scholarly journals Contribution to the Willowsia species having body scales of the long basal rib type: four new species and a redescription of W. qui (Collembola: Entomobryidae)

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhixiang Pan ◽  
Feng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Genetic Distances ◽  
Colour Pattern ◽  
Dna Barcodes ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Fresh Material ◽  
Pointed Body

Four new species of the genus Willowsia Shoebotham, 1917 are described from China: W. fascia Zhang & Pan sp. nov., W. pseudoplatani Zhang & Pan sp. nov., W. pseudobuskii sp. nov., and W. similis sp. nov. Willowsia qui Zhang, Chen & Deharveng, 2011 is re-described based on types and fresh material. All five species possess the pointed body scales with basal ribs longer than distal ones. These scales are absent on antennae, legs, ventral tube and furca. Colour pattern and dorsal chaetotaxy are the main diagnostic characters for these species. DNA barcodes of four species are also provided, with genetic distances compared. A key to the Willowsia species having scales of the long basal rib type is given.

Description of new apterous winter species of Leuctra (Plecoptera: Leuctridae) based morphology and DNA barcoding and further records to stonefly fauna of the Caucasus, Georgia 

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4585 (3) ◽  
pp. 547
Author(s):  
VALENTINA A. TESLENKO ◽  
DMITRY M. PALATOV ◽  
ALEXANDER A. SEMENCHENKO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Barcoding ◽  
Interspecific Variation ◽  
Genetic Distances ◽  
Dna Barcodes ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Lesser Caucasus ◽  
First Time

Leuctra adjariae sp. n. and Leuctra georgiae sp. n. (Plecoptera: Leuctridae) are described as two new apterous stonefly species from the Meskheti Range (Lesser Caucasus) in southwestern Georgia. Descriptions and illustrations are provided for both sexes and diagnostic characters are discussed. Males and females of the two species are associated by DNA barcodes. Comparisons with corresponding regions of COI between L. adjariae sp. n. and L. georgiae sp. n. produced K2P genetic distances of 8.38%, values well associated with interspecific variation. The well-supported monophyly as well as results of an ABGD analysis confirms the validity of both new species. Capnioneura gouanerae Vinçon & Sivec, 2011, previously described and known only from Turkey, is reported for the first time for the Caucasus. 

scholarly journals Hydraena (s.str.) dinarica, new species (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) along with further records of Hydraena spp. from Durmitor National Park, Montenegro and comments on the DNA barcoding problem with the genus

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik Freitag ◽  
Rick de Vries ◽  
Marta Paterno ◽  
Simone Maestri ◽  
Massimo Delledonne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
New Records ◽  
Sequence Divergence ◽  
Genetic Distances ◽  
Dna Barcodes ◽  
Water Beetles ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
Zero Sequence ◽  
Morphological Species

Long-palped Water Beetles were collected during a taxon expedition in Montenegro which involved citizen scientists, students and taxonomists. The material was collected from springs, brooks, fens and the Tara River, at altitudes between 600 m and 1450 m above sea level, using fine-meshed hand-nets and by manual checking of submerged substrates. The morphological species delimitation was supplemented and congruent with mtDNA sequences mainly obtained in the field using the newly-developed MinION-based ONTrack pipeline. The new species Hydraena dinarica Freitag & de Vries, sp. n. from Durmitor Mt. is described, illustrated and compared in detail to closely-related congeners of the H. saga d'Orchymont, 1930/H. emarginata Rey, 1885 species complex. Five additional species and female specimens of two unidentified morphospecies of the genus were also recorded in the vicinity of Durmitor National Park. New records and the first DNA barcodes for Hydraena biltoni Jäch & Díaz, 2012 (endemic to Montenegro) and H. morio Kiesenwetter, 1849 are provided. Further records of H. nigrita Germar, 1824, H. minutissima Stephens, 1829, H. subintegra Ganglbauer, 1901 and females of two unidentified morphospecies are commented upon. The resulting inter- and intraspecific genetic distances and some observations of low or zero sequence divergence between recently-diverged species of Hydraena Kugelann, 1794 are briefly discussed.

scholarly journals Three new species of Willowsia (Collembola: Entomobryidae) from Guizhou Province, China

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Chang ◽  
Yitong Ma
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
The Body ◽  
Guizhou Province ◽  
Colour Pattern ◽  
Body Colour ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Three New Species

Three new species of Willowsia collected from Guizhou Province, China are described here: W. sexachaeta sp. nov., W. christianseni sp. nov., and W. tanae sp. nov. They have spinulate scales on the body. Colour pattern and dorsal chaetotaxy are the main diagnostic characters for these species. A table summarizing the main differences between all Chinese Willowsia species is given.

