On the True Identity of Geophilus huronicus Meinert and the Presence of Geophilus longicornis Leach in North America (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Geophilidae)

1951 ◽  
Vol 83 (11) ◽  
pp. 314-315
Author(s):  
Ralph E. Crabill
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
New England ◽  
North American ◽  
New World ◽  
Original Description ◽  
World Species

In 1886 Meinert described a new centipede from New England which he called Geophilus huronicus. This centipede, characterized at some length and with considerable accuracy in the original description. is peculiar in that it is rather unlike any other known North American member of the genus. Perhaps for that reason, as well as because he had never seen huronicus, Attems placed it in his long roster of questionable New World species.

A numerical analysis of morpho-geographic groups of cultivars of Humulus lupulus based on samples of cones

1981 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest Small
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Analysis ◽  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
New World ◽  
Geographical Origin ◽  
Humulus Lupulus ◽  
Numerical Analyses ◽  
Hybrid Origin ◽  
Morphological Examination ◽  
Humulus Lupulus L

Numerical analyses of hop (strobilus) samples showed that the geographical origin of cultivars of Humulus lupulus L. from North America, Britain, continental Europe, and Japan can be identified with considerable reliability on the basis of morphological examination. Samples of hybrid origin between North American and European plants tended to be similar to American cultivars, but often showed combinations of Old and New World characteristics, making their identification problematical.

Review of the New World species of Microplitis Foerster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) attacking Sphingidae (Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Mostafa Ghafouri Moghaddam ◽  
Sloan Tomlinson ◽  
Samuel Jaffe ◽  
Diana Carolina Arias-Penna ◽  
James B. Whitfield ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
New World ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Plant Association ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
New Host ◽  
World Species ◽  
Allegheny Mountains

Abstract Microplitis Foerster is a highly diverse and cosmopolitan genus within Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea, Braconidae). Microplitis ceratomiae Riley, a widely distributed North American species, exclusively attacks sphingid caterpillars. In this paper, M. ceratomiae is reported parasitizing a caterpillar of Sphinx poecila Stephens (Sphingidae) which was collected feeding on Spiraea alba Du Roi (Rosaceae), a species of white meadowsweet native to the wet soils of the Allegheny Mountains and other portions of eastern North America. Here, we report and describe this new host-parasitoid-food plant association in southern New Hampshire, and include a distribution map for the species. Biological, ecological and phylogenetic analyses, and an identification key for the nine known species of Microplitis that attack sphingids in the New World are provided.

Telephinaand Other Trilobites from the Pratt Ferry Beds, Ordovician of Alabama, U.S.A.

2014 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 545-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick C. Shaw
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Zone Boundary ◽  
Middle Ordovician ◽  
Conodont Zone ◽  
Stratigraphic Range ◽  
Single Locality

The Pratt Ferry beds are a three meter thick bioclastic carbonate unit containing thePygodus serrus–P. anserinusconodont zone boundary and lying just below theNemagraptus gracilisgraptolite zone at a single locality in Alabama.TelephinaMarek at Pratt Ferry and other eastern North American localities is represented by at least six species. These are judged widespread and in part conspecific with Scandinavian or Asian forms of similar age. Most of the fifteen Appalachian telephinid species proposed by Ulrich (1930) are reviewed and some synonymized.BevanopsisCooper is present, extending its stratigraphic range viaB. buttsi(Cooper). The original description ofCeraurinella buttsiCooper is augmented. Other recorded but poorly represented genera includeAmpyxina,Arthrorhachis,Calyptaulax,Hibbertia,Lonchodomas,Mesotaphraspis,Porterfieldia, andSphaerexochus. The entire faunule represents a mixture of ‘inshore’ and ‘offshore’ or planktonic faunal elements rarely seen elsewhere in the latest Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) of eastern North America.

scholarly journals Intraspecific Variation in a Scorpionfly Newly Recorded from Texas and the State of Taxonomy of North American Panorpidae (Mecoptera)

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Joshua R. Jones
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Intraspecific Variation ◽  
North American ◽  
Original Description ◽  
The State ◽  
Taxonomic Review ◽  
Intraspecific Variations ◽  
First Time

Panorpa vernalisByers is recorded for the first time from Texas, and represents only the second species ofPanorpadocumented from the state. Intraspecific variations between the Texas specimens and Byers' original description are discussed. A synopsis of the principal modern keys for identification of North AmericanPanorpais provided, and an argument for a modern taxonomic review of the Panorpidae of North America is presented.

