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Selected AbstractsFIRST RECORD OF AN AQUATIC BEETLE LARVA (INSECTA: COLEOPTERA) FROM THE PARSORA FORMATION (PERMO-TRIASSIC), INDIAPALAEONTOLOGY, Issue 6 2007S. C. GHOSH Abstract:, The fossilized larva of an aquatic beetle, Protodytiscus johillaensis gen. et sp. nov., is described from a ferruginous micaceous siltstone bed of the Permo-Triassic Parsora Formation of the South Rewa Gondwana Basin, Madhya Pradesh, India, and its systematic position and ordinal relationships within the coleopterous suborder Adephaga are discussed. Hitherto, the oldest known fossils of the hydradephagan superfamily Dytiscoidea have been Jurassic. The discovery of P. johillaensis extends the range of the Dytiscoidea back to the Permo-Triassic period. [source] First Record of Protorosaurid Reptile (Order Protorosauria) from the Middle Triassic of ChinaACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA (ENGLISH EDITION), Issue 4 2003LI Chun Abstract, A new genus and species of the family Tanystropheidae, Dinocephalosaurus orientalis gen. et sp. nov., is described based on a nearly complete skull. This is the first record of the order Protorosauria from China. It also represents the only known occurrence of Tanystropheidae outside Europe, the Middle East and North America. Dinocephalosaurus is quite similar to Tanystropheus from Monte San Giorgio, Switzerland. Primarily it is distinguished from Tanystropheus in the shape of the premaxilla, maxilla, jugal and parietal. Although the family Tanystropheidae is now referred to the order Protorosauria, the new material from China indicates that the archosauromorph affinities of tanystropheids need further investigation. The discovery of Dinocephalosaurus provides new clues for the study of the evolution and radiation of Protorosauria and Tanystropheidae. It is also important for the study of the eastern Tethyan Fauna and the paleobiogeographical relationship between Europe and southern China in the Triassic. [source] First record of the brachiopod Lingulella waptaensis with pedicle from the Middle Cambrian Burgess ShaleACTA ZOOLOGICA, Issue 2 2010Sandra Pettersson Stolk Abstract Pettersson Stolk, S., Holmer, L. E. and Caron, J -B. 2010. First record of the brachiopod Lingulella waptaensis with pedicle from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. ,Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 91: 150,162 The organophosphatic shells of linguloid brachiopods are a common component of normal Cambrian,Ordovician shelly assemblages. Preservation of linguloid soft-part anatomy, however, is extremely rare, and restricted to a few species in Lower Cambrian Konservat Lagerstätten. Such remarkable occurrences provide unique insights into the biology and ecology of early linguloids that are not available from the study of shells alone. Based on its shells, Lingulella waptaensis Walcott, was originally described in 1924 from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale but despite the widespread occurrence of soft-part preservation associated with fossils from the same levels, no preserved soft parts have been reported. Lingulella waptaensis is restudied herein based on 396 specimens collected by Royal Ontario Museum field parties from the Greater Phyllopod Bed (Walcott Quarry Shale Member, British Columbia). The new specimens, including three with exceptional preservation of the pedicle, were collected in situ in discrete obrution beds. Census counts show that L. waptaensis is rare but recurrent in the Greater Phyllopod Bed, suggesting that this species might have been generalist. The wrinkled pedicle protruded posteriorly between the valves, was composed of a central coelomic space, and was slender and flexible enough to be tightly folded, suggesting a thin chitinous cuticle and underlying muscular layers. The nearly circular shell and the long, slender and highly flexible pedicle suggest that L. waptaensis lived epifaunally, probably attached to the substrate. Vertical cross-sections of the shells show that L. waptaensis possessed a virgose secondary layer, which has previously only been known from Devonian to Recent members of the Family Lingulidae. [source] First record of Blastopsylla occidentalis Taylor, 1985 (Hemiptera: Psyllidae), a Eucalyptus psyllid in Cameroon, Central AfricaENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH, Issue 4 2010Joseph Lebel TAMESSE Abstract In order to investigate the biodiversity of psyllids in Cameroon, we collected a psyllid on Eucalyptus spp. (Myrtaceae) for the first time. Morphometric and morphological studies of this psyllid enable us to identify it as Blastopsylla occidentalis Taylor (Hemiptera: Psylloidea). Blastopsylla occidentalis lives on four Eucalyptus species (Eucalyptus globulus, E. saligna, E. deglupta, E. camaldulensis) in the Western and