First Specimen Record of Pine Warbler for Saskatchewan

Guepiniopsis alpina, first record of the genus Guepiniopsis for Iran

In the framework of collecting and identifying of wood fungi of Iran, specimen of cup fungus from wood and debris of conifers was collected. The characteristic features of specimen were as follows: Fruit body cup-shaped, gelatinous, up to 1 cm high and to 1.5 cm wide; bright orange. Fertile surface concave. Spores sausage-shaped, smooth, up to 4-5-celled, 15.5-18 × 4-6 µm. Basidia shaped like a...

First Specimen Record of the Little Stint (Calidris minuta) for North America

DIAMOND, J. 1971. Ecological consequences of island colonization by southwest Pacific birds. II. The effect of species diversity on total population density. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 67:1715-1721. FAABORG, J., & J. TERBORGH. In press. Patterns of migratory behavior in West Indian bird communities. Chapt. 9 in Migrant birds in the Neotropics: distribution, ecology, behavior and conservation. (A. K...

Mammalia, Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae, Monodelphis kunsi Pine, 1975: Distribution extension and first record for eastern Amazonia

Monodelphis kunsi Pine, 1975, is a very small, terrestrial marsupial without a sagittal crest and with short brown pelage; usually with whitish areas ventrally (Anderson 1982). It is a problematical species because a good series of specimens (including males and females of different age classes) has never been collected from a single locality, yet specimens have been recorded from widely differ...

First Nebraska State Collection Record of the Mountian Pine Beetle, Dendroctonus Ponderosae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

First record of Leucopis (Leucopis) spyrothecae (Dip.: Chamaemyiidae) from Iran

طی نمونه‌برداری‌های انجام‌شده از دشمنان طبیعی شته‌ها در اردبیل طی سال‌های 91-1390، لاروهای مگس شکارگر از خانواده Chamaemyiidae در حال تغذیه از شته Pemphigus spyrothecae Passerini روی درخت صنوبر، Populus nigra (L.)، جمع‌آوری و پس‌ از پرورش در شرایطی مشابه شرایط محل جمع‌آوری، حشرات کامل به نام Leucopis (Leucopis) spyrothecae Raspi, 2003 شناسایی شدند. این گونه برای اولین‌بار از ایران گزارش می‌شود.