ZootaxaPub Date : 2024-05-20DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.10
O. Varga
{"title":"Two new species of the genus Plectiscus Gravenhorst, 1829 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae: Orthocentrinae) from Kenya","authors":"O. Varga","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.10","url":null,"abstract":"Two new orthocentrine species of the genus Plectiscus Gravenhorst, 1829, P. oblongus sp. n. and P. taitaensis sp. n., from Kenya are described and illustrated. An identification key to Afrotropical species of the genus is provided.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141118999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZootaxaPub Date : 2024-05-20DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.1
Roy T. Sawyer
{"title":"Biology, morphology and taxonomy of a snail-feeding leech from North Carolina, USA, provisionally identified as Helobdella lineata (Verrill, 1874) (Glossiphoniidae): First evidence for extra-oral digestion in the Hirudinea","authors":"Roy T. Sawyer","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"This is a twelve-year longitudinal study of a common snail-feeding leech indigenous to the Albemarle region of northeastern North Carolina, USA. Based on contents of this paper the species is provisionally identified as Helobdella lineata (Verrill, 1874). For all practical purposes this is the first comprehensive description of this species. Particular attention is focused on variability of its dorsal papillae and variable pigment patterns within the Albemarle population. A total of 404 specimens were collected from 25 collecting stations in disparate parts of the region. Specialised leech traps set in these swamps were monitored regularly yielding unprecedented information on its morphology, ecology and general biology. This study recognises four principal pigment variants within the Albemarle region which, based on dissections, appear to represent a single biological species. Moreover, limited observations suggest that pigment variability is attributable primarily to adaptive camouflage to local surroundings. Methodologically it is emphasized in this paper that variable traits cannot serve as key taxonomic anchors. A proposed alternative diagnosis for identifying H. lineata is based entirely on more rigorous, non-variable characters. A significant finding is that H. lineata is most meaningfully understood in terms of specialist adaptation to feeding on snails. Furthermore, it is proposed that such adaptation required a major evolutionary shift within the foregut of this species. Evidence is presented that H. lineata uses uniquely large salivary cells to dissolves solid snail tissue into a semi-fluid state before ingestion via a specialised proboscis. This is the first example of extra-oral digestion in the Hirudinea. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141121091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZootaxaPub Date : 2024-05-20DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.9
M. R. Campos, Moises Alexander
{"title":"A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Hypolobocera Ortmann, 1897 from Colombia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pseudothelphusidae), including a key to the species of the genus distributed in Colombia","authors":"M. R. Campos, Moises Alexander","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.9","url":null,"abstract":"The genus Hypolobocera Ortmann, 1897, is represented by 38 species and is distributed in the south-western Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, including the twenty-two registered species for Colombia. We describe and illustrate a new species of Hypolobocera Ortmann, 1897 from the foothills of the Western Cordillera, Antioquia Department, Cauca River basin, Colombia, which increases in this country the number of Hypolobocera species to twenty-three. The species distribution of this genus covers an extensive area of the Colombian territory, including most of Colombia’s major river basins. We distinguished the new species from its congeners mainly by the third maxilliped, with an exopod that is 0.20 to 0.30 the length of ischium, and by the morphology of the first male gonopod, particularly by the shapes of the lateral and the mesial lobes and the outline of the apex. We include a key to species identification that uses the morphology of the first male gonopod.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141120898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZootaxaPub Date : 2024-05-20DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.7
A. Farias, Maria Mirelly Santiago Pereira, K. R. Barão, D. Vilela, J. C. Santos
{"title":"Description of the female of Heteragrion lencionii Vilela, Farias & Santos, 2021 (Odonata: Heteragrionidae), from Northeastern Brazil, with some ecological notes","authors":"A. Farias, Maria Mirelly Santiago Pereira, K. R. Barão, D. Vilela, J. C. Santos","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.7","url":null,"abstract":"Group A of the genus Heteragrion Selys, 1862 comprises 34 species, of which 19 have complete descriptions of females. The aim of this study was to describe the female Heteragrion lencionii Vilela, Farias & Santos, 2021 based on three specimens collected at the Federal Institute of Sergipe (Brazil, Sergipe, São Cristóvão, -10.9198, -37.1862, 30 m asl, A.B.S. Farias leg., UFS), including mating specimens. Here, we provide a detailed diagnosis and illustrations of the female, and compare it with its closest congeners. Heteragrion lencionii female is distinguished from others by the shape of the intersternite, shape of the posterior lobe of the prothorax, and coloration of the head. The distribution extensions are relevant because the species has not been recorded from the type locality since its original description.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141121113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZootaxaPub Date : 2024-05-20DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.2
