{"title":"The composition and heterogeneity of the rich and diverse rotifers (Rotifera: Eurotatoria) of the floodplain lakes (beels) of the Majuli River Island, Assam State (Northeast India)","authors":"B. Sharma, Sumita Sharma","doi":"10.18348/opzool.2021.2.165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18348/opzool.2021.2.165","url":null,"abstract":"The tropical and subtropical floodplain lakes are hypothesized as one of the globally interesting rotifer rich ecosystems. Our study indicating the biodiverse Rotifera of ten ‘slightly acidic to circum-neutral, moderately hard-water and de-mineralized’ tropical floodplain lakes (beels) of the Majuli River Island of the Brahmaputra river basin of northeast India mendorses this hypothesis. Total richness, the richness of important families and community similarities affirm heterogeneity mof the rotifer species composition amongst the beels. The species richness registers significant spatio-temporal variations with seasonal differences amongst the beels and individually in each beel, and lacks significant influence of the recorded abiotic factors. The constellations of 76-81 species in three beels during winter and 76 species in one beel during pre-monsoon are noteworthy instances of ‘Rotifera paradox’. The rotifer fauna of the Majuli beels registers affinity with Southeast Asian and Oriental faunas, records several species of the regional distribution interest and exhibits the littoral-periphytic nature, while application of Q B/T and Q L/B quotients depicts limitations. This study merits ecological diversity interest for Rotifera vis-avis the floodplain lakes of India and elsewhere from the tropics and subtropics, and assumes biodiversity conservation importance due to threat of extinction of the Majuli – an alluvial floodplain of the Brahmaputra basin.","PeriodicalId":30029,"journal":{"name":"Opuscula Zoologica Instituti Zoosystematici et Oecologici Universitatis Budapestinensis","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81614940","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":"Odonata from Batanta (Indonesia, West Papua) with description of one new species","authors":"T. Kovács, G. Theischinger, R. Horváth, P. Juhász","doi":"10.18348/opzool.2021.2.119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18348/opzool.2021.2.119","url":null,"abstract":"Fifty-eight taxa of Odonata are herewith reported from Batanta Island (including Arefi and Birie Islands). One new species is described: Argiolestes varga sp. nov. The following ten species are new to the Raja Ampat Islands: Papuagrion magnanimum (Selys, 1876), Gynacantha rosenbergi Kaup, 1867, Palaeosynthemis cf. cervula (Lieftinck, 1938), Diplacina smaragdina Selys, 1878, Nannophlebia amphicyllis Lieftinck, 1933, Pantala flavescens (Fabricius, 1798), Rhodothemis nigripes Lohmann, 1984, Rhyothemis regia (Brauer, 1867), Tramea transmarina propinqua Lieftinck, 1942, Zyxomma multinervorum Carpenter, 1897, and fifteen are new to Batanta: Selysioneura cornelia Lieftinck, 1953, P. magnanimum, Agyrtacantha dirupta (Karsch, 1889), Anax maclachlani Förster, 1898, G. rosenbergi, P. cf. cervula, D. smaragdina, N. amphicyllis, Nesoxenia mysis (Selys, 1878), P. flavescens, R. nigripes, R. regia, Tetrathemis irregularis Brauer, 1868, T. transmarina propinqua, Z. multinervorum. Metagrion postnodale (Selys, 1878) and Selysioneura cf. cervicornu Förster, 1900 are deleted from the faunal lists of Odonata of Raja Ampat and Batanta Islands. The total number of species recorded for Batanta Island is 62.","PeriodicalId":30029,"journal":{"name":"Opuscula Zoologica Instituti Zoosystematici et Oecologici Universitatis Budapestinensis","volume":"273 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85369055","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":"On the Diplectroninae and Hydropsychinae (Trichoptera) of India, with related taxa. A tribute to Fernand Schmid","authors":"J. Oláh, G. Vinçon, K. A. Johanson","doi":"10.18348/opzool.2021.s1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18348/opzool.2021.s1.3","url":null,"abstract":"The overall declining state of the western taxonomy is clearly documented by the present fate of the extremely high valued and huge unidentified caddisfly material collected in India and deposited in the Canadian National Collection. Due to the general lack of both financial and scientific resources in taxonomy, this huge collection remained almost untouched during the last 70 years after its collection. With a tribute to the collector, Fernand Schmid, the great caddisfly collector and taxonomist we have reconstructed his collecting activities of the five years in India by geolocalization and elaborated about ten percent of his undetermined Hydropsychidae in the Diplectroninae and Hydropsychinae subfamilies. Description of 145 new species from this small fragment of the huge unidentified collection demonstrates a pronounced underestimation of the biodiversity in general, routinely measured by gross phenomics. During this study we have reinstated the species status of seven taxa: Diplectrona kirimaduhela Sch","PeriodicalId":30029,"journal":{"name":"Opuscula Zoologica Instituti Zoosystematici et Oecologici Universitatis Budapestinensis","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86710778","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":"Arthropod segments and segmentation – lessons from myriapods, and open questions","authors":"A. Minelli","doi":"10.18348/opzool.2020.s2.