cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Olecryptotendipes Zorina.
Creators: name: Yan, Chuncai
name: Liu, Ting
name: Zhao, Guangjun
name: Shi, Yafeng
name: Wang, Xinhua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Olecryptotendipes

description: Key to known males of the genus Olecryptotendipes in the world
1 Acrostichals absent, R bare.............................................................. O. secundus (Zorina)
- Acrostichals present, R with setae.........................................................................2
2 Anal point parallel-sided, thorax without dark brown spots.....................................................3
- Anal point not as above, thorax with dark brown spots........................................................4
3 Inferior volsella absent, antepronotals 2....................................................... O. lenzi (Zorina)
- Inferior volsella lobe-like, antepronotals 6–7............................................ O. exilis Yan, Wang & Bu
4 Legs without spots, superior volsella banana-like without projection....................... O. arienus Yan & Wang sp.n
- Legs with spots, superior volsella curved basally, straight distally, with large posterolateral projection................................................................................................ O. melasmus Yan, Wang & Bu
description: Published as part of Yan, Chuncai, Liu, Ting, Zhao, Guangjun, Shi, Yafeng & Wang, Xinhua, 2017, A new species of Olecryptotendipes Zorina from China (Diptera, Chironomidae), pp. 291-296 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 295, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.10, http://zenodo.org/record/835902
Rheocricotopus (Psilocricotopus) chalybeatus
Creators: name: Namayandeh, Armin
name: Beresford, David V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Rheocricotopus
Rheocricotopus chalybeatus

description: Rheocricotopus (Psilocricotopus) chalybeatus (Edwards, 1929)
Adults: Male described by Lehman (1969), Saether (1985), hypopygium in key by Pinder (1978). Female described by Saether (1985).
Immatures: Pupa described by Saether (1985), in key by Langton (1991), figures in Lehman (1969). Larva by Cranston (1982).
Ecology and Habitat: Larvae inhabit springs and streams (Cranston 1982, Lehman 1971).
NE: Canada (Nunavut). Widespread in the Palearctic.
description: Published as part of Namayandeh, Armin & Beresford, David V., 2018, A NEW SPECIES IN THE RHEOCRICOTOPUS (R.) EFFUSUS GROUP FROM CANADA WITH A REVIEW OF THE NEARCTIC SPECIES OF RHEOCRICOTOPUS AND PARAMETRIOCNEMUS (CHIRONOMIDAE: ORTHOCLADIINAE) Abstract, pp. 16-29 in CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research 31 on page 18, DOI: 10.5324/cjcr.v0i31.2531, http://zenodo.org/record/7994948
Geranomyia apicifasciata Alexander 1930
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiao
name: Zhang, Zehua
name: Yang, Ding
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Geranomyia
Geranomyia apicifasciata

description: Geranomyia apicifasciata (Alexander, 1930)
Limonia (Geranomyia) apicifasciata Alexander, 1930: 516. Type locality: Shinten, Taiwan (China).
Specimens examined. Holotype male (USNM), China: Taiwan, Shinten, 1928. XII. 3, S. Issiki. Other materials: 1 male 3 females (CAU), China: Taiwan, Yilan, Fushan Botanical Garden (24°45'15"N 121°36'45"E, 635 m), 2010. XI. 12, Ding Yang. 1 male 2 females (CAU), China: Yunnan, Lvchun, Mt. Huanglian, Qimaba (22°48'36"N, 102°14'24"E, 1012 m), 2013. VII.25, Jinying Yang (light trap).
Distribution. China (Yunnan, Guangdong, Taiwan).
description: Published as part of Zhang, Xiao, Zhang, Zehua & Yang, Ding, 2016, Five new species of Geranomyia Haliday, 1833 (Diptera, Limoniidae) from China, pp. 139-154 in Zootaxa 4154 (2) on page 153, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4154.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/267484
Anatanaini Sieg 1980
Creators: name: Bird, Graham J
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Tanaidacea
Tanaididae

description: Tribe Anatanaini Sieg, 1980
Remarks: In 1980 Jurgen Sieg published an epic monograph on this complex family in which four new subfamilies, nine new genera and ten new species were established or described; more or less contemporaneously, Sieg & Winn (1981) described a new species of Anatanais and offered a key in English to the identification of Tanaidae genera.
Using a phylogenetic system several sub-families were identified by Sieg (op.cit.), one of which, the Pancolinae, included the tribes Pancolini and Anatanaini; the last is characterised by no indication of fusion of pleonite-5 with the pleotelson, the third pair of pleopods not being smaller than pleopods 1–2 and the labial palp not being as reduced.
In view of these difficult distinctions between the size and fusion of the labial palp and the hypothetical sequences of pleonite fusion it is desirable that alternative phylogenetic trees for the Tanaidae should be investigated and there are distinct possibilities associated with antennal, antennular and maxilliped setation, male cheliped form, etc. Until these phylogenetically useful and appropriate characters are fully appraised, including those used by Sieg, the current classification is maintained. Since 1980 about three new tanaid genera and 23 new species have been described, with little or no alteration to Sieg’s classification.
description: Published as part of Bird, Graham J, 2008, Untying the Gordian Knot: on Tanais novaezealandiae Thomson (Crustacea, Tanaidacea, Tanaidae) from New Zealand, with descriptions of two new Zeuxoides species, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 1877 on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.184126
Rheocricotopus (Psilocricotopus) chapmani
Creators: name: Namayandeh, Armin
name: Beresford, David V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Rheocricotopus
Rheocricotopus chapmani

description: Rheocricotopus (Psilocricotopus) chapmani (Edwards, 1935)
Adults: Male and female described by Saether (1985).
Immatures: Unknown.
Ecology and Habitat: Adults collected near lentic and lotic habitats (Saether 1985).
NE: Canada (Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon Territory); Greenland. In the Palearctic, recorded in Finland and Norway.
description: Published as part of Namayandeh, Armin & Beresford, David V., 2018, A NEW SPECIES IN THE RHEOCRICOTOPUS (R.) EFFUSUS GROUP FROM CANADA WITH A REVIEW OF THE NEARCTIC SPECIES OF RHEOCRICOTOPUS AND PARAMETRIOCNEMUS (CHIRONOMIDAE: ORTHOCLADIINAE) Abstract, pp. 16-29 in CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research 31 on page 18, DOI: 10.5324/cjcr.v0i31.2531, http://zenodo.org/record/7994948
Anatanais Nordenstam 1930
Creators: name: Bird, Graham J
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Tanaidacea
Tanaididae
Anatanais

