scholarly journals A REVIEW OF TIGER MOTHS (LEPIDOPTERA: EREBIDAE: ARCTIINAE: ARCTIINI) FROM FLORES ISLAND, LESSER SUNDA ARCHIPELAGO, WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES AND NEW SUBSPECIES

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan N. Bolotov ◽  
Alexander V. Kondakov ◽  
Vitaly M. Spitsyn
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
The Body ◽  
Moderate Level ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
Tiger Moth ◽  
Local Endemic ◽  
Moth Species ◽  
Tiger Moths ◽  
A New Species

The Wallacean Region is considered a unique evolutionary hotspot, but the current knowledge of lepidopteran faunas on certain islands is very far from being complete. Here we present a preliminary checklist of the Arctiini fauna of the Flores Island based on available collection materials and a review of the body of literature. In total, for the island fauna we list 22 tiger moth species, with eight newly recorded species. Among novel records, local endemic Spilarctia mikeli Bolotov, Kondakov & Spitsyn sp. nov. and Aloa cardinalis danau Bolotov, Kondakov & Spitsyn ssp. nov. were discovered. Additionally, several taxa with broad ranges such as Amerila astreus, Creatonotos gangis, Euchromia horsfieldi, Lemyra maculifascia, Nyctemera distincta and Utetheisa pulchelloides were new for the island fauna. In general, 15 taxa are prospective endemic Wallacean elements, among which seven taxa are unknown outside the Flores Island: Orhantarctia cymbalophoroides, Lemyra everetti, L. floresina, Aethalida owadai floresiensis, Nyctemera scalarium regalis, Spilarctia mikeli sp. nov. and Aloa cardinalis danau ssp. nov. Our findings reveal that the tiger moth fauna of the Flores Island has rather moderate level of endemism, with only 32% of putative endemic taxa.

scholarly journals Noteridae, Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) du Gabon (8ème partie). Monts de Cristal

2011 ◽  
Vol 152 (2) ◽  
pp. 177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armando Bilardo ◽  
Saverio Rocchi
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
The Body ◽  
Ecological Data ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

Noteridae, Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from Gabon (eighth part). Monts de Cristal. This work concerns the Coleoptera Hydradephaga collected in eight localities of Monts de Cristal (Republic of Gabon) included locality of Tchimbélé into the National Park of Monts de Cristal in years 2006 - 2010; altogether 76 species are listed (3 Noteridae and 73 Dytiscidae) of which 51 species found in the Park. The authors describe two new species: <em>Copelatus angouei</em> (group <em>consors</em>, sensu Guignot, 1961, distinguishable from other species of group by small size, the robust conformation, the upper side clearly microreticulate covered by fine and thick punctuation which give it an opaque look and by characteristic penis), <em>Copelatus nguemai</em> (group <em>irinus</em>, subgroup <em>assimilis</em>, sensu Guignot, 1961, related to assimilis Régimbart, 1895, distinguishable by longer spine of metatibia clearly curved at third apical in both sexes and by characteristic penis) and one new subspecies: <em>Copelatus lasckonyi tchimbelensis</em> (group <em>irinus</em>, subgroup <em>irinus</em>, sensu Guignot, 1961, characterized by very small size, by narrowed profile of the body from shoulders in some specimens and by the upper side finely microreticulate, penis, very characteristic, is identical to typical form). The examination of two sintypes of <em>Copelatus variegatus</em> Régimbart, 1895 (group <em>erichsoni</em>, subgroup <em>atrosulcatus</em>, sensu Guignot, 1961) of Muséum Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle of Paris and of specimens of related species of the Museums of Tervuren and Bruxelles permitted the determination of the specimens of <em>C. variegatus c</em>ollected during research and the redescription of the species known till now by the two sintypes (here respectively designate lectotype and paralectotype); meanwhile a new species has been identified: <em>Copelatus mendax</em>, belonging to same group and subgroup of <em>C.</em> <em>variegatus</em>, misidentified with veritable <em>C. variegatus</em>. Some <em>taxa</em> of aquatic macroinvertebrates (Hexapoda, Malacostraca, <em>Clitellata</em> et Mollusca) in the zone collected and determined by a Researcher of IRAF (CENAREST, Gabon), Blaise Mboye Rollinat, who had participated in mission 2010, are furnished. Observations on some of the collected species and some ecological data of the biocenoses that populate the zone and some considerations on aquatic Coleoptera habitats are presented. The name of the species <em>Copelatus efoutensis</em> Bilardo &amp; Rocchi, 1995 is amended in efotensis<em>.</em> <em>Hydrovatus senegalensis</em> Régimbart, 1895 and <em>Uvarus barombicus</em> Bilardo, 1982 are signalled for the first time of Gabon.

