scholarly journals A preliminary information on spider fauna (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Fastiv district (Kyiv region)

2021 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-56
Author(s):  
V. Yanul ◽  
E. Singayevskiy
Keyword(s):  
Palaearctic Species ◽  
Widespread Species ◽  
Parasteatoda Tepidariorum ◽  
Annotated List ◽  
Northern European ◽  
Preliminary Information ◽  
Synanthropic Species ◽  
The Family ◽  
Siberian Species ◽  
Water Vegetation

In this article, an inventory of the spider fauna of the Fastov district of the Kiev region was carried out, an annotated list of spiders was compiled and includes 84 spider species of 67 genera from 20 families. The annotated list contains faunistic material, collection method and biotopic preferences of species. The most represented by the number of species in the fauna are the families Araneidae – 19 species (24 %), Thomisidae – 8 species (9 %) and Salticidae – 8 species (9 %). The dominance of species of the family Araneidae is due to the large proportion of the surveyed habitats and vegetation layers inhabited by orb weaving spiders. In general, widespread species of spiders with high ecological plasticity were prevail. Including 10 species: Clubiona caerulescens, Harpactea rubicunda, Haplodrassus silvestris, Zelotes electus, Diplostyla concolor, Tenuiphantes flavipes, Agroeca brunnea, Pardosa amentata, Pseudeuophrys erratica and Ozyptila praticola were recorded in the litter layer of a pine forest only. Three species: Cyclosa oculata, Oxyopes ramosus and Dolomedes plantarius are rare according to the literature data. Five species were found in near-water habitats: Larinioides cornutus, Clubiona phragmitis, D. plantarius, Tetragnatha extensa, and Marpissa radiata, and were not found in the other biotopes. Two species, Metellina segmentata and Tetragnatha montana, are found on near-water vegetation and forest edges. In buildings and in household plots, two synanthropic species were found – Tegenaria domestica and Parasteatoda tepidariorum. The zoogeographic and taxonomic compositions of the araneofauna of the region under study are presented. Arealogically, the basis is made up of the Palaearctic (35 %) and Holarctic (19 %) groups. West-Central-Palaearctic species – 14 %, European-Ancient Mediterranean – 12 %. European and more northern European-Siberian species account for 8 and 5 %, respectively. In comparison with the data for Polesie, the araneofauna of the Fastov region has certain characteristics, namely: a large participation in the composition of the araneofauna of Palaearctic and Holarctic species, a decrease in the proportion of EuropeanSiberian species and an increase in the proportion of European-Ancient Mediterranean groups of species.

The genus Trophomera Rubtsov & Platonova, 1974 with description of T. litoralis sp. n. (Nematoda: Benthimermithidae) from the tidal zone of the Kuril Archipelago and proposal of Benthimermis Petter, 1980 as a junior synonym

Nematology ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry M. Miljutin
Keyword(s):  
Body Length ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Tidal Zone ◽  
Annotated List ◽  
The Family ◽  
Tail Shape ◽  
Emended Description

Abstract The type species of Trophomera, T. iturupiensis, is redescribed from type material and important errors in the original description corrected. As a result of this emended description, Benthimermis is proposed as a junior synonym of Trophomera and its species transferred accordingly. The family name Benthimermithidae is retained according to articles 23.1 and 40.1 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Trophomera is diagnosed and an annotated list of nominal species presented. Trophomera litoralis sp. n., collected from the tidal zone of Ushishir Island (Kuril Archipelago), is described on the basis of four males. The males of T. litoralis sp. n. differ from those of other Trophomera species primarily by the much higher number of precloacal supplementary organs (105-108 vs 2-68). Trophomera litoralis sp. n. is most similar to T. regalis comb. n. yet differs by shorter body length (5.8-9.3 vs 14.9 mm), body proportions (a = 67-107 vs 124.4; c = 61-97 vs 135.7), greater length of the intermediate spermatoduct between the anterior and posterior testes (ca 1/7th vs ca 1/140th of body length), tail shape (rounded conoid vs pointed conoid), and number of precloacal supplementary organs (105-108 vs 49).

Urocystis agropyri (flag smut of wheat).

