A new species of Tithaeidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores) from Mindanao reveals contemporaneous colonisation of the Philippines by Sunda Shelf opiliofauna

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie M. Schmidt ◽  
Perry A. C. Buenavente ◽  
Darrell D. Blatchley ◽  
Arvin C. Diesmos ◽  
Mae L. Diesmos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Molecular Dating ◽  
Dispersal Ability ◽  
Sunda Shelf ◽  
The Family ◽  
Island Group ◽  
New Synonymy ◽  
Palawan Island ◽  
A New Species

The Philippine archipelago harbours a remarkable diversity of harvestmen, with respect to both taxonomy and complexity of biogeographic origins. Among the armoured harvestmen (suborder Laniatores), six families of distantly related groups occur in this archipelago. Here, we describe a new species of the family Tithaeidae, Tithaeus odysseus sp. nov., discovered during a collecting campaign on the island of Mindanao. The description of this species expands the known distribution of the family and demonstrates another exception to the zoogeographic boundary known as Huxley’s Line which putatively separates the biota of the Philippines (excluding the Palawan island group) from the Sunda Shelf biota. Given the coincident distributions of Tithaeidae and the mite harvestman family Stylocellidae (Cyphophthalmi), a group renowned for its poor dispersal ability, we inferred phylogenetic relationships and divergence times of the Philippines lineages of both families by using a comprehensive molecular dating analysis of all Opiliones. The internal phylogeny of Tithaeidae mirrored the biogeography of Philippine Stylocellidae, showing a close affinity between the Philippine and Bornean species. Molecular dating showed contemporaneous colonisation of Mindanao by both families in the Cretaceous. We infer these patterns to reflect faunal connections between the southern Philippines and Borneo via the Zamboanga Peninsula. To render the genus Tithaeus monophyletic, we synonymise Metatithaeus with Tithaeus (new synonymy).

Three new species of copepods (Copepoda: Calanoida and Cyclopoida) from anchialine habitats in Indonesia

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3150 (1) ◽  
pp. 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
GEOFF A. BOXSHALL ◽  
DAMIÀ JAUME
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Other ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Fine Scale ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
The Village ◽  
A New Species

Three new species of copepod crustaceans are described from material collected from anchialine and brackish habitats inand around the village of Walengkabola on the coast of Muna Island, to the southeast of Sulawesi. A new species of cy-clopoid, Paracyclopina sacklerae n. sp., was described from material collected from the tidal inflow entering into the bot-tom of sinkholes a few metres inland from the shoreline. Detailed comparisons are made with Paracyclopina orientalis(Lindberg, 1941), n. comb., a closely related congener here transferred from its original genus Cyclopetta Sars, 1913. Theassignment of Paracyclopina Smirnov, 1935 to the family Cyclopettidae is followed here despite uncertainty over the va-lidity of some of the families created by the break up of the former Cyclopinidae. Two new species of Boholina Fosshagen& Iliffe, 1989 are described, based on material from the same sinkholes and from caves located up to 700m inland fromthe coast and exhibiting further reduced salinity down to 1.8 ppt. One species, B. parapurgata n. sp., is very closely relatedto B. purgata Fosshagen & Iliffe, 1989 from Bohol island in the Philippines, the other B. munaensis n. sp., is very closelyrelated to B. crassicephala Fosshagen & Iliffe, 1989 also from Bohol island, but a number of fine scale differences in the leg 5 of both sexes are recognised in each case. Keys to valid species of both genera are provided.

An unusual occurrence of multiparasitism by two genera of Strepsiptera (Insecta) in a mango leafhopper Idioscopus clypealis (Lethierry) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in the Philippines

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3268 (1) ◽  
pp. 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEYARANEY KATHIRITHAMBY ◽  
DINO P. MCMAHON ◽  
GAUDENCIA M. ANOBER-LANTICAN ◽  
VIRGINIA R. OCAMPO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Record ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Conspecific Female ◽  
The Family ◽  
Unusual Occurrence ◽  
A New Species

The mango leafhopper Idioscopus clypealis (Lethierry) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from the Philippines is parasitized bytwo genera of Strepsiptera, Halictophagus and Callipharixenos. A redescription of the male Halictophagus fulmeki(Hofeneder), a new record and description of its conspecific female and a key to Halictophagus in the Philippines aregiven, and a new species of female, Callipharixenos philippines sp. n. is described. The inclusion of the family Callipharixenidae as a subfamily Callipharixeninae within the family Halictophagidae is discussed.

scholarly journals The Occurrence of Quill Mites (Arachnida: Acariformes: Syringophilidae) on Bee-Eaters (Aves: Coraciiformes: Meropidae: Merops) of Two Sister Clades

Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 3500
Author(s):  
Maciej Skoracki ◽  
Jakub Z. Kosicki ◽  
Bozena Sikora ◽  
Till Töpfer ◽  
Jan Hušek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Related Species ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Sister Clade ◽  
The Family ◽  
Host Lineage ◽  
A New Species

We studied the quill mite fauna of the family Syringophilidae, associated with bee-eaters. We examined 273 bird specimens belonging to nine closely related species of the genus Merops, representing two phylogenetic sister clades of a monophyletic group. Our examination reveals the presence of two species of the genus Peristerophila, as follows: (1) a new species Peristerophila mayri sp. n. from Merops viridis in the Philippines, M. leschenaulti in Nepal and Sri Lanka, and M. orientalis in Sri Lanka; and (2) P. meropis from M. superciliosus in Tanzania and Egypt, M. persicus in Sudan, Tanzania, Liberia, Senegal, Kenya, and D.R. Congo, M. ornatus in Papua New Guinea, M. philippinus in Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, and M. americanus in the Philippines. The prevalence of host infestations by syringophilid mites varied from 3.1 to 38.2%. The distribution of syringophilid mites corresponds with the sister clade phylogenetic relationships of the hosts, except for P. meropis associated with Merops americanus. Possible hypotheses for the host lineage shift are proposed.

