Annotated catalogue of the bees described by Léon Provancher (Hymenoptera: Apoidea)

2014 ◽  
Vol 146 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cory S. Sheffield ◽  
Jean-Marie Perron
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Annotated Catalogue

AbstractThe bee species described and identified by Léon Provancher are reviewed. From 1882–1896, Provancher published accounts of 179 bee species from North America, which represent 145 currently recognised species. He proposed 67 new names, 21 of which are here considered valid; five species epithets proposed by Provancher were junior homonyms.The following are considered new junior synonyms of Provancher species:Andrena macrocephalaCockerell underAndrena nigripesProvancher;Pseudopanurgus nebrascensis(Crawford) underPseudopanurgus aestivalis(Provancher);Lasioglossum timberlakeiMcGinley underLasioglossum californicum(Provancher);Osmia kenoyeriCockerell underOsmia tarsataProvancher. Additional new synonymies made here include:Halictus distinguendusDalla Torre underLasioglossum coriaceum(Smith);Osmia parvaProvancher underOsmia atriventrisCresson;Stelis plena(Provancher) underStelis lateralisCresson;Coelioxys tristisProvancher underCoelioxys sodalisCresson;Diadasia tricinctaProvancher underEucera actuosa(Cresson).Lectotypes for 60 of Provancher's bee species are here designated, but type material for eight other species were not found. The taxonomic placement ofCalliopsis quadrilineataProvancher,Calliopsis interruptaProvancher,Hoplitis alboscopata(Provancher),Hoplitis imperfecta(Provancher), andDiadasia albovestitaProvancher within the bee fauna of North America remain unclear, and are here declarednomina oblita.

Identity of the oribatid mite Oribata curva and transfer to Trichogalumna (Acari, Oribatida, Galumnidae), with discussion of nomenclatural and biogeographical issues in the ‘curva’ species-group

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4272 (4) ◽  
pp. 551
Author(s):  
ROY A. NORTON ◽  
SERGEY G. ERMILOV
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Oribatid Mite ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
History Of ◽  
Molecular Assessment

Based on the study of type material, other historical specimens, and new collections, the adult of the thelytokous oribatid mite Oribata curva Ewing, 1907 (Galumnidae) is redescribed and the name is recombined to Trichogalumna curva (Ewing, 1907) comb. nov. A confusing history of synonymies and misidentifications is traced in detail, and their effect on published statements about biogeography is assessed. Reliable records of T. curva are only those from North America. The tropical mite Pergalumna ventralis (Willmann, 1932) is not a subspecies of T. curva. The widely-reported Trichogalumna nipponica (Aoki, 1966) and other similar species form a complex with T. curva that needs further morphological and molecular assessment. 

THE AUTOECIOUS SPECIES OF PUCCINIA ON HELIANTHEAE IN NORTH AMERICA

1967 ◽  
Vol 45 (12) ◽  
pp. 2267-2327 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Parmelee
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
North America ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Material Distribution ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
New Varieties

Sixty-two taxa are recognized in this study of the species of Puccinia completing their life cycle on Heliantheae. Six new species are described: Puccinia guatemalensis Parmelee on Zexmenia spp. and Wedelia spp., P. ghiesbreghtii Parmelee on Wedelia ghiesbreghtii, P. abramsii Parmelee on Geraea viscida (= Encelia viscida), P. chloracae Parmelee on Viguiera spp., P. calanticariae Parmelee on Viguiera spp., and P. praetermissa Parmelee on Lagascea spp. Six new varieties are recognized: Puccinia electrae var. robusta Parmelee and P. electrae var. depressiporosa Parmelee on Zexmenia brevifolia, P. caleae var. cuernavacae Parmelee on Calea spp., P. cognata var. echinulata Parmelee on Verbesina spp., P. cognata var. fraseri Parmelee on Viguiera fraseri, and P. affinis var. triporosa Parmelee on Viguiera spp. Three taxa have been restored from synonomy under P. abrupta, viz. P. subglobosa, P. ximenesiae, and P. affinis, the last two parasitic on Verbesina spp., the first on Rhysolepis (= Viguiera). P. tithoniae, P. nanomitra, and P. ordinata, are reduced to synonomy with P. enceliae var. enceliae, P. iostephanes, and P. melampodii respectively. New combinations include: P. enceliae var. aemulans (Syd.) Parmelee and P. abrupta var. partheniicola (Jacks.) Parmelee. A key based on uredinial and telial characters, others based initially on the hosts, and a host index are provided. Each taxon is illustrated by a photomicrograph from type material. Distribution and host extensions, supplementary to those given in Arthur's Manual of the Rusts, are indicated.

