bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Revision of the genus Aspidiotes Schonherr (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Tanymecini)
Authors: Sanchez-Ruiz M. , Alonso-Zarazaga M.A. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe genus Aspidiotes Schönherr, 1847 is revised; 6 species are recognized as valid. Amomphus Schonherr, 1848 is considered to be an unjustified replacement name for Aspidiotes Schönherr, 1847. Phaenognathus Schönherr, 1847 is retained as a subgenus of Aspidiotes although the cladistic analysis failed to find synapomorphies supporting this opinion. One new species, A. (Aspidiotes) gonzalezi, is described from NE Spain (Lerida, Thrragona and Zaragoza). A seventh species currently included in the genus, Amomphus reichei Desbrochers, 1872, is placed incertae sedis; the type specimen has not been traced. Distributional as well as biological data are provided. A cladistic analysis and a biogeographical discussion are provided.
A new phylogenetically basal subfamily of brown lacewings from Chile (Neuroptera: Hemerobiidae)
Authors: Oswald John D. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractA new genus and species, Adelphohemerobius enigmaramus, is described from Chile and assigned to a new subfamily, Adelphohemerobiinae, of the neuropterous family Hemerobiidae (brown lacewings). A cladistic analysis of morphological data derived from the unique female holotype of A. enigmaramus supports the conclusion that it represents the sister-group of the family Hemerobiidae sensu Oswald (1993a). The holotype of A. enigmaramus is interpreted to be the first non-teratological hemerobiid specimen known to possess a single 'radial sector', i.e., only the true ancestral Rs.
A revision of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera) species described by J. W. Zetterstedt
Authors: Papp Jenö 
Published: July 2010

AbstractTwenty-five species of Braconidae described in the genera Alysia Latreille, Bracon Fabricius, Lepton Zetterstedt, Mícrogaster Latreílle and Sigalphus Latreille by J. W. Zetterstedt in 1838 are revised. Lectotypes and paralectotypes are designated and the present status of Zetterstedt's species is established. Ten names of Zetterstedt are regarded as valid; sixten new synonyms and six new combinations are proposed. A lectotype of Bracon konovii Marshall is designated and the name is resurrected from synonymy with Cyanopterus nigrator (Zetterstedt).
The Trepobatinae (Heteroptera: Gerridae) of New Guinea and surrounding regions, with a review of the world fauna. Part 2. Tribe Naboandelini
Authors: Polhemus Dan A. , Polhemus John T. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe small waterstriders of the subfamily Trepobatinae have radiated extensively on New Guinea and surrounding archipelagos. The present contribution is the second in a series of reports dealing with this endemic fauna, and presents a revision of the tribe Naboandelini, proposed in Part 1 of this series to hold the genera Naboandelus Distant (type-genus), Hynesionella Poisson, and Calyptobates gen. n. A key to these genera is provided, followed by a taxonomic treatment of their constituent species occuring in the Australasian region. The following new taxa are proposed within Naboandelini: Calyptobates gen. n., including type-species Calyptobatesjourama sp. n. from Australia, Calyptobates amboina sp. n. from Ambon, Calyptobates andaman sp. n. from the Andaman Islands, Calyptobates minimus sp. n. from Australia, Calyptobates rubidus sp. n. from Australia, Calyptobates samarinda sp. n. from Borneo, and Calyptobates simplex sp. n. from New Guinea. The genus Naboandelus Distant is redescribed, and the following new species are added: Naboandelus borneensis sp. n. from Borneo, Naboandelus johorensis sp. n. from Malaysia, and Naboandelus taprobanicus sp. n. from Sri Lanka. The genus Hynesionella Poisson is redefined, Naboandelus capensis Poisson 1955 is transferred to the genus (comb. n.), and Hynesionella omercooperi Hungerford & Matsuda, 1959 is shown to be a synonym of capensis (syn. n.). Habitat and distributional data are given for these taxa, accompanied by figures of key characters and distribution maps.