Sophianus palawanensis sp. nov., the first Isometopine (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae) from the Philippines

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4996 (2) ◽  
pp. 392-400
Author(s):  
ARTUR TASZAKOWSKI ◽  
JUNGGON KIM ◽  
ALEKSANDER HERCZEK ◽  
SUNGHOON JUNG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Sem Micrographs ◽  
Palawan Island ◽  
A New Species

A new species, Sophianus palawanensis sp. nov. (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae, Sophianini) is described from the Palawan Island in the Philippines. Photographs of the male habitus and genital structures, as well as detailed SEM micrographs of selected morphological structures, are presented. Trichobothrial patterns of Sophianini and their importance for the hypothesizing relationships within Isometopinae are discussed.  

A new narrow-leaved species of Capparis (Capparaceae) from central Palawan, Philippines

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 267 (2) ◽  
pp. 146 ◽  
Author(s):  
SILVIO FICI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Leaf Morphology ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Palawan Island ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Forest Habitats ◽  
Single Locality

A new species of Capparis, C. tagbanuorum, is described and illustrated from Palawan Island in the Philippines. It is known from a single locality in Mount Victoria, in forest habitats at medium elevation. The new species is characterized by a peculiar leaf morphology, with blade up to 9 times as long as wide, by the racemose inflorescence and by the size of the petals and the number and length of the stamens. The diagnostic characters are discussed and a key is given for the species of Capparis known from the Philippines.

scholarly journals Vaccinium exiguum (Ericaceae, Vaccinieae), a new species from the ultramafic summit of Mt. Victoria, Palawan Island, Philippines

PhytoKeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 145-154
Author(s):  
Maverick N. Tamayo ◽  
Rene Alfred Anton Bustamante ◽  
Peter W. Fritsch
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Third ◽  
Palawan Island ◽  
A New Species

Vaccinium exiguum from the ultramafic summit of Mt. Victoria, Palawan Island, Philippines is here described as a new species of Ericaceae. It closely resembles V. hamiguitanense but is distinct by having much shorter petioles and leaves, longer and glabrous calyx lobes with serrate lobe margins, a larger corolla with deeper sulcations, and longer stamens with spurs oriented laterally. Vaccinium exiguum represents the third Vaccinium species found on the Island of Palawan and 36th in the Philippines.

Urolabida graziae, new urostylidid species from the Philippines with comments on the current taxonomy and systematics of the family (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Urostylididae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4958 (1) ◽  
pp. 702-712
Author(s):  
MARCOS ROCA-CUSACHS ◽  
MERCEDES PARIS ◽  
ALMA MOHAGAN ◽  
SUNGHOON JUNG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
External Appearance ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Male Genital

A new species of Urostylididae from the Philippine islands (Mindanao) is herein described. This new species, similar to Urolabida bipunctata Stål, 1871, differs from the latter in the shape of the external male genitalia. Urolabida bipunctata and the new species, Urolabida graziae Roca-Cusachs, sp. nov., are extremely similar in external appearance, and fit into the (incomplete) description of genus Urolabida Westwood, 1837. The examination and comparison with the type specimens of other Urostylididae species, especially the male genital capsule, clearly separates this two species from Urolabida tenera Westwood, 1837, the type species of the genus Urolabida, however the taxonomy of this group is not resolved and needs a deep revision, therefore we refrain from description of a new genus-group taxon here. Additionally, images of the type specimens of Urolabida tenera, Urostylis histrionica Westwood, 1837, and Urostylis punctigera Westwood, 1837, are provided and discussion on the current systematics and classification of the family, and particularly of genus Urolabida are also given. 

scholarly journals Timonius eremiticus (Rubiaceae), a new species from the Philippines

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-106
Author(s):  
J.G. Chavez ◽  
C.I. Banag-Moran ◽  
U. Meve
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Palawan Island ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Iucn Criteria

Timonius eremiticus, a new species from Mount Pulgar, Palawan Island, the Philippines, is here described and illustrated. It is morphologically close to T. flavescens but is characterized by membranous to chartaceous leaves with 2–4 pairs of lateral nerves, ivory-white corolla, bracteate staminate inflorescences bearing bracteolate flowers, 5-petaled pistillate flowers, (sub)globose fruits that are round and not 4-angled, and pyrenes being obliquely radiated in cross-section of fruits. Timonius eremiticus is assessed as Critically Endangered following IUCN criteria.<br/> Buod (Wikang Filipino) Inilarawan at iginu hit sa lathalaing ito ang Timonius eremiticus na isang bagong espesye ng halaman na matatagapuan sa Bundok Pulgar sa pulo ng Palawan sa Pilipinas. Ito ay kawangis ng T. flavescens subalit natatangi dahil sa mga malalamad o malapapel nitong mga dahon na may dalawa o hanggang apat na pares ng nerbiyong lateral, kulay garing na mga talulot, brakteadong istaminate na mga inflorescence at bulaklak, mga pistiladong bulaklak na may limang talulot, (mala)bilugang mga bunga na hindi nakalundo sa apat, at mga pyrene na oblikong naka-radiate sa pahalang na hati ng mga bunga. Ang Timonius eremiticus ay itinataya rin na lubos nang nanganganib na maubos alinsunod sa mga pamantayan ng IUCN.

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