{"title":"A new species of pelican spider (Araneae: Archaeidae) from the Whitsunday hinterland of central-eastern Queensland","authors":"M. Rix, Mark S. Harvey","doi":"10.54102/ajt.8sf6i","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54102/ajt.8sf6i","url":null,"abstract":"Pelican spiders of the genus Austrarchaea Forster & Platnick, 1984 (family Archaeidae) are well represented in the tropical rainforests of central-eastern and north-eastern Queensland, with nine species currently described. However, this monophyleytic tropical fauna remains poorly documented relative to other lineages of Archaeidae from subtropical and temperate regions south of the St Lawrence Gap, with numerous additional species likely still unnamed. Here, we describe a new species from the Central Mackay Coast bioregion of central-eastern Queensland. Like other Australian Archaeidae, it is a short-range endemic taxon, known only from upland rainforest habitats in the Whitsunday hinterland near Airlie Beach. We show its clear morphological affinities to a closely related species from Eungella National Park, and further provide live habitus images and habitat information.","PeriodicalId":490892,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Taxonomy","volume":"14 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140974929","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":"Scitala alectura, a new species from central Queensland (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericoidinae: Scitalini)","authors":"Peter Allsopp","doi":"10.54102/ajt.t67g6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54102/ajt.t67g6","url":null,"abstract":"Scitala alectura Allsopp, new species, is described from central Queensland based on males and females and compared with the other 22 Australian members of the genus.","PeriodicalId":490892,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Taxonomy","volume":"16 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140981473","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":"Cephalodesmius carminya, a new flightless dung beetle species from the Central Mackay Coast, Queensland.","authors":"K. Ebert, Nicole Gunter","doi":"10.54102/ajt.h85un","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54102/ajt.h85un","url":null,"abstract":"A new species from the genus Cephalodesmius Westwood (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) is described from the Cental Mackay Coast bioregion, Queensland extending the northern range of the genus. Cephalodesmius carminya Ebert & Gunter new species is known from two localities in the Pine Mountain, Carminya Forest Reserve and 2.5 km west of Eungella dam. A key to the four species of Cephalodesmius is provided and we discuss morphological similarities between Cephalodesmius and its closest relative Canthonosoma Macleay.","PeriodicalId":490892,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Taxonomy","volume":"4 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140382124","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":"Four new Western Australian species related to Hibbertia axillibarba (Dilleniaceae)","authors":"K. Thiele, T. Hammer","doi":"10.54102/ajt.33kr5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54102/ajt.33kr5","url":null,"abstract":"Hibbertia axillibarba was described in 2000 as a short-range endemic species known only from South Ironcap, a semi-arid, banded ironstone hill in the Western Australian southern Goldfields. Subsequently, several specimens collected from sandplain habitats in the Western Australian wheatbelt, varying from close to, to distant from, South Ironcap, were determined as H. aff. axillibarba or H. cf. axillibarba at the Western Australian Herbarium. Close study of these specimens has shown that none matches H. axillibarba, which on current knowledge remains endemic on South Ironcap; instead, they comprise three distinct species, which are described here as Hibbertia arenicola K.R.Thiele, H. erioclada K.R.Thiele and H. elachophylla K.R.Thiele & T.Hammer. A fourth new species, H. lanulipes K.R.Thiele, is included in this paper as it is likely to be related to the others, despite being morphologically quite different from them. None of these species is widespread and some are likely to be rare and restricted.","PeriodicalId":490892,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Taxonomy","volume":" 63","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140384451","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":"Styphelia kinkuna (Ericaceae), a new species from the Wide Bay region of Queensland, Australia","authors":"A. R. Bean","doi":"10.54102/ajt.83vzs","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54102/ajt.83vzs","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":490892,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Taxonomy","volume":" 754","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140382879","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":"Hemigenia glaucissima (Lamiaceae), a rare new species from south-west Western Australia","authors":"Andrew J Perkins","doi":"10.54102/ajt.rgjuz","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54102/ajt.rgjuz","url":null,"abstract":"Hemigenia glaucissima, a rare species from south-western Western Australia, is here described with associated photographic images and distribution map. The new species is restricted to mallee eucalypt woodland in the south-eastern wheatbelt region of the state. Currently, it is only known from two nearby populations that were first collected during botanical surveys for a mining project near Parker Range.","PeriodicalId":490892,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Taxonomy","volume":" 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140383814","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":"Excastra albopilosa, a remarkable new genus and species of Lamiinae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from southeastern Queensland, Australia","authors":"James Tweed, Lauren G. Ashman, A. Ślipiński","doi":"10.54102/ajt.iv1x5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54102/ajt.iv1x5","url":null,"abstract":"A new genus and species of Cerambycidae from the subfamily Lamiinae is described from subtropical rainforest in southeastern Queensland, Australia. Excastra albopilosa gen. et sp. nov. is easily distinguished from all other Australian Lamiinae by its dense covering of short adpressed white setae and the long erect white setae forming twisted spires. A modification to the key to Australian Lamiinae genera is provided to accommodate Excastra gen. nov.","PeriodicalId":490892,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Taxonomy","volume":"23 47","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140226048","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 Phascolion (Phascolion) (Sipuncula, Golfingiidae) from bathyal benthos off the coast of Western Australia","authors":"Pan-Wen Hsueh, Christopher Glasby","doi":"10.54102/ajt.93q58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54102/ajt.93q58","url":null,"abstract":"A new species of Phascolion (Phascolion) Cutler & Cutler, 1985 from the benthos off Exmouth, Western Australia, is described. Phascolion (P.) exmouthensis sp. nov. can be readily distinguished from other members of the subgenus by the presence of distinctive rectangular papillae which form a collar on the anterior trunk (a new morphological feature for sipunculans), and introvert hooks with non-recurved tips and a narrow base on the bulbous area immediately behind the mouth. The new species and P. (P.) ushakovi Murina, 1974 are the only two (out of 13) species of Phascolion (Phascolion) known from Western Australia.","PeriodicalId":490892,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Taxonomy","volume":"11 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140413717","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":"Notes on the Queensland species of Hydrocotyle (Araliaceae)","authors":"A. R. Bean","doi":"10.54102/ajt.cok2e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54102/ajt.cok2e","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":490892,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Taxonomy","volume":"378 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140473319","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 member of the spider-parasitoid genus Panops Lamarck, 1804 (Diptera: Acroceridae) from Kangaroo Island","authors":"Richard V. Glatz","doi":"10.54102/ajt.8gztc","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54102/ajt.8gztc","url":null,"abstract":"Panops (Diptera: Acroceridae: Panopinae) is a distinctive genus of \"spider fly\" previously known from eight species occurring in Australia, and one species from Indonesia. Herein, another species is described, Panops infrequens sp. nov., currently known from one female specimen collected near Seal Bay on Kangaroo Island (South Australia) in 2008. This is the first record of Panops from Kangaroo Island and the tenth species of the genus to be described. The biology of this species is unknown, however, extant members of Panops are thought to be endoparasitoids of Mygalomorphae.","PeriodicalId":490892,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Taxonomy","volume":"9 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138589770","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}