Late cretaceous macrofloras of eastern Otago, New Zealand: Gymnosperms

1995 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 1067 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Pole
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Single Species ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
First Record ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
Nomenclatural Change ◽  
Original Vegetation ◽  
First Time

Six new coniferous fossils are described from the Late Cretaceous of eastern Otago, New Zealand. These include two new species of Araucaria, A. desmondii, for which a new section, Perpendicula is erected, and A. taieriensis. Syntypes of Dammara oweni Ettingsh. and D. uninervis Ettingsh. are illustrated and concluded to be a single species of Araucaria, A. oweni. The diagnosis of Araucarioides Bigwood & Hill is emended and a new species, A. falcata (the first record of this genus from New Zealand) is described. Podozamites taenioides Cantrill is also placed into Araucarioides. Two new genera and species of Podocarpaceae are described, Kaia minuta and Katikia inordinata. A new genus and species, Otakauia lanceolata, is described and placed in the Taxodiaceae. The type specimen of Sequoia novae-zeelandiae Ettingsh. (Taxodiaceae) is re-examined and its cuticle described for the first time. Its identity is confirmed, but it is placed in Sequoiadendron which follows a more recent nomenclatural change involving extant species. A range of more poorly preserved conifer material is illustrated. The original vegetation grew in near-polar latitudes and would have experienced long periods of winter-darkness.

First record of the genus Yalvaciana (Tettigoniidae; Tettigoniinae; Platycleidini) with the description of a new species from India

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4966 (5) ◽  
pp. 591-595
Author(s):  
MUZAMIL SYED SHAH ◽  
MOHD KAMIL USMANI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Single Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Zoology Department

The genus Yalvaciana Ciplak et.al (2002) is reported for the first time from India represented by a new species. Previously the genus comprised a single species, Yalvaciana yalvaci Demirsoy, (1974). Brief information about morphology, distribution and key to species are given. The Holotype has been deposited in the Museum of Zoology Department, AMU (ZDAMU). 

First record of the tribe Diglottini from South America with description of Diglotta brasiliensis n. sp. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1776 (1) ◽  
pp. 52 ◽  
Author(s):  
EDILSON CARON ◽  
CIBELE STRAMARE RIBEIRO-COSTA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
South America ◽  
First Record ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Rove Beetle ◽  
Fiji Islands ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

The tribe Diglottini Eichelbaum, 1909 comprises two halophilous rove beetle genera Diglotta Champion, 1899, and Paradiglotta Ashe & Ahn, 2004. The tribe contains eight known species distributed in the Nearctic and West-Palaearctic regions, and also Fiji Islands and New Zealand. This tribe is recorded for the first time from South America with the description of a new species, Diglotta brasiliensis n. sp. from southern Brazil (Paraná). Characters of the mouthparts, aedeagus and spermatheca of the new species are illustrated and compared with other Diglotta species. Sexual dimorphism is reported for the first time in the genus.

scholarly journals A new species of chimaeriform (Chondrichthyes, Holocephali) from the uppermost Cretaceous of the López de Bertodano Formation, Isla Marambio (Seymour Island), Antarctica

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo A. Otero ◽  
David Rubilar-Rogers ◽  
Roberto E. Yury-Yañez ◽  
Alexander O. Vargas ◽  
Carolina S. Gutstein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Evolutionary Trend ◽  
Dental Plate ◽  
Intermediate Morphology ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Seymour Island

AbstractWe describe a new chimaeriform fish, Callorhinchus torresi sp. nov., from the uppermost Cretaceous (late Maastrichtian) of the López de Bertodano Formation, Isla Marambio (Seymour Island), Antarctica. The material shows it is distinct from currently known fossil and extant species of the genus, whereas the outline of the tritors (abrasive surfaces of each dental plate) shows an intermediate morphology between earlier records from the Cenomanian of New Zealand and those from the Eocene of Isla Marambio. This suggests an evolutionary trend in tritor morphology in the lineage leading to modern callorhynchids, during the Late Cretaceous-Palaeogene interval.

REVISION OF THE NEW WORLD CHRYSOLAMPINAE (HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA)

1986 ◽  
Vol 118 (9) ◽  
pp. 913-940 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Christopher Darling
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
New World ◽  
World Species ◽  
European Species ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
Climatic Information

AbstractThe taxonomy and biology of New World species of Chrysolampinae are reviewed with diagnoses given for the subfamily, genera, and species. A key to the species of Chrysolampus and a summary of geographic distribution and information on host and floral associations are presented. Three new species are described from North America (Chrysolampus improcerus, C. luridus and C. elegans); Chrysolampus lycti Crawford is transferred to Perilampus and synonymized with the European species P. micans Dalman. The genus Chrysomalla is recorded in the New World for the first time based on the new species Chrysomalla hesperis. An explanation of the historical biogeography of the genera is proposed that is consistent with Late Cretaceous and Tertiary geological, botanical, and climatic information. It is suggested that the extant species are descendents of elements of a widely distributed arid biota.