Thor dicaprio sp. nov., a new, conspicuously coloured shrimp from the tropical western Atlantic, with taxonomic remarks on the T. amboinensis (De Man, 1888) complex (Decapoda: Caridea: Thoridae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5039 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-517
Author(s):  
ARTHUR ANKER ◽  
J. ANTONIO BAEZA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Single Species ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Genetic Distances ◽  
Colour Pattern ◽  
Diagnostic Feature ◽  
Subtle Difference ◽  
Western Atlantic ◽  
Worldwide Distribution ◽  
De Man

Thor amboinensis (De Man, 1888), known as “sexy shrimp” or “anemone squat shrimp” and popular among divers and aquarists, was previously believed to have a worldwide distribution, with populations throughout the tropical parts of the Indo-Pacific and Atlantic Ocean. However, consistent differences in some details of the colour pattern strongly suggest that T. amboinensis does not represent a single species, but a pantropical species complex. A recent phylogeographic analysis of T. amboinensis based on molecular data confirmed that this taxon is composed of at least five putative cryptic or pseudocryptic species. In the present study, a new cryptic species, Thor dicaprio sp. nov., is established for the western Atlantic populations previously referred to as T. amboinensis. The new species can be distinguished from all other members of the T. amboinensis complex by two differences in the colour pattern and a subtle difference in the size and setation of the appendix masculina, the latter yet to be confirmed. The conspicuous red-white banding of the antennal flagella appears to be the most diagnostic feature of the new species. In addition, T. dicaprio sp. nov. forms a genetically distinctive, homogeneous, tropical western Atlantic (TWA) clade, with the COI pairwise genetic distances from other clades ranging from 8.8% to 19.2%. The distribution of T. dicaprio sp. nov. includes the entire Caribbean Sea, parts of the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, Bahamas, Bermuda, as well as some offshore localities off northern and eastern Brazil. The main aspects and biology and ecological variability of T. dicaprio sp. nov. are discussed in the light of phylogeographic data presently available for the T. amboinensis complex.  

A new beautiful squeaker frog (Arthroleptidae: Arthroleptis) from West Africa

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3011 (1) ◽  
pp. 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARK-OLIVER RÖDEL ◽  
N’GORAN GERMAIN KOUAMÉ ◽  
JOSEPH DOUMBIA ◽  
LAURA SANDBERGER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
16S Rrna ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Ventral Side ◽  
Genetic Distances ◽  
Colour Pattern ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
White Spots ◽  
Mitochondrial 16S Rrna Gene

A new small Arthroleptis from western Guinea, West Africa, is described. The new species differs from all known congeners by the combination of small size and a peculiar red dorsal colour with irregular large black and small white, yellow or blue spots. The ventral side is almost uniform greyish black with a few, small white spots. Males lack hypertrophied third fingers, digital and inguinal spines. Fingers and toe tips are slightly enlarged. The new species differs in its colour pattern, smaller size, broader toe and finger tips, the lack of hypertrophied third fingers and digital spines in males, and a mean of 4.7% in the investigated part of the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene to A. aureoli, which is morphologically and genetically the most similar species. Genetic comparisons of the new species with other available Arthroleptis sequences from species found across Africa revealed genetic distances of 16.0–23.4%.

Two new species of Ecpatia Turner, 1902, and the first records of Ecpatia sciachroa Hampson, 1926 and Ecpatia obscura Holloway, 2009 from Thailand (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Noctuinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4609 (3) ◽  
pp. 574 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARKKU J. PELLINEN ◽  
MARKO MUTANEN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Genetic Distances ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Dna Barcodes ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Noctuid Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
Lepidoptera Noctuidae

Two new noctuid species, Ecpatia grisescens sp. n., E. spiculivalva sp. n. are described from Thailand based on a combination of morphological characters and DNA barcodes. Morphological structures and genetic distances are compared to those of related species. Ecpatia sciachroa Hampson, 1926 and Ecpatia obscura Holloway, 2009 are reporded from Thailand for the first time, and a checklist of 17 valid species of Ecpatia is provided. 

