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A fossil beetle from the Upper Buntsandstein (Röt-Folge, Lower Triassic) in Karlsruhe Durlach-Eisenhafengrund is described. The specimen is one of the oldest known beetle findings in Germany. According to its stratigrafic context, the finding layer can be correlated with the Voltzia-Sandstone (E-France), which also yielded fossil beetles. The silty matrix, in which the beetle occurs, is interpreted as seasonal playa sediment. The beetle was fragmented during extraction. The lack of diagnostic features of elytra, scutellum and pronotum does not allow to assign the specimen to a family. However, the elytral humeral callus, the set off pronotum with caudolaterally concave margins combined with the size of almost 15 mm allows a diagnostic distinction from other coeval Coleoptera at least in Europe. Therefore, it is justified to refer the specimen from Durlach-Eisenhafengrund to a new genus and species: Durlachia striata.
The mesofauna communities were assessed every three months (June 1997 to March 1999), in the litter and soil of a
polyculture system (POA and POC) and from a primary (FLO) and a secondary (SEC) forest. The highest densities were
obtained in POA, due to the dominance of Oribatida. The densities of Acari Oribatida and Collembola were notably lower in
the mineral soil. For non-Oribatid Acari, the same tendency was not clearly detected. In contrary to the other groups, the
highest densities of Collembola were found in FLO. In general, densities in the litter layer were higher. Therefore, strong differences were detected between 1997, an exceptionally dry year caused by the ”EI Niño” Southern Oscillation, and 1998.
The mesofauna population was lowest in 1997 Only in 1997, was the density in FLO, POA and POC higher in the soil fraction. The pattern in SEC was not the same because of the higher amount of litter. We hypothesized that the differences
between 1997 and 1998 were a result of: 1) a reaction of the mesofauna that migrated to the mineral soil during the
extremely dry period of 1997 and 2) a consequence of the litter layer reduction that occurred in 1997, causing lower mesofauna densities. Superimposed on the micro-climatic factors, we observed the influence of the condition of the litter layer on the mesofauna densities. Depending on the physical factors, there are years of high and others with low populations. Extremely wet years could also exert an influence on the soil mesofauna and studies of long-term periods are recommended. Although there was a tendency for the Acari Non-Oribatida biomass estimated in this study to be lower than in temperate forest, the values are however higher than values recorded for many tropical forests. On the contrary, Oribatida
and Collembola biomass were characterized by lower values compared to temperate forests.
Whip spiders belong to a small arachnid order (Amblypygi) that is not well known. Their most conspicuous feature are
the elongated, extremely thin front legs (“whips“, or antenniform legs). These are no longer used for walking but are modified extremities carrying various sense organs - very much like the antennae of insects. Whereas hundreds of olfactory
hairs are concentrated near the tip of each antenniform leg, large bristles (contact chemoreceptors) are evenly distributed over the entire antenniform leg. The sensory hairs of each antenniform leg contribute about 30,000 small sensory
axons which proceed toward the central nervous system (CNS). The sensory fibers originating from the mechanoreceptive bristles make chemical synapses with a few giant interneurons in the periphery. The giant axons (10-20 pm in diameter) of these large interneurons transmit nerve impulses with a high velocity (6 m/s) to the CNS. The purpose of this fast pathway still needs to be determined. Originally it was thought that the fast giant axons would trigger quick escape reactions, but this was not confirmed in physiological experiments. However, other possible behaviors that may be aided by the giant interneurons are prey capture, fighting, and orientation. What makes whip spiders unique is that both synapses and giant neurons are located far out in the peripheral nervous system. In all other arthropods - except for some arachnids - synapses and giant fiber systems are always found inside the CNS, never in the periphery.
Alien Heteroptera in Belgium
(2014)
After almost 85 years of palynological research, an impressive amount of pollen diagrams from the Vosges Mountains (NE France) is available. This paper presents an overview of these pollen diagrams and lists their main features and literature sources within a historical context. Furthermore, a short summary is provided on the natural and cultural context.
