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Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 1 PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF THE COLOR VARIATION IN CYPARIUM TERMINALE FROM MEXICO, WITH COMMENTS ON C. PALLIATUM, AND A NEW RECORD FOR C. YAPALLI (COLEOPTERA: STAPHYLINIDAE, SCAPHIDITINAE)' Juan Marquez’ ABSTRACT: Preliminary analysis of the color pattern of the body, antennae, head, pronotum, prono- tal hypomeron, elytra, elytral epipleura, and last two visible pregenital tergites of Cyparium terminale Matthews is presented based on specimens from four Mexican states. Taxonomical remarks are includ- ed for C. palliatum Erichson based on study of the holotype. To augment the poor original description of C. palliatum, the holotype is compared to specimens of C. terminale. Cyparium yapalli Fierros-Lopez is reported from the state of Guerrero for the first time and from a new locality in the state of Oaxaca. KEY WORDS: Staphylinidae, Scaphidiinae, taxonomy, Mexico Cyparium Erichson, 1845, the only genus of the tribe Cypariini (Leschen and Lobl, 1995; Lobl, 1997), was based on C. palliatum Erichson, 1845, a species re- ported from Mexico, but without a precise locality. The original description of this species is rather poor, and it is possible that the specimen studied is teneral, because of its pale color (Matthews, 1888; Fig. 1f). The genus includes 50 species. Five are distributed in Mexico: C. navarretei Fierros-Lopez, 2002 from Veracruz; C. pal- liatum from “Mexico”; C. sallaei Matthews, 1888 from Oaxaca and Veracruz; C. terminale Matthews, 1888 from the states of Mexico, Jalisco, Michoacan, Morelos, Oaxaca and Veracruz (also recorded from Guatemala and Panama); and C. yapalli Fierros-Lopez, 2002 from Oaxaca (Navarrete-Heredia et al., 2001; Fierros-Lopez, 2002; Marquez, in press). Since the original description of C. palliatum (Erichson, 1845) nothing has been documented about this species. Recently, four specimens of Cyparium were col- lected from three localities in Oaxaca and another three specimens were collected in the Sierra de Atoyac, Veracruz, Mexico. These specimens are orange, red or yel- low and resemble C. palliatum more than any other Mexican species of Cyparium (Fig. 1b, f). Additionally, several typical specimens (body black with red bands on pronotum and elytra) of C. terminale were collected at the same sites (Fig. la, c). The seven paler specimens were difficult to assign either to C. palliatum or to C. terminale, due to the lack of published information about the former species, known only by the holotype, and because C. terminale presents wide variation in its color pattern. "Received on June 5, 2005. Accepted on March 30, 2006. * Laboratorio de Sistematica Animal, Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Apartado postal 1-69, Plaza Juarez, Pachuca, Hidalgo, CP 42001, México. E-mail: jmarquez@uaeh.edu.mx. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 118 (1): 1, January and February 2007 Mailed on April 27, 2007 2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS The goal of this work is to assess the variation in color pattern of C. terminale through the study of specimens from four Mexican states and to include taxonom- ical remarks for C. palliatum based on the study of the holotype, in order to distin- guish it from C. terminale. Cyparium yapalli, until now known only from the type locality, is reported from two new localities. METHODS The holotype specimen of C. palliatum was obtained on loan from the Museum of Natural History of Berlin, Germany (MNHUB; J. Frisch). The other specimens studied were obtained on loan from the following collections (acronyms identify the collections in the text): American Museum of Natural History, New York (AMNH; L. Herman); Coleccion de Coleoptera, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Pachuca, Hidalgo (CC-UAEH; J. Marquez); Coleccion Entomologica, Instituto de Ecologia, A. C., Xalapa, Veracruz (IEXA; L. Delgado); Coleccion de Coleoptera del Museo de Zoologia, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Mexico, D. F. (MZFC-UNAM; J. J. Morrone); and Coleccion Nacional de Insectos, Instituto de Biologia, UNAM, México, D. F. (CNIN; S. Zaragoza). Taxonomical characteristics were taken from Matthews (1888), Fierros-Lopez (2002) and Leschen and Lobl (1995). This study can be considered as a preliminary analysis of the variation in color pattern of C. terminale, due to the reduced num- ber of specimens studied (28), and the lack of specimens of the states of Mexico and Jalisco, Mexico, and from Guatemala and Panama. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Cyparium terminale Matthews, 1888 The color pattern of the species is highly variable and is documented herein so as to permit separation of the species from similar ones of the genus (Fig. 1a-e). Also, it can be a precedent of a variable species that can be studied with respect to its geographic distribution, and with respect to its association with mushrooms at different sites. Variation of the color pattern is presented in descending frequency with respect to the dominant color pattern and is based on 28 specimens among which are | from Michoacan, 5 from Morelos (1 teneral), 8 from Oaxaca (4 reddish, pattern color documented herein for the first time), and 14 from Veracruz (3 of them ten- eral). 1. General body color a) Body black, or black with some red areas on pronotum and/or elytra: 20 spec- imens: Michoacan (1); Morelos (4); Oaxaca (4); Veracruz (11); Fig. la, c-e. b) Body red, or red with reduced black areas on head and/or on last two visible abdominal tergites: 4 specimens from Oaxaca indicated below as “red”; Fig. 1b. c) Body yellow, or yellow with pale (nearly white) spots on basal and apical cor- ners of elytra: 4 specimens indicated below as “teneral”: Morelos (1); Veracruz (3). Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 3 Figure 1. Schematic representations of color patterns of head, pronotum, elytra and last vis- ible tergites of Cyparium terminale (a-e) and C. palliatum (f; holotype; antennae and legs omitted). 2. Last antennomere (one specimen from Veracruz without antennae) a) Basal half black contrasting strongly with yellow apical half: 20 specimens: Morelos (5); Oaxaca (4); Veracruz (11, three of them teneral). b) Basal half brown, but not contrasting strongly with reddish brown apical half: 6 specimens: Oaxaca (4, red); Veracruz (2). c) Basal half reddish brown, not contrasting strongly with pale red apical half: Michoacan (1). 3. Head a) Head black, with frontoclypeal region and labrum reddish brown: 9 speci- mens: Morelos (3); Oaxaca (3); Veracruz (3). b) Head red, with brown to black color beginning at posterior margin adjacent 4 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS to neck, and ending behind eyes: 8 specimens: Michoacan (1); Oaxaca (4, red); Veracruz (3). c) Head black, only with anterior half of frontoclypeal region and labrum red- dish brown: 7 specimens: Morelos (1); Oaxaca (1); Veracruz (5). d) Head uniformly yellow: 4 teneral specimens: Morelos (1); Veracruz (3). 4. Pronotum a) Pronotum black, with red band on anterior 2/3 of lateral borders: 9 specimens: Morelos (3); Oaxaca (2); Veracruz (4); Fig. la. b) Pronotum black, with red band along entire lateral borders, red band wider than band of specimens of 4a): 6 specimens: Michoacan (1); Veracruz (5); Fig. le. c) Pronotum uniformly black: 5 specimens: Morelos (1); Oaxaca (2); Veracruz (2); Fig. 1d. d) Pronotum uniformly red: 4 specimens: Oaxaca (red); Fig. 1b. e) Pronotum red pale or yellow, with lateral borders slightly paler than remain- ing area: 4 specimens: Morelos (1, teneral); Veracruz (3, teneral). 5. Elytra a) Elytra black, with red band along lateral border, widest at anterior and poste- rior corners (about as wide as 1/3 of width of elytra) narrower at midlength (about as wide as 1/4 of total width of elytra): 11 specimens: Morelos (3); Oaxaca (4); Veracruz (4); Fig. la. b) Elytra black, with red spot at antero-lateral corner and red spot at postero-lat- eral corner: 7 specimens: Veracruz; Fig. Ic. c) Elytra red, with same band as indicated above, but pale: 5 specimens: Morelos (1, teneral); Oaxaca (4, red); Fig. 1b. d) Elytra yellow, with white spot at antero-lateral corner and white spot at pos- tero-lateral corner: 3 specimens: Veracruz. e) Elytra with similar color pattern as in 5a), but with red band evenly narrow, about as wide as 1/5 of width of elytra: 1 specimen: Morelos; Fig. 1d. f) Elytra with similar color pattern as in 5a), but with red band wider, and black area of elytra forming a frontal silhouette of a human head when both elytra are contiguous: 1 specimen: Michoacan; Fig. le. 6. Pronotal hypomeron a) Pronotal hypomeron dark brown to black, with red band near upper line: 19 specimens: Morelos (4); Oaxaca (4); Veracruz (11). b) Pronotal hypomeron uniformly red (pale in teneral specimens): 9 specimens: Morelos (1, teneral); Michoacan (1); Oaxaca (4, red); Veracruz (3, teneral). 7. Color of elytral epipleura a) Superior and inferior carinae of elytral epipleura black, contrasting strongly with red area between carinae: 17 specimens: Michoacan (1); Morelos (4); Oaxaca (3); Veracruz (9). Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 5 b) Superior and inferior carinae of elytral epipleura reddish brown to yellow (teneral specimen), contrasting with red area between carinae, but less strongly than in specimens indicated above: 9 specimens: Morelos (1, teneral); Oaxaca (5, four of them red); Veracruz (3, teneral). c) Superior and inferior carinae of elytral epipleura black, contrasting strongly with anterior half of area between carinae, and contrasting slightly with almost black posterior half of area between carinae: 2 specimens: Veracruz. 8. Legs a) Legs red or reddish brown, with coxae black to brown, darker than remaining segments of leg: 11 specimens: Michoacan (1); Morelos (4); Oaxaca (6, two of them red). b) Legs yellow, or yellow with red coxae: 6 specimens: Morelos (1, teneral); Oaxaca (2, red); Veracruz (3, teneral). c) Legs with coxae, trochanters and basal half of femora black; apical half of femora, tibiae and tarsi red: 6 specimens: Veracruz. d) Legs black, with tibiae and tarsi red: 5 specimens: Veracruz. 9. Visible abdominal sternites a) Abdominal sternites dark brown to black, with red or reddish brown posteri- or and lateral margins: 20 specimens: Michoacan (1); Morelos (4); Oaxaca (4); Veracruz (11). b) Abdominal sternites red, with yellow posterior and lateral margins: 4 speci- mens: Oaxaca (red). c) Abdominal sternites uniformly yellow: 4 teneral specimens: Morelos (1); Veracruz (3). 10. Last two visible pregenital tergites a) Penultimate tergite black with red or reddish brown posterior border; last ter- gite with black basal half and red or reddish brown apical half: 12 specimens: Mic- hoacan (1); Morelos (4); Oaxaca (3, one of them red); Veracruz (4); Fig. la, c, e. b) Two last tergites uniformly black: 8 specimens: Oaxaca (2); Veracruz (6); Fig. Id. c) Two last tergites uniformly red or yellow: 7 specimens: Morelos (1, teneral); Oaxaca (2, red); Veracruz (4, three of them teneral). d) Penultimate tergite red; last tergite red, with transverse black band on basal 1/4: 1 specimen: Oaxaca (red). Cyparium terminale presents three principal color patterns that overlap. The dominant pattern is mainly black, with red spots or bands on the elytra and prono- tum (Fig. la, c, d); the second is red, with some poorly marked pale spots or bands distributed identically to the red spots of the black form (Fig. 1b); and the third pat- tern is represented only by one specimen from Michoacan, which displays an equal distribution of black and red color on the elytra and, to a lesser degree, the prono- tum (Fig. le). Teneral specimens of C. terminale are difficult to distinguish from the pale yellow specimen of C. palliatum; possible diagnostic differences are 6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS described below under C. palliatum. Teneral specimens of C. terminale might be confused also with adults of the red pattern type, but they may be distinguished because they are pale yellow, with some whitish spots on pronotum and elytra; whereas adults red specimens lack spots and are slightly browner than teneral spec- imens. Specimens with red pattern color are known at present only from Oaxaca, from two localities of the Sierra Madre del Sur and one locality of the Mexican Pacific Coast Provinces (Fig. 3). In contrast, the aedeagi of several red and black specimens do not differ (Fig. 2a- b), but the teneral specimens are all females. Additionally, all specimens have the same punctational pattern on the head, pronotum and elytra, and the antennae show the same proportion and form in each anntenomere. A future revision of a long series of specimens from more localities can provide a better knowledge of the variation of this species. Cyparium terminale is found in several Mexican states and extends to Gua- temala and Panama. In Mexico, it has been documented from the following bio- geographic provinces (Fig. 3): Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (states of Mexico, Jalisco and Michoacan), Balsas Basin (Mexico and Morelos), Sierra Madre del Sur b Figure 2. Aedeagus of Cyparium terminale: a) ventral view, b) lateral view. Scale bar 0.95 mm. Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 q/ (Oaxaca), Mexican Pacific Coast (Oaxaca), and Gulf of Mexico (Veracruz). It may be predicted to occur also in Chiapas Province, since its distributional pattern is similar to other staphylinids (Marquez and Morrone, 2003; Marquez and Asiain, in press). It is also possible that C. terminale is present in several Central American countries such as Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, be- cause the apparent disjunction in the distribution from Guatemala to Panama is not a common pattern in Neotropical staphylinids. The disjunction for C. terminale may be the result of a lack of sampling or the Mexican and Central American spec- imens may not be conspecific, as was documented for species of Homalolinus (Marquez, 2003). 1416____114_ 1120, 408__406__104_ 402100 9g 88 492. 88 = Figure 3. Geographical distribution of Cyparium terminale in Mexico. Black circles: black pattern color (16 specimens), white circles: red pattern color (four specimens), and black tri- angle: black/red pattern color (one specimen). Teneral specimens are excluded. Question marks: state records only (Jalisco and Mexico; Navarrete-Heredia et al., 2002). Material Studied: “México: Michoacan, Ocampo, Laguna Seca. Bosque mixto. N 19° 32'37", W 100° 22'38.9". En hongos. 22-VII-2000. S. Bautista y J. Asiain cols.” (1, CC-UAEH). “México: Morelos, Tlayacapan, San José de los Laureles. Bosque mesofilo de montafia. Localidad 3. 15-08-1998. En hongos diversos. R. Toledo y J. Marquez cols.” (3, MZFC). Same data as previous, except: “Necro- 8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS trampa permanente (calamar). Localidad 1. Bosque de encino-pino, | a 30 de sep- tiembre de 1996. J. Marquez col.” (1, MZFC). Same data as previous, except: “1 a 30 de octubre de 1995. K. Villavicencio y J. Marquez cols.” (1, MZFC). “México: Oaxaca, Santiago Yosondua, camino a El Vergel, La Cascada. Bosque de encino. 1917 m. N 16° 50' 49.6", W 97° 34' 47.5". En trampa de intercepcion de vuelo. 10 a 13-VII-2005. J. Asiain y J. Marquez cols.” (5, CC-UAEH). Same data as previ- ous, except: “En Russula sp. 12-VII-2005. J. Asiain y J. Marquez cols.” (1, CC- UAEH). “México: Oaxaca, Santiago Jamiltepec, El Monroy. 10-14-julio-2005. Alt. 100 m. Trampa de intercepcion. L. Delgado col.” (1, IEXA). “México: Oaxaca, km 3 Carr. Santo Domingo Tepuxtepec-Juquila Mixes. 19-VIII-2003. Alt. 2000 m. Trampa de intercepcion. Q. Santiago y L. Delgado cols.” (1, IEXA). “México: Veracruz, Sierra de Atoyac, Atoyaquillo. 30-VI-2003. Alt. 650 m. En hongos. A. y L. Delgado cols.” (2, IEXA). Same data as previous, except: “30-VI-2-VII-2003. En agarical” (3, IEXA). “México: Veracruz, Huatusco, km 30 Carr. Fortin-Hua- tusco. 12-Julio-2001. Alt. 1490 m. Bosque mesofilo. L. Delgado col.” (1, IEXA). Same data as previous, except: “24-VI-2003. Alt. 1500 m. En hongos y tronco. A. y L. Delgado cols.” (1, IEXA). “Mexico: Veracruz, Fortin, Barranca de Metlac. 25- 28-VI-2003. Alt. 1000 m. Trampa de intercepcion. A. y L. Delgado cols.” (1, IEXA). “Mexico: Veracruz, Chocaman. 1200 msnm. 6-I-2000. H. Brailovsky, E. Barrera / Coleccion del Instituto de Biologia, UNAM, Mexico, D. F.” (2, CNIN). “Mexico: Jalapa, W. Schaus, Coll’r. / Cyparium terminale Matth. Det. J. F. Cornell 67.” (3, AMNH). “Mexico: Jalapa. Hoege. / Cyparium terminale Matt. / Donated by F. Du C. Godman. 1907. (1, AMNH). Cyparium palliatum Erichson, 1845 This species is known only from the female holotype. I agree with Matthews (1888) that this specimen may be teneral, which, together with the lack of addi- tional males and females, make it difficult to interpret this species. The problem is made more difficult when teneral specimens are collected, as occurred with C. ter- minale described above. Initially and erroneously I considered that these teneral specimens to be C. palliatum, since it is not easy to detect conspicuous differences between the holotype of C. palliatum and the 28 specimens of C. terminale includ- ed herein. The holotype of C. palliatum is more similar to the red and teneral specimens of C. terminale than to the others. The two species can be distinguished because the apical half of the last antennomere of C. palliatum is scarcely flattened and with the basal half reddish brown, not contrasting strongly with its pale red apical half. On the other hand, the apical half of the last antennomere of C. terminale 1s clearly flat- tened, yellow and contrasts strongly with the black basal half. If the holotype of C. palliatum is really teneral, it is probable that a mature adult may have some pale spots on the elytra and on the borders of the pronotum, be- cause the specimen studied shows several pale to near transparent areas in a vague pattern (Fig. If). Similar pale areas were detected in the teneral specimens and the red form of C. terminale. Only by collecting and studying additional material of Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 9 C. palliatum might the validity of the species be verified and the characters by which the species is distinguished be clearly known. Type Material. Holotype female: “7689 / Mexico Deppe / Type / palliatum Er. / Cyparium Er. / Zool. Mus. Berlin / Hist-Coll (Coleoptera) Nr. 7689 Cyparium pal- liatum Erichson. Mexico, Deppe. Zool. Mus. Berlin / Holotypus Cyparium pallia- tum Erichson, 1845, labelled by MNHUB 2005.” Cyparium yapalli Fierros-Lopez, 2002 This species has been recorded only from the type locality, “km 164, carretera Sola de Vega — Puerto Escondido,” state of Oaxaca (Fierros-Lopez, 2002). Two new localities for the species are reported here: “México: Oaxaca, Santiago Jamiltepec, El Monroy. 10-14-julio-2005. Alt. 100 m. Trampa de intercepcion. L. Delgado col.” (1, IEXA). “México: Guerrero, Chilpancingo, Barranca Las Juntas. 27 / 29-VIII-2003. Trampa de intercepcion. Alt. 900 m. Q. Santiago y L. Delgado cols.” (1, IEXA). This species now known at two localities in the Sierra Madre del Sur Province and one locality in the Mexican Pacific Coast Province (Fig. 4). 88, Figure 4. Geographical distribution of Cyparium yapalli (black circles). 10 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I thank J. Asiain (Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas, UAEH) for her help in the field work and the preparation of the figures. L. Herman (American Museum of Natural History) for the critical revi- sion of the work and the loan of specimens. L. Delgado (Instituto de Ecologia, A. C.) and S. Zaragoza (Instituto de Biologia, UNAM) lent the specimens. I. Castellanos (Centro de Investigaciones Bio- logicas, UAEH), J. J. Morrone (Museo de Zoologia, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM), and four anony- mous reviewers commented on the manuscript. 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Universidad de Guadalajara y CONABIO, México. 395 pp. Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 11 EIGHT NEW SPECIES AND A KEY TO SPECIES OF THE ALEIODES PILOSUS SPECIES-GROUP (=TETRASPHAEROPYX ASHMEAD) (HYMENOPTERA, BRACONIDAE, ROGADINAE) IN NORTH AMERICA,’ PART 2 Joseph C. Fortier’ Abstract: This is the second of a two-part series, which is intended as an introduction to a future revision of the Aleiodes pilosus (Cresson) species-group. Here eight new species are described and a key to described and undescribed species is provided. Species described are as follows: A. anatariatus, A. cartwrightensis, A. haematoxyloni, A. halifaxensis, A. jaliscoensis, A. provancheri, A. quickei, and A. shawi. Host information is included. KEY WORDS: Aleiodes, pilosus, species-group, Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rogadinae, North America, new species, new combination, Cheloninae, Rhogas, taxonomy, systematics, Geometridae, endoparasitoid Aleiodes Wesmael is a large group of parasitic wasps, comprising about 300 species worldwide and found on every continent except Antarctica (Chen and He 1997). Like other members of the tribe Rogadini, Aleiodes are koinobiont endoparasitoids of lepi- dopteran larvae that mummify the host larva when it dies and pupate inside the mummy. The mummy is composed of the larval host’s skin, often lined inside with an inner silken cocoon (Shaw and Huddleston 1991). Before it pupates, the parasitoid larva usu- ally cuts a hole in the ventral thoracic region of the host mummy, through which the mummy is glued to a substrate (leaf, twig, etc.). The adult Aleiodes exit hole is smooth- ly, roundly cut in the dorso-posterior area of the mummy (Shaw 1997). The A. pilosus-group is defined by the carapace-like fourth abdominal tergite that covers all tergites posterior to it (Fortier 2006b). A. pilosus-group species were previ- ously known only from western North America (Shaw 1997) until the current investi- gation. Aleiodes pilosus-group specimens are infrequently collected (Shaw 1997), and their host associations remained unknown until recently (Fortier 2006a). The purpose of this paper is to describe 8 new A. pil/osus-group species and to pro- vide a key to all described and undescribed species. This is intended as the second part of an introductory series to a future revision of the A. pilosus-group. METHODS Specimens were borrowed from the following museums: The American Entomologi- cal Institute (AEI), the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia (ANSP), the Albert J. Cook Arthropod Research Collection at Michigan State University (ARC), the Canadian National Collection (CNC); the Cornell University Insect Collection (CUIC), the Entomology Research Museum at the University of California at Davis (ERM), the Insect Research Collection at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (IRC), the Snow Entomological Museum, of the University of Kansas at Lawrence (SEMC), _ the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), the National Museum of Scotland (NMS), the Rocky Mountain Systemic Entomology Laboratory (RMSEL), the Texas A&M University Entomology Collection (TAMU), the Essig Museum of Ento- ‘Received on February 23, 2006. Accepted on March 30, 2006. > Department of Biology, Saint Louis University. Saint Louis, Missouri 63103 U.S.A. E-mail: fortier@slu.edu. Mailed on April 27, 2007 12 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS mology at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB), and the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California at Davis (UCD). Observations and meas- urements were made with a Leica MZ 12.5 stereomicroscope. An ocular micrometer in the eyepiece of the microscope was used for measurements. Images were made with a Syncroscopy Automontage photo-imaging system. Morphological terms follow Shar- key and Wharton (1997). Sclerite surface sculpturing terminology follows Harris (i979), SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY Key to Aleiodes pilosus-group species For species that include specimens collected in the U.S. and Canada, postal abbrevi- ations for states and provinces are included in the key. For species that include speci- mens collected in Mexico, the name of the state follows the abbreviation “MEX.” Species with polymorphic characters will come out at more than one point in the key. New species not yet described have been designated numbers, thus “n. sp. 1” refers to an undescribed species designated the number ‘one.’ Figures of wings for described species that come out in couplets 1-13, 37, 74, and 79 can be found in Fortier (2006b). 1 Entire dorsum of metasoma punctate or foveolate (Figs. 2, 4, 7) ........:cccsssccccsseeneeceeeenteeees 2 — Entire dorsum of metasoma not punctate or foveolate, 1 or more tergites rugocostate, fugose; or areolate (Figs. 1, 35/5) 6,°8; 12, 14, 15, VO) ee. 11 2(1) “Entire metasomal ‘dorsum black, foveolate. i... ... 2200 sin ee een 3 — Metasomal dorsum either entirely yellow-orange, orange, or bicolored...............::esceeeeeees 6 3(2) Mesopleuron entirely yellow-orange including venter NM).................... A. dorsofoveolatus ==| Mesopleunon:venter black. ....cu.. cc c.sscalicnsdere.scthes..netl.shonseddepnessectee se epene teeDeece a eee ee ae 4 4(3) Mesopleuron entirely yellow-crange except venter (AZ, CO) ...........eeeeee A. citriscutum —, Mesopleuron above venter with black ...:.....0.0.4.0.4-Gane eee 5 5(4) Head, pronotum yellow-orange, scutum bicolored, black with yellow notauli, scutellum, propleuron and venter of mesopleuron black (CA), second submarginal cell of forewing small and square, length of vein r greater than 3RSa length (CA) ............. A. flavinotaulus — Head, pronotum yellow-orange, scutum, scutellum yellow-orange, most of esopleuron, all of propodeum and metasomal dorsum black, forewing vein r long, length greater than 3RSa length, second submarginal cell small, square (TX) ..............ccccecessseceeeesneeees A. brevicellula 6(2) Bicolored orange and black head, scutum, and scutellum, and/or metasoma with mostly Dlaeletteronte Vy 2.3 ih seca toes ca th iFadles Sade cece o.tvs dado des tdchn sodlicad ean e nett RES e a — Dorsum of body entirely yellow-orange or orange, sometimes propodeum and/ or base of IMP tepals ae acess. .nste esanse li vawdae dltian. cap slacesinuisemas ve nots «tend deaepiyne vaerRcheee eee eee err 8 7(6) Bicolored orange and black head, scutum and scutellum; yellow-orange pronotum, orange metasomal dorsum, tergite I with black highlights, second submarginal cell of forewing small and square, length of vein r greater than 3RSa length (AZ) ................ A. cochisensis — Yellow-orange head, bicolored metasoma with extensive black on tergites HII and 1V (WY) Whip ORG Bc OMT RIT is EA Res MAEM oN ek snag As A. aquaedulcensis S(6)! Wings ilvaite. 281). A AA ek ARIAUAR...LN. AR, A 9 ==) { Wittgs Clear 25M eR 2, OR. LE ce 10 9(8) All orange-yellow, ocelli small, wings fumate, scutum shiny smooth punctate (CO, TX, NM, DEE, WWE) seas eee cs ee ecco Maaco tt cay ee ee Nini cess Schade ae neue kcal emeaane eee eee A. pilosus — As above except black propodeum, sometimes dark tergite I (TX, WY) ............ccccsccceceesees saVivacdup uelilbdXabanesehevdowawesiewoiaronshSbupageanssath teen, Oe Ree te Aeeaa A. ANNE, ee A. fernaldellavorax 10(8) Scutum sculpturing areolate over minutely areolate surface, legs yellow (MEX, Oaxaca) daeeiatysidtaa eves eaten datsins asain wwwhlleiva clues Alaie lar eees tae ret ea al eRe scENCS ata leca ae Re A. oaxacensis = | begs Black (MEX, Oaxaeas TX) cscs -csoccsastoniar;shannvenays tastes cance ee ee A. tulensis Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 13 11(1) All yellow or dark orange; sometimes with irregular dark mottling on tergites, or black on (OINTIDOCISUIIN so scaspaadcoqgecehacocass nea scacec ontoe -Wenta ACME Dhue acuncr Tee tee ee ne ee ee 12 — Bicolored or black other than irregular dark mottling or black propodeum .................... 21 12(11) Unicolored dark orange, metasomal tergite II coarsely rugose, tergite I short and wide, api- caliwadthsereater thanvor equal toule8 teneit]e lemethy..cc-ceescct<-ceeenctedcodaceeencescenecssonesesnscoss 13 — Unicolored yellow or orange-yellow, apical width less than 1.8 tergite length ................ 14 BPM sailacke(GAe, SC) cieccassteccussemee anectennadadswacuninsndldansinsianrasvnndosoncnsvcinesenees A. catherinensis — Legs orange or yellow (MEX, Nuevo Leon; NM) ......... cee eee eeseeeneeeeeeenneeeaes n. sp. 33 14(12) Large ocelli, diameter of lateral ocellus greater than 0.9 length of ocelli ocular space (Fig. UBL) eee meee eee creed PNM ENEP Ta ore, 1.6 cee tae Sedd. AUN ICOEOTD, Ae UNL UL MUNA Lad deasesaccebdeek ons 15 — Small ocelli, diameter of lateral ocellus less than (Fig. 9) or equal to (Fig. 10) 0.9 length of WOcellEWculais pace mee. Pee ee Oe Re O NL Rw elena uae 18 15(14) All yellow soma, usually pale yellow, metasomal tergite II broadly costate, ocelli large, almost touching eyes (Figs. 11, 12, 13, 22) (MEX, Oaxaca ..... A. haematoxyloni — Metasomal tergite II rugocostate to finely rugulocostate, not broadly costate.................. 16 16(15) Carapace shallow, sometimes nearly flat (Fig. 6) (TX) oo... eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeeeeeees n. sp. 15 mee anapaccadcepamoumcded (Hig) 7)iccw tategeee tence ts eeecetectee ee SL, Wh es Nee lees 1 17(16) Bright, light yellow dorsum, metasomal tergites I-III delicately rugulocostulate, tergite II lightest, white metasomal venter, yellow legs, ocelli large, longest diameter of lateral ocel- lus greater than or equal to ocelli ocular distance (Figs. 5, 27) (TX) ........... eee A. quickei — Yellow-orange dorsum, rugulocostate, metasomal venter yellow or brown, often with brown or black tergite IV and/or irregular dark mottling on other tergites (TX)....n. sp. 11 18(14) Carapace shallow, flattened, flange poorly defined apically (IA).......... ee n. sp. 50 — Carapace deep, rounded, flange well defined, recurved apically «0.0.0.0... eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 19 19(18) Metasomal tergite II broadly, coarsely costate, or otherwise with strongly defined longi- ruGimalecarmmacs (NID INE SSID) tears. .!cdenctet sete Jack dees ORR... n. sp. 8 — Metasomal tergite II rugose or rugocostate, no strong longitudinal carinae, usually yellow- OPMOTE 205, dba oo cddcbodonlaScSbanenanice acetone soe kacohe nome Sac eke ener ee ee ne ee 20 20(19) Wings hyaline, wing venation honey yellow (JA).............::cssccceeeseteeeeeeseeeeeeneees n. sp. 56 — Wings infumate, basal wing venation black (TX)............c::ccesseceeenceeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeneeeees n. sp. 43 21(11) Head, mesosoma all black or nearly so, each tergite all or mostly black ............... aD — Either head and mesosoma with more yellow than black, and/or one or more tergites with MIOKE aye] LOnvaatlnatablo AG kere. cemerereaece antes + shee vi sed oe NS jes as tecle AcaaOBNc eae ab SaldellnSCA Ue saanvetine 26 22(21) Metasomal tergite II with a few widely spaced, deep, parallel costae, black often with yell owvalaig inline tintin ey CAMS AB ©) sea aaa heeds n. sp. 13 — Metasomal tergite II rugocostate, no extremely well defined costae as above ................. % 23(22) All black head, soma, legs yellow-orange except black coxae and trochanters; submargin- al cell square, ocelli small, tergite II sculpturing rugulocostate (Figs. 14, 21) (LABRADOR) saGtonuhas nagaosb Saat edeacegs eRe cada uaa eRe ene eee A. cartwrightensis — Head sometimes all black, usually with a yellow-orange eye-ring, second submarginal cell By Ald COU INy Sele CLs PUR teen ee wee | SLAM ENTIRE ARR ad ita LISS AR come RR ce. 24 24(23 Second submarginal cell nearly square, metasomal tergite IV yellow apically in male; female similar except with more extensive yellow at apices of tergites III and IV and tergite liikwatheyellowalmetnhielniimen (©) Fe Set eee etree Gate cectilee.e-ceebe nat seardsddeeadsobenes n. sp. 47 — Second submarginal cell elongate, metasoma entirely black.............. cece eee etter enone 25 2S OA ace rallxormiostly: blacks (ABS Caer hoe see esac ecvot adage tess ll lldesacettedaes n. sp. 39 nt AC CRYC MLOWAOnAmee (NID) Meee ee Mae AEA SR Ri eis sat ene Wa dee n. sp. 60 26(21) Head, mesosoma color not all black, usually mostly yellow or orange; metasomal tergite color all black; sometimes with orange or yellow highlights on some tergites ................ ai} — Head, mesosoma color variable; some metasomal tergites with no black .................0.6. 42 27(26) Diameter of lateral ocellus greater than 0.9 of ocell-ocular distance ...............:ceees 28 — Diameter of lateral ocellus less than or equal to 0.9 of ocell-ocular distance................... 34 WS Or MNCarapacerasidceprasilong Mrommded!: 5-H Pe a a eens ede ealesens Ug) — Carapace shallow, not as deep as long, not rounded apically..............ccccccceesseeteeeeeeeees 31 14 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 29(28) Metasomal tergite II coarsely rugose-areolate, dark orange propleuron, middle and hind legs( CO) suai, teeta ehaer tan. sl Ie 8 cast yatengindunk hsReeasesd tne ead Sees n. sp.19 — _Metasomal tergite ll sinely rugulocostulatere:..2.tsssc202:: 230th ces es eee 30 30(28) Middle and hind legs black, black propleuron, body length about 4.5mm (MEX, Durango) naidoaiee ilthrageiele to sells oe ela ciom RAASAS AE oS RAEN son RPE n. sp. | — Middle and hind legs mostly yellow, honey yellow propleuron, body length about 3.5 mm (GISGRININ I eo ss cot ote chokstodiidcenacestaensanieae seniennriones Snstiesloehiclia sar cate saade See eee eee ee ee n. sp. 4 31(28) Mostly black mesosoma, black metasoma, areolate rugulose metasomal tergite II (WY, INT), mre. eMmeten oe ebventter| J! U2, r5.ch2 cleat dddd aeeare. deen! dat eel ale: eee n. sp. 21 — Mostly yellow or bicolored mesosoma, tergite II sculpturing costate............. cesses: By 32(31) Mesosoma mostly yellow, metasoma extensively washed with yellow; body length less than or equal to 3 mm., tergite II sculpturing areolate-costate (TX) ..........eeeeeeeee n. sp. 2 =)“ Tergite Il:sculptuting rugocostate ..sc::203-udeennseidco ee) ee 3)2 33(32) Tergite II distinctly bicolored yellow and black, shallowly rugocostate (TX)......n. sp. 20 — Tergite II black, coarsely rugocostate, with deep, distinct dorso-posteriorly running costae @igs. 15, 165.23) (VEX, Jalisco) :.423...3.45. 22! 2 eee eee eee Aare ee A. jaliscoensis 34(28) Carapace deeper than long, rounded apically .........2:+--.nere-- poesia esate eee ee 35 — Carapace shallow, not deeper than long, not rounded apically..............eeseeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeees 38 35(34), Seutumn imostly black 4.c....s cnc. abiestes snccbiies odes sededates DBeedes eon Renee ee eee Se 36 =» »Scutum mostly orange or yellow. ::...ccocseste::la.deeleccseeeel eee Lesa. 37 36(35) Tergite II coarsely rugocostate, second submarginal cell elongate, 3RSa longer than 2RS, yellow palpsu(ONwOQ©)s:.csssecus lo hell eee eal a eee n. sp. 12 — Tergite II coarsely rugocostate, second submarginal cell short, trapezoidal, 3RSa less than or equal to 2RS,, blackepalips CN©)isscrees..2ceet eet. Jee. Seen, Sree, me sp. 39 37(35) Metasomal tergites II and III coarsely rugose-areolate, metasoma black, sometimes with wellony Inetlie int (NIM, TX): cvecnsnscerscessosancaseasnseseetoneccigcesct teeta eee ee ae eee A. carlsbadensis — Metasomal tergites IJ and III rugocostate, if areolae present, elongate, metasoma black (CA, NAV) ee agar ee he RP i Pi eRe BREE Joe on aBRUH ELE Ase ea os cacpoocose cs n. sp. 37 38(34) Carapace flat when viewed from side, scutum black, metasoma black washed with orange (ETO (CNIS) ean on RRR MRS oe cn. Uae ntag hc asecceRboctine iii A. halifaxensis — Carapace shallow, rounded when viewed from side (Figs. 5, 6, 29) ........:::cccssseeeessreeeeees 39 39(38) Scutum black, coarsely rugocostate tergite II, coarsely rugose-areolate tergite III (MD) EAA Acta ANA celced Aiba eit and bethdan da aaavanbissindles nati dnudondundeddedde atk tad eee or n. sp. 26 — Scutum bicolored black and yellow, or completely yellow ...........c:cesceesseeeeeeeeeteeeeeeeeeeees 40 40(39) Scutum bicolored, head often with extensive black, postocciput with black, tergite II coarsely mugecostaten(CAl) sic: vied cence ee eee n. sp. 52 — Scutum yellow-orange, tergite II rugocostate-areolate (CA) ..........cccccceeeesneeeeeeeeee n. sp. 34 41(27) Diameter of lateral ocellus greater than or equal to ocell-ocular distance, basal tergite yel- low-orange, sometimes brown basally or washed with black, or with irregular dark mot- tling, never with solid, symmetrical black Coloration.............cccccccescceceencceeeeeeeeenneeeeeneeeeees 42 — If diameter of lateral ocellus greater than or equal to ocell-ocular distance, then basal ter- gite with solid black symmetrical coloration; if smaller than ocell-ocular distance; basal ter- gite with or without solid symmetrical black coloration .............cccccccccceeseseeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeeees 49 42(41) Metasomal tergites I and II yellow-orange or mostly yellow-orange, tergites III] and IV DIAGIS 5. ja cncnesssiznauopriomnnennsnnntnlb tut MUSH RSE Lemaitre eryesl bevel aby wlisgese slic wosltics. LL cakes A. shawi — Metasomal tergite II rugocostate, mesopleuron rugocostate anterior to nitid central disc CCU) ye ir 2 meme pemmumnaneneratee Cerrary: Ayeltrr tals LGN 122k ce) sli Niven else n. sp. 5 female 57(51) Metasomal tergite II rugose, few or no longitudinal costae............e.cecceeseeeeseeeeeeeeeeeees 58 See eretic Ul Tue Ocostate, LOMeUGIMal COSTAC PEESCML 2. -.2.c6csosccca-ce-n-nnsdenanncnnanerevoneon-nnnasnoesvan 59 58(57) Metasomal tergite II finely rugulose; body with contrasting yellow-orange and black col- ian OMA AAC NN ANS) i h8,. 08 ee. Ure eee UT hobs, foo tied reseed some n. sp. 9 — Metasomal tergite II coarsely rugose, body with dark orange coloration (MEX, Sonora)... = die htc tedoddt ccbedc A LAUR APN LMS baah Eo 1 ok Ie tee Os ROE MIL pss oe tk en n. sp. 44 59(57) Metasomal tergite IV shallow, depth less than length, and/or flange incompletely recurved _segntndese bas 2 cee eeGooee tues sococlsbe 3oE: barca Cee OE a ao 60 — _ Tergite IV deep, depth greater than or equal to length, flange completely recurved .......... 2 60(59) Metasomal tergite II shallowly rugulocostulate (MD, MS, TN)...........:.:ceee n. sp. 24 16 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS == ° Tergite Il with deep; bold longitudimalcostae :2....... eee ee 61 61(60) Carapace strongly concave apically; flange incompletely recurved (CA)............ n. sp. 53 =» (Catapace flat, not concave’apically (BC) .iiies.. Antes ee RELA, eee ce n. sp. 36 62(59) Metasomal tergite II delicately rugulo-costulate ......... eee eeeneeeeneeeeneeseneeeeneeeeeeeeeeeeees 63 — Metasomal tergite II with a few bold longitudinal costae .............eccceecceeeteeeeteeeeteeesteeenes 64 63(62) Diameter of lateral ocellus greater than ocell-ocular distance, metasomal tergite III not completely black, head yellow except black inter-ocellar area (TX) ..........::ceceeee n. sp. 7 — Diameter of lateral ocellus about equal to ocell-ocular distance, head bicolored yellow- orange and black including on vertex and postocciput (AZ, CA, WY)........... some n. sp. 9 64(62) Diameter of lateral ocellus more than twice length of ocell-ocular diameter, tergite III completelyablack (CTX )iecciie. ya Se Re See n. sp. 30 — Diameter of lateral ocellus about equal to ocellar-ocular diameter (CA)................ n. sp. 18 65(49) Metasomal tergite IV all or mostly yellow-orange .............cccceesceeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeenseeeneeenneees 66 — . Tergite IV allsorsmostly black. ...2....4.00..0...000 0 aR 69 66(65) Metasomal tergite II heavily rugocostate with strong longitudinal carinae, carapace as deep:as long, flange:entirely recurved ...0.......20.. Oe 67 — Tergite II rugulocostulate, or strong longitudinal carinae, or areolate; if rugulocostulate or with strong longitudinal carinae, then carapace longer than deep; if tergite IJ areolate, then carapace as deep as long and flange entirely recurved ........:.ccesetcce.1-1eeeeees eee eee 68 6766) Head vellowa(NDASD)i.2220is aos. Os WR A some n. sp. 8 == dead blacks(CA) iii s.ccseicideccsdevlhenctes E n. sp. 40 68(66) Metasomal tergite II rugulocostulate, rugose anteromedially, shallow, “northern pattern” scutum color pattern (Fig. 18), almost flat carapace (Figs. 19, 25) (QC) .....4. provancheri — Metasomal tergite II with strongly developed longitudinal carinae, not rugose (ON) some esi aE N AS BORG dad dn oso aghk cd BE RE ee n. sp. 42 69(65) Metasomal tergite II rugose; dark orange on tergites I and IT (OR)................000 n. sp. 49 — Tergite Il rogocostate or areolate ..........scsscccossseooeeasduessoonnenleagerseoountddenelteh eee ean 70 70(69) Mesoscutum yellow or mostly yellow .2..2.1...c00d5. degessnsceceennstce esse ueties eee ee 71 — Mesoscutum black or mostly black, metasoma with “anatariatus color pattern” black except usually apical section of tergite I, and always all of tergite II yellow-orange (Fig. 1) PP e meme eee eH HEHEHE HEE EEE EEE E EEE EEE EEE EEE SESE EES ESOS EEE ES EE ESET EEE SEES ESSE ESE EEE SEES EEE SEED EEE EEE EEE EEE SEES E EES EEE SEES SESE EEE EEE EE ESSE PUTO) Alldees) Dak oo.cacintacsiavitiones steel videda sds Macc cuit COG CIUORcB. SRO 2; == Some‘or all legs yellow or yellow-orange ....ii....ciiisiiiiledecsuddosduveccestoneiesbns enone eee 73 72(71)Metasomal tergite II shallowly rugocostate, carapace as deep as long MEX, Durango) .... BIR SOR AE PRK RI SE RR eee n. sp. 31 — Metasomal tergite II with a few bold, widely spaced longitudinal costae (CA).....n. sp. 18 73(71) Metasomal tergite II rugocostate with finely developed longitudinal carinae that are nei- ther with strongly developed nor deep (ON) .......)5si...csssticoutatccsievsseeceeeeeenen nena n. sp. 23 — Tergite II either with longitudinal costae heavily defined and deep, or with heavily rugose OL AKeO late SC tal PUTTS ei shetla sn seek coliacede ode caplvuee onan pasechoesnesemmnmenesivetsi tyes eee ee teeta 74 74(73) Metasomal tergite II with areolate sculpturing (NM, OR, ID)..................005 A. areolatus — Tergite II either with heavily defined longitudinal costae or with heavily rugose sculpturing 75(74) Metasomal tergite II with heavily defined, deep longitudinal costae ...............:cc:cceeeeeee 76 — Tergite II with heavily rugose sculpturing; sometimes with longitudinal costae well defined badder BAUR SOMA ildtninde Asn ott nlc eUSae NN fa RES. DG aT I 77 76(75) Venterot mesopleuron black (ON) isin eee n. sp. 42 =| Venterofimesopleuron) yellow. CLL) \..ccscvdsievwucdeostneduusceevsuvenueteneele vate tcneee aie n. sp. 55 77@/5) Black vertexscoxae mesopleuron: (BC) 2nd Wal ee eee n. sp. 45 —» WYellow vertex, coxac; and mesopleutom .i511.5.02..1. idles ctdiesslbbenuesnetnes ee 78 78(77) Carapace deep, not longer than deep, rounded posteriorly, flange entirely recurved (NC) dt iw rete ep cic Sat de Sv ci Weld Gace kee OR n. sp. 25 — + Carapacerdecp; flange notentirely recurved (CA) Wi). ee ee n. sp. 51 79(70) Metasomal tergite II areolate or areolate with some longitudinal costae that do not reach Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 17 (REG STITSs 2) OE (|OLTE)) essen socaceccocessoeee ae ace cea 6c NTE a nec a eee an Fe pec eee em some A. areolatus =a) Metasomialgte neue sllEnine Oe © Stalcaerte cates osc acs ceceteeeasaceeee ee be tect eeteraitesceduiccretanessesenesassers 80 80(79) Metasomal tergite II sculpturing finely, narrowly rugocostate, costae shallowly developed (GANAS) essoosccnsddecuosachSacnsee damscongadnce ve acouee cob cesGaN Gconaeo nee ese ena e ee n. sp. 14 — Tergite II sculpturing coarsely, widely rugocostate, costae more deeply developed......... 81 SI (OO) Biyeeye [wear (ABS) ssccceneeaqastescessoadedoccsesehascen cece nceceasnan ci nc eee te eee a n. sp. 41 a REOCOXde Yellow (ETOS a les Sarl Sl ODO) (©) VD) ee aeeece ccc oectecencenseseceeee A. anatariatus Aleiodes anatariatus NEW SPECIES lange, I, 5 its, WSs 20 Female. Body color: face orange except mandibles black ventrally; black facial area above and lateral to clypeus; ventral margin of gena black; frons, vertex black except orange border around eye; occiput black to reddish brown; pronotum black anteriorly and posteroventrally, otherwise orange; propleuron black; scutum black except yellow- orange spots at anteromedial corners of notauli, thin areolate medial stripe extending to yellow-orange posteromedial area; scutellar disc yellow-orange in basal two-thirds, black apically; mesopleuron yellow-orange or bicolored with black, mesopleuron venter black; propodeum black; metapleuron yellow-orange or bicolored with black; basal half metasomal tergite I with black, semicircular area, apical half of metasomal tergite I yel- low-orange; metasomal tergite II entirely yellow-orange; metasomal tergite III yellow- orange along base, otherwise black; metasomal tergite IV black; coxae, trochanters, trochantellae and tarsi of front legs black, femora and tibiae yellow, middle and hind legs entirely yellow except black tarsi; wings hyaline, stigma and veins brown except front wing (RS+M)b, veins surrounding second submarginal vein, 3RSb, 3M, and hind wing RS colorless. Body length: 5.0—5.3 mm; forewing length: 3.7-3.9 mm. Head: 44-45 fla- gellomeres, all slightly longer than wide; malar space long, 1.6-1.8 times basal width of mandible and 0.5 times eye height; temple wide, 0.8 eye width; occipital carina complete at vertex, reaching hypostomal carina; oral space small, circular, about equal to basal width of mandible; clypeus broad, flattened, medial height about equal to medial length of oral opening; ocelli small, ocellocular distance 1.3-1.4 diameter of lateral ocellus; face rugose medially, minutely areolate laterally; frons rugose dorsally with vertical carinae arising from near antennae over minutely areolate surface; vertex strongly rugocostate, temple minutely areolate. Mesosoma: anterior half of ventral edge of pronotum with scrobiculate flange, posteromedial area of pronotum nitid, bordered with a vertical cari- na on each side and bisected with an additional vertical carina, this scrobiculate pattern continuing laterally along sulci dividing ventrolateral and dorsolateral areas on each side, ventrolateral areas scabrous medially, becoming areolate-rugose laterally, dorsolateral area porcate, anteromedial area scabrous; mesoscutum minutely areolate except notauli scrobiculate, medial stripe areolate-rugulose, median posterior area rugose; scutellar disc areolate; mesopleuron coriaceous ventrally, areolate-rugose anteriorly, more finely areo- late-rugulose postero-dorsally, mid-dorsal area nitid, subbalar sulcus roughly scrobicu- late, sternaular area concave, minutely areolate; propodeum heavily sculptured, areolate- rugose, median carina complete; metapleuron areolate-rugulose. Legs: inner spur of hind tarsus about 0.25 length of hind basitarsus; hind coxae areolate-rugulose dorsally. Wings: front wing with vein r 0.6 length of 3Rsa and 0.85 to equal to length of m-cu, vein Icu-a beyond 1M by distance less than length of lcu-a, 1CUa 0.15 to 0.25 length of 1CUb; hind wing with marginal vein slightly recurved, marginal cell narrowest in middle, 1M about 1.7 length of r-m, M+CU about 1.3 length of 1M, vein m-cu present, pigmented or unpigmented, 0.5-0.8 length of r-m and adjoining it. Metasoma: first ter- 18 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Figs. 1-6. Metasomal tergite variation in Aleiodes pilosus species-group. 1. A. anatariatus. 2. A. dorsofoveolatus. 3. A. shawi. 4. A. oaxacensis. 5. A. quickei. 6. A. anatariatus. Lateral view of tergite IV. Figs. 7-11. Aleiodes pilosus species-group features. 7. A. pilosus, carapace. Arrow indi- cates recurved flange. 8. A. areolatus, metasomal tergite II. 9. A. anatariatus, vertex. Arrow indicates complete occipital carina. Also note small ocelli. 10. A. shawi, vertex. Arrow indicates rugocostate sculpturing. Also note ocelli with diameter about equal to ocell-ocular diameter. 11. A. haematoxyloni, vertex. Arrow indicates incomplete occipital carina. Also note large ocelli. Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 19 Figs. 12-19. Aleiodes pilosus species-group features. 12. A. haematoxyloni, metasomal tergite II. 13. Gena of A. haematoxyloni. O.C.: Occipital carina. H.C.: Hypostomal carina. Arrow indi- cates that carinae do not meet. 14. 4. cartwrightensis, metasomal tergite II. 15. A. jaliscoensis, metasomal tergite I. 16. A. jaliscoensis, lateral view of carapace. 17. A. anatariatus, scutum, lateral view. Arrow indicates rugose median posterior area. 18. A. anatariatus, scutum, antero- dorsal view. Arrows ‘a’ indicate ‘northern color pattern’ found in most Canadian species. Arrow ‘b’ indicates median rugose stripe. 19. A. provancheri, scutum, lateral view. Arrow ‘a’ indicates scrobiculate notaulus. Arrow ‘b’ indicates minutely areolate sculpturing. gite areolate-rugulose basomedially in black area, rugocostate laterally and apically in orange area, median carina complete; second tergite rugocostate, several prominent costae running the length of the tergite, median carina originating basally from a small triangular raised area and complete apically; third tergite rugocostate in basal 2/3, are- olate-rugose in apical 1/3, median carina complete; fourth tergite entirely areolate- rugose, shallowly carapace-like, completely covering remaining tergites, ventral flange complete, weakly recurved laterally, scrobiculate sculpturing discontinuous with tergite sculpturing laterally, continuous apically; ovipositor about 0.4 length of hind basitarsus. Body and legs extensively covered with pubescence of white setae. Male. Unknown. 20 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Material Examined. Holotype female. British Columbia, Milepost 54 Atlin road, emerged 30/IV/1959. Paratype females. Yukon Territory, Alaska Highway Milepost 926, emerged 30-IV-1959; British Columbia, Frazier Canyon, 12-[II-1951; British Colum- bia, T.V.S., 2/11/1950; British Columbia, Lillooet, 8-[X-1948; Yukon Territory, White- horse (McRae), 30/IV/1959; British Columbia, Hope, 12-VII 1955; British Columbia, Okeover, 19/V/1952. Paratype male. British Columbia, Coombs, 11/III/ 1952. Distribution. Known from type localities in southern Yukon Territory and British Columbia, Canada. Host Association. All known hosts are geometrids. Holotype female was reared from [tame anataria (Swett). Paratype females reared from Semiothisa hebetata (Hulst) and S. granitata (Guenee). The Lillooet specimen was reared from an unknown geo- metrid host taken from Pseudotsuga menziezii. Comments. A relatively large species, with more antennomeres than most A. pilo- sus-group species. The coarsely rugocostate sculpturing with prominent, widely spaced costae on metasomal tergite II distinguish this species from other similar species that also have the combination of extensive black on head and thorax, and yellow-orange tergite II such as undescribed new species 14, 41, and 79. Etymology. Name refers to host species consumed by the holotype specimen. Aleiodes cartwrightensis NEW SPECIES Figs. 14, 21 Female. Body color: head, thorax, and abdomen almost completely black except nar- row orange border around eye extending from dorsolateral corner of eye, medially and down along medial edge, then around ventral edge to dorsolateral corner, thus not extending along lateral edge of eye; labrum orange, maxillary palps light brown, labial palps black; base of scape orange laterally, annelli yellow-orange; second and third metasomal tergites with orange highlights under strong light; ventral flange of fourth metasomal tergite yellow-orange; coxae, trochanters all black; trochantelli, femora, tib- jae, and tarsi all yellow-orange except apical tarsomeres all black; wings slightly smoky brown, wing veins brown except forewing veins r-m and (RS+M)b not pigmented, and hind wing RS and posterior half of cu-a not pigmented. Body and legs extensively cov- ered with pubescence of white setae. Body length: 4.6 mm; forewing length: 3.7 mm. Head: 39 flagellomeres, all slightly longer than wide; malar space long, 1.7 mandibular basal width and 0.7 eye height; temple wide, 0.9 eye width; occipital carina incomplete at vertex, reaching hypostomal carina; oral space small, circular, horizontal diameter slightly larger than mandibular basal width, medial height of clypeus 0.6 of medial height of oral opening; ocelli small, ocellocular distance about twice diameter of lateral ocellus; face, clypeus coarsely rugulose; frons minutely areolate; vertex with a crease between lateral ocelli, a carina extending from medial edge of occipital carina forward about halfway toward midpoint between posterior edges of lateral ocellae, otherwise vertex rugulose; temples coriaceous near eyes becoming rugulose posteriorly; genae minutely areolate dorsally, rugulose ventrally. Mesosoma: scrobiculate flange running along ventral edge of pronotum along anterior half, mid-medial area of pronotum minutely areolate-rugulose, posteromedial area scrobiculate, scrobiculate pattern con- tinuing laterally along a sulcus on each side dividing ventro-lateral and dorso-lateral areas, ventro-lateral areas rugulose becoming sequentially minutely areolate, then costate laterally; dorsolateral areas costate; scutum areolate-rugulose over a more minutely areolate surface except scrobiculate notauli and more coarsely ruglose pos- Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 j2)| tero-medial area; scutellar disc rugulose over minutely areolate surface; mesopleuron rugulose except posterior half of subalar sulcus carinate becoming nitid posteriorly; propodeum areolate-rugulose, postero-lateral humps blunt; metapleuron areolate- rugose ventrally, with faint rugulae over a minutely areolate surface dorsally. Legs: inner apical spurs of hind tibiae about 0.4 length of hind basitarsi; hind coxae areolate- rugulose dorsally. Wings: forewing with vein r 0.6 length of 3Rsa and about 0.8 length of m-cu, vein lcu-a beyond 1M by distance about equal to length of lcu-a, 1CUa about 0.2 length of 1CUb; hind wing with marginal vein not tubular and slightly recurved, marginal cell narrowest in middle, 1M about 1.7 length of r-m, M+CU about 1.7 length of 1M, vein m-cu present and pigmented, about 0.7 length of r-m and adjoining it. Metasoma: first tergite heavily areolate-rugose, median carina complete; second tergite rugulocostate, median carina originating basally from a small triangular raised area and complete apically; fourth tergite finely areolate-rugulose, shallowly carapace-like, com- pletely covering remaining tergites, ventral flange broad with irregular scrobiculation, discontinuous with sculpturing of tergite, strongly recurved anteriorly, weakly apically; ovipositor sheaths completely covered by fourth tergite, ovipositor about 0.9 of length of hind basitarsus. Male. Unknown. Material Examined. Holotype female. LABRADOR, Cartwright, 25/VII/1955, E. F. Cashman. Deposited in CNC. Host Information. Unknown. Comments. The entire black body with yellow-orange legs, is also characteristic of A. arcticus and A. itamevorus. Heavily areolate-rugulose sculpturing on first metasomal tergite is also characteristic of A. itamevorus. Both of those species are in the sister- group cluster to the A. pilosus-group (Fortier and Shaw 1999). Etymology. The specific name refers to the type locality. Aleiodes haematoxyloni NEW SPECIES Paes. leat 21 35022 Female. Body color: Body yellow-orange except black ocellar triangle; brown antennal pedicel and flagellomeres; pronotum, propodeum, and metasomal tergites I — II yellow; legs yellow except apical halves of hind tibiae brown and hind tarsi brown; wings hyaline; stigma light brown in basal quarter, otherwise dark brown, forewing C+SC+R, M+CU, 1A yellow basally becoming brown apically, other apical veins brown except (RS+M)b and r-m clear; hind wing veins yellow to light brown except slightly darker R1. Body length: 4.4 mm, forewing length 3.9 mm. Head: 41 flagel- lomeres, all longer than wide, large eyes, temple width 0.3 eye width, malar space 0.7 mandibular basal width and 0.2 eye height, occipital carina incomplete at vertex, not reaching hypostomal carina; oral space small, circular, width about 0.8 basal width of mandible; clypeus broad, flattened, protruding slightly from face, height about equal to height of oral opening; ocelli large, almost touching eyes, ocellocular distance about 0.2 ocellar diameter; facial ridge present, running about halfway down face, face minutely areolate with dorsal punctation; frons minutely areolate; vertex minutely areolate, punc- tate posteriorad, faint median carina running from midpoint between lateral ocelli to open area of occipital carina; temples with sparse punctation over minutely areolate sur- face. Mesosoma: pronotum shelflike, rugulose anteriorly with scrobiculate ventral flange upturned anteriorly becoming smooth anterolaterally, pronotum finely rugulose ventrolaterally; and areolate-rugulose dorsolaterally, dorsolateral and ventrolateral areas Dp ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 26 De . 27 Figs. 20-27. Wings of A. pilosus-group. 20. A. anatariatus. Veins referred to in this study are labeled. 