The genus Microcerotermes (Isoptera : Termitidae) in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves Roisin ◽  
Jacques M. Pasteels
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Asian Origin ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
Specific Rank ◽  
Worker Castes

The genus Microcerotermes Silvestri is revised in an area covering New Guinea, the Bismarck Islands and the Solomon Islands. The presence and status of M. biroi (Desneux), M. papuanus Holmgren and M. repugnans Hill are confirmed. Microcerotermes brevior (Desneux), formerly treated as a subspecies or a synonym of M. biroi, is raised to specific rank. Microcerotermes piliceps Snyder, formerly considered a junior synonym of M. biroi, is recognised as valid; M. umbritarsus Hill and M. froggatti Hill are transferred from the synonymy of M. biroi to that of M. piliceps. The Australian species, M. taylori Hill, is reported from southern New Guinea. Four new species: M. luluai, sp. nov., M. cupreiceps, sp. nov.,M. bouilloni, sp. nov. and M. flyensis, sp. nov. are described. For each of the ten species recorded from our study area, all castes are described or redescribed, diagnostic characters are outlined, and a distribution map is given. Comparisons are also made with related species from adjacent regions. An identification key, based on the soldier and worker castes, is provided. We hypothesise that the New Guinean Microcerotermes fauna is of mixed Australian/southeast Asian origin.

Arpactophilus reassessed, with three bizarre new species from New Guinea (Hymenotpera : Sphecidae : Pemphredonindae)

1988 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 737 ◽  
Author(s):  
AS Menke
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
New Britain

Diagnostic characters of the Australian genus Arpactophilus are reviewed and augmented. Spilornena is demonstrated to be very similar morphologically, and the distinctions between the two genera are discussed. The known distribution of Arpactophilus now includes New Guinea, New Britain, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, and Fiji. Three new species of the genus are described from New Guinea: A. preposterus, A. rhinocerus and A. papua. The maxillary palpi of Arpactophilus, Spilomena, Xysrna and Microstigrnus are 5-segmented, not 6- as previously assumed. These four genera are removed from the subtribe Stigmina, and placed in a new subtribe, the Spilomenina.

Gall thrips of the Austro-Pacific genus Euoplothrips Hood (Thysanoptera), with a new species from Australia

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Marullo
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
A New Species

AbstractThe members of Euoplothrips are probably all kleptoparasites on various gall-inducing thrips. A new species of the genus, E. platypodae, is described from Gynaikothrips leaf galls on Ficus platypoda in Western Australia. Three different species from Tonga, Samoa and the Solomon Islands are each known from leaf galls on Ficus. In contrast, the eastern Australian species E. bagnalli is recorded from the leaf galls of other thrips on Smilax australis and Alyxia spicata. E. armatus Moulton from Papua New Guinea is included as a further synonym of E. bagnalli. A key is provided to distinguish these five species. E. malabarica is also included although it is known only from the original description and is probably not congeneric.

Lactuca anatolica (Asteraceae: Lactucinae), a new species from eastern Anatolia (Turkey)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 455 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-294
Author(s):  
LÜTFİ BEHÇET ◽  
YAKUP YAPAR
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Eastern Anatolia ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Scanning Electron

Lactuca anatolica is described as a new species from the province of Bingöl, and is known from only one locality. Its diagnostic characters are discussed, and taxonomic comments are presented. Lactuca anatolica is similar to L. leucoclada, L. orientalis subsp. nuristanica and L. orientalis subsp. orientalis but differs from these species in achenes, indumentum and leaves. Its achenes were investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Data on ecology and IUCN conservation status of the new species are also presented. A distribution map of the new and related species is provided.

Arabis erecta (Brassicaceae), a new species from Republic of Korea

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 268 (4) ◽  
pp. 279 ◽  
Author(s):  
YOON-YOUNG KIM ◽  
CHANGGEE JANG ◽  
SEONG-JIN JI ◽  
SANG HEON OH ◽  
NU-REE NA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Floral Morphology ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Arabis L. (Brassicaceae), A. erecta Y.Y. Kim & C.G. Jang, was discovered in Gyeongsangbuk-do Province, Republic of Korea and is described and illustrated here. The species is similar to A. stelleri DC. and A. takesimana Nakai in its general vegetative and floral morphology. However, the new species is distinguished by its glabrous leaves surface, not inflated receptacle, and fruiting pedicels and siliques appressed to the rachis. In addition, the diagnostic characters between related species, an identification key, and a distribution map are provided.

scholarly journals Introduction of the Exocelina casuarina-group, with a key to its representatives and descriptions of 19 new species from New Guinea (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)

ZooKeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 803 ◽  
pp. 7-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Shaverdo ◽  
Katayo Sagata ◽  
Michael Balke
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Related Species ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Median Lobe ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Similar Shape ◽  
Group A ◽  
Mountain Part

Nineteen new species of Exocelina Broun, 1886 from New Guinea are described herein: E.adelbertensissp. n., E.ambuasp. n., E.bewanisp. n., E.cyclopssp. n., E.ibalimisp. n., E.kekisp. n., E.kumulensissp. n., E.mendiensissp. n., E.menyamyasp. n., E.okapasp. n., E.piusisp. n., E.pseudofumesp. n., E.pseudopusillasp. n., E.pusillasp. n., E.simasp. n., E.simbaiensissp. n., E.simbaijimisp. n., E.sumokedisp. n., and E.yoginofisp. n. All of them, together with five already described species, have been united into the newly defined casuarina-group, a polyphyletic complex of related species with similar shape of the median lobe and paramere setation. An identification key to all known species of the group is provided, and important diagnostic characters (habitus, color, male protarsomeres 4–5, median lobes, and parameres) are illustrated. Data on the distribution of the species are given, showing that most of the species occur in the central, mountain part of Papua New Guinea.

