A high-Arctic population of Pyla fusca (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) on Svalbard?

Over 300 species of insect (including Collembola) are recorded from Svalbard. These include 11 species of Lepidoptera, the majority of which are occasional summer immigrants (Coulson and Refseth 2003). Those for which locality data are available are summarised in Table 1. It has been suggested that Apamea maillardi (Geyer, 1834) [=zeta (Duponchel, 1854) (Mikkola and Goater 1988)] and Plutella xylostella (L., 1758) may be resident (Kaisila 1973) but no overwintering stages have yet been found. Here we report large numbers of the pyralid moth, Pyla fusca Haworth, 1811, in late July 2002 on Ossiansarsfjellet and suggest that a resident colony is established

First molecular phylogeny of Laevicaudata (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) with description of a new species of Lynceus from Chile and an updated key to species in the Americas

Este artículo contiene 22 páginas, 9 figuras, 2 tablas.The first molecular phylogeny of Lynceus (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Laevicaudata) is presented together with a description of anewspecies of laevicaudatan branchiopod from Chile, Lynceus huentelauquensis, sp. nov.DNAsequences were obtained from six species of Lynceus using freshly collected specimens from Europe, North America, South America, and Australia and combined with GenBank sequences from previous studies. Specimens of the new species were collected from a pool on the Huentelauquén Plains near Huentelauquén City. Our molecular analyses placed L. huentelauquensis, sp. nov. within Lynceus and close to a cluster of Australian species, and revealed morphological misidentifications, crosscontamination, or incorrect upload in earlier GenBank sequences. L. huentelauquensis, sp. nov. is separated from other Lynceus primarily by the morphology of the rostrum and the male claspers. L. huentelauquensis, sp. nov. is thefirst described laevicaudatan from Chile, the sixth from South America, and the 13th from the Americas. The morphology of laevicaudatans from the Americas is reviewed and an updated key to the (male) Lynceidae of the region is provided. Our study highlights the necessity of a revision of Laevicaudata using multiple genetic markers as well as thorough morphological studies on a greater number of taxa.The sample collection was financed by projects MECESUP UCT 0804 (PDLR), DIDULS PR17121, and FPA-NAC-I-032-2014.A visit by ZS and JO to BMNH was supported by a SYNTHESYS grant from the European Union. FP acknowledges project CHALLENGEN (CTM2013-48163) of the Spanish Government and a postdoctoral contract funded by the Beatriu de Pinos Program of the Generalitat de Catalunya (2014-BPB-00038). JO acknowledges financial support from the Villum Foundation for sequencing. The study is part of ZS’s PhD project financed by the Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen.Peer reviewe