scholarly journals Two new species of Erica (Ericaceae); one from Western Cape and one from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Bothalia ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. G. H. Oliver ◽  
I. M. Oliver
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Single Peak ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Single Population ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Two New Species

Two new species of Erica L. from South Africa are described. E. jananthus E.G.H.Oliv. I.M .Oliv. is confined to a single peak in the eastern Groot Swartberg Range in Western Cape and usually forms a small, gnarled, woody, shrublet growing in rock crevices with sticky white flowers and black subexserted anthers that have obtrullate decurrent appendages.E. psittacina E.G.H.Oliv. I.M.Oliv. is from KwaZulu-Natal. It forms large woodv shrubs with numerous bright pinkflowers and occurs as a single population on a mountain near Creighton. Both descriptions are accompanied by line drawings and distribution maps

Two new species of Gladiolus (Iridaceae: Ixioideae) from South Africa and notes on long-proboscid fly pollination in the genus

Bothalia ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Manning ◽  
P. Goldblatt ◽  
P. J. D. Winter
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Flower Colour ◽  
Northern Province ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Single Population ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Fly Pollination ◽  
Flower Form ◽  
A New Species

Gladiolus rhodanthus is a new species known from a single population on the summit of the Stettynsberg near Villiersdorp in Western Cape. South Africa The species most closely resembles G. hirsutus and G caryophyllaceus but differs from both in flower shape and markings and in its ecology and reproductive biology. It forms part of a guild of long- tubed, pink-flowered species including  Erica praecox, Pelargonium radiatum and  Watsonia paucifolia which are pollinated by an undescribed long-proboscid fly. Moegistorhynchus sp nov. (Diptera : Nemestrinidae). Gladiolus sekukuniensis is a new species known from three populations south of the Strydpoortberge in Northern Province It closely resembles G. permeahilis subsp  edulis in vegetative features and in flower form, but differs from it in flower colour and in the elongate peri­anth tube. These floral features are apparently adaptations to pollination by long-proboscid flies.

New species and new collection records of aquatic beetles in the genus Ochthebius Leach from southern Africa (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3093 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
PHILIP D. PERKINS
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Western Cape Province ◽  
African Species ◽  
North West ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
Water Beetle ◽  
Kwazulu Natal

The southern African species of the water beetle genus Ochthebius Leach, 1815, are reviewed. Eight new species are described, and new collection records are given for eight previously described species, based on the examination and databasing of 8,919 specimens from 253 localities/events. Male genitalia of the new species are illustrated, and high resolution habitus images of the holotypes of new species are provided. Distribution maps are given for the 18 species of Ochthebius now known from southern Africa, including Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, the extreme southern part of Angola, and the southern part of Mozambique. New species of Ochthebius are: O. anchorus (South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal Province, Oribi Gorge); O. bicomicus (South Africa, Western Cape Province, 22 mi. N. Nelspoort); O. bupunctus (Namibia, Kaokoveld, Kunene River, Swartbooisdrift); O. endroedyi (South Africa, North West Province, Barberspan); O. granulinus (South Africa, Western Cape Province, Elandsdrift); O. involatus (South Africa, Western Cape Province, near Kommetje); O. sitiensis (Namibia, Okau Fountain, 12.5 km inland); and O. zulu (South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal Province, Nqutu).

Two novel species of Sisyranthus (Apocynaceae—Ceropegieae) from South Africa

Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 438 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-14
Author(s):  
KHANYISILE SHABANGU ◽  
STOFFEL P. BESTER ◽  
MICHELLE VAN DER BANK
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Novel Species ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
In The Wild

Sisyranthus species are cryptic in both their habit and small size of their flowers making them difficult to find in the wild. The genus was last revised in Flora Capensis (1908) and since then, two new species have been described. Currently it comprises 13 recognised species endemic to southern Africa. Many of these are range-restricted and poorly known. In this contribution the genus is further expanded by describing two novel species. Full descriptions, assessment of conservation status, distribution maps and line drawings of the new taxa are presented.

