scholarly journals Hemp sawfly found in European Russia (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae, Nematinae, Cladiini)

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 172-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veli Vikberg
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
Cannabis Sativa ◽  
First Record ◽  
Food Plant ◽  
European Russia ◽  
The West ◽  
The Family

The hemp sawfly Trichiocampus cannabis Xiao & Huang, 1986 was known until now only in the East Palaearctic. One female was captured recently in the Uljanovsk Region, European Russia. This is the first record from the West Palaearctic. The species is compared with the type species of Trichiocampus Hartig, T. grandis (Serville). The hemp sawfly differs from all known species of Cladiini by having slender, simple claws. The food plant Cannabis sativa L., a herb of the family Cannabaceae, is unique in Cladiini.

scholarly journals First record and geographic range extension of the coccolithophore Scyphosphaera apsteinii Lohman, 1902 (Haptophyta: Pontosphaeraceae) from the Pacific coast of Mexico

Check List ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco O. López-Fuerte ◽  
Ismael Gárate-Lizárraga ◽  
David A. Siqueiros-Beltrones ◽  
Ricardo Yabur
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
First Record ◽  
Geographic Range ◽  
Central Pacific ◽  
The West ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
First Time

The coccolithophorid Scyphosphaera apsteinii is here reported for the first time from waters off the west coast of the Baja California Peninsula. Scypho­sphaera apsteinii is the type species of the genus Scyphosphaera and had hitherto been recorded only in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean Seas. Specimens were found in samples collected in nets off Isla de Guadalupe in January 2013. This recording thus extends the geographical distribution of S. apsteinii from the Central Pacific (Hawaii) to the Eastern Pacific (NW Mexico).

First record of Bathonian Bullatimorphites (Jurassic, Ammonitina) from Kachchh, India

1988 ◽  
Vol 62 (01) ◽  
pp. 148-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. K. Pandey ◽  
G. E. G. Westermann
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
First Record ◽  
The State ◽  
The Family ◽  
Lower Callovian

Only two specimens of the family Tulitidae Buckman were previously reported from Kachchh (also Cutch, Kutch, Katch, or Kachh) in the state of Gujarat, i.e., “Stephanoceras bullatum (d'Orbigny)” of Waagen (1875) from the lower Callovian Golden Oolite of Kheera. Parona and Bonarelli (1897) named Waagen's illustrated specimen “Sphaeroceras’ cosmopolitum, which Spath (1924) later designated as the type species of Kheraiceras Spath. The only other tulitid known from the Indian subcontinent is the single Bullatimorphites (Kheraiceras) cf. bullatus from the Polyphemus Limestone of Baluchistan, Pakistan, described by Noetling (1896, Pl. 6, fig. 2, 2a).

A revision of the genus Conocrinus d’Orbigny, 1850 (Echinodermata, Crinoidea, Rhizocrinidae) and its place among extant and fossil crinoids with a xenomorphic stalk

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4560 (1) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHEL ROUX ◽  
MARC ELÉAUME ◽  
NADIA AMÉZIANE
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
First Record ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Extinct Species ◽  
Extant Genus ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
The Family ◽  
Lower Campanian

The genus Conocrinus d’Orbigny, 1850 (Crinoidea, Bourgueticrinina) was established on the basis of two aboral cups that had previously been described as Bourgueticrinus thorenti d’Archiac, 1846. One of these (now considered lost) came from the “Rocher du Goulet” at the base of the Biarritz section (Bartonian, Côte des Basques, southwest France). D’Archiac figured only the second cup; this belongs to the d’Orbigny Collection and is still housed in the palaeontological collection of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (Paris) as the lectotype of the species, C. thorenti. It appears that it was collected from Priabonian levels exposed near Castellane (Alpes de Haute Provence, southeast France). New observations on this cup, as well as a detailed study of the characters of aboral cups, columnals and proximal brachials in a few extant and fossil species classically attributed to Conocrinus or to closely related genera such as Democrinus, Rhizocrinus and Tormocrinus, have yielded arguments for a revision of the taxonomy and interrelationships of extant and fossil taxa in the family Bourgueticrinidae. Conocrinus (= Tormocrinus), as here interpreted, includes six Eocene species: C. thorenti, C. archiaci, C. cahuzaci n. sp., C. duperrieri, C. cf. suessi and C. veronensis. Numerous extinct species previously attributed to Conocrinus or Democrinus are here transferred to two new genera which first occur in the lower Paleocene: Paraconocrinus n. gen. (type species: P. pyriformis) and Pseudoconocrinus n. gen. (type species: P. doncieuxi). Aboral cups from the “Rocher du Goulet” (Biarritz) are here assigned to Paraconocrinus pellati n. gen., n. sp., while the Danian species Democrinus maximus is transferred to Pseudoconocrinus n. gen. A new genus, Cherbonniericrinus, is created to accommodate a single extant species, Ch. cherbonnieri, previously attributed to Conocrinus, while the extant genus Rhizocrinus, closely related to Democrinus, is resurrected. Conocrinus and closely related genera are derived from a bourgueticrinine lineage the first record of which is from the lower Campanian, with the new genus Carstenicrinus. These are all attributed to the family Rhizocrinidae which is here considered distinct from the family Bourgueticrinidae. Rhizocrinids rapidly diversified immediately after the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) event. Cretaceous taxa previously placed within the family Bourgueticrinidae now appear to be polyphyletic. Some of them do not belong to Bourgueticrinina, such as those of the Dunnicrinus lineage. Interrelationships of Rhizocrinidae and other post-Palaeozoic families having a xenomorphic stalk are discussed. 

