Askola Peters 1969 (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae: Atalophlebiinae): an updated review under cladistics approach
Publication date: Available online 8 September 2019Source: Zoologischer AnzeigerAuthor(s): Rogério Campos, Rodolfo Mariano, Adolfo R. CalorAbstractAskola Peters is a two-winged South American genus of Atalophlebiinae (Leptophlebiidae) and currently comprises five known species primarily described based on male imagos characters, while data from female and immature stages are scarce and often unknown. Herein, Askola was revised under cladistic approach for the first time in order to test the monophyly and to propose the species relationships of the genus. A matrix of 18 species and 34 morphological data was analysed under ...
Source: A Journal of Comparative Zoology - September 9, 2019 Category: Zoology Source Type: research
Genetic and Chromatic Variation of Coprophanaeus (Megaphanaeus) ensifer (Germar, 1821) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
Publication date: Available online 7 September 2019Source: Zoologischer AnzeigerAuthor(s): Maria Eduarda Maldaner, Fernando Z. Vaz-de-Mello, Daniela M. Takiya, Daniela C. FerreiraAbstractCoprophanaeus(M.) ensifer (Germar, 1821) is a broadly distributed species occurring in areas of Brazilian Cerrado, Atlantic Rainforest, and Amazon Rainforest. Specimens of C. ensifer show variations in size and colour between populations from different habitats, but other morphological structures remain the same. Our aim was to investigate whether these local populations of C. ensifer should be considered different species or not. A fragme...
Source: A Journal of Comparative Zoology - September 8, 2019 Category: Zoology Source Type: research
Comparative morphology of stridulating setae of Theraphosinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae)
Publication date: Available online 7 September 2019Source: Zoologischer AnzeigerAuthor(s): Arthur Galleti-Lima, José Paulo Leite GuadanucciAbstractTheraphosid spiders are repleted with cuticular structures that evolved into distinct morphologies and developed different functions. The stridulatory apparatus present in the subfamily Theraphosinae is composed by a group of setae and opposed organs (ridged surface) that emit sound through friction. Only sixteen genera of Theraphosinae spiders were reported with stridulatory setae: Acanthoscurria, Aguapanela, Brachypelma, Citharacanthus, Cyrtopholis, Grammostola, Hemirrhagus, ...
Source: A Journal of Comparative Zoology - September 8, 2019 Category: Zoology Source Type: research
A shrimp out of place. New genus of Atyidae (Crustacea: Decapoda) in subterranean waters of southeastern Europe, with some remarks on Atyidae taxonomy
Publication date: Available online 7 September 2019Source: Zoologischer AnzeigerAuthor(s): Jure Jugovic, Valerija Zakšek, Matija Petković, Boris SketAbstractThe new troglobiotic shrimp Ficticaris serbica, gen. nov., sp. nov., Atyidae, was found in central part of the Balkan peninsula within a vast territory between the Dinaric Karst (on the western part of the Balkan Peninsula) and the Caucasus, a disjunct gap of Troglocaris distribution. No other epigean or hypogean decapod shrimps were known from the area. A combined morphological and molecular data were used for its description from its only locality in central Easter...
Source: A Journal of Comparative Zoology - September 7, 2019 Category: Zoology Source Type: research
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Publication date: September 2019Source: Zoologischer Anzeiger, Volume 282Author(s): (Source: A Journal of Comparative Zoology)
Source: A Journal of Comparative Zoology - September 6, 2019 Category: Zoology Source Type: research
Middle East Caridina (Decapoda: Atyidae): redescription of C. fossarum Heller, 1862, description of three new species, and remarks on the status of C. syriaca Bouvier, 1904 and C. babaulti basrensis Al-Adhub & Hamzah, 1987
Publication date: Available online 1 September 2019Source: Zoologischer AnzeigerAuthor(s): Werner Klotz, Thomas Von Rintelen, Magdalini ChristodoulouAbstractThe most species-rich genus, Caridina, of the shrimp family Atyidae is broadly distributed throughout five biogeographic realms, with the Indo-Malayan realm being the centre of its distributional range. Due to the scarcity of studies, very little is known regarding the Middle East species, which are placed on the north-western edge of the genus’ distribution. Numerous museum specimens from across the entire range of Caridina in the Middle East were thus analysed usin...
Source: A Journal of Comparative Zoology - September 3, 2019 Category: Zoology Source Type: research
The oldest pill millipede fossil: A species of the Asiatic pill millipede genus Hyleoglomeris in Baltic amber (Diplopoda: Glomerida: Glomeridae)
Publication date: Available online 30 August 2019Source: Zoologischer AnzeigerAuthor(s): Thomas WesenerAbstractThe first new fossil pill millipede, order Glomerida, description in more than 150 years is based on two specimens, one male and one female, found in Baltic amber. Both specimens were studied with light- and micro-CT technology, allowing a detailed reconstruction of the posterior telopods and numerous other morphological characters. Based on these characters, the specimens can be securely placed in the megadiverse, mainly Asiatic genus Hyleoglomeris Verhoeff, 1910 as a new species, Hyleoglomeris groehni n. sp. The...
