Entomologist's Monthly Magazine - Vol. 156, No. 3, 2020

Published: 7/31/2020

Article Details for this issue

The British butterfly collection at The Manchester Museum

By: MICHAEL DOCKERY & LAURENCE M. COOK

Page: 135–149

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
Information on the Manchester Museum holding of British butterflies is presented and access to it is made available. Almost all of the collection has been provided over a period of 200 years by donations from private collectors. We discuss the dates, the pattern of collecting and evidence the material holds of changing attitudes and perceived uses of private collections.

Parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) reared from galls of Giraudiella inclusa (Frauenfeld, 1862) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) on Phragmites australis in Kent, England

By: M. T. JENNINGS

Page: 150–154

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
Giraudiella inclusa (Frauenfeld) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) induces galls in stems of Phragmites australis in wetland habitats. The parasitoid community (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) associated with the galls was studied in Kent, England. Nine species of Chalcidoidea were identified. This rich community forms an important part of the biodiversity of stands of P. australis.

A second species of Lonchoprella from northern Argentina (Hymenoptera: Colletidae)

By: MICHAEL S. ENGEL

Page: 155–162

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
A second species of Lonchoprella Michener (Lonchopriini) is described and figured from north-central Salta Province, Argentina. Lonchoprella fuscata, sp. n., can be distinguished from the type species, L. annectens (Michener), by coloration and integumental sculpturing. A key is provided for the identification of the included species. New records for species of Lonchopria Vachal are appended.

Twenty-one new species of craneflies (Diptera: Tipulidae and Limoniidae), and a new fold-wing cranefly (Diptera: Ptychopteridae) from Mount Kupe, Cameroon, with notes on eighteen other species new to the country from the same location

By: PETE BOARDMAN

Page: 163–206

Type: Paper

Synopsis:
Following the award of a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (WCMT) Fellowship the author was able to visit the Charles P. Alexander (1889‒1981) collection at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. to study craneflies gifted to him from fieldwork in Cameroon. They were collected by Malaise trap in forest clearings near streams on Mount Kupe, near Nyasoso, Cameroon. 21 new species of cranefly (Diptera: Tipulidae and Limoniidae): Dolichopeza (Dolichopeza) vicki sp. n., Nephrotoma mawdsleyi sp. n., Baeoura nyasosoensis sp. n., Ellipteroides (Ellipteroides) nigromaculatus sp. n., Hovamyia gelhausi sp. n., Limnophilomyia (Limnophilomyia) alexanderi sp. n., Ormosia (Neserioptera) cameroonensis sp. n., Afrolimnophila mederosi sp. n., A. oosterbroeki sp. n., Neolimnomyia kupensis sp. n., Pseudolimnophila (Pseudolimnophila) staryi sp. n., Achyrolimonia prycei sp. n., Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) tuberculata sp. n., D. (Idioglochina) stubbsi sp. n., Elephantomyia (Elephantomyia) gilsonae sp. n., Libnotes (Afrolimonia) trimaculata sp. n., Metalimnobia (Tricholimnobia) krameri sp. n., Thaumastoptera (Thaumastoptera) churchilli sp. n., Toxorhina (Ceratocheilus) holvia sp. n., Trentepohlia (Trentepohlia) zorro sp. n., and Trichoneura (Xipholimnobia) jacksoni, and a new species of fold-wing cranefly (Diptera: Ptychopteridae): Ptychoptera (Ptychoptera) fasbenderi sp. n., are described. 18 species of cranefly known from elsewhere in the Afrotropical region are recorded here from Cameroon for the first time: Gonomyia (Leiponeura) hyperion Alexander, 1956, Limnophilomyia (Limnophilomyia) medleriana Alexander, 1976, Styringomyia vittata Edwards, 1914, Afrolimnophila hartwigi (Alexander, 1974), A. urundiana (Alexander, 1955), Austrolimnophila (Phragmocrypta) fulani Alexander, 1974, Hexatoma (Eriocera) brevifurca Alexander, 1956, H. (E.) trichoneura Alexander, 1956, H. (E.) tumidiscapa (Alexander, 1920), Medleromyia nigeriana Alexander, 1974, Achyrolimonia recurvans (Alexander, 1919), Atypopthalmus (Atypopthalmus) submendicus tuberculifer (Alexander, 1956), Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) redundans (Alexander, 1956), Libnotes (Afrolimonia) rhanteria (Alexander, 1920), L. (A.) illiterata (Alexander, 1937), Limonia woosnami (Alexander, 1920), Orimarga (Protorimarga) bequaertiana (Alexander, 1930) and Toxorhina (Ceratocheilus) nigripleura (Alexander, 1920). In total 40 species are presented as new for Cameroon. A further 23 species already known from Cameroon were identified, and are listed here as some of them have not been recorded since their original description close to, or in some cases over, a hundred years ago.

BOOK REVIEW EUROPE'S DRAGONFLIES: A FIELD GUIDE TO THE DAMSELFLIES AND DRAGONFLIES, by Dave Smallshire & Andy Swash

By: ANDREW WAKEHAM-DAWSON

Page: 207-208

Type: Book Review