scholarly journals Phasmomantella gen. nov., a spectacular new genus of praying mantis from southern Central Vietnam (Mantodea, Mantidae, Deroplatyinae, Euchomenellini)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xavier H.C. Vermeersch
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Collection Site ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Praying Mantis ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Adult Females ◽  
Central Vietnam ◽  
Southern Central

The new genus Phasmomantella gen. nov. is created to accommodate the new species P. nuichuana gen. et sp. nov. described from five adult females from Núi Chúa National Park in southern Central Vietnam. A second species, Phasmomantella pallida (Roy, 2001) gen. et comb. nov., is transferred from Euchomenella where it was originally described based on a single male specimen from the Nha Trang region in the Khánh Hòa Province. Phasmomantella gen. nov. is placed in the tribe Euchomenellini of the subfamily Deroplatyinae. A comprehensive diagnosis and detailed descriptions are presented along with high-resolution photographs, measurements and a distribution map. The standardised measurements are illustrated and a new key is proposed for the tribe Euchomenellini. The unique biogeography and habitats of the collection site within Núi Chúa National Park are discussed in the light of possible endemism and importance for nature conservation.

Hamadiana chapadensis, a new genus and species of diving beetle from Brazil (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Laccophilinae, Laccophilini)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4615 (1) ◽  
pp. 176
Author(s):  
CESAR J. BENETTI ◽  
ANDREW E. Z. SHORT ◽  
MARIANO C. MICHAT
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Central Brazil ◽  
Diving Beetle

Hamadiana chapadensis gen. n. and sp. n. is described based on a single male specimen collected in Central Brazil. The new species belongs to the diving beetle tribe Laccophilini but could not be assigned to any existing genera, therefore a new genus is described to accommodate it. Hamadiana gen. n. is unique among Laccophilini in having the hind margin of the metacoxal process deeply incised and medially slightly protruded backwards. In addition, it differs from other genera of the tribe by having the antennomeres simple, not expanded, the metacoxal lines not straight, and the metatibiae with two simple apical spurs. The habitus, male genitalia, and diagnostic features are illustrated, and a distribution map is provided. A recently published key to Laccophilini is modified to include the new genus.

Tapantiomyia enigmatica, new genus and species proposed for a stilt-legged and otherwise bizarre coenosiine fly (Diptera: Muscidae) from Costa Rica

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4277 (4) ◽  
pp. 583
Author(s):  
VERNER MICHELSEN
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
National Park ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Cloud Forest ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Tropical Cloud Forest ◽  
Decisive Evidence ◽  
A New Species

A new monotypic genus, Tapantiomyia gen. nov., is proposed for a new species of muscid fly, T. enigmatica sp. nov., found in the Tapantí National Park, Costa Rica. It is only known by a single male specimen taken in a Malaise trap in tropical cloud forest, but deserves immediate attention because of its bizarre, stilt-legged appearance in combination with several other unique apomorphies that preclude placement in any known genus of Muscidae. Tapantiomyia enigmatica is so strange that it tend to run out to Scathophagidae rather than Muscidae in keys to families of Diptera. However, the morphology of the male genitalia provides decisive evidence for a placement in Coenosiinae, a large and diverse group of predatory Muscidae. Two tribes, Limnophorini and Coenosiini, are currently recognized within Coenosiinae, but the monophyly of Limnophorini remains uncertain. Tapantiomyia is tentatively assigned to the Limnophorini.  

A new natricine snake of the genus Amphiesma (Squamata: Colubridae: Natricinae) from the central Truong Son, Vietnam

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1225 (1) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
THOMAS ZIEGLER ◽  
LE KHAC QUYET
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Slender Body ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Anal Plate ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Central Vietnam ◽  
Eye Diameter ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Amphiesma is described from the Truong Son (Annamite mountain range) of Quang Binh Province in central Vietnam. This new species is characterized by the combination of the distinct coloration and pattern, the slender body and tail (tail/total length ratio 0.31), the large eye diameter, a single loreal and preocular, three postoculars, a single anterior and posterior temporal, nine supralabials (fourth to sixth reach the eye), nine infralabials, 179 ventrals (plus two preventrals), anal plate divided, 99 divided subcaudals, dorsal scales in 19-19-17 keeled rows, 34 maxillary teeth (the two posteriormost enlarged), hemipenis simple, with undivided sperm groove, covered with small spines except for a single, strongly enlarged spine next to the sperm groove at the hemipenis base and except for irregularly arranged medium-sized spines that encircle the organ horizontally at the trunco-pedicel area. The new taxon is known only from a single male specimen that was collected in a limestone forest valley.

scholarly journals A New Genus of Nematodes Parasitic in Elephants

Parasitology ◽  
1921 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. A. Baylis
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
British Museum ◽  
African Elephant ◽  
The Other ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen

A Re-Examination of the type-specimens of “Sclerostoma” clathratum Baird from the African elephant, which are in the British Museum, has led to a rather interesting discovery. The material was contained in two bottles, labelled in Baird's own handwriting. One bore the name “Sclerostoma clathratum Baird,” and contained a single male specimen of the form now known as Grammocephalus clathratus. The other bottle was labelled “Sclerostoma clathratum Baird, ♀,” and proved to contain worms of both sexes and of quite a different type from Grammocephalus.

