Toward a North American Community: Lessons from the Old World for the New

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Kenneth Woodside ◽  
Robert A. Pastor ◽  
C. Fred Bergsten
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Old World

The North American «Hipparion Datum and implications for the Neogene of the Old World

Geobios ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.O. Woodburne ◽  
B.J. Macfadden ◽  
M.F. Skinner
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Old World ◽  
The North

scholarly journals Bombus (Pyrobombus) johanseni Sladen, 1919, a valid North American bumble bee species, with a new synonymy and comparisons to other “red-banded” bumble bee species in North America (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombini)

ZooKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 984 ◽  
pp. 59-81
Author(s):  
Cory S. Sheffield ◽  
Ryan Oram ◽  
Jennifer M. Heron
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Dna Barcode ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Bumble Bee ◽  
Widespread Species ◽  
Old World ◽  
Northern Canada

The bumble bee (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombini, Bombus Latreille) fauna of the Nearctic and Palearctic regions are considered well known, with a few species occurring in both regions (i.e., with a Holarctic distribution), but much of the Arctic, especially in North America, remains undersampled or unsurveyed. Several bumble bee taxa have been described from northern North America, these considered either valid species or placed into synonymy with other taxa. However, some of these synonymies were made under the assumption of variable hair colour only, without detailed examination of other morphological characters (e.g., male genitalia, hidden sterna), and without the aid of molecular data. Recently, Bombus interacti Martinet, Brasero & Rasmont, 2019 was described from Alaska where it is considered endemic; based on both morphological and molecular data, it was considered a taxon distinct from B. lapponicus (Fabricius, 1793). Bombus interacti was also considered distinct from B. gelidus Cresson, 1878, a taxon from Alaska surmised to be a melanistic form of B. lapponicus sylvicola Kirby, 1837, the North American subspecies (Martinet et al. 2019). Unfortunately, Martinet et al. (2019) did not have DNA barcode sequences (COI) for females of B. interacti, but molecular data for a melanistic female specimen matching the DNA barcode sequence of the holotype of B. interacti have been available in the Barcodes of Life Data System (BOLD) since 2011. Since then, additional specimens have been obtained from across northern North America. Also unfortunate was that B. sylvicola var. johanseni Sladen, 1919, another melanistic taxon described from far northern Canada, was not considered. Bombus johanseni is here recognized as a distinct taxon from B. lapponicus sylvicola Kirby, 1837 (sensuMartinet et al. 2019) in the Nearctic region, showing the closest affinity to B. glacialis Friese, 1902 of the Old World. As the holotype male of B. interacti is genetically identical to material identified here as B. johanseni, it is placed into synonymy. Thus, we consider B. johanseni a widespread species occurring across arctic and subarctic North America in which most females are dark, with rarer pale forms (i.e., “interacti”) occurring in and seemingly restricted to Alaska. In addition to B. johanseni showing molecular affinities to B. glacialis of the Old World, both taxa also inhabit similar habitats in the arctic areas of both Nearctic and Palearctic, respectively. It is also likely that many of the specimens identified as B. lapponicus sylvicola from far northern Canada and Alaska might actually be B. johanseni, so that should be considered for future studies of taxonomy, distribution, and conservation assessment of North American bumble bees.

New North American Records for the Old World Psyllid Heterotrioza chenopodii (Reuter) (Hemiptera: Psylloidea: Triozidae) with Biological Observations

2018 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Horton ◽  
Eugene Miliczky ◽  
Tamera M. Lewis ◽  
W. Rodney Cooper ◽  
Timothy D. Waters ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Old World

ON THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF NORTH AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA

1886 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 213-220
Author(s):  
Aug. R. Grote
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
North American ◽  
North American Species ◽  
South American ◽  
Seasonal Temperature ◽  
The South ◽  
Old World ◽  
The North

