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A new species, Phytocoris (Eckerleinius) hawramanicum sp. nov is described from Iran. A revised dichotomous key to the species of subgenus Eckerleinius Wagner known in Iran and adjacent regions, illustrations of male genitalia and male habitus photographs of this new taxon are provided. Diagnosis of the new species is based on a comparison with other congeneric found from Iran and adjacent countries. The type specimens were deposited in the insect collection of the University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran.

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A review of Megachile (Chelostomoda) Michener (Megachilidae: Megachilini) known from China with the description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.3267.1.3 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 3267 (1) ◽

pp. 55

Author(s):

ZE-QING NIU ◽

YAN-RU WU ◽

CHAO-DONG ZHU

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Species Distribution ◽

Type Specimens ◽

Chinese Academy Of Sciences ◽

Academy Of Sciences ◽

Beijing China ◽

A New Species ◽

Insect Collection

The Chinese species of Megachile (Chelostomoda) Michener, 1962, are treated in this paper. Megachile (C.) guangxiensesp. nov. is described and illustrated. A checklist of the known Chinese species, distribution records, and an updated iden-tification key are provided. The type specimens of M. guangxiense are deposited in the Insect Collection of the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (IZCAS, Beijing).

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Notes on the Insect Collection of Charles De Geer, with a revision of his species of Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae and Muscidae (Diptera)

Insect Systematics & Evolution ◽

10.1163/187631284x00082 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 89-95 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Per Inge Persson ◽

Verner Michelsen ◽

Adrian C. Pont

Keyword(s):

New Synonyms ◽

History Of ◽

Insect Collection

AbstractNotes are given on the life of Charles De Geer ( 1720-1778), on the history of his insect collection, and on some nomenclatural aspects of his work. The 10 species he described into the present families Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae and Muscidae are listed, their typematerial and identities discussed, and iectotypes designated where appropriate. 4 new synonyms are established: Fannia scalaris (Fabricius, 1794) (syn: minordomestica De Geer, 1776), Pegomya steini Hendel, 1925 (syn: fungorum De Geer, 1776, preocc.), Pegomya testacea (De Geer, 1776) (syn: silacea Meigen, 1830), and Lucilia caesar (Linnaeus, 1758) (syn: viridicaerulea De Geer, 1776).

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Comparison of Automated Georeferencing Tools Using Insect Collection Data

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards ◽

10.3897/biss.3.37345 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

Author(s):