REVISION OF THE NEW WORLD CHRYSOLAMPINAE (HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA)

1986 ◽  
Vol 118 (9) ◽  
pp. 913-940 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Christopher Darling
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
New World ◽  
World Species ◽  
European Species ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
Climatic Information

AbstractThe taxonomy and biology of New World species of Chrysolampinae are reviewed with diagnoses given for the subfamily, genera, and species. A key to the species of Chrysolampus and a summary of geographic distribution and information on host and floral associations are presented. Three new species are described from North America (Chrysolampus improcerus, C. luridus and C. elegans); Chrysolampus lycti Crawford is transferred to Perilampus and synonymized with the European species P. micans Dalman. The genus Chrysomalla is recorded in the New World for the first time based on the new species Chrysomalla hesperis. An explanation of the historical biogeography of the genera is proposed that is consistent with Late Cretaceous and Tertiary geological, botanical, and climatic information. It is suggested that the extant species are descendents of elements of a widely distributed arid biota.

scholarly journals A Review of North American Isoetes engelmannii (Isoetaceae) complex hybrids, including the description of I. × fernaldii, hyb. nov. and I. × karenae, hyb. nov.

Webbia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Francis Brunton ◽  
Paul Clayton Sokoloff
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Cytological Evidence ◽  
The World ◽  
In The Wild

The Isoetes engelmannii complex of eastern North America consists of 30 taxa including 13 named species. Nine of the 17 hybrids within the complex (the largest group of Isoetes hybrids in the world) have been formally described. Those named hybrids are reviewed here in light of recent additions to and enhancements of the morphological and cytological evidence employed in their original description. The pedigree of three of these, I. ×brittonii, I. ×bruntonii and I. ×carltaylorii, is updated and clarified. Formal descriptions are proposed for two additional taxa: I. ×fernaldii, hyb. nov. (I. engelmannii × I. hyemalis) and I. ×karenae, hyb. nov. (I. appalachiana × engelmannii). The potential for a further eight hybrid combinations to occur in the wild is also addressed.

Learning to Write Algonquian Letters

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Rivett
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
New England ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
New World ◽  
American Missionaries ◽  
John Eliot ◽  
Material Reality ◽  
Linguistic Activity ◽  
Representational Power ◽  
Power Of Words

Atlantic networks of Protestant and Jesuit letters fueled missionary linguistic activity in North America in the 1660s and 1670s, which influenced early modern debates about the representational power of words. A fragmented theological and philosophical context in Europe put pressure on New World missionaries to try to salvage mystical ideas about the representational power of words. Espousing the idea that Algonquian could be redeemed along with the souls of its speakers, missionaries John Eliot in New England and Chrétien Le Clercq in Nova Scotia transformed the New World into language laboratories, in which theological aspirations for Algonquian translation came into conflict with the practical and material reality of learning and proselytizing in Wampanoag and Mi’kmaq. Missionary linguistics revealed language to be socially and culturally contextual rather than universal, and signs to be material rather than metaphysical, thus forcing North American missionaries in dialogue with Enlightenment ideas about language.