Review of the family Ibaliidae (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea) with keys to genera and species of the World
Authors: Zhiwei Liu  , Nordlander Göran 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe archaic cynipoid family Ibaliidae is revised. All described taxa are included in a checklist, and keys to valid taxa are presented. Host records include larvae of several woodwasp species (Siricidae: Siricinae and Tremicinae). Ibaliidae is considered to include the East Asian genus Heteribalia Sakagami, with five valid species, and the mainly Holarctic genus Ibalia Latreille, with 13 valid species, seven in the subgenus Ibalia and six in the subgenus Tremibalia. Heteribalia aureopilosa Maa, 1949 and H. subtilis Maa, 1949 are raised from subspecies to species level. Ibalia (T.) hunanica sp. n., is described from Oriental China. Three morphs of I. (T.) anceps, differing in wing colour pattern, are recognized, and distribution records of these morphs in North America are mapped. I. scalpellator Westwood, 1837 is synonymized with I. anceps Say, 1824; I. takaehihoi Yasumatsu, 1937 with I. jakowlewi Jacobson, 1899; I.fulviceras Yang, 1991 with I. ornata Belizin, 1968; and I. yunshae Yang et Liu,1992 with I. rufipes drewseni Borries, 1891. Lectotypes are designated for I. picea Matsumura, 1912 (syn. of I. leucospoides (Hochenwarth, 1785)) and for I. japonica Matsumura, 1912.
A revision of the genus Epichlorops Becker (Diptera: Chloropidae)
Authors: Wheeler Terry A. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe primarily Nearctic genus Epichlorops Becker is revised. The genus comprises ten species in the Nearctic region: E. aquilonius sp. n.; E. californicus sp. n.; E. ectyphus sp. n.; E. elongatus sp. n.; E. exilis (Coquillett); E. glaphyrus sp. n.; E, mexieanus sp. n.; E. punctieollis (Zetterstedt); E. scaber (Coquillett); and E. stenostylus sp. n. Epichlorops punetieollis is the only species of the genus known from the Palaearctic region. A key and illustrations of all species are provided. The monophyly of the genus and phylogenetic relationships between the species are analysed and discussed.
The Isotomiella of Thailand (Collembola: Isotomidae), with description of five new species
Authors: Bedos Anne , Deharveng Louis 
Published: July 2010

AbstractEight species of Isotomiella Bagnall, five of which are new, are recorded from Thailand: I. symetrimucronata Najt & Thibaud, 1987, I. nummulifer Deharveng & Oliveira, 1990, I. cribrata Deharveng & Suhardjono, 1994, L brevidens sp. n., I. edaphica sp. n., I, hirsuta sp. n., I. inthanonensis sp. n., and I. leksawasdii sp. n. Isotomiella minor (Schaeffer, 1896), the only species previously recorded from Thailand, is probably misidentified. A key to the species of Thai Isotomiella is given.
The classification of the Timandra griseata group (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae)
Authors: Albrecht Anders , Kaila Lauri 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe Timandra griseata group is revised with special emphasis on the European taxa. It is concluded that two species with slightly overlapping distribution areas occur in Europe: T. griseata Petersen, 1902 which is confined to northern Europe and T. comai Schmidt, 1931 (= Calothysanis amataria brykaria Nordström, 1943, syn. n.) which is widespread in South and Central Europe. The differences in morphology, yearly occurrence and phenology between T. griseata and T. comai were studied in southern Finland. The following new combinations are proposed: Timandra Paralias (Prout), Timandra recompta ovidius (Bryk) and T. recompta prouti (Inoue). A lectotype for T. griseata Petersen is designated. T. paralias, although not a member of the T. griseata group, is redescribed because of its external resemblance.
Rostromyrmex, a new genus of myrmicine ants from Peninsular Malaysia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Authors: Rościszewski Krzysztof 
Published: July 2010

AbstractRostromyrmex, a new genus of myrmicine ants from Peninsular Malaysia is described on the basis of workers, dealate females, and a single male. Analysis of characters suggests a closest relationship with either Lordomyrma or the Solenopsis genus group.