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Triticum Aestivum ◽  
North America ◽  
Host Range ◽  
Wheat Straw ◽  
Crop Plants ◽  
Widespread Species ◽  
Flag Smut ◽  
Worldwide Distribution ◽  
The Family ◽  
Systemic Infections

Abstract U. agropyri causes flag smut on leaves of species in the family Poaceae. As a pathogen of grasses, it appears to have a wide host range (Mordue and Waller, 1981) and a worldwide distribution (UK CAB International, 1991). However, some authorities do not include the pathogen on wheat [Triticum aestivum], identified as Urocystis tritici, within U. agropyri. Rossman et al. (2006) place U. agropyri in the category of a "Threat to Major Crop Plants" and wheat and wheat straw imports are restricted in North America (Anon., 2005; CFIA, 2008). If the widespread species includes the wheat pathogen, then it is already present on all continents with agriculture and in major wheat-growing areas (Purdy, 1965), so it has already been introduced and may be difficult to exclude from additional areas. Both smuts are seed- and soil-borne, causing systemic infections that can be perennial in weeds and graminaceous crops, including turfgrasses. The spore balls are windborne (Purdy, 1965) and prevention of spread among wild grasses on land is not amenable to control.

Late Cambrian ptychaspidid trilobites from western Utah: implications for trilobite systematics and biostratigraphy

2005 ◽  
Vol 142 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. ADRAIN ◽  
S. R. WESTROP
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Distinct Species ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Widespread Species ◽  
Late Cambrian ◽  
South Central ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Family ◽  
Notch Peak

The Notch Peak Formation (Late Cambrian, Sunwaptan) of western Utah yields diverse silicified trilobite faunas that provide new information on the anatomy of many taxa. The family Ptychaspididae Raymond, 1924, is represented by species of Keithiella Rasetti, 1944; Idiomesus Raymond, 1924; Euptychaspis Ulrich in Bridge, 1931; and Macronoda Lochman, 1964. At least four species are new, of which E. lawsonensis and M. notchpeakensis are named formally. Much previous work on Late Cambrian trilobites has emphasized biostratigraphic utility and the recognition of geographically widespread species. Data from new silicified collections indicate that this approach is difficult to justify because many putative ‘index species’ actually represent a plexus of closely related species whose biostratigraphic significance has yet to be determined. One such plexus is represented by E. kirki Kobayashi, 1935, whose previously reported occurrences in Texas, Oklahoma, Utah, Nevada and northern Canada record at least four distinct species. Similarly, Macronoda can now be shown to consist of at least five late Sunwaptan species in south-central and western North America.

A synopsis of the Brazilian Eucharitidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) fauna: an annotated checklist of the family in the country, with a revised key for the New World genera

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4564 (2) ◽  
pp. 347
Author(s):  
THIAGO S. R. SILVA ◽  
JULIANA M. SILVA-FREITAS ◽  
KARINE SCHOENINGER
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
New Record ◽  
New World ◽  
Cuticular Hydrocarbon ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Cuticular Hydrocarbon Profile ◽  
Hydrocarbon Profile ◽  
Annotated List ◽  
The Family ◽  
Annotated Checklist

The current work provides a revised and updated key to the genera of Eucharitidae occurring in the New World, with the major traits of genera illustrated through high-resolution photomicrography. We provide an annotated list of genera and species currently known from Brazil, with a new record for a genus previously unknown for the country. Additionally, we provide a literature revision of the biology and cuticular hydrocarbon profile for the Eucharitidae. The lack of knowledge on the eucharitid Brazilian fauna is briefly discussed. 

First male of Corethrella andersoni Poinar & Szadziewski, 2007 (Diptera: Corethrellidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
RYSZARD SZADZIEWSKI ◽  
ELŻBIETA SONTAG
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Lower Cretaceous ◽  
Biting Midges ◽  
Northern Asia ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Burmese Amber ◽  
Annotated List ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
The Family ◽  
Single Genus

The family Corethrellidae, called frog-biting midges, with the single genus Corethrella Coquillett, 1902, is a small group of dipterans including 107 extant species (Borkent, 2017). Females of most species are haematophagous and feed on males of frogs and toads locating them by their calls (Borkent, 2008). Extant frog-biting midges have a pantropical distribution, absent in Europe, north Africa, middle and northern Asia (Giłka & Szadziewski, 2009). The genus during its phylogenetic history dated back to Lower Cretaceous (125–129 Ma) had a broader geographical distribution, and during Eocene was present in Europe. Till now nine fossil species have been described from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber (1), mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (1), Eocene Baltic amber (5) and Miocene Dominican amber (2) (a complete annotated list is provided below). 

