A new polytypic species of yellow-shouldered bats, genus Sturnira (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), from the Andean and coastal mountain systems of Venezuela and Colombia

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4243 (1) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
JESÚS MOLINARI ◽  
XIOMAR E. BUSTOS ◽  
SANTIAGO F. BURNEO ◽  
M. ALEJANDRA CAMACHO ◽  
S. ANDREA MORENO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New World ◽  
Genetic Data ◽  
Sexually Dimorphic ◽  
Cloud Forests ◽  
International Union ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
Mountain Systems ◽  
Coastal Mountain

Sturnira is the most speciose genus of New World leaf-nosed bats (Phyllostomidae). We name Sturnira adrianae, new species. This taxon is born polytypic, divided into a larger subspecies (S. a. adrianae) widespread in the mountains of northern and western Venezuela, and northern Colombia, and a smaller subspecies (S. a. caripana) endemic to the mountains of northeastern Venezuela. The new species inhabits evergreen, deciduous, and cloud forests at mainly medium (1000–2000 m) elevations. It has long been confused with S. ludovici, but it is more closely related to S. oporaphilum. It can be distinguished from other species of Sturnira by genetic data, and based on discrete and continuously varying characters. Within the genus, the new species belongs to a clade that also includes S. oporaphilum, S. ludovici, S. hondurensis, and S. burtonlimi. The larger new subspecies is the largest member of this clade. The two new subspecies are the most sexually dimorphic members of this clade. The smaller new subspecies is restricted to small mountain systems undergoing severe deforestation processes, therefore can be assigned to the Vulnerable (VU) conservation category of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). 

Review of Mexican species of the genus Phytodietus Gravenhorst (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-58
Author(s):  
D.R. Kasparyan
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New World ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
First Time ◽  
Mexican Species

A key to 11 Mexican species of Phytodietus is given. Four new species and one new subspecies are described: Ph. (Weisia) whartoni sp. n., Ph. (Neuchorus) javieri sp. n., Ph. (Phytodietus) ninyoi sp. n., Ph. (Ph.) ruizi sp. n., Ph. (Ph.) yamilethi chiapasi ssp. n. The subgenus Weisia is recorded for the first time from the New World and the subgenus Phytodietus s. str., from Mexico.

A striking sexually dimorphic new species of Castolus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from Colombia, with new records from Neotropical countries and taxonomic notes on the genus

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5048 (4) ◽  
pp. 538-560
Author(s):  
DIMITRI FORERO ◽  
ANDRÉS MEJÍA-SOTO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New World ◽  
New Records ◽  
Sexually Dimorphic ◽  
Monotypic Genus ◽  
New Synonyms ◽  
Science Initiative

The New World genus Castolus Stål, 1858 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) contains 16 described species. Based on material from northern Colombia we describe Castolus rafaeli sp. nov., and key all known species. The following new synonyms are proposed: Castolus nigriventris Breddin, 1904 = C. bicolor Maldonado, 1976, syn. nov.; and C. subinermis (Stål, 1862) = C. annulatus Maldonado & Brailovsky, 1992, syn. nov. = Mucrolicter alienus Elkins, 1962, syn. nov. Because M. alienus is the type species of the currently monotypic genus Mucrolicter Elkins, 1962, the proposed synonymy results in the following generic synonym: Castolus Stål, 1858 = Mucrolicter Elkins, 1962, syn. nov. New country records are provided for two species: Castolus plagiaticollis Stål, 1858 is recorded new for Colombia; and Castolus rufomarginatus Champion, 1899 for Costa Rica, Colombia, and Ecuador. Additional localities are provided for species from Colombia and other Neotropical countries based on both specimens from entomological collections and observations from the citizen science initiative iNaturalist.  

Notes on the Genus Hystrichopsylla Rothschild in the New World, with Descriptions of One New Species and Two New Subspecies (Siphonaptera: Hystrichopsyllidae)

1957 ◽  
Vol 89 (7) ◽  
pp. 309-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
George P. Holland
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New World ◽  
Palaearctic Region ◽  
Palaearctic Species ◽  
Small Rodents ◽  
Host Preferences ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
One New Species

The genus Hystrichopsylla is Holarctic in distribution; its species include the largest known fleas. Only a few of the species exhibit marked host preferences. H. talpae (Curtis), the type of the genus, occurs through much of Europe and Asia, where the favoured hosts are insectivores and small rodents. It differs from all other known species chiefly in the presence of true combs of long, pigmented spines on abdominal terga II to IV (Fig. 1). Because of the differences, Ioff and Scalon (1950, in Ioff and Scalon et al., p. 273) proposed the subgenus Hystroceras (type, H. satunini Wagn.) to contain a group of Palaearctic species (satunini Wagn., microti Scalon, and nicolai Scalon) that have the abdominal combs reduced to series of apical spinelets (Fig. 2); this taxon would include all the known Nearctic species of Hystrichopsylla. Ioff and Scalon considered Typhloceras Wagn., known only from the Palaearctic region, a third subgenus, but this interpretation will probably not be generally followed.

