scholarly journals Highly disjunct and highly infected millipedes – a new cave-dwelling species of Chiraziulus (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida: Cambalidae) from Iran and notes on Laboulbeniales ectoparasites

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Sofia P.S. Reboleira ◽  
Mohamad Javad Malek Hosseini ◽  
Saber Sadeghi ◽  
Henrik Enghoff
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Electron Micrographs ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Intraspecific Variability ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Scanning Electron Micrographs ◽  
Monotypic Genus ◽  
First Time ◽  
Scanning Electron

Chiraziulus is a highly disjunct, hitherto monotypic genus of cambalid millipedes, geographically isolated in Iran by more than 7000 km from its presumed closest relatives in East Asia and North America. Recent fieldwork in caves of Iran has provided several specimens of this genus, allowing the description of Chiraziulus troglopersicus sp. nov. The intraspecific variability of the type species, C. kaiseri Mauriès, 1983, is illustrated with scanning electron micrographs. Chiraziulus is characterized by exceedingly long microtrichose gonopod flagella which from their insertion points on the posterior face of the anterior gonopod coxites first point distad instead of basad or basad-posteriad as in most other flagelliferous Cambalidea (and Julida), then traverse a groove on the mesal surface of the anterior gonopod coxites, making a full (360°) loop. The same feature is also illustrated for the first time in the genus Cambala. The patterns and prevalence of the infection with a species of ectoparasitic fungus of the genus Rickia (order Laboulbeniales) in the type material of C. kaiseri is described. An updated review of the cave-adapted fauna of Iran is given.

NEW SPECIES OF CARDIASTETHUS FIEBER AND MELANOCORIS CHAMPION, AND NEW RECORDS OF EUROPEAN ACOMPOCORIS REUTER AND TEMNOSTETHUS FIEBER IN CANADA (HETEROPTERA: ANTHOCORIDAE)

1977 ◽  
Vol 109 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard A. Kelton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Electron Micrographs ◽  
New Records ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Scanning Electron Micrographs ◽  
First Time ◽  
Scanning Electron ◽  
Male Genital

AbstractCardiastethus borealis n. sp. is described from Canada, and Melanocoris longirostris n. sp. from Canada and western United States. Two species described from Europe, Acompocoris pygmaeus (Fallen) and Temnostethus gracilis Horvath, are recorded for the first time from North America. Adults and male genital claspers are illustrated and scanning electron micrographs of their osteolar canals are included.

Revision of the Afrotropical genus Tritonus Mulsant (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1855 (1) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREW EDWARD Z. SHORT
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Electron Micrographs ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
New Records ◽  
Scanning Electron Micrographs ◽  
Monotypic Genus ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
First Time ◽  
Scanning Electron

The previously monotypic genus Tritonus Mulsant is revised. Six new species are described from Madagascar, from which the genus is also recorded for the first time: T. complanatus sp.n., T. crenulatus sp.n., T. madagascarensis sp.n., T. riambavy sp.n., T. riana, sp.n., and T. steineri sp.n. New records for the previously described and Mauritian-endemic species Tritonus cribratus (Mulsant) are given. All known species occur in hygropetric habitats, consistent with the biology of other members of the Oocyclus-genus group of the tribe Laccobiini to which Tritonus belongs. A key to species, aedeagal illustrations, and scanning electron micrographs of diagnostic characters are provided.

Redescription and new records of the monotypic genus Trynocoris Herring, 1976 (Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae: Fulviini)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4623 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-60
Author(s):  
JACEK GORCZYCA ◽  
ANDRZEJ WOLSKI ◽  
ARTUR TASZAKOWSKI
Keyword(s):  
Electron Micrographs ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
New Records ◽  
Barro Colorado Island ◽  
Scanning Electron Micrographs ◽  
Monotypic Genus ◽  
Canal Zone ◽  
First Time ◽  
Scanning Electron

Trynocoris lawrencei Herring, the only representative of the genus Trynocoris and only known from Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone, Panama, is recorded for the first time from Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama: Chinqui and Ecuador. Redescription of the genus and species are given along with color photographs of the adults, scanning electron micrographs of selected structures of T. lawrencei. Illustrations of the tarsi and male genitalia are presented for the first time. 

A new genus and four new species of millipedes from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae), with notes on male leg setae in some Tasmanian dalodesmids

Zootaxa ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 558 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT MESIBOV
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Electron Micrographs ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Scanning Electron Micrographs ◽  
Scanning Electron

Bromodesmus catrionae n. gen., n. sp. (type species), B. militaris n. sp., B. riparius n. sp. and B. rufus n. sp. are described. The new genus is characterized by greatly reduced paranota and a gonopod telopodite expanded at the distal end into a posteriorly concave hood fringed with teeth; the hood partly protects a long, curved, acutely pointed solenomerite. Male leg setation in the type species of six Tasmanian dalodesmid genera is briefly discussed and illustrated with scanning electron micrographs. The sphaerotrichome shaft is sharply pointed in Atrophotergum; gently tapered in Dasystigma, Lissodesmus and Tasmanodesmus; expanded at the tip in Bromodesmus; and entirely absent in Gasterogramma. Tips of the setae forming the dense ventral brush on male podomeres are gently tapered in Dasystigma and Lissodesmus, truncated in Gasterogramma, expanded in Bromodesmus and forked in Tasmanodesmus.

