bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Cratomyia macrorrhyncha, a Lower Cretaceous brachyceran fossil from the Santana Formation, Brazil, representing a new species, genus and family of the Stratiomyomorpha (Diptera)
Authors: Amorim Dalton S. , Mazzarolo Luiz Augusto 
Published: July 2010

AbstractA new fossil Brachycera (Diptera), Cratomyia macrorrhyncha gen. n. & sp. n. is described from the Santana Formation, Lower Cretaceous, situated on the Araripe Basin (Northeastern Brazil). Its remarkable features are the large body size, very long proboscis, antenna with multi-articled flagellum, robust thorax and abdomen, and wing characters like the abbreviated costal vein, distally forked veins R4+5 and M1+2, strongly arched M1, and closed cells m3 and cup. The new genus and species does not reasonably fit in any of the existing families and a new family, Cratomyiidae is proposed. The systematic position of the family is discussed. Reasons are given for not including it in the following higher taxa of Brachycera: Xylophagomorpha, Tabanomorpha, Vermileonomorpha, Asilomorpha, and Eremoneura. The Cratomyiidae are included in Stratiomyomorpha as the sister-group of Xylomyidae + Stratiomyidae, above the origin of Pantophthalmidae.
Parapsectrocladius: a new genus of orthocladiine Chironomidae (Diptera) from Patagonia, the southern Andes
Authors: Cranston Peter S. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractParapsectrocladius is described in all life history stages as a new genus with type-species Cardiocladius acuminatus Edwards, for four species from Andean South America. The female, pupa and larva of P. acuminatus are described for the first time, from Chile; all stages of P. escondido Cranston & Añón Suárez, sp. n., are described from lentic patagonian Argentina, all stages of Parapsectrocladius reissi sp. n. from a pond in Valdivia, Chile, and P. longistylus sp. n. from males from several locations in south Chile and Argentina and the putatively associated female and pupa from southern Chile. The clade is Patagonian, with larvae occurring in Andean pools, ponds and lakes, including glacial-fed ones, and also in one lowland river in Chiloe. Previous suggested relationships to Cardiocladius Kieffer or Paratrissocladius Zavrel are rejected following phylogenetic analysis, with these placements suggested as due to adult male -based convergent character states. The immature stages, which show resemblance to Psectrocladius Kieffer and Rheocricotopus Thienemann & Harnisch, and the female contribute evidence that Parapsectrocladius forms the sister group to Psectrocladius, which appears monophyletic despite its subgeneric heterogeneity. Immediate next relations to Psectrocladius + Parapsectrocladius are postulated as (Rheocricotopus (both subgenera) + Paracricotopus) then (Nanocladius + Doncricotopus) at next remove.
Cladistic analysis of the tribes of Dytiscinae and the phylogenetic position of the genus Notaticus Zimmermann (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
Authors: Miller Kelly B. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractA hypothesis of the phylogeny of the tribes of Dytiscinae is presented based on a cladistic analysis of adult morphological characters. All tribes of Dytiscinae were included with larger tribes represented by multiple genera. Outgroups included members of all major lineages (subfamilies) of Dytiscidae. The matrix consists of 22 taxa and 45 characters. A single most parsimonious cladogram was produced by the analysis. It is concluded from the analysis that Dytiscinae is paraphyletic with respect to the genus Notaticus Zimmermann which has been previously recognized as the only member of the subfamily Aubehydrinae. Its position within the subfamily requires that it be placed within its own tribe, Aubehydrini. Additionally, Dytiscini was found to be paraphyletic, and a new tribe, Hyderodini, is proposed to contain the genus Hyderodes Sharp. Dytiscini is restricted to include only the genus Dytiscus Linneaus. Dytiscinae and all other tribes within the subfamily were found to be monophyletic. The proposed relationships of the tribes of Dytiscinae are Cybistrini + (Dytiscini + (Hyderodini + (Aubehydrini + (Hydaticini + (Eretini + Aciliini))))). Characters discovered to be useful for phylogenetic analysis of the subfamily are illustrated and described. The tribes are diagnosed and a key is presented for distinguishing them.
