Jiří Hadrava, Valentin Nidergas, Klára Daňková, M. Pecharová, A. Nel, J. Prokop
{"title":"Blera miocenica: a new species of Early Miocene hoverfly (Diptera: Syrphidae) from the Czech Republic and its palaeoenvironmental significance","authors":"Jiří Hadrava, Valentin Nidergas, Klára Daňková, M. Pecharová, A. Nel, J. Prokop","doi":"10.1163/1876312x-00001043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1876312x-00001043","url":null,"abstract":"A new species of fossil hoverfly (Syrphidae: Eristalinae), i.e., Blera miocenica\u0000sp. nov. is described from the Early Miocene (Burdigalian) of Bílina mine in the Most Basin, Czech Republic. The species description is based on a well preserved compressed fossil and it represents the first known fossil record of the genus Blera Billberg, 1820 so far. B. miocenica\u0000sp. nov. diagnosis is based on the wing venation and other body characters like the coloration pattern of abdomen. The resemblance of the new fossil to extant species of Blera is briefly discussed. The previously suggested palaeoenvironmental conditions at the type locality are in agreement with the knowledge on autecology of recent representatives of the genus Blera (i.e., larval feeding strategy, adult habitat preferences and flower visitation). Thus, we conclude that fossil hoverflies could be a helpful tool for the indication of past habitats.","PeriodicalId":54975,"journal":{"name":"Insect Systematics & Evolution","volume":"-1 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/1876312x-00001043","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48447001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Igor Souza-Gonçalves, C. Lopes‐Andrade, V. E. Sandoval-Gómez, J. Lawrence
{"title":"The Australian Paratrichapus Scott (Coleoptera: Ciidae)","authors":"Igor Souza-Gonçalves, C. Lopes‐Andrade, V. E. Sandoval-Gómez, J. Lawrence","doi":"10.1163/1876312X-00002196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1876312X-00002196","url":null,"abstract":"The genus Paratrichapus\u0000Scott, 1926 currently comprises four species, one described from the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean, one from Indonesia and two from New Zealand. Here, the first Australian species of Paratrichapus are described, as follows: P. australis\u0000sp. n., P. burwelli\u0000sp. n., P. christmasensis\u0000sp. n., P. metallonotum\u0000sp. n. and P. peckorum\u0000sp. n. Data on their geographic distribution and host fungi are provided, as well as an identification key.","PeriodicalId":54975,"journal":{"name":"Insect Systematics & Evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/1876312X-00002196","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48692324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is †Skleroptera (†Stephanastus) an order in the stemgroup of Coleopterida (Insecta)?","authors":"R. Beutel, E. Yan, J. Kukalová-Peck","doi":"10.1163/1876312X-00002187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1876312X-00002187","url":null,"abstract":"The Carboniferous insect taxon †Stephanastus polinae was assigned to a monotypic new order †Skleroptera, which was postulated as the sister group of the clade Strepsiptera + Coleoptera (= Coleopterida). The placement of †Stephanastus in Holometabola and the proposed relationship with Coleopterida are very likely unjustified. Suggested shared derived features of Skleroptera + Coleopterida are vague, insufficiently documented (characters of proximal leg segments) or likely based on misinterpretation (wing veins). Based on the wing venation we suggest a position in the extinct hemimetabolous order †Protelytroptera.","PeriodicalId":54975,"journal":{"name":"Insect Systematics & Evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/1876312X-00002187","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42870878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revealing the hidden species diversity of tropical cryptines: a review of the Neotropical Lissaspis Townes (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)","authors":"S. Bordera, M. Mazón, I. Sääksjärvi","doi":"10.1163/1876312X-00002186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1876312X-00002186","url":null,"abstract":"The Neotropical cryptine genus Lissaspis Townes is reviewed, comprising 26 species, of which, 17 are described as new, more than doubling the known species: L. aurea\u0000sp. n. from Peru, L. brevis\u0000sp. n. from Costa Rica and Ecuador, L. brunnea\u0000sp. n. from Costa Rica, L. erwini\u0000sp. n. from Ecuador, L. excavata\u0000sp. n. and L. longigena\u0000sp. n. from Venezuela, L. mesostriata\u0000sp. n. from Ecuador, L. oaxacana\u0000sp. n. from Mexico, L. reijoi\u0000sp. n. and L. rugosa\u0000sp. n. from Ecuador, L. soniae\u0000sp. n. from Costa Rica, L. townesorum\u0000sp. n. from Peru, L. variabilis\u0000sp. n. from Costa Rica, L. vermelhensis\u0000sp. n. from Brazil, L. victori\u0000sp. n. from Costa Rica, and L. waorani\u0000sp. n. and L. yasuniensis\u0000sp. n. from Ecuador. An illustrated identification key and distribution maps of all species are provided.","PeriodicalId":54975,"journal":{"name":"Insect Systematics & Evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/1876312X-00002186","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47213180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Verónica V. Pereyra, A. Cavalleri, C. Szumik, C. Weirauch