ERICACEAE

Bothalia ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. G. H. Oliver ◽  
I. M. Oliver
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Two New Species

TWO NEW SPECIES OF ERICA FROM WESTERN CAPE. SOUTH AFRICA

Two new species, two rediscoveries and a range extension in Lachenalia (Asparagaceae: Scilloideae) from southern and western South Africa

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 316 (3) ◽  
pp. 261 ◽  
Author(s):  
GRAHAM DUNCAN
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Range Extension ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Northern Cape

Two recently discovered species of Lachenalia from South Africa, Lachenalia barbarae from the Overberg district of the Western Cape and Lachenalia adamii from the Bokkeveld escarpment of the Northern Cape, are described. In addition, details of the rediscovery of two species previously thought to be possibly extinct in the wild, Lachenalia martleyi from the Overberg district in the Western Cape and Lachenalia macgregoriorum from the Bokkeveld plateau in the Northern Cape, are provided, as well as a range extension for the critically endangered Lachenalia moniliformis from the Breede River Valley in the Western Cape.

scholarly journals Two new species of Erica (Ericaceae) from the Langeberg, Western Cape, South Africa

Bothalia ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. C. Turner ◽  
E. G. H. Oliver
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Mountain Slope ◽  
The North ◽  
Two New Species

Two new species of the genus Erica L. from the north-facing slopes of the Langeberg are described— E turneri,  known only from the type locality on Zuurbraak Mountain and E. euryphylla,  occurring on the same mountain slope, as well as on the middle north-facing slopes   of Hermitage Peak near Misty Point in the Marloth Nature Reserve above Swellendam.

New species and new collection records of Prosthetopine water beetles from southern Africa (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1864 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
PHILIP D. PERKINS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
River System ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Eastern Cape Province ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Western Cape Province ◽  
Water Beetles ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Northern Cape

New species of Hydraenidae are described in the genera Prosthetops Waterhouse (1), Pterosthetops Perkins (1), Parasthetops Perkins & Balfour-Browne (13), and Mesoceration Janssens (24). New collecting locality data are given for the following species described by Perkins & Balfour-Browne (1994): Parasthetops aeneus, P. nigritus, P. spinipes, P. curidius, Mesoceration distinctum, M. rivulare, M. jucundum, M. splendorum, M. rubidum, M. fusciceps, M. languidum, M. dissonum, M. rufescens, and M. brevigranum. High resolution digital images of the holotypes of new species are presented (online version in color), and male genitalia are illustrated. Distribution maps are provided for all prosthetopine species in the genera Prosthetops, Pterosthetops, Parasthetops, and Mesoceration. The following 39 new species are described (type locality in South Africa unless otherwise given): Prosthetops gladiator (Eastern Cape Province, summit of Prentjiesberg); Pterosthetops hawequas (Western Cape Province, Hawaquas radio tower); Parasthetops benefossus(Western Cape Province, Wiedouw farm), P. buunicornus (Lesotho: Drakensberg, Sani Pass Valley), P. confluentus (Eastern Cape Province, Little Karroo, Baviaanskloof N valley), P. lemniscus (Lesotho: Drakensberg, Sani Pass Valley), P. namibiensis (Namibia: Windhoek, Eros Mt.), P. pampinus (Western Cape Province, Dorps River into Prins Albert, Swartbergpas), P. parallelus (Northern Cape Province, Richtersveld, Oemsberg), P. propitius (Lesotho: Drakensberg, Sani Pass Valley), P. retinaculus (Eastern Cape Province, Sundays River system, Letskraal), P. sebastiani (Lesotho: Drakensberg, Sani Pass Valley), P. semiplanus (Eastern Cape Province, Sundays River system, Letskraal), P. striatus (Northern Cape Province, Namaqualand, Kamieskroon), P. unicornus (Eastern Cape Province, Naudes Nek, 12 miles ENE Rhodes); Mesoceration barriotum (Western Cape Province, Cape-Swartberg, Seweweekspoort Kloof), M. bicurvum (Eastern Cape Province, Wildebees River), M. bispinum (KwaZulu-Natal Province, Weza, Impetyene Forest), M. compressum (Eastern Cape Province, S. coast, Dwesa forest reserve), M. concavum (Mpumalanga Province, Blyderiver Canyon), M. curvosum (KwaZulu-Natal Province, Umtamvuna River), M. disjunctum (Eastern Cape Province, Nature's Valley Reserve), M. drakensbergensis (Lesotho, Drakensberg, Sani Pass Valley), M. durabilis (Western Cape Province, 2 miles SW of Citrusdal), M. granulovestum (Western Cape Province, Cederberg, Eikenboom), M. incarinum (Lesotho, Drakensberg, Sani Pass Valley), M. integer (KwaZulu-Natal Province, Busheladi Stream on Lundy's Hill near Deepdale), M. littlekarroo (Western Cape Province, Little Karroo, Rus-en-vredewaterf), M. longipennis (Western Cape Province, W. Wiedouw farm), M. maluti (Lesotho, Drakensberg, Sani Pass Valley), M. natalensis (KwaZulu-Natal Province, Umkomaas River, where crossed by Himeville to Impendhle road), M. periscopum (Western Cape Province, Cederberg, Eikenboom), M. piceum (Western Cape Province, Cederberg, Eikenboom), M. rapidensis (Western Cape Province, S. W. Cape Mts., Hawequas SE), M. repandum (Western Cape Province, Cederberg, Eikenboom), M. reticulatum (Western Cape Province, Nuweberg Forest Station), M. semicarinulum (Western Cape Province, Groot Toren farm), M. tabulare (Western Cape Province, Platteklip Gorge, north face of Table Mountain), M. umbrosum (Western Cape Province, Wiedouw farm).

