{"title":"A new baviine species of the genus Maripanthus Maddison from India (Araneae: Salticidae)","authors":"J. Caleb, C. Francis, V. K. Bhat","doi":"10.35929/rsz.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/rsz.0045","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: A new species of the genus Maripanthus Maddison, 2020, M. gloria Caleb, sp. nov. (♂♀) is diagnosed and described from the Karnataka State of India. A map showing the distributional records of all known congeners is provided.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":"128 1","pages":"199 - 205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44637366","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}
D. Aléné, Youchawou Kouyam Nsangou, C. Djiéto‐Lordon, D. L. Queiroz, D. Burckhardt
{"title":"Psyllids (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) associated with Ficus vallis-choudae (Moraceae) in southern Cameroon: taxonomy and biology","authors":"D. Aléné, Youchawou Kouyam Nsangou, C. Djiéto‐Lordon, D. L. Queiroz, D. Burckhardt","doi":"10.35929/RSZ.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0032","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Homotoma chlamydodora Hollis & Bromfield, 1989 (Homotomidae) and Pauropsylla tatrichea Hollis, 1984 (Triozidae) are two poorly known psyllid species that develop on Ficus vallis-choudae. Based on material collected within the framework of biodiversity studies of psyllids (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) associated with Ficus spp. (Moraceae) in Cameroon, the taxonomy of the two psyllid species is revised and information on the biology is provided. In particular the previously unknown immatures of both species and the male of P. tatrichea are described and illustrated here. A tubercular process on the mesocoxa of P. tatrichea, a putative autapomorphy of Pauropsylla Rübsaamen, 1899 is described here for the first time. Both species are polyvoltine with overlapping generations. Immatures of H. chlamydodora develop under the stipules whereas those of P. tatrichea induce pit galls on the leaves. Both species appear to be restricted to Ficus vallis-choudae, at least locally.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":"128 1","pages":"1 - 13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46613726","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}
B. Babelhadj, C. Thorin, Atika Benaïssa, C. Guintard
{"title":"Etude biométrique du Scinque officinal ou « poisson de sable » Scincus scincus (Linnaeus, 1758) : analyse du dimorphisme sexuel de la sous-espèce S. s. scincus (Linnaeus, 1758) de la région d'El Oued Souf (Algérie)","authors":"B. Babelhadj, C. Thorin, Atika Benaïssa, C. Guintard","doi":"10.35929/rsz.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/rsz.0037","url":null,"abstract":"Résumé: Le Scinque officinal ou Poisson de sable Scincus scincus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Scincidae: Squamata) est un lézard qui a une aptitude à se mouvoir dans les sables du désert particulièrement remarquable. Il a fait l'objet d'études anatomo-fonctionnelles en lien avec sa locomotion originale, ainsi que récemment d'études sur sa valeur nutritionnelle comme source de protéines animales, mais à ce jour, aucun travail sur la biométrie ou sur le dimorphisme sexuel de cette espèce n'a été publié. Cette étude de la morphométrie externe de l'animal repose sur 100 individus adultes (50 mâles et 50 femelles) de la sous-espèce Scincus scincus scincus (Linnaeus, 1758) récupérés dans la région de El Oued Souf (Algérie) et vise à caractériser le dimorphisme sexuel de l'espèce. En plus du poids vif des individus, 11 paramètres linéaires ont été mesurés par animal et 3 indices de forme ont été calculés. Pour chaque variable, une valeur seuil permettant de discriminer au mieux les mâles des femelles est proposée. Le modèle linéaire généralisé multivarié le plus discriminant intègre CT (le périmètre thoracique), T (la longueur de la tête) et LmP (la longueur du membre pelvien). Cependant, la mesure T, considérée seule, discrimine avec un faible taux d'erreur.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":"128 1","pages":"85 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41492117","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}
{"title":"An integrative taxonomic classification and description of two new Cryptorhynchinae from Northwest Africa (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)","authors":"Peter E. Stüben, A. Schütte","doi":"10.35929/RSZ.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0038","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Two new species, Acalles romani and Echinodera philippei, are described from Algeria and Morocco and are distinguished from related species. They are incorporated in the current key to the North African Acalles and Echinodera species. In addition to morphological characters, first molecular results (DNA barcoding) are presented. The new taxa are included in phylogram of the most closely related species from Northwest Africa, Spain, Italy and the Iberian Peninsula.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":"128 1","pages":"93 - 105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49219900","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}
{"title":"Taxonomic notes on the genus Cyphochilus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Melolonthinae) (part 4) with description of eight new species from Indochina and China","authors":"G. Sabatinelli, Phú Phạm","doi":"10.35929/RSZ.0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0042","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Cyphochilus brancuccii n. sp., C. hlai n. sp., C. nanzhao n. sp., C. keithi n. sp., C nguyendui n. sp., C. nguyenvanvinhi n. sp., C. phamthinhiae n. sp., and C. zianii n. sp. are described based on the study of about 570 specimens. These species are largely distributed in Laos and Vietnam, marginally in Myanmar, Thailand, and South China. Previously they were confused with C. ventriglaber Brenske, 1903. The parameres and distribution of the nine species here treated are illustrated.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":"128 1","pages":"157 - 172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42156300","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}
O. M. Entiauspe-Neto, Arthur Tiutenko, Weverton Dos Santos Azevedo, A. D. Abegg
