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"Philosciidae" (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea)
Org. Divers. Evol. 1, Electr. Suppl. 4: 1 -85 (2001) © Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik http://www.senckenberg.uni-frankfurt.de/odes/01-04.htm Phylogeny and Biogeography of South American Crinocheta, traditionally placed in the family "Philosciidae" (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea) Andreas Leistikow1 Universität Bielefeld, Abteilung für Zoomorphologie und Systematik Received 15 February 2000 . Accepted 9 August 2000. Abstract South America is diverse in climatic and thus vegetational zonation, and even the uniformly looking tropical rain forests are a mosaic of different habitats depending on the soils, the regional climate and also the geological history. An important part of the nutrient webs of the rain forests is formed by the terrestrial Isopoda, or Oniscidea, the only truly terrestrial taxon within the Crustacea. They are important, because they participate in soil formation by breaking up leaf litter when foraging on the fungi and bacteria growing on them. After a century of research on this interesting taxon, a revision of the terrestrial isopod taxa from South America and some of the Antillean Islands, which are traditionally placed in the family Philosciidae, was performed in the last years to establish monophyletic genera. Within this study, the phylogenetic relationships of these genera are elucidated in the light of phylogenetic systematics. Several new taxa are recognized, which are partially neotropical, partially also found on other continents, particularly the old Gondwanian fragments. The monophyla are checked for their distributional patterns which are compared with those patterns from other taxa from South America and some correspondence was found. The distributional patterns are analysed with respect to the evolution of the Oniscidea and also with respect to the geological history of their habitats. -
Centre International De Myriapodologie
N° 28, 1994 BULLETIN DU ISSN 1161-2398 CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE MYRIAPODOLOGIE [Mus6umNationald'HistoireNaturelle,Laboratoire de Zoologie-Arthropodes, 61 rue de Buffon, F-75231 ParisCedex05] LISTE DES TRAVAUX PARUS ET SOUS-PRESSE LIST OF WORKS PUBLISHED OR IN PRESS MYRIAPODA & ONYCHOPHORA ANNUAIRE MONDIAL DES MYRIAPODOLOGISTES WORLD DIRECTORY OF THE MYRIAPODOLOGISTS PUBLICATION ET LISIES REPE&TORIEES PANS LA BASE PASCAL DE L' INIST 1995 N° 28, 1994 BULLETIN DU ISSN 1161-2398 CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE MYRIAPODOLOGIE [Museum National d'Histoire N aturelle, Laboratoire de Zoologie-Arthropodes, 61 rue de Buffon, F-7 5231 Paris Cedex 05] LISTE DES TRAVAUX PARUS ET SOUS-PRESSE LIST OF WORKS PUBLISHED OR IN PRESS MYRIAPODA & ONYCHOPHORA ANNUAIRE MONDIAL DES MYRIAPODOLOGISTES WORLD DIRECTORY OF THE MYRIAPODOLOGISTS PUBLICATION ET LISTES REPERTORIEES DANS LA BASE PASCAL DE L' INIST 1995 SOMMAIRE CONTENTS ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Pages Seite lOth INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MYRIAPODOLOGY .................................. 1 9th CONGRES INTERNATIONAL DE MYRIAPODOLOGIE.................................................... 1 Contacter le Secretariat permanent par E-M AIL & FA X............................................................ 1 The Proceedings of the 9th International Congress of Myriapodology...................... 2 MILLEPATTIA, sommaire .du prochain bulletin....................................................................... 2 Obituary: Colin Peter FAIRHURST (1942-1994) ............................................................. 3 BULLETIN of the -
Woodlice in Britain and Ireland: Distribution and Habitat Is out of Date Very Quickly, and That They Will Soon Be Writing the Second Edition
