cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Megachile (Dasymegachile) mitchelli
Creators: name: Raw, Anthony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile mitchelli

description: Megachile (Dasymegachile) mitchelli new name
New name for Cressoniella (Chaetochile) golbachi Schwimmer, in Mitchell 1980: 87. (Not Megachile golbachi Schletterer 1891 [Zaire].)
Megachile (Dasymegachile) golbachi Michener 2000: 555. Female. Type locality: La Quiaca, Jujuy Province, Argentina. Type repository: United States National Museum, Washington DC, U.S.A. Examined.
description: Published as part of Raw, Anthony, 2004, Nomenclatural changes in leafcutter bees of the Americas: Megachile Latreille 1802 (Hymenoptera; Megachilidae), pp. 1-4 in Zootaxa 766 on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.158473
Philoctetes mordvilkoi Semenov 1932
Creators: name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Wei, Na-Sen
name: Notton, David
name: Xu, Zai-Fu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chrysididae
Philoctetes
Philoctetes mordvilkoi

description: Philoctetes mordvilkoi (Semenov, 1932)
Ellampus mordvilkoi Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1932: 36. Holotype ♀, China: Xinjiang: Chotan, Sajbag (ZIN) (examined). Pseudomalus mordilkoi (!): Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 268.
Philoctetes mordvilkoi: Rosa et al. 2014: 33.
Material examined. CHINA: holotype, ♀, Xinjiang: Chotan, Sajbag, 2115 m, 6–7.VI.1890, B. Grombczewskij (ZIN).
Diagnosis. Female of Philoctetes mordvilkoi (Semenov, 1932) is close to female of P. longiflagellis sp. nov., but it can be separated from the latter by: small punctures clumped along notauli (large punctures in P. longiflagellis); mesosoma with inclined setae (erected in P. longiflagellis); and median notch on apex of T3 with wide open angle,>120° (narrower, <90°, in P. longiflagellis). Male unknown.
Distribution. China (Xinjiang).
Remarks. Pictures of the type are published in Rosa et al. (2014: Plate 24).
description: Published as part of Rosa, Paolo, Wei, Na-Sen, Notton, David & Xu, Zai-Fu, 2015, The genus Philoctetes Abeille de Perrin, 1879 from China, with description of two new species (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae), pp. 433-444 in Zootaxa 4040 (4) on page 438, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/233986
Axinidris murielae Shattuck 1991
Creators: name: Snelling, R. R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Axinidris
Axinidris murielae

description: Axinidris murielae Shattuck
Axinidris murielae Shattuck, 1991: 116 - 117; figs. 23 - 25, 35 (w, q). CAMEROUN, Nkoemvon (D. Jackson) (BMNH) examined.
Worker diagnosis. Antennal scape with more than 5 and pronotum with 2 erect hairs; pronotum mostly smooth and shiny; medial carina present and obtuse in profile; distance between spines less than PPW; head and body reddish brown.
Worker measurements (mm) (n = 2). HW 0.66 - 0.81; HL 0.76 - 0.91; SL 0.56 - 0.66; EL 0.20 - 0.26; OVD 0.24 - 0.31; PNW n / a; PPW 0.31 - 0.46; WL 0.89 - 1.30. Indices. CI 87 - 89; CNI 90 - 129; OI 26 - 34; SI 80 - 85.
DISCUSSION
Worker and queen have been adequately described by Shattuck (1991); the male remains unknown.
The two species A. gabonica and A. murielae are similar and may ultimately prove to belong to a single somewhat variable species. For the present the two are separable as noted in the key: A. murielae has 4 - 6 erect hairs on the pronotum (only 2 in A. gabonica) and numerous erect hairs on the front of the head (only 4 in A. gabonica) and also with erect hairs on gastral terga 2 - 4 (one in A. gabonica).
The types of A. murielae are from Cameroun; Shattuck (1991) also recorded specimens from Ghana. I have also seen a few specimens from the vicinity of Busumbuli in the Kakamega Forest of Kenya. Both samples were taken by tree fogging, one from Teclea nobilis and one from Heinsenia diervillioides.
description: Published as part of Snelling, R. R., 2007, A review of the arboreal Afrotropical ant genus Axinidris., pp. 551-579 in Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80 on pages 566-567
Megachile (Leptorachis) zexmaniae Cockerell, new combination
Creators: name: Raw, Anthony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile zexmaniae

description: Megachile (Leptorachis) zexmaniae Cockerell, new combination
Megachile zexmaniae Cockerell 1912: 24. Female. Type locality: Quiringa, Guatemala. Type repository: American Museum of Natural History, New York, U.S.A. Examined.
description: Published as part of Raw, Anthony, 2004, Nomenclatural changes in leafcutter bees of the Americas: Megachile Latreille 1802 (Hymenoptera; Megachilidae), pp. 1-4 in Zootaxa 766 on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.158473
Calcarisporium guizhouense W. H. Chen, Y. F. Han & J. D. Liang 2024, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Chen, Wan-Hao
name: Li, Dan
name: Liang, Jian-Dong
name: Ren, Xiu-Xiu
name: Zhao, Jie-Hong
name: Han, Yan-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Sordariomycetes
Hypocreales
Calcarisporiaceae
Calcarisporium
Calcarisporium guizhouense

