Entomologist's Monthly Magazine - Vol. 151, No. 2, 2015
Published: 4/24/2015
Article Details for this issue
New Leiodes species (Coleoptera: Leiodidae, Leiodinae) from China
By: JONATHAN COOTER & ZDENĚK ŠVEC
Page: 73-109
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Nineteen new species of Leiodes: L. praeceps, L. delta, L. eurosta, L. penelope, L. gamma, L. tibialis, L. setifera, L. moecha, L. superficialis, L. lincangica, L. aptera, L. conica, L. rasilis, L. sexpunctata, L. dashennongjiaensis, L. angustiformis, L. levis, L. obliqua and L. baoshanica from China are described, distinguished from similar species and keyed. New distributional data for Leiodes sichuanica Švec, 2000, (Gansu, Hubei) are presented.
Molanna angustata Curtis, 1834 (Trichoptera: Molannidae) new to Scotland
By: G. DALLEY
Page: 110
Type: Short Notes
The first syrphid larvae trapped in amber (Diptera: Syrphidae)
By: G.E. ROTHERAY & W. CRIGHTON
Page: 111–116
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Two larvae of Syrphidae (Diptera) in Dominican amber were studied. Both inclusions are well
preserved with little apparent distortion or alteration of characters. Comparing the specimens with
known larval forms within the Syrphidae, they are most similar to the Neotropical genus,
Alipumilio Shannon of the Eristalinae and probably represent different species. Species of extant
Alipumilio are known to develop in exudations of plant resin. This is congruent with the larvae
described here in Dominican amber, whose origin is thought to be resin from an extinct
leguminous tree, Hymenaea protera Poinar (Fabaceae). These exudate-dwelling larvae differ
from most invertebrate amber inclusions, which are trapped in the resin.
New Afrotropical eumerine flower fly synonyms (Diptera: Syrphidae)
By: LEIF LYNEBORG, THOMAS PAPE & F. CHRISTIAN THOMPSON
Page: 117–124
Type: Short Notes
Synopsis:
The following new synonymies are proposed: Eumerus argenteus Walker (= E.
quadrimaculatus Macquart syn. nov.); E. assimilis Doesburg (= E. griseus Hull syn. nov.);
E. astropilops Hull (= E. nigrocoeruleus Hull syn. nov., E. hypopygialis Doesburg syn. nov.);
E. bidentatus Keiser (= E. tridentatus Keiser syn. nov.); E. breijeri Doesburg (= E. speiseri Hull
syn. nov.); E. cistanchei efflatoun (= Paragus parasiticus Séguy syn. nov., E. caboverdensis
Barkemeyer syn. nov.); E. erythrocerus Loew (= E. axinecerus Speiser syn. nov., E. obscurus Hull
syn. nov.); E. jacobi Hervé-Bazin (= E. connexus Hull syn. nov.); E. obliquus (Fabricius) (= E.
lugens Wiedemann syn. nov.); E. unicolor Loew (= Citabaena wainwrighti Curran syn. nov.);
E. varipennis (Curran) (= E. toamasinaensis Keiser syn. nov.). Lectotypes are designated for
Pipiza aurifrons Wiedemann, Eumerus cistanchei Efflatoun, Eumerus erythrocerus Loew,
Eumerus lugens Wiedemann, Milesia obliqua Fabricius, Eumerus quadrimaculatus Macquart and
Eumerus unicolor Loew.
Further records of Notostira erratica (Linnaeus) (Hemiptera: Miridae) from Oxfordshire, and the insect new to Berkshire and Buckinghamshire
By: R.P. RYAN
Page: 125-126
Type: Short Notes
A new species of Nodynus from China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Apateticinae)
By: GUILLAUME DE ROUGEMONT
Page: 127–129
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
A new species of Nodynus Waterhouse, 1876, from China is described and illustrated.
Validation of two beetle species names (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae)
By: MICHAEL DARBY
Page: 130
Type: Short Notes
Flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of Easter Island, southeastern Pacific Ocean
By: F.C. THOMPSON
Page: 130
Type: Short Notes
Five invasive mealybug species new for Ascension Island (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), with a revised checklist of scale insects for the island
By: CHRIS MALUMPHY, LIZA F. WHITE, JAYNE HALL, JENNIFER HODGETTS & MARTIN HAMILTON
Page: 131–138
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Five invasive mealybug species are recorded for the first time from Ascension Island:
Antonina graminis (Maskell) was collected from Cyperus appendiculatus; Chorizococcus
rostellum (Lobdell) from Sporobolus caespitosus; Dysmicoccus brevipes (Cockerell) from C.
appendiculatus; Phenacoccus solani Ferris from Euphorbia origanoides and Portulaca oleracea;
and Planococcus minor (Maskell) from E. origanoides. Two of these host plants, E. origanoides
and S. caespitosus, are endemic to Ascension Island and classed as ‘Critically Endangered’ on the
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List. The biology, host range,
distribution and economic importance of these mealybugs are reviewed, and their potential impact
discussed. An updated and revised checklist of scale insects of Ascension Island is presented in
an appendix.
A new species of Platygaster (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) from New Zealand associated with the tōtara tree
By: PETER N. BUHL
Page: 139–141
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
A new species, Platygaster podocarpi, is described from New Zealand,where it was found on
tōtara trees (Podocarpaceae) and probably parasitising Cecidomyiidae (Diptera).
BOOK REVIEWS: ‘ARTHROPOD FAUNA OF THE UAE: VOLUME 5’ edited by ANTONIUS VAN HARTEN
By: ANDREW WAKEHAM-DAWSON
Page: 142-143
Type: Book Review
BOOK REVIEW: ‘LONGHORNED WOODBORING BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: CERAMBYC - IDAE AND DISTENIIDAE): PRIMARY TYPES OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION’ by STEVEN W. LINGAFELTER, EUGENIO H. NEARNS, GÉRARD L. TAVAKILIAN, MIGUEL A. MONNÈ and MICHAEL BIONDI
By: DARREN MANN
Page: 143-144
Type: Book Review
BOOK REVIEW: ‘BRITISH SOLDIERFLIES AND THEIR ALLIES’ by ALAN STUBBS and MARTIN DRAKE
By: ANDREW WAKEHAM-DAWSON
Page: 144-145
Type: Book Review
LIVES AND INFLUENCES: Humphrey Webster Whistler (1904–1980) and the Victorian naturalists’ legacy
By: ANDREW WAKEHAM-DAWSON
Page: 146-148
Type: Paper