Phylogenetic relationships in Lasiocampidae (Lepidoptera): Initial evidence from elongation factor-1α sequences
Authors: Mitter Charles , Friedlander Timothy P. , Regier Jerome C. , Peigler Richard S. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractNo explicit higher-level cladistic analysis exists for Lasiocampidae, the largest family of Bombycoidea (s. lat.). As a start toward such a phylogeny, we sequenced the protein-encoding, nuclear gene elongation factor-I α (EF-1α) from 13 lasiocampids representing all the subfamilies and tribes present in North America, plus three outgroups. Phylogenetic signal, mainly from synonymous change, was strong, with seven of 11 potential groups in Lasiocampidae showing > 90% bootstrap support under parsimony and likelihood analyses. Separation between the two American subfamilies, Lasiocampinae and Macromphaliinae, was strongly supported. Within the largest tribe, Lasiocampini, EF-1α strongly resolves a clade of unusually large lasiocampids, containing a New World element ((Eutachyptera, Gloveria), (Prorifrons, Quadrina)) with a Eurasian sister group of Macrothylacia + Dendrolimus. Resolution of deeper relationships within Lasiocampinae, however, including those among tribes, is presently weak and will probably require expanded taxon sampling. The 'large Lasiocampini' group shares a possibly synapomorphic life cycle (not expressed in its tropical members) that includes overwintering by larvae. Larval sociality is found in three of the 'large Lasiocampini' genera, each of which may represent an origin separate from the others and from Malacosoma.
The disc-like organ of the Lestoniidae (Heteroptera: Pentatomoidea), with remarks on lestoniid relationships
Authors: Fischer Christian 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe morphology of the 'disc-like organ' of Lestonia haustorifera is described on the basis of SEM-techniques. There is evidence for a gland function of this organ. The homology of the disc-like organ of Lestoniidae with Pendergrast's organ of Acanthosomatidae and the phylogenetic relationships of Lestoniidae within Pentatomoidea are discussed.
Phylogenetic revision of Acupalpa Kröber (Diptera: Therevidae)
Authors: Winterton Shaun L. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractAcupalpa is revised to include five described species: A. albitarsa Mann, A. divisa (Walker), A. pollinosa Mann, A. rostrata Kröber and A. semirufa Mann, and one new species, A. irwini sp. n. All species are brightly coloured wasp mimics with morphological and behavioural characteristics associated with mimicry of pompilid wasps. A key to genera and species is presented with male and female genitalia described and figured for the first time. All species of Acupalpa were compared in a cladistic analysis with two species of Agapophytus using 34 states across 16 adult morphological characters, which resulted in three most parsimonious trees (length = 58 steps). The phylogenetic relationships of species of Acupalpa are discussed in light of the analysis.
Morphological, molecular and ecological evidence of a new Euro-Anatolian species of the Meligethes coracinus complex (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)
Authors: Oliverio M. , Audisio P. , Belfiore C. , Antonini G. , De Biase A. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractAn analysis of morphometric, allozymic and ecological data gives clear cues of the presence in southern Europe and the Near East of a so far not recognised species of the pollen-beetle genus Meligethes Stephens, previously widely confused with the common and widespread M. coracinus Sturm. Re-examination of the type material allowed the authors to discover that this 'new' taxon was originally described by Ganglbauer (1899) as M. coracinus var. aenescens (nec M. aenescens Fairmaire, 1875), later considered a mere synonym of M. coracinus. This taxon is here resurrected at a specific rank, redescribed, and renamed Meligethes erysimicola Audisio & De Biase, nom. n. The two species are also compared with the closely related Meligethes motronalis Audisio & Spornraft, 1990, a monophagous species strictly associated with Hesperis motronolis L. (Brassicaceae). M. erysimicola is an oligophagous species, strictly associated at larval stage with several members of the plant genus Erysimum L. (Brassicaceae), while M. coracinus is a more polyphagous species, developing mostly on Brassica spp., Sinapis spp., Barbarea spp. and Sisynibrium spp. (Brassicaceae). Waiting for the final results of further molecular and ecological researches concerning the same subject, an updated taxonomical outline of the Meligethes coracinus species-complex is also reported, and a provisional key to identification of species and included sub-complexes, is finally given.
Fossil water striders in the Oligocene/Miocene Dominican amber (Hemiptera: Gerromorpha)
Authors: Andersen Nils Møller 
Published: July 2010

AbstractMost water striders and other semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera, Gerromorpha) live on the surface film of freshwater. Adults are often flightless and are therefore not prone to be caught in resin exuded by trees on land and subsequently preserved as amber inclusions. Nevertheless, a small number of gerromorphan bugs have so far been reported from amber. The present paper reports on six species of Gerromorpha in the Oligocene/Miocene Dominican amber, describing Brachymetroides atra gen. et sp. n. (Gerridae: Charmatometrinae), Microvelia grimaldii sp.n. and M. electra sp.n. (Veliidae: Microveliinae) and redescribing Electrobates spinipes Andersen & Poinar (Gerridae: Electrobatinae), Microvelia polhemi Andersen (Veliidae: Microveliinae), and Halovelia electrodominica Andersen & Poinar (Veliidae: Haloveliinae). Finally, the phylogenetic, palaeobiological, and biogeographic significance of these amber fossils are discussed.