A new zygaenid moth species from Kangaroo Island, South Australia (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae: Procridinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4429 (1) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
AXEL KALLIES ◽  
BERNARD MOLLET ◽  
DAVID A. YOUNG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Moth Species ◽  
A New Species

A new species of forester moths, Pollanisus hyacinthus sp. nov., is described from Kangaroo Island, South Australia. It is similar to Pollanisus isolatus Tarmann, 2004 and Pollanisus cyanota (Meyrick, 1886) but differs in several external characters and in the genitalia. 

Steinernema borjomiense n. sp. (Rhabditida: Steinernematidae), a new entomopathogenic nematode from Georgia

Nematology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 653-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleg Gorgadze ◽  
Elena Fanelli ◽  
Manana Lortkhipanidze ◽  
Alberto Troccoli ◽  
Medea Burjanadze ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
18S Rrna ◽  
Entomopathogenic Nematode ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Tail Length ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
18S Rrna Gene ◽  
The Body ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
A New Species

Summary A new species of entomopathogenic nematode, Steinernema borjomiense n. sp., was isolated from the body of the host insect, Oryctes nasicornis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), in Georgia, in the territory of Borjomi-Kharagauli. Morphological characters indicate that the new species is closely related to species of the feltiae-group. The infective juveniles are characterised by the following morphological characters: body length of 879 (777-989) μm, distance between the head and excretory pore = 72 (62-80) μm, pharynx length = 132 (122-142) μm, tail length = 70 (60-80) μm, ratio a = 26.3 (23.0-29.3), H% = 45 (40-51), D% = 54 (47-59), E% = 102 (95-115), and lateral fields consisting of seven ridges (eight incisures) at mid-body. Steinernema borjomiense n. sp. was molecularly characterised by sequencing three ribosomal regions (the ITS, the D2-D3 expansion domains and the 18S rRNA gene) and the mitochondrial COI gene. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that S. borjomiense n. sp. differs from all other known species of Steinernema and is a member of the monticolum-group.

New taxa and new records of butterflies from Vietnam (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) 

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5048 (4) ◽  
pp. 486-510
Author(s):  
ALEXANDER L. MONASTYRSKII ◽  
VU VAN LIEN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
New Records ◽  
Species Level ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
The Status ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

A new species and eight new subspecies of Papilionoidea discovered in Vietnam between 2002 and 2020 are described and illustrated. The status of two taxa are revised. New taxa include Pieridae: Delias sanaca bidoupa Monastyrskii & Vu subspec. nov. and Talbotia naganum aurelia Monastyrskii & Vu subspec. nov.; Nymphalidae: Abrota ganga pulcheria Monastyrskii & Vu, subspec. nov.; Bassarona recta consonensis Monastyrskii & Vu, subspec. nov.; Pantoporia bieti aurantina Monastyrskii & To subspec. nov.; Ragadia latifasciata cristata Monastyrskii & Vu, subspec. nov.; Ragadia latifasciata crystallina Monastyrskii & Vu, subspec. nov.; Faunis indistincta luctus Monastyrskii & Vu subspec. nov. & Aemona gialaica Monastyrskii, K. Saito & Vu, spec. nov. The taxon infuscata Devyatkin & Monastyrskii, previously described as the subspecies Aemona tonkinensis infuscata, was elevated to the species level, while the taxon critias (Ragadia critias Riley & Godfrey) was reduced to a subspecies. Three Satyrinae species were recorded from Vietnam for the first time: Palaeonympha opalina Butler, 1871; Ypthima motschulskyi Bremer & Grey, 1853; and Ragadia latifasciata Leech, 1891.  