• • • • • • I att,AZ /• •• 21 - • '11 n4I3 - • v., -hi / NT I- r Arty 1 4' I, • • I • A • • • Printed in Great Britain by Lavenham Press NERC Copyright 1985 Published in 1985 by Institute of Terrestrial Ecology Administrative Headquarters Monks Wood Experimental Station Abbots Ripton HUNTINGDON PE17 2LS ISBN 0 904282 85 6 COVER ILLUSTRATIONS Top left: Armadillidium depressum Top right: Philoscia muscorum Bottom left: Androniscus dentiger Bottom right: Porcellio scaber (2 colour forms) The photographs are reproduced by kind permission of R E Jones/Frank Lane The Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (ITE) was established in 1973, from the former Nature Conservancy's research stations and staff, joined later by the Institute of Tree Biology and the Culture Centre of Algae and Protozoa. ITE contributes to, and draws upon, the collective knowledge of the 13 sister institutes which make up the Natural Environment Research Council, spanning all the environmental sciences. The Institute studies the factors determining the structure, composition and processes of land and freshwater systems, and of individual plant and animal species. It is developing a sounder scientific basis for predicting and modelling environmental trends arising from natural or man- made change. The results of this research are available to those responsible for the protection, management and wise use of our natural resources. One quarter of ITE's work is research commissioned by customers, such as the Department of Environment, the European Economic Community, the Nature Conservancy Council and the Overseas Development Administration. The remainder is fundamental research supported by NERC. ITE's expertise is widely used by international organizations in overseas projects and programmes of research. -
Microhabitat Heterogeneity Enhances Soil Macrofauna and Plant Species Diversity in an Ash – Field Maple Woodland
Title Microhabitat heterogeneity enhances soil macrofauna and plant species diversity in an Ash – Field Maple woodland Authors Burton, VJ; Eggleton, P Description publisher: Elsevier articletitle: Microhabitat heterogeneity enhances soil macrofauna and plant species diversity in an Ash – Field Maple woodland journaltitle: European Journal of Soil Biology articlelink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2016.04.012 content_type: article copyright: © 2016 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved. Date Submitted 2016-07-15 1 Microhabitat heterogeneity enhances soil macrofauna and plant species diversity in an Ash - Field 2 Maple woodland 3 4 Victoria J. Burtonab*, Paul Eggletona 5 aSoil Biodiversity Group, Life Sciences Department, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, 6 London SW7 5BD, UK 7 bImperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK 8 *corresponding author email [email protected] 9 10 Abstract 11 The high biodiversity of soil ecosystems is often attributed to their spatial heterogeneity at multiple 12 scales, but studies on the small-scale spatial distribution of soil macrofauna are rare. This case study 13 of an Ash-Field Maple woodland partially converted to conifer plantation investigates differences 14 between species assemblages of soil and litter invertebrates, and plants, using multivariate 15 ordination and indicator species analysis for eleven microhabitats. 16 Microhabitats representing the main body of uniform litter were compared with more localised 17 microhabitats including dead wood and areas of wet soil. Species accumulation curves suggest that 18 for this site it is more efficient to sample from varied microhabitats of limited spatial scale rather 19 than the broad habitat areas when generating a species inventory. -
Lack of Taxonomic Differentiation in An
ARTICLE IN PRESS Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution xxx (2005) xxx–xxx www.elsevier.com/locate/ympev Lack of taxonomic diVerentiation in an apparently widespread freshwater isopod morphotype (Phreatoicidea: Mesamphisopidae: Mesamphisopus) from South Africa Gavin Gouws a,¤, Barbara A. Stewart b, Conrad A. Matthee a a Evolutionary Genomics Group, Department of Botany and Zoology, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa b Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, University of Western Australia, 444 Albany Highway, Albany, WA 6330, Australia Received 20 December 2004; revised 2 June 2005; accepted 2 June 2005 Abstract The unambiguous identiWcation of phreatoicidean isopods occurring in the mountainous southwestern region of South Africa is problematic, as the most recent key is based on morphological characters showing continuous variation among two species: Mesam- phisopus abbreviatus and M. depressus. This study uses variation at 12 allozyme loci, phylogenetic analyses of 600 bp of a COI (cyto- chrome c oxidase subunit I) mtDNA fragment and morphometric comparisons to determine whether 15 populations are conspeciWc, and, if not, to elucidate their evolutionary relationships. Molecular evidence suggested that the most easterly population, collected from the Tsitsikamma Forest, was representative of a yet undescribed species. Patterns of diVerentiation and evolutionary relation- ships among the remaining populations were unrelated to geographic proximity or drainage system. Patterns of isolation by distance were also absent. An apparent disparity among the extent of genetic diVerentiation was also revealed by the two molecular marker sets. Mitochondrial sequence divergences among individuals were comparable to currently recognized intraspeciWc divergences. Sur- prisingly, nuclear markers revealed more extensive diVerentiation, more characteristic of interspeciWc divergences. -
COLOUR POLYMORPHISM in the LAND ISOPOD Dealt with the Frequency of Genes in Populations. Howard
COLOUR POLYMORPHISM IN THE LAND ISOPOD ARMADILLIDIUM NASATUM* S. LAURA ADAM KEWICZt Department of Biology, University of Virginia Received7.vj.68 1. INTRODUCTION Armadillidium nasatum Budde-Lund is one of the commonest oniscoid isopods in the south-eastern United States (Schultz, 1961). In Albemarle County, Virginia, and probably throughout its range, the species is polymorphic for body colour. The Oniscoidea as a whole are quite variable in colour and pattern (Vandel, 1960, 1962), and several workers have studied the genetics of individual loci (for references see Vandel, 1945, 1962). Only two have dealt with the frequency of genes in populations. Howard (1940, 1953, 1962) has investigated the genetics of Armadillidium vulgare with some attention to populations. De Lattin (1939, 1951, 1954) has studied the genetics of albinism and marbling in many species and has determined gene frequencies in some of them. However, neither study has seriously attempted to discover the causes for the polymorphisms. An extensive literature is available on the taxonomy (Vandel, 1960, 1962), physiology (Edney, 1954), and ecology (Hatchett, 1947; Brereton, 1957; Paris, 1962, 1963; Warburg, 1965) of land isopods. These works provide all the necessary background for investigations of population genetics in this large and widespread group of animals. Therefore, it seems important to apply to A. nasatum the techniques of ecological genetics so successfully used for other animals (Fisher and Ford, 1947; Cain and Sheppard, 1954; Dowdeswell, 1961). 2. METHODS (a) Collections All of the isopods used in this study were collected from natural popula- tions in Albemarle County, Virginia, from September 1964 to May 1968. -
Newsletter 35 Autumn 2017
bmig.org.uk Newsletter 35 Autumn 2017 Well they do say things go in cycles and here I am, back again stepping in to edit this autumn edition of the BMIG newsletter. Richard Kelly has secured a post at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and I am sure all BMIG members would join me in wishing him well in his future career. I would like to thank Richard for his efforts in refreshing and updating this publication and overseeing its transition to an electronic format. I am not intending to do more than step in as editor on an interim basis. I expect that a new Newsletter Editor will be elected at the AGM in March next year. Most of the other officers within the group will come to the end of their term at the same time. Most members appear reluctant to come forward and offer their time but we do need to involve more new people in running BMIG to ensure continuity. I outline the roles coming up for election in this newsletter and urge you to contact me or the Hon. Secretary Helen Read for more details or if you are interested in being nominated. The AGM will be held during the annual field meeting and this year we are gathering at the Crown Inn in Longtown, Herefordshire from 22nd to 25th March with a view to recording in Wales. This issue contains more details of the meeting and further information and a booking form can be found on the BMIG website. Amazingly new species to Britain continue to be found, no less than four such species are reported below; three millipedes, Cranogona dalensi, Cylindroiulus pyrenaicus, and Ommatoiulus moreletti, all from South Wales and a woodlouse, Philoscia affinis, from Sussex. -