LEAFHOPPER FAUNA OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND CAPE BRETON ISLANDS (RHYNCHOTA: HOMOPTERA: CICADELLIDAE)

1987 ◽  
Vol 119 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 663-695 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.G.A. Hamilton ◽  
D.W. Langor
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New World ◽  
New Records ◽  
Far East ◽  
Glacial Refugium ◽  
World Species ◽  
European Species ◽  
Far North ◽  
New Synonyms ◽  
Cape Breton

AbstractThe faunas of Newfoundland and Cape Breton include 217 leafhopper species, of which 24 are introduced and 65 are native, common to both islands. Newfoundland has 116 species, of which 86 are new provincial records and 2 are new nearctic records of introduced European species. Cape Breton has 172 species, of which 109 are new records for Nova Scotia. A species previously known as far north as Virginia was found in Cape Breton, 2 New England species were found as far north as Newfoundland, 2 high boreal species were found as far south as Cape Breton, and 42 species previously known from west of Maine were found as far east as Cape Breton. One new subspecies and 14 new species are described: Cosmotettix unica, Oncopsis minor terranovae and Typhlocyba (Edwardsiana) unicorn from Newfoundland, Colladonus balius, Cribrus micmac, and Typhlocyba (Zonocyba) hollandi from Cape Breton, Oncopsis speciosa from both islands, Erythroneura maritima and M. inundatus from the Gulf of St. Lawrence region, Limotettix (Ophiolix) schedia, Latalus (Jassargus) remotus and Macrosteles galeae from eastern bogs, and Empoasca volsella, E. zanclus and Kyboasca papyriferae from Cape Breton westward across Canada. Three new synonyms are created: Amphigonalia Young, 1977 = Neokolla Melichar, 1926, Scaphytopius sarissus Beirne, 1952 = S. cinnamoneus (Osborn, 1915), and Typhlocyba frigida Hamilton, 1983 = T. tersa Edwards, 1914. Three genera are reduced to subgenera: Jassargus Zachvatkin, 1953 in Latalus DeLong & Sleesman, 1929, Lemellus Oman, 1949 in Sorhoanus Ribaut, 1946, and Scleroracus Van Duzee, 1894 in Limotettix Sahlberg, 1871. New World species formerly placed in Agallia Curtis are transferred to Agalliota Oman. Oncopsis prairiana Hamilton, 1983 and its subspecies are made subspecies of O. minor (Fitch 1851). The composition of the faunas of the two islands is compared with those of adjacent areas of the mainland, and evidence is found for an offshore glacial refugium.

The earliest known compiled list of North American birds (1582)

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-269
Author(s):  
DAVID W. JOHNSTON
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
New World ◽  
Richard Hakluyt

ABSTRACT: Richard Hakluyt in 1582 published the names of certain commodities found in the New World from reports of French sixteenth-century explorers. The commodities included a compiled list of birds, the earliest known from North America.

Piracy in Colonial North America

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark G. Hanna
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
New England ◽  
North American ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
British North America ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
The North ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
British North American

Historians of colonial British North America have largely relegated piracy to the marginalia of the broad historical narrative from settlement to revolution. However, piracy and unregulated privateering played a pivotal role in the development of every English community along the eastern seaboard from the Carolinas to New England. Although many pirates originated in the British North American colonies and represented a diverse social spectrum, they were not supported and protected in these port communities by some underclass or proto-proletariat but by the highest echelons of colonial society, especially by colonial governors, merchants, and even ministers. Sea marauding in its multiple forms helped shape the economic, legal, political, religious, and cultural worlds of colonial America. The illicit market that brought longed-for bullion, slaves, and luxury goods integrated British North American communities with the Caribbean, West Africa, and the Pacific and Indian Oceans throughout the 17th century. Attempts to curb the support of sea marauding at the turn of the 18th century exposed sometimes violent divisions between local merchant interests and royal officials currying favor back in England, leading to debates over the protection of English liberties across the Atlantic. When the North American colonies finally closed their ports to English pirates during the years following the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), it sparked a brief yet dramatic turn of events where English marauders preyed upon the shipping belonging to their former “nests.” During the 18th century, colonial communities began to actively support a more regulated form of privateering against agreed upon enemies that would become a hallmark of patriot maritime warfare during the American Revolution.

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