R. Draghi, F. Drago, Pablo E. Saibene, M. G. Agostini
{"title":"Helminth communities from amphibians inhabiting agroecosystems in the Pampean Region (Argentina)","authors":"R. Draghi, F. Drago, Pablo E. Saibene, M. G. Agostini","doi":"10.35929/RSZ.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The objectives of this study were to describe the composition and infection patterns of the helminth communities associated with four amphibians (P. minuta, B. pulchella, L. latrans and R. fernandezae) with different life-habits, and additionally to compare the helmith fauna associated with these amphibians in agroecosystems with different land use (crops and livestock). A total of 300 anuran individuals and twelve helminth taxa were collected in sites located northeast of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Helminth communities differed between amphibian species according to their habitat preference, digeneans were predominant in aquatic and arboreal amphibians (Hylidae) and nematodes with direct life cycle were found parasitizing semi-aquatic and terrestrial amphibians (Leptodactylidae and Bufonidae). In three of the frog species (B. pulchella, L. latrans and R. fernandezae), parasite prevalence did not vary significantly according to land use. The values of abundance and infracommunity species richness, meanwhile, varied according to land use, with the highest abundance values in crop sites and higher richness in livestock sites. Regardless of the use of land, L. latrans presented the highest values of prevalence, abundance, and richness of helminth species. This is the first study assessing the ecological aspects of parasite taxa in populations of P. minuta, B. pulchella and L. latrans that inhabit agroecosystems in Argentina.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":"127 1","pages":"261 - 274"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46923946","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. Lorenzo, A. Ricarte, Zorica Nedeljković, J. Nieves‐Aldrey, M. Marcos-garcía
{"title":"Hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of El Ventorrillo Biological Station, Madrid province, Spain: a perspective from a late twentieth century inventory","authors":"D. Lorenzo, A. Ricarte, Zorica Nedeljković, J. Nieves‐Aldrey, M. Marcos-garcía","doi":"10.35929/rsz.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/rsz.0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Temporal comparisons of a site's biodiversity depend on the availability of at least two asynchronous data sets on a bioindicator group. The Sierra de Guadarrama, a mountain range in central Spain has a high biodiversity and representative sites such as El Ventorrillo Biological Station (Madrid province) play an important role in research and monitoring of the Sierra biodiversity. Although unevenly and randomly, hoverflies of the Sierra de Guadarrama have been surveyed for decades, but never at El Ventorrillo. This important group of pollinators, aphid predators and bioindicators was sampled with a Malaise trap at El Ventorrillo from June 1989 to June 1990. A total of 51 species were identified (20 spp. of Eristalinae and 31 spp. of Syrphinae), 22 of which were new to the Sierra de Guadarrama and 17 to the Madrid province. The genera Brachypalpus and Didea were also new to the Madrid province. The Sierra de Guadarrama now has 126 species recorded and the Madrid province 150. Within the Sierra de Guadarrama, El Ventorrillo becomes the second locality in number of hoverfly species recorded after El Escorial (64 spp.). In the Malaise trap catch, hoverflies with zoophagous larvae had a higher representation than those of other guilds, both in species richness and abundance. The results provided here for El Ventorrillo represent a baseline for future biodiversity studies at this site with a similar experimental design, for example, to detect changes in hoverfly diversities along time.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":"127 1","pages":"393 - 412"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41687702","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 mysterious dwarf: Suthepiidae nov. fam., a new harvestman family from mountains of northern Thailand (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores)","authors":"J. Martens","doi":"10.35929/RSZ.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: A new family of laniatorean harvestmen from northern Thailand is proposed, Suthepiidae fam. nov., which comprises one new genus and one new species, Suthepia inermis sp. nov. This family stands out by characters hitherto unknown or rarely recorded for Opiliones, and close relatives of this taxon are presently not discernible. Important characters are a short and compact penis with a massively enlarged distal part with a rich armament of sclerites and membranes which can be moved and everted by hemolymph pressure during mating; the pedipalp of males and females is without raptorial adaptations, i.e. elevated sockets (= apophyses) carrying strong distal spines are completely absent, therefore no prey capture basket is present; the male pedipalpal tarsus is enlarged and compressed, its dorso-distal double apophysis presumably contains a gland; the pedipalpal claw is weak, not longer or stronger than long hyaline setae on the dorso-distal apophysis of the tarsus. The only specimens presently known were found in litter of a few forested mountain stocks, between 450 m and 1400 m altitude. A brief overview of Southeast Asian laniatorean families is presented.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":"127 1","pages":"381 - 391"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44924078","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}
Helen Y. Janssen, Jin-Long Ren, Jiatang Li, W. Zeng, T. Nguyen, T. Nguyen, Quynh Thi Thuy Bui, H. Ngo, M. Le, T. Ziegler
{"title":"Range extension and extended diagnosis of Lycodon pictus: First country record from China","authors":"Helen Y. Janssen, Jin-Long Ren, Jiatang Li, W. Zeng, T. Nguyen, T. Nguyen, Quynh Thi Thuy Bui, H. Ngo, M. Le, T. Ziegler","doi":"10.35929/RSZ.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The Painted Wolf Snake, Lycodon pictus, was recently described based on the type series from Trung Khanh and Ha Lang districts in Cao Bang Province, northern Vietnam. Herein, we report new findings and a range extension of the recently described species. One individual was collected close by the type locality, in Ha Lang District, Cao Bang Province, Vietnam and another one in Nonggang National Nature Reserve, Longzhou County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, approximately 60 km apart from the type locality. Both specimens generally accorded with the morphological diagnosis of L. pictus provided in the original description. Molecular analyses supported the morphological findings: the newly collected specimens were approximately 0.3-0.9% (cyt b) genetically divergent from those of the type series. Molecular analyses also revealed that the holotype of L. pictus, for which no sequences were available so far, showed, based on the results of a formalin protocol, about 0.9-1.3% differentiation from the remaining type series, 0.5% from the new record from Cao Bang and 0.9% from the new record from China. Based on the morphological and molecular findings, we herein present the first country record of L. pictus from China, with a detailed morphological description of the specimen from Nonggang National Nature Reserve and slightly extend the original diagnosis of the species.