scholarly journals Notes on the genus Abantis Hopffer, 1855 with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae, Pyrginae)

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Claudio Belcastro ◽  
Philippe Oremans
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Forest Canopy ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Conclusive Evidence ◽  
Species Level ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Flower Visiting ◽  
Almost All

The Afrotropical genus <em>Abantis</em> Hopffer, 1855 includes about 23 species so far, all quite rare. In Evans’ Catalogue of the African Hesperiidae only 14 species were listed but, apart from a few newly discovered ones, some of the subspecies indicated over there have subsequently been raised to species level, although they look very similar in facies with previously recognised taxa. This article shows the presence of an unrecognised species similar to <em>A. lucretia</em> Druce, 1909 in West Africa, namely <em>A. fabiana</em> sp. n., and another one similar to both<em> A. contigua</em> Evans, 1937 and<em> A. elegantula</em> Mabille, 1890 in Central Africa, namely <em>A. torbeni</em> sp. n. The rarity in collections of almost all forest-dwelling <em>Abantis</em> spp. is reported as connected to their habit of flying high in the forest canopy, but the authors have no conclusive evidence of it. Most <em>Abantis</em> are hill-toppers, mud lovers and are attracted by dead animals (fish and turtles), although some of them are also flower-visiting.

Conulariids of the Upper Talak Formation (Mississippian, Visean) of northern Niger (West Africa)

2008 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 192-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heyo Van Iten ◽  
Moussa Konate ◽  
Yahaya Moussa
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Species Level ◽  
First Report ◽  
Genus Level ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Shale Formation ◽  
Extinct Group ◽  
Prior Analysis

Conulariids of West Africa have received relatively little detailed attention in the literature on this widespread extinct group of marine cnidarians. Recently, however, Babcock et al. (1995) described two new species, Paraconularia feldmanni and P. sahara, from the upper part of the Mississippian (Visean) Talak Shale Formation in the Tim Mersoi Basin of northern Niger. This was the first report of the genus Paraconularia Sinclair, 1940 from Africa as well as the first assignment of Carboniferous conulariids from that continent to the species level. Since then two of the present authors have collected 24 additional conulariid specimens from the Talak Formation in the same area that yielded the two specimens described by Babcock et al. (1995). Like the previously described material, most of the new specimens, described below, have been worn or weathered to such an extent that it is difficult to identify them to the species level. In some cases, moreover, identification to the genus level is problematical, but this may ultimately be due to the fact that currently recognized conulariid genera (e.g., Moore and Harrington, 1956b) have been defined phenetically, rather than on the basis of prior analysis of the phylogenetic relationships among conulariid species. This means that at least some currently recognized conulariid genera may have been defined by similarities that are primitive or analogous.

Two new species of the genus Syngastes (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Tegastidae) from South Korea

Crustaceana ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jong Guk Kim ◽  
Jong Guk Kim ◽  
Tae Won Jung ◽  
Jong Guk Kim ◽  
Tae Won Jung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South Korea ◽  
First Record ◽  
Exopodal Segment ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Korean Waters ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Almost All

Herein two new species of the genusSyngastesMonard, 1924 are described from South Korea, with detailed descriptions and illustrations. Both new copepods,Syngastesmulticavussp. nov. andS. pseudofoveatussp. nov., have two inner setae on the first exopodal segment of P2 and P3.Syngastesmulticavussp. nov. most closely resemblesS. gibbosusBartsch, 1999 reported from Australia, as they both have a five-segmented antennule in the female. However,Syngastesmulticavussp. nov. has a rounded body outline instead of the gibbose outline observed inS. gibbosus.Syngastespseudofoveatussp. nov. resemblesS. foveatusBartsch, 1994 in almost all aspects. However, they differ clearly in the number of setae on the first exopodal segment of P2 and P3. We also provide a key to species of the genusSyngastesworldwide. The present study is the first record of the family Tegastidae in Korean waters.

Two New Species of Eriocaulon from West Africa

Kew Bulletin ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 943 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia M. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Two New Species

Two New Species of Palisota (Commelinaceae) from West Africa

Kew Bulletin ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 829 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. M. Brenan
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Two New Species

Contribution to the taxonomy of Paracloeodes Day 1955 (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) from South America

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4403 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
PAULO VILELA CRUZ ◽  
FREDERICO FALCÃO SALLES ◽  
NEUSA HAMADA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South America ◽  
Species Level ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
General Lack ◽  
New Synonym ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
One New Species ◽  
Made In

In recent decades, major advances in the systematics of the Western Hemisphere genus Paracloeodes Day have been made in South America. Despite the taxonomic progress, uncertainties in identification remain due to the morphological similarities among some nymphs and due to the general lack of knowledge of the imago stages (only 4 of 20 are described from throughout the range of the genus). This study addresses these impediments in part through description of the male imagoes of six species (P. atroari Nieto & Salles, P. binodulus Lugo-Ortiz & McCafferty, P. ibicui Lugo-Ortiz & McCafferty, P. pacawara Nieto & Salles, P. peri Nieto & Salles, P. waimiri Nieto & Salles), description of two new species based on morphologically distinct nymphs (P. aristotelesi sp. n. and P. carolinae sp. n.), description of one new species based on morphologically distinct nymph and male imago (P. prismatobranchus sp. n.); redescription of three species based on type material (P. ibicui Lugo-Ortiz & McCafferty, P. leptobranchus Lugo-Ortiz & McCafferty and P. eurybranchus Lugo-Ortiz & McCafferty); proposal of one new synonym based on morphological analyses of specimens from Bolivia, Brazil and Uruguay, including type specimens (P. pacawara = P. morellii Emmerich & Nieto); and the presentation of a new key to identify nymphs from South America to the species level. 

Descriptions of two new species of Philodina (Rotifera, Bdelloidea), with notes on seven rare bdelloids from Korea

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4772 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-276
Author(s):  
MIN OK SONG ◽  
CHANG-HO LEE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Species Level ◽  
Taxonomic Study ◽  
Mitochondrial Cytochrome ◽  
Bdelloid Rotifers ◽  
Subspecies Level ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Terrestrial Habitats ◽  
I Gene ◽  
Rotifera Bdelloidea

A taxonomic study on bdelloid rotifers collected from various terrestrial habitats at five different locations in Korea resulted in eight new Korean records and two new species-level taxa, Philodina clypeata  n. sp. and P. verrucosa  n. sp. Among the eight new Korean records, two species- and three subspecies-level taxa are new to Asia as well. These new Korean records also include seven rare species/subspecies-level taxa with poorly known distributions. Habrotrocha gracilis quadridens Schulte and Macrotrachela zickendrahti seda Donner were rediscovered in Korea 64 and 53 years, respectively, after the original descriptions. Habrotrocha ligula aligula Burger, Macrotrachela insulana Donner, M. petulans Milne, M. pinnigera (Murray), and Philodina parvicalcar De Koning have been reported from two to three countries only including their type localities before the present study. In addition, a partial sequence of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene (mtCOX1) for P. verrucosa  n. sp. as well as a taxonomic key for the Philodina species recorded from Korea to date are also provided here. 

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