Revision of the milliped family Paeromopodidae, and elevation of the Aprosphylosomatinae to family status (Julida: Paeromopodoidea)
Authors: Shelley Rowland M. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe family Paeromopodidae is comprised of large, agile millipeds that include the longest diplopods in the Nearctic. It is endemic to three regions in the western United States - a large, irregular area extending from the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Monterey Peninsula of California to the northern Puget Sound region of Washington, a small, ovoid area in the Warner Mountains of northeastern California and the adjacent fringes of Oregon and Nevada, and an area in the northwestern interior extending from the Wallowa Mountains of northeastern Oregon to Flathead Lake, Montana. Representatives have flat, plate-like gonopods that represent the coxites; the flagellum is absent from the anterior gonopods and the telopodite is lost from both gonopod pairs. The family includes two genera: Paeromopus Karsch, with five species - angusticeps (Wood), eldoradus, cavicolens, and buttensis, all by Chamberlin, and ocellatus Loomis - and Californiulus Verhoeff, with five species - chamberlini (Brolemann), comb. n., dorsovittatus Verhoeff, yosemitensis Chamberlin, euphanus (Chamberlin), and parvior (Chamberlin). The principal taxonomic features involve the configurations of the distal and midlength projections of the anterior gonopods and the terminal or subterminal projections of the posterior genitalia. Californiulus chamberlini, dorsovittatus, and yosemitensis display broad, yellow, middorsal stripes, the last also with a median black line, and the other species exhibit light or dark transverse bands. The following new synonymies are proposed: P. lysiopetalinus Karsch and pistus Chamberlin, and Paeromopellus sphinx Verhoeff, under P. angusticeps; Klansolus zantus Chamberlin under C. chamberlini; C. vicinus Chamberlin under C. dorsovittatus; K. mononus and obscurans, both by Chamberlin, under C. yosemitensis; and K. socius and Aigon rodocki, both by Chamberlin, under C. parvior. The monobasic subfamily Aprosphylosomatinae, accommodating Aprosphylosoma Hoffman, is elevated to family status in the superfamily Paeromopodoidea. Its sole species, A. darceneae Hoffman, known only from Oregon, is smallbodied, dark mottled brown in color, and has a separate coxite and telopodite on the anterior gonopod.
Eight new species and a revised key to Australian Helicopsyche (Trichoptera: Helicopsychidae)
Authors: Johanson Kjell Arne 
Published: July 2010

AbstractEight new species of Helicopsyche, viz., H. neboissi sp. n.; H. tribulationa sp. n.; H. curva sp. n.; H. bellangrensis sp. n.; H. braueri sp. n.; H. alicae sp. n.; H. albidela sp. n.; and H. kakadu sp. n., are described. The females of H. tillyardi Mosely, 1953 and H. heacota Mosely, 1953 are described for the first time. A revised description of the male and female H. cochleaetesta Korboot, 1964, female H. murrumba Mosely, 1953 and male H. tillyardi Mosely, 1953 are given. Revised keys to the males and females of Australian Helicopsyche species are presented.
Description of Dineura pullior sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae), with quantified observations on saw wear
Authors: Schmidt S. , Walter G.H. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractIn sawfly taxonomy the structure of the lancet or the saw is an important character for identification of females. Because adult females use the saw to place eggs into the host plant its teeth may wear and their shape may thus be altered. We investigated the pattern of wear in a species of nematine sawfly that we also describe for the first time. Saw wear of females that deposited known numbers of eggs was examined. Saw wear was not strongly related to the number of eggs laid, despite some saws being considerably worn. The range of variation in saw profile illustrated by Lindqvist (1956) in the closely-related species D. virididorsata (Retzius) was not observed in our study. Despite the shape of the saw being altered to some extent with use, other structures on the saw do not change and provide good taxonomic characters in the genus Dineura, as evidenced by our detection of the cryptic (= sibling) species on the basis of differences in ctenidial structure. We describe this species under the name Dineura pullior sp. n.
