DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF MELITAEA FROM TEXAS

1879 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 117-118
Author(s):  
W. H. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Basal Area ◽  
Yellow Spot ◽  
Costal Margin ◽  
Black Line ◽  
Black And White ◽  
A New Species

Melitaea Fulvia.Male.—Expands 1.5 inch.Upper side brown-black over basal area of each wing, somewhat dusted rvith fulvous; or the ground color is partly replaced by fulvous, especially in the cells ; the costal margin and apex of primaries black, and both hind margins are narrowly edged by black ; all the nervures and branches black ; remainder of wings fulvous ; both have a submarginal series of fulvous spots, preceded by a black line, those of primaries at apex replaced by yellow, or obsolete ; beyond the black line a complete common series of small yellow spots ; a second on the disk, larger, and on secondaries elongated, sometimes very much so, and more or less confluent with the spots of the outer row ; on primaries a large yellow spot, edged with fulvous, next inside arc of cell, and two or three small yellow spots below this ; in cell of secondaries a small similar spot, but sometimes wanting ; fringes alternately and equally black and white.

DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF MELITÆA FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

1890 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-23
Author(s):  
W. H. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Broad Band ◽  
Yellow Spot ◽  
Outer Side ◽  
Costal Margin ◽  
Pale Yellow ◽  
The Third ◽  
Yellow Patch ◽  
A New Species

Melitæa Augusta.Male.—Expands from 1.6 to 1.75 inch; belongs to Chalcedon group, but is an conspicuously red as the species Chalcedon is black; upper side black, the surface nearly covered with light red and pale yellow spots, disposed as in the group; the basal areas dusted with yellow scales which, on primaries, extend along both margins; costa of same wing edged red; both hind margins bordered by small red spots, varying in shape, sometimes narrow and as of a broken stripe, sometimes more or lesss rounded to ovate; the spots of second row ar small, lunular, largest of secondaries, edged with red, the interior being yellow, or they are nearly all red with a small yellow patch in middle; sometimes this yellow is thinly washed red; the third row on primaries is either wholly yellow, or yellow with red edges, particularly on the outer side; on secondaries wholly red, and often very deep, so as to make a conspicuous broad band; the fourth row on primaries is red, sometimes with the spots next the two margins either yellow or in put yellow; around the end of cell yellow spots four or five in number; in the cell spots of red and yellow alternately, four in all, the yellow one at base more or less stained red; two yellow spots below cell with black ground between, and nearer base a small duplex red one; the fourth row on secondaries is yellow, either of small spots or pretty large ones, and the three or four from costal margin are red on their outer side; a red stripe outside the cell from the end to costal margin; two small yellow spots inside cell, with a red one between them and a yellow spot below; fringes yellow, black at the tips of the nervules.

scholarly journals DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF HESPERIAN FROM TEXAS

1877 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 58-59
Author(s):  
W. H. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Basal Area ◽  
White Spot ◽  
Outer Side ◽  
Costal Margin ◽  
White Spots ◽  
The One ◽  
A New Species

Upper side blackish-brown ; primaries have the costal margin to cell and nearly to apex densely covered with fulvous ; the basal area and the inner margin sprinkled with fulvous scales; and the cell wholly deep fulvous except towards the outer end, where through the middle runs an oar-shaped blackish stripe; midway between cell and apex an elongated yellow-white spot, cut into three by the sub-costal nervules, the one of these spots nearest costa nearly lost in the fulvous ground ; across the disk an oblique band of yellow-white spots, the upper one small and in the upper discoidal interspace, placed a little outside the costal spot, the lower one in the submedian interspace, the spots widening as they proceed towards inner margin, and the 3rd and 4th deeply excavated on the outer side.

A new species of bandy-bandy (Vermicella: Serpentes: Elapidae) from the Weipa region, Cape York, Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4446 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
CHANTELLE M. DEREZ ◽  
KEVIN ARBUCKLE ◽  
ZHIQIANG RUAN ◽  
BING XIE ◽  
YU HUANG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Analysis ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
The Body ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Potential Habitat ◽  
Cape York ◽  
Tropical Monsoon ◽  
Conservation Concern ◽  
A New Species