21. A. cartwrightensis. 22. A. haematoxyloni. 23. A. jaliscoensis. 24. A. halifaxensis. 25. A. provancheri. 26. A. shawi. 27. A. quickei. separated by scrobiculate lateral sulcus on each side; scutum, scutellum minutely areo- late, scrobiculation in notaular grooves faint, notauli extending posteriorly, lateral to rugulose dorso-posterior area, terminating just anterior to pre-scutellar carina; scutellar disc finely areolate-rugulose; mesopleuron smooth-punctate anteriorly and posteriorly to central disc, central disc nitid posteriorly, sternaular area slightly concave, shallow- ly rugulose centrally, shallowly costate posteriorly; propodeum rugulose, median cari- na complete; metapleuron finely areolate. Legs: inner spurs of hind tarsi 0.3 of length of hind basitarsus, hind coxae minutely areolate dorsally. Wings: forewings with vein r 0.6 length of 3Rsa and 0.9 length of m-cu, vein lcu-a beyond IM by distance equal to lcu-a, 1CUa about 0.3 length of 1Cub; hind wing with marginal vein slightly recurved, marginal cell narrowest in middle, 1M about 1.4 length of r-m, M+CU about 1.5 length of 1M, vein m-cu present, pigmented, about 0.5 length of r-m, immediately posterior to r-m, joining it. Metasoma: first tergite rugulocostulate, median carina complete, terminating on raised posteromedial area at short carina along posteromedi- al edge of tergite; second tergite rugulocostulate, median carina originating from a small basal raised triangular area, complete apically; third tergite rugulocostulate, median carina incomplete, terminating just basad of apical flange; fourth tergite finely areolate-rugulose, shallowly carapace-like, but completely covering remaining tergites, Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 23 ventral flange well demarcated, scrobiculate, colorless laterally becoming yellow api- cally; ovipositor about 0.6 length of hind basitarsus. Body and legs extensively covered with pubescence of white setae. Male. Unknown. Material Examined. Holotype female: MEXICO: Oaxaca, 2km W. Guellaguichi, July 13, 1990, P. G. daSilva and T. Eager, deposited in TAMU collection. Paratype female: MEXICO: Oaxaca, 5 mi. W. Tequisistlan, 1100 ft., 23/VIII/1973, A. Newton coll., blacklight. Distribution. Known only from type locality in Oaxaca, Mexico. Host Information. Reared from geometrid host (D. Adamski, personal communica- tion) associated with Haematoxylon brasiletto Karsten (Fabaceae, Brazil wood). Comments. A nearly all yellow wasp with large ocelli and fine sculpturing, similar to Aleiodes quickei Fortier. Can be distinguished by occipital carina not complete at vertex, ocellar triangle black, abdomen narrower, antennal pedicel dark (yellow in A. quickei), forewing stigma mostly dark brown (mostly yellow in A. quickei), and hind tibiae dark apically (yellow in A. quickei). Etymology. Named after the genus of a rare, economically valuable tree species uti- lized by host. Aleiodes halifaxensis NEW SPECIES Fig. 24 Female. Body color: face yellow-orange except faint brown spot immediately above clypeus, tips of mandibles reddish brown, frons brown medially, yellow-orange lateral- ly, interocellar area black, vertex yellow-orange except broad brown stripe running from between posterior margins of lateral ocelli to occipital carina, temples brown, genae yellow-orange, occiput yellow-orange dorsally, brown laterally, and yellow- orange ventrally such that color pattern is continuous with that of vertex, temples, and genae; pronotum yellow-orange, propleura brown, scutum black except yellow-orange spot at anteromedial corners of notauli; scutellar disc black, propodeum black, meso- pleura, mesosterna black; metapleura black; metasomal dorsum brown except yellow- tan basomedial area; coxae, trochanters, trochantelli, femora of all legs yellow-orange, tibiae of forelegs yellow-orange, tibiae of middle and hind legs brown, tarsi of all legs brown; wings hyaline, all veins yellow basally becoming darker brown apically except forewing veins (RS+M)b and r-m colorless, hind wing RS not tubular and colorless, posterior portion of cu-a colorless. Body length: 4 mm; forewing length: 3.2 mm. Head: 40 flagellomeres, all slightly longer than wide; malar space long, length 2 times basal width of mandible and about 0.4 eye height; temple broad, about 0.6 eye width; occipital carina effaced medially at vertex, meeting hypostomal carina; oral space small, horizontal width 0.8 basal width of mandible; clypeus broad, flattened, medial height about 1.3 medial height of oral opening; ocelli small, ocellocular distance about 1.3 diameter of lateral ocellus; a thick, well-defined ridge descending from midpoint between anterior of bases of antennae a short distance down middle of face; face minutely areolate; frons minutely areolate except circular nitid area below median ocel- lus and 3 short, faint carinae radiating from median ocellus laterally of nitid area; ver- tex minutely areolate, faint laterally running carinae; temples minutely areolate. Meso- soma: anterior half of ventral edge of pronotum with scrobiculate flange, pronotum minutely areolate anteromedially and ventrolaterally, scrobiculate posteromedially con- tinuing laterally along sulci for a short distance, unsculptured lateral portions of sulci dividing ventrolateral and dorsolateral areas on each side, dorsolateral areas smooth 24 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS with 3 or 4 shallow carinae; scutum minutely areolate except notauli scrobiculate, medi- al areolate-rugulose stripe absent, median posterior area obliterated by pin; scutellar disc minutely areolate; mesopleuron coriaceous except posterior half of central disc nitid, subalar sulcus shallowly rugulose becoming scrobiculate anteriorly, mesopleuron weakly, finely costulate ventral to sulcus, sternaular area weakly concave; propodeum areolate-rugose, median carina complete; metapleuron rugulose. Legs: inner spurs of hind tibiae about 0.4 length of hind basitarsus; hind coxae minutely areolate dorsally. Wings: front wing with vein r about 0.6 length of 3Rsa and about 0.8 length of m-cu, vein lcu-a beyond 1M by distance of 1.5 length of lcu-a, 1CUa about 0.3 length of 1Cub; hind wing with marginal vein not tubular, slightly recurved, marginal cell nar- rowest in middle, 1M about 2 times length of r-m, vein m-cu present, unpigmented, about 0.8 length of r-m and immediately posterior to it, adjoining it. Metasoma: first tergite areolate-rugose, median carina complete; second tergite rugocostate in basal 3/4, areolate-rugose in apical 1/4, median carina originating basally from a small triangular raised area and complete apically; third tergite entirely finely areolate-rugulose, medi- an carina neither complete to basal nor apical tergite margin; fourth tergite with sculp- turing similar to third tergite, completely covering remaining tergites, shallowly cara- pace-like, ventral flange broad, sculpturing fainter, shallower than rest of tergite, no recurvation; ovipositor about 0.6 of length of hind basitarsus. Body and legs extensive- ly covered with pubescence of white setae. Male. Unknown. Material Examined. Holotype female: CANADA: NOVA SCOTIA, Halifax, emerged 16-III-1949. Deposited in CNC. Distribution. Known only from the type locality in Nova Scotia. Host Information. Reared from Semiothisa granitata Guenee (Geometridae). Comments. Unique head coloration with color pattern of yellow-orange vertex, brown temples, and yellow-orange genae continuing posteriorly onto occiput. Yellow spots at anteromedial margins of notauli are found in nearly all Canadian Tetrasphae- ropyx species examined. Etymology. Named after the type locality of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Aleiodes jaliscoensis NEW SPECIES Figs. 15, 16, 23 Female. Body color: head orange; mandibles orange with black tips, other mouth- parts orange except galeae black, ocellar triangle black; scapes orange basally, other- wise black, pedicels black, annelli orange, flagella black; mesosoma orange except metanotum and metapleuron with black and propodeum entirely black; metasoma black; front coxae, trochanters orange; femora, tibiae, and tarsi darker orange brown dorsally, orange ventrally; middle coxae orange, trochanters orange basally, brown api- cally; trochantelli, femora, tibiae, tarsi brown; hind coxae, trochanters, trochantelli orange and brown; femora black; tibiae black except orange basally; tarsi black except basitarsomeres orange basally; wings hyaline, veins light yellow basally becoming dark brown except fore wing r-m, and (RS+M)b unpigmented, stigma dark brown, hind wing veins light yellow basally becoming dark brown except posterior 1/2 of cu-a, m-cu, RS, and 1M apicad of r-m unpigmented. Body and legs extensively covered with pubes- cence of white setae. Body length: 4.7 mm. Forewing length 4.2 mm. Head: malar space moderate, equal to basal width of mandible and about 0.3 eye height; temple width about 0.5 eye width; oral opening nearly circular, small, horizontal diameter 1.4 mandibular basal width, medial height of clypeus about equal to medial height of oral Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 25 space; occipital carina incomplete medially, meeting hypostomal carina ventrally; 42 flagellomeres, all slightly longer than wide, first of equal length to second, scape later- ally flattened; ocelli large, ocellocular space 0.6 diameter of lateral ocellus; face minutely areolate, median facial ridge originating at midpoint between anterior edges of antennae, wide, running about halfway down face; frons minutely areolate, shiny; vertex rugulose anteriorly, carinae running laterally across vertex, shiny-foveolate pos- teriorly; temples with one or two transverse carinae anteriorly, foveolate posteriorly; occiput smooth, faintly coriaceous and shining. Mesosoma: pronotum minutely areo- late anteromedially, scrobiculate sculpturing in lateral sulci discontinuous medially, sulci dividinig lateral areas of pronotum into dorsolateral and ventrolateral sections, ventrolateral section minutely areolate, dorsolateral section shallowly areolate-rugu- lose, ventral flange upturned medially, scrobiculate; scutum finely areolate-rugulose except rugulocostulate posterior medial area, notauli unsculptured terminating in poste- rior medial area, median carina arising at top of anterior declivity of scutum and run- ning into posteromedial area; scutellar disc minutely areolate; mesopleuron costate anterior of nitid central disc, carinae running dorso-ventrally, rugulose posterior to cen- tral disc area, sternaular area concave, finely coriaceous-nitid; propodeum areolate- rugose in basal half, rugocostate apically, median carina prominent, straight in basal half, becoming wavy, weak apically; metapleuron rugose. Legs: inner spur of hind tibia about 0.3 length of hind basitarsus, hind coxae finely areolate-rugulose dorsally. Wings: hyaline, second submarginal cell elongate, r 0.5 length of 3RSa, 0.8 length of m-cu, lcu-a beyond 1M by a distance slightly greater than length of Icu-a, 1CUa 0.3 length of 1CUb; hind wing RS slightly recurved, marginal cell narrowed medially, 1M 1.6 length of r-m, M+CU 1.4 length of 1M, m-cu unpigmented, 0.7 length of r-m. Metasoma: first tergite areolate-costate, costae prominent compared with shallower areolation except at posterolateral corners, where costae shallower, median carina com- plete, intersecting with raised area of short lateral carina at apicomedial edge of tergite; second tergite areolate-costate, costae more prominent, straighter than those of first ter- gite, median carina continuous with that of third tergite; third tergite rugulocostate, costae less prominent, more irregular than those of second tergite, median carina weak- ly complete apicad; fourth tergite finely areolate-rugulose, shallowly carapace-like, completely covering tergites apical to it, ventral flange scrobiculate, orange, wider, bet- ter defined laterally than apically; ovipositor length 0.6 length of hind basitarsus. Male. Differs from female in having black mesosomal venters. Material Examined. Holotype female: MEXICO, Jalisco, 16 km N. Autlan, July 12-14, 1983, at black light, Kovarik, Harrison, Schaffner. Deposited in NMNH. Para- types: 2 Males. MEXICO, Durango: 23 mi. S. 6000' July 3, 1964, W.R.M. Mason. Deposited in the NUNH. MEXICO, Durango: 6 mi. E. VII/14/1964. W.R.M. Mason. Deposited in NMNH. Distribution. Known only from the type locality at Jalisco, Mexico. Host Information. Unknown. Comments. Distinguished by usually vivid yellow-orange head and mesosoma con- trasting with black metasoma combined with moderately large ocelli, occipital carina incomplete medially, propodeal sculpturing areolate in basal half becoming costate api- cally with median carina obfuscated apically, and coarsely areolate-costate metasomal tergites. Etymology: Named for the type locality of the holotype. 26 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Aleiodes provancheri NEW SPECIES Pigs: 19925 Female. Body color: face yellow-orange except large black area extending from top of inter-antennal groove along the groove, broadening into large medial patch, running down to and laterally along sides of yellow-orange clypeus; frons black, vertex black except near eyes, temples, genae yellow-orange, antennae black except yellow-orange annelli; pronotum dark anteriorly becoming yellow-orange posterolaterally; propleuron black; scutum black except yellow-orange patches medial to bases of notauli, dark yel- low-orange apicomedially; scutellum black; mesopleuron black except anterodorsal comer yellow-orange; mesopleural venter black; propodeum, metapleuron black; first metasomal tergite black except narrow yellow-orange lateral bands, yellow-orange median apical flange; second metasomal tergite with dark brown patch covering most of tergite, yellow-orange laterally and apically; third metasomal tergite yellow-orange along basal edge, otherwise brown on basal third, yellow-orange in apical two-thirds, fourth metasomal tergite yellow-orange; legs yellow-orange except fore coxae black, tarsi with brown; stigma brown, forewings with brown veins except clear (RS+M)b, r- m, and 2RS veins; hind wings brown except cu-a clear posteriorly. Body length: 4.4 mm; forewing length: 3.4 mm. Head: 40 flagellomeres, all slightly longer than wide; malar space long, length 1.8 times basal width of mandible and about 0.8 length eye height; temple broad, about 0.9 eye width; occipital carina effaced medially at vertex, not meeting hypostomal carina; oral space small, horizontal width slightly smaller than basal width of mandible and about 0.4 eye height; clypeus broad, medial height about 0.8 median height of oral space; ocelli small, ocellocular distance about 1.7 ocellar dia- meter; face rugulose, median cleft below antennae, facial carina below antennae absent; frons minutely areolate; vertex rugulose; temple rugulose posteriorly, minutely areolate anteriorly. Mesosoma: anterior half of ventral edge of pronotum with a scrobiculate flange, pronotum rugose anteromedially, median dorsal area nitid and scrobiculate, scrobiculation narrowing and continuing laterally in sulci on each side of pronotum, each scrobiculate sulcus dividing each side of pronotum into ventrolateral and dorsolat- eral areas, finely areolate ventrolaterally, costate dorsolaterally; scutum, scutellum weakly, finely rugulose over minutely areolate surface, notauli scrobiculate basally becoming rugulose apically, terminating apically in rugose posteromedial area; meso- pleuron with rugocostate subalar sulcus, rugose anteriorly, rugulose in middle, minute- ly areolate anteroventrally, ventrally, and posteriorly, nitid central disc, sternaular area weakly concave; metapleuron areolate; propodeum heavily areolate-rugose, median carina forked basally, complete. Legs: inner spur of hind tibiae about 0.4 of length of hind basitarsi; hind coxae minutely areolate dorsally. Wings: forewing with r about 0.6 length of 3Rsa and about 0.7 length of m-cu, vein Icu-a beyond 1M by about the same length as Icu-a, length of 1CUa about 0.3 length of 1CUb; hind wing vein RS present as a fold, slightly recurved, marginal cell narrowest at midpoint, vein Ir-m about 0.7 length of 1M, vein 1M about 0.7 length of vein M+CU, vein m-cu distinct, pigmented, directly posterior to r-m. Metasoma: first tergite rugose, median carina complete, ter- minating apically at the end of a raised apical-medial flange of the first tergite; second tergite entirely rugose, median carina complete, weakly continuous with median carina of third tergite; third tergite rugulose, median carina terminating apically in basal 3/5 of length of tergite; fourth tergite finely areolate-rugose, shallowly carapace-like, covering remaining tergites, although barely covering fifth tergite, ventral flange scrobiculate; ovipositor about 0.6 length of hind basitarsus. Male. Unknown. Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 20 Material Examined. Holotype female: QUEBEC, Mount Albert, near Ste. Anne des Monts, Gaspe Peninsula, 303 miles NE of Quebec, July 12, 1954, W. J. Brown. De- posited in CNC. Distribution. Known only from type locality in Quebec. Host Information. Unknown. Comments. Characterized by the metasomal color pattern, short flagellomeres, and nearly square second submarginal cell of the forewing. Etymology. Named after Leon Provancher, eminent 19th century Quebecois natu- ralist and entomologist, founder of Le Naturaliste, the first French natural history peri- odical published in North America, and founder of Provancher’s collection of insects, held in the Quebec Provincial Museum. Aleiodes quickei NEW SPECIES BUSSs Spy, Female. Body color: Body nearly uniformly yellow-orange, pronotum and Ist and 2nd metasomal tergites paler yellow; antennal flagellomeres dark brown, scape and pedicel yellow; mouthparts yellow; interocellar triangle dark orange, inner borders of ocelli black; legs yellow except for dark orange hind tarsi; wings hyaline, stigma most- ly yellow except wide brown border along marginal cell; forewing veins except costal vein pale yellow basally becoming brown apically except forewing vein (RS+M)b and r-m unpigmented; hind wing veins pale except r-m, R brown, R1 dark apically. Body and legs extensively covered with pubescence of white setae. Body length: 4.6 mm, wing length 3.8 mm. Head: malar space 0.9 of basal width of mandible and about 0.3 length of eye; temple narrow, about 0.4 eye width; oral opening nearly circular, small, horizontal diameter 0.8 length of malar space; clypeus broad, medial height 1.2 medial height of oral space; occipital carina complete medially, meet- ing hypostomal carina ventrally; face, minutely areolate except punctate in dorsomedial area, medial ridge extending about halfway down face including expanded bulbous ter- minus of ridge; frons minutely areolate; vertex rugulocostate, costae running transverse- ly; 40 flagellomeres, all slightly longer than wide; ocelli large, ocellocular space 0.3 diameter of lateral ocellus; occiput nitid. Mesosoma: pronotum widely colliculate anteromedially, small elevations corresponding to setal bases, scrobiculate sculpturing in lateral sulci discontinuous medially, sulci dividing lateral areas of pronotum into dorso- lateral and ventrolateral sections, ventrolateral section rugulocostulate, dorsolateral sec- tion rugulose-areolate, ventral scrobiculate flange upturned medially; scutum finely are- olate-rugulose over minutely areolate surface, median longitudinal stripe of transversely scrobiculate sculpturing, notauli scrobiculate becoming confluent with rugulose posteri- or region apically; scutellum minutely areolate; mesopleuron costate antero-dorsally, central disc minutely areolate anteriorly, nitid posteriorly, sternaular area concave, cori- aceous, bare of pubescence; metapleuron minutely areolate; propodeum with few rugae over minutely areolate surface basally, rugulose apically, postero-lateral protuberances well defined, median carina complete. Legs: inner spur of hind tibia 0.3 length of hind basitarsus, hind coxae rugulose-costulate dorsally. Wings: hyaline, second submarginal cell trapezoidal, not elongate, r 0.6 length of 3RSa, 0.9 length of m-cu, 1cu-a beyond 1M by a distance of 0.8 length of lcu-a, 1CUa 0.2 length of 1CUb; hindwing RS slightly recurved, marginal cell narrowed medially, 1M 1.7 length of r-m, M+CU 1.6 length of 1M, m-cu unpigmented, 0.8 length of r-m. Metasoma: tergites I-III rugulocostulate, median carinae complete, median carina of Ist tergite terminating at its intersection with short lateral carina at apex of tergite, third tergite with costulation more dense than two 28 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS basad tergites; fourth tergite finely areolate-rugulose, moderately deeply carapace-like, wider at mid-depth than lateral constriction in recurved ventral flange, ventral flange well defined, recurved, entirely scrobiculate; ovipositor 0.8 length of hind basitarsus. Male. Essentially as in female. Material Examined. Holotype female: TEXAS: Hildago County, Bentson-Rio Grande State Park, May 8, 1991, T. Carlow and E. Riley at UV light. Deposited in NMNH. Paratypes: 10 Females. TEXAS: Kenedy Co. Kenedy Ranch, April 21, 2001, Wharton. 1 Female. TEXAS: Dimmit Co., Chaparral Wildlife Mgt. Area, 30/IX/ 1989, at light, J. C. Schaffner. Deposited in NMNH. | Female. TEXAS: Kenedy Co., Kenedy Ranch, Jaboncillos Pasture, dune area, 21/IV/2001, 27°01'10"N, 97°43'20"W. 1 Female. TEXAS: Hidalgo Co. Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley St. Pk. 21/IV/1984, L. G. & T. P. Friedlander. 1 Female. NEW MEXICO: Eddy Co. 32°19.7'N, 103°46.9' W (Site 7), 15- 16/VII/1979, at light, Delorme, McHugh, Schaffner. 1 Male. TEXAS: Bee Co. Beeville, 11/V1/1953. University of Kansas Mexico Expedition. | male, TEXAS: Kenedy Co., Kenedy Ranch, April 21, 2001, Wharton at light. 1 Male, TEXAS: Kenedy Co., Kenedy Ranch, Jabocillos Pasture, dune area, April 21, 2001, 27°01'10"N, 97° 43'20"W. All material except holotype and 10 paratype females deposited in TAMU. Distribution. Besides the type locality in Hidalgo Co., Texas, also known from Texas counties Kenedy, Dimmit, and Bee, and Eddy Co., New Mexico. Host Information. Unknown. Comment. A nearly all-yellow wasp with large ocelli and fine sculpturing, similar to Aleiodes haematoxyli Fortier except for darker yellow coloration, the fourth abdom- inal tergite being more deeply carapace-like, and the metasomal sternites being nearly white. Etymology. Named after Donald L. J. Quicke, Fellow in Hymenoptera studies and author of Parasitic Wasps 1997. Aleiodes shawi NEW SPECIES Fics.3,,10) 26 Female. Body color: Head yellow-orange except ventral extremities of genae; man- dibles, clypeus, labrum, and palps pale yellow; interocellar triangle black; scapes yel- low-orange basally, black apically, pedicels black, anelli light brown, flagellae black; pronotum yellow-orange, propleuron yellow-orange; scutum yellow-orange except black spot on each postero-lateral “shoulder” and black horizontal mark at anteromedi- al extremity of scutum; scutellar disc yellow except apical extremity black; mesopleu- ron mostly yellow-orange except black along dorsal portion of anterior carina posterior to subalar sulcus, black along dorsal edge above central disc, running into posterior half of central disc and area posterior to it, mesopleural venter mostly black with central yel- low orange spots, contiguous pale white spots apicomedially; metanotum apical of scutellum black; metapleuron black; propodeum black; black semicircular area in baso- medial area of first metasomal tergite, otherwise tergite pale yellow-white; second metasomal tergite pale yellow-white; third and fourth metasomal tergites black; front coxae, trochanters and trochantellae pale yellow-white, femora, tibiae, and basal 3 seg- ments of tarsi yellow, fourth segment darker yellow, apical segment dark brown, mid coxae yellow, mid trochanters, trochantelli, tibiae pale yellow-white, femora yellow, tarsi brown, hind coxae yellow, hind trochanters pale yellow-white, hind femora most- ly yellow except black apically, hind tibiae pale whitish-tan, hind basitarsomeres dark brown medially, pale basally and apically, second to fourth tarsomeres mostly dark brown except pale apically, apical tarsomere dark brown; wings hyaline, forewing veins pale yellow at base of wing, otherwise dark brown, stigma blackish brown, vein r-m Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 29 colorless medially, (RS+M)b colorless; hind wing RS colorless, veins basal of cu-a col- orless, then gradually becoming darker, veins including and apical to r-m dark, m-cu faintly pigmented. Body and legs extensively covered with pubescence of white setae. Body length: 4.3 mm; forewing length: 3.6 mm. Head: 42 flagellomeres, all slight- ly longer than wide; malar space medium, about equal to basal width of mandible and 0.6 times the eye height; temple medium, about 0.6 eye width; occipital carina incom- plete at vertex, reaching hypostomal carina; oral space small, circular, horizontal diam- eter about equal to mandibular basal width; medial height of clypeus 0.8 medial height of oral opening; ocelli medium ocellocular space only slightly larger than diameter of lateral ocellus; face with faint shallow carinae over a minutely areolate surface, narrow carina extending from point midway between anterior edges of antennal bases down 3/4 of length of face; frons with faint, shallow carinae over minutely areolate surface; ver- tex rugocostate, with costae running laterally, crease between lateral ocelli; temples minutely areolate, punctate adjacent to occipital carina. Mesosoma: scrobiculate flange running along anterior half of ventral edge of pronotum, midmedial area of pronotum areolate-rugulose, posteromedial area of pronotum areolate-rugulose, extreme posterior area scrobiculate, scrobiculate pattern continuing laterally along shallow sulcus on each side of pronotum, scrobiculate pattern becoming faint laterally, sulci becoming nitid, dividing ventrolateral and dorsolateral areas of pronotum, mid-dorsolateral areas extending dorsally toward tegulae smooth-punctate, posterior dorsolateral area scrobic- ulate, ventrolateral area shiny, smoothly, faintly rugulose; scutum faintly areolate-rugu- lose over a minutely areolate surface except notauli scrobiculate, faintly defined medi- an ridge extending from anterior edge of scutum to top of anterior declivity, continuing posteriorly as a crease to postero-medial rugose area into which notauli terminate; scutellar disc areolate-rugulose; metanotum areolate basally, smooth-costate apically; mesopleuron rugulose anteriorly becoming smooth-punctate dorsally anterior to and on anterior portion of central disc, otherwise central disc nitid, area posterior to central disc punctate, sternaular area concave, shining with faint vertically running costae; pro- podeum areolate-rugulose; metapleuron areolate-rugulose. Legs: length of inner spurs of hind tibiae about 0.3 of hind basitarsi; hind coxae faintly areolate-rugulose dorsally. Wings: front wing with vein r 0.5 length of 3Rsa and about 0.7 length of m-cu, vein lcu-a beyond IM by distance about equal to length of Icu-a, 1CUa about 0.2 length of 1CUb; hind wing marginal vein not tubular and slightly recurved, marginal cell nar- rowest in middle, 1M about 1.5 length of r-m, M+CU about 1.3 length of 1M, vein m- cu present, faintly pigmented, about 0.6 length of r-m and immediately posterior to it, adjoining it. Metasoma: first tergite areolate-rugose, areolae small and divided by thick, rounded carinae, sculpturing similar to propodeum but areolae smaller, median carina complete, terminating apically on medial upwardly buckled carina running along apical edge of tergite; second tergite areolate-rugose, areolae larger than those on first tergite, median carina complete, arising from a small raised triangular area at base of tergite and terminating apically in a raised carina that runs laterally along apical edge of carina for short distance; third tergite areolate-rugose, carinae finer than first two ter- gites, tergite without any superior medial carina; fourth tergite sculpturing closely sim- ilar to third, deeply carapace-like, completely covering remaining tergites, ventral flange broad, scrobiculate, well defined, recurved except at apical tip; ovipositor sheaths about 0.5 length of hind basitarsus. Male. Unknown. Material Examined. Holotype female: ARKANSAS: Washington Co., Mt. Sequoyah, 600 m, 1-10/VIII/1994, J. B. Whitfield, coll. Deposited in NMNH. 30 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Distribution. Known only from the type locality in Arkansas. Host Information. Reared from geometrid host feeding on Cercis sp. (Fabaceae, Redbud) Comments. The pale yellow-white coloration on metasomal tergites I and II, fore- leg coxae, and trochanters and trochantellae of all legs distinguish this species, except for some A. new species 24 females 4. new species 24 also occurs in Arkansas. A. shawi may be distinguished from this species by its deeper carapace and narrow carapace flange, in contrast to the flatter carapace and wide carapace flange of A. new species 24. Etymology. Named after Scott Shaw, curator of the Rocky Mountain Systematic Entomology Laboratory in Laramie, Wyoming, and Professor of Entomology at the University of Wyoming. Dr. Shaw supervised my dissertation research, and has offered invaluable help and advice with respect to the present research. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I thank the following people. Thanks to Dr. Robert Wharton (TAMU) for invaluable advice at the begin- ning of this study and for assistance in procuring loaned material from TAMU, Dr. Jason Weintraub, (ANSP) for assistance and hospitality while examining holotype material there and for loaned material. Also I thank the following curators for loaned material used in this study: Dr. David Wahl (AEI), Dr. Gary Parsons (ARC), Dr. John Huber (CNC), Dr. E. R. Hoebeke (CUIC), Dr. Doug Yaneda (ERM), Dr. Steven Krauth (IRC), Dr. Zachary Falin (Kansas Univ.), Dr. David Furth (NMNH), Dr. Mark Shaw (NMS), Dr. Scott Shaw (RMSEL), Dr. Edward Riley (TAMU), and Dr. Robert Zuparko (UCB), and Dr. Steven Heydon (UCD). Also, thanks to Mr. Casey Dillman and Mr. Jeff Ray, graduate students at Saint Louis University (SLU), for their generous and competent technical help and consultation, and thanks to SLU graduate student Ms. Tara Herring for most of the illustrations in this paper. This research was funded by NSF grant award #0516515. LITERATURE CITED Chen, X. and J. He. 1997. Revision of the subfamily Rogadinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from China. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 308:1—187. Fortier, J. C. 2006a. The first host association for Aleiodes pilosus (=Tetrasphaeropyx Ashmead) (Hymen- optera: Braconidae: Rogadinae). Entomological News 117(4):457-459. Fortier, J. C. 2006b Twelve new species and a new combination of the Aleiodes pilosus species-group (=Tetrasphaeropyx Ashmead) (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rogadinae) in North America. Entomological News 117(5):465-484. Harris, R. A. 1979. A glossary of surface sculpturing. Occasional Papers in Entomology 28: 1-33. Sharkey, M. J. and R. A. Wharton. 1997. pp. 19-37. Morphology and Terminology. Jn, R. A. Wharton P. M. Marsh, and M. J. Sharkey (Editors). Manual of the New World Genera of the Family Braconidae (Hymenoptera). Washington, D.C. Special Publication of the International Society of Hymenopterists. No. 1. 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At four study sites representing different successional stages, butterflies were sampled by line transect method using sweep nets and by visual observation. In total, 18 species and 114 individuals were found at all sites. Although the species richness and species diversity of butter- flies were higher in middle successional stages, abundance decreased with successional age. The changes in butterfly abundance, species richness and diversity with successional age resulted mostly from structural differences in the vegetation. KEYWORDS: East Mediterranean, habitat change, plant architecture, succession, fire-affected habi- tats Fire has been one of the most crucial ecological factors in Mediterranean-type ecosystems for thousand of years. Fire causes the removal of litter, vegetation and canopy according to its intensity in a very short time. Mediterranean vege- tation is resilient to fire and the reestablishment of pre-fire communities is very rapid (Trabaud, 1994). Pinus brutia Ten., 1811 forests, one of the most common ecosystems in the East Mediterranean basin, are destroyed by wildfires fre- quently. These forests have morphological and physiological adaptations for regeneration after fire. Pinus brutia is well equipped with two significant traits adaptive to fire, namely on-plant seed storage and fire-stimulated seed dispersal, and in-soil seed storage and fire-stimulated germination (Neyisci, 1993). Although the recovery of vegetation after fire has been studied intensively in Mediterranean-type ecosystems (i.e. Naveh, 1967; Thanos et al., 1989; Ne’eman et al., 1992; Pausas, 1999; Tavsanoglu and Gurkan, 2005), changes in insect communities after fire have received little attention in the Mediterranean basin (Prodon et al., 1987; Broza et al., 1993). Insects respond more rapidly to distur- bances than vertebrates and therefore have potential as early indicators of envi- ronmental change (Kremen, 1992; Kremen et al., 1993). Changes in the structure and composition of vegetation cause parallel changes in the community structure of insects. Because each plant species may represent one or more resources for herbivores, herbivore insect diversity in particular is driven by changes in vege- tation (Murdoch et al., 1972; Cates, 1980; Lawton, 1983; Siemann et al., 1999). Butterflies are considered the most suitable insect for indirect measures of environmental variation because of their high sensitivity to local weather, cli- mate, light levels and other parameters affected by habitat change (Erhardt, 1985; Weiss et al., 1987; Hill et al., 1995; Blair and Launer, 1997; Wood and Gilman, 1998). Dramatic habitat changes caused by fire and post-fire vegetation devel- ' Received on March 27, 2006. Accepted on August 8, 2006. * Hacettepe University, Faculty of Science, Biology Department, Ecology Section 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey. E-mails: bkaynas@hacettepe.edu.tr, bgurkan@hacettepe.edu.tr, respectively. Mailed on April 27, 2007 32 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS opment affect the species diversity of butterflies intensively. Butterflies can serve as a valuable barometer of overall community complexity. Because they are used by numerous arthropods and vertebrates as food resources, they can potentially suggest much more about the complexity of the community than can vegetative structure and herbaceous plants alone (Huntzinger, 2003). This study aimed to determine the changes in species diversity in the butter- fly community during successional stages after fire. METHODS Study area The study was conducted within the Marmaris National Park (N 36° 50'", E 28° 17'), which 1s located on the Mediterranean coast of southwestern Turkey. The area has a typical Mediterranean climate with hot and dry summers and mild winters, and is mostly covered by P. brutia forests. It covers approximately 34,000 ha and, like many other Mediterranean ecosystems, many parts of it have been burnt in different years. In the National Park P. brutia forests are predomi- nant; the other major vegetation types are maquis and Liguidambar orientalis forests. There are two main approaches to the study of succession: static (synchronic) and dynamic (diachronic). The static approach involves the determination of trends from data collected at one point in time. The dynamic approach is based on repeated observations at the same site over time (Austin, 1977). We used the synchronic method to determine changes in succession after fire. The study was conducted at four sites (three representing different stages of succession at post- fire sites and one representing unburnt forest): I. Burnt 1 year before (N 36° 50’ 11", E 28° 18' 10"), HU. Burnt 5 years ago before (N 36° 51' 16", E 28° 17' 14"), III. Burnt 21 years before (N 36° 49' 37", E 28° 19' 34"), and IV. The control plot (not burnt for at least 45 years) (N 36° 50' 47", E 28° 17' 24'). These sites are located on the same geological material (ophiolitic rock) and have the same soil type (non-calcic brown forest soil). All sites are below 100 m altitude. At all sites, after burning, branches and cones were spread over on the ground to con- stitute suitable conditions for seedling establishment. Vegetation Tavsanoglu (2002) described dominant plant species for all sites according to percentages of cover. Quercus infectoria Olivier, 1801 and Phyllarea latifolia L., 1753 are the dominant at all sites. Excluding these two species, Cistus salvi- folius L., 1753 and C. creticus L., 1762 are dominant one year after fire, P bru- tia, C. salvifolius, and Smilax aspera L., 1753 five years after fire, P. brutia, C. salvifolius, and C. creticus 21 years after fire, and P. brutia and S. aspera at the control site. Although opportunistic species appearing after fire increased total plant spec- ies richness, the species richness of all sites remains similar (Table 1). Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 38 Table 1. Dominant plant species, total species richness of plants (TSRP), and mean height of vegetation (MHV+SE cm) for the 4 study sites. Different super- script letters on mean vegetation height values point out significant differences between study sites (Kruskal-Wallis, P<0.001). Time since fire (years) Sites 1 5 21 245 DPS Quercus infectoria Quercus infectoria Quercus infectoria Quercus infectoria Phillyrea latifolia Phillyrea latifolia Phillyrea latifolia Phillyrea latifolia Cistus salvifolius Cistus salvifolius Cistus salvifolius Similax aspera Cistus creticus Similax aspera Cistus creticus Pinus brutia Pinus brutia Pinus brutia TSRP* 4] 36 32 34 MHV 96,0+6,1a 128,5+3,6b 184,4+4.4c - ‘Data was taken from Tavsanoglu et al., 2002. Mean vegetation height was used to assess vegetation complexity. Mean veg- etation height may indicate enhanced biomass and the architectural complexity of plants (Kruess and Tscharntke, 2002). It was lowest at the site burnt a year before and increased with successional age. At the control site, vegetation height was not measured. Since the trees were generally above 10 m in height, a mean vegetation height of 10 m was used in the statistical estimations (Kaynas and Gurkan, 2004) (Table 1). Sampling We used the sweep net method, following a line transect to collect butterflies. At each site sweeps were taken while walking along 100 m in 3 sampling line transects in a 100 x 50 m area (0.5 ha). During the sweep net sampling, visually observed species were also recorded. Sampling was conducted at the same time of day and by the same person. Individuals caught were placed in envelopes and taken to the Ecology Laboratory in the Biology Department of Hacettepe Uni- versity for identification. Sampling was done monthly from August 2000 to Sep- tember 2001. Data Analysis Total abundance, species richness and the Brillouin diversity index (Krebs, 1999) were used to compare the butterfly community between different succes- 34 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS sional stages. Morishita’s index of similarity (Krebs, 1999) was used to examine whether butterfly community composition at the sites varied with successional age. RESULTS In total 18 species and 114 individuals were collected from all sites. Although butterfly species richness was higher in the middle successional stages, the total abundance of the sites decreased with successional age (Fig. 2). Species diversi- ty of butterflies displayed a trend similar to that of species richness. It was high- est at the site burnt 21 years before and lowest at the site unburnt for at least 45 years (Fig. 2). The similarity index was highest between sites burnt 1 and 5 years before (CA= 0.982). The sites burnt 21 years before and the site unburnt for at least 45 years had the second highest similarity index (CA= 0.711). Similarity index values among the other sites were lower and close to each other when com- pared to the above sites (time since fire 1-21: 0.312; 1-45<: 0.540; 5-21: 0.311). A 20 10 1 S) 21 45< 1 5 21 45< time since fire Figure 2. A) Species richness (solid bar) and abundance (open bar) of butter- flies, B) Brillouin diversity values of butterflies in successional ages. Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 35 With regard to the species observed, Vanessa atalanta and Colias crocea were the most common at all sites. Their abundances were close to each other among the sites. At the site burnt a year before the most abundant species were Pieris rapae and Pontia edusa, and at the site burnt 5 years before Pontia edusa was dominant. Callimorpha quadripunctaria and Lasiommata megera, which were similar in terms of abundance, were the most abundant species at the site burnt 21 years before. Colias crocea was the most abundant at the site unburnt for at least 45 years. Abundances of butterfly species sampled in this study are listed in Table 2. Table 2. Abundances of butterfly species sampled in this study. Time since fire (years) Species 1 5) 21 >45 Callimorpha quadripunctaria (Poda, 1761) - - 6 ) Azuritis reducta (Higgins, 1932) - - - Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus, 1758) l i) 3 Eynnis tages (Linnaeus, 1758) - 1 - - Gegenes nostradamus (Fabricius, 1793) - - | - Polyommatus icarus (Rottemburg, 1775) 6 3 - | Lymantria dispar (Linnaeus, 1758) - - 2 - Archon apollinus (Herbst, 1798) - - 2 - Papilio machaon (Linnaeus, 1758) - ] l - Colias crocea (Geoffroy, 1785) 4 3 2 4 Pieris brassicae (Linnaeus, 1758) p) 1 - - Pieris rapae (Linnaeus, 1758) 8 3 - 2 Pontia edusa (Fabricius, 1777) 10 1) - - Eumenis syriaca (Staudinger, 1871) - - 1 - Lasiommata megera (Linnaeus, 1767) 5 - 5 - Maniola jurtina phormia (Fruhstorfer, 1909) 2 - 1 - Neohipparchia fatua (Freyer, 1844) - 4 3 Pararge aegeria tircis (Godart, 1821) - 1 - = DISCUSSION Because each species of butterfly requires specific host plants (Huntzinger, 2003), a diverse plant community may support a diverse community of butter- 36 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS flies. In most ecosystems, seral communities mostly consist of different plant species and each seral stage has a distinct species composition. However, in Mediterranean-type ecosystems, succession after fire is different from that in many other ecosystem types. There is no real succession in the sense of substi- tution of species or communities, but only progressive return towards a stage similar to that existing before fire (Trabaud et al., 1985). At sites representing dif- ferent successional ages, plant species richness and species composition were similar among the sites despite the small difference in the site burnt a year before. Although the species richness of plants among sites is strikingly similar, the structural complexity of vegetation changes with successional age. The abundance and species diversity values of butterflies displayed different trends with successional age after fire. While abundance decreased with succes- sion, species richness and species diversity were higher in the middle succes- sional stages. The decrease in abundance with successional age may be a result of butterflies’ preference for open habitats, which do not vary in terms of resources and do not have a canopy. High sunlight requirements are common for most butterflies (Huntzinger, 2003). Certain butterflies must maintain a body temperature between 30 and 40°C in order to sustain their flight and feeding activity (Schmitz, 1994). Higher sunlight at open sites burnt a year before and 5 years before could explain the dominancy at these sites of butterflies with a white dorsal surface, like Pontia edusa and Pieris rapae. With the removal of the canopy due to fire, obligate seeders like Cistus species recolonize densely in the first year after fire. Except P. brutia, all the obligate seeder species in these sites are entomophyllous and they need insects for polli- nation. The higher abundance of butterflies whose adults feed with nectars feed- ers could be the result of dense recolonization by pollen-rich Cistus species (Ne’eman and Dafni, 1999) in early succession stages. Plant communities constitute a promising variable for the description of habi- tat quality for butterflies. Vegetation is the main physical interface between but- terflies and their environment (Sawchick et al., 2003). With successional age, an increase in vertical layers with vegetation height provides a more heterogeneous environment for butterflies, allowing them to avoid adverse abiotic conditions. The higher species richness and diversity in middle successional stages are a result of the characteristics of the vegetation. Since butterflies often have specif- ic host and nectar plants and require certain structural elements for orientation or basking, they would be expected to show a much stronger response to the vege- tation than to variables like nutrient richness or pH of soils (Oostermetjer and van Swaay, 1998). Although the composition of plant species contributing as food resources for herbivores does not vary greatly among successional ages, the spa- tial and architectural complexities of plant communities are different. Lawton (1983) stated that insect species diversity was maintained by the structural diver- sity of plants and a high correlation between number of insect species and the structural complexity of vegetation across successional stages could be shown. Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 37 Vegetation height may indicate the architectural complexity of plants and is the best predictor of both species richness and abundance of butterfly adults and lep- idopteran larvae (Kruess and Tscharntke, 2002). Similarly, Waltz and Covington (2004) stated that nectar sources are not the main contributing factor to adult but- terfly distributions, and butterflies are very fast to respond to habitat changes. At burnt and open sites that do not have a canopy, increasing plant structural com- plexity with increasing vegetational height may explain the higher values of but- terfly species richness and diversity of middle successional stages. Shrubs, which are characterized for middle successional stages, have been shown to be an important structural resource component of a butterfly species’ habitat (Dennis and Sparks, 2006; Dover et al., 1997). The selection of habitats among butterflies is almost certainly caused by a wide range of factors, which may vary between species and between regions. Woodland cover may be a critical factor governing the habitat selection of many species (Warren, 1985) and correlate with the flower-feeding specialism of but- terflies (Tudor et al., 2004). In the present study, Vanessa atalanta and Colias crocea were generalist species that occurred at all successional sites. Vanessa atalanta is a common species that demonstrates high tolerance to environmental variables (Oostermeijer and van Swaay, 1998). The open habitat species Lasiom- mata megera and Maniola jurtina, known to be generalist (Tudor et al., 2004) and to feed on grasses (Pollard et al., 1998), were found at successional sites without a canopy layer. Polyammatus icarus, which was found at early succes- sional sites and in unburnt forest, is stated to be a generalist species and the best process indicator because it shows a clear response to changes in soil nutrient sta- tus, acidity or moisture (Oostermeijer and van Swaay, 1998). Warren (1985) stat- ed that, despite Pieris rapae preferring solely open habitats, Pieris brassicae was most abundant in quite shady rides where food-plants were absent and nectar sources were less abundant. In the present study, no difference was found be- tween these two species in terms of habitat selection. Prescribed burns that maintain the structure of shrubland habitat will often increase the quantity of specific resources required by Lepidoptera, 1.e. larval host plants and adult nectar sources (New, 1997 cited in Wagner et al., 2003). 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Szalanski’ ABSTRACT: Termite alates and accompanying soldiers were collected during a 5-year period from diverse habitats on the Delmarva Peninsula, including inland hardwood sites (Newark, Delaware, U.S.A.; Galena, Maryland, U.S.A.), and a pine scrub beach (Lewes, Delaware, U.S.A.). Alates from 34 colonies were identified to species based on taxonomic keys. Pronotal width was measured for 1,447 accompanying soldiers from 33 of the colonies and compared to similar studies in Florida, U.S.A. Mitochondrial DNA 16S sequencing was conducted on soldiers from 31 of the colonies. Reti- culitermes flavipes and R. virginicus were identified from pine scrub, whereas only R. flavipes was collected from the hardwood sites. DNA sequences showed three lineages of R. virginicus, two of which matched that from specimens previously reported to be a new species (R. malletei nomen nudum). Soldier pronotal width ranges at the 95% confidence level were: R. flavipes, 0.84-1.04 mm; R. virginicus, 0.63-0.83 mm. Statistical analyses indicated that species identification could be based on a sample of 5 soldiers with a confidence level of >95%. The observed pronotal width range for R. virginicus overlapped with that reported for R. hageni Banks in Florida, U.S.A. KEY WORDS: Identification, taxonomy, sample size, subterranean termites, Isoptera, Rhinotermi- tidae, soldier, pronotal width, mitochondrial DNA, Reficuliternes flavipes, R. virginicus, Delmarva Peninsula, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, U.S.A. It is difficult to distinguish species of Reticulitermes in a study site when alates are not present. Worker termites have no morphological characteristics that can be used to separate species. Soldiers’ pronotal measurements have been used to distinguish species; however, there is overlap between R. flavipes and R. vir- ginicus (Hostettler et al., 1995). This study was initiated to (1) determine how many subterranean termite species are present in Lewes, Delaware, and inland sites on the Delmarva Peninsula and (2) genetically and morphometrically char- acterize soldiers of each species. ' Received on March 11, 2006. Accepted on May 23, 2006. > Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716- 2160, U.S.A., swhitney@udel.edu. > Center for Urban and Structural Entomology, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, U.S.A., jwaustin@ag.tamu.edu. > Department of Entomology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, U.S.A., aszalan@uark. edu. Mailed on April 27, 2007 42 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS METHODS Six study sites were established during 1995 on a 15-acre pine scrub beach at Cape Henlopen on the Delaware Bay in Lewes, Delaware, U.S.A. Soils in each site were sand. Three inland hardwood study sites, approximately one acre each, also were established: one on the University of Delaware (UD) farm in Newark, Delaware, in 1994 and two on a private farm near Galena, Maryland, U.S.A. in 1997. Soils in the hardwood sites were silt loam (Newark) and clay loam (Galena). From 1997 through 2001, subterranean termite alates and soldiers were collected from the nine sites. Monitoring stakes (Picea sp., 2.0 cm x 3.5 cm x 45 cm) were vertically driv- en into the ground to a depth of approximately 30 cm at each site. Stakes were placed randomly around vegetation at approximately one meter intervals. Ap- proximately 100 stakes were used at each inland site and approximately 1,500 stakes were used in Lewes. Stakes were examined weekly from March of each year through November for signs of termite infestation. Stakes that became termite-infested were subsequently driven deeper into the ground leaving 3-4 cm exposed. A one-gallon plastic bucket (19.0 cm x 17.5 cm diameter) with the bottom cut off was placed around each infested stake and sunk 10 cm into the soil. Soil was then removed from the bucket, a pine block “sand- wich” was placed inside on the ground next to the exposed stake, and the buck- et was capped. Each sandwich was constructed of six Southern Yellow Pine, Pinus taeda L., boards (9.0 cm x 2.0 cm x 12.5 cm). Two boards served as “book- ends” that held the other four boards in the center perpendicular to the bookends. Six dowels (3.0 mm diameter x 11.0 cm) were placed between the inner four boards and the sandwich was nailed together. The dowels created crevices be- tween the boards within which workers constructed their tunnels. Buckets were monitored weekly for termite activity from March through November each year from 1997 through 2001. When alates were observed, they were collected and the wood block sandwich was dismantled and examined for soldiers. Alates and soldiers were collected and preserved in 80% ethanol. Previous mark-release-recapture studies (King, unpublished data) showed that marked worker termites moved less than one meter in Lewes and less than 30 meters at inland sites. Buckets that yielded alates for this study were more than one meter from each other in Lewes and those in inland sites were more than 30 meters from each other; thus, each bucket with alates was designated a separate colony. Termites were examined at 62.5x using a dissecting microscope equipped with an ocular micrometer. Species identification on alates from 34 colonies was made using taxonomic keys (Scheffrahn and Su 1994). The distance of the ocel- lus from the compound eye was determined for alates. Furthermore, alate body color was compared with R. hageni alates collected on 4/28/2001 from Cumber- land Island, Georgia, U.S.A. Pronotal width was measured on 1,447 soldiers. The mean pronotal width for R. flavipes in both pine scrub and hardwood was calcu- Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 43 lated as was the mean pronotal width for R. virginicus. Confidence intervals (95, 99, and 99.9%) for these means and their margins of error were calculated. The sample size needed to separate these species was determined. Voucher specimens were deposited in the University of Delaware Insect Reference Collection in Newark, Delaware, U.S.A. Alcohol-preserved soldiers from each of 31 colonies were sent to the Univer- sity of Arkansas for species identification using mtDNA 16S sequences (Szalan- ski et al., 2003). Specimens were dried on filter paper, and DNA was extracted according to Liu and Beckenbach (1992) and Jenkins et al. (1999) on individual whole termites with the Puregene DNA isolation kit D-5000A (Gentra, Minne- apolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.). Extracted DNA was resuspended in 50 ml of Tris: EDTA and stored at —20°C. Polymerase chain reaction was conducted using the primers LR-J-13007 (5’-TTACGCTGTTATCCCTAA-3’) (Kambhampati and Smith 1995) and LR-N-13398 (5’-CGCCTGTTTATCAAAAACAT-3’) (Simon et al. 1994). These PCR primers amplify an approximately 428 bp region of the mtDNA 16S rRNA gene. The PCR reactions were conducted with 1 pl of the extracted DNA (Szalanski et al., 2000), having a profile consisting of 35 cycles of 94°C for 45 s, 46°C for 45 s and 72°C for 60 s. Amplified DNA from individ- ual termites was purified and concentrated with minicolumns (Wizard PCRpreps, Promega) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Samples were sent to The University of Arkansas Medical Center DNA Sequencing Facility (Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.A.) for direct sequencing in both directions. GenBank accession numbers were DQ422137 and DQ422138 for the two new haplotypes corre- sponding to R. malletei found in this study. DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL W (Thompson et al., 1994). Mitochondrial DNA haplotypes were aligned by MacClade v4 (Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts, U.S.A.). Voucher specimens preserved in 100% ethanol were deposited at the Arth- ropod Museum, Department of Entomology, University of Arkansas, Fayette- ville, Arkansas. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Alates were collected from 26 colonies in Lewes (Table 1). These were mor- phologically identified as either R. flavipes (7 colonies) or R. virginicus (19 colonies) applying the taxonomic keys of Scheffrahn and Su (1994). Alates were collected from eight colonies in the hardwood sites. These were all identified as R. flavipes. Only R. flavipes and R. virginicus were present on the Delmarva Peninsula sites; R. hageni was not found. ‘Apnys o1rjomoydiow wo poytuto 9A sdAjojdeyH , (S661 “Te 30 JopNe}SOH) (UIT [/'0-¢9'0 pure WU [/0-SS'0) masny “y ePLO].] FO Jey) pue (WILT 4g"0-0L'0 PUR WUE 180-1 L"0) SNIIUISUIA “Y BPLIO],] FO JeY} YM sdejioro osue SIU] 9 ‘puryArepy “euaTeD edu Soy OM) pue “(oIeMETAC]) YILMON UI 9}IS oUO SUIPNIOU! “e[NsUIUSg BAILU[AC SY} UO SOUS puRU] , "VS oreMeEyOd “SOMOd’T UI SUIS YOVAQ XIS 5 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ‘(QQ6I ‘Je 19 WUOWIZTD) JOUTSIP ATTeoTUIOUOXe}OWNDYS pue AT[eIOLABYoq pue (poystjqndun ‘UnSnYy ‘M ‘f) USIP AjjeoNoues UMOYsS Jajayou “y sotoods oNdAIO 0} SJoJo1 TINY “TINY ‘sisAyeue WNC UO paseq UOTPUILULII}9C g ‘saqyeye SuTAURAUIODOR JO SONSIIDJIVILYO SIUIOUOXE} UO paseq UOT}VUILUID}AC p TQ) wae LO GL 9Qnios ould I OA SNIIUIBAIA “Y 700 + €L 0 2160- ¢c90 v6S oQntos Sutd 81 CNY “TW SNIIUIBAIA “Y S00 + 76 0 60°T - 08°0 ENE ppoomprery 8 less SOeZ sadiavyf Y S00 + V6 0 60°1 - 9£°0 98S oQntos ould ib Z sadiavyf “Y pee eb PSs 6 8 hoes DSS pews BP ERT SESS (WW) YIPIM [e}OUOCIg poeAlasqo jo # ous jo# godAjoy dey pso1seds ae SIOIP[OS SawmsazNIyay JO YIPIM [ejouoIg *[ IquL 44 Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 45 Samples from 31 of the 34 colonies were subsequently subjected to DNA sequencing; three R. flavipes colonies were not included in the DNA analysis. Seven distinct haplotypes (lineages) were obtained: Z, KK, SS, TT, RM1, RM2, and V6 (Table 1). The most abundant haplotype was Z (R. flavipes, Genbank DQ001953) from nine samples. This is a common haplotype observed from the northeast United States (Austin et al., 2005). Three additional haplotypes of R. flavipes were obtained: KK (GenBank DQ001963), SS (GenBank DQ001971), and TT (GenBank DQ001972) (one sample each). Eighteen of the samples were identified as haplotypes RM1 (GenBank DQ422137) and RM2 (GenBank DQ422138). These lineages belong to a cryptic Reticulitermes species that has previously been reported to be a new species, R. malletei (Clément et al., 1986), but has not been described according to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN). The original description of R. malletei has been desig- nated nomen nudum (Scheffrahn et al., 2001), but subsequent evaluation has determined that indeed it appears to bear all the necessary requirements as a dis- crete species (Austin, unpublished) and as such is being prepared for publication. One sample of R. virginicus was identified as haplotype V6 (GenBank AY 257243). This haplotype is found in several other states (Austin et al., 2004a, b,c): Pronotal width measurements for R. flavipes and R. virginicus soldiers are provided in Table 1 and Figure 1. Because only one colony of R.virginicus (hap- lotype V6) was recovered, this sample was not included in the morphometric analysis. For a sample size of five soldiers, the following margins of error were calculated for various confidence levels: 0.0403 (95%); 0.0530 (99%); 0.0677 (99.9%). The difference between the average pronotal widths for R. flavipes ver- sus R. virginicus (haplotypes RM1, RM2) was 0.21; thus, a sample size of five should reliably separate these two species in Delaware. Reported values for R. virginicus pronota (0.71-0.87 and 0.70-0.84mm) (Hos- tettler et al., 1995) appear to be supported by our measurements for this species too, with the pronota of 72 soldiers from the single colony (haplotype V6) in Lewes ranging 0.73-0.87mm in width. Pronotal width ranges at the 95% confi- dence level for R. flavipes were 0.84-1.04 mm. According to the taxonomic keys of Scheffrahn and Su (1994) and Hostettler et al. (1995), R. flavipes generally has a soldier pronotal width usually greater than 0.90 mm. Our morphological obser- vations, supported with mtDNA sequence data, affirm these measurements. Both Scheffrahn and Su (1994) and Hostettler et al. (1995) describe measurements of R. hageni as generally < 0.70 mm. At the 95% confidence level, the pronotal width range for R. virginicus (haplotypes RM1, RM72) soldiers in Lewes, Dela- ware (0.63-0.83 mm) overlaps with that of R. hageni in Florida (Hostettler et al., 1995). This could lead to termite misidentification if keys based on Florida spec- - 1mens are used to identify termite soldiers from Delaware. 46 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Figure 1. Pronotal Width of Reticulitermes spp. Soldiers 250 3 200 2 7 2 450 ® E = 100 £ Sly ou = 0 6 a S A b Y 2 Etat boli@sobl xSP dusineenae ae ean Pronotal Width, mm Figure 1. Pronotal width of Reticulitermes spp. soldiers. -®@— R. flavipes, Hardwood, Haplotypes Z, KK, SS, TT; —iF R. flavipes, Pine Scrub, Haplotype Z; —A— R. virginicus, Pine scrub, Haplotypes RM1, RM2. There are no published accounts of R. hageni in Delaware, which prompted a genetic inquiry for species confirmation. Evaluation of comparative sequence data and phylogenetic interpretation through Maximum Parsimony and Maxi- mum Liklihood analyses (see Austin et al. 2005) suggest our samples identified as R. virginicus (haplotypes RM1, RM2) from morphological keys is likely incorrect and constitute a discrete species. This same observation has been recently discussed, where Vargo and Carlson (2006) determined that two resid- ing populations of R. hageni constituted two distinct taxa, referring to one pop- ulation as R. hageni sensu stricto and the other as Reticulitermes n. sp., since the two had not been formally split. We in like kind have resolved to describe these as a single species, R. virginicus sensu stricto until the completed description of R. malletei is available (Austin, unpublished) and because there are no known occurrences of R. hageni in Delaware. However, to clarify this important rela- tionship, it should be understood that the specimens in Vargo and Carlson (2006) taken from Duke Forest, NC, share the same 16S rRNA haplotype (RM1) as found in Lewes, DE (Austin and Vargo, unpublished). This research demonstrates the discrepancy between taxonomic keys which apply metrics from populations which may vary in size and shape due to the vari- able nature of the habitats which Reticulitermes occupy. Transitions in topogra- phy and environment can have significant influences on Reticulitermes phenolo- Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 47 gy, distribution, and genetic composition. Recent studies demonstrate that under- lying Reticulitermes phenology is a genetic component which influences both chemotaxonomy (Jenkins et al., 2000) and morphology (Heintschel et al., 2006), when evaluated with mtDNA sequence data. In essence, genes drive phenotypes, and reliance of morphology alone can be misleading when attempting species identification. From these results, there are likely 3 species of Reticulitermes which occupy the Delmarva Peninsula, and future investigations which clarify the abundance of these species should be considered. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This research was supported, in part, by Dow AgroSciences. We thank Dr. Rudolf Scheffrahn, University of Florida, for providing samples of R. hageni soldiers and alates; Dr. John Pesek, Assistant Professor, Food & Resource Economics, University of Delaware, for statistical analysis of data; and Melody Euparadorn, University of Delaware, for laboratory and field assistance. LITERATURE CITED Austin, J. W., A. L. Szalanski, R. E. Gold, and B. T. Foster. 2004a. Genetic variation and geo- graphical distribution of the subterranean termite genus Reticulitermes in Texas. Southwestern Entomologist 29: 1-11. Austin, J. W., A. L. Szalanski, and B. M. Kard. 2004b. 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Comparative study of breeding systems of sympatric sub- terranean termites (Reticulitermes flavipes and R. hageni) in central North Carolina using two classes of molecular genetic markers. Environmental Entomology 35: 173-187. Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 49 A REVIEW OF THE PLANTHOPPER GENUS NILAPARVATA (HEMIPTERA: DELPHACIDAE) IN THE NEW WORLD' Charles R. Bartlett’ ABSTRACT: The delphacid genus Nilaparvata, previously recorded in. the New World only from Puerto Rico and Nicaragua, is here reported from a variety of localities from Wisconsin and New Hampshire in the United States, south to Bolivia and Paraguay. Euides gerhardi is here transferred to Nilaparvata, and a revised key and diagnoses for the four New World species are provided. KEY WORDS: Planthoppers, Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Fulgoromorpha, Fulgoroidea, Euides The delphacid genus Nilaparvata Distant, 1906, consists of 18 species, with most occurring in the Oriental, Australian and Afrotropical regions (Claridge and Morgan 1987 list 16 species, omitting N. serrata Caldwell, plus N. terracefrons Guo and Liang was described by Guo et al., 2005). Three species have been pre- viously recorded from the New World, with a fourth species here transferred to Nilaparvata (for a total of 19 species). Nilaparvata is an extremely important genus economically, with one of its members, N. /ugens (Stal), a major pest of rice (Oryza sativa L., Poaceae, Oryzeae; e.g., Claridge and Wilson 1982, Hill 1983, Wilson and Claridge 1985, 1991; Suzuki 2004). Two other species, N. bak- eri (Muir) and N. muiri China, are also found in rice (Wilson and Claridge 1991). The New World species, however, have not been reported from rice (Wilson and O’Brien 1987, Wilson and Claridge 1991), and the only host associations report- ed are sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L., Poaceae: Andropogoneae) and mal- ojillo grass (Panicum molle Swartz, Poaceae: Paniceae) for N. wolcotti Muir and Giffard (Muir and Giffard 1924, Wolcott 1936, Wilson and O’Brien 1987). Old World Nilaparvata species are also known to feed on Leersia (Poaceae: Oryzeae) (Sogawa and Kilin 1984, Sogawa et al., 1984, Claridge and Morgan 1987, Wil- son et al., 1994). The published records of all three previously reported New World species are limited to Puerto Rico (Muir and Giffard 1924, Caldwell and Martorell 1951), except that NV. serrata is reported from Nicaragua (Maes and O’Brien 1988). This investigation was initiated after discovering specimens of Ni/aparvata in light samples from Hills County, New Hampshire. Here the New World species are reviewed, and Euides gerhardi (Metcalf) is transferred to Nilaparvata. A species key, diagnoses, and all available specimen records are presented for New World Nilaparvata. "Received on March 28, 2006. Accepted on May 23, 2006. ? Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, University of Delaware, 250 Townsend Hall, 531 S. College Ave., Newark, Delaware 19716-2130 U.S.A. E-mail: 02542@udel.edu. Mailed on April 27, 2007 50 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS METHODS The morphological terminology follows Asche (1985), but for descriptive pur- poses the parameres will be referred to as having a proximal “basal angle,” and distal “inner” and “outer angles” (sensu Metcalf 1949); and the more precise “segment X” will be used instead of “anal tube” (= “analrohr’). A total of 216 New World Nilaparvata specimens were examined (Table 1), plus the primary types of all described species. Table 1. Number and distribution of New World Nilaparvata specimens exam- ined. States of the U.S.A. are indicated by standard US Postal Service abbrevia- tions. Species Gender Distribution Males Females N. caldwelli 9 0 USA: FL, NC; Belize; Puerto Rico; Hispaniola. N. gerhardi 14 4 USA: IL, NH, NJ, NC, VA; ? Guatemala. N. serrata 53 Bil USA: FL; Mexico; Belize; Costa Rica; Puerto Rico; Cayman Islands; ? Bolivia. N. wolcotti 44 28 USA: AZ, CA, CO, DE, FL, MD, NJ, UT; Mexico; Puerto Rico. N. spp. — 33 USA: CA, CT, FL, MD, NY, WI; Belize; Costa Rica; Guatemala; Panama; Paraguay; Cuba. Total 120 96 The collections from which specimens were examined are abbreviated as fol- lows (collection abbreviations according to Arnett et al., 1993): BMNH - British Museum (Natural History), London, England, U.K. CSCA - California State Collection of Arthropods, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, California, U.S.A. DENH - University of New Hampshire, Department of Entomology, Durham, New Hampshire, U.S.A. EMEC - Essig Museum of Entomology, Department of Entomological Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A. FSCA - Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Florida Department of Agricul- ture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry, Museum of Ento- mology, Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A. INBC - Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica. LOBC - Lois O’Brien Collection (Associated with California Academy of Sciences, CASC), Green Valley, Arizona, U.S.A. Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 51 LSUC - Louisiana State University Insect Collection, Department of Ento- mology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A. NCSU - North Carolina State University, Department of Entomology, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A. NYSM - New York State Museum, Biological Survey, Cultural Education Cen- ter, Albany, New York, U.S.A. SEMC - University of Kansas, Snow Entomological Museum, Lawrence, Kan- Sas. UDCC - University of Delaware, Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, Insect Reference Collection, Newark, Delaware, U.S.A. UKYC - University of Kentucky, Department of Biology Insect Collection, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A. USNM - US National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A. VGC - Vince Golia Collection, associated with Archbold Biological Station Col- lection (ABSC), Lake Placid, Florida, U.S.A. Species diagnoses are provided with reference to New World taxa. Lengths reported are averages (n = 4) and ranges of total body length (in mm), including wings for macropters. All observed specimens are reported, although female specimens are either tentatively identified, or reported as “undetermined fe- males.” Reported specimen data follows the format of the specimen label, with added notes in square brackets. Label information for primary types is quoted, with each line break indicated by “/”and each label separated by “//’”. All speci- mens are macropterous unless otherwise noted. Photographs and measurements were taken using a Nikon SMZ-1500 Digital Imaging Workstation with Nikon DS-U1 digital Camera and Eclipse Net Imag- ing software (version 1.16.6). Scale bar in all figures represents 0.5 mm. SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY The genus Nilaparvata Distant, 1906 (type species by original designation Nilaparvata greeni Distant, 1906, junior synonym of Delphax lugens Stal, 1854) can be separated from all other Delphacini by the presence of teeth on the hind basitarsus (Fig. 1, see also Caldwell and Martorell 1951: 194). There are usually 1-3 teeth on the proximal half of the ventral margin of the basitarsus, at least in New World species. Four New World species of Nilaparvata were found in this survey, the three species previously placed in Nilaparvata, with the fourth deter- mined to be Euides gerhardi (Metcalf, 1923), and hence this species is here trans- ferred to Nilaparvata. Each of these species was found to be much more widely distributed than has been previously reported. Among New World Delphacini, Nilaparvata are relatively large and robust, and of a pale to deep brown color with conspicuous facial carinae. Among New World genera, Nilaparvata most closely resembles Pareuidella Beamer, and a2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS species currently, but doubtfully, placed in the Old World genus Euides Fiebert. Asche (1985) considered Euides as consisting of four Palearctic plus one Orien- tal species, with all New World species in Euides at that time incertae sedis (four additional species were moved to Euides by Bartlett and Deitz 2000); hence there is a need for a revision of Euides, and there are some difficulties in finding fea- tures that consistently separate Nilaparvata from New World “Euides” as cur- rently defined. B Figure 1. Basitarsus of species of Nilaparvata: A. N. caldwelli (from Florida) with a single tooth, and B. Nilaparvata sp. (female) from Belize with three teeth. Nilaparvata can be recognized by the teeth on the basitarsus, a pair of process- es on abdominal segment X (weakly developed in N. wolcotti) that are widely separated basally, two-branched parameres (Pareuidella and many “Euides” have multibranched parameres), and in having a weak genital diaphragm bearing poorly developed armature. All four New World Nilaparvata have a rounded tooth at opening of the pygofer at the ventral angles (sensu Metcalf 1949). Nast (1984: 396) noted that the New and Old World species may belong in dif- ferent genera, but since both New and Old World species share the teeth on the basitarus, possess similar male genitalia, and are comparable in build and gener- al color features, the New World species appear properly placed in Nilaparvata. The New World Nilaparvata can be identified according to the following key based on male genitalia. Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 53 Key to the New World species of Nilaparvata 1. Aedeagus appearing bifid from base to apex (Fig. 2G), without subapical ser- rate flange, parameres (Fig. 2E) relatively narrow, apex acute and directed dor- SOI BIREUIIINT kgesckcse sid eet ne eee Meese See Or eee N. caldwelli 1’. Aedeagus not appearing bifid, with serrate flange originating on right side; parameres relatively broad, apex blunt and directed laterally .......... ee. 2 2. Segment X with long processes, approximated at base, originated subdorsally (Fig. 5G); parameres (Fig. 5F) in widest view broadly laterally projecting, later- AGMAALCUMBMeAGNYGUMUINCALC Grzccmc.cc.scstacce-ecboacacessoneseccans cesmanenseatiesacesdescscdens N. serrata 2’. Segment X with short processes or a pair of teeth, originating dorsally; para- meres in widest view with dorsal margin broad and truncate, lateral margin DE ULE AONE Os Cine CLEM SUD ALSRAMIY, ccaccc cea -eseeceeetece eee cazee se olceeentetsoneveeeseseccesees- 3 3. Segment X processes very short (Fig. 6G), often reduced to teeth; originating somewhat medially from dorsolateral margin (Fig. 6D); parameres (Fig. 6F) in widest view with dorsal margin gradually sloped upwards to a dorsolaterally CIPSCTE, BTEC see cbas ce cec eee as Une AU tae oe ee N. wolcotti 3’. Segment X processes longer, curved (Fig. 4G); originating from dorsolateral margin of segment X (Fig. 4D); parameres with dorsal margin subtruncate, lat- Sal BOGS CSC Slo eh fe 2) Ih eee ee N. gerhardi Nilaparvata caldwelli Metcalf, 1955 Figures 2, 3A Nilaparvata muiri Caldwell, 1951 (in Caldwell and Martorell 1951): 192-194 (nec. China, 1925). Nilaparvata caldwelli Metcalf, 1955: 262 (replacement name for unavailable N. muiri Caldwell). Nilaparvata bis Nast 1984: 396 (replacement name for unavailable N. muiri Caldwell). Type material examined. “P.R. Acc. No. /Ponce, P.R. / 6-29-48 // Maldonado // Nilaparvata / Holotype / muiri [red paper] // JSCaldwell / Collection / 1959 // Nilaparvata &/ muiri / det 49 Holotype/ JSCaldwell” (& holotype, allotype Q, and paratype 0’; USNM). Diagnosis. Length CO’: 3.88 (3.75-4.00). This species is readily recognized by the aedeagus somewhat flattened and appearing bifid, and the relatively small and narrow parameres. The parameres have a weakly developed basal angle, a broad- ly toothlike inner angle, and an acutely dorsolaterally directed outer angle. The genital diaphragm is comparatively well-developed in N. caldwelli, bearing a thin, caudally directed, scooplike armature (Fig. 3A). Segment X bears a pair of 54 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Figure 2. Nilaparvata caldwelli: A. lateral view, B. frons, C. dorsal view, D. pygofer, cau- dal view, E. left paramere, widest view, F. aedeagal complex with parameres and post gen- ital segments, and G. pygofer, lateral view. short, hooked processes from its dorsolateral margins. In color, this species is light brown with the prothorax somewhat paler between the lateral carinae. The median third of the mesonotum is faintly paler, suggesting a median vitta. Carinae on frons conspicuous, slightly paler than frons. Wings indistinctly infus- cate, with a poorly developed darkened area at the end of the claval suture. Remarks. The bifid appearing aedeagus, narrow parameres and relatively well-developed genital diaphragm make N. caldwelli distinctive among the New World species. Reports of this species from Africa need confirmation. Distribution. USA: Florida, North Carolina; Belize, Puerto Rico and His- paniola; also reported Senegal (Fennah 1961) and Sudan (Linnavuori 1973). Specimens Examined. USA: NORTH CAROLINA: Bladen Co., White Lake @White Lake Campground, 15-IX-1995, C. R. Bartlett (10°, UDCC). FLORI- DA: Palm Beach Co., Lake Worth, Geneva Lakes Court, June 1, 2003, V. Golia, Black light (10°, VGC) same July 25, 2003 (10°, VGC). BELIZE (as British Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 55 Honduras): Rio Grande, June 1932 [@Light trap], J. J. White, (10°, NCSU), Rio Temas July 1937 [?light trap], A. J. White (20°, NCSU). PUERTO RICO: Aguirre [as Acquirre], VIII-3-1948, J. S. Caldwell (10°, USNM); Ponce, VI-29- 1948, J. S. Caldwell (10°, USNM). DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Humachon Prov., Rio Nigua, Trujillo, Dec. 1955, J. Maldonado Capriles (10°, USNM). Nilaparvata gerhardi (Metcalf, 1923) New Combination Figure 4 Liburnia gerhardi Metcalf, 1923: 210, pls. 62 and 70. Euidella gerhardi (Metcalf): Metcalf, 1949: 58, pls. 1 and 4. Euides gerhardi (Metcalf): Metcalf, 1952: 230-231. Type material examined. “Beverly H’s/ VIII:31:07 Ill // Col. by / WJGerhard // At light // Holotype / Euides / gerhardi / Metc [red paper]// Liburnia / gerhar- di / Metc. / det. Z. P. M. [tan paper] // on indefinite loan / from N. Carolina / St. Univ. Raleigh” (& USNM). Figure 3. Genital diaphrams: A. Nilaparvata caldwelli (Belize), B. Nilaparvata serrata (Cayman Islands). Diagnosis. Length O&: 4.45 (4.30-4.60), 9: 5.05 (4.45-5.40). This species closely resembles N. wolcotti, although it differs by the processes on segment X (longer and curved) and the shape of the parameres (dorsal margin subtruncate, lateral apex directed sublaterally). The parameres of both species are broad with a bluntly triangular, irregularly toothed basal angle, and a long, straplike dorso- medially directed inner angle, which in widest view appears to originate behind a broadly expanded outer angle. In N. gerhardi, the dorsal margin of the outer angle is subtruncate, having a two-stepped appearance, with the apex of the outer angle laterally directed. The aedeagus is terete with a large lateral flange on the 56 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS E t 2. G Figure 4. Nilaparvata gerhardi: A. lateral view, B. frons, C. dorsal view, D. pygofer, cau- dal view, E. left paramere, widest view, F. aedeagal complex with parameres and post gen- ital segments, and G. pygofer, lateral view. right side. In N. gerhardi, as in N. wolcotti, the proximal margin of the flange is strongly directed dorsad and conspicuous in left lateral view. The genital diaphragm is poorly developed (similar to Fig. 3B), bearing a slight, flattened, posteriorly directed armature. Dorsal margin of pygofer narrowed, segment X about 3/4 width of dorsal margin (Fig. 4D, vs. N. wolcotti). Segment X bears a pair short curved processes originating from the dorsolateral margins. In color, this species is similar to N. wolcotti, but less distinctly marked: brown to dark brown, with a paler vertex and prothorax, with a variably developed mesonotal vitta. Facial carinae slightly paler than frons. Wings mostly clear, with a melanis- tic spot at the apex of the claval suture. Females paler than males. Remarks. This appears to be the most northerly distributed of the Nilapar- vata species and it is likely that, based on both color and geographic indications, the Wisconsin and New York records among the undetermined females belong to this species. The genitalia of the holotype are embedded in balsam within a gelatin capsule. The genitalia appear to match those described by Metcalf (1923, 1949); however, Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 57 the associated specimen on the point is not a Nilaparvata. Female specimens, cited below, with identical locality information as the holotype closely match Metcalf’s description, suggesting that the type specimen was lost and the wrong specimen later applied to the point. The specimen on the point is of similar appearance to Delphacodes andromeda (Metcalf), and may in fact be the type specimen of Delphacodes xerosa Caldwell, which is missing from its point although its genitalia are present in a microvial. Since the holotype male genitalia match the original description, further nomenclatural changes are not needed. Distribution. USA: Illinois, Louisiana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia; and apparently Guatemala. Specimens Examined. NEW HAMPSHIRE: Hills Co., 3 Mi SE Brookline, Nissitissit River, VII-17-1995, UV Light, D. S. Chandler (10°, DENH), same, VII-27-1995 (19, DENH). NEW JERSEY: Seabrook, 7/27/[19]65, B/L Ser. X (10°, USNM). ILLINOIS: Beverly H’s, VII-31-[19]07, W J Gerhard, at light (29, USNM). VIRGINIA: Chantilly, 8/25/[19]64 (20%, 19 all on same point, plus 10’, USNM). NORTH CAROLINA: Cabarrus Co., Coddle Creek Reservoir, (VI- VII)-1995, NJ Light Trap, B. A. Harrison (40°, UDCC); same VIII-1995 (20, UDCC), same IX-1995 (10°, UDCC). LOUISIANA: Iberville Par., St. Gabriel, 29-IX-1990, J. Zhou (10°, LSUC). Tentatively included: GUATEMALA: specif- ic locality not given, Feb. 1934 (10°, USNM). Nilaparvata serrata Caldwell, 1951 Figures 3B, 5 Nilaparvata serrata Caldwell, 1951 (an Caldwell and Martorell 1951): 192-4. Type material examined. “RPiedrasPR / 12-31-47 / JSCaldwell // Nilaparvata / holotype / serrata [red paper]// JSCaldwell / Collection / 1959 // Nilaparvata &/ serrata Holotype/ Caldwell ‘49” (& and & paratype, USNM). Diagnosis. Length O: 3.75 (3.50-4.00), 9: 4.33 (4.25-4.50). This species is most easily recognized by the broad parameres with a relatively short thick process at the basal angle, a larger thumblike, irregularly toothed inner angle; and a broad, flattened, outer angle with a nearly truncate lateral margin, often bear- ing a few small teeth. A minute tooth is usually present on the ventrocaudal mar- gin of the base of the inner angle. Aedeagus terete, somewhat enlarged preapi- cally, with a large but variably developed serrate flange on the right side. This flange is present in both N. wolcotti and N. gerhardi, but in both these species the proximal margin of the flange is strongly directed dorsad, and conspicuous in left lateral view; whereas in N. serrata, this flange is less produced and inconspicu- ous in left lateral view. The genital diaphragm is poorly developed (Fig. 3B), bearing a slight, flattened, posteriorly directed armature. Segment X bears a pair of strongly developed, ventrally hooked processes from its midlateral margins, which are strongly medially, then laterally curved. In color, this species is dark brown with a paler prothorax, vertex and often mesonotal carinae. Carinae on 58 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Figure 5. Nilaparvata serrata: A. lateral view, B. frons, C. dorsal view, D. pygofer, cau- dal view, E. left paramere, widest view, F. aedeagal complex with parameres and post gen- ital segments, and G. pygofer, lateral view (scale bar = 0.5 mm). frons conspicuously paler than frons. Wings somewhat infuscate, with little sug- gestion of the darkened area at the end of the claval suture. Females tend to be paler than males. Remarks. One specimen, from Florida, was collected from “rice & grasses,” suggesting habitat, if not host, for this species. The Bolivian specimen differs in subtle ways from the other specimens, most significantly by having the process- es on segment X more closely approximated at the base, and by being overall much paler than WN. serrata is generally. Distribution. USA: Florida; Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Cay- man Islands, and apparently Bolivia. Also reported from Nicaragua (Maes and O’Brien, 1988). Specimens Examined. USA: FLORIDA: Belle Glade, Rabbit Is., 15-IX-1957 [J. Kramer], rice & grasses (10, USNM). MEXICO: Oax., 13 mi SE Oaxaca, 5180’, VI-2-1974; C.W. & L. O’Brien & Marshall (10°, LOBC); Ver., 27mi NW Veracruz, 300’, Dec. 26, 1963, L. & C. W. O’Brien (10°, LOBC); Mexico City Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 59 Area (MB-151), 1940’s, D. M. De Long (20°, UK YC); Chiapas, 5 mi S San Carlos, HI-6-1953, at light, R. C. Bechtel, E. I. Schlinger (100°, 119, EMEC). BELIZE (as British Honduras): Punta Gorda, May 1930 [? Light trap], J. J. White (20°, NCSU); Rio Grande, June 1932 [? Light trap], J. J. White (10°, NCSU); Cayo District, Esperanza, 12.4.1967, at light, D. J. McGr [? illegible] (10°, BMNH). COSTA RICA: Heredia, nr Puerto Viejo, La Selva Biological Station., 10°25'N 84°00W, 179 ft, Station Grounds, (18-19)-VIII-2003, C. R. Bartlett, J. Cryan, J. Urban (30°, UDCC); same 15-VIII-2003 (10°, 19, INBC); same 25-II-2004, C. R. Bartlett, (20°, UDCC); La Selva, (22-24)-I-2000, A. E. Short (10°, UDCC); Guanacaste, Estacion Experimental Enrique Jimenea Nunez, VI/15/[19]92; F. Parker (20°, 19, UKYC). CAYMAN ISLANDS: Cayman Brac, The Creek, 18-XI-1995, UV Light, C. R. Dilbert (20°, 69, FSCA); same, 22-XI- 1995 (19, FSCA); same, 28-XI-1995 (20, 29, FSCA); same, 6-XII-1995 (30°, 39, FSCA); same, 8-XII-1995 (1?, FSCA); same, 15-XII-1995 (90%, 39, FSCA); same, 23-XII-1995 (20°, 29, FSCA); same, 27-XII-1995 (50°, 19, FSCA). Tentatively included: BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz, 10 mi. W. Portachuelo, March 26, 1978, UV Light, C. W. O’Brien (10°, LOBC). Nilaparvata wolcotti Muir and Giffard, 1924. Figures 6, 7 Nilaparvata wolcotti Muir and Giffard, 1924: 17, 51. Type material examined. “Barceloneta, P.R. / April 9, 1920 // G. N. Wolcott, / Collector. // on cane // Paratype [yellow paper] / Muir Coll. / Brit. Mus.1932- 279.” (1 male, missing from point, male terminalia and abdomen mounted in bal- sam between cover slides on card stock with annotation “Nilaparvata / wolcotti /Om.g.” [handwritten]). “Pt. Cangrejos, PR. / March 12, 1920. // G. N. Wolcott, / Collector.” (BMNH, missing abdomen.) Diagnosis: Length macropter &: 4.81 (4.50-5.20), 9: 4.89 (4.75-5.00); brachypter ©’: 2.68 (2.50-2.85), 9: 3.16 (2.10-3.25). This species closely resem- bles N. gerhardi in many respects, but 1s most readily separated by the process- es on segment X (very short) and the shape of the parameres (dorsal margin grad- ually sloped to a dorsolaterally directed apex). The parameres of both species are broad with a bluntly triangular, irregularly toothed basal angle, and a long, strap- like, dorsomedially directed inner angle, which in widest view appears to origi- nate behind a broadly expanded outer angle. In NV. wolcotti, the dorsal margin of the outer angle is inclined to an acute, dorsolaterally directed apex, compared to a more truncate, two-stepped appearance of N. gerhardi, terminating in a more laterally directed apex. The aedeagus is terete and somewhat enlarged preapical- ly, with a large lateral flange on the right side. In both N. wolcotti and N. ger- 60 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS hardi, the proximal margin of the flange is strongly directed dorsad and con- spicuous in left lateral view. The genital diaphragm is poorly developed (similar to Fig. 3B), bearing a slight, flattened, posteriorly directed armature. Dorsal mar- gin of pygofer wide, segment X about 3/5 width of dorsal margin (Fig. 6D, vs. N. gerhardi). Segment X bears a pair of variably developed teeth originating somewhat lateroventrad from the dorsolateral margins. In color, macropters of this species are brown to dark brown, with a conspicuously paler vertex and pro- thorax, with a variably developed but conspicuous mesonotal vitta. Facial cari- nae paler than frons. Wings mostly clear, with a well-developed melanistic spot at the end of the claval suture. Females tend to be paler than males with the medi- an vitta of the mesothorax less distinct. Remarks. The specimen collected in the Gulf of Mexico was found approxi- mately 46 km from the Louisiana coast. The specimen from California cited in undetermined females appears to be this species. This is the only species for which brachypterous specimens were located. Most of the brachypterous speci- mens (22 of 25), were from a single series from Plain City, Utah, which also included a single nymph. Reported on sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L., Muir and Giffard 1924) and malojillo grass (Panicum molle Swartz, Wolcott 1936). This species was “[d]escribed from one male and one female (types) from Pt. Congrejos [sic - Cangrejos], Porto Rico (G. N. Wolcott, February, 1920) and one male from Barceloneta, Porto Rico (G. N. Wolcott, April 1920), on sugar cane” (Muir and Giffard 1924: 17). The specimens provided from BMNH consists of the Barceloneta specimen, labeled as a paratype, and a specimen from Pt. Cangrejos, P.R. missing the abdomen, collected March 12, 1920. The specimens reported by Muir and Giffard (1924), evidently were collected March 3, 1920 (&’) and March 20, 1920 () (not February), and both these specimens are miss- ing their abdomen (M. Webb, BPBM, pers. comm.) (requested on loan, not avail- able). Since the Barceloneta male was clearly in Muir and Giffard’s (1924) type series and bears the diagnostic features of the male genitalia; and because Muir and Giffard (1924) did not specify which specimen was the holotype, I have treated the Barceloneta male as the primary type with respect to maintaining a stable species concept. Distribution. USA: Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Mary- land, New Jersey, Utah; Mexico; Puerto Rico. Specimens Examined. USA: NEW JERSEY: Seabrook, 7/27/65, B/L Ser. X, B200 (10°, USNM). DELAWARE, New Castle Co., Middletown, Brick Mill Farm, 522 St. Michael Dr., 07-VI-2004, A. Gonzon, Collected at porch light (20°, UDCC); same 29-VIII-2003 (10°, UDCC); Sussex Co., Nanticoke WMA, Phillips Landing, 12-VI-2005, A. Gonzon, Hg Vapor Light, xeric sand ridges (40°, 29 UDCC). MARYLAND: Crisfield, 8-5-32, F. C. Bishop, Mosq. Trap (30°, USNM); Chestertown, 6-29-32, F. C. Bishop, Mosq. Trap (10°, USNM). COLORADO: Ft. Collins, 9 10 [19]01 (1& [missing from point, genitalia in mi- Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 61 crovial], 19brachypter, USNM). UTAH: Utah Co., Goshen Ponds, SW of San- taquin, 15-VII-2000, J. A. Robertson (UDCC, 10°, 19); Utah Co., Provo, BYU, 18-VII-2000, I. S. Winkler, at light (10, 19, UDCC); Richfield, July 15, 1930, Light Trap (40°, 29, USNM); Farmington, 8-19-1936, G. F. Knowlton (10, USNM); Plain City, 8-5-[19]03 (60°, 169, 1 broken, 1 nymph; all brachypterous; USNM). FLORIDA: Palm Beach Co., Boyton Beach, Nautica Sound, Sept. 3, 1999, Black Light, V. Golia (10°, VGC); Palm Beach Co., Lake Worth, Geneva Lakes Court, October 28, 2004, V. Golia, Mercury Vapor Light (19, VGC); same, October 27, 2004 (1V, VGC); same, May 24, 2003, Black Light (10, VGC); Broward Co., Ft. Lauderdale, 4 June 1974, Rotary Net, N. L. Woodiel (10°, USNM); Broward Co., Hwy 27, Sawgrass Rec Area, 23 mi NW Ft. Figure 6. Nilaparvata wolcotti macropter: A. lateral view, B. frons, C. dorsal view, D. pygofer, caudal view, E. left paramere, widest view, F. aedeagal complex with para- meres and post genital segments, and G. pygofer, lateral view. 62 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Lauderdale, 21-V-1976, UV Trap, C. W. O’Brien & G. B. Marshall (10, 29, LOBC); Collier Co., Collier-Seminole S.P., 22-VI-1965, C. W. O’Brien, Black- light trap (10°, LOBC); Palm Beach Co., Lake Worth Geneva Lakes Court, 8- VIII-2003, V. Golia, Mercury Vapor Light (10°, VGC). ARIZONA: Sabino Canyon, July 9, 1952 [R. H. Beamer] (10°, SEMC); Chiric. Mts. 9-11-35, E. D. Ball (10°, USNM). CALIFORNIA: San Joaquin Co., 24 Aug 1974, It Trap, M. Croce, 75-6719 (10°, USNM); Sacramento, VII-14-1934 (10°, USNM); Sacramento, VIIJ-12-1933, H. H. Keifer (10°, CSCA); Palm Canon, Palm Springs, 17 Dec[19]’17, J. Ch. Bradley (20° Brachypter, USNM); Siskiyou Co., 5 mi N of Gazelle, (7-3)-(8-10), 1981, Light Trap, John Hunter Orchard, F. D. Horn (10°, CSCA); Santa Barbara Co., Santa Cruz Is., 17-VII-1939, L. M. Martin (10°, 19, CSCA). GULF OF MEXICO, 29°35'N, 93°20'W, 12-VIII-1984, M. L. Isreal, blacklight trap (10°, USNM). MEXICO: Salvatierra, 7 mi. W., Gua- najuato, VII-28-1954, E. I. Schlinger (10°, EMEC). PUERTO RICO: Bayamon, Anderson & Lesene, San Juan No. 2983, on grass (19, 1 broken, USNM, tenta- tively included). Undetermined Nilaparvata females USA: WISCONSIN: Kenosha Co., August 2[6?], 1953, D. H. Habeck (19, NCSU). NEW YORK: Westchester County, Greenburgh, Route 9A, July 10, 1994, V. Golia, Black light (19, VGC); Rochester, USGC, 5 July 1968 (19, NYSM). CONNECTICUT: Prospect, VII-22-2001, C. W. O’Brien, at night (19, LOBC). MARYLAND, Allegany Co., Little Orleans, 13-VII-2000, S. T. Dash, sweeping meadow (19, UDCC). FLORIDA: Collier County, Fakahachee Strand St. Res. K-12, 18-V-1998, C. W. O’Brien (19, LOBC); Green Cove Springs, Aug. 1942, R C Barnes, at light trap (29, USNM); Palm Beach Co., Delray Beach, Country Lake, March 19, 1994, V. Golia, Mercury Vapor Light (19, VGC); same except October 25, 1994 (19, VGC). CALIFORNIA: Contra Costa Co., Antioch Natl. Wildlife Ref. (SF), X-10-1991, blacklight, J. Powell (19, EMEC). BELIZE (as British Honduras): Punta Gorda, May 1930, J. J. White (109, NCSU); Rio Grande, June 1932, J. J. White (39, NCSU); Rio Temas, July 19[27?], A. J. White (19, NCSU); (as Belize) Belize district, Western Highway nr Belize Zoo, 7-Jan.-2003, C. R. Bartlett, Pine Grassland (19, UDCC); Cayo District nr Teakettle Bank, nr Pook’s Hill, 8-Jan.-2003, C. R. Bartlett, Sweep at river (19, UDCC). COSTA RICA: Heredia, Estac. Biol. La Selva, 50-100m, I- 8/17-1993, blacklight in secondary forest, J. Powell (19, EMEC). GUATE- MALA: Morales, Oct 1930, J. J. White (19, NCSU); Guatemala City, 3/29/1953, D. M. Delong (19, UKYC). PANAMA: Chiriqui Prov., Vagala, 10 km NW of David, (8-15)-Jan.-1981, A. C. Brown, Malaise Trap nr. Rice and River (19, NCSU). PARAGUAY: Cordillera, Inst. Agro. Nac. Caacupe, Jan. 17-20, 1983. E. G. Riley (19, LSUC). CUBA: XI-26-1935, Baltimore no 3903 (19, USNM). 63 Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 iew, > —— {a0} MN Si (2) 1} ~ x) (a0) & 5 cD) o— > — (4°) i?) (e} 5S} <= s Bae aL: a as n oO Or on ee SS ss te) . = S 2 a0} oe =e 85 om eI — Se oe Ge} Pe ae =o oO ir 6p & Jac, er 64 ; ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS DISCUSSION Nilaparvata serrata, N. caldwelli, and N. wolcotti were found to occur well outside of their previously reported range. It 1s puzzling that the genus has gone largely unrecognized outside of Puerto Rico since it is relatively easy to recog- nize. It might be possible that the Puerto Rican species were introduced to the continental fauna, but the high dispersal ability known in this genus makes endemicity or adventive dispersal more plausible hypotheses. Most observed specimens were macropterous (191 of 216 specimens), with brachypters only found for N. wolcotti. Nearly all specimens with collecting methods recorded were collected at lights, except one specimen from Panama collected at a malaise trap, and two specimens collected by sweeping. Unfortunately, light collecting provides little information concerning hosts or habitat, although two specimens (one N. serrata from Florida and one undetermined female from Panama) indi- cated that they were collected near rice, a habitat consistent with the rice and Leersia hosts known for Old World Nilaparvata species. Nilaparvata wolcotti, however, was found well outside the range of either of its reported hosts. The widespread occurrence of these species and the record of a Nilaparvata in the Gulf of Mexico may suggest that the New World Nilaparvata species are migra- tory in a similar manner to Nilaparvata lugens (e.g., Taylor 1985, Kisimoto 1991, Watanabe 1995), although perhaps less dramatically. It is anticipated that all of these Nilaparvata species will be found to be even more widely distributed than is reported here. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am grateful to Anthony Gonzon and Martin Spellman for their assistance in digital photography, and Meg Ballard for assistance in digital image management. Kimberly Shropshire graciously pro- vided the line art of the parameres. I would like to thank William Brown for assistance in mapping the collecting location of the Gulf of Mexico specimen, and for his helpful suggestions on drafts of this manuscript. I am particularly grateful to Marion Zuefle for her assistance with German text. 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KEY WORDS: Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae, Metaphycus parasaissetiae sp. n., Parasaissetia nigra, Homoptera, Coccoidea, China The Nigra Scale, Parasaissetia nigra (Nietner) is a well-known plant sap- sucking scale insect in family Coccidae (Homoptera: Coccoidea) (Ben-Doy, 1978; OEPP/EPPO, 2002). It is now a serious insect pest of Hevea brasiliensis (Brazilian rubber tree, Euphorbiaceae), an economically important plant in southern China, Yunnan Province (Duan et al., 2005; Guan et al., 2005). For example, in Xishuangbanna, about 40666.7 hectares of H. brasiliensis planta- tions are severely damaged following heavy infestation by P. nigra (Duan et al., 2005). A recent investigation of the natural enemies of this pest revealed an unde- scribed species belonging to genus Metaphycus Mercet (1921) (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) played an important role in regulating numbers of P. nigra in this area (Guan et al., 2005). The Metaphycus species is described here in order to provide the taxonomic basis for further research into its potential role as biolog- ical control agents of P. nigra. The description of the new species is based on specimens reared from P. nigra collected in the Experiment Farm of Yunnan Institute of Tropical Crops, Jing- hong City, Xishaunbanna, Yunnan Province, China. Morphological terminology generally follows that of Guerrieri and Noyes (2000), and Noyes (2004). Abso- lute measurements are used for body length. Relative measurements are used for other dimensions. All specimens examined, unless otherwise specified, are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (IZCAS). ‘Submitted on April 10, 2006. Accepted on April 23, 2006. *Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P.R. China. E-mail: zhangyz@ioz.ac.cn. Corresponding author. *Plant Protection College, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, 271018, P.R. China. E-mail: huangdw@10z.ac.cn. *Environment and Plant Protection Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Hainan, Danzhou, 571737, P. R. China. E-mail: fygcatas@163.com. Mailed on April 27, 2007 Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 69 Metaphycus parasaissetiae Zhang and Huang sp. n. Figs. 1-8 Description. Female: Body length 1—1.65 mm; Head with frontovertex orange, genae and face yellowish white except lower part of genae and mouth margin dark brown; occiput nearly entirely black; pronotum anteriorly dark brown, posteriorly yellow to yellowish white and with a dark brown spot on each side; mesoscutum, axillae and scutellum orange, sometimes with a brownish hue; tegula yellow, apically brownish; metanotum and propodeum dorsally black; sides and venter of thorax yellowish white; antennal scape in outer aspect dark brown except dorsal margin, apex and base whitish (Fig. la); inner aspect of scape nearly entirely dark brown except dorsal margin, extreme apex and base yellowish white (Fig. 1b); basal half or so of pedicel dark brown; F1-F4 dark brown, F3 or F4 often internally yellowish white, F5-F6 yellowish white; clava black except extreme apex yellowish; wings hyaline; legs yellowish white, each tibia with two almost complete dark brown rings and with apices brownish; gaster dorsally dark brown and ventrally yellowish. Head. Head about 4.6x as wide as frontovertex; frontovertex about 2.3x as long as wide; ocelli forming an angle of about 45°; posterior ocellus separated from inner eye margin by about half its diameter and 2x its diameter from occip- ital margin; antenna (Fig. 1) with scape distinctly expanded and flattened, about 2.3x as long as broad; funicle with F1-F4 distinctly smaller than F5-F6, F5-F6 bearing linear sensilla; clava 3-segmented, apically more or less transversely truncated; maxillary palpi 4-segmented; labial palpi 3-segmented (Fig. 2). Thorax. Mesoscutum with notaular lines incomplete and reaching about half way across mesoscutum; forewing about 2.5x as long as broad, venation as in Figs: Gaster. Ovipositor (Fig. 4) not exserted or hardly so, about as long as mid- tibia (Fig. 3). Relative measurements. Head width 65, Frontovertex width 14, POL 6, OOL < 2, AOL 6, Scape length 30, Scape width 13, Forewing length 150, Fore wing width 60, Mid-tibia length 54, Ovipositor length 55, Gonostylus length 8. Male. Body length 1—1.2 mm, otherwise similar to female but for the anten- na (Fig. 6), forewing (Fig. 7), and genitalia (Fig. 8), antennal scape in outer aspect whitish except a longitudinal dark brown band along dorsal margin (Fig. la); inner aspect of scape nearly entirely dark brown except dorsal margin, extreme apex and base yellowish white (Fig. 1b); antennal scape about 3x as long as broad. Biology. A gregarious parasitoid of Parasaissetia nigra (Nietner). One to eight individuals have been observed to emerge from a single host. Type Material: Holotype. female, CHINA: Yunnan: Xishuangbanna (Jing- hong City, Junnan Institute of Tropical Crops), 28.vi1.2004, ex. Parasaissetia nigra (Nietner) on Hevea brasiliensis coll. FP Zhang and ZQ Peng (IZCAS). Paratypes. 19 females, 5 males, same data as holotype (IZCAS). 70 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 7 : 8 Figs. 1-8. Metaphycus parasaissetiae, sp. n., 1-5, female: 1. antenna outer aspect (a), scape inner aspect (b); 2. maxillary palpi and labial palpi; 3. mid leg; 4. ovipositor; 5. forewing; 6-8. male: 6. antenna outer aspect (a), scape inner aspect (b); 7. forewing; 8. genitalia. Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 gist Other material studied. Many females and males, reared from Parasaissetia nigra (Nietner) collected on Hevea brasiliensis in Yunnan, Xishuangbanna. Table 1. Some diagnostic characters of Metaphycus anneckei, M. hageni, and M. parasaissetiae' M. anneckei M. hageni M. parasaissetiae Without dark Without dark With dark Lower part of genae () brown band brown band brown band Ovipositor/Mid tibia () 0.82 x (78/95) 1.2 x (41/34) 1 x (55/54) Ovipositor/Gonostylus (9) 4 x (78/20) 6 x (41/7) 7 x (55/8) Without With Without Toruli of male associate pores associate pores _—_ associate pores ' Characters of Metaphycus anneckei and M. hageni from Guerrieri and Noyes (2000) Comments. Several keys to species of Metaphcus are used in identification of this Metaphycus parasaissetiae. Among them are Annecke and Mynhardt (1971), Viggiani and Guerrieri (1988), Trjapitzin (1989), Zeya and Hayat (1993), Guerrieri and Noyes (2000), and Noyes (2004). By using the most recent ones (Guerrieri and Noyes, 2000), Metaphycus parasaissetiae runs to key couplet 56, whithin the zebratus-group (maxillary palpi 4-segmented), that includes Metaphycus hageni Daane and Caltagirone (1999) and Metaphycus anneckei Guerrieri and Noyes (2000). Metaphycus parasaissetiae can be separated from both of them by characters listed in Table 1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC grant no. 30500056), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC grant no. 30330090) and par- tially by National Science Fund for Fostering Talents in Basic Research (NSFC-J0030092). We thank Dr. S. A. Wu, College of Natural Resources and Environment, Beijing Forestry University, for iden- tification of Parasaissetia nigra (Nietner). Four anonymous reviewers provided valuable suggestions for improving the manuscript. LITERATURE CITED Annecke, D. P. and M. J. Mynhardt. 1971. The species of the zebratus-group of Metaphycus Mercet (Hym., Encyrtidae) from South Africa, with notes on some extra-limital species. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 83: 322-360. Tz ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Ben-Dov, Y. 1978. Taxonomy of the Nigra Scale Parasaissetia nigra (Nietner) (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae), with Observations on Mass Rearing and Parasites of an Israeli Strain. Phytoparasitica 6: 115-127 Daane, K. M. and L. E. Caltagirone. 1999. A new species of Metaphycus (Hymenoptera: En- cyrtidae) parasitic on Saissetia oleae (Olivier) (Homoptera: Coccidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 75 (1): 13-17. Duan, B., M. Zhou, J. Z. Li, and G. H. Li. 2005. Identification and control of a scale insect in Xishuangbanna of Yunnan Province. Tropical Agricultural Science & Technnology 28 (2): 1-3. Guan, Z. B., Y. Chen, J. L. Lei, and Y. W. Pan. 2005. Scale insect of rubber plantation break out in Xishuangbanna of Yunnan Province. Plant Protection 31 (1): 92-93. Guerrieri, E. and J. S. Noyes. 2000. Revision of European species of genus Metaphycus Mercet (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae), parasitoids of scale insects. Systematic Entomology 25: 147-222. Mercet, R. G. 1921. Fauna Iberica. Himenopteros Fam. Encyrtidos. 727 pp. Museo Nacional de Ciencas Naturales, Madrid. Noyes, J. S. 2004. Encyrtidae of Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), 2. Metaphycus and related genera, parasitoids of scale insects (Coccoidea) and whiteflies (Aleyrodidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 73: 1-459. OEPP/EPPO. 2002. Diagnostic protocols for regulated pests, Parasaissetia nigra. Bulletin OEPP/ EPPO Bulletin 32: 293-298. Trjapitzin, V. A. 1989. Parasitic Hymenoptera of the Fam. Encyrtidae of Palaearctics. Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR 158: 1-489. Zoologicheskim Institutom Akademii Nauk SSR, Leningrad. in Russian. Viggiani, G. and E. Guerrieri. 1988. Italian species of the genus Metaphycus Mercet (Hymenop- tera: Encyrtidae). Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria ‘Filippo Silvestri’, Portici 45: 113-140. Zeya, S. B. and M. Hayat. 1993. A review of the Indian species of Metaphycus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae). Oriental Insects 27: 185-210. Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 73 PTINUS SEXPUNCTATUS PANZER (COLEOPTERA: ANOBITDAE, PTININAE) NEWLY RECORDED IN NORTH AMERICA' Christopher G. Majka,’ T. Keith Philips,’ and Cory Sheffield‘ ABSTRACT: The Palearctic spider beetle, Ptinus sexpunctatus Panzer (Anobiidae: Ptininae), is newly recorded in North America from collections in Nova Scotia, Canada, and Pennsylvania and Utah in the United States. It is also newly recorded in association with the native blue orchard mason bee, Osmia lignaria Say (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Its presence on the continent is briefly dis- cussed in the context of mechanisms of introduction of invertebrates to North America. KEY WORDS: Ptinus, Anobiidae, Megachilidae, introduced species, new records Ptinus sexpunctatus Panzer 1s a Palearctic spider beetle (Anobiidae: Ptininae) found from southern Europe north to England and southern Fennoscandia and Karelia; it is also known from the Caucasus (Burakowski et al., 1986) and east to Siberia (Borowski 1996). Within its native range it is an associate of cavity- nesting solitary bees in the genera Osmia and Megachile and also with Hoplitus adunca (Panzer) and Chelostoma nigricorne (Nylander) (Linsley 1942). It is also found in oak (Quercus) forests, particularly in galleries of Cerambyx cerdo Linnaeus (Cerambycidae) (Burakowski et al., 1986). Thirty-eight native and non-native species in the genus Ptinus Linnaeus (spi- der beetles) (Philips 2002) and three additional adventive species not yet report- ed in the literature (Philips, unpublished data) are found in North America. A large number of introduced species in the genera Gibbium Scopoli, Mezium Curtis, Niptus Boildieu, Pseudeurostus Heyden, Sphaericus Wollaston, Tipnus Thompson, and 7rigonogenius Solier have also been recorded from North America (Philips 2002). Many feed on a variety of dried stored products and are found in houses, warehouses, flour mills, grain elevators, museums and other places where such materials are kept. Others are associated with bird, mammal, and wasp nests (Hicks 1959, Bousquet 1990), and nests of several cavity nesting megachilid bees (Fabre 1914, Linsley and MacSwain 1942, Linsley 1958, Krom- bein 1979, Bosch and Kemp, 2001). Our study provides the first North American records of P. sexpunctatus and indicates that it has become established in associ- ation with a native species of mason bee. ‘Received on April 20, 2006. Accepted on May 23, 2006. > Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3A6. E-mail: c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca. Corresponding author. > Western Kentucky University, Department of Biology, Bowling Green, Kentucky 42101-3576 U.S.A. E-mail: Keith.Philips@wku.edu. * Agriculture and Agri-food Canada, 32 Main Street, Kentville, Nova Scotia, B4H 1J5 Canada. E-mail: SheffieldC@agr.gce.ca. Mailed on April 27, 2007 74 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS METHODS The abbreviations of collections referred to in this study are, as follows: ACNS, Agriculture and Agri-food Canada, Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada; NSMC, Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; TKPC, T. K. Philips Collection, Bowling Green, Kentucky, U.S.A. RESULTS In June 2003 a larval Ptinus specimen was collected from a nest of the blue orchard mason bee, Osmia lignaria Say (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), in Upper Canard, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada, by C. Sheffield. It was reared to maturity and the adult proved to be Ptinus sexpunctatus Panzer (NSMC). Photographs of the specimen are available from Majka (2004). Subsequently, three specimens of P. sexpunctatus were discovered 28 April 2004 in Kentville, Kings County, Nova Scotia in nesting tubes of O. /ignaria imported from Logan, Utah, U.S.A. (ACNS). Specimens of Tricrania stansburyi Haldeman (Coleop- tera: Meloidae), a known parasite of bees (Linsley and MacSwain 1951), were also found in these nesting tubes. 7ricrania stansburyi is a western species, found in Canada only in the Northwest Territories and British Columbia (Camp- bell 1991). A much earlier North American collection of P. sexpunctatus was from Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania, USA, a specimen taken on 26 January 1915 and “bred from an english walnut” (TKPC). The specimens from Nova Scotia, Pennsyl- vania, and Utah represent the first North American records of this Palearctic species. DISCUSSION Many pathways have and continue to spread ptinines and other adventive bee- tles to North America. Lindroth (1957) discussed dry ballast-mediated introduc- tions and Spence and Spence (1988) highlighted introductions associated with plant nursery stock. Dried product pests, many of which have become cosmo- politan, have been introduced with imported stored goods. The Philadelphia record likely is based on a larva inside a walnut imported from Europe, the adult later emerging in the New World. The introduction of P. sexpunctatus with stocks of bees represents another mode of entry. Two species of the genus Osmia (subgenus Osmia s. str.) have been introduced into the United States for research and evaluation as pollinators of tree fruits; Osmia cornuta (Latreille) from Spain and O. cornifrons (Radosz- kowski) from Japan (Cane 2003). Ptinus sexpunctatus might have accompanied such introductions. Once in North America it likely colonized nests of the native O. lignaria, a closely related species. Osmia cornuta has also been imported to and evaluated in the western United States, including California and Utah. Osmia lignaria has been subsequently imported from Utah into Nova Scotia (2000- Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 15 2005) for evaluation as an apple pollinator (Sheffield et al., 2003). These records indicate that P. sexpunctatus is now established in Utah in association with O. lignaria and also suggest its establishment in Nova Scotia. The detailed bio- nomics of this species in bee nests and its potential impact in bee colonies has been little investigated. Tscharntke et al. (1998) listed it as a predator in the nests of O. rufa Linnaeus and O. caerulescens (Linnaeus) in Germany. Ingolf Steffan- Dewenter (pers. com.) has observed that P. sexpunctatus can be very destructive in Osmia nests in Germany and feels that the beetles might prey on larvae and pupae in addition to feeding on dead individuals. Although there is no evidence that the meloid, Tricrania stansburyi, has become established in Nova Scotia, the collection of this western North Ameri- can species in the province is another example of bee associates being introduced with the international trade and transport of bee stocks. Even though dry ballast is no longer dumped on shorelines, and quarantine regulations now regulate the introduction of nursery stock, additional species of beetles continue to arrive on the continent. Some species may have little dis- cernable effect on native species and ecosystems, while others may have a con- siderable economic impact on agriculture, horticulture, silviculture, or forestry. Large quantities of stored products are destroyed or contaminated annually by various arthropods, mainly beetles (Hinton 1945). Worldwide more than 600 species are associated with such products (Bousquet 1990). Although knowledge of the bionomics of P sexpunctatus is meager, its destructive habits in Osmia nests in Germany suggest the potential for similar effects in North America. The availability of baseline data on bionomics and distribution will be critical for detecting additional immigrant insects and assessing their potential impact on native species and ecosystems. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many thanks to Boris Bueche, Andrew Duff, David B. McCorquodale, John Murray, John Pinto, Darren Pollock, Rafal Ruta, and Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter for their assistance. Five anonymous re- viewers read earlier drafts of this manuscript and made many constructive suggestions. The first author thanks his colleagues at the Nova Scotia Museum, David Christianson, Calum Ewing, and Andrew Hebda, for their support and encouragement. This work was assisted by a research grant from the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History. LITERATURE CITED Borowski J. 1996. Chrzeszcze - Coleoptera. Pustoszowate - Ptinidae. Keys for the identification of Polish Insects XIX, 42. 45 pp. Bousquet, Y. 1990. Beetles associated with stored products in Canada: an identification guide. Agriculture Canada Research Branch, Publication 1837. Ottawa, Ontario. 214 pp. Bosch, J. and W. Kemp. 2001. How to Manage the Blue Orchard Bee. Sustainable Agriculture Network Handbook series, Book 5. 88 pp. 76 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Burakowski B., M. Mroczkowski, and J. Stefanska. 1986. Chrzeszcze Coleoptera. Derme- stoidea, Bostrichoidea, Cleroidea 1 Lymexyloidea. Catalogus Faunae Poloniae, 23, 11. Warszawa, Polska. 243 pp. Campbell, J. M. 1991. Family Meloidae: blister beetles. pp. 263-266. Jn, Y. Bousquet (Editor). Checklist of Beetles of Canada and Alaska. Agriculture Canada. Research Branch, Publication 1861/E. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 430 pp. Cane, J. H. 2003. Exotic nonsocial bees (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) in North America: Ecological implications. pp. 113-126. Jn, K. Strickler and J. H. Cane (Editors). For Nonnative crops, Whence Pollinators of the Future? Thomas Say Publications in Entomology: Proceedings. Ento- mological Society of America. Lanham, Maryland, U.S.A. 204 pp. Fabre, H. 1914. The Mason-Bees. Garden City Publishing Company, Garden City, New York, U.S.A. 315 pp. Hicks, E. A. 1959. Checklist and bibliography on the occurrence of insects in birds’ nests. Iowa State College Press, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A. 681 pp. Hinton, H. E. 1945. A monograph of the beetles associated with stored products. Volume I. British Museum of Natural History. London, England, United Kingdom. 443 pp. Krombein, K. V. 1979. Division Aculeata. pp. 1199-2209. In, K. V. Krombein, P. D. Hurd, Jr., D. R. Smith, and B. D. Burks (Editors). Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A. Three Volumes. Lindroth, C. H. 1957. The faunal connections between Europe and North America. Almqvist and Wiksell, Stockholm, Sweden. 344 pp. Linsley, E. G. 1942. Insect food caches as reservoirs and original sources of some stored product pests. Journal of Economic Entomology 35: 434-439. Linsley, E. G. 1958. The ecology of solitary bees. Hilgardia 27: 543-599. Linsley, E. G. and J. W. MacSwain. 1942. The bionomics of Ptinus californicus, a predator in the nests of bees. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 40: 126-137. Linsley, E. G. and J. W. MacSwain. 1951. Notes on the biology of Tricrania stansburyi Haldeman (Coleoptera: Meloidae). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 50: 92—95. Majka, C. G. 2004. Ptinus sexpunctatus Panzer, 1792 (http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/ NHR/Ptinus_sexpunctatus.html; accessed 11 April 2006) Philips, T. K. 2002. Anobiidae Fleming 1821. pp. 245-260. Jn, R. H. Arnett, Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank (Editors). American Beetles. Volume 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.A. Two Volumes. Sheffield, C. S., P. G. Kevan, R. F. Smith, S. M. Rigby, and R. E. L. Rogers. 2003. Bee species of Nova Scotia, Canada, with new records and notes on bionomics and floral relations (Hy- menoptera: Apoidea). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 76: 357-384. Spence, J. R. and D. H. Spence. 1988. Of ground-beetles and men: introduced species and the synanthropic fauna of western Canada. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 144: 151-168. Tscharntke, T, A. Gathmann, and I. Steffan-Dewenter. 1998. Bioindication using trap-nesting bees and wasps and their natural enemies: community structure and interactions. Journal of Applied Ecology 35: 708-719. Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 fii HUMAN PARASITISM BY THE CAPYBARA TICK, AMBLYOMMA DUBITATUM (ACARI: IXODIDAE)'! Marcelo B. Labruna,’ Richard C. Pacheco,’ Alexandre C. Ataliba,’ and Matias P. J. Szab6° ABSTRACT: During two field trips in the state of Sao Paulo, two of us became infested by two adults, three nymphs, and one larva of the capybara tick, Amblyomma dubitatum Neumann, 1899 (= Amblyomma cooperi Nuttall and Warbuton, 1908). Previously, there has been only a single report of an A. dubitatum adult tick from humans. Our observations on human infestation by all parasitic stages of A. dubitatum suggest that this behavior may be more frequent than previously thought, especially in the case of immatures, which are herein reported from humans for the first time. KEY WORDS: human parasitism, capybara, Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris, capybara tick, Amblyom- ma dubitatum, Acari, Ixodidae Amblyomma dubitatum Neumann, 1899 (= Amblyomma cooperi Nuttall and Warbuton, 1908) is known as the capybara tick, since most collection records have been from the capybara, Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris (Linnaeus, 1766) (Rodentia: Hydrochaeridae) (Aragao, 1936; Evans et al., 2000; Guimaraes et al, 2001). Although the range of this large, semiaquatic rodent encompasses all countries of South America (except Chile) and Panama (Emmons and Feer, 1997), A. dubitatum is restricted to areas of southern South America, specifical- ly Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, and the west-central, southeastern, and southern portions of Brazil (Guglielmone et al., 2003; Vieira et al., 2004). Besides A. dubitatum, capybaras in Brazil are frequently infested by the cayenne tick Amblyomma cajennense, which is the principal vector of Brazilian spotted fever, a highly lethal zoonosis caused by the bacterium Rickettsia rickettsii (Guedes et al., 2005). In fact, capybaras are one of the few host species capable of successfully sustaining A. cajennense populations in Brazil (Vieira et al., 2005). The natural habitats of capybaras are open grasslands and scrub vegetation near water bodies such as lakes, rivers and flooded areas (Emmons and Feer, 1997). In recent years, this habitat type has been significantly altered in south- eastern Brazil by the expansion of agriculture (mainly sugar cane and corn), with crops maintained up to the water’s edge. Consequently, the remaining natural areas are now inhabited by large numbers of capybara, sustained by surrounding croplands and an absence of natural predators (e.g., jaguars, alligators) (Ferraz et al., 2003). Not surprisingly, high tick densities (4. dubitatum and A. cajennense) have emerged in these capybara “refugia.” The chief impact of this altered ecol- ‘Received on March 29, 2006. Accepted on May 23, 2006. ? Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine and Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Prof. Orlando Marques de Paiva 87- Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil 05508-270. Emails: labruna@usp.br, pachecorichard@yahoo.com.br, alexandre_uel@hotmail.com, respectively. >Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Federal University of Uberlandia, Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. E-mail: szabo@famev.ufu.br Mailed on April 27, 2007 78 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ogy has been the emergence of Brazilian spotted fever in areas with high capy- bara populations (Lemos et al., 1996; Labruna et al., 2004a; Vieira et al., 2004; Guedes et al., 2005). While A. cajennense is the main vector of R. rickettsii in Brazil, A. dubitatum has been associated with another Rickettsia species, closely related to R. parkeri and R. africae, which 1s potentially pathogenic to humans (Labruna et al., 2004a; Horta et al., 2004a). Thus, cases of human parasitism by 4. dubitatum in Brazil entail a potential risk of acquiring infection by this newly recognized Rickettsia. To date, however, there has been only a single report of human parasitism by A. dubitatum, consisting of an adult specimen from Pedreira, state of Sao Paulo (Famadas et al., 1997). During 2005-2006, while conducting several surveys of Brazilian spotted fever in the state of Sao Paulo, we actively collected free-living ticks using dry ice traps, as previously described (Oliveira et al., 2000). Traps were set in areas inhabited by capybara and that usually contained large populations of both A. cajennense and A. dubitatum. On several occasions, we became infested by ticks while entering capybara habitat to place or recover dry ice traps. Most infesta- tions consisted of numerous larvae and nymphs of Amblyomma sp. (ticks were not determined to species) and, to a lesser extent, adults of A. cajennense. On 15 September 2005, during one of our field trips to capybara habitat in Ribeirao Grande Municipality (24°16'S, 48°25"W), one of us (M.B.L.) noticed an adult male of A. dubitatum attached to his belly. Although the tick was left attached to the skin, it was not found the following morning. It is not known if the tick actively detached or if it was groomed off by the author while sleeping. Regardless, the tick remained attached to the skin for at least 6 hours. During this trip, 43 adults of A. dubitatum, together with hundreds of larvae and 23 nymphs of Amblyomma spp., were collected from 20 dry ice traps, reflecting the high level of tick activity in the area. On 26 January 2006, during a field trip to capybara habitat in Itu Municipality (23°15'22.7"S, 47°22'20.9"W), one of us (R.C.P.) noticed an adult male of A. dubitatum attached to the skin of his leg (Fig. 1). This tick was shown to be firmly attached by pulling upward on its body with forceps (Fig. 2). About 8 hours after being detected, the tick was manually removed from the skin and taken to the laboratory, where it was identified. On this same field trip, we were infested by dozens of larvae and nymphs of Amblyomma spp. Three of these nymphs and one larva were left to engorge on one of us (M.B.L.). After 4 to 5 days of feeding, the engorged ticks were manually removed from the skin and taken to the laboratory for molting in an incubator. Approximately three weeks later, the three nymphs molted to the adult stage, yielding | male and | female of A. dubitatum, and a female of A. cajennense. The engorged larva molted to a nymph, which was allowed to feed on a rabbit and, three weeks later, molted to an adult male of A. dubitatum. Also on this trip, 44 adults of A. dubitatum and 21 adults of A. cajennense, together with thousands of larvae and ~1,200 nymphs of Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 79 Amblyomma spp., were collected from 20 dry ice traps, reflecting a very high level of local tick activity. While it is well known that all active stages of A. cajennense aggressively attack humans (Aragao, 1936; Guimaraes et al., 2001; Vieira et al., 2004), there has been but a single report of A. dubitatum from man (Famadas et al., 1997). Our observations on human infestation by all parasitic stages of A. dubitatum suggest that this behavior may be more frequent than previously thought, espe- cially in the case of immatures, which are here reported from humans for the first time. Recent studies have demonstrated a broader host range for the immature stages of A. dubitatum, including turia (Myocastor coypus), deer (Mazama goua- zoubira), monkey (Alouatta caraya), opossum (Didelphis spp.) and bird (Rhea americana) (Labruna et al., 2004b; Horta et al., 2004b). However, determination of immature Amblyomma involved in cases of human infestation in Brazil is often impossible either because these stages have not yet been described or be- cause, as in A. dubitatum and A. cajennense, they lack distinguishing morpho- logical characters. Figures 1-2. An Amblyomma dubitatum adult male attached to a human. 1, close-up of the attached tick; 2, the same tick being pulled by forceps, demonstrating that its mouth- parts were embedded in the host skin. The results of the present study suggest that A. dubitatum may be a competent vector of rickettsiae to humans, since this tick has been found infected by spot- ted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae (Lemos et al., 1996; Labruna et al., 2004a). Interestingly, evidence of infection by this A. dubitatum-borne SFG rickettsia has been reported in dogs (Horta et al., 2004a). Finally, it should be noted that the human infestations by A. dubitatum reported here occurred while we were work- ing with dry ice traps in the field. It is possible that the sublimation of dry ice into CO, gas had an excitatory effect on the ticks, resulting in greater aggressiveness toward humans. Further studies should be conducted to test the effects of such extrinsic stimuli on tick host specificity. 80 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This work was supported by CNPq (fellowship to M.B.L. and M.P.J.S.) LITERATURE CITED Aragao, H. 1936. Ixodidas brasileiros e de alguns paizes limitrophes. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 31:759-843. Emmons, L. H. and F. Feer. 1997. Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: a Field Guide (2ed). University of Chicago Press. Chicago, U.S.A. 307pp. Evans, D. E., J. R. Martins, and A. A. Guglielmone. 2000. A review of the ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of Brazil, their hosts and geographic distribution. 1. The state of Rio Grande do Sul, Southern Brazil. Meméorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 95:453-470. Famadas, K., E. R. S. Lemos, J. R. Coura, and N. M. Serra Freire. 1997. Amblyomma cooperi (Acari: Ixodidae) parasitando humano em area de foco de febre maculosa, Sao Paulo — Brasil. Acta Parasitologica Portuguesa 4:154. Ferraz, K.P.M.B., M. Lechevalier, H. T. Z. Couto, and L. M. Verdade. 2003. Damage caused by capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) on a corn field in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Scientia Agricola 60:191-194. Guedes, E., R. C. Leite, M. C. A. Prata, R. C. Pacheco, D. H. Walker, and M. B. Labruna. 2005. 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Sao Paulo, Brasil. 62 pp. Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 81 A NEW SPECIES OF TALLAPERLA (PLECOPTERA: PELTOPERLIDAE) FROM NORTH CAROLINA, U.S.A. ! Boris C. Kondratieff,’ R. F. Kirchner,’ Robert E. Zuellig,‘ and David R. Lenat* ABSTRACT: A new species of Tallaperla, T: maiyae, is described from Wilkes County, North Carolina, U.S.A. from two males. The new species is similar to 7. maria and T: anna, but can be dis- tinguished by the combination of a prominent spine-like epiproct and brown coloration. KEY WORDS: Plecoptera, stonefly, Zal/laperla, new species, North Carolina, U.S.A. Stark (1983, 2000) reviewed the eastern Nearctic roachfly genus Zallaperla, recognizing six species distributed mainly along the Appalachian Mountains. Recent collecting in North Carolina revealed an additional distinctive species related to 7. maria (Needham and Smith) and 7: anna (Needham and Smith). The description follows the style of Stark (2000). Tallaperla matiyae, new species Kondratieff, Kirchner, and Zuellig (Figs. 1-2) Adult. Male. Macropterous. Forewing length 13-14 mm. General color brown. Epiproct sclerite extending laterally around membranous cowl; mesal part of sclerite an erect prominent spine (Fig. 1). Knob 2.0X wide as long (Fig. 2), margined with black hairs. Paraprocts acute (Fig 2). Female. Unknown. Type Data: Holotype @: U.S.A., North Carolina, Wilkes County, Middle Fork Reddies River, Old NC 16, east of Wilbur, N 36.2189 W 81.30073, 2 May 2005, B. C. Kondratieff, R. F. Kirchner, R. E. Zuellig, and D. R. Lenat (USNM). Paratype O, same data as holotype. The holotype will be deposited in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (USNM), paratype male in the Colorado State University C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, Fort Collins, Colorado (CSUC). Etymology. The patronym continues the use of female names for this genus, and honors the senior author’s daughter, Maiya L. Kondratieff. ‘Received on March 21, 2006. Accepted on May 23, 2006. >Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523 U.S.A. E-mail: Boris.Kondratieff(@Colostate.edu. *R. F. Kirchner, 5960 East Pea Ridge, Ridgeview Apartment 1, Huntington, West Virginia 25705 U.S.A. *Robert E. Zuellig, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver Federal Center, MS 415, Denver, Colorado 80225 U.S.A. E-mail: rzuellig@usgs.gov. > David Lenat, Lenat Consulting Services, 3607 Corbin Street, Raleigh, North Carolina 27612 U.S.A. E-mail: lenatbks@mindspring.com. Mailed on April 27, 2007 82 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Figures 1-2. Zallaperla maiyae male genitalia. 1. Dorsal aspect, inset epiproct. 2. Ven- tral aspect. Diagnosis. Males of 7. maiyae are most similar to T. maria, but can be distin- guished by the prominent, erect, central spine-like epiproct sclerite. In 7’ maria, the epiproct sclerite is variable, usually slender mesally and poorly developed laterally (Stark 2000, see Fig. 4.18). The upright central spine-like epiproct scle- rite is similar only to 7. anna (Needham and Smith), but the yellow-brown body color of T. anna easily separates it from the brown body color of T. maiyae. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank Bill P. Stark, Mississippi College, for confirming the status of this new species and pro- viding comments. Dave Carlson, Windsor, Colorado rendered the illustrations. LITERATURE CITED Stark, B. P. 1983. The Zallaperla maria complex of eastern North America (Plecoptera: Peltoper- lidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 56: 398-410. Stark, B. P. 2000. Peltoperlidae (The roachflies). pp. 41-54. Jn Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of Eastern North America Volume I. Pteronarcyidae, Peltoperlidae, and Taeniopterygidae. B. P. Stark and B. J. Armitage (Editors). Bulletin of the Ohio Biological Survey. New Series 14: 1-98. Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 83 SPECIES OF SYNECHES FROM GUANGKXI, CHINA (DIPTERA: HYBOTIDAE)! Ding Yang”* ABSTRACT: The genus Syneches Walker is recorded from Guangxi for the first time. Two new species, S. guangxiensis and S. maoershanensis, are described. KEY WORDS: Diptera, Hybotidae, Syneches, new species, Guangxi, China The genus Syneches Walker is characterized by Rs very long, anal cell nearly as long as basal cells, hind femur weakly to distinctly thickened with distinct ventral bristles, male genitalia symmetrical (Chvala, 1983). It is distributed worldwide with over 120 known species. There were 40 known species from the Oriental Region (Smith, 1975) and 12 known species from the Palaearctic Region (Chvala and Kovalev, 1989). The Chinese species of Syneches were revised recently by Yang and Yang (2004) and 18 species were recorded. Herein, Syneches is recorded from Guangxi for the first time with two new species, sup- plementing Yang and Yang (2004). The types are deposited in the Entomological Museum of China Agricultural University (CAU), Beijing. The following abbre- viations are used for bristles: ad-anterodorsal, av-anteroventral, h-humeral, oc- ocellar, npl-notopleural, pd-posterodorsal, psa-postalar, pv-posteroventral. Basic terminology follows McAlpine (1981). Syneches guangxiensis NEW SPECIES (Figs. 1-2) Diagnosis. Antenna brown with brownish yellow pedicel. Palpus brownish yellow. Fore and mid femora black with yellow tips, hind femur yellow. Description. Male. Body length 5.6-5.7 mm, wing length 5.0-5.4 mm. Head black with gray pollen. Eyes holoptic, dark brown with enlarged upper facets dark yellow. Hairs and bristles on head black; ocellar tubercle distinct, with 2 oc and 4 posterior hairs, oc distinctly longer than hairs. Antenna brown with brown- ish yellow pedicel; scape without hairs; pedicel with circlet of subapical hairs; first flagellomere nearly quadrate with 2 dorsal hairs; arista brown, indistinctly pubescent except tip thin and bare. Proboscis brownish yellow; palpus brownish yellow with 2-3 long ventral hairs. Thorax black with gray pollen. Hairs and bristles on thorax black; h absent, 2 npl, mesonotum with short hairs except mid-posterior area with several slightly ‘Received on March 19, 2006. Accepted on August 8, 2006. > Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100094, China. E-mail: dyangcau@yahoo.com.cn or dyangcau@126.com. >Key Lab of Insect Evolution and Environmental Changes, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100037, China. Mailed on April 27, 2007 84 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS long hairs and with one transverse row of 3 long prescutellar bristles, 1 long psa; scutellum with long marginal hairs (of which 6 hairs are bristle-like). Legs yel- low; coxae and trochanters black; fore and mid femora black with yellow tips, hind femur yellow; tarsomere 5 black. Hairs and bristles on legs black. Fore femur 1.2 times as wide as mid femur; hind femur 1.2 times as wide as mid femur, with row of 4-5 long av (which are distinctly longer than thickness of hind femur). Fore tibia with 5 thin ad, apically with | long av and | very long brown- ish yellow pv. Mid tibia with 3-4 ad and several long posterior hairs, apically with 4 brownish yellow bristles. Hind tibia with | long ad, apically with 4 brown- ish yellow bristles. Wing grayish; stigma dark brown; veins dark brown, R,,,; and M, convergent apically. Squama brownish with brown hairs. Halter dark brown. Abdomen curved downward, black with gray pollen. Hairs on abdomen black. Male genitalia (Figs 1-2): Epandrial lobe rather narrow apically in lateral view, with apical portion strongly curved inwards and apical margin weakly incised; hypandrium deeply incised apically, with acute apico-lateral portion slightly curved outwards; aedeagus rounded apically, with short curved subapical lateral process. Female. Body length 4.4-6.0 mm, wing length 5.0-5.4 mm. Similar to male, but abdomen nearly straight, halter dark yellow, hairs on abdomen partly brown- ish. Type Data. Holotype male, Guangxi: Maoershan (1100-1600 m), 2003. VI. 29, Shuwen An (CAU). Paratypes 1 male 2 females, same as holotype (CAU); 1 male, Guangxi: Maoershan, Jiuniutang (1100 m), 2003. VI. 29, with light trap, Xingyue Liu (CAU). Etymology. The species is named after the type locality Guangx1. Discussion. The new species is somewhat similar to Syneches acutatus Sai- gusa et Yang from Henan, but it can be separated from the latter by the fore and mid femora black with yellow tips and hind femur entirely yellow, and the hypandrium deeply incised apically. In S. acutatus, the femora are yellow with the wide basal portion of the fore femur and narrow basal portion of the mid and hind femora brown, the hypandrium is shallowly incised apically (Saigusa and Yang, 2002; Yang and Yang, 2004). Syneches maoershanensis NEW SPECIES (Figs. 3-4) Diagnosis. Antenna dark brown with pedicel brown. Palpus brownish. Femora black with yellow tips. Description. Male. Body length 4.0 mm, wing length 4.3 mm. Head black with gray pollen. Eyes holoptic, brown with enlarged upper facets dark yellow. Hairs and bristles on head black; ocellar tubercle distinct, with 2 oc and 6 hairs, oc longer than hairs. Antenna dark brown with brown pedicel; scape without hairs; pedicel with circlet of subapical hairs; first flagellomere nearly quadrate Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 85 Figures 1-4. 1-2. Syneches guangxiensis new species, 3-4. Syneches maoershanensis new species. 1, 3. Male genitalia, lateral view; 2, 4 hypandrium and aedeagus, ventral view. : with 2 dorsal hairs; arista brown, indistinctly pubescent except tip thin and bare. Proboscis brownish; palpus brownish with 2 long ventral hairs. Thorax black with gray pollen. Hairs and bristles on thorax black; h absent, 2 np! (anterior npl short), mesonotum with short hairs except mid-posterior area with long hairs and with one transverse row of 3 bristle-like prescutellar bristles, 1 long psa; scutellum with long marginal hairs mostly bristle-like. Legs black; femora with yellow tips; knees blackish; tibiae and tarsi yellow except hind tibia brown with yellow tip and tarsomere 5 dark brown. Hairs and bristles on legs black. Fore femur 1.2 times as wide as mid femur; hind femur 1.3 times as wide as mid femur, with row of 6-7 long av (which are slightly longer than thickness of hind femur). Fore tibia with long posterior hairs, apically with 1 long weak pv. Mid tibia with 2 long ad and 1 long pd on basal half and several long posterior hairs, apically with 4-5 bristles (of which 2 av and | pv are long and brownish yellow). Hind tibia with 1 ad near base, apically with 4-5 bristles (of which 2 av and | long pd are brownish yellow). Wing hyaline, weakly tinged with gray; stig- ma brown; veins dark brown, R,,; and M, distinctly convergent apically. Squama brown with brownish yellow hairs. Halter dark brown. Abdomen curved downward, black with gray pollen. Hairs on abdomen most- ly pale. Male genitalia (Figs. 3-4): Epandrial lobe slightly narrowed apically in lateral view, outer apical margin oblique and weakly incised; hypandrium deeply incised apically, apico-lateral portion with 2 short acute spines; aedeagus round- ed apically, with weak subapical lateral process. 86 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Female. Unknown. Type Data. Holotype male, Guangxi: Maoershan, Hongjunting (1600 m), 2003. VI. 28, with light trap, Xingyue Liu (CAU). Etymology. The species is named after the type locality Maoershan. Discussion. The new species is similar to Syneches guangxiensis sp. nov., but may be separated from the latter by the hind femur black with the yellow tip. In S. guangxiensis, the hind femur is yellow. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My sincere thanks are due to Prof. Min Wang (South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou) for organizing the survey to Maoershan National Nature Reserve. The research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30225009) and the Cultivation Fund of the Key Scientific and Technical Innovation Project, Ministry of Education of China (No. 704006). LITERATURE CITED Chvala, M. 1983. The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. IJ. General Part. The families Hybotidae, Atelestidae and Microphoridae. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 12: 1- BT) Chvala, M. and V. G. Kovalev. 1989. Family Hybotidae. In, Sods A. and Papp L. (Editors). Cata- logue of Palaearctic Diptera 6: 174-227. Elsevier Science Publishers and Akadémiai Kiado, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Budapest, Hungary. McAlpine, J. F. 1981. Morphology and terminology - Adults. Jn, McAlpine, J. F., B. V. Peterson, G. E. Shewell, H. J. Teskey, J. R. Vockeroth and D. M. Wood (Editors). Manual of Nearctic Diptera 1: 9-63. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa. Smith, K. G. V. 1975. Family Empididae. /n, Delfinado M. D. and Hardy D. E. (Editors). A cata- log of the Diptera of the Oriental Region 2: 185-211. The University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu. Saigusa, T. and D. Yang. 2002. Empididae (Diptera) from Funiu Mountains, Henan, China (I). Studia Dipterologica 9: 519-543. Yang, D. and C. Yang. 2004. Diptera, Empididae, Hemerodromiinae and Hybotinae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta, 34: 1-329. Science Press, Beijing. Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 87 SCIENTIFIC NOTE SEX DISCRIMINATION OF ADULT CURCULIO NUCUM L. (COLEOPTERA: CURCULIONIDAE), A PEST OF HAZELNUTS IN TURKEY ' Izzet Akea,’ Celal Tuncer,’ and Islam Saruhan‘ The hazelnut weevil, Curculio nucum L., is the key pest of hazelnut (Corylus avellana L., Betulaceae) in many countries. Recently, increasing attention on the pest status of C. nucum in commercial orchards has accelerated the number of studies on its biology, behavior, and ecology (Ural, 1957; Tabamaishvili, 1988; Paparatti, 1990; Pucci, 1992; AliNiazee, 1997; 1998; Milenkovic and Mitrovic, 2001; Tuncer and Ecevit, 1997; Tuncer et al., 2001; Akca and Tuncer, 2005). At times, biological, behavioral, and ecological studies require researchers to deter- mine the sex of adults without dissecting the genitalia and killing the organisms. Many earlier studies used the length of the rostrum in C. nucum as a criterion to distinguish their sex (Ural, 1957; Tabamaishvili, 1988; Sezen et al., 1999; Akca and Tuncer, 2005). In addition to this character, our previous study described several differences in average body size and elytral size between males and females in C. nucum. However, owing to large variation, sex discrimination us- ing these characters, except rostral length, is not reliable. Rostral length is a good character to sex adult C. nucum [averaging 5.56 (4.92- 6.65) and 3.96 (3.35-4.56) mm for female and male, respectively, differing sig- nificantly between sexes, to 95 (2), 49 = 30.2]; Akca and Tuncer, 2005). However, using rostral length is not convenient because it requires a device for measure- ment, and it appears to be affected by environmental factors. Also, the differ- ences in rostral length can be as little as 0.5 mm, making it time-consuming and cumbersome to use, particularly for field applications (Ak¢a and Tuncer, 2005). Duan et al. (1999) suggested the use of a suture dividing the last two abdominal tergites of males, instead of snout length, for sexing adult Anthonomus pomorum (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Lykewise, Sappington and Spurgeon (2000) dem- onstrated that the tergal-notch in the eighth tergite of male Anthonomus grandis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) is more accurate than snout characteristics for sex- ing the adults. This study describes a new, nondestructive character associated with abdominal tergites to discriminate male and female C. nucum adults. ‘Received on June 15, 2006. Accepted on August 26, 2006. >Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Quarantine Directory, Samsun, Turkey. E-mails: izzetakca@mynet.com. > Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Selcuk University, 42075 Konya, Turkey. E-mail: celalt@selcuk.edu.tr. * Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Ondokuz Mayis University, 55139 Samsun, Turkey. E-mail: isaruhan@omu.edu.tr. Mailed on April 27, 2007 88 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 0 S80 5’ Tutat Sesser s See 980 1 Se : ari scott se eeee ie 0.5 mm Fig. 1. Dorsal view of the last abdominal tergites (AVII and AVIII) of female (A) and male (B) C. nucum after the elytra are separated by gently pressing them downwards. Adult C. nucum were collected by shaking branches of hazelnut trees from randomly selected orchards in Samsun, Turkey, during May 2002. Fifty male and 50 female weevils were examined with a stereomicroscope (6-10 x magnifica- tion, Leica S6D) for exploring differences in abdominal tergites. We found that male and female C. nucum can be conclusively distinguished by differences on their last two visible abdominal tergites, AVII and AVIII (Fig. 1). In females, the last two abdominal tergites are clearly covered with dense setae in a square shape area that extends to the posterior end of each segment. However, this cover is not as developed in males and it does not extend to end of the abdomen. In males, this rectangular velvety area is only about two-thirds the size of that in females. The differences in the last abdominal tergites of both sexes mentioned here are very clear if adult weevils are inspected in prone posi- tion by separating elytra. Because the adult C. nucum is relatively small (circa 7 mm), at least 6x magnification is recommended to see these differences clearly. The differences in the last abdominal tergites are the most distinct and practical character to rapidly and accurately discriminate the sexes of adult C. nucum. LITERATURE CITED Akca, I. and C. Tuncer. 2005. Biological and morphological studies on Nut Weevil (Curculio nucum L., Col., Curculionidae). Acta Horticulture 668: 413-420. AliNiazee, M. T. 1997. Integrated Pest Management of Hazelnut Pests: a worldwide perspective. Acta Horticulture 445: 469-475. AliNiazee, M. T. 1998. Ecology and management of Hazelnut pests. Annual Review of Ento- mology 43: 395-419. Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 89 Duan, J. J., D. C. Weber, B. A. Hirs, and S. Dorn. 1999. A new character for sex differentiation of adults of Anthonomus pomorum L. (Col., Curculionidae). Journal of Applied Entomology 123 (5): 319-320. Milenkovic, S. and M. Mitrovic. 2001. 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Subtropichesk’e-Kultury, USSR 5:128- 131. Tuncer, C. and O. Ecevit. 1997. Current status of Hazelnut pests in Turkey. Acta Horticulture 445: 545-550. Tuncer, C., L Akea, and L Saruhan. 2001. Integrated pest management in Turkysh Hazelnut Orch- ards. Acta Horticulture 556: 419-429. Ural, L 1957. Dogu Karadeniz findiklarinda zarar yapan Balaninus (Curculio) nucum L. boceginin biyolojisi ve miicadelesi iizerine arastyrmalar. A. U. Ziraat Fak. Yayinlari: 130, Calismalar 80, Ankara, Turkey. p. 96. (in Turkish) 90 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS AN ANNOTATED LIST OF THE GREEN LACEWINGS (NEUROPTERA: CHRYSOPIDAE) OF NORTHWESTERN TURKEY, WITH NEW RECORDS, THEIR SPATIO- TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION, AND HARBORING PLANTS' Bahattin Kovanc? and Orkun Baris Kovancr ABSTRACT. The occurrence and distribution of green lacewing species (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) were studied in northwestern Turkey in 1992-2005. A total of 3529 green lacewing adults were collect- ed from 154 localities, representing 23 species. Among these, 21 species belonged to the subfamily Chrysopinae, while only two species were members of the subfamily Nothochrysinae. Four species were new records for northwestern Turkey. The most frequently caught species were Chrysoperla carnea sensu lato and Dichochrysa prasina with percent dominance values of 26.10 and 18.22%, respectively. The cumulative number of chrysopid species was highest during July with a total of 18 species per month. There were 13, 20, 19 and one chrysopid species occurring at altitudes between 1- 500, 501-1000, 1001-1500 and >1500 m species, respectively. Rexa raddai was recorded at altitudes higher than 500 m, namely 925 m, for the first time. In addition, plant species harboring chrysopids are provided for each species and their association with the chrysopid fauna is discussed. KEY WORDS: Neuroptera, Chrysopids, altitude, northwestern Turkey, harboring plants, phenology Among the families of the order Neuroptera, the green lacewing family, Chryso- pidae, have probably received the most attention in the world owing to larval preda- tory activity on many insect species including aphids, mealybugs, leafhoppers, thrips, scales, and mites. Studies on the Chrysopidae fauna of Turkey were first ini- tiated by Brauer (1876) in the late 1800s and followed by the works of other Euro- pean entomologists (Esben-Petersen, 1932; Holzel, 1967a, b; Aspock and Aspock, 1969; Gepp, 1974; Popov, 1977; Aspock et al., 1980; Holzel and Ohm, 1986; Mon- serrat and Holzel, 1987). However, these studies were either limited to the biologi- cal expeditions within a restricted time period or to the specimens collected from Turkey, which were later sent to worldwide taxonomists for identification. The first comprehensive study on the chrysopid fauna of Turkey was conducted by Sengonca (1979, 1980) who reported the presence of 32 chrysopid species in Turkey. Later studies focused on the species diversity at the local level (Duzgunes et al., 1981; Ari and Kiyak, 2000; Canbulat and Kiyak, 2000; Bahadiroglu and Daymaz, 2001; Gaziyiz-Onar and Aktac, 2002). Local research efforts have led to the discovery of new species both for the Turkish (Canbulat and Kiyak, 2002, 2004) and world fauna (Canbulat and Kiyak, 2003, 2005). With these new addi- tions, the total number of chrysopid species reported from Turkey reached to 48 species. There has been no detailed study on the chrysopid fauna at the local level in Bursa province of northwestern Turkey although the chrysopid map of Turkey drawn by Aspock et al. (1980) showed the occurrence of 13 chrysopid species in this region. Sengonca (1981) found another chrysopid species during a national survey, so the number of species totaled 14 in Bursa. However, these figures are believed to underestimate the actual number of chrysopid species in Bursa province ‘Received on February 24, 2006. Accepted on March 30, 2006. > Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Uludag University, Gorukle Kampusu 16059 Bursa, Turkey. E-mails bkovanci@uludag.edu.tr and baris@uludag.edu.tr, respectively. Mailed on April 27, 2007 Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 9] as far as the diversity of natural and agricultural ecosystems from sea level to Mount Uludag (2543 m) are concerned. Temperature can affect the development of chrysopid species as well as their geographic and seasonal distribution (Canard and Principi, 1984). For example, Chrysoperla carnea (Stephens, 1836) sensu lato (= s./.) has the broadest environ- mental tolerance compared with other chrysopid species and can be found any- where from lowlands to high Mountains. However, the occurrence of individual chrysopid species in a geographical region is determined not only by climatic con- ditions, but also by the character of habitat and vegetation. The number of chry- sopid species decreases in response to a decline of vegetation richness with increas- ing altitude and latitude (Zeleny, 1984a). Yet, there is little information available about the spatial distribution of chrysopid species and their species richness in Bursa province. The objectives of this study were to determine the species composition, adult phenology and spatio-temporal distribution of green lacewing species in natural and man-altered habitats in Bursa. METHODS A survey of green lacewing adults was carried out from January 2004 to December 2005 in Bursa province located between 39-41° N and 28-30° E in northwestern Turkey. Moreover, green lacewing species collected within the frame- work of other studies during 1992-2003 were also included. Specimens were col- lected from 154 localities in 17 counties of Bursa province. Localities were chosen depending on the ecosystem diversity and altitudinal variation. Altitudes, route tracks and directions were measured with Magellan Sportrak Pro GPS (Thales Navigation, CA, U.S.A.). Each green lacewing specimens was collected from its harboring plant. Living specimens were identified immediately after capturing or they were brought back to laboratory alive and killed with ethyl acetate (Neuenschwander, 1984). All the chrysopid specimens were pinned with their wings spread, then dried and preserved in Plant Protection Department collection of Faculty of Agriculture at Uludag Uni- versity. Species were identified according to the descriptions of Holzel (1965), Aspock et al. (1980), Sengonca (1980) and Canard et al. (1998). Feminity rate of each species was calculated using the following formula: Feminity rate = number of females/total number of (males + females). RESULTS The species composition, feminity rate and percent dominance values of adult green lacewings collected from 17 counties of Bursa province in 1992-2005 are given in Table 1. A total of 3529 chrysopid adults, representing 23 species were caught. Among these, 21 species belonged to the subfamily Chrysopinae, while only two species were members of the subfamily Nothochrysinae. Four chrysopid species were recorded from northwestern Turkey for the first time (Table 1). Adult phenology of green lacewing species for 15-day periods from January to December is presented in Table 2. Only Ch. carnea s./. adults were constantly pres- 92 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ent in all months of the year. Adults of a few species emerged in April while most species appeared in May. Adult flight activity increased during the summer months. The cumulative number of chrysopid species was highest during July with a total of 18 species per month. While many species tend to have a fairly prolonged flight peri- od up to September and October, a few were restricted to specific seasons. For exam- ple, Rexa raddai (Holzel, 1966) adults were collected mainly in the spring whereas Italochrysa italica (Rossi, 1790) adults occurred only in the summer. The altitudinal distribution and harboring plants of green lacewing species are summarized in Table 3. There were 13, 20, 19 and 1 green lacewing species occurring at altitudes between 1-500, 501-1000, 1001-1500 and >1500 m, respectively. Of these, eight were found below 100 m altitude. Among all chrysopid species, Ch. carnea s.l. showed the greatest environmental tolerance in terms of the altitudinal dis- tribution and host plant preference. Ch. carnea s./. adults were caught at shrub, herba- ceous and foliage-crown levels on all kinds of vegetation. Both Ch. carnea s.l. and Dichochrysa prasina (Burmeister, 1839) were ubiquitous species that occurred in mixed stands of deciduous tree species and coniferous trees. However, some species like Chrysopa viridana Schneider, 1845 were thermophilous, and preferred only oak and coniferous forest stands. Information on the number and sex of specimens from each species, localities where rare specimens were collected, extreme dates of adult flights, and interesting facts about green lacewing species observed in the field was summarized below. Table 1. Species composition, feminity rate and percent dominance values of green lacewings collected in 1992-2005 in Bursa province, northwestern Turkey Feminity Dominance Species Female Male _ Total Rate (%)** Value (%) Chrysopa dorsalis 91 80 al 53.20 4.85 C. formosa 63 74 Sy) 45.90 © 3.88 C. hungarica - l l ? 0.03 C. pallens 46 64 110 41.80 2. 12 C. perla 60 66 126 47.60 3:37 C. viridana 214 224 438 48.80 12.41 Chrysoperla carnea s.1. Bills 406 921 55.90 26.10 Cunctochrysa albolineata = 37 33 70 52.80 1.98 Cu. baetica it l 2 50.00 0.06 Dichochrysa clathrata 8 7 15 53.30 0.43 D. flavifrons 80 124 204 39120 5.78 D. inornata 5 2 7 71.40 0.20 D. prasina 354 289 643 55.00 TS.22 D. zelleri 13] 78 209 62.60 92 Hypochrysa elegans 12 2) 30 30.70 Lt Italochrysa italica 94 80 174 54.00 4.93 Nineta carinthiaca - l l ? 0.03 Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 93 N. flava* 5 4 2 55.50 0.26 N. pallida* 6 fi 13 46.10 0.37 N. principiae* 76 60 136 35.90) 3263) Nothochrysa fulviceps* 9 2. te 81.80 03h Peyerimhoffina gracilis 3 7 10 30.00 0.28 Rexa raddai 34 48 82 41.40 2.32 Total no. individuals 1844 1685 3529 * New records for northwestern Turkey ** Feminity rate= number of females/total number of (males + females) Annotated List Subfamily: Chrysopinae Chrysopa dorsalis Burmeister, 1839 The first adult catch was recorded from Pinus spp. on 28 May at Orhaneli County (Erenler, 6 km NE, 425 m) and (Mahaller, 3 km SE, 990 m), and the last adult catch occurred on 23 October at Nilufer County (Kayapa inlet, 180 m). This species was col- lected in 29 of the 154 localities studied. A total of 171 adults composed of 91 females and 80 males were captured. Chrysopa formosa Brauer, 1850 Chrysopa formosa adults were generally found on low vegetation, shrubs, fruit orchards and forest edges near urban areas. Adults were first caught in sweep nets on 3 May at Mudanya County (Zeytinbagi, 3 km SW, 170 m) and no adults were caught after 21 September. This species was widely distributed in 27 localities. Overall, the number of adult catches during the study period totaled 137 (63 females, 74 males). Chrysopa hungarica Klapalek, 1839 2004: 20.V, 10% (Inegol County, Sehitler, 2 km S, 370 m). Chrysopa pallens (Rambur, 1838) This species occurred commonly and collected from 39 of the 154 localities visited. Of 110 adults caught, 46 were females and 64 were males. Adults were first and last detect- ed on 8 May and 24 October at Kestel County (Derekizik, 2 km N, 300 m) and Nilufer County (Kayapa inlet 180 m), respectively. Specimens were found in orchards, tree and shrub associations, oak and pine forests and low vegetation (Table 3). Chrysopa perla Linnaeus, 1758 Sweep net catches showed a north-south trend in distribution of C. perla adults. Of the 23 localities where this species was collected, 10 were located in the northern slopes of Mount Uludag and 9 were in the southern slopes. This species was also found in 3 more localities to the north of Mount Uludag. There was only one exception to the west. Based on sweep net catches, adults emerged on 8 May at Kestel County (Derekizik, 2 km N, 300 m) and adult flight ended on 14 August in the same County (Alacam, 1 km N, 775 m). A total of 126 adults, 60 females and 66 males, were captured on all kinds of vegetation. 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First adults were found on 21 May at Orhaneli County (Erenler, 6 km NE, 425 m), and last adults were seen on 2 September at Osmangazi County (Sogukpinar, 1 km NW, 1060 m). Chrysoperla carnea (Stephens, 1836) sensu lato ( s.1.) Chrysoperla carnea s.\. was the most widespread and common green lacewing species. This species was caught in 121 of the 154 localities. Of the 921 collected specimens, 515 were females and 406 were males. Ch. carnea s.l. adults were found throughout the year and remained in low numbers as overwintering adults in reproductive diapause on olive leaves, oleaceous shrubs, and dry but unfallen fig and oak leaves during the winter. Cunctochrysa albolineata (Killington, 1935) Adults were observed at 17 localities in the eastern, southern, northern slopes of Mount Uludag. The first adult was caught on 26 May at Kestel County (Sevketiye, 1 km N, 570 m) and the last on 12 September in the same County (Alacam, 100 m S, 1030 m). A total of 70 specimens were captured (37 females and 33 males) mainly in pine forests and pine- oak associations. Cunctochrysa baetica (Holzel, 1972) 2004: 07.VIHI, 19 (Iznik County, Sansarak upper canyon, 2 km S, 725 m). 2005: 02.VII, 10 (Iznik County, Hisardere, 2 km SE, 625 m). Dichochrysa clathrata (Schneider, 1845) 2004: 02.VI, 19 (Orhaneli County, Goktepe, 4 km NE, 620 m); 10.VI, 10 (Orhaneli County, Sadagi canyon, 1 km NE, 450 m); 12.VI, 10°, 29 (Kestel County, Derekizik, 2 km N, 300 m); 09. VII, 10 (Orhaneli County, Sadagi canyon, 1 km NE, 450 m); 24.VII, 19 (Kestel County, Derekizik, 2 km N, 300 m); 20.VII, 10 (Orhaneli County, Sadagi canyon, | km NE, 450 m); 21.VIII, 19 (Kestel County, Derekizik, 2 km N, 300 m). 2005: 27.V, 1h (Nilufer County, Maksempinar, 2 km E, 390 m); 16.VI, 10° (Mustafakemalpasa County, Korekem, 2 km E, 475 m); 25.VI, 19 (Osmangazi County, Kirazli, 875 m); 19 (Osmangazi County, Bagli picnic area, 1200 m); 12.VII, 19 (Kestel County, Osmaniye picnic area, 515 m); 23.VIII, 1& (Orhaneli County, Kadikoy, 500 m SW, 880 m). Dichochrysa flavifrons (Brauer, 1851) Dichochrysa flavifrons was the thirdmost widespread green lacewing species. Sweep net collections of this species from 56 localities totaled 204 adults, 80 females and 124 males. First adult emergence began on 5 May at Nilufer County (Uludag University for- est, 125 m) and last adults occurred on 23 October in the same county (Kayapa inlet 180 m). Dichochrysa inornata (Navas, 1901) 2004: 03.VH, 10°, 29 (Kestel County, Osmaniye picnic area, 515 m); 10. VII, 29 (Kes- tel County, Sevketiye, 1 km N, 570 m); 24.VII, 1& (Kestel County, Alacam, 100 m S, 1030 m). 2005: 30.VII, 19 (Kestel County, Alacam, 100 m S, 1030 m). Dichochrysa prasina (Burmeister, 1839) Dichochrysa prasina was the secondmost common species and mainly found on oak and pine forests, oak-pine associations, shrubs and low vegetation. This species was col- lected from 85 of the 154 localities. Of the 643 individuals caught, there were 354 females and 289 males. First adult catch occurred on 20 April at Nilufer County (Uludag Univer- sity fruit orchard, 55 m) and last catch was recorded on 23 October in the same county (Kayapa inlet, 180 m). 98 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Dichochrysa zelleri (Schneider, 1851) This species was widely distributed throughout the oak forests and oak-shrub asso- ciations. A total of 209 adult specimens, 131 females and 78 males, were collected from 46 localities. The first adults were captured on 16 April at Gemlik County (Narli, 4 km W, 10 m) and the last on 18 September at Osmangazi County (Sogukpinar, 1 km NW, 1060 m). Italochrysa italica (Rossi, 1790) Italochrysa italica adults were recorded only from 21 of the 154 localities. The total number of captured adults was 174, which was comprised of 94 females and 80 males. The first capture of adults occurred on 8 July at Nilufer County (Kayapa inlet, 180 m) and adult catches continued until 2 September. This species was distributed over oak forests and oak-pine associations. Nineta carinthiaca (Holzel, 1965) 2004: 17.VI, 10% (Osmangazi County, Kocayayla, 1215 m). Nineta flava (Scopoli, 1763) 2004: 12.VI, 10 (Kestel County, Alacam, 100 m S, 1030 m); 24.VII, 10 (Kestel County, Alacam, 100 m S, 1030 m); 26.VIII, 1& (Osmangazi County, Huseyinalan, 1005 m); 02.1X, 19 (Osmangazi County, Sogukpinar, 2 km NE, 1300 m). 2005: 18.VI, 1& (Gursu County, Ericek, 500 m NE, 715 m); 21.VI, 29 (Kestel County, Alacam, 1 km N, 775 m); 25.VI, 19 (Osmangazi County, Bagli picnic area, 1200 m); 12.VII, 19 (Kestel County, Alacam, 100 m S, 1030 m). Nineta pallida (Schneider, 1845) 2005: 30.VII, 20°, 49 (Kestel County, Alacam, 100 m S, 1030 m); 50’, 29 (Kestel County, Alacam, 1 km S, 1110 m). Nineta principiae Monserrat, 1980 Oak forests in 19 localities were found to harbor N. principiae. During the study period, sweep net captures of this species reached a total of 136 adults made up of 76 females and 60 males. Adults were first seen on 18 June at Gursu County (Ericek, 500 m NE, 715 m) and disappeared after the last catch on 18 September at Osmangazi County (Sogukpinar, 2 km NE, 1300m). Peyerimhoffina gracilis (Schneider, 1851) 2004: 29.VII, 10; 07.VII, 10°; 25.1X, 40°, 19 (Iznik County, Sansarak upper canyon, 725 m). 2005: 06.VIII, 10% (Osmangazi County, Sogukpinar-Ketenlik, 1430 m); 11.VHI, 19 (Iznik County, Sansarak upper canyon, 725 m); 30.VIII, 19 (Kestel County, Alacam, 100 m S, 1030 m). Rexa raddai (Holzel, 1966) Adults of this species were neither too common nor too rare. Of the 82 adults cap- tured in 13 localities, 34 were females and 48 were males. R. raddai was one of the ear- liest emerging green lacewing species in spring in the region. First adult emergence was observed on 12 April at Nilufer County (Kayapa inlet, 180 m) and last adult was record- ed on 4 June within the same County (Uludag University forest, 125 m). Subfamily: Nothochrysinae Hypochrysa elegans (Burmeister, 1839) 1999: 09.V, 19 (Osmangazi County, Bagli, 1 km NE, 1100 m); 19.V, 1& (Kestel County, Sevketiye, 1 km S, 800 m), 10° (Kestel County, Sayfiye, 1 km W, 830 m). 2004: Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 99 22.V, 100°, 39 (Osmangazi County, Huseyinalan, 1005 m). 2005: 07.V, 39 (Orhaneli County, Goktepe, 4 km NE, 620 m); 14.V, 140°, 39 (Kestel County, Alacam, | km N, 775 m); 21.V, 19 (Orhaneli County, Erenler, 6 km NE, 425 m); 27.V, 10 (Nilufer County, Maksempinar, 2 km E, 390 m); 18.VI, 19 (Gemlik County, Findicak, 480 m). Nothochrysa fulviceps (Stephens, 1836) 2004: 14. VIII, 10°, 29; 21.VIII, 19 (Kestel County, Sayfiye, 1 km W, 830 m). 2005: 27.VI, 10%, 19 (Inegol County, Ciftlikkoy, 100 m SW, 875 m); 12.VII, 19 (Inegol County, Ciftlikkoy, 100 m SW, 875 m), 19 (Kestel County, Alacam, 100 m S, 1030 m); 30.VIL, 39 (Kestel County, Sayfiye, 1 km W, 830 m). DISCUSSION During the course of the study, a total of 23 green lacewing species were cap- tured of which four were new records for northwestern Turkey (Table 1). The four new records were N. flava, N. pallida, N. principiae and No. fulviceps. In addition to these newly recorded species, five other species, C. formosa, C. perla, D. inor- nata, I. italica and N. carinthiaca, were found in Bursa province for the first time. Our findings also confirmed the presence of 13 other species previously recorded by Aspock et al. (1980) in this region and one species reported by Sengonca (1981). Among Chrysopa, C. viridana was the most predominant species followed by C. dorsalis, and C. formosa. Aspock et al. (1980) noted widespread distribution of all three species in Turkey, but the researchers did not find C. formosa in Bursa province. Several studies have shown that C. viridana and C. formosa were com- mon in other parts of Turkey (Duzgunes et al., 1981; Ari and Kiyak, 2000; Canbulat and Kiyak 2000; Bahadiroglu and Daymaz, 2001; Canbulat, 2002). On the other hand, C. dorsalis was only recorded from Ankara province (Duzgunes et al., 1981). Chrysopa. perla was previously found in the Black Sea region and Istanbul (As- pock et al., 1980) but it was new to Bursa and collected from various habitats in Mount Uludag. The habitats of Chrysopa species determined in this study are in agreement with those of Aspock et al. (1980) and Zeleny (1984a). However, our study revealed new records for harboring plants (Table 3). Chrysoperla carnea s.1., an eurytopic and cosmopolitan species, was widespread in all counties of Bursa province varying in altitude from 10 m to up to 2000 m (Table 3). Widespread distribution and high abundance of this species can be attrib- uted to the ability to live in harsh conditions from dry lowland to humid high Mountain areas as well as nonpreference for harboring plants. Chrysoperla carnea s.l. was almost the only species commonly occurring in vegetable-growing areas and fruit orchards that were treated heavily with pesticides. It appears to have some natural tolerance to pesticides (Pree et al., 1989), which shows the incredible adap- tation capacity of this species. Owing to these characteristics, Ch. carnea s./. occurs in high numbers throughout Turkey (Sengonca 1980). Cunctochrysa albolineata was confined to particular locations although Aspock et al. (1980) reported common presence of this species in Bursa and throughout Turkey. Another Cunctochrysa species, Cu. baetica, was found very rarely in Bursa province. This finding is consistent with those of Holzel (1972) and Aspock et al. (1980) who reported only few specimens of Cu. baetica from Turkey. It is impor- tant to note that both Cunctochrysa species were found in oak-pine forests. 