A review of Pseudachorutes Tullberg, 1871 (Collembola, Neanuridae) from the East Asia, with description of six new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4938 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-391
Author(s):  
ANATOLY BABENKO ◽  
NATALIA KUZNETSOVA ◽  
TAIZO NAKAMORI ◽  
YULIA SHVEENKOVA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Forest Ecosystems ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Fresh Material ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Russian Far East

A review of the Pseudachorutes fauna of the East Asia was performed, mainly based on fresh material from forest ecosystems of the Russian Far East and some adjoining regions. Six new species of the genus, namely P. aleksandrae sp. nov., P. armatus sp. nov., P. minimus sp. nov., P. variabilis sp. nov., P. concinnus sp. nov. and P. morulifer sp. nov., are described and extensive remarks on further six congeners, i.e. P. andrei Weiner & Najt, P. hitakamiensis Tamura, P. isawaensis Tamura, P. kangchenjungae Yosii, P. longisetis Yosii and P. polychaetosus Gao & Palacios-Vargas, previously known from the studied region, are given. Pseudachorutes conicus Lee & Kim and P. sibiricus Rusek, are considered as probable junior synonyms of P. longisetis and P. andrei, respectively. Pseudachorutes boerneri Schӧtt is recorded for the first time in the eastern Palaearctic and redescribed based on materials from Yakutia, Khabarovsk Territory and Southern Primor’e. A regional key to the mentioned species and a summarizing table of diagnostic characters of all regional congeners are also provided. 

Ancyronyx jaechi sp.n. from Sri Lanka, the first record of the genus Ancyronyx Erichson, 1847 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Elmidae) from the Indian Subcontinent, and a world checklist of species

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3382 (1) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
HENDRIK FREITAG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
First Record ◽  
Colour Pattern ◽  
Unique Combination ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Secondary Sexual Characters ◽  
Shape And Size ◽  
Secondary Sexual

Ancyronyx jaechi sp. n. from Kegalle District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka is described. The new species is rec-ognized by a unique combination of the elytral colour pattern, as well as the shape and size of the male sternite IX, theaedeagus, the female ovipositor, and the secondary sexual characters. An updated world checklist of the species of Ancy-ronyx Erichson, 1847 including authority clarification for A. montanus Freitag & Balke, 2011 is provided. The distributional area of the genus and its diagnostic characters are discussed. The habitats of Ancyronyx species are briefly discussed.

Changes in the genus Beana Walker (Beaninae Zahiri & Holloway) with two new species and removing Beana nitida Tams to a new genus Beanoides (gen. nov.)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4941 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-424
Author(s):  
MARKKU J. PELLINEN ◽  
NIKLAS WAHLBERG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Genetic Distances ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Dna Barcodes ◽  
Two New Species

Two new Beana species (B. mutaneni sp. nov and B. penniuncus sp. nov) are described here. Based on molecular data, Beana nitida Tams is removed to its own genus Beanoides gen. nov. and placed in the subfamily Chloephorinae. Morphological characteristics and DNA barcodes are provided for the new species, with a comparison of morphological structures and genetic distances to Beana terminigera Walker. The current number of valid species in the genus is six. 

scholarly journals Ancyronyx lianlabangorum sp. nov., a new spider riffle beetle from Sarawak, and new distribution records for A. pulcherrimus Kodada, Jäch & Čiampor based on DNA barcodes (Coleoptera, Elmidae)

ZooKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1003 ◽  
pp. 31-55
Author(s):  
Ján Kodada ◽  
Manfred A. Jäch ◽  
Hendrik Freitag ◽  
Zuzana Čiamporová-Zaťovičová ◽  
Katarína Goffová ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Barcoding ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Nucleotide Sequences ◽  
Dna Barcodes ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
First Time ◽  
New Distribution

Ancyronyx lianlabangorumsp. nov. (Coleoptera, Elmidae), a new spider riffle beetle from the Kelabit Highlands (Sarawak, northern Borneo), is described. Illustrations of the habitus and diagnostic characters of the new species and the similar, polymorphic A. pulcherrimus Kodada et al. are presented. Differences to closely related species, based on COI nucleotide sequences and morphological characters, are discussed. Ancyronyx pulcherrimus is here recorded from Sarawak for the first time, based on DNA barcoding.

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