New and little-known taxa of the tribe Diestramimini (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Aemodogryllinae) from Southeast Asia. Part 1

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.V. Gorochov ◽  
S.YU. Storozhenko
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
New Subgenus ◽  
New Material ◽  
Unknown Male

A new subgenus, 19 new species and two new subspecies are described from Vietnam, Laos and China: Tamdaotettix (Tamdaotettix) aculeatus sp. nov., T. (T.) flexus sp. nov., T. (T.) laocai sp. nov., T. (Laotettix subgen. nov.) tarasovi sp. nov., T. (L.) curvatus sp. nov., T. (L.) minutus sp. nov., T. (L.) inflatus sp. nov., T. (L.) sympatricus sp. nov., T. (?) robustus sp. nov., Gigantettix laosensis sp. nov., G. maximus auster subsp. nov., Diestramima hainanensis sp. nov., D. bispinosa sp. nov., D. hamata sp. nov., D. propria sp. nov., D. yunnanensis sp. nov., D. champasak sp. nov., Adiestramima adunca sp. nov., A. bella sp. nov., A. elongata sp. nov., A. perfecta hue subsp. nov. Previously unknown male of G. maximus maximus Gorochov, 1998 and imago of D. palpata (Rehn, 1906) are described on the base of a new material. New distributional data for some species are given.

A new species of Platymystax (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae: Hemigasterini) from Mexico

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-286
Author(s):  
D.R. Kasparyan ◽  
M. López-Ortega
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New World ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Preliminary Identification ◽  
Mexican State ◽  
The World ◽  
A New Species ◽  
World Fauna

A new species of the tribe Hemigasterini, Platymystax xalapa sp. nov., is described from the Mexican State of Veracruz. It is the first species of the genus described from the New World. A preliminary identification key to all known seven species of Platymystax of the world fauna is provided.

Rubiacearum Americanarum Magna Hama Pars XLVI: New Species and Taxonomic Changes in Faramea of Central and South America (Rubiaceae, Coussareeae)

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-142
Author(s):  
Charlotte M. Taylor ◽  
Jomar G. Jardim
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South America ◽  
Central America ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
Taxonomic Changes ◽  
New Nomenclatural Combinations

Review of specimens and names of Faramea Aubl. (Rubiaceae, Coussareeae) has required new nomenclatural combinations, clarified the identities of some previously described species, and discovered some new taxa. Here we transfer two Faramea names, F. suaveolens Duchass. and F. panurensis Müll. Arg., to Coussarea Aubl.; review the identities of F. cuencana Standl., F. multiflora A. Rich., F. oblongifolia Standl., F. parvibractea Steyerm., F. spathacea Müll. Arg. ex Standl., and F. suerrensis (Donn. Sm.) Donn. Sm.; lectotypify F. multiflora and F. panurensis; transfer to Faramea and lectotypify Rudgea scandens K. Krause; and describe 13 new species and two new subspecies: F. camposiana C. M. Taylor of Ecuador and Peru, F. foreroana C. M. Taylor of Colombia, F. fosteri C. M. Taylor of western South America, F. galerasana C. M. Taylor of Ecuador, F. grayumiana C. M. Taylor of Central America, F. kampauicola C. M. Taylor of Ecuador and Peru, F. neilliana C. M. Taylor of western South America, F. premontana C. M. Taylor of Ecuador, F. quijosana C. M. Taylor of Ecuador, F. ramosiana C. M. Taylor of Colombia, F. reyneliana C. M. Taylor of Peru, F. stoneana C. M. Taylor with two subspecies from Central and western South America, F. suerrensis subsp. miryamiae C. M. Taylor from Colombia, and F. vernicosa C. M. Taylor of Ecuador and Peru.

scholarly journals A synthesis of African and western Indian Ocean Island mammal taxa (Class: Mammalia) described between 1988 and 2008: an update to Allen (1939) and Ansell (1989)

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2205 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL HOFFMANN ◽  
PETER GRUBB ◽  
COLIN P. GROVES ◽  
RAINER HUTTERER ◽  
ERIK VAN DER STRAETEN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
New Genera ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
New Subgenus ◽  
African Mammals ◽  
The Status ◽  
Data Deficient

We provide a synthesis of all mammal taxa described from the African mainland, Madagascar and all surrounding islands in the 20 years since 1988, thereby supplementing the earlier works of G.M. Allen (1939) and W.F.H. Ansell (1989), and bringing the list of African mammals described over the last 250 years current to December 2008. We list 175 new extant taxa, including five new genera, one new subgenus, 138 new species and 31 new subspecies, including remarks, where relevant, on the current systematic position of each taxon. Names of seven species of primates are emended, according to the requirements of the ICZN. The taxonomic group in which the largest number of new taxa has been described is the Primates, with two new genera, 47 new species and 11 new subspecies, while geographically the biggest increase in new species descriptions has been on the island of Madagascar, accounting for roughly half (67) of all new species described in the past 20 years. Nearly half of all new species listed currently are assessed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (49 of 101 listed species) suggesting further research is urgently needed to help clarify the status of those recently described species.

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