bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Systematics of Mallochianamyia Santos-Neto (=Gayomyia Malloch), an unplaced genus of Neotropical acalyptrate flies (Diptera: Schizophora)
Authors: Wheeler Terry A. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractMallochianamyia Santos-Neto was proposed as a replacement name for Gayomyia Malloch, 1933 (preoccupied by Gayomyia Banks, 1913), an unplaced genus of acalyptrate Diptera from Chile and Argentina. The genus comprises 12 species: M. cladostyla sp. n.; M. fenestrata sp. n.; M. flavitibia sp. n.; M. furcata sp. n.; M. gallina sp. n.; M. latigena sp. n.; M. magnipalpis sp. n.; M. nigrohalterata (Malloch) comb. n.; M. penai sp. n.; M. setosa sp. n.; M. truncata sp. n.; M. vexans sp. n. All new species are illustrated and a key to species of Mallochianamyia is provided. The monophyly of the genus is supported by three characters of the male and female genitalia. Mallochianamyia is most closely related to the New World genera Paraleucopis Malloch and Schizostomyia Malloch and an undescribed Australian genus. The group cannot be placed in any established family as currently defined, although there are affinities to some families in the Asteioinea sensu J. F. McAlpine (1989). Research on the morphology and relationships of genera related to Mallochianamyia is required to clarify the familial status of the group.
Revision of Chinese Euplectromorpha Girault (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)
Authors: Huang Da-Wei , Zhu Chao-Dong 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThis paper treats the Chinese species of Euplectromorpha Girault. Nine valid species are recognized and a key to species is provided. Five species were previously known from China: E. breviealcar (Lin), E. clavata (Lin), E. contingens (Lin), E. interrupta (Lin), and E. simplicicornis (Lin). E. inaequalis (Lin) is proposed as a new synonym of E. brevicalcar. One species is newly recorded from China: E. bicarinata (Ferrière). Three new species, E. conjuncta, E. triangularis, and E. acuticlavata, are described and compared with related species. One new combination is proposed, Aroplectrus areolatus (Ferrière), transferred from Neoplectrus.
On the phylogeny of the Dytiscidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) with emphasis on the morphology of the female reproductive system
Authors: Miller Kelly B. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractCharacters from adult morphology are analyzed cladistically to infer the phylogeny of the family Dytiscidae. The analysis is based on examination of 233 species of Dytiscidae and several outgroup taxa including members of Noteridae, Amphizoidae, Hygrobiidae and Carabidae. Members of all currently recognized tribes of Dytiscidae are represented except Anisomeriini Brinck, Hydronebriini Guignot and Carabhydrini Watts. Emphasis is placed on identifying informative characters from the female genital system that comprise 34 of the resulting 101 total characters. The consensus of the most parsimonious trees is well resolved and supports recognition of ten subfamilies of Dytiscidae including; Matinae van den Branden, Laccophilinae Gistel, Coptotominae van den Branden, Copelatinae Erichson, Hydroporinae Aubé, Agabinae Thomson, Colymbetinae Erichson, Lancetinae van den Branden and Dytiscinae Leach. Also, Hydrodytes Miller, NEW GENUS, is erected and placed in its own subfamily, Hydrodytinae, NEW SUBFAMILY, to include two species previously placed in Agaporomorphus Zimmermann (Copelatinae), H. opalinus (Zimmermann) (NEW COMBINATION) and H. dodgei (Young) (NEW COMBINATION). Hydrodytinae is sister group to Hydroporinae and is diagnosed by the presence of anterior apodemes on the gonocoxae, several characters of the metendosternite (each synapomorphic with Hydroporinae), lack of pseudotetramerous pro- and mesotarsi, lack of a declivitous prosternum and prosternal process, the scutellum visible with the elytra closed (all plesiomorphic), the rami of the female genitalia sinuate and dorsally with an opalescent sheen (each autapomorphic for Hydrodytinae). Matinae is resolved as the sister group to the remaining Dytiscidae. Hyphydrini Sharp is found to be paraphyletic with respect to Pachydrini Biström, Nilsson and Wewalka, and the latter is relegated to a junior subjective synonym of the former (NEW SYNONYMY). Hydroporini Aubé and Hygrotini Portevin are found to be para- or polyphyletic. No changes are made to the classification of these taxa since character evidence is relatively weak, and taxon sampling within Hydroporinae is inadequate to justify changes. Carabdytes Balke, Hendrich and Wewalka is found to be the sister taxon to the remaining Colymbetinae, and because of its unique combination of characters and phylogenetic placement it is included in its own tribe, Carabdytini Pederzani (RESURRECTED). All other examined tribes of Dytiscidae are monophyletic. The female genitalia are described and figured for numerous taxa across the family, and numerous other characters are described and figured. The evolution of various features of the female genitalia within Dytiscidae is discussed. The resulting phylogenetic hypothesis is compared and contrasted with other phylogenetic proposals.
