Larvae of the Nearctic Species of Anoplonyx (Tenthredinidae, Hymenoptera)

1955 ◽  
Vol 87 (5) ◽  
pp. 224-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. R. Wong
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
The Other ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
Considerable Confusion

Considerable confusion exists concerning the identification of larvae of the genus Anoplonyx in North America. Larvae of two species collected in Eastern Canada have been generally identified as one species, A. laricis (Martatt). A published larval description of the other species, A. canadensis Harrington, is not available. Keen's (1938) published descriptions of the western species (A. occidens Ross and A. laricivorus Rohwer and Middleton) apparently had the wrong association between larvae and adults. This study was undertaken to provide more detailed larval descriptions of nearctic species of Anoplonyx as listed by Ross (1951).

XXXIII.—The Blood Vascular System of the Spiny Dogfish, Squalus acanthias Linné, and Squalus sucklii Gill

1928 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 823-890 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles H. O'Donoghue ◽  
Eileen (Bulman) Abbott
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Vascular System ◽  
Individual Preference ◽  
Squalus Acanthias ◽  
The Other ◽  
Spiny Dogfish ◽  
Considerable Confusion ◽  
Satisfactory Account ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Made In

The following investigation was commenced, in the first place, to provide information for class use, for, in spite of the fact that thousands of specimens of Squalus acanthias and S. sucklii are used every year in North America, there appears to be no satisfactory account of the blood vascular system of either species available. As the work proceeded, various problems arose which necessitated references to the conditions in other species and the preparation of more detailed dissections than are usually made in class work. It is well known that there is considerable confusion in the nomenclature employed by different authors for even some of the main vessels, and it was soon evident that this is not merely individual preference but, in part, due to a more fundamental lack of agreement as to the precise morphological significance of the vessels themselves. More recent embryological investigations by other workers have, we consider, given a key to the solution of the most important of these problems and have shown that, in so far as the blood-vessels are concerned, the Elasmobranchs lie closer to the other gnathostomatous vertebrates than is generally recognised, and indeed furnish a primitive and generalised type. The time seemed ripe, therefore, to provide a connected account of the vascular system in an Elasmobranch, viewing it in the light of the researches just referred to, and of what is known of the distribution of the various vessels in the sub-class in general. It was hoped that this would provide an epitome that would serve as a basis for future work in the sub-class, and also for comparison with the conditions in higher vertebrates.

THE SPRUCE FOLIAGE WORM AND THE SPRUCE CONE WORM (DIORYCTRIA SPP., LEPIDOPTERA, PYRALIDAE)

1943 ◽  
Vol 75 (5) ◽  
pp. 91-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret R. MacKay
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
The Other ◽  
Forest Entomology ◽  
Considerable Confusion ◽  
Lepidoptera Pyralidae ◽  
The One ◽  
Seasonal History

In the literature on forest entomology there has been considerable confusion regarding the true identity of the two species of Dioryctria feeding on spruce in North America. Superficially the adults of these species resemble each other so closely that the one is easily mistaken for the other. In seasonal history and habits, however, they differ very materially.

The External Morphology of Two Eastern Species of the Genus Anoplonyx (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae), with Special Reference to Anoplonyx luteipes (Cresson)

1961 ◽  
Vol 93 (7) ◽  
pp. 573-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. F. Bracken
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Adult Stage ◽  
External Morphology ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
Considerable Confusion ◽  
Larch Sawfly ◽  
Eastern Species

The genus Anoplonyx Marlatt belongs to the more generalized of the Nematinae and is clearly defined taxonomically by Ross (1937). This genus is comprised of very few known species, four in North America and four in Europe; all are associated with trees of the genus Larix. The species are similar in appearance and difficult to distinguish, especially in the adult stage.Considerable confusion existed concerning the identification of the members of this genus in North America up until Wong (1955) published a key to separate the late feeding stages of Anoplonyx larvae found in Canada. The two species dealt with herein are apparently native to Eastern Canada and have generally been identified as one species, “Marlatt's Larch Sawfly”, A. laricis (Marlatt). Here they are identified as A. luteipes (Cresson) (= laricis Marlatt), and A. canadensis Harrington, as listed bv Ross (1951).