Source: A Journal of Comparative Zoology - August 31, 2019 Category: Zoology Source Type: research
Towards a better understanding of echiniscid intraspecific variability: a redescription of Nebularmis reticulatus (Murray, 1905) (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscoidea)
Publication date: Available online 26 August 2019Source: Zoologischer AnzeigerAuthor(s): Piotr Gąsiorek, Brian Blagden, Łukasz MichalczykAbstractThe interplay between tardigrade genetic and ontogenetic diversity, resulting in morphological variation within a species, remains a poorly studied field. In this work, by combining qualitative (light and scanning electron microscopy), quantitative (morphometrics) and genetic analyses (DNA sequencing of five molecular markers) on five Palearctic populations of Nebularmis reticulatus (Murray, 1905) and a Tanzanian population of Nebularmis cirinoi (Binda & Pilato, 1993), all rare ...
Source: A Journal of Comparative Zoology - August 28, 2019 Category: Zoology Source Type: research
Discrimination of the sympatric species of water shrews Neomys fodiens and N. milleri (Soricomorpha, Soricidae)
Publication date: November 2019Source: Zoologischer Anzeiger, Volume 283Author(s): Lucie Nováková, Vladimír VohralíkAbstractThe water shrew species Neomys fodiens and Neomys milleri are morphologically similar and, based on phenotype, it is difficult to distinguish them. Mandibles of both species were studied by means of classic as well as geometric morphometrics. We compared a priori identified mandibles of water shrews captured in two areas where the species ranges partially or entirely overlap, i.e., in Germany and in the south-eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula. Discrimination of the two species by linear measure...
Source: A Journal of Comparative Zoology - August 28, 2019 Category: Zoology Source Type: research
An identification guide to fossil frog assemblages of southern Africa based on ilia of extant taxa
Publication date: Available online 23 August 2019Source: Zoologischer AnzeigerAuthor(s): Thalassa Matthews, Rachel Keeffe, David C. Blackburn (Source: A Journal of Comparative Zoology)
Source: A Journal of Comparative Zoology - August 23, 2019 Category: Zoology Source Type: research
Discrimination of the sympatric species of water shrews Neomys fodiens and N. milleri (Soricomorpha, Soricidae)
Publication date: Available online 20 August 2019Source: Zoologischer AnzeigerAuthor(s): Lucie Nováková, Vladimír VohralíkAbstractThe water shrew species Neomys fodiens and N. milleri are morphologically similar and, based on phenotype, it is difficult to distinguish them. Mandibles of both species were studied by means of classic as well as geometric morphometrics. We compared a priori identified mandibles of water shrews captured in two areas where the species ranges partially or entirely overlap, i.e., in Germany and in the south-eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula. Discrimination of the two species by linear measu...
Source: A Journal of Comparative Zoology - August 22, 2019 Category: Zoology Source Type: research
Comparative morphology of immature stages of Ludioctenus cyprius (Baudi di Selve, 1871) (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae), with discussion on the monophyly of Hemirhipini
We describe and illustrate for the first time morphology of the mature larva and pupa of Ludioctenus cyprius (Baudi di Selve), and provide information on its biology. Additionally, we compare these immature stages with other genera in Ludioctenina, Hemirhipini and Agrypninae and provide the diagnostic characters for L. cyprius. Within Ludioctenina and related genera, larva of this species is distinguished mainly by the distribution of asperite-like setae and a higher number of tubercles on abdominal tergum IX. The pupa has long and strongly sclerotized prolongations on prothorax, bifurcate and sclerotized urogomphi and a d...
Source: A Journal of Comparative Zoology - August 17, 2019 Category: Zoology Source Type: research
Lizards and the city: A community study of Lacertidae and Gekkonidae from an archaeological park in Rome
Publication date: Available online 9 August 2019Source: Zoologischer AnzeigerAuthor(s): Simbula Giulia, Luiselli Luca, Vignoli LeonardoAbstractThe study of animal communities is mainly concerned with how the groupings of species are distributed in nature and the ways in which the members of these communities assemble and interact with each other. Pianka suggested that animals partition environmental resources in three basic ways: temporally, spatially, and trophically. Such differences in activities separate the niches, reduce competition, and presumably allow the coexistence of a variety of species in the communities. The...
Source: A Journal of Comparative Zoology - August 9, 2019 Category: Zoology Source Type: research
Sexual maturity and growth of male toads (Rhinella ornata): A comparison between insular and mainland populations
Publication date: November 2019Source: Zoologischer Anzeiger, Volume 283Author(s): Raoni Rebouças, Hélio Ricardo da Silva, Delfi Sanuy, Mirco SoléAbstractWe studied differences in age, longevity, and sexual maturity in island and mainland populations of the neotropical toad Rhinella ornata to assess how changes in sexual characteristics relate to evolution of insular dwarfism. Here we tested the hypothesis that effects of the island rule results in earlier sexual maturity. We sampled males from three insular (Ilha Grande, Ilha da Marambaia and Ilha de Itacuruçá) and four adjacent mainland sites in the state of Rio de ...
Source: A Journal of Comparative Zoology - August 6, 2019 Category: Zoology Source Type: research
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Publication date: July 2019Source: Zoologischer Anzeiger, Volume 281Author(s): (Source: A Journal of Comparative Zoology)
Source: A Journal of Comparative Zoology - July 27, 2019 Category: Zoology Source Type: research
