Drosophilidae (Insecta: Diptera) of Three Torres Strait Islands, With Description of a New Species of Drosophila.

1981 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 907 ◽  
Author(s):  
SF Mcevey
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The South ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
Torres Strait ◽  
A New Species

Drosophilidae were collected from three Torres Strait islands: Thursday, Moa and Mount Adolphus. A total of 17 species of the six genera Drosophila, Mycodrosophila, Lissocephala, Sphaerogastrella, Microdrosophila and Leucophenga were collected, the largest island having the most diverse fauna. The new Torres Strait records given here extend the known distributions of several Australian species and link the ranges of other species found in Australia with south-east Asian records. A new species of the subgenus Scaptodrosophila, Drosophila moana, is described. An unidentified taxon of the south-east Asian nmuta subgroup, possessing entire frontal pollinosity, is also recorded.

scholarly journals New species of the genus Ypsolopha Latreille, 1796 (Lepidoptera: Ypsolophidae) from the south of the Russian Far East

2020 ◽  
Vol 421 ◽  
pp. 14-26
Author(s):  
M.G. Ponomarenko ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Genetic Distance ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
The South ◽  
Asian Species ◽  
A New Species ◽  
The Russian Far East

An analysis of the mtCOI sequences in the species from the genus Ypsolopha Latreille, 1796 made it possible to confirm a new species for science, Y. occultatella sp. n., morphologically similar to the East Asian species Y. yasudai Moriuti, 1964. The genetic distance between the mtCOI sequences in Y. occultatella sp. n. and Y. yasudai is 0,066–0,069 (6,6–6,9 %). However, the minimal genetic distance, 0,038–0,042 (3,8–4,2 %), was determined between the mtCOI sequences of the new species and Y. blandella (Christoph, 1882), while these species differ well in the forewing pattern.

What are the smallest moths (Lepidoptera) in the world?

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4942 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-289
Author(s):  
JONAS R. STONIS ◽  
ANDRIUS REMEIKIS ◽  
ARŪNAS DIŠKUS ◽  
SVETLANA BARYSHNIKOVA ◽  
M. ALMA SOLIS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The South ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
A New Species

The world’s smallest moths in Lepidoptera (Insecta) and the complexity in making such a determination are examined and discussed. The forewing length and wingspan of 650 species were measured and the same data were retrieved from published papers to determine which species and family have the smallest moths in the world. The minimal recorded forewing length was found to be around 1.2–1.3 mm and the wingspan around 2.6–2.8 mm in two families, the Gracillariidae and Nepticulidae. Among Lepidoptera, the following species have the smallest moths globally: the European Johanssoniella acetosae (Stainton), the Peruvian Simplimorpha kailai Stonis & Diškus, the Mexican Stigmella maya Remeikis & Stonis, the Mediterranean S. diniensis (Klimesh), the Mediterranean Parafomoria liguricella (Klimesh) (Nepticulidae), the South East Asian Porphyrosela alternata Kumata, and the Central African P. desmodivora De Prins (Gracillariidae). Additionally, in the Nepticulidae, we provide a measurement update for Stigmella maya Remeikis & Stonis, one of the tiniest species with a forewing length of 1.3 mm and wingspan of 2.8 mm, and describe a new species, Stigmella incaica Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov., with a forewing length of 1.75 to 1.95 mm and a wingspan of 3.8 to 4.3 mm. 