THE RELATIVE PREVALENCE OF SPECIALIZED FORMS OF PUCCINIA CORONATA THAT OCCUR ON RHAMNUS CATHARTICA IN CANADA

1954 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Peturson
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
The Other ◽  
Puccinia Coronata ◽  
Rhamnus Cathartica ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
Formae Speciales ◽  
The Third ◽  
Relative Prevalence

Surveys were made during the period 1947–1951 to determine the prevalence and distribution of the specialized forms (formae speciales) of Puccinia coronata Corda which occur on Rhamnus cathartica L. in Canada. From 96 aecial collections obtained in Manitoba and in Eastern Canada on R. cathartica, three distinct forms of P. coronata were isolated. Two of these, f. sp. avenae and f. sp. festucae, had been isolated previously in both Europe and North America. The third form, which could not be identified with any previously described form, was pathogenic on many species of wild and cultivated grasses, as well as on many varieties of barley and rye, but was nonpathogenic on oats. It is given the designation P. coronata f. sp. secalis f. sp. nov. The uredial stage of f. sp. secalis is much darker in color than the corresponding stage of the other two forms and it can be distinguished from them quite readily. The forms avenae and secalis occurred in Manitoba and Eastern Canada, while the form festucae was found in Eastern Canada only. In Eastern Canada the forms avenae, secalis, and festucae, in the order named, comprised 60.6, 36.6, and 2.8% of the isolates. In Manitoba, the form avenae comprised 16 and the form secalis 84% of the isolates.

scholarly journals Naturalization and spread of the alien species Ozognathus cornutus (LeConte, 1859) (Coleoptera: Ptinidae: Ernobiinae) in Italy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuliano Cerasa ◽  
Gabriella Lo Verde
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ecological Role ◽  
Dried Fruits ◽  
Wood Shavings ◽  
Potential Pest ◽  
Small Wood ◽  
Natural Barrier

AbstractOzognathus cornutus (LeConte, 1859) (Coleoptera: Ptinidae: Ernobiinae), species native to North America, is a saproxylophagous species and is known to feed on decaying tissues within conspicuous galls and on vegetal decaying organic material such as dried fruits or small wood shavings and insect excrements in galleries made by other woodboring species. A few years after the first record in 2011, its naturalization in Italy is here reported. The insect was found as successor in galls of Psectrosema tamaricis (Diptera Cecidomyiidae), Plagiotrochus gallaeramulorum, Andricus multiplicatus and Synophrus politus (Hymenoptera Cynipidae). The galls seem to have played an important ecological role in speeding up the naturalization process. The lowest proportion of galls used by O. cornutus was recorded for P. tamaricis (23%), the only host belonging to Cecidomyiidae, while the percentages recorded for the other host species, all Cynipidae forming galls on oaks, were higher: 43.6%, 61.1% and 76.9% in A multiplicatus, S. politus and P. gallaeramulorum, respectively. Although O. cornutus is able to exploit other substrates like dried fruits and vegetables, for which it could represent a potential pest, it prefers to live as a successor in woody and conspicuous galls, which thus can represent a sort of natural barrier limiting the possible damages to other substrates.

scholarly journals Eurasian and North American phylogeny of Turolian hipparionine horses (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) in China

1992 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 305-305
Author(s):  
Mahito Watabe
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Northern China ◽  
Sensu Stricto ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dental Morphology ◽  
Facial Morphology ◽  
Open Land ◽  
Specialized Form ◽  
Eastern Half