description: Calcarisporium guizhouense W. H. Chen, Y. F. Han & J. D. Liang sp. nov.
Fig. 3
Etymology.
Referring to its type location in Guizhou Province.
Type.
China • Guizhou Province, Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Duyun City, Mayao River Valley (26 ° 22 ' 8.3748 " N, 107 ° 23 ' 16.96 " E), on Cordyceps sp., 1 May 2022, Wanhao Chen, GZAC DY 0504 (holotype), ex-type DY 05041.
Description.
Colonies on PDA attaining a diameter of 28–29 mm after 14 days at 25 ° C, white, consisting of a basal felt, floccose hyphal overgrowth, yellowish-white; reverse light brown to brown. Hyphae septate, hyaline, smooth-walled, 2.0–2.2 μm wide. Conidiophores erect, hyaline, verticillately branched, with 1–3 conidiogenous cells. Conidiogenous cells 15.6–23.2 × 1.5–1.7 μm, hyaline, cylindrical at base, gradually tapering near the apex, holoblastic to polyblastic, sympodial, apically with a cluster of conidium-bearing denticles. Conidia 5.2–8.6 × 1.8–2.2 μm, hyaline, smooth-walled, thin-walled, cylindrical, unicellular, acuminate.
Substrate.
Cordyceps sp.
Additional strain examined.
China • Guizhou Province, Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Duyun City, Mayao River Valley (26 ° 22 ' 8.3748 " N, 107 ° 23 ' 16.96 " E). On Cordyceps sp., 1 May 2022, Wanhao Chen, DY 05042 (living culture).
Notes.
Calcarisporium guizhouense was easily identified as Calcarisporium, based on the BLASTn result in NCBI and its verticillate conidiophores and sympodial conidiation. Phylogenetic analyses show that Calcarisporium guizhouense has close relationships to C. arbuscula and C. yuanyangense (Fig. 1). However, C. guizhouense was easily distinguished from C. arbuscula (Conidia: ovoid to ellipsoid, 4–11 × 1.8–3.3 μm; substrate: decaying agaric) and C. yuanyangense (Conidia: ovoid to ellipsoid, 6.33–9.68 × 1.87–2.63 μm; substrate: Ophiocordyceps nutans) by its smaller cylindrical conidia and the substrate. Thus, the morphological characteristics and molecular phylogenetic results support C. guizhouense as a new species.
description: Published as part of Chen, Wan-Hao, Li, Dan, Liang, Jian-Dong, Ren, Xiu-Xiu, Zhao, Jie-Hong & Han, Yan-Feng, 2024, Chlorocillium sinense sp. nov. (Clavicipitaceae) and Calcarisporium guizhouense sp. nov. (Calcarisporiaceae) in Hypocreales from China, pp. 91-107 in MycoKeys 109 on pages 91-107, DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.109.128060
Megachile (Pseudocentron) possograndensis Schrottky, new combination
Creators: name: Raw, Anthony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile possograndensis

description: Megachile (Pseudocentron) possograndensis Schrottky, new combination
Megachile poçograndensis Schrottky 1902: 438. Female. Type locality: Poço Grande, S. Paulo [state], Brazil, January (Hempel). Type repository: Museu de Zoologia, da Universidade de São Paulo. Examined. [Type is missing left fore tarsi.]
Megachile possograndensis: Schrottky 1913: 172. New spelling.
Megachile (Pseudocentron) poçograndensis: Mitchell 1943: 664.
Megachile (Moureapis) possograndensis: Raw 2002, 7: 25.
The two sexes of this species had not been associated previously. The present combination is based on examination of a series of seven females and three males collected in Santa Catarina State in southern Brazil by Srta. Denise Mouga. Although the bees were not reared from a nest, no other bee similar to them was encountered during a survey which included 115 specimens of Megachile. The female of M. possograndensis bears the slight indentation at the centre of the apical margin of the labrum and narrow sixth sternite typical of the subgenus Moureapis, though the inner angle of the mandible is acute. However the male is clearly a Pseudocentron with greatly expanded ivory fore basitarsi. The fore basitarsi of Moureapis are unmodified.
description: Published as part of Raw, Anthony, 2004, Nomenclatural changes in leafcutter bees of the Americas: Megachile Latreille 1802 (Hymenoptera; Megachilidae), pp. 1-4 in Zootaxa 766 on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.158473
Axinidris nigripes Shattuck 1991
Creators: name: Snelling, R. R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Axinidris
Axinidris nigripes

description: Axinidris nigripes Shattuck
Axinidris nigripes Shattuck, 1991: 117 - 118; fig. 35 (w). GHANA, Aburi (P. Room) (BMNH) examined.
Worker diagnosis. Scape and pronotum with erect hairs; medial carina present; distance between spines exceeding PPW; hairs of head and mesosoma brown, coarse and seta-like.
Worker measurements (mm) (n = 1). HW 0.97; HL 1.06; SL 0.78; EL 0.30; OVD 0.33; PNW n / a; PPW 0.50; WL 1.27. Indices. CI 91; CNI 195; OI 31; SI 80.
Worker description. The worker has been adequately described by Shattuck (1991).
Queen and male unknown.
DISCUSSION
This species is similar to both A. luhya and A. palligastrion. It differs from the latter in its larger size, deeper clypeal notch and differing color pattern, the gaster being darker than the head and mesosoma, the reverse of the pattern in A. palligastrion. From A. luhya, A. nigripes differs by the coarser, darker mesosomal hairs (fine and yellowish in A. luhya.
description: Published as part of Snelling, R. R., 2007, A review of the arboreal Afrotropical ant genus Axinidris., pp. 551-579 in Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80 on page 568
Thysanoptera
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
name: Morris, David C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera

description: Thysanoptera Phlaeothripidae as pests
The thrips that is damaging Myoporum is a member of the Phlaeothripidae, one of the two major families of Thysanoptera. In general, pest thrips belong to the second major family, the Thripidae (Mound, 2005a), including all of the known tospovirus vectors (Mound, 1996b). In contrast, many species of Phlaeothripidae are fungus-feeders, on dead twigs, dead leaves and in leaf litter (Morse & Hoddle, 2006), with flower-feeding occurring among a smaller group of species, mostly Holarctic members of the genus Haplothrips (Mound & Minaei, in press). A few phlaeothripids are predatory, but the species of the other major group in this family feed on green leaves, some inducing galls (Mound, 1994). These leaf-feeding Phlaeothripidae are often hostspecific (Mound, 2005a), thus greatly limiting their potential to be general crop pests.
One pest phlaeothripid, the Cuban laurel thrips, Gynaikothrips ficorum (Marchal), is well known around the world inducing leaf-galls on cultivated Ficus microcarpa (Mound et al., 1996; Boyd & Held, 2006). In south eastern Asia, Piper species, both wild and cultivated, often exhibit leaf-curl damage due to Liothrips piperinus Priesner and related species (Ananthakrishnan & Raman, 1989). Similarly, Liothrips vaneeckei Priesner is widespread as a minor pest on lily bulbs (Malipatil et al., 2002), and Liothrips adisi zur Strassen damages the leaves of Paullinia cupana, the Brazilian tree from which the drink Guarana is produced (zur Strassen, 1978). In Japan, the cruciferous spice plant, Wasabia japonica, is damaged by Liothrips wasabiae Haga & Okajima, and the leaves of persimmon (Diospyros kaki) are galled by Ponticulothrips diospyrosi Haga & Okajima (Okajima, 2006). With so few pest species recorded amongst the Phlaeothripidae, the societal impact of this widespread family of thrips is limited, despite the large numbers of species and their intrinsically interesting biologies, including sub-sociality (Crespi, 1990), eusociality (Crespi et al., 2004), and striking structural polymorphisms (Mound, 2005b).
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A. & Morris, David C., 2007, A new thrips pest of Myoporum cultivars in California, in a new genus of leaf-galling Australian Phlaeothripidae (Thysanoptera), pp. 35-45 in Zootaxa 1495 on pages 36-37, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.177031
Axinidris occidentalis Shattuck 1991
Creators: name: Snelling, R. R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Axinidris
Axinidris occidentalis

description: Axinidris occidentalis Shattuck
Axinidris occidentalis Shattuck, 1991: 118; figs. 26 - 28, 35 (w). LIBERIA, Paiata (= Payeta) (J. Bequaert) (MCZC) examined.
Worker diagnosis. Scape and pronotum without erect hairs; pronotum weakly shiny, sharply sculptured and densely pubescent; medial carina present; T 3 - T 4 each with several erect hairs.
Worker measurements (mm) (n = 4). HW 0.88 - 0.96; HL 0.88 - 0.95; SL 0.57 - 0.65; EL 0.21 - 0.23; OVD 0.31 - 0.35; PNW 0.53 - 0.58; PPW 0.34 - 0.41; WL 1.02 - 1.10. Indices. CI 99 - 101; CNI 133 - 153; OI 23 - 25; SI 64 - 69.
Worker description. The worker has been adequately described by Shattuck (1991).
Queen and male unknown.
DISCUSSION
In A. occidentalis the pronotum lacks erect hairs, but they are present on gastral terga 3 and 4, and the distance across the propodeal spines is subequal to the propodeal width, a combination of features unique to this western species.
description: Published as part of Snelling, R. R., 2007, A review of the arboreal Afrotropical ant genus Axinidris., pp. 551-579 in Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80 on pages 568-569
Chlorocillium Zare & W. Gams, Mycol. Progr.
Creators: name: Chen, Wan-Hao
name: Li, Dan
name: Liang, Jian-Dong
name: Ren, Xiu-Xiu
name: Zhao, Jie-Hong
name: Han, Yan-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Sordariomycetes
Hypocreales
Calcarisporiaceae
Chlorocillium

description: Chlorocillium Zare & W. Gams, Mycol. Progr. 15: 1005, 2016
= Pseudometarhizium W. H. Chen, Y. F. Han, J. D. Liang & Z. Q. Liang, MycoKeys 91: 59, 2022 MycoBank No: 842641.
Type species.
Chlorocillium griseum (Petch) Zare & W. Gams.
Notes.
Chen et al. (2022 a) introduced the genus Pseudometarhizium with P. araneogenum (type species) and P. lepidopterorum in the family Clavicipitaceae. However, in the present study, the multi-gene phylogenetic analyses revealed that Pseudometarhizium species clustered with Chlorocillium s. str. (Fig. 2). Besides, the typical characteristics of Pseudometarhizium are entirely consistent with Chlorocillium. Thus, the genus Pseudometarhizium is synonymized under Chlorocillium and the two known species of Pseudometarhizium are transferred into Chlorocillium.
description: Published as part of Chen, Wan-Hao, Li, Dan, Liang, Jian-Dong, Ren, Xiu-Xiu, Zhao, Jie-Hong & Han, Yan-Feng, 2024, Chlorocillium sinense sp. nov. (Clavicipitaceae) and Calcarisporium guizhouense sp. nov. (Calcarisporiaceae) in Hypocreales from China, pp. 91-107 in MycoKeys 109 on pages 91-107, DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.109.128060
Munidopsis lauensis Baba
Creators: name: Dong, Dong
name: Li, Xinzheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Galatheidae
Munidopsis
Munidopsis lauensis

description: Munidopsis lauensis Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1992
(Figs. 2 A, 8A)
Munidopsis lauensis Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1992: 326, fig. 3 (type locality: Valufa Ridge, Hine Hina, Lau Basin).— Chevaldonné & Olu, 1996: 291.— Baba, 2005: 290.— Martin & Haney, 2005: 478.— Cubelio et al., 2007b: 516, fig. 3.— Lin et al., 2013: 92, fig. 1, 2.
Material examined. Cold seep, ridge between continental shelf and slope, off Guangdong Province, China, southwest of Taiwan Island, northeastern South China Sea, MBM189173, 119 °17.123’E, 22°6.915’N, 2 ovig. females (PCL 11.8, 13.9 mm), 1119 m, coll. Jiaolong manned submersible of R/V Xiangyanghong 9, 18 June 2013.
Coloration. Entirely ivory white.
Habitat. Cold seep and hydrothermal vent environments; 1120–2000 m.
Distribution. Southwest Pacific from hydrothermal vents of back arc basins including the Manus Basin in Papua New Guinea, North Fiji Basin and Lau Basin near Fiji, and Brothers Seamount in the Kermadec Volcanic Arc; western Pacific, cold seep sites off southwestern Taiwan.
Remarks. Lin et al. (2013) reported this species from the same cold seep site as reported here and observed that the armature of the cheliped merus and the frontal margin of the carapace differed from those of the holotype. Lin et al. (2013) considered these differences to be intraspecific. Our specimens, agreeing with Lin et al.’s description, also differ from the type series in having the pereopod 2 not reaching to the end of the chelipeds (to the midlength of the dactylus), and the meri and carpi of the pereopods 2–4 unarmed (at most right-angled) on the distoflexor and distoextensor ends (Fig. 2 A).
description: Published as part of Dong, Dong & Li, Xinzheng, 2015, Galatheid and chirostylid crustaceans (Decapoda: Anomura) from a cold seep environment in the northeastern South China Sea, pp. 91-105 in Zootaxa 4057 (1) on pages 92-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/243260
Microvelia (Microvelia) buenoi Drake 1920
Creators: name: Berchi, Gavril Marius
name: Kment, Petr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Veliidae
Microvelia
Microvelia buenoi