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18348/opzool.2020.s2.7","url":null,"abstract":". The current understanding of the segmental organization of myriapods is dramatically different from the traditional views, due both to fresh research on a number of myriapod species and to progress in comparative developmental biology at large. In the late eighties, the emerging paradigm of ecdysozoan affinities of arthropods prompted a revisitation of the concept of the segment as an archetypical body unit. Fresh approaches to myriapod comparative morphology and pioneering studies on the developmental genetics of segmentation in Strigamia maritima , Lithobius atkinsoni and Glomeris marginata contributed to the definitive abandonment of the Articulata hypothesis and suggested a reformulation of the segment concept as the product of a functional integration between a number of dis- tinctly repeated serial units, e.g. neuromeres, tergites, sternites. In the light of this refreshed interpretation of myriapod segmental architecture, we must reject the naïve views that (a) segment production is necessarily prior to segment patterning, (b) serial features evolve from polymerous and poorly patterned to oligomerous and strongly patterned series (Williston’s law), and (c) the divide between embryonic and post-embryonic development is necessarily a major turning point in morphogenetic processes. Open questions remain, e.g. to which extent the production of serial structures along the main body axis of myriapods is multiplicative rather than sequential.","PeriodicalId":30029,"journal":{"name":"Opuscula Zoologica Instituti Zoosystematici et Oecologici Universitatis Budapestinensis","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85756402","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":"Der Regenwurm Dendrobaena illyrica (Cognetti, 1906) an dernördlichen und nordwestlichen Grenze seiner Verbreitung (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae)","authors":"N. Höser","doi":"10.18348/opzool.2020.1.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18348/opzool.2020.1.55","url":null,"abstract":". The earthworm Dendrobaena illyrica (Cognetti, 1906) on the northern and northwestern boundary of its distribution (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae). The northern and northwestern boundary of the range of Dendrobaena illyrica (Cognetti, 1906), which runs through the eastern part of the edge of the Central European Uplands, is here more precisely determined on the basis of new localities. The species has been found in areas of the Böhmerwald/Bayerischer Wald, Oberpfälzer Wald, Fichtelgebirge, Vogtland, Erzgebirge and Elbsandsteingebirge. On the northern slope of the Erzgebirge, the range boundary corresponds to the 'flint line' marking the margin of the first Elsterian Cold Period glaciation. This earthworm species prefers forest soils formed on acidic magmatites and metamorphites as source rocks. We found both fully developed individuals of the species which reproduce sexually, and externally not fully developed adult individuals which we classed as the parthenogenetic form of the species. The distribution of both forms shows that parthenogenesis appears to occur geographically in D. illyrica, i.e. the sexual form predominates in optimal habitats near the core of the range, while the parthenogenetic form occurs in less favourable habitats and at the edges of the range.","PeriodicalId":30029,"journal":{"name":"Opuscula Zoologica Instituti Zoosystematici et Oecologici Universitatis Budapestinensis","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79660159","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 dataonthe pseudoscorpion family Chthoniidae (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) from Hungary","authors":"J. Novak","doi":"10.18348/opzool.2020.2.115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18348/opzool.2020.2.115","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30029,"journal":{"name":"Opuscula Zoologica Instituti Zoosystematici et Oecologici Universitatis Budapestinensis","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86744233","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 species and records of Afrotropical, Oriental and Palaearctic Venturia Schrottky, 1902 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Campopleginae)","authors":"Z. Vas","doi":"10.18348/opzool.2020.2.97","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18348/opzool.2020.2.97","url":null,"abstract":"Five new species of