scholarly journals Kosaniniella javorensis n. gen., n. sp., from southwest Serbia, with notes on the evolutionary status of Knirschiella Guéorguiev, Cholevidae, Coleoptera

2004 ◽  
Vol 56 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 115-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srecko Curcic ◽  
Miloje Brajkovic ◽  
Bozidar Curcic ◽  
H. Senman ◽  
Slobodan Makarov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
Evolutionary Status ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Alpine Orogeny ◽  
Generic Status ◽  
Early Tertiary ◽  
Median Part

A new genus and species of endogen cholevid beetles (Kosaniniella javorensis n. gen., n. sp) has been diagnosed and described from under stones in the valley of Suvodol, village of Debelja, near Nova Varos, Mt. Javor southwestern Serbia. This new genus clearly differs from all other closely related genera in the following correlative traits: Body size presence/absence of eye spots; length of distalmost antennomere; form of antennomere VIII; punctuation of elytra; presence/absence of sutural striae shape of elytra; form of aedeagus; shape of aedeagal sides; shape of parameral apex; form of paramerae; distribution of parameral setae; shape of anterior inner parameral seta; form of median part of copulatory piece length of basal bulbus; and form of spermatheca. Kosaniniella n. gen. belongs to a separate phyletic lineage which includes two other phenetically close genera, Magdelainella Jeannel and Knirschiella Gu?orguiev. The new genus is present in southwestern Serbia only, while Magdelainella inhabits Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Knirschiella is given full generic status in the present paper; its members are known from Albania. The Kosaniniella-Magdelainella-Knirschiella complex is probably of early Tertiary age, its species having originated during the Alpine Orogeny, which affected vast areas of the Balkan Peninsula, including the Dinarids otherwise their terra typica.

scholarly journals Rozajella jovanvladimiri gen. N., sp. n. (Leptodirini, Leiodidae, Coleoptera), from east Montenegro, with notes on its phylogeny

2007 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-150
Author(s):  
S.B. Curcic ◽  
M.M. Brajkovic ◽  
B.P.M. Curcic ◽  
W. Waitzbauer
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
Width Ratio ◽  
Base Length ◽  
Median Lobe ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Alpine Orogeny ◽  
Its Phylogeny ◽  
Early Tertiary ◽  
Length Width

A new genus and species of cave-dwelling leiodid beetles (Rozajella jovanvladimiri gen. n., sp. n.) has been diagnozed and described from the Pecina u Dubokom Potoku Cave, village of Donje Bisevo, near Rozaje, Eastern Montenegro. This new genus clearly differs from all other close genera in the following correlative traits: body size; shape of head; presence of occipital carina, length of antennae; morphometric ratios and form of certain antennomeres; head/pronotum width ratio; pronotum length/width ratio; form of lateral pronotal margins; pronotal/elytral base length ratio; form of femora and protarsi; presence of apical rows of spines on tibiae; form of elytra; existence of elytral shoulders; length of elytral setae; form of median lobe and its apex; form of inner sac; length of basal bulbus; form of parameres and their apices; distribution of parameral setae; and distribution in the Balkan Peninsula. Rozajella gen. n. belongs to a separate phyletic lineage (s?rie phyl?tique de "Leptodirus" - sensu Perre au 2000) which includes five other genera, Leptostagus Z. Karaman (from Macedonia), Petkovskiella Gu?orguiev (from Macedonia), Astagobius Reitter (from Slovenia and Croatia), Albanodirus Giachino & Vailati (from Albania), and Leptodirus Schmidt (from Slovenia, Croatia, and Italy). The new genus is present in Eastern Montenegro only. The Rozajella-Leptostagus-Petkovskiella-Astagobius-Albanodirus-Leptodirus complex is probably of early Tertiary age, its species having originated during the Alpine Orogeny, which affected vast areas of the Balkan Peninsula, including the Dinarids, otherwise their terra typica. .

