A NEW WATER-BUG FROM CANADA

1897 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 56-56
Author(s):  
William H. Ashmead
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
North American ◽  
South American ◽  
The South ◽  
Water Stream ◽  
The North ◽  
Water Species

The interesting new species of water-bug described below was received some time ago from Abbé P. A. Bégin, of Sherbrooke, Canada. It was captured swimming on a fresh-water stream some little distance above Sherbrooke, and is of more than ordinary interest, from the fact that it belongs to the genus Halobatopsis, Bianchi, a genus not yet recognized in the North American fauna, and only recently characterized, being based upon the South American Halobates platensis, Berg., also a fresh-water species.

II.—Sedgwick Museum Notes

1906 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 301-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. R. Cowper Reed
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South African ◽  
North American ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
Generic Position ◽  
Small Collection ◽  
First Time

A Small collection of fossils from the Bokkeveld Beds has recently been sent to me for identification by the South African Museum, and some of them have been generously presented to the Sedgwick Museum. Amongst this material it is interesting to find some genera not previously recorded from the Cape and some new species. The majority of the specimens are in the condition of internal casts, and hence present especial difficulties in their determination, so that in a few cases some uncertainty must remain as to the generic position of the fossils. However, I am able to record for the first time from these beds the occurrence of the well-known lamellibranchiate genus Buchiola, and of a shell which may be identified with Nyussa arguta, Hall, of the North American Devonian. The genus Buchiola occurs in argillaceous nodules from the Zwartberg Pass crowded with individuals of the species which I have named B. subpalmata and with a few examples of an undetermined species. No other associated fossils can be recognised in these nodules, but I am informed that an abundant fauna is found in the beds at this locality.

ON THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF NORTH AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA

1886 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 213-220
Author(s):  
Aug. R. Grote
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
North American ◽  
North American Species ◽  
South American ◽  
Seasonal Temperature ◽  
The South ◽  
Old World ◽  
The North

Again, the genera Citheronia and Eacles are a South American element in our fauna, while the typical Attacinæ, such as Actias, probably belong to the Old World element in our fauna, together with all our Platypteryginœ. Among the Hawk Moths the genera Philampelus and Phlegethontius are of probable South American extraction, though represented now by certain strictly North American species. Mr. Robert Bunker, writing from Rochester, N. Y., records the fact that Philampelus Pandorus, going into chrysaiis Augnst 1, came out Sept. 10 as a moth, showing that in a warmer climate the species would become doublebrooded. And this is undoubtedly the case with many species the farther we go South, where insect activities are not interrupted so long and so strictly by the cold of winter. Since the continuance of the pupal condition is influenced by cold, a diminishing seasonal temperature for ages may have originally affected, if not induced, the transformations of insects as a whole. Butterflies and Moths which are single brooded in the North become double brooded in the South.

A new North American chorus frog species (Amphibia: Hylidae: Pseudacris) from the south-central United States

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1675 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
EMILY MORIARTY LEMMON ◽  
ALAN R. LEMMON ◽  
JOSEPH T. COLLINS ◽  
DAVID C. CANNATELLA
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
North American ◽  
Advertisement Call ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
South Central ◽  
Central United States ◽  
Chorus Frog ◽  
Genetic Characters

We describe a new species of chorus frog of the North American treefrog genus Pseudacris from the south-central United States. This new species is morphologically similar to the parapatric species P. feriarum and has thus previously been considered synonymous with this species. The new species is geographically distinct from P. feriarum and from its sister species, P. nigrita. We diagnose the new species based on advertisement call, morphological, and genetic characters.

The North American Species of Diathrausta Lederer (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)

1956 ◽  
Vol 88 (10) ◽  
pp. 579-583
Author(s):  
Eugene Munroe
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
North American Species ◽  
South American ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
Geographical Race ◽  
Geographic Race ◽  
Lepidoptera Pyralidae

Dyar (1913) listed Diathrausta reconditalis (Walker) as a “form” of the South American D. nerinalis (Walker) and described as new the “form” harlequinalis from Arizona. From the context it is evident that in that paper Dyar used “form” as equivalent to geographic race, and the form names he proposed there can accordingly be treated as valid trinomina. Haimbach (1915), apparently in ignorance of Dyar's paper, described Diathrausta montana from Colorado. This was sunk by Barnes and McDunnough (1917) as a synonym of harlequinalis. Barnes and McDunnough listed harlequinalis as a geographical race of reconditalis, but did not follow Dyar in uniting these with nerinalis.