Venturia Schrottky, 1902 are described from the Afrotropical and Oriental regions, Venturia aurantia sp. nov. from South Africa, Venturia erythrina sp. nov. from Tanzania, Venturia ignea sp. nov. from Ghana, Venturia veruta sp. nov. from Uganda, and Venturia biroi sp. nov. from India. The hitherto unknown male sex of Venturia peringueyi (Cameron, 1906), a South African species, is also described. Additionally, the first records of Venturia aquila Vas, 2019 and Venturia crassicaput (Morley, 1926) from South Africa, and Venturia canescens (Gravenhorst, 1829) from Cyprus, Crete and Tanzania are given.","PeriodicalId":30029,"journal":{"name":"Opuscula Zoologica Instituti Zoosystematici et Oecologici Universitatis Budapestinensis","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85099768","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":"Dendrobaena attemsi (Michaelsen, 1902) (Clitellata, Megadrili) on the Balkan Peninsula and Anatolia: distribution and biogeographical significance","authors":"I. Misirlioğlu, M. Stojanović","doi":"10.18348/opzool.2020.2.123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18348/opzool.2020.2.123","url":null,"abstract":". In this paper we summarize the knowledge on the presence of Dendrobaena attemsi (Michaelsen, 1902) on the Balkan Peninsula and Anatolia. The aim of this paper is to present new data on D. attemsi and, by analyzing the new and literature records, to establish the first complete list of its records on the Balkan Peninsula and Anatolia. The list provided a general overview of its current distribution and zoogeographical position. D. attemsi is distributed from the Pyrenees through the Central Europe, Balkan Peninsula and Anatolia to the Caucasus. It is common in the Balkan Peninsula, but in Turkey it was rarely found, only in the northern part of the Country. The most important distribution centre of the species in Europe is situated in the Balkanic-Alpine area where it was registered in the largest number of its records. Summarizing all the data reported so far, it can be concluded that D. attemsi in its native range (southern Eurasia) shows a Trans-Aegean distribution.","PeriodicalId":30029,"journal":{"name":"Opuscula Zoologica Instituti Zoosystematici et Oecologici Universitatis Budapestinensis","volume":"140 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77616818","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 species of Polyxenida in Israel (Diplopoda, Penicillata)","authors":"M. Short","doi":"10.18348/opzool.2020.s2.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18348/opzool.2020.s2.35","url":null,"abstract":"The identification of 5 species from a recent collection of 23 specimens from two areas in Israel is given. Two new species of Polyxenida are recorded, including the first species in the family Synxenidae (Phryssonotus sp.) and the first species from the family Polyxenidae, subfamily Macroxeninae (Chilexenus sp.), from Israel. These species are identified only to genus due to the lack of undamaged adult material. Two species in the family Lophoproctidae are also identified, one previously recorded but not described, is now described as Lophoproctus israelensis sp. nov., and Lophoproctinus chichinii Condé, 1951is recorded from Israel for the first time. The fifth species is identified as possibly a new species in the genus Polyxenus and likely to be synonymous with the specimens identified as Polyxenus lagurus Linnaeus, 1758 in a previous study. This is just the second collection from Israel to be identified and brings the total number of Polyxenida species found in Israel to 8. All 3 families of Polyxenida are represented in this list, together with all 3 subfamilies of the most numerous family, Polyxenidae.","PeriodicalId":30029,"journal":{"name":"Opuscula Zoologica Instituti Zoosystematici et Oecologici Universitatis Budapestinensis","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74435241","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 earthworm records from several Indian Ocean islands (Clitellata, Megadrili)","authors":"T. Szederjesi, T. Pavlíček, C. Csuzdi","doi":"10.18348/opzool.2019.2.145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18348/opzool.2019.2.145","url":null,"abstract":". Elaboration of the earthworm material collected on the Seychelles, Mauritius, Réunion, Mayotte and Sri Lanka islands resulted in recording 20 species altogether. Among them, the ocnerodrilid Maheina braueri (Michaelsen, 1897) endemic to Mahé (Seychelles) and the megascolecid Nellogaster bahli (Stephenson, 1925) endemic to Sri Lanka were reported for the first time since their original description. The material also contained some enigmatic juvenile specimens from Mayotte, most resembling the genus Diporochaeta .","PeriodicalId":30029,"journal":{"name":"Opuscula Zoologica Instituti Zoosystematici et Oecologici Universitatis Budapestinensis","volume":"128 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74578033","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}