NEW NEARCTIC CRANE-FLIES (TIPULIDAE, DIPTERA), PART XIX

1943 ◽  
Vol 75 (8) ◽  
pp. 139-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles P. Alexander
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
North America ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Crane Flies ◽  
The Individual

The crane-flies considered herewith are all from Western North America, from British Columbia to California. The names of the collectors and the location of the type material are indicated at the end of the individual specific accounts; where not stated to the contrary, such types are preserved in my own collection of these flies.

AN APPARENTLY NEW EUPITHECIA FROM EASTERN NORTH AMERICA (GEOMETRIDAE: LEPID.)

1938 ◽  
Vol 70 (8) ◽  
pp. 171-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. McDunnough
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Present Species ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Eastern Species

In the course of my studies in this interesting genus I have gradually accumulated a few specimens of a species which on genitalic characters (both ♂ and ♀ ) is abundantly distinct from any of our other eastern species. As these genitalic characters of practically all the described species are known to me, due to a study of type material, I believe the present species to be undescribed and offer the following description.

Tentaculites (Tentaculitoidea) from the Manlius Limestone (Lower Devonian) at Schoharie, New York

1997 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 360-368
Author(s):  
Richard H. Lindemann ◽  
David A. Melycher
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Lower Devonian ◽  
Intraspecific Variability ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Type Material ◽  
The Town

Echinus gyracanthus Eaton, 1832, was the first tentaculitid reported from North America, but the original description and illustration are vague by present-day standards. Study of the type material and topotypes from the Lower Devonian Manlius Limestone in the Town of Schoharie, New York, suggests that Tentaculites gyracanthus (Eaton) is a discrete species, but one with pronounced and remarkable intraspecific variability. Tentaculites simmondsi new species also occurs in the same unit and locality.

Taxonomy and correlation of Lower Triassic (Spathian) segminate conodonts from Oman and revision of some species ofNeospathodus

1995 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Orchard
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Lower Triassic ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Key Species ◽  
One New Species ◽  
Distinct Taxon

Exceptionally well preserved Lower Triassic conodonts from Oman include an array ofNeospathodusspecies, many of which are new. Those from the upper Lower Triassic, or Spathian, are described in conjunction with a restudy of conodont type material from Chios, Greece, and an assessment of contemporary collections from Pakistan and western North America. The taxonomic scope of three key species from Chios,Neospathodus homeri, N. triangularis, andN. gondolelloides, is revised. Seven new species are described from Oman:N. abruptus, N. brevissimus, N. brochus, N. crassatus, N. curtatus, N. pusillus, andN. symmetricus;and one new species,N. clinatus, is described from Pakistan. The alliedIcriospathodus collinsoniis also described from Oman. The occurrence and range ofNeospathodusspecies are presented in the context of the ammonoid succession in the Spathian of North America. BothN. homeriandN. triangularis, as revised, have shorter ranges and are more age diagnostic than previously thought.Neospathodus gondolelloidesis a distinct taxon, and not synonymous withChiosella timorensis.Five informal faunal divisions are identified based onNeospathodusand allied species. In ascending stratigraphic order, these are typified byIcriospathodus collinsoni, Neospathodus homeri, N. triangularis, N. symmetricus, andN. gondolelloides.Oman collections represent three of these faunas, which occur also in theColumbitesthroughProhungarites/Subcolumbitesammonoid beds of western U.S.A.

