Designation of a new family group name, Tonzidae fam. nov., for the genus Tonza (Lepidoptera, Yponomeutoidea), based on immature stages of Tonza citrorrhoa

The systematic position of Tonza Walker, 1864 is re-evaluated, based on the characteristics of immature stages and DNA barcodes. Larvae and pupae of Tonza citrorrhoa Meyrick, 1905 are described and illustrated for the first time. Larvae of this species form a loose web among the leaves and branches of the host plant, Putranjiva matsumurae Koidz. (Putranjivaceae Endl.). The immature stages of Tonza exhibit four unique apomorphies including: in the larva, the prolegs on A5 and A6 absent, and the seta L2 on the A1–A8 very small; in the pupa, four minute knobs are positioned in the middle portion on abdominal segments V and VI; while its caudal processes possess a W-shaped spine with numerous minute spines. These characteristics clearly distinguish Tonza from other yponomeutoid families and hence, we propose a new family group name, Tonzidae Kobayashi & Sohn fam. nov., for the genus Tonza. Existing DNA barcode data suggest a relationship with Glyphipterigidae Stainton, 1854. The family level status of Tonzidae fam. nov. provides a hypothesis that needs to be tested with larger molecular data.

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A new species of Litarachna Walter, 1925 (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Pontarachnidae) from Corozal Bay (Belize), described based upon morphology and DNA barcodes

Acarologia ◽

10.24349/r7no-ludg ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 61 (3) ◽

pp. 602-613

Author(s):

Lucia Montes-Ortiz ◽

Tom Goldschmidt ◽

Lourdes Vásquez-Yeomans ◽

Manuel Elías-Gutiérrez

Keyword(s):

Dna Barcode ◽

Morphological Description ◽

Estuarine System ◽

Dna Barcodes ◽

Sem Images ◽

The Family ◽

Coi Sequences ◽

First Time ◽

A New Species ◽

Electronic Microscope

A new planktonic species of the marine water mites of the family Pontarachnidae Koenike, 1910 is described from Corozal Bay, an estuarine system in Belize. The morphological description includes Scanning Electronic Microscope (SEM) images and is augmented by an analysis of DNA cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) sequences, the DNA barcode, used for the first time for a species description in this group.

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Back to the Future? Molecules Take Us Back to the 1925 Classification of the Lembophyllaceae (Bryopsida)

Systematic Botany ◽

10.1600/036364409789271128 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

pp. 443-454 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Dietmar Quandt ◽

Sanna Huttunen ◽

Ray Tangney ◽

Michael Stech

Keyword(s):

Single Species ◽

Molecular Data ◽

Nuclear Ribosomal Dna ◽

New Family ◽

Morphological Studies ◽

The Family ◽

Family Level ◽

Plastid Markers ◽

Pleurocarpous Moss

Although the Lembophyllaceae has undergone considerable revision during the last century, the generic and familial level relationships of this pleurocarpous moss family are still poorly understood. To address this problem, a generic revision of the Lembophyllaceae based on molecular data was undertaken. We analyzed two plastid markers, the trnL-trnF and the psbT-psbH region in combination with the ITS2 of nuclear ribosomal DNA. The molecular data reveal that the current circumscription of the family is too narrow and that several genera previously placed in the Lembophyllaceae should be reincluded. The family includes: Bestia, Camptochaete, Dolichomitra, Dolichomitriopsis, Fallaciella, Fifea, Isothecium, Lembophyllum, Looseria stat. nov., Pilotrichella, Rigodium, Tripterocladium, and Weymouthia. Looseria contains a single species: Looseria orbiculata comb. nov. Acrocladium is excluded and provisionally accommodated in the Lepyrodontaceae. Generic limits supported by the molecular data support a return to the early twentieth century family concept of Brotherus. The analyses indicate that the segregate genus Orthostichella is distinct from its parent genus Pilotrichella, probably at the family level. Whereas Pilotrichella is resolved within the Lembophyllaceae, Orthostichella clusters with Porotrichum and Porothamnium forming a clade (OPP-clade) sister to the remaining Neckeraceae and Lembophyllaceae. Hence, the Neckeraceae is paraphyletic. Recognition of the OPP-clade as a new family is desirable but awaits the results of detailed ongoing morphological studies.

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Revision of the Afrotropical species of the hover fly genus Mesembrius Rondani (Diptera, Syrphidae) using morphological and molecular data

ZooKeys ◽

10.3897/zookeys.1046.57052 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1046 ◽

pp. 1-141

Author(s):

Kurt Jordaens ◽

Georg Goergen ◽

Jeffrey H. Skevington ◽

Scott Kelso ◽

Marc De Meyer

Keyword(s):

