scholarly journals Nomenclature changes in the "Entolomatoid fungi of western North America and Alaska" (Largent 1994)

Mycotaxon ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 135 (4) ◽  
pp. 791-796
Author(s):  
David L. Largent
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Orthographic Errors

Nomenclatural omissions and orthographic errors in my 1994 monograph are corrected. The three genera Calliderma, Clitopiloides, and Fibropilus were validly published in 1994 as stat. nov. based on infrageneric names, and their extraterritorial basionym type species are proposed here as Ca. callidermum comb. nov., Cl. cyathus comb. nov., and F. fumosifolius comb. nov. Names originally proposed as provisional are validated as Leptonia cyanea comb. nov., L. cyanea var. occidentalis var. nov., and Inocephalus appressus sp. nov. Nolanea names that were illegitimate later homonyms are proposed as N. undatomarginata comb. nov. and N. papillatoides comb. nov., based on published replacement names. The published validation of the invalid 1994 name "Leptonia violacea" is indicated, and seven orthographic epithet corrections are listed

Two new genera of Nearctic Chamaemyiidae (Diptera: Lauxanioidea) associated with Cinara aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) on Pinus

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4852 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-82
Author(s):  
STEPHEN D. GAIMARI
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
Pinus Ponderosa ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Immature Stages ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Southwestern United States ◽  
The Third

Two new genera of Chamaemyiidae (Diptera: Lauxanioidea) are described and illustrated, including: Chamaethrix gen. nov. (type species Chamaethrix necopina sp. nov.), possibly a predator of Cinara ponderosae (Williams) on Pinus ponderosa in the southwestern United States; and Vitaleucopis gen. nov. (type species Vitaleucopis nidolkah sp. nov.; other included species Vitaleucopis astonea (McAlpine), comb. nov., and Vitaleucopis scopulus sp. nov.), predators of Cinara aphids and possibly adelgids on Pinaceae in western North America. Immature stages are discussed or described and illustrated for some taxa, including the eggs of Chamaethrix necopina and Vitaleucopis nidolkah; and the third instars and puparia of Vitaleucopis nidolkah. 

Baeomyia n.g. (Diptera: Tachinidae): descriptions and notes about phylogenetic and zoogeographic relationships

1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (7) ◽  
pp. 1387-1396
Author(s):  
James E. O'Hara
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
North America ◽  
Distribution Pattern ◽  
Type Species ◽  
American Southwest ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Phylogenetic Data ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
The Relationship

Baeomyia n.g. is described for a group of small (2–3 mm long) tachinids belonging to the Siphona group of the Siphonini. All known specimens were collected in western North America, with two species recorded from southern British Columbia (Baeomyia xanthogaster n. sp. and Baeomyia juniperi n. sp.) and three species recorded from desert localities in the American Southwest (type-species Baeomyia hurdi (Reinhard), Baeomyia antennata n. sp. and Baeomyia sonorensis n. sp.). Keys to adult males and females are provided for separation of species. Systematics of the Siphonini and Siphona group are reviewed, including a discussion of the synapomorphies upon which each is defined. Baeomyia species are inferred to form a monophyletic taxon within the Siphona group on the basis of five synapomorphies, though the relationship between the genus and other Siphona group taxa is unresolved. The apparent disjunction of Baeomyia species into northern and southern ranges may be the result of relatively recent speciation events, because differences among species are slight. A detailed zoogeographic analysis of the distribution pattern must await further phylogenetic data.

REDEFINITION OF THE GENUS STOMIS CLAIRVILLE (COLEOPTERA: CARABIDAE) WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SUBGENUS FROM WESTERN NORTH AMERICA

1983 ◽  
Vol 115 (12) ◽  
pp. 1597-1605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves Bousquet
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Palaearctic Species ◽  
Western North America ◽  
New Subgenus ◽  
Distinct Genus

AbstractThe genus Stomis Clairville is redefined. It includes two subgenera: Neostomis subg. nov. (type-species: Pterostichus termitiformis Van Dyke) with one Nearctic species and Stomis s. str. with 15 Palaearctic species. Eustomis Semenov, previously considered as a distinct genus, is synonymized with Stomis s. str. Description of the genus Stomis and of the two subgenera, as well as a diagnosis and comments on ranking and relationships of the genus, are provided.

