查看更多>>摘要：A collection of 13 species from southern Australia is described. The collection includes Campanulina cliftonia n. sp., Campanulina elata n. sp., Hebella albida n. sp., Antennella singulata n. sp., Ventromma bellarensis n. sp., Sertularella mytila n. s
查看更多>>摘要：Myrmornis torquata has often been considered an intermediate form between the ground antbirds and the typical antbirds. Although molecular phylogenies have consistently placed M. torquata in the Thamnophilidae (typical antbirds), this species has notbeen the subject of a thorough anatomical study, and no phylogeny based on morphological characters has been published. We undertook a cladistic morphological analysis of M. torquata and representatives of all families in the infraorder Furnariides, to clarify the systematic affinities of this species. In a parsimony analysis of 66 osteological and syringeal characters, Myrmornis clustered with other thamnophilids with high support values, sharing with them five sy-napomorphies of unambiguous optimization in all most-parsimonious trees. Two synapomorphies are syringeal features exclusive to the family: (1) the presence of processes on the ventral surface of supporting A-elements of the syrinx cranial to the membrana tracheosyringealis, and (2) the division of the musculus sternotrachealis into two fasciculi near its insertion on the syrinx. A third syringeal synapomorphy (presence of the musculus vocalis ventralis) also occurs in the Den-drocolaptidae and Furnariidae as a homoplasy. Two unambiguous osteological synapomorphies were found: (1) the narrowing of the foramen orbitonasale, and (2) the confluence of the foramen obturatum and the fenestra ischiopubica, a reversal also found in the Furnariidae. Our results provide strong morphological supportfor the placement of Myrmornis in the Thamnophilidae.
查看更多>>摘要：In a recent paper (Dorchin & Freidberg 2011) we reviewed the cecidomyiid fauna of the plant family Apiaceae in Israel. For one of the species that was described in that paper, we failed to provide details about the holotype depository, which we now provide in this note in order to make the species name available. We hereby describe the new species Schizomyia botellus Dorchin & Freidberg, by reference to its full description in the above mentioned publication.
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