{"title":"Type specimens of the South American terrestrial gastropods described by Henry Suter","authors":"R. Salvador","doi":"10.18476/insy.v03.a4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18476/insy.v03.a4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In 1900, Henry Suter, a New Zealand malacologist, described six land snail taxa from South America, mostly from Brazil. These taxa received little further attention from malacologists and the unusual depository of its type specimens (New Zealand) caused much confusion in the literature. Suter'S types and taxa are thus revisited in the present work. In summary, the following species are considered valid: Gastrocopta iheringi (Gastrocoptidae), Scolodonta interrupta (Scolodontidae), Radiodiscus compactus, and Radiodiscus patagonicus (Charopidae). Streptaxis tumescens is a junior synonym of Happia vitrina (Scolodontidae) and Pyramidula schuppi is a junior synonym of Rotadiscus amancaezensis (Charopidae).","PeriodicalId":141328,"journal":{"name":"Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114721433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A confirmed record of the European catfish Silurus glanis L., 1758 (Actinopterygii: Siluriformes: Siluridae) from the southern marshes of Iraq, with a new anatomical set of characters to separate S. glanis and S. triostegus","authors":"L. Jawad, J. Abed, Z. Mohsen, Muhammed Al-Janabi","doi":"10.18476/insy.v03.a6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18476/insy.v03.a6","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Investigations conducted in the southern Iraq freshwater systems allowed the authors to collect the European catfish, Silurus glanis L., 1758. These are the first confirmed records of S. glanis from the freshwater systems in Lower Mesopotamia, based on 13 adult specimens, each 325–525 mm in total length. Furthermore, a new set of anatomical characters of S. glanis and S. triostegus from Chibayish marsh area, south of Iraq, was examined to reveal similarities and differences between the two Silurus species. In addition to the traditional separation of the two species of Silurus by number of barbels, these two species can now be recognised based on a new set of morphological and osteological features.","PeriodicalId":141328,"journal":{"name":"Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A","volume":" 45","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132095088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New taxonomic and faunistic data on species of the genus Toxocnema Fåhraeus (Tenebrionidae: Tenebrioninae: Ulomini) from South Africa and Mozambique1","authors":"W. Schawaller","doi":"10.18476/insy.v02.a6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18476/insy.v02.a6","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract New synonyms of the genus Toxocnema Fåhraeus, 1870 (Tenebrionidae: Tenebrioninae: Ulomini) are established: Toxocnema fungicola Koch, 1953 (Toxocnema fungicola Schawaller, 2009 n. syn.), Toxocnema quintanilhai Koch, 1953 (Toxocnema leleupi Schawaller, 2009 n. syn.), Toxocnema rufitarsis Fåhraeus, 1870 (Toxocnema neopsectropis Koch, 1953 n. syn.), and Toxocnema thornei Koch, 1953 (Toxocnema ruthmuellerae Schawaller, 2009 n. syn.). New locality data are added. The ground dwelling species of Toxocnema are elements in arboreal habitats in eastern South Africa, Swaziland, and southern Mozambique.","PeriodicalId":141328,"journal":{"name":"Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A","volume":"279 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114945077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New data on the Xantholinini from China. 29. A very peculiar new genus fom Yunnan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)","authors":"A. Bordoni","doi":"10.18476/insy.v03.a3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18476/insy.v03.a3","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Yunnaniella mandian n. gen. n., n. sp. from South Yunnan is described and illustrated.","PeriodicalId":141328,"journal":{"name":"Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A","volume":"37 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132502468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new Henoticus Thomson, 1868 from South Africa (Coleoptera: Cryptophagidae)","authors":"J. Esser","doi":"10.18476/insy.v02.a4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18476/insy.v02.a4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract One new species of Henoticus Thomson, 1868, H. acutioculis n. sp., from South Africa is described.","PeriodicalId":141328,"journal":{"name":"Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A","volume":"12 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123800892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New data on the