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":"127 1","pages":"413 - 422"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48170339","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 Diartiger Sharp from Sichuan, China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)","authors":"Zi-Wei Yin, Li He","doi":"10.35929/RSZ.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Diartiger wangzheni Yin & He, sp. nov. is diagnosed, described, and illustrated based on a male specimen collected in Sichuan, southwestern China. The new species was found in association with Lasius ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) under a flat rock. An updated key to the males of Diartiger species known from China is provided.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":"127 1","pages":"361 - 366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48996753","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":"Hidden in plain sight: six millipede species (Myriapoda: Diplopoda) new for the fauna of Switzerland","authors":"José D. Gilgado","doi":"10.35929/RSZ.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Diplopoda are poorly studied in many regions. The last comprehensive work on the millipede fauna of Switzerland was published in 1993 and listed 124 outdoor-living species. Recent sampling efforts have resulted in the discovery of six millipede species of European origin that were not previously known to occur in Switzerland: Cylindroiulus britannicus (Verhoeff, 1891), C. salicivorus Verhoeff, 1908, C. vulnerarius (Berlese, 1888), Heteroiulus intermedius (Brölemann, 1892), Anamastigona pulchella (Silvestri, 1894) and Macrosternodesmus palicola Brölemann, 1908. None of them is currently invasive in Switzerland, but some are rapidly expanding across Europe and other regions of the world. A species which was previously only known from northern Italy, H. intermedius, was found in a forest close to Bellinzona. It is likely a native Swiss species which has previously been overlooked. The other five species were collected in human-made habitats in the city of Basel and its surroundings, suggesting human-caused introduction. Two species, C. britannicus and M. palicola, likely have an Atlantic origin, while the three remaining species, C. salicivorus, C. vulnerarius and A. pulchella, are originally from Italy. The biogeography of these six species is discussed, and photographs of specimens of each species and their gonopods are presented.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":"127 1","pages":"249 - 259"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45661774","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}
P. Schwendinger, Christina Lehmann-Graber, K. Hongpadharakiree, Nur Syuhadah
{"title":"New euagrid spider species from Thailand and Malaysia, and new localities of Leptothele bencha (Arachnida: Araneae)","authors":"P. Schwendinger, Christina Lehmann-Graber, K. Hongpadharakiree, Nur Syuhadah","doi":"10.35929/RSZ.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Leptothele chang Schwendinger, sp. nov. (males and females) is described and additional localities of L. bencha Raven & Schwendinger, 1995 in southern Thailand are given. Malayathele Schwendinger, gen. nov. is established, and four new species from Peninsular Malaysia are placed in this genus. These are M. cameronensis Schwendinger, sp. nov. (male and female), M. kanching Schwendinger, sp. nov. (males and females), M. maculosa Schwendinger, sp. nov. (males and females) and M. ulu Schwendinger, sp. nov. (males and females). Identification keys to the genera of Euagridae in Asia and to the species of Leptothele and Malayathele gen. nov. are given. Information on variation of taxonomic characters, biology, sexual behaviour and biogeography is provided.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":"127 1","pages":"423 - 453"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44900322","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 annotated list of the Blattodea (Insecta) described by Henri de Saussure. Part 1: the Corydiidae","authors":"J. Hollier, Judith A. Marshall, F. Legendre","doi":"10.35929/rsz.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/rsz.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Henri de Saussure described 32 species of cockroaches currently placed in the family Corydiidae, some of them in collaboration with Leo Zehntner. These species are listed alphabetically with an account of the type specimens in the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève. The location of type specimens in other museums is given where known. The current binominal combination for each species is provided.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":"127 1","pages":"341 - 348"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45120401","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":"Plumularia roxanae, a new epiphytic hydroid (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Plumulariidae) from the Indo-Pacific","authors":"H. Galea","doi":"10.35929/RSZ.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: A new epiphytic, small-sized species of Plumularia Lamarck, 1816, P. roxanae sp. nov., is described based on fertile material from Bali, Indonesia. Its deep hydrothecae are characteristically narrowed distally through a distinctive hypertrophy of the free portion of their adaxial wall. Its minute gonothecae, however, are comparable in shape and size to those of the well-known, circumtropical P. floridana Nutting, 1900.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":"127 1","pages":"367 - 376"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45292459","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":"Description of Cerochusa gesinae sp. nov. from Thailand (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)","authors":"Zi-Wei Yin, A. Kleeberg","doi":"10.35929/RSZ.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0027","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: A second species of the genus Cerochusa Yin & Nomura, 2012, C. gesinae Yin & Kleeberg, sp. nov., is described and illustrated from Chiang Mai, Thailand. The new species can be easily distinguished from C. cilioceps Yin & Nomura, 2012 from China and Thailand by the less strongly modified male head, distinct discal striae of the elytra, dense pubescence along the posterior margin of the elytra, and different shape of the aedeagus.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":"127 1","pages":"377 - 380"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44200489","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}