Blackburnia gastrellariformis sp. n. (Coleoptera: Carabidae), from Molokai: successful prediction of a new taxon by reconciled tree analysis
Authors: Liebherr James K. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractBlackburnia gastrellariformis sp. n., is described from East Molokai, Hawaii. Based on cladistic parsimony analysis of adult characters, the species is hypothesized to be most closely related to B. komohana Liebherr & Zimmerman of West Maui, with these two species comprising the adelphotaxon to the East Maui species pair, B. haleakala Liebherr & Zimmerman + B. putealis (Blackburn). Previous reconciled tree analysis for the Hawaiian Blackburnia radiation conducted before discovery of B. gastrellariformis found a general pattern in which Molokai and West Maui were hypothesized as sister-areas to the exclusion of the East Maui volcano, Haleakala, though the less common, incongruent area relationship of (Molokai (West Maui + East Maui) was also represented in the taxon-area cladogram. In the present reconciled tree analysis, the closest hypothesized relationship of B. gastrellariformis and a West Maui species corroborates the more common pattern by replacing items of error in the previous analysis with the newly discovered species. Elevational habitat shifts are invoked to explain the occurrence of numerous sister-species pairs in Molokai and West Maui, currently separated by the Pailolo Channel, relative to species occupying Haleakala.
Morronia brevirostris, a new genus and species of Entimini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) from Islas Malvinas
Authors: Posadas Paula , Ocampo Federico C. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractA new genus of entimine weevils, Morronia gen. n., is described as endemic to the Islas Malvinas (Falkland Islands). It is distinguished from the other genera of Entimini by the following combination of characters: frons without fovea; rostrum lacking carinae, as long as wide; and foretibia with external margin straight and a spatula-like projection. Diagnoses, descriptions and illustrations of the new genus and its only species, M. brevirostris sp. n., are given. We also present a check-list of the Curculionidae recorded from the Islas Malvinas. It contains 22 species in 13 genera and 3 subfamilies. Also included is a key to the species of the Entiminae that inhabit the archipelago.
Mimumesa littoralis (Bondroit), M. oresterus (van Lith), and M. unicolor (Vander Linden): notes on similarity, synonymy, and identification (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae)
Authors: Budrys Eduardas 
Published: July 2010

AbstractMimumesa oresterus (van Lith) was found to be less different from regional populations of M. unicolor (Vander Linden) than are regional populations of the closely related species M. littoralis (Bondroit) among themselves, and M. oresterus is therefore synonymized with M. unicolor. The East Asiatic population of M. littoralis is comparatively dissimilar to conspecific European and Central Asiatic populations morphometrically and in some details of male genitalia, and after additional studies it might be considered as a subspecies. An identification key with new structural and morphometric characters to distinguish M. littoralis and M. unicolor is presented.
The greenhouse thrips, Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis, and its generic relationships within the subfamily Panchaetothripinae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)
Authors: Trueman John W.H. , Marullo Rita , Mound Laurence A. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe subfamily Panchaetothripinae, comprising 35 genera and 98 species, includes several pest species of which the most notorious is the greenhouse thrips, Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis. In an attempt to establish the sister-group of Heliothrips, the relationships of this genus to 31 of the other genera in the subfamily were examined cladistically, using 35 parsimony-informative morphological characters. The analysis indicated that there was no support for two of the three tribes into which this subfamily is customarily arranged, the Monilothripini and the Panchaetothripini, but weak support for the tribe Tryphactothripini. No clear sister-group relationship could be identified for the New World genus Heliothrips, although it grouped with three old world genera Australothrips, Retithrips and Rhipiphorothrips. It is concluded that a morphological data set is not capable of producing a robust phylogeny of the Panchaetothripinae, and that the subject requires re-examination using molecular data.