Systematic revision of Ericydeus Pascoe (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
Authors: Lanteri Analia A. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe genus Ericydeus Pascoe (Polydrosinae: Naupactini) distributed throughout the United States of America up to Argentina is revised and a cladistic analysis including 16 species is conducted. Three new species are described: E. bahiensis, E. argentinensis and E. cupreolus. Ericydeus humeralis Hustache is synonymized under E. nigropunctatus (Chevrolat); and E. modestus viridans (Boheman) and E. modestus duodecimpunctatus (Dalla-Torre, Emden & Emden) are elevated to species rank. Other valid species are: E. hancocki (Kirby), E. schoenherri (Perty), E. sedecimpunctatus (Linnaeus), E. yucatanus (Champion), E. roseiventris (Champion), E. quadripunctatus (Champion), E. modestus (Gyllenhal), E. forreri (Champion), E. lautus (LeConte) and E. placidus (Horn). In the cladogram obtained the species from South America gather in a clade (E. argentinensis, E. sedecimpunctatus, E. nigropunctatus, E. schoenherri, E. hancocki, and E. bahiensis) and the species from Central and North America form a separate clade (E. yucatanus, E. roseiventris - E. quadripunctatus, E. cupreolus, E. viridans - E. modestus, E. duodecimpunctatus, E. forreri, E. lautus - E. placidus). The character evolution follows a southern-northern direction. The paper includes a redescription of the genus, redescriptions or descriptions of its 16 species, a dichotomous key, habitus photographs, drawings of diagnostic structures, distribution maps, a cladogram, and a discussion of the phylogeny and distribution of the genus.
A comparative SEM study of the eggs of the Sepsidae (Diptera) with a cladistic analysis based on egg, larval and adult characters
Authors: Meier Rudolf 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe eggs of 21 species in 12 genera of Sepsidae were studied using scanning electron microscopy. All but the eggs of Ortalischema have respiratory filaments which aid in gas exchange. Judged by positional differences and the lack of a central canal, the two filaments of Orygma are not homologous to the single filament of most remaining sepsids. Hinton's hypothesis that egg filaments are plesiomorphic for the Sepsidae is therefore rejected. Three egg characters are added to an existing data set comprising 58 taxa and 85 larval and adult characters. The egg characters allow the unambiguous placement of Lasionemopoda, for which the larval and adult data set had suggested two different positions on equally parsimonious trees. Based on the position of Lasionemopoda, the evolution of the fore femora of the Sepsidae is briefly discussed. The egg morphology of the Sepsidae is also compared to the morphology of drosophiline eggs which also have egg filaments.
A study of Zaleinae, a taxon transitional between Canacidae and Tethinidae (Diptera), with the description of a new genus and species
Authors: Freidberg Amnon 
Published: July 2010

AbstractSuffomyia scutellaris gen. n. & sp. n. is described from specimens collected at the intertidal zone along the western coast of the Gulf of Elat (northern Red Sea), Sinai. This is the first representative of the subfamily Zaleinae in the Palaearctic Region. The phylogenetic relationships of the Zaleinae are discussed, and the subfamily is shown to be an intermediate group between typical Canacidae and Tethinidae, indicating that only one family is involved.
Phylogeny and classification of aquatic bugs (Heteroptera, Nepomorpha). An essay review of Mahner's 'Systema Cryptoceratum Phylogeneticum'
Authors: Andersen Nils Møller 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThis essay is essentially a review of the monographic work by the German zoologist Martin Mahner : 'Systema Cryptoceratum Phylogeneticum (Insecta, Heteroptera)' (Zoologica, Heft 143, Stuttgart 1993). The monograph is the most comprehensive systematic account of the aquatic bugs to date and the first major work on this group where the principles of phylogenetic (cladistic) systematics are consistently applied. Mahner follows the principles of the 'konsequentphylogenetische oder cladistischen Systematik', being Willi Hennig's phylogenetic systematics as interpreted and modified by Peter Ax. The methodological procedures recommended by this school of systematics is controversial, however, and call for a broader discussion of current trends in systematics as exemplified by the phylogeny and classification of the aquatic bugs.
The encyrtid genus Allocerellus Silvestri (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), parasitoids of mealybugs (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae)
Authors: Prinsloo G.L. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe Encyrtidae genus Allocerellus Silvestri is reviewed and keys for the separation of males and females of the 12 known species are provided. The males of A. vittatus Annecke & Mynhardt and A. hortensis Annecke & Mynhardt are described for the first time and the following four species are described from South Africa as new: ater, curtus, mimus and notatus. New information on hosts and distribution is provided for all but two of the previously known species.