description: Anatanais Nordenstam, 1930
Species included (New Zealand and Australasian species in bold): Anatanais lineatus (Nordenstam), A. pseudonormani Sieg.
Anatanais novaezealandiae sensu Sieg (1980) is incertae cedis with respect to Anatanais or Zeuxo but new material is required to help establish a formal new name and classification.
Remarks: Anatanais was established by Nordenstam (1930) as a subgenus for those species of Tanais with a six-segmented pleon (i.e. five free pleonites and pleotelson), although this became a synonym of Hexapleomera Dudlich, 1931, erected for the same reason. Its first use as a full genus was by Stephensen (1936) while Zeuxo (an old name from the 19th Century) was brought back into use by Lang (1967) as a senior synonym for Anatanais and Hexapleomera. The last genus now resides in the tribe Pancolini, principally because of the reduction in size of the pleopod-3.
As used by Sieg (1980) Anatanais was re-established as a full genus but was restricted to species whose antennular article-1 was no more than twice as long as article-2. However, this was not strictly adhered to by Sieg, whose taxon A. novaezealandiae has a ratio of 2.5. This so-called diagnostic character is naturally highly dependent not only on the length and proportions of the first article but also the second. While it is clear that it is article- 2 in A. lineatus and A. pseudonormani that is relatively longer and more slender than in most Zeuxo species, in A. novaezealandiae sensu Sieg the first article is relatively short, as is article-2. Of the Zeuxo species described (see below), the ratio in females actually ranges between 1.46 and 3.67 (based on measurements from published drawings) and only four species have a ratio of ca. =3.0 (Z. angua, Z. cloacarattus, Z. coralensis and Z. holdichi). A distinct coxal process on pereopod-1 is also present in Anatanais species although they are not restricted to this genus and are found in various other species of Zeuxo (Zeuxo), Zeuxoides and Synaptotanais (sub-family Tanainae). A further given distinction of Anatanais is that the species exhibit weak sexual dimorphism.
Allometric effects are also closely relevant and morphometric analysis of the Zeuxo species linked to Tanais novaezealandiae Thomson (see below) shows that the antennule article 1:2 ratio changes with both growth and sexual differentiation, moving it from ‘ Anatanais’ to ‘ Zeuxo’ using the antennule ratio. Using this character, it appears as if A. novaezealandiae sensu Sieg should be classified within Zeuxo, leaving the two other species of Anatanais as the only representatives of this questionable genus.
description: Published as part of Bird, Graham J, 2008, Untying the Gordian Knot: on Tanais novaezealandiae Thomson (Crustacea, Tanaidacea, Tanaidae) from New Zealand, with descriptions of two new Zeuxoides species, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 1877 on pages 6-7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.184126
Geranomyia radialis Alexander 1930
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiao
name: Zhang, Zehua
name: Yang, Ding
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Geranomyia
Geranomyia radialis

description: Geranomyia radialis (Alexander, 1930)
Limonia (Geranomyia) radialis Alexander, 1930: 62. Type locality: Yakushima, Kosugidani, Kiushiu (Japan).
Specimens examined. Holotype male (USNM), Japan: Kiushiu, Kosugidani, Yakushima, 1929. IV. 29, S. Issiki. Paratypes: 1 male (CAU), same data as holotype. Other materials: 12 males 11 females (CAU), China: Taiwan, Hualian, Bilvshenmu (24°10'48"N, 121°24'01"E, 2200 m), 2013. VI.6, Feiyang Liang (light trap). 2 males 8 females (CAU), China: Zhejiang, Mt. Tianmu (30°19'15"N 119°26'4"E, 1000 m), 2012. VII–IX. 3 males 1 female (CAU), China: Guangxi, Baise, Mt. Cenwanglao, Dalongping (24°29'12"N, 106°20'55"E, 1300 m), 2012. VII.28– 29, Feiyang Liang & Yunlan Jiang.
Distribution. China (Zhejiang, Guangxi, Taiwan); Japan.
description: Published as part of Zhang, Xiao, Zhang, Zehua & Yang, Ding, 2016, Five new species of Geranomyia Haliday, 1833 (Diptera, Limoniidae) from China, pp. 139-154 in Zootaxa 4154 (2) on page 153, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4154.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/267484
Paralaevicephalus nigrifemoratus Matsumura
Creators: name: Xing, Jichun
name: Dai, Renhuai
name: Li, Zizhong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Paralaevicephalus
Paralaevicephalus nigrifemoratus

description: Paralaevicephalus nigrifemoratus (Matsumura)
Figs. 1–4
Deltocephalus nigrifemoratus Matsumura, 1902: 399, Fig. 26. Paralaevicephalus nigrifemoratus Ishihara, 1953: 47, Fig. 4: 4, 17: 5. Metcalf 1967: 1307.
Nast 1972: 418.
(Note: Fig. 1–4 and 13–16 after Dai, Zhang et Hu, 2005)
Lee 1979: 427, Figs. 358, 359. Cai et al. 2001 a: 99.
Cai et al. 2001 b: 207.
Cai and Shen 2002: 276. Dai et al. 2005: 408.
Distribution. China (Jiangxi, Henan, Fujian, Guizhou, Anhui, Sichuan, Taiwan); Japan; Korea.
description: Published as part of Xing, Jichun, Dai, Renhuai & Li, Zizhong, 2009, A taxonomic study of the genus Paralaevicephalus Ishihara (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), with description of four new species from China, pp. 53-61 in Zootaxa 1979 on pages 54-56, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.185247
Rheocricotopus (Psilocricotopus) robacki
Creators: name: Namayandeh, Armin
name: Beresford, David V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Rheocricotopus
Rheocricotopus robacki

description: Rheocricotopus (Psilocricotopus) robacki (Beck and Beck, 1964)
Adults: Male described by (Beck and Beck 1964) as Trichocladius robacki and by Saether (1969) as R. kenorensis. Female described by Saether (1985).
Immatures: Pupa and larva described by Saether (1985). Larva in key by Epler (2001).
Ecology and Habitat: Fast flowing streams (Saether 1969).
NE: Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Yukon Territory); USA (Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Montana, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee). Recently reported from the Palaearctic China (Xinjiang Uyghur Auto. Region) by Liu et al. (2014a).
description: Published as part of Namayandeh, Armin & Beresford, David V., 2018, A NEW SPECIES IN THE RHEOCRICOTOPUS (R.) EFFUSUS GROUP FROM CANADA WITH A REVIEW OF THE NEARCTIC SPECIES OF RHEOCRICOTOPUS AND PARAMETRIOCNEMUS (CHIRONOMIDAE: ORTHOCLADIINAE) Abstract, pp. 16-29 in CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research 31 on page 18, DOI: 10.5324/cjcr.v0i31.2531, http://zenodo.org/record/7994948
Nybelinella Nielsen 1972
Creators: name: Nielsen, Jørgen G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Ophidiiformes
Aphyonidae
Nybelinella