Agabus alexandrae sp. n. from Morocco, with a molecular phylogeny of the Western Mediterranean species of the A. guttatus group (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
Authors: Ribera Ignacio , Hernando Carles , Aguilera Pedro 
Published: July 2010

AbstractA new species of the Agabus guttatus group, A. alexandrae sp. n., is described from the Moyen Atlas in Morocco. A phylogeny of most of the Western Mediterranean species of the group based on Cytochrome Oxydase I and 16S rRNA sequences (approximately 1,250 bp) shows that A. alexandrae sp. n. is sister to the remaining species of the group. The evolutionary history of the species of the group is tentatively reconstructed, based on a Maximum Likelihood estimate of divergence time of approximately 2% per MY for the combined 16S and COI genes, similar to other estimates of evolutionary rates of the mitochondrial DNA of Coleoptera.
Redescription of the little-known Australian geometrid moth Palleopa innotata Walker, 1866 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae)
Authors: Young Catherine J. , Mcquillan Peter B. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe previously overlooked geometrid genus Palleopa Walker, which includes one described, widespread species: innotata, is reviewed. The genus has an eastern Bassian distribution, south of latitude 28°S, in the moist forests and woodlands of south eastern Australia from sea level to over 1000m. The distinctive larvae feed on the foliage of Eucalyptus trees. The immature stages are described and the life cycle is illustrated for the first time.
Exoprosopa pandora (Fabricius, 1805) (Diptera: Bombyliidae) and related species in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin
Authors: Greathead D.J. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractAnthrax pandora Fabricius, the type species of the genus Exoprosopa Macquart, was described from Algeria but the species has seldom been recognised by subsequent authors. Comparison of specimens from Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco with photographs of the badly damaged syntypes showed that Exoprosopa baccha Loew syn. n. is a synonym and establishes the distribution of E. pandora as North Africa, the Levant and southern Balkans. A key is provided for the identification of E. pandora and similar species from Europe and the Mediterranean Basin (viz., E. bowdeni Sanchez-Terrón, E. capucina (Fabricius), E. cleomene Egger, E. italica (Rossi), E. jacchus (Fabricius)) and their distributions are clarified.
Systematic revision of the genera Chalinus Konow, 1897 and Mocsarya Konow, 1897 (Hymenoptera: Orussidae)
Authors: Vilhelmsen Lars 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe genera Chalinus Konow and Mocsarya Konow are revised. Eight species are recognised in Chalinus: C. berlandi Guiglia, C. braunsi (Enslin), C. haugi du Buysson, C. imperialis (Westwood), C. orientalis Guiglia, C. purpureiventris Cameron, C. somalicus Guiglia, C. timnaensis Kraus. Chalinus balianii Guiglia is proposed as a new synonym of C. berlandi Guiglia, C. schulthessi Guiglia as a new synonym of C. braunsi (Enslin), and the synonymy of C. congoensis Guiglia with C. imperialis (Westwood) is reestablished. Two species are recognised in Mocsarya: M. metallica (Mocsáry); M. syriaca Benson. Two nominal species, Oryssus oberthueri Saussure and Oryssus plumicornis Guérin-Menneville are treated as species inquirendae in Chalinus. Keys, redescriptions and distribution maps are provided for all recognised species.