{"title":"Phylogenetic Analysis of the New World Family Heterothripidae (Thysanoptera, Terebrantia) based on Morphological and Molecular Evidence","authors":"Verónica V. Pereyra, A. Cavalleri, C. Szumik, C. Weirauch","doi":"10.1163/1876312X-00002193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1876312X-00002193","url":null,"abstract":"The New World family Heterothripidae (~90 spp., four genera) comprises flower-feeding and ectoparasitic thrips. The monophyly of the group has remained untested and species-level relationships were unknown. Morphological (123 characters) and molecular (28S rDNA D2 and D3-D5, H3, and partial COI) data were compiled to reconstruct phylogenetic relationships of this group. The ingroup was represented by 65 species of the four recognized Heterothripidae genera (Aulacothrips Hood, Heterothrips Hood, Lenkothrips De Santis & Sureda, and Scutothrips Stannard). The monophyly of Heterothripidae was recovered in the total evidence and molecular data only analyses with the ectoparasitic Aulacothrips placed as the sister group of the remaining Heterothripidae. The large genus Heterothrips (>80% of the species-level diversity), which was thoroughly sampled in our analyses (56 species), was recovered as paraphyletic with respect to Scutothrips and Lenkothrips. We conclude that additional morphological and molecular data would be desirable before revising the classification of Heterothripidae","PeriodicalId":54975,"journal":{"name":"Insect Systematics & Evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/1876312X-00002193","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43031949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. G. Moghaddam, E. Rakhshani, M. Arabzadeh, H. A. Derafshan, N. Kavallieratos
{"title":"The Stephanidae (Hymenoptera, Stephanoidea) of Iran with the description of a new species","authors":"M. G. Moghaddam, E. Rakhshani, M. Arabzadeh, H. A. Derafshan, N. Kavallieratos","doi":"10.1163/1876312X-00002191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1876312X-00002191","url":null,"abstract":"Stephanidae (Hymenoptera, Stephanoidea) are solitary idiobiont ectoparasitoids of wood boring insect larvae. Here we present two genera, i.e., Afromegischus\u0000van Achterberg, 2002 and Foenatopus Smith, 1861, and five species, i.e., A. gigas (Schletterer, 1889), F. bisignatus\u0000Aguiar & Jennings, 2010, F. crispus Aguiar, 2010, F. nimaarkanii Ghafouri Moghaddam & Rakhshani sp. n. and F. prousti Aguiar & Turrisi, 2010 from Iran. Specimens were collected in southeastern Iran (Kerman and Sistan-o Baluchestan) from unknown hosts. Their morphological features and distribution are discussed in relation to the overall knowledge in the target and adjacent regions. Foenatopus nimaarkanii\u0000sp. n. is incorporated to the key for the identification of Foenatopus species with double spots on metasomal tergites.","PeriodicalId":54975,"journal":{"name":"Insect Systematics & Evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/1876312X-00002191","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42744701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Systematics of the plant bug tribe Hyaliodini (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae, Deraeocorinae) from Australia and New Caledonia: phylogenetic analysis and discussion of deraeocorine relationships, and four new genera and thirteen new species","authors":"R. Hosseini, G. Cassis","doi":"10.1163/1876312X-00002185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1876312X-00002185","url":null,"abstract":"A systematic review of the tribe Hyaliodini from Australia and New Caledonia is given. Four new genera and 13 new species of Hyaliodini described: Bolbomiris gen. n. (B. cola sp. n., B. samuelsoni sp. n.), Epelisentis gen. n. (E. celiae sp. n., E. gressitti sp. n.), Plikomiris gen. n. (P. freycinetiaphilus sp. n., P. monteithi sp. n.) and Torunotum gen. n. (T. badius sp. n., T. hystrix sp. n., T. oviformis sp. n., T. pindaii sp. n. and T. psydrax sp. n.), as well as Femurocoris madeleinensis sp. n., Montagneria yahouensis sp. n. Femurocoris Carvalho and Montagneria Akingbohungbe and their type species are redescribed, as is M. cuneatus (Distant). Stethoconus praefectus (Distant) is reported from Australia for the first time. A dichotomous key, illustrations of male genitalia, scanning electron micrographs and habitus photographs are provided. A phylogenetic analysis of a morphological dataset was undertaken resulting in a monophyletic Hyaliodini, and the New Caledonian hyaliodines form a subclade. A discussion of the infra-subfamilial classification of the Deraeocorinae is given.","PeriodicalId":54975,"journal":{"name":"Insect Systematics & Evolution","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/1876312X-00002185","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42465367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Bellini, Nathália Michelly da Cunha Santos, P. G. C. Souza, W. Weiner