100 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS The most common and widespread Dichochrysa species in Bursa province was D. prasina. Other common species include D. flavifrons and D. zelleri. These species were recorded in various regions of Turkey (Aspock et al., 1980; Duzgunes et al., 1981; Sengonca, 1980; Ari and Kiyak, 2000; Canbulat and Kiyak, 2000; Canbulat, 2002). Yet, D. inornata and D. clathrata were rare. Aspock et al. (1980) showed the presence of the latter species in Bursa province, but D. inornata was the first record in this province, and only the second record for Turkish fauna as it was previously reported in Edirne province of Thrace region (Gaziyiz-Onar and Aktac, 2002). Aspock et al. (1980) reported N. guadarramensis s./. (Pictet, 1865) from 5 provinces of Turkey. However, Canard et al. (1998) later described the subspecies principiae of N. guadarramensis as a new species. In our study, all the specimens that were previously identified as N. guadarramensis turned out to be N. principi- ae based on the updated key of Canard et al. (1998). These results cast doubt on the presence of N. guadarramensis sensu stricto in Turkey. In our opinion, the presence of this endemic Atlanto-Mediterranean species in Turkey is not very probable, unless it was introduced. Therefore, old N. guadarramensis s.l. specimens from Turkey should be reexamined using the updated taxonomic key of Canard et al. (1998) for Nineta species. Sweep net catches indicated that the adult flight period of many green lacewing species occurred primarily between May and September in northwestern Turkey (Table 2). A similar trend in adult flight activity has been observed in central and southern Europe (Neuenschwander and Michelakis, 1980; Honek and Kraus, 1981; Campos, 1989). Nevertheless, adult flight period lasted longer in some species. D. prasina adults exhibited extended flight period from April to October. An extreme example was the constant presence of Ch. carnea s.l. adults during the year. This polyvoltine species continued to reproduce in autumn and overwintered in the adult stage. Adult green lacewing populations increased during the hot and dry summer months and usually reached a peak in July. A significant increase in adult green lacewings in summer was also documented in Czech Republic and Romania (Zeleny, 1984b; Paulian, 1996). However, there were differences between Turkish and central European populations of some chrysopid species in terms of life histo- ries. For example, C. perla is univoltine in central Europe with adult flight activi- ty in May and June (Holusa and Vidlieka, 2002), but bivoltine in northwestern Turkey with a summer brood, the adults of which were found in the field up to mid- August. The differences between Turkish and central European populations of C. perla can be attributed to lower latitudes and warmer climatic conditions in north- western Turkey. The fact that some C. perla populations in southwestern France also exhibit this multivoltine reproductive strategy supports this assumption (Canard, 1973). Species composition of chrysopids can be characterized by vegetation of the given habitats. Some chrysopid species are eurytopic while others are habitat spe- cialists. According to our results, NV. pallida and P. gracilis preferred coniferous for- est stands, mainly Pinus and Abies, which is in accordance with the findings of Szentkiralyi and Kristin (2002). The researchers recorded coniferous Picea abies as a host plant of N. pallida and both Picea and Abies species for P. gracilis in cen- Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 101 tral Europe. It is important to note that habitat preferences may vary among con- gener species. Unlike N. pallida, other Nineta species recorded in this study were found in deciduous Quercus trees. Evidently, N. carinthiaca, N. flava, and N. prin- cipiae showed a strong affinity to a single habitat that fulfills all of their needs. Another habitat specialist was C. dorsalis, a thermophilous species that was found only in pine stands (Table 3). Increasing altitude and latitude may also have limiting effects on distribution of chrysopid species. When the habitat altitude of 17 species living in northwestern Turkey were compared with those from central Europe (Zeleny, 1984a), the habi- tats of 14 species had higher maximum altitude values than did the same species in central Europe while 12 species had lower minimum altitude values. Clearly, many species living in northwestern Turkey extended their vertical distribution ranges but there were exceptions like C. hungarica. This species was caught in a xerother- mic forest-steppe located at a similar altitude to central Europe. Apparently, the occurrence of C. hungarica is delimited by habitat rather than altitude. There were also differences in upper limits of habitats between chrysopid species living in northwestern Turkey and southern Europe (Aspock et al., 1980). For example, maximum altitude values for habitats in northwestern Turkey were higher than those in southern Europe for species such as C. dorsalis, C. pallens, C. viridana, Cu. albolineata, and N. flava. However, maximum altitudes of habitats were found to be similar for C. formosa but lower for Cu. baetica, D. inornata, H. elegans and P. gracilis populations. In addition, the upper limits of habitats in northwestern Turkey were lower for C. dorsalis, C. formosa, C. pallens, C. viri- dana, Cu. albolineata, D. prasina, and H. elegans than those of same species in near East and Anatolia based on the findings of Aspock et al. (1980). In terms of the upper limits of habitats, R. raddai was known to occur at altitudes below 500 m (Aspock et al., 1980). However, this species was recorded at an alti- tude of 925 m for the first time in this study. A couple of R. raddai adults were observed at Karaislah (1 km N, Osmangaz1) and one adult was captured on an olea- ceous shrub Phillyrea latifolia L. The harboring plant was infested with nymphs of Euphyllura phillyreae Foerster on which R. raddai larvae prey. This finding sug- gests that the presence of R. raddai was not directly related to altitude but to the availability of their prey and harboring plants. Our observations support the work of Canard and Labrique (1989) who determined a similar relationship between Rexa lordina Navas and jumping plantlouse Euphyllura olivina (Costa) on olea- ceous bush Phillyrea angustifolia (L.). Up-to-date studies on Turkish chrysopidae fauna at the local level have reported 5, 6, 6, 9, 11 and 13 species in Kayseri (mid-Anatolia), Canakkale (Marmara), Adana (Mediterranean), Kahramanmaras (southern-Anatolia), Edirne (Thrace) and Ankara (mid-Anatolia) provinces, respectively. When Bursa’s green lacewing fau- na compared with that of other Turkish provinces, the presence of 23 species in this region may be considered as a fairly good indicator of rich biodiversity. The distri- bution of each green lacewing species is considered to be a function of bioclimat- ic factors, vegetation, prey density and, to a lesser extent, altitude. It is very likely that the number of species will increase if discrete localities and unreachable areas by road can be searched in more detail. 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Flight activity of Czechoslovak Hemerobiidae and Chrysopidae: investigation by light trap. pp. 173-178. Jn, J. Gepp, H. Aspock, H. Holzel (Editors) Progress in World’s Neurop- terology. Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Neuropterology, Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Graz, Austria. 265 pp. Volume 118, Number 1, January and February 2007 105 SCIENTIFIC NOTE TWO OVERLOOKED FAMILY-GROUP NAMES FOR FOSSIL TERMITES (ISOPTERA: MASTOTERMITIDAE)' Michael S. Engel’ and Kumar Krishna’ During the final phases of completing a new, annotated world catalog of the termites (Isoptera) two family-group names for termites were discovered that had been overlooked during prior accounts of such names (Engel and Krishna, 2004a, 2004b). The subfamily Pliotermitinae was proposed by Sandor Pongracz (1917) for his new genus, Pliotermes, itself established for a fossil termite from the Early Miocene of Hungary. Subsequently, Emerson (1965) demonstrated that Pliotermes hungaricus Pongracz was conspecific with Mastotermes croaticus Rosen, also from the Miocene of southeastern Europe, and thereby relegated the former, along with its monotypic genus and subfamily, to synonymy. Similarly, the subfamily Miotermitinae was created by Alexander Pongracz (1926) for the genus Miotermes Rosen, 1913. Though appearing only in a chart, the name Miotermitinae is nonetheless available, as prior to 1931 any given fam- ily-group name need only be based on an available generic name and need not be accompanied by a formal description (ICZN, 1999: Art. 12.2.4). Despite the inclusion of Miotermes, a valid genus, in the family Mastotermitidae Desneux for many decades, the name Miotermitinae has been overlooked since 1926 by all authors (e.g., Snyder, 1949; Emerson, 1965). Therefore, we herein formally place Miotermitinae into synonymy with Mastotermitidae (new synonymy). In our earlier list of family-group names for termites (Engel and Krishna, 2004: 2-4), Pliotermitinae should be incorporated between the names Stylotermitinae and Arrhinotermitinae, and Miotermitinae between Acanthotermitinae and Mac- rotermitinae. The entries would read as follows: 19a. Pliotermitinae Pongracz, 1917: 28. Type genus: Pliotermes Pongracz, 1917. Combining stem: Pliotermit—. 21a. Miotermitinae Pongracz, 1926: 29 [chart]. Type genus: Miotermes Rosen, 1913. Combining stem: Miotermit-. ‘Received on April 23, 2006. Accepted on May 23, 2006. ? Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History; Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 1345 Jayhawk Boulevard, Dyche Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045-7163 U.S.A. E-mail: msengel@ku.edu. > Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, New York 10024-5192 U.S.A. E-mail: krishn@amnh.org. Mailed on April 27, 2007 106 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS In the table summarizing the hierarchical classification of Isoptera (Engel and Krishna, 2004a), Pliotermitinae and Miotermitinae would be listed as synonyms of Mastotermitidae. Neither name affects the priority or status of any other fam- ily-group names in use. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Partial support was provided by NSF DEB-0542909 (to Engel) and NSF DEB-9870097 (to Krishna and David Grimaldi, same affiliation as Krishna). LITERATURE CITED Emerson, A. E. 1965. A review of the Mastotermitidae (Isoptera), including a new fossil genus from Brazil. American Museum Novitates 2236: 1-45. Engel, M. S. and K. Krishna. 2004a. Family-group names for termites (Isoptera). American Museum Novitates 3432: 1-9. Engel, M. S. and K. Krishna. 2004b [2005]. An overlooked family-group name for termites (Isoptera). Entomological News 115(3): 168. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1999. International Code of Zoological Nomenclature [4th Edition]. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature. London, U.K. xxix + 306 pp. Pongracz, A. 1926. Uber fossile Termiten Ungarns. Mitteilungen aus dem Jahrbuch der K6ni- glichen Ungarischen Geologischen Anstalt 25: 23-30. Pongracz, S. 1917. Uj harmadidészaki termeszfaj Radobojrél. A Magyar Kirdalyi Féldtani Intézet Evkényve 25: 23-36. Rosen, K., von. 1913. Die fossilen Termiten: Eine kurtze Zusammenfassung der bis jetzt bekennten Funde. Transactions of the Second International Congress of Entomology, Oxford 1912, 2: 318-335. Snyder, T. E. 1949. Catalog of the termites (Isoptera) of the world. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 112(3953): 1-490. Volume 118, Number |, January and February 2007 107 OBITUARY HERMAN LENT (1911-2004) The main specialist in vectors (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) of Chagasi disease in Brazil was, without any doubt, Herman Lent. He was born in Rio de Janeiro — former Federal District — on 3 February 1911 and died in the same city on 7 June 2004, at the age of 93 years. Lent was graduated as bachelor (surveyor) of Sciences and Letters by the Military School of Rio de Janeiro in 1928. In 1934, he finished the courses of medicine in the Faculty of Medicine of Rio de Janeiro. Two years prior to his medicine graduation, he fin- ished the Application Course of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, with Professor Lauro Travas- sos (1890-1970), a well-known helminthologist, as his mentor. The institution admitted him as a researcher in 1933 and later on he became a faculty member and Head of Ento- mology Section and the Zoology Division (1962-1964). His first scientific paper, published in 1934 with his colleague J. F. Teixeira de Freitas (1912-1970), refers to helminths of birds. He penned other papers on parasites for sever- al years. In 1935, he published a paper on Hemipter, as collaborator of César Pinto (1896- 1986). Thereafter, he published many papers on reduviids. With Peter Wygodzinsky (1916-1987) he finished his major paper on the subject: Revision of the Triatominae (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) and their significance as vector of Chagasi disease [Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 163 (1):123-510]. Lent and other scientists (R. Carcavallo, I. G. Giron, and J. Jurberg) published the bilingual book Atlas dos Vetores da Doenga de Chagas nas Américas — Atlas of Chagasi Disease Vectors in the Americas (3 volumes, Editora FioCruz, Rio de Janeiro, 1997). He served as the editor of the Revista Brasileira de Biologia (1941-1981, changed to Brazilian Journal of Biology in 2000) and Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciéncias (1968-1981. He did not accept the change in the name of the Revista because the journal, which had been well known all over the World for 60 years, began to be published in English. In 2 April 1970, Lent and nine other colleagues from the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) were dismissed and forbidden to work for any Brazilian govern- ment unit (Institutional Act n. 5). This episode was explained in his book Massacre de Manguinhos (Avenir Editora, Rio de Janeiro, 69 pp., 1978). Due to his qualities as a re- ‘searcher, Lent was soon invited to work as a Full Professor at the renown Universidad de Los Andes (Merida, Venezuela) were he served from 1972 to 1974. In 1975, he was a Re- search Associate at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. When he returned to Brazil in 1976, he was invited to work for the Universidade Santa Ursula (Rio de Janeiro), as a Full Professor of Helminthology, were he stayed until 2004. In this last year of life, he received a scholarship from the National Research Council of Brazil, con- tinuing his work in that University as researcher A-1. 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Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 109 DESCRIPTION AND CONSERVATION STATUS OF A NEW SUBSPECIES OF CICINDELA TRANQUEBARICA (COLEOPTERA: CICINDELIDAE), FROM THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY OF CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.’ C. Barry Knisley’ and R. Dennis Haines’ ABSTRACT: This paper describes a new subspecies of oblique-lined tiger beetle, Cicindela tranque- barica joaquinensis, from the San Joaquin Valley of California. This new subspecies is most closely related to C. t. vibex with which it intergrades along the margins of the San Joaquin Valley. The macu- lation pattern of C. ¢. joaquinensis, like that of C. t. arida is characterized by being reduced to only the apical lunules. However, C. ¢. arida is significantly smaller in body size, has microserrations on the ely- tra, is restricted to the Death Valley area and thus well separated from C. ¢t. joaquinensis by both dis- tance and the Sierra Nevada Mountains. A study of collection records indicated C. t. joaquinensis was historically present throughout much of the San Joaquin Valley in alkali sink or flat habitats. A search of the historic and many additional sites with these habitats produced only three extant populations of C. t. joaquinensis, all in patches of habitat that were less than three hectares in size. The extirpation of most populations of this beetle was caused by habitat loss from intense agricultural development in the San Joaquin Valley, especially cultivation for crops, cattle grazing, and water diversions and modifica- tions related to irrigation. Increased vegetation is also reducing the open areas in the habitats needed by this species. Because of the very few and small extant populations and the elimination of nearly all of the alkali sink habitat, C. t. joaquinensis should be considered for endangered status by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. KEY WORDS: tiger beetle, Cicindela tranquebarica, Cicindelidae, Coleoptera, insect conservation, rare insects, San Joaquin Valley, California, U.S.A. Tiger beetles (family Cicindelidae) have become increasingly important as a focus group in insect conservation, particularly as indicators of biodiversity and habitat degradation (Knisley and Hill 1992, Pearson and Cassola 1992, Pearson et al., 2006). At present, four species of tiger beetles are listed as endangered or threatened and two others are candidates for listing. An additional 25 or more species and subspecies of tiger beetles may be sufficiently rare to be included on the list of threatened or endangered species (Knisley and Schultz 1997, Pearson et al. 2006). Although both species and subspecies may be listed under the Endangered Species Act, determining the taxonomic status is necessary because it affects listing priority and action. For example, taxonomic studies were a critical part of the status surveys and listing considerations for all of the currently listed or candidate tiger beetles (C. dorsalis dorsalis, C. puritana, C. ohlone, C. albissima, C. nevadica lincolniana, and C. highlandensis). ‘Received July 26, 2006. Accepted September 1, 2006. * Department of Biology, Randolph Macon College, Ashland, Virginia 23005 U.S.A. Email: bknisley@rmc.edu. * Agricultural Commissioner/Sealer’s Office, 4437 S. Laspina, Tulare, California 93274 U.S.A. Email: dhaines@co.tulare.ca.us. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 118 (2): 109, March and April 2007 Mailed on June 18, 2007 110 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS The oblique-lined tiger beetle, Cicindela tranquebarica, is one of the most wide- spread and diverse of the U.S. tiger beetles. Over 27 names have been applied to it, and the 12 subspecies recognized by most workers are more than any other North American species. Eleven of the subspecies occur west of the Great Plains, includ- ing 10 in the southwest, and 6 of these in California (Pearson et al., 2006). The most distinctive character of this species is the extended anterior maculation (humeral lunule), which is long and angles gradually inward from the outer edge of the elytron, and the absence of a marginal white line (Pearson et al., 2006). However, several populations have the maculations reduced to only a small apical lunule at the posterior tip of the elytra. Dorsal coloration varies from black, brown, red, and green to bluish-green. Of the five subspecies that are restricted to or range into southern California, C. t. vibex is the most widely distributed. It ranges from British Columbia south through California and west of the Sierra Nevada to San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties. Most of the specimens in collections from the San Joaquin Valley have been identified as C. t. vibex. C. t. sierra is a widespread mon- tane form (occurring above 200 m) and ranging from far eastern Tulare County north to Lassen County in northern California. C. ¢. inyo is restricted to the Owens Valley of eastern California and adjacent Nevada, while C. ¢. viridissima is in Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties. The most recent taxonomic study of C. tranquebarica by Kritsky and Horner (1998) recognized eight subspecies and elevated C. ¢. arida to full species status. These workers considered C. t. moapana and C. t. inyo to be synonyms of C. ¢. par- allelonota, and C. t. borealis a synonym of C. t. vibex. Most cicindelid workers, especially those familiar with the diversity of forms in southern California, includ- ing some populations not examined by Kritsky and Horner (1998), believe their study was not thorough enough to justify the taxonomic revisions they present, and that much additional work on this species is needed, possibly including mtDNA or other new approaches. Consequently, we follow the most widely accepted treat- ment of this species as given in Boyd et al. (1982), Freitag (1998) and Pearson et al. (2006). Adding to the problem is that many California populations have appar- ently been extirpated in the past several decades, most likely due to the widespread conversion of natural habitats to agricultural or urban uses. Regardless of whether or not the revisions of Kritsky and Horner (1998) become widely accepted, the new subspecies we describe was apparently unknown by those authors and a distinct subspecies of C. tranquebarica. Our study was prompted by the extreme rarity of this new form and the need to protect it from extirpation. METHODS The initial part of this study included a compilation of information on the distri- bution of the southern California populations of C. tranquebarica by reviewing the literature and examining collection records and specimens from various museum, university, and private collections that had specimens of this species from southern California. Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 111 Specimens we examined were from the following collections: AMNH — Ameri- can Museum of Natural History, New York, NY; CASC — California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA; CBKC — C. Barry Knisley Collection, Ashland, Virginia, CSCA — California State Collection of Arthropods, Sacramento, CA; DBC — David Brzoska Collection, Naples, Florida; LACM — Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, California; RDHC — R. Dennis Haines Collection, Tulare, California; TCAC — Tulare County Agricultural Commissioner/Sealer’s Office, Tulare, CA; UCRC — University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA; UID — University of Idaho, Moscow, ID. Taxonomic Studies: Our taxonomic study was based primarily on population differences in maculation pattern and color because these are the characters most commonly used by other workers to distinguish subspecies of C. tranquebarica. To evaluate differences in maculation pattern among populations we graded speci- mens (usually 10-20 per population, if available) according to the range of macu- lation patterns of C. tranquebarica, from the most fully maculated (Fig. 1A) to the least maculated (Fig. 1H). Other variations of the maculation pattern included in the analysis were width at the base of the middle band, connection of the humeral dot with the humeral lunule, and connection of the apical dot with the apical lunule (Fig. 1). Dorsal ground coloration was also a variable character and included in the analysis. Mean total body length differences were not statistically significant for all populations examined except for C. t. arida, which was significantly smaller than all other populations. Setal patterns and several other characters of potential impor- tance were examined but were similar in all populations and thus not useful for sep- arating populations. Field Surveys: The diversity of habitat types utilized by C. tranquebarica pre- sented a challenge for obtaining an accurate determination of its preferred habitat and distribution within our survey area. Some of the historic label data was too gen- eral to identify specific localities and habitat type, but fortunately one of us (RDH) obtained firsthand information from several of the early collectors about their col- lecting sites in the San Joaquin Valley. With this information and visits to many C. tranquebarica sites in southern California, we concluded this species occurred almost exclusively in two types of habitats, both having moisture at or near the sur- face. Most records were from sandy floodplains along rivers or streams, but others were from alkali sinks, flats, and playas, so we concentrated our field surveys on these two habitat types. We conducted fieldwork on >30 dates from summer of 2002 through spring 2006, primarily from March through May and September through November. This is the bimodal period of adult C. tranquebarica activity indicated by collection records. In our visits to these sites, we searched the open areas of potential habitat for adults, made spot checks of the ground surface for lar- val burrows (Knisley and Schultz 1997) and recorded habitat features that were probable indicators of habitat for C. tranquebarica. Most sites with potential habi- tat were visited 2-4 times. At the sites where we found C. tranquebarica, we recorded dominant plant species and other habitat characteristics and conducted visual searches and counted the numbers of adults and larvae present. Repre- 112 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS sentative specimens were collected for the description, but because of its rarity, only limited numbers were taken and most of these later in the year after they had time to mate and oviposit. Figure 1. Illustrations of the variations of maculation patterns for C. tranquebarica through- out its range. Capital letters indicate middle band and overall maculation pattern, arranged from most (A) to least developed maculations (H). Small letters (a to e) indicate variations in the width at the base of the middle band; f, g, h are variations in attachment of humeral lunule; i, j, k, | are variations in apical lunule. See Table 1 and text. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Cicindela tranquebarica joaquinensis Knisley and Haines, new subspecies (Fig. 2) Description: Holotype male. Length 12.8 mm, robust. Color green dorsally; ventrally head and thorax shiny metallic green, abdomen metallic blue; vertex, frons and clypeus shiny, metallic green. Elytral maculation reduced to only a small apical lunule. HEAD: Labrum ivory with black margin, three labral teeth of equal Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 113 size, with 6-7 marginal setae. Mandibles with basal and apical portion black, mid- dle portion green, with 3 teeth. Frons rugose with abundant (>50) erect setae; ver- tex rugose, and with dense, erect setae; gena rugose especially near eye, with 1-2 indistinct setae on anterio-ventral margin. Antennal segments one to four metallic green; segment one with 19-25 setae, segment two with 1 apical setae; segments three and four each with rows of long setae along the lateral margin and apex; seg- ments 5-11 are testaceous and dull brown. THORAX: Pronotum rectangular, wid- est anteriorly; disc covered with shallow wavy rugae; median line shallow, anteri- or and posterior transverse grooves deep; long, thin, erect setae along marginal third of disc. Prosternum glabrous; proepisternum with abundant long, thin setae; mesepisternum and mesepimeron with many long, erect setae. Metasternum and metepisternum with long, erect setae. ELYTRA parallel sided, surface finely gran- ulate, covered with raised gold bumps; deep setae bearing fovea. Apices without microserrations, but with a short spine. ABDOMEN: Terminal three sternites shiny metallic green with scattered long erect setae, most along posterior margin. LEGS: Pro- and mesocoxa with long, erect setae; metacoxa with long, erect setae along dorsal anterior margin; pro- and mesotrochanter with long, erect setae on posterior margin; metatrochanter glabrous. Figure 2. Habitus of male holotype of Cicindela tranquebarica joaquinensis Knisley and Haines. 114 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Type Material: Holotype (male), CA, Kings Co., near Guernsey, 27-[II-2005. Paratypes: 10 from CA, Tulare Co., west of Earlimart, 17-XI-2005; 12 from CA, Kings Co., near Guernsey, 27-III-2005. Holotype and 5 paratypes to be deposited in California Academy of Sciences; 6 paratypes to USNM, 3 to AMNH, 8 to the authors (4 each to RDH and CBK). Variation of type series: Males: Mean length, 11.8 mm, range of 11.1 to 12.2 mm. Females: Mean length, 12.6 mm, range of 11.8 to 13.2 mm. A small percent of specimens have a dot-like or faintly developed partial middle band or a detached part of the apical lunule. Setae on first antennal segment range from 12 to 28, most individuals with 18-24. Number of setae on anterio-ventral edge of gena ranges from 0-4. Sixth abdominal sternite in females lacking fine pubescence and long, erect satae. Comparison with other populations. Although the maculation pattern of C. t. Joaquinensis is most similar to that of Cicindela t. arida (Table 1), our study indi- cates this new subspecies is most closely related taxonomically to C. t. vibex but differs in maculation (see below). Despite the nearly identical maculation patterns of C. t. joaquinensis and C. ¢. arida and green coloration, most of the C. t. arida we examined also had a reddish cast or sheen over the green. More importantly, Cicindela t. arida has microserrations on the elytral apices and is significantly smaller (p < 0.001, ANOVA) than C. t. joaginensis in both elytral length (mean of 7.34 mm, s.d.= 0.19, versus 8.37 mm, s.d. = 0.44, in females and 6.58 mm, s.d.= 0.35 versus 7.65 mm, s.d.= 0.27, in males) and elytral width (4.69 mm, s.d = 0.26 versus 5.29 mm, s.d. = 0.29, in females and 4.28 mm, s.d. = 0.28 versus 4.88 mm, s.d. = 0.18, in males). Populations of all other western subspecies that we measured were not significantly different in elytral length or width from C. t. joaquinensis. Previous studies of tiger beetle subspecies have established a precedent for body size aS an appropriate taxonomic character. For instance, body size was used to sep- arate the subspecies of C. dorsalis (Boyd and Rust 1984). These differences may also function as a reproductive isolating mechanism. In laboratory mating studies of C. d. dorsalis and C. d. media, the size difference between these two subspecies reduced pairing success and mating times (Fielding and Knisley, unpublished stud- ies). That study also found that the size mismatch of the flagellum of the male aedeagus and the spermathecal duct of the female (into which the flagellum inserts during sperm transfer) might reduce the chances for successful sperm transfer in intersubspecific matings. The size difference between C. ¢t. arida and other western subspecies 1s comparable to that of C. d. dorsalis and C. d. media, and may simi- larly function as a reproductive isolating mechanism. The structures of the male genitalic components of C. ¢. arida were similar to other C. tranquebarica but their smaller size and was a key factor in the separate species status (Kritsky, pers. comm.). Further evidence that C. ¢. joaquinensis 1s less related to C. ¢. arida than to C. t. vibex is the great distance (over 220 km) and the presence of the Sierra Nevada Mountains that would act as a significant barrier to gene exchange between populations in the San Joaquin Valley and Death Valley. The similarity of the ely- tral maculation pattern in these two subspecies may thus be a result of convergent Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 115 evolution rather than taxonomic similarity. Also, the differently colored and macu- lated subspecies of C. ¢. inyo from the Owens Valley occurs west of Death Valley and between the ranges of C. ¢. arida and C. t. joaquinensis. Of the 88 specimens from the seven populations within the San Joaquin Valley examined, 59 had only apical maculations (Fig. 1, grades G or I) and 15 others had, in addition, a very reduced or incomplete middle band, usually represented by one or two dots or short lines (grades D, E, F). Only 14 specimens had a complete mid- dle band (grades B, C) with a wider base (grades c, d). Most of these were from Coalinga at the western edge of the San Joaquin Valley or from the Dinuba-Reedley populations at the eastern edges of the San Joaquin Valley, and probably intergrades of C. t. vibex and C. t. joaquinensis. A range of maculation patterns was present among specimens from Kern County, but most of these had a well developed mid- dle band (B) and humeral maculations (f, g) and were similar to populations further south (Soda Lake in San Luis Obispo County) or to the east (Lake Isabella in east- ern Kern County) (Table 1). Most workers have identified these populations as C. t. vibex, but additional studies are needed, probably using mtDNA analysis, to confirm this and to determine their relationship to other southern California popu- lations. In addition to C. ¢. viridissima and C. t. sierra, there are brown, well mac- ulated populations from the Cuyama Valley of western Ventura County, similar brown populations along the Mojave River in western San Bernardino County, and well-maculated green to blue green populations along the Santa Clara River in east- ern Ventura County. The identity of these forms is uncertain, and they apparently were not included in Kritsky and Horner’s (1998) study of C. tranquebarica. One additional character that distinguishes C. t. joaquinensis from all other C. tranque- barica subspecies we examined, including those in Table 1, is the lack of microser- rations on the elytral apices. Historic and recent records: Our examination of San Joaquin Valley C. tran- quebarica specimens in collections produced a total of 46 site records within the range of C. t. joaquinensis, including 3 records for Madera County, 19 for Tulare County, 2 for Kings County, 21 for Fresno County, and 1 from Stanislaus (Table 2, Fig. 3). Most of these records were from the 1920s to 1940 (many collected by F. T. Scott and R. Hopping). The most common collection sites were Coalinga (8 records), Visalia (7 records), and Kerman (6 records). Coalinga is along the west- ern edge of the San Joaquin Valley. Specimens from there are more maculated, and probably intergrade with C. ¢. vibex (see above). The most recent records for C. ¢. joaquinensis were from March 1984 and April 2000. The 2000 record was for a small population found in scattered patches of alkali sink habitat in southern Madera County (Christopher Rogers, pers. comm.). The 1984 record was for sev- eral specimens found along a sandy road through an alkali meadow in the Kaweah Oaks Preserve, near Farmersville (Tulare County), by the second author. The only other recent records for C. tranquebarica within the San Joaquin Valley are two specimens taken along the Kings River near Reedley (October 2003) and one from Dinuba (1988). All three of these specimens have more complete maculations sug- gesting they are intergrades with C. ¢. vibex. 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Collection records for C. tranquebarica within the San Joaquin Valley. Locations of current C. t. joaquinensis populations are not included. County Locality No. Date Collector Collection Madera Chowchilla 1 7-III-39 R. P. Allen AMNH Madera Granite Cr. 1 6-V-34 AMNH Madera 20 km W of Borden 6 10-IV-2000 C. Rogers DBC Fresno Fresno 1 E. A. Schwartz USNM Fresno Farmerville 30-III-1984 D. Haines RDHC Fresno Kerman 19-III-1933 TCAC Fresno Kerman 30-X-1927 TCAC Fresno Kerman 15-X-1927 TCAC Fresno Kerman 15-X-1927 TCAC Fresno Kerman 1 30-X-27 M. A. Cazier AMNH Fresno Kerman 19-III-1933 TCAC Fresno 9 mi W. Kerman | 25-I11-53 Snelling CDFA Fresno Helm 16-III-1924 TCAC Fresno 20 mi. SW Fresno ] 4-III-38 LACM Fresno Parlier, Kearney Agr. Center, Fresno 5 9-X-89 N. J. Smith CDFA Fresno Coalinga V-5 TCAC Fresno Coalinga 15-[II-1927 TCAC Fresno Coalinga TCAC Fresno _—- Coalinga V-5 TCAC Fresno Coalinga 20-III-62 CALAC Fresno Coalinga 2 27-X-83 N Smith Fresno Coalinga 3 30-II-40 NLRC Fresno Coalingua, Los Gatos Ck. 4 7-IV-73 UCR Fresno Parkfield Grade, 10 mi SW Coalingua 2 27-X-83 CDFA Tulare San Joaquin Mill 1 5-IV-05 AMNH Tulare San Joaquin Mill 2 5-V-10 AMNH Tulare San Joaquin Mill 1 H F Wickham LACM Tulare San Joaquin Mill 3 Hopping UCR Tulare Kaweah Oaks Preserve 3 I-84 D. Haines RDHC Tulare Visalia F. Scott TCAC Tulare Visalia IV-34 F. Scott TCAC Tulare Visalia IV/1926? F. Scott TCAC Tulare Visalia IV-34 TCAC Tulare Visalia IV-30 F. Scott TCAC Tulare Visalia 2 V-34 F. T. Scott LACM Tulare Visalia 2 33? F. T. Scott CDFA Tulare Exeter 1 28-IL-34 A. Nicolay Colln. USNM Tulare 1 V-30 F. T. Scott LACM Tulare Exeter 5 28-II-34 M. A. Cazier AMNH Tulare 2 III-30 F.Scott TCAC Tulare Exeter 1 3/21/1934? TCAC Tulare Skaggs Bridge 1 10/13/1929 TCAC Tulare Porterville 2 1/V/1957 WM.R.Clark TCAC Kings? “North Kamm” 8) 25-III-32 A. T. McClay USNM Kings 2 mi S. Hub 7-VI-78 ? Kem Cottonwood Cr. 2 6-IV-39 W. F. Barr USNM Kem v 1 H. Morrison USNM Kem Cottonwood Cr. 2 22-III-40 W. F. Barr LACM Kem Cottonwood Cr. 1 6-IV-39 W. F. Barr LACM Kem Cottonwood Cr. 5 22-III-40 W. F. Barr NLRC Kern Cottonwood Cr. 1 6-IV-39 L. L. Jensen MCZ Kem Bakersfield 4 27-II-1892 F. C. Bowditch LACM Kern Poso Cr., 3 mi. E. Hwy 65 14 17-IV-71 LACM Kern Poso Cr., 3 mi. E. Hwy 65 12 10-V-71 C. E. Langston LACM Kern Poso Cr., 3 mi. E. Hwy 65 40 17-IV,22-II] UCR Kern Poso Cr., Snyders Swamp 2 29-IlI-70 Rumpp NLRC Kern Poso Cr., Snyders Swamp ] 19-IV-75 Rumpp NLRC Kern Kern R. ] 15-IV-05 Hopping LACM Kern Kern R. ] 16-IV-05 Hopping LACM Kern Kern R. | IV-28 LACM Kern Oil City 3 IV-16 LACM Kern Oil City ] IV-28 R. Hopping LACM Kern Adobe Station 19-IV-05 UCR Kern Kern R. ] IV-28 LACM Kern Cuyama Rch, Cuyama Cyn. 26 6-III-37 M. Cazier AMNH Kern Bakersfield 4 12-III-34 AMNH Kern 4mi W Bakersfield 10 28-X-75 UCR Stanislaus Turlock 6 k UCR Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 119 v at 24”, Gat ge tena ‘Ranges 12 . Colorado Figure. 3. Map of southern California showing sites for C. tranquebarica populations and named subspecies. Letters indicate C. t. joaquinensis sites: C = Coalinga, D = Dinuba, E = Earlimart, F = Farmersville, G = Guernsey, H = Helm, K = Kerman, M = Madera, P = Portersville, V= Visalia. Open circles indicate probable intergrade populations of C. t. Joaquinensis x C. t. vibex; solid circle is Cuyama River population; solid triangles are Santa Clara River populations; open squares are C. ¢. viridissima; open triangles are Mojave River populations; solid inverted triangle is C. ¢. inyo; solid squares are C. ¢. arida. Field surveys and habitats: Using these historical site records, we focused our initial search of extant populations on historic riparian and alkali sink sites within the four-county area, and on additional sites in adjacent counties where these habitats were represented. Over 80 sites were visited (Table 3). 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We checked over 25 floodplain or water edge sites including most historic sites, but no C. tranquebarica or other tiger beetles were found. Nearly all of these sites seemed unlikely to support tiger beetle populations because of habitat loss or degradation from agricultural activity, reduced water flow, cattle and human trampling, and/or other land use changes. We checked over 50 sites with alkali sink or similar saline habitats, including all known historic sites. We focused on the sites near Visalia, Kerman and Helm where many of the earlier collections were made, but most of these and other sites no longer had suitable habitat because of their conversion to agricultural usage, primarily tillage and cattle grazing. We did find several sites in the Kerman area, near the Mendota Wildlife Refuge, with remaining patches of seemingly suitable habitat, but no tiger beetles were found. We and several other collectors also visited the Madera County site between 2003 and 2005 but, because the site was a private ranch, only the peripheral areas were checked and not the interior areas where the beetles were previously found. We found this site to be very densely vegetated with planted grasses, suggesting it may no longer be suitable habitat. Our surveys found C. t. joaquinensis at only four sites, three within a 10 sq. km area in Kings County and one in Tulare County. Specific loca- tions of these sites are not given here because of the extreme rarity of this tiger beetle and possible threats from over-collecting. Kings County sites: The three Kings County sites (designated here as A, B, C), found in late March and April 2005, were scattered fragments of remaining alkali sink habitat near the northeastern edge of the historic Tulare Lake basin, all with similar vegetation and physical characteristics. Vegetation was relative- ly high (0.5-0.8 m in spring 2005), due to abundant early spring rains, with scat- tered open bare patches (“mini-playas”’) of variable size, but usually <100 sq. m) where adults and most larvae were primarily concentrated. The habitat type at site A had common elements of the Valley Grassland, while sites B and C had a greater number of herbaceous perennials. The vegetation included a mix of low, salt tolerant shrubs (Swaeda moquinii, Frankenia salina, Allenrolfea occidentale, and I[socoma acradenia) and Distichlis spicata (saltgrass). Common annual grasses were Bromus spp., Vulpia spp., and Hordeum spp. Common forbs were Atriplex spp., Hemizonia pungens, Lasthenia spp., Lepidium spp., and Spergularia spp. At Kings A we counted a peak number of 35 adults in late March 2005. At Kings B we found only a few adults in March and April 2005 and made a high count of 30-35 in late March 2006. The third site (Kings C) had small numbers of larvae that were probably those of C. tranquebarica, but unfor- tunately the site was plowed and the habitat found to be destroyed when we checked it in spring 2006. Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 123 Tulare County site: A review of aerial photographs of the San Joaquin Valley revealed a potential area for C. t. joaquinensis along the eastern edge of the his- toric Tulare Lake margin. We surveyed the location near Earlimart (Tulare County) in June of 2005 and here we noted apparent C. tranquebarica larval bur- rows associated with the grassland and scattered mini-playas. The vegetation at this site is dominated by Valley Grassland species with very little of the perenni- al herbaceous cover seen at Kings B. The vegetation included a mix of low, salt tolerant shrubs (lsocoma acradenia and Suaeda moquinii), Distichlis spicata (saltgrass), common annual grasses (Bromus spp., Hordeum spp., and Vulpia spp.), and common forbs (Atriplex spp., Gilia tricolor, Hemizonia spp., Lasthenia spp., Lepidium spp., and Spergularia spp.). Further surveys in the fall of 2005 confirmed the presence of adult C. t. joaquinensis, with a peak count of 22 individuals. Field notes, behavior, and seasonality: Observations at both Kings and Tulare County sites indicated adults were restricted to the open or edges of the bare alkali patches (“mini-playas”’) of varying size (20 to 200 sq. m) with usual- ly 1-3 adults per patch. Some patches had standing water or were moist from recent rain, but others had dry surface soil. Most larval burrows (often in small clusters of 2-5) were located at the edges of these bare patches near vegetation. Our field observations and collection records suggest that C. t. joaquinensis has a modified spring-fall seasonal pattern similar to that of the other southern California forms. Adults can be found from late January to mid-February through April, and again in September to November when the new cohort emerges. Most collection records are for March and October (Table 2). The spring activity peri- od is longer than many other spring-fall species but is limited to days when tem- peratures are near or above 60° F and sunny, and probably when there is some surface moisture. There will thus be frequent extended periods of a week or more during spring when conditions are unfavorable for adult activity. A new adult cohort emerges in late September through October, but the fall emergence may not occur until spring if there is little or no fall rainfall. Our latest observation of adult activity was on November 19, 2005. On that date we dug some adults from apparent larval burrows and observed others going into these burrows. This behavior suggested the adults had emerged earlier and were possibly retreating into these preexisting burrows during periods of unfavorable weather or to spend the cold periods from November to February. We found large numbers of larval burrows (+150) at both Kings A and B in April 2005, and over 100 at the Tulare site in June 2005. Most were second and third instars and usually present as clusters of 2-8 burrows along the edges of vegetation surrounding the bare patches. A small group of larval burrows were tagged and monitored in 2005. These larvae remained active throughout the sum- mer, but they began plugging their burrows in early September until early October, presumably in preparation for pupation and fall emergence. Habitat loss, limiting factors, and causes of rarity: Most of the suitable habitat for tiger beetles in the San Joaquin Valley has been lost, primarily due to 124 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS the intense agricultural activity and the coincidental disruption of water flow in the rivers and streams. The primary limiting factor for the existing areas of potential alkali sink habitats seemed to be whether or not past land usage had included tillage. None of the sites we surveyed that had experienced significant tillage of the soil had evidence of C. t. joaquinensis or any suitable habitat. This was not surprising when considering the immobile nature of larvae and the lim- ited opportunity for reinvasion by adults from the increasingly isolated popula- tions. Some disturbances, however, may only eliminate or reduce habitat quality temporarily. For instance, at one of the sites with beetles, a section had been pre- viously trenched, apparently to alter the drainage pattern. Tiger beetle habitat in the San Joaquin Valley has also been lost through excessive use of the land for cattle grazing. The main effect of this activity in not the reduction in vegetation but rather the disturbance caused by too many hooves on fragile soil types. Alkaline soils tend to “liquify” during periods of winter and spring rains, and the weight of heavy animals drives their hooves deep into the substrate causing compaction and crushing burrows and/or larvae. Placement of salt licks near alkali playas can also cause animals to congregate near these frag- ile systems, destroying larval burrows and adult foraging areas. Cattle will also seek out playa areas for water in late spring. These negative perturbations are, however, offset by the benefits of cattle grazing which reduces the vegetation height and density of non-native species to create the open areas needed by C. ¢. Joaquinensis. Another limiting factor for tiger beetles in this area is the loss of open patch- es due to the growth of annuals plants, some of which are invasive species. The primary invasive species at the current sites are Mediterranean grasses (Bromus diandrus, B. madritensis rubens, B. hordeaceus, and Hordeum murinum lepor- inum), along with several annual forbs (Bassia hyssopifolia, Erodium spp., Malva parvifolia, and Melilotus indica). In cases where land was not grazed to reduce cover, openings at the margins and between playas were often not pres- ent. This choking out of habitat by excessive plant growth was a common prob- lem, and we hypothesize that this is the cause for the extirpation of a C. t. Joaquinensis population at the Kaweah Oaks Preserve. Before this site was acquired as a preserve the alkali meadow habitat had several small playa areas kept open by cattle grazing, but one of the early management decisions was to remove grazing cattle in an effort to protect seedling Valley Oaks (Quercus loba- ta). This allowed the meadow to become overgrown with both native and inva- sive species. We surveyed this site 5-6 times from 2003-2006 but found no tiger beetles and little or no apparent suitable habitat present. An historic population of Cicindela terricola lunalonga had also been found at this site, but has been extirpated from this and other San Joaquin Valley sites (Kippenhan, pers. comm.). Increased vegetation cover has been previously documented as a signif- icant cause of decline and habitat loss for other tiger beetles, including C. abdom- inalis (Knisley and Hill, 1994), C. ohlone (Knisley, unpulished studies), and C. debilis (Knisley and Shultz 1997). Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 125 Historic notes and current status of C. t= joaquinensis: Since the late Pleistocene, Tulare Lake has been a dominant feature of the southern San Joaquin Valley. Fed by the Kings, Kaweah, Tule, White, and Kern Rivers, it cov- ered approximately 1970 square kilometers and was the largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes. It was a shallow body of water (no more than 2 m deep in most areas) and regularly subject to summer evaporation and extreme shore- line fluctuation. At some point during the late Pleistocene or early Holocene, C. tranquebarica probably colonized the saline areas associated with Tulare Lake and nearby foothills. Over time those populations along the lakeshore began to specialize in occupying the summer-dry alkali playas, while those more typical of C. t. vibex continued to occupy alluvial and riparian sites along and into the foothills. These alkali playa tiger beetle populations arose along the eastern mar- gins of Tulare Lake (Guernsey, Earlimart) and the alkali wetlands to the north (Helm, Kerman). With time they became increasingly immaculate and bright green, possibly for camouflage among the tufted spring vegetation (Suaeda moquinii and Lepidium dictyotum) at the playa margins. These populations would have had genetic contact with the green-bronze, well-maculated popula- tions of C. t. vibex along the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and from the Inner Coastal Range (Carrizo Plain, Warthan Canyon). This intergradation of the two subspecies along the riparian corridors that fed Tulare Lake resulted in popula- tions with bright green coloration and more expanded maculations (Coalinga, Dinuba, Bakersfield), and thus considerable variation in maculation pattern in many of the populations. In today’s landscape the immaculate C. t. joaquinensis is isolated from sur- rounding populations by the dramatic changes that have occurred in the past 125 years. The draining of the Tulare Lake and construction of irrigation systems in the 1890s made vast tracts of land available for cultivation. The initial focus of this conversion to agricultural use was land without the high alkalinity associat- ed with the old lakebed. These conversions eliminated most of the saltgrass meadow habitat adjacent to the old riparian corridors. As indicated by collection records, most of the more maculated populations existed in these floodplains associated with prime farmland or along the perimeter of the San Joaquin Valley. As new technologies became available for conversion of the alkaline soils, and greater pressure for new land was exerted, even marginal soils were plowed for agriculture. This has greatly limited the available habitat for the remaining immaculate populations. Little appropriate habitat remains, thus putting the few surviving C. t. joaquinensis populations at a high risk for extinction. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank Christopher Rodgers for providing information on the Madera County site and Steve Spomer for photos and records for the Reedley specimens. Partial funding for work by the first author was provided by Randolph-Macon College through a Walter Williams Craigie research grant. Assistance for our study of collection specimens was provided by David Kavanaugh and Norman 126 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Penny (California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA), David Hawks (University of Cali- fornia, Riverside, California State Collection of Arthropods), Charles Bellamy (California Collection of Arthropods, Sacramento, CA), Chris Nagano (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), Frank Merickel (University of Idaho, Moscow, ID) and Lee Herman (American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY). Literature Cited Boyd, H. P. and R. W. Rust. 1984. 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Worldwide species richness patterns of tiger beetles (Cole- optera: Cicindelidae): indicator taxon for biodiversity and conservation studies. Conservation Biology 6: 376-391. Pearson, D. L., C. B. Knisley, and C. J. Kazilek. 2006. A field guide to the tiger beetles of the United States and Canada. Identification, Natural History, and Distribution of the Cicindelidae. Oxford University Press. New York, NY, U.S.A. 303 pp. Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 127 THE FIRST RECORD OF PAROCHLUS KIEFFERI (GARRETT, 1925) (DIPTERA, CHIRONOMIDAE, PODONOMINAE) FROM ITALY’ Valeria Lencioni,’ Laura Marziali,’ and Bruno Rossaro* ABSTRACT: Parochlus kiefferi (Garrett, 1925) Brundin (Diptera, Chironomidae) was found in two high-altitude glacial ponds (2455 m a.s.l.) in the Italian Alps (Trentino). This represents the first record of the tribe Podonomini and the second record of the subfamily Podonominae from Italy. New information on the geographical distribution and the ecological traits of the species is given. KEY WORDS: Podonominae, Parochlus kiefferi, cold stenothermic, biogeography, Italian Alps The subfamily Podonominae was established for a few northern hemisphere species by Thienemann (1937) while its presence and high diversity in the south- ern continents was discovered by Brundin (1966). It comprises two tribes, Podo- nomini and Boreochlini, both including six genera. Within Podonomini, the large genus Parochlus Enderlein, 1912, comprising 45 species, possesses a wider dis- tribution than any other genus of the subfamily (Brundin, 1966). The present main centre of Parochlus is temperate South America, followed by New Zealand, Tasmania and South-East Australia. Worldwide, Parochlus has been recorded in Andean South America and the Archipelago of South Chile (from Peru to Tierra del Fuego and Navarino Islands), Juan Fernandez Islands, South Georgia, South Shetland Islands, Tasmania, New South Wales, New Zealand, Campbell Island, North America, Greenland, Austria, Finland, Faroe Islands, Germany, Great Britain, Finland, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Poland, and Sweden (Brundin, 1966; Seether and Spies, 2004). However, this is mainly due to the exceptional distribution of Parochlus kief- feri (Garrett, 1925) Brundin, widely distributed in the Holarctic region (Seether, 1969; Seether and Spies, 2004). Within the monophyletic group araucanus, considered the most interesting group from evolutionary as well as biogeographical points of view within the genus Parochlus (Brundin, 1966), P. kiefferi is the sole species occurring in the northern hemisphere (Brundin, 1966; Cranston, 1995). All the other 15 species included in this group are distributed over the southern land masses (New Zealand, Australia, South America). Several New Zealand-South America vi- cariance events and one Australia-South America vicariance event occurring after the initial event involving Australia-South America-New Zealand are appar- ent within the araucanus group. Such sequences fit with the known earth history 'Received on February 1, 2006. Accepted on April 17, 2007. ? Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, Via Calepina 14, 38100 Trento, Italy. (VL) E-mail (corresponding author): lencioni@mtsn.tn.it. (LM) E-mail: laura.marziali@mtsn.tn. it. > Section of Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Milan, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milan, Italy. E-mail: bruno.rossaro@unim11.1t. Mailed on June 18, 2007 128 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS concerning late Cretaceous Gondwanan fragmentation (Cranston, 1995) (Fig. 1). In the present paper, new information on the geographical distribution and the ecological traits of P. kiefferi is given. ge SB! NK 3 — x > by ad - * 27 ip o F of Q % kiefferi ¢8- patagonic ataucanus Saree wnt tae | indaicus c trigonoéerus “ Spinosus crassicornis maori ) _ ohakunensis ns carinatus ri ¥ pauperatus _ novaezelandiae longicornis ‘ . ” Al 5 Fat = Gs an wn Figure 1. World distribution of the species belonging to Parochlus araucanus group. METHODS Study material was collected in two glacial ponds in the flood plain of the Noce Bianco stream, at 2455 m a.s.1. (Val de la Mare, Trentino, Stelvio National Park, NE Italy, 46° 24’ N, 10° 40’ E). These ponds are free from snow and ice from late June to October, shallow (depth of 40 + 15 cm), transparent (17 + 5 mg l-! of suspended sediments), dominated by sand and silt in the substrate, with a current velocity < 0.1 m s-! and water temperature ranging from 4.4 to 15.2°C in summer and from 0.2 to 2.0°C in winter. In summer, total phosphorus ranges from 2 to 4 pg |-!, nitrate nitrogen from 90 to 140 yg I-!, conductivity from 105 to 160 uS cm-!, and pH from 6.1 and 6.5. The ponds are rich in mosses on the shoreline and shallow (mean depth of 30 cm). Chironomid larvae, pupae and pupal exuviae were collected using a pond net and a drift net, both with a mesh size of 100 um. Adults were collected with emergence and light traps. Samples were collected twice a month from May to November, 2001 to 2004. Only one female pupal exuvia of P. kiefferi was found in one drift sample collected on 17.[X.2003. This specimen was mounted on a permanent slide with Canada Balsam according to Wiederholm (1983) and Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 129 deposited at the Museum of Natural Science of Trento (Italy). Pictures were taken using a Nikon Eclipse E600 microscope by means of the Leica DC 300 camera. The general morphological terminology follows Seether (1980) and Langton (1991). Measurements are given in microns. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Morphology of the pupa From evolutionary, as well as biogeographical points of view, the araucanus group forms the most interesting group within the genus Parochlus. Among the austral Chironomidae the araucanus group takes a unique position because its 16 species, though practically inseparable in the imaginal stage, do show distinctive specific pupal characters (Brundin, 1966). The closest relatives of P. kiefferi are P. araucanus Brundin, from the South Andes, P. bassianus Brundin, from Tasmania and P. maorii Brundin, from New Zealand, which constitute the araucanus subgroup. Within the subgroup, P. kief- feri is the species with the most apomorphic pupa (Brundin, 1966). The pupa of P. kiefferi can be separated on the basis of the morphology of the anal lobes and thoracic horn. Each anal spur has only one seta, which is much shorter than the spur and inserts terminally (Fig. 2) (the presence of setae on the anal spur is the characteristic feature of the Parochlus pupa; Wiederholm, 1986). Close to the seta there is a small seta-like spine which is possibly homologous with the sec- ond seta of the other species of the subgroup (Brundin, 1966). Figure 2. Pupal anal spur: detail of the terminal seta (P. kiefferi, PeF, NE Italy). The thoracic horn differs from those of related species in having a larger porous plate and a more strongly widened distal part (Fig. 3). Furthermore, it is longer than the stalk, and the broad felt chamber which tapers strongly basally is distinctive. 130 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Our measurements of P. kiefferi are in agreement with those of Langton (1991) except for the length of the pupal exuvia and of the thoracic horn, which are longer in the Italian specimen (Table 1). 