Entomologist's Gazette - Vol, 73, No. 2, 2022

Published: 4/29/2022

Article Details for this issue

EDITORIAL

By: ADRIAN SPALDING; IAN JOHNSON – PUBLISHER

Page: 63

Type: Editorial

BOOK REVIEW Butterflies of Cornwall. Atlas for the Twenty-First Century by Sarah Board, Tristram Besterman, Bob Dawson, Dick Goodere, Maggie Goodere and Cerin Poland

By: ADRIAN SPALDING

Page: 64

Type: Book Review

First rearing records of Bloodiella andalusica Nowicki, 1935 (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Trichogrammatidae) in France, from the eggs of Labidostomis taxicornis and Macrolenes dentipes (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Clytrini)

By: ANDREW POLASZEK, PIETER KAN, BRIGITTE KAN-VAN LIMBURG STIRUM, SYLVIE WAROT & GÉRALDINE GROUSSIER

Page: 65–73

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
Bloodiella andalusica is a solitary egg-parasitoid with a body length of 0.5–0.7 mm, recorded from mainland France for the first time. Specimens were reared in Var, in the Provence-Alpes- Côte d’Azur region of South-eastern France, from egg clusters of two leaf beetle species: Labidostomis taxicornis (Fabricius, 1792) and Macrolenes dentipes (Olivier, 1808). This is the first record of B. andalusica from L. taxicornis, M. dentipes having been recorded as a host previously in Italy. DNA barcode sequences of B. andalusica were obtained and deposited in Genbank. Our observations on this species are summarised and illustrated.

Infurcitinea captans Gozmány, 1960 (Lepidoptera: Tineidae) new to the British Isles and discovery of the previously unknown larva, and comparison with Infurcitinea albicomella (Stainton, 1851)

By: R. J. HECKFORD & R. J. B. HOARE

Page: 74–90

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
An account is given of the discovery of Infurcitinea captans Gozmány, 1960, new to the British Isles and of the previously unknown larva, in Cornwall, England. Larvae feed on leaflitter under dwarf shrubs in maritime heathland. Descriptions and illustrations are provided of the larva, cocoon, exuviae, adult and genitalia of both sexes. It is compared with the macroscopically similar Infurcitinea albicomella (Stainton, 1851), and the distribution of both species in the British Isles is discussed.

A notable humanly compromised Worcestershire floodplain entomofauna

By: PAUL F. WHITEHEAD

Page: 91–96

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
A floodplain agroecosystem historic relict was identified in the valley of the Worcestershire River Severn during 2016. The 2ha site comprised more or less unmanaged locally rabbitgrazed grassland with diverse forbs, open marsh drains, marl pits, open-grown veteran Pedunculate Oak trees Quercus robur L. and marginal scrub. It supported historical indicator species of insect including several fastidious species unknown elsewhere in the primary drainage of the English Midlands. This historic assemblage was abruptly disrupted by human intervention.

The status and distribution of the nationally rare micro-moth Anacampsis temerella (Lienig and Zeller, 1846) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) in Lancashire in 2021, with observations on other Salix repens L. – feeding Lepidoptera

By: BEN SMART

Page: 97–116

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
The history of Anacampsis temerella (Lienig and Zeller, 1846) in Lancashire, as well as nationally and internationally, is discussed. An account is given of a survey undertaken in May and June 2021 to look for larvae of A. temerella amongst Creeping Willow Salix repens L. on the dunes of the Sefton and Fylde coasts in Lancashire. Twenty A. temerella moths were reared from spun leaves of S. repens, as well as nineteen other species of Lepidoptera. The information gained proved the continued existence of the moth in the Sefton coast, and allowed differences to be identified between the larvae of A. temerella and Anacampsis populella (Clerck, 1759). The species was not detected on the Fylde coast during this survey. Recommendations are made regarding habitat management and future surveying to further assess distribution.

Confirmation of the presence of nominotypical Papilio demoleus demoleus Linnaeus, 1758 (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) in Cyprus, with additional notes on breeding and potential colonization

By: EDDIE JOHN, HASAN BAGLAR, ONAT BASBAY, GEORGE KONSTANTINOU, MUDAR SALIMEH & MARTIN WIEMERS

Page: 117–128

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
The arrival of Papilio demoleus Linnaeus, 1758 in Cyprus in 2021 signalled the species’ first appearance in a country of the European Union attributable to range expansion from mainland coastal regions to the east, rather than by human-mediated activity. Molecular work on the Cyprus taxon has shown this to belong to nominotypical P. demoleus demoleus, matching exactly results of similar work carried out on specimens from Mediterranean Syria. Breeding of Papilio demoleus on three species of Citrus at various urban locations in Cyprus has been confirmed, and from which observations it is apparent that two broods were achieved in late summer/autumn of 2021. As has been the experience in neighbouring Mediterranean Turkey and Syria, overwintering success is thought likely.