The American species of the genus Glaucolepis Braun, 1917 (Neotrifurcula van Nieukerken, syn. nov.) (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4338 (3) ◽  
pp. 489 ◽  
Author(s):  
JONAS R. STONIS ◽  
ANDRIUS REMEIKIS ◽  
ARŪNAS DIŠKUS ◽  
M. ALMA SOLIS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North American ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Combination ◽  
The South ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Type Series ◽  
The North ◽  
Photographic Documentation ◽  
Two New Species

We provide diagnostic characters for the genus Glaucolepis Braun, re-examine the type series of the type species of the North American G. saccharella Braun, describe two new species from Chile and Argentina (G. flagellata Remeikis & Stonis, sp. nov. and G. pseudoflagellata Remeikis & Stonis, sp. nov.), and provide the first photographic documentation of the central Andean G. aerifica (Meyrick). We synonymize Neotrifurcula van Nieukerken, 2016, syn. nov. with Glaucolepis and provide one new combination for the south Andean G. gielisorum (van Nieukerken, 2016), comb. nov. All species treated in the paper are illustrated with drawings and (or) photographs of the adults and genitalia. 

scholarly journals Comparing Reanalyses Using Analysis Increment Statistics

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 1535-1545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Fitzmaurice ◽  
Rafael L. Bras
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
North American ◽  
Meridional Wind ◽  
Department Of Energy ◽  
Specific Humidity ◽  
South American ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
Uncertainty Estimates ◽  
Global Reanalysis

Abstract Reanalysis data are an important source of information for hydrometeorology applications, which use data assimilation to combine an imperfect atmospheric model with uncertain observations. However, uncertainty estimates are not normally provided with reanalyses. The model “first guess” (6-h forecast) is sometimes saved along with reanalysis estimates, which allows the calculation of the analysis increment (AI), defined as the analysis minus the model first guess. Analysis increment statistics could provide a quantitative index for comparing models in regions with sufficient observations. Monthly analysis increment statistics for the NCEP–NCAR Global Reanalysis 1 (NCEP-R1) and the NCEP/Department of Energy Global Reanalysis 2 (NCEP-R2) are computed for a North American and South American location for zonal and meridional wind and specific humidity at three atmospheric levels for 1998–2001. NCEP-R2 specific humidity was found to have a smaller mean monthly standard deviation of the analysis increment than NCEP-R1 at the North American location at the 300-mb level. The NCEP-R2 specific humidity monthly standard deviation at the South American location is much larger than NCEP-R1 for September–November 1998, which may be related to the transition to La Niña. For both zonal and meridional wind, the monthly AI standard deviations are similar for NCEP-R1 and NCEP-R2 at all atmospheric levels for the North American location. The South American location exhibits similar behavior for the wind AI statistics as for specific humidity: NCEP-R2 has a much larger monthly standard deviation of the AI for September–November 1998. The analysis increment statistics could be one method for quantitatively comparing reanalyses. First guess information should be available to the user in reanalysis archives.

scholarly journals THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF ORPHULELLA

1899 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 177-188
Author(s):  
Samuel H. Scudder
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North American ◽  
Native Species ◽  
The United States ◽  
North American Species ◽  
South American ◽  
The South ◽  
The North

By the kindness of Prof. L. Bruner I have recently been able to study specimens of the South American Orphula pagana Stal., the type of the genus, and so to compare its structure with that of our native species latterly referred to Orphula. By this it appears, as Mr. Bruner has pointed out to me in correspondence, and as Mr. A. P. Morse has suggested (Psyche, VII., 407), that our species should be referred rathar to Orphulella, separated by Giglio-Tos from Orphula in 1894, though this was afterwards regarded by him as having only a subgeneric value Orphula in the stricter sense of the term is not, so far as I know, represented in the United States. Orphulella is the most widely distributed genus of North American Trypalinae and the most abundant in species. Those known to Prof. J. McNeill in his recent revision of our Tryxalinae were well separated by a table which I have here made the basis of a new one to include a considerable number of new forms. Besides describing these, I have added notes of distribution of the others, based on the collections in my hands, and given their principal synonymy.

Hyperbius joceliae a new species of Ditomotarsinae from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina (Hemiptera: Acanthosomatidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4958 (1) ◽  
pp. 668-677
Author(s):  
DIEGO LEONARDO CARPINTERO ◽  
SEBASTIÁN DE BIASE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Tierra Del Fuego ◽  
South American ◽  
The South ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
The North ◽  
Distributional Patterns ◽  
A New Species

Hyperbius joceliae sp. n., a new Patagonian Acanthosomatidae (Hemiptera) species is described from the north of Tierra del Fuego Island. Diagnostic characters such as color, dorsal pilosity, head and pronotal punctures, length of mandibular plates and antennae, shape and color of paratergite 9, shape and texture of gonocoxite I and II of the only known species of the genus, Hyperbius geniculatus (Signoret), are compared with the new species and discussed. Distributional patterns of the South American Acanthosomatidae and speciation of the Patagonian fauna of this family are also briefly discussed. 

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