Central regions of the country. A description and illustration of the different developmental stages of B. occidentalis will allow the identification of this pest of Eucalyptus. [source] First record of male drumming call of the genus Capnioneura Ris, 1905 (Plecoptera, Capniidae)ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE, Issue 4 2009J. Manuel TIERNO DE FIGUEROA Abstract The male call of Capnioneura mitis, produced by drumming, is recorded and analyzed for the first time. It also represents the first known signal for the genus. It consists of a highly variable number of beats (2,32) with inter-beat duration approximately constant along the call, but inter-beat duration is temperature dependent. Thus, at 13°C the mean inter-beat duration is 1.397 s (SD = 0.050) while at 21°C it is 1.139 s (SD = 0.093). The call pattern exhibited by this species, as those of the majority of previously studied Capniidae species, can be catalogued as an ancestral or near-ancestral percussive monophasic signal. [source] Patapius spinosus: First record of Leptopodidae (Heteroptera) from JapanENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE, Issue 4 2004Kazuo YAMAZAKI Abstract Patapius spinosus, a remarkable leptopodid bug whose body is covered with spines, was collected for the first time in Japan. This species was found in the supralittoral zone of a sandy beach in Osaka Prefecture, central Japan, in autumn 2002 and in spring 2004. Patapius spinosus is known to be distributed in the Mediterranean and North African regions, and has been introduced into North America and Chile. Its occurrence in Japan could signify either an eastern limit of its native distribution or an exotic origin. [source] First record of the emesine assassin bug genus Emesopsis (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from Vietnam, with descriptions of two new speciesENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE, Issue 2 2004Tadashi ISHIKAWA Abstract The emesine assassin bug genus Emesopsis is reported from Vietnam for the first time and is briefly diagnosed, and two new species of the genus, E. longipilosa and E. albispinosa, are described. They were collected by beating dead, drooping leaves of the banana, Musa acuminata (Musaceae). [source] First record of Aleurocanthus spiniferus (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) in Apulia, Southern ItalyEPPO BULLETIN, Issue 3 2008F. Porcelli The presence of Aleurocanthus spiniferus is reported for the first time in Italy. The orange spiny whitefly was identified in April 2008 in the Apulia region. This is also the first record of this citrus pest in Europe. [source] First record of Ephemeropsis, Coptoclava, Coleoptera inc. sed. and Turfanograpta from Lower Cretaceous paper-shales of the western-most site of MongoliaFOSSIL RECORD-MITTEILUNGEN AUS DEM MUSEUM FUER NATURKUNDE, Issue 1 2000Hellmut Jähnichen Abstract Nymph-fragments (and detached cerci) of the may-fly Ephemeropsis trisetalis Eichwald and the water-beetle Coptoclava longipoda Ping, a coleopteran and a shell-fragment of the conchostracan Turfanograpta sp. are described for the first time from Lower Cretaceous paper-shales of Bajan-Khongor, Mongolia. The assemblage Lycoptera (fishes included in the Order Osteoglossiformes, Fam. Lycopteridae)- Ephemeropsis-Coptoclava correlates with Lower Cretaceous deposits in Transbaikalia, Mongolia and North-Eastern China. The fern-species Adiantopteris sewardi (Yabe) Vassiljevskaja and Adiantopteris toyoraënsis (Oishi) Vassiljevskaja occur in fine-sandstones of Bajan-Khongor (Jähnichen & Kahlert 1972). Their importance as Early Cretaceous flora-elements is discussed. Larvenfragmente und isolierte Cerci der Eintagsfliege Ephemeropsis trisetalis Eichwald und vom Wasserkäfer Coptoclava longipoda Ping, und ein Schalenfragment der Conchostrake Turfanograpta sp. werden erstmalig aus unterkretazischen Dysodilen von Bajan-Khongor in der Mongolei beschrieben. Die Faunengemeinschaft Lycoptera (Fische der Ordnung Osteoglossiformes, Fam. Lycopteridae)- Ephemeropsis-Coptoclava tritt gleichzeitig in unterkretazischen Ablagerungen von Transbaikalien, Mongolei, und im nordöstlichen China auf. Das Vorkommen der Farnspezies Adiantopteris sewardi (Yabe) Vassil-jevskaja und Adiantopteris toyoraënsis (Oishi) Vassiljevskaja in Feinsandsteinen von Bajan-Khongor (Jähnichen & Kahlert 1972) und deren Wichtigkeit als unterkretazische Florenelemente werden diskutiert. [source] First record of a communal roost of Short-toed Eagles Circaetus gallicusIBIS, Issue 1 2010ANTONIO-ROMÁN. No abstract is available for this article. [source] First record of natural hybridization between pikeperch Sander lucioperca and Volga pikeperch S. volgensisJOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY, Issue 3 2010T. Müller First page of article [source] First record of the blue runner, Caranx