Entomologist's Monthly Magazine - Vol. 152, No. 2, 2016
Published: 4/29/2016
Article Details for this issue
The flower flies of the Galápagos Islands (Diptera: Syrphidae)
By: B.J. SINCLAIR, F.C. THOMPSON & N. WYATT
Page: 79-96
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
The flower fly fauna of the Galápagos Islands is reviewed and includes nine species. One species is renamed (Allograpta neosplendens new name) and one other species is newly recorded from the islands (Copestylum scintillans (Hull)). Two new synonyms are proposed (Copestylum ernestina (Curran) = ernesta Curran and Syrphus albomaculatus Smith = Pseudodoros clavatus (Fabricius)); four lectotypes (Syrphus agonis Walker, 1849, Baccha fascialis Thomson, 1869, Syrphus splendens Thomson, 1869, and Syrphus albomaculatus Smith, 1877) and one neotype (Palpada vinetorum (Fabricius, 1798) are designated.
Lepidoptera of the Falkland Islands (6): Two corrections and an addition to the provisional checklist of Falkland Islands Microlepidoptera, with a re-description of Dasycarea halosema (Meyrick, 1931) (Lepidoptera: ‘Argyresthiidae’)
By: ANDREW WAKEHAM-DAWSON
Page: 97-102
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Two nomenclatural corrections and one addition (Plutella ?deltodoma Meyrick, 1931; Plutellidae) are made to the provisional checklist of Falkland Islands Microlepidoptera. A redescription of Dasycarea halosema (Meyrick, 1931) (‘Argyresthiidae’) comb. n. is given.
Three new species of Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) from England
By: R.H.L. DISNEY
Page: 103-110
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Megaselia forresteri sp. n., M. lacockensis sp. n., M. spirahypandrium sp. n. and the hitherto unknown female of M. insons (Lundbeck) are described.
A remarkable new species of Diapus Chapuis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Platypodinae) from the Philippines
By: R.A. BEAVER
Page: 111-114
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
A new species of pinhole borer, Diapus inflectus (Curculionidae, Platypodinae, Tesserocerini, Diapodina) is described from the Philippines, distinguished by the incurved spines at the apex of the elytral disc of the male, and the upturned mandibular processes of the female.
Two new species of Rougemontius Pace (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae, Termitopaediini)
By: GUILLAUME DE ROUGEMONT
Page: 115-119
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Two new species of Rougemontius: eleanorae sp. n. from Sarawak and alobatus sp. n. from Sabah are described.
Some recent records of Pteromalus microps (Graham, 1969) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) from Great Britain
By: M.T. JENNINGS
Page: 120
Type: Short Notes
The earwig genus Paralabella Steinmann in amber from the Dominican Republic, with remarks on the classification of Burr’s Eocene Dermaptera
By: MICHAEL S. ENGEL
Page: 121-130
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
A fossil labiine earwig, Paralabella primigenia sp. n., is described and figured from a male preserved in Early Miocene (Burdigalian) amber of the Dominican Republic. This fossil represents the first Dominican amber earwig formally described, as well as the first amberpreserved labiine. The species is representative of the living genus Paralabella Steinmann, a group distributed pantropically and today represented across the West Indies solely by Paralabella dorsalis (Burmeister). Paralabella primigenia sp. n. is distinguished from its congeners on the basis of coloration, size, and form of the male apical tergum, pygidium, and cercal forceps. The new species is superficially similar to the extant P. profana Steinmann, otherwise known only from Brazil. Appended are remarks on the identity and classification of the various forms of ‘Forficula’ from Baltic amber, with the following new genera proposed to accommodate these varied taxa: Sthenotropis gen. n., Amblypygia gen. n., and Succiniforcipula gen. n. These taxonomic actions result in the following new combinations: Sthenotropis klebsi (Burr), comb. n.; Amblypygia baltica (Burr), comb. n.; and Succiniforcipula praecursor (Burr), comb. n.
Empria camtschatica Forsius and Tenthredo semicolon Mol (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) in the British Isles
By: ANDREW D. LISTON
Page: 131-135
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Empria camtschatica Forsius, 1928, and Tenthredo semicolon Mol, 2013, are recorded from the British Isles, each from single localities in respectively southern Scotland and southern England. Empria camtschatica is recorded here for the first time in Britain. Tenthredo semicolon was listed as occurring in England by Liston et al. (2014), but without exact data. These species were hitherto confused with Empria immersa (Klug, 1818) and Tenthredo colon Klug, 1817
BOOK REVIEW: ‘FOSSIL INSECTS: AN INTRODUCTION TO PALAEOENTOMOLOGY’ by DAVID PENNEY and JAMES E. JEPSON
By: MOLLY CARTER
Page: 136
Type: Book Review
A rearing record of Triaspis podlussanyi Papp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Brachistinae), new to Britain
By: MARK R. SHAW
Page: 137-138
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Over a period of more than two years a large number of female specimens (but no males) of Triaspis podlussanyi Papp were reared evidently as a parasitoid of the ptinid beetle Gastrallus knizeki Zahradník developing in Viscum album L. at Windsor Forest, England.
A preliminary list of the Heteroptera, Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera) and Pipunculidae (Diptera) of the Réserve Naturelle du Marais de Lavours (France; Ain)
By: John hollier, Phil Withers & FaBrice Darinot
Page: 139-147
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
the insect fauna of the wetland nature reserve of Marais de lavours was sampled using pitfall traps, some Malaise trapping and haphazard direct collecting. an initial list of 130 hemiptera and 23 Pipunculidae is presented, with comments on the assemblage recorded and the limitations of the sampling.
Fun with Porus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae): name correction
By: GUILLAUME DE ROUGEMONT
Page: 148
Type: Short Notes
Synopsis:
CORRIGENDUM
Microlycus harcalo (Walker, 1852) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Eulophidae) rediscovered, description of the female and a host record
By: BY R.R. ASKEW & R.J. HECKFORD
Page: 149-154
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
A male chalcid believed to represent Eulophus harcalo Walker, 1852, hitherto considered a nomen dubium in Microlycus (Askew, 1992) was reared, together with a female, from a larva of Eulamprotes wilkella (Linnaeus) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) collected in Norfolk. These specimens are described, the male is designated neotype of Microlycus harcalo (Walker), and a key to European species of Microlycus is given.