{"title":"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence: on the taxonomic identity of Phalotris cerradensis Silveira, 2020","authors":"O. M. Entiauspe-Neto, Arthur Tiutenko, Weverton Dos Santos Azevedo, A. D. Abegg","doi":"10.35929/RSZ.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0034","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Phalotris Cope, 1862 is a fossorial dipsadid snake genus that encompasses 15 species, distributed mainly in open areas from Northeastern Brazil to Southern Argentina. Some of its species are known from small series, and there is little to no knowledge on their morphological variation and species delimitations. In this work, we analyze the taxonomic status of Phalotris cerradensis Silveira, 2020, a recently described species known from a single specimen, and provide evidence for its synonymy with Phalotris concolor Ferrarezzi, 1993.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":"128 1","pages":"53 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48558179","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}
{"title":"A new species of Garypus (Pseudoscorpiones: Garypidae) from southern Thailand","authors":"M. Harvey","doi":"10.35929/RSZ.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0047","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: A new pseudoscorpion species of the genus Garypus, G. schwendingeri, is described from a seashore habitat in southern Thailand.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":"128 1","pages":"221 - 225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48376565","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}
V. Hoang, Jianping Jiang, Quoc Huy Nguyen, N. Orlov, V. M. Le, V. Nguyen, V. Nguyen, T. Nguyen, T. Ziegler
{"title":"A new species of Vietnamophryne from Vietnam","authors":"V. Hoang, Jianping Jiang, Quoc Huy Nguyen, N. Orlov, V. M. Le, V. Nguyen, V. Nguyen, T. Nguyen, T. Ziegler","doi":"10.35929/RSZ.0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0046","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: A new species of the genus Vietnamophryne is described from Vu Quang National Park in North Vietnam based on molecular phylogenetic and morphological analyses. The new species is morphologically distinct from congeners and can be easily distinguished from all other members of the genus Vietnamophryne by (1) body size males (n=4) 14.12-14.91 mm; females (n=9) 15.15-17.33 mm; (2) dorsal skin shagreened with small flat pustules loosely scattered on back in males, mostly smooth, slightly shagreened posteriorly, lacking enlarged tubercles in females; (3) belly color ivory-lemon to lemon-yellow with weak dark-brown marbling in males, bright lemon-yellow with weak dark-brown marbling in females; (4) tympanum relatively faint, comparatively small, rounded, 5.4-6.0% of SVL in males, 4.8-6.2% of SVL in females; (5) ratio snout length to eye length 119-128% in males, 100-130 % in females; (6) ratio head width to head length 117-124% in males, 110-131% in females; and (7) ratio first finger to second finger 43-49% in males, 44-50% in females. In the phylogenetic analysis the new species revealed to be sister to V. inexpectata, with 4.3-4.6% divergence in the 16SrRNA gene. So far, the new species is only known from the evergreen tropical forests of Vu Quang National Park at an elevation of 966 m a.s.l. This is the third species of Vietnamophryne reported from Vietnam.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":"128 1","pages":"207 - 219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42395246","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}
{"title":"Scaphisomatini of Arizona (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scaphidiinae) collected by V-Flight Intercept Traps","authors":"I. Löbl, R. Leschen, W. Warner","doi":"10.35929/RSZ.0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0043","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Records are given for 15 Scaphisomatini species captured by V-flight intercept traps in Arizona. Baeocera hamata Löbl & Stephan, B. nana Casey and Toxidium gammaroides LeConte are recorded for the first time from Arizona, B. arizonensis sp. nov., B. obscura sp. nov. B. vintercepta sp. nov. and Scaphisoma declivum sp. nov. are described as new. Scaphisoma dakotanum Fall is synonymized with S. desertorum Casey. The aedeagi of Scaphisoma desertorum Casey, S. rufulum LeConte, and S. rubens Casey are illustrated for the first time. A key to the Arizona species of Scaphisoma Leach is provided. A new iteration of the V-flight intercept trap is described and the diversity of Arizona Scaphisomatini is discussed.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":"128 1","pages":"173 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41696832","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}
{"title":"Mayfly types and additional material (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) examined by F.-J. Pictet and A.-E. Pictet, housed in the Museums of Natural History of Geneva and Vienna","authors":"M. Sartori, E. Bauernfeind","doi":"10.35929/RSZ.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Here we revise the entire Ephemeroptera collection of F.-J. Pictet deposited in the Natural History Museum of Geneva (MHNG) and voucher specimens housed in the Natural History Museum of Vienna (NMW). Due to several unforeseen turns of events, the MHNG collection was already in bad condition at the end of the 19th century. However, the specimens sent by V. Kollar to F.-J. Pictet, and used by the latter for his monograph (1843-1845), have been well curated after their return to the NMW and allow an important nomenclatural change. The species Baetis forcipula F.-J. Pictet, 1843 is now considered a junior subjective synonym of Ephemera venosa Fabricius, 1775, currently Ecdyonurus (Ecdyonurus) venosus (Fabricius, 1775). The specimens described by Thomas in 1968b from southwestern France under the name Ecdyonurus forcipula (F.-J. Pictet, 1843) belong to a new species, Ecdyonurus alaini Bauernfeind sp. nov., which is described herein. Mayfly specimens described by F.-J. Pictet's son, A.-E. Pictet, are also reviewed. Furthermore, information is provided on some other valuable specimens housed in the MHNG and NMW, such as Ametropus fragilis Albarda, 1878 which was already collected in Italy in the 19th century, or Rhithrogena cincta Navás, 1921 from the Spanish Pyrenees, which is the second specimen currently known of this species.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":"127 1","pages":"315 - 339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42571827","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}