Stridulobates anderseni, a new genus and species of ptilomerine Gerridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) with 'stridulatory devices' from South India
Authors: Thirumalai G. , Zettel Herbert 
Published: July 2010

AbstractStridulobates anderseni gen. n. & sp. n. from South India (Karnataka, Kerala) is described. It is the first species of the subfamily Ptilomerinae known to bear possible stridulatory devices. These structures, which only occur in the male, are situated on the mesotrochanter ('plectrum') and abdominal stemites 2-6 ('strigil'). Stridulobates nostras (Thirumalai, 1986) is a new combination for Pleciobates nostras. Possible relationships of Stridulobates with other genera of Ptilomerinae and the possible use of stridulation in Stridulobates are discussed.
A review of the Chilean spider genus Olbus, with notes on the relationships of the Corinnidae (Arachnida, Araneae)
Authors: Ramirez Martin J. , Lopardo Lara , Bonaldo Alexandre B. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe Chilean spider genus Olbus is revised to include five species: Olbus sparassoides (Nicolet), and four new species, O. jaguar, O. nahuelbuta, O. eryngiophilus, and O. krypto. The genus is diagnosed by the presence of one apical thickened seta on the palpal tarsus. Differing from the subfamilies Corinninae, Castianeirinae and Trachelinae, the median apophysis is retained on the male palpal bulb, as occurs also in the corinnid genera Ianduba Bonaldo, Mandaneta Strand, Procopius Thorell and Pseudocorinna Simon. Olbus and these genera are placed in Corinnidae incertae sedis. A particular arrangement of enlarged cylindrical gland spigots, at least three on posterior median spinnerets, and two on posterior laterals, is proposed as a synapomorphy of Corinnidae. O. krypto, only known from a male with quite divergent characters, is placed provisionally in the genus.
Systematic revision and cladistic analysis of the Neotropical genera Mitragenius Solier, Auladera Solier and Patagonogenius gen. n. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
Authors: Flores Gustavo E. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe genera Mitragenius, Auladera and Patagonogenius gen. n. (Pimeliinae: Nycteliini), distributed in Argentina and central Chile, are revised and a cladistic analysis including 20 species is conducted. The cladistic sequence revealed that former Mitragenius is polyphyletic, requiring removal of seven species to a new genus, described herein as Patagonogenius. Mitragenius comprises nine species: M. tristis Kulzer, M. costatus Kulzer, M. araneiformis Curtis, M. coarcticollis Fairmaire, M. nudus Berg, M. hirtulus Kulzer, M. planicollis sp. n., M. obscuratus Peña and M. dejeanii Solier. Auladera includes four species: A. crenicosta (Guérin), A. andicola (Lacordaire), A. rugicollis (Philippi & Philippi) stat. rev. andA. atronitens Kulzer. Patagonogenius comprises seven species: P. breviangulus (Kulzer) comb. n., P. gentilii (Peña) comb. n., P. quadricollis (Fairmaire) comb. n. (type species), P. collaris (Kulzer) comb. n., P. acutangulus (Kulzer) comb. n., P. kulzeri (Marcuzzi) comb. n. and P. elegans (Peña) comb. n. Mitragenius pusillus Marcuzzi is synonymized with Patagonogenius collaris (Kulzer) and Auladera andicola rugicollis (Philippi & Philippi) is elevated to species status. The paper includes a cladogram, a discussion of the phylogeny of the three genera, redescriptions or descriptions of the three genera and of their 20 species, four dichotomous keys, habitus photographs, drawings of genitalic features and distribution maps.
A new brachypterous Xenomigia species (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) from Venezuela
Authors: Sattler Klaus , Wojtusiak Janusz 
Published: July 2010

AbstractIn Lepidoptera wing reduction is usually restricted to the females. We report a rare case of male brachyptery in the genus Xenomigia Warren, 1906 (Notodontidae: Dioptinae) from the high Andes of Venezuela. At the same time this is the first case of wing reduction in the family Notodontidae (Noctuoidea). The new species Xenomigia brachyptera sp. n. is described and the adult, male genitalia and other structures of the adult morphology are illustrated. Some aspects of wing reduction in Lepidoptera are discussed.