100 pm Figure 3. Pupal thoracic horn (P. kiefferi, PeF, NE Italy). Table 1. Parochlus kiefferi: \engths and proportions of pupal abdomen, thoracic horn and anal lobes of the female pupa (n= 1). PeL = length of pupal exuvia; AbdL = length of abdomen; ThL = length of thoracic horn; ThR = thoracic horn ratio (length / breadth); Pp L L Th = plastron plate length / length of thoracic horn; ALR = anal lobe ratio (length / breadth of one side only). PeL AbdL ThL ThR Pp LL Th ALR mm mm um 4.46 3.01 440 1.69 0.64 DRS, Geographical Distribution The present paper documents the first record of P. kiefferi from Italy. It repre- sents the second record of the subfamily Podonominae from the country. The first record was published by Ferrarese (2005), who collected two larvae of Paraboreochlus minutissimus (Strobl, 1894) in a tapped spring in Alto Adige (1550 ma.s.l., NE Italy). Parochlus has close and very similar relatives in the southern temperate zone (e.g. Zelandochlus Brundin, 1966, Podonomus Philippi, 1865 and Microzetia Séguy, 1965) but stands rather isolated in the Holarctic fauna. Numerous Parochlus species occur in the southern temperate zone, but only P. kiefferi has been found to occur in the Holarctic region (Wiederholm, 1986). Described from Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 1S British Columbia in 1925, it was later recorded from North America: Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, Maine, New York, Colorado, Washington, California, Greenland, and Europe: Iceland, Faroe Islands, Finland, Sweden (including Got- land Island), Norway, Ireland, Britain (including Shetlands, Orkneys, Hebrides and Man Islands), Poland, Germany, Austria (Sether, 1969; Sather and Spies 2004) (Fig. 4). alae Tt a ed er, j é wor Hier SU | “ Figure 4: Distribution of Parochlus kiefferi in the Palaearctic region. Three possible explanations of the biogeographic isolation of P. kiefferi were given (Cranston, 1995): 1) faulty analyses of phylogenetic relationships; 2) dis- persal from a cold stenothermic southern hemisphere location to its present North American localities; 3) the clade predates the early Cretaceous Gondwana, having originated in geologically earlier time in megacontinental Pangea, in which North and South America were contiguous. The generally accepted Gondwanan fragmentation of cool temperate species (leaving vicariant daughter taxa in Magellanic South America, New Zealand, southern Australia and, sporadically, upland southern Africa) is a repeated and well-established pattern amongst predominantly cool stenothermic taxa (Cranston, 1995). The finding of adult males of a species of the P araucanus clade at high elevations in Costa Rica (Central America) (Watson and Heyn, 1993) might indicate northward diffusion from South America rather than a more archaic pattern, if the unknown pupa were to be identical or sister-group to P. kiefferi (Cranston, 1995). The invasion of Europe probably occurred via Greenland and Iceland (Lindeberg, 1979; Cranston and Oliver, 1987). 132 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Ecological Remarks According to Brundin (1966), Parochlus stands out as a “successful” genus, being adapted to a wide range of habitats. The immature stages live in running waters of various types, mainly mountain streams of glacial origin (e.g., P. glacialis Brundin, 1966, P. maorii, and P. ohakunensis (Freeman, 1959) were found emerging at a water temperature of 0.5°C close to the glacial snout of the Fox Glacier, New Zealand; Brundin, 1966). However, Parochlus does not show the strict confinement to running waters apparently characteristic of some genera of the subfamily. For example, P. steinenii (Gerke, 1889), one of the few endem- ic dipteran species in Antarctica (Convey and Block, 1996), was collected among mosses in cold shallow tarns and other standing waters (Brundin, 1966). Larvae of P. kiefferi are known to be grazers and gathering collectors (detritus feeders) and live in eukrenal, hypokrenal and epirhithral habitats (Moog, 1995). Pupae are free-living and have open-ended thoracic horns (this represents the most primi- tive condition, Langton, 1995) which are applied to the water/air interface to replenish the oxygen supply directly from the air. Thienemann (1937) reported P. kiefferi from springs and euhypokrenal biotopes in Swedish Lapland with a temperature ranging from 0.4 to 8.8°C. In its isolated occurrence at the top of Schneeberg, Black Forest, kiefferi showed the same preference (Wilker, 1958). In North America it was collected also in large fast running non-glacial streams. In the Italian Alps, the first author collected P. kiefferi among mosses in a pond fed by icemelt waters (limnokrenal), while it was absent in brooks and streams in the same floodplain. The pond is frozen from November to June, with a median summer temperature of 5.1 + 2.3°C. This species might be considered as cold stenothermic, according to the habitat fea- tures in which it was found. In the same sample three other chironomid species were found: Pseudodia- mesa branickii (Nowicki, 1837), typical of cold springs (Lencioni and Rossaro, 2005), Chaetocladius laminatus Brundin, 1947, which colonizes northern and montane seepages and pools (Langton, 1991) and, as dominant taxon, Microp- sectra radialis Goetghebuer, 1939, colonizer of northern and alpine lakes (Nocentini, 1985). Parochlus kiefferi is rare in the investigated area. Only one pupal exuviae was found amongst hundreds of specimens collected in standing and lotic habitats within the Noce Bianco catchment along a wide altitudinal range (1300-2800 m a.s.l.) (Lencioni et al., 2007). ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors thank the staff of the Natural Science Museum of Trento (Italy) for help in sampling and sorting material, Stephen J. Brooks, Brigitte Lods-Crozet and two anonymous referees for improving the manuscript with critical comments. The research was co-funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento within the projects HIGHEST (Health and Integrity of Glacial Headwater Ecosystems, 2001-2004) and VETTA (Valenza Ecologica dello Zoobenthos di Torrenti Alpini, 2003- 2006). Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 133 LITERATURE CITED Brundin, L. 1966. Transantarctic relationships and their significance, as evidenced by chironomid midges. With a monograph on the subfamilies Podonominae and Aphroteniinae and the austral Heptagyiae. 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Verhandlugen der Internationale Vereinigung ftir Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 13: 805-813. 134 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS A GYNANDROMORPH OF EUREMA HECABE (LEPI- DOPTERA: PIERIDAE) FROM JAPAN’ S. Narita,” M. Nomura,’ and D. Kageyama’ ABSTRACT: A gynandromorph of a pierid butterfly, Eurema hecabe, caught at Mt. Tsukuba in Central Japan is described here. Wings were apparently bilaterally asymmetric, while the external and internal genitalia clearly showed the morphology and genotype of the female. The fact that this indi- vidual showed a female genotype excluded the possibility of incomplete feminization due to Wolbachia infection. Presence of a spermatophore in the bursa copulatrix and the difference in num- ber of matured eggs between the right and left ovaries indicated that this gynandromorphic individ- ual had copulated and oviposited in the field. KEY WORDS: Eurema hecabe, gynandromorph, Lepidoptera, Pieridae, Mt. Tsukuba, Japan, Wol- bachia In wild-caught or laboratory-reared insects, individuals showing a mosaic of morphology of both sexes are found very rarely. They are usually referred to as “gynandromorphs.” The common yellow butterfly, Eurema hecabe (L.) (Lepi- doptera: Pieridae), is distributed almost all over the Oriental, Australian as well as Afrotropical biogeographic regions, and extends into the cool-temperate zone of the Eastern Palaearctic Region (e.g. the northern part of Honshu, Japan, up to A4O°N, Yata, 1995). It was recently recognized that E. hecabe consists of two sib- ling species, tentatively called yellow type and brown type, which are distinctive in various biological and genetic traits. We captured an abnormal adult of E. hecabe (yellow type) with wings of both male (left) and female (right) at Mt. Tsukuba located in the central part of main- land Japan. This individual was examined for morphology and karyotype of the internal and external genitalia. In addition, infection status with endosymbiotic bacteria Wolbachia was examined. Wolbachia is known to manipulate the repro- duction of its host insect in various ways such as feminization, male killing, induction of parthenogenesis or induction of cytoplasmic incompatibility (Bour- tzis and Miller, 2003). In Okinawa, a southwestern island of Japan, a part of E. hecabe females (ca. 10%) produce progeny with a sex ratio strongly biased in favor of females. These females are infected with two different strains of Wolbachia (wHecl and wHec2), while those producing progeny with a normal sex ratio are infected with wHec! only. The result of antibiotic treatment (indi- viduals eclosed were all males) as well as of cytogenetic sexing suggested that these females were genetically male but feminized by Wolbachia (Hiroki et al., 2002, 2004). Almost all populations of E. hecabe in Japanese mainland except- ‘Received on September 12, 2006. Accepted on January 23, 2007. > Laboratory of Applied Entomology and Zoology, Faculty of Horticulture, Chiba University, Matsu- do, Chiba 271-8510 Japan. E-mails: (SM) narita3105@graduate.chiba-u.jp, (MN) nomuram@ faculty.chiba-u.jp. *Insect-Microbe Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), Owashi 1-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8634 Japan. kagymad@affre.go.jp (corresponding author). Mailed on June 18, 2007 Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 135 ing for the northern area, are infected with only one Wolbachia strain, wHecl (Narita et al., 2006), where the female-biased sex ratio has never been reported. Sample: A gynandromorph of E. hecabe was caught at Mt. Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan in June 23, 2006. Sexual phenotype of wings: Ground color of the left wings was bright yel- low (Fig. la). On the left forewing underside, the sex-brand which normally appears only in male (Yata, 1995) was present (Figure 1B, 1C). On the contrary, ground color of the right wings was pure white/pale yellow, and the sex-brand was absent in the right forewing (Figure 1). Thus the left wings of this individ- ual were exactly those of the male, while the right wings were exactly those of the female. Sexual phenotype of the internal organs and external genitalia: The inter- nal organs were dissected. They were exactly of the normal female: the bursa copulatrix, seminal receptacle and ovaries (female organs) were present and the testes (male organ) were absent (Table 1; Figure 2). A spermatophore was pres- ent in the bursa copulatrix, indicating that this individual had copulated with a male. Matured eggs were significantly fewer in the left ovary than in the right (Figure 2). The external genitalia were macerated in a 10% KOH (potassium hydroxide) for two hours and their scales removed. They were also exactly of the female (data not shown). Figures 1-2. 1. A gynandromorph of Eurema sp. collected at Mt. Tsukuba. A: dorsal view. B: ventral view. C: magnified image of B. Arrowhead indicates sex-brand. 2. Internal organs of the gynandromorph of Eurema sp. ov (L): ovary (left side), ov (R): ovary (right side), bc: bursa copulatrix, sr: seminal receptacle, mg: midgut. 136 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Table 1. Sex-related traits of the gynandromorph of Eurema hecabe (yellow type) examined in this study. Sex-related traits Female Gynandromorph Male Forewing ground color' (left/right) w/w s/w s/s sex bland (left/right) -/- +/-? atplatp Internal genitalia ovary ty cn - testis - - ai seminal receptacle ote ce - External genitalia valva - - ag phallus ~ - a ovipositor a lg - bursa copulatrix F as - Karyotype Malpighian tubule ZW ZW ZZ bursa copulatrix ZW ZW ZZ 'w, weak yellow; s, strong yellow, *See Figure 1, *See Figure 2. Cytogenetic Sexing: In many species of Lepidoptera including EF. hecabe, the sex chromosome constitution is female-heterogametic (ZZ in males/ZW in females), and the W chromosome is conspicuous as a condensed sex-chromatin body in interphase nucleus (Traut and Marec, 1996). In this study, the Mal- pighian tubules and bursa copulatrix were removed and fixed in methanol : acetic acid (3:1) for ca. 1 min, transferred to slides, stained and mounted in lactic acetic orcein and examined under a light microscopy as described in Kageyama and Traut (2004). Sex chromatin bodies were present in every nucleus of Malpighian tubule and bursa copulatrix cells, indicating that at least a part of the body was genetically female (Table 1). Detection and Identification of Wolbachia: Wolbachia-specific PCR ampli- fying wsp gene (ca. 600 bp) gave a positive result. The primers used were wsp81F 5' TGGTCCAATAAGTGATGAAGAAAC -3' (forward) and wsp691R 5'- AAAAATTAAACGCTACTCCA -3' (reverse) (Zhou et al., 1998). To charac- terize the Wolbachia strains detected, the PCR product of wsp gene were cloned and subjected to DNA sequencing. The sequences of 27 clones examined were all identical to those of cytoplasmic-incompatibility-inducing Wolbachia seen in E. hecabe from the mainland of Japan (wHecl, accession number AB210826). Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 Sx DISCUSSION Abnormal individuals that are comprised of morphologically male and female tissues are usually referred to as “gynandromorphs.” Strictly speaking, however, “gynandromorph” is defined as chimeric individual of genetically both male and female. Gynadromorphs usually result from either loss of a sex chromosome dur- ing early embryogenesis, or from fertilization of a bi-nucleated egg (Laugé, 1985). In Lepidoptera, sex chromosome constitution is heterogametic (ZW) in females and homogametic (ZZ) in males. The most frequent origin of a gynan- dromorph in the silk moth, Bombyx mori (L.), is double-fertilization of a bi-nucle- ated egg (Z+W), resulting in an individual with ZZ and ZW cell karyotypes (Goldschmidt and Katsuki, 1927). In Drosophila, gynandromorphs are typically produced by the loss of an X chromosome during the first cleavages of an XX zygote (Morgan, 1914). In the honeybee, Apis mellifera L., where males are hap- loid and females are diploid, the male tissues of gynandromorphs are of maternal origin and the female tissues are of biparental origin (Rotenbuhler et al., 1952). Similarly, intersexes are individuals that are comprised of phenotypically male tissues and female tissues. But they are essentially different from gynandro- morphs in that an intersex is genetically either purely male or purely female. In Drosophila, various mutants that produce intersexes have been isolated and con- tributed to the understanding of the sex-determining mechanism (e.g. Morgan et al., 1943; Sturtevant, 1945; Watanabe, 1975; Hildreth, 1965). In the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, a crossing between geographic strains resulted in production of intersexes having purely male karyotype (Goldschmidt, 1934). In some of the strains of the adzuki bean borer, Ostrinia scapulalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) and EF. hecabe are infected with endosymbiotic bacteria Wolbachia that have an ability to feminize their genetically male hosts (Kageyama and Traut, 2004; Hiroki et al., 2002). In O. scapulalis, incomplete elimination of Wolbachia re- sulted in production of intersexes which were genetically purely male (Kageyama et al., 2003; Kageyama and Traut, 2004). The individual of E. hecabe examined here was morphologically female ex- cept for the left wings. Cytogenetic observation of this individual revealed that the internal organs and external genitalia were genetically female. Unfortunately, however, we could not examine the sexual genotype of wings, the only tissue showing the male phenotype. Thus we could not determine whether this individ- ual was an intersex or not. Although Wolbachia was detected, the fact that the bursa copulatrix and Malpighian tubules were genetically female indicated that this was not the case of feminization of genetic males caused by Wolbachia. It is very likely that this individual had copulated with a male and laid eggs in the field, since one spermatophore was present in the bursa copulatrix and matured eggs in the left ovary were apparently fewer than in the right one (Figure 2). ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This study was financially supported in part by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellowship for Young Scientists to S. N. 138 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS LITERATURE CITED Bourtzis, K. and T. A. Miller. 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A revision of the old world species of the genus Eurema HUBNER (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) Part V. Description of the hecabe group (part). Bulletin of Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 14: 1-54. Zhou, W., F. Rousset, and S. O’Neill. 1998. Phylogeny and PCR based classification of Wolbachia strains using wsp gene sequences. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 265: 509- Ss. Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 139 NESTS AND PREY OF I[SODONTIA ELEGANS (F. SMITH) (HYMENOPTERA: SPHECIDAE) IN MONTANA, U.S.A.' Kevin M. O’Neill’ and Ruth P. O’NeilFP ABSTRACT: A description is provided of the cavity-nests of /sodontia elegans (Smith), one of three North American members of the subgenus Murrayella. As is typical of its close relatives and of other populations of the same species, females constructed multi-cellular nests in tunnels (trap-nests in this case) and separated cells with 2-20 cm thick partitions consisting of finely cut, dried plant fragments. Cells, up to five per nest, were stocked solely with tree crickets (Oecanthus quadripunctatus), 97% of which were adults, primarily females. From 3 to 11 prey were placed in individual brood cells, with female offspring receiving, on average, 40% more prey than males. KEY WORDS: Hymenoptera, Sphecidae, /sodontia, trap-nest, nesting behavior, Gryllidae, Occan- thus, Montana, U.S.A. The genus /sodontia (Sphecidae: Sphecinae) contains more than 60 described species, including 6 in America north of Mexico (Pulawski 2007). Among soli- tary cavity-nesting wasps, only Jsodontia of the subgenus Murrayella use dried plant materials (grass blades and stems, bark fibers) as the sole constituents of nest partitions and plugs. Nests and prey of three North American /sodontia (Murrayella) species have been studied: [sodontia auripes (Fernald), [sodontia elegans (Smith), and /sodontia mexicana (Saussure) (Pulawski 2007). Of the three, J. mexicana is the best-studied and most geographically widespread (Medler, 1965; Lin, 1966; Krombein 1967, O’ Neill and O’Neill 2003, O’Neill et al., in press; O’Neill and O’Neill, submitted); it has, in fact, recently spread to the Midway Atoll in the mid-Pacific (Nishida and Beardsley, 2002) and Europe (Pagliano et al., 2001). Zsodontia elegans is the least-studied. In our trap-nesting studies in southwestern Montana, we encountered 148 nests of J. mexicana at five sites (O’Neill and O’Neill 2003, but only 12 of I. elegans, all at one site. Krombein (1967) also found 12 nests of this species (only 7 of which had final closures), all from southeast Arizona; he also reviewed earlier, less-detailed accounts of the behavior of this species, none of which appeared later than 1924. Other, more recent studies provide distributional data on this species (see Pulawski 2007), along with a brief account of ovary structure by Ohl and Linde (2003). Thus, it seems of value to provide further biological data here. METHODS We found /. elegans nesting in the Horseshoe Hills, 15 km NE of Logan, Gal- latin Co., Montana, in a narrow, dry gully containing a stand of junipers (Juni- ‘Received on January 12, 2006. Accepted on April 17, 2007. > Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717 U.S.A. E-mail: koneill@montana.edu. * Department of Animal and Range Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717 U.S.A. E-mail: rutho@montana.edu. Mailed on June 18, 2007 140 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS perus sp.). At this site, J. elegans occupied trap nests consisting of pine boards with 15 cm long holes into which we had inserted cardboard tubes with internal diameters of 7.5, 8.0, and 9.0 mm. In June of 2001, 2003, 2005, we placed trap- nests, with holes facing southeast, at heights of ~1.5 m at the edges of individual junipers. In late October of each year, we transferred all nests to an 8°C, 85% rel- ative humidity storage facility at Montana State University where they remained until April of the following year; rearing was then completed at 24-29°C and 20- 36% relative humidity. We dissected all nests immediately after removal from cold storage, so that all cell contents could be recorded and diagramed. The lengths of cells, partitions, and final plugs were measured along central longitu- dinal axis of the tunnel; length of the final plug was measured to the end of the nest tube. We examined prey parts, particularly head capsules, mandibles, anten- nal bases, wing fragments, and terminalia, to estimate the number and sexes of prey in each cell. At this time, /. mexicana cocoons and fly puparia were removed for individual rearing in glass culture tubes. Head widths of emerging adult wasps were measured to the nearest 0.1 mm using a micrometer with 0.02 mm increments. Head width is a commonly used measure of overall body size in the Hymenoptera (O’Neill 2001). RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Of the 12 tubes occupied by /. elegans in Montana, three were in 7.5 mm diameter holes, three in 8.0 mm holes, and six in 9 mm holes. All 12 nests had final closures, a broom of dried grass stems that protruded from nest entrances by as much as 5 mm; in most cases, however, the broom was flush, or nearly so, with the nest entrance. All nests studied by Krombein (1967) in Arizona were within 12.7 mm diameter tunnels, perhaps because the next smallest tunnels he made available had diameters of 6.4 mm, which were too small for this species. Nest partitions between cells and final plugs in our nests were constructed of dried plant fragments of the type previously described for [sodontia (Medler 1966, Krombein 1967, O’Neill and O’Neill 2003). The number of cells per nest, and the dimensions of cells, partitions, and final plugs were similar to those reported by Krombein (Table 1); however, in Arizona, nest cells and partitions were somewhat longer, whereas final plugs tended to be shorter. Eleven of twelve innermost cells in the Montana nests began at the inner end of the boring, but one nest began with a 2 mm thick inner plug of fine plant fragments. We found only three intact prey in cells, but other prey were identifiable from fragments remaining following larval feeding. Of the 189 prey counted, 5 were late instar nymphs and 184 were adults of tree crickets of the genus Oecanthus (Gryllidae: Oecanthinae). All 73 prey that could be identified to species were Oecanthus quadripunctatus Beutenmiller, which was also the most common prey of /. mexicana at nearby sites (O’ Neill and O’Neill 2003). In Arizona, J. ele- gans provisioned not only with O. guadripunctatus, but with Oecanthus califor- nicus Saussure and two species of Tettigoniidae (Krombein 1967). The use of Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 141 both tree crickets and katydids is common for /. mexicana as well (Medler 1966, Krombein 1967, O’Neill and O’Neill 2003). Adult prey that could be sexed in Montana nests included 60% females (N = 120), a significant sex bias (y? = 34.2, P<0.001), but one that was somewhat less extreme than we found among I. mex- icana tree cricket prey in both Montana (77% females among O. quadripuncta- tus; O’Neill and O’Neill 2003) and New York (92% females among Oecanthus niveus De Geer; K. M. O’Neill and J. F. O’Neill, submitted). Table 1. Comparison of characteristics of nests of Isodontia elegans in Montana (present study) and Arizona (Krombein 1967). Montana Arizona Mean Range N Mean Range N Number of cells per nest 2S) 1-5 12 - 2-4 7 Cell length (mm) 21D Sn S=9 33 38 18-90 24 Partition length (mm) S55) 2-11 23 8 2-20 12 Final plug (mm) 45.0 5-82 11 DS 14-45 / Twenty-one of 35 nest cells produced adults, including 12 females from 3.8- 4.2 mm head width (mean + SE = 4.08 + 0.03) and 9 males from 3.4 -3.8 mm (mean = 3.64 + 0.04; Mann-Whitney test, P < 0.001). Among these cells, the number of prey provided was a significant predictor of the head width of the emerging adult (linear regression: head width = 0.067 x (prey number) + 3.431; r = 0.35, F-test, F,, j, = 10.08, P = 0.005). As in I. mexicana (O’Neill and O’Neill 2003) and other solitary wasps (reviewed in O’Neill 2001), females allo- cated more prey to cells in which they had laid female eggs. Twelve female cells were stocked with a mean of 8.2 + 0.5 prey (range: 5-11), whereas nine male cells had 5.2 + 0.5 prey (range: 3-7) (F-test, F,, }, = 4.07, P < 0.001). Offspring sex ratios tended to be female-biased in inner cells, but male-biased in outer cells: cell 1, the innermost cell (1 male: 6 females), cell 2 (2:5), cell 3 (5:1), and cell 4 (1:0). The only male in present in the innermost cell position came from a nest with just one cell, and no males emerged from cells basal to a cell housing a female in the same nest. Among the cells that did not successfully produce adults, one was completely empty, two contained prey only (one or two), and two had cocoons containing prepupae that had been destroyed by infestations of Melittobia sp. (Hymen- optera: Eulophidae) that probably originated in the lab during rearing. The remaining cells contained normal cocoons from which adults failed to emerge. 142 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We would like to thank Peter Jensen and William P. Kemp for their assistance with this research, and Joseph Coelho, Alan Hook, and Michael Ohl for reviewing the manuscript; the research was sup- ported by the Montana State University Agricultural Experiment Station. LITERATURE CITED Krombein, K. V. 1967. Trap-nesting wasps and bees: Life histories, nests, and associates. Smith- sonian Press, Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A. 570 pp. Medler, J. T. 1965. Biology of Jsodontia (Murrayella) mexicana in trap-nests in Wisconsin (Hy- menoptera: Sphecidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 58: 137-142. Ohl, M. and D. Linde. 2003. Ovaries, ovarioles, and oocytes in apoid wasps, with special reference to cleptoparasitic species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea, “Sphecidae”’). Journal of the Kansas Ento- mological Society 76: 147-159. O’Neill, K. M. 2001. Solitary Wasps: Behavior and Natural History. Cornell University Press. Ithaca, New York, U.S.A. xiii + 406 pp. O’Neill, K. M. and R. P. O’Neill. 2003. Sex allocation, nest structure, and prey of /sodontia mex- icana (Saussure) (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 76: 447-454. O’Neill, K. M., J. F. O’Neill, and R. P. O’Neill. 2007. Sublethal effects of brood parasitism in the grass-carrying wasp Isodontia mexicana. Ecological Entomology (in press). Pulawski, W. J. 2007. Catalog of the Sphecidae sensu lato (= Apoidea excluding Apidae). Cali- fornia Academy of Sciences. http://www.calacademy.org/research/entomology/ Entomology Resources/Hymenoptera/sphecidae/Genera_and_species_PDF/introduction.htm. Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 143 A NEW SPECIES OF RHAMPHOMYIA (SENSU STRICTO) MEIGEN (DIPTERA, EMPIDIDAE) FROM SOUTHERN ANATOLIA, TURKEY ' Miroslav Bartak,’ Mustafa Cemal Ciftci,’ and Abdullah Hasbenli* ABSTRACT: A new species of Rhamphomyia (s. str.) from southern Anatolia (Karaman province) is described and illustrated and compared with related species. KEY WORDS: Rhamphomyia, Diptera, Empidiidae, new species, southern Anatolia, Turkey Rhamphomyia Meigen is one of the largest genera of the family Empididae. Recently, Chvala and Wagner (1989) listed 315 species in the Palaearctic Region. Although 30 species have been described since then (Bartak, 1985, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006; Bartak and Syrovatka, 1983), there is no Rhamphomyia record from Turkey with the exception of recently described R. cimrmani Bartak, 2006. Due to the geographical position and habitat diversity of Turkey, a high num- ber of species from Rhamphomyia is expected. The Holarctic subgenus Rham- phomyia s.str. was delimited by Bartak (1982), it contains species with setulose proepisternal depression, complete anal vein (A1) and acute axillary angle. METHODS McAlpine (1981) morphological nomenclature was followed, with a few modifi- cations. The genitalia were macerated in 10% KOH (24 hours, at room temperature). Abbreviations used areas follows: T 1, 2,3 / Mt 1, 2, 3 = length of fore, mid, hind tibia: length of fore, mid, hind basal tarsomere, respectively; Mt 1, 2,3 / Mt 1, 2,3 = length of fore, mid, hind basal tarsomere: width of this tarsomere, respectively; M2 / D = length of vein M2: greatest length of discal medial cell; M3 / Db = length of api- cal of M3: preapical sections of vein CuA1; lw / ww = greatest length of wing: great- est width of wing. Rhamphompyia (s. str.) karamanensis sp. n. Figs. 1-4 Male Eyes holoptic, facets in lower half of eyes much smaller than upper ones. Frons black, grey pruinose, without hairs. Ocellar setae black and fine, approximately one third as long as frons, accompanied by 1-2 pairs of slightly shorter setulae. Face black, light grey pruinose, lower part 0.21 mm broad and as long as its width, with- out hairs. Occiput black, light grey pruinose, fine black setose, postocular row incom- plete. Antenna black, ratio of antennal segments = 12: 9: 50: 7, longest setulae on ‘Received on March 14, 2006. Accepted April 14, 2007. * Czech University of Agriculture, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Department of Zoology and Fishery, CZ-165 21 Praha 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic. E-mail: bartak@af.czu.cz *Gazi University, Faculty of Art and Science, Department of Biology, 06500, Teknikokullar, Ankara, Turkey. E-mail: empididae@gmail.com. Mailed on June 18, 2007 144. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS basal two segments about 0.15 mm long. Labrum shinning brownish-black, shorter than height of head. Palpus brown, short, covered with several dark setulae. Gena nar- row and pruinose, clypeus polished partially. Thorax black, light grey pruinose, with two brown stripes along rows of dor- socentral setae. All setae and setulae are black. Chaetotaxy: about 15 setulae on proepisternum; 3-4 setulae on proepisternal depressions; prosternum bare; 16 biseri- al, fairly fine acrostichals; 25-28 irregularly biserial dorsocentrals about 0.20 mm long, ending with 3 stronger prescutellars; 4-5 setulae on intrahumeral areas; | strong posthumerals and 0-2 additional setulae; 1 strong humeral accompanied with about 10 much smaller and finer setulae; 3 strong notopleurals and 2-3 short setulae on anterior part of notopleuron; | strong supraalar (plus 1-2 additional setulae) and about 4-5 setulae in prealar areas; 1 long and 1 small postalars; 2 scutellars; laterotergite (metapleura) with black setae. Pleura and coxae same appearance, coxae with black setose. Legs brownish-black, pruinose (pruinosity consists of rather long microchaetae), black setose. A long seta present in comb at tip of hind tibia. Fore femur with sparse row of fine anteroventral setulae shorter than width of femur, posterior surface rather densely covered with equally fine setulae about as long as width of femur. Fore tibia with 4-5 pairs of anterodorsal and posterodorsal setae twice as long as width of tibia, fine setulae between them also relatively long, posteroventral ciliation about as long as width of tibia. Mid femur with fine anteroventral setulae half as long as width of femur, anterodorsal and posteroventral setae somewhat longer, up to as long as width of femur. Mid tibia with 3 long, strong anterodorsals on apical half of tibia, 3 times as long as width of tibia; posterodorsal setae absent except single short subbasal and preapical setae, 2-3 anteroventral and equal number of posteroventral setae twice as long as width of tibia. Hind femur with only very fine and short ventral setulae (approximately half as long as width of femur), also other ciliation short and fine except several fine posterior setulae on basal part of femur about as long as width of femur. Hind tibia very slightly swollen and flattened, with 3-4 anterodorsal and 5-6 posterodorsal setae, about 1.5 times as long as width of tibia ventral; setulae are short- er. Basal tarsomeres of all legs thin and short setose, with short ventral spines, T1 / Mtl = 2.1-2.2, Mtl / Mtl = 6.5, T2 / Mt2 = 2.9-3.0, Mt2 / Mt2 = 5.6-5.7, T3 / Mt3 = 2.1, Mt3 / Mt3 = 7.1. Wing clear, stigma brown, veins brown, anal vein (Al) complete. Costal seta absent, axillary angle deeply incised. M2 / D = 1.5-1.6, M3 / Db = 2.7-2.8, lw / ww = 2.7-2.8. Halteres yellow, calypters yellow with dark fringes. Abdomen black, light grey pruinose, dorsal genital lamella partly polished. All setae and setulae dark. Hind marginal setae on sides of tergites 2-3 are as long as their segments, on remaining segments setae slightly shorter than sclerites, discal setulae shorter than marginals. Dorsum of tergites with short setulae. Sternite 1 with 2 setu- lae on sides. Terminalia simple (Figs 1-4). Cercus with submedian dorsal process and long preapical seta; epandrium broadly ovate, with long setae only at tip; phallus slightly broadened at tip and also laterally about middle and with a small dorsal hook; hypandrium ovate and free at tip. Length of body 5.5 mm, wing 5.7 mm. Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 145 Figures 1-4: Rhamphomyia karamanensis sp. n.: 1. Terminalia in lateral view, 2. phallus (lat- eral view), 3. cercus (lateral view), 4. epandrium (lateral view), scales 0.3 mm. Female me Eyes broadly dichoptic, all facets same size. Frons, face and occiput black, dense- ly grey pruinose. Frons almost parallel-sided, upper part only slightly broadened. Frontal setulae black and quite short. Face broader than frons and broadened towards lower part. Upper half of occiput covered with black, long and strong setae, lower part of occiput with longer and finer yellowish-brown hairs. Antenna black, first antennal segment 1.5 times as long as 2nd antennal segment. 3rd antennal segment nearly 3 times as long as first antennal segment, style short, as long as 2nd antennal segment. Labrum slightly longer than height of head, shinning black. Thorax black, grey pruinose, with four brown stripes, two stripes along lines of dorsocentral setae and two stripes along sides of mesoscutum; outer pair of stripes less distinct and thinner. All setae and setulae black, shorter than setae and setulae of male. Chaetotaxy: pronotum with row of short setulae; prosternum bare, about 10-15 setulae on proepisternum; acrostichals and dorsocentrals equally long and biserial, dorsocentrals ending with 3 pairs of long prescutellars; 1 strong postpronotal accom- panied with small setulae; 1 posthumeral with several setulae nearby; 3 strong noto- pleurals; on anterior part of notopleuron with additional 3-4 short setulae; 1 supra- alar and about 2-3 setulae in prealar areas; | strong and | quite short and fine posta- lars; 2 scutellars; laterotergite with black setae. Pleura and coxae same appearance, coxae black setose except fore coxae with yel- lowish-brown long hairs and additional black setae (3-4 in row). Legs black, slightly 146 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS grey pruinose. All femora with short black setulae. Fore tibia covered with short black setulae, denser on ventral part, posterodorsally with strong setae as long as width of tibia, anterodorsally with strong seta on middle part, preapical setae longer than width of tibia. Mid tibia covered with short black setae, posterodorsally with 2-3 strong setae, as long as width of tibia, preapical setae shorter than preapicals on fore tibia. Hind tibia covered with short black setae anterodorsally and posterodorsally with row of strong setae becoming longer than width of tibia towards tip; preapical pair of setae much longer than width of tibia. All tarsal segments with preapical setae, hind basitar- sus dorsally with 2 long setae (longer than width of basitarsus), posteroventrally and anteroventrally with 3-4 strong setae, as long as width of basitarsus. Wing slightly brown tinged, veins dark brown, anal vein complete. Costal seta absent. Halter yellow with darker stem, calypter yellow with dark fringes. Abdomen black, grey pruinose and covered with black setulae. Anterior four seg- ments laterally with very long setae (as long as their segments), following segments with shorter setae. Length of body 5.5 — 5.8 mm, wing 5.7 — 6.0 mm. Differential Diagnosis: Rhamphomyia (s.str.) karamanensis sp. n. belongs to the R. (s.str.) ignobilis complex. It is most closely related to several species of this com- plex on the basis of the relatively long and narrow cercus, however its peculiar shape (Fig. 3) clearly distinguishes this new species from other species of this complex. In a sense, this new species represents a connecting line between Frey’s subgenera Eorhamphomyia (no strong ventral setae on hind femora in both sexes) and Collinaria (costal seta absent). The most closely related species is probably R. biroi Bezzi, however the authors have not seen any male specimen of this species and the original description is quite unsatisfactory. Females are similar to R. biroi, however this species has much shorter setose abdomen (hind marginal setae on segments 4-5 are at most 1/3 as long as their segments), whereas the setae in females of R. kara- manensis are at least as long as particular segments. Variability: One male from the Karamanbey mountain pass has five stripes on the mesoscutum, main two stripes on dorsocentral setae brown and distinct, outer pairs brown but thin and not very distinct, middle stripe on acrostichal setae slightly dis- tinct (only view from above), black and ending in the middle of mesoscutum. Halteres yellow with stem nearly black. Other all characters are identical. Holotype Male: Turkey centr., 100 km NE Konya, Karaman env., pasture, 30.iv.1996, leg. B. Mocek, deposited in Museum Hradec Kralove. Additional Materials: Turkey centr., 100 km NE Konya, Karaman env., pasture, 30.iv.1996, 1 female, leg. B. Mocek, deposited in Museum Hradec Kralove; Turkey, Icel, Mersin, between Catak and Findikpinari, 20.v.2005, 1 male, 1 female, leg. A. Hasbenli, deposited in Zoological Museum of Gazi University (ZMGU); Turkey, I¢el, Silifke, between Kicakoy and Comelek, 21.v.2005, 1 male, leg. A. Hasbenli, deposit- ed in Zoological Museum of Gazi University (ZMGU); Turkey, Karaman, between Ermenek and Karaman, Karamanbey mountain pass, 22.v.2005, 2 males, 1 female, leg. M. Ciftci, deposited in Zoological Museum of Gazi University (ZMGU). Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 147 Distribution: Turkey. Dates of Occurrence: April-May. Derivatio Nominis: The species is named after the province of the type local- ity. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This paper was partly supported by IRP MSM 6046070901 and NAZV project QH72151. LITERATURE CITED Bartak, M. and O. Syrovatka. 1983. Empididae (Diptera) from the Caucasus, with descriptions of seven new species. Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca 80:215-226. Bartak, M. 1982. 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Manual of Nearctic Diptera. Volume 1. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Monograph 27. 674 pp. 148 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS BOOK REVIEW An introduction to biological evolution. Second Edition. Kenneth V. Kardong. 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. New York, New York, U.S.A. 352 pp. ISBN 978-0-07-305077- 5. Soft cover. Although Kardong’s An Introduction to Biological Evolution (2nd ed.) is considered a textbook, it reads more like a story, acknowledging the humanity behind the people and ideas of evolution, while retaining a scholarly tone. The writing builds on biology basics, relating them to the specifics of Darwin and Wallace’s theory. For more ambitious readers, all seventeen chapters list “Selected References” for further reading. Numerous, monochrome, three-dimensional illustrations complement the text. The idea of evolution is ancient. “Evolution of Evolution” (chapter 1), discusses the different data that provided the clues Darwin needed for The Origin of Species. However, Darwin had two unanswered ques- tions. First, how were traits passed onto offspring? Second, how could evolution occur given the estimat- ed (at that time) age of the Earth? Kardong answers these questions in chapters 2 and 3 with a discussion of fossils and heredity. Then Kardong moves onto the progression of life. Starting from inorganic matter to current eukaryot- ic mammals (and everything in between), Kardong briefly discusses each of the “major evolutionary tran- sitions” (chapters 4 and 5). Next, is perhaps the strongest part of this book, the “evidence of evolution” (chapter 6). Kardong discusses the fossil record, corresponding anatomy, comparative embryology, and the distribution of organisms. He also discusses what can be deduced from each piece of evidence. The evi- dence does more than prove Darwin’s argument; it also has implications for human anatomy, which Kardong also discusses. With the fundamentals of evolution established, Kardong treats each aspect of evolution in depth. First is selection. He discusses both artificial and natural selection, including stabilizing, directional, and dis- ruptive selection. He finishes off with sexual selection (chapter 7). What allows evolution to occur in the first place? Variation — the “the raw material of evolution.” Chapter 8 discusses the different ways varia- tion is generated. What precise factors lead to the formation of a new species? “Speciation” (chapter 9) answers this ques- tion. Starting with a general four-step model, Kardong explains various reproductive isolating mechanisms that act to prevent interbreeding among species. He also discusses geographical patterns of speciation. Chapter 10 addresses co-evolution: “the joint evolution of two or more species as a consequence of their ecological interaction.” Because speciation has a genetic basis, there are phylogenetic relationships among organisms. This chapter discusses how these relationships can be advantageous or disadvantageous. The success of an organism depends on its ability to survive in its environment. Chapter 11 discusses how the full life of an organism can be broken down into many different adaptations. If one of those adap- tations fail, the organism may not be able to reproduce. Kardong also discusses the abiotic and biotic fac- tors that organisms must contend with. One adaptation of many groups is living in a group. “Life in Groups” (chapter 12) addresses this phenomenon. Chapter 13 discusses extinction: types, plausible causes (particularly of the dinosaurs), and some of the classified extinctions. Chapters 14 and 15 address human evolution, including common misunderstandings. For instance, one famous error is the common picture depicting the stages of human evolution, beginning with prokaryotes on upward and concluding with Homo sapiens. Such a paradigm is “mistaken,” says Kardong. All living organisms, including humans, are “equal survivors” in their given environments. The last two chapters (16 and 17) consider some of the evolutionary issues we face today. One is genet- ic engineering and its many variants, such as gene therapy, replacement therapy, genetic screening, and other technologies that allow us to manipulate our genes to ensure better fitness. The relationship between humans and pathogens is also discussed. Concluding the book, Kardong addresses the question of “intel- ligent design.” Many people wonder how nature could create such complex adaptations. Kardong answers them succinctly, with the rest of his book as proof: “one step at a time.” EDITOR’S NOTE: The author of this book review is a biology student interested in becoming a re- searcher. The student has requested anonymity. Mailed on June 18, 2007 Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 149 NEW DATA ON ASYNDETUS (DIPTERA: DOLICHOPODIDAE) FROM CHINA, WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIKS' Menggqing Wang,’ Ding Yang,” and Kazihiro Masunaga‘* ABSTRACT: A new species, Asyndetus ventralis sp. n., is described from Yunnan and a species, Asyndetus thaicus Grootaert and Meuffels, is recorded from China for the first time. A key is given to separate the Chinese species. KEY WORDS: Dolichopodidae, Asyndetus, new species, China, new species The genus Asyndetus Loew is distributed worldwide with 99 known species (Yang, Zhu, Wang and Zhang, 2006). It is characterized by the wing with vein costa ending at Ry,s5 just before wing apex, vein M usually with bend or weak- ening in distal third of wing, male sternum 8 usually with four strong curved bris- tles (Negrobov, 1973; Bickel, 1996). The species of Asyndetus mostly occur within shores of freshwater, playa lakes and marine coastal habitats (Bickel, 1996). Ten species were known from China (Zhang and Yang, 2003; Wang and Yang, 2005). Here a new species and a newly recorded species are added to Chinese fauna. The types are kept in the Entomological Museum of China Agricultural University (CAU), Beijing. The following abbreviations are used: acr - acrostichal, ad - anterodorsal, av - anteroventral, dc - dorsocentral, LI - fore leg, LII - mid leg, LIII - hind leg, oc - ocellar, pd - posterodorsal, pv - posteroventral, v - ventral. Updated key to species of Asyndetus from China (males) 119 (GROSSVIC MTT CU 01 CNET ee erm ee eee eee ea ee z — Crossvein m-cu absent; first flagellomere longer than wide. Neimeng; Fen ATS NOM PON re sarees ccapMiennvassoatonosnecicass Abdullah Bayram,’ Tarik Danisman,’ and Zafer Sancak’ ABSTRACT: The funnel-web spider, Agelena gracilens Koch C. L., 1841 is widely distributed throughout Middle Europe, Mediterranean countries, and Middle Asia. The aim of this study is to describe the functional morphology of the venom apparatus in A. gracilens using scanning electron microscopy. The organization of the venom apparatus of A. gracilens follows the general structure of the venom apparatus of other spiders. The venom apparatus is situated anteriorly in the prosoma and it is composed of a pair of chelicerae and venom glands. Each chelicera consists of a stout basal and a movable apical (fang) segments. The fang rests in a furrow on the basal segment and it narrows api- cally. There are parallel fine grooves on the surface of the fang. To eject the venom, a venom pore is located on the subterminal part of the fang. The venom glands of A. gracilens are of equal size and tubular. Each gland is surrounded by a bulky muscular layer. Also, neurons innervate the surface of the venom gland by SEM. KEY WORDS: Agelena gracilens, spider, venom apparatus, morphology, scanning electron micro- scope Spiders are an ancient and successful group of invertebrates widely distributed throughout the world (Levi and Levi, 1990). Spiders are the largest group of ven- omous animals, represented by about 40,000 extant species. Approximately 200 Species are actually dangerous to humans. In recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in- studies on spider venoms (Herzig et al., 2004; Kalapotha- kis et al., 2003; Rash and Hodgson, 2002; King, 2004). In principle, all spiders with any kind of venom apparatus are considered ven- omous, but this does not mean that all of them are dangerous to humans. Their venom is toxic to insects, their usual prey. The most dangerous known spiders belong in the genera Latrodectus (black widow spiders), Loxosceles (violin spi- ders), Atrax (funnel spiders), and Phoneutria (banana spiders). Segesteria, Agelena, Cheiracanthium, Steatoda, and Lycosa are known as secondarily dan- gerous spiders. The bites of spiders cause local and systemic disorders. Enveno- mation produced by a spider bite is known as arachnidism, araneism, or aranei- dism. Areneism has recently been considered a serious public health problem. Like the venoms of other animals, such as snakes and scorpions, venoms of spiders are made up of complex mixtures of biologically active and inactive sub- stances. The major constituents of spider venoms are proteins, polypeptides and polyamine neurotoxins, enzymes, nucleic acids, free amino acids, monoamines "Received on March 31, 2006. Accepted on April 16, 2007. > University of Kirikkale, Faculty of Science and Arts, Department of Biology, TR-71450 Yahsihan, Kirikkale, Turkey. E-mails: (NY) yigit@kku.edu.tr, (AB) abdbayram@yahoo.com, (TD) tarikdani @yahoo.com * Department of Biology, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Kirikkale, TR-71450 Yahsihan, Kirikkale, Turkey. E-mail: zafersancak!1@superonline.com Mailed on June 18, 2007 162 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS and inorganic salts (Ori and Ikeda, 1998; Rash and Hodgson, 2002). As the pri- mary purpose of spider venom is to kill or paralyze prey, spiders produce a vari- ety of toxins, which affect the nervous system (Escoubas et al., 2000). Spider’s neurotoxins affect prey and non-prey alike. The toxins isolated from spider venom have been invaluable in understanding the role and diversity of neuronal ion channels and the process of exocytosis (Pescatori and Grasso, 1994). A toxin, named agelenin, is found in the venom of spiders in the Agelenidae. This toxin is a calcium blocker and halts the neuronal transmission at the neuromuscular synapses presynaptically (Nakajima, 2006). In addition, the toxins of spider’s venom have enormous pest control potentials for the use of insect specific tox- ins in agriculture (King et al., 2002; Tedford et al., 2004). Previous investigators have described the venom apparatus of several ven- omous animals including snakes, wasps and centipedes (Mebs et al., 1994; Young et al., 2001; Schoeters et al., 1997; Menez et al., 1990). The venom appa- ratus of spiders consists of a pair of chelicerae and venom glands. The shape and position of the venom gland is different in various species. For instance, in large tarantulas, the venom glands are quite small and lie inside the chelicerae. While there are many studies on venoms of various spiders, there is little knowledge on the functional morphology of venom apparatus that produce venom in spiders. The objective of this study is to describe functional morphol- ogy of the venom apparatus of Agelena gracilens Koch C. L., 1841, a widely dis- tributed spider throughout the Middle Europe, Mediterranean countries, and Middle Asia. METHODS Adults of both sexes of A. gracilens were collected in Yahsihan-Kirikkale (33°: 31' E, 39°: 50'N, Turkey) on September 2005. The spiders were identified, reared in special cages, and fed insects at the Zoological Research Laboratory. Prior to dissection, spiders were narcotized with ether. The carapace was gently removed and the venom apparatus taken for electron microscopy studies under a stereo microscope (Nikon SMZ800). Chelicerae and venom glands were fixed in 3% glutaraldehyde buffered with 0.1 M sodium phosphate buffer (pH 7.2) for two hours at 4°C and then rinsed for 12 hours in sodium phosphate buffer, and postfixed in 1% osmium tetroxide in the same buffer for 2 hours. They were dehydrated in a graded ethanol series. To clean the surfaces, chelicerae and fangs were washed for 10 minutes in a gentle stream of 100% ethanol. The last stages of dehydration were performed with propylene oxide and acetone. Then, the venom apparati were dried in an incuba- tor at 30°C overnight. These specimens were coated with a thin layer of gold by Polaron SC 500 sputter coater. The materials were examined at an accelerating voltage of 12 kV with a JEOL JSM 5600 scanning electron microscope, and elec- tronmicrographs were recorded. All materials that investigated are deposited at The Zoological Research Laboratory of Kirikkale University. Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 163 RESULTS The organization of the venom apparatus of A. gracilens (Fig. 1) follows gen- eral architecture of venom apparatus of other spiders. The venom apparatus of A. gracilens is situated in the anterior part of the prosoma. It is composed of a pair of venom glands that produce the venom, the ducts that carry the venom from its source to the point of delivery, and cheliceral fangs that envenomate the prey by pricking it (Fig. 2). Fig. 1. Overall dorsal view of a female Agelena gracilens (taken with a dissecting stereo microscope). This specimen is approximately 10 mm long (excluding the legs). Each chelicera consists of two parts: a stout basal segment and a movable articulated fang. The basal segments of chelicerae are very stout and strong, and covered by hairs (Fig. 3). The fang rests in a furrow of the basal segment. Both margins of the cheliceral furrow are armed with two marginal teeth. These teeth are used for holding and crushing the prey. The fang narrows towards the apical part, and there are parallel fine grooves on the fang surface. The fangs possess a ridge, and on the lateral side there is a blade-like structure. To eject the venom, a venom pore is situated on the subterminal part of the fang (Fig. 4). Also, where the fangs connect to the basal segment, there are cuticular structures that look like a saw laterally (Fig. 5). . The venom glands of A. gracilens are equal size and are tubular (Fig. 6). Each gland is surrounded by a bulky muscular layer. This gross muscle bundle spiral- ly covering the venom gland can be easily observed (Fig. 7). The venom is pro- duced in the venom glands, it is carried by venom ducts passing through the che- licerae, and exiting from the venom pore during the muscular contractions. Also, the nerve cells that control the contraction of the bulky muscular layer can be observed on the surface on the venom gland. The nerve cells are abounded on the distal portion of the venom gland surface (Fig. 7). 164 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS SEE dre KIRIKKALE 3 KIRIKKALE 6 X 180 100 pm Figures 2-7. 2. Venom apparatus of Agelena gracelins. The dorsolateral view of a pair of chelicerae, c: Chelicera, vg: Venom gland. 3. The view of the chelicerae. The chelicera consists of two parts, a basal segment (bs) and a movable fang (f). The fangs (f) rest in a groove of the basal segment. 4. The venom pore (vp) and fine grooves on the surface of the fangs, marginal teeth (mt). 5. Fine grooves on the surface of the fang and cuticular structures look like a saw on the lateral side at higher magnification. 6. Morphological description of the venom gland of A. gracilens. The venom gland is tubular and is cov- ered with muscle bundles (mb) that completely encapsulate it, nc, nerve cells. 7. The higher magnification of Figure 5 clearly shows distinctive muscle bundles (mb) and the nerve cells (nc). Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 165 DISCUSSION The position of the fangs in spiders allows them to be divided into two subor- ders: Mygalomorphae and Areaneomorphae. It has been noted that mygalomorph and araneomorph spiders move their chelicerae in different manners. Mygalomorph chelicerae move parallel to one another in the vertical plane. Araneomorph spiders have chelicerae that move in opposition to each other in pinching motion in the horizontal plane (Ubick et al., 2005). Some venomous species such as Poecilotheria spp., Pterinochilus spp. (Theraphosidae) and Atrax robustus (Hexathelidae) are mygalomorph. In these spiders, the venom glands are in chelicera and quite small. However, Latrodectus, Loxosceles, Phoneutria, Segesteria, Cheiracanthium, Steatoda, Lycosa, and Agelena are araneomorph spiders. The morphology of the venom apparatus of A. gracilens is basically sim- ilar to those of the other araneomorph spiders (Moon and Tillinghast, 1996; Yigit et al., 2004). Spiders use their chelicerae for defense, seizing prey, carrying egg cocoons, making noise, and digging. In many spider species, one or both margins of the cheliceral furrows are often armed with cuticular teeth. There are also similar but very small structures on the ventral side of the fang. These act as a buttress for the movable fang. Spiders whose chelicerae are equipped with such teeth mash their prey into an unrecognizable mass. Spiders without such teeth can only suck out their victims through the small bite holes. There are two retromarginal teeth on cheliceral furrow on A. gracilens. The number and size of the retromarginal teeth are important diagnostic characteristics for taxonomists (Ubick et. al, 2005). The tip of the fang is pointed and sharp. It is hollow and has a needle-like structure. It is used for injecting venom as well as for piercing and holding prey. The cutting ridge on both lateral sides allows deeper fang penetration of the prey. Agelena gracilens fang possesses a ridge on the lateral side with a blade-like structure. We found grooves on the surface of the fang. These grooves possibly suck up the body fluids of the prey by capillary action. The venom glands of A. gracilens are paired structures located in the prosoma that communicate with the outside through two ducts that lead into the fangs. Most araneomorph spiders, including A. gracilens, have relatively large venom glands that extend out of the chelicerae and reach the middle of the prosoma. Kovoor and Munoz-Cuevas (2000) described the structure and histochemistry of the poison glands in Lycosa tarentula (Lycosidae), four species of Peucetia, and Oxyopes lineatus (Oxyopidae). All these species show two voluminous gland sacs situated dorsally in the prosoma, over the nervous system. The shape of the venom glands is different in various species of spiders: bulbous in Loxosceles intermedia (Santos et al., 2000), carrot-like in Plesiophirctus collinus (Thera- phosidae), and sac-like or cylindrical and consisting of two lobes in Hetropoda venatoria (Heteropodidae) and Lycosa indagastrix (Lycosidae) (Ridling and Phanuel, 1989), whereas the venom glands of A. gracilens are long and tubular. 