Silky lacewings (Neuroptera: Psychopsidae) from the Eocene-Paleocene transition of Denmark with a review of the fossil record and comments on phylogeny and zoogeography
Authors: Andersen Stig 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThirty-four fossil insect wings from the Fur Formation of Denmark (Eocene-Paleocene transition) are recognised as neuropteran forewings standing close to extant Psychopsidae (silky lacewings). This affinity is based primarily on their possession of a vena triplica in the forewing. A new genus, Palaeopsychops gen. n. and four new species, P. latifasciatus sp. n. (type species), P. abruptus sp. n., P. angustifasciatus sp. n. and P. maculatus sp. n. are described. Palaeopsychops is identified mainly by the shape of vena triplica and costal space and by the venation of radial space. The new genus appears most closely related to some fossil species of the North American Eocene, while it appears only remotely related to the psychopsid genus Propsychopsis Krüger described from Baltic amber (European Eocene). The different species of Palaeopsychops are separated on relatively minor differences in wing venation and pigmentation. The entire fossil record of psychopsid-like Neuroptera are reviewed and issues of phylogeny and zoogeography are discussed. A total of 5 extant and 21 fossil genera are recognised in the Psychopsidae lineage based on an extended vena triplica definition. The lineage goes back at least to the Upper Triassic. An attempt is made to gather the psychopsid genera into larger natural entities. Extant Psychopsidae are restricted to S. Africa, Australia and SE. Asia. It is suggested that the present relictual distribution is mainly caused by extinction events.
Monophyly, composition, and relationships within Saturniinae (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae): Evidence from two nuclear genes
Authors: Friedlander Timothy P. , Peigler Richard S. , Regier Jerome C. , Mitter Charles 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe approximately 1500 species of Saturniidae or wild silk moths, which include some of the largest of all lepidopterans, have provided important model systems for studies of ecology, developmental genetics, and behavior. Such studies would benefit from a robust comparative framework, but there has been little phylogenetic analysis of this family. To address this, we use nuclear gene sequences to test hypotheses about the monophyly and internal relationships of the large and geographically widespread subfamily Saturniinae (63 genera, 644 spp.). Extending our previous examination of the genera of Attacini, we analyze coding sequence from elongation factor-1α (1240 nt) and dopa decarboxylase (typically 1051 nt) in 64 species representing four of five tribes in Saturniinae, 11 of 16 genera in Saturniini, and outgroups in Saturniidae and other bombycoids. The results support a recent postulate that Saturniinae, largely Oriental and Palearctic in distribution, should include the African Micragonini. The alternative that Micragonini or some subgroup thereof constitute its own subfamily (previously called Ludiinae) is shown to result in a paraphyletic Saturniinae. Micragonini group strongly with the tribe Bunaeini, also African. Monophyly for Saturniinae, including Micragonini, is strongly supported, as is a basal split between Attacini + Saturniini and Bunaeini + Micragonini. As a consequence, a postulated affinity to the African tribes of two Madagascan endemic Saturniini, thus rendering Saturniini paraphyletic, is rejected. However, there is no strong evidence either way on monophyly of Saturniini versus paraphyly with respect to the clearly monophyletic Attacini (atlas moths and relatives). This result reflects generally weak resolution of deeper divergences in Saturnini. Several lower-level groupings within Saturniini are strongly corroborated, including the tailed-hindwinged 'moon moths' (Argema, Actias, Graellsia) that specialize on resinous hostplants, and Saturnia sensu lato, a consolidation of eight small, former genera.
The limits of the family Evaniidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) and a new genus from Lebanese Amberamber
Authors: Basibuyuk Hasan H. , Fitton Mike G. , Rasnitsyn Alexandr P. , Quicke Donald L.J. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe definition of the family Evaniidae is revised and Cretevaniidae are synonymised with Evaniidae based on evidence derived from recently described Mesozoic taxa and a new genus and species, Lebanevania azari, described here from Lebanese amber. A fore leg with a long trochanter and a 12-segmented antenna are autapomorphies of the new genus. A large, high and wide head and a high and short mesosoma are derived characters shared with other Evaniidae. The new genus also has complete fore wing venation and lacks a tubular petiole, which are ground plan features of the Evanioidea. A cladistic analysis of fossil and extant members of the superfamily Evanioidea and notes on fossil taxa are presented.
A revision of the wasp genus Dohchurus Latreille, 1809 in Australia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Ampulicidae)
Authors: Ohl Michael 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe Australian species of Dolichurus Latreille are revised. The revision includes a key to species, diagnoses, descriptions, illustrations of important characters, and distribution maps. Four species are recognised, three of which are new: D. ]astos sp. n., D. carbonarius, D. crenatus sp. n., and D. yungaburra sp. n. Relationships among Australian Dolichurus and extralimital species are briefly discussed.
