First Record of the Family Camillidae in the New World (Diptera)

1960 ◽  
Vol 92 (12) ◽  
pp. 954-956 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. McAlpine
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
First Record ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Separate Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Single Genus ◽  
To Receive

The discovery of Camilla glabra (Fallen) in Ottawa, Canada, is the first record of the existence in the New World of any member of the interesting little family Camillidae. A single male specimen taken June 15, 1954, by D. G. F. Cobb while collecting insects in her garden, would seem to indicate the species is established here.The family Camillidae consists of the single genus Camilla Haliday, which for many years was assigned to the family Drosophilidae. Frey, (1921) considered it sufficiently differentiated from the Drosophilidae to warrant separate status and erected the family Camillidae to receive it. Duda (1934), Wheeler (1952, p. 164), and Collin (1956) all recognized the group as a family distinct from the Drosophilidae. More recently, Hennig (1958, p. 665) placed it as a separate family in the Drosophiloidea, pointing out that while it has certain characters in common with Curtonotidae and Drosophilidae, it shows even more affinities with Diastatidae and Ephydridae.

Description of the female of Myopsocus arthuri Nel, Waller & Poinar, 2006 from Miocene Dominican amber (Psocodea: Psocomorpha: Myopsocidae)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-147
Author(s):  
MARINA HAKIM ◽  
DIYING HUANG ◽  
ANDRE NEL ◽  
DANY AZAR
Keyword(s):  
Original Description ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Dominican Amber ◽  
Species Diagnosis ◽  
The Family

Nel et al. (2006) described Myopsocus arthuri from Dominican amber based on a single male specimen. We herein describe the female of this species, give a species diagnosis (missing in the original description) and recognize additional characters. Myopsocus arthuri represents the first and only described fossil in the family Myopsocidae.

First record of the genus Dinophasma Uvarov from the Philippines (Phasmatodea: Aschiphasmatidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1530 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCO GOTTARDO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen

As presently defined, the genus Dinophasma Uvarov, 1940 (= Dina Redtenbacher, 1906, = Xylobistus Zompro, 2004) includes 8 species (Otte & Brock, 2005), 7 of which are widespread in Borneo and one is represented in India. A study of several unidentified specimens of Philippine Aschiphasmatidae allowed recognition of a single male specimen of Dinophasma that cannot be assigned to any known species. The new species is described and illustrated in the present paper and marks the first record of the genus from the Philippines. An identification key to all species of Dinophasma, revised from that presented by Bragg (2001), is also provided

First record of a pygmy backswimmer (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pleidae) from Micronesia

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1617 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-68
Author(s):  
RICHARD S. ZACK ◽  
AUBREY MOORE ◽  
ROSS H. MILLER
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
First Record ◽  
Mosquito Larvae ◽  
Aquatic Habitats ◽  
Old World ◽  
The Family ◽  
Slow Moving

Pygmy backswimmers, pleids, can be common in aquatic habitats with stagnant or slow-moving water that is rich in vegetation.  They are small bugs, usually less than 3.5 mm in length and confine themselves to the vegetation in which they hide and where they prey on mosquito larvae and other small arthropods (Schuh and Slater 1995).  The family is represented by 37 species in three genera: Plea, confined to the Old World; Neoplea confined to the New World; and Paraplea, the largest and most widely distributed genus (Schuh and Slater 1995).

A New Family of Trichoptera from Asia

1959 ◽  
Vol 91 (12) ◽  
pp. 745-757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn B. Wiggins
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Single Species ◽  
Immature Stages ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Family ◽  
The Family

In 1906 Nathan Banks described a species, Phryganea latipennis, based on a single male specimen which he had received in a collection of caddisflies from Japan. Assignment of this species to the family Phryganeidae has always seemed the logical course because the adults possessed the typical phryganeid characters of ocelli, four-segmented maxilary palpi in the male, and five-segmented palpi in the female, with a tibia1 spur cout of 2, 4, 4. That the species was a phryganeid has never been questioned in the past, and in a preliminary revision of the familyPhrygancidae, Martynov (1924) created a new genus Phryganopsis for the single species latipennis Banks . A second species, cornuta, from Burma, was added to the genus by Kimmins (1950). It was not until 1951 that the larva and case of P. latipennis were figured and briefly described by Tsuda. This was the first published information on the immature stages of the genus, and the structures of the pupa have still not been made known.

scholarly journals The first record of the family Cithaeronidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea) to the new world

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 512-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo S. Carvalho ◽  
Alexandre B. Bonaldo ◽  
Antonio D. Brescovit
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
New World ◽  
First Record ◽  
The State ◽  
Northeast Brazil ◽  
Widespread Species ◽  
The Family ◽  
Accidental Introduction

Three females of Cithaeron praedonius O.P.-Cambridge, 1872 (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea, Cithaeronidae), the most widespread species of the family, were found in urban areas in Teresina, capital of the state of Piauí, northeast Brazil. This first record of the family Cithaeronidae to the new world is explained by accidental introduction.

