Botryopera setosa Kruglikova 1989
Creators: name: Trubovitz, Sarah
name: Renaudie, Johan
name: Lazarus, David
name: Noble, Paula
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Protozoa
Sarcomastigophora
Nassellaria
Lophophaenidae
Botryopera
Botryopera setosa

description: Botryopera setosa (Jørgensen, 1900) Kruglikova, 1989   
Plate 9, Figs. 9A–10B.  
 non Botryopyle setosa n. sp., Cleve, 1899, pl. 1, fig. 10a–b.   
 Lithomelissa setosa (Cleve) Jørgensen, 1900, pl. 4, fig. 21.   
 Lithomelissa setosa (Cleve) var. belonophora Jørgensen, 1900, pl. 4, fig. 21.   
 Lithomelissa setosa n. Sp., Jørgensen, 1905, pl. 16, figs. 81–83, pl. 18, fig. 108a–b.   
 Lithomelissa setosa Jørgensen, Popofsky, 1908, pl. 31, figs. 6, 7 (non figs. 2, 8, 10).   
 Lithomelissa setosa Jørgensen, Schröder, 1914, text-figs. 54–57.   
 Lithomelissa setosa Jørgensen, Wailes, 1937, text-fig. 25.   
 Lithomelissa setosa (?) Jørgensen, Petrushevskaya, 1967, pl. 46, fig. 4.   
 Lithomelissa sp. A, Petrushevskaya, 1967, pl. 46, figs. 1–2,?fig. 3.   
 Lophophaena setosa Jørgensen, Petrushevskaya, 1971, pl. 60, fig. 6.   
 Lithomelissa setosa Jørgensen, Bjørklund, 1974, text-figs. 8a–h.   
 Lithomelissa setosa Jørgensen, Aarseth et al., 1975, pl. 14, fig. g.   
 Lithomelissa setosa Jørgensen, Bjørklund, 1976, pl. 8, figs. 1–13.   
 Lithomelissa setosa Jørgensen, Boltovskoy and Riedel, 1980, pl. 5, fig. 1.   
 Botryopera setosa (Jørgensen), Kruglikova, 1989, pl. 2, figs. 17–23.   
 Lithomelissa setosa Jørgensen, Takahashi, 1991, pl. 25, figs. 21–22,?figs. 19–20 (non 16–18).   
 non Lithomelissa setosa Jørgensen, Sashida and Kurihara, 1999, pl. 7, figs. 5–6, 17.   
 Lithomelissa sp., Sashida and Kurihara, 1999, pl. 7, fig. 3.   
 Lithomelissa setosa Jørgensen, Bjørklund et al., 2014, pl. 7, figs. 10–13.   
 Lithomelissa setosa Jørgensen, Dolven et al., 2014, pl. 6, figs. 10–17.   
 non Lithomelissa setosa Jørgensen, Chen et al., 2017, pl. 66, figs. 6–8.   
 Lithomelissa setosa Jørgensen, Matul and Mohan, 2017, fig. 2.30.   
 Lithomelissa setosa Jørgensen, Trubovitz et al., 2020, supplementary data 7.   
 Remarks. Jørgensen (1899) intended to questionably transfer Cleve’s species Botryopyle setosa to Lithomelissa. However, the illustrations of Jørgensen show a species that is clearly not synonymous with Cleve’s species, and is in fact a cannobotryid rather than a plagonid. Jørgensen (1905) corrected this mistaken synonymy, indicating that Botryopyle setosa Cleve, 1899 is not the same as Lithomelissa setosa Jørgensen, 1900. These two species are recognized as separate in subsequent literature, although Botryopyle setosa Cleve was later transferred to Amphimelissa, and designated as the type species of that genus by Petrushevskaya (1971). This species does not fit the definition of Lithomelissa because it does not have an apical spine that passes freely through the cephalis. Kruglikova (1989) transferred L. setosa to the genus Botryopera, and herein we accept this transfer although it has not yet been widely adopted in the literature.   
 Range. Middle Miocene—Late Pleistocene in the EEP, lower boundary not determined (Table 1).
description: Published as part of Trubovitz, Sarah, Renaudie, Johan, Lazarus, David & Noble, Paula, 2022, Late Neogene Lophophaenidae (Nassellaria, Radiolaria) from the eastern equatorial Pacific, pp. 1-158 in Zootaxa 5160 (1) on pages 27-28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5160.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10544058