A systematic revision of the plantbug genus Kirkaldyella Poppius (Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae: Austromirini)
Authors: Moulds Timothy , Cassis Gerasimos 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe genus Kirkaldyella is revised and thirteen species are described, twelve of which are new: K. adunca, K. anasillosi, K. argoantyx, K. boweri, K. carotarhani, K. mcalpinei, K. mcmillani, K. ngarkati, K. notaurantia, K. ortholata, K. pilosa and K. schuhi. The type species, K. rugosa Poppius is redescribed and illustrated. The biology and host associations of the species are discussed. A cladistic analysis of the species is given with all the relationships fully resolved, aside from the most terminal clade (K. notaurantia + K. schuhi + K. rugosa). The analysis is based primarily on characters of the male genitalia.
Cladistic analysis of the genus Dichaetophora Duda (Diptera: Drosophilidae) and a revised classification
Authors: Toda Masanori J. , Hu Yao-Guang 
Published: July 2010

AbstractPhylogenetic relationships among the genus Dichaetophora, the genus Nesiodrosophila and the Lordiphosa tenuicauda species-group and some possibly related genera of Drosophilinae were analyzed in this study using 30 morphological characters derived from 34 species. It is concluded that the three taxa constitute a monophyletic group, within which three monophyletic groups are recognized: Dichaetophora + Nesiodrosophila comprise a monophyletic group, while the L. tenuicauda group is divided into two monophyletic groups. This clade is revised as the genus Dichaetophora, with its three constituent monophyletic groups treated as new specis-groups: the agbo, the tenuicauda and the acutissima groups. Nesiodrosophila becomes a junior synonym. A key to the species-groups is provided.
The Fanniidae (Diptera) described by J. W. Zetterstedt
Authors: Pont Adrian C. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe twenty names described by Zetterstedt in the Fanniidae are revised, and lectotypes designated where appropriate. Four new synonyms are proposed: Fannia armata (Meigen, 1826) (syn: albinervis Zetterstedt, 1845; glaucescens Zetterstedt, 1845), Fannia canicularis (Linnaeus, 1761) (syn: impura Zetterstedt, 1838), and Piezura graminicola (Zetterstedt, 1846) (syn: boletorum Rondani, 1866). As a result, two names are raised from synonymy: Fannia lucidula (Zetterstedt, 1860) (for glaucescens of authors [misidentifications]), and Piezura pardalina Rondani, 1866 (for graminicola of authors [misidentifications]).
Heliconandria, a new genus of aleocharine staphylinid beetle from Ecuador and Peru (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)
Authors: Hanley Rodney S. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe aleocharine staphylinid genus Heliconandria, new genus, is proposed and diagnosed based on external structural features, especially those of the mouthparts, and male and female genitalia. Three new species are also described, H. wettersteniana, gynochela, and H. peoechma, with a key to differentiate them and numerous illustrations of diagnostic features presented.
A phylogenetic revision of Calydna and relatives (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae)
Authors: Hall Jason P.W. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractA phylogenetic revision of the Neotropical riodinid genus Calydna Doubleday and relatives is presented. A phylogenetic analysis for all twenty species of Calydna using thirty-eight characters of adult morphology generated four most parsimonious cladograms. Calydna is characterised to contain eighteen species, divided here into three monophyletic species groups with the relationship caieta group + (thersander group + hiria group). A new genus Echydna Hall gen. n. is described for the most basal clade, containing chaseba Hewitson and punctata C. & R. Felder, which are transferred from Calydna (combs. n.). The taxonomy, morphology, biogeography and biology of both genera are discussed, locality data is listed and mapped, and the adults and male and female genitalia are illustrated for all species. Concealed male abdominal androconial scales, which phylogenetically unite the thersander and hiria groups, are reported for the first time outside of the tribes Symmachiini and Nymphidiini. Two new species are described, Calydna jeannea sp. n. and Calydna nicolayi sp. n., and the replacement name fissilisima is provided for the unavailable name fissilis Stichel; maculosa Bates is transferred from Calydna to Callistium Stichel (comb. n.).