Systematic Notes on the Cerambycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) Described from Burmese Amber
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Beetle Appreciation Diversity and Classification of Common Beetle Families Christopher E
Beetle Appreciation Diversity and Classification of Common Beetle Families Christopher E. Carlton Louisiana State Arthropod Museum Coleoptera Families Everyone Should Know (Checklist) Suborder Adephaga Suborder Polyphaga, cont. •Carabidae Superfamily Scarabaeoidea •Dytiscidae •Lucanidae •Gyrinidae •Passalidae Suborder Polyphaga •Scarabaeidae Superfamily Staphylinoidea Superfamily Buprestoidea •Ptiliidae •Buprestidae •Silphidae Superfamily Byrroidea •Staphylinidae •Heteroceridae Superfamily Hydrophiloidea •Dryopidae •Hydrophilidae •Elmidae •Histeridae Superfamily Elateroidea •Elateridae Coleoptera Families Everyone Should Know (Checklist, cont.) Suborder Polyphaga, cont. Suborder Polyphaga, cont. Superfamily Cantharoidea Superfamily Cucujoidea •Lycidae •Nitidulidae •Cantharidae •Silvanidae •Lampyridae •Cucujidae Superfamily Bostrichoidea •Erotylidae •Dermestidae •Coccinellidae Bostrichidae Superfamily Tenebrionoidea •Anobiidae •Tenebrionidae Superfamily Cleroidea •Mordellidae •Cleridae •Meloidae •Anthicidae Coleoptera Families Everyone Should Know (Checklist, cont.) Suborder Polyphaga, cont. Superfamily Chrysomeloidea •Chrysomelidae •Cerambycidae Superfamily Curculionoidea •Brentidae •Curculionidae Total: 35 families of 131 in the U.S. Suborder Adephaga Family Carabidae “Ground and Tiger Beetles” Terrestrial predators or herbivores (few). 2600 N. A. spp. Suborder Adephaga Family Dytiscidae “Predacious diving beetles” Adults and larvae aquatic predators. 500 N. A. spp. Suborder Adephaga Family Gyrindae “Whirligig beetles” Aquatic, on water -
The First Cyclaxyrid Beetle from Upper Cretaceous Burmese Amber (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Cyclaxyridae)
See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325408406 The first cyclaxyrid beetle from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Cyclaxyridae) Article in Cretaceous Research · May 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2018.05.015 CITATIONS READS 9 55 3 authors, including: Liqin Li Nanjing Institute of Geology and paleontology, CAS 24 PUBLICATIONS 178 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE All content following this page was uploaded by Liqin Li on 29 April 2020. The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. Accepted Manuscript The first cyclaxyrid beetle from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Cyclaxyridae) Hao Wu, Liqin Li, Ming Ding PII: S0195-6671(18)30086-7 DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2018.05.015 Reference: YCRES 3889 To appear in: Cretaceous Research Received Date: 7 March 2018 Revised Date: 2 May 2018 Accepted Date: 23 May 2018 Please cite this article as: Wu, H., Li, L., Ding, M., The first cyclaxyrid beetle from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Cyclaxyridae), Cretaceous Research (2018), doi: 10.1016/ j.cretres.2018.05.015. This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT 1 The first cyclaxyrid beetle from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: 2 Cyclaxyridae) 3 4 Hao Wu a* , Liqin Li b, Ming Ding a 5 6 aZhejiang Museum of Natural History, Hangzhou 310014, China 7 bState Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and 8 Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China 9 10 *Corresponding author. -
The Evolution and Genomic Basis of Beetle Diversity
The evolution and genomic basis of beetle diversity Duane D. McKennaa,b,1,2, Seunggwan Shina,b,2, Dirk Ahrensc, Michael Balked, Cristian Beza-Bezaa,b, Dave J. Clarkea,b, Alexander Donathe, Hermes E. Escalonae,f,g, Frank Friedrichh, Harald Letschi, Shanlin Liuj, David Maddisonk, Christoph Mayere, Bernhard Misofe, Peyton J. Murina, Oliver Niehuisg, Ralph S. Petersc, Lars Podsiadlowskie, l m l,n o f l Hans Pohl , Erin D. Scully , Evgeny V. Yan , Xin Zhou , Adam Slipinski , and Rolf G. Beutel aDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152; bCenter for Biodiversity Research, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152; cCenter for Taxonomy and Evolutionary Research, Arthropoda Department, Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, 53113 Bonn, Germany; dBavarian State Collection of Zoology, Bavarian Natural History Collections, 81247 Munich, Germany; eCenter for Molecular Biodiversity Research, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, 53113 Bonn, Germany; fAustralian National Insect Collection, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia; gDepartment of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Institute for Biology I (Zoology), University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany; hInstitute of Zoology, University of Hamburg, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany; iDepartment of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Wien, Wien 1030, Austria; jChina National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, 518083 Guangdong, People’s Republic of China; kDepartment of Integrative Biology, Oregon State -