Dna Barcode ◽

Molecular Data ◽

Junior Synonym ◽

Dna Barcodes ◽

Identification Keys ◽

Males And Females ◽

Morphological And Molecular Data ◽

First Time

The Afrotropical representatives of the hover fly genus Mesembrius Rondani, 1857 (Diptera) are divided into two subgenera, namely Mesembrius s.s. and Vadonimyia Séguy, 1951 and, in this present work, the subgenus Mesembrius s.s. is revised. A total of 23 Mesembrius s.s. species are recognised for the Afrotropics. Known species are re-described and six species new to science are described: Mesembrius arcuatussp. nov., M. copelandisp. nov., M. longipilosussp. nov., M. sulcussp. nov., M. tibialissp. nov. and M. vockerothisp. nov. Mesembrius africanus (Verrall, 1898) is considered a junior synonym of M. senegalensis (Macquart, 1842), M. ctenifer Hull, 1941 a junior synonym of M. caffer (Loew, 1858), M. lagopus (Loew, 1869) a junior synonym of M. capensis (Macquart, 1842) and M. platytarsis Curran, 1929 a junior synonym of M. simplicipes Curran, 1929. The females of Mesembrius chapini Curran, 1939, M. rex Curran, 1927 and M. regulus (Hull, 1937) are described for the first time. Lectotypes are designated for Mesembrius caffer, M. capensis, M. cyanipennis (Bezzi, 1915), M. minor (Bezzi, 1915), M. senegalensis, M. strigilatus (Bezzi, 1912) and M. tarsatus (Bigot, 1883). Separate identification keys for males and females are presented. We obtained 236 DNA barcodes for 18 species. The relationships amongst the different Mesembrius species are briefly discussed, based on morphological and DNA barcode data.

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New family-level characters for Platygastroidea

Journal of Hymenoptera Research ◽

10.3897/jhr.87.72906 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 87 ◽

pp. 235-249

Author(s):

István Mikó ◽

Monique Raymond ◽

Elijah J. Talamas

Keyword(s):

Fore Wing ◽

Molecular Data ◽

Parasitoid Wasps ◽

Anterior Portion ◽

New Family ◽

Internal Morphology ◽

Phylogenetic Implications ◽

The Family ◽

Family Level

Platygastridae (Hymenoptera) is a diverse family of parasitoid wasps for which few studies of internal morphology have been conducted. The monophyly of the group is undisputed based on recently published molecular data, but based on morphology, the family is diagnosable from other platygastroids only by a combination of character reductions. In the present study we explored the mesosoma of Platygastroidea and found two new synapomorphies for Platygastridae: an externally visible anterior mesofurcal pit, which corresponds to an invagination that connects to the anterior portion of the mesofurca, and internally, a posteriorly shifted origin of the first wing flexors. The absence of a mesofurcal bridge and the exclusively mesopectal origin of the fore wing flexors are treated as synapomorphies for Platygastridae+Janzenellidae. Phylogenetic implications and evolutionary hypotheses regarding these traits are discussed.

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Some thecate hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from off New Caledonia collected during KANACONO and KANADEEP expeditions of the French Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos Program

European Journal of Taxonomy ◽

10.5852/ejt.2019.562 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Horia R. Galea ◽

Peter Schuchert

Keyword(s):

Deep Water ◽

Deep Sea ◽

New Genus ◽

New Records ◽

New Caledonia ◽

Molecular Data ◽

Systematic Position ◽

Male And Female ◽

The Family ◽

First Time

Thirty-six species of various thecate hydroids occur in two recent, deep-water collections from off New Caledonia. Of these, nine are new, namely Solenoscyphus subtilis Galea, sp. nov., Hincksella immersa Galea, sp. nov., Synthecium rectangulatum Galea, sp. nov., Diphasia alternata Galea, sp. nov., Dynamena opposita Galea, sp. nov., Hydrallmania clavaformis Galea, sp. nov., Symplectoscyphus acutustriatus Galea, sp. nov., Symplectoscyphus elongatulus Galea, sp. nov. and Zygophylax niger Galea, sp. nov. The male and female gonothecae of Caledoniana decussata Galea, 2015, the female gonothecae of Caledoniana microgona Galea, 2015, as well as the gonothecae of both sexes of Solenoscyphus striatus Galea, 2015 are described for the first time. The systematic position of the genera Solenoscyphus Galea, 2015 and Caledoniana Galea, 2015 is discussed on both morphological and molecular grounds, and both are confidently placed within the family Staurothecidae Maronna et al., 2016. In light of the molecular data, the genera Billardia Totton, 1930 and Dictyocladium Allman, 1888 are assigned to the families Syntheciidae Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1890 and Symplectoscyphidae Maronna et al. , 2016, respectively. The previously undescribed gonothecae of Hincksella neocaledonica Galea, 2015, and the male gonothecae of Sertularella tronconica Galea, 2016, were found. Thyroscyphus scorpioides Vervoort, 1993, a peculiar hydroid with putative stem nematothecae, is redescribed and assigned to the new genus Tuberocaulus Galea, gen. nov. Noteworthy new records from the study area are: Tasmanaria edentula (Bale, 1924), Hincksella sibogae Billard, 1918, Dictyocladium reticulatum (Kirchenpauer, 1884), Salacia sinuosa (Bale, 1888) and Billardia hyalina Vervoort & Watson, 2003. Most species are illustrated to facilitate their identification, and the morphology of the new ones is compared to that of their related congeners.

