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Update on Ouratea cidiana Sastre (Ochnaceae), a microendemic species from the Amazon: enlightening the identity and conservation status

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Ouratea cidiana (Ochnaceae) is a microendemic shrub species from the Brazilian Amazonia, occurring along the banks of the Trombetas River and restricted to the Cachoeira Porteira region, in western Pará State. Since the original collection nearly forty years ago, no additional records have been made, which is concerning given the continuous decline in ...
Clebiana de Sá Nunes, Mayara Dias Caldas, Fúvio Rubens Oliveira‐da‐ Silva, Anna Luiza Ilkiu‐ Borges, André dos Santos Bragança Gil   +4 more
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Hechtia mixtecana sp. nov. (Hechtioideae; Bromeliaceae), from Oaxaca, Mexico

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Botanical explorations carried out in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, led to the discovery of a new Bromeliaceae: Hechtia mixtecana,which is here described and illustrated. The new taxon is compared with the morphologically similar Hechtia fragilis, Hechtia lyman‐smithii, and Hechtia minuta.
Rodrigo Alejandro Hernández‐ Cárdenas, Adolfo Espejo‐ Serna, Ana Rosa López‐ Ferrari, Sofía Ana Lucrecia Lara‐ Godínez, Andrew Siekkinen   +4 more
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First report of the genus Dicladocerus Westwood (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) from Korea with an updated key to the Eastern Palaearctic species

Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity
This study reports the genus Dicladocerus Westwood (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) from Korea, with a newly reported species, Dicladocerus yoshimotoi Özdikmen.
Jongmin Bae, Sunghoon Jung
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Novelty for the flora of Espírito Santo, Brazil: a new species of Ouratea Aubl. (Ochnaceae)

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Here, we describe and illustrate the new species Ouratea oberdanii Fraga & Deccache, which is named after Dr Oberdan José Pereira. This new species is found in the mountainous regions of the evergreen Atlantic Forest in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo. Ouratea oberdanii is similar to O. linearis (A.Gray) Sastre & Offroy and O.
Lara Serpa Jaegge Deccache, Sabrina Vasconcelos Caram, Karen Lúcia Gama De Toni, Leandro Lacerda Giacomin, Claudio Nicoletti de Fraga   +4 more
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Taphonomic analysis of Thanatosdrakon amaru (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea) and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Plottier Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Neuquén Basin), Mendoza, Argentina

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
The fossil remains of Thanatosdrakon from the Plottier Formation (PS-3 quarry, Mendoza, Argentina) offer a unique opportunity to investigate the preservation of pterosaurs in fluvial environments.
LEONARDO D. ORTIZ-DAVID, BERNARDO J. GONZÁLEZ-RIGA, GABRIEL CASAL, MARÍA BELÉN TOMASELLI, IMANOL FIGUEREDO-VIEYRA   +4 more
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Records of Cigaritis zhengweilie Huang, 1998 (Lepidoptera: Theclinae) from Arunachal Pradesh, India and southeastern Tibet, China, and a note on Cigaritis elwesi (Evans, [1925])

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2016
 A specimen of Cigaritis zhengweilie Huang (1998) collected from Anini, Upper Dibang Valley District, Arunachal Pradesh, India is recorded and illustrated together with a paratype of Cigaritis zhengweilie chayuensis from Chayu county, southeastern Tibet.
Purnendu Roy
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A remarkable new Anomiopus Westwood from Peru (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) [PDF]

, 2013
Described and illustrated is a strikingly distinct new species of the scarabaeine genus Anomiopus Westwood, A.
Edmonds, William David, Figueroa, Luis
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On the type species of Aubignyna and a description of A. hamblensis, a new microforaminifer from temperate shallow waters

, 2000
The genus Aubignyna Margerel, 1970 (type A. mariei) was originally described from the upper Pliocene of NW France. Examination and re-illustration of topotypes of A.
Alve, Elisabeth, Murray, John W., Whittaker, John E.   +2 more
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A new Gephyromantis (Phylacomantis) frog species from the pinnacle karst of Bemaraha, western Madagascar [PDF]

, 2011
We describe a new mantellid frog of the subfamily Mantellinae from the karstic Bemaraha Plateau, western Madagascar. The new species belongs to the genus Gephyromantis, subgenus Phylacomantis, which previously included G. azzurrae, G.
Crottini, Angelica, Glaw, Frank, Casiraghi, Maurizio, Jenkins, Richard, Mercurio, Vincenzo, Randrianantoandro, Christian, Randrianirina, Jasmin, Andreone, Franco   +7 more
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Digitisation as archival intermediary: Quantifying and qualifying Greta B. Stevenson's mycological collector networks

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Mass digitisation of natural science collections and archives has increasingly become a priority for scientific heritage institutions. Here, we explore the potential of mass digitisation to improve our understanding of the nature and history of scientific collaboration. Focusing on mycologist Greta B.
Christopher Kreuzer, Geoff S. Ridley, Nathan E. C. Smith   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source