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Russian Entomological Society Sochi National Park ADVANCES IN STUDIES ON ASIAN CERAMBYCIDS (COLEOPTERA: CERAMBYCIDAE) Papers by Alexandr I. MIROSHNIKOV, dedicated to the memory of Dr. Judson Linsley GRESSITT Edited by Alexandr S. KONSTANTINOV, S. Adam Ślipiński & Alexey Yu. SOLODOVNIKOV KMK Scientific Press Ltd. Krasnodar – Moscow 2014 KONSTANTINOV A.S., Ślipiński s.A. & SOLODOVNIKOV A.Yu. (Eds): Advances in studies on Asian cerambycids (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Papers by Alexandr I. MIROSHNIKOV, dedicated to the memory of Dr. Judson Linsley GRESSITT. Krasnodar – Moscow: KMK Scientific Press Ltd. 2014. – 237 pp. Dr. Alexandr S. KONSTANTINOV Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA, c/o Smithsonian Institution, Washington, U.S.A. Dr. S. Adam Ślipiński CSIRO Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra, Australia Dr. Alexey Yu. SOLODOVNIKOV Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Cover design by A.I. Miroshnikov Frontispiece illustration by K.V. Makarov & A.I. Miroshnikov © A.I. Miroshnikov, 2014 © Sochi National Park, 2014 © Russian Entomological Society, 2014 © KMK Scientific Press Ltd., 2014 ISBN 978-5-87317-820-9 To the memory of Dr. Judson Linsley Gressitt (1914–1982), to the day of his forthcoming centenary, this work is being dedicated. CONTENTS From the editors ............................................................................................... 7 –8 From the author ................................................................................................ 9 A.I. MIROSHNIKOV. New genera -
Fumigant and Feeding Deterrent Activity of Essential Oils Against Cryptolestes Ferrugineus (Stephens) (Coleoptera: Laemophloeidae)
BIODIVERSITAS ISSN: 1412-033X Volume 21, Number 9, September 2020 E-ISSN: 2085-4722 Pages: 4301-4308 DOI: 10.13057/biodiv/d210948 Fumigant and feeding deterrent activity of essential oils against Cryptolestes ferrugineus (Stephens) (Coleoptera: Laemophloeidae) SILVI IKAWATI1,2,♥, TOTO HIMAWAN2, ABDUL LATIEF ABADI2, HAGUS TARNO2 1Graduate Program, Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Brawijaya. Jl. Veteran, Malang 65145, East Java, Indonesia 2Department of Plant Pest and Disease, Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Brawijaya. Jl. Veteran, Malang 65145, East Java, Indonesia. Tel.: +62-341-551665, 565845, Fax.: +62-341-560011, email: [email protected] Manuscript received: 26 July 2020. Revision accepted: 25 August 2020. Abstract. Ikawati S, Himawan T, Abadi AL, Tarno H. 2020. Fumigant and feeding deterrent activity of essential oils against Cryptolestes ferrugineus (Stephens) (Coleoptera: Laemophloeidae). Biodiversitas 21: 4301-4308. This study aimed to determine the fumigant and antifeedant activity of some plant essential oils against Cryptolestes ferrugineus. Essential oils were extracted from cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum), kaffir lime (Citrus hystrix), citronella grass (Cymbopogon nardus), zodea (Euodia suaveolens), and clove (Syzygium aromaticum). The extraction used the maceration method with n-Hexane as a solvent. The results of the experiments showed that all essential oils have fumigant toxicity. Fumigant toxicity of kaffir lime, citronella grass, zodea, and clove oil; eggs and pupae were more susceptible than adults and larvae, while for cinnamon, pupae and adults were more susceptible than eggs and larvae. Median Lethal Concentration (LC50) of all essential oils for eggs larvae, pupae, and adults respectively, for cinnamon were 17, 24, 9, and 12 ppm, for kaffir lime were 12, 17, 8 and 15 ppm, however, on citronella grass were 11, 22, 8, and 14 ppm, for zodea were 16, 22, 10 and 20 ppm, for clove were 11, 24, 7 and 14 ppm. -
Coleoptera: Introduction and Key to Families