description: Nybelinella Nielsen, 1972
Nybelinia Nielsen, 1969: 22 (type species Barathronus erikssoni Nybelin, 1957 by monotypy; preoccupied by Nybelinia Poche, 1926 (Vermes).
Nybelinella Nielsen, 1972 replacement name for Nybelinia Nielsen, 1969 taken the same type species. Nybelinella: Nielsen 1972: 55; Cohen & Nielsen 1978: 62; Nielsen 1986: 1170; Nielsen 1990: 576; Nielsen et al. (1999: 140).
Diagnosis. Because of the significant increase of material (from four to 24 specimens) the generic diagnosis has been modified. Body elongate and compressed. Skin loose, transparent and scaleless. Pectoral peduncle as long as high with 23–27 fin rays. One short ray in each pelvic fin. Dorsal fin with 70–92, caudal fin with 7–9 and anal fin with 45–57 rays. Head broader and deeper than body. Mouth opening oblique ending in front of indistinct, deep-set eyes. Lower jaw slightly protruding. All teeth small and pointed; palatines edentate. Anterior gill arch with 20–27 small rakers of which 0–11 are slightly prolonged. Precaudal vertebrae 37–42 and total vertebrae 72–79. Vertebral centra in adults almost rectangular in lateral view and generally poorly ossified. Sagittal otolith small and semispherical. Females with a pair of claspers distally on urogenital hood. Males with penis more or less covered ventrally by urogenital hood; claspers not developed.
Comparisons. Of the seven genera (see Nielsen 2015: Table 1) in the aphyonid clade of Bythitidae Nybelinella seems most similar to Barathronus Goode & Bean, 1886 and Meteoria Nielsen, 1969, with an oblique mouth opening and short pectoral peduncle. Nybelinella differs from Barathronus by having 20–27 short rakers on anterior gill arch (vs. 23–35 rakers, about five times as long) and vertebral centra rectangular in lateral view (vs. hour-glass shaped). From Meteoria it differs by having 20–27 short rakers on anterior gill arch (vs. no rakers), 23– 27 pectoral fin rays (vs. 12–15 rays), one short pelvic fin ray (vs. no rays), more dorsal fin rays (70–92 vs. 47–58) and more anal fin rays (45–57 vs. 31–40).
N. erikssoni N. brevianalis N. brevidorsalis
description: Published as part of Nielsen, Jørgen G., 2017, Revision of the genus Nybelinella (Teleostei, Bythitidae) with a new Atlantic, abyssal species, pp. 45-54 in Zootaxa 4247 (1) on pages 45-46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4247.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/437952
Rheocricotopus (Rheocricotopus) effusoides Saether 1985
Creators: name: Namayandeh, Armin
name: Beresford, David V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Rheocricotopus
Rheocricotopus effusoides

description: Rheocricotopus (Rheocricotopus) effusoides Saether, 1985
Adults: Male and female described by Saether (1985).
Immatures: Pupa and larva described by Saether (1985).
Ecology and Habitat: Larvae inhabit lotic habitats (Saether 1985).
NE: USA (Ohio, South Dakota).
description: Published as part of Namayandeh, Armin & Beresford, David V., 2018, A NEW SPECIES IN THE RHEOCRICOTOPUS (R.) EFFUSUS GROUP FROM CANADA WITH A REVIEW OF THE NEARCTIC SPECIES OF RHEOCRICOTOPUS AND PARAMETRIOCNEMUS (CHIRONOMIDAE: ORTHOCLADIINAE) Abstract, pp. 16-29 in CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research 31 on pages 18-19, DOI: 10.5324/cjcr.v0i31.2531, http://zenodo.org/record/7994948
Geranomyia sparsiguttata Alexander 1937
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiao
name: Zhang, Zehua
name: Yang, Ding
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Geranomyia
Geranomyia sparsiguttata

description: Geranomyia sparsiguttata (Alexander, 1937)
Limonia (Geranomyia) sparsiguttata Alexander, 1937: 374. Type locality: Liung-chon-san, Fujian (China).
Specimens examined. Holotype male (USNM), China: Fujian, Liung-chon-san, 1936. VII. 21, Gressitt. Other materials: 5 males 5 females (CAU), China: Yunnan, Lushui, Pianma (25°24'4"N, 98°55'23"E, 1900 m), 2012. VII.25, Junchao Wang. 1 male 2 females (CAU), China: Yunnan, Nujiang, Gongshan, Dulongjiang (27°40'32"N 98°20'3"E, 1542 m), 2013. VII.1, Xuankun Li (light trap). 1 male (CAU), China: Sichuan, Mt. Omei (29°35'11"N 103°22'39"E, 1100 m), 2010. VII. 6, Tao Li (light trap). 1 male (CAU), China: Chongqing, Beibei, Mt. Jinyun (29°50'24"N 106°23'55"E, 800 m), 2012. VIII. 4, Zhifei Li.
Distribution. China (Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing, Fujian).
description: Published as part of Zhang, Xiao, Zhang, Zehua & Yang, Ding, 2016, Five new species of Geranomyia Haliday, 1833 (Diptera, Limoniidae) from China, pp. 139-154 in Zootaxa 4154 (2) on page 153, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4154.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/267484
Paralaevicephalus prima Rao
Creators: name: Xing, Jichun
name: Dai, Renhuai
name: Li, Zizhong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Paralaevicephalus
Paralaevicephalus prima