A new xeromelissine bee in Tertiary amber of the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera: Colletidae)
Authors: Engel Michael S. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractA new fossil of the colletid bee subfamily Xeromelissinae is described and figured from Miocene amber of the Dominican Republic. The species is represented by a single female and is proposed as Chilicola electrodominica sp. n. The fossil is distinguished from living Chilicola as well as the only other fossil xeromelissine, C. gracilis. The relative ages of the genus Chilicola, the subfamily, and the Colletidae as a whole are briefly discussed.
Gall thrips of the Austro-Pacific genus Euoplothrips Hood (Thysanoptera), with a new species from Australia
Authors: Marullo Rita 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe members of Euoplothrips are probably all kleptoparasites on various gall-inducing thrips. A new species of the genus, E. platypodae, is described from Gynaikothrips leaf galls on Ficus platypoda in Western Australia. Three different species from Tonga, Samoa and the Solomon Islands are each known from leaf galls on Ficus. In contrast, the eastern Australian species E. bagnalli is recorded from the leaf galls of other thrips on Smilax australis and Alyxia spicata. E. armatus Moulton from Papua New Guinea is included as a further synonym of E. bagnalli. A key is provided to distinguish these five species. E. malabarica is also included although it is known only from the original description and is probably not congeneric.
Taitastreptus flavipes, a new genus and species of arboreal millipede from Kenya (Diplopoda: Spirostreptidae)
Authors: Vandenspiegel Didier 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThis paper describes a new genus and species of Spirostreptidae, Taitastreptus flavipes, collected in several forest fragments of the Taita hills (Kenya). This genus differs from known spirostreptid genera by the remarkable gonopods in which the telopodites are bifid with equally-sized branches.
A new species of the seepage midge genus Trichothaumalea Edwards from Japan (Diptera: Thaumaleidae)
Authors: Saigusa Toyohei , Sinclair Bradley J. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe adult and pupa of Trichothaumalea japonica sp. n. are described from Japan. This widespread relict genus also includes three species from western [T. pluvialis (Dyar & Shannon), T. pilosa (Garrett)] and eastern (T. elakalensis Sinclair) North America. T. japonica + T. elakalensis are most closely related and together are the sister-group to the western Nearctic species group. Examples of Diptera with similar biogeographic patterns are listed. In addition, male genitalic homologies in this genus are re-examined.
A phylogenetic analysis of the Eucraniini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
Authors: Ocampo Federico C. , Scholtz Clarke H. , Philips T. Keith 
Published: July 2010

AbstractA phylogenetic analysis of the New World Eucraniini was conducted using cladistics. The tribe is monophyletic based on an analysis of 64 morphological characters. The flying Ennearabdus is the sister taxon to the three flightless genera, Anomiopsoides, Eucranium, and Glyphoderus, and Anomiopsoides and Glyphoderus share a common ancestor. The relationship of the eucraniines to other tribes of Scarabaeinae, dung preference, a comparison to the flightless southwest African genus Pachysoma, and the biogeography of the tribe are also discussed.
Review of the Chinese species of Ducetiini (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae)
Authors: Gorochov Andrej V. ,   Kang Le
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe Chinese representatives of the tribe Ducetiini are partly revised. The paper includes descriptions of new taxa (Ducetia borealis sp. n., Kuwayamaea inflata sp. n., K. anhuii sp. n., K. fujiani sp. n., K. hunani sp. n., K. brachyptera sp. n., Prohimerta guizhouensis sp. n., P. fujianensis sp. n., P. hubeiensis sp. n., P. sichuanensis sp. n., Shirakisotima furca sp. n., Paraducetia paracruciata gen. & sp. n.) and of the previously unknown female of Sh. brevifissa Wang & Liu, identification keys to genera and species of Chinese Ducetiini for males, notes about systematic position and distribution of the taxa examined [the former genus Anisotima Bey-Bienko is a subgenus of the genus Prohimerta Hebard; Sh. acuminata Wang & Liu is possibly a junior synonym of Sh. multipunctata (Kang & Yang); some published data on distribution of K. sapporensis Matsumura & Shiraki, Prohimerta yunnana (Bey-Bienko), and Paraducetia cruciata (Brunner von Wattenwyl) are probably erroneous].
