Entomologist's Monthly Magazine - Vol. 154, No. 4, 2018
Published: 10/26/2018
Article Details for this issue
Studies of Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) in the Spirit Collection of the Natural History Museum, London, 3: New species and records from the expedition to SW Africa in 1971–1972
By: MICHAEL DARBY
Page: 233-260
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Ptiliidae collected in Africa (Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa) 28 December 1971 –
20 April 1972 by members of a Natural History Museum, London, expedition to south western
Africa are determined to 27 species, 15 of which are new to science: Actidium bipustulatum sp. n.,
Actidium parvum sp. n., Bambara chianga sp. n., Bambara magnifica sp. n., Bambara
namibiensis sp. n., Bambara gabela sp. n., Bambara subjoannis sp. n., Ptiliola minutissima sp. n.,
Ptiliola flava sp. n., Ptiliola problematica sp. n., Ptiliola semitaria sp. n., Ptilium exiguum sp. n.,
Ptilium pernix sp. n., Nephanes plurijugosus sp. n., Acrotrichis botswanensis sp. n. Information
about collecting methods and sites is provided from data kept at the time and figures included to
amplify the descriptions of earlier authors. Keys are provided to the subfamilies, tribes and
genera.
SHORT NOTE Records of some uncommon insects in Herefordshire, 2016 and 2017
By: JONATHAN COOTER
Page: 261–262
Type: Short Notes
A new British mayfly: Baetis atlanticus (Soldán & Godunko, 2006) (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae)
By: CRAIG R. MACADAM, RICHARD P. CHADD, ALEX PICKWELL & JASON DOE
Page: 263–265
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Baetis atlanticus (Soldán & Godunko, 2006) is reported as new to the British mayfly fauna. A
key to separating nymphs of B. atlanticus from B. rhodani (Pictet, 1843) is provided.
SHORT NOTE Replacement names for sweat bees of the genus Lasioglossum (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)
By: MICHAEL S. ENGEL
Page: 269–270
Type: Short Notes
SHORT NOTE Records of Torymus abbreviatus Boheman, 1834, and Torymus tilicola Ruschka, 1921, (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Torymidae) from Britain
By: M. T. JENNINGS
Page: 269–270
Type: Short Notes
The Lepidoptera Collection of William Raymond Wooff (1929–2006) in the Manchester Museum
By: MICHAEL DOCKERY & DMITRI V. LOGUNOV
Page: 271–295
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
The lepidopterans in Raymond Wooff`s collection in the Manchester Museum are distinctively
curated and represent an assemblage of insects in the classic Aurelian tradition but created in the
twentieth century. This collection was established on index cards, with only butterfly/moth wings
being mounted and laminated onto cards. Despite being such an unusual collecting and
preservation technique, it illustrates how a dedicated field biologist, with limited resources, can
amass a significant, data-rich Lepidoptera collection that provides reliable information on
distribution, habitat preferences and phenology of the collected species. The present paper
explores the history and content of this unusual Lepidoptera collection and its collector.
Replacement names for two small carpenter bees from India (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Ceratina)
By: MICHAEL S. ENGEL
Page: 296–298
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Nomenclatorial corrections are provided for two cases of secondary homonymy within the
small carpenter bee genus Ceratina Latreille (Apidae: Xylocopinae: Ceratinini). Images of female
and male paratypes are included for Ceratina (Pithitis) apatela nom. nov. (formerly P. vechti
Baker).
Scotticus erithaci, a new species of flightless montane beetle from Ethiopia, and a new record of Jarrigeus Fagel (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Paederinae, Dolicaonina). Fourth contribution to knowledge of Ethiopia’s beetle fauna
By: GUILLAUME DE ROUGEMONT
Page: 299–302
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Scotticus erithaci sp. n. is described and Jarrigeus devroeyi (Bernhauer) is recorded from
Ethiopia.
Macrophthalmothrips argus (Karny) (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae): a fungus-feeding thrips newly established on the Atlantic island of St Helena
By: DOMINIQUE W. COLLINS
Page: 303–307
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Macrophthalmothrips argus (Karny) is here recorded as newly established on the island of St
Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. A review of the Thysanoptera fauna of St Helena is also
presented. Macrophthalmothrips argus is the twelfth thrips species to be recorded from the island:
the eleventh, Sericothrips staphylinus Haliday, was introduced onto the island as a biocontrol
agent for the invasive plant Ulex europaeus in 1995, but its current status on the island is
uncertain. A species of Aeolothrips present on the island has long been attributed to A. fasciatus
(L.), but its specific identity has never been confirmed. Helenothrips tinctus zur Strassen, once
regarded as a St Helena endemic species, is indicated to be itself an introduction, from South
Africa.
SHORT NOTE First record of the Grey Silverfish Ctenolepisma longicaudata Escherich, 1905, (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae) from Northern Ireland
By: RODNEY MONTEITH
Page: 308
Type: Short Notes
SHORT NOTE Rediscovery of Coomania Cameron (Coleoptera Staphylinidae: Diochini)
By: GUILLAUME DE ROUGEMONT
Page: 309
Type: Short Notes
NEW NAMES PUBLISHED IN VOLUME 154 (2018)
Page: 310
Type: Editorial
Atlas of the Predaceous Water Beetles (Hydradephaga) of Britain and Ireland, by G. N. Foster, D. T. Bilton & B. H. Nelson
By: M. L. COX
Page: 65-68
Type: Book Review