Two new species of Spiloxene (Hypoxidaceae) from the northwestern Cape, South Africa

Bothalia ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Snijman
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Western Cape Province ◽  
Green Leaves ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Northern Cape ◽  
Pale Green

Newly described are two new species of Spiloxene Salisb.:  S. nana Snijman from the Bokkeveld Escarpment, Northern Cape Province, is a shade-loving plant with narrow, pale green leaves and small, white or rarely cream-coloured flowers; S. pusilla Snijman from the Matsikamma, Gifberg and Pakhuis Mountains. Western Cape Province, resembles S. nana in habit but the yellow- or white-tepalled flowers which are tetramerous or hexamerous have darkly coloured stamens and style and an ovary with a short, solid, narrow prolongation at the apex. Inhabiting rock overhangs formed by quartzitic sandstone sheets, both species are close allies of S. scullyi (Baker) Garside from Namaqualand.

New phytoptids (Eriophyoidea, Phytoptidae) from southern African endemic dicotyledons: description of two new species of Solenocristus n. g. and updated key to world genera of the tribe Sierraphytoptini

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 1290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp Chetverikov ◽  
Charnie Craemer ◽  
Stefan Neser ◽  
Sarah Zukoff
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
New Species ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
The World ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Temperature Scanning ◽  
Scanning Electron ◽  
Conventional Light Microscopy

A new phytoptid genus and two new species, Solenocristus karooensis n. g. & n. sp. and S. searsius n. sp. (Phytoptidae, Sierraphytoptinae, Sierraphytoptini), were collected in the Eastern and Western Cape provinces of South Africa, from southern African endemic dicotyledonous trees Schotia afra (Fabaceae) and Searsia lucida (Anacardiaceae) respectively. They are described and illustrated with the aid of conventional light microscopy and low temperature scanning electron microscopy. Females of both new species possess a distinct pregenital plate divided into two parts by a subcuticular medial ridge. Additionally, in S. karooensis n. sp. the movable digit of the male chelicerae varies in length: among six observed males, three males had a movable digit (md) twice shorter than the fixed digit (fd), in one male it was slightly shorter than fd and in the remaining two males md and fd were of the same length. An updated key to the world genera of the tribe Sierraphytoptini is given. The key incorporates data on seven sierraphytoptine genera including three genera (Neoprothrix Reis & Navia, Solenoplatilobus Chetverikov & Craemer and Solenocristus n. g.) which were described since the last generic key of Eriophyoidea by Amrine et al. (2003) was published.

New data on oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) of South Africa, with description of two new species of the family Oppiidae

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey G. Ermilov ◽  
Elizabeth Hugo-Coetzee
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Body Size ◽  
Oribatid Mite ◽  
Oribatid Mites ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Interlamellar Region ◽  
First Time

The present study is based on oribatid mite material (Acari, Oribatida) collected from soil of Kaaimansgat estuary, Wilderness, Western Cape, South Africa in 2018. A list of identified taxa, including 41 species from 34 genera and 23 families, is presented; of these, nine species, three genera and one family are recorded in South Africa for the first time. Two new species belonging to the family Oppiidae are described: Kokoppia kaaimansensis sp. nov. differs from Kokoppia dudichi (Balogh, 1982) by the larger body size, the medium sized lamellar and interlamellar setae, the presence of muscle sigillae in the interlamellar region and the distinctly semi-oval epimeral borders IV and the absence of notogastral setae c; Paroppia neethlingi sp. nov. differs from other species of the genus by the localization of adanal lyrifissures in a direct apoanal position and the absence of epimeral borders IV. Revised generic diagnoses and identification keys to the known species of Kokoppia and Paroppia are presented.

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