Taxa described in 1876

genus of insects

Eriaxis is a monotypic genus of orchids in the subfamily Vanilloideae. The sole species is Eriaxis rigida, endemic to New Caledonia. Its closest relative is Clematepistephium, also endemic to New Caledonia.

Sarcosperma is a genus of trees or shrubs in the family Sapotaceae. Their range is from India to southern China and Malesia.

Phinaea is a genus of flowering plants in family Gesneriaceae. It contains three species native to the Americas, including western and central Mexico, Cuba and Haiti, and Colombia and northern Brazil.

Cryptothecia is a genus of white to greenish crustose lichens that grow on bark, wood, or leaves, in tropical or subtropical areas worldwide. It has a conspicuous prothallus that develops around its periphery which can be bright red in some species, hence the common name wreath lichen. The main vegetative body (thallus) lacks a cortex (ecorticate and is often immersed in the substrate or byssoid (whispy, like teased wool). The medulla is white, well defined, and often peppered with calcium oxalate crystals. Ascomata are not well defined, being cushions of soft white mycelium immersed in the me

Pycnandra is a genus of trees in the family Sapotaceae described as a genus in 1876.

Monopyle is a genus of plants in the family Gesneriaceae.

Epigonichthys is a genus of lancelets belonging to the family Branchiostomatidae. The genus was first described in 1876 by Wilhelm Peters. The type species is Epigonichthys cultellus.

genus of plants

Tullbergia is a genus of springtails within the family Tullbergiidae.

Methysia is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae. The genus was erected by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1876.

Leptomithrax is a genus of crabs in the family Majidae, first described by Edward J. Miers in 1876. They have been on Earth for 37.2 million years.

Pseudaclytia is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae. The genus was erected by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1876.

Pseudosphenoptera is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae.

Cyrtidula is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the class Dothideomycetes. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the class is unknown (incertae sedis).

Geissanthus is a genus of shrubs and trees in the family Primulaceae. There are 52 species distributed in Panama and tropical South America, with 25 of them in forests of the Andes.

Javania is a genus of marine corals belonging to the family Flabellidae, which was first described in 1876 by Peter Martin Duncan.

Heinemannia is a genus of moths of the family Elachistidae.

Guthriea capensis is an acaulescent perennial herb endemic to South Africa and occurring in cool and damp sites facing south or east in the mountains of the Cape Province, Lesotho and KwaZulu-Natal. Guthriea is monotypic and was named after the botanist and mathematician Francis Guthrie by his friend the botanist Harry Bolus.

Acanthozoon is a genus of polyclad flatworms belonging to the family Pseudocerotidae.