FIRST RECORD OF NEOZYGITES FRESENII (NOWAKOWSKI) BATKO, A FUNGAL PATHOGEN OF APHIDS, IN AUSTRALIA

Abstract
The fungal pathogen Neozygites fresenii is recorded from the aphids Neophyllaphis gingerensis Carver in the A. C. T. and Aphis gossypii Glover in Qld. The pathogen is very similar to that described from Europe and North America except that the resting spores are somewhat smaller.     

DESCRIPTION OF THE CALIGINOSUM SPECIES GROUP OF THE GENUS PISON JURINE (HYMENOPTERA: SPHECIDAE: LARRINAE)

A new species group of Pison (comprising P. caliginosum Turner from Australia and Norfolk I., P. mandibulatum Turner from southwestern Australia, and P. pyrrhicum sp.n. and P. weiri sp.n. from northern Australia) is recognised. A lectotype is selected for P. mandibulatum . All species possess an apically broad mandible unique within the genus. Nothing is known of the nesting biology of these species.     

不同种源和家系白千层芳香油组分及含量初探

本文利用从澳大利亚引进的白千层芳香油树种天然种子进行繁育,并对生长期为18个月的白千层枝叶进行含油量测定,分析不同种源、家系白千层芳香油组分及含量,选择和推广具有经济开发价值的白千层优良品种。     

EFFECTS OF A FIRE RESPONSE TRAIT ON DIVERSIFICATION IN REPLICATED RADIATIONS

Fire has been proposed as a factor explaining the exceptional plant species richness found in Mediterranean regions. A fire response trait that allows plants to cope with frequent fire by either reseeding or resprouting could differentially affect rates of species diversification. However, little is known about the generality of the effects of differing fire response on species evolution. We study this question in the Restionaceae, a family that radiated in Southern Africa and Australia. These radiations occurred independently and represent evolutionary replicates. We apply Bayesian approaches to estimate trait‐specific diversification rates and patterns of climatic niche evolution. We also compare the climatic heterogeneity of South Africa and Australia. Reseeders diversify faster than resprouters in South Africa, but not in Australia. We show that climatic preferences evolve more rapidly in reseeder lineages than in resprouters and that the optima of these climatic preferences differ between the two strategies. We find that South Africa is more climatically heterogeneous than Australia, independent of the spatial scale we consider. We propose that rapid shifts between states of the fire response trait promote speciation by separating species ecologically, but this only happens when the landscape is sufficiently heterogeneous.     

TAXONOMY OF THE LENORMANDIA - LENORMANDIOPSIS COMPLEX (RHODOMELACEAE, RHODOPHYTA)

The genus Lenormandia is composed of nine species from Australia and New Zealand. Some of the these are well known, but others are rare, obscure and ill-defined. We have examined material of all described species and found that they fall into two discrete groups that differ in apex morphology and position of reproductive structures. Plants of the first group, containing the type species L. spectabilis , have a cleft apex and reproductive structures produced directly on the blade surface, whereas those of the second group have a strongly inrolled apex and produce reproductive structures dorsally on small branchlets which arise either from the margins or the midrib. The groups were also found to form discrete clades on analysis of 18S rRNA sequences. All the members of the first group are endemic to Australia, whereas the second group, designated by the new genus name Adamsiella , contains two previously described New Zealand species and a single Australian representative. In addition, two new species are described in this group from New Zealand. Members of the closely related genus Lenormandiopsis were also examined and the type species, L. latifolia , was found to conform in apex morphology and position of reproductive structures to the genus Lenormandia. Accordingly Lenormandiopsis has been subsumed within Lenormandia. The remaining three members of the former genus Lenormandiopsis , however, were found to differ from both the type species and the genus Lenormandia and consequently have been transferred to the separate genus Geraldia , along with a new species from Geraldton, Western Australia which is designated as the type.     

LYCHNOTHAMNUS BARBATUS(轮藻植物)的生态与保护研究

轮藻植物属Lychnothamnus(Rupr．)Leonh．自晚始新世即有化石代表,在上新世繁盛且分布广泛,此后分异度降低、分布范围缩减,延续至今仅存1种：L．barbatus(Meyen)Leonh．。上世纪末叶前该种还曾广泛分布于欧洲、印度、中国、巴布亚新几内亚和澳大利亚,而后该种在澳大利亚曾经留有记录的产地消失,直到1996年才被再次发现。本文描述了澳大利亚L．barbatus的居群特征,包括植株、卵囊球和藏卵器形态特征以及萌发生态学的实验研究结果。讨论该种的野外生态学、共生种、全球范围的分布与丰度特征,探讨该种衰落的原因并提出植物保护方案。     

SEED MORPHOLOGY AND SYSTEMATICS OF MENYANTHACEAE

Scanning electron microscopic investigations of seed morphology of the five genera of Menyanthaceae illustrate a remarkable diversity of seed characteristics for a small family. Seeds of the monotypic northern hemisphere Menyanthes and Fauria are unomamented and similar, and those of the monotypic Liparophyllum of New Zealand and Tasmania are similar to some Australian species of Villarsia. Seed characteristics within the larger genera Villarsia and Nymphoides are variable and mostly species specific, but do not lend support to taxonomic separation of these genera. Interspecific affinities postulated on other grounds are, in many instances, supported by seed morphology. Various seed-coat features are believed to aid in water or animal dispersal of the seeds of several species. Ant dispersal appears to be important for Villarsia and Nymphoides in Australia, but does not seem to occur in these genera or in other members of the family outside of Australia.     

PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIONS OF THE ECOLOGY OF THE INTERTIDAL PREDATORY GASTROPOD LEPSIELLA VINOSA (LAMARCK) (GASTROPODA MURICIDAE)

Lepsiella vinosa\ (Lamarck), a common intertidal predatory gastropod,was studied in two zones on an exposed rocky shore in Victoria(Australia). Those from the Mussel Zone in the mid-shore primarilyate one species of mussel and had a faster rate of energy consumptionthan those from the Littorinid Zone in the high-shore, whichmainly ate one species of littorinid gastropod. Shell length,growth rate and size-specific body weight of L. vinosa wereall significantly greater in the Mussel Zone. Egg capsules ofL. vinosa from the Mussel Zone contained significantly moreeggs and more potential hatchlings per capsule than those fromthe Littorinid Zone although there were no significant differencesin the sizes of eggs or hatchlings between zones. These differencesbetween the two zones were correlated to the greater consumptionof energy by L. vinosa in the Mussel Zone and were discussedin relation to the absence of dispersive larvae in this species ¹Present address: Department of Zoology, Monash University,Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia ²Present address: School of Biological Sciences, Carslaw Building,F07, University of Sydney, N.S.W., 2006, Australia. Addresseefor reprints. (Received 2 June 1987;     

A NEW SPECIES OF BANDICOOT FROM THE OLIGOCENE OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA AND IMPLICATIONS OF BANDICOOTS FOR CORRELATING AUSTRALIAN TERTIARY MAMMAL FAUNAS

Abstract:  A new species of primitive bandicoot, Yarala kida sp. nov., is described from Kangaroo Well, a site in the Northern Territory of Australia. This species is possibly ancestral to Yarala burchfieldi , the type species of the Yaraloidea, and supports a late Oligocene age for the Kangaroo Well Local Fauna. The yaraloid bandicoots are likely to become important biochronological tools for Australian faunas of late Oligocene to early Miocene age, as they are widespread and diverse. Developing morphoclines for this group is therefore essential, as is publication of the mostly undescribed bandicoot material known from other sites of similar age.     

姜科植物地理

本文讨论了姜科的分类系统、起源、进化和地理分布．姜科为一还热带分布科,按Ｂｕｒｔｔ［８］的系统分２亚科４族．全世界有５２属,约１３７７种,其中姜亚科含４８属,１２６８种．主要分布于热带亚洲．其现代分布中心在印度－马来西亚。闭鞘姜亚科含４属,１０９种,主要分布于热带美洲及非洲。本文在化石资料及现代分布资料的基础上,讨论了姜科的早期分化时间、地点及现代分布格局形成。化石记录表明．欧洲、北美及印度的白垩纪、早第三纪均发现过姜科的化石,据此姜科植物的起源时间应不晚于早白垩纪。姜亚科的早期分化中心推论在劳亚古陆的南部．欧洲和北美没有现代姜科的分布是因为第三纪冰期的影响．而亚洲热带地区现代姜科植物繁盛是因为气候适宜．且相对稳定所致．南美的姜亚科种类应是由非洲传人．而大洋洲的姜亚科种类则是由马来西亚传入．闭鞘姜亚科的早期分化中心推论在西冈瓦纳古陆．亚洲及大洋洲的闭鞘姜亚科的种类应是随印度板块飘向亚洲时传入。中国姜科植物有２２属．２０９种（占全世界属的４２％．种的１５％）．主要分布于马来西亚亚区（占全国属的９０％）．其次为中国喜马拉雅亚区（占全国属的６８％）。最少为中国－日本亚区（占全国属的４５％）。统计数字表明．马来西亚     

NEW SPECIES OF SMEAGOL FROM AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND, WITH A DISCUSSION OF THEAFFINITIES OF THE GENUS (GASTROPODA: PULMONATA)

Five species of the marine pulmonate genus Smeagol (family Smeagolidae)are described from upper littoral shingle habitats from southeastern Australia and New Zealand. The systematic position ofthe family is discussed. (Received 24 June 1991; accepted 2 October 1991)     