Bandy-bandies (genus Vermicella) are small (50–100cm) black and white burrowing elapids with a highly specialised diet of blindsnakes (Typhlopidae). There are currently 5 recognized species in the genus, all located in Australia, with Vermicella annulata the most encountered species with the largest distribution. Morphological and mitochondrial analyses of specimens collected from the Weipa area, Cape York, Queensland reveal the existence of a new species, which we describe as Vermicella parscauda sp. nov. Mitochondrial DNA analysis (16S and ND4) and external morphological characteristics indicate that the closest relatives of the new species are not V. annulata, which also occurs on Cape York, but rather species from Western Australia and the Northern Territory (V. intermedia and V. multifasciata) which, like V. parscauda, occupy monsoon habitats. Internasal scales are present in V. parscauda sp. nov., similar to V. annulata, but V. intermedia and V. multifasciata do not have nasal scales. V. parscauda sp. nov. has 55–94 black dorsal bands and mottled or black ventral scales terminating approximately 2/3rds of the body into formed black rings, suggesting that hyper-banding is a characteristic of the tropical monsoon snakes (V. intermedia, V. multifasciata and V. parscauda). The confined locality, potential habitat disruption due to mining activities, and scarcity of specimens indicates an urgent conservation concern for this species. 

A new species of Erythrogonia Melichar, 1926 (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellini) from the Mantiqueira mountain range, southeastern Brazil, associated with olive orchards

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4996 (2) ◽  
pp. 374-382
Author(s):  
JOYCE A. FROZA ◽  
VICTOR QUINTAS ◽  
GABRIEL MEJDALANI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Costal Margin ◽  
Abdominal Sternite ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Sternite Viii ◽  
Basal Portion ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the diverse Neotropical sharpshooter genus Erythrogonia Melichar, 1926 is described and illustrated from the Mantiqueira mountain range, municipality of Maria da Fé, state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. The new taxon is associated with olive orchards and has been implicated as a vector of the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa Wells et al., 1987, which causes a disease known in Brazil as olive leaf scorch syndrome. Erythrogonia sinvali sp. nov. can be distinguished from the other 90 known species of the genus by the following combination of features: (1) crown black without conspicuous contrasting spots; (2) frons with large yellow median spot; (3) pronotum black with large yellow area covering most of disk; (4) forewing dark red, without contrasting spots or stripes, costal margin narrowly black, apical portion dark brown; (5) aedeagus elongate, curved dorsally, with pair of spiniform apical processes; (6) paraphyses greatly reduced; (7) basal portion of male anal tube with pair of spiniform curved processes; (8) posterior margin of female abdominal sternite VII broadly emarginate and with broad central lobe; (9) female sternite VIII with sclerotized areas, including a transverse bar located at bases of ovipositor valvulae I, followed by a pair of elongate sclerites and a posterior bilobed sclerite. Both males and females of the new species are described in detail. A putative group of five species within Erythrogonia is preliminarily proposed, including the new taxon, E. separata Melichar, 1926, E. dorsalis (Signoret, 1853), E. calva (Taschenberg, 1884), and E. melichari Schmidt, 1928. Among these species, the male terminalia of E. sinvali sp. nov. are more similar to those of E. separata.  

scholarly journals Crenicichla hu, a new species of cichlid fish (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the Paraná basin in Misiones, Argentina

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2537 (1) ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUBOMÍR PIÁLEK ◽  
OLDŘICH ŘÍČAN ◽  
JORGE CASCIOTTA ◽  
ADRIANA ALMIRÓN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Cichlid Fish ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
La Plata Basin ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Misiones Province ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Crenicichla Heckel, C. hu, is described from the arroyo Piray–Miní, a left-hand tributary of the río Paraná, Misiones province, Argentina. This new species is easily distinguished from its congeners in the La Plata basin and adjacent coastal rivers by the dark coloration (dark grey or dark brown to black), a color pattern consisting of 7 to 9 black irregular blotches on the flank, and 47–54 scales in the E1 row. Adult females have dorsal fin with an irregular color pattern formed by wide black and white longitudinal stripes and blotches. In addition to standard morphological comparisons, a brief molecular phylogenetic analysis of Crenicichla species from the province of Misiones is also introduced.

A new species of Namtokocoris Sites (Hemiptera: Naucoridae) from Thailand

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4320 (3) ◽  
pp. 592
Author(s):  
AKEKAWAT VITHEEPRADIT
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Posterior Margin ◽  
National Park ◽  
Rock Surface ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Costal Margin ◽  
Median Process ◽  
Subgenital Plate ◽  
The Right ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Namtokocoris was collected from the near-vertical rock surface of Krating Waterfall in Chanthaburi Province, Khao Khitchakut National Park in the eastern region of Thailand. This discovery brings the number of described species of this genus to seven. This species can be diagnosed by the lanceolate median process of the pygophore and a curved aedeagus without a hook in the male, and the straight posterior margin of mediosternite VI, slightly convex posterior margin of the subgenital plate (mediosternite VII) and weakly-developed lobe on the costal margin of the right hemelytron in the female. Illustrations of the new species including a habitus photograph, ecological notes, and diagnostic comparisons among congeners are provided. 

