ZooKeysPub Date : 2024-11-28eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1219.137409
Royce T Cumming, Julia J Mlynarek
{"title":"An additional ✝Archearadinae flat-bug species from Cretaceous Burmese Amber (Hemiptera, Aradidae).","authors":"Royce T Cumming, Julia J Mlynarek","doi":"10.3897/zookeys.1219.137409","DOIUrl":"10.3897/zookeys.1219.137409","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Currently 19 species of Aradidae (flat bugs) are known from the Cretaceous deposits of Burma (Burmese/Kachin amber). In reviewing unidentified aradid species from this deposit, an unnamed species was located. This aradid includes a unique combination of features from several Cretaceous aradid genera coupled with apomorphic antennae morphology allows easy differentiation from other aradids. Therefore, a new genus and species is herein described as <i>Sauronaradusmeganae</i> <b>gen. et. sp. nov.</b> to accommodate these unique features.</p>","PeriodicalId":24051,"journal":{"name":"ZooKeys","volume":"1219 ","pages":"123-133"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11621817/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142802371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZooKeysPub Date : 2024-11-28eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1219.129773
Edgar Lehr, Jiří Moravec, Yingtong Wang, Marek Uvizl
{"title":"A new species of <i>Pristimantis</i> (Amphibia, Anura, Strabomantidae) from a montane forest of the Pui Pui Protected Forest in central Peru.","authors":"Edgar Lehr, Jiří Moravec, Yingtong Wang, Marek Uvizl","doi":"10.3897/zookeys.1219.129773","DOIUrl":"10.3897/zookeys.1219.129773","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Herpetological inventories conducted in the Pui Pui Protected Forest in the central Peruvian Andes between 2012 and 2014 revealed unusually high local anuran richness and endemism. Herein, we describe a new species of <i>Pristimantis</i> discovered in the buffer zone of the protected area between 1550 and 1730 m a.s.l. The description is based on one subadult male (snout-vent length 14.4 mm), one adult female (snout-vent length 26.4 mm), and six juvenile specimens collected in the montane forest between 1550 and 1730 m a.s.l. DNA barcoding placed <i>P.vrazi</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> as the sister taxon to <i>P.rhabdocnemus</i> and in the clade also containing <i>P.lindae</i>, <i>P.sinschi</i>, <i>P.quaquaversus</i>, and one still unnamed <i>Pristimantis</i> species. <i>Pristimantisvrazi</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> differs from all these closely related species by the combination of the following characters: tuberculate dorsum, presence of the tympanum, presence of dentigerous processes on the vomer, absence of vocal slits, a red median horizontal streak across the iris, a narrow black median vertical streak on the lower half of the eye, cream to dark brown dorsal ground coloration, and cream to gray ventral ground coloration.</p>","PeriodicalId":24051,"journal":{"name":"ZooKeys","volume":"1219 ","pages":"143-163"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11621819/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142802367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZooKeysPub Date : 2024-11-28eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1219.131379
Stuart H McKamey
{"title":"A new species of the Neotropical genus <i>Smilidarnis</i> Andrade (Hemiptera, Membracidae), with a new country record for the genus.","authors":"Stuart H McKamey","doi":"10.3897/zookeys.1219.131379","DOIUrl":"10.3897/zookeys.1219.131379","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Smilidarnis</i> is <b>fixed as the correct original spelling</b>. <i>Smilidarnissimilifasciatus</i>, <b>sp. nov.</b>, from Bolivia and French Guiana, closely resembles <i>S.fasciatus</i> Andrade in being brightly colored but differs in the metathoracic tibial chaetotaxy, the male pygofer, first anal segment, aedeagus, and color pattern. In this new species, which is larger than <i>S.fasciatus</i>, females are larger than males. Photographs of the male and female adults and genitalia of the new species are provided. Bolivia is a new country record for the genus. A key to all species is provided.</p>","PeriodicalId":24051,"journal":{"name":"ZooKeys","volume":"1219 ","pages":"135-142"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11621816/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142802369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZooKeysPub Date : 2024-11-27eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1219.121027
Gui-Dong Yu, Kun Qin, Tao Meng, Peng Li, Wan-Xiao Peng, Wei-Cai Chen
{"title":"A new species of the genus <i>Leptobrachella</i> (Amphibia, Anura, Megophryidae) from Dayaoshan National Nature Reserve, Guangxi, China.","authors":"Gui-Dong Yu, Kun Qin, Tao Meng, Peng Li, Wan-Xiao Peng, Wei-Cai Chen","doi":"10.3897/zookeys.1219.121027","DOIUrl":"10.3897/zookeys.1219.121027","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A new species of the Asian leaf litter toad genus <i>Leptobrachella</i>, <i>L.dayaoshanensis</i> <b>sp. nov.</b>, is described based on phylogenetic analysis, morphological characters, and bioacoustic data. This species occurs in the Dayaoshan National Nature Reserve located in Jinxiu County, Guangxi, China. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that this new species is closely related to <i>L.verrucosa</i>, as demonstrated by phylogenetic trees. The new species can be distinguished from its congeners by a combination of the following characters: (1) medium size (mean snout-vent length (SVL) of 27.9 ± 0.7 mm, range 26.6-28.9 mm in males; 34.4 mm in female); (2) rough dorsal surface featuring small, raised tubercles and ridges; (3) flanks adorned with irregular black spots and creamy white glands; (4) creamy white ventral surface with sparse light-brown spots and irregular tiny textures; (5) brown throat and chest; (6) rudimentary toe webbing; (7) wide lateral fringes on toes; (8) distinct continuous ventrolateral glandular line; (9) tibiotarsal articulation reaching the midpoint of eye when the leg is extended forward; (10) heels that do not meet when thighs are appressed at right angles to body; (11) bicolored iris, with the upper half being copper and gradually transitioning to silver in the lower half; and (12) advertisement calls consisting of two model types, with dominant frequencies of 4.2-6.8 kHz at 21.0 °C. The new species has a breeding season that occurs from March to April and is found in evergreen forests at elevations between 1,000 and 1,600 m.</p>","PeriodicalId":24051,"journal":{"name":"ZooKeys","volume":"1219 ","pages":"105-122"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11618101/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142786035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZooKeysPub Date : 2024-11-27eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1219.125754
Ri-Xin Jiang, Ping-Lan Wu, Xiang-Sheng Chen
{"title":"Five new species of the genus <i>Grouvellinus</i> Champion, 1923 from Guizhou Province, China (Coleoptera, Elmidae).","authors":"Ri-Xin Jiang, Ping-Lan Wu, Xiang-Sheng Chen","doi":"10.3897/zookeys.1219.125754","DOIUrl":"10.3897/zookeys.1219.125754","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The genus <i>Grouvellinus</i> Champion, 1923 comprises 60 described species distributed across the Oriental and Palearctic regions. Species diversity is very high in mainland China, with 28 recorded species. Here, the results of the aquatic beetle survey in Guizhou Province are presented; they began in 2021, when we collected more than 5000 specimens of riffle beetle. All specimens come from small ravine streams where inhabited submerged stones. Using morphological characters of adults such as body form and size, coloration, elytral, pronotal and ventral surface structures, and forms of male and female genitalia, five new species were discovered and are described: <i>Grouvellinusloong</i> <b>sp. nov.</b>, <i>G.buyi</i> <b>sp. nov.</b>, <i>G.wangmoensis</i> <b>sp. nov.</b>, <i>G.lihaitaoi</i> <b>sp. nov.</b>, <i>G.muyinlini</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> The species descriptions contain illustrations of diagnostic characters and measurements of metric characters such as body length, pronotal length, pronotal width, elytral length and width, and head length and width. The females are, on average, larger and have only slight differences in external morphology compared to the males. The comparative diagnoses discuss characters of the new and already known species. The results show that the existing species diversity requires more detailed research focusing on larger areas of South China in the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":24051,"journal":{"name":"ZooKeys","volume":"1219 ","pages":"73-97"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11618103/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142786383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZooKeysPub Date : 2024-11-27eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1219.135654
Qianqi Zhang, Xuheng Du, Xiuping Zhu, Haichun Zhang
{"title":"First record of <i>Mesoscytina</i> (Hemiptera, Scytinopteroidea, Scytinopteridae) from the Middle Triassic Tongchuan Entomofauna of China.","authors":"Qianqi Zhang, Xuheng Du, Xiuping Zhu, Haichun Zhang","doi":"10.3897/zookeys.1219.135654","DOIUrl":"10.3897/zookeys.1219.135654","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A new scytinopterid species, <i>Mesoscytinatongchuanensis</i> <b>sp. nov.</b>, is established based on a tegmen collected from the Middle Triassic Tongchuan Formation in Shaanxi Province, NW China. The new species can be easily separated from its congeners by the narrow tegminal apex, less curved terminal branches of stems RP, M and CuA and crossvein <i>r</i>-<i>m</i> connected to long vein M<sub>1+2</sub>. This discovery represents the first record of <i>Mesoscytina</i> from the Tongchuan Formation in China and suggests that the genus <i>Mesoscytina</i> spread much more widely from Gondwana to northern Pangea in the Middle Triassic.</p>","PeriodicalId":24051,"journal":{"name":"ZooKeys","volume":"1219 ","pages":"99-104"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11650191/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142847838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diversity of spiders in Daba Mountain National Nature Reserve, Chongqing, China (I), three new <i>Cicurina</i> species of Cicurinidae (Araneae).","authors":"Lu-Yu Wang, Yan-Nan Mu, Ling-Xiang Yang, Zhi-Sheng Zhang","doi":"10.3897/zookeys.1219.137354","DOIUrl":"10.3897/zookeys.1219.137354","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Three new species of the genus <i>Cicurina</i> Menge, 1871 are described from Daba Mountain National Nature Reserve, Chongqing, China: <i>C.chengkou</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> (♂♀), <i>C.dabashan</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> (♂♀) and <i>C.longihamata</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> (♂♀). Morphological descriptions, photos and illustrations of copulatory organs are provided.</p>","PeriodicalId":24051,"journal":{"name":"ZooKeys","volume":"1219 ","pages":"61-72"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11615619/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142786360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZooKeysPub Date : 2024-11-26eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1219.133002