Domestic service and social modernization in urban Galicia, 1752–1920

1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
ISIDRO DUBERT
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Domestic Service ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Formation Model ◽  
Northern European ◽  
The Family ◽  
Social Modernization ◽  
Marriage Formation

Since the late 1980s historians of the family have been interested in the socio-demographic analysis of the role of domestic service in European societies during the Ancien Régime. These scholars have been concerned with the consequences of life-cycle service since it appeared that a significant proportion of Europe's inhabitants were in service at some point in their lives. This proportion was highest in countries of Northwestern Europe, such as England, where between 10 and 12 per cent of the population worked as servants, usually while young, moving readily from one household to another. This process began at an early age, around adolescence, and tended to end with a change in occupation, generally just before entering into marriage, in other words, prior to forming a separate family unit. By relating the mobility of servants to the specific characteristics of the marriage-formation model, historians have been able to highlight the contribution of domestic service to social and familial reproduction. Encouraged by their results, the next step for social historians was to elaborate an explanatory model of this system of family reproduction. Although the model offered was derived from the behaviour of a concrete social and demographic structure which was basically Northern European, it was nonetheless presented as the principal model for all of Western Europe.

Diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from the Transylvanian society collection of the Natural History Museum of Sibiu (Romania)

2011 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-87
Author(s):  
Gabriela Cuzepan
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Classification System ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Great Effort ◽  
Palaearctic Species ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Diving Beetles ◽  
The Family

Diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from the Transylvanian society collection of the Natural History Museum of Sibiu (Romania) The present study, which deals with the Dytiscidae specimens preserved in the Transylvanian Society Collection of the Natural History Museum of Sibiu, represents a faunistic list of the genera and species present in this collection. The 851 specimens identified from the family Dytiscidae are Palaearctic species, belong to 125 species following the classification system proposed by Nilsson in 2010: 6 subfamilies, 14 tribes, 30 genera and 10 subgenera. This study is also a recall for researchers regarding the museum entomological collection, which was realized through the great effort of the Transylvanian Society members.

scholarly journals Contribution to the knowledge of the family Nemonychidae (Coleoptera) with descriptions of new taxa

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Legalov
Keyword(s):  
New Taxa ◽  
Dorsal View ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Palaearctic Species ◽  
New Genera ◽  
The Family

<p>Two new tribes, the Zimmiellini Legalov, trib. n. (type genus: <em>Zimmiellus</em> Kuschel, 2011), which differs from the tribe Rhinorhynchini by the mandible exodontous, maxillary palpi barely extending forward beyond the prementum and position of rostrum base, and the Argentinomacerini Legalov, trib. n. (type genus: <em>Argentinomacer</em> Legalov, gen. n.) that differs from the tribe Rhynchitomacerini by having the pronotum narrowed before the basal fourth, antennae inserted subbasally and club 4-articled. Also erected is a new subtribe Bunyaeina Legalov, subtrib. n. (type genus: <em>Bunyaeus</em> Kuschel, 1994) that differs from the subtribe Mecomacerina by procoxae hemispherical, mesonotum with one coarsely ridged stridulatory file and forehead distinctly wider than apex of rostrum. Two new genera, <em>Nothofagomacer</em> Legalov, gen. n. (type species: <em>Rhynchitomacer</em> <em>apionoides</em> Kuschel, 1959) that differs from the genus <em>Rhynchitomacer</em> by the mandibular sockets not being visible in dorsal view, elytral striae regular, postmentum deeply emarginate and vaginal vestiture absent; and <em>Argentinomacer unicus</em> Legalov, gen. et sp. n. from Argentina, are described. A key to subfamilies, tribes, subtribes, genera and subgenera of Recent Nemonychidae with a list of species is provided. The distribution of some Palaearctic species is specified.</p>

scholarly journals Mites of the genus Erythraeus Latreille, 1806 (Acariformes: Actinedida: Erythraeidae) in the Greater Caucasus (within Azerbaijan)