Pleistocene turtles of Port Kennedy Cave (late Irvingtonian), Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

1995 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 563-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Parris ◽  
Edward Daeschler
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
North America ◽  
Common Species ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Montgomery County ◽  
Delaware Valley ◽  
Emydoidea Blandingii ◽  
Terrapene Carolina

The Late Irvingtonian fauna of Port Kennedy Cave, Pennsylvania, includes four species of turtles. Terrapene carolina is the most common species; Clemmys insculpta is present. A nearly complete plastron of Emydoidea blandingii from Port Kennedy and two specimens from New Jersey sites indicate that the species ranged through the Delaware Valley region during much of the Quaternary. The type material of Clemmys percrassa Cope is reidentified as Geochelone (Hesperotestudo) percrassa Cope, and becomes one of the more northeasterly records of the genus in North America.

The mid-Cambrian (Series 3, Guzhangian; Marjuman) trilobite Deiracephalus Resser, 1935, from western Newfoundland

2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (7) ◽  
pp. 682-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen R. Westrop ◽  
Alyce A. Dengler
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Southern Appalachians ◽  
Rare Elements ◽  
Biostratigraphic Correlation ◽  
New Material ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Shallow Bay

Species of Deiracephalus Resser, 1935, are rare elements in most Guzhangian (upper Marjuman) trilobite faunas of Laurentian North America, and are characterized by striking cephalic spinosity that includes very long genal and occipital or preoccipital glabellar spines. Almost all previous reports of the genus have assigned sclerites to two species, Deiracephalus aster (Walcott, 1916) and Deiracephalus unicornis Palmer, 1962. However, new material from the Shallow Bay Formation of western Newfoundland and restudy of type material from the southern Appalachians show that as many as eight species are present, although not all of them are sufficiently well known to be formally named. Deiracephalus aster and D. unicornis are restricted to their respective holotypes from the Conasauga Formation of Alabama; new species from the Shallow Bay Formation are Deiracephalus narwhali, Deiracephalus rhinocerotis, Deiracephalus dynastoides, and Deiracephalus phanaeus. Deiracephalus unicornis, D. narwhali, D. rhinocerotis, and a poorly known species from Nevada all possess preoccipital glabellar spines, and form an informal “unicornis group” of species. This group occurs high in the traditional Crepicephalus Zone (latest Guzhangian) and offers a potentially important means of biostratigraphic correlation. Species with occipital spines are older than the unicornis group and extend down into the Cedaria Zone as used traditionally in North America.

EARLIEST PETROXESTES BORINGS FROM SANDBIAN (EARLIEST LATE ORDOVICIAN) BRYOZOANS OF NORTHERN ESTONIA

Palaios ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (10) ◽  
pp. 453-457
Author(s):  
OLEV VINN ◽  
MARK A. WILSON ◽  
URSULA TOOM
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Late Ordovician ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Hard Substrates

ABSTRACT The earliest Petroxestes borings were excavated in large trepostome bryozoans in the Sandbian (earliest Late Ordovician) of Estonia. The Estonian specimens are morphologically similar to the type material from the later Katian of North America. Petroxestes pera is rare in the Sandbian of Estonia and occurs only in biogenic hard substrates. Petroxestes borings occur in muddy environments that were preferred by macroborers in the Hirnantian and early Silurian of North America. It is possible that muddy environments supported higher bioerosion intensities and higher diversity of bioerosional traces in the shallow epicontinental seas of the Late Ordovician. The discovery of Petroxestes in the Sandbian of Estonia supports the idea that there was an earliest Late Ordovician peak in the diversification of borings in Baltica. It is possible that there was a migration of bioerosional trace makers from Baltica to Laurentia in the Late Ordovician.

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