Entomologist's Monthly Magazine - Vol. 151, No. 3, 2015

Published: 7/31/2015

Article Details for this issue

A second European record for Nephrotoma ferruginea (Fabricius, 1805), a potential insect pest, with other Iberian records of Nephrotoma species (Diptera: Tipulidae)

By: E.G. HANCOCK, C. QUIRCE & M.A. MARCOS-GARCÍA

Page: 149–153

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
The circumstances of finding a North American species of cranefly, Nephrotoma ferruginea (Fabricius, 1805) (Diptera: Tipulidae), in Spain are recounted and records of some other species of Nephrotoma from mainland Spain and Portugal are presented.

BOOK REVIEW:‘PLANET OF THE BUGS: EVOLUTION AND THE RISE OF INSECTS’, by SCOTT RICHARD SHAW

By: PETER C. BARNARD

Page: 154

Type: Book Review

A new Peruvian cerioidine flower fly (Diptera: Syrphidae)

By: F. CHRISTIAN THOMPSON & NIGEL WYATT

Page: 155–160

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
A new species, Ceriana (Polybiomyia) bolivari (Cerioidini, Eristalinae, Syrphidae), is described and illustrated from Peru. A key to species in the genus Polybiomyia is given.

A new genus of scuttle fly (Diptera: Phoridae, Metopininae) from Malaysia

By: R.H.L. DISNEY

Page: 161–164

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
Erinacephora viklundi gen. n., sp. n. is described from females collected in Sabah, Malaysia.

A new Dermatohomoeus Hlisnikovský, 1963 (Coleoptera: Leiodidae, Leiodinae) from China

By: ZDENĚK ŠVEC & JONATHAN COOTER

Page: 165–167

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
Dermatohomoeus bidentatus sp. n. from China is described and distinguished from similar species.

What is Priomerus Macquart? A 180 year old mystery resolved (Diptera: Syrphidae)

By: F.C. THOMPSON

Page: 168

Type: Short Notes

Further records of Megaselia rondani (Diptera: Phoridae), including two new species, from the crowns of ancient pollarded trees in England

By: R.H.L. DISNEY & A. RUSSELL-SMITH

Page: 169–175

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
Further records of Phoridae trapped in the crowns of ancient pollarded trees in the south of England are presented including the first records from a sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) tree. Megaselia hatfieldensis Disney sp. n. and M. sornectergata Disney sp. n. are described and figured.

New county records for some species of Hemiptera-Heteroptera from Homefield Wood, Buckinghamshire

By: R.P. RYAN

Page: 176

Type: Short Notes

Further new or little known species of Platygastrinae (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) from the Holarctic region

By: BUHL, P.N.

Page: 177–184

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
Two new platygastrid species are described from the U.S.A. and two from Sweden (one of which also occurs in Finland). The relationships of two subgenera of Platygaster, Isorhombus and Austroplatygaster, are discussed, as are the relations between species of the genus Prosynopeas. The variation and nomenclature of several species are discussed, and some new geographic records of rare species are provided.

BOOK REVIEWS: ‘THE BRACONID AND ICHNEUMONID PARASITOID WASPS: BIOLOGY, SYSTEMATICS, EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY’ by DONALD L.J. QUICKE.

By: MARK R. SHAW

Page: 185-187

BOOK REVIEW: ‘BRITAIN’S HOVERFLIES: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HOVERFLIES OF BRITAIN’, by STUART BALL and ROGER MORRIS

By: N.P. WYATT

Page: 187-188

Type: Book Review

Population dynamics of a suburban garden’s social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) over 30 years in Leicester, England

By: MICHAEL ARCHER

Page: 189–195

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
Social wasp population dynamics in a suburban garden are analysed over a 30-year period.

Aprostocetus dauci Graham, 1987 (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) new to the British Isles

By: M.T. JENNINGS

Page: 196

Type: Short Notes

New Species of Pararhaphidoglossa von Schulthess (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Eumeninae): V

By: M. COOPER

Page: 197–214

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
Eight new species of potter wasp in the Neotropical genus Pararhaphidoglossa are described and notes on some previously described species are presented.

OBITUARY: DAVID RIDLEY NASH (1942–2014)

By: TONY DRANE & MARTIN COLLIER/CLARE & COLIN JOHNSON

Page: 215-223

Type: Obituary

Leiodes cinnamomea (Panzer, 1793) (Coleoptera: Leiodinae) new to the Levantine Middle East

By: J. COOTER

Page: 224-225

Type: Short Notes

Records of Torymus eadyi Graham & Gijswijt, 1998 (Hymenoptera: Torymidae) from Kent, U.K.

By: M.T. JENNINGS

Page: 225

Type: Short Notes

Calocoris alpestris (Meyer-Dür) (Hemiptera: Miridae) associated with Ramsons Allium ursinum L. (Alliaceae)

By: K.N.A. ALEXANDER

Page: 226

Type: Short Notes