A New Species ofCalamoncosisEnderlein (Diptera: Chloropidae) Associated with Common Reed,Phragmites australis(Poaceae), in Eastern North America

2011 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian B. Eichiner ◽  
E. Richard Hoebeke ◽  
Emilia P. Nartshuk
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Phragmites Australis ◽  
Common Reed ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Stenodiplosis (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) on florets of the invasive common reed (Phragmites australis) and its effects on seed production

2013 ◽  
Vol 145 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan E. Ahee ◽  
Bradley J. Sinclair ◽  
Marcel E. Dorken
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Phragmites Australis ◽  
Aquatic Macrophyte ◽  
Gall Midge ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Common Reed ◽  
Ecological Interactions ◽  
Introduced Range ◽  
A New Species

AbstractA new species of gall midge, Stenodiplosis phragmicola Sinclair and Ahee (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), is described. The host plant, Phragmites australis (Cavanilles) Trinius ex Steudel (Poaceae), is a tall, widely distributed emergent aquatic macrophyte. An introduced subspecies of the plant is considered invasive in North America (although a native subspecies also occurs). Insect specimens were collected during September 2010 and 2011 from the florets of common reed at 12 sites around Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Preliminary data on ecological interactions between the plant and the insect are presented. Out of 2400 florets sampled, 9.5% were host to larvae of S. phragmicola. Three sites had much higher rates of infestation, with between 20% and 30% florets, and up to 100% of sampled shoots containing fly larvae. The largest stands in the sample all hosted fly populations and there was a positive association between the reproductive output of P. australis stands (measured as the average inflorescence mass per stand) and the proportion of shoots per stand containing larvae. The occurrence of S. phragmicola on the native subspecies of P. australis is also documented. Insects that consume reproductive structures of the common reed have not previously been reported from the plant's introduced range in North America.

Planalvus (Brachiopoda, Athyridida) from the Lower Devonian of the Armorican Massif, northwest France

1994 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick R. Racheboeuf ◽  
Paul Copper ◽  
Fernando Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Lower Devonian ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
Armorican Massif ◽  
A New Species

Cryptonella? cailliaudi Barrois, 1889, from the Lower Devonian of the Armorican Massif, is tentatively assigned to the athyridid brachiopod genus Planalvus Carter, thus far known only from the Lower Carboniferous of eastern North America. In addition, a new species, Planalvus rufus, is described from the Bois-Roux Formation (Pragian) of Brittany, France. These French species are small brachiopods with complex spiralial and jugal structures, which permit assignment to the order Athyridida.

scholarly journals Apheloria polychroma, a new species of millipede from the Cumberland Mountains (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4375 (3) ◽  
pp. 409
Author(s):  
PAUL E. MAREK ◽  
JACKSON C. MEANS ◽  
DEREK A. HENNEN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Mississippi River ◽  
Appalachian Mountains ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Ouachita Mountains ◽  
Model Species ◽  
Color Morphs ◽  
Cumberland Mountains ◽  
A New Species

Millipedes of the genus Apheloria Chamberlin, 1921 occur in temperate broadleaf forests throughout eastern North America and west of the Mississippi River in the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains. Chemically defended with toxins made up of cyanide and benzaldehyde, the genus is part of a community of xystodesmid millipedes that compose several Müllerian mimicry rings in the Appalachian Mountains. We describe a model species of these mimicry rings, Apheloria polychroma n. sp., one of the most variable in coloration of all species of Diplopoda with more than six color morphs, each associated with a separate mimicry ring.

HYMENOCHARA, A NEW GENUS OF ALLECULIDAE (COLEOPTERA) BASED ONMYCETOCHARA RUFIPESAND A NEW SPECIES FROM ARIZONA

1978 ◽  
Vol 110 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
A New Species

AbstractHymenochara, a new genus of Alleculidae, is described based onMycetochara rufipes(J. E. LeConte) from eastern North America andHymenochara arizonensisnew species, from Arizona.

The sawflies of the Pontania crassispina-group with a key for the genera of the subtribe Euurina (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae, Nematinae)

1999 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veli Vikberg ◽  
Alexey G. Zinovjev
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Distinct Genus ◽  
Group A ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
A New Species

AbstractEupontania Zinovjev, 1985, originally described as a subgenus of Pontania, is treated as a distinct genus of the subtribe Euurina Vikberg, which consists of the genera Euura Newman, Eupontania Zinovjev (stat. n.), Pontania A. Costa and Phyllocolpa Benson. Separate keys are given to distinguish these genera and the species-groups of Pontania and Phyllocolpa, and for 11 species of the Pontania crassispinu-group. A new species, Pontania rotundidentata sp. n. is described from eastern North America. The lectotypes are designated for P. crassispina (Thomson) and P. joergenseni Enslin. Pontania devincta MacGillivray (syn. n.) is treated as a synonym of P. populi Marlatt.

Notes on the Life-history and Habits of the Brown Mite, Bryobia arborea Morgan & Anderson (Acarina: Tetranychidae), on Peach in Ontario

1960 ◽  
Vol 92 (10) ◽  
pp. 775-779 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. H. C. Herne ◽  
Wm. L. Putman
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Fruit Trees ◽  
Extensive Study ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
A New Species

The ‘clover’ mite, Bryobia praetiosa Koch, has long been known to be a complex of closely related species or biological races differing greatly in host range, life-history, and habits. Morgan and Anderson (1957) reviewed the problem and described the form occurring on fruit trees in British Columbia as a new species, B. arborea, to be known as the brown mite, and these authors (Anderson and Morgan, 1958) also published a detailed study of the life-histories and habits of this species and of the true clover mite, B. praetiosa. Although the presence of Bryobia mites on fruit trees in Eastern North America, including Ontario, has long been recognized, they have seldom received more than casual mention and no extensive study of their biology in this area appears to have been undertaken. The species has little economic importance in Ontario (Putman and Herne, 1959).

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