Some new neotropical Simuliidae

Systematic knowledge of the Neotropical Simuliidae

Systematic knowledge of the Neotropical Simuliidae has been accumulating quickly and there are 351 valid Neotropical species (Coscarón et al. 2008, Adler & Crosskey 2010, Hamada et al. 2010). Over the past 10 years, 67 taxonomic papers involving 20 researchers, as well as two extensive manuals, have been published (Coscarón & Coscarón-Arias 2007, Shelley et al. 2010), resulting in the descripti...

Some remarkable new Neotropical treehoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Membracidae)

The new Neotropical treehopper genera Smergotomia, based on S. clairae, new species, from Ecuador, and Braxtonota, based on B. enigmata, new species, from Puerto Rico are described and illustrated. Despite lacking a posterior pronotal process, Smergotomia appears to be most closely related to Smerdalea Fowler based on the forewing venation and male genitalia, but the subfamily and tribal placem...

Bacula of Some Neotropical Bats

Araucnephia iberaensis n. sp., a neotropical black fly with a peculiar distribution (Diptera-Simuliidae).

Araucnephia Wygodzinsky & Coscarón is a Neotropical black fly genus in which only one species from Central Chile is known. Another species has now been found in Corrientes province on the eastern side of the Iberá tropical swamps of Argentina, on the western border of the mountainous region of southern Brazil. This new species, A. iberaensis, is herein described and illustrated and information ...

New combinations in Neotropical Thelypteridaceae

288 new combinations of Neotropical Thelypteridaceae taxa are proposed in order to recognize monophyletic genera, based on the results of the most recent molecular phylogeny of the family, as well as the morphological uniformity of characters for each genus. The new nomenclatural combinations correspond to 186 Amauropelta taxa, 77 species of Goniopteris, and 25 Steiropteris taxa. A key to all n...