description: Paralaevicephalus prima (Rao)
Figs. 5–8
Khasiana prima Rao, 1989: 82, Figs. 105–108.
Paralaevicephalus prima (Rao), a new combination, by Dai,Zhang et Hu, 2005: 405.
Distribution. China (Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan); India.
Host. Weeds.
Material examined. 13,1Ƥ, China, Hainan Prov., Dongfang City, Datian (19°25′N, 108°35′E), 9 July 2007, coll. Jichun Xing (IEGU); 1Ƥ, Hainan Prov., Dongfang City, Datian (19°25′N, 108°35′E), 9 July 2007, coll. Bin Zhang (IEGU); 13, Hainan Prov., Wuzhishan City, Wuzhishan (18°49′N, 109°36′E), 14 July 2007, coll. Hui Zhang (IEGU); 1Ƥ, Hainan Prov., Diaoluoshan City, Diaoluoshan (18°40′N, 109°54′E), 17 July 2007, coll. Jichun Xing (IEGU); 13,1Ƥ, Yunnan Prov.,Puer, 15 July 2007, coll. Jianda Li (IEGU); 13, Yunnan Prov., Mengyang, 15 July 2007, coll. Jianda Li (IEGU); 2Ƥ, Yunnan Prov.,Mengla, 18 July 2007, coll. Jianda Li (IEGU); 1Ƥ, Yunnan Prov.,Mengla, 18 July 2007, coll. Xiaohong Jiang (IEGU).
description: Published as part of Xing, Jichun, Dai, Renhuai & Li, Zizhong, 2009, A taxonomic study of the genus Paralaevicephalus Ishihara (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), with description of four new species from China, pp. 53-61 in Zootaxa 1979 on page 56, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.185247
Nybelinella
Creators: name: Nielsen, Jørgen G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Ophidiiformes
Aphyonidae
Nybelinella

description: Key to the species of Nybelinella
1a Anal fin rays 45; no gill rakers on epibranchials; all neural and haemal spines ovate- shaped*............ brevianalis n. sp.
1b Anal fin rays 50–57; small gill rakers on epibranchials; neural and haemal spines thin and pointed.................... 2
2a Dorsal fin rays 70; total vertebrae 72; origin of anal fin below dorsal fin ray no. 19; predorsal length 52% SL........................................................................................ brevidorsalis Shcherbachev, 1976
2b Dorsal fin rays 79–92; total vertebrae 75–79; origin of anal fin ray below dorsal fin ray 29–40; predorsal length 39.5–46.5% SL............................................................................. erikssoni (Nybelin, 1957)
description: Published as part of Nielsen, Jørgen G., 2017, Revision of the genus Nybelinella (Teleostei, Bythitidae) with a new Atlantic, abyssal species, pp. 45-54 in Zootaxa 4247 (1) on pages 46-47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4247.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/437952
Polistes
Creators: name: Tan, Jiang-Li
name: Achterberg, Kees Van
name: Duan, Mei-Jiao
name: Chen, Xue-Xin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Polistes

description: Key to subgenera of the genus Polistes from China
1. Clypeus latero-dorsally extending far above the anterior tentorial pits (Fig. 1 a). Pronotal fovea absent (Fig.1 b); mesepisternum without dorsal mesepisternal groove (Fig. 1 c) and epicnemial carina (Fig. 1 d)................ Polistella Ashmead, 1904
- Clypeus latero-dorsally extending not or somewhat far beyond the anterior tentorial pits (Fig. 2 aa). Pronotal fovea present (Fig. 2 bb); mesepisternum with dorsal episternal groove (Fig. 2 cc) or/and epicnemial carina (Fig. 2 dd)..................... 2
2. Pronotal carina lamellate ventrad to fovea (Fig. 3 a); parastigma (prestigma) [pa] of forewing more than 0.5x as long as the basal length of pterostigma [pt] (Fig. 3 b, b').............................................. Gyrostoma Kirby, 1828
- Pronotal carina shortened or blunt, not lamellate below fovea (Fig. 4 aa); parastigma relatively short, less than or equal to the 0.5x length of pterostigma (Fig. 4 bb).................................................... Polistes Latreille, 1802
description: Published as part of Tan, Jiang-Li, Achterberg, Kees Van, Duan, Mei-Jiao & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2014, An illustrated key to the species of subgenus Gyrostoma Kirby, 1828 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae) from China, with discovery of Polistes (Gyrostoma) tenuispunctia Kim, 2001, pp. 377-399 in Zootaxa 3785 (3) on pages 378-379, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3785.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/253064
Paralaevicephalus gracilipenis Dai, Zhang et Hu
Creators: name: Xing, Jichun
name: Dai, Renhuai
name: Li, Zizhong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Paralaevicephalus
Paralaevicephalus gracilipenis

description: Paralaevicephalus gracilipenis Dai, Zhang et Hu
Figs. 9–12
Paralaevicephalus gracilipenis Dai, Zhang et Hu, 2005: 405 –407, Figs. 8–13.
Distribution. China (Guangxi, Sichuan, Fujian, Hunan, Gansu, Guizhou, Shanxi, Hainan).
Host. Weeds.
Material examined. 23,9Ƥ, China, Guizhou Prov., Libo County, Maolan, 24 May 1998, coll. Zizhong Li (IEGU); 23,1Ƥ, Guizhou Prov., Xishui County, 21 September 2000, coll. Zizhong Li (IEGU); 23, Guizhou Prov., Xishui County, 25 August 2000, coll. Zizhong Li (IEGU); 13,1Ƥ, Guizhou Prov., Xishui County, 16 July 1995, coll. Guiyun Ma (IEGU); 13, Guizhou Prov., Libo County, 30 October 1998, coll. Zizhong Li (IEGU); 3Ƥ, Guizhou Prov., Rongjiang County, 13 August 1989, coll. Zizhong Li (IEGU); 2Ƥ, Guizhou Prov., Libo County, Maolan, 21 October 1998, coll. Zizhong Li (IEGU); 1Ƥ, Guizhou Prov., Liping County, 7 August 1980, coll. Zizhong Li (IEGU); 1Ƥ, Guizhou Prov., Wangmo County, 17 July 1986, coll. Zizhong Li (IEGU); 1Ƥ, Guizhou Prov., Guiyang City, 14 September 2002, coll. Renhuai Dai (IEGU); 1Ƥ, Guizhou Prov., Luodian County, 22 October 1998, coll. Hong Yang (IEGU); 1Ƥ, Guizhou Prov., Jinsha County, 23 September 2002, coll. Zizhong Li (IEGU); 13,4Ƥ, Guizhou Prov., Yanhe County, Mayanghe, 27 September 2007, coll. Qiongzhang Song (IEGU); 1Ƥ, Guizhou Prov., Yanhe County, Mayanghe, 27 September 2007, coll. Xiaohong Jiang (IEGU); 13,3Ƥ, Guizhou Prov., Yanhe County, Mayanghe, 28 September 2007, coll. Jichun Xing (IEGU); 13, Sichuan Prov., Qianfushan, 14 August 2007, coll. Jichun Xing (IEGU); 63,11Ƥ, Sichuan Prov., Shuimogou, 16 August 2007, coll. Jichun Xing (IEGU); 13,1Ƥ, Sichuan Prov., Shuimogou, 17 August 2007, coll. Jichun Xing (IEGU); 13,3Ƥ, Sichuan Prov., Tangjiahe, 23 August 2007, coll. Jichun Xing (IEGU); 63,2Ƥ, Shanxi Prov., Xi’an City, Cuihuashan, 26 August 2008, coll. Jichun Xing (IEGU); 33,2Ƥ, Guizhou Prov., Ziyun County, Baishiyan, 2 October 2008, coll. Jichun Xing (IEGU).
Remarks. Our identification of this species is based on the original description and illustrations by Dai, Zhang et Hu (2005), although our specimens differ slightly in the shape of the subgenital plate and connective.
description: Published as part of Xing, Jichun, Dai, Renhuai & Li, Zizhong, 2009, A taxonomic study of the genus Paralaevicephalus Ishihara (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), with description of four new species from China, pp. 53-61 in Zootaxa 1979 on pages 56-57, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.185247
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Gymnotus carapo subsp. australis Albert 2017, New Subspecies
Creators: name: Albert, James S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Gymnotiformes
Gymnotidae
Gymnotus
Gymnotus carapo
Gymnotus carapo australis