影响入侵种反枝苋分布的环境因子分析及可能分布区预测

反枝苋(Amaranthus retroflexus)是苋属入侵种中发生频率最多、分布最广、危害最严重的杂草。基于反枝苋在世界范围内4 207个实际分布点及其对应的气候、地形和土壤3类要素28个环境因子的定量关系,利用主成分分析确定了影响其分布的主要环境因子,据此估测其中心可能分布区和最大可能分布区,并与实际分布点进行比较。结果表明:14个环境因子在决定反枝苋全球分布格局中起着重要作用。反枝苋中心分布区位于新西兰南部、澳大利亚东南部、南美洲北部少数地区、北美洲西北部及东南部部分地区、欧洲大部分地区和中国东南部,最大可能分布区位于南美洲中南部、北美洲大部分、非洲北部小部分、澳大利亚南部及北部少数区域、欧洲大部分地区和亚洲大部分地区及中国除西藏、青海、新疆、四川西部以外的地区。中心分布区的预测结果与实际分布点吻合较好,而最大分布区则过于广阔。     

南澳大利亚Officer盆地东部下寒武统Abadiella一新种

描述采用自南澳大利亚Officer盆地东部Manya-6号钻井的下寒武统Ouldburra组的Abadiella三叶虫的一新种－Abadiella officerensis,同时指出Parabadiella是Abadiella的同义名。     

BIOGEOGRAPHY OF ASEXUAL AND SEXUAL REPRODUCTION IN CALOGLOSSA (DELESSERIACEAE,RHODOPHYTA) FROM AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

Caloglossa species are widely distributed in mangroves and salt marshes around the world and their life history patterns are being investigated in laboratory culture. In Australia all isolates of C. monosticha, C. postiae and C. ogasawaraensis have Polysiphonia‐type (P‐type) sexual life histories. Among the 70 C. leprieurii isolates from Australia and New Zealand P‐type sexual reproduction also is dominant. However, ten isolates of C. leprieurii from the Spencer Gulf and the Gulf of St. Vincent in South Australia give rise to successive tetrasporphyte generations without gametophytes. Moreover, one isolate from Queensland is asexual. Only one South Australia isolate, obtained from Lake Alexandrina at the mouth of the Murray River, is sexual. South Australia and Pacific Mexico are two regions in which asexual reproduction is dominant. In another mangrove dwelling red alga Bostrychia moritiziana (Rhodomelaceae) non‐sexual reproduction also is frequent in Australia, New Caledonia and Bali (Indonesia). This asexual reproductive pattern of tetrasporophytic recycling appears to have arisen independently among individual populations of various red algal species in different regions. Investigations are underway on the molecular phylogeny of the Caloglossa leprieurii isolates.     

绒蛛步甲属记述及一新种描述(鞘翅目:步甲科)

绒蛛步甲属Ａｐｏｔｏｍｕｓ Ｉｌｌｉｇｅｒ已记录１４种,其中一种分布于我国。本文记述产于海南省琼山市的一新种,模式标本保存在华南农业大学昆虫标本室。黑绒蛛步甲Ａｐｏｔｏｍｕｓ ａｔｒｉｐｅｎｎｉｓ Ｍｏｔｃｈｕｌｓｋｙ,１８５８。分布 中国湖北;印度,锡金,孟加拉国及东南亚。琼绒蛛步甲,新种Ａｐｏｔｏｍｕｓ ｑｉｏｎｇｓｈａｎｅｎｓｉｓ ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．,雌虫：体长３．８ｍｍ,宽１．６ｍｍ。雄虫不说     

AGENTS INTRODUCED INTO AUSTRALIA FOR THE BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF GASCARDIA DESTRUCTOR (NEWSTEAD) (HEMIPTERA: COCCIDAE)

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Six species of parasitic Hymenoptera and 1 predatory Lepidoptera from South Africa, and 1 Hymenoptera from New Zealand were liberated for biological control of white wax scale Gascardia destructor (Newstead) in Australia. Four of the South African Hymenoptera have become established and at least 2, Anicetus communis (Annecke) and Paraceraptrocerus nyasicus (Compere), are contributing to control of G. destructor in eastern Australia.     

REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN HELONOTUS AMYOT AND SERVILLE (HETEROPTERA: REDUVIIDAE)

Abstract
Australian species of the genus Helonotus Amyot and Serville, viz. H. auricomus Miller and H. curvidens Miller, are synonymised with H. exsugiens Stål from New Guinea. H. exsugiens is redescribed with a lectotype and paralectotypes designated. Two new species, H. sextuberculatus sp. n. and H. queenslandensis sp. n. are described from northern Australia and a key to species is given.     

河南叶县下寒武统辛集组单板类和腹足类化石的研究

本文描述和讨论了河南叶县杨寺庄下寒武统辛集组单板类１３种,腹足类２种,未定类１种。其中包括２新属６新种：Ｒｅｐｅｎｏｃｏｎｕｓ ｘｉｎｊｉｅｎｓｉｓ ｇｅｎ．ｎｏｖ．,Ｓｃｅｎｅｌｌａ ｐｙｃｎａ ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．,Ｓｅｃｕｒｉｃｏｎｕｓ ｖｕｌｇａｒｉｓ ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．,Ｏｂｔｕｓｏｃｎｕｓ ｇｒｏｓｓｉｃｏｓｔｕｓ ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．,Ｉｇｏｒｅｌｌｉｎａ ｐｒｏｂｏｓｃｉｓ ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．,Ｇａｌ