description: Microvelia (Microvelia) buenoi Drake, 1920
Material examined. ROMANIA: Satu Mare county: Doba [stream], 47°45ʹ22ʺN 22°42ʹ05ʺE, 123 m a.s.l., 26. vi.2013, 2 ♂♂ (ap). Prahova county: Străoști [stream], 45°01ʹ51ʺN 26°13ʹ31ʺE, 136 m a.s.l., 30. vii.2012, 1 ♀ (ma).
Remarks. Data are insufficient to define its distribution in Romania. We found it occurring in two slow flowing shaded streams, both rich with Lemna sp. and Typha sp. The altitude does not exceed 150 m a.s.l. (Fig. 5). It overwinters as an adult (Wróblewski 1980). At both sites, it was found co-existing with M. reticulata.
General distribution. Holarctic species distributed from United Kingdom to northern China, Canada and the north of the United States. In Europe it reaches as far south as France, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Ukraine being absent in southern Europe (Putshkov & Putshkov 1996; Rabitsch & Zettel 2000; Aukema et al. 2013; Kment et al. 2013). New species for Romania.
description: Published as part of Berchi, Gavril Marius & Kment, Petr, 2015, Review of the family Veliidae in Romania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) in Zootaxa 3963 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3963.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/234004
Thysanoptera
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
name: Morris, David C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera

description: Thysanoptera Phlaeothripidae classification
The Phlaeothripidae is the sole family recognized by most entomologists in the sub-order Tubulifera, despite a large number of family-group names having been proposed (see, Mound & Morris, 2004). Of the 3400 described species in this family, most are placed in the subfamily Phlaeothripinae, with about 700 that apparently feed on fungal spores being referred to the subfamily Idolothripinae. Evolutionary relationships within, and classification of, the Phlaeothripinae remains unclear, with three ill-defined lineages being recognized, each centred around one major genus (Mound & Marullo, 1996). The small “ Haplothrips -lineage”, in which many species are flower-feeders, has recently been formally defined and recognized at the tribal level as the Haplothripini to include about 35 genera (Mound & Minaei, in press). The much larger “ Phlaeothrips - lineage” is more difficult to define, particularly because of the structural polymorphisms that occur in the large number of fungus-feeding species involved (Mound, 2005b). Similarly large and problematical is the “ Liothrips -lineage” of leaf-feeding species, and it is within this group of more than 150, often poorly defined, genera that the new pest species is placed, together with all the pest Phlaeothripidae noted above.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A. & Morris, David C., 2007, A new thrips pest of Myoporum cultivars in California, in a new genus of leaf-galling Australian Phlaeothripidae (Thysanoptera), pp. 35-45 in Zootaxa 1495 on page 37, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.177031
La experiencia de Iberifier
Creators: name: Salaverría, Ramón
Publisher: name: IBERIFIER: Pamplona
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Disinformation
subject: Mass Media
subject: Journalism
subject: Research

description: Presentation of Ramón Salaverría, coordinator of IBERIFIER, at Seminario de la Delegación de Navarra ante la UE: «Ley Europea de Libertad de Medios de Comunicación (European Media Freedom Act) y oportunidades de financiación de la Comisión Europea al sector» (online workshop). Guest speaker. Organizer: Delegación Navarra UE – Brussels. January 31, 2025.
Aenictus diclops Shattuck, 2008, sp. n.
Creators: name: Shattuck, S. O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Aenictus
Aenictus diclops

description: Aenictus diclops sp. n.
(Figs 9-11, 26)
Types. Holotype worker from Telegraph Line Crossing, Jardine River, Cape York, Queensland, 15- 17 June 1969, G.Monteith (ANIC, ANIC 32 -023689). 29 paratype workers, same data as holotype (ANIC, MCZC, QMBA, ANIC32-015742, ANIC32-015768, ANIC32-015774, ANIC32-029319, ANIC32-032139).
Diagnosis. "Eye spots" present on posterolateral corners of head; subpetiolar process generally absent but sometimes present as a slight carina. This is the only known Australian species of the genus with "eye spots" (pale pigmentation on the dorsolateral region of the head capsule).
Worker Description. Mandible subtriangular, with a large apical tooth, a smaller subapical tooth and a series of 4-ca.10 ill-defined crenulations; anterior clypeal border convex, extending anterior of anterior surfaces of frontal lobes in full face view; parafrontal ridges absent (although a sharp angle is present immediately posterior of the lateral clypeal margin); subpetiolar process absent or at most a thin carina; head entirely smooth, posterior pronotum smooth, anterior pronotum and entire mesonotum with weak, fine puncations, mesopleuron with longitudinal rugae, propodeum similar to mesonotum but sculpturing less well developed, especially anteriorly; body yellow-red with " Typhlatta " spots (pale yellow patches) on posterolateral corners of head.
Measurements. Worker (n = 9) - CI 83-88; HL 0.85-0.95; HW 0.74-0.83; MTL 0.78-0.97; ML 1.39- 1.59; SI 95-103; SL 0.71-0.83.
Additional material examined. Australia: Queensland: 9km ENE Mt. Tozer (Cardale,J.C.) (ANIC).
Comments. This is one of the rarest species of Australian Aenictus, being known from only two collections on northern Cape York Peninsula. Its closest relatives, species formerly placed in the subgenus Typhlatta, are found from India east to the Philippines and south to Papua New Guinea. This species is similar to the PNG species A. huonicus but differs in having more extensive sculpturing on the mesosoma and petiole.
description: Published as part of Shattuck, S. O., 2008, Review of the ant genus Aenictus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia with notes on A. ceylonicus (Mayr)., pp. 1-19 in Zootaxa 1926 on page 8
Axinidris palligastrion Shattuck 1991
Creators: name: Snelling, R. R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Axinidris
Axinidris palligastrion