166 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Some of these structures, such as retromarginal teeth, shape of venom gland will probably prove to be of diagnostic value for spiders. In L. intermedia, the external muscular bundles are web-like (Santos et al., 2000). However, in A. gracilens, the blocks of prominent muscle bundles spiral- ly, encapsulating the glands. The venom gland of A. gracilens is surrounded by a thick layer of striated muscle that encircles the gland. The contraction of the bulky muscular layer is controlled by the nervous system. 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(HEMIPTERA: FULGOROIDEA: DELPHACIDAE) FROM CHINA’ Dao-zheng Qin’ and Ya-lin Zhang’ ABSTRACT: A new genus and species, Laminatopina orientalis, gen. et sp. n. from China is described and illustrated, and assigned to the tribe Delphacini within the subfamily Delphacinae (Delphacidae). The new genus resembles Neometopina Yang, 1989, but can best be distinguished from the latter by features of the male genitalia. KEY WORDS: Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Fulgoromorpha, Delphacini, Laminatopina gen. n., China. According to Asche (1985, 1990), the subfamily Delphacinae is divided into three tribes: Tropidocephalini, Saccharosydnini and Delphacini. The Delphacini represents the largest tribe within the subfamily, and also the largest group of Delphacidae worldwide. Although the Chinese Delphacini has been studied extensively, and includes 129 genera (see Ding, 2006), there are probably many more new taxa awaiting to be found. In the present paper one new genus and one new species of Delphacini from China are described. The type specimens of the new species for this study are deposited in the Entomological Museum, North- west A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China (NWAFU). The methods and terminology in this paper follow those of Ding (2006). Laminatopina NEW GENUS Type species. Laminatopina orientalis n.sp. Diagnosis. Head: Longer and narrower than pronotum. Vertex longer medial- ly than broad at base, acuately rounding into frons, Y-shaped carina with stem weak. Median carina of frons forked at base. Antennal segment II longer than I. Thorax: Lateral carinae of pronotum not attaining hind margin. Legs with tibia normal, calcar of hind leg tectiform with many black-tipped teeth on posterior margin. Abdomen: Male anal segment ring-like, caudoventral margin produced medially into a large spinose process. Pygofer with a distinct plate-like process at each side of dorsal margin of diaphragm, twisted, without medioventral process. Phallus tubular, strongly decurved medially, one strong process arising basally. Diaphragm broad, dorsomedially with a projection. Suspensoritum with dorsal part Y-shaped, ventral part ring-like. Genital styles extremely long, strong- ly diverging from base. ‘Received on April 17, 2006. Accepted on April 17, 2007. *Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management. Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province 712100 China. E-mails: gindaozh0426@yahoo.com.cn, yalinzh@yahoo.com.cn (corresponding author). Mailed on June 18, 2007 Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 169 Remarks. Of the Chinese genera of Delphacini, the plate-like structures of the diaphragm are highly unusual and only found in Neometopina and the new genus. The new genus is also related to Neometopina in many parallel features: head narrower than pronotum; vertex longer medially than broad at base; fastigium acuately rounded; frons with median carina forked at base; antennal segment II longer than I; spinal formula of hind leg 5-7-4; pronotum with later- al carinae not attaining hind margin; calcar of hind leg with many teeth; forewing acutely rounded at apex; male anal segment ring-like and caudoventral margin produced medially into a large spinose process; pygofer without medioventral process; diaphragm broad and dorsal margin produced; suspensorium with ven- tral part ring-like; genital styles long and narrowed subapically. But can be dis- tinguished from the latter by: vertex with basal compartment wider at base than greatest length; the stem of Y-shaped carina weak; rostrum reaching to metacox- ae; especially by the features of the male genitalia: male anal segment with medi- an process not produced in ventral margins; diaphragm distinctly projected dor- somedially; suspensorium with the dorsal portion Y-shaped; phallus tubular, decurved, and with one strong process arising basally; genital styles strongly diverging. Etymology. The name is derived from the Latin word “laminatus” (plate), and with combination of the feminine suffix “-a”, which refers that the pygofer with a distinct plate-like process at each side of dorsal margin of the diaphragm. The gender is feminine. Laminatopina orientalis, NEW SPECIES (Figures 1-15) Type Locality. CHINA, Hainan, Bawangling. Description. Color. Body entirely pale yellowish orange.Vertex with outer area to submedian carinae black, frons sublaterally with narrow stripe, blackish brown, genae yellowish orange. Median carina of pro- and mesonotum whitish yellow, inner lateral carinae with light yellowish brown stripe. Ocelli dark. Eyes dark brown to black. Dorsum of abdomen yellowish orange. Structure: Body length & 4.54 mm, 9 4.67-4.73 mm. Head including eyes narrower than pronotum (0.84:1), longer medially than broad at base about 1.3:1, lateral margins of vertex in dorsal view subparallel, except where expanded lat- erally behind eyes, submedian carinae originating from near middle of lateral carinae, not uniting at apex, basal compartment wider at base than greatest length. Fastigium acuately rounded. Vertex length & 0.26-0.27 mm, ? 0.32-0.35 mm, width O 0.24 mm, 0.25-0.29 mm. Frons about 2.4 times as high as its maximum width, widest at apex, lateral carinae slightly sinuate, frons width 0 0.24 mm, 9 0.26-0.27 mm, length O 0.62 mm, ¥ 0.68-0.69 mm. Antennae terete, surpassing frontoclypeal suture, length of segment (0) I 0.15-0.19 mm, II 0.30- 0.32 mm, (9) 0.16-0.19 mm, II 0.31-0.32 mm. Rostrum reaching to metacoxae. Postclypeus large, as wide as frons at apex. Lateral carinae of pronotum pos- 170 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS terolaterally directed, slightly curved, pronotum width & 0.74-0.78 mm, 9 0.81- 0.86 mm, length & 0.22-0.24 mm, ? 0.24-0.27 mm. Mesonotal carina obscure at apical third, lateral carinae diverging, reaching to posterior margin or not, meso- notum length & 0.65-0.70 mm, ¢ 0.74-0.82 mm. Forewing long and narrow, roundly acute at apex, length & 3.86 mm, 9 3.93-4.02 mm. Metabasitarsus slightly longer than tarsomere 2+3 combined, spinulation of metabasitarsus 7 (2+5), 2nd 4, calcar length 0 0.38 mm, ? 0.39-0.45 mm, tectiform, concave ven- trally, more than half length of basitarsus, with 20-22 black-tipped teeth. Male genitalia: Anal segment large, median spinose process nearly straight, apex bifurcated. Pygofer in profile subtriangular, distinctly wider ventrally than dorsally, in posterior view with opening longer than wide. Phallus tubular and with many small ventral teeth, apex enlarged, membranous, basal process short- er than phallus, broad at basal half, then gradually tapering to acute apex. Suspensorium well-developed and sclerotized. Diaphragm broad, dorsomedially with a cone-shaped projection, pigmented and sclerotized. Opening for genital styles large, dorsal margin nearly straight, produced into a small lobe medially, ventral margin evenly curved. Genital styles extremely long and strongly diverg- ing from base, surpassing level of lateral margins of pygofer, sinuate, slightly widened subapically and greatly narrowed subapically to acute apex. Brachypterous. Unknown. Recorded Hosts. None. Material Examined. Holotype. Macropterous ©’. China: Hainan Province, Bawangling, 28-V-1983, coli. Yalin Zhang. Paratypes: 10°, 39, same data as holotype. Etymology. The name is derived from Latin word “orientalis” which refers to the type locality which is in Oriental Region. Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 A 15 Figures 1-15. Laminatopina orientalis, sp. n. male. Fig. 1. Head and thorax, dorsal view. Fig. 2. Face. Fig. 3. Head and pronotum, lateral view. Fig. 4. Forewing. Fig. 5. Male ter- minalia, posterior view. Fig. 6. Same, left lateral view. Fig. 7. Pygofer, posterior view, anal segment and genital styles removed. Fig. 8. Same, left lateral view. Fig. 9. Phallus, dor- solateral view, right aspect. Fig. 10. Same, dorsolateral view, left aspect. Fig. 11. Same, left lateral view. Fig. 12. Genital styles, left side. Fig. 13. Suspensorium. Fig. 14. Anal segment, ventral view. Fig. 15. Same, left lateral view. WZ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank Mr. Mick Webb, The Natural History Museum, London, for reviewing the manuscript and suggesting improvements. The first author is especially indebted to Mr. John W. M. Marris, Department of Entomology and Animal Ecology, Lincoln University, New Zealand, for help- ing to obtain literature during his visit to New Zealand. This study was supported by “the Pilot Project of Standardized Curation, Data Integration and Resource Sharing of Zoological Collections by Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2005DKA21402),” and “Northwest A & F University grant for young academic talent at the year of 2006 and special science program of NWSUAF in 2006 (08080253).” LITERATURE CITED Asche, M. 1985. Zur phylogenie der Delphacidae Leach, 1815 (Homoptera Cicadina Fulgoro- morpha). Marburger Entomological Publication 2 (1): 1-912. Asche, M. 1990. Vizcayinae, a new subfamily of Delphacidae with revision of Vizcaya Muir (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea)- a significant phylogenetic link. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 30: 154-187. Ding, J. H. 2006. Fauna Sinica. Insecta Vol. 45. Homoptera Delphacidae. Editorial Committee of Fauna Sinica, Chinese Academy of Science. Beijing, China. Science Press. 776 pp., 20 pls. Yang, C. T. 1989. Delphacidae of Taiwan (II) (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). National Science Council Special Publication Series 6: 1-334. Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 173 NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF ACANTHOCORINI (HEMIPTERA: HETEROPTERA: COREIDAE: COREINAE) FROM AUSTRALTA' Harry Brailovsky’ ABSTRACT: A new genus, Postleniatus and species, P glycosmisus, collected in Australia, are described. The relationship with Pomponatius Distant and Turrana Distant is discussed. An illustration of the new species and figures of the hemelytra, male genital capsule, and female genital plates are pro- vided. A key to the Australian Acanthocorini is provided. KEY WORDS: Heteroptera, Coreidae, Acanthocorini, Australia, new genus, new species Prior to this paper, two genera and three species of Acanthocorini have been recorded from Australia (Brailovsky and Monteith 1996, Cassis and Gross 2002). The genus Pomponatius Distant, 1904, contains two species, P. luridus Brailovsky and Monteith, 1996, and P. typicus Distant, 1904; Turrana Distant, 1911, includes one species 7: abnormis Distant, 1911. This paper adds one new genus and species and provides eight morphological features to distinguish them from other Austral- ian Acanthocorini: head and pronotum longer than wide, femora unarmed, abdo- men in both sexes narrowed and expanded posteriorly, antennal segment II longer than III, eyes small, semiglobose, longitudinal groove of mesosternum deep, reach- ing posterior third, and abdominal segments VIII and IX of female short. A key to the known genera and species of Acanthocorini of Australia is given. __ Postleniatus, NEW GENUS Type Species. Postleniatus glycosmisus Brailovsky sp. nov. Description. Male. General habitus (Fig. 9). Head longer than wide across eyes, subquadrate, not produced beyond antenniferous tubercles, granulate, and dorsally flat; tylus medially upturned to form a small horn, and apically rounded; juga unarmed, thick, globose, shorter than tylus; inner margins of antenniferous tubercles with large lobe apically rounded and widely separated; antennal segment I robust, thickest, longer than head; segment II cylindrical, regularly incrassate; segment III cylindrical, slender, IV fusiform; antennal segment IV shortest, seg- ment I longest, II longer than III; frons with deep median longitudinal sulcus; ocel- li almost sessile; preocellar pit small, deep; eyes moderately large, semiglobose; postocular tubercle absent; bucculae unarmed, short, rounded, not extending be- yond anterior margin of eyes; rostrum reaching posterior margin of mesosternum; rostral segment III shortest, segment IV longest, II longer than I. Thorax: pronotum rectangular, longer than wide, flat, weakly declivent; collar not clearly marked; frontal angles produced forward as small conical projection; anterior margin con- cave; anterolateral margins straight, slightly reflected; humeral angles obtuse, apex subacute; posterolateral margins straight, smooth; posterior margin concave, smooth; anterior lobes of pronotal disk granulate, with few punctures, posterior ‘Received on June 8, 2006. Accepted on April 9, 2007. *Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Aut6noma de México, Departamento de Zoologia, Apartado Postal 70153, México 04510 D.F. México. E mail: coreidae@servidor.unam.mx Mailed on June 18, 2007 174 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS lobes densely punctate, each puncture medium-sized and scarcely deep; calli flat, separated along midline by longitudinal furrow; anterior lobe of metathoracic per- itreme elevated, reniform, posterior lobe sharp, small; mesosternum with median longitudinal groove, reaching posterior third; pro-, meso-, and metathoraces gran- ulate with few scattered punctures. Legs: short; hind femur not extending beyond posterior border of abdominal sternite IV; femora unarmed, gradually clavate, densely granulate; tibiae terete, conspicuously sulcate. Scutellum: triangular, long- er than wide, flat, finely striate; apex subacute. Hemelytra: macropterous, reaching anterior margin of abdominal segment VII; costal margin emarginate; apical mar- gin weakly sinuate; apical angle obtuse; clavus and corium strong and deeply punc- tate (Fig. 8). Abdomen: narrow, slightly expanded posteriorly; abdominal segment VII exposed aterally with posterior margin trilobate, median lobe fairly rounded, lateral expansions subtriangular (Fig. 9); connexivum raised above terga; posterior angle of each connexival segment entire, not expanded into spine; abdominal ster- na without medial furrow. Male genitalia. Genital capsule: posteroventral edge elongate, projected as broad large-sized triangular lobe, apically subtruncated (Figs. 5-6). Female genitalia: abdomen narrow, expanded posteriorly; abdominal sternite VII with plica and fissura; plica rectangular, short, reaching anterior third of sternite VII. Genital plate: gonocoxa I square, shorter than paratergite IX, in cau- dal view closed, in lateral view convex; paratergite VIII triangular, elongate, with spiracle visible; paratergite [IX triangular, elongate, larger than paratergite VIII and apically acute. Discussion. The new genus is closely allied to Turrana Distant (1911) in hav- ing the head and pronotum longer than wide, postocular tubercle absent, posterior margin of pronotal disk concave, legs short with hind femur reaching anterior or middle third of abdominal sternite IV, ocelli not raised, femora unarmed, and clavus and corium strong and deeply punctate. In Postleniatus, the abdomen in both sexes is narrowed and slightly expanded posteriorly (Fig. 9), antennal segment II longer than III, eyes moderately large, ros- trum reaching posterior margin of mesosternum, longitudinal groove of mesoster- num deep, reaching posterior third, and abdominal segments VIII and IX of female short. In Turrana the abdomen in both sexes are gradually narrowing beyond mid- dle (Figs. 1, 3), antennal segment III longer than II, eyes small, compressed, ros- trum shorter reaching posterior margin of prosternum, longitudinal groove of mesosternum not reaching posterior third, and abdominal segments VIII and IX of female elongate, tubular-type (Fig. 1). In Pomponatius Distant (1904), the other australian genus included in Acanthocorini, the head and pronotum are wider than long, femora ventrally armed, postocular tubercle present, clavus and corium dense and finely punctate, each puncture small, never deeply excavated, hemelytral membrane shorter (Fig. 7), hind femur reaching anterior or mid- dle third of abdominal sternite V, male abdominal segment VII with posterior margin not trilobate (Fig. 2), and female genitalia elongate (Fig. 4). Etymology. Named after Anthony Postle, distinguished Australian entomolo- gist. Gender masculine. Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 175 Fig. 1. Turrana abnormis Distant. Dorsal view of female abdominal segments VII to IX. Figs. 2-3. Dorsal view of male abdominal segment VII, and apex of genital capsule. Fig. 2. Pomponatius typicus Distant. Fig. 3. Turrana abnormis Distant. Fig. 4. Pomponatius typicus Distant. Dorsal view of female abdominal segments VII to IX. Figs. 5-6. Male genital capsule of Pomponatius glycosmisus NEW SPECIES. Fig. 5. Lateral view. Fig. 6. Caudal view. Figs. 7-8. Hemelytra. Fig. 7. Pomponatius typicus Distant. Fig. 8. Postlen- iatus glycosmisus NEW SPECIES. 176 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Postleniatus glycosmisus, NEW SPECIES (Figs. 5, 6, 8, 9) Types. Holotype: male: Western Australia. Glycosmis Bay, 9 March 2004, A. Postle; deposited: Queensland Museum, Brisbane (QMBA). Paratype: female: Western Australia. Glycosmis Bay, 9 March 2004, A. Postle; deposited: Queens- land Museum, Brisbane (QMBA). Description. Dorsal color: yellowish dark, suffused with pink and dark irregu- lar marks. Head: yellowish dark with outer face of antenniferous tubercles, widened longitudinal stripe running between inner face of antenniferous tubercles until vertex, and postocular space dark brown; antennal segment I pale reddish brown suffused with yellowish dark marks; antennal segment II reddish brown with inner face at basal third pale yellow; segment III pale yellow with apical third red- dish brown, and IV with basal half pale orange and apical half reddish brown. Pronotum: yellowish dark, suffused with pink irregular marks, and punctures dark brown; humeral angles almost black. Scutellum yellow with lateral margins pale brown. Hemelytra: clavus and corium yellowish dark, suffused with pink irregular marks, and punctures dark brown; hemelytral membrane pale brown with veins darker. Abdomen: connexival segments III to VII black with anterior third pale yel- low; abdominal terga IJ to VI shiny orange yellow, and VII yellow with two dark brown longitudinal stripes running laterally to midline. Ventral color: pale yellow suffused with pink irregular marks on head and thorax, and with following areas black: longitudinal stripe on meso- and metasterna, upper margin of metaacetabu- lae, the area adjacent to metathoracic peritreme, posterior third of pleural margins of abdominal sterna, rim of abdominal spiracle, irregular spots on abdominal ster- na, and much of genital capsule; upper margin of abdomen almost entirely dark yel- low. Legs: coxae reddish brown with ventral surface castaneus to shiny orange; trochanters reddish brown to dark brown; femora with dorsal surface reddish brown to dark brown suffused with yellowish dark marks, ventral surface pale yel- lowish with dark brown spots and irregular stripes dark brown to black; tibiae dark yellow with basal joint dark brown; tarsi dark yellow with orange marks. Measurements. Male: head length 1.44 mm; width across eyes 1.38 mm; inte- rocular space 0.86 mm; interocellar distance 0.42 mm; antennal segment length I, 2.64, Il, 2.30, Il, 2.24, IV, 1.18 mm; pronotum length 2.54 mm; width across humeral angles 2.26 mm; scutellar length 1.04 mm; width 0.76 mm; total body length 13.68 mm. Female. Similar to male holotype except antennal segment II reddish brown with basal third dark yellow, fore tibiae yellow suffused with pale brown marks, middle and hind tibiae pale yellow with basal joint dark brown; connexival seg- ment VII black with anterior third, wide obliquely stripe at middle third, and pos- terior border yellow, connexival segments VIII and IX black with dorsal third yel- low, and genital plates yellow. Measurements. Female: head length 1.60 mm; width across eyes 1.56 mm; interocular distance 0.98 mm; interocellar distance 0.46 mm; antennal segment length I, 3.06, I, 2.64, II, 2.52, IV, 1.26 mm; pronotum length 3.12 mm; width across humeral angles 2.80 mm; scutellar length 1.36 mm; width 1.08 mm; total body length 17.62 mm. Etymology. Named for Glycosmis Bay, the type locality. Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 WIM BALRERA Fig. 9. Dorsal view of Postleniatus glycosmisus NEW SPECIES (male). 178 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Key to the known Australian Acanthocorini 1. Head and pronotum longer than wide; legs short; hind femora reaching middle third of abdominal sternite IV; clavus and corium strong and deeply punctate, each puncture deeply excavated, and large (Fig. 8); femora unarmed; postocular tubercle absent.....3 Head and pronotum wider than long; legs longer; hind femora reaching anterior or middle third of abdominal sternite V; clavus and corium dense and finely punctate, each puncture small and never deeply excavated (Fig. 7); femora ventrally armed; pos- tocular tubencle ESM... 224. ca Gazi University, Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Biology, 06500 Teknikokullar, Ankara, Turkey. E-mail: hasbenli@gazi.edu.tr. Mailed on June 18, 2007 180 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Female: Eyes have quite short sparse hairs. Frons (Fig. 1) shining black, about 1/3 as broad as head. On the frons there are two yellow medial spots below the ocelli that do not reach the eye-margin. Broad lateral yellow areas present along eye margins extending from middle of frons below onto the face. Genae black. Postocular region (Fig. 2) broadly yellow, extending from upper angle of the eye to the postgena, interrupted at about upper one-third. Antenna entirely black. Scape and pedicel shining black. Antennal apical style is longer than rest of flagellum. Postocciput, vertex (cerebrale behind of ocellar triangle) shining black. Labella yellow. Frons and postocular area with sparse, short, yellow hairs. Some long sparse hairs present on lower part of face and genae. Thorax (Figs. 3 and 4) black, covered with sparse, short, yellow hairs. Four yel- low longitudinal stripes present on mesonotum. Humeral callus and postalar callus are yellow. Yellow subnotopleural stripes widened posteriorly and extend to base of halteres. Scutellum and scutellar spines are yellow. Wings (Fig. 5) are transpar- ent, cell rl is golden yellow, R4 present, wing with stronger veins are golden yel- low. Legs are mainly yellow. All femur are yellow, with the middle of exterior face of fore and mid tibia with a black stripe-like spot, hind tibia yellow with indistinct spot near middle. Fore tarsi entirely black. Tarsal segments 3 and 4 of mid and hind tarsi segments black. Halteres are light yellow with darkened stalk. Abdomen (Fig. 6) shining black covered with sparse, short, yellow hairs. Lateral margin yellow beginning at anterior corner of tergum 2, enlarged into lateral mark- ings on terga 2-4 that are rather broad on tergites 3 and 4, and somewhat more extended medially on tergite 4. There is a yellow apical spot on tergite 5. Venter is entirely black. Female terminalia (Figs. 7 and 8): Cerci are relatively long and one- segmented. Genital furca is slender, long and triangular. Anterior portion of genital furca slender. There is a small, posteromedial emargination on the furca. Postero- lateral projections are long and broad on genital furca. Length of body 6 mm., wing 5.5 mm. Discussion: The four yellow stripes on the black mesonotum are very charac- teristic for this species. Although Oxycera quadrilineata sp.n. females resemble females of Oxycera pardalina Meigen,1822, Oxycera limbata Loew, 1862, Oxycera insolata Kuhbandner, 1984 and Oxycera trilineata (Linnaeus, 1767), it is different from them (Kuhbandner 1984, Lindner 1936-1938, Rozkosny 1983). Oxycera quadrilineata sp.n. has been carefully compared with the other species. The female of O. limbata has the antenna light brown with style black; 4 yellow spots at eye margin on the frons; and two narrow longitudinal stripes on the mesonotum. The female of O. quadrilineata sp. n., has the antenna entirely black, 2 yellow spots at eye margin on the frons, and four longitudinal stripes on mesono- tum. The coloration of the abdomen of the new species is entirely different from the abdomen of O. limbata. This species also differs from Oxycera insolata Kihbandner, 1984 and Oxycera trilineata (Linnaeus, 1767). There are no spots at eye-margin on the frons in O. insolata and O. trilineata. The notopleural stripe of O. trilineata is broader than in the new species and it is connected to the subnotopleural suture on mesonotum. And there are four yellow or green longitudinal stripes and three black longitudi- nal ground stripes on the mesonotum in the female of O. trilineata. This new Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 181 species appears to be related to Oxycera pardalina Meigen,1822, but O. pardalina Meigen, 1822 has only two yellow longitudinal stripes on mesonotum in the female. Fig. 1-8 Oxycera quadrilineata sp.n. female: 1. Head in frontal view, 2. Head in lateral view, 3. Thorax in dorsal view, 4. Thorax in lateral view, 5. Wing, 6. Abdomen in dorsal view. Scale bar: 1 mm.; female genitalia: 7. female terminalia in dorsal view, 8. genital furca. Scale bar: 0.25 mm. 182 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS A list of species of Oxycera newly recorded from Turkey Oxycera galeata (Lindner, 1975) Oxycera galeata was described by Lindner from Israel in 1975 as Heraclina galea- ta. Oxycera galeata (Lindner, 1975) is recorded for the fauna of Turkey for the first time. Material Examined: | male: Turkey: Adana, Feke, Degirmenusagi Village, elev. 727 m, June 24, 2002, coll. Ustiiner and Hasbenli. 1 female: Turkey: Adana, Feke, Degirmenusagi Village, elev. 727 m, June 24, 2002, coll. Ustiiner and Hasbenli. 1 female: Turkey: Kayseri, Yahyali, Burhantye Village, elev. 1414 m, July 13, 2002, coll. Ustiiner and Hasbenli. 1 female: Turkey: Kayseri, Yahyali, Sogulca Plateau, elev. 1665 m, July 14, 2002, coll. Ustiiner and Hasbenli. 1 female: Turkey: Kayseri, Sariz, Karapinar Village, elev. 1723 m, July 16, 2002, coll. Ustiiner and Hasbenli. 2 male: Turkey: Adana, Saimbeyli, Avcipinari Village, elev. 1430 m, July 27, 2003, coll. Ustiiner and Hasbenli. Distribution: Palaearctic: Israel (Lindner, 1975; Lindner and Freidberg, 1978; Woodley, 2001). Oxycera grata Loew, 1869 This species has been previously known only from Greece. The female we col- lected represents the first record for Turkey. Material Examined: | female: Turkey: Sivas, Sarkisla, between Sarkisla and Pin- arbasi, Baséren Village, elev. 1810 m, June 23, 2003, coll. T. Ustiiner and A. Has- benli. Distribution: Palaearctic: Greece (Kertész, 1908; Pleske, 1925a; Rozkosny, 1983; Woodley, 2001). Oxycera pardalina Meigen, 1822 A Palaearctic species that ranges from Europe to west Europe and Caucasia. This species is recorded for the fauna of Turkey for the first time. Material Examined: | female: Turkey: Kayseri, Tasci (Bakirdagi), Deresimli Village, elev. 1490 m, July 15, 2002, coll. Ustiiner and Hasbenli. 1 female: Turkey: Kayseri, Tasci (Bakirdagi), Deresimli Village, elev. 1400 m, August 29, 2003, coll. Ustiiner and Hasbenli. Distribution: Palaearctic: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Roumania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Yugoslavia (Kertész, 1908; Pleske, 1925b; Séguy, 1926; Lindner, 1936-1938; Rozkosny, 1973; DuSek and Rozkosny, 1974; Rozkosny, 1983; Narchuk, 1988; Rozkosny and Nartshuk, 1988; Woodley, 2001). Key to Species of Oxycera Meigen, 1803 of Turkey 1. Eyes contiguous, male. Mesonotum shining black, humeral cali and postalar cali with yellow spots, subnotopleural stripes yellow. Scutellum and scutellar spines yellow. Abdomen black, with yellow margin beginning at tergum 2 and yellow SO COIS OMT VeR les —ARy i aaians. Pesadhas Feces. iseeus voanectadanioedy Oxycera galeata (Lindner, 1975) — "Eyes Sroadly Separated; females :))i.:s..c....ccc... J ce Reiebac eit wndeeantee ate terenak ete 2 Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 183 2. Mesonotum with yellow longitudinal stripes..............cccecceccecsesseeceeeesseeeeeeessseeeees 3 — Mesonotum with yellow rectangular spot........... Oxycera galeata (Lindner, 1975) 3. Mesonotum with 4 yellow longitudinal stripes. Frons black with 2 yellow spots and a pair of long yellow stripes on sides................... Oxycera quadrilineata n.sp. — Mesonotum with 2 yellow longitudinal stripes..............ccccccccsccceeesseeceeessteeeeeesees 4 4. Pteropleura with yellow spots, subnotopleura with wide yellow stripes. Abdominal side-markings on tergum 4 extend to the middle part of the tergum ... ee ne ere acre cetccctenersnaenteaserecat incon a Oxycera grata Loew, 1869 — Pteropleura without yellow spots, subnotopleura with relatively narrow yellow stripes Abdominal side-markings on tergum 4 not extend to the middle part of the Testy Ma cee Aceh ss) MS A a ten SR Lot Ad kG Oxycera pardalina Meigen, 1822 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Our thanks are due to Prof. R. Rozkosny (Brno, Czech Republic) for his opinion on this new species and due to Dr. N. E. Woodley for critically reviewing the manuscript. The work was carried out with finan- cial support from the Selcuk University Scientific Research Council (BAP) (grant 2001/122). LITERATURE CITED Dusek, J. and R. Rozkosny. 1974. Revision mitteleuropaischer Arten der Familie Stratiomyidae (Dip- tera) mit besonderer Beriicksichtigung der Fauna der CSSR V. Gattung Oxycera Meigen. Acta Ento- mologica Bohemoslovaca 71: 322-341. Kertész, C. 1908. Orthorrhapha Brachycera. Stratiomyiidae. /n, Catalogus Dipterorum Hucusque Des- criptorum, Budapestini 3: 1-137. Lindner, E. 1936-1938. Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region - 18. Stratiomyiidae, E. Schweizert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 4(1):1-218. Lindner, E. 1975. On some Stratiomyidae (Diptera) from the Near East. Israel Journal of Entomology 10: 41-49. Lindner, E. and A. Freidberg. 1978. 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Leiden, The Netherlands. 473 pp. 184 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS RECTIMARGINALIS, NEW GENUS, WITH KEY TO GEN- ERA OF HOLOCHLORINI (ORTHOPTERA: TETTIGONIIDAE: PHANEROPTERINAE) FROM CHINA’ Chun-Xiang Liw’ and Le Kang’ ABSTRACT: A new genus, Rectimarginalis is erected for Holochlora fuscospinosa, H. traba, H. ensis comb. nov. and Rectimarginalis profunda sp. nov., based on the distinguished male stridulato- ry apparatus and male epiproct with possession of a stick-shaped projection. The new genus belongs to the tribe Holochlorini. A key to the eleven Chinese genera of Holochlorini is provided. A new species, R. profunda, is described from southwestern China. Two more new combinations, R. ensis (De Haan), and R. traba (Ingrisch), are proposed. A key to all four species of Rectimarginalis is given, together with illustrations of important taxonomic characters. KEY WORDS: new genus, new species, Holochlorini, key, stridulatory area, China, Orthoptera, Phaneropterinae Due to special functions of sound in mating behavior of Orthopteroid insects, Characters of the male stridulatory organ play an important role in separation for species and genera (Liu et al, 2004). When examining the tettigoniids from sev- eral museum collections, we established a new genus Rectimarginalis, for 3 known species, Holochlora fuscospinosa Brunner von Wattenwyl, Holochlora ensis (De Haan), Holochlora traba Ingrisch and Shishodia, and one new species R. profunda, based on specialized male stridulatory area and epiproct. The genus Holochliora Stal is an important group of the subfamily Phanerop- terinae, and is mainly distributed in the Oriental region. Fifty-eight species were recorded in the genus Holochlora Stal (Eades et al, 2006), among which some of the species are not monophyletic. The genus Sinochlora was established by Tinkham (1945) for the type species Sinochlora kwangtungensis, which was a synonym of Sinochlora longifissa (Matsumura and Shiraki, 1908), based on the recent studies (Kang, 1987; Liu and Jin, 1999). In fact the genus Sinochlora has covered 13 species, among which one species Sinochlora voluptaria (Carl) was also removed out of Holochlora (Liu and Kang, 2007). Our current investigation proposed to transfer 3 known species, Holochlora fuscospinosa Brunner von Wattenwyl, Holochlora ensis (De Haan), Holochlora traba Ingrisch and Shisho- dia, from the genus Holochlora, and to establish the new genus Rectimarginalis. The new genus is related to Sinochlora, Pseudopsyra, and Holochlora, but maybe it is more remotely related to Holochlora than Sinochlora and Pseu- dopsyra. It is distinctly distinguished from Holochlora and other related genera including Sinochlora Tinkham, and Pseudopsyra Hebard by the following synapomorphies: field around stridulatory file is not swollen (Figs. 6, 8), and, posterior portion of anal margin of right stridulatory area is straight (Figs. 7, 9). ‘Received on March 19, 2006. Accepted on April 10, 2007. > State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080. R.P. China. E-mails: (C-XL) liucx@ioz.ac.cn., liucxioz@gmail.com, (LK) Ikang@ioz.ac.cn (corresponding author). Mailed on June 18, 2007 Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 185 Whereas, the species of the genera Holochlora, Sinochlora, and Pseudopsyra possess similar characteristics about male stridulatory area with the field around stridulatory file being strongly swollen (Figs. 10, 12, 14), and base of the poste- rior portion of anal margin of right stridulatory area being concave into a trian- gular region with other veinlets (Figs. 11, 13, 15). Furthermore, apical projection of male epiproct of the new genus is stick-shaped (Figs. 22-25), as male phallus described by Ingrisch and Shishodia (1998; 2000). The new genus belongs to the tribe Holochlorini. Holochlorini is erected by Bei-Bienko (1954), who provided descriptions restricted to some genera reach- ing countries adjacent to U.S.S.R, and did not include all genera of Holochlorini. Eades et al (2006) included nine genera in Holochlorini, and we proposed that the genera Parapsyra Carl, Pseudopsyra Hebard, Sinochlora Tinkham, and - Stictophaula Hebard are ascribed to the tribe. Here we just provided a key to the eleven genera of Holochlorini in China in order to compare the new genus with other relatives. Materials come from the following two depositories: Insect Collection of Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (IZAS); and Institute of Entomology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China (MSIE). Key to Chinese genera of the tribe Holochlorini FE eeGenicularilobeof hind femur with, 1=2 Spimesis-2.....0..cc.cicecedee.cteceesensecanlee 2 Genicular lobe of hind femur rounded, without spines................cccceeee 10 2. Male subgenital plate without styli. Female ovipositor with lateral surface SHO ieee sede. Ae) Teall ioe: Awe: earn tee 3 Male subgenital plate with styli. Female ovipositor with lateral surface more Digles sper mulare@ds, sete ahone a. fe) nee 8 ot. J rk 5 3. Tegmina with Rs not bifurcated. Male tenth abdominal tergum with median pracessiproloneediy 135. JU eect... Wa es Phaulula Bolivar, 1906 Tegmina with Rs bifurcated. Male tenth abdominal tergum without median FOGG SSS Pee. SMA eae ceo ae tRNA GENE SNM | 605. La dada ddd dcaceeadeneeedes 4 4. Posterior margin of pronotum with a small median notch. Leg pilose. Male subsenitaleplateremareinatedimn. me a ee Arnobia Stal, 1876 Posterior margin of pronotum without median notch. Leg not pilose. Male subgenital plate with apical margin deeply notched ..............eeeeeeeeeseeeeetteees nus legenobule sinel oighy 100 ea | piel pn Stictophaula Hebard, 1922 5. Tegmen usually with delicate texture, more or less sub-transparent. Female ovipositor thickset, somewhat coarse; dorsal margin obliquely truncated or witha shichtitncation aapexne:k..0) Sere. Ae AN Je 6 Tegmen usually with slightly coarse texture. Female ovipositor fine, com- pressed: eraduallypcurveduiaize.2..xov noo dele Dano enews, 8 6. Left stridulatory vein not swollen on dorsal side of tegmen (Figs. 6, 8); stridulatory file on underside of left tegmen fine (Figs. 1-2). Male epiproct 186 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS with the possession of a stick-shaped projection (Figs. 22-25) 0.0.0... ti LER DO ene he Oro as 0 Rectimarginalis NEW GENUS Left stridulatory vein strongly swollen on dorsal side of tegmen (Figs. 10, 12); stridulatory file on underside of left tegmen rather thick (Figs. 3-4). Malejepiproctmetisameras above '..J./2. 223). 2 Pare a 7 7. Costal vein black and white at base of tegmen. Femoral spines strongly black. Male tenth abdominal tergum with a pair of forcipate processes and a median process, which varied through different species. Female ovipositor with the dorsal valvulae strongly truncate at apex ............cccceesseseeeeeeeeeeeesneees he ge eee i Sec in a ae EP Re RR RRS 0 SON SA Sinochlora Tinkham, 1945 Costal vein always conclorous with rest of tegmen. Femoral spines not black except in Holochlora venusta Carl. Male tenth abdominal tergum with a pair of knob-like processes. Female ovipositor with the dorsal valvulae slightly oObliquelyatcunecatedrabapex 2h30.01. Boe eee Holochlora Stal, 1873 8: leommarwath\costal vein indistinct ....22.5 %.ckcc- aoe ee Parapsyra Carl, 1914 feemina with costal veiniGisctinets...2.01300)..0i..cdeh eee). 200k ee ) 9. Male tenth abdominal tergum not produced into a strongly deflexed plate; male subgenital plate with styli much shorter than half of its length............ eee aM Aft csce sana cant ane epen ceca ReRe EE ec ounneee Psyrana Uvarov, 1940 Male tenth abdominal tergum produced into a strongly deflexed large plate; male subgenital plate with styli much longer than its length..........0000...... AR RRs ah nec Saace jos RR ee Pseudopsyra Hebard, 1922 10. Pronotal disc with lateral margins parallel. Occiput and pronotum punctured. Male subgenital plate with styli longer than its length. Female ovipositor Wathvlateral Suilace SMOOEH, .....32.26. cto ssessconce Heeeses eae Tapiena Bolivar, 1906 Pronotal disc with lateral margins spreading outwards; occiput and prono- tum not punctured. Male subgenital plate with styli much shorter than third of its length. Female ovipositor with distal part of lateral surface granulated hE I dod ciara asian darcioeeas mn Merten ee Ruidocollaris Liu, 1993 Rectimarginalis NEW GENUS Type species: Holochlora fuscospinosa Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891 Diagnosis: Size medium or large. Parapterous, usually green, rarely colourful. Male left stridulatory vein swelling on dorsal surface of tegmen (Figs. 6, 8). Stridulatory file on underside of left tegmen fine. Mirror of right tegmen indis- tinct, occupied by several veinlets (Figs. 7, 9). Male tenth abdominal tergum dev- ided into two lateral lobes (Figs. 16-17, 19-20). Epiproct with a stick-shaped pro- jection (Figs. 22-25). Male subgenital plate with short styli (Figs. 18, 21). Female ovipositor robust, with dorsal margin of distal part only slightly truncate (Fig. 26). Description: Occiput slightly convex. Fastigium verticis circa right-angular- ly inserted with fastigium frontis, dorsally and distally sulcate, narrower than first segment of the antennae. Compound eyes wide, oval, brown. Antennae long, thin. Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 187 Pronotal disc smooth, with longitudinal carina subtle in prozona and distinct in metazona, without lateral carina; main sulcus V-shaped; anterior margin slightly concave, posterior margin convex. Paranota distinctly higher than long; anterior margin substraight to slightly concave, ventral margin oblique, posteri- or margin S-shaped; humeral notch distinct. Tegmina and wings fully developed. Tegmen gradually widened toward the middle, and then gradually narrowed toward the apex; greatest width of tegmen longer than the length of pronotum, tegminal apex narrowly rounded; costal vein distinct straight and short; Rs gen- erally bifurcate; cross-veins of tegmina numerous, many of which straight and transverse. Anterior coxae armed. Anterior tibiae dorsally sulcate, widened at and sud- denly constricted below tympana; auditory foramina internally conchate, exter- nally apert. The occurrence and number of small spinules on femora and tibiae is not constant, it may even vary between both sides of the same individual. The following pattern occurs most commonly: anterior femora with spinules on ven- tro-internal, median femora on ventro-external, and posterior femora on both ventral margins. Anterior tibiae with spinules on dorso-external, median tibiae on dorso-internal, and posterior tibiae on both dorsal margins. Genicular lobe with two spines on each femur. Male: Epiproct stick-shaped, covered with clinging hairs. Subgenital plate elongate, split at apex, with short styli. Female: Similar to Holochlora Stal. Size distinctly larger than male. Tenth abdominal tergum with apical margin emarginated. Cerci rather short, conical. Ovipositor robust with distinct transverse ridgy pleat, lateral surface coarse with rows of irregular spines in the distal half, dorsal margin serrate with distal part obliquely truncated, ventral margin with distal sixth denticulate (Fig. 26). Discussion: The new genus belongs to Holochlorini, for characters as fasti- gium frontis, fastigium verticis, occiput, pronotum, tegmen, anterior tibial tym- pana, spination of legs. The differences from other Chinese genera in Holo- chlorini are listed in the above key. Etymology: The name Rectimarginalis is composed of the prefix Recti-, meaning straight, and the word marginal. The name refers to the distinctively straight posterior margin of the male right stridulatory area which differs from the situation in other genera of Holochlorini. The name is regarded as feminine in gender. 188 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ‘helt At yy " i Figs. 1-15. Male stridulatory area 1, 6-7. Rectimarginalis fuscospinosa; 2, 8-9. R. pro- funda; 3, 10-11. Holochlora sp.; 4, 12-13. Sinochlora sp.; 5, 14-15. Pseudopsyra sp. 1-5. Male stridulatory file underside of the left tegmen; 6, 8, 10, 12, 14. Male stridulatory area of left tegmen; 7, 9, 11, 13, 15. Male stridulatory area of right tegmen. Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 189 Figs. 16-27. Species of Rectimarginalis. Figs. 16-18, 22-27. R. fuscospinosa; Figs. 19-21. R. profunda. 16, 19. Male abdominal apex, lateral view; 17, 20. Male tenth abdominal ter- gum, dorsal view; 18, 21. Male subgenital plate, ventral view; 23. Male epiproct, dorsal view; 24. Male epiproct, ventral view; 21. Male epiproct, lateral view; 25. Male epiproct, lateral-apical view 26. Female abdominal apex, lateral view; 27. Female subgenital plate, ventral view. 190 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Key to species of Rectimarginalis NEW GENUS 1. Each lateral margin of occiput with a short brown line behind compound eye, extending alone promotallateral maarein i -cocee-cceceet-- rece eeeee eee ee es 2 Occiput and pronotum with unicolorous dorsal surface...............:cccceseeeeeeees 3 2. Tegmen with cells in radial and medial areas with aggregation of brown dots. Male tenth abdominal tergum split in distal half; lateral lobes short, strongly narrowed at apexe (Ries. 16-17)...:....doceeaeeestoerncee aetieet«-hee aan eee ...Rectimarginalis fuscospinosa (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891) comb. nov. Tegmen unicolorous. Male tenth abdominal tergum split in basal third; later- al lobe long, gradually narrowed distad (Figs. 19-21) ......eeeeecsssseeeeeeees PPE orocul sobodecoee koe ee ee TE Rectimarginalis profunda NEW SPECIES 3. Male subgenital plate split in distal quarter into two compressed lobes (inignisch-and*Shishodia 1998: 372) Fig- 27) eesti ee See Rectimarginalis traba (Ingrisch and Shishodia, 1998) comb. nov. Male subgenital plate split in distal third into two cylindrical lobes (Karny TOD Oz aie ISS) c. Rectimarginalis ensis (De Haan, 1842) comb. nov. Rectimarginalis fuscospinosa (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891) comb. nov. (Figs. 1, 2, 6-9, 16-18, 22-27) Holochlora fuscospinosa Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891: 91, 92; Hebard, 1922: 158) Examined material: 1 male, P.R. China: Yunnan Prov.: Xishuangbanna, Mengla, 620-650m, 1958.XI.15, Coll. Zhang Yiran (IZAS). Paratype: 1 male, P.R. China: Hainan Island, Jianfengling, 1983.VIII.4, Coll. Liu Yuanrun (IZAS); 1 male, Tonkin, Hoa-Binh, leg. A. de Cooman (IZAS); 1 female, P.R. China: Yunnan Prov., Mengyang, Sanchahe, 1995.VII.31-VIII.3, Coll. Liu Xianwei, Zhang Weinian and Jin Xingbao (MSIE). Description: Male. Medium-sized. Hind wings longer than tegmina. Teg- mina distinctly surpassing beyond the genicular lobe of hind femur; Tegmen with costal vein edged by a brown line, Rs branching slightly before middle of teg- men; radial stem with 3 more lateral branches. Male: Stridulatory file on underside of left tegmen in basal part with about 9 indistinct small teeth, middle part with about 23 widely arranged large teeth, and distal part with 8 obsolescent teeth (Fig. 1). Tenth abdominal tergum dorsally with an obtuse furrow in the basal third. Lateral lobes strongly deviating out- wards; notch “U”-shaped (Figs. 16-17). Epiproct beam-shaped, upheaved lengthwise in center, shaped a median groove in the ventral surface, with numer- ous brown bristles at apex (Figs. 22-25). Cerci rather long, extending little beyond three quarters of subgenital plate, coniform, evenly incurved, apex with an incurved hook. Subgenital plate widest at base, evenly constricted in basal Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 19] third, split in apical third into two lobes; styli short, cylindrical; ventral surface of subgenital plate with two lateral and one median carina (Fig. 18). Female: Subgenital plate narrowly triangular, longer than wide, lateral mar- gin slightly concave, apex with acute triangular notch (Fig. 27). Coloration: Green brownish (discolored probably green when alive). Both lateral margins of pronotal disc with dark brown longitudinal stripes. Each later- al lobe of pronotm with two brown spots. Area between radial and cubital veins of tegmen with large brown spots. Hook of cercus dark brown. Measurements (mm): length of body: male 26.0, female 36.0; length of pro- notum: male 7.5, female 8.5; length of tegmen: male 51.0, female 62.5; greatest width of tegmen: male12.5, female 18.0; length of hind wing: male 57.0, female 67.5; length of hind femur: male 28.5, female 33.5; length of ovipositor 8.0. Rectimarginalis profunda NEW SPECIES (Figs. 2, 8-9, 19-21) Type Material: Holotype. 1 male, P.R. China: Yunnan Prov.: Xishuanbanna, Mengnuo, 850m, 1957.VI.27, Coll. Li Xiaofu (IZAS). Description: Male (holotype). Large-sized. Tegmen with costa bordered by a brown line; Rs branching before middle of the tegmen; radial stem with also three more lateral branches. Male: Stridulatory file on underside of left tegmen in basal 2/3 with about 25 widely arranged large teeth, and distal part with about 7 obsolescent teeth (Fig. 2). Tenth abdominal tergum long, arculately deflexed in distal half, with lateral margin concave; split in basal third into two lobes with internal semilunar groove in distal part (Figs. 19-20). Cerci rather long, extending as far as two thirds of subgenital plate, coniform, evenly incurved, apex with an incurved hook. Sub- genital plate widest at base, gradually tapering and more strongly tapering behind basal third, split in apical third into two thin sheet lobes; styli short, cylindrical (Fig. 21). Female: Unknown. Coloration: Green. Lateral margins of pronotal disc with symmetrical light brown longitudinal stripes. Measurements of male (mm): length of body 26.0, length of pronotum 6.0, length of tegmen 45.0, largest width of tegmen 11.5, length of hind wing 50.0, length of hind femur 22.5. Discussion: The new species resembles R. fuscospinosa (Brunner von Watteneyl) in coloration, stripes of pronotal disc, but differs from the latter by shape of tegminal spots and arrangement of veinlets of male stridulatory area, and structure of tenth abdominal tergum. R. profunda differs from R. ensis (De Haan) by the brown lateral stripes on pronotum and the male subgenital plate being not deeply split. Etymology: The name derives from the Latin word “profund,” which indi- cated that the male ten abdominal tergum is deeply split into two lobes. 192 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks are due to Mr. Xianwei Liu in MSIE for his kindness to loan material. The project is sup- ported by a grant for project on arboretum and taxonomy, CAS to Dr. Liu (No. KSCX2-YW-Z-009) and by funds from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30499341) for major items to Dr. Kang. LITERATURE CITED Bei-Bienko, G. Y. 1954. Orthoptera. Vol. II. No. 2. Tettigonioidea Phaneropterinae. Fauna of USSR (N. S.) 59. 386 pp. Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem 1965. Eades, D. C., D. Otte, and P. Naskrecki. 2006. Orthoptera Species File Online. Version 2.3. http://osf2.orthoptera.org Gorochovy, A. V. 1998. New and little known katydids of the genera Stictophaula, Arnobia, and Mirollia (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae) from South-East Asia. Russian Entomo- logical Journal 7 (1-2): 1-14. Hebard, M. 1922. Studies in Malayan, Melanesian and Australian Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 74:121-299 Ingrisch, S. 1990. Zur Laubheus Chrecken-Fauna von Thailand (Ins. Salta. Tett.). Senckenbergiana Biologica 70 (1-3): 89-138. Ingrisch, S. and M. S. Shishodia. 1998. New species and records of Tettigoniidae from India (Ensifera). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 71(3-4): 355-371. Ingrisch, S. and M. S. Shishodia. 2000. New taxa and distribution records of Tettigoniidae from India (Orthoptera: Ensifera). Mitteilungen der Mincher Entomologische Gesellschart 90: 5-37. Kang, L. 1987. Taxononmic studies of the subfamily Pheneropterinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) in China. Master's Thesis of Beijing Agricultural University. Beijing, P. R. China. [In Chinese with English summary] Karny, H. H. 1926. Beitrage zur Malayischen Orthopterenfauna. Treubia 9 (1-3): 121. Liu, C. X., L. Kang, and X. W. Liu. 2004. The genus Ectadia Brunner von Wattenwy]1 (Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea: Phaneropterinae) with descriptions of three new species from China. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1): 37-43. Liu, C. X. and L. Kang. 2006a. A review of genus Parapsyra Carl (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae), with descriptions of three new species from China. Oriental Insects 40: 219- 230. Liu, C. X. and L. Kang. 2006b. New discoveries in the Chinese fauna: Genus Pseudopsyra (Orthoptera: Tettigonitidae: Phaneropterinae). Entomological News 117 (1): 57-68. Liu, C. X. and L. Kang. 2007. Revision of the genus Sinochlora Tinkham (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Phaneropterinae). Journal of Natural History (in press). Liu, X. W. and X. B. Jin. 1999. Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea. Jn: Huang BK, editor. Fauna of Insects of Fujian Prov. of China. Vol.1. Fujian Scientific and Technological Publishing House. pp. 119- 174. [In Chinese with English summary] Matsumura, S. and T. Shiraki. 1908. Locustiden Japans. Journal of the College of Agriculture, Tohoku Imperial University (Sapporo, Japan) 3: 23-24. Tinkham, E. R. 1945. Sinochlora, a new Tettigoniidae Genus from China with description of five new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 70: 235-246. Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 193 BIOLOGY OF PHERBELLIA INFLEXA (DIPTERA: SCIOMYZIDAE), A PREDATOR OF LAND SNAILS BELONGING TO THE GENUS ZONITOIDES (GASTROPODA: ZONITIDAE)' B. A. Foote’ ABSTRACT: Information is presented on the distribution, life cycle, and larval feeding habits of Pherbellia inflexa Fisher, whose larvae attack the small land snail Zonitoides arboreus (Zonitidae). KEY WORDS: Diptera, Sciomyzidae, Pherbellia inflexa, predation, Zonitoides arboreus, Gastro- poda, Zonitidae, land snails Larvae of Sciomyzidae (Diptera), frequently called snail-killing flies, have been intensively studied since the early 1950s when C. O. Berg (1953) reported that the larvae of several species attack a variety of aquatic and terrestrial snails. Although most of the 200 North American species are associated with aquatic and semi-aquatic snails (Knutson and Berg 1978, Knutson and Vala in press), a handful of species are known to attack semi-terrestrial Succineidae, land snails, and slugs (Table 1). The genus Pherbellia Robineau-Desvoidy is the largest genus of Sciomyzidae in North America, containing 43 species. All of the 29 reared species of the genus worldwide have larvae that either prey on stranded aquatic snails (13 spp.) or attack non-operculate land snails or Succineidae (see references in table 1). Pherbellia inflexa has a broad distribution in the western United States and Canada, being recorded in mountainous areas from southern British Columbia south to northern Arizona, east to central Colorado, and west to eastern Cali- fornia (Fig. 1). Collection records indicate that this species occurs in coniferous forests containing fallen, rotting logs. RESULTS Rearings were initiated from a puparium found in a shell of the small land snail Zonitoides arboreus (Say) (Zonitidae) collected VH-12-1965 under the bark of a decaying log of Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) in a lowland coniferous forest just north of the parking lot at the University of Montana Biological Station in Flathead County, MT (47° 52' N x 114° O1' W). There was no septum in front of the puparium, and the puparium was close to the aperture of the body whorl of the snail. It was curved to fit within the body whorl. On VII-13-1965, 29 additional shells of the host snail were collected in the same habitat. Of these, 13 were alive and uninfested by fly larvae, 5 were dead but contained no puparia, another 5 were dead but each contained a puparium, and 1 ‘Received on February 28, 2006. Acepted on April 16, 2007. *Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242 U.S.A. E-mail: bfoote@kent.edu. Mailed on June 18, 2007 194 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS snail was alive and contained a third-instar larva that projected its posterior end into the body whorl of the snail. In total, 38% of the collected shells had been infested by P. inflexa. i Figure 1. Geographical distribution of Pherbellia inflexa. The infested snail died on VII-14, but the larva was still in place and appar- ently feeding on the decaying tissues of the host. It formed a puparium in the body whorl on VII-18, and a pupa within the puparium was noted on VII-22. This gave a prepupal period of 4 days. An adult male emerged on VIII-17, giving a pupal period of 26 days. The reared male died on IX-18, having lived for some 31 days. None of the 5 puparia collected on VII-13 had produced adults by [X-25 when they were placed in a refrigerator and stored at 7°C. The puparia were returned to room temperature III-01-1966, having been exposed to low temperatures for 156 days. Undetermined wasps of the family Ichneumonidae emerged from 3 of these puparia, but no adult flies were obtained. Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 195 Table 1. Utilization of terrestrial gastropods by larvae of Sciomyzidae in North America. Species Sciomyzini Oidematops ferrugineus Cresson Pherbellia albocostata (Fallén) Pherbellia albovaria (Coquillett) Pherbellia inflexa Orth Pherbellia schoenherri maculata (Cresson) Pteromicra anopla Steyskal Pteromicra perissa Steyskal Steyskal Pteromicra steyskali Foote Sciomyza aristalis (Coquillett) Sciomyzia dryomyzina Zetterstedt Tetanocerini Antichaeta borealis Foote Antichaeta testacea Melander Euthycera arcuata (Loew) Hoplodictya spinicornis (Loew) Limnia boscii (Robineau-Desvoidy) Tetanocera clara Loew Host Relationship Snail Habitat To Host Stenotrema | Deciduous Parasitoid forests Discus Mixed Parasitoid forests /predator Parasitoid /predator Deciduous forests Anguispira, Discus, Triodopsis, Zonitoides Zonitoides Coniferous Parasitoid? forests Catinella, Marshes Parasitoid Oxyloma Pupilla Mixed Parasitoid? forests __| Discus Shrubby Parasitoid marshes Catinella, Marshes Egg predator Oxyloma Mesodon, Parasitoid /predator Deciduous forests Stenotrema, Ventridens Catinella, Marshes ‘| Parasitoid Oxyloma /predator Vernal ponds | Parasitoid sigh Pie ee a 3 /predator Pallifera, Marshes Parasitoid Philomycus /predator References Foote, 1977 Bratt et al., 1969 Bratt et al., 1969 This paper Bratt et al., 1969 Steyskal, 1954 Steyskal, 1958 Foote, 1959b Foote, 1959a Knutson, 1988 Robinson and Foote, 1978 Fisher and Orth, 1964 Foote and Keiper, 2004 Neff and Berg, 1962 Steyskal, et al., 1978 Trelka and Foote, 1970 196 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Tetanocera kerteszi (Hendel) Vallonia Mixed Unknown Knutson, pers. forests comm. Tetanocera Succinea Marshes Parasitoid Foote, 1996 melanostigma Steyskal /predator Tetanocera oxia Catinella Marshes Parasitoid Foote, 1996 Steyskal /predator Tetanocera phyllophora | Discus, Mixed Parasitoid Personal Melander Zonitoides | forests /predator observations Tetanocera plebeja Deroceras | Marshes Parasitoid Trelka and Loew /predator Foote, 1970 Tetanocera rotundicornis |Oxyloma Marshes Parasitoid Berg, 1953; Loew /predator Foote, 1996 Tetanocera spirifera Oxyloma Marshes Parasitoid Foote, 1996 Melander /predator Tetanocera valida Deroceras | Deciduous _ |Parasitoid Trelka and Loew forests /predator Foote, 1970 marshes Trypetoptera canadensis | Vallonia Deciduous __ | Parasitoid Personal (Macquart) forests /predator observations marshes DISCUSSION Although the rearings were incomplete, it is evident that larvae of P. inflexa infest land snails belonging to the genus Zonitoides. The few data available sug- gest that it is an univoltine species and is either a parasitoid or a parasitoid/pred- ator. Knutson and Vala (2002) have recently elucidated feeding behavior within the Sciomyzidae, recognizing 15 behavioral groups. According to their scheme, P. inflexa probably belongs to their group 6, “Parasitoids intimately associated with terrestrial non-operculate snails,” although it is not known whether the lar- vae complete all three instars within one individual of Z. arboreus. Therefore, it is possible that the larvae are better classified as being parasitoid/predators of ter- restrial snails. Compared with the numerous species of Sciomyzidae that attack aquatic snails, the number utilizing land gastropods is comparatively small. Only 27 of the 200 North American species of the family (13.5%) have been recorded as attacking terrestrial snails or slugs (Table 1). These species are nearly equally divided between the two tribes, with 11 belonging to the Sciomyzini, and 16 to the Tetanocerini. As suggested by Berg et al. (1959), the more terrestrial species show distinct tendencies to become increasingly parasitoid in their relationship to snail prey. Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 197 Most of the species are more or less host specific, remain with their prey for an extended period of time, and kill relatively few individual snails. Most of the species are quite host specific during the first instar but become somewhat more generalized in their choice of prey in the later instars (parasitoid/predator). However, two species illustrate the trend towards a more intimate association with their prey (parasitoid). Oidematops ferrugineus Cresson and Sciomyza aristalis (Coquillett) are highly host specific, attacking only one genus of snails, remaining with their prey for several days, and usually killing only one individ- ual snail. Both species form their puparia within the shell of the host snail. Sciomyza aristalis probably represents the epitome of the parasitoid trend among the more terrestrial Sciomyzidae in that it also deposits its egg directly onto the shell of the host snail (Foote, 1959). A similar story was reported by Barnes (1990) for S. varia (Coquillett), a species that attacks stranded or aestivating in- dividuals of the aquatic snail Stagnicola elodes (Say). ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Appreciation is expressed to Joe B. Keiper of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Eric G. Chapman of Kent State University, and L. V. Knutson of Gaeta, Italy, for reviewing the manuscript and offering suggestions for its improvement. Research supported by grants from the National Geographic Society and the National Science Foundation. z LITERATURE CITED Barnes, J. E. 1990. Biology and immature stages of Sciomyza varia (Diptera: Sciomyzidae), a spe- cialized parasitoid of snails. 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Annals of the Entomological Society of America 63: 877-895. Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 199 SCIENTIFIC NOTE A GLOMERIDESMID MILLIPED IN CANADA (DIPLOPODA: GLOMERIDESMIDA)' Rowland M. Shelley,’ Robert A. Cannings,’ Philip T. LePage,’ and Ken J. White* Introduced millipeds abound in urban environments of the continental United States (US) and Canada but are uncommon in areas removed from direct human influence. Most belong to the orders Julida and Polydesmida and are of European or Asian origins, although Neotropical representatives of the orders Polyzoniida, Spirobolida, and Polydesmida have been widely introduced into Florida and the Gulf Coastal states of the southeastern US (Hoffman 1999; Shelley 2000, 2001, 2004; Shelley & Golovatch 2000; Shelley & Edwards 2001, 2002; Shelley et al. 2006). Kevan (1983) and Shelley (1988, 1990, 2002) cited 20 non-native diplopods in Canada, and with an overall fauna of 64 species/subspecies, includ- ing two native ones recently described from Vancouver Island, British Columbia (BC) (Shear 2004), introduced species comprise nearly a third, 31.3%, of the country’s milliped fauna. On 13 August 2004, a research crew from the BC Ministry of Forests study- ing ecosystem recovery on the north coast collected an unusual, live milliped in the upper 10 cm of soil on the eastern side of Pitt Island, BC, approximately 100 m from the shoreline at 12 m elevation; site coordinates are 53° 53' 23.8" N and 130° 8' 57.3" W. The methodology involved cutting out forest floor samples measuring 15 x 15 x 10 cm and placing them in plastic bags for hand sorting the same day; arthropods were immediately preserved in alcohol. The milliped was sent to RAC for deposit in the Royal British Columbia Museum and then to RMS for identification; though soft, depigmented, and in poor condition, it was clear- ly a female of the genus Glomeridesmus Gervais, 1844 (Glomeridesmida: Glo- meridesmidae). One of the least diverse diplopod orders, the Glomeridesmida comprises only one family with two subfamilies, each with a single genus. According to Hoffman (1980, 1999), Glomeridesmus comprises some 23 species that inhabit both the New and Old Worlds; occurrence in the former extends from southern Mexico (Tabasco & Chiapas) and the Greater Antilles (Hispaniola [Haiti] & Puerto Rico) to Ecuador, and that in the latter includes southern India & Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea (New Ireland). The Glo- ‘Received February 3, 2006. Accepted April 17, 2007. > Research Lab., North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, 4301 Reedy Creek Rd., Raleigh, North Carolina 27607 U.S.A.; E-mail: rowland.shelley@ncmail.net. > Royal British Columbia Museum, 675 Belleville Street, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 9W2 Canada, E-mail: rcannings@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca. *BC Ministry of Forests and Range, Bag 6000, Smithers, British Columbia VOJ 2NO Canada. E-mails: phil. lepage@gov.bc.ca, ken.j.white@gov.bc.ca. Mailed on June 18, 2007 200 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS meridesmida belongs to the Infraclass Pentazonia of the Subclass Chilognatha (Shelley 2003) that includes two other orders, Glomerida and Sphaerotheriida, and is characterized by separate segmental sclerites, modification of the last two pairs of legs in males into “telopods,” a small 2nd tergite and pygidium, and the inability to volvate (Hoffman 1982). Fig. 1. Northern coastal British Columbia (BC) and Alaska (AK). The glomeridesmid collection site on Pitt Island (PI) is shown by the star (indicated by the arrow), and the dashed line marks the Inside Passage. Municipalities, denoted by dots, are as follows: A, Metlakatla, AK; B, Prince Rupert, BC; C, Port Edward, BC. Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 201 Pitt Island, located some 47 km (29.4 mi) SSW Prince Rupert along the west- ern side of the “Inside Passage” where BC and Alaska Marine Highway ferries pass, is some 90 km (56.3 mi) long and 22 km (13.8 mi) wide; the total area is 1,361 sq. km (525 sq. mi). It is uninhabited, and the collection area has not expe- rienced regular human activity since it was logged in 1940-1941. At that time, the loggers were stationed on an offshore float camp, and while False Stewart An- chorage on the northeastern end of Pitt Island is occasionally used as a temporary harbor by sport fishermen, it is unlikely that they would go ashore. The climate is mild with little snow, being foggy and rainy throughout the year, and the collec- tion site is located in the wet Hypermaritime Subzone of the Coastal Western Hemlock Zone (Banner et al. 1993). The dense second growth forest canopy at this site is dominated by Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) and Western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla). The moist Orthic Ferrohumic Podzol soil supports diverse but poorly developed shrub and herb layers comprised mainly of Alaskan blue- berry (Vaccinium alaskaense), red huckleberry (V. parvifolium), false azalea (Menziesia ferruginea), spiny wood fern (Dryopteris expansa), deer fern (Blech- num spicant), and false lily-of-the-valley (Maianthemum dilatatum). The moss layer is well-developed (15-20 cm deep) and is dominated by lanky moss (Rhyti- diadelphus loreus), step moss (Hylocomium splendens), Oregon beaked-moss (Eurhynchium oreganum), and common green sphagnum (Sphagnum girgen- sohnii). This environment, while moist, is significantly cooler (mean annual tem- perature approximately 7°C) and possesses considerably different vegetation from those in the aforementioned tropical areas where glomeridesmids occur. Fifteen sites were investigated on Pitt Island over two years but only this one glom- eridesmid was found, so there is no evidence of an established population. In groping for an explanation for this extreme geographical anomaly we have considered a variety of scenarios for both native occurrence and introduction by human agency, and all appear equally implausible; consequently, we cannot offer a hypothesis at this time. It is difficult to grasp how a relictual population of a tropical milliped order, foreign even to the southern US, could be indigenous to an island in so different a climatic zone as northern coastal BC, some 5,760 km (3,600 mi) northwest of the closest locality in Mexico. However, as Pitt Island has never been inhabited by modern man, human impact has been minimal other than when it was logged over 60 years ago, so occurrence as a human introduc- tion seems unlikely. We therefore only publicize the discovery for the benefit of future workers and note that if the occurrence results from human agency, it will constitute the 21st exogenous Canadian milliped and the first introduction any- where of a glomeridesmidan. To our knowledge it will also be only the second of the infraclass Pentazonia, the other being the Indian/Sri Lankan sphaerotheri- idan, Arthrosphaera cf. brandti (Humbert, 1865) in Tanzania (Enghoff 1977). ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We thank R. L. Hoffman for a prepublication review. We would also like to thank him along with W. A. Shear, H. Heatwole, Claudia Copley, and Robb Bennett, for thought-provoking discussions as to a possible explanation for this enigma. Dr. Shear also confirmed the identification. 202 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS LITERATURE CITED Banner, A., W. MacKenzie, S. Thompson, J. Pojar, and R. Trowbridge. 1993. A field guide to the site identification and interpretation for the Prince Rupert Forest Region. British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Research Branch, Victoria. British Columbia Land Management Handbook No. 26:1-516. Enghoff, H. 1977. Arthrosphaera cf. brandti (Humbert), a giant pill-millipede found in Tanzania, probably introduced from Sri Lanka (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriidae). Revue Zoologique Afri- caines 91(4):997-999. Hoffman, R. L. 1980. Classification of the Diplopoda. Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle. Genéve, Switzerland. 237 pp. Hoffman, R. L. 1982. Diplopoda, pp. 689-724. In, Parker, S. P., (Editor). Synopsis and Classifica- tion of Living Organisms. Volume 2. McGraw Hill. New York, NY, U.S.A. 1232 pp. Hoffman, R. L. 1999. Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication Number 8:1-584. Kevan, D. K. McE. 1983. A preliminary survey of known and potentially Canadian millipedes (Diplopoda). Canadian Journal of Zoology 61:2956-2975. Shear, W. A. 2004. Two new species in the milliped genus Zaiyutyla from British Columbia, Canada, and Washington, USA (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Conotylidae). Myriapodologica 8(2):13-20. Shelley, R. M. 1988. The millipeds of eastern Canada (Arthropoda: Diplopoda). Canadian Journal of Zoology 66:1638-1663. Shelley, R. M. 1990. A new milliped of the genus Metaxycheir from the Pacific coast of Canada (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae), with remarks on the tribe Chonaphini and the western Canadian and Alaskan diplopod fauna. Canadian Journal of Zoology 68:2310-2322. Shelley, R. M. 2000. Chondromorpha xanthotricha (Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae), a new mil- liped for the continental United States. Entomological News 111(5):370. Shelley, R. M. 2001 (2000). Annotated checklist of the millipeds of Florida (Arthropoda: Dip- lopoda). Insecta Mundi 14(4):241-251. Shelley, R. M. 2002. The millipeds of central Canada (Arthropoda: Diplopoda), with reviews of the Canadian fauna and diplopod faunistic studies. Canadian Journal of Zoology 80:1863-1875. Shelley, R. M. 2003 (2002). A revised, annotated, family-level classification of the Diplopoda. Arthropoda Selecta 11(3):187-207. Shelley, R. M. 2004. The milliped family Pyrgodesmidae in the continental USA, with the first record of Poratia digitata (Porat) from the Bahamas (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). Journal of Natural History 38:1159-1181. Shelley, R. M. and S. I. Golovatch. 2000. The milliped family Haplodesmidae in the Hawaiian Islands, with records of Prosopodesmus jacobsoni from Florida and Louisiana (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers No. 64:48-49. Shelley, R. M. and G. B. Edwards. 2001. Introduction of the milliped, Helicorthomorpha holstii, in Florida (Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae). Entomological News 112(3):200. Shelley, R. M. and G. B. Edwards. 2002. Introduction of the milliped family Rhinocricidae in Florida (Spirobolida). Entomological News 113(4):270-274. Shelley, R. M., R. M. Carmany, and J. Burgess. 2006. Introduction of the milliped, 7rigoniulus corallinus (Gervais, 1847), in Florida (Spirobolida: Trigoniulidae). Entomological News 117(2): 239-241. Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 203 SCIENTIFIC NOTE SEASONAL STATUS AND SURVIVAL OF CALOSOMA SAYI (COLEOPTERA: CARABIDAE) IN SOUTH GEORGIA, U.S.A.’ Orrey P. Young’ During 1980-1983, considerable research in south Georgia, U.S.A. was con- ducted on Calosoma sayi DeJean (Coleoptera: Carabidae), investigating the po- tential of the species for use in an augmentative and conservation biocontrol pro- gram against insect pests of row crops (e.g., Young 1985, Young and Hamm 1986). Among the issues not addressed in those reports was the possibility that the species could produce more than one generation in a year and could live as an adult for more than one year, factors that certainly would increase its biocon- trol potential. The possibility of multiple generations had been suggested by Price and Shepard in South Carolina (1978), who reported C. sayi adult popula- tions, composed of young and old individuals, occurring in crops to mid-October. Burgess and Collins (1917) studied in the lab six species that occur in Georgia, including C. sayi. All had egg, larval, and pupal stages in early-mid summer, with adult emergence in July and August and subsequent hibernation in August and September. Some individual beetles, under their laboratory conditions, were able as adults to live more than one year, though not C. sayi. They did not demonstrate for any of the six species a second generation of adults produced in late summer from adults eclosed in early summer. It should be noted, however, that most of their studies were conducted in outdoor insectaries in northeastern Massachu- setts, which may have affected late season activity of southern species. In the entire state of Georgia, Calosoma sayi adults have been captured from March to November (Fattig 1949). At the south Georgia light trap where the C. sayi adults used in this and the previously cited experiments were captured, over a three-year period initial captures of the season occurred the first week of May and the final captures of the season occurred the first week of October. Those beetles captured in the period of early May-late June were dull colored and somewhat worn on the leading edges of the clypeus and fore-tibia. Beetles obtained in July and August were a mix of shiny and unworn, and dull and great- ly worn individuals. By late September, virtually all individuals were either unworn or slightly worn. The ‘shiny and unworn’ individuals represent the pre- sumptive recently eclosed adults, and were either teneral (= soft exoskeleton) or at least in ‘prime’ condition, e.g., body surfaces fresh and anterior edges of the clypeus and fore-tibia sharp and well-defined. The ‘slightly worn’ and ‘dull and ‘Received on January 31, 2006. Accepted on September 17, 2006. > SGIRL-ARS-USDA, PO Box 748, Tifton, Georgia 31793 U.S.A. Current Address: 9496 Good Lion Road, Columbia, Maryland 21045 U.S.A. E-mail: orreyy@netzero.net. Mailed on June 18, 2007 204 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS greatly worn’ represent presumptive older individuals. This pattern of body con- dition suggests that the group of beetles obtained in the spring was composed of those individuals that had become adults the previous mid to late summer and then hibernated. As those beetles became active in the spring and aged, they exhibited more wear and eventually died before late September. Freshly eclosed individuals, either teneral or unworn, only occurred in July and August, and were the only beetles alive and showing slight wear in October just prior to their hiber- nation. The above sequence of aged individuals in a light trap suggests only one gen- eration of C. sayi is produced each year and that adults live only one season. Conceptually, there are three life history patterns that may occur in the sampled south Georgia populations, based on the demonstration by Burgess and Collins (1917) that not one of the 38 Calosoma species studied was observed to over- winter in any stage other than as an adult: (1) adults produced in July-August overwinter, reproduce the following spring, feed throughout the summer, over- winter, and reproduce again the following spring, with the same beetle possibly continuing into subsequent years, (2) adults produced in July-August overwinter, reproduce in spring, and die before winter, (3) adults that have overwintered reproduce in early spring and either die or overwinter, their progeny become. adults in mid-summer and overwinter, with their progeny becoming adults before fall and overwinter. Patterns no. 1 and no. 2 were demonstrated for many species by Burgess and Collins (1917), but not pattern no. 3. One reason for the absence of two generation of adults produced in the same year is probably due to the developmental time requirements of the earlier life stages. As an example, Calo- soma calidum (Fab.), which occurs in Georgia and is about the same size as C. sayi, required on average 45 days to pass through the egg, larva, prepupa, and pupa stages, with adults feeding for a month or so before hibernation (Burgess and Collins 1917, Gidaspow 1959). If adults emerged from hibernation as early as 1 May, it would be about | July before their progeny would be present for re- production and sometime after 1 September before the second generation of adults would emerge. That second generation of adults would have much diffi- culty obtaining sufficient food to acquire fat reserves, while surviving the lower- ing fall temperatures, prior to entering a hibernation period that would be suc- cessful. To consider in the laboratory the life history pattern of C. sayi, a technique was employed that examined life span differences between presumptively different generation populations. If life history pattern no. 2 is characteristic of C. sayi, adult populations in mid June should be overwintered individuals that are repro- ductively active and which will become senescent and die before hibernation in the fall can occur. Adult populations in late August should include recently eclosed individuals preparing for hibernation and perhaps some senescent indi- viduals remaining from the spring population. One way to document differences between the June and August populations, besides the physical condition of indi- Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 205 viduals, is to determine the survival periods of each population. If members of each group are offered food ad libitum, any differences in survival between the groups could be related to their likelihood of surviving under normal circum- stances to the following spring-summer reproductive period. Adult individuals of C. sayi were obtained on 19 June and 28 August from a walk-in black-light trap surrounded by row crops located 6 km NW of Tifton, Tift Co., Georgia. Beetles were brought into the laboratory and maintained in indi- vidual containers under conditions as previously described (Young 1985, Young and Hamm 1986). For each group (19 Jun and 28 Aug collections), 8 beetles were maintained without food and 16 beetles were offered food, for a total of 24 con- tainers per group. Beetles were examined on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of each week. On each occasion the condition of the beetle and its food was noted, water mist was added, and food if required was placed in the container. The offered food consisted of three live larvae (Sth-6th instar, 25-30 mm) of the fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctui- dae). For statistical purposes, when a beetle was determined to be dead at one of the feeding occasions, it was considered to have died that day. Comparison of the means of the two groups was accomplished by use of the Student’s t-test. In the 19 June group without food, beetles survived on average 29 days (range 15-44) with the mean end day of 7 July. Members of the 28 August group with- out food survived on average 31 days (R = 19-47) with the mean end day of 28 September. In the 19 July group with food, beetles survived on average 78 days (R = 13-94) with the mean end day of 4 September. Members of the 28 August group with food survived on average 118 days (R = 76-133) with the mean end day of 25 December. Within each date group (Table 1), the mean no. of days sur- viving of the two feeding sets (food vs. no food) were both significantly differ- ent (Student’s t-test, P < 0.05), and confirms that the food offered and consumed did extend the life of the beetles as compared to the absence of food. The values for the mean no. of days surviving with food for each date group were also sig- nificantly different (Student’s t-test, P < 0.05). Table 1 — Comparison of the survival of two groups of adult Calosoma sayi either offered or deprived of food. No. Range Mean end Treatment beetles days days 19 June 28 August 28 August 206 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS This experiment demonstrated that the 19 Jun group was a previously over- wintered population that most likely could not have survived to overwinter again. The 25 August group, with its much longer survival period, would most likely have overwintered if it had been allowed to burrow into soil and been faced with a decreasing food supply and declining temperatures, conditions that the experi- ment did not provide. Although Burgess and Collins (1917) note than in general, newly eclosed (teneral) adult Calosoma spp. had shorter starvation periods than those newly emerged from hibernation, the close similarity in starvation survival between the two date groups does not agree with that observation. The entire 19 June group was probably not recently emerged from hibernation, some individ- uals possibly appearing up to 6 weeks previously. The 28 Aug group probably contained some adults that had emerged recently and some that may have emerged up to 8 weeks previously. Research with other carabid species has also demonstrated similar survival times of individual adults captured at different times of the year (Kabacik-Wasylik and Stejgwillo-Laudanska 1971). The sum of this laboratory experiment and the associated field observations provide no evi- dence that adult C. sayi can live more than one year, and no evidence that two generations can be produced in a single season. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks to C. Sharp, H. Gross, and P. Jones for technical assistance and G. Bernon for manuscript review. LITERATURE CITED Burgess, A. F. and C. W. Collins. 1917. The genus Calosoma: Including studies of seasonal histo- ries, habits, and economic importance of American species north of Mexico and of several intro- duced species. USDA Bureau of Entomology Bulletin 417: 1-124. Fattig, P. W. 1949. The Carabidae or ground beetles of Georgia. Emory University Museum Bul- letin 7: 1-62. Gidaspow, T. 1959. North American caterpillar hunters of the genera Calosoma and Callisthenes (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 116: 228-343. Kabacik-Wasylik, D. and B. Stejgwillo-Laudanska. 1971. Starvation and the average survival time of Carabidae. Ekologia Polska 19: 419-425. Price, J. F. and M. Shepard. 1978. Calosoma sayi: Seasonal history and response to insecticides in soybeans. Environmental Entomology 7: 359-363. Young, O. P. 1985. Longevity of adult male Calosoma sayi (Coleoptera: Carabidae) under labora- tory conditions. Entomological News 96: 45-48. Young, O. P. and J. J. Hamm. 1986. Rate of food passage and fecal production in Calosoma sayi (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Entomological News 97: 21-27. Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 207 SCIENTIFIC NOTE NEW OBSERVATIONS OF HOST PLANT USAGE BY CLEMATODES LARREAE (ORTHOPTERA: ACRIDIDAE: COPIOCERINAE), INCLUDING A NEW HOST PLANT IN TEXAS, U.S.A.’ Thomas Stidham’ and John Stidham’ Clematodes larreae Scudder is a small flightless gray grasshopper that occurs in the western part of Texas, southern New Mexico, and adjacent Mexico (Rehn and Eades 1961). The type material was collected on Larrea (creosote bush), and the grasshopper’s specific epithet is in reference to that host plant (Scudder 1900). Clematodes larreae is predominantly found on Larrea (Rehn and Eades 1961, Tinkham 1948), but it also has been recorded on low grasses (Poaceae), Koeberlinia spinosa (Koeberliniaceae, crucifixion thorn), Fallugia paradoxa (apache plume, Rosaceae), Macrorhamnus (Colubrina) ericoides (Rhamnaceae, snakewood), and Acacia spp. (Fabaceae) (Rehn and Eades 1961). On 25 June 1983 and 30 June 2005, we collected specimens and observed other C. larreae on Prosopsis glandulosa (Fabaceae, honey mesquite) in Trans- Pecos Texas. These specimens will be placed in the Texas A & M University Insect Collection (Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University). The occurrence of C. /arreae on mesquite previously has not been reported. We col- lected one male and three female specimens in 1983 approximately 40 miles east of El Paso on Interstate 10, El Paso County, Texas, and three males and three females in 2005 west of Fort Hancock on Interstate 10, Hudspeth County. At both locations, the soil is light-colored sand, and the vegetation is composed of a mix- ture mostly of mesquite and creosote. At the Ft. Hancock locality, individuals were observed on both mesquite and creosote. During the time we were at the Ft. Hancock locality in the mid-afternoon, it was extremely hot (over 43°C) and we observed that insects died within seconds if they came into contact with the sandy surface of the ground. The Clematodes individuals that occurred on mes- quite were easily located. They appeared to occupy the highest, visually exposed positions on the center tallest branches of individual mesquite trees (sometimes over two meters tall) in a cluster of three or more mesquite trees. We believe that this position was taken in order to keep away from the extremely hot ground sur- face. In 1983, we only encountered Clematodes by beating low vegetated branches of mesquite where the specimens were always well hidden. The tem- perature was not as extreme at that time. "Received on March 31, 2006. Accepted on April 17, 2007. * Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, 3258 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843-3258 U.S.A. E-mail: furcula@mail.bio.tamu.edu. *301 PebbleCreek Dr., Garland, Texas 75040 U.S.A. E-mail: johnstidham@acceleratedmarket.com. Mailed on June 18, 2007 208 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS The occurrence of Clematodes on Larrea at the Ft. Hancock locality appears to have paralleled that of the creosote grasshopper [Bootettix argentatus (Bruner)]. Every creosote bush or cluster of bushes that was occupied by cre- osote grasshoppers (over 37 observations) also contained at least one individual of Clematodes. There was perfect correspondence between their co-occurrence on seven bushes. We examined over thirty other creosote bushes with neither grasshopper species. These are limited data, but we believe that it adds to the dis- cussion about the use of individual bushes of Larrea by Clematodes and Bootettix, since both species may be selecting individual plants using the same or similar criteria. A variety of hypotheses have been erected to explain the distribution of Bootettix argentatus on creosote (Otte and Joern 1975), but those hypotheses do not appear to explain all distribution data (Garcia 1996). The co-occurrence of these two species of grasshopper on particular creosote bushes may be a reflec- tion of a common choice by both species for some currently unknown factor such as leaf chemical abundance or composition (Chapman 1988). Additional obser- vations are necessary before that hypothesis can be tested. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank Merrill Sweet, Ed Riley, and four anonymous reviewers for comments on an earlier ver- sion of the manuscript. LITERATURE CITED Chapman, R. F. 1988. Chemical aspects of host-plant specificity in three Larrea-feeding grasshop- pers. Journal of Chemical Ecology 14:561-579. Garcia, E. R. 1996. Utilizacion de Larrea tridentata (DC) cov. (Zygophyllaceae) por Bootettix argentatus (Bruner), (Acrididae: Gomphocerinae), en el Bolson de Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Acta Zoologica de Mexico 68:1-12. Otte, D. and A. Joern. 1975. Insect territoriality and its evolution: population studies of desert grasshoppers on creosote bushes. Journal of Animal Ecology 44:29-54. Rehn, J. A. G. and D. C. Eades. 1961. The North American and Mexican Tribe Clematodini (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia 113:135-156. Scudder, S. H. 1900. A tropical type of acridian new to the United States. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 8:213-214. Tinkham, E. R. 1948. Faunistic and ecological studies on the Orthoptera of the Big Bend Region of Trans-Pecos Texas, with especial reference to the orthopteran zones and faunae of midwestern North America. American Midland Naturalist 40:521-663. Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 209 SCIENTIFIC NOTE NEW ADDITIONS TO THE CADDISFLY FAUNA (TRICHOPTERA) OF TENNESSEE AND VIRGINIA, U.S.A. John K. Moulton’ Ultraviolet light trap collections by the author in eastern Tennessee and portions of western Virginia during the summer and autumn of 2005 and 2006 yielded adults of two caddisflies, Polycentropus carlsoni Morse and Lepidostoma sackeni (Banks), not pre- viously reported from Tennessee and two species, Lepidostoma serratum Flint and Wiggins and L. sommermanae Ross, not previously reported from Virginia. The cad- disfly fauna of Tennessee, with approximately 400 known species, is among the most intensely studied in the United States (Etnier and Schuster 1979; Etnier et al., 1998). Parker and Voshell (1981) provided a preliminary checklist of the Trichoptera of Virginia that included a total of 239 species and 101 new state records. Polycentropus carlsoni was collected on June 18, 2005 (1 male, | female), and Octo- ber 9, 2005 (1 male), from Fowler Spring Branch, a small, coldwater, cobble-bottomed, first-order tributary to Beaver Creek in northern Knox County, Tennessee (Bell Campground Rd., 0.3 km N of jet. with W. Brushy Valley Dr., 36° 02.958 N, 84° 04.146 W). Fowler Spring Branch is the type locality of another caddisfly species with a rather restricted range, Neophylax etnieri Vineyard and Wiggins. Polycentropus carlsoni was previously known only from small springs along the western slope of the Appalachian Mountains from North Carolina (Etnier et al., 1998), South Carolina (Morse 1971, Hoffman and Morse 1990), and Alabama (Harris et al., 1991). Therefore, the Tennessee record reported herein is the first for P. carlsoni from a locality west of the Appalachian backbone. Based upon prior reports, adults of this species can be taken from April or May through October. Most specimens have been taken in Malaise traps, and collec- tions generally are comprised of fewer than five individuals. Several adults of Lepidostoma sackeni, one of the most easily recognized species in this speciose genus (at least the adult male), were taken on September 5, 2005, from a bog habitat alongside Newfound Gap Road (US 441) in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee (1.5 km S of parking lot for Alum Cave Bluff Trail, 35° 37.300 N, 83°26.318 W). This record brings the total number of Lepidostoma species known or thought to inhabit Tennessee to 21 (Flint and Wiggins 1961; Etnier et al., 1998; Weaver 1988). The previous most southerly record for L. sackeni was central West Virginia (Tarter and Hill 1979). I predict L. sackeni will eventually be found in the intervening regions of North Carolina and Virginia once suitable bog habitats are iden- tified and sampled during the appropriate time, late summer to early fall. Three males and an undetermined number of females of Lepidostoma serratum were collected from a small rivulet on a heavily wooded and sloped tract of privately held land in southcentral Grayson County, Virginia (36° 37.095 N, 81 02.448 W), on September 15, 2005. Several adults of three additional species in the genus, L. som- mermanae, L. tibiale, and L. togatum, were also present in the sample. This is the first ' Submitted on October 3, 2006. Accepted on April 18, 2007. * Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-4560 U.S.A. E-mail: jkmoulton@mail.ag.utk.edu. Mailed on June 18, 2007 210 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS published report of L. serratum from Virginia, although C. R. Parker (personal com- munication) has a single record of it from Patrick County. The discovery of this rare, but widely distributed species is not unexpected for Virginia. Previously, it has been reported from Connecticut (Nelson 1987, Weaver 1988) and PA (Masteller and Flint 1992) to the north and LA (Weaver 1988), NC (Flint and Wiggins 1961, Weaver 1988, Morse et al., 1989), and SC (Morse et al., 1989) to the south. Lepidostoma sommer- manae was also not included in the Virginia checklist by Parker and Voshell (1981), although C. R. Parker has subsequently collected it along the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia (C. R. Parker, personal communication). Lepidostoma sommermanae is known from eastern Canada and the northeastern United States and down the Appalachians into western North Carolina (Weaver 1988). ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The author is grateful to J. C. Morse and C. R. Parker for providing helpful comments on an early draft of this manuscript and one anonymous reviewer whose suggestions also improved the final draft. C. R. Parker graciously provided information about unpublished caddisfly records from Virginia. This research was funded in part by the Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station (TAES) and Discover Life In America/All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (DLIA/ATBI) grant (DLIA-06030518). LITERATURE CITED Etnier, D. A and G. A. Schuster. 1979. A checklist of the Trichoptera of Tennessee. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 54(1): 15-22. Etnier, D. A., J. T. Baxter, Jr., S. J. Fraley, and C. R. Parker. 1998. A checklist of the Trichoptera of Tennessee. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 73(1-2): 53-72. Flint, O. S., Jr., and G. B. Wiggins. 1961. Records and descriptions of North American species in the genus Lepidostoma, with a revision of the vernalis Group (Trichoptera: Lepidostomatidae). The Canadian Entomologist 43(4): 279-297. Harris, S. C., P. E. O’Neil, and P. K. Lago. 1991. Caddisflies of Alabama. Geological Survey of Ala- bama. Bulletin 142. Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 442 pp. Hoffman, K. M. and J. C. Morse. 1990. Descriptions of the females of three Polycentropus species (Trichoptera: Polycentropodidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 92(2): 274-281. Masteller, E. C. and O. S. Flint, Jr. 1992. The Trichoptera (Caddisflies) of Pennsylvania: an anno- tated checklist. Journal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science 66(2): 68-78. Morse, J. C. 1971. New caddisflies (Trichoptera) from the southeastern United States. Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society 6(2): 77-84. Morse, J. C., S. W. Hamilton, and K. M. Hoffman. 1989. Aquatic insects of Lake Jocassee catch- ment in North and South Carolina, with descriptions of four new species of caddisflies (Tri- choptera). The Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 105(1): 14-33. Nelson, V. A. 1987. Light trap collections of Trichoptera near the source of Hopp Brook, New Haven County, Connecticut. pp. 203-205. Jn, M. Bournaud and H. Tachet (Editors). Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Trichoptera. Lyon (France). 21-26 July 1986. W. Junk Publishers. Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Series Entomologica 39. 424 pp. Parker, C. R. and J. R. Voshell, Jr. 1981. A preliminary list of the caddisflies (Trichoptera) of Virginia. Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society 16(1): 1-7. Tarter, D. C. and P. L. Hill. 1979. Caddisflies (Trichoptera) of the Cranberry Glades in West Virginia. Entomological News 90(4): 205-206. Weaver, J. S. III. 1988. A synopsis of the North American Lepidostomatidae (Trichoptera). Contribu- tions of the American Entomological Institute 24(2): i-iv, 1-141. Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 211 SCIENTIFIC NOTE RANGE EXTENSION OF THE ARMY ANT ECITON MEXICANUM ROGER (FORMICIDAE: ECITONIND) IN THE PANTANAL SURROUND PLATEAU, BRAZIL' Fernando J. Zara’ and Harold G. Fowler’ The army ant Eciton mexicanum is represented by six subspecies identifiable through male or queen morphology (for review see Borgmeier, 1955; Retten- meyer, 1963). In Brazil, E. mexicanum has been reported as far south as Goiania, Goias state (referred as Campinas by Schwarzmaier in 1935, an old name of Goiania city), Ribeirao Preto, Sao Paulo and Pirapora, Minas Gerais (Borgmeier, 1955) (Fig 1). Additional occurrences, without locality and subspecies register, are recorded from the states of Rondonia, Amazonas, Para, Pernambuco and Bahia (Borgmeier, 1955; Kempf, 1972, Watkins, 1976). H ose > f atts “a / Brasilia ws, Zz / ee 2 Pirapora i Goiania a 2 ee as _ Belo i Ps #® Horizonte eo ape r Ribeirio f i Preto L eke . F .. Figure 1. Distribution map depicts the new (star) and previous (black target) registers for E. mexicanum in Brazil. ‘Received on November 27, 2005. Accepted on April 16, 2007. >UNESP (Universidade Estadual Paulista). Campus do Litoral Paulista, Unidade de Sado Vicente 11330-900, Sao Paulo, Brazil. E-mail: fjzara@cvs.unesp.br. > UNESP (Universidade Estadual Paulista). Campus do Rio Claro, Departamento de Ecologia, 11506- 900, Rio Claro, Sao Paulo, Brazil. E-mail: hgfowler@rc.unesp.br Mailed on June 18, 2007 22 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS On April 23, 2005, one colony of E. mexicanum was found in a house in the center of Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul, situated at the border of the Pantanal floodplain (20°28'16"S, 55°47'14"W). Raiding columns emerged from a residen- tial basement attacking subterranean ant nests, similar to records of Rettenmeyer (1963). The occurrence of any species of Eciton foraging in an urban center has never been reported and this may be related to E. mexicanum’s primarily hypo- gaetic habits (Borgmeier 1995, Rettenmeyer 1963, Gotwald 1995), immediately parallel to the Aquidauana River. Rettenmeyer (1963) classified E. mexicanum as the most subterranean and nocturnal of the five Eciton species in his study at Barro Colorado Island, where he observed only one diurnal raid on a rainy day, contrasting to our observation. The present record extends the known Brazilian range of E. mexicanum 810km southwest from Goiania, 835km northwest from Ribeirao Preto and 1200km west from Pirapora and suggests that this species may be present in the Bolivian Pantanal. Worker voucher specimens are deposited in collections of H. G. Fowler and the myrmecological collection of the Biology Departments of UNESP-Rio Claro and Sao Vicente. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors acknowledge the referees and C. P. A. Prado for the valuable suggestions on the man- uscript and Leandro J. Fonseca for the help with the map. FJZ thanks to the FAPESP for the finan- cial support (proc. 2005/04707-5). LITERATURE CITED Borgmeier, T. 1955. Die wanderameisen der Neotropischen Region (Hym. Formicidae). Studia Entomologica. Revista Internacional de Entomologia 1: 1-716. Gotwald Jr., W. H. 1995. The Army Ants: the biology of social predation. Comstock Publishing Associates. Cornell University. Ithaca, New York, U.S.A. 302 pp. Kempf, W. W. 1972. Catalogo abreviado das formigas da Regiao Neotropical. Studia Entomo- logica. Revista Internacional de Entomologia 15: 3-344. Rettenmeyer, C. W. 1963. Behavioral studies of army ants. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 44: 281-465. Watkins, J. F. 1976. The identification and distribution of New Word army ants (Dorylinae: Formicidae). Markham Press Fund of Baylor University Press. Baylor University. Waco, Texas, U.S.A. 102 pp. Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 213 SCIENTIFIC NOTE OCCURRENCES OF THE MILLIPED, CHONDROMORPHA XANTHOTRICHA (ATTEMS, 1898), IN THE NEW WORLD: FIRST RECORDS FROM MEXICO, COSTA RICA, PANAMA, THE CAYMAN ISLANDS, SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES, AND TOBAGO; FIRST LOCALITIES IN CUBA (POLYDESMIDA: PARADOXOSOMATIDAE)' Rowland M. Shelley’ and Fabio G. Cupul-Magana’ In the Western Hemisphere, a diverse indigenous fauna of the milliped family Paradoxosomatidae occupies South America and ranges northward to Costa Rica and Dominica (Pocock 1888, 1894; Hoffman 1960, 1977, 1980a, 1999; Loomis 1968). However, the only paradoxosomatids in North America, the lone populated continent without native taxa, are four introduced species from Asia and one from Australia: Oxidus gracilis (C. L. Koch, 1847), which is widespread in urban environments in both the United States and Canada and frequently undergoes population explosions; Asiomorpha coarctata (Saussure, 1860), in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas; Akampto- gonus novarae (Humbert and Saussure, 1869), the lone Australian paradoxosomatid, in California; Chondromorpha xanthotricha (Attems, 1898), in Texas; and Heli- corthomorpha holstii (Pocock, 1895), in Florida (Causey 1943; Weems and Loomis 1974; Hoffman 1980b; Kevan 1983; Shelley 1988, 1990, 2000, 2001, 2002a, b; Shelley and Edwards 2002; Shelley et al., 1998). The first two species and C. xan- thotricha occur in Central America and on Caribbean Islands, and are sympatric with the indigenous fauna from Costa Rica and Dominica southward. New World occur- rences of O. gracilis and A. coarctata are supported by numerous samples and pub- lished records, but comparatively few of either exist for C. xanthotricha, a more recent importation. The earliest reported collection, 1938 from Paramaribo, Surinam (Jeekel 1963), is supplanted by the 1931 sample from Trinidad (detailed below); con- sequently, the original importation appears to have been in the late 1920-1930s in the area of Trinidad and the northern South American coast. The milliped has been intro- duced as far north as southern Texas, USA (Shelley 2000), as far south as Ecuador, the first South American record outside of Surinam (see below), and is known from all islands in the Greater Antilles. Chondromorpha xanthotricha is readily distinguished from other exogenous para- doxosomatids by the granular, papilose, and setose dorsum and the configuration of the gonopods; anatomical diagnoses and illustrations are available in Attems (1898: 139, pl. 5, fig. 115 as Prionopeltis xanthotrichus; and 1937:110-112, figs. 145-148 as ‘Received April 3, 2006. Accepted April 16, 2007. > Research Lab., North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, 4301 Reedy Creek Rd., Raleigh, NC 27607 USA; e-mail rowland.shelley@ncmail.net *Centro Universitario de la Costa, Universidad de Guadalajara, Av. Universidad de Guadalajara No. 203, Delegacion Ixtapa, C.P. 48280, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico; e-mail fabio _cupul@yahoo.com.mx Mailed on June 18, 2007 214 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS C. granosa and C. xanthotricha), Loomis (1948:187-188, figs. 3-6 as Xaymacia gran- ulata), and Shelley and Lehtinen (1998:88, figs. 10-12). The first report of C. xan- thotricha in the Western Hemisphere was by Chamberlin (1941), who cited it as Dasomus bicolor Chamberlin, 1941, from Jamaica in general based on eight speci- mens that were intercepted in quarantine in Washington, DC, USA. Seven years later, Loomis (1948) reported it from five localities in Jamaica under another synonym, Xaymacia granulata Loomis, 1948. Subsequently, the milliped has been recorded from Surinam (Jeekel 1963), two additional sites in Jamaica as C. kelaarti (Humbert, 1865) (Loomis 1975), Guadeloupe and Marie-Galante (Mauriés 1980), Puerto Rico (Santiago-Blay and Velez 1985), Cuba in general (Gonzalez Oliver and Golovatch 1990), and Haiti and Trinidad Shelley (2000). We list below records from six new countries and three new Caribbean islands, along with the first localities in Cuba, unreported Jamaican sites, and details of the general records from Haiti and Trinidad. Repository acronyms are BMNH, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom (UK); CAS, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA; CZUG, Coleccion Entomologica del Centro de Estudios en Zoologia de la Universidad de Guadalajara, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico; FSCA, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville, USA; NCSM, North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, USA; and ROM, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. Occurrences Mexico: Jalisco, Puerto Vallarta, 20°39'28.5" N, 105°13'6.5" W, 48 m elev., 11 March 2006, F. G. Cupul-Magafia (CZUG). New Country Record. Costa Rica: Puntarenas Prov., Julieta, Finca La Ligea, 28 November 1964, K. A. Amold (FSCA); and Coto District, 25 July 1981, G. B. Edwards (FSCA). New Country Record. Panama: Colon Prov., Colon, Cia. Agricola Amsterdam, 19 April 1975, G. H. Gwin (FSCA). Herrera Prov. Divisa, 14 October 1957, Lancaster (FSCA). New Country Record. Ecuador: Guayaquil, 20 March 1966, R. O. Albert (FSCA). New Country Record. Cuba: Ciudad de la Habana, Marianao, Country Club, 19 March 1949, M. L. Jaume (FSCA); and Littoral de W Gariano, 29 July 1951, M. L. Jaume (FSCA). Guantanamo Proyv., Loma en el km 6 de la Carretera de Hoya Colorado, Ciudad Baracoa, Haboma, 26 September 1951, M. L. Jaume (FSCA). Pinar del Rio Prov., San Vicente, 13 August 1959, R. E. Woodruff (FSCA); 2 km del Puebla de Artemisa, 27 May 1950, M. L. Jaume (FSCA); and Cayajabos, 2 October 1951, M. L. Jaume (FSCA). First Specific Localities. Haiti: Martissant, 1 August 1958, S. Lazell (FSCA, NCSM). Puerto Rico: Mayaguez, 26 May 1981, D. Richman (FSCA). Jamaica: Portland Parish, Nonsuch Cave, November 1973, R. Norton (FSCA). St. Andrew Parish, locality unknown, 31 August 1952, W. J. Baerg (FSCA); Buff Bay, 26 December 1970, D. Bennett (FSCA); and nr. Kingston, Costa Mente Hotel, 30 December 1970, D. Bennett (FSCA). St. Ann Parish, Ocho Rios, 27 December 1970, D. Bennett (FSCA); and Runaway Cave, 27 March 1973, R. Norton, R. Zimmerman (FSCA). St. Catharine Parish, St. Claire Cove, 27 December 1972, S. and J. Peck Volume 118, Number 2, March and April 2007 215 (FSCA). St. Elizabeth Parish, municipality unknown, Bamboo Ave., 5 August, year unknown, E. S. Ross (CAS). St. Thomas Parish, Morant Bay, 59.2 km (37 mi) E Kingston, 1 May 1971, W. Baker (ROM). Cayman Islands (UK): Grand Cayman, 3.2 km (2 mi.) NE George Town, 6 March and 29 April 1970, D. W. Buden (FSCA); and Old Man Bay, 26 February 1970 (FSCA). New Territory and Island Record. St. Vincent and the Grenadines: Mustique, 6 August 2005, M. de Silva (digital photo sent to RMS). New Country and Island Record. Trinidad and Tobago: Jobago, Bloody Bay, 7 July 1999, R. M. Shelley, M. Judson (NCSM); L’Anse Fourmi and Speyside, 8-9 July 1999, R. M. Shelley (NCSM) New Island Record. Trinidad, St. Augustine, 5 November 1931, D. Vesey- Fitzgerald (BMNH); and St. Georges County, Arima Valley, Simla, 27 June - 3 July 1978, C. B. and H. V. Weems (FSCA). In the Grenadines, C. xanthotricha occurs under stones and leaf litter throughout Mustique, where it is the most common small milliped; however, it has not been found to the south on Mayreau, the only other island examined to date. Mustique receives substantial imports like plants from St. Vincent and Barbados and construc- tion sand from Guyana, so a sizeable population of an introduced milliped is not sur- prising (M. de Silva, pers. comm. to RMS). In Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, C. xan- thotricha is common outdoors in the rainy season (June-October) but is found only under stones in the dry months (November-May). Mating was observed in March. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank the following curators for providing RMS access to the collections under their supervisions: J. Beccaloni (BMNH), C. E. Griswold (CAS), G. B. Edwards (FSCA), and D. C. Darling (ROM). We are particularly grateful to M. de Silva for sending the photo of C. xanthotricha from Mustique to RMS and providing other information on the Grenadines. R. L. Hoffman provided a pre-submission review. LITERATURE CITED Attems, C. 1898. System der Polydesmiden I. Theil. Denkschriften der Mathematisch-Naturwissen- schaftlichen Class der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 67:1-262. Attems, C. 1937. Myriapoda 3. Polydesmoidea I. Fam. Strongylosomidae. Das Tierreich, Lief. 68:1-300. Causey, N. B. 1943. Studies on the life history and the ecology of the hothouse millipede, Orthomorpha gracilis (C. L. Koch 1847). American Midland Naturalist 29(3):670-682. Chamberlin, R. V. 1941. New polydesmoid diplopods intercepted at quarantine. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 43(2):32-35. ' Gonzalez Oliver, R. and S. I. Golovatch. 1990. Catalogo de los diplopodos de Cuba. Editorial Aca- demia, La Habana, Cuba, 37 pp. Hoffman, R. L. 1960. Millipeds from Dominica, British West Indies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 111:33-41. Hoffman, R. L. 1977. The milliped genus Mestosoma in Costa Rica (Polydesmida: Paradoxoso mati- dae). Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 12(1977):207-215. Hoffman, R. L. 1980a (1979). 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Introduction of the milliped, Helicorthomorpha holstii, in Florida (Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae). Entomological News 112(3):200. Shelley, R. M. and P. T. Lehtinen. 1998. Introduced millipeds of the family Paradoxosomatidae on Pacific Islands (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). Arthropoda Selecta 7(2):81-94. Shelley, R. M., S. B. Bauer, and S. F. Swift. 1998. The milliped family Paradoxosomatidae in the Hawaiian Islands (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers No. 56:43-53. Weems, H. V., Jr., and H. F. Loomis. 1974. Oxidus gracilis (Koch) and Orthomorpha coarctata (Saussure), two milliped pests in Florida. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry, Entomology Circular No. 145:1-2. Scientific Notes, Book Reviews, and other short contributions. These are shorter contributions, typically not exceeding one (Book Review) or two (Scientific Notes) printed pages. 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Rebollar-Te z 04 IBRARIES Fernando J. Andrade-Narvaez’” ABSTRACT: Localized cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania (Leishmania) mexicana is endemic in the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico. Lutzomyia olmeca olmeca and Lutzomyia cruciata have been found infected by flagellates. This represents the first report on the detection and identification of Leishmania to the genus and subgenus levels in both sand fly species using the polymerase chain reac- tion. KEY WORDS: Leishmania (Leishmania) mexicana, Lutzomyia olmeca olmeca, Lutzomyia cruciata, identification, PCR Localized cutaneous leishmaniasis (LCL) was first described in southern Mexico by Seidelin (1912). Since then, the sylvatic area of the Yucatan peninsula has been recognized as an endemic focus of LCL. Leishmania (Leishmania) mexi- cana (Biagi 1953, emended Garham 1962) has been identified as the predominant causative agent in humans and wild rodents (Perez-Mutul et al., 1994; Chablé- Santos et al., 1995; Canto-Lara et al, 1998; Canto-Lara et al., 1999). The sand fly Lutzomya olmeca olmeca (Vargas and Diaz Najera 1953) has been incriminated as a Leishmania vector (Biagi et al., 1965), but the species of Leishmania present in this region are unknown. However, recent evidence suggested that L. cruciata (Coquillet) may play an important role in Leishmania transmission in the adjacent state of Campeche (Rebollar-Téllez et al., 1996a). Female L. cruciata are highly anthropophilic and are by far the most abundant man-biting species caught in the states of Campeche (Rebollar-Téllez et al., 1996 b and c), Quintana Roo (Cruz- Ruiz et al., 1994) and Yucatan (Rebollar-Téllez and Manrique-Saide 2001). This is the first report regarding the detection and identification to the genus and subgenus levels of Leishmania in both L. 0. olmeca and L. cruciata collected in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method to amplify the parasite’s kDNA. Received on June 13, 2006. Accepted on April 16, 2007. * Laboratorio de Inmunologia, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales “Dr. Hideyo Noguchi,” Universi- dad Autonoma de Yucatan, Avenida Itzaes No. 490 x 57, CP 97000, Mérida, Yucatan, México. E-mails: SBC-L, scanto@uady.mx (corresponding author); MDB-S, lunula_77@hotmail.com; EAR-T, rebollar@uady.mx; and FJA-N, anarvaez@uady.mx. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 118 (3): 217, May and June 2007 Mailed on July 31, 2007 218 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS METHODS Study Sites: Site selection was based on epidemiological studies carried out between 1988 and 2000 in collaboration with health authorities from these three states of the Yucatan peninsula. Collections were performed at the following sites: La Libertad, Escarcega, Campeche (N 18° 31.60', O 90° 27.89"); La Guadalupe, Calakmul, Campeche (N 17° 20.25', O 89° 28.49"); Dos Naciones, Calakmul, Campeche (N 17° 58.40', O 89° 20.74'); La Virgencita, Calakmul, Campeche (N 18° 14.53' O 89° 19.65'); Santa Isabel, Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo (N19° 28.20', O 88° 06.87'); Becanchen, Tekax, Yucatan (N 19° 52.31', O 89° 12.618'). Collections were