Entomologist's Monthly Magazine - Vol. 158, No. 1, 2022

Published: 1/28/2022

Article Details for this issue

Thektogaster chrysis (Förster, 1861) added to the British list with first host records for it and other Miscogasterinae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae)

By: H. CHARLES J. GODFRAY & KEITH P. BLAND

Page: 1–8

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
New distributional and biological records are provided for wasps in the subfamily Miscogasterinae (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), reared from Diptera in Scotland and northern England. Thektogaster chrysis (Förster, 1861) is added to the British list based on specimens reared from Gimnomera tarsea (Fallén) (Scathophagidae), a first host record for the genus. Rhicnocoelia constans (Walker, 1836) is reared from Loxocera sylvatica Meigen (Psilidae), the first European host record for the genus. Nodisoplata diffinis (Walker, 1874) is reared from Egle spp. (Anthomyiidae) in Salix catkins, a first host record for the genus. Ardilea convexa (Walker, 1833) is reared from an Agromyzidae on Tripolium pannonicum, a first host record for the genus.

Mites (Acari) in the Manchester Museum: Curators and a committee

By: GRAHAM S. PROUDLOVE, LAURENCE M. COOK & DMITRI V. LOGUNOV

Page: 9–27

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
The Manchester Museum has a series of collections of mites and ticks as a consequence of donations and the activities of members of the Museum at different times. Brief details of the collectors are given, and the extent of coverage of the groups concerned is described. Full records can be provided on application to the Entomology Department.

Sympiesis notata (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eulophidae), a gregarious parasitoid of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), and some records of other Chalcidoidea associated with skipper butterflies in the Western Palaearctic

By: RICHARD R. ASKEW & MARK R. SHAW

Page: 28–32

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
Sympiesis notata is a gregarious ectoparasitoid of skipper butterfly caterpillars. Other Lepidoptera larvae in leaf mines and leaf folds are attacked by the same morphospecies, but on these smaller hosts S. notata is usually a solitary parasitoid. Other Chalcidoidea recorded as reared from hesperiid hosts are mostly species of Brachymeria (Chalcididae) and Elasmus (Eulophidae), which are primary parasitoids, and Catolaccus (Pteromalidae) which are pseudohyperparasitoids attacking cocooned ichneumonoid primary parasitoids. Species of Pteromalus, Baryscapus and Tetrastichus are also reported as secondary parasitoids from hesperiid hosts.

SHORT NOTE The Mayfly Baetis atlanticus (Soldán & Godunko, 2006) (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) recorded in the Upper Bann catchment, Northern Ireland

By: EVE C. SNOUNOU, MARIA A. SNELL & HUGH B. FEELEY

Page: 33–34

Type: Short Notes

Studies of Peruvian Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) 7: Discheramocephalus traceyae a new species from Madre de Dios, with figures of the pronota of all the known South American species of the genus

By: MICHAEL DARBY

Page: 35–40

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
Discheramocephalus traceyae sp. n. (Ptiliidae: Coleoptera) from Peru, the seventh member of the genus to be recorded from the country, is described and figured, and figures of the pronota of all the known South American representatives of the genus are included for reference.

Notes on South American stingless bees of the genus Scaptotrigona (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Part I: short-bristle species, the tubiba species group

By: MICHAEL S. ENGEL

Page: 41–59

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
Among the diversity of the stingless bee genus Scaptotrigona Moure (Apinae: Meliponini) there are a set of distinctive species distinguished from all others by their sparse and short bristles on the head and mesosoma, here treated as the tubiba species group. Four species are included in this group, two of which are new to Science: Scaptotrigona pasiphaea, sp. n., from southern Amazonian Peru, and S. silviae, sp. n., from eastern and southeastern Brazil. The remaining two species are S. tubiba (Smith) and S. affabra (Moure). A key is provided for their identification.

Lepidoptera of the Falkland Islands (8): Was Plutella rectivittella Zeller, 1877 (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae) recorded from Darwin Harbour in 1893?

By: ANDREW WAKEHAM-DAWSON

Page: 60–64

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
A short series of moth specimens obtained by W.F. Dale at Darwin Harbour, East Falkland Island in 1893 is identified as being similar to Plutella rectivittella Zeller, 1877, from South America, but may represent an as yet unidentified species.

Lepidoptera of the Falkland Islands (9): Provisional checklist of the Microlepidoptera – update no. 1

By: ANDREW WAKEHAM-DAWSON

Page: 65–66

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
This short paper provides an updated provisional checklist of all Microlepidoptera reported from the Falkland Islands.

Notes on the emergence of a stonefly, Stenoperla prasina (Newman, 1845) in New Zealand (Plecoptera: Eustheniidae)

By: SHODO MTOW & BRIAN J. SMITH

Page: 67–71

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
The emergence of an adult Stenoperla prasina (Newman, 1845) from a final instar nymph in North Island, New Zealand is described and videoed.

OBITUARY COLIN JOHNSON M.Sc., F.R.E.S. 30 April 1943 – 25 August 2021 Keeper of Entomology at the Manchester Museum 1982 – 2003

By: ROGER L.H. DENNIS

Page: 72–76

Type: Obituary

BOOK REVIEW BRITISH MOTHS – A GATEWAY GUIDE by James Lowen

By: RICHARD DICKSON

Page: 77–78

Type: Book Review