The nominate subgenus of the mylabrine genus Mylabris is revised: five new species, M. (M.) alpicola sp.n., M. (M.) cernyi sp.n., M. (M.) mediorientalis sp.n., and M. (M.) pseudoemiliae sp.n., are described and figured; M. (M.) apiceguttata sp.n., is provisionally refered to the nominate subgenus. M. (M.) rishwani Makhan, 2012 is synonymized with M. (M.) quadripunctata (Linnaeus, 1767). The oth...

A phenetic analysis is presented using SAHN clustering (UPGMA, simple matching coefficient). The resulting phenetic analysis is compared with the classification of Oxytropis as suggested by Bunge [2] and Vassilczenko [ll]. The results partly correspond with Bungean classification and suggest that there are basically four sections (Mesogaea, Oxytropis, Janthina, Eumorphu) which can be group...

Coetzeemyia, a new subgenus of Aedes Meigen (in the broad traditional sense, pre-Reinert 2000), is characterized and diagnosed. Aedes fryeri (Theobald) is removed from the subgenus Levua Stone and Bohart (genus Levua of Reinert et al. 2004) and placed in the new monotypic subgenus Coetzeemyia as its type species by present designation. Recognition of Coetzeemyia is based in part on a cladistic ...

Two convergences between subgenera of Bermudian land snails [P. (Poecilozonites) and P. (Gastrelasmus)] were initiated when a taxon of one subgenus evolved to the very different size range of the other. Entrance into this new size range produced or required a set of correlated changes in shape, color, and thickness that resulted in very precise convergences. Some of these ancillary changes were...

Species of Culex (Melanoconion) Theobald are recognized as vectors of arboviruses. The species of this subgenus pose a real taxonomic challenge. The current classification of the subgenus recognizes a total of 160 species divided in two major sections, Melanoconion and Spissipes; and several non-formal groupings within each section. We gathered bibliographic records of the subgenus in South Ame...

-Twelve flavonoids (including seven flavonol and three flavone glycosides, one flavone aglycone, and one unknown) were isolated from the leaves of 198 populations of the seven species comprising Arnica subgenus Arctica. Flavonoid profiles are relatively simple, with two to six compounds found per population; however, considerable flavonoid variation was apparent in populations of A. angustifoli...