The biting midge genus Forcipomyia (Diptera : Ceratopogonidae) in the Australasian region (exclusive of New Zealand). II. Warmkea and the Caloforcipomyia group of subgenera

1987 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 167 ◽  
Author(s):  
ML Debenham
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
New Records ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Single Species ◽  
Biting Midge ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
New Subgenus ◽  
First Time ◽  
Australasian Region

In this second part of the study of Australasian Forcipomyia, the subgenus Warmkea and the group of subgenera related to Caloforcipomyia are examined. Warmkea is recorded from the Australasian region for the first time, with a single species, albiacies, sp. nov. Four new species of the subgenus Caloforcipomyia are recorded, two – quokkae, sp. nov., and gibbus, sp. nov. – from Australia (the latter also from New Guinea), and pennaticauda from New Guinea, and new records are provided for squamianulipes Tokunaga & Murachi. The subgenus Metaforcipomyia is also recorded for the first time from the region, with five Australian species – tomaculorum, sp. nov.; colonus, sp. nov.; campana, sp. nov.; rupicola, sp. nov.; crepidinis, sp. nov. – and one new New Guinea species, furculae, sp. nov. In addition, the species novaguineae Tokunaga and stigmatipennis Tokunaga are transferred to Metaforcipomyia from the subgenus Forcipomyia. A new subgenus, Bassoforcipomyia, apparently related to the Caloforcipomyia group, is erected for two new southern Australian species, centurio, sp. nov., and incus, sp, nov. The relationships of these subgenera, and the relationships of species within the subgenera, are discussed.

scholarly journals Philippine mossy forest stick insects: first record of the genus Otraleus Günther, 1935 in the country, with four new species, and the new genus Capuyanus gen. nov. (Phasmida, Diapheromeridae, Necrosciinae)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Bresseel ◽  
Jérôme Constant
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Single Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
Stick Insects ◽  
First Time

The genus Otraleus Günther, 1935 is recorded from the Philippines for the first time. Four new species, Otraleus bellemansae sp. nov., O. applai sp. nov., O. christianae sp. nov. and O. elizabethae sp. nov., are described from the highlands of Northwestern Luzon. The characters allowing separation from O. hypsimelathrus Günther, 1935 and O. labanrataensis Soew-Choen, 2016, are given. A new genus closely related to Otraleus, Capuyanus gen. nov., is described with a single species, C. magwilangi sp. nov., as type-species. An identification key and distribution maps are provided for all species.

First record of the family Ringiculidae (Gastropoda) from the Middle Tertiary of Antarctica

1990 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
William. J. Zinsmeister ◽  
Jeffrey D. Stilwell
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
First Record ◽  
Late Eocene ◽  
Late Mesozoic ◽  
Early Tertiary ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the late Mesozoic–Cenozoic family Ringiculidae (Ringicula (Ringicula) cockburnensis n. sp.) is described from basal glauconitic beds of late Eocene age of Cockburn Island, Antarctica, and is the first reported occurrence of the family Ringiculidae from the continent of Antarctica. Ringicula (R.) cockburnensis n. sp. most closely resembles R. castigata from the middle Oligocene Duntroonian Stage of New Zealand and provides further support for the strong provinciality (Weddellian Province) that existed along the southern margin of the Pacific during the Late Cretaceous and early Tertiary.

First record of Undabracon Quicke, 1986 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Braconinae) from the Indian subcontinent with the description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4664 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-150
Author(s):  
A.P. RANJITH ◽  
SERGEY A. BELOKOBYLSKIJ ◽  
M. NASSER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
First Record ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

The Australasian braconine genus Undabracon Quicke, 1986 is recorded from the Indian subcontinent for the first time and we describe a new species, U. binduae Ranjith sp. nov. An illustrated key is provided for all the extant species together with the re-illustration of the species U. jacundus (Enderlein, 1920). 

First record of Symphyla (Myriapoda) from Iran, with description of a new species in Scolopendrellopsis (Scolopendrellidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3041 (1) ◽  
pp. 66 ◽  
Author(s):  
ULF SCHELLER ◽  
MOHAMMAD REZA KAVIANPOUR ◽  
MEHDI ESFANDIARI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Single Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
Soil Samples ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

The first species of Symphyla was described in 1763 and many hundreds of papers on the group have since appeared with almost 200 species having been described. However, very few of them deal with material from Asia (Scheller, 1971, 1988, Scheller & Golovatch, 1982, Scheller & Mikhaljova, 2000) and not a single species has been recorded from Iran. Now one of us (M.R. Kavianpour) has collected them for the first time from there. They appeared in a study of soil-living mites in gardens with pomegranates and grapes in the vicinity of Shahreza in the Esfahan Province, about 500 km south of Teheran, 1800 m asl., and were obtained from Berlese extractions of soil samples down to a depth of 20–30 cm.

scholarly journals New stiletto flies from New Caledonia (Therevidae, Agapophytinae)

ZooKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 984 ◽  
pp. 83-132
Author(s):  
Michael E. Irwin ◽  
Shaun L. Winterton ◽  
Mark A. Metz
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Single Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
New Genera

Stiletto-flies (Diptera: Therevidae) are highly diverse and species-rich in Australia and New Zealand, yet relatively few species have been recorded from neighbouring Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and throughout the remainder of Oceania. Indeed, in New Caledonia only a single species of the widely distributed Australasian genus Anabarhynchus Macquart (Therevinae) is previously known. Herein we describe two new agapophytine genera (i.e., Jeanchazeauiagen. nov., Calophytusgen. nov.), together comprising nine charismatic new species; this represents a first record of the subfamily from New Caledonia. The new genera and species are described and figured.

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