Review of blenniid fishes from Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil, with description of a new species of Scartella (Teleostei: Blenniidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2006 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
CARLOS A. RANGEL ◽  
LIANA F. MENDES
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Oceanic Islands ◽  
The Body ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Dark Line ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Caudal Vertebrae ◽  
Fin Rays ◽  
Fernando De Noronha ◽  
A New Species

Species of the family Blenniidae from Fernando de Noronha Archipelago (03°51’S, 32°26’W), an oceanic island 345 km off northeastern Brazil, are reviewed in this study, which includes the description of a new species of Scartella. The new species differs from its congeners by the combination of the following characters: well-marked diagonal dark line just under the eye, tiny black spots on the head, small black and white spots along the body, 14 segmented dorsal-fin rays, 15 segmented anal-fin rays, and 23 caudal vertebrae. This is the second Scartella species described from Brazilian oceanic islands.

Piriqueta pampeana, a new species of Turneraceae (Passifloraceae s.l.) from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Phytotaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 234 (1) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thaíssa Nunes Cabreira ◽  
Marlon Garlet Facco ◽  
Silvia Teresinha Sfoggia Miotto
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Yellow Spot ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Leaf Margin ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
The Western Region ◽  
A New Species

Piriqueta pampeana, a new species of Turneraceae, is described and illustrated here. The species occurs in the municipalities of Alegrete, Maçambará, Manoel Viana and São Francisco de Assis, in the western region of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. It resembles Piriqueta suborbicularis and Piriqueta taubatensis, but can be distinguished by the presence of a pair of discoid basilaminar nectaries, a pair of petiolar nectaries and small nectaries distributed along the leaf margin, sepals with acute apex and a yellow spot at the base of the petals. Due to the intense environmental degradation of  its habitat, and according to IUCN guidelines, we ranked the species as “Endangered” (EN).

A new species of Martarega White, 1879 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Notonectidae) from the State of Pará, Brazil, and new records for three species in Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2351 (1) ◽  
pp. 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
JULIANNA FREIRES BARBOSA ◽  
JOSÉ RICARDO INACIO RIBEIRO ◽  
RUTH LEILA FERREIRA-KEPPLER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Records ◽  
The State ◽  
Lateral Margin ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
Costal Margin ◽  
Paulo State ◽  
Northern Brazil ◽  
Large Schools ◽  
A New Species

Members of Martarega White are stream inhabitants and tend to be gregarious, forming large schools in deep sheltered eddies. Most of the species of Martarega are known from Neotropics, and nine of them have been reported from Brazil. Martarega oriximinaensis Barbosa, Ribeiro and Ferreira-Keppler, sp. nov. is described here from Oriximiná, Pará. This species resembles M. hungerfordi Truxal in having a sharp concavity in the hind trochanter, and a narrow median stripe in the hemelytra and teeth in the costal margin of female hemelytra; but members of M. oriximinaensis can be readily recognized by the presence of one or two groups of very cohesive, short bristles near the lateral margin of the middle trochanter and by the distinctive shape of the male claspers. In M. oriximinaensis sp. nov. the female hemelytra bear at least 30 teeth on its costal margin, whereas in M. hungerfordi the female hemelytra bear at least sixteen teeth on such costal margin. A key to the species of Martarega occurring in northern Brazil is provided. New records of M. brasiliensis Truxal and M. membranacea White from Pará State (northern Brazil) are given. Members of M. uruguayensis (Berg) are newly recorded from São Paulo State (southeastern Brazil).

scholarly journals A new species of dink frog (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae: Diasporus) from Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2088 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
GERARDO CHAVES ◽  
ADRIÁN GARCÍA-RODRÍGUEZ ◽  
ALEJANDRA MORA ◽  
ALEJANDRO LEAL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Morphological Taxonomy ◽  
Mating Call ◽  
Frog Species ◽  
Cordillera De Talamanca ◽  
A New Species

A new dink frog species of the genus Diasporus (Eleutherodactylidae) is described from the Cordillera de Talamanca in Costa Rica. The new species shows an amazing polymorphism in the dorsal and ventral coloration that varies from red to black and white that is unique in the genus. Here we include the description of its mating call, sexual dimorphism relative to coloration, and comments on its distribution and conservation status. In addition, molecular data that complement the morphological taxonomy are shown.

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