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{"title":"Taxonomic status of Xyrosaris melanopsamma Meyrick, 1931 (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae) with notes on congeneric species in East Asia","authors":"M. Ponomarenko, S. Y. Sinev","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5486.3.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5486.3.2","url":null,"abstract":"The species Xyrosaris melanopsamma Meyrick, 1931, stat. rev. is reinstated from synonymy with X. lichneuta Meyrick, 1918 based on morphological analysis of the female genitalia. The association of conspecific males and females of X. melanopsamma is confirmed by molecular analysis using a fragment of the mtCOI gene and by studying material reared from larvae collected in the local population on Rikord Island. The genitalia of both sexes are illustrated. The recently described species X. vaginata Bae et Na, 2024 is treated as a junior subjective synonym of X. melanopsamma Meyrick, 1931. An annotated checklist of Xyrosaris spp. from East Asia is provided.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":507495,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141802181","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":"Description of a new species of Haemaphysalis Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae), a parasite of hares and rabbits (Lagomorpha: Leporidae) in Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado (USA), that was misidentified as H. leporispalustris (Packard, 1869) for more than a century","authors":"Dmitry A. Apanaskevich","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5486.3.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5486.3.6","url":null,"abstract":"Haemaphysalis (Gonixodes) mariae n. sp. (Acari: Ixodidae) is described based on males and females that were collected from leporids in the United States (Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas). Adults of this new species are similar to those of H. leporispalustris (Packard, 1869), but can be distinguished from them by the punctation pattern of the conscutum and scutum, length of the lateral grooves, length of the lateral salience of palpal segment II, shape of palpal segment III, shape and length of spur on palpal segment III, and on coxa I, as well as by measurements and their ratios. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":507495,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"10 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141801893","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":"Descriptions of larvae of four mainly DNA barcode-matched species of chlorocyphids from south-east Asia (Odonata: Chlorocyphidae) with notes on the generic and species level larval identification of Oriental region members of the family.","authors":"Albert G. Orr, R. Dow, Philip O. M. Steinhoff","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5486.3.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5486.3.1","url":null,"abstract":"The final stadium larvae of the following four species of south-east Asian Chlorocyphidae are described and compared: Aristocypha fenestrella (Rambur), Heliocypha biseriata (Selys), Libellago hyalina (Selys) and Sundacypha petiolata (Selys), including both sexes for the latter two species. Excepting one L. hyalina specimen from Brunei, identified by supposition based on habitat, all specimens were identified by comparing and matching the mitochondrial marker COI with that of known adult specimens from Sarawak, Brunei and several localities throughout tropical Asia. The specimens presented close matches with all adults in this gene. An assessment of the efficacy of this method of identification is provided, noting that in some cases close species cannot be separated by bar-code matching and ultimate determination is partially based on known distributions of adults. Some aspects of the relationships among genera revealed by the genetic analyses are also discussed. In addition, an exuvia of Libellago lineata (Burmeister) from northern Thailand, identified by supposition, is partially described for the purpose of comparison with L. hyalina. For the morphological analysis the unique features of chlorocyphid anatomy are discussed, and some new terminology is introduced. Overall, the morphological analysis revealed numerous clear differences between the four species studied, and comparisons with available literature suggest that some of these may be characteristic of their genera. It is also evident that in some cases clear interspecific differences occur within genera. It is however concluded that a generic level larval key for the Oriental region Chlorocyphidae based on morphology may never be attainable, although local generic or even species level keys addressing the fauna of limited geographic areas may be possible in many places, especially as the larvae of more species come to be known and described in detail. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":507495,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"58 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141799348","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":"Bird names as critical communication infrastructure in the contexts of history, language, and culture","authors":"Kevin Winker","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5486.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5486.