Leonor Venceslau ◽

Luis Lopes

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Average Distance ◽

Sampling Location ◽

Reference Dataset ◽

Global Biodiversity Information Facility ◽

Google Maps ◽

Reference Location ◽

Natural History Collection ◽

Collection Data ◽

Insect Collection

Major efforts are being made to digitize natural history collections to make these data available online for retrieval and analysis (Beaman and Cellinese 2012). Georeferencing, an important part of the digitization process, consists of obtaining geographic coordinates from a locality description. In many natural history collection specimens, the coordinates of the sampling location are not recorded, rather they contain a description of the site. Inaccurate georeferencing of sampling locations negatively impacts data quality and the accuracy of any geographic analysis on those data. In addition to latitude and longitude, it is important to define a degree of uncertainty of the coordinates, since in most cases it is impossible to pinpoint the exact location retrospectively. This is usually done by defining an uncertainty value represented as a radius around the center of the locality where the sampling took place. Georeferencing is a time-consuming process requiring manual validation; as such, a significant part of all natural history collection data available online are not georeferenced. Of the 161 million records of preserved specimens currently available in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), only 86 million (53.4%) include coordinates. It is therefore important to develop and optimize automatic tools that allow a fast and accurate georeferencing. The objective of this work was to test existing automatic georeferencing services and evaluate their potential to accelerate georeferencing of large collection datasets. For this end, several open-source georeferencing services are currently available, which provide an application programming interface (API) for batch georeferencing. We evaluated five programs: Google Maps, MapQuest, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, and GEOLocate. A test dataset of 100 records (reference dataset), which had been previously individually georreferenced following Chapman and Wieczorek 2006, was randomly selected from the Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Universidade de Lisboa insect collection catalogue (Lopes et al. 2016). An R (R Core Team 2018) script was used to georeference these records using the five services. In cases where multiple results were returned, only the first one was considered and compared with the manually obtained coordinates of the reference dataset. Two factors were considered in evaluating accuracy: Total number of results obtained and Distance to the original location in the reference dataset. Total number of results obtained and Distance to the original location in the reference dataset. Of the five programs tested, Google Maps yielded the most results (99) and was the most accurate with 57 results < 1000 m from the reference location and 79 within the uncertainty radius. GEOLocate provided results for 87 locations, of which 47 were within 1000 m of the correct location, and 57 were within the uncertainty radius. The other 3 services tested all had less than 35 results within 1000 m from the reference location, and less than 50 results within the uncertainty radius. Google Maps and Open Street Map had the lowest average distance from the reference location, both around 5500 m. Google Maps has a usage limit of around 40000 free georeferencing requests per month, beyond which the service is paid, while GEOLocate is free with no usage limit. For large collections, this may be a factor to take into account. In the future, we hope to optimize these methods and test them with larger datasets.

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Handbook to the Construction and Use of Insect Collection and Rearing Devices

10.1007/1-4020-3020-7 ◽

2005 ◽

Keyword(s):

Insect Collection

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An annotated catalogue of the types of Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) in the collection of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium) with descriptions of new genera and new species

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.2469.1.1 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 2469 (1) ◽

pp. 1 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

JÓZEF RAZOWSKI ◽

LEIF AARVIK ◽

JURATE DE PRINS

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Central Africa ◽

Taxonomic Position ◽

New Combinations ◽

New Genera ◽

Type Specimens ◽

Type Series ◽

New Synonym ◽

One New Species ◽

Insect Collection

We present an annotated and illustrated catalogue of fifty type specimens of Afrotropical Tortricidae deposited in the insect collection of the Royal Museum for Central Africa. In addition to primary types, paratypes and/or paralectotypes are described and illustrated when available. Also, syntypes of the treated species deposited in other museums are listed and discussed. The taxonomic position of each species is reviewed. Three genera are described as new: Cornips Razowski, Nepheloploce Razowski, and Recaraceria Razowski. One new species, Cornips gravidspinatus Razowki, is described from the type series of Tortrix dryocausta Meyrick. Twenty-three new combinations and three new synonymies are proposed: Argyrotoxa praeconia Meyrick is transferred to Rubidograptis; Argyrotoxa canthararcha Meyrick to Accra; Homona cyanombra Meyrick, Homona myriosema Meyrick, and Catamacta manticopa Meyrick to Lozotaenia; Niphotixa dryocausta Meyrick and N. agelasta Bradley to Cornips; Tortrix enochlodes Meyrick and Tortrix scaeodoxa Meyrick to Clepsis; Catamacta imbriculata Meyrick and Capua pylora Meyrick to Epichoristodes; Homona hylaeana Meyrick to Meridemis; Argyroploce nephelopsycha Meyrick and Cydia euryteles Meyrick to Endothenia; Argyroploce nephelopyrga Meyrick to Nepheloploce; Polychrosis hendrickxi Ghesquière, Eucosma orphnogenes Meyrick and Eucosma regionalis Meyrick to Sycacantha; Argyroploce carceraria Meyrick and Olethreutes hormoterma Meyrick to Recaraceria; Laspeyresia mixographa Meyrick to Eucosmocydia; Laspeyresia gypsothicta Meyrick to Grapholita. Eucosma niveipalpis Meyrick is a new synonym of Brachioxena sparactis Meyrick; Polychrosis hendrickxi Ghesquière is a new synonym of Sycacantha nereidopa Meyrick, comb. n.; and Laspeyresia cynicopis is a new synonym of Fulcrifera periculosa Meyrick.