Again, the genera Citheronia and Eacles are a South American element in our fauna, while the typical Attacinæ, such as Actias, probably belong to the Old World element in our fauna, together with all our Platypteryginœ. Among the Hawk Moths the genera Philampelus and Phlegethontius are of probable South American extraction, though represented now by certain strictly North American species. Mr. Robert Bunker, writing from Rochester, N. Y., records the fact that Philampelus Pandorus, going into chrysaiis Augnst 1, came out Sept. 10 as a moth, showing that in a warmer climate the species would become doublebrooded. And this is undoubtedly the case with many species the farther we go South, where insect activities are not interrupted so long and so strictly by the cold of winter. Since the continuance of the pupal condition is influenced by cold, a diminishing seasonal temperature for ages may have originally affected, if not induced, the transformations of insects as a whole. Butterflies and Moths which are single brooded in the North become double brooded in the South.

EPIBLEMA (NOTOCELIA) CYNOSBATELLA (LEPIDOPTERA: TORTRICIDAE), A RECENTLY INTRODUCED OLD WORLD SPECIES POTENTIALLY INJURIOUS TO ROSACEAE

1980 ◽  
Vol 112 (5) ◽  
pp. 511-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akira Mutuura
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
North American ◽  
World Species ◽  
Old World ◽  
Native North American

AbstractEpiblema (Notocelia) cynosbatella (Linnaeus), introduced into British Columbia in 1978, is discussed and compared with the native North American Epiblema illotana (Walsingham).

The Validity of the Name curtipennis (Harris) for North American Chorthippus (Orthoptera: Acrididae)

1964 ◽  
Vol 96 (12) ◽  
pp. 1537-1548 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. R. Vickery
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
World Species ◽  
Old World

AbstractThe specific name curtipennis (Harris) is reinstated for North American Chorthippus, which is not (as erroneously supposed) conspecific with an Old World species. A neotype is designated and described for C. curtipennis (Harris), and a lectotype is chosen for C. montanus (Charpentier).

scholarly journals SYNONYMICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN ORTHOPTERA

1897 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 73-76
Author(s):  
Samuel H. Scudder
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
The Body ◽  
Posterior Border ◽  
Old World ◽  
Posterior Extension ◽  
Olive Green

In a review of N. A. Decticinæ (Can. Ent., XXVI.), I referred (p. 180) an undescribed Pacific Coast species provisionally to Drymadusa, an Old World genus of which I had not then seen specimens. Direct comparison shows that it differs from that genus in the lack of a humeral sinus on the posterior border of the lateral lobes of the pronotum and in the great posterior extension of the pronotum. I propose for it the generic name Apote (μ-, ποτίι). The species, which may be called A. notabilis, is testaceous, tinged on the pronotum with olive-green, the abdomen fusco-testaceous, much and minutely marked with black and light testaceous, the tegmina abbreviate but attingent, testaceous with black veins. The length of the body is 37 mm.; of the ovipositor, 28 mm. Oregon.

scholarly journals CHANGES IN THE COLOUR OF BUTTERFLIES

1902 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 94-94
Author(s):  
A. Radcliffe. Grote
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
North American ◽  
Ground Colour ◽  
Old World ◽  
Yellowish White

While studying the specializations of the wing in the Papilionides, the general results of which are published in the Proc. Am. Philosophical Society, Jan., 1899, I found that Iphiclides, Ajax, Marcellus, etc., differed so strongly from the type of Turnus as to be generically separable. Ajax is, in fact, allied to species having a greenish or yellowish white ground colour, from South America and the Old World, while Turnus is evidently related to the black North American forms, Troilus, etc., with which it flies. This fact enables me to draw the probable conclusion that Glaucus represents the original colour of the species, which, so to speak, is turning into Turnus, The black ♀ Glaucus is the more conservative whereas the males are already, with very rare exceptions, of the yellow tape of Turnus. It is different with certain cases of so-called “melanism,” now spreading in Europe, as Eubyja var. Doubledayaria and Aglia vars. fere-nigra and melaina. Here the original ground colour is changing to black indifferently in both sexes.

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