scholarly journals Holothyrids and ticks: new insights from larval morphology and DNA sequencing, with the description of a new species of Diplothyrus (Parasitiformes: Neothyridae)

Acarologia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Klompen
Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4317 (2) ◽  
pp. 225 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIŘÍ SKUHROVEC ◽  
PETER HLAVÁČ ◽  
JAN BATELKA

The genus Pselactus in the Cape Verde Islands is reviewed. Pselactus obesulus (Wollaston, 1867) from São Vicente is redescribed and P. strakai sp. nov. from São Nicolau is described. Both species are diagnosed and illustrated; their larvae are described, larval morphology is discussed and the current state of knowledge about immature stages of Cossoninae is summarized. The systematic position of the genus within Onycholipini is reviewed, and the placement of genus in Cossoninae is discussed. A short note on biogeography of Pselactus is provided. 


1972 ◽  
Vol 104 (12) ◽  
pp. 1865-1875 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. McAlpine ◽  
V. N. Tanasijtshuk

AbstractThe identity of Leucopis (Leucopis) argenticollis Zetterstedt, an adelgid predator described from Sweden, is established and a lectotype is designated for it; L. orbitalis Malloch, described from Illinois is placed as a synonym of it. Another species (predator of the mealy plum aphid) that was formerly confused with argenticollis, is described as Leucopis (Leucopis) conciliata McAlpine and Tanasijtshuk, new species. Both species are shown to be holarctic and are treated from the standpoints of adult and larval morphology, biology, and distribution. The paper contains 33 figures.


2020 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 67-85
Author(s):  
Austin J. Baker ◽  
John M. Heraty

The larval morphology and life history of the weevil parasitoid Eutrichosoma mirabile Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae) are described, and the phylogenetic placement of the subfamily Eutrichosomatinae within Chalcidoidea is determined using larval morphological characters. A description of Eutrichosoma burskisp. nov. and key to the species of Eutrichosoma are provided.


1965 ◽  
Vol 97 (10) ◽  
pp. 1089-1106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn B. Wiggins

AbstractLarval characterizations for the genera of North American Brachycentridae are revised and two new genera created, bringing to five the total number now recognized on this continent. Previous concepts of larval morphology inMicrasemaare emended. Discovery of the larval stage ofBrachycentrus(Amiocentrus)aspilusRoss necessitates elevation of this subgenus to generic status. Association of larvae with the two North American species placed inOligoplectrumnecessitates removal of one,O.dimicki(Milne), toMicrasema. Discovery of all stages of a new species on Mount Hood, Oregon, necessitates creation of a new genus. A provisional larval key to the genera of the North American Brachycentridae is proposed and the phylogenetic relationships of the genera are discussed. Validity of the Asian genusOligoplectrodesis questioned.


Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4403 (3) ◽  
pp. 523
Author(s):  
MIGUEL A. LANDESTOY T. ◽  
DANIEL B. TURNER ◽  
ANGELA B. MARION ◽  
S. BLAIR HEDGES

Peltophryne armata sp. nov. is described from the South paleoisland of Hispaniola, West Indies. This is the only native toad species known to inhabit the Barahona Peninsula, Dominican Republic, in the southernmost part of Hispaniola, and it is allopatric with the widely distributed Hispaniolan toad species, P. guentheri Cochran. However, in a molecular phylogeny, the closest relative of P. armata sp. nov. is the Puerto Rican species P. lemur Cope, with which it shares a protrusive snout, large orbits, a depressed head, indistinct or absent infraorbital crests, and a long and complex advertisement call, but differs from it greatly by the very long cephalic crests, and in the massive and spinose parotoid glands that converge medially on the dorsum. The new species is similar in ecology and larval morphology to the Cuban P. florentinoi Moreno & Rivalta, but differs from it in adult morphology. The tadpole of the new species is described. Peltophryne fracta is placed in the synonymy of P. guentheri. 


Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 357 (1) ◽  
pp. 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZUZANA EGERTOVÁ ◽  
JAN ECKSTEIN ◽  
MICHAL SOCHOR ◽  
MARCEL VEGA

Lamprospora sylvatica is described as a new species based on finds from Ukraine, Slovakia, Germany and Norway. It is characterised by the combination of the following features: pinkish, orange to reddish-orange apothecia with a fimbriate margin, globose ascospores with more or less regular areolate ornamentation, infecting strong rhizoids of Dicranum montanum with an infectious structure consisting of a one-celled appressorium surrounded by a multi-layered cluster of thick-walled cells and haustorium within the rhizoids. The apothecia were always found on rotten wood, which is an unusual habitat for hosts of bryophilous Pezizales. The new species is compared to similar taxa morphologically and by means of DNA sequencing. In the phylogenetic analysis based on LSU and ITS regions, L. sylvatica forms a well-supported clade close to L. feurichiana (on Ceratodon purpureus), L. kristiansenii (also on C. purpureus) and L. campylopodis (on Campylopus spp.).


PLoS ONE ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. e0156997 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. P. Ranjith ◽  
Donald L. J. Quicke ◽  
U. K. A. Saleem ◽  
Buntika A. Butcher ◽  
Alejandro Zaldívar-Riverón ◽  
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Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1363 (1) ◽  
pp. 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
CATHERINE N. DUCKETT ◽  
K. D. PRATHAPAN ◽  
ALEXANDER S. KONSTANTINOV

Genus Ivalia Jacoby is characterized morphologically, and Amphimeloides Jacoby syn. nov. and Taizonia Chen syn. nov. are junior synonyms with it. Several Ivalia species are figured, including Ivalia bella (Chen) comb. nov., I. dorsalis (Jacoby) comb. nov., and I. viridipennis Jacoby. A new species of Ivalia from the Nilgiri Hills in south India, I. korakundah sp. nov., is described and illustrated, including the larvae. Larvae were associated with adults by sequencing a fragment of the mitochondrial gene cytochrome oxidase I. Larval morphology is discussed and compared with that of other flea beetles.


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