Entomologist's Monthly Magazine - Vol. 153, No. 1, 2017
Published: 1/28/2017
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Late summer observations on Odonata from the Armenian Highland to the Talysh Mountains in north-west Iran
By: Schneider, T. & Ikemeyer, D.
Page: 1-10
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
In August 2016, 32 Odonata species were recorded from north-west Iran. A poorly-known central Asian species Sympetrum haritonovi, which has its western outposts in the Taurus Mountains, Turkey was found in a new location on the Armenian Highland in Iran further filling the geographical gap between its terra typica in Tadjikistan and its western outposts. The newly detected population with over 1000 individuals may be the largest so far known. Lestes dryas and Coenagrion puella, both Euro-Siberian faunal elements and new for Iran, were detected in the Armenian Highland; L. dryas also in the Talysh Mountains. Platycnemis kervillei is regarded as a Levantine endemic and an early summer species; however, we found large populations by some mountain brooks in Azarbãyejãn-e-Sharqi Province and Ardabil Province, extending its range significantly to the north-east and its flight season significantly into late summer.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘FINE LINES, VLADIMIR NABOKOV’S SCIENTIFIC ART’ edited by STEPHEN H. BLACKWELL AND KURT JOHNSON.
By: ANGUS McCULLOUGH
Page: 11-12
Type: Book Review
Flower fly genus Valdiviomyia Vockeroth (Diptera: Syrphidae), with the description of two new species
By: F. CHRISTIAN THOMPSON & BETTY JEAN THOMPSON
Page: 13-20
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
The genus Validiviomyia is reviewed and two new species are described: V. gigantea Thompson (Chile) and shannoni Thompson (Argentina & Chile). Key to the species of the genus is given.
Scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from Fair Isle, including a first record for the British Isles, and mainland Shetland
By: R.H.L. DISNEY & N.J. RIDDIFORD
Page: 21-24
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Nine named species, and four species represented by females only that cannot be named in our present state of knowledge, of Phoridae were recorded from Fair Isle, the southernmost of the Shetland Islands, including the first record of Megaselia teneripes Schmitz for the British Isles. An additional taxon from mainland Shetland brings the total of known named species for the archipelago to ten.
Chilenocaecilius ornatipennis (Blanchard, 1851) (Psocodea: ‘Psocoptera’, Paracaeciliidae) in Ireland, first Palaearctic record of this South American genus and species
By: CHARLES LIENHARD, MARK G. TELFER & ROY ANDERSON
Page: 25-30
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
The species Chilenocaecilius ornatipennis (Blanchard, 1851) is here recorded from two localities in Ireland. Previously this species was unknown outside South America, where it is widespread in Chile and also known from two localities in Argentina. Figures of some important diagnostic characters are given.
The first fossil occurrence for the earwig subfamily Geracinae (Dermaptera)
By: MICHAEL S. ENGEL
Page: 31-43
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
The earwig subfamily Geracinae (‘Spongiphoridae’) is newly recorded from the fossil record. A single female of a geracine earwig is described and figured from Early Miocene Dominican amber. Nesogerax polytrichum gen. et sp. n. is differentiated from all other Geracinae, a subfamily of pantropical distribution and including some of the smallest of all earwigs. A revised key to the living and fossil genera of the subfamily is appended, with description of Apterogerax gen. n. [resulting in Apterogerax mameti (Hincks), comb. n.] and removal of Nesolabia Hincks to Nesolabiinae, subfam. n.
Chilenocaecilius ornatipennis (Blanchard) (Psocodea: ‘Psocoptera’, Paracaeciliidae) in Scotland and England
By: K.N.A. ALEXANDER
Page: 44
Type: Short Notes
Two new species of Microthoron Masner (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea, Scelionidae) from India
By: VEENAKUMARI KAMALANATHAN & PRASHANTH MOHANRAJ
Page: 45-58
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Members of tribe Thoronini Kozlov, 1970, are egg parasitoids of aquatic Heteroptera. Some genera such as Thoronidea Masner & Huggert, 1979, Paleothoron Mineo, O’Connor & Ashe, 2009, and Nimiothoron Mineo, O’Connor & Ashe, 2009, are known to exhibit exaggerated sexual dimorphism in antennal characters. In males of these genera either A3 or A4 is unusually elongate and shaped differently. This sexual dimorphism in antennal characters with an unusually long A4 in male antenna is reported for the first time in Microthoron Masner. Two new species of Microthoron are described. The male of M. baeoidesMasner and its bizarre antenna are described. Both male and female M. baeoides and female M. miricornis Masner & Huggert are figured. Narendraniola Rajmohana is treated as a junior synonym of Microthoron.
New species and a key to species of the New Zealandgenus Zelostemma Masner & Huggert, 1989, (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae)
By: PETER N. BUHL
Page: 59-72
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Zelostemma is a platygastrid genus endemic to New Zealand. 30 new species are described: Zelostemma alpinum, Z. breviantennatum, Z. brevicaudum, Z. brevistriatum, Z. dugdalei, Z. gastrotrypoideum, Z. gourlayi, Z. inaequale, Z. insulare, Z. laevicornu, Z. laevipetiolatum, Z. latipetiolatum, Z. longiabdominatum, Z. longipedicellatum, Z. masneri, Z. medionitens, Z. munki, Z. nottoni, Z. noyesi, Z. obscurum, Z. peninsulare, Z. popovicii, Z. rubi, Z. semialatum, Z. striatipetiolatum, Z. terrestre, Z. thorpei, Z. toftei, Z. vilhelmseni, and Z. wardi. A key to the 34 known species of Zelostemma is provided.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘CATALOGUE OF PALAEARCTIC COLEOPTERA. VOLUME 3: SCARABAEOIDEA, SCIRTOIDEA, DASCILLOIDEA, BUPRESTOIDEA AND BYRRHOIDEA’.
By: ANDREW DUFF
Page: 73-74
Type: Book Review
BOOK REVIEW: ‘SILENT SPARKS: THE WONDROUS WORLD OF FIREFLIES’ by SARA LEWIS.
By: CERI WATKINS
Page: 74-76
Type: Book Review
Correction to Rougemont, G. de, 2016, ‘Four unusual species of Eleusis Laporte (Staphylinidae: Osoriinae)’, Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, 152: 265–269
By: GUILLAUME DE ROUGEMONT
Page: 77-78
Type: Short Notes