Royal Entomological Society HANDBOOKS FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF BRITISH INSECTS To purchase current handbooks and to download out-of-print parts visit: http://www.royensoc.co.uk/publications/index.htm This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. Copyright © Royal Entomological Society 2012 ROYAL ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON Vol. IV. Part 1. HANDBOOKS FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF BRITISH INSECTS COLEOPTERA INTRODUCTION AND KEYS TO FAMILIES By R. A. CROWSON LONDON Published by the Society and Sold at its Rooms 41, Queen's Gate, S.W. 7 31st December, 1956 Price-res. c~ . HANDBOOKS FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF BRITISH INSECTS The aim of this series of publications is to provide illustrated keys to the whole of the British Insects (in so far as this is possible), in ten volumes, as follows : I. Part 1. General Introduction. Part 9. Ephemeroptera. , 2. Thysanura. 10. Odonata. , 3. Protura. , 11. Thysanoptera. 4. Collembola. , 12. Neuroptera. , 5. Dermaptera and , 13. Mecoptera. Orthoptera. , 14. Trichoptera. , 6. Plecoptera. , 15. Strepsiptera. , 7. Psocoptera. , 16. Siphonaptera. , 8. Anoplura. 11. Hemiptera. Ill. Lepidoptera. IV. and V. Coleoptera. VI. Hymenoptera : Symphyta and Aculeata. VII. Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea. VIII. Hymenoptera : Cynipoidea, Chalcidoidea, and Serphoidea. IX. Diptera: Nematocera and Brachycera. X. Diptera: Cyclorrhapha. Volumes 11 to X will be divided into parts of convenient size, but it is not possible to specify in advance the taxonomic content of each part. Conciseness and cheapness are main objectives in this new series, and each part will be the work of a specialist, or of a group of specialists. -
Current Classification of the Families of Coleoptera
The Great Lakes Entomologist Volume 8 Number 3 - Fall 1975 Number 3 - Fall 1975 Article 4 October 1975 Current Classification of the amiliesF of Coleoptera M G. de Viedma University of Madrid M L. Nelson Wayne State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle Part of the Entomology Commons Recommended Citation de Viedma, M G. and Nelson, M L. 1975. "Current Classification of the amiliesF of Coleoptera," The Great Lakes Entomologist, vol 8 (3) Available at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol8/iss3/4 This Peer-Review Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Biology at ValpoScholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Great Lakes Entomologist by an authorized administrator of ValpoScholar. For more information, please contact a ValpoScholar staff member at [email protected]. de Viedma and Nelson: Current Classification of the Families of Coleoptera THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST CURRENT CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILIES OF COLEOPTERA M. G. de viedmal and M. L. els son' Several works on the order Coleoptera have appeared in recent years, some of them creating new superfamilies, others modifying the constitution of these or creating new families, finally others are genera1 revisions of the order. The authors believe that the current classification of this order, incorporating these changes would prove useful. The following outline is based mainly on Crowson (1960, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1971, 1972, 1973) and Crowson and Viedma (1964). For characters used on classification see Viedma (1972) and for family synonyms Abdullah (1969). Major features of this conspectus are the rejection of the two sections of Adephaga (Geadephaga and Hydradephaga), based on Bell (1966) and the new sequence of Heteromera, based mainly on Crowson (1966), with adaptations. -
The First Mesozoic Palmetto Beetle (Coleoptera: Smicripidae) in Upper
Cretaceous Research 64 (2016) 45e49 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Cretaceous Research journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/CretRes The first Mesozoic palmetto beetle (Coleoptera: Smicripidae) in Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber * Chenyang Cai a, , Diying Huang b a Key Laboratory of Economic Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China b State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China article info abstract Article history: Fossil smicripid beetles are very rare. Here we describe and figure the first Mesozoic representative of Received 16 January 2016 Smicripidae. Smicrips cretacea sp. nov., a new species belonging to the extant Smicrips LeConte is pre- Received in revised form served in the