scholarly journals Elachista deriventa sp. n. (Lepidoptera, Elachistidae: Elachistinae), a new species from southern Finland

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 184-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauri Kaila ◽  
Marko Mutanen ◽  
Esko Saarela ◽  
Reijo Siloaho ◽  
Leo Sippola ◽  
...  

Elachista (Elachista) deriventa Kaila & Mutanen sp. n. is described on the basis of specimens collected in southern Finland. The new species inhabits shady forests and Calamagrostis arundinacea is recorded as its host plant. The species is closest to E. elegans Frey, but differs from that by details in morphology and life history. Diagnostic characters and illustrations are provided for close relatives.

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauri Kaila ◽  
Leo Sippola

Elachista (Elachista) saarelai sp. n. is described on the basis of specimens reared from larvae in southern Finland. The new species belongs to the Elachista tetragonella group, and is a close relative of E. trapeziella Stainton, E. ornithopodella Frey, E. occidentalis Frey and E. kebneella Traugott-Olsen & Schmidt Nielsen. It differs from all these species by details in morphology and life history. The new species inhabits sheltered habitats. Carex digitata and probably also C. pediformis are recorded as its host plants. Diagnostic characters and illustrations are provided for the close relatives of E. saarelai sp. n.


ZooKeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 900 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Sho Toshino ◽  
Miyako Tanimoto ◽  
Ryo Minemizu

A new hydromedusa belonging to the order Limnomedusae is reported from the Ryukyu Archipelago, southern Japan. Olindias deigosp. nov. can be distinguished from other Olindiidae species by the number and color of tentacles. Mature medusae of O. deigosp. nov. were collected to observe the life history, including polyp (hydroid) and medusa formation. A comparative table of the primary diagnostic characters of the genus is provided.


ZooKeys ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 686 ◽  
pp. 95-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tengteng Liu ◽  
Shuxia Wang

The genus Antispila Hübner, [1825] is newly recorded from mainland China. Antispila sinensissp. n., the first formally named Heliozelidae species in mainland China, is described. The host plant of the new species, Cornus walteri Wangerin (Cornaceae), is widespread through east Asia and is used as a shade tree in city parks in Jinan City, where the moth causes damage to foliage. Morphological and molecular analyses distinguish A. sinensissp. n. from its close relatives. The adult, pupa, larva, host plant, leaf-mines, and the shield of the new species are illustrated, as are male and female genitalia, venation, and larval chaetotaxy. DNA barcodes of the new species are also provided.


Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4394 (4) ◽  
pp. 549
Author(s):  
DANILO CÉSAR AMENT

The monotypic genus Hirotophora Brown et al. is revised, with a new species from Chile, Hirotophora chilensis sp. nov., described, and Chaetopleurophora dividua and Chaetopleurophora flavimarginata transferred to this genus. The addition of these species is based on the genus diagnosis, which is amended here, and on the synapomorphies recognized for Hirotophora. All species of the genus are extensively illustrated and new diagnostic characters are described. Females of Hirotophora are more structurally divergent than males, which show almost no conspicuous differences in the male terminalia among the species. This is an uncommon scenario for the subfamily Phorinae, and may relate to still-unknown life history particularities of the species of this genus. 


Author(s):  
Jessica R. Litman ◽  
Connal D. Eardley ◽  
Michael Kuhlmann

A new species of Fidelia Friese, 1899 is described from southern Africa: Fidelia (Fideliopsis) whiteheadi Litman & Kuhlmann sp. nov. Diagnostic characters are provided to distinguish this species from others in the genus, particularly from the closely related F. hessei; an updated description for Fidelia hessei is also given. The host plant preferences and seasonal activity of F. whiteheadi Litman & Kuhlmann sp. nov. and F. hessei are discussed. Finally, a revised, illustrated key to species of the genus Fidelia is presented.


2019 ◽  
pp. 23-36
Author(s):  
Mario. R. Cabrera

Formerly Cnemidophorus was thought to be the most speciose genus of Teiidae. This genus comprised four morphological groups that were later defined as four different genera, Ameivula, Aurivela, Cnemidophorus and Contomastix. The last appears as paraphyletic in a recent phylogenetic reconstruction based on morphology, but monophyletic in a reconstruction using molecular characters. Six species are allocated to Contomastix. One of them, C. lacertoides, having an extensive and disjunct geographic distribution in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. Preliminary analyses revealed morphological differences among its populations, suggesting that it is actually a complex of species. Here, we describe a new species corresponding to the Argentinian populations hitherto regarded as C. lacertoides, by integrating morphological and molecular evidence. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the presence of notched proximal margin of the tongue is a character that defines the genus Contomastix.


2017 ◽  
Vol 186 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-116
Author(s):  
František Šifner

Abstract A new Nearctic species of the genus Coniosternum Becker, 1894, C. masneri sp. nov., is described from Canada, and its important diagnostic characters are illustrated.


Taxonomy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-68
Author(s):  
Jun Souma ◽  
Shûhei Yamamoto ◽  
Yui Takahashi

A total of 14 species in seven tingid genera have been described from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese (Kachin) amber from northern Myanmar, with very distinct paleofauna. Here, a new species of a new genus, Burmavianaida anomalocapitata gen. et sp. nov., is described from Kachin amber. This new species can be readily distinguished from the other described tingid taxa by the apparently smaller body and the structures of the pronotum and hemelytron. Burmavianaida gen. nov. shares the diagnostic characters with two clades composed of three extant subfamilies (Cantacaderinae + Tinginae) and Vianaidinae and may represent an extinct clade distinct from them. To the best of our knowledge, B. anomalocapitata sp. nov. is the smallest species of Tingidae among over 2600 described species. Our new finding supports the hypothesis of the miniaturization phenomenon of insects in Kachin amber, as suggested by previous studies.


2014 ◽  
Vol 147 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jong-Seok Park ◽  
Christopher E. Carlton

AbstractAhnea keejeongi Park and Carlton (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), a new genus and new species of New Zealand endemic beetle belonging to the supertribe Faronitae is described. Six previously described species are included to this genus and four species are synonymised as follow: Sagola dissonans Broun, 1921 and S. planicula Broun, 1921 under Ahnea ventralis (Broun, 1912); S. carinata Broun, 1912 and S. lineiceps Broun, 1921 under Ahnea lineata (Broun, 1893). A key to species, habitus photographs, line drawings of diagnostic characters, and distribution maps are provided.


Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5082 (4) ◽  
pp. 384-392
Author(s):  
CHENG-BIN WANG ◽  
YU WANG

A new species of stag beetle, Prosopocoilus zhuchuangi new species (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Lucaninae) is described from China (Guizhou) and Vietnam. It is closely related to P. fulgens (Didier, 1927), sharing a fringe of dense setae in the apical 2/3 of the mesal sides of the mesotibiae and metatibiae. Diagnostic characters of the two species are illustrated and compared.  


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