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"Standardized taxonomies and lists of birds were created to improve communication. They are linguistic infrastructure―biodiversity indices and dictionaries―that have been painstakingly built and maintained and that have enhanced regional and global participation in the study and enjoyment of birds. Inclusion of people has been a core objective in creating and maintaining these standardized lists, and dissatisfaction and desires to overwrite objectionable names have been associated with them for nearly two centuries. Suggestions that bird names should be changed are continuous. Today, these suggestions include the view that some bird names must be changed to make them more accurate, inoffensive, and culturally appropriate to further increase diversity and inclusion among ornithologists and bird watchers. The latter, meritorious goal has been largely successful thus far despite many ongoing objections. Historic examples indicate that large-scale name changes, however, are not needed to accomplish major societal goals of inclusion. Some barriers to inclusion likely remain, and some changes are likely needed for English names. Often overlooked or underappreciated in name change discussions are that: 1) standardized names lists have had numerically staggering success in fostering inclusion of diverse participants globally; 2) stability is vital in such systems, and destabilization has exclusionary effects; 3) dissatisfaction with such lists and the names they include has been ongoing since these naming systems began; 4) important flexibilities exist in conjunction with these communication systems that enhance local and regional communication (e.g., alternative names in English and other languages); and 5) cultural values, important as they are, are neither universally shared nor constant, and thus risk bringing divisiveness and instability when used as a central reason for change. Consideration of standardized lists of bird names as communication systems in the fuller context of history, language, and culture will improve our management of these systems and their continued utility in fostering inclusion. With standardized, stable naming systems acting as a skeleton, proactively building outwards, both within and among languages and cultures, offers a positive and productive way to increase inclusion and to improve cultural and biodiversity conservation.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":507495,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141805212","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":"Cryptic invasions of Pseudopolydora (Annelida: Spionidae), with description of a new species from Queensland, Australia","authors":"V. Radashevsky, V. V. Malyar, V. Pankova","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5486.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5486.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"During surveys worldwide, we collected adult and larval specimens of Pseudopolydora Czerniavsky, 1881 similar to P. achaeta Radashevsky & Hsieh, 2000 and P. rosebelae Radashevsky & Migotto, 2009 far from their type localities in Taiwan and Brazil, respectively. Analysis of sequence data of five gene fragments: mitochondrial COI and 16S rDNA, nuclear 18S rDNA and 28S rDNA, and Histone 3 (3114 bp in total) of individuals from Nha Trang Bay (Vietnam), São Paulo (Brazil), Florida (USA), and the Caribbean Sea (Martinique) confirmed their conspecificity with P. achaeta from Taiwan. Based on the morphology, we also report this species for the first time for the East Sea (South Korea) and provide new records for the north-western part of the Sea of Japan (Russia). The analysis also showed the conspecificity of worms from Vietnam with P. rosebelae from Brazil. Based on the morphology, we also report P. rosebelae for the first time for the Caribbean Sea (Belize), South China Sea (Thailand), and Hawaii. Developed pelagic larvae of P. achaeta and P. rosebelae from Nha Trang Bay are described and illustrated. A worm from the Great Barrier Reef (Queensland, Australia) earlier identified as P. cf. rosebelae, is referred to the new species Pseudopolydora nivea sp. nov. Following our earlier hypothesis about the origin of Pseudopolydora in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean, we explain the occurrence of these worms, including Pseudopolydora floridensis Delgado-Blas, 2008, on the Atlantic coasts of North and South America by unintentional transportation in ballast water, followed by successful invasions. We assume that the penetration of warm waters of the East China Sea through the Korea Strait and the warming of the waters of the Sea of Japan have led to the extension of the range of tropical-subtropical P. achaeta to the north-western part of the Sea of Japan.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":507495,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"11 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141803178","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":"Redescription of the deep-sea benthic ctenophore genus Tjalfiella from the North Atlantic (Class Tentaculata, Order Platyctenida, Family Tjalfiellidae)","authors":"Nicholas Bezio, Allen G. Collins","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5486.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5486.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"Some of the most fascinating and poorly known animals on this planet are comb jellies of the phylum Ctenophora. About one-quarter of ctenophore richness is encompassed by the benthic species of the order Platyctenida, nearly all known from shallow waters. In this work, we integrate several systematic methods to elucidate an enigmatic genus, Tjalfiella, known previously only from deep waters near the western coastline of Greenland in the North Atlantic. For the first time, we employ microCT on museum specimens—one nearly 100 years old from the type locality of the only known species of the genus, T. tristoma—of extant ctenophores to visualize and compare their anatomy. With these data, we integrate in situ videography and genetic sequence data derived from newly collected deep sea specimens observed via NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer in 2018 and 2022 at two distant localities in the North Atlantic, near North Carolina, USA, and the Azores, Portugal. The genetic data indicate that the newly collected specimens represent closely related but distinct species of Tjalfiella. However, neither can be named at this time because neither one could be definitively differentiated from T. tristoma, given that microCT and in situ imagery reveal striking morphological similarities and only variation in color and host preference. Despite the lack of new species descriptions, this work characterizes both the morphology and genetics of the benthic ctenophore genus Tjalfiella and specimens representing species within it, advancing our understanding of a rarely observed component of the deep-sea fauna.