The late Miocene Chinese hipparions are morphologically diversified showing similarity to both western Old World's and North American forms. Two Chinese taxa that are phylogenetically related to western Old World's forms are Hipparion fossatum (= H. forstende) from Baode (Shanxi) and H. hippidiodus from Qingyang (Gansu) and Baode. The former is related to H. mediterraneum and the latter to H. urmiense - platygenys from the Turolian localities in the western Old World. H. fossatum and H. hippidiodus are associated with the “dorcadoides” (open-land) and “mixed” faunas in northern China. Hipparion fossatum that is characterized by POF located close to the orbit co-occurs with large and morphologically specialized form, H. dermatorhinum in Baode (Loc.30). H. hippidiodus with reduced POF is discovered with smaller H. coelophyes in Loc. 43, 44 (Baode) and Loc. 115 (Gansu).The hipparions associated with the “gaudryi” (forest) fauna are characterized by well defined and small POF located far from the orbit. Those forms are: H. platyodus from Loc. 70; H. ptychodus from Loc. 73; H. tylodus from Hsi-Liang in Yushe - Wuxiang basins; and H. sefvei from Loc. 12 at Xin-an in Henan province. H. coelophyes from Baode (Loc.43 & 44) and Qingyang (Loc. 115) also show similar facial morphology to the these forms, although it has small size and shallow POF. Those forms are similar in facial and dental morphology to Hipparion sensu stricto and some species of Cormohipparion in North America.The assemblages of Chinese hipparions are composed of two groups whose members are phylogenetically similar to the forms from both western part of Eurasia and North America. The “gaudryi” fauna is considered younger than the other two on the basis of faunal analyses. The similarity in hipparionine taxonomy between northern China and North America in the latest Miocene is an evidences for possible faunal interchange(s) occurred during that period, as suggested by taxonomic analyses on carnivores and proboscideans in eastern half of Eurasia and North America.

On the mN, M Relation for Eastern North American Earthquakes

1987 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 119-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail M. Atkinson ◽  
David M. Boore
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Stochastic Model ◽  
Ground Motion ◽  
Seismic Moment ◽  
The Other ◽  
Moment Magnitude ◽  
Scaling Relations ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Meaningful Data

Abstract A stochastic model of ground motion has been used as a basis for comparison of data and theoretically-predicted relations between mN (commonly denoted by mbLg) and moment magnitude for eastern North America (ENA) earthquakes. mN magnitudes are recomputed for several historical ENA earthquakes, to ensure consistency of definition and provide a meaningful data set. We show that by itself the magnitude relation cannot be used as a discriminant between two specific spectral scaling relations, one with constant stress and the other with stress increasing with seismic moment, that have been proposed for ENA earthquakes.

Trend analysis of fire season length and extreme fire weather in North America between 1979 and 2015

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (12) ◽  
pp. 1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piyush Jain ◽  
Xianli Wang ◽  
Mike D. Flannigan
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Kendall Test ◽  
Fire Season ◽  
Fire Weather ◽  
Season Length ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
Reanalysis Dataset ◽  
Fire Weather Index ◽  
Extreme Fire

We have constructed a fire weather climatology over North America from 1979 to 2015 using the North American Regional Reanalysis dataset and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) System. We tested for the presence of trends in potential fire season length, based on a meteorological definition, and extreme fire weather using the non-parametric Theil–Sen slope estimator and Mann–Kendall test. Applying field significance testing (i.e. joint significance of multiple tests) allowed the identification of the locations of significant trends, taking into account spatial correlations. Fire season length was found to be increasing over large areas of North America, especially in eastern Canada and the south-western US, which is consistent with a later fire season end and an earlier fire season start. Both positive and negative trends in potential fire spread days and the 99th percentile of FWI occurred in Canada and the contiguous United States, although the trends of largest magnitude and statistical significance were mostly positive. In contrast, the proportion of trends with significant decreases in these variables were much lower, indicating an overall increase in extreme fire weather. The smaller proportion of significant positive trends found over Canada reflects the truncation of the time series, necessary because assimilation of precipitation observations over Canada ceased in the reanalysis post-2002.

A REVISION OF THE SYSTEMATICS OF ACALYMMA SENSU STRICTO BARBER (COLEOPTERA: CHRYSOMELIDAE) FROM NORTH AMERICA INCLUDING MEXICO

1980 ◽  
Vol 112 (S112) ◽  
pp. 1-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.D. Munroe ◽  
Ray F. Smith
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Sensu Stricto ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
Species Groups

AbstractThe systematics of Acalymma sensu stricto of North America including Mexico are revised. Acalymma sensu stricto is defined and distinguished from the other species groups of Acalymma. Sixteen species are discussed including four new species: A. blomorum, A. palomarense, A. invenustum, and A. luridifrons all from Mexico. Three new subspecies of A. blandulum (LeConte) are described: blandulum (LeConte) new status, nigriventre, and yucatanense. Acalymma coruscum costaricense Bechyné is placed as a synonym of A. innubum (Fabricius). Keys are presented to all species and subspecies. Habitus and male genitalia drawings are given for all species and distribution maps are given where appropriate.

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