The authors describe Adpiasus riegeri sp. nov. (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae, Mirini), a new species of the genus from French Guyana. It is compared with the three existing species of the genus Adpiasus Carvalo & Schaffner, 1973, A. punctatus Carvalho & Schaffner, 1973, and A. mayanus Carvalho & Schaffner, 1973, from Mexico, as well as A. ecuadorianus Carvalho &
Carpintero, 1986, from Ecuador. The characteristic features of the new species are described in detail and illustrated by photographs. Adpiasus mayanus is recorded for the frst time from French Guyana.
Heteroptera of Lebanon
(2014)
Atractotomus riegeri sp. nov. from North Lebanon, where it was collected on Abies cilicica in two different localities, is described and illustrated. The new species is easily separated from all other Palaearctic Atractotomus by the unique shape of its second antennal segment, regularly and remarkably infated in both sexes. A key to the males of Palaearctic Atractotomus, partly based on that by Stonedahl (1990), has been provided in order to facilitate the recognition of the species.
The subcomplete skeleton of an elasmosaurid plesiosaur recently acquired by the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History in Karlsruhe) is described. The specimen comes from the early Turanian of the Goulmima region, Morocco, and represents one of the most complete elas- mosaurs known in the world. Owing to the present uncertainties about elasmosaurs systematics, it is referred mainly on stratigraphical grounds to a new species of the genus Libonectes. Some of the bones of the holotype (e.g. cervical vertebrae, ulna) show an unusual type of preservation that might indicate an old-age related pathology. Some aspects of elasmosaurs anatomy suggest non obligatory feeding upon sea floor invertebrates.
Although known and housed in German institutions since at least the 19th century, until now marine reptiles from the
Braunjura ß have never been described in detail. The strata have yielded plesiosaur, thalattosuchian and rare ichthyosaur
remains, all fragmentary, most likely due to their deposition in a shallow marine, high energy palaeoenvironment. Cervical
vertebrae, which are housed in the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History in
Karlsruhe), are described here and reveal the first elasmosaurid plesiosaurs reported to date from the German Dogger.
One new species, Holhymenia riegeri nov. spec., is described from Bolivia and Ecuador. Holhymenia intermedia (Burmeister,1835) and H. tibialis Breddin, 1904, are considered junior synonyms of H. clavigera (Herbst, 1784); new records of H. histrio (Fabricius, 1803), H. persimilis Breddin, 1903, H. rubiginosa Breddin, 1904, and H. scenica (Stål, 1865) are given; a key to all known species is included.
The material of Xantholinini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) collected by A. RIEDEL in Indonesia is studied. The following new species are described: Andelis tinalum n. sp. (Java), Sumatera halimun n. sp. (Java), Erymus ijen n. sp. (Java), Erymus pohen n. sp. (Bali); Sumatera riedeli n. sp. (Sumatra). The following species are new records for the region: Metolinus modiglianii (Java,
Mentawei), Maharadja pubiventris (Sumatra).
The Gelechiidae of the SMNK were curated and rearranged
in a main collection: approximately 35,000
specimens of more than 800 species have been arranged
in 91 drawers. This is the result of the integration
of several separate collections as well as unsorted
specimens. With 125 primary types (holotypes and
lectotypes) and a considerable number of specimens
from poorly studied regions, the Gelechiidae collection
of the SMNK is one of the most species-rich collections
of this family worldwide. The material from the collection
is frequently used in recent taxonomic revisions
of Gelechiidae. The history of the collection is briefly
discussed.
Seit über 100 Jahren wurden in Ungarn neogene Suiden gesammelt, doch gibt es darüber bis heute nur wenige Veröffentlichungen. Dieser Beitrag zeigt den derzeitigen Stand der Kenntnisse über die obermiozänen Suiden Ungarns und ihre evolutionären, chronologischen und biogeographischen Verhältnisse zu anderen eurasischen Suiden auf.
