Hede Hobbs (shelfflock55)

pseudohastatus Puplesis Diškus, A. articulosus Puplesis Diškus, A. bovicorneus Puplesis Diškus, and A. insolentis Puplesis Diškus. We also comment on the re-deposition of some type series to the collection of the Zoological Museum of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen.A new species of Chvalaea Papp Földvári, 2002 is discovered after a photo on a social network and later collected in nature. Chvalaea yolkamini sp. nov. is described and illustrated here. In addition, for the first time we describe eggs with scanning electron microscopy and report on adult hunting behavior.Phylogenetic relationships among major hummingbird clades are relatively well resolved, yet due to the lack of morphological synapomorphies and relative phenotypic homogeneity, the systematics of several hummingbird groups remain unresolved. Here, we present the results of a multilocus study of a clade of emerald hummingbirds composed of Cynanthus, Chlorostilbon, Riccordia and Phaeoptila (sensu Stiles et al. 2017). We include taxa not analyzed in previous studies (C. lawrencei, C. auriceps and C. forficatus, from Tres Marías Islands, Western Mexico, and Cozumel Island, respectively), and this allows us to develop a new hypothesis for the phylogenetic relationships within this group. We found that this clade originated in Mesoamerica about 12 million years ago, and comprises four geographically congruent clades (a) the most basal clade, Phaeoptila sordida, of the Balsas River basin, Mexico; (b) Riccordia bicolor, R. maugaeus, R. ricordii and R. swainsonii of the West Indies; (c) Chlorostilbon assimilis, C. aureoventris, C. melanorhynchus, C. mellisugus, C. poortmani and C. pucherani, all of South America, except C. assimilis of Central America; and (d) a Mesoamerican clade with two Cynanthus subclades a widespread Mexican clade that includes species formerly belonging to the genus Chlorostilbon Cynanthus auriceps, C. canivetii, C. doubledayi and C. forficatus; and a clade restricted to the west coast of Mexico and the Tres Marías Islands and composed of C. latirostris and C. lawrencei. Our results help clarify the systematics of this group of emeralds, reconstruct its true evolutionary history, and advance understanding of phenotypic evolution in hummingbirds.The tenebrionid genus Indenicmosoma Ardoin, 1964 (type species indochinensis Kaszab, 1940), subfamily Lagriinae, is distributed in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Newly collected specimens from different Palaearctic and Oriental Asian regions are presented, among them also one species new to science from Thailand (Indenicmosoma paicum sp. nov.). New synonym Indenicmosoma nathani Ardoin, 1964 (Indenicmosoma ardoini Kaszab, 1970 syn. nov.). All treated eight Asian species are figured, and a species key is compiled.The caddisfly genus Stactobiella Martynov (Hydroptilidae) is revised for Japan, with revisions of two Far East Asian species, one newly recorded for Japan, and the description of three new species. Both S. tshistjakovi (Arefina Morse, in Arefina et al. 2002) and S. biramosa Martynov 1929 are redescribed, based on male and female specimens. The three new Japanese species are S. aichi sp. nov., S. selleckchem amami sp. nov., and S. kumejima sp. nov., bringing to five the number of species of Stactobiella known for Japan.Uroleucon (Hemiptera, Aphididae, Macrosiphini) is a highly diverse and widely distributed genus. Most of its species are hosted by plants of the Asteraceae or Campanulaceae, but three species from the southern end of South America have specialized to live on plants of the genus Adesmia (Fabaceae). New morphological and chorological data are provided for U. adesmiae Mier Durante and Ortego and U. naheulhuapense Nieto Nafría von Dohlen, with a description of the alate viviparous female of the latter species. U. australe Nieto Nafría Mier Durante, sp. n. is described from apterous viviparous females, oviparous females and males from four localities in the Chilean regions o