description: Axinidris palligastrion Shattuck
Axinidris palligastrion Shattuck, 1991: 118; figs. 29 - 31; fig. 35 (w). GHANA, Nswam (= Nsawam) (P. Room) (BMNH) examined.
Worker diagnosis. Scape without and pronotum with erect hairs; medial carina present; distance between spines equal to PPW; pronotum smooth and shiny; mesonotum without rugae; gaster yellowish red, not concolorous with mesosoma.
Worker measurements (mm) (n = 5). HW 0.81 - 0.85; HL 0.87 - 0.93; SL 0.61 - 0.67; EL 0.26 - 0.30; OVD 0.29 - 0.32; PNW n / a; PPW 0.42 - 0.45; WL 1.05 - 1.16. Indices. CI 91 - 94; CNI 107 - 134; OI 31 - 35; SI 72 - 78.
Worker description. The worker has been adequately described by Shattuck (1991).
Queen and male unknown.
DISCUSSION
Although similar to A. nigripes, this species is separable as noted in the discussion of that species. The gaster is distinctly lighter in color than the head and mesosoma, but is not distinctly bicolored as in the otherwise similar A. mlalu, a species that lacks erect pronotal hairs (present in A. palligastrion).
description: Published as part of Snelling, R. R., 2007, A review of the arboreal Afrotropical ant genus Axinidris., pp. 551-579 in Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80 on page 570
Chlorocillium sinense W. H. Chen, Y. F. Han & J. D. Liang 2024, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Chen, Wan-Hao
name: Li, Dan
name: Liang, Jian-Dong
name: Ren, Xiu-Xiu
name: Zhao, Jie-Hong
name: Han, Yan-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Sordariomycetes
Hypocreales
Calcarisporiaceae
Chlorocillium
Chlorocillium sinense

description: Chlorocillium sinense W. H. Chen, Y. F. Han & J. D. Liang sp. nov.
Fig. 4
Etymology.
Referring to the country where the fungus was first discovered.
Type.
China • Guizhou Province, Guiyang, Kaiyang County, Monkey-Ear Tiankeng (27 ° 5 ' 12.138 " N, 107 ° 0 ' 48.42 " E), on a dead spider (Araneae), 19 July 2023, Wanhao Chen, GZAC KY 0718 (holotype), ex-type, KY 07181.
Description.
Colonies on PDA reaching 15–17 mm in diameter in 14 days at 25 ° C, green to yellowish green in center with white margin, reverse yellowish to light brown. Hyphae septate, hyaline, smooth-walled, 1.3–2.1 μm wide. Conidiophores hyaline, smooth-walled, emerging from aerial hyphae or chondroid mycelium, with single phialide or whorls of 2–4 phialides or verticillium-like from hyphae directly. Phialides cylindrical, somewhat inflated base, 11.7–20.1 × 1.1–1.3 μm, tapering to a thin neck. Conidia hyaline, smooth-walled, fusiform to ellipsoidal, 1.9–2.9 × 0.8–1.2 μm, forming divergent and basipetal chains. Octahedral crystals and chlamydospores absent.
Host.
Spider (Araneae).
Additional strain examined.
China • Guizhou Province, Guiyang, Kaiyang County, Monkey-Ear Tiankeng (27 ° 5 ' 12.138 " N, 107 ° 0 ' 48.42 " E). On a dead spider (Araneae), 19 July 2023, Wanhao Chen, KY 07182 (living culture).
Remarks.
Chlorocillium sinense was easily identified as Chlorocillium, based on the BLASTn result in NCBI. The phylogenetic analysis of the combined dataset of ITS, LSU, RPB 2 and tef - 1 α sequence data showed that the new collections clustered as an independent clade with close relationship to C. araneogenum, C. griseum and C. lepidopterorum (Fig. 2). Table 2 provides the different morphological characteristics that can be used to differentiate Chlorocillium sinense from other phylogenetically close species.
description: Published as part of Chen, Wan-Hao, Li, Dan, Liang, Jian-Dong, Ren, Xiu-Xiu, Zhao, Jie-Hong & Han, Yan-Feng, 2024, Chlorocillium sinense sp. nov. (Clavicipitaceae) and Calcarisporium guizhouense sp. nov. (Calcarisporiaceae) in Hypocreales from China, pp. 91-107 in MycoKeys 109 on pages 91-107, DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.109.128060
title: Investigating the Effects of Subtle Ratee Characteristics in Team Performance Appraisal: The Influence of Personality and Cohesiveness
Creators: name: Schroeder, Jonathan Quinn
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1998

description: This study extends the research into systematic bias in performance appraisal to include subtle (i.e., not overtly demographic) ratee characteristics. Specifically examined were the biasing effects of personality and group cohesiveness on performance ratings. It was hypothesized that raters' personality inferences regarding ratees' levels of agreeableness and conscientiousness would correlate with bias in performance ratings. Interpersonal group cohesiveness was also hypothesized to affect rating accuracy. Research participants (n = 90) rated the performance of two videotaped leaderless group discussions. Personality inferences correlated strongly with leniency in performance ratings. In addition, significant differences in accuracy were found between the more and less cohesive discussion groups. The relatively large proportion of variance in rating accuracy accounted for by personality inferences suggests that part of the observed relationship between personality and performance ratings may be spurious.
Aenictus hilli Clark
Creators: name: Shattuck, S. O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Aenictus
Aenictus hilli

