonomic position is in subgenus Monocalyptus, section Renantheria, series Capitellatae, following the informal classification of Pryor and Johnson (1971). The species is somewhat unusual in that it is a gum-barked 'Stringybark', i.e. its fruit and seedling morphology conform with those species normally having their trunks clothed with Stringybark. E. deuaensis is known only from the type locality, near Mongamulla Moun- tain, where the population extends over several hectares on steep rhyolitic cliffs. Analyses of the oil composition of the adult leaves were not definitive for the species, but suggested similarities with other stringbark species. The ecology, distribution, taxonomic affinities and conservation status are discussed.

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