Taxonomic notes on the tribe Dryptini Bonelli, 1810 with description of a new genus and species from China (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Dryptini)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4731 (4) ◽  
pp. 522-530
Author(s):  
RICCARDO SCIAKY ◽  
ALEXANDER ANICHTCHENKO
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Large Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Large Body Size

Megadrypta mirabilis n. gen. n. sp. from Guangdong (China) is described. The new genus is distinguished from all known genera by a combination of large body size, pronotal bead well marked, sloping shoulders, reduced hind wings, smooth claws and stylomeres, and a large number (7–8) of periscutellar pores. Some remarks are made upon the relationships with the other genera of Dryptini, raising to the genus rank the taxa Nesiodrypta Jeannel, 1949 and Prionodrypta Jeannel, 1949, formerly regarded as subgenera of Drypta Latreille, 1796. A new key to all the genera of this tribe is proposed. 

scholarly journals New mid-Cretaceous earwigs in amber from Myanmar (Dermaptera)

2014 ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Engel ◽  
David A. Grimaldi
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
New Genera ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Large Piece ◽  
First Instar ◽  
Early Tertiary

Two new genera and species of mid-Cretaceous earwigs are described and figured from Burmese (Myanmar) amber.  Zigrasolabis speciosa Engel & Grimaldi, new genus and species, is represented by a series of females in a single, large piece of amber.  Toxolabis zigrasi Engel & Grimaldi, new genus and species, is based on a single male.  Two first-instar nymphs in the same piece as T. zigrasi may represent early stadia for this species.  In addition, two further morphospecies of isolated nymphs are recorded.  Both of the described genera belong to the Neodermaptera (Zigrasolabis a labidurine, Toxolabis likely an anisolabidine) but can be excluded from the Eudermaptera clade, the latter of which likely originated and diversified in the Early Tertiary or latest Cretaceous.

scholarly journals A new cave-dwelling species of the genus Parapropus ganglbauer (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Leptodirini) from Bosnia and Herzegovina

2012 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 1229-1233
Author(s):  
S. Curcic ◽  
V. Pesic ◽  
B.P.M. Curcic ◽  
Nina Curcic ◽  
T. Radja
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
Female Genitalia ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Beetle Species ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Alpine Orogeny ◽  
The Republic

A new leptodirine leiodid beetle species, Parapropus vitorogensis sp. n., from a cave in the western part of the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, is described and diagnosed. Both male and female genitalia and other taxonomically important characters are illustrated. The new species is clearly distinct from its closest congeners. The new taxon is of Tertiary or even pre-Tertiary age and originated during the Alpine Orogeny that affected vast areas of the Balkan Peninsula, including the Dinarides, its terra typica. The new species is both endemic and relict, inhabiting western Bosnia and Herzegovina only.

Klimaszewskia, a new genus of the tribe Tyrini from the Oriental region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4942 (4) ◽  
pp. 592-598
Author(s):  
ZI-WEI YIN ◽  
WEN-XUAN ZHANG
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Maxillary Palpus ◽  
Apical Region ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Single Female ◽  
Oriental Region

A new genus and species of the pselaphine tribe Tyrini, Klimaszewskia punctata gen. et sp. nov., is described and illustrated from Java, Indonesia. Klimaszewskia gen. nov. differs from all other genera of Tyrini primarily by the long, extended maxillary palpus having the fourth palpomere that is mesally expanded near the base, and has an elongate and narrowed apical region, combined with the presence of an antebasal sulcus of the pronotum, and the long first visible tergite. A single female with much larger body size from Nepal, representing a second species of the new genus, is briefly characterized but left unnamed. 

Ceramotylenchus tesselatus n. gen., n. sp. and Pleurotylenchus minor n. sp. (Nematoda: Tylenchida) from Alabama

1986 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 238-242
Author(s):  
B. A. Ebsary
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Body Size ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Oral Disc ◽  
Lateral Field ◽  
A New Species

A new genus and species of Duosulciinae and a new species of Pleurotylenchus are described and illustrated. Ceramotylenchus tesselatus n. gen., n. sp. is distinguished by having a cuplike oral disc, two crenate lateral incisures, absence of lateral vulval flaps, and alternating rows of blocks on the head and body that gives a tilelike appearance. Pleurotylenchus minor n. sp. is distinguished from P. sachsi by a smaller body size, more posterior vulva, shorter stylet, laterally indented head annules, and by the lateral field that begins on the first body annule.