scholarly journals The new genus of stick insect Lobofemora from Vietnam, with the description of three new species (Phasmida: Phasmatidae: Clitumnini)

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Bresseel ◽  
Jérôme Constant
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Stick Insect ◽  
South Vietnam ◽  
Central Vietnam ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Cat Tien National Park

The new genus Lobofemora gen. nov. is described from Vietnam to accommodate three new species: L. bachmaensis sp. nov. (Bach Ma National Park, central Vietnam), L. bidoupensis sp. nov. (Bidoup-Nui Ba National Park, central Vietnam) and L. scheirei sp. nov., the type species (Cat Tien National Park and Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve, south Vietnam). It is provisionally placed in the tribe Clitumnini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893. The genus is the only known Clitumnini which shows tegmina and sometimes alae in the males. Females show conspicuous foliaceous lobes on the median femora. Males and females of all species and the eggs of L. scheirei sp. nov. and L. bidoupensis sp. nov. are described and illustrated. An identification key to the species and a distribution map are provided. The definition of the tribe Clitumnini sensu Hennemann & Conle (2008) is slightly adapted to include the new genus and the tribal placement is discussed. The male of L. scheirei sp. nov. is able to stridulate by rubbing the outer margins of the tegmina against the subcostal and radial veins of the alae.

A New Family of Trichoptera from Asia

1959 ◽  
Vol 91 (12) ◽  
pp. 745-757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn B. Wiggins
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Single Species ◽  
Immature Stages ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Family ◽  
The Family

In 1906 Nathan Banks described a species, Phryganea latipennis, based on a single male specimen which he had received in a collection of caddisflies from Japan. Assignment of this species to the family Phryganeidae has always seemed the logical course because the adults possessed the typical phryganeid characters of ocelli, four-segmented maxilary palpi in the male, and five-segmented palpi in the female, with a tibia1 spur cout of 2, 4, 4. That the species was a phryganeid has never been questioned in the past, and in a preliminary revision of the familyPhrygancidae, Martynov (1924) created a new genus Phryganopsis for the single species latipennis Banks . A second species, cornuta, from Burma, was added to the genus by Kimmins (1950). It was not until 1951 that the larva and case of P. latipennis were figured and briefly described by Tsuda. This was the first published information on the immature stages of the genus, and the structures of the pupa have still not been made known.

A new genus of cyphophthalmid from the Iberian Peninsula with a phylogenetic analysis of the Sironidae (Arachnida : Opiliones : Cyphophthalmi) and a SEM database of external morphology

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin L. de Bivort ◽  
Gonzalo Giribet
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Data Matrix ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Scanning Electron Micrographs ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Weighting Method ◽  
Male Specimen

A new species of sironid from Portugal is described based on a single male specimen collected over half a century ago. The unique combination of character states and phylogenetic comparison with representatives of all sironid genera justifies the erection of a new genus, the fourth one found in the Iberian Peninsula. Phylogenetic analysis is conducted using equal weights and the implied weighting method as a means of testing the stability of clades with respect to parameter variation, in a similar fashion to the sensitivity analysis commonly performed in molecular data analyses. Results suggest that the new genus is sister to Paramiopsalis Juberthie, 1962, although nodal support for this relationship is low. The morphological data matrix is accompanied by scanning electron micrographs of most characters for 24 species to make the morphological coding as explicit as possible. Comparison of these images fostered the discovery and proper interpretation of characters and their states.

The rediscovery and redescription of Epigomphus pechumani Belle, 1970 (Odonata: Gomphidae), with a description of its female from the Western Colombian Andes

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4306 (3) ◽  
pp. 419 ◽  
Author(s):  
CORNELIO A. BOTA-SIERRA ◽  
RODOLFO NOVELO-GUTIÉRREZ ◽  
VANESSA AMAYA-VALLEJO
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Poor Condition ◽  
Colombian Andes ◽  
Valle Del Cauca ◽  
First Time

Epigomphus pechumani Belle, 1970, was described based upon a single male specimen in poor condition, lacking specific locality in Colombia. Here the male is redescribed and the female is described and illustrated for the first time based on a total of 18 adults collected in Tatamá National Park, Risaralda Department, and Farallones de Cali National Park, Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia. A diagnosis, notes on its biology and a distributional map are presented. All material is deposited in the Entomological collection of Universidad de Antioquia. 

scholarly journals A New Genus and Species of Coniopterygidae (Neuroptera) From New Mexico

1976 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-195
Author(s):  
Victor Johnson
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen

A single male specimen of an undescribed genus of Coniopterygidae was collected in a blacklight trap in Las Cruces. New Mexico. The specimen keys out to the genus Helicoconis Enderlein of the subfamily Aleuropteryginae in Meinander's (1972) key, but genitalic studies show the need for a new generic designation. Because the genitalia of this new genus differ from all known genera of Coniopterygidae, it is difficult to make comparisons, but for descriptive purposes, the genitalia are compared to those of Helicoconis. The structures referred to here as ectoprocts are probably equivalent to the ectoprocts of Helicoconis but may represent other structures.

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