Upper Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar. Our discovery suggests that Smicrips is 7 March 2016 an ancient group, originating at least in the earliest Late Cretaceous. Together with other two fossil Accepted in revised form 3 April 2016 Smicrips species from the Eocene of Europe, it reinforces the hypothesis that the Recent distribution of Available online 4 April 2016 Smicripidae is relict, and the family was more widespread in the Mesozoic and early Cenozoic than it is in the Recent. Keywords: © Coleoptera 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Smicripidae Smicrips Cenomanian Burmese amber 1. Introduction Nitidulidae (Lawrence and Newton, 1995). Members of the Niti- dulidae group (or nitidulid series) including Kateretidae, Smicri- The monogeneric family Smicripidae (or palmetto beetles) is a pidae and Nitidulidae, form a monophyletic group (Leschen et al., small group of small-sized (1.0e1.9 mm long) cucujoid beetles, with 2005). -
The Flat Bark Beetles (Coleoptera, Silvanidae, Cucujidae, Laemophloeidae) of Atlantic Canada
A peer-reviewed open-access journal ZooKeysTh e 2:fl 221-238at bark (2008)beetles (Coleoptera, Silvanidae, Cucujidae, Laemophloeidae) of Atlantic Canada 221 doi: 10.3897/zookeys.2.14 RESEARCH ARTICLE www.pensoftonline.net/zookeys Launched to accelerate biodiversity research The flat bark beetles (Coleoptera, Silvanidae, Cucujidae, Laemophloeidae) of Atlantic Canada Christopher G. Majka Nova Scotia Museum, 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Corresponding author: Christopher G. Majka ([email protected]) Academic editor: Michael Th omas | Received 16 July 2008 | Accepted 5 August 2008 | Published 17 September 2008 Citation: Majka CG (2008) Th e Flat Bark Beetles (Coleoptera, Silvanidae, Cucujidae, Laemophloeidae) of Atlan- tic Canada. In: Majka CG, Klimaszewski J (Eds) Biodiversity, Biosystematics, and Ecology of Canadian Coleoptera. ZooKeys 2: 221-238. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.2.14 Abstract Eighteen species of flat bark beetles are now known in Atlantic Canada, 10 in New Brunswick, 17 in Nova Scotia, four on Prince Edward Island, six on insular Newfoundland, and one in Labrador. Twenty-three new provincial records are reported and nine species, Uleiota debilis (LeConte), Uleiota dubius (Fabricius), Nausibius clavicornis (Kugelann), Ahasverus advena (Waltl), Cryptolestes pusillus (Schönherr), Cryptolestes turcicus (Grouvelle), Charaphloeus convexulus (LeConte), Chara- phloeus species nr. adustus, and Placonotus zimmermanni (LeConte) are newly recorded in the re- gion, one of which C. sp. nr. adustus, is newly recorded in Canada. Eight are cosmopolitan species introduced to the region and North America, nine are native Nearctic species, and one, Pediacus fuscus Erichson, is Holarctic. All the introduced species except for one Silvanus bidentatus (Fab- ricius), a saproxylic species are found on various stored products, whereas all the native species are saproxylic. -
Molekulární Fylogeneze Podčeledí Spondylidinae a Lepturinae (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Pomocí Mitochondriální 16S Rdna
Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích Přírodovědecká fakulta Bakalářská práce Molekulární fylogeneze podčeledí Spondylidinae a Lepturinae (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) pomocí mitochondriální 16S rDNA Miroslava Sýkorová Školitel: PaedDr. Martina Žurovcová, PhD Školitel specialista: RNDr. Petr Švácha, CSc. České Budějovice 2008 Bakalářská práce Sýkorová, M., 2008. Molekulární fylogeneze podčeledí Spondylidinae a Lepturinae (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) pomocí mitochondriální 16S rDNA [Molecular phylogeny of subfamilies Spondylidinae and Lepturinae based on mitochondrial 16S rDNA, Bc. Thesis, in Czech]. Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic. 34 pp. Annotation This study uses cca. 510 bp of mitochondrial 16S rDNA gene for phylogeny of the beetle family Cerambycidae particularly the subfamilies Spondylidinae and Lepturinae using methods of Minimum Evolutin, Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian Analysis. Two included representatives of Dorcasominae cluster with species of the subfamilies Prioninae and Cerambycinae, confirming lack of relations to Lepturinae where still classified by some authors. The subfamily Spondylidinae, lacking reliable morfological apomorphies, is supported as monophyletic, with Spondylis as an ingroup. Our data is inconclusive as to whether Necydalinae should be better clasified as a separate subfamily or