Entomologist's Gazette - Vol. 73, No. 3, 2022

Published: 8/26/2022

Article Details for this issue

EDITORIAL

Page: 129

Type: Editorial

NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS Genista tinctoria confirmed as a foodplant of Prolita solutella (Zeller, 1839) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)

By: S. D. BEAVAN

Page: 130–132

Type: Short Notes

Incurvaria ullae sp. n. (Lepidoptera: Incurvariidae) from the Alps of Grisons, Switzerland

By: JÜRG SCHMID

Page: 133–143

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
Incurvaria ullae sp. n. is described from a subalpine peat bog biotope in the Swiss Alps. It is compared morphologically, genitically and by DNA barcode to I. vetulella (Zetterstedt, 1839) and I. ploessli Huemer, 1993. Detailed observations about its biology are reported.

NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS Interspecific courtship attempt in Lepidoptera (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)

By: PETER B. HARDY

Page: 144

Type: Short Notes

Rediscovery of Zygaena theryi Joannis, 1908 (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae) in Algeria

By: WINFRIED DAUNICHT & RIADH MOULAÏ

Page: 145–149

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
After the last documented sighting 39 years ago, Zygaena theryi Joannis, 1908 was rediscovered in Algeria. The locality is briefly described and shown with photographs, and also live photographs of a live adult are provided.

Early observations confirm overwintering success of Papilio demoleus Linnaeus, 1758 (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) in 2021/2022, enhancing potential for establishment in Cyprus

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

Page: 150–154

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
Following the arrival in Cyprus of Papilio demoleus Linnaeus, 1758 in the autumn of 2021, an unusually severe winter in the eastern Mediterranean in 2021/2022 raised concern about the ability of the taxon to overwinter successfully, as had been achieved in Mediterranean Turkey and Syria in recent years. In Cyprus, early observations in April 2022, followed by the appearance of a new generation in June, allayed such concerns, and are reported upon here.

Behavioural observations on Anoplius nigerrimus (Scopoli, 1763) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)

By: PAUL F. WHITEHEAD

Page: 155–158

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
Two instances of prey abandonment by Anoplius nigerrimus (Scopoli, 1763), a widely distributed spider-hunting wasp, are documented. In one instance a paralysed spider had been transported 5.75 m up the vertical side of a building in Gloucestershire. The ritualised settlement of a prey ownership dispute between two female wasps is described.

Some previously unpublished scanning electron micrographs of lepidoptera showing differences in eye structure

By: ADRIAN SPALDING

Page: 159–164

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
Many Lepidoptera have corneal nipples of varying length on the surface of the eye, although corneal nipples are absent in some Lepidoptera species. There are several theories as to the function of these nipples. Figures showing corneal nipples for a number of species are shown here for the first time.

Rearings of four European Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), three new to Britain including a new species of Cotesia Cameron, 1891

By: MARK R. SHAW

Page: 165–175

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
Cotesia carterocephali sp. nov. is described from a single gregarious brood reared from a posthibernation final instar larva of the hesperiid butterfly Carterocephalus palaemon in Scotland. Details of English rearings of two other Microgastrinae recorded from Britain for the first time are also given: Distatrix pompelon, gregariously from the erebiid lymantriine Orgyia antiqua (also recorded from the same host in Austria), and Dolichogenidea hemerobiellicida, solitarily from the coleophorid Coleophora hemerobiella (with a record from possibly the same host in the Netherlands). The non-British Glyptapanteles aletta is recorded as a solitary parasitoid of Limenitis populi in Finland, France and Germany: a previous host record for this parasitoid is regarded as incorrect.

NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS Colletes marginatus Smith, 1846 (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) on Hilbre Island and established on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire

By: P. F. WHITEHEAD

Page: 176–178

Type: Short Notes

The larvae of Demetrias (Aetophorus) imperialis (Germar, 1823) and Syntomus foveatus (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785) (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Lebiini)

By: MARTIN L. LUFF

Page: 179–184

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
The previously unknown larvae of Demetrias (Aetophorus) imperialis (Germar, 1823) and Syntomus foveatus (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785) are described and figured from British material. A key to British genera of Lebiini larvae is provided.

Neoxorides montanus Oehlke, 1966 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Poemeniinae) new to Britain from Tatton Park, Cheshire (V. C. 58)

By: TONY HUNTER

Page: 185–188

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
The parasitoid wasp Neoxorides montanus Oehlke, 1966 (Ichneumonidae: Poemeniinae) is recorded new to Britain from a single female found resting on a fallen Larch (Larix decidua Mill.) during a nocturnal invertebrate survey at Tatton Park, Cheshire. This increases the number of recorded UK Neoxorides species to two. Information on the recognition of the recorded UK species is included, along with a brief discussion on their distribution and published hosts.

BOOK REVIEW His Imperial Majesty. A Natural History of the Purple Emperor by Matthew Oates

By: ADRIAN SPALDING

Page: 189–190

Type: Book Review