PILLBUGS (Isopods; Armadillidium)
16 PILLBUGS (Isopods; Armadillidium) Pillbugs thrive downtown despite Figure 16.1 Pillbug, Armadillidium nasatum, rolled into an imperfect ball, with a gap on the right. Rolling into a ball (conglobation) pro- 1 vulnerability to predators, para- tects pillbugs from desiccation and predators. sites, pathogens, and desiccation. They have gained safety in numbers. From Ecology of Center City, Philadelphia by Kenneth D. Frank. Published in 2015 by Fitler Square Press, Philadelphia, PA. In the first volume of the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, pub- lished in 1818, Thomas Say presented “An Account of the Crustacea of the United States.” Crustacea are arthropods such as lobsters, crabs, shrimp, barnacles, and four- teen-legged creatures called isopods. Terrestrial isopods include familiar garden ani- mals known by many colloquial names, such as woodlice, sowbugs, roly-polies, and pillbugs. Say noted that one species, currently named Armadillidium vulgare, “is very common in moist places, under stones, in decaying wood, &c.”2 This species inhabits our garden in Center City. Figure 16.2 Our Center City row house garden, habitat for a diverse community of exotic animals, including six species of isopods, such as pillbugs. Introduction of pillbugs Unlike the Chinese mantid, A. vulgare in North America left no obvious clues to its place of origin. A genetic study of 10,000 of these pillbugs in 157 populations in Europe and North America concluded that this species was introduced from north- ern Europe.3 Root balls in imported horticultural and agricultural stock could have carried it in, or dirt used in ship ballast dumped near American ports could have transported it here. -
Biological-Control-Programmes-In
Biological Control Programmes in Canada 2001–2012 This page intentionally left blank Biological Control Programmes in Canada 2001–2012 Edited by P.G. Mason1 and D.R. Gillespie2 1Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; 2Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Agassiz, British Columbia, Canada iii CABI is a trading name of CAB International CABI Head Offi ce CABI Nosworthy Way 38 Chauncey Street Wallingford Suite 1002 Oxfordshire OX10 8DE Boston, MA 02111 UK USA Tel: +44 (0)1491 832111 T: +1 800 552 3083 (toll free) Fax: +44 (0)1491 833508 T: +1 (0)617 395 4051 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.cabi.org Chapters 1–4, 6–11, 15–17, 19, 21, 23, 25–28, 30–32, 34–36, 39–42, 44, 46–48, 52–56, 60–61, 64–71 © Crown Copyright 2013. Reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery. Remaining chapters © CAB International 2013. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electroni- cally, mechanically, by photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owners. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library, London, UK. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Biological control programmes in Canada, 2001-2012 / [edited by] P.G. Mason and D.R. Gillespie. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-78064-257-4 (alk. paper) 1. Insect pests--Biological control--Canada. 2. Weeds--Biological con- trol--Canada. 3. Phytopathogenic microorganisms--Biological control- -Canada. -
Baal Hill SIS Species List
Baal Hill Special Invertebrate Site species list This is a list of invertebrate species which have been recorded at Baal Hill Special Invertebrate Site. Not all the records included in this list have been verified. The aim of the list is to give recorders an idea of the range of species found at the site. To the best of our knowledge, this list of records is correct, as of November 2019. Scientific name English name Bees Andrena scotica Chocolate mining bee Bombus lapidarius Red-tailed bumblebee Bombus lucorum agg. Bombus pascuorum Common carder bee Bombus pratorum Early bumblebee Beetles Athous haemorrhoidalis Cantharis nigricans Cantharis pellucida Carabus problematicus Cassidinae sp. Tortoise beetle sp. Chilocorus renipustulatus Kidney-spot ladybird Coccinella septempunctata 7-spot ladybird Leptura quadrifasciata 4-banded longhorn beetle Nicrophorus humator Black sexton beetle Nicrophorus investigator Banded sexton beetle Oiceoptoma thoracicum Red-breasted carrion beetle Rhagium mordax Black-spotted longhorn beetle Rhagonycha fulva Common red soldier beetle Bugs Anthocoris nemorum Common flower bug Calocoris alpestris Campyloneura virgula Elasmostethus interstinctus Birch shieldbug Harpocera thoracica Pentatoma rufipes Forest shieldbug/ Red-legged shieldbug Philaenus spumarius Cuckoo-spit insect/ common froghopper Butterflies Aglais io Peacock Anthocharis cardamines Orange-tip Aphantopus hyperantus Ringlet Lasiommata megera Wall Lycaena phlaeas Small copper Maniola jurtina Meadow brown Pararge aegeria Speckled wood Pieris napi Green-veined -
