scholarly journals A revision of Onychelmis Hinton, 1941 (Coleoptera: Elmidae), with description of new species, DNA barcoding and notes on the geography of the genus

2021 ◽  
Vol 739 ◽  
pp. 1-35
Author(s):  
Marek Linský ◽  
Zuzana Čiamporová-Zaťovičová ◽  
Fedor Čiampor Jr
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Species Delimitation ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
The Andes ◽  
Long Time ◽  
New Material ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data

The genus Onychelmis Hinton, 1941 was for a long time regarded as a small taxon with only three known species distributed in the Andes. A study of new material from Ecuador, using morphological and molecular data, has resulted in the discovery of five new species: Onychelmis lenkae sp. nov., O. lobata sp. nov., O. minor sp. nov., O. onorei sp. nov. and O. splendida sp. nov. We also revised the entire genus and redescribed the three known species, O. longicollis (Sharp, 1882), O. leleupi Delève, 1968 and O. whiteheadi Spangler & Santiago, 1991. Habitus photographs of adults are provided, together with line drawings of male and female genitalia, and schematic illustrations of the distribution of femoral tomentum for each species. DNA sequences for barcoding the COI mtDNA fragment were used to support species delimitation and to suggest possible relationships among species. The revision includes a key to adults of all species of Onychelmis and notes on the biogeography of the genus, with an updated distribution map.

scholarly journals New species of Retiboletus (Boletales, Boletaceae) from China based on morphological and molecular data

MycoKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 33-44
Author(s):  
Hai-Ying Liu ◽  
Yan-Chun Li ◽  
Tolgor Bau
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Large Subunit ◽  
Elongation Factor ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Translation Elongation Factor ◽  
Translation Elongation ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data ◽  
Elongation Factor 1

Species of the genus Retiboletus in China were investigated based on morphology and phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequences from the nuclear ribosomal large subunit (nrLSU) and the translation elongation factor 1-α gene (TEF1-α). Nine species were recovered from China, including two new and seven known species. The new species, namely Retiboletus ater and R. sinogriseus, from southwestern and northeastern China respectively, are documented and illustrated in this paper. Retiboletus ater is morphologically characterized by its black to grayish black pileus, white to grayish hymenophore, black to blackish stipe and white to grayish white context. Retiboletus sinogriseus is morphologically characterized by its brown to grayish-brown pileus, yellow to grayish-yellow hymenophore, pale yellow to brownish stipe and yellow to brownish-yellow context. Descriptions and line drawings of these two novel species and their comparisons with allied taxa are presented.

A new species of Cynomops (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from the northwestern slope of the Andes

Mammalia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Arenas-Viveros ◽  
Pamela Sánchez-Vendizú ◽  
Alan Giraldo ◽  
Jorge Salazar-Bravo
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Mtdna Sequences ◽  
The Andes ◽  
Western Side ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Lines Of Evidence

Abstract The systematics and taxonomy of the broadly distributed bats of the genus Cynomops has changed considerably in the last few years. Among the major changes, Cynomops abrasus was split into two species of large-bodied forms (Cynomops mastivus and C. abrasus) distributed east of the Andes. However, large Colombian specimens identified as C. abrasus from the western side of the Andes had yet to be included in any revisionary work. Phylogenetic analysis performed in this study, using mtDNA sequences (Cytochrome-b), revealed that these Colombian individuals are more closely related to Cynomops greenhalli. Morphological and molecular data allowed us to recognize populations from western Colombia, western Ecuador and northwestern Peru, as members of a new species of Cynomops. Characters that allow for its differentiation from C. greenhalli include a larger forearm, paler but more uniform ventral pelage, more globular braincase, and well-developed zygomatic processes of the maxilla (almost reaching the postorbital constriction). This study serves as another example of the importance of including multiple lines of evidence in the recognition of a new species. Given its rarity and the advanced transformation of its habitat, this new species is particularly important from a conservation perspective.

scholarly journals Three new species of the genus Coddingtonia from Asia (Araneae, Theridiosomatidae)

ZooKeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 886 ◽  
pp. 113-126
Author(s):  
Chengcheng Feng ◽  
Yucheng Lin
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Three New Species

The current paper expands knowledge of the genus Coddingtonia Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009. Based on morphological characters and molecular data, three species are documented as new to science: C. erhuan Feng & Lin, sp. nov. (♀) from China, C. lizu Feng & Lin, sp. nov. (♀) from China, and C. huifengi Feng & Lin, sp. nov. (♂♀) from Indonesia. The type of C. euryopoides Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 is also reexamined. DNA sequences (COI), detailed illustrations of habitus, male palp and epigyne are provided for these four species, as well as a key and a distribution map for Coddingtonia species.

