Entomologist's Monthly Magazine - Vol. 156, No. 4, 2020
Published: 10/30/2020
Article Details for this issue
Proposed corrections for some previously identified Madagascan species of Dichaetomyia, and descriptions of six new species for the genus (Diptera: Muscidae)
By: EBERHARD ZIELKE
Page: 209–241
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Ninety identified Madagascan Dichaetomyia specimens, which are listed in an overview
published in 2006, were checked as part of the investigation of a collection of unidentified
Malagasy muscids. The results of 43 of the specimens tested were not consistent with the previous
findings. In addition, some misleading information was found in the descriptions of new species.
The deviations are listed and corrections are proposed. Six new species not recognized are
described below.
SHORT NOTE Some records of Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) from North Macedonia
By: M.G. MORRIS
Page: 242–244
Type: Short Notes
Taxonomy and geographic distribution of the ant genus Odontoponera Mayr, 1862 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in India
By: AIJAZ AHMAD WACHKOO, HIMENDER BHARTI & SHAHID ALI AKBAR
Page: 245–252
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Taxonomy and distribution of the genus Odontoponera in India is herewith detailed. Only one
species, Odontoponera denticulata is recognized. The male of this species is described for the
first time, together with a diagnosis for the genus; queen and worker are redescribed, and images
of all castes are provided. Information on the distribution and ecology of this species is also given.
In spite of being relatively abundant and well represented in collections, this species has a history
of taxonomic confusion which is summarized and resolved here. The discovery of a male caste
with itssignificant apomorphic expressed characters marks an important discovery relevant to the
genus.
Chorebus cyparissa (Nixon) added to, and Chorebus navicularis (Nees) deleted from, the British checklist (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
By: H. CHARLES J. GODFRAY
Page: 253–256
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Chorebus cyparissa (Nixon) is added to the British list based on a specimen caught in a
Malaise trap in Norfolk, England in 1983. It is also recorded from Bulgaria and, based on DNA
sequence data, from Belarus & Turkey. Chorebus navicularis (Nees) is deleted from the British
list; its inclusion was probably due to a misidentification and the status of the species itself is
uncertain.
In-vivo studies on the motoric activity of the receptacular complex in females of the black field cricket (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)
By: ROBERT STURM
Page: 257–265
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Motoric activity of the receptacular complex situated in the caudal part of the female abdomen
was studied in detail for the black field cricket, Teleogryllus commodus (Walker, 1869). By
application of the previously introduced window method the number of peristaltic organ
contractions per minute was counted, whereby four experimental series (virgins, mated females,
ovipositing females, post-oviposition animals) were defined, with the number of examined
crickets amounting to 20, respectively. According to the results obtained from experimental work,
highest activity of the receptacular complex can be attested for females standing in the oviposition
phase (26.35 ± 4.99 contractions per minute), whereas post-oviposition females are characterized
by lowest activity (13.95 ± 3.90 contractions per minute). Except for virgins, where the number
of peristaltic contractions increases with age, no significant correlation between motoric
activity of the receptacular complex and adult age could be found. It is argued that in-vivo
motoric activity of the receptaculum seminis and the ductus receptaculi is associated with the
female fecundity cycle reaching its peak at the 10th day of the adult life stage.
SHORT NOTE Capnia vidua subsp. anglica (Aubert) (Plecoptera: Capniidae) in Kirkcudbrightshire
By: ROSS H. ANDREW
Page: 266
Type: Short Notes
Checklist of the Dictyoptera (Orders Blattodea and Mantodea) of the Maltese Islands
By: MARTIN J. EBEJER
Page: 267–270
Type: Paper
A new record of the nocturnal orb-weaving spider Poltys illepidus (Araneae: Araneidae) from northern Thailand
By: TIMOTHY C. HAWES
Page: 271–275
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
The orb-weaving spider Poltys illepidus Koch 1843 is recorded from northern Thailand for the
first time. The distribution of the species in Southeast Asia is extended northwest. The
morphotype is characterized by an unusual small accessory protuberance on the carapace which
is described and illustrated as a median anterior process without apparent function.
A new species of Puliciphora Dahl (Diptera: Phoridae) from Malaysia
By: R. HENRY L. DISNEY
Page: 276–278
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Puliciphora browni sp. n. is described from Malaysia. Recognition of this new species expands
the definition of the genus Puliciphora.
BOOK REVIEWS HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY: A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE PURPLE EMPEROR, by Matthew Oates
By: ANDREW WAKEHAM-DAWSON
Page: 279–280
Type: Book Review
LADYBIRD BEETLES OF THE AUSTRALO-PACIFIC REGION: COLEO - PTERA: COCCINELLIDAE: COCCINELLINI, by Adam Ślipiński, Jiahui Li and Hong Pang
By: RACHEL FARROW
Page: 280–281
Type: Book Review
NEW NAMES PUBLISHED IN VOLUME 156 (2020)
Page: 282