as a tribe within Lepturinae. Of the lepturine tribes, Lepturini (including the genera Desmocerus, Grammoptera and Strophiona) and Oxymirini are reasonably supported, whereas Xylosteini does not come out monophyletic in MrBayes. Rhagiini is not retrieved as monophyletic. Position of some isolated genera such as Rhamnusium, Sachalinobia, Caraphia, Centrodera, Teledapus, or Enoploderes, as well as interrelations of higher taxa within Lepturinae, remain uncertain. Tato práce byla financována z projektu studentské grantové agentury SGA 2007/009 a záměru Entomologického ústavu Z 50070508. Prohlašuji, že jsem tuto bakalářskou práci vypracovala samostatně, pouze s použitím uvedené literatury. -
The First Cyclaxyrid Beetle from Upper Cretaceous Burmese Amber
Cretaceous Research 91 (2018) 66e70 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Cretaceous Research journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/CretRes Short communication The first cyclaxyrid beetle from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Cyclaxyridae) * Hao Wu a, , Liqin Li b, Ming Ding a a Zhejiang Museum of Natural History, Hangzhou 310014, China b State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China article info abstract Article history: Cyclaxyridae is a small cucujoid beetle family, and no fossil cylaxyrids have been known up to date. Here Received 7 March 2018 we report the first definitive Mesozoic cylaxyrid, Cyclaxyra cretacea sp. nov., based on a single well- Received in revised form preserved adult from the Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber. The fossil can be placed in the extant 2 May 2018 genus Cyclaxyra of Cyclaxyridae, based on its morphological similarities to the extant species, especially Accepted in revised form 23 May 2018 the single pair of large deep foveae located at the anterior half of the elytral epipleuron. The discovery of Available online 28 May 2018 Cyclaxyra cretacea sp. nov. in Burmese amber suggests that the New Zealand endemic family Cyclaxyr- idae originated before mid-Cretaceous, and was once much more widely distributed than it is in the Keywords: Cucujoidea present. © Cyclaxyridae 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Burmese amber Austral fauna 1. Introduction Leschen, 2003). Recent molecular-based phylogeny revealed Cyclaxyridae as a sister group to Passandridae, within the laemo- Cyclaxyridae is a very small family of Cucujoidea, containing phloeid clade (McElrath et al., 2015), or sister to Myraboliidae, only two extant species (Cyclaxyra politula and C. -
First Record of Pediacus Dermestoides (Fabricius, 1792) (Cole…
Historia naturalis bulgarica 42: 5–8 ISSN 2603-3186 (online) | ISSN 0205-3640 (print) · nmnhs.com/historia-naturalis-bulgarica https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.42.021 Publication date [online]: 16 February 2021 Research article First record of Pediacus dermestoides (Fabricius, 1792) (Coleoptera: Cucujidae) for Bulgaria Denis Gradinarov1, Ognyan Sivilov2, Danail Doychev3 (1) Faculty of Biology, Sofia University “St Kliment Ohridski”, 8 Dragan Tzankov Blvd, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria, [email protected]; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6128-5009 (2) Faculty of Biology, Sofia University “St Kliment Ohridski”, 8 Dragan Tzankov Blvd, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria, [email protected]; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3497-8237 (3) University of Forestry, 10 St Kliment Ohridski Blvd, 1797 Sofia, Bulgaria, [email protected]; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1109-6194 Abstract: The saproxylic species Pediacus dermestoides (Fabricius, 1792) is reported from forest habitats located in five mountains in Bulgaria. The adult beetles were found under the bark of several host tree species or captured with flight inter- ception traps. It seems that P. dermestoides might be widespread in the mountain forests in Bulgaria. Keywords: Balkan Peninsula, distribution, forest habitats, saproxylic species Two genera of the family Cucujidae occur in the Pa- Range). The specimens were obtained by direct ex- laearctic: Cucujus Fabricius, 1775 and Pediacus amination of suitable microhabitats (under the bark of Shuckard, 1839 (Wegrzynowicz, 2007). In Europe, C. dead trees), from collected wood samples or using cinnaberinus Scopoli, 1763 is a threatened species flight interception traps. The abbreviations used in the (Cálix et al., 2018). Recently the species was firstly material description are as follows: ex.