Syntypes Research Articles

A Redescription of the Syntypes of Caligus Rapax H. Milne Edwards, 1840 (Copepoda, Caligidae) and the Misuse of This Name Since 1850

Das Typenmaterial von Caligus von H. Milne Edwards, 1840, besteht aus vier erwachsenen Weibchen, die von dem Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris erworben wurden. Die Art ist wiederholt beschrieben worden. Wie von Kroyer (1863) vermutet, stimmen rapax von Baird, 1850, von Steenstrup & Lutken, 1861, und von spateren Autoren nicht mit der Art von H. Milne Edwards uberein. C. gurnardi Kroyer wurde von R. R. Parker (1965) neu beschrieben und ist C. H. Milne Edwards sehr ahnlich; trotz des Mangels an Zwischenbeispielen wurden jedoch bestandige Unterschiede wahrgenommen. Das Material kann als ausreichend betrachtet werden, um die Art C. gurnardi aufrecht zu erhalten.

Haemaphysalis tibetensis sp. n., and Its Significance in Elucidating Phylogenetic Patterns in the Genus (Ixodoidea, Ixodidae)

Haemaphysalis tibetensis sp. n. is described from males and females, and from nymphs that are presumed to represent the same species. These were collected at high altitudes in mountain valleys in the southwestern and southeastern corners of Tibet. One collection, of adults and nymphs, was taken from domestic dogs, the other, of adults only, was presumably from vegetation. These specimens have been compared with the lectotype and syntype series of H. (Allophysalis) warburtoni Nuttall from China and with both sexes and reared nymphs referred to H. (A.) warburtoni from USSR. Adults of H. tibetensis sp. n. are superficially similar to those in these samples from China and USSR but differ from them in several critical details. The nymphs assigned to the new species, however, differ widely from those reared from the USSR population of H. (A.) warburtoni and are closely related to the nymphs of H. inermis Birula, a species in the structurally most primitive subgenus Alloceraea Schulze. Although many of the approximately 115 species and subspecies of Haemaphysalis lucidly illustrate patterns of speciation in this generic assemblage, none is more remarkable in this respect than H. tibetensis sp. n. Subgeneric classification of the new species is postponed pending results of further studies. Haemaphysalid ticks offer some of the best available clues to the phylogenetic history and speciation of ixodid ticks. Among the approximately 115 species and subspecies that comprise the genus Haemaphysalis, structural and biological characteristics of many forms lucidly illustrate patterns of speciation within this assemblage. None is more remarkable in this respect than H. tibetensis sp. n. from dogs and vegetation in the mountains of Tibet. Adults of this species, found identified as H. warburtoni Nuttall in collections of the British Museum (Natural History), have both notable differences from and many features in common with H. warburtoni, the only known representative of the structurally primitive subgenus Allophysalis Hoogstraal. The nymph of H. tibetensis, however, differs greatly from that of the Russian population attributed to H. warburtoni (Pospelova-Shtrom, 1949), and is closely related to the nymph of H. inermis Birula in the even more primitive subgenus Alloceraea Schulze (see Hoogstraal, 1959). In comparison with the generally conservative patterns of speciation among 90% of the Received for publication 13 January 1965. * From Research Project MR005.09-1402.3, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. The opinions and assertions contained herein are the private ones of the author and are not to be construed as official or reflecting the views of the Navy Department or the naval service at large. forms comprising the genus Haemaphysalis, the rate and direction of speciation in H. tibetensis have differed so markedly from those in related structurally primitive groups that it is, at this stage, difficult to determine the natural subgeneric position of this species. Further studies on this subject are in progress. Haemaphysalis tibetensis sp. n. The Tibet mountain haemaphysalid (Figs. 1-26) Holotype Male, from domestic dog, Yatung, about 9,500 feet altitude, mouth of Chumbi Valley, southwestern Tibet, 5 June 1916, D. Macdonald legit (from N. C. Rothschild collection). Deposited in British Museum (Natural History).

Pedicinus patas (Fahrenholz) (Anoplura) and other lice of the Cercopithecini

The syntypes of Neopedicinus patas Fahrenholz, 1916, have been examined, a lectotype has been selected and the species is redescribed. Following Ferris (1934) Neopedicinus Fahrenholz, 1916, is not ...

LECTOTYPE SELECTION FOR THREE OF ERICHSON'S SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN LYGAEIDAE (HEMIPTERA: HETEROPTERA)

AbstractLectotypes of Erichson's Pachymerus lacertosus, P. torquatus, and P. nigroaeneus have been selected and illustrated, and measurements and other taxonomic features given for them and other members of the syntypic series.

The Adolpho Lutz collection of Tabanidae (Diptera). I. The described genera and species, condition of the collection, and selection of lectotypes.

A study of the Adolpho Lutz Collection of Tabanidae at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz and of additional Lutz material at the Instituto Butantan in Sao Paulo is reported. Of the ninety-four species of Tabanidae validly described by Lutz, type material of eighty-four was recognized, either holotypes, allotypes or syntypes. Lectotypes were selected from among syntype series or remaining specimens and all type material was labelled. Of the ten species of which no type material could be found, neotypes were designated in the case of two species, Erephosis nigricans and Erephosis pseudo-aurimaculata. Types of three species, Chrysops ecuadoriensis, Dichelacera salvadorensis and Esenbeckia nigricorpus are believed to have been in Hamburg and destroyed during the last war. Types of two species, Esenbeckia biscutellata and E. dubia, and additional type material of several others are believed to have been in Montevideo. A request for information about them remains unanswered. Types of the remaining three species, Dichelacera intermedia, Dichelacera laceriascia and Esenbeckia distinguenda could not be found, and it is believed that at least the type of the last species was accidentally destroyed. Three specific of subspecific names proposed by Lutz but palaced by others in synonymy have been revalidated, Acanthocera intermedia, Erephosis brevistria and Esenbeckia fenestrata. Generic placement of two names has been changed, Esenbeckia arcuata ricardoae to Proboscoides, and Selasoma giganteum to Stibasoma. Seven specific names proposed by Lutz appear to be synonyms of earlier names, as follows: Bombylopsis juxtaleonina Lutz and Castro, 1936 = B. leonina Lutz, 1909. Bombylopsis pseudoanalis Lutz, 1909 = B. erythronotata (Bigot, 1892). Esenbeckia fuscipennis var. flavescens Lutz, 1909 = Esenbeckia fuscipennis Wied., 1828. Fidena chrysopyga Lutz and Castro, 1936 = F. atra Lutz and Castro, 1936. Laphriomyia longipalpis Lutz and Castro, 1937 = L. mirabilis Lutz, 1911. Stibasoma semiflavum Lutz, 1915 = St. bicolor Bigot, 1892. Tabanus hesperus Lutz, 1912 = Chlorotabanus (Cryptolylus) innotescens (Walker, 1854). Four Lutz names appear to antedate names proposed by others, viz.: Diachlorus angustifrons Krober, 1930 and D. ochraceus Krob., 1928 not Macquart, 1850 = Diachlorus fuscistigma Lutz, 1913. Psalidia fairchildi Barretto, 1950 = dicladocera conspicua Lutz and Neiva, 1914. Fidena pseudo-fulvithorax Krob., 1931 = Erephopsis flavicrinis Lutz, 1909. Esenbeckia lemniscata Enderlein, 1925 = Esenbeckia clari Lutz, 1909. Some comments on Lutz' system of classification are given together with notes on the genotypes and included species of his genera as revaled by his collection and notes.