A new species of cat-eyed snake (Serpentes: Dipsadinae: Leptodeirini) from the Andes of southern Ecuador

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4895 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-380
Author(s):  
OMAR TORRES-CARVAJAL ◽  
JUAN C. SÁNCHEZ-NIVICELA ◽  
VALENTINA POSSE ◽  
ELVIS CELI ◽  
CLAUDIA KOCH
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Nuclear Dna ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Genetic Distances ◽  
Dna Sequence Data ◽  
The Andes ◽  
Southern Ecuador ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data ◽  
A New Species

Leptodeira is one of the most widespread and taxonomically problematic snake taxa in the Americas. Here we describe a new species of Leptodeira from the Andes of southern Ecuador based on morphological and molecular data. The new species is geographically close and morphologically similar to L. ornata and L. larcorum, from which it can be distinguished by having smaller dorsal body blotches, a longer tail, and shorter spines on the hemipenial body. The shortest genetic distances between the new species and its congeners are 0.02 (16S), 0.05 (cytb), and 0.18 (ND4). The new species is restricted to the Jubones River Basin in southern Ecuador, an area of endemism for other reptile species. Our phylogenetic analysis based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data also supports recognition of the names L. larcorum (restricted to Peru) for “L. septentrionalis larcorum”, and L. ornata for populations of “L. s. ornata” from central and eastern Panama, western Colombia, and western Ecuador. However, some samples of “L. s. ornata” from Panama and Costa Rica, as well as the new species described herein, are not included within or more closely related to L. ornata, which is sister to the clade (L. bakeri, L. ashmeadii). 

scholarly journals Morphological and molecular data reveal a new species of Allium (Amaryllidaceae) from SW Anatolia, Turkey

Phytotaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 212 (4) ◽  
pp. 283 ◽  
Author(s):  
İsmail Gökhan Deniz ◽  
İlker Genç ◽  
Duygu Sarı
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Tree ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Close Relative ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Tree Distribution ◽  
Morphological Differences ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data ◽  
A New Species

Allium undulatitepalum (Amaryllidaceae) is described as a new species from the Antalya Province of Turkey. It belongs to the section Melanocrommyum and is endemic to the south-western region of Turkey. The new species is a close relative of A. orientale, but according to results of the ITS sequences, and based on the morphological differences presented in the description, it is clearly different from its relative. A phylogenetic tree, distribution map, illustrations, pollen and seed microphotographs, karyo-morphology, as well as notes on the biogeography and ecology of the new species are provided.

scholarly journals The Genus Leccinum (Boletaceae, Boletales) from China Based on Morphological and Molecular Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 732
Author(s):  
Xin Meng ◽  
Geng-Shen Wang ◽  
Gang Wu ◽  
Pan-Meng Wang ◽  
Zhu L. Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Color Change ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Important Group ◽  
Microscopic Features ◽  
Identification Of Species ◽  
Greenish Blue ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data ◽  
Three New Species

Leccinum is one of the most important groups of boletes. Most species in this genus are ectomycorrhizal symbionts of various plants, and some of them are well-known edible mushrooms, making it an exceptionally important group ecologically and economically. The scientific problems related to this genus include that the identification of species in this genus from China need to be verified, especially those referring to European or North American species, and knowledge of the phylogeny and diversity of the species from China is limited. In this study, we conducted multi-locus (nrLSU, tef1-α, rpb2) and single-locus (ITS) phylogenetic investigations and morphological observisions of Leccinum from China, Europe and North America. Nine Leccinum species from China, including three new species, namely L. album, L.parascabrum and L.pseudoborneense, were revealed and described. Leccinum album is morphologically characterized by the white basidioma, the white hymenophore staining indistinct greenish blue when injured, and the white context not changing color in pileus but staining distinct greenish blue in the base of the stipe when injured. Leccinumparascabrum is characterized by the initially reddish brown to chestnut-brown and then pale brownish to brown pileus, the white to pallid and then light brown hymenophore lacking color change when injured, and the white context lacking color change in pileus but staining greenish blue in the base of the stipe when injured. Leccinumpseudoborneense is characterized by the pale brown to dark brown pileus, the initially white and then brown hymenophore lacking color change when injured, and the white context in pileus and stipe lacking color change in pileus but staining blue in stipe when bruised. Color photos of fresh basidiomata, line drawings of microscopic features and detailed descriptions of the new species are presented.