A new species of Eoperipatus (Onychophora) from Vietnam reveals novel morphological characters for the South-East Asian Peripatidae

2013 ◽  
Vol 252 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivo de Sena Oliveira ◽  
Stefan Schaffer ◽  
Pavel V. Kvartalnov ◽  
Eduard A. Galoyan ◽  
Igor V. Palko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
The South ◽  
A New Species

scholarly journals Cololejeunea reniformis, a new species from the Wet Tropics of Queensland, Australia (Lejeuneaceae: Marchantiophyta)

Telopea ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 181-186
Author(s):  
Matthew Renner ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Single Cell ◽  
National Park ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
North East ◽  
Wet Tropics ◽  
Micromorphological Characters ◽  
A New Species

Cololejeunea reniformis is described as new based on a single collection from Tully Falls National Park in north-east Queensland. Cololejeunea reniformis is similar to C. cairnsiana in the size and the falcate leaf lobes and ampulliform lobules, which are distinctive features among Australian species. While C. cairnsiana is epiphyllous, the single known gathering of C. reniformis was found on bark, and the two species differ in a number of micromorphological characters. Cololejeunea reniformis differs from C. cairnsiana in having a vitta two or three cells wide, and a stylus two or three cells tall, rather than a vitta 1 cell row wide and a stylus of a single cell. Cololejeunea reniformis shares many micromorphological features with the south-east Asian C. ensifera but differs in its smaller size and falcate leaf lobes, in addition to other characters. Thirty-nine Cololejeunea species are now known for Australia.

Leptochelia Vatulelensis (Crustacea: Tanaidacea), A New Species From Anchialine Caves of the South-Western Pacific

2011 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 351-363
Author(s):  
Modest Guţu ◽  
Thomas Iliffe
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Small Islands ◽  
The South ◽  
Anchialine Caves ◽  
A New Species

Leptochelia Vatulelensis(Crustacea: Tanaidacea), A New Species From Anchialine Caves of the South-Western PacificLeptochelia vatulelensisn. sp., discovered on the small islands of Vatulele (Fijian group) and Ouvéa (Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia), is described and illustrated. The new species is distinguished from the others of the"Leptochelia-dubiagroup" (to which it is generally similar) by the following combination of morphological characteristics: (1) the presence of three to four distal setae on the maxilliped basis; (2) merus of pereopods III and IV with only a distosternal seta; (3) endopod of the uropods formed of four (rarely three) articles; (4) males with two (sometimes three) relatively short aesthetascs on the first five articles of the antennular flagellum; (5) male cheliped with a diminished dimorphism; (6) males with a vertical comb-row of setae on the cheliped propodus. Although it inhabits inland, anchialine caves, the new species lacks morphological features that are characteristic of some cave species.

The genus Xylaria (Xylariaceae) in the south of China—6. A new Xylaria species based on morphological and molecular characters

Phytotaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 147 (2) ◽  
pp. 48 ◽  
Author(s):  
HAI-XIA MA ◽  
LARISSA VASILYEVA ◽  
YU LI
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
Its Sequences ◽  
Guizhou Province ◽  
Nrdna Its ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
The South ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Molecular Characters

Xylaria fusispora, an undescribed species of Xylaria (Xylariales, Xylariaceae), is described and illustrated as a new species based on collections from Guizhou Province, China. Both morphology and phylogenetic analysis of nrDNA ITS sequences support the establishment of this new species. The fungus is characterized by its fusoid-equilateral ascospores and an ascus apical ring not bluing in Melzer’s reagent. The differences between the new species and the related fungi are discussed.

A new species of Heminicsara (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Agraeciini) from West Papua (New Guinea)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4991 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-168
Author(s):  
MING KAI TAN ◽  
SIGFRID INGRISCH ◽  
CAHYO RAHMADI ◽  
TONY ROBILLARD
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Abdominal Tergite ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The South ◽  
South West ◽  
West Papua ◽  
A New Species

Heminicsara Karny, 1912 is a katydid genus of Agraeciini from the Axylus genus group. It currently comprises 62 species from mainly New Guinea and surrounding archipelagos. Based on recent fieldwork in Lobo in West Papua, Indonesia, a new species of Heminicsara is described here: Heminicsara incrassata sp. nov. It is most readily characterised from congeners and other species of the Axylus genus group by the male tenth abdominal tergite forming a large shield-shaped plate. This represents the first species of Heminicsara described and known from the south-west of New Guinea.  

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