Systematics, cladistics, and biogeography of the Peirates collarti and P. lepturoides species groups (Heteroptera: Reduviidae, Peiratinae)
Authors: Morrone Juan J. , Coscaron MARIA DEL CARMEN 
Published: July 2010

AbstractCleptocoris StÅl is synonymized with Peirates Serville. Its species are assigned to the P. collarti and P. lepturoides species groups. The former group includes P. collarti Schouteden and P. monodi Villiers; the latter group is formed by P. amieti Villiers, P. areatus Miller, P. atromaculatus (StÅl), P. aurigans Distant, P. balteatus Germar, P. cinctiventris Horváth, P. diola (Villiers) comb. n., P. lepturoides (Wolff), P. macilentus Miller, P. maurus StÅl (= Cleptocoris leyei Villiers, syn. n.), P. niger Signoret, P. nitidicollis Reuter (= P. conspurcatus Distant, syn. n.), P. ochripennis Jeannel, P. perinetensis Villiers, P. strepitans Rambur (= P. rufescens Villiers, syn. n.), P. tellini Schouteden and P. turpis Walker (= P. brachypterus Horváth, syn. rev.). These species are redescribed, illustrated, their geographical distribution mapped, and keys for separating them are given. A phylogenetic analysis of the species is presented. In the cladogram, the P. collarti and P. lepturoides species groups are monophyletic and sister taxa. Within the latter, P. amieti is the sister species to the trichotomy formed by P. perinetensis, P. strepitans and the clade including the remaining species which comprises, in phylogenetic order, the pair P. niger - P. turpis; the group including P. cinctiventris, P. lepturoides, P. areatus, and P. ochripennis; and the group including P. atromaculatus-P. aurigans, P. balteatus, P. tellini, P. macilentus-P. nitidicollis, P. diola - P. maurus. The geographical distribution of the species shows an African - Indopacific generalized track, with an Indian Ocean baseline. The group is hypothesized to be of tropical Gondwanan origin, with subsequent spread into the Palearctic.
The status of the genera Asecodes Förster, Ionympha Graham and Teleopterus Silvestri (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), with a review of Nearctic species
Authors: Hansson Christer 
Published: July 2010

AbstractIonympha Graham is removed from synonymy with Asecodes Förster. Teleopterus Silvestri, Metasecodes Erdös and Desmatocharis Graham are placed in synonymy with Asecodes. These transpositions are supported by new characters. Five species previously classified in Teleopterus are newly transferred to Asecodes: Desmatocharis reticulatus Kamijo, Entedon erxias Walker, Eulophus turcicus Nees, Teleopterus delucchii Boucek, T. politus Hansson. The Nearctic species of Asecodes are presented in a key, including one new species: A. orilatum, two newly recorded species: A. mento (Walker), A. coronis (Walker), hitherto known only from Europe, and two species previously in Teleopterus: A. erxias, A. politum. Ionympha is represented by two species in the Nearctic: I. carne (Walker), I. ochus (Walker).
Phylogenetic analysis of larval and adult characters of Adephaga (Coleoptera) using cladistic computer programs
Authors: Haas A. , Beutel R.G. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractEighty characters of larvae and adults of 35 adephagan genera, 2 polyphagan genera, and 1 cupedid genus were analyzed using the cladistic computer programs PAUP and MacClade. The analysis resulted in 1961 equally parsimonious trees of 131 steps (minimum length cladogram). The monophyly of Adephaga and of all adephagan families is confirmed. A sistergroup relationship between Gyrinidae and the remaining Adephaga, a sistergroup relationship between Spanglerogyrus and Gyrininae, the monophyly of Dytiscoidea, a sistergroup relationship between Noteridae and the remaining Dytiscoidea, a sistergroup relationship between Hygrobiidae and Dytiscidae, the monophyly of Caraboidea (Rhysodidae and Carabidae), and the monophyly of Harpalinae sensu Crowson (1955) are in agreement with earlier phylogenetic hypotheses by Beutel & Roughley (1988) and Beutel (1992a, 1993, 1995). The sistergroup relationship between Haliplidae and Dytiscoidea and the monophyly of Geadephaga (Trachypachidae + Caraboidea) are in contrast to Beutel (1992a, 1993, 1995). The high number of equally parsimonius trees is largely due to an inconsistent distribution of character states in basal carabid taxa, i.e. reversals and convergencies. Further evidence is needed for a clarification of these systematic problems.