Description of a new species of Bush frog (Anura: Rhacophoridae: Raorchestes) from northwestern Yunnan, China

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4941 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-258
Author(s):  
YUN-HE WU ◽  
XIAO-LONG LIU ◽  
WEI GAO ◽  
YU-FAN WANG ◽  
YING-CHUN LI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Field Work ◽  
The Body ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
The Past ◽  
Black Region ◽  
One New Species ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Northwestern Yunnan

Approximately half of the species in speciose genus Raorchestes were described during the past 10 years, yet only 11 species are known from Southeast Asia and southern China (SEA-SC), adjacent Himalayas, and northeastern India. Field work in northwestern Yunnan province, China resulted in the discovery of one new species in the genus based on morphological and molecular analyses. The new species is diagnosed by small size with 15.0–19.0 mm SVL in adult males (n=3); tongue pyriform, notched posteriorly; rudimentary webbing between toes; fingers and toes with narrow lateral dermal fringes; tibiotarsal articulation reaching anterior of the eye when hindlimb is stretched along the side of the body; relative finger lengths: I < II < IV < III, relative toe lengths: I < II < V < III < IV; inner metatarsal tubercle oval, outer metatarsal tubercle absent; finger discs and toe discs greyish or orange; flank near the crotch with a distinct black region between two creamy white patches, and the thigh having a similar black patch near the groin, proximal to another creamy white patch; a distinct “) (”-shaped dark marking on the back; male with external single subgular vocal sac; nuptial pad absent. A phylogenetic tree was reconstructed based on the mitochondrial genes for 16S rRNA and ND1. The results indicated that these individuals form a monophyletic group, and show high genetic divergence to their closest relatives within the genus (uncorrected p-distances > 3.2%) by distance of 16S comparable to the divergence between recognized Raorchestes species. This study further enriches the diversity of rhacophorids, especially in northwestern Yunnan. 

scholarly journals A new species of Characidium (Characiformes: Crenuchidae) from small coastal drainages in northeastern Brazil, with remarks on the pseudotympanum of some species of the genus

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela M. Zanata ◽  
Priscila Camelier
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Lateral Line ◽  
The Body ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Horizontal Scale ◽  
Caudal Peduncle ◽  
Transversal Line ◽  
Lateral Band ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

Characidium samurai, a species of the family Crenuchidae apparently endemic to rio das Almas and rio Vermelho basins, Bahia, Brazil, is described. The new species is readily distinguishable from its congeners, except C. lanei, by having a dark lateral band along the head and body that is particularly broad from the rear of the head to the end of the caudal peduncle (1.5 or 2 scales wide) and by the absence of dark bars or blotches on the ventral half of the body. Characidium samurai differs from C. laneiby having the lateral band with straight borders overall (vs.lateral band with somewhat irregular borders due to blotches extending dorsally or ventrally), anal fin ii,7-8 (vs. ii,6), and 4 horizontal scale rows above the lateral line and 4 below (vs. 5/3). It further differs from congeners by a series of features, including isthmus completely covered by scales, lateral line complete with 34-37 perforated scales, 9 scales on the transversal line, 14 scale rows around the caudal peduncle, anal fin ii,7-8, and the absence of dark bars or spots on the fins, except by a faded dorsal-fin bar. The presence of pseudotympanum in four species of Characidium is discussed.

Poecilia (Pamphorichthys) akroa, a new poeciliid species (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) from the Rio Tocantins basin, Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4461 (3) ◽  
pp. 438
Author(s):  
CARLOS AUGUSTO FIGUEIREDO ◽  
CRISTIANO R. MOREIRA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sensory System ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Distal Portion ◽  
The Body ◽  
Caudal Peduncle ◽  
Posterior Portion ◽  
Anterior Branch ◽  
Black Blotch ◽  
A New Species

A new species, Poecilia (Pamphorichthys) akroa, is described from the Rio Tocantins drainage, Brazil. The new species differs from the remaining species of the genus by the possession of 10 or 11 pectoral-fin rays, entire preopercular ramus and posterior portion of the supraorbital ramus of the cephalic sensory system enclosed in canals, a faint longitudinal band along the body, a single gonapophysis, a homogeneous reticulate color pattern on sides of body, urogenital region of females heavily pigmented, distalmost segments of the anterior branch (4a) of the fourth gonopodial ray fused into an elongated segment turned anteriorly, subdistal segments of anterior branch (5a) of fifth gonopodial ray simple, without anterior (ventral) projections, dorsal fin with pigmentation at its distal portion and with a basal black blotch, and chromatophores more concentrated on the posterior margin of the mid-ventral scale series of the caudal peduncle and ventrolateral margin of the adjacent scales forming a series of rhombi posterior to anal fin. 