Two new species of the genus Crangonyx Bate, 1859 (Amphipoda: Crangonyctidae) from the St. Marks River Basin with notes on the “Crangonyx floridanus complex”

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4691 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREW G. CANNIZZARO ◽  
THOMAS R. SAWICKI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Species Delimitation ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Leon County ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data

Crangonyx ephemerus n. sp. and Crangonyx pseudoephemerus n. sp. are described from the headwaters of the St. Marks River in Leon County, Florida, based on detailed morphological and molecular comparisons with the closely related species Crangonyx floridanus Bousfield, 1963. The morphological and molecular data, including three species delimitation models, lend support to the hypothesis that the taxon C. floridanus sensu lato represents a species complex. Diagnostic morphological characteristics are highlighted and discussed within this group to assist in future morphological analyses. 

Review of the genus Cruziohyla (Anura: Phyllomedusidae), with description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4450 (4) ◽  
pp. 401 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREW R. GRAY
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Phylogenetic Information ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data ◽  
A New Species ◽  
The 16S Rrna Gene

The presented work summarises new and existing phenotypic and phylogenetic information for the genus Cruziohyla. Data based on morphology and skin peptide profiling supports the identification of a separate new species. Specimens of Cruziohyla calcarifer (Boulenger, 1902) occurring in Ecuador, Colombia, two localities in Panama, and one in the south east Atlantic lowlands of Costa Rica, distinctly differ from those occurring along the Atlantic versant of Central America from Panama northwards through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, to Honduras. A new species—Cruziohyla sylviae sp. n.—(the type locality: Alto Colorado in Costa Rica)—is diagnosed and described using an integrated approach from morphological and molecular data. Phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequences of the 16S rRNA gene confirms the new species having equal minimum 6.2% genetic divergence from both true C. calcarifer and Cruziohyla craspedopus. 

scholarly journals A new glassfrog (Centrolenidae) from the Chocó-Andean Río Manduriacu Reserve, Ecuador, endangered by mining

PeerJ ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. e6400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan M. Guayasamin ◽  
Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia ◽  
José Vieira ◽  
Sebastián Kohn ◽  
Gabriela Gavilanes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Mining Activities ◽  
The Andes ◽  
Data Support ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data ◽  
Mitochondrial Phylogeny ◽  
Iucn Criteria

We describe a new glassfrog from Río Manduriacu Reserve, Imbabura Province, on the Pacific slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes. The new species can be distinguished from most other glassfrogs by having numerous yellow spots on the dorsum and lacking membranes among fingers. Both morphological and molecular data support the placement of the species in the genusNymphargus. We present a new mitochondrial phylogeny ofNymphargusand discuss the speciation patterns of this genus; most importantly, recent speciation events seem to result from the effect of the linearity of the Andes. Finally, although the new species occurs within a private reserve, it is seriously endangered by mining activities; thus, following IUCN criteria, we consider the new species as Critically Endangered.

Phallus dongsun and P. lutescens, two new species of Phallaceae (Basidiomycota) from China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 443 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-37
Author(s):  
TING LI ◽  
TAIHUI LI ◽  
WANGQIU DENG ◽  
BIN SONG ◽  
CHUNYING DENG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Edible Species ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Yellow Orange ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data

“Dongsun” is an edible species of Phallus commercially cultivated in China. It is morphologically similar to P. impudicus and actually has been misidentified as “P. impudicus” for a long time. In this study the Chinese “Dongsun” is confirmed to be different from the typical P. impudicus from Europe based on morphological and phylogenetic comparisons, and therefore is formally proposed as P. dongsun, a species new to science. At the same time, another new species of Phallus was also discovered from southern China. It is named as P. lutescens, and is morphologically characterized by its indusium colour that turns from white or cream white to yellow or yellow-orange when mature. Both new species are presented with detailed morphological descriptions, photographs of basidiomata and images of microscopic structures, and are compared with other related Phallus taxa based on morphological and molecular data. A key to the Phallus species without an indusium and a key to the Phallus species with a coloured indusium are also presented at the end of the text.

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