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Mountain Forest ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Greater Caucasus ◽  
Annotated List ◽  
Subalpine Zone ◽  
The Family ◽  
Pear Trees ◽  
Open Woodland ◽  
First Time

Mites of the family Erythraeidae Robineau-Desvoidy, 1828 are distributed worldwide and have been reported as natural enemies of sucking pests. Adults and deutonymphs are predators; larvae of most species are ectoparasites of different arthropods. They can be harmful to beekeeping. Some species cause dermatitis in humans. Erythraeidae of the Caucasus are poorly studied. This article is the first report on mites of the genus Erythraeus Latreille, 1806 of the family Erythraeidae living in Azerbaijan. An annotated list of five species of mites of this genus collected in the Greater Caucasus is provided: Erythraeus phalangoides (De Geer, 1778), E. regalis (C.L.Koch, 1837), E. gorcensis Gabrys, 2016, E. opilionoides (C.L.Koch, 1837), E. adpendiculatus (Schrank, 1781). All of them are recorded from Azerbaijan for the first time. An identification key to imago of the Erythraeus species is given. The original photographs of imago were taken to clarify the determination. Mites were collected in three landscape zones: semi-desert (4 species), mountain-steppe (2 species) and mountain-forest (2 species). The Absheron Peninsula (semi-desert) is studied best; four Erythraeus species were found there. Most of the species were collected in artificial forests with a predominance of Eldar pine (4 species, 12 individuals). In other biotopes, mites of the genus Erythraeus are rare: 2 species (3 individuals) were found in broad-leaved forests of the low mountains, 1 species (1 individual) in a forb steppe, 1 species (1 individual) in an arid open woodland consisted of weeping pear trees, 1 species (1 individual) in a garden. Only four individuals of E. regalis were recorded on plants. The other mites were collected under stones, which will make it possible to attribute them to herpetobionts, and E. regalis to herpeto-hortobionts. Out of 18 individuals found, 17 were adult, and one larva of E. regalis was removed from spittlebug on a blackberry. The most common Erythraeidae genus in the Greater Caucasus is Abrolophus Berlese, 1891 (39 individuals belonging to eight species were collected). This is the only genus of the family Erythraeidae, found in four landscape zones, from semi-desert to subalpine. The genus Erythraeus was not found in the subalpine zone.

scholarly journals Chemical composition of healthy and infected leaves by Forda riccobonii and Geoica swirskii of Pistacia atlantica Desf. collected from Maaziz region in Morocco

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 382-389
Author(s):  
Hazim Harouak ◽  
Jamal Ibijbijen ◽  
Touria Zair ◽  
Laila Nassiri
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Essential Oils ◽  
Biologically Active ◽  
Phytochemical Analysis ◽  
Widespread Species ◽  
Pistacia Atlantica ◽  
Active Chemical ◽  
The Family ◽  
Traditional Pharmacopoeia ◽  
Health Field

The Atlas Pistachio, Pistacia atlantica Desf., from the family of Anacardiaceae is a widespread species in Morocco and widely present in traditional pharmacopoeia 1. This species is frequently infected by Forda riccobonii and Geoica swirskii  that are foliar galls-inducing aphids.The aim of this study was to compare the chemical composition of essential oils (EO) of the  infected and healthy leaves of Pistacia atlantica. The extraction of essential oils was performed by hydro-distillation using Clevenger, phytochemical screening was realized by revelations tests and chemical composition was identified by gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC-MS).Phytochemical analysis showed the presence of some biologically active chemical compounds such as tannins, flavonoids, sterols and triterpenes. The infected leaves were richer in tannins than healthy ones, especially in gallic tannins.Also, the results reaveled that the EO yield of leaves with galls was higher (0.71%) than that of healthy ones (0.11%); also, the first type of leaves was predominated by α-Pinene (19.76%) followed by Terpinen-4-ol, Spathulenol and Sabinene with percentages of 11.94%, 8.90% and 7.63%, respectively. Whereas, healthy leaves were predominated by α-Amorphene (15.05%) followed by Terpinen-4-ol, Spathulenol and α-Muurolene with percentages of 7.17%, 6.46% and 6.20%, respectively.So, we arrived to conclude that infected leaves have a higher level of  monoterpenes hydrocarbon than healthy ones that contains interesting molecules useful in differentes domains, especially in the health field.

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