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Two new species of the genus Kamimuria (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from China, with redescription of Kamimuria cheni Wu and Kamimuria Chungnanshana Wu

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.3455.1.3 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 3455 (1) ◽

pp. 61 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

HAI-TAO SUN ◽

YU-ZHOU DU

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Adult Male ◽

Type Species ◽

Type Material ◽

Japanese Species ◽

Diagnostic Characters ◽

Generic Rank ◽

Two New Species ◽

Male Morphology ◽

Insect Collection

Klapálek (1907) established Kamimuria as a subgenus of Perla, but later elevated it to generic rank (Klapálek 1912). Later, Klapálek (1923) designated Perla tibialis Pictet, 1841, a Japanese species, as the type species. Uchida & Isobe (1991) designated a neotype for K. tibialis and resurrected K. uenoi Kohno from synonymy. Sivec et al. (1988) redescribed the diagnostic characters of Kamimuria in reference to other Perlinae. It is a genus widespread in the Palaearctic and Oriental Regions, being particularly diverse in China. A total of 76 species have been described over the worldwide and includes 45 species residing in China (DeWalt et al. 2011, Sivec & Stark 2008, Sivec et al. 1988, 1997, Du et al. 1999, 2001, Du & Ran 2002, Du & Sivec 2004, 2005, Du & Wang 2005, 2007, Du 2006, Wu 1938, 1962, 1973). The type material of many species proposed by Wu (1935, 1936, 1938, 1940, 1947–1948) were lost because of the war, but for some species he designated neotypes (1962) which were deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica. Based on adult male morphology, two new species from China are described, and K. cheni Wu and K. Chungnanshana Wu are redescribed in this paper. The types of new species are deposited in the Insect Collection of Yangzhou University, Jiangsu, China.

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Carl Linnaeus and his scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea)*

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.1668.1.23 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 1668 (1) ◽

pp. 427-490 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

D. J. WILLIAMS

Keyword(s):

Scale Insect ◽

Scale Insects ◽

Nomen Nudum ◽

Incertae Sedis ◽

Carl Linnaeus ◽

History Of ◽

Insect Collection

Carl Linnaeus named 22 species of scale insects in the genus Coccus, another in the genus Aphis, and one other probably unintentionally. All are redescribed and discussed. It is established that Coccus betulae L. is a nomen nudum and that the name was validly described later by Fabricius. A brief history of Linnaeus’ collection is summarised and his scale insect collection described. Linnaeus’ descriptions of scale insects are here translated into English and all the references to scale insect literature cited by Linnaeus are listed in bibliographical form and annotated. Lectotypes are designated for the species names Coccus aonidum Linnaeus, Aphis urticae Linnaeus and Coccus uvaeursi Linnaeus. One species, Coccus phalaridis, is here considered incertae sedis. Coccus pilosellae is recognised as a syn.nov. of Porphyrophora polonica (L.). Coccus rusci is recognised as Ceroplastes rusci (L.), not Columnea rusci.

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New species of Diamesa (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Tibet: conspecific males and females associated with mitochondrial DNA

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.1049.1.2 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 1049 (1) ◽

pp. 19 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

ENDRE WILLASSEN

Keyword(s):

Mitochondrial Dna ◽

New Species ◽

Cytochrome Oxidase ◽

Dna Sequences ◽

Type Material ◽

Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit ◽

Oxidase Subunit ◽

Complete Type ◽

Males And Females ◽

Insect Collection

Undescribed females representing four morphological types were found in a collection of adult Diamesa from about 5000 m altitude in Rongbuk, Tibet. Short DNA sequences of cytochrome oxidase subunit 2 were used to associate two single males in the material with conspecific females. Diamesa solhoyi n.sp. and Diamesa aculeata n.sp. are described. The complete type material and additional specimens have been deposited in the Insect Collection at the Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Beijing (IZAS). The sequences are deposited in Genbank with accession numbers AM051227–AM051233.

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