TaxonomyPub Date : 2024-01-08DOI: 10.3390/taxonomy4010004
Mathias Harzhauser
{"title":"Looking Back on 2023—A Fruitful Year for Taxonomy","authors":"Mathias Harzhauser","doi":"10.3390/taxonomy4010004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/taxonomy4010004","url":null,"abstract":"The turn of the year is a good opportunity to reflect on the past year and summarize the milestones [...]","PeriodicalId":506775,"journal":{"name":"Taxonomy","volume":"33 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139447850","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}
TaxonomyPub Date : 2024-01-07DOI: 10.3390/taxonomy4010003
Joachim Schmidt, Yeshitla Merene
{"title":"Taxonomy, Distribution and Habitat of the Giant Trechus Beetles Endemic to Mt. Choke, Ethiopia (Coleoptera: Carabidae)","authors":"Joachim Schmidt, Yeshitla Merene","doi":"10.3390/taxonomy4010003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/taxonomy4010003","url":null,"abstract":"The Holarctic ground beetle genus Trechus Clairville, 1806, is highly diverse in the Ethiopian highlands, both in terms of species numbers and morphology. Particularly noteworthy are the extraordinarily large species of the subgenus Abyssinotus Quéinnec and Ollivier, 2021, with a body length up to 8.5 mm, that occur on Mt. Choke in northern Ethiopia. Recent, intensive field work on Mt. Choke resulted in a significantly large number of specimens that are the basis for our taxonomic revision of the species related to the giant species, T. dimorphicus Pawłowski, 2001 and T. gigas Pawłowski, 2001. We describe three new species and one new subspecies and discuss a likely interspecific hybrid that combines morphological character states of representatives of the dimorphicus and gigas subgroups of Abyssinotus. An iconography of males and females as well as photographs of the aedeagi of all the considered species are presented. The distributions of the species are detailed and knowledge of the species-specific habitat preferences is summarized. Based on the distributions and habitat specificity, a threat assessment based on the current land use pattern at Mt. Choke is provided.","PeriodicalId":506775,"journal":{"name":"Taxonomy","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139449127","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}
TaxonomyPub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.3390/taxonomy4010001
L. O. Alvarado-Cárdenas, J. F. PÍO-LEÓN, G. Morillo, C. S. Islas-Hernández
{"title":"A New Gonolobus Species (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae) from Sinaloa, Mexico","authors":"L. O. Alvarado-Cárdenas, J. F. PÍO-LEÓN, G. Morillo, C. S. Islas-Hernández","doi":"10.3390/taxonomy4010001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/taxonomy4010001","url":null,"abstract":"In this study a new species of Gonolobus, G. villasenorii, is described. It is endemic to Sinaloa, Mexico, distributed in the Sierra Madre Occidental in pine–oak forest. This species is characterized by the presence of lanceolate sepals, margin of the corolla lobes with a whitish-green callus, without being cristate, and anthers with rectangular dorsal appendages. The new species is compared to Gonolobus chloranthus and Gonolobus erianthus. Gonolobus grandiflorus, Gonolobus incerianus, and Gonolobus lozadae are species with which it shares reticulate corollas and flowers more than 2 cm in diameter. A detailed description of the new species includes data on its habitat, ecology, phenology, conservation status, a distribution map, and a section where the new species is compared with similar species and how to recognize it.","PeriodicalId":506775,"journal":{"name":"Taxonomy","volume":"69 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139390007","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}
TaxonomyPub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.3390/taxonomy4010002
Eluzai Dinai Pinto Sandoval, Wlodzimierz Jędrzejewski, Jesús Molinari, M. Vozdova, H. Cernohorska, S. Kubíčková, A. M. Bernegossi, R. Caparroz, José Mauricio Barbanti Duarte
{"title":"Description of Bisbalus, a New Genus for the Gray Brocket, Mazama cita Osgood, 1912 (Mammalia, Cervidae), as a Step to Solve the Neotropical Deer Puzzle","authors":"Eluzai Dinai Pinto Sandoval, Wlodzimierz Jędrzejewski, Jesús Molinari, M. Vozdova, H. Cernohorska, S. Kubíčková, A. M. Bernegossi, R. Caparroz, José Mauricio Barbanti Duarte","doi":"10.3390/taxonomy4010002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/taxonomy4010002","url":null,"abstract":"The Neotropical deer genus Mazama is characterized by homoplastic morphological characters, a high karyotypic diversity, and a polyphyletic condition. The species of the genus have been recovered into two multigeneric lineages, the subtribes Odocoileina and Blastocerina, of the tribe Odocoileini (New World deer) in the family Cervidae. Within the Blastocerina, gray brockets include two non-sister species, Subulo gouazoubira, occurring south of the Amazon region, and Passalites nemorivagus, occurring in the Guianas and in the Amazon region. We clarify the taxonomic status and phylogenetic position of Mazama americana citus Osgood, 1912 (referred to as either S. gouazoubira or P. nemorivagus by other authors). We collected a topotype of M. a. citus from the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, characterize it morphologically and cytogenetically (conventional banding and fluorescence in situ hybridization), and carry out a phylogenetic analysis of its whole mitogenome and