description: Gymnotus carapo australis New Subspecies
Figure 3 A, Tables 3 and 4
Holotype: MLP 11221 (1), 341 mm, Argentina, Misiones province, Río Iguazú basin, Arroyo Verde (25°40’15”S, 053°56’00.8”W).
Paratype: MLP 11222 (6), 262–321 mm, same locality as MLP 11221.
Non-Types: MLP 11223 (4), 216–272 mm, Arroyo Deseado Chico (25°47’19,7”S, 054°01’45.0”W), cuenca Río Iguazú, Misiones. Col.: J. Casciotta, et al. II/2002. MLP 11223 (7), 110–330 mm, Arroyo Deseado Chico (25°47’19.7”S, 054°01’45.0”W), cuenca Río Iguazú, Misiones. Col.: J. Casciotta, et al. II/2002. MLP 11225 (3), 221–318 mm, Arroyo Lobo (25°42’32”S, 054°05’36”W), cuenca Río Iguazú, Misiones. Col.: J. Casciotta, et al. II/ 2002. MLP 11226 (3), 268–274 mm, Arroyo Tateto (25°47’12.8”S, 053°58’12.9”W), cuenca Río Iguazú, Misiones. Col.: J. Casciotta, et al. II/2002. MCP 19552 (3), 145–336 mm. MCP 6059 (3), 173–355 mm.
Description: Specimens of G. carapo from the southern fauna overlap substantially in morphometric and meristic PC-space with specimens from other localities (Figures 4, 5, and 12). Gymnotus carapo australis is characterized by the following combination of statistically significant (p <0.01) traits when compared to the rest of the species as a whole (see Principal Components Analyses and t-tests): deep body (BD 67.0%–98.8% HL, mean 88.1% vs. 42.7%–106.6%, mean 83.6% in all other subspecies), wide head (HW 50.8%–66.8% HL, mean 61.6% vs. 49.1%–67.7%, mean 59.1% in all other subspecies), short pectoral fin length (P1 38%.8–48.0% HL, mean 43.5% vs. 29.0%–60.9%, mean 46.5% vs. in all other subspecies) and large anal-fin pterygiophore scales (APS 6– 7, mode 7 vs. 7–11, mode 9 in all other subspecies).
Distribution: Occurs in the southern humid Neotropics, including the greater La Plata (Paraná-Paraguay), Uruguay, and Jacuí basins (Figure 2 B).
Etymology: Subspecific epithet derived from the Latin “australis” meaning “of the South”.
description: Published as part of Albert, James S., 2017, Revision of the polytypic electric fish Gymnotus carapo (Gymnotiformes, Teleostei), with descriptions of seven subspecies, pp. 401-438 in Zootaxa 4318 (3) on page 427, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/887692
Rheocricotopus (Rheocricotopus) effusus
Creators: name: Namayandeh, Armin
name: Beresford, David V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Rheocricotopus
Rheocricotopus effusus

description: Rheocricotopus (Rheocricotopus) effusus (Walker, 1856)
Adults: Male described by Albu (1968), Lehman (1969), Saether (1985), Makarchenko and Makarchenko (2005), hypopygium in key by Pinder (1978). Female described by Saether (1985).
Immatures: Pupa described by Saether (1985), in key by Langton (1991). Larva described by Cranston (1982), Saether (1985), and in key by Epler (2001).
Ecology and Habitat: Larvae mainly inhabit springs (Thienemann 1954).
NE: Canada (Alberta, Northwest Territories); USA (Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota). Widespread in the Palearctic.
description: Published as part of Namayandeh, Armin & Beresford, David V., 2018, A NEW SPECIES IN THE RHEOCRICOTOPUS (R.) EFFUSUS GROUP FROM CANADA WITH A REVIEW OF THE NEARCTIC SPECIES OF RHEOCRICOTOPUS AND PARAMETRIOCNEMUS (CHIRONOMIDAE: ORTHOCLADIINAE) Abstract, pp. 16-29 in CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research 31 on page 19, DOI: 10.5324/cjcr.v0i31.2531, http://zenodo.org/record/7994948
Paralaevicephalus longistylus Dai, Zhang et Hu
Creators: name: Xing, Jichun
name: Dai, Renhuai
name: Li, Zizhong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Paralaevicephalus
Paralaevicephalus longistylus

description: Paralaevicephalus longistylus Dai, Zhang et Hu
Figs. 13–16
Paralaevicephalus longistylus Dai, Zhang et Hu, 2005: 407 –408, Figs. 14–18.
Distribution. China (Yunnan).
description: Published as part of Xing, Jichun, Dai, Renhuai & Li, Zizhong, 2009, A taxonomic study of the genus Paralaevicephalus Ishihara (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), with description of four new species from China, pp. 53-61 in Zootaxa 1979 on page 57, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.185247
Zeuxoides Sieg 1980, n.sp.
Creators: name: Bird, Graham J
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Tanaidacea
Tanaididae
Zeuxoides