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":507495,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"57 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141804631","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 the leafhopper tribes Agalliini and Macropsini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from north and northeast India with checklist of species of the tribes from the Indian subcontinent","authors":"C. A. Viraktamath, H. M. Yeshwanth, K. M. Ajaykumara","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5486.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5486.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"One new species of Agalliini, Nandigallia serratistyla sp. nov. and one new species of Macropsini, Oncopisis (Parasitades) ramanii sp. nov. from Arunachal Pradesh, India are described and illustrated. New locality records for Durgades nigropicta Distant, Igerna priyankae Viraktamath, I. shillongensis Meshram, I. wilsoni Viraktamath and Varicopsella elegans Viraktamath are given and most of these species are illustrated. A revised key to species of Nandigallia Viraktamath is provided. In addition, checklists of genera and species of the tribes Agalliini and Macropsini recorded from the Indian subcontinent are also provided. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":507495,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"101 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141802587","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":"Two new species and a new record of Bactrocera Macquart (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae: Dacini) from India with an updated key to species of subgenus Bactrocera","authors":"Venkateshaiah Abhishek, K. J. David, Shivanand Pradeep","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5486.2.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5486.2.6","url":null,"abstract":"Two new species of genus Bactrocera Macquart, namely Bactrocera (Bactrocera) ettinanhuja Abhishek and David, sp. nov. and Bactrocera (Bactrocera) kyrdemkulai Abhishek & David, sp. nov., are described from Western Ghats and Northeast India, respectively. Bactrocera (Bactrocera) wuzhishana Lin & Yang, is recorded for the first time from India. An updated key to Indian fruit flies of subgenus Bactrocera Macquart is also provided.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":507495,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"12 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141803269","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":"Whip black corals (Antipatharia: Antipathidae: Stichopathes) of the Mesophotic Coral Ecosystem of Mo’orea (French Polynesia), with the description of a new species","authors":"L. Terrana, H. Rouzé, D. Opresko, Under The Pole Consortium, I. Eeckhaut, P. Dubois, L. Hédouin, M. Godefroid","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5486.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5486.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"Black corals are key species of marine ecosystems. They can be found in dense aggregations worldwide, but some parts of the world remain totally unexplored. This is the case of the Mesophotic Coral Ecosystem of Mo’orea where the Under the Pole scientific expedition explored mesophotic ecosystems between 60 and 120 m depth and focused on whip black corals. A total of 64 specimens were analyzed morphologically and genetically, and all belonged to the genus Stichopathes. Among them, we describe the new species Stichopathes desaturata sp. nov. It is characterized by an unbranched corallum, irregularly sinuous, with a basal diameter not exceeding 1 mm, reaching a dozen of cm in height. The polyps measure 0.50–1.0 mm in transverse diameter, the interpolypar space is well defined and up to 0.50 mm, with 6–8 polyps per cm. The polypar spines are taller than abpolypar spines, reaching 0.13 mm, perpendicular to the corallum, and conical with a pointed tip, with round and/or elongated papillae on two thirds of the spine. The abpolypar spines are conical to triangular, inclined upwards, with the same ornamentation as the polypar spines. We also identified specimens assigned as Stichopathes cf. contorta and four other putative species. Genetic analyses showed that Mo’orea specimens grouped in three different clades. Analyses of endosymbionts showed that the association with Symbiodiniaceae was likely not involved in the process of host species delineation. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":507495,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"1 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141804823","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 Angursa (Tardigrada, Heterotardigrada) from the White Sea, North Russia","authors":"A. Tchesunov, Maria A. Fedyaeva","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5486.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5486.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"A new species of Angursa (Tardigrada, Heterotardigrada, Styraconyxidae) found on an intertidal sandy beach in Kandalaksha Bay, White Sea, North Russia is described. The new species Angursa olenevskii sp. n. differs clearly from all other Angursa species in having equally long sense organs on legs I–III, long peduncles on the external digits extended to the claw, and evident absence of secondary and tertiary clavae (with possible exception of A. bicuspis).\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":507495,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"63 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141808421","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}