description: Aenictus hilli Clark
Aenictus hilli Clark, 1928: 38.
Types. Holotype male from Malanda, Queensland (ANIC, examined).
Comments. A. hilli was described by Clark (1928) from a single male collected at Malanda, Queensland. There are numerous males in ANIC which are morphologically similar to the type of A. hilli. Unfortunately none are associated with workers. In addition, the remaining described Australian species are all worker-based and without associated males. This makes it impossible to positively associate A. hilli with any of these other species. Distribution patterns give little clue as to the association either as Aenictus aratus, A. nesiotis, A. prolixus and A. turneri all occur in the general area of the type locality of A. hilli. Thus there is currently insufficient information to associate A. hilli, or any of these other males, with any of the worker-based species. As a result A. hilli is here treated as a valid species and these additional males tentatively associated with it until such time that worker-associated males or fresh material suitable for molecular analysis can be secured.
Material examined (all unassociated males). Australia: Northern Territory: 34 mi. NW of Dorisvale HS (Mendum,M.) (ANIC); 39 km E of Alice Springs (Cardale,J.C.) (ANIC); 4 mi. W of Coolibah H.S. (Mendum,M.) (ANIC); 48 mi. SW of Daly River (Mendum,M.) (ANIC); 5mi. ENE Victoria River Downs (Kelsey,L.P.) (ANIC); Daly River Mission (Hutchinson,J.F.) (ANIC); Katherine (Kelsey,L.P.) (ANIC); Todd River, 9 km N by E of Alice Springs (Cardale,J.C.) (ANIC); Queensland: Bamaga (Sedlacek,J.) (ANIC); Lockerbie, Cape York (Sedlacek,J.) (ANIC); Malanda (Hill,G.F.) (ANIC); West Claudie River, Iron Range (Monteith,G.B. & Cook,D.) (ANIC); Western Australia: Carson Escarpment (Common,I.F.B. & Upton,M.S.) (ANIC); Drysdale River (Common,I.F.B. & Upton,M.S.) (ANIC).
description: Published as part of Shattuck, S. O., 2008, Review of the ant genus Aenictus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia with notes on A. ceylonicus (Mayr)., pp. 1-19 in Zootaxa 1926 on pages 8-11
Munidopsis tuberosa Osawa, Lin & Chan 2008
Creators: name: Dong, Dong
name: Li, Xinzheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Galatheidae
Munidopsis
Munidopsis tuberosa

description: Munidopsis tuberosa Osawa, Lin & Chan, 2008
(Figs. 2 B–D, 8B)
Munidopsis tuberosa Osawa et al., 2008: 52, figs. 6H, 7, 8 (type locality: off Taiwan, 22°15.699’N, 120°02.131’E, 945–1059 m).— Baba et al., 2009: 273, figs. 250, 251.
Material examined. Cold seep, ridge between continental shelf and slope, off Guangdong Province, China, southwest of Taiwan Island, northeastern South China Sea, MBM189175, 119 °17.137’E, 22°6.927’N, 1 male (PCL 6.3 mm), 1121 m, coll. Jiaolong manned submersible of R/V Xiangyanghong 9, 9 July 2013.
Diagnosis. Carapace (Fig. 2 B) distinctly areolated; gastric region strongly elevated; frontal, hepatic and anterior branchial regions covered with compact tubercles; gastric, intestinal and posterior branchial regions with tubercles relatively low as elevated scale-like rugae. Lateral margins parallel, unarmed but strongly tuberculate or rugose; anterolateral angles blunt. Rostrum triangular; median carina smooth. Doral surface of abdomen smooth, intermittently grooved on segments 2–4. Third maxilliped (Fig. 2 C) slender, merus with flexor margin spinulate, ischium with acute distoflexor and distoextensor angles. Pereopod 1(P1, chelipeds) (Fig. 2 D) with numerous tubercles or elevated scale-like rugae on each segment; merus armed with 2 strong distomesial spines each on dorsal and ventral side; fingers spoon-shaped at tips. Pereopods 2–4 (P2–4, ambulatory legs) tuberculate. Epipods present on pereopods 1–3.
Habitat. Cold seep sediments; 945–1121 m.
Distribution. Southwest of Taiwan, northeastern South China Sea.
Remarks. The male specimen examined has the dorsal surface of the abdomen and the median carina of the rostrum smooth (without tubercles), and the surfaces of gastric, intestinal and posterior branchial regions as well as pereopod 1 somewhat less tuberculate but rugose; whereas in the female holotype, the entire dorsal surfaces of the carapace (including the median carina of the rostrum), abdomen and the pereopod 1 are compactly tuberculate. We consider these differences as intraspecific or possibly sexual variations, because the two specimens share a series of significant characters including the parallel and unarmed lateral margins, and the tuberculate and areolated carapace. The present specimen was collected from sediment samples at the cold seep site, representing its occurrence in this reduced environment.
description: Published as part of Dong, Dong & Li, Xinzheng, 2015, Galatheid and chirostylid crustaceans (Decapoda: Anomura) from a cold seep environment in the northeastern South China Sea, pp. 91-105 in Zootaxa 4057 (1) on pages 93-94, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/243260
Liothrips
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
name: Morris, David C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Phlaeothripidae
Liothrips