{"title":"Two new species of Brazilian springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) with comments on Neotropical Brachystomella Ågren and Seira (Lepidocyrtinus) Börner","authors":"B. Bellini, Nathália Michelly da Cunha Santos, P. G. C. Souza, W. Weiner","doi":"10.1163/1876312X-00002192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1876312X-00002192","url":null,"abstract":"Herein we describe two new species of Brazilian springtails, both from Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Brachystomella nordestina\u0000sp.n. resembles other Neotropical congeners with 8+8 eyes, postantennal organ with four lobes and 19/19/18 chaetae on tibiotarsi I–III, but it is unique in the combination of trilobed apical bulb, 2+2 dorsal chaetae on thorax I, male’s genital plate with 4+4 modified eugenital chaetae and 2+2 hr chaetae on lateral anal valves. Seira (Lepidocyrtinus) dapeste\u0000sp.n. is similar to other Neotropical species of Lepidocyrtinus\u0000Börner, 1903 in long antennae, mesonotum projected over head and presence of modified blunt macrochaetae on dorsal furca, but differs in the combination of dorsal head chaetotaxy, 14–19 a macrochaetae on thorax II, 7–9 central macrochaetae on thorax III and 4 central macrochaetae on abdomen II. We also present a detailed comparison and an updated key of the Neotropical species of Brachystomella\u0000Ågren, 1903.","PeriodicalId":54975,"journal":{"name":"Insect Systematics & Evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/1876312X-00002192","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45235496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revision of the Western Nearctic Androprosopa (Diptera: Thaumaleidae) and descriptions of three new species","authors":"R. J. Pivar, J. Moulton, B. Sinclair","doi":"10.1163/1876312X-00002189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1876312X-00002189","url":null,"abstract":"The western Nearctic fauna of Androprosopa Mik is revised to include twenty-five species, three of which are new to science. Descriptions of the adult males of A. apache Pivar & Moulton sp.n., A. arnaudi Pivar sp.n. and A. rainierensis Pivar & Sinclair sp.n. are presented. Redescriptions of all remaining western Nearctic species are provided, as well as genitalic illustrations and updated distribution maps for each species. A diagnostic key to males of western Nearctic species of Androprosopa is offered. Species groups based on morphology are discussed.","PeriodicalId":54975,"journal":{"name":"Insect Systematics & Evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/1876312X-00002189","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46307961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. P. Ranjith, C. Achterberg, D. Priyadarsanan, Il-Kwon Kim, R. Keloth, S. Mukundan, M. Nasser
{"title":"First Indian record of Centistidea Rohwer (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Miracinae) with description of eight new species","authors":"A. P. Ranjith, C. Achterberg, D. Priyadarsanan, Il-Kwon Kim, R. Keloth, S. Mukundan, M. Nasser","doi":"10.1163/1876312X-00002194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1876312X-00002194","url":null,"abstract":"Miracinae is one of the least studied braconid subfamilies with only two extant genera. Among them, Centistidea Rohwer is a speciose and widely distributed genus. East Palearctic and Oriental species of Centistidea are revised and eight new species are described, seven of which are from south India, C. crenulator\u0000sp. n., C. glabrator\u0000sp. n., C. lineator\u0000sp. n., C. mellapicalis\u0000sp. n., C. procarinator\u0000sp. n., C. rugator\u0000sp. n., C. scutellator\u0000sp. n.; and one from South Korea, C. albomarginata\u0000sp. n. A key to the extant species is provided. Distribution pattern of Centistidea and character plasticity within species are discussed.","PeriodicalId":54975,"journal":{"name":"Insect Systematics & Evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/1876312X-00002194","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43222740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}