scholarly journals Revision of the Empis (Enoplempis) mira species group (Diptera: Empididae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4927 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-57
Author(s):  
BRADLEY J. SINCLAIR ◽  
SCOTT E. BROOKS ◽  
JEFFREY M. CUMMING
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Body Colour ◽  
Yellow Body ◽  
Males And Females

The Empis (Enoplempis) mira species group is revised and includes the type species of Enoplempis and four new species (E. macdonaldi sp. nov., E. submira sp. nov., E. williamturneri sp. nov., E. winkleri sp. nov.). A lectotype is designated for Enoplempis mira Bigot. The species group is defined by the yellow body colour, directionally asymmetrical male hindlegs and geniculate hindlegs in both males and females. The group has not been found outside of western North America and is known from California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington. 

The milliped genus Tidesmus Chamberlin, 1943 (Polydesmida: Macrosternodesmidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1656 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM A. SHEAR ◽  
ROWLAND M. SHELLEY
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Baja California ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
The Family ◽  
Generic Distribution

The family Macrosternodesmidae is redefined and recorded from western North America. Four small-bodied species in Arizona and California, USA, and Baja California Norté, Mexico, are assigned to Tidesmus Chamberlin 1943; Phreatodesmus and Oodedesmus, both authored by Loomis, 1960, are placed in synonymy. Phreatodesmus torreyanus Loomis, 1960 and O. variabilis Loomis, 1960, are transferred into Tidesmus as valid species; P. cooki Loomis, 1960, is a synonym of T. episcopus Chamberlin, 1943, the type species, and P. dentatus Loomis, 1960, is a synonym of P. torreyanus. Brachydesmus hastingsus Chamberlin, 1941, also is referable to Tidesmus; a topotypical male is needed to establish its identity in the absence of authentic type specimens. Tidesmus hubbsi Chamberlin, 1943, based on unidentifiable females, is geographically segregated and incompatible with the otherwise coherent generic distribution. A topotypical male is also necessary to determine its identity; for now, we remove hubbsi from Tidesmus and leave it unassigned.

scholarly journals New records of Burgess Shale-type taxa from the middle Cambrian of Utah

2015 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Conway Morris ◽  
Paul A. Selden ◽  
Glade Gunther ◽  
Paul G. Jamison ◽  
Richard A. Robison
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Records ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Burgess Shale ◽  
Middle Cambrian ◽  
Stem Group ◽  
A New Species

AbstractCambrian strata of the Laurentian craton contain numerous examples of Burgess Shale–type faunas. Although displaying a more or less concentric distribution around the cratonal margin, most faunal occurrences are in present-day western North America, extending from the Northwest Territories to California. Nevertheless, the soft-bodied and lightly skeletalized fossils in most of these Lagerstätten are highly sporadic. Here, we extend knowledge of such Middle Cambrian occurrences in Utah with reports of four taxa. An arthropod from the Marjum Formation, Dytikosicula desmatae gen. et sp. nov., is a putative megacheiran. It is most similar to Dicranocaris guntherorum, best known from the younger Wheeler Formation, but differs primarily in the arrangement of pleurae and overall size. Along with a specimen of ?Yohoia sp, a new species of Yohoia, Y. utahana sp. nov., is described. It differs from the type and only known species, Y. tenuis, principally in its larger size and shorter exopods; it is the first description of this genus from outside the Burgess Shale. A new species of a stem-group lophotrochozoan from the Spence Shale, Wiwaxia herka sp. nov., possesses a palisade of dorso-lateral spines that are more robust and numerous than the type species of Wiwaxia, W. corrugata. Another notable taxon is Eldonia ludwigi from the Marjum Formation, which is interpreted as a primitive ambulacrarian (assigned to the cambroernids) and a new specimen of the ?cnidarian Cambrorhytium from the Wheeler Shale is illustrated.

REDEFINITION OF AMETROPROCTUS (ACARI: ORIBATIDA) WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES

1987 ◽  
Vol 119 (6) ◽  
pp. 505-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie M. Behan-Pelletier
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Oribatid Mite ◽  
Generic Diagnosis ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Respective Type ◽  
Mite Genus

AbstractThe oribatid mite genus Ametroproctus, soil and litter inhabitants in the desert, alpine, and montane regions of western North America, is discussed. Two subgenera are recognized, Ametroproctus s. str. and Coropoculia. Their respective type-species, A. oresbios Higgins and Woolley and C. reticulata Aoki and Fujikawa, are redescribed, and newly discovered immatures of both species are described. Four new species are proposed, A. (Ametroproctus) tuberculosus, A. (A.) aridus, A. (Coropoculia) beringianus, and A. (C.) canningsi. A new generic diagnosis is given, as well as a key to subgenera and species known from North America.