description: The Liothrips -lineage of Phlaeothripinae
Within the Liothrips -lineage the main genus, Liothrips Uzel, is the largest genus of Thysanoptera, with 290 species currently listed worldwide (Mound 2007). However, the genus is not clearly defined from other genera, and only five species are listed from Australia. A related genus, Teuchothrips Hood, includes 30 species, of which 21 are from Australia, five from New Caledonia, three from Indonesia, and one from India. This genus is not clearly defined from Liothrips, and many of the described species in these two genera are known from very few specimens, with little information on host relationships or intraspecific structural variation. Recent examination of the original material of the 21 Australian species listed in Teuchothrips has indicated that they cannot all be considered con-generic. Moreover, field work across Australia in the past 10 years has produced many similar-looking species in this “ Teuchothrips -complex”, often associated with leaf deformation on particular species of native Australian plants.
Formal taxonomic work on these leaf-feeding Australian thrips is dependent on further field studies, partly to establish host associations more firmly, but also to rediscover several of the un-recognisable species that were described briefly by Girault during the 1920’s and 1930’s (Gordh et al., 1979). A further related genus is Akainothrips Mound from Australia. This genus involves 33 species, all of which are associated only with the phyllodes of Acacia species (Crespi et al., 2004), although none is known to induce distortion on these plants. The leaf-damaging Myoporum thrips is here considered to be related to Akainothrips, but because of biological, structural and molecular differences it is described within a new genus, together with three other Australian species of which two are currently listed under Teuchothrips. One of these three species is common in galled leaves of Myoporum insulare around south eastern Australia, but the other two are associated with leaf distortion on Asteraceae shrubs: one on the genus Ozothamnus (or Cassinia) in Australia and New Zealand, and the other on Olearia lirata in south eastern Australia.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A. & Morris, David C., 2007, A new thrips pest of Myoporum cultivars in California, in a new genus of leaf-galling Australian Phlaeothripidae (Thysanoptera), pp. 35-45 in Zootaxa 1495 on page 37, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.177031
Axinidris stageri Snelling 2007, new species
Creators: name: Snelling, R. R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Axinidris
Axinidris stageri

description: Axinidris stageri, new species
Figures 10, 20, 30
Worker diagnosis. Apex of scape distinctly surpassing vertex margin; scape and pronotum with numerous erect hairs; medial carina profile elevated and acute at apex, continued down propodeal declivity.
Worker measurements (mm) (n = 3). HL 0.81 - 0.89; HW 0.20 - 0.22; SL 0.68 - 0.76; EL 0.11 - 0.13; OVD 0.28 - 0.34; PNW 0.49 - 0.58; PPW 0.33 - 0.38; WL 0.97 - 1.11. Indices. CI 96 - 98; CNI 5 - 6; OI 25 - 26; SI 87 - 88.
Worker description. Head shiny between dense minute punctures; gena weakly imbricate and with scattered minute punctures; malar area polished and unsculptured. Apex of antennal scape exceeding vertex by more than greatest width of scape. Numerous suberect hairs on head margins in frontal view, especially above eyes; front of head and vertex with numerous short to moderately long suberect and erect hairs; scape shaft with sparse long erect hairs and numerous short suberect hairs.
Pronotal disc shiny and weakly imbricate. Mesonotum shiny, with coarse irregular longitudinal rugae evenly sloping in profile and metanotal spiracle clearly projecting. Mesepisternum shiny, with finer longitudinal rugae. Propodeal dorsum less shiny than pronotum, coarsely imbricate; side shiny and irregularly longitudinally rugose; spiracular tubercle prominent in dorsal view, anterior edge of spiracle moderately elevated so that opening is directed obliquely distad; medial carina sharp, strongly elevated behind and acute in profile, continued ventrad on posterior face; propodeal spines reduced to minute teeth, distance between their apices much less than propodeal width at spiracles. Pronotum (Fig. 20) with 20 + erect hairs; mesonotum and propodeum each with 10 + similar hairs.
Gastral terga subpolished and weakly imbricate; all terga with scattered erect and suberect hairs in addition to sparse appressed pubescence.
Head and body uniformly yellowish red, appendages paler.
Queen and male unknown.
TYPE MATERIAL
Holotype and two paratype workers, TANZANIA, Bunduki, Uluguru Mts., 6 - 15 January 1964 (K. E. Stager), all in LACM.
ETYMOLOGY
This species is dedicated to Dr. Kenneth E. Stager, former Curator of Ornithology at the LACM, in appreciation for the many samples of ants that he collected for me in various parts of the world.
DISCUSSION
This species is easily recognized by the abundance of erect pilosity on the body and appendages and by its reddish color. Morphologically it is most similar to A. tridens, but the medial carina is higher than in available material of that species. Additionally, A. tridens is much less hairy, with no erect hairs on the antennal scapes and the gastral terga.
description: Published as part of Snelling, R. R., 2007, A review of the arboreal Afrotropical ant genus Axinidris., pp. 551-579 in Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80 on pages 570-571
Chlorocillium araneogenum W. H. Chen, Y. F. Han & J. D. Liang 2024, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Chen, Wan-Hao
name: Li, Dan
name: Liang, Jian-Dong
name: Ren, Xiu-Xiu
name: Zhao, Jie-Hong
name: Han, Yan-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Sordariomycetes
Hypocreales
Calcarisporiaceae
Chlorocillium
Chlorocillium araneogenum

description: Chlorocillium araneogenum (W. H. Chen, Y. F. Han, J. D. Liang & Z. Q. Liang) W. H. Chen, Y. F. Han & J. D. Liang comb. nov.
Pseudometarhizium araneogenum W. H. Chen, Y. F. Han, J. D. Liang & Z. Q. Liang, MycoKeys 91: 60 (2022) (Basionym).
Description.
Colonies irregular on PDA, 1.8–2.8 cm diam. after 14 d at 25 ° C, white, consisting of a basal felt, floccose hyphal overgrowth, reverse yellowish to pale brown or green. Prostrate hyphae smooth, septate, hyaline, 1.0–1.2 μm diam. Erect conidiophores usually arising from aerial hyphae. Phialides solitary or in groups of two, 8.3–23.3 × 1.3–2.2 μm, with a cylindrical basal portion, tapering into a short distinct neck. Conidia in chains, hyaline, fusiform, one-celled, 3.4–5.8 × 1.4–1.8 μm.
Material examined (type material).
China • Duyun City, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province. On a dead spider (Araneae), 1 October 2019, Wanhao Chen, GZAC DY 10174, living cultures, DY 101741, DY 101742.
description: Published as part of Chen, Wan-Hao, Li, Dan, Liang, Jian-Dong, Ren, Xiu-Xiu, Zhao, Jie-Hong & Han, Yan-Feng, 2024, Chlorocillium sinense sp. nov. (Clavicipitaceae) and Calcarisporium guizhouense sp. nov. (Calcarisporiaceae) in Hypocreales from China, pp. 91-107 in MycoKeys 109 on pages 91-107, DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.109.128060
Microvelia (Picaultia) pygmaea Dufour 1833
Creators: name: Berchi, Gavril Marius
name: Kment, Petr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Veliidae
Microvelia
Microvelia pygmaea

