Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart

About: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart is a archive organization based out in Stuttgart, Germany. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Genus & Monophyly. The organization has 139 authors who have published 438 publications receiving 11616 citations.

Über denAmmonites bidentosus quenstedt

Abstract: Ammonites bidentosusQuenstedt aus derplatynota-Zone des unteren Kimmeridgien (Oberjura) gehort zur GattungCymaceras. Sein Merkmalsgefuge zeigt neotene Zuge. Obwohl mikroconch, last er sich keiner makroconchen Art einwandfrei als Partner zuordnen. Seine raumliche Verbreitung reicht von der Frankischen Alb bis in den Aargau. Faziell ist die Art zwar nicht streng an die Randzone der Schwamm-Algen-Bioherme gebunden, aber dort doch am haufigsten. Insgesamt ist sie jedoch selten.

A molecular phylogeny and revision of the genus Pyropteron Newman, 1832 (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae) reveals unexpected diversity and frequent hostplant switch as a driver of speciation.

Abstract: We here revise the genus Pyropteron Newman, 1832 using molecular and morphological analyses. Our data support the monophyly of Pyropteron with Synansphecia Capușe, 1973 (syn. rev.) being its junior subjective synonym. Four taxa are described as new to science, Pyropteron minianiformis xerxes Bartsch, Puhringer, Lingenhole & Kallies ssp. nov., Pyropteron hellenicum Bartsch, Puhringer, Lingenhole & Kallies sp. nov., Pyropteron jordanicum Bartsch, Puhringer, Lingenhole & Kallies sp. nov. and Pyropteron leucomelaena blaesii Bartsch, Puhringer, Lingenhole & Kallies ssp. nov., and 4 species are raised to species rank, Pyropteron nigrobarbata (Rebel, 1916) stat. nov., Pyropteron icteropus (Zeller, 1847) stat. rev., Pyropteron euglossaeformis (Lucas, 1849) stat. rev. and Pyropteron erodiiphaga (Dumont, 1922) stat. rev. To stabilize the taxonomy, we designate neotypes for Pyropteron euglossaeformis stat. rev. and Pyropteron ceriaeformis (Lucas, 1849). Pyropteron pipiziformis (Lederer, 1855) comb. nov., is combined with Pyropteron for the first time. The identity of Pyropteron atlantis (Schwingenschuss, 1935), previously confused with Pyropteron borreyi (Le Cerf, 1922) is fixed. We treat Pyropteron muscaeformis lusohispanica Lastůvka & Lastůvka, 2007 syn. nov. as a synonym of Pyropteron koschwitzi (Spatenka, 1992), Pyropteron minianiformis aphrodite Bartsch, 2004 syn. nov. as a synonym of Pyropteron minianiformis destituta (Staudinger, 1894), Pyropteron muscaeformis occidentalis Joannis, 1908 syn. nov. as a synonym of Pyropteron muscaeformis (Esper, 1783), and Sesia lecerfi Oberthur, 1909 syn. nov. is considered a synonym of Bembecia ichneumoniformis ([Denis & Schiffermuller], 1775). Finally, we discuss a model whereby frequent switches in hostplant usage drive rapid speciation in the genus Pyropteron.

Distributional notes of arsenurinae including the first record of arsenura sylla niepelti in ecuador (lepidoptera, saturniidae)

Abstract: Some noteworthy records for six species of Arsenurinae in Ecuador are given. Arsenura sylla niepelti (Schussler, 1936) is reported for the first time for Ecuador while Paradaemonia platydesmia (Rothschild, 1907) is recorded for the first time for western Ecuador.

Reply to the comment on “Integrated multi-stratigraphic study of the Coll de Terrers late Permian–Early Triassic continental succession from the Catalan Pyrenees (NE Iberian Peninsula): A geologic reference record for equatorial Pangaea” by Eudald Mujal, Josep Fortuny, Jordi Pérez-Cano, Jaume Dinarès-Turell, Jordi Ibáñez-Insa, Oriol Oms, Isabel Vila, Arnau Bolet, Pere Anadón [Global and Planetary Change 159 (2017) 46–60]

Abstract: In their paper, Mujal et al. (2017) describe as exceptional a section in the E Pyrenees (namely the Coll de Terrers), considering it a continental succession that continuously spans in time from the Late Permian to the Early Triassic. These authors describe the sandy-clayey red-beds of the upper Buntsandstein unit as the upper part of the Upper Red Unit (URU) and provide substantial stratigraphic and sedimentological data as well as palaeontological and mineralogical data in support of their thesis. We firstly have to consider that the post-Variscan deformation events altered the sedimentary contacts among the units (i.e. subsidence and tectonic evolution of the related sub-basins); and secondly, that the entire succession contains several tectonic structures affecting the late Palaeozoic-early Mesozoic sequence, due to the Alpine orogeny. The purported stratigraphic continuity between the Permian and Triassic is thus hampered not only by a different sedimentological and stratigraphical content but also by a complex tectonic framework.

Range extension of Pseudotorinia phorcysi (Gastropoda: Architectonicidae) from the SW Atlantic, with remarks on its ontogeny.

Abstract: Architectonicidae is a diverse family of heterobranch sea snails comprising over 11 genera and 140 extant species distributed worldwide (Bieler & Petit, 2005). They live in shallow to deep water, and have turbinate to discoidal shells, with a typically wide umbilicus and a downward-pointing (heterostrophic) protoconch (Healy, 1998). Pseudotorinia phorcysi Cavallari, Salvador & Simone, 2013 is a deep-water species known only from its type locality in the SW Atlantic, off Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil (23°41'S 42°06'W, 430–450 m depth). Its original description was based on a single eroded juvenile specimen collected by the French-Brazilian expedition “Marion Dufresne” MD55 in the late 1980s (Cavallari et al ., 2014).