Entomologist's Monthly Magazine - Vol. 154, No. 3, 2018

Published: 7/27/2018

Article Details for this issue

PUBLISHER’S ANNOUNCEMENT: On-line Access Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine

By: IAN JOHNSON

Page: 159

Type: Editorial

On three species of Chrysis cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) recently added to the British list

By: MICHAEL ARCHER

Page: 160

Type: Short Notes

A new species of the cleptoparasitic orchid bee genus Exaerete from northern Venezuela (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

By: MICHAEL S. ENGEL

Page: 161–175

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
A new species of the cleptoparasitic orchid bee genus Exaerete Hoffmannsegg (Apinae: Euglossini) is described and figured from a series of males collected in the coastal region of Aragua, Venezuela. Exaerete fallaciosa, sp. n., is most similar to E. trochanterica (Friese) and E. kimseyae Oliveira but differs in males by a unique combination of features including the shape, sculpturing, and setation of the labrum, tegula, mesoscutellum, mesobasitarsus, and male terminalia. A new key to the species is provided and the frontalis species-group segregated into subgenus Hybomelissa, subgen. n.

The hitherto unknown flightless female of Puliciphora calix Carles-Tolrá (Diptera: Phoridae) from France

By: R. HENRY L. DISNEY

Page: 176–178

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
The female of Puliciphora calix Carles-Tolrá is described.

Studies of Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) in the Spirit Collection of the Natural History Museum, London 2: New species and records from P. Hammond’s visit to New Zealand in 1983–84

By: MICHAEL DARBY

Page: 179–196

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
Some 2,000 Ptiliidae collected in the North and South Islands of New Zealand in 1983/1984 by Peter Hammond of the Natural History Museum, London, are determined to 34 species, four of which are new to the country. As there are very few previous records, most from the Auckland district of North Island, the Hammond collection provides much new distributional data. The three new species: Nellosana insperatus sp. n., Notoptenidium flavum sp. n., and Notoptenidium johnsoni sp. n., are described and figured; the genus Ptiliodes is moved from Acrotrichinae to Ptiliinae, and Ptenidium formicetorum Kraatz recorded as a new introduction. Information is provided to aid separation of the new species from those previously recorded.

BOOK REVIEW: ‘A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction’ by Michael J. Ryan.

By: ANDREW WAKEHAM-DAWSON

Page: 197–198

Type: Book Review

A new species of Rhaphitelus Walker, 1834, (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) with notes on other species in the genus

By: R.R. ASKEW & D. MIFSUD

Page: 199–206

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
Rhaphitelus mathildae sp. n. is described from Malta and compared to the three previously known species in the genus. A key to the four known species of Rhaphitelus is provided together with notes on their biology and distribution.

Recent additions to the Chyromyidae of Morocco with description of a new species of Gymnochiromyia Hendel (Diptera: Acalyptrata)

By: MARTIN J. EBEJER

Page: 207–212

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
The following species of Chyromyidae are new records for Morocco: Chyromya robusta Hendel, Aphaniosoma approximatum Becker, A. quadrinotatum (Becker) and A. rufum Frey. Gymnochiromyia tschirnhausi is described as a new species. The total number of Chyromyidae species known from Morocco is 24.

First record of Eucalyptus leaf gall wasp, Ophelimus maskelli (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), an invasive pest of Eucalyptus spp., in the Canary Islands

By: C. MALUMPHY

Page: 213–216

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
The Eucalyptus leaf gall wasp, Ophelimus maskelli (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), an invasive pest of Eucalyptus spp., which has been rapidly increasing its geographical distribution, is recorded for the first time in the Canary Islands.

OBITUARY: Kenneth George Valentine Smith (1929–2017)

By: ADRIAN C. PONT

Page: 217–232

Type: Obituary