Yulia V. Astafurova, M. Proshchalykin
{"title":"Catalogue and identification key of the bee genus Epeolus Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera, Apidae) from the Palaearctic region","authors":"Yulia V. Astafurova, M. Proshchalykin","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"Available information about bees of the genus Epeolus (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in the Palaearctic region is summarized. Forty-eight species are currently known from this area. A new synonymy is proposed for Epeolus tsushimensis Cockerell, 1926=E. japonicus Bischoff, 1930, syn. nov. and a lectotype is designated for E. fallax Morawitz, 1872. The first illustrated key and an updated catalogue of all 48 species known from the Palaearctic region are provided. Brief information about the history of the study and distribution patterns of these сleptoparasitic bees is also included.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141119197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZootaxaPub Date : 2024-05-20DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.3
F. Villagomez, M. Heethoff
{"title":"Two new species of Platynothrus and Heminothrus (Oribatida: Crotoniidae) from Mexico","authors":"F. Villagomez, M. Heethoff","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"The oribatid mite genera Platynothrus and Heminothrus currently comprise 20 and 10 species, respectively, and collectively have a cosmopolitan distribution. They have been classified into three to five subgenera, depending on the classification. For Platynothrus, a couple of new species have been described in the last two years, while for Heminothrus, the last formal description of a new species was 26 years ago. In this study, we describe two new species of these crotoniid mites, discovered in the soil and litter of a tropical montane cloud forest in Mexico. One of these new species belongs to the genus Platynothrus, which can be distinguished from other species of this genus by the short clavate sensillus, curved smooth interlamellar seta, and the length of the notogastral setae. The second new species belongs to the genus Heminothrus, being characterized by a short rhomboidal sensillus and a very long interlamellar seta. Intraspecific genetic distances of the COX-1 mitochondrial marker were 2.15%, and 0.81% for the new Platynothrus and Heminothrus species, respectively. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141123525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZootaxaPub Date : 2024-05-20DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.6
Thomas W. Pyrcz, P. Boyer, JEAN-CLAUDE Petit, R. Garlacz, K. S. Z. Garlacz, M. Espeland, K. Willmott
{"title":"Bedazzled: a new, striking species of Corades from the outskirts of Quito questions our knowledge of Andean cloud forest butterflies (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)","authors":"Thomas W. Pyrcz, P. Boyer, JEAN-CLAUDE Petit, R. Garlacz, K. S. Z. Garlacz, M. Espeland, K. Willmott","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.6","url":null,"abstract":"A new butterfly species in the genus Corades, C. yanacocha Pyrcz, Boyer & Petit sp. n., belonging to the diverse, predominantly Andean subtribe Pronophilina (Nymphalidae, Satyrinae), is described from the Yanacocha Reserve situated only a couple of kilometres west of Quito, Ecuador. This is an extremely surprising discovery in a region whose butterfly fauna was considered to be fairly well known, underlying the need to protect remnants of high elevation forests in such overpopulated regions of the Andes. Morphological characters, in particular male genitalia, indicate an affinity of C. yanacocha sp. n. with C. trimaculata from northern Peru. A preliminary molecular study using COI barcodes indicates, however, the widely distributed north Andean C. dymantis as the closest relative.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141119084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZootaxaPub Date : 2024-05-20DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.11
Wenqing Lv, F. Shi, Yan-Lin Chang
{"title":"One new species of the genus Acosmetura Liu, 2000 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) from Guangxi, China","authors":"Wenqing Lv, F. Shi, Yan-Lin Chang","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141120211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZootaxaPub Date : 2024-05-17DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5453.1.9
BHARATH. B, K. P. Dinesh, KARUTHAPANDI. M, K. B. Kunte, A. Shabnam, Deepa Jaiswal, S. Jadhav
{"title":"New distributional record of Sri Lankan wet land species Hylarana gracilis (Gravenhorst, 1829) (Anura: Ranidae) from the Eastern Ghats, India","authors":"BHARATH. B, K. P. Dinesh, KARUTHAPANDI. M, K. B. Kunte, A. Shabnam, Deepa Jaiswal, S. Jadhav","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5453.1.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5453.1.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141126483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZootaxaPub Date : 2024-05-07DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5447.3.6
YU-HAN Qian, JIN-HONG Xiang, XUE BAI
{"title":"A new species and a newly record species of Amphinemurinae from Yunnan, China (Plecoptera, Nemouridae)","authors":"YU-HAN Qian, JIN-HONG Xiang, XUE BAI","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5447.3.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5447.3.6","url":null,"abstract":"A new stonefly species of the genus Protonemura Kempny, 1898 of the subfamily Amphinemurinae, namely Protonemura potatsoensis Qian & Bai sp. nov., is described from Yunnan, southwestern China. Sphaeronemoura poda Sivec & Stark, 2010 is newly recorded for China. Detailed descriptions, photographs of genital characters and cervical gills features are presented.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141129315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}