The Simuliidae (Diptera) of Sri Lanka. Descriptions of additional species of Simulium (Simulium), with a key for Sri Lankan species in the subgenus and a checklist for the country

1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 1029-1046 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. M. Davies ◽  
H. Györkös
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time

This is the fifth and final paper in a series treating the Simuliidae of Sri Lanka, and it contains a checklist of the species in the country. In this paper are described three new species of Simulium (Simulium): all stages of Simulium subpalmatum and Simulium cruszi (except the larva) and the male and pupa of Simulium paranubis. The female, male, and pupa of Simulium (Simulium) consimile and S. (S.) striatum are redescribed and the larva of S. (S.) consimile is described for the first time. Taxonomic comparisons are made with related species and keys are provided to separate the eight Sri Lankan species in the subgenus.

scholarly journals A survey of basal insects (Microcoryphia and Zygentoma) from subterranean environments of Iran, with description of three new species

ZooKeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 806 ◽  
pp. 17-46
Author(s):  
Rafael Molero ◽  
Mohadeseh Sadat Tahami ◽  
Miquel Gaju ◽  
Saber Sadeghi
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Central Iran ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
The Family ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

A survey of wingless insects belonging to the orders Microcoryphia (=Archaeognatha) and Zygentoma (=Thysanura s. str.) has been performed in subterranean habitats of central Iran. As a result, several new species have been discovered. In this work, three new species are described: a new species of bristletail of the family Machilidae,Haslundiellairanicasp. n., a new silverfish of the family Lepismatidae,Ctenolepismasubterraneumsp. n., and a new Nicoletiidae, Lepidospora (Brinckina) momtazianasp. n.These new taxa are compared with related species in their respective genera and keys for their identification are provided: one for all known species ofHaslundiellaand one for all basal insects of subterranean environments of Iran which includes those previously reported. Moreover, the previously published keys of IranianCtenolepismaand the subgenus Brinckina are modified to include the new species. Three additional species of Lepismatidae are reported in this work:Neoasterolepìsma palmoniiandCtenolepismatargioniiare newly recorded from Iran and both species, together withAcrotelsacollaris, are cited for the first time in the subterranean habitats. This survey progresses the knowledge on the biodiversity of these insects in Iran.

New species and new combinations in the lichen genera Fissurina and Hemithecium from India

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bharati O. SHARMA ◽  
Pradnya KHADILKAR ◽  
Urmila MAKHIJA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time

AbstractIn continuation of our ongoing revisionary studies on the lichen family Graphidaceae from India, a treatment of 25 species of the lichen genera Fissurina and Hemithecium from India is presented. In our earlier work on the lichen genus Fissurina, 16 species were reported from India. In the present study, 17 additional species of Fissurina from India are recognized. Nine species, viz. Fissurina andamanensis, F. disposita, F. immersa, F. indica, F. microcarpa, F. nicobarensis, F. simplex, F. sporolata, and F. submonospora, are described as new to science. Seven species, viz. Fissurina canlaonensis, F. cingalina, F. comparimuralis, F. monospora, F. nitidescens, F. rubiginosa, and F. subnitidula, are recorded for the first time from India. One species, Fissurina sp. 1, is recorded but not formally described as new due to scanty material. Eight species in the lichen genus Hemithecium, including three new species, viz. H. kodayarense, H. longilirellatum, H. verrucosum, and five new combinations, viz. Hemithecium andamanicum, H. flabillatum, H. flavoalbum, H. flexile, and H. norlabiatum, are also recognized in the present work. A revised key for the identification of all 33 species of Fissurina and 26 species of Hemithecium so far known from India is provided.

scholarly journals Seek and ye shall find: new species and new records of Microporella (Bryozoa, Cheilostomatida) in the Mediterranean

ZooKeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1053 ◽  
pp. 1-42
Author(s):  
Emanuela Di Martino ◽  
Antonietta Rosso
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Records ◽  
Intraspecific Variability ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
New Material ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
Submarine Caves

