Entomologist's Monthly Magazine - Vol. 156, No. 3, 2020
Published: 7/31/2020
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The British butterfly collection at The Manchester Museum
By: MICHAEL DOCKERY & LAURENCE M. COOK
Page: 135–149
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Information on the Manchester Museum holding of British butterflies is presented and access to
it is made available. Almost all of the collection has been provided over a period of 200 years by
donations from private collectors. We discuss the dates, the pattern of collecting and evidence the
material holds of changing attitudes and perceived uses of private collections.
Parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) reared from galls of Giraudiella inclusa (Frauenfeld, 1862) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) on Phragmites australis in Kent, England
By: M. T. JENNINGS
Page: 150–154
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Giraudiella inclusa (Frauenfeld) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) induces galls in stems of
Phragmites australis in wetland habitats. The parasitoid community (Hymenoptera:
Chalcidoidea) associated with the galls was studied in Kent, England. Nine species of
Chalcidoidea were identified. This rich community forms an important part of the biodiversity of
stands of P. australis.
A second species of Lonchoprella from northern Argentina (Hymenoptera: Colletidae)
By: MICHAEL S. ENGEL
Page: 155–162
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
A second species of Lonchoprella Michener (Lonchopriini) is described and figured from
north-central Salta Province, Argentina. Lonchoprella fuscata, sp. n., can be distinguished from
the type species, L. annectens (Michener), by coloration and integumental sculpturing. A key is
provided for the identification of the included species. New records for species of Lonchopria
Vachal are appended.
Twenty-one new species of craneflies (Diptera: Tipulidae and Limoniidae), and a new fold-wing cranefly (Diptera: Ptychopteridae) from Mount Kupe, Cameroon, with notes on eighteen other species new to the country from the same location
By: PETE BOARDMAN
Page: 163–206
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Following the award of a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (WCMT) Fellowship the author
was able to visit the Charles P. Alexander (1889‒1981) collection at the Smithsonian Institution,
Washington D.C. to study craneflies gifted to him from fieldwork in Cameroon. They were
collected by Malaise trap in forest clearings near streams on Mount Kupe, near Nyasoso,
Cameroon. 21 new species of cranefly (Diptera: Tipulidae and Limoniidae): Dolichopeza
(Dolichopeza) vicki sp. n., Nephrotoma mawdsleyi sp. n., Baeoura nyasosoensis sp. n.,
Ellipteroides (Ellipteroides) nigromaculatus sp. n., Hovamyia gelhausi sp. n., Limnophilomyia
(Limnophilomyia) alexanderi sp. n., Ormosia (Neserioptera) cameroonensis sp. n.,
Afrolimnophila mederosi sp. n., A. oosterbroeki sp. n., Neolimnomyia kupensis sp. n.,
Pseudolimnophila (Pseudolimnophila) staryi sp. n., Achyrolimonia prycei sp. n., Dicranomyia
(Dicranomyia) tuberculata sp. n., D. (Idioglochina) stubbsi sp. n., Elephantomyia
(Elephantomyia) gilsonae sp. n., Libnotes (Afrolimonia) trimaculata sp. n., Metalimnobia
(Tricholimnobia) krameri sp. n., Thaumastoptera (Thaumastoptera) churchilli sp. n., Toxorhina
(Ceratocheilus) holvia sp. n., Trentepohlia (Trentepohlia) zorro sp. n., and Trichoneura
(Xipholimnobia) jacksoni, and a new species of fold-wing cranefly (Diptera: Ptychopteridae):
Ptychoptera (Ptychoptera) fasbenderi sp. n., are described. 18 species of cranefly known from
elsewhere in the Afrotropical region are recorded here from Cameroon for the first time:
Gonomyia (Leiponeura) hyperion Alexander, 1956, Limnophilomyia (Limnophilomyia)
medleriana Alexander, 1976, Styringomyia vittata Edwards, 1914, Afrolimnophila hartwigi
(Alexander, 1974), A. urundiana (Alexander, 1955), Austrolimnophila (Phragmocrypta) fulani
Alexander, 1974, Hexatoma (Eriocera) brevifurca Alexander, 1956, H. (E.) trichoneura
Alexander, 1956, H. (E.) tumidiscapa (Alexander, 1920), Medleromyia nigeriana Alexander,
1974, Achyrolimonia recurvans (Alexander, 1919), Atypopthalmus (Atypopthalmus) submendicus
tuberculifer (Alexander, 1956), Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) redundans (Alexander, 1956),
Libnotes (Afrolimonia) rhanteria (Alexander, 1920), L. (A.) illiterata (Alexander, 1937), Limonia
woosnami (Alexander, 1920), Orimarga (Protorimarga) bequaertiana (Alexander, 1930) and
Toxorhina (Ceratocheilus) nigripleura (Alexander, 1920).
In total 40 species are presented as new for Cameroon. A further 23 species already known
from Cameroon were identified, and are listed here as some of them have not been recorded since
their original description close to, or in some cases over, a hundred years ago.
BOOK REVIEW EUROPE'S DRAGONFLIES: A FIELD GUIDE TO THE DAMSELFLIES AND DRAGONFLIES, by Dave Smallshire & Andy Swash
By: ANDREW WAKEHAM-DAWSON
Page: 207-208
Type: Book Review