scholarly journals Just a Fragment of Undescribed Diversity: Twenty New Oriental and Palearctic Species of Sciaroidea (Diptera), including DNA Sequence Data and Two New Fossil Genera

Insects ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Jan Ševčík ◽  
Heikki Hippa ◽  
Nikola Burdíková
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
First Record ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Burmese Amber ◽  
Mitochondrial Coi ◽  
Dna Sequence Data ◽  
Incertae Sedis ◽  
The Family ◽  
Palearctic Species

The following 17 extant new species of Sciaroidea (Diptera: Bibionomorpha) are described: Bolitophila nikolae Ševčík sp. nov. (Bolitophilidae, Taiwan), Catocha jingfui sp. nov. (Cecidomyiidae, Taiwan), Catocha manmiaoe sp. nov. (Cecidomyiidae, Taiwan), Catocha shengfengi sp. nov. (Cecidomyiidae, Taiwan), Planetella taiwanensis sp. nov. (Cecidomyiidae, Taiwan), Diadocidia pseudospinusola sp. nov. (Diadocidiidae, Taiwan), Asioditomyia bruneicola sp. nov. (Ditomyiidae, Brunei), Asioditomyia lacii sp. nov. (Ditomyiidae, Taiwan), Ditomyia asiatica sp. nov. (Ditomyiidae, Thailand), Chetoneura davidi sp. nov. (Keroplatidae, Brunei), Euceroplatus mantici sp. nov. (Keroplatidae, Thailand), Setostylus fangshuoi sp. nov. (Keroplatidae, Taiwan), Platyceridion yunfui sp. nov. (Keroplatidae, Hainan), Terocelion adami sp. nov. (Keroplatidae, Taiwan), Hadroneura martini sp. nov. (Mycetophilidae, Taiwan), Paratinia furcata sp. nov. (Mycetophilidae, Czech Republic, Slovakia), and Nepaletricha sikorai sp. nov. (Sciaroidea incertae sedis, Thailand). Two new genera are described from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, Burmasymmerus gen. nov. (Ditomyiidae, type species Burmasymmerus korneliae sp. nov., including also B. wieslawi sp. nov.), representing the first record of the family Ditomyiidae from the Mesozoic, and Burmatricha gen. nov. (Sciaroidea incertae sedis, type species Burmatricha mesozoica sp. nov.). Molecular phylogeny of Ditomyiidae, based on two DNA markers (28S, COI), as well as that of Catocha Haliday, 1833, based on the mitochondrial COI and 16S fragments, are also presented.

A New Species of Micropeza Meigen from Morocco and a Provisional Key to the West Palaearctic Species (Diptera: Acalyptrata, Micropezidae)

2019 ◽  
Vol 155 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-76
Author(s):  
Martin J. Ebejer
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North Africa ◽  
First Record ◽  
Palaearctic Species ◽  
The West ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Micropezidae, Micropeza kettaniae, is described from Morocco and the twelve west Palaearctic species of Micropeza Meigen are keyed. This is the first record of the family from Morocco and the second species to be described from North Africa.

