New localities for Chionoloma orthodontum (Pottiaceae) are reported from Japan. The species is characterized by its narrow leaf base with a V-shaped cell pattern, the excurrent costa forming a short ...mucro and the presence of rhizoidal tubers. Based on Japanese material, a full description, analytical illustrations, and ecological information are provided. The phylogenetic position of the Japanese plants is inferred on the basis of chloroplast atpB–rbcL, trnG and trnL–F sequences.
This paper presents new localities of the epiphytic lichen Candelariella reflexa (Nyl.) Lettau found in NE Poland. The species has been reported in Poland for over two decades, but the progress of ...research on the taxonomy of this genus requires confirmation of the data by the currently accepted taxonomic approach. The paper also discusses the diagnostic features of the species that help distinguish it from other similar taxa.
The Carabidae play an increasing role in biodiversity conservation and ecological monitoring, making a faunistic update all the more necessary. Carabids, however, are poorly known considering their ...diversity in the world. Also known as ground beetles, they are the fourth most diverse group within the Coleoptera, but the amount of published data sets from Morocco is disproportionately small; many species and regions have yet to be well researched. In an effort to fill this gap, we studied the faunistic composition of the carabidae in the north-west of Morocco between spring 2019 and summer 2020 at three different habitat types using two types of traps. Here we present new data on some rare and poorly known Carabidae in Morocco: Pterostichus (Sterocorus) globosus ssp. globosus (Fabricius, 1792), Poecilus (Parapedius) decipiens ssp. decipiens (Waltl, 1835), Harpalus neglectus alluaudi (Antoine, 1922), Graniger cordicollis (Audinet Serville, 1821), Brachinus (Brachinus) efflans (Dejean, 1830), Brachinus (Brachinidius) angustatus (Dejean, 1831), Carabus (Macrothorax) rugosus ssp. rugosus (Fabricius, 1792) and Siagona dejeani (Rambur, 1838). Our results contribute to the knowledge of the Moroccan carabid fauna by introducing eight new localities of terrestrial insects that were poorly unknown and infrequently reported in Morocco over the past 20 years.
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An annotated list of 65 species of moths collected in Tajikistan in 2021 is given. Artemidora dinoensis Weisert, 2002, Chlorissa arkitensis Viidalepp, 1986, Epirrhoe alternata (Müller, 1764), ...Eupithecia subumbrata (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775), Idaea macropaga Wiltshire, 1966 and Pseudocinglis eurata (Prout, 1913) were found for the first time in the studied territory. Photodraphs of geometrid moths are given for two pairs of similar species, Artemidora dinoensis – A. andrea Weisert, 2002 and Idaea macropaga – I. darvasica Viidalepp, 1988, and morphological differences between them are discussed. The characteristic features of a number of rare species are given. Two taxa, Charissa sp. and Hydra sp., require additional research.
The Formosan subterranean termite,
Coptotermes formosanus
Shiraki, 1909, is a highly destructive structural pest endemic to East Asia. We report a land-based establishment of
C. formosanus
in Petah ...Tikva, Israel, over 6000 km from its nearest previous locality in China. The species' identity was confirmed by soldier morphology and by COI sequence data. In addition, a population discovered in 1992 in suburban San Diego, California, USA, remains viable. Marathon hosts the first infestation of
C. formosanus
in the Florida Keys. The world distribution of
C. formosanus
is presented, and the biogeography and mechanisms of spread of this termite are discussed.
Sodus tenuevittatus is removed from synonymy with Mispila (s. str.) venosa and considered as bona species: Mispila (s. str.) tenuevittata
comb. nov. The following synonymies are proposed: Mispila ...tenuevittata = Mispila (Dryusa) sonthianae
syn. nov. and Mispila (s. str.) tonkinea = Mispila (s. str.) punctifrons
syn. nov. New distributional records for M. tenuevittata and M. tonkinea are provided. The lectotypes of M. venosa and M. tonkinea are designated.
Six new localities of Malpolon insignitus have been recorded lately in south-western Bulgaria, which supplement its known distribution. One of the observations is the second case of winter activity ...of the species in the country.
The materials on geometrid moths that were collected by the members of Russian entomological expedition in Tajikistan in 2015–2018 are studied. An annotated list of 83 species of geometrid moths is ...given. The existing taxonomic problems of morphologically similar species with close barcoding of DNA are discussed: Aplocera hissara Vasilenko, 1995 – A. plagiata (Linnaeus, 1758) and Epirrhoe dubiosata (Alphéraky, 1883) – E. alternata (Müller, 1764). These pairs of species occurring parapatrically have different ecological preferences. Aplocera plagiata is widely distributed in lowlands of Central Asia; sometimes the species occurs in low- and middle-mountains. Most of the mountain systems of this region are populated by close species A. hissara and A. dzungarica Vasilenko, 1995. For example, in Turkmenistan A. hissara inhabits only the isolated Kugitang plateau, while A. plagiata occurs in the surrounding plains and Kopetdag; the second species has not yet been collected in Tajikistan, but can be found in the future. Epirrhoe alternata was collected only in low-mountains, in humid floodplain biotopes, while E. dubiosata inhabits steppe areas in middle-mountains; this data indirectly evidence about the species level of both taxa. The species Rheumaptera montivagata (Duponchel, 1830), Eupithecia subpulchrata Alphéraky, 1882, Idaea obsoletaria (Rambur, 1833), Scopula ansulata (Lederer, 1871) and S. minorata (Boisduval, 1833) are recorded for the region for the first time. Two species, Menophra sp. and Idaea sp., need further studying.
The annotated list of 133 species of geometrids (Lepidoptera) from Dzungarian Alatau in Kazakhstan is given; 42 species are recorded for this ridge for the first time. The material is deposited in ...Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia) and in the private collection of the second author. The species Aplocera dzungarica Vasilenko, 1995, stat. resurr. is resurrected from subspecies to species. Diagnostic characters of the rare species Lycia degtjarevae Viidalepp, 1986 are summurized and differences from the alied species L. hirtaria (Clerck, 1759) are given. We established that the first species occurs in Central and Southern Kazakhstan, while reliable records of the latter one is known only from northern part of the country. Data on records of Xanthorhoe asiatica (Staudinger, 1882) and X. tauaria (Staudinger, 1892) on the territory of Russia belong to X. insperata (Djakonov, 1926) and X. dudkoi Vasilenko, 2009, respectively. A brief characteristics of the ecological structure of the geometrid fauna of Dzungarian Alatau is proposed. Features of species distribution on this territory are summurized
The paper provides information about two newly recorded species for the fauna of Bulgaria: Docosia rohaceki Sevcik, 2006 and Leia graeca Bechev, 1997 and new localities for another two rare species ...in Bulgaria. Azana (A.) bulgarense Coher, 1995 is proposed as a synonym of Azana (A.) flavohalterata Strobl, 1909.
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