First Record of the Family Deuterophlebiidae in Canada (Diptera)

1954 ◽  
Vol 86 (5) ◽  
pp. 204-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. E. Shewell
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
First Record ◽  
North American Species ◽  
Immature Stages ◽  
The Family ◽  
Female Pupa ◽  
Single Genus

While examining the collections of immature stages of Simuliidae made at Jasper, Alta., in 1932, by Mr. J. D. Gregson, Livestock Insect Laboratory, Kamloops, B.C., I recently found a female pupa of the rare and remarkable family commonly called “mountain midges”. The group consists of a single genus, Deuterophlebia Edwards (1922), in which four Asiatic and two North American species are recognized, although there are, also, a few records of unidentified larvae and pupae. Muttkowski (1927) first recorded the family on this continent, and Pennak (1945, 1951) and Wirth (1951) have described the two Nearctic species. Pennak (1945) has also summarized the published information on the distribution, habits, and morphology of the group.

scholarly journals First record of Cithaeron reimoseri (Araneae: Cithaeronidae) from the New World and first record of the family from southern Brazil

Check List ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 1594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Ott ◽  
Antonio Domingos Brescovit
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
First Record ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Worldwide Distribution ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Time ◽  
Median Eyes

The African spider Cithaeron reimoseri Platnick, 1991 is registered for the first time in the New World, based in two females collected at Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Until now C. reimoseri was known only by the holotype from Eritrea. The species C. praedonius O. P.-Cambridge, 1872 was, until now, the only known species of the family with worldwide distribution and is considered prone to introduction in anthropic environments. Cithaeronidae are considered lower gnaphosoids being identifiable by the depressed posterior median eyes and the pseudosegmented tarsi.

First record of female pleasing lacewings of Berothellinae (Neuroptera: Dilaridae) with a description of two new species of Berothella Banks from China

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Yuchen Zheng ◽  
Xingyue Liu
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Distribution Data ◽  
Molecular Evidence ◽  
Sexually Dimorphic ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Female Genital

Abstract Pleasing lacewings (Neuroptera: Dilaridae) are a group of Neuroptera well known for the sexually dimorphic antennae (unipectinate in male, filiform in female). However, in the dilarid genus, Berothella Banks, 1934, the male antennae are not pectinate but thickly filiform. The genus is the sole representative of the recently established subfamily Berothellinae Liu, U. Aspöck & H. Aspöck, 2017, and includes three species from the Oriental region. So far each of the three species is known by a single male specimen. Here we describe two new species of Berothella, i.e., B. falcata sp. n. and B. wenii sp. n. from China based on morphological characters and molecular evidence. Moreover, we report on the first female of Berothellinae based on specimens of the newly discovered species. The female genital characters of Berothellinae are compared in detail with those of the other dilarid subfamilies. The distribution data of Berothellinae is updated.

Notes on the genus Navicordulia Machado & Costa, 1995 (Odonata: Anisoptera: Corduliidae s. str.): description of a new species, phylogenetic affinities and aspects of biogeography

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4272 (2) ◽  
pp. 251 ◽  
Author(s):  
GÜNTHER FLECK
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
First Record ◽  
South American ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Median Carina ◽  
Phylogenetic Affinities ◽  
Central South ◽  
A New Species

Based on a single male specimen, a remarkable new species of the genus Navicordulia is described from the Massif du Mitaraka in French Guiana (Tumuc-Humac Mountains). Another new species of this genus is also reported from the same locality but is not described. This is the first record of the genus from French Guiana, hitherto being unknown within a radius of more than 1000 km. Apparent rarity or absence of records is probably due to its secretive habits. Navicordulia tumucurakensis sp. nov. presents unique characters not present in other species of the genus including: almost no excavation of the anal angle, proximal sternal pilose ridge of abdominal segment 7 transformed into two large lateral oreillets disconnected from the median carina, additional distal sternal pilose ridge transformed into a medial knob, epiproct not extending beyond the distal half of the cerci, very long cerci surpassing those of described species, cerci lacking ventro-medial carina and tubercle and exhibiting a distal ventral brush of hair-like setae. It is a forest species inhabiting hilly landscapes at low altitude, unlike other closely related intertropical species which are encountered in more elevated areas above 850 m. It is most closely related to N. longistyla, a typical cerrado species from the central Brazilian plateau or possibly to N. nitens from the central south Venezuelan Guaiquinima Tepui. Based on unique derived male abdominal structures and also on the female ovipositor and related structures, the South American genus Navicordulia and the Southeast Asian/Melanesian genus Metaphya are considered current adelphotaxa. This disrupted geographic distribution could be explained by a common ancestor having had a Gondwanian dispersal until the Late Cretaceous or Paleocene.

scholarly journals Rediscovered after almost 100 years: new faunistic data of Thaumalea rumanica with additional records of Thaumaleidae from Romania

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-129
Author(s):  
Lujza Keresztes ◽  
Avar-Lehel Dénes
Keyword(s):  
Recent Literature ◽  
Restricted Range ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Carpathian Region ◽  
South West ◽  
The Family ◽  
New Finding ◽  
Family Based ◽  
A New Species

Thaumalea rumanica is a member of the family Thaumaleidae and it has been described from a few localities surrounding Băile Herculane, south-west Romania. Since its discovery, no further data were published on this endemic species of restricted range from the Carpathian region. On August 18, 2020 a single male specimen was collected at Poiana Mărului, in Olteana valley, south-west Romania, at 720 m altitude by the present authors, which is farther north from its typical location. This new finding suggests a larger distribution of the species in the Southern Carpathians. Based on our recent faunistic survey, a new species, Thaumalea remota was added to the Thaumaleidae fauna of Romania, with a revised checklist of the family, based on both personal and recent literature data.

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