description: Zeuxoides Sieg, 1980
Species included (New Zealand and Australian species in bold): Zeuxoides aka n.sp.; Z. helleri (Sieg); Z. ohlini (Stebbing); Z. pseudolitoralis (Sieg); Z. spongicola (Barnard); Z. casanunda Bamber; Z. lasti Edgar; Z. lauriebourqueae Edgar; Z. mawbeyi Edgar; Z. rimuwhero n.sp.
Remarks: This genus is effectively defined by the cap-like terminal article of the uropod, distinguishing it from Zeuxo, although there is overlap with Pancoloides Sieg with respect to this character. The species are usually distinguishable from Zeuxo by their more setose antennules and stouter uropod articles but, again, there is some overlap with Zeuxo (Edgar 2008). Several Zeuxoides species (casanunda, helleri, lauriebourqueae, mawbeyi, pseudolitoralis), appear to form an apparent clade based on the reduced lacinia of the right mandible. With only a single published record from Campbell Island (Sieg 1980) the presence of Z. helleri in New Zealand’s Subantarctic region needs confirmation.
description: Published as part of Bird, Graham J, 2008, Untying the Gordian Knot: on Tanais novaezealandiae Thomson (Crustacea, Tanaidacea, Tanaidae) from New Zealand, with descriptions of two new Zeuxoides species, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 1877 on page 18, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.184126
Gymnotus carapo subsp. caatingaensis Albert 2017, New Subspecies
Creators: name: Albert, James S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Gymnotiformes
Gymnotidae
Gymnotus
Gymnotus carapo
Gymnotus carapo caatingaensis

description: Gymnotus carapo caatingaensis New Subspecies
Figure 3 B, Tables 3 and 4
Holotype: AUM 20624, 225 mm. Brazil, Piauí, Río Gurgueia aff. Río Parnaíba (08°32’24”S, 044°25’48”W).
Paratype: AUM 20624, 210 mm. Brazil, Piauí, Río Gurgueia aff. Río Parnaíba (08°32’24”S, 044°25’48”W).
Non-Types: AUM 20689 (2), 95–138 mm, Brazil, Piauí, Río Gurgueia, 25 km SW Urucui. AUM 2079 (4), 156–192 mm, Piauí, Parnaíba, between Santa Filomena and Jurumenha. AUM 20793 (4), 111–195 mm, Brazil, Piauí, Parnaíba, between Santa Filomenha and Jurumenha.
Description: Specimens of G. carapo from the Caatinga ecoregion in the Brazilian state of Piauí overlap substantially in morphometric and meristic PC-space with specimens from other localities (Figures 4, 5, and 12). Gymnotus carapo caatingaensis is characterized by the following combination of statistically significant (p <0.01) traits when compared to the rest of the species as a whole (see Principal Components Analyses and t-tests): short head (HL 10.2%–12.2% TL, mean 11.2% vs. 10.4%–15.5%, mean 12.7% in all other subspecies), long postorbital distance (PO 63.2%–66.9% HL, mean 65.2% vs. 36.8%–66.5%, mean 61.2% in all other subspecies), long pectoral fins (P1 46.9%–58.0% HL, mean 52.3% vs. 36.3%–60.9%, mean 45.9% in all other subspecies) and short anal fin (AF 70.9%–80.1% TL, mean 75.8% vs. 69.4%–88.0%, mean 79.9% in all other subspecies).
Distribution: Known from Río Parnaíba basin in the Brazilian Piauí state of Piauí (Figure 2 B).
Etymology: Subspecific epithet derived from the Caatinga ecoregion of northeastern Brazil, home to a characteristic arid scrubland and thorny scrub forest.
description: Published as part of Albert, James S., 2017, Revision of the polytypic electric fish Gymnotus carapo (Gymnotiformes, Teleostei), with descriptions of seven subspecies, pp. 401-438 in Zootaxa 4318 (3) on page 427, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/887692
Polistes (Gyrostoma) gigas Kirby 1826
Creators: name: Tan, Jiang-Li
name: Achterberg, Kees Van
name: Duan, Mei-Jiao
name: Chen, Xue-Xin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Polistes
Polistes gigas

description: Polistes (Gyrostoma) gigas (Kirby, 1826)
(Fig. 17)
Cyclostoma gigas Kirby 1826 in Kirby, Spence: 36 (type, ♂, China, deposited in?Oxoford). Polistes orientalis Lepeletier 1836: 519.
Polistes confusus Smith 1857: 102.
Material examined. China: 1♀, Chine, Callery 5 – 46, with a hand writing label “H. de Saussure determin.” (MNHN); 1♂, Ngan Hoú (Anhui), Chine, J. de Joannis, 1901 (MNHN); 1 ♀, 1♂, Kout Yang (Guiyang), Kout- Tchéou (Guizhou), 1906, PP Cayalerie & Fortunat (MNHN); 6♀, Hang-tcheou (Hangzhou), Chekiang (Zhejiang), 1905, A Pichon (MNHN); 1♂, Kiang-Si (Jiangxi), 1875, A David (MNHN); 1♀, Kosempo, Formosa, vii.1917, H Sauter, with a handwritten label “ P. orientalis, Schulthess det.” Hym-00611(SDEI); 1♀, Pan'an City, Hue Xi (28˚59'N 120˚30'E), Zhejiang, China, 19.vi.2012, c 600 m, C van Achterberg (RMNH); 2♀, Mt. Nankun (23˚38'N 113˚52'E), c 100km NE Guangzhou, Guangdong, S. China, 27–28.ix.2011, C van Achterberg (RMNH); 2♀, SCAU campus (23˚9'30”N 113˚21'5”E), Guangzhou, Guangdong, S. China, c. 30 m, 4–7.vii.2013, C van Achterberg & HY Chen (RMNH); 2♀, Baishuipubu, Yangchun Guangdong, 1.v.2002, no. 20028351, -28, ZF Xu (ZJUH); 1♀, Mt. Baiyun, Guangzhou, 1.xi.2003, CT Zhang (NWUM); 2♀, Wuyi Farm, Xuwen, Guangdong, 99m, 20˚28'21"N 110˚08'57"E, 15.vii.1987, no. hzs0700058, -056 (CATAS); 1♀, Guishan, Heyuan, Guangdong, 18.v.2002, no. 20028514, ZF Xu (ZJUH); 2♀, Huatan, Yangchun, Guangdong, 3–4.v.2002, no. 20027827~8, ZF Xu (ZJUH); 1♀, Mt. Nankun, Guangdong, 8.vi.2002, no. 20028910, ZF Xu (ZJUH); 5♀, West Mt. Tianmu, Lin’an, Zhejiang, 4. vi.2010 (ZJUH); 1♀, Baisha (25˚09'538˝N 116˚37'435˝E), Shanghang, Fujian, 637 m, 9.iv.2011, T Li (GSFA); 1♂, Quannan, Jiangxi, 2.xii.2010, SC Li (GSFA); 2♀, 2♂, Guanshan, Jiangxi, 350 m, 16.ix.2008, YF Tang (GSFA); 3♀, Tuncheng town, Tunchang, Hainan, 139 m, 19˚19'45"N 110˚03'37"E, 25.viii.2011, YH Zhong, no.
hzs0700607, -894, -886 (CATAS); 1♀, Fengmu town, Tunchang, Hainan, 136 m, 19˚12'49"N 110˚00'52"E, 20.iii.2009, CM Xing, no. hzs0700053 (CATAS); 2♀, Shankou, Chengmai, Hainan, 30 m, 19˚41'31"N 109˚58'16"E, 19.iii.2009, CM Xing, no. hzs0700054, -055 (CATAS); 2♀, Danzhou, Hainan, 22–24.v.2009, CM. Xing, no. hzs070052, -057 (CATAS); 2♀, Qiongzhong, Hainan, 16.vii.2011, WJ. Zhu, 5.viii.2011, YH Zhong (CATAS).
Distribution. China (Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hong Kong, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Taiwan, Zhejiang); India (Sikkim). (Liu 1937, Lee 1985, Starr 1992, Barthélémy 2008, Carpenter 1996b)
description: Published as part of Tan, Jiang-Li, Achterberg, Kees Van, Duan, Mei-Jiao & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2014, An illustrated key to the species of subgenus Gyrostoma Kirby, 1828 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae) from China, with discovery of Polistes (Gyrostoma) tenuispunctia Kim, 2001, pp. 377-399 in Zootaxa 3785 (3) on pages 383-384, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3785.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/253064
Paralaevicephalus huaxiensis Xing, Dai & Li, 2009, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Xing, Jichun
name: Dai, Renhuai
name: Li, Zizhong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Paralaevicephalus
Paralaevicephalus huaxiensis