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Five new morphological types of virgulate and microcotylous xiphidiocercariae based on morphological and molecular phylogenetic analyses

Journal of Helminthology ◽

10.1017/s0022149x19000853 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 94 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

S.V. Shchenkov ◽

S.A. Denisova ◽

G.A. Kremnev ◽

A.A. Dobrovolskij

Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Analyses ◽

Morphological Characters ◽

Molecular Data ◽

Phylogenetic Position ◽

The Family ◽

Family Level ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

Morphological And Molecular Data ◽

First Time

Abstract The phylogenetic position of most xiphidiocercariae from subgroups Cercariae virgulae and Cercariae microcotylae remains unknown or unclear, even at the family level. In this paper, we studied the morphology and molecular phylogeny of 15 microcotylous and virgulate cercariae (11 new and four previously described ones). Based on morphological and molecular data, we suggested five distinct morphological types of xiphidiocercariae, which are a practical alternative to Cercariae virgulae and Cercariae microcotylae subgroups. Four of these types correspond to actual digenean taxa (Microphallidae, Lecithodendriidae, Pleurogenidae and Prosthogonimidae), while the fifth is represented by Cercaria nigrospora Wergun, 1957, which we classified on the basis of molecular data for the first time. We reassessed the relative importance of morphological characters used for the classification of virgulate and microcotylous cercariae, and discussed the main evolutionary trends within xiphidiocercariae. Now stylet cercariae can be reliably placed into several sub-taxa of Microphalloidea on the basis of their morphological features.

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Larval morphology of the family Parthenopidae, with the description of the megalopa stage of Derilambrus angulifrons (Latreille, 1825) (Decapoda: Brachyura), identified by DNA barcode

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom ◽

10.1017/s0025315414001908 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 95 (3) ◽

pp. 513-521 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Elena Marco-Herrero ◽

J. Ignacio González-Gordillo ◽

José A. Cuesta

Keyword(s):

Dna Barcode ◽

Larval Morphology ◽

Dna Barcodes ◽

Previous Description ◽

Larval Stages ◽

The Family ◽

First Time

Although Parthenopidae is a brachyuran decapod family comprising almost 140 species, there is little knowledge about its larval morphology. There are only two complete larval developments reared in the laboratory and some larval stages described for seven species. In the present work these data are compared and analysed. A summary is made of the larval features that characterize parthenopids that can be used to distinguish them from other brachyuran larvae. In addition, the megalopa stage of Derilambrus angulifrons and Parthenopoides massena was collected from plankton and identified by DNA barcodes. The morphology of the megalopa of D. angulifrons is described for the first time, and that of P. massena is compared with a previous description.

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Updated contribution to the knowledge of Tetranychoidea (Acari: Tetranychidae, Tenuipalpidae) from Syria with reinstatement of genus Nuciforaella Vacante

Systematic and Applied Acarology ◽

10.11158/saa.24.4.1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 24 (4) ◽

pp. 529

Author(s):

Mahran Zeity ◽

Nagappa Srinivasa

Keyword(s):

Host Plant ◽

Immature Stages ◽

New Host ◽

The Family ◽

First Time

Sixteen species of Tetranychoidea, 11 Tetranychidae and 5 Tenuipalpidae are reported in this study. Seven of them are recorded for the first time from Syria: Bryobia gigas, Oligonychus afrasiaticus, O. coniferarum, O. pratensis, Cenopalpus rubusi, Tenuipalpus cupressoides and T. punicae. New host plant records are also reported. Reinstatement of the genus Nuciforaella Vacante is discussed in this study. Detailed descriptions of immature stages and female of Nuciforaella nikitensis are given. A key to the known species of the family Tetranychidae from Syria is provided.

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A new species and immature stages of the skiff beetle genus Yara Reichardt and Hinton (Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Hydroscaphidae) from Nicaragua

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4544.1.8 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4544 (1) ◽

pp. 125

Author(s):

SCARLETH MARGARITA RAUDEZ REYES ◽

ROBERTO ANTONIO CANO ESPINOZA ◽

JENNIFER C. GIRÓN

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Immature Stages ◽

Water Beetle ◽

The Family ◽

First Time ◽

A New Species

Yara marmontsedu, a new species in the family Hydroscaphidae (Coleoptera: Myxophaga), is described and illustrated. Specimens of Y. marmontsedu were collected at the Pijibay Creek, tributary of the Mico River in Chontales, Nicaragua. The immature stages are described and illustrated for the first time for a species of Yara. This is a contribution to the knowledge of the water beetle fauna of Nicaragua.

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Family-group names proposed in the family Pseudococcidae (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.2400.1.7 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 2400 (1) ◽

pp. 66 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

D. J. WILLIAMS ◽

P. J. GULLAN

Keyword(s):

Family Group ◽

The Family ◽

Family Level ◽

The Status ◽

Reliable Classification

Since Cockerell (1905) erected the family-group name Pseudococcini, the name has become widely used for all mealybugs. Lobdell (1930) raised the status of the group to family level as the Pseudococcidae, but it was not until Borchsenius (1949) and Ferris (1950) accepted the family level that the rank of Pseudococcidae became more widely accepted within the superfamily Coccoidea. Various tribes and subtribes have been introduced without any reliable classification of the family.

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