A 100 million year old gecko with sophisticated adhesive toe pads, preserved in amber from Myanmar

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1847 (1) ◽  
pp. 62 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. NICHOLAS ARNOLD ◽  
GEORGE POINAR
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Lower Limb ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Skeletal Remains ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Lower Eocene ◽  
Adult Body ◽  
Firm Evidence ◽  
Large Adult

A new genus and species of gecko is described from a posterior lower limb and foot, and a partial tail, preserved in Lower Cretaceous amber from Myanmar that is 97–110My old. It appears to be the oldest unequivocal fossil gecko, predating fragmentary skeletal remains from the Upper Cretaceous and being 43–56 My older than Yanatarogecko from the Lower Eocene, previously the oldest known gecko preserved in amber. It also provides firm evidence that gekkotans and possibly gekkonids were in Asia at this time. The Myanmar specimen shows, that the distinctive foot proportions and sophisticated adhesive mechanism, involving pads on the toes with transverse lamellae probably bearing numerous hairlike setae found in many modern geckos, had already evolved around 100My ago. The specimen is very small, even compared with juveniles of the smallest living geckos. However, the high numbers of lamellae on its toe pads suggest it is from a juvenile of a species with relatively large adult body size.

An Early Condor-Like Vulture from North America

The Auk ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 105 (3) ◽  
pp. 529-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven D. Emslie
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
North America ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
New World ◽  
Middle Miocene ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Large Body ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Large Body Size ◽  
Near Extinction

Abstract A new genus and species of condor-like vulture (Ciconiiformes: Vulturidae) is described from the middle Miocene (Barstovian) of North America and is the earliest condor now known in the New World. The fossil record at present indicates that the Vulturidae originated in the Old World, but diversified in the New World. Large body size in vultures developed in North America at least 4 million years (Ma) earlier than thought previously, and the condors probably evolved in North America. Condors were most diverse in the late Pleistocene but are now near extinction.

scholarly journals First thaneroclerid beetle from Cretaceous Charentese amber (Coleoptera: Cleroidea: Thanerocleridae)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 390-398
Author(s):  
ERIK TIHELKA ◽  
GAO-MING CHENG ◽  
DIYING HUANG ◽  
VINCENT PERRICHOT ◽  
CHEN-YANG CAI
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Distribution Range ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Burmese Amber ◽  
Cosmopolitan Distribution ◽  
Small Family

Thanerocleridae is a small family of predaceous cleroid beetles with a cosmopolitan distribution. Here we describe a new genus and species, Mesozenodosus insularis gen. et sp. nov., from early Cenomanian Charentese amber from the Fouras deposit, Charente-Maritime department in south-western France. The new genus belongs to the relictual subfamily Zenodosinae represented in the Recent fauna by a single Nearctic species, Zenodosus sanguineus (Say). Mesozenodosus gen. nov. can be differentiated from Zenodosus and the two fossil zenodosine genera from the approximately contemporaneous Burmese amber by its smaller body size, more elongate body, non-carinate pronotal margins, and apical antennomere with an oval depression. The new fossil confirms a wider diversity and distribution range of Zenodosinae in the mid-Cretaceous than in the present day and provides further evidence of the relictual status of the subfamily.

A fossil caddisfly (Insecta: Trichoptera) from the Eocene of Colorado

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4403 (2) ◽  
pp. 389
Author(s):  
JASON L. ROBINSON ◽  
M. JARED THOMAS ◽  
SAM W. HEADS
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Green River Formation ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Green River ◽  
Lower Eocene ◽  
Adult Body Size ◽  
Adult Body ◽  
Terminal Genitalia ◽  
Large Adult

A new genus and species of fossil caddisfly (Insecta: Trichoptera) from the Lower Eocene (Ypresian) Green River Formation of Colorado is described. Litholimnephilops yinani gen. et sp. nov. is the first adult caddisfly to be described from the Green River Formation, and is characterized by large adult body size, presence of ocelli, dark leg spines, and a lack of terminal crossveins in the anterior anastomosis region of the forewings. Terminal genitalia are not visible in the preserved specimen. Familial placement is uncertain, though similarities with the families Limnephilidae and Phryganeidae are observed. 

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