The Mediterranean specimens of the genus Microporella collected from shallow water habitats during several surveys and cruises undertaken mostly off the Italian coast are revised. As a result of the disentanglement of the M. ciliata complex and the examination of new material, three new species, M. bicollarissp. nov., M. ichnusaesp. nov., and M. pachyspinasp. nov., are described from submarine caves or associated with seagrasses and algae. An additional species Microporella sp. A, distinct by its finely reticulate ascopore, is described but left in open nomenclature owing to the limitations of a single infertile fragment. After examination of all available material, based on their identical zooidal morphology, the genus Diporula is regarded as junior synonym of Microporella and the combination Microporella verrucosa is resurrected as first suggested by Neviani in 1896. Fenestrulina joannae is also reassigned to Microporella. The availability of a large number of colonies of the above-mentioned and other species already well known from the area (i.e., M. appendiculata, M. ciliata, and M. modesta), allowed the assessment of their high intraspecific variability as well as the observation, for the first time, of some morphological characters including ancestrulae, early astogeny, and kenozooids. Finally, M. modesta, in spite of M. ciliata as defined by the neotype selected by Kukliński & Taylor in 2008, appears to be the commonest species in the basin.

Taxonomy of the genus Craspedomerus Bernhauer, 1911 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Philonthina) from China

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2506 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
LIANG LI ◽  
HONG-ZHANG ZHOU
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
New Species ◽  
Species Identification ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
Scanning Electron

Three new species of the genus Craspedomerus from China are described and illustrated: C. giganteus Li & Zhou sp. n. from Sichuan, C. gongshanus Li & Zhou sp. n. from Yunnan and C. zhangi Li & Zhou sp. n. from Tibet. Four species are reported for the first time from China: C. sinetuber (Coiffait, 1977a) from Tibet, C. cyanipennis Scheerpeltz, 1976b, C. ganeshensis Coiffait, 1983 and C. glenoides (Schubert, 1908) from Yunnan. These four and two additional species previously recorded from China (C. beckeri Bernhauer, 1934 and C. violaceipennis Cameron, 1928 are redescribed and illustrated. Sensory peg setae located on the underside of the paramere of the aedeagus of all nine Chinese species are compared using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and the result shows that this character is useful for species identification. A key to the Chinese species of Craspedomerus is presented and geographical distribution of all sixteen species of Craspedomerus is mapped.

scholarly journals Three new generic records and descriptions of four new species of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Sri Lanka

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nilani Kanesharatnam ◽  
Suresh P. Benjamin
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Jumping Spiders ◽  
New Material ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
One New Species

The salticid genera Bristowia Reimoser, 1934, Habrocestum Simon, 1876 and Macaroeris Wunderlich 1992 are reported from Sri Lanka for the first time. One new species of Bristowia, B. gandhii sp. nov. (♂♀), and three new species of Habrocestum, H. hantaneensis sp. nov. (♂♀), H. kodigalaensis sp. nov. (♂♀) and H. ohiyaensis sp. nov. (♂), are described and diagnosed. The male of Macaroeris nidicolens Walckenaer, 1802 is redescribed and illustrated, based on new material from Sri Lanka.

Three new species of the genus Euscelophilus Voss (Coleoptera: Attelabidae) from China

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1808 (1) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
MENG XIE ◽  
XINGCAI LIANG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time

Euscelophilus Voss currently contains 14 recognisable species, all occurring in China but two also in Korea and one each also in Myanmar and Cambodia. In this paper, three additional species from China (E. longispinus, E. gaoligongensis and E. caperratus) are described as new to science, and the male genitalia of two described species (E. gibbicollis and E. denticulatus) are illustrated for the first time. Euscelophilidius Legalov, 2003, Cupreuscelophilus Legalov, 2005 and Euscelophiloides Legalov, 2007 are newly synonymised with Euscelophilus Voss, Euscelophilus mayongi (Legalov & Liu, 2005) comb. n. is consequently transferred from Cupreuscelophilus to Euscelophilus and E. jingpingensis Liang, 1994 stat. rev. and E. yongshanensis Liang, 1994 stat. rev. are reinstated as valid species from synonymy with E. chinensis (Schilsky) and E. camelus Voss, respectively.

Additional shallow-water thecate hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Guadeloupe and Les Saintes, French Lesser Antilles

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2570 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
HORIA R. GALEA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Species Composition ◽  
Shallow Water ◽  
Related Species ◽  
New Records ◽  
Lesser Antilles ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Les Saintes ◽  
First Time

