The identity of Haliplus (Coleoptera: Haliplidae) from the Pilbara region of Australia, including the description of four new species
WA Museum Records and Supplements | Volume 25 (2008–2010) | Updated 24 Jan 2017
Records 25 Part 4 2010 387 387 C.H.S. Watts and J. McRae 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.25(4).2010.387-398 ABSTRACT – The subtropical, semi-arid Pilbara region of Western Australia was recently subject to an extensive survey of its invertebrate fauna including aquatic habitats. Among the aquatic beetles ...
A new species of Carldrakeana (Insecta: Heteroptera: Tingidae) from Western Australia
Records 25 Part 4 2010 382 382 Eric Guilbert and Melinda L. Moir 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.25(4).2010.382-386 ABSTRACT – This paper describes the fifth species of lacebug (Tingidae) in the genus Carldrakeana , and the first to be recorded from Western Australia, Carldrakeana karli sp. nov. It is restricted to ...
Presence of a urinary bladder in Egernia depressa (Squamata: Scincidae) in Western Australia
Records 25 Part 4 2010 459 459 Christopher J. Bell, Marci G. Hollenshead, Jim I. Mead and Sandra L. Swift 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.25(4).2010.459-462 Presence of a urinary bladder in Egernia depressa (Squamata: Scincidae) in Western Australia ...
Taxonomic status of the Australian burrowing frogs Neobatrachus sudelli, N. centralis and Neoruinosus and clarification of the type specimen of N. albipes
Records 25 Part 4 2010 455 455 J. Dale Roberts 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.25(4).2010.455-458 ABSTRACT – I review genetic and call structure data available to define species boundaries in the genus Neobatrachus , synonomise N. centralis with N. sudelli , synonomise the genus Neoruinosus Wells and Wellington with ...
Taxonomy and nomenclature of the longneck turtle (genus Chelodina) from south-western Australia
Records 25 Part 4 2010 449 449 Gerald Kuchling 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.25(4).2010.449-454 ABSTRACT – Gray (1856) recognised Chelodina colliei from south-western Australia as a different species from Chelodina oblonga Gray, 1841 from ‘Western Australia’. In addition, Gray (1873) specifically mentioned ...
Cyrtobill darwini, a new species in a new orb-weaving spider genus from Australia (Araneae: Araneidae: Cyrtophorinae)
Records 25 Part 3 2009 315 315 Volker W. Framenau and Nikolaj Scharff 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.25(3).2009.315-328 ABSTRACT – A new monotypic genus of orb-weaving spider (Araneidae) with Cyrtobill darwini as type species is described from Australia. A reduced piriform spinning field of the anterior lateral spinnerets ...
A new species of the nematode genus Copemania (Nematoda: Trichostrongylida), parasitic in the western quoll, Dasyurus geoffroii and short-nosed bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus from south-western Western Australia
the new species. The new species represents the first record of the genus in Western Australia and is ...
The first Australasian species of the halophilic pseudoscorpion genus Paraliochthonius (Pseudoscorpiones: Chthoniidae)
Records 25 Part 3 2009 329 329 Mark S. Harvey 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.25(3).2009.329-344 ABSTRACT – The widespread halophilic genus Paraliochthonius Beier is recorded from Australasia for the first time, and two new species are recorded: P. darwini from tropical northern Australia and P. vachoni from ...
A new species of jumping spider of the genus Paraplatoides (Araneae: Salticidae) from Western Australia
Records 25 Part 3 2009 305 305 Julianne M. Waldock 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.25(3).2009.305-308 ABSTRACT – A new species of the salticid genus Paraplatoides, Paraplatoides darwini, is described from the Pilbara region of Western Australia. This is the first Western Australian species described for this ...
Tapetosa, a new monotypic wolf spider genus from Western Australia (Araneae: Lycosidae: Lycosinae)
Records 25 Part 3 2009 309 309 Volker W. Framenau, Barbara York Main, Mark S. Harvey and Julianne M. Waldock 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.25(3).2009.309-314 ABSTRACT – A new monotypic Australian wolf spider genus, Tapetosa , with T. darwini as type species, is described for the ‘Carpet Wolf Spider’, ...