The new genus and species Deltopyxis triangulispora is described. It is so far known from 14 sites in the south of Luxembourg and one in the neighbouring region of France. The discomycete forms very small, blackish-brown apothecia on bark, more rarely on wood, but particularly on more or less strongly senescent hymenia of Vuilleminia spp. The apothecia occur on dead, corticated, internally very slightly to rather strongly white-rotten, attached or broken, periodically dry branches at a height of about 1–3 m above ground. In most of the collections Vuilleminia was present and covered the
bast on one side of the branch, while the periderm still covered the remaining areas. D. triangulispora is so far recorded on angiosperm shrubs of the genera Corylus, Crataegus, Ilex, Prunus, and Salix, which had an advanced age or were already dead. The species prefers undisturbed, usually thermophilous hedges or open woodlands, especially close to their edges, but sometimes occurs also in dense, more air-humid woods. The fungus is characterized by 64-spored, elongate saccate, short-stalked, inamyloid, rather thin-walled asci which arise from croziers and open at the apex by a broad slit-like pore. The hyaline ascospores have a distinctly triangular shape when seen in profile view, but look slightly flattened, (ellipsoid-)deltoid in front view. In the living ascus they are arranged in a dense elongate cluster, which is forcibly discharged as one entity.
The position of Deltopyxis within the Ascomycota is unknown.
In this paper, we describe a new species of Mesoplophora collected from forest floor litter in southwestern Nigeria. Mesoplophora is a cosmopolitan genus of pytchoid mites that has been recorded from the Palaearctic region as well as Morocco
and Tchad in the Ethiopian region. M. ife an a is the first Mesoplophora species to be fully identified and described from Nigeria. Differences between this species, M. ifeana, and other Mesoplophora species recorded from Africa are observed in
respect of the number of spines on the sensillus, presence of two pairs of exobothridial setae and leg chaetotaxy. The lack of information on fine taxonomic details of adults and deutonymphs of M. africana from Tchad as well as the discrepancies in the description of certain morphological features such as organisation and chaetotaxy of the ventral plates as well as the nomenclature of setae on the aspis were noted. Attention was drawn to the unique combination of traits of both lower
and higher Oribatida in Mesoplophora, a trait which may be responsible for its ubiquitous distribution.
This paper is the first of a series in which more information will be added to the existing on biogeographical distribution of oribatid mites. Here we describe a new species of a phthiracarid mite collected from forest floor litter in southwestern Nigeria. Differences between this species, Atropacarus (Hoplophorella) nigeriensis, and other Hoplophorella species are the foveoli on the aspis and notogaster, the shape of notogastric setae, as well as shapes and chaetotaxy of the genital and anal plates. More differences in taxonomically important features such as the morphological features of the infracapitulum and epimeron as well as leg chaetotaxy between this species and others could not be determined, not only because of lack of information on the latter in literature, but also because many type specimens are not available for dissection which must be done in order to reveal fine morphological details. Atropacarus (Hoplophorella) nigeriensis belongs to the "cucullata" group of Hoplophorella which possess one enlarged adanal seta. It differs from other members of this group in respect of adanoanal and tarsal chaetotaxy. Hoplophorella is considered as a subgenus of Atropacarus in this paper, because there is no evidence in literature that Hoplophorella as a group is a separate phylogenetic entity.
In the upper Danube river-system, but also in some more watercourses of the German lower mountains range, an endolithic filamentous cyanobacterium is a prominent compound of the phytobenthos. These filaments penetrate limestones in the river bed and form brush-like endolithic layers of about 0.5 mm in depth. There are similarities between this taxon and approximately 10 other filamentous Cyanophyceae in terms of the width of the trichomes, the geometry of the cells and the shape of the apical cells. However, none of these species allow for a direct and clear-cut identification, and a precise taxonomic determination has therefore been unresolved until today. In order to make progress in this matter, it is necessary to get a better insight into the boring behaviour of this inhabitant and into the endolithic arrangements of the filaments. For
this purpose, special preparation methods and SEM examinations were applied. The results of these procedures as well as critical comparisons with taxonomic properties of similar phormidian taxa, and the special demands on physico-chemical water conditions, led to the conclusion that the taxon in question cannot be assigned to a known species, but must be considered as an independant species. It is here described as Phormidium ingrediens species nova.
Nachweise für Carnivoren-Aktivitäten durch bekaute oder angedaute Knochen sind spärlich überliefert in Lokalitäten des
mittleren und oberen Miozän Europas. In dieser Studie bestimmen wir Skelettelemente aus der obermiozänen Lokalität bei Rudabánya, die durch Carnivoren verändert wurden und diskutieren deren Signifikanz unter Bezug auf ökomorphologische Attribute rezenter Beutegreifer, um auf Muster der Beuteauswahl und Freßverhalten schließen zu können.