This report supplements an earlier account on the hydroids of the Guadeloupe archipelago, and records 31 additional species of thecates. Among them, Halecium calderi sp. nov., Antennella armata sp. nov., and Antennella incerta sp. nov., are described. Laomedea tottoni Leloup, 1935 is redescribed and reassigned to the genus Clytia Lamouroux, 1812. Its synonymy is broadened upon inclusion of Clytia laxa Fraser, 1937. Hebella venusta (Allman, 1877) is considered valid based on comparison with related species, and its gonotheca is described for the first time. Two sympatric varieties of Sertularella diaphana (Allman, 1885), easily separable morphologically and by their cnidome composition, are discussed. Sertularella ornata Fraser, 1937 is recorded for the second time and is fully redescribed. Its name is actually a junior synonym of S. fusiformis (Hincks, 1861) f. ornata Broch, 1933, and it is here referred to as S. fraseri nom. nov. Sertularia thecocarpa Jarvis, 1922, Sertularella minuscula Billard, 1924, Sertularella parvula Mammen, 1965, and Sertularia stechowi Hirohito, 1995 are placed in the synonymy of Sertularella tongensis Stechow, 1919, the latter being transferred to the genus Sertularia Linnaeus, 1758. Sertularia ephemera nom. nov. is proposed as a replacement name for Sertularia tongensis Stechow, 1919. Aglaophenia postdentata Billard, 1913 is confidently recorded from the Atlantic for the first time. Dentitheca dendritica (Nutting, 1900) is redescribed, and additional notes on Macrorhynchia clarkei (Nutting, 1900) are provided. All the species discussed herein are new records for the study area. Illustrations are given for each species and data on the nematocyst complement and size of capsules are given when necessary. The number of hydroid species reported from the study area is raised to more than eighty. Hydroids of the Caribbean are moderately well known faunistically, though continuous discovery of new species is likely, the species composition being certainly richer than currently reported.

The Simuliidae (Diptera) of Sri Lanka. Descriptions of species in the subgenera Eusimulium and Gomphostilbia of the genus Simulium

1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 1483-1502 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. M. Davies ◽  
H. Györkös
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time

This paper on the Simuliidae of Sri Lanka provides notes on Simulium (Eusimulium) aureohirtum and describes three new species of Simulium (Gomphostilbia): Simulium krombeini, Simulium ela, and Simulium dola. The females of S. (G.) pattoni and Simulium (Gomphostilbia) ceylonicum comb.n. are redescribed and the males, pupae, and larvae are described for the first time. Keys are provided for separating the subgenera of Simulium and the species of Gomphostilbia in Sri Lanka. Some taxonomic comparisons are made with related Oriental species and a few biological notes are given.

scholarly journals A new genus and three new species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Sri Lanka

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nilani Kanesharatnam ◽  
Suresh P. Benjamin
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Jumping Spiders ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time

A new genus of jumping spiders, Bavirectagen. nov. is proposed to include the type species B. flavopuncta gen. et sp. nov. and Bavirecta exilis (Cao et al., 2016) gen. et comb. nov. Distinguishing characters of Bavirecta gen. nov. include: 1) tubular abdomen, 2) enlarged front legs, 3) straight and pointed embolus, broadest proximal lobe with black blotches, 4) prolateral tegular lobe, 5) widely separated anterior atria. Furthermore, two new species, Schenkelia aurantia sp. nov. (♂♀) and Brancus calebi (♂) sp. nov., are described and diagnosed. Mogrus frontosus (Simon, 1871) is redescribed based on a male collected from Mandaitivu Island of Jaffna District in Sri Lanka. The genera Brancus Simon, 1902, Mogrus Simon, 1882 and Schenkelia Lessert, 1927 are reported for the first time from Sri Lanka (Brancus and Schenkelia are recorded for the first time outside Africa).

scholarly journals Taxonomic descriptions of nine new species of the goblin spider genera Cavisternum, Grymeus, Ischnothyreus, Opopaea, Pelicinus and Silhouettella (Araneae, Oonopidae) from Sri Lanka

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-80
Author(s):  
U.G.S.L. Ranasinghe ◽  
Suresh P. Benjamin
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Taxonomic Descriptions ◽  
First Time

Nine new species of goblin spiders are described in six different genera:Cavisternumbomn. sp.,Grymeusdharmapriyain. sp.,Ischnothyreuschippyn. sp.,Opopaeaspinosiscoronan. sp.,Pelicinussnookyn. sp.,P.tumpyn. sp.,Silhouettellasaaristoin. sp.,S.snippyn. sp. andS.tiggyn. sp. Three genera are recorded for the first time in Sri Lanka:Cavisternum,GrymeusandSilhouettella. The first two genera are reported for the first time outside of Australia. Sri Lankan goblin spider diversity now comprises 45 described species in 13 different genera.

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