Phylogenetic relationships of the lower Cyclorrhapha (Diptera: Brachycera) based on 28S rDNA sequences
Authors: Wiegmann Brian M. , Collins Kenneth P. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractCyclorrhaphan Diptera are an extremely successful clade of ecologically and phylogenenetically important flies. Despite their significance the relationships among lower cyclorrhaphans ('Aschiza') remain controversial in spite of several morphologically based phylogenetic analyses. We sequenced a 2.7-kb fragment of 28S rDNA for taxa representing all lower cyclorrhaphan families (except Ironomyiidae), four schizophoran families, and seven empidoid out-group taxa. Phylogenetic analysis of these data strongly supports a monophyletic Cyclorrhapha (including the enigmatic taxon Opetia nigra) that is divided into two clades - a well-supported Eumuscomorpha (Syrphidae + Pipunculidae + Schizophora), and a weakly-supported Platypezoidea (all non-Eumuscomorpha). Consequently, the former grouping known as Aschiza, which included syrphids and pipunculids, is not a valid monophyletic clade. Within Platypezoidea, most of our analyses place Lonchopteridae as sister group to Opetiidae, and strongly support the monophyly of Sciadoceridae + Phoridae. Among the Eumuscomorpha we do not recover the monophyly of Syrphoidea (Syrphidae + Pipunculidae). Instead, all analyses place Pipunculidae as the sister group to Schizophora. This novel finding has never been proposed based on morphological data and will require more data (both molecular and morphological) and taxa to confirm.
New species and status changes of small flightless relictual Trox Fabricius from southern Africa (Coleoptera: Trogidae)
Authors: Strümpher Werner , Scholtz Clarke 
Published: July 2010

AbstractA new species of Trox, T. mozalae, from coastal sand forest in Mozambique, is described. T. natalensis quadricostatus Scholtz is elevated to species-level and T. natalensis schaborti Scholtz and T. elizabethae van der Merwe & Scholtz are synonymised with it. A key to the subgenus Phoberus MacLeay, to which most of the flightless species in Africa belong, is provided. All species incorporated into the key are illustrated by photographs of habitus and aedeagi. A map is provided of the distribution of each of them.
Revision of the Oriental subgenus Velia (Haldwania) Tamanini, 1955 (Heteroptera: Veliidae), with descriptions of four new species
Authors: Tran Anh Duc , Maria Buzzetti Filippo , Zettel Herbert 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe Oriental subgenus Haldwania of the genus Velia is revised. It includes five previously described species, Velia (H.) championi Tamanini 1955 from northwestern India; V. (H.) steelei Tamanini, 1955 from northeastern India; V. (H.) sinensis Andersen, 1981 from Sichuan, China; V. (H.) tomokunii Polhemus & Polhemus, 1998 from Nepal; V. (H.) tonkina Polhemus & Polhemus, 2003 from northern Vietnam; and four species new to science: V. (H.) anderseni sp.n. from Bengal, India; V. (H.) longiconnexiva sp.n. from Guizhou, China; V. (H.) yunnana sp.n. from Yunnan, China; V. (H.) laticaudata sp.n. from northern Vietnam. Detailed diagnoses of known species and illustrations of all species are given. Diagnostic characteristics for species identification are discussed. A key to species of Haldwania and a map illustrating their distribution are given.
Phylogenetic relationships of Leuronectes Sharp (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Agabinae) based on larval morphology and chaetotaxy
Authors: Archangelsky Miguel , Michat Mariano 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe phylogenetic relationships of the diving beetle (Dytiscidae) genus Leuronectes Sharp are revised based on a cladistic analysis of seven Agabinae genera and 54 morphological and chaetotaxic characters from larvae. For this purpose, larvae of L. curtulus Régimbart are described and illustrated in detail for the first time, with particular emphasis on morphometry and chaetotaxy. The results show that Leuronectes is well placed within Agabinae based on the absence of natatory setae on tibia and tarsus in instars II and III, the urogomphus composed of two urogomphomeres, and the absence of secondary setae on urogomphus. Leuronectes is resolved as part of a basal polytomy along with Platynectes Régimbart and a clade formed by the remaining agabine genera. Leuronectes shares with Platynectes the setae UR2, UR3 and UR4 not inserted contiguously, with Platambus Thomson the anterolateral lobes of frontoclypeus not projected beyond anterior margin, with Hydrotrupes Sharp the seta AB9 inserted dorsolaterally, and with Ilybius Erichson the seta LA10 inserted submedially. Leuronectes is unique within Agabinae in having the apical lateroventral process of the third antennomere not protruding and additional ventroapical pores on third antennomere, and is unique within the dytiscid genera studied in having the seta LA12 inserted submedially and one additional spine-like seta inserted on the lateral margin of abdominal segment VIII.