genus Oxytrechus Jeannel, 1927, with description of seven new species from Colombia and Ecuador (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae)","authors":"P. Giachino, G. Allegro, P. Moret","doi":"10.18476/insy.v02.a3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18476/insy.v02.a3","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Seven new species of Oxytrechus Jeannel, 1927 are described: five from Ecuador (O. andersoni Giachino & Allegro n. sp., O. atahualpai Giachino & Allegro n. sp., O. bavierai Giachino & Allegro n. sp., O. fikaceki Giachino & Moret n. sp., and O. sciakyi Giachino & Allegro n. sp.) and two from Colombia (O. floresanus Giachino & Allegro n. sp. and O. ruizianus Giachino & Allegro n. sp.). Oxytrechus equatorianus Mateu, 1988 is re-established as a valid species. O. globosus Mateu, 1991 and O. convexus Mateu, 1991 are redescribed. New distributional data are given for O. balli Allegro, Giachino & Sciaky, 2008, O. belloi Giachino, Allegro & Baviera, 2014, O. llanganatisianus Mateu, 1988, O. moreti Mateu, 1988, O. onorei Allegro, Giachino & Sciaky, 2008, O. pierremoreti Allegro, Giachino & Sciaky, 2008 and O. vulcanus Mateu, 1988. An identification key is provided for the Oxytrechus species present in the Papallacta-Guamaní area (Ecuador, Pichincha/Napo provinces).","PeriodicalId":141328,"journal":{"name":"Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127207796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Annotated type catalogue of the True Bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera) at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart","authors":"Viktor Hartung, Andreas Haselböck","doi":"10.18476/insy.v02.a2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18476/insy.v02.a2","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart (SMNS) holds one of the largest and most important insect collections in Germany. True bugs (Heteroptera), with 80.000 specimens at SMNS, have previously received little attention. Here, an annotated type catalogue of the Heteroptera collection is given. Type material of 67 nominal taxa is present at SMNS, among them types of 52 valid species and three valid subspecies. The families Miridae and Cydnidae contribute the largest number of types, but types from seven other families are also represented.","PeriodicalId":141328,"journal":{"name":"Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128505699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Three new praying mantises from Panay Island, Philippines (Insecta: Mantodea)","authors":"C. Schwarz","doi":"10.18476/insy.v03.a2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18476/insy.v03.a2","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Three new species of praying mantids from the forest remnants of Panay Island, Philippines are described and illustrated. Pliacanthopus (Malayamantis) visayanus n. sp. extends the distribution of the genus, so far only known from Sundaland, to the Philippine archipelago. Compsogusa rheae n. gen. n. sp. and Theopompa schulzeorum n. sp. are bark mantids endemic to Panay. The ecological adaptations and the systematic and biogeographic affinities of the new taxa are discussed.","PeriodicalId":141328,"journal":{"name":"Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133277724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mekongellina, a new mayfly genus of the subfamily Brachycercinae (Ephemeroptera: Caenidae) from Thailand","authors":"P. Malzacher","doi":"10.18476/insy.v02.a1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18476/insy.v02.a1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The new genus Mekongellina from Thailand with the type species Mekongellina sangpradubae is described herein. The genus shows highly modified characters, particularly on head, forelegs and prothorax, together forming a filtering apparatus. It is tentatively attributed to the tribe Brachycercini.","PeriodicalId":141328,"journal":{"name":"Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125453728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new species of Afromelittia Gorbunov & Arita, 1997 (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae: Melittiini) from The Gambia","authors":"D. Bartsch, M. Weitzel","doi":"10.18476/2022.477144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18476/2022.477144","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A new species of Afrotropical Melittiini, Afromelittia gruschwitzi sp. n., is described. Attracted by synthetic pheromones, a single male was trapped 1992 in Abuko Nature Reserve, a gallery forest in The Gambia, West Africa. The female and the biology of the new species are unknown.","PeriodicalId":141328,"journal":{"name":"Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128141776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}