International Journal of Speleology
(ISSN 392-6672) International Journal of Speleology VOLUME 25 (1-2), 1996 Blospeleoloov CONTENTS DAVID PAUL SLANEY and PHILIP WEINSTEIN: Geographical variation in the tropical cave cockroach Paratemnopteryx stonei Roth (B1attel- lidae) in North Queensland, Australia . CAMILLA BERNARDINI, CLAUDIO DI RUSSO, MAURO RAMPINI, DONATELLA CESARONI and VALERIO SBORDONI: A recent colonization of Dolichopoda cave crickets in the Poscola cave (Ort- hoptera, Rhaphidophoridae) 15 AUGUSTO VIGNA TAGLIANTI: A new genus and species oftrogIobitic Trechinae (Coleoptera. Carabidac) from southern China 33 VEZIO COTTARELLI and MARIA CRISTINA BRUNO: First record of Parastenocarfdidac (Crustacea, Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from sub- terranean freshwater of insular Greece and description of two new species , ' ," " 43 MARZIO ZAPPAROLI: Lithobills nilragicils n. sp., a new Lithobills from a Sardinian cave (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha) 59 Published quaterly by Societa Speleologica Italiana Printed with the financial support of: Ministcro dei Bcni Culturali c Ambicntali Consiglio Nazionale delle Riccrche Musco di Speleologia «V. Rivera), L' Aquila INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPELEOLOGY Official journal of the International Union of Spcleology Achnowledged by UNESCO as a Category B Non-Governmental Organisation U.I.S. REPRESENTATIVE: I. Paolo Forti, Dip. Scienze della Terra illS Universita di Bologna Via Zamboni 67, 1.40127 BOLOGNA, Haly Tel.: +39.51.35 45 47, Fax: +39.51.35 45 22 e-mail:[email protected] B10SPELEOLOGY PHYSICAL SPELEOLOGY EDITOR: EDITOR: Valerio Sbordoni, Dip. Di Biologia, Ezio Burri, Dip. Di Scienze Ambicntali, Universita di Roma «Tor Vergara» Universita dell' Aquila, Via della Ricerca Scicntifica 1-67100L'AQUILA, Italy 1-00133 ROMA Haly Tel.: +39.862.43 32 22 Tel.: +39.6.72 59 51, Fax: +39.6.202 6189 Fax: +39.862.43 32 05 e-mail:[email protected] c- mail: [email protected] EDITORIAL STAFF: EDITORIAL STAFF: Giammaria Carchini, Dip. -
Role of Arthropods in Maintaining Soil Fertility
Agriculture 2013, 3, 629-659; doi:10.3390/agriculture3040629 OPEN ACCESS agriculture ISSN 2077-0472 www.mdpi.com/journal/agriculture Review Role of Arthropods in Maintaining Soil Fertility Thomas W. Culliney Plant Epidemiology and Risk Analysis Laboratory, Plant Protection and Quarantine, Center for Plant Health Science and Technology, USDA-APHIS, 1730 Varsity Drive, Suite 300, Raleigh, NC 27606, USA; E-Mail: [email protected]; Tel.: +1-919-855-7506; Fax: +1-919-855-7595 Received: 6 August 2013; in revised form: 31 August 2013 / Accepted: 3 September 2013 / Published: 25 September 2013 Abstract: In terms of species richness, arthropods may represent as much as 85% of the soil fauna. They comprise a large proportion of the meso- and macrofauna of the soil. Within the litter/soil system, five groups are chiefly represented: Isopoda, Myriapoda, Insecta, Acari, and Collembola, the latter two being by far the most abundant and diverse. Arthropods function on two of the three broad levels of organization of the soil food web: they are plant litter transformers or ecosystem engineers. Litter transformers fragment, or comminute, and humidify ingested plant debris, which is deposited in feces for further decomposition by micro-organisms, and foster the growth and dispersal of microbial populations. Large quantities of annual litter input may be processed (e.g., up to 60% by termites). The comminuted plant matter in feces presents an increased surface area to attack by micro-organisms, which, through the process of mineralization, convert its organic nutrients into simpler, inorganic compounds available to plants. Ecosystem engineers alter soil structure, mineral and organic matter composition, and hydrology.