A Revision of the Eastern Nearctic Species of Rhagio Fabricius (Diptera: Rhagionidae)

1965 ◽  
Vol 97 (8) ◽  
pp. 785-795 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. G. Chillcott
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
European Species ◽  
Great Smoky Mountains ◽  
Smoky Mountains ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
Eastern Species ◽  
New Distribution ◽  
Dark Coloration

AbstractThree new species are described; two European species, tringarius L. and lineola Fabr., are recorded for the first time; and the previously described species are redefined and new distribution records presented, with a key to the eastern species. Rhagio hirtus Loew is recognized as a good species, R. boscii Macquart and Xylophagus fasciatus Say are synonymized with albicornis Say, and R. intermedius Walker is synonymized with R. vertebratus Say. The three new species are R. dichromaticus from Louisiana, recognized by its extremely dark coloration; R. floridensis from Florida and Georgia, with yellow thorax and distinctively patterned wings; and R. orestes from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which is close to hirtus but separable by the darker thorax and abdomen.

An updated species list for “Smoky Bears”: Tardigrades of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4980 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-268
Author(s):  
PAUL J. BARTELS ◽  
DIANE R. NELSON ◽  
ŁUKASZ KACZMAREK
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Integrative Taxonomy ◽  
Species List ◽  
Great Smoky Mountains ◽  
Smoky Mountains ◽  
Species Lists ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
The Many ◽  
First Time

One of the largest inventories of tardigrades ever conducted occurred from 2000–2010 in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Over 16,000 specimens were catalogued, 85 species were identified, 11 species new to science were described, and 16 other possible new species await further study. More than 20 papers have resulted from the GSMNP tardigrade inventory, making the Smokies the most thoroughly studied area in North America for tardigrades. Several species lists have been published over this 20-year period, but many taxonomic revisions and new identifications have led to significant changes to the list. Biogeographical studies citing species records from earlier studies could yield serious errors. Here we update the species list from the Smokies to accommodate the many recent changes in tardigrade taxonomy, we re-analyze some species in light of delineations of cryptic species groups that have occurred recently via integrative taxonomy, and we provide a table of all synonyms that have been used in previous publications. We also make available, for the first time, the Smokies tardigrade database, complete with all locations, elevations, and substrates. 

Diversity and taxonomic review of Leptusa Kraatz (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A., with descriptions of four new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2662 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JONG-SEOK PARK ◽  
CHRISTOPHER E. CARLTON ◽  
MICHAEL L. FERRO
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Eastern United States ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Great Smoky Mountains ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Taxonomic Review ◽  
Smoky Mountains ◽  
First Time

A taxonomic review of the genus Leptusa Kraatz from Great Smoky Mountains National Park is presented. Ten species are recognized, and four new species are described and illustrated: L. (Adoxopisalia) pseudosmokyiensis Park & Carlton, sp. nov., L. (A.) stocksi Park & Carlton, sp. nov., L. (Dysleptusa) gimmeli Park & Carlton, sp. nov., and L. (Eucryptusa) ferroi Park & Carlton, sp. nov. The previously undescribed female of L. (D.) pusio (Casey) is also reported for the first time. Descriptions, habitus illustrations and line drawings of diagnostic characters of all species occurring in Great Smoky Mountains National Park are provided. A key is provided that will allow discrimination of 16 of the 18 species of Leptusa known to occur in the eastern United States. “Overlooked Syndrome”, the phenomena where undescribed species persist in a well known fauna, is defined and discussed.

The centipede genus Otostigmus Porat in Brazil: Description of three new species from the Atlantic Forest; a summary and an identification key to the Brazilian species of this genus (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha, Scolopendridae, Otostigminae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3280 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
AMAZONAS CHAGAS-JÚNIOR
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
The State ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Forest ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
New Distribution

Three new species of Otostigmus Porat, 1876 from Brazilian Atlantic Forest are described. Otostigmus beckeri sp. n. andO. lanceolatus sp. n. are described from the state of Bahia and O. giupponii sp. n. from the state of Espírito Santo. InBrazil, the otostigmine scolopendrid genus Otostigmus comprises 22 species. A summary of Brazilian Otostigmus speciesis presented with new distribution records, taxonomic remarks when appropriate and an identification key. Otostigmus sul-catus Meinert, 1886 is recorded for the first time from Brazil; the Andean Otostigmus silvestrii Kraepelin 1903, previouslyrecorded from Brazil, is here considered not to be present in this country. Eight nominal species are regarded here as newsynonyms. Five of them—Otostigmus pradoi Bücherl, 1939, O. longistigma Bücherl, 1939, O. longipes Bücherl, 1939,O. langei Bücherl, 1946 and O. dentifusus Bücherl, 1946—are based on females of O. tibialis Brölemann, 1902. O. latipesBücherl, 1954 is conspecific with and is considered a junior synonym of O. sulcatus Meinert, 1886; O. limbatus diminutusBücherl, 1946 is a junior synonym of O. limbatus Meinert, 1886 and O. fossulatus Attems, 1928 is a junior synonym of O. goeldii Brölemann, 1898. A lectotype is designated for O. goeldii.

scholarly journals Description of Mesocriconema ericaceum n. sp. (Nematoda: Criconematidae) and notes on other nematode species discovered in an ericaceous heath bald community in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA

Nematology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 879-903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas O. Powers ◽  
Peter Mullin ◽  
Rebecca Higgins ◽  
Timothy Harris ◽  
Kirsten S. Powers
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Nematode Species ◽  
Coi Gene ◽  
Parasitic Nematodes ◽  
Soil Nematode ◽  
Coastal Forests ◽  
Great Smoky Mountains ◽  
Smoky Mountains

A new species of Mesocriconema and a unique assemblage of plant-parasitic nematodes was discovered in a heath bald atop Brushy Mountain in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Mesocriconema ericaceum n. sp., a species with males, superficially resembles M. xenoplax. DNA barcoding with the mitochondrial COI gene provided evidence of the new species as a distinct lineage. SEM revealed significant variability in arrangement of labial submedian lobes, plates, and anterior and posterior annuli. Three other nematodes in the family Criconematidae were characterised from the heath bald. Ogma seymouri, when analysed by statistical parsimony, established connections with isolates from north-eastern Atlantic coastal and north-western Pacific coastal wet forests. Criconema loofi has a southern Gulf Coast distribution associated with boggy soils. Criconema cf. acriculum is known from northern coastal forests of California. Understanding linkages between these species and their distribution may lead to the broader development of a terrestrial soil nematode biogeography.

New Distribution Records of Reptant Decapod Crustacea, Including Descriptions of Three New Species of Pagurus, from the Waters Adjacent to British Columbia

1971 ◽  
Vol 28 (10) ◽  
pp. 1527-1544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josephine F. L. Hart
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
New Species ◽  
Hermit Crabs ◽  
Decapod Crustacea ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
Petrolisthes Cinctipes ◽  
First Time ◽  
North And South ◽  
New Distribution

Three hermit crabs, Pagurus caurinus, P. quaylei, and P. stevensae, from British Columbia are described as new. Calastacus quinqueseriatus Rathbun, Paguristes ulreyi Schmitt, Pagurus cavimanus (Miers), P. samuelis (Stimpson), Parapagurus pilosimanus Smith, Munidopsis quadrata Faxon, and Chionoecetes tanneri Rathbun have not been recorded from the area between 48° and 55°N and 123° and 135°W, and also show considerable extensions of the known ranges. Within the confines of the same area, Callianassa gigas Dana, Paguristes turgidus (Stimpson), Pagurus cornutus (Benedict), P. hemphilli (Benedict), Orthopagurus minimus (Holmes), Petrolisthes cinctipes (Randall), Sceleroplax granulata Rathbun, Pinnotheres pugettensis Holmes, P. taylori Rathbun, and Planes marinus Rathbun are reported with extensions to known ranges. Pagurus capillatus (Benedict), P. tanneri (Benedict), Paralomis verrilli (Benedict), and Lithodes couesi Benedict are recorded, apparently for the first time from British Columbia, although known from both north and south of this area.

A new species of the genus Philothermus Aubé (Coleoptera: Cerylonidae) from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A.

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1390 (1) ◽  
pp. 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
MATTHEW L. GIMMEL ◽  
ADAM SLIPINSKI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North American ◽  
National Park ◽  
North American Species ◽  
Great Smoky Mountains ◽  
The North ◽  
Smoky Mountains ◽  
A New Species

A new species of cerylonid with reduced eyes from the Great Smoky Mountains, Philothermus stephani sp. n., is described and illustrated. A revised key to the North American species of Philothermus is presented.

Pauropoda (Myriapoda) from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A., with descriptions of four new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2962 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
ULF SCHELLER
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Great Smoky Mountains ◽  
Biodiversity Inventory ◽  
Smoky Mountains

As a part of the All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory of Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Tennessee, North Carolina, U.S.A.) a collection of 192 specimens of Pauropoda has been studied. Eighteen species belonging to six genera in three families have been identified. Four of the species in Pauropodidae are new to science and described: Decapauropus arcuatilis n. sp., Stylopauropus plicatus n. sp., Donzelotauropus dividuus n. sp. and Donzelotauropus tenuitarsus n. sp. With the four new species the number of known species in GSMNP now stands at 49. A key is presented to the genera collected up to now in GSMNP.

scholarly journals Distribution and Diversity of the Cryptic Ant GenusOxyepoecus(Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) in Paraguay with Descriptions of Two New Species

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Delsinne ◽  
W. Mackay ◽  
A. Wild ◽  
Y. Roisin ◽  
M. Leponce
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Red List ◽  
Biological Conservation ◽  
Distribution Data ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
New Distribution

We discuss the diversity and distribution of the ant genusOxyepoecusin Paraguay.Oxyepoecus inquilinusis recorded for the first time, and new distribution data are given forO. rastratusandO. vezenyii. Published data forO. bruchi,O. rastratus,O. reticulatus,andO. vezenyiiare summarized. Two new species are described (O. bidentatusn. sp. andO. striatusn. sp.), and a key to the workers of the seven ParaguayanOxyepoecusspecies is provided. At Teniente Enciso National Park, four species cooccur. This locality appears as a promising site for studies documenting the biology of this poorly known ant genus, and because of the IUCN “vulnerable“ Red List classification ofO. inquilinus, the importance of the Teniente Enciso National Park for biological conservation is clearly established.

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