Kirill Y Eskov, Yuri M Marusik
{"title":"A comparative morphology of trichobothrial bases in araneoid spiders and its significance for the phylogeny and system of the superfamily Araneoidea (Arachnida, Araneae).","authors":"Kirill Y Eskov, Yuri M Marusik","doi":"10.3897/zookeys.1219.133002","DOIUrl":"10.3897/zookeys.1219.133002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bothrial morphology was studied by SEM in 137 araneoid genera representing all 22 currently recognized extant families and all 42 conventional subfamilies of the Araneoidea. The ancestral type in the superfamily Araneoidea is a 'hooded' bothrium with a single well-developed transverse ridge, dividing its proximal and distal plates ('<i>Erigone</i>-type'); the advanced type is a solid dome-like bothrium without vestiges of the ridge ('<i>Theridion</i>-type'); there are several intermediate types reflecting various pathways and stages of the ridge reduction (united here as '<i>Argiope</i>-type'). The parallel trends in bothrial evolution, recognized as continuous series from the ancestral type up to the advanced one through some intermediate stages, are distinguished in each of the seven main phylogenetic lineages of the superfamily: 'tetragnathoids', 'araneoids', 'cyatholipoids', and 'theridioids' possess a complete set of the three types, while 'malkariods', 'symphytognathoids'. and 'linyphioids' lack the advanced, dome-like type ('<i>Theridion</i>-type'). Only three taxa have been proposed earlier as the sister group of the superfamily Araneoidea: Nicodamoidea, Deinopoidea, and Leptonetoidea; morphology of bothria, as well as other cuticular microstructures, clearly supports the araneoid-nicodamoid relationship hypothesis, purely 'molecular' to date. Bothrial morphology provides the additional arguments for several taxonomic acts, e.g., for the reranking the Agnarsson's (2004) 'clade 35' (<i>Theonoe</i>, <i>Carniella</i>, <i>Robertus</i>, and <i>Pholcomma</i>) up to the Theonoeinae Simon, 1894, <b>stat. nov.</b>, and for the revalidation the micropholcommatid <i>Plectochetos</i> Butler, 1932, <b>gen. revalid.</b> and zygiellid <i>Parazygiella</i> Wunderlich, 2004, <b>gen. revalid.</b></p>","PeriodicalId":24051,"journal":{"name":"ZooKeys","volume":"1219 ","pages":"1-60"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11615620/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142785780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZooKeysPub Date : 2024-11-25eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1218.135606
Héctor A Vargas
{"title":"<i>Cremastobombyciasocoromaensis</i> sp. nov., the first South American representative of the micromoth genus <i>Cremastobombycia</i> Braun (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae, Lithocolletinae).","authors":"Héctor A Vargas","doi":"10.3897/zookeys.1218.135606","DOIUrl":"10.3897/zookeys.1218.135606","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The micromoth <i>Cremastobombyciasocoromaensis</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae, Lithocolletinae) from the arid highlands of the western slope of the Andes of northern Chile is described and illustrated. Larvae construct bulged leaf mines on the shrub <i>Baccharistola</i> Phil. (Asteraceae). Pupation occurs in a silk cocoon constructed by the last instar larva inside the mine. The cocoon and the mine surface are pierced by the frontal process of the pupa to allow adult emergence. This discovery represents the first record of <i>Cremastobombycia</i> Braun, 1908 in South America.</p>","PeriodicalId":24051,"journal":{"name":"ZooKeys","volume":"1218 ","pages":"333-342"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11612635/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142772870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZooKeysPub Date : 2024-11-25eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1218.136369
Xinxin He, Chao Jiang, Weichun Li
{"title":"Notes on the genus <i>Thibetana</i> (Lepidoptera, Zygaenidae) with description of a new species from China.","authors":"Xinxin He, Chao Jiang, Weichun Li","doi":"10.3897/zookeys.1218.136369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1218.136369","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The genus <i>Thibetana</i> Efetov & Tarmann, 1995 includes six species occurring in southwest China and Indian Sikkim. In the present paper, <i>Thibetanaweii</i> Li & He, <b>sp. nov.</b>, the seventh species of the genus encountered at the foot of Galongla Snow Mountain, southeast Xizang of China is described. Habitus of the adult and genitalia of the new species are illustrated, and a checklist and a key of all <i>Thibetana</i> species are provided.</p>","PeriodicalId":24051,"journal":{"name":"ZooKeys","volume":"1218 ","pages":"343-349"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11612636/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142772879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}