Revision of the Australian species of Agrotera Schrank (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae: Spilomelinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4362 (2) ◽  
pp. 213 ◽  
Author(s):  
KAI CHEN ◽  
MARIANNE HORAK ◽  
XICUI DU ◽  
DANDAN ZHANG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Two New Species

The genus Agrotera Schrank, 1802 is revised for Australia and the generic definition is refined based on the male genitalia. The genera Leucinodella Strand, 1918 stat. rev. with L. leucostola (Hampson, 1896) comb. nov., Nistra Walker, 1859 stat. rev. with N. coelatalis Walker, 1859 comb. rev., Sagariphora Meyrick, 1894 stat. rev. with S. magnificalis (Hampson, 1893) comb. nov., and Tetracona Meyrick, 1884 stat. rev. with T. amathealis (Walker, 1859) comb. rev. and T. pictalis Warren, 1896 comb. rev. are removed from synonymy with Agrotera, as they lack the synapomorphies of Agrotera. Two new species, Agrotera genuflexa sp. nov. from Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales, and A. longitabulata sp. nov. from Queensland, are described. The taxonomic status of the Australian species of Agrotera is discussed, and a key to all species, based on males, is provided. The adults and genitalia of the new species and some related species are figured. 

Gesneriaceae of the Old World I. New and little-known species of Cyrtandra from Malesia

1990 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. L. Burtt
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Malay Peninsula ◽  
Old World ◽  
Specific Rank

Cyrtandra sect. Dissimiles C. B. Cl., sect. Radicicaules Kraenzlin and sect. Radiciflorae Kraenzlin are lectotypified. Two varieties are raised to specific rank: C. dispar var. glabriflora B. C. Stone to C. stonei (Malay Peninsula), C. decurrens var. polyneura C. B. Cl. to C. polyneura (Sulawesi). Nineteen new species are described (11 from Sarawak, 1 from Sarawak and Kalimantan, 7 from Sabah—6 of them from Mt Kinabalu). Annotations are provided on 6 previously known species: C. calycina Benth. (New Guinea), C. debilis Kraenzlin (Kalimantan), C. farinosa C. B. Cl. (Sarawak), C. ligulifera C. B. Cl. (New Guinea), C. rubropicta Kraenzlin (Kalimantan and Sarawak), and C. russa C. B. Cl. (Sarawak).

The tribe Aschistodesmini in the Solomon Islands (Diplopoda, Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae)

1999 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-479
Author(s):  
C.A.W. Jeekel
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Solomon Island ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
The Status

AbstractThe Aschistodesmini from the Solomon Island are reviewed. Besides clarifying notes on the status of the type and closely related species of Aschistodesmus, descriptive notes and illustrations of the gonopods of the Solomon species of this genus, particularly of those published by Chamberlin, 1920, under the generic name of Solomonosoma, are given. Two new species, A. spatulifer and A. tridentifer are described, and a key to the species is provided. From Rennell Island Dorcadogonus modestus gen. n., sp. n. is described.

A New Ceratostylis (Orchidaceae) Species From Bukidnon, Philippines

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 305 (4) ◽  
pp. 299
Author(s):  
MIGUEL DAVID DE LEON ◽  
MARK ARCEBAL NAIVE ◽  
JIM COOTES
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Diagnostic Characters

A new Ceratostylis species from the Kalatungan Mountain Range, one of the mountains of Bukidnon that needs further exploration, is described and illustrated. Morphological diagnostic characters of related species of the genus are discussed. Though similar to C. elmeri, the new species is clearly distinguished by the size of the flower and by its uniquely small size labellum. It is also similar to C. philippinensis, however, it can be recognized by having a marked difference in the shape of the lip, sepals, and petals.

Fritillaria arsusiana (Lilieae, Liliaceae), a new species from southern Anatolia

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 502 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-159
Author(s):  
HASAN YILDIRIM ◽  
MEHTAP TEKŞEN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Flower Colour ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Shape And Size

In this study, Fritillaria arsusiana (Liliaceae) is described and illustrated as a new species from Hatay province in southern Anatolia, Turkey. It is related to F. amana and F. hermonis by habitus features and broadly campanulate flowers, but differs mainly by its bulb shape and size, smaller leaf and flower features, and flower colour. It has also been morphologically compared with F. wendelboi, F. pinardii, and F. latakiensis. The detailed description, diagnostic characters, original photographs, geographical distribution, habitat and phenology, etymology, conservation status, and identification key of the new and the related species are presented in this study. IUCN conservation status of F. arsusiana is suggested as Critically Endangered (CR).

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