The shield-backed katydids of South America (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniinae) and a new tribe of Conocephalinae with genera in Chile and Australia

1985 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C.F. Rentz ◽  
Ashley B. Gurney
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Species Type ◽  
New Tribe

AbstractThe tcttigoniine katydids of South America are reviewed. All species occur in Chile and adjacent Argentina. Four tettigoniine genera are recognized from South America. Calodectes gen.n. with 1 species from Chile, crybeloplatus sp. n., is unrelated to any other. Xyrdectes gen. n. contains 2 species from Chile, type-species chileno sp. n. and fuscescens (Blanchard), comb. n. Falcidectes gen. n. is from Chile with 2 species, type-species divisus sp. n. and xyelus sp. n.; however, nymphs indicate more may exist. Platydecticus Chopard with 15 species, type-species angustifrons Chopard from Argentina and Chile, gubernaculus sp. n., hubbelli sp. n., mammantus sp. n., manacus sp. n., onax sp.n., philopenus sp. n., primnocaudus sp.n., sagariferus sp.n., pheroxiphus sp. n., robertsi sp. n., rupicolus sp. n., simplex sp. n., tumidiplatus sp. n., and darwini sp. n. all from Chile. The relationships of the genera are found to be with Australia and western North America (genus Neduba Walker). None of the genera shows links with Africa. A similar-looking genus and species from Chile, Coniungoptera gen. n. (type-species nothofagi sp.n.) associated with Nothofagus, is nearest related to Metholce Walker and Veria Walker of Australia, and a new tribe, Coniungopterini is proposed for these three genera of Conocephalinae.

Baiotomeus, a new ptilodontid multituberculate (Mammalia) from the middle Paleocene of western North America

1987 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 595-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Krause
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Land Mammal

Baiotomeus is a new genus of ptilodontid multituberculate from the late Torrejonian Land-Mammal Age (late middle Paleocene) of western North America. Baiotomeus douglassi (Simpson), the type species, has been assigned, at one time or another, to Ptilodus, Mimetodon, and Neoplagiaulax. In addition, a second, new species, B. lamberti, from three localities in the Medicine Rocks area of southeastern Montana is reported here. The Medicine Rocks localities are tentatively assigned a latest Torrejonian age, younger than localities yielding B. douglassi and younger than previously suggested on the basis of plesiadapid primates.Multituberculates appear to have attained their highest species richness during the Torrejonian Land-Mammal Age, but the discovery of B. lamberti illustrates that our knowledge of multituberculate diversity is incomplete from even that interval of time.

A REVISION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN OMALIINAE (COLEOPTERA: STAPHYLINIDAE): 2. THE TRIBE CORYPHIINI

1978 ◽  
Vol 110 (S106) ◽  
pp. 21-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.M. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Biological Information ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Mountainous Areas ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
The North

AbstractThe tribe Coryphiini Hatch is redefined to include six genera and 18 species from North America. Two new genera are described: Gnathoryphium (type-species G. mandibulare n. sp.) and Holoboreaphilus (type-species Boreaphilus nordenskioeldi Maklin). Seven new species are described: Coryphium nigrum from the northeastern United States and Subhaida californica, S. aptera, S. monticola, S. utahensis, S. sinuata, and Gnathoryphium mandibulare from western North America. The genus Occiephelinus Hatch from western North America and Planeboreaphilus Shibata from Japan are considered junior synonyms of Coryphium Stephens. The western North American species formerly placed in Ephelinus Cockerell are transferred to the genus Coryphium. Pseudohaida ingrata Hatch is transferred to the genus Subhaida Hatch. Boreaphilus americanus Notman is placed in synonymy with B. henningianus C.R. Sahlberg.All genera and species are described. Habitus drawings, and line drawings of the antenna, labrum, maxilla, mandible, mentum, and labium are presented for at least one species of each genus. The aedeagus is illustrated for all the species except two that are known only from females.Of the species treated, three are Holarctic in distribution, four are restricted to eastern North America, and 11 are endemic to the mountainous areas of western North America.All available biological information for each species is included and a key is presented to aid in the identification of all the genera and species of the tribe in North America.

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