description: Microvelia (Picaultia) pygmaea (Dufour, 1833)
Published records. Hydroessa pygmaea: Fuss (1862). Microvelia pygmaea: Horváth (1897, 1917), Motaș et al. (1962), Kecskés (1997).
Material examined. ROMANIA: Caraș-Severin county: Mehadica [pond], 45°02ʹ12ʺN 22°16ʹ18ʺE, 298 m a.s.l., 29. viii.2012, 1 ♂ (ap) 1 ♂ (ma) 3 ♀♀ (ap). Constanța county: Casian [stream], 44°28ʹ53ʺN 28°29ʹ42ʺE, 20 m a.s.l., 4. viii.2011, 1 ♀ (ma). Dolj county: Vârtop [stream], 44°12ʹ28ʺN 23°18ʹ58ʺE, 141 m a.s.l., 27. vii.2012, 1 ♂ (ap) 1 ♀ (ap). Mehedinți county: Izimșa [stream], 44°10ʹ31ʺN 22°57ʹ37ʺE, 55 m a.s.l., 27. vii.2012, 1 ♂ (ma) 2 ♀♀ (ap) 1 ♀ (ma); Pătulele [stream], 44°20ʹ59ʺN 22°46ʹ44ʺE, 71 m a.s.l., 26. vii.2012, 1 ♀ (ap); Sviniţa [pond], 44°33ʹ05ʺN 22°02ʹ21ʺE, 121 m a.s.l., 19. viii.2012, 3 ♂♂ 3 ♀♀ (ap). Teleorman county: Mavrodin [stream], 44°01ʹ28ʺN 25°13ʹ41ʺE, 49 m a.s.l., 29. vii.2012, 1 ♀; Perii Broşteni [stream], 44°12ʹ14ʺN 25°14ʹ52ʺE, 82 m a.s.l., 29. vii.2012, 1 ♀ (ma). Timiș county: Grăniceri [pond], 45°26ʹ53ʺN 20°53ʹ08ʺE, 83 m a.s.l., 19. viii.2012, 1 ♂ (ap). Vaslui county: Simila [stream], 46°15ʹ45ʺN 27°42ʹ23ʺE, 72 m a.s.l., 2. viii.2012, 1 ♀ (ap).
Remarks. Excepting the north, M. pygmaea was found in all the regions of the country. It lives at the edge of both slowly and moderately quickly flowing streams with aquatic vegetation, but also in lentic water bodies. It occurs at altitudes ranging between 20 and 300 m a.s.l. (Fig. 5), sometimes co-existing with Microvelia reticulata.
General distribution. Northern Africa, western and central Asia, southern Europe and southern parts of central Europe (Cianferoni & Mazza 2012; Aukema et al. 2013; Cianferoni et al. 2013; Ghahari et al. 2013) in the north reaching the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, recently expanding more northwards (Kment 2001; Kment et al. 2013).
description: Published as part of Berchi, Gavril Marius & Kment, Petr, 2015, Review of the family Veliidae in Romania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) in Zootaxa 3963 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3963.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/234004
Velia (Plesiovelia) affinis subsp. filippii Tamanini 1947
Creators: name: Berchi, Gavril Marius
name: Kment, Petr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Veliidae
Velia
Velia affinis
Velia (plesiovelia) affinis filippii tamanini, 1947

description: Velia (Plesiovelia) affinis filippii Tamanini, 1947
(Figs. 1 A, 2A)
Published record. Velia affinis: Davideanu et al. (2000).
Material examined. ROMANIA: Tulcea county: Greci [intermittent stream], 45°12ʹ21ʺN 28°15ʹ05ʺE, 137 m a.s.l., 28. iv.2012, 1 ♂ (ma) 1 ♀ (ap); Luncavița [stream], 45°13ʹ37ʺN 28°18ʹ38ʺE, 103 m a.s.l., 3. viii.2011, 12 ♂♂ (ap) 13 ♀♀ (ap); Nifon [stream], 45°09ʹ19ʺN 28°23ʹ55ʺE, 120 m a.s.l., 3. viii.2011, 5 ♂♂ (ap) 3 ♀♀ (ap).
Remarks. There were two previous records, dating back to August, 1972 (Murighiol) and July, 1985 (Caraorman), both in Tulcea county (Davideanu et al. 2000). According to our data, it looks as if Velia affinis filippii occurs only in south-eastern Romania, in Dobrogea. Here, the higher altitudes do not exceed 467 m a.s.l. We collected it from shaded streams, at altitudes ranging between 100 and 140 m a.s.l. (Fig. 5).
General distribution. Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, European Turkey, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and north-eastern Italy (Tamanini 1951; Benedek 1969, 1970; Josifov 1986; Andersen 1995; Protić & Živić 2007; Kment & Beran 2011; Protić 2011; Šeat 2013; this paper). The record of V. affinis filippii from Hungary is based on a single old record by Benedek (1970); however, the identification was recently confirmed as correct (Boda et al. 2015).
description: Published as part of Berchi, Gavril Marius & Kment, Petr, 2015, Review of the family Veliidae in Romania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) in Zootaxa 3963 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3963.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/234004