VI.—Note on Ephippioceras clitellarium, J. de C. Sowerby, sp., and E. costatum, A. H. Foord

1900 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 560-561
Author(s):  
G. C. Crick
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Acute Angle ◽  
The Body ◽  
Museum Collection ◽  
Body Chamber ◽  
Coal Measures ◽  
A New Species

The name Nautilus clitellarius was given by J. de C. Sowerby to a Nautiloid from the Coal-measures, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, and the description was accompanied by three figures, each representing a different specimen. In 1884 the species was included by Professor Hyatt in his new genus Ephippioceras. In 1891 Dr. A. H. Foord found a new species, Ephippioceras costatum, which was said to be “distinguished from E. clitellarium (to which it is, however, very closely related) by the character of the septa and by the surface ornaments. The septa in E. costatum do not form such an acute lobe upon the periphery as do those of E. clitellarium, and they are also a little wider apart in the former species than they are in the latter. Moreover, E. costatum is provided with prominent transverse costæ, which are strongest upon the sides of the shell where they swell out into heavy folds. These costæ are directed obliquely backwards, and cross the septa at an acute angle, passing across the periphery and forming a shallow sinus in the middle. None of the specimens in the British Museum have the test preserved, so that the ribbing has only been observed upon casts. The costæ are equally well developed upon the body-chamber and upon the septate part of the shell in the adult, but they were either very feeble or altogether absent in the young.” A re-examination of the specimens in the Museum collection shows that the separation of the two forms is quite justifiable.

Pseudancistrus sidereus, a new species from southern Venezuela (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) with a redescription of Pseudancistrus

Zootaxa ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 628 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JONATHAN W. ARMBRUSTER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Nasal Bone ◽  
The Body ◽  
Caudal Peduncle ◽  
Anterior Process ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
A New Species

Pseudancistrus sidereus is described from two collections of specimens from Amazonas, Venezuela. Pseudancistrus sidereus differs from all other members of Pseudancistrus based on the presence of a unique keel on the caudal peduncle formed from the concave dorsal sections of the plates in the ventral series, light spots on the body (these may be yellow in life) centered on the body plates and the absence of the characteristics of the more derived members of Pseudancistrus such as hypertrophied odontodes along the snout in males and females and the loss of evertibility of the cheek plates. Pseudancistrus includes Lithoxancistrus and Guyanancistrus and is diagnosed by the following synapomorphies: no suture between pterotic-supracleithrum and hyomandibula, no contact of the hyomandibula with the prootic, straight, spoon-shaped anterior process of metapterygoid, nasal bone not much wider than laterosensory canal running through it, sphenotic not contacting posteriormost infraorbital externally, and a short ventral ridge on the pelvic basipterygium (lost in some species). Two species formerly assigned to Guyanancistrus are placed in different genera. Hypostomus guacharote is placed in Lasiancistrus and Chaetostomus trinitatis is placed in Ancistrus.Se describe Pseudancistrus sidereus, con base en dos colectas de espec menes del Amazonas venezolano. Pseudancistrus sidereus difiere de los otros miembros del g nero Pseudancistrus por la presencia de una quilla nica en el ped nculo caudal formada a partir de las secciones c ncavas dorsales de las placas de la serie ventral, puntos blancos en el cuerpo (probablemente amarillos en vida) centrados en las placas corporales y la ausencia de ciertas caracter sticas presentes en los miembros m s derivados de Pseudancistrus, como odontodos hiperatrofiados a lo largo del rostro en machos y hembras y la perdida de evertibilidad de las placas de la mejilla. Pseudancistrus incluye a Lithoxancistrus y Guyanancistrus y se diagnostica por las siguientes sinapomorf as: sutura entre el pter tico-supracleitro y la hiomand bula ausente, hiomand bula y pro tico sin contacto, proceso anterior del metapterigoides recto y en forma de cuchara, hueso nasal apenas m s amplio que el canal laterosensorial que corre a trav s del mismo, esfen tico sin contacto externo

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