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... Two new species of the Batrisocenus complex of genera, e.g., Batrisceniola nanlingensis sp. nov. and Physomerinus clavipes sp. nov., are described, diagnosed, and illustrated from the Nanling Mountain Area. Both represent a second species of the respective genus from the Chinese mainland. ...
... AbstractFour new species of Diglyphomorphomyia Girault, D. depressa sp. nov., D. fossa sp. nov., D. hainana sp. nov., and D. octoseta sp. nov., are described from China. A key to the eight species of the genus Diglyphomorphomyia occurring in China is provided. ...
... AbstractFive genera from China of the leafhopper tribe Typhlocybini are treated. Linnavuoriana Dlabola, 1958 and Shamala Dworakowska, 1980 and seven known species, Edwardsiana corylicola Vilbaste, 1968, E. praedestina Dlabola, 1967, E. singularis Anufriev, 1975, Hiratettix distanti Dworakowska, 1982, H. malaisei Dworakowska, 1982, L. antiqua Dworakowska, 1982, and L. malicola Zachvatkin, 1949 are ...
... Nine species of Meloidae are recorded from the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico for the first time. One of these, Lytta cochimi Pinto, new species, is described herein. In addition to these new records, collections which significantly expand the peninsular distribution of species previously recorded from the peninsula are documented. A list of all meloid species now known to occur in Baja Califor ...
... The present paper deals with the description of three new species of crickets from the state of Rajasthan, India; one each from the three genera of the subfamily Gryllinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae): Loxoblemmus (L.) turritus sp. nov., Teleogryllus (T.) rajasthanicus sp. nov. and Turanogryllus serrato-spinatus sp. nov. Their morphological characterization is supported with suitable plates highlightin ...
... Vochysia pongo-qonecensis is described and illustrated. It occurs in the southern Peruvian pre-montane forests of the Andean-Amazonian piedmont. This species is placed in Vochysia sect. Ciliantha subsect. Micranthae. It has some morphological similarities with V. citrifolia and V. parviflora. ...
... AbstractBolitogyrus is a moderately diverse genus of 78 species that are widely disjunct in the subtropical and tropical forests of the Neotropical and Oriental regions. Following recent revisions of both the Neotropical and Oriental species, this study provides new distributional data, a revised species concept for Bolitogyrus strigifrons (Wendeler) sensu nov., and the description of B. pseudost ...
... Prosoponoides is one of the smallest genera from the second largest family Linyphiidae, first described by Millidge & Russell-Smith in 1992. All known species are described from Asia but the genus has not previously been reported from India. A morphological description of the new species, digital photographs, and drawings are provided. ...
... Sphaeridium sundense Suzumura, van Berge Henegouwen, and Budi, new species is described and illustrated from Sumatra, Java, and the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia. A description of the new species, habitus photographs, and illustrations of diagnostic characters are provided with differential characters to separate it from the widespread and co-existing Sphaeridium quinquemaculatum Fabricius, 1798 ...
... Sinocarum muliense (Apiaceae), is proposed as a new species from Sichuan, southwest China. It is most similar to S. cruciatum var. linearilobum, but can be distinguished by having globose (versus torulos) roots, ultimate segments of blade 8.0–30.0 × 0.3–1.2 mm (versus 5–20 × 1–2 mm), purple (versus greenish‐white) petals with acute (versus obtuse) apex. ...
... Two new species of orb-weaving spiders, Cyrtarachne wayanadensissp. nov. and Pasilobus sahyadriensissp. nov., are recorded from Southern Western Ghats, Kerala. Detailed description and illustrations of the new species are provided. ...
... Genus Trigonoderus Westwood (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) is reviewed from the Oriental region leading to the discovery of a new species T. periyarensis sp. nov. from Southern Western Ghats, India. The new species is described, illustrated and compared with congeneric and a comprehensive review and key to the Oriental species of Trigonoderus are also provided. LSIDurn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:C1FA0DA1-6 ...
... AbstractTwo Chinese species of the genus Lipotriches Gerstaecker, 1858 are treated in this paper. Lipotriches (Lipotriches) guihongi Zhang & Niu, sp. nov. is recognized as a new species and Lipotriches (Maynenomia) nanensis (Cockerell, 1929) is a new species and subgenus record for China. The number of Chinese species of the subfamily Nomiinae and genus Lipotriches are updated to 47 and 15, respe ...
... AbstractTwo new species of the genus Chilobrachys Karsh, 1892 are described from China: Chilobrachys dominus Lin & Li, sp. nov. from Yunnan and C. jinchengi Lin & Li, sp. nov. from Tibet. Photos and a morphological description of the new species are given. The type specimens of the new species are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy (IZCAS) in Beijing. ...
... Eurycope producta Sars, 1868 is a highly abundant and widely distributed munnopsid species complex within Icelandic waters. The complex differs from all other Eurycope Sars, 1864 species by having a broad and long rostrum with serrated margins, which is subequal in length and width to article 1 of antenna I. Previous molecular evidence to disentangle the E. producta species complex forms the base ...
... Two new species of oribatid mites of the genus Leptotocepheus (Oribatida, Otocepheidae) are described from Malawi. Leptotocepheus malawiensissp. nov. differs from the related species L. macromucronatus by the well developed, spindle-form bothridial seta with distinctly elongate, pointed tip distally (versus slightly developed, fusiform, without elongate, pointed tip distally). Leptotocepheus zomba ...
... A new species of Cuapetes, C. canariensis sp. nov., is described on the basis of a single specimen from Tenerife, Canary Islands. This is the first record of a species in the genus Cuapetes from the eastern Atlantic. It belongs to a group of previously exclusively Indo-West Pacific species possessing a supraorbital spine and a distoventral tooth on the merus of the second pereiopods. A morphologic ...
... AbstractSilene vanchingshanensis (Caryophyllaceae), a new species from Fanjingshan Mountain in Guizhou (southwest China) is described and illustrated. It is morphologically similar to S. morrisonmontana and S. hupehensis, from which it can be easily distinguished by having pubescent stems usually 10–15 cm long, linear-oblanceolate leaves 3–6 cm × 3–6 mm, often 2–5-flowered cymes, pink or violet p ...