Guilielmia Weise, a little known Afrotropical flea beetle genus: systematic affinities and description of a second new species from Central Africa (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4323 (4) ◽  
pp. 572 ◽  
Author(s):  
MAURIZIO BIONDI ◽  
PAOLA D’ALESSANDRO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Electron Micrographs ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Flea Beetle ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Scanning Electron Micrographs ◽  
Female Specimen ◽  
High Mountains ◽  
Morphological Adaptations ◽  
Scanning Electron

The genus Guilielmia Weise from the high mountains of Central Africa, known on a female specimen only, is redescribed based on new specimens of the type species, and the new species Guilielmia leleupi sp. nov. described here. Habitus photos, and microscope and scanning electron micrographs of diagnostic characters, including the aedeagus, are provided for both the species. Some considerations about taxonomic affinities and morphological adaptations to high altitudes are suggested. 

Two remarkable new Riccia (Marchantiales, Ricciaceae) records for the bryophyte flora of Cape Verde Islands, an important biogeographical refuge area

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-76
Author(s):  
CECILIA SERGIO ◽  
IRENEIA MELO
Keyword(s):  
Electron Micrographs ◽  
Habitat Preferences ◽  
Cape Verde ◽  
Scanning Electron Micrographs ◽  
Cape Verde Islands ◽  
Refuge Area ◽  
First Time ◽  
Scanning Electron

Recent progresses of knowledge on Riccia diversity in Cape Verde islands are briefly surveyed. The occurrence of two remarkable Riccia species in this archipelago is examined, and their overall distribution is presented.                Riccia atropurpurea Sim and R. congoana Steph. are noteworthy liverwort species, here reported for the first time for Cape Verde islands, from specimens collected in Fogo island. Main diagnosing characters and those of related taxa, habitat preferences, illustrations, scanning electron micrographs and updated ranges of the species are presented.

Valdensiniaheterodoxa (Sclerotiniaceae) in the United States

1994 ◽  
Vol 24 (9) ◽  
pp. 1981-1983 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorelei L. Norvell ◽  
Scott A. Redhead
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Electron Micrographs ◽  
Leaf Spot ◽  
The United States ◽  
Scanning Electron Micrographs ◽  
First Time ◽  
Scanning Electron

The leaf-spot pathogen Valdensiniaheterodoxa Peyronel is reported for the first time from the United States (Idaho, Washington, and Oregon), based on the recovery of the anamorph. Scanning electron micrographs illustrate anamorphic propagules collected from economically significant ericaceous hosts Gaultheriashallon Pursh, Vacciniumalaskaense Howell, and Vacciniummembranaceum Douglas.

A new record of the genus Calonema, with the new species Calonema gansuence from China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 212 (2) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Zhang Bo ◽  
YU LI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Electron Micrographs ◽  
New Record ◽  
Gansu Province ◽  
Scanning Electron Micrographs ◽  
Qilian Mountain ◽  
First Time ◽  
Scanning Electron

The genus Calonema is recorded from China for the first time as the new species Calonema gansuence, described on the basis of material collected from Qilian Mountain, Gansu Province, China. This new species is characterized by its brick brown sporocarps, relatively thick peridium and spores (about 9–12 μm in diam.) marked with rows of warts. A description, scanning electron micrographs and a key to all of the species in the genus Calonema are provided herein. Holotype specimens are deposited in the Herbarium of the Mycological Institute of Jilin Agricultural University (HMJAU), Changchun, China.

New position of an abdominal defensive gland complex in Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) with redescription of Piestus heterocephalus Fauvel, 1902 (Piestinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1895 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
EDILSON CARON ◽  
CIBELE S. RIBEIRO-COSTA ◽  
ALFRED F. NEWTON
Keyword(s):  
Electron Micrographs ◽  
Scanning Electron Micrographs ◽  
Preliminary Survey ◽  
Rove Beetle ◽  
First Time ◽  
Abdominal Defensive Gland ◽  
Scanning Electron

A Neotropical rove beetle, Piestus heterocephalus Fauvel, 1902 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Piestinae), is redescribed and illustrated. Its abdominal defensive gland complex is described using drawings, photos and scanning electron micrographs. This complex is reported for the first time in Piestinae and its distinctive position is unique in Staphylinidae. Our preliminary survey suggests that the presence of this gland complex is restricted to part or all of the genus Piestus Gravenhorst, 1806.

Revision of the American Pill Millipedes I: Onomeris and Trichomeris (Diplopoda, Glomerida, Glomeridae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2725 (1) ◽  
pp. 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
THOMAS WESENER
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
Electron Micrographs ◽  
Distribution Data ◽  
Scanning Electron Micrographs ◽  
Eastern United States ◽  
Mountainous Areas ◽  
Cumberland Plateau ◽  
First Time ◽  
Scanning Electron

The unique characters which distinguish Trichomeris Loomis, 1943 from Onomeris Cook, 1896 are based on erroneous drawings and not actual differences. Trichomeris is a junior synonym of Onomeris. All three species of Onomeris, O. sinuata (Loomis), 1943, O. underwoodi Cook, 1896 and O. australora Hoffman, 1950 are redescribed, based on their holotypes, as well as additional specimens. Scanning electron micrographs are presented for the first time for an American member of the order Glomerida. A key to the three species of Onomeris is provided. The available distribution data for Onomeris is still rudimentary, but the distribution areas of the three species are Cumberland Plateau from NW Alabama to Virginia for O. sinuata n. comb., lowland areas from Mississippi to Georgia for O. underwoodi, mountainous areas of Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina for O. australora. Additional Onomeris species can potentially be discovered in the eastern United States.

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