Cytb alongside two additional specimens of M. a. citus from northwestern Venezuela. Our analyses reveal the topotype to be a large gray brocket with a cinnamon band above the eyes and 2n = 61 and FN = 70 karyotype. Using cattle whole chromosome painting and bacterial artificial chromosome X probes, we determined its karyotype to differ in at least 10 rearrangements from that of S. gouazoubira. Bayesian inference recovers M. a. citus within the Blastocerina subtribe, separated phylogenetically from other gray brockets (100% branch value), revealing the Osgood’s gray brocket to be a valid species that should be assigned to a new genus. We propose the generic name Bisbalus, with Bisbalus citus (Osgood, 1912) as the type species.","PeriodicalId":506775,"journal":{"name":"Taxonomy","volume":"64 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139390571","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}
TaxonomyPub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.3390/taxonomy3040031
K. Sasakawa
{"title":"A New and Little-Known Species of the Ground Beetle Genus Nebria Subgenus Falcinebria Ledoux and Roux, 2005 (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from Japan","authors":"K. Sasakawa","doi":"10.3390/taxonomy3040031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/taxonomy3040031","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents additional notes on the carabid genus Nebria subgenus Falcinebria Ledoux and Roux, 2005 from Japan: a description of a new species Nebria suzukana sp. nov. from Mt. Gozaishodake; a new distribution and the southwesternmost collection record of Nebria furcata Sasakawa, 2020 from Mt. Uchimiyama; an additional record of Nebria kobushicola Sasakawa, 2023 from the Yatsugatake Mountains; and an additional record of an undetermined species from the Iide Mountains that was previously treated as Nebria taketoi Habu, 1962, with a note on its habitat. In addition, a key to the known species of Nebria (Falcinebria) from Honshu is provided.","PeriodicalId":506775,"journal":{"name":"Taxonomy","volume":"11 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139182540","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}
TaxonomyPub Date : 2023-12-09DOI: 10.3390/taxonomy3040030
K. George, Andreina Zey, Jana Packmor
{"title":"The Relationship between the Rhizothrichidae Por (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) and the Cletodoidea Bowman & Abele, Including the Establishment of a New Genus and the Description of a New Species","authors":"K. George, Andreina Zey, Jana Packmor","doi":"10.3390/taxonomy3040030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/taxonomy3040030","url":null,"abstract":"During expedition EMB-238 of RV EM BORGESE to the Fehmarn Belt (Baltic Sea, Germany) in 2020, specimens of a new species of the Rhizothrichidae Por (Crustacea, Copepoda, Harpacticoida) were found. Currently, Rhizothrichidae enclose two genera: Rhizothrix Sars and Tryphoema Monard. The assignment of the new species is based on the following commonly derived characters: the formation of a strong spinulose (sub)apical element on the last segment of the female A1, and the formation of a long brush seta on the last exopodal and endopodal segments of the P1. The new species could not be assigned to either Rhizothrix or Tryphoema because it lacks their autapomorphies but presents exclusive derived characters, including the absence of the abexopodal seta on the A2 allobasis, the possession of only one seta on the endopods of P2–P4, and the fusion of the female P5 exopod and baseoendopod. Therefore, it is assigned to a new genus. Besides the species description, its phylogenetic position in the Rhizothrichidae as well as its possible relationship with Rhizothrix and Tryphoema are discussed. Furthermore, the affiliation of the Rhizothrichidae with the Cletodoidea is justified on the basis of 17 apomorphies. A key to the rhizothrichid genera is provided.","PeriodicalId":506775,"journal":{"name":"Taxonomy","volume":"9 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139184876","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}
TaxonomyPub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.3390/taxonomy3040028
P. Moret, Anderson Arenas-Clavijo, M. López-Victoria
{"title":"Description of a Highly Modified Endemic Ground Beetle (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from the Oceanic Island of Malpelo, Colombia","authors":"P. Moret, Anderson Arenas-Clavijo, M. López-Victoria","doi":"10.3390/taxonomy3040028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/taxonomy3040028","url":null,"abstract":"The oceanic island of Malpelo, 380 km west of the Colombian mainland, stands out from other islands of the Tropical Eastern Pacific by its harsh environment and depauperate flora and fauna, thus imposing strong selective pressure on the small number of invertebrates that inhabit it. The endemic taxon described here, Dyscolus (Cacothrix) malpelensis, n. subgen., n. sp. (Carabidae, Platynini), is a remarkable example of adaptation to this unique ecosystem. The modifications of its body shape, including a tight coaptation of elytra and pronotum, might be a response to strong environmental constraints, from predation by lizards and land crabs to the absence of deep soil that forces the beetle to seek shelter in caves and rock crevices.","PeriodicalId":506775,"journal":{"name":"Taxonomy","volume":"149 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139247003","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}