A new species of Talitridae (Amphipoda: Gammaridea) from Tioman Island, Malaysia

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1454 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. H.R. OTHMAN ◽  
B. A.R. AZMAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Related Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
The West ◽  
The Family ◽  
Amphipod Crustacean ◽  
A New Species

The amphipod crustacean Talorchestia morinoi sp. nov. collected on the west coast of Tioman Island, Malaysia is described and illustrated.  So far no species belonging to the genus is known from Malaysia and this is the first record of the family Talitridae from Malaysia.  Differences between the new species and related species within the Talorchestia sensu Morino & Miyamoto, 1988 group are discussed and a key is also included.

scholarly journals First record of the subfamily Sagrinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from the Eocene of North America

Fossil Record ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-139
Author(s):  
Andrei A. Legalov
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Middle Eocene ◽  
First Record ◽  
Green River Formation ◽  
Green River ◽  
The Family

Abstract. A new genus, Palaeatalasis gen. nov. (type species P. monrosi sp. nov.), from the tribe Megamerini (Chrysomelidae: Sagrinae) from the early-middle Eocene Green River Formation is described and illustrated. The new genus is similar to the Recent Atalasis Lacordaire, 1845 but differs from it in the subparallel sides of the pronotum, metafemora without teeth, and non-emarginate eyes. It differs from the Eocene Eosagra Haupt, 1950 in the large, convex, non-emarginate eyes, wide elytra, and transverse pronotum. The new genus is distinguished from the Paleocene Gallopsis Legalov, Kirejtshuk et Nel, 2019 in the wide forehead and convex eyes. It is the first record of the Sagrinae from North America and the fourth known species of the family Chrysomelidae from the Green River.

First record of the Caribbean genus Cittarium (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae) from the Oligocene of Europe and its paleobiogeographic implications

2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 767-770
Author(s):  
Pierre Lozouet
Keyword(s):  
First Record ◽  
Common Species ◽  
The West ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Modern Species ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Top Shell ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Cittarium Pica

The West Indian Top-shell, Cittarium pica (Linnaeus, 1758), is a very classic and common species of the Caribbean faunal province. Until now the only known fossil occurrence of Cittarium pica, and of the genus Cittarium, is from Pleistocene deposits restricted to the Caribbean province (Clench and Abbott, 1943). Despite the turbiniform shell, the monotypic genus Cittarium belongs to the family Trochidae and was assigned to the tribe Gibbilini Stoliczka, 1868 by Hickman and McLean (1990). This paper reports a new species of Cittarium and the only record outside the Caribbean province. More than twenty million years separate the single modern species of Cittarium and the new fossil species. All material collected is deposited in Museum national d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN).

scholarly journals Alien Pests Can Spread Quickly: Wooly Ash Aphid Prociphilus fraxinifolii (Hemiptera: Eriosomatidae) Has Occupied Europe in 18 Years

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1176
Author(s):  
Marina J. Orlova-Bienkowskaja ◽  
Andrzej O. Bieńkowski
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
North America ◽  
First Record ◽  
European Russia ◽  
The West ◽  
Volga River ◽  
Ash Trees ◽  
Vast Territory

Prociphilus fraxinifolii (woolly ash aphid) is a pest of ash trees (Fraxinus spp.). This species, which is native to North America, was first recorded in Europe in 2003, in Budapest, and then began to spread quickly. In 2019–2021, we first detected P. fraxinifolii in Belarus (Brest) and eight regions of European Russia, namely Astrakhan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Saratov, Smolensk, Tambov, Volgograd and Voronezh regions. By 2021, P. fraxinifolii has spread over a vast territory in Europe: from Spain in the west to the Volga River in the east. The distance between the westernmost and easternmost localities is 4180 km. The known range is disjunctive: Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Spain and 16 regions of European Russia. This case indicates that some alien pests are able to occupy the whole of Europe in less than two decades after the first record in the continent. It is known that P. fraxinifolii can infest native ash species F. excelsior, but all our findings, as well as most findings indicated in the literature, were on F. pennsylvanica introduced from North America. We never found P. fraxinifolii on F. excelsior even near infested F. pennsylvanica trees.

First record of genus Phlyctaenopora in South Pacific waters

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4990 (3) ◽  
pp. 596-600
Author(s):  
MICHELLE KELLY
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
First Record ◽  
The West ◽  
Pacific Waters ◽  
A New Species

Four species of Phlyctaenopora Topsent, 1904 (Demospongiae Sollas, Poecilosclerida Topsent, Mycalidae Lundbeck) are recognised today (Van Soest et al. 2021a) (Table 1): two Atlantic Ocean species in subgenus Phlyctaenopora [type species P. (P.) bitorquis Topsent, 1904, from the Azores; P. (P.) halichondrioides van Soest & Stentoft, 1988, from Barbados]; and two Southern Hemisphere species in subgenus Barbozia Dendy, 1922: P. (Barbozia) primitiva Dendy, 1922, from the Seychelles, and P. (B.) bocagei Lévi & Lévi, 1983, from New Caledonia. Here we describe a new species of Phlyctaenopora from Wanganella North in International Waters on the West Norfolk Ridge, northwest of New Zealand. Phlyctaenopora (B.) spina sp. nov. provides a first record of the genus in the South Pacific, providing further confirmation of the integrity of the subgenus Barbozia.  

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