crysos (Mitchill, 1815), in the Adriatic SeaJOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY, Issue 4 2009J. Dul No abstract is available for this article. [source] First record of albinism in the deepwater black scabbard-fish Aphanopus carbo (Trichiuridae) off MadeiraJOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY, Issue 4 2009J. Delgado No abstract is available for this article. [source] First record of Lamproglena pulchella Nordmann 1832 in the Pielach and Melk rivers, AustriaJOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY, Issue 5 2006F. Jirsa Summary Between April and November 2003, parasitological examinations of the nase Chondrostoma nasus L. and the chub Leuciscus cephalus L. from the neighbouring Melk and Pielach rivers in Lower Austria were conducted. Amongst various gill parasites, Lamproglena pulchella Nordmann 1832 was detected on both fish species, which was the first record of this parasitic crustacean in Austria. Physico-chemical examinations of water samples of the two rivers were carried out during the same period. The results indicate that general water parameters in the Melk were subjected to more vigorous changes than in the Pielach. Critical temperature levels and ammonia concentration as well as drastic changes in the ionic composition occurred more frequently in the Melk River. The observed distribution of L. pulchella indicates its sensitivity to such stress factors: there was no evidence of the parasite in the Melk River until late November and it only then occurred on the gills of L. cephalus with a prevalence of 20% and a mean intensity of 2. In the Pielach River, infestation on chub had already occurred in June with a prevalence of 40% and a mean intensity of 3, rising to 60% and 7 in November; 45% of the nase was also infested in November at a mean intensity of 3. [source] First record of saddleback syndrome in wild parrotfish Sparisoma cretense (L., 1758) (Perciformes, Scaridae)JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY, Issue 3 2008G. Koumoundouros The saddleback syndrome is recorded for the first time in a wild fish population of the Mediterranean Sea. The deformed specimen belongs to Sparisoma cretense and presents the typical saddleback phenotype of missing spines in the dorsal fin. [source] First record of Apogon queketti Gilchrist (Osteichthyes: Apogonidae) in the Mediterranean SeaJOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY, Issue 4 2006L. Eryilmaz The spotfin cardinalfish Apogon queketti is recorded for the first time in the north-eastern Mediterranean Sea (Iskenderun Bay, Turkey). Two specimens of this species, 111 and 102 mm total length were caught by a commercial trawler at depths of 55 and 60 m on 14 October 2004 and 23 April 2005, respectively. The occurrence of this species in the Mediterranean Sea is the result of migration from the Red Sea via the Suez Canal. [source] First record of Pomphorhynchus laevis (Acanthocephala) in fishes from Northern IrelandJOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY, Issue 1 2001D. W. Evans During the spring and summer of 1999, Pomphorhynchus laevis was recovered from rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss raised in a Northern Ireland fish farm and from a European eel Anguilla anguilla from the Erne catchment, Ireland. These records appear to be independent of each other. They are the first reports of P. laevis from fish in Northern Ireland. [source] First record of Palisada maris-rubri (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) from the Mediterranean Sea along with three proposed transfers to the genus PalisadaPHYCOLOGICAL RESEARCH, Issue 1 2010Donatella Serio SUMMARY The first occurrence of Palisada maris-rubri (K.W. Nam et Saito) K.W. Nam (Ceramiales, Rhodomelaceae) from the Mediterranean Sea, is reported. To date the species was known only from tetrasporic specimens from the type locality (Ras Muhammed, Sinai, Egypt, Red Sea). Mediterranean thalli share nearly all vegetative and reproductive features with Red Sea specimens showing more robust thalli with axes to 3 mm broad and ultimate branchlets to 1000 µm broad, absence of intercellular spaces between medullary cells and epidermal cells in transverse section with a palisade arrangement. Male and cystocarpic thalli are recorded for the first time. Moreover, the analysis of characters of three species of Chondrophycus previously known from the Mediterranean Sea (C. patentirameus (Montagne) K.W. Nam, C. tenerrimus (Cremades) G. Furnari et al. and C. thuyoides (Kützing) G. Furnari) led us to conclude that they belong to the genus Palisada. The following new combinations are formally proposed: P. patentiramea (Montagne) Serio et al., P. thuyoides (Kützing) Serio et al., P. tenerrima (Cremades) Serio et al. [source] First record of Asteronema rhodochortonoides (Phaeophyceae) for the Pacific OceanPHYCOLOGICAL RESEARCH, Issue 4 2001Kazuhiro Kogame SUMMARY Morphological observations of a minute, filamentous, branched brown alga epiphytic on Sargassum thun-bergii (Mertens ex Roth) Kuntze were made on material collected at Tsuyazaki (33°48,N, 130°27,E), Fukuoka Prefecture, southern Japan. This alga was assignable to Asteronema rhodochortonoides (Børgesen) Möller et Parodi in having stellately arranged chloroplasts with several pyrenoids grouped in the center, predominantly apical growth, narrow filaments, and elliptical or broadly elliptical plurilocular zoidangia that are apically or laterally formed on upright filaments. A comparison of partial nuclear small subunit rDNA sequences between the Japanese material and A. rhodochortonoides from the Canary Islands showed only two or three nucleotide differences. This supports our assignment of the Japanese material to this species as a first report for the Pacific Ocean. In laboratory cultures, zoids released from plurilocular zoidangia developed into plants with morphology similar to the field-collected plants. This cycle repeated without production of unilocular zoidangia in our cultures. [source] First record of Bean yellow mosaic virus infecting a member of the orchid genus DactylorhizaPLANT PATHOLOGY, Issue 2 2007A. Skelton No abstract is available for this article. [source] First record of natural infection of Marlierea edulis by the eucalyptus canker fungus Chrysoporthe cubensisPLANT PATHOLOGY, Issue 4 2006R. W. Barreto No abstract is available for this article. [source] First record of leaf rust caused by Puccinia hordei on Hordeum vulgare ssp. spontaneum in TurkeyPLANT PATHOLOGY, Issue 2 2004H. Kavak No abstract is available for this article. [source] First record of Beet western yellows virus, Chickpea chlorotic dwarf virus and Faba bean necrotic yellows virus affecting faba bean (Vicia faba) crops in IraqPLANT PATHOLOGY, Issue 6 2001NEW DISEASE REPORT No abstract is available for this article. [source] First record of tool use by wild populations of the yellow-breasted capuchin monkey (Cebus xanthosternos) and new records for the bearded capuchin (Cebus libidinosus)AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY, Issue 5 2009Gustavo Rodrigues Canale Abstract Reports on use of stones as hammers and anvils to open hard nuts by wild capuchin monkeys are scarce and limited to Cebus libidinosus. Here, we report for the first time data on tool use,stones as hammer and anvils to open nuts,in wild C. xanthosternos and a description of new tool using sites for C. libidinosus. Our records were made by visiting anvil sites and by information obtained from local residents. We surveyed three different biomes: Caatinga (dry forest and thorn scrub), Cerrado (Brazilian bush savannah), and Atlantic forest (wet forest), all records of tool use were from Caatinga or transitional areas between habitats. The behavior is suggested to be routinely performed and widespread among several populations. The fruits of six plant species in different localities were opened with hammer stones by C. xanthosternos. Hammer stones were of similar weigh as those described in other studies of C. libidinosus. Conditions found in Caatinga, such as a more frequent use of the ground by the monkeys and/or food scarcity, may play an important role in the acquisition of nut-cracking behavior. The absence of more reports of nut cracking and other forms of tool use in other species of wild Cebus is likely to result from a lack of surveys in very dry and food limited habitats or intrinsic characteristics of other Cebus species. Am. J. Primatol. 71:366,372, 2009. © 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] First record of the woodwasp family Xiphydriidae from Tasmania with a description of a new species and host recordAUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY, Issue 1 2009John T Jennings Abstract Rhysacephala warraensis Jennings & Austin, sp. nov., (Hymenoptera: Xiphydriidae), is described, being the first record of a xiphydriid woodwasp from Tasmania. Four females were reared from ,horizontal', Anodopetalum biglandulosum (Cunoniaceae), the first confirmed host record for an Australian xiphydriid. [source] First record of the genus Brachygaster Leach (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae) from Australia with the description of a new speciesAUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY, Issue 1 2005Michael G Elliott Abstract,Brachygaster murrayorum sp. n., a new species of evaniid ensign wasp, is described from northern Queensland. This is the first record of Brachygaster Leach in Australia and represents a significant range extension from Singapore, its previous closest occurrence. [source] First record of a fig mite from the Australian Region: Paratarsonemella giblindavisi sp. n. (Acari: Tarsonemidae)AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY, Issue 4 2000David Evans Walter Abstract Tarsonemid mites in the tribe Tarsonemellini have been found in figs or phoretic on fig wasps or fruit bats in the Neotropics, Africa and Asia. Here, the first known Australian fig mite, Paratarsonemella giblindavisi sp. n., is described from adult females and males collected from within the syconia of Ficus virens from St Lucia, Queensland. The male of Paratarsonemella is described for the first time and is found to have a unique fusion of the femur, genu, tibia and tarsus of leg IV. [source] First records of Leiodytes nicobaricus (Redtenbacher) and Platambus stygius (Régimbart) in Korea (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH, Issue 1 2008Dae-Hyun LEE Abstract Two dytiscid beetle species, Leiodytes nicobaricus (Redtenbacher) and Platambus stygius (Régimbart), are identified for the first time in Korea. Diagnoses, habitus and scanning electron microscopy photographs, and line drawings of the diagnostic characters are provided. [source] First records of soilborne Phytophthora species in Swedish oak forestsFOREST PATHOLOGY, Issue 3 2003U. Jönsson Summary Thirty-two oak stands in southern Sweden, 27 with predominantly declining trees and five with a higher proportion of healthy trees were investigated regarding the presence of soilborne Phytophthora species. Phytophthora quercina, an oak-specific fine root pathogen, was isolated from rhizosphere soil samples in 10 of the 27 declining stands. Additionally, P. cactorum and P. cambivora were recovered from one stand each. No Phytophthora species were isolated from the healthy oak stands. The soil conditions at the sites from which Phytophthora spp. were recovered ranged from mesic sediments to moraines, with clayey to silty textures and with soil pH (BaCl2) between 3.5 and 5.0. The results show that P. quercina is geographically widespread in oak stands in southern Sweden and indicate that this pathogen may be one of the factors involved in oak decline in Northern Europe as has already been shown for western, Central and parts of southern Europe. Zusammenfassung In Südschweden wurden 27 erkrankte und 5 gesunde Eichenbestände auf das Vorkommen bodenbürtiger Phytophthora, Arten untersucht. Dabei wurde P. quercina, ein für Eichen spezifisches Feinwurzelpathogen, aus Rhizosphären , Proben von 10 der 27 erkrankten Bestände isoliert. Zusätzlich wurden P. cactorum und P. cambivora in jeweils einem erkrankten Bestand gefunden. Im Gegensatz dazu konnte in den gesunden Beständen keine Phytophthora, Art nachgewiesen werden. Die Bodenverhältnisse der Bestände, in denen Phytophthora spp. gefunden wurden, reichten von frischen bis feuchten Böden aus Sedimenten und Moränen mit schluffiger bis toniger Textur und pH , Werten (BaCl2) zwischen 3.5 und 5.0. Die weite Verbreitung von P. quercina in erkrankten Eichenbeständen in Südschweden spricht dafür, dass das Pathogen im Krankheitskomplex des Eichensterbens in Nordeuropa eine Rolle spielt, wie dies bereits für Mittel- und Westeuropa sowie Teile Südeuropas gezeigt worden ist. Résumé La présence d'espèces de Phytophthora telluriques a été recherchée dans trente-deux chênaies du sud de la Suède, 27 à dominance d'arbres dépérissants et 5 avec une plus forte proportion d'arbres sains. P. quercina, pathogène des racines fines et spécifique des chênes, a été isolé dans 10 des 27 échantillons de sol, prélevés dans la rhizosphère, des peuplements dépérissants. P. cactorum et P. cambivora ont également été isolés, chacun dans un de ces peuplements. Aucune espèce de Phytophthora n'a été isolée des peuplements sains. Les conditions édaphiques des sites d'où ont été isolés des Phytophthora spp. varient de sédiments mésiques à des moraines, avec des textures argileuses à limoneuses et un pH (BaCl2) compris entre 3.5 et 5.0. Ces résultats montrent que P. quercina présente une large répartition géographique dans les chênaies du sud de la Suède et indiquent que ce pathogène pourrait être l'un des facteurs impliqués dans les dépérissements de chênes du Nord de l'Europe, comme il a déjàété montré pour l'Europe Centrale, de l'Ouest et certaines zones de l'Europe du Sud. [source] First records of urban invasive Cryptotermes brevis (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) in continental Spain and PortugalJOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY, Issue 8 2010L. Nunes Abstract Occurrence of the West Indian drywood termite, Cryptotermes brevis, is registered for the first time as established populations in Barcelona (Spain) and also additional information is given regarding a recent record from Lisbon (Portugal). This serious invasive termite pest was detected in five buildings in Barcelona, Spain and one building in Lisbon, Portugal. [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||