description: Paralaevicephalus huaxiensis sp. nov.
Figs. 17–23
Description. Color and external features as in generic description, vertex with four black maculae (Fig.17).
Male genitalia: Subgenital plate short, outer and apical margins rounded, macrosetae irregularly arranged towards apex; elongate stout process arising basally from inner margin, strongly curved dorsad at apex (Fig. 20). Style short, apex slender, rounded, exceeding apical margin of subgenital plate, base broad (Fig. 20). Connective with arms forked, Y-shaped and stem short, its stem nearly 1/5 of arms (Fig. 23). Aedeagus with shaft elongate and slender, curved dorsad, with dorsal apodeme, gonopore apical on ventral surface (Figs. 21, 22).
Measurement. Length (including tegmen): 3, 2.9– 3.0 mm; Ƥ, 3.0–3.1 mm.
Host. Weeds.
Type Material. Holotype 3, China: Guizhou Prov., Guiyang City, Huaxi, 3 June 2008, coll. Jichun Xing (IEGU). Paratypes: 13,2Ƥ, same data as holotype.
Diagnosis. This species is similar to Paralaevicephalus gracilipenis Dai, Zhang et Hu in having the subgenital plate process curved at the apex and the aedeagal shaft long and slender, but differs from this and other species in having the connective with arms forked, Y-shaped, with the stem short.
Etymology. The species name is derived from the type locality Huaxi.
description: Published as part of Xing, Jichun, Dai, Renhuai & Li, Zizhong, 2009, A taxonomic study of the genus Paralaevicephalus Ishihara (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), with description of four new species from China, pp. 53-61 in Zootaxa 1979 on pages 57-58, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.185247
Harriotta raleighana Goode & Bean 1895
Creators: name: Angulo, Arturo
name: López, Myrna I.
name: Bussing, William A.
name: Murase, Atsunobu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Holocephali
Chimaeriformes
Rhinochimaeridae
Harriotta
Harriotta raleighana

description: Harriotta raleighana Goode & Bean 1895
Pacific longnose Chimaera; Quimera narizona del Pacífico (Spanish)
(Figure 1, Table 1)
Material examined. 6 specimens. UCR 2909–02, 5 males, 1 female, 451–641 mm TL, 196–298 mm BDL; 44.95 Km, 253.73 ° T from Cabo Blanco, Puntarenas, Costa Rica (9º26'16.44" N, 85º29'56.04" W), 560–620 m, 24 November 2010, collected by J.M. Carvajal.
Diagnosis. Snout elongated and pointed; tooth-plates with ridges and knobs; eyes relatively large (EYL 7.2–9.0% BDL) and virtually above mouth; dorsal-fin spine longer than height of first dorsal-fin (DSA 1.3–1.4 times in D1H); caudal-fin axis weakly raised with the fin asymmetrical, epaxial caudal-fin lobe narrower than hypaxial lobe; upper edge of caudal fin without denticles or tubercles. Additional morphometric measurements, expressed as percentage of body length (% BDL) or head length (% HDL), and comparative data are presented in Table 1.
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Distribution. This species has an apparent fragmented distribution in the three major oceans, and is likely cosmopolitan along continental margins in sub-polar oceans (Didier et al. 2012, Eschmeyer 2014). Confirmed records exist in the eastern Atlantic (Iceland, Faeroe Islands, Rockall Trough along Ireland to northern France, Canary Islands and off Cap Blanc, Mauritania, Namibia and South Africa), western Atlantic (Nova Scotia, Canada to Chesapeake Bay, U.S.A., and southern Brazil), north Pacific (off Japan), eastern Pacific (off California, U.S.A., Mexico (Gulf of California and Central coast), Costa Rica (this study), and Peru), and southwestern Pacific (off New Zealand and Australia) (Chirichigno 1974b, Garrick & Inada 1975, van der Heiden 1985, Compagno et al. 1989, Krupp & Bussing 1995, Castro-Aguirre et al. 2007, Didier & Meckley 2009 a, Didier et al. 2012, Eschmeyer 2014). Usually encountered at depths between 500 and 2000 m (Didier & Meckley 2009 a, Didier et al. 2012).
Remarks. Although this species has a global distribution, in the eastern Pacific region there are no published records between Peru (Didier & Meckley 2009a) and Mexico (Castro-Aguirre et al. 2007). The discovery of these specimens in Costa Rican waters increases the knowledge of its marine ichthyofauna and provides evidence of a broader distributional pattern for this species in the eastern Pacific region.
description: Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, López, Myrna I., Bussing, William A. & Murase, Atsunobu, 2014, Records of chimaeroid fishes (Holocephali: Chimaeriformes) from the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, with the description of a new species of Chimera (Chimaeridae) from the eastern Pacific Ocean, pp. 554-574 in Zootaxa 3861 (6) on pages 556-557, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3861.6.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5247997
Paralaevicephalus angustus Xing, Dai & Li, 2009, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Xing, Jichun
name: Dai, Renhuai
name: Li, Zizhong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Paralaevicephalus
Paralaevicephalus angustus

