NOTES ON CERTAIN OF WALSINGHAM'S SPECIES OF OIDAEMATOPHORUS WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES (PTEROPHORIDAE)

1938 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 128-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. McDunnough
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Group I ◽  
Slide Material

For some time I have doubted whether the existing determinations of certain of Walsingham's species of plumes, based on the revision of this family by Barnes and Lindsey, were correct. Through the kind offices of Messrs. Tams and Stringer of the British Museum of Natural History I have been furnished with drawings of the left claspers of the male genitalia of a number of Walsingham's types in the genus Oidaematophorus; a study of these drawings in connection with my own slide material has confirmed my suspicions and shown that in at least two cases there had been misidentifications by the above-mentioned authors. With a view to clarifying the situation somewhat in this extremely difficult group I offer the following notes.

scholarly journals VI.—Note on the Classification of the Ichthyopterygia (with a Notice of Two New Species)

1888 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 309-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Lydekker
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Two New Species

Having devoted several weeks to the study of the magnificent collection of the remains of Ichthyopterygians preserved in the British Museum (Natural History), I purpose on this occasion to give a brief notice of some of the conclusions at which I have arrived, since a considerable interval will elapse before the publication of that part of the Museum “Catalogue of Fossil Eeptilia” in which my observations will be more fully recorded.

A New Austromenopon (Menoponidae-Mallophaga) Parasitizing Shearwaters (Puffinus-Procellariformes)

1960 ◽  
Vol 92 (11) ◽  
pp. 817-819
Author(s):  
Robert L. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Museum Study ◽  
The U.S

A distinctive new species of Austromenopon from two species of shearwaters, Puffinus kuhlii (Scopoli) and Puffinus leucomelas (Temminick), is described herein. The new species is based on specimens collected from museum study skins and also from material lent to me by Dr. Theresa Clay, British Museum (Natural History) and the U.S. National Museum. I am indebted to Dr. Clay for the opportunity to examine material from the Meinertzhagen collection and to Dr. K. C. Emerson for reviewing this manuscript.

scholarly journals A New Genus, New Species and New Records of Ulidiidae (Diptera, Tephritoidea) from Colombia

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. P. Kameneva ◽  
V. A. Korneyev ◽  
Y. Ramos-Pastrana
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Posterior Margin ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Records ◽  
National Museum

Abstract A preliminary list of the picture-winged flies known from Columbia is supplemented by 15 species based predominantly on the materials from the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA and now contains 28 species, including Xycores igniceps gen. & sp. n. from Venezuela and Colombia. The new genus belongs to the subfamily Otitinae and is preliminarily assigned to the tribe Cephaliini by the combination of the high clypeus, strongly widened palp, setulose vein R1, and ejaculator with short sperm pump and long fan-like apodeme. It clearly differs from other members of the tribe by the combination of elongate, narrow, apically truncated flagellomere 1, robust, mainly shining thorax with pair of microtrichose vittae, well developed proepisternal, postpronotal, acrostichal, 2 pairs of dorsocentral and scutellar setae, wing with entirely setulose vein R1 abdominal tergites devoid of microtrichia, sternites and abdominal pleura narrow, male genitalia with short epandrium, numerous (7–8) prensisetae arranged into a row along posterior margin, shallow hypandrium with pair of setulose pregonites, no postgonites or epiphallus, and an almost bare phallus with a pair of long spines submedially.

Monocystid gregarines of Nigerian earthworms. I. Adelphocystis aeikineta gen.nov., sp.nov. from the coelom of Keffia variabilis Clausen, 1963

Parasitology ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 507-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. E. G. Cox
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Peristaltic Motion ◽  
Morphological Basis ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

Adelphocystis aeikineta, a new species of monocystid gregarine, is found in the coelom of the earthworm Keffia variabilis in which the trophozoites occur in large numbers in permanently associated pairs. They are large, measuring 750–1500, μm in length, and exhibit continual peristaltic motion. The ectosarc of the trophozoite is markedly striated and there is no evidence of any anterior differentiation. The gametocytes are rounded and the presumed bipolar sporocysts measure 12–14·5 μm in length. Some associated pairs occur in groups enclosed in a membrane and there is evidence that gametocytes may form under these conditions. A. aeikineta is placed in the subfamily Zygocystinae and separated from Zygocystis on its elongate shape. The site of infection of this gregarine, and others recently described, suggests that the morphological basis on which the family Monocystidae is divided into subfamilies and genera is inadequate and a sounder classification should take into account these sites of infection.The material on which this paper is based was collected while I was in receipt of a Wellcome Trust Travelling Grant, and I wish to thank the Trust for this support. It is also a pleasure to thank Mr R. W. Sims of the British Museum (Natural History) who identified the earthworms, Dr Keith Vickerman who helped me to collect them and Mr R. B. Freeman who advised me on the nomenclature.

New African Tabanidae.—Part IV.

1914 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-300
Author(s):  
Ernest E. Austen
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum

The types of the seven new species described in the following pages are in the British Museum (Natural History). The subjoined list shows the countries in which the species have been obtained.

On Styphlodora elegans n.sp. and Styphlodora compactum n.sp., trematode parasites of Python reticulatus in Malaya, with a key to the species of the genus Styphlodora Looss, 1899

Parasitology ◽  
1941 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Dawes
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Entire Collection ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Trematode Parasites

Numerous specimens of a trematode which has proved to be a new species were collected from the kidneys of 'Ular sawa’ (Python reticulatus) at Alor Star and at Kedah, Malaya, by Mr G. B. Purvis, F.R.C.V.S. One batch comprises about 350 specimens, another one more than 150, and the entire collection of five batches exceeds 600 specimens. For this new species the name Styphlodora elegans is proposed. Mr Purvis also collected a single specimen of what seems to be a second new species from the stomach of the python at Alor Star, and for this the name Styphlodora compactum is proposed. Type specimens of the two new species are lodged in the British Museum (Natural History), London.

Two new Species of Uranotaenia (Culicidae) from Nigeria, with Notes on the Genus in the Ethiopian Region

1931 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelius B. Philip
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Ethiopian Region

During the course of certain investigations, the writer had occasion to collect a considerable number of mosquitoes in Nigeria, particularly in the vicinity of Lagos. Several species of Uranotaenia were represented in many of the collections. In view of the difficulties experienced in identifying certain specimens, opportunity was taken during a recent visit to the British Museum (Natural History) to study the African Uranotaenia in the collections there. Subsequent to the publication by Edwards in 1912 of the last generic treatment and key for the separation of the species, several additional species have been added to the list from the Ethiopian region, and more materials have accumulated, thus facilitating further study and permitting a reconsideration of certain specific assignments.

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