TY  - JOUR
A1  - Barej, Michael F.
A1  - Schmitz, Andreas
A1  - Penner, Johannes
A1  - Doumbia, Joseph
A1  - Sandberger-Loua, Laura
A1  - Hirschfeld, Mareike
A1  - Brede, Christian
A1  - Emmrich, Mike
A1  - Kouamé, N'Goran Germain
A1  - Hillers, Annika
A1  - Gonwouo, Nono L.
A1  - Nopper, Joachim
A1  - Adeba, Patrick Joël
A1  - Bangoura, Mohamed A.
A1  - Gage, Ceri
A1  - Anderson, Gail
A1  - Rödel, Mark-Oliver
T1  - Life in the spray zone - overlooked diversity in West African torrent-frogs (Anura, Odontobatrachidae, Odontobatrachus)
JF  - Zoosystematics and Evolution
N2  - West African torrent-frogs of the genus Odontobatrachus currently belong to a single species: Odontobatrachus natator (Boulenger, 1905). Recently, molecular results and biogeographic separation led to the recognition of five Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) thus identifying a species-complex. Based on these insights, morphological analyses on more than 150 adult specimens, covering the entire distribution of the family and all OTUs, were carried out. Despite strong morphological congruence, combinations of morphological characters made the differentiation of OTUs successful and allowed the recognition of five distinct species: Odontobatrachus natator, and four species new to science: Odontobatrachus arndti sp. n., O. fouta sp. n., O. smithi sp. n. and O. ziama sp. n. All species occur in parapatry: Odontobatrachus natator is known from western Guinea to eastern Liberia, O. ziama sp. n. from eastern Guinea, O. smithi sp. n. and O. fouta sp. n. from western Guinea, O. arndti sp. n. from the border triangle Guinea-Liberia-Cote d'Ivoire. In addition, for the first time the advertisement call of a West African torrent-frog (O. arndti sp. n.) is described.
KW  - Guinean rain forest
KW  - molecular data
KW  - conservation
KW  - Upper Guinea
KW  - new species
KW  - Phrynobatrachus amphibia
KW  - Arthroleptis amphibia
KW  - ivory coast
KW  - genus
KW  - biodiversity
KW  - Ranidae
KW  - Petropedetidae
KW  - biodiversity hotspot
KW  - rainforest
KW  - taxonomy
KW  - Amphibia
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-144254
VL  - 91
IS  - 2
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Deeleman-Reinhold, Christa L.
A1  - Miller, Jeremy
A1  - Floren, Andreas
T1  - Depreissia decipiens, an enigmatic canopy spider from Borneo revisited (Araneae, Salticidae), with remarks on the distribution and diversity of canopy spiders in Sabah, Borneo
JF  - ZooKeys
N2  - Depreissia is a little known genus comprising two hymenopteran-mimicking species, one found in Central Africa and one in the north of Borneo. The male of D. decipiens is redescribed, the female is described for the first time. The carapace is elongated, dorsally flattened and rhombus-shaped, the rear of the thorax laterally depressed and transformed, with a pair of deep pits; the pedicel is almost as long as the abdomen. The male palp is unusual, characterized by the transverse deeply split membranous tegulum separating a ventral part which bears a sclerotized tegular apophysis and a large dagger-like retrodirected median apophysis. The female epigyne consists of one pair of large adjacent spermathecae and very long copulatory ducts arising posteriorly and rising laterally alongside the spermathecae continuing in several vertical and horizontal coils over the anterior surface. Relationships within the Salticidae are discussed and an affinity with the Cocalodinae is suggested. Arguments are provided for a hypothesis that D. decipiens is not ant-mimicking as was previously believed, but is a mimic of polistinine wasps. The species was found in the canopy in the Kinabalu area only, in primary and old secondary rainforest at 200–700 m.a.s.l. Overlap of canopy-dwelling spider species with those in the understorey are discussed and examples of species richness and endemism in the canopy are highlighted. Canopy fogging is a very efficient method of collecting for most arthropods. The canopy fauna adds an extra dimension to the known biodiversity of the tropical rainforest. In southeast Asia, canopy research has been neglected, inhibiting evaluation of comparative results of this canopy project with that from other regions. More use of fogging as a collecting method would greatly improve insight into the actual species richness and species distribution in general.
KW  - depreissia decipiens
KW  - jumping spiders
KW  - canopy spiders
KW  - taxonomy
KW  - biodiversity
KW  - ant-mimicking spiders
KW  - wasp-mimicking
KW  - Mt. Kinabalu
KW  - rainforest
KW  - Cocalodinae
KW  - Polistine wasps
KW  - endemism
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-168342
VL  - 556
ER  -