description: Paralaevicephalus angustus sp. nov.
Figs. 24–29
Description. General appearance as in Paralaevicephalus huaxiensis sp. nov., but color light yellow, vertex with two black maculae.
Male genitalia: Subgenital plate short, outer and apical margins rounded, macrosetae irregularly arranged towards apex; elongate stout process arising basally from inner margin, strongly curved dorsad at apex (Fig. 26). Style short, apical process not exceeding apical margin of subgenital plate, base narrow. (Fig. 26). Connective with arms forked, Y-shaped, with stem nearly 1/3 length of arms. (Fig. 29). Aedeagus with shaft elongate and slender, curved dorsad, with dorsal apodeme, gonopore apical on ventral surface (Figs. 27, 28).
Measurement. Length (including tegmen): 3, 2.8–3.0 mm; Ƥ, 3.0–3.1 mm.
Host. Weeds.
Type Material. Holotype 3, China: Guizhou Prov., Ziyun County, Kazha, 28 July 2008, coll. Jichun Xing (IEGU). Paratypes: 2Ƥ, same data as holotype; 23, Guizhou Prov., Ziyun County, Baishiyan, 2 October 2008, coll. Jichun Xing (IEGU).
Diagnosis. This species is similar to Paralaevicephalus gracilipenis Dai, Zhang et Hu, but the connective is Y-shaped. It also differs from Paralaevicephalus huaxiensis sp. nov. in having the stem of the connective much more elongate and the base of the style much narrower.
Etymology. The species name is derived from the Latin words angustus, indicating the base of the style is much narrower than in other species.
description: Published as part of Xing, Jichun, Dai, Renhuai & Li, Zizhong, 2009, A taxonomic study of the genus Paralaevicephalus Ishihara (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), with description of four new species from China, pp. 53-61 in Zootaxa 1979 on pages 58-59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.185247
Temnothorax megalops Cephalic
Creators: name: Sharaf, Mostafa R.
name: Akbar, Shahid A.
name: Al Dhafer, Hathal M.
name: El-Gharbawy, Ali
name: Aldawood, Abdulrahman S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Temnothorax
Temnothorax megalops

description: Temnothorax megalops (Hamann & Klemm, 1967)
Figs 10–15
Leptothorax (Icothorax) megalops Hamann & Klemm 1967: 417, fig. 1 (w.q.).
Temnothorax megalops – Bolton 2003: 271; 1982: 331.
Material examined
Holotype
SUDAN: Wadi Halfa, wet ditch, 28 Jan. 1962, H. Hamann & W. Klemm leg. (CASENT0712601).
Paratype
SUDAN: 1 dealate q, same data as holotype (CASENT0712600) (NHMW).
Other material examined
YEMEN: 1 q, Al Kawd, 13.08861° N, 45.36472° E, 7 Sep. 2001, Van Harten leg., code 6770 (CASENT0906380) (WMLC); 1 q, Jun. 1999, Van Harten leg., code 8877 (CASENT0922183) (WMLC); 1 q, Al Kawd, 13.08861° N, 45.36472° E, Sep. 1999, Van Harten leg., 4170 (CASENT0922180) (WMLC).
Remarks
The species was recently treated by Prebus (2015), who provided a complete diagnosis.
Ecology
This species was described from Sudan and was recently recorded from the UAE (Sharjah Desert Park, 25°22.021 N, 055°40.264 E, Wadi Wurayah, 25°24' N, 56°15' E) (Collingwood et al. 2011).
Note
The specimen with code CASENT0906379 labelled on AntWeb as a worker specimen of T. megalops (collected from Yemen, Abyan, Al Kawd, 7 Sep. 2001, 13.08861° N, 45.36472° E, Van Harten leg., WMLC), actually represents a species of Nesomyrmex that has been misidentified and placed in Temnothorax.
description: Published as part of Sharaf, Mostafa R., Akbar, Shahid A., Al Dhafer, Hathal M., El-Gharbawy, Ali & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2017, Taxonomy of the Myrmicine ant genus Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) in the Arabian Peninsula, pp. 1-17 in European Journal of Taxonomy 280 (280) on page 10, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.280, http://zenodo.org/record/3824631
Rheocricotopus (Rheocricotopus) pauciseta Saether 1969
Creators: name: Namayandeh, Armin
name: Beresford, David V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Rheocricotopus
Rheocricotopus pauciseta

description: Rheocricotopus (Rheocricotopus) pauciseta Saether, 1969
Adults: Male described by Saether (1969), and Makarchenko and Makarchenko (2005). Female is unknown.
Immatures: Pupa and larva described by Saether (1969) and in key by Epler (2001).
Ecology and Habitat: Lotic habitats (Hudson et al. 1990).
NE: Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Labrador); USA (North Carolina). In the Palearctic Far East Russia, recently from China (Sichuan Province), Tibet by Liu et al. (2014b).
description: Published as part of Namayandeh, Armin & Beresford, David V., 2018, A NEW SPECIES IN THE RHEOCRICOTOPUS (R.) EFFUSUS GROUP FROM CANADA WITH A REVIEW OF THE NEARCTIC SPECIES OF RHEOCRICOTOPUS AND PARAMETRIOCNEMUS (CHIRONOMIDAE: ORTHOCLADIINAE) Abstract, pp. 16-29 in CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research 31 on page 19, DOI: 10.5324/cjcr.v0i31.2531, http://zenodo.org/record/7994948
Rheocricotopus (Rheocricotopus) reduncusoides Namayandeh & Beresford 2018, sp. n.
Creators: name: Namayandeh, Armin
name: Beresford, David V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Rheocricotopus
Rheocricotopus reduncusoides

description: Rheocricotopus (Rheocricotopus) reduncusoides sp. n.
Adults: Male described in this study. Female is unknown.
Immatures: Unknown.
Ecology and Habitat: Specimens were collected probably near creeks close to the marshland in Bathurst Island (Danks and Byers 1972).
NE: Canada (Nunavut).
description: Published as part of Namayandeh, Armin & Beresford, David V., 2018, A NEW SPECIES IN THE RHEOCRICOTOPUS (R.) EFFUSUS GROUP FROM CANADA WITH A REVIEW OF THE NEARCTIC SPECIES OF RHEOCRICOTOPUS AND PARAMETRIOCNEMUS (CHIRONOMIDAE: ORTHOCLADIINAE) Abstract, pp. 16-29 in CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research 31 on page 19, DOI: 10.5324/cjcr.v0i31.2531, http://zenodo.org/record/7994948