CLICK ON THE IMAGES ABOVE TO ACCESS SPECIES PAGES. The ESF Top 10 New Species for 2015 An international committee of taxonomists selected the top 10 from among the approximately 18,000 new species named during the previous year and released the list to coincide with the May 23 birthday of Carolus Linnaeus, the father of modern taxonomy. The 2015 Top Ten Alphabetical order by scientific name - species are not ranked Feathered Dinosaur (Anzu wyliei) Coral Plant (Balanophora coralliformis) Cartwheeling Spider (Cebrennus rechenbergi) The X-Phyla (Dendrogramma enigmatica) Bone-house Wasp (Deuteragenia ossarium) Indonesian Frog (Limnonectes larvaepartus) Walking Stick (Phryganistria tamdaoensis) Sea Slug (Phyllodesmium acanthorhinum) Bromeliad (Tillandsia religiosa) Pufferfish (Torquigener albomaculosus) ESF—America's Top Environmental College ESF At-a-Glance | Rankings Academics | Admissions Watch the Top 10 2015 video! Map view of species locations (Google Maps) Information for the media The ESF International Institute for Species Exploration The International Institute for Species Exploration is dedicated to the exploration, inventory, and classification of earth’s species, public awareness of the biodiversity crisis, advocacy for the important roles played by taxonomy and natural history museums, and in advancing cybertaxonomy, the application of cyber and digital tools to accelerate and improved comparative morphology, descriptive taxonomy, and phylogenetic classification. IISE website The top 10 list is released each year on or about Carolus Linnaeus’ birthday on May 23 rd . Linnaeus is the “Father of Taxonomy” and his work in the mid 18 th century was the beginning point for “modern” naming and classification of plants and animals. KINGDOM : ANIMALIA FAMILY : POMPILIDAE ETYMOLOGY: THE EPITHET IS FROM THE LATIN OSSARIUM , MEANING AN OSSUARY OR BONE-HOUSE. TYPE LOCALITY : CHINA, ZHEJIANG PROVINCE, GUTIANSHAN NATIONAL NATURE RESERVE HOLOTYPE: INSECT COLLECTION, INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, BEIJING. SIZE: 7.4 TO 15.2 MM MORE INFORMATION: MICHAEL STAAB, MICHAEL OHL, CHAO-DONG ZHU, AND ALEXANDRA-MARIA KLEIN. 2014. A UNIQUE NEST-PROTECTION STRATEGY IN A NEW SPECIES OF SPIDER WASP. PLOS ONE 9(7): E101592. 2015 Species Selection Committee Members of the international selection committee are: Dr. Antonio G. Valdecasas, chair — Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC,Spain Dr. Cristina Damborenea — División Zoologia Invertebrados— Museo de La Plata, Argentina Dr. Andrew Polaszek — Natural History Museum, England Dr. Ellinor Michel — Natural History Museum, England Dr. Marcelo Rodrigues de Carvalho — Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil Prof. Aharon Oren — The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Dr. Alan Paton — Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, England Dr. James A. Macklin — Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada Dr. Zhi-Qiang Zhang — Landcare Research, New Zealand A news release is available on request. For additional information or to request an interview, please contact: Claire Dunn , SUNY-ESF Communications Quentin Wheeler , IISE Founding Director and President, SUNY-ESF What on Earth? by Quentin Wheeler and Sara Pennak What on Earth? is a compendium of the 100 coolest, weirdest, and most intriguing new species of this century as determined by the International Institute for Species Exploration. Learn More and Purchase ESF HOME TOP10 2015 A FEMALE OF DEUTERAGENIA OSSARIUM IN ITS NATURAL ECOSYSTEM IN SOUTH EAST CHINA PHOTOGRAPH: MICHAEL STAAB Google Maps view Bone-house Wasp: Morbid Motherhood ESF Top 10 New Species of 2015 2015 Home Species Pages : 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 About the Bone-house Wasp Name : Deuteragenia ossarium How it made the Top 10 : This insect, which tops out at about a half-inch (15mm) in length, has a unique way to protect its offspring. The wasp constructs nests in hollow stems with several cells, each separated by soil walls. The wasp kills and deposits one spider in each cell to provide nourishment for her developing young. Once her egg is laid, she seals off the cell and hunts a spider for the next cell. Rather than provisioning the final or vestibule cell with a spider, she fills it with as many as 13 bodies of dead ants, thus creating a chemical barrier to the nest. This is the first animal known to take this approach to securing the front door to a nest. This species, found in Gutianshan National Nature Reserve in eastern China, has significantly lower parasitism rates than similar cavity-nesting wasps. Camouflage is supplied by a veil of volatile chemicals emitted by the dead ants, thwarting enemies that hunt wasp larvae by scent.
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