Taxonomy of the New World checkered beetle genus Akonesis Opitz (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Peloniinae)

2018 ◽  
Vol 150 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-155
Author(s):  
Weston Opitz
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Phylogenetic Tree ◽  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
New World ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Consensus Tree ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Colour Patterns

AbstractThe genera Akonesis Opitz, Crusbatus Opitz, and Diutius Opitz, which comprise a monophyletic group within Peloniinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), are discussed. The species of Akonesis are reviewed. There are five recognised species of Akonesis: A. pictipennis (Gorham), A. privoatus Opitz new species, A. ridens (Gorham), A. strictus Opitz new species, and A. vittatus (Spinola). According to the morphological analysis performed herein, the species treated in this work are thought to be predatory. Colour patterns of the elytra and field observations suggest that members of Akonesis and Diutius are involved in Batesian mimicry with Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera), and in particular with Galerucinae. Included in this treatise are: a brief discussion of the natural history and evolution of Akonesis species, one Bootstrap consensus tree, a key to Akonesis species, a phylogenetic tree generated by WINCLADA in conjunction with NONA, 15 line drawings, 10 electron micrographs, one distribution map, four photographs of male terminalia, and five colour habitus photographs.

Taxonomic revision of the New World genus Pelonides Kuwert (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Enopliinae)

2014 ◽  
Vol 147 (5) ◽  
pp. 501-526
Author(s):  
Weston Opitz
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Electron Micrographs ◽  
New World ◽  
Prey Species ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Sister Group ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
Line Drawings

AbstractThe genus Pelonides Kuwert (Coleoptera: Cleridae) is revised to include six species as follows: P. floripennis Opitz, new species, P. granulatipennis (Schaeffer), P. humeralis (Horn), P. quadrinotata (Haldeman), P. quadripunctata (Say), and P. scabripennis (LeConte). Pelonides species are presumed predators of lignicolous and anthophilous prey species. It is hypothesised that the sister group of Pelonides is Parapelonides Barr, and that ancestral Pelonides diversified on ancient terrain known as the Mexican/Mayan block. Lectotypes were designated for P. granulatipennis (Schaeffer) and P. quadripunctata (Say). Pelonides similis Knull is synonymised with P. humeralis (Horn). Fifteen characters were evaluated phylogenetically and analysed with WINCLADA, in combination with NONA, which generated two fully resolved trees. This treatise also includes a key to Pelonides species, a summary of natural history, 24 line drawings, four electron micrographs, 24 habitus illustrations, and three distribution maps.

Phyllagathis stellata (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae), a new species from southwestern Sarawak, Borneo

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 365 (3) ◽  
pp. 295
Author(s):  
CHE-WEI LIN ◽  
CHI-HUNG LEE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
The Past ◽  
A New Species

Reknowned for its high biodiversity and endemism, over one third of the Bornean species of Phyllagathis were discovered in Sarawak over the past two years. In this study, we report an addition of a new species of Phyllagathis, namely P. stellata from southwestern Sarawak. In addition to the taxonomic account, color plates, line drawings, a distribution map, and comparisons with morphologically similar species are provided to aid in identification.

Ceraceomyces atlanticus (Amylocorticiales, Basidiomycota), a new species from the Atlantic Rain Forest, Brazil

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 296 (1) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
RENATA DOS SANTOS CHIKOWSKI ◽  
KARL-HENRIK LARSSON ◽  
TATIANA BAPTISTA GIBERTONI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South America ◽  
Phylogenetic Tree ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Atlantic Rain Forest ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Hyphal System ◽  
A New Species

Ceraceomyces is characterized by resupinate basidioma with pellicular aspect, thin hymenial layer and loose subiculum, smooth or merulioid hymenial surface, monomitic hyphal system with clamped hyphae, narrowly clavate basidia, and subglobose to narrowly ovate to ellipsoid basidiospores. Five species are reported for South America, four of which are known from Brazil, and Ceraceomyces atlanticus is here introduced as a new species. Macro- and micro-descriptions, line drawings and a LSU phylogenetic tree for Amylocorticiales are provided.

Two new species of Colombian Epigomphus (Odonata: Gomphidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4896 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-276
Author(s):  
CORNELIO ANDRÉS BOTA-SIERRA ◽  
RODOLFO NOVELO-GUTIÉRREZ
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Adult Male ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Cordillera Central ◽  
The North ◽  
Diagnostic Characteristics ◽  
Two New Species

The Neotropical genus Epigomphus Hagen in Selys, 1854 groups 31 species distributed from Mexico to northern Argentina. Only two species have been recorded so far from Colombia. Here we present two new species found in the north of the Andean Colombian Cordillera Central, Epigomphus rufus sp. nov. and Epigomphus brillantina sp. nov. Full descriptions of adult male and female and adult male respectively, plus diagnoses, pictures of the diagnostic characteristics, natural history notes, and a distribution map are provided. 

A new endemic species of Willowsia from Florida (USA) and descriptive notes on all New World Willowsia (Collembola: Entomobryidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4350 (3) ◽  
pp. 549 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARON D. KATZ
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
New World ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Scale Type ◽  
Unique Character ◽  
Comparative Morphological Analysis ◽  
World Distribution ◽  
Preliminary Support

Four species of Willowsia have been reported from the Americas (W. buski, W. jacobsoni, W. mexicana, and W. nigromaculata), and to date, W. mexicana is the only member of the genus endemic to the New World. Here, Willowsia pyrrhopygia sp. nov. from Florida is described. Like W. mexicana, this new species has a native New World distribution and uninterrupted rib scale type, but can be separated by color pattern and chaetotaxy. Dorsal head chaetotaxy and other descriptive notes are provided to compliment to descriptions for W. buski, W. jacobsoni, W. mexicana, and W. nigromaculata. Comparative morphological analysis also reveals two unique character states among Entomobryinae—the outer maxillary lobe with two (not three) sublobal hairs and the absence of labial triangle seta r—shared only by endemic New World Willowsia and Americabrya, providing preliminary support for their independent evolution from a common New World ancestor. 

A REVISION OF THE GENERA BRYOPORUS KRAATZ AND BRYOPHACIS REITTER AND TWO NEW RELATED GENERA FROM AMERICA NORTH OF MEXICO (COLEOPTERA: STAPHYLINIDAE: TACHYPORINAE)

1993 ◽  
Vol 125 (S166) ◽  
pp. 3-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.M. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North American ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New World ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
World Distribution ◽  
Scanning Electron

AbstractThe American species of the genera Bryoporus Kraatz and Bryophacis Reitter are revised for America north of Mexico. Two new related genera are described: Bolitopunctus (type species Bryoporus muricatulus Hatch) and Neobolitobius (type species Lordithon varians Hatch).The following new species are described: Bryoporus niger, Bolitopunctus punctatissimus, Bryophacis arcticus, Bryophacis canadensis, and Bryophacis smetanai. Six new combinations are created: Bolitopunctus muricatulus (Hatch) [from Bryoporus], Neobolitobius varians (Hatch) [from Lordithon], Bryophacis discalis (Hatch) [from Mycetoporus], Bry. punctatissimus (Hatch) [from Mycetoporus], Bry. punctulatus (Hatch) [from Mycetoporus], and Bry. rubescens (Hatch) [from Lordithon].Use of the generic names Bryoporus Kraatz and Bryophacis Reitter is discussed. Lectotypes are designated for Bryoporus rufescens LeConte and its junior synonyms B. rubidus LeConte and B. flavipes LeConte, and Bryoporus testaceus LeConte and its junior synonym B. parvulus Casey.All species of Bryoporus, Bryophacis, Bolitopunctus, and Neobolitobius are described and illustrated with line drawings and scanning electron photomicrographs. Keys are provided to distinguish all genera of North American Bolitobiini and all species of the genera treated in this revision. The New World distribution of each species treated is mapped. The biology of each species, if known, is discussed.

scholarly journals Morphological and molecular data reveal a new species of Allium (Amaryllidaceae) from SW Anatolia, Turkey

Phytotaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 212 (4) ◽  
pp. 283 ◽  
Author(s):  
İsmail Gökhan Deniz ◽  
İlker Genç ◽  
Duygu Sarı
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Tree ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Close Relative ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Tree Distribution ◽  
Morphological Differences ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data ◽  
A New Species

Allium undulatitepalum (Amaryllidaceae) is described as a new species from the Antalya Province of Turkey. It belongs to the section Melanocrommyum and is endemic to the south-western region of Turkey. The new species is a close relative of A. orientale, but according to results of the ITS sequences, and based on the morphological differences presented in the description, it is clearly different from its relative. A phylogenetic tree, distribution map, illustrations, pollen and seed microphotographs, karyo-morphology, as well as notes on the biogeography and ecology of the new species are provided.

scholarly journals A revision of Onychelmis Hinton, 1941 (Coleoptera: Elmidae), with description of new species, DNA barcoding and notes on the geography of the genus

2021 ◽  
Vol 739 ◽  
pp. 1-35
Author(s):  
Marek Linský ◽  
Zuzana Čiamporová-Zaťovičová ◽  
Fedor Čiampor Jr
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Species Delimitation ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
The Andes ◽  
Long Time ◽  
New Material ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data

The genus Onychelmis Hinton, 1941 was for a long time regarded as a small taxon with only three known species distributed in the Andes. A study of new material from Ecuador, using morphological and molecular data, has resulted in the discovery of five new species: Onychelmis lenkae sp. nov., O. lobata sp. nov., O. minor sp. nov., O. onorei sp. nov. and O. splendida sp. nov. We also revised the entire genus and redescribed the three known species, O. longicollis (Sharp, 1882), O. leleupi Delève, 1968 and O. whiteheadi Spangler & Santiago, 1991. Habitus photographs of adults are provided, together with line drawings of male and female genitalia, and schematic illustrations of the distribution of femoral tomentum for each species. DNA sequences for barcoding the COI mtDNA fragment were used to support species delimitation and to suggest possible relationships among species. The revision includes a key to adults of all species of Onychelmis and notes on the biogeography of the genus, with an updated distribution map.

scholarly journals A new species of Queskallion Smetana, 2015 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Quediina) from China

ZooKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 945 ◽  
pp. 153-161
Author(s):  
Yanpeng Cai ◽  
Xiaoyan Li ◽  
Hongzhang Zhou
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Sichuan Province ◽  
Color Images ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
A New Species

A new species, Queskallion saetosumsp. nov., is described herein from Sichuan Province, China. It is diagnosed from a closely related species, Q. tangi Smetana, 2015. Color images and line drawings of the adult of the new species, as well as its genitalia are provided. In addition, a checklist of species, an updated key to species and a geographical distribution map of all known species in the genus Queskallion Smetana are included.

Chaetogastra cogniauxiana (Melastomataceae), a new Brazilian species from the Chaetogastra gracilis complex

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 511 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
FABRÍCIO SCHMITZ MEYER ◽  
RENATO GOLDENBERG
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Herbarium Specimens ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Great Species ◽  
Morphological Differences ◽  
Great Species Richness

Eleven varieties of Tibouchina gracilis were indicated as synonyms of Chaetogastra gracilis in the most recent work on the taxonomy of the genus. However, field observations and a more detailed analysis of herbarium specimens, including the types, led us to the conclusion that two of these varieties represent a single new species. Chaetogastra cogniauxiana is endemic to Brazil, and differs from C. gracilis by the smaller size, 10–70 cm tall (versus 30–120 cm tall in C. gracilis), dendritic-setose to dendritic-strigose hypanthium and bracteoles (vs. dendritic-sericeous hypanthium and bracteoles), and smaller petals, 9.8–13.4 × 8.8–9.1 mm (vs. larger petals, 16.5–21.6 × 11.2–14.8 mm). In this article, we provide a complete description of C. cogniauxiana, and indicate the main morphological differences between C. cogniauxiana and the most closely related species. We also provide comments on taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of this species, photos, illustrations, and a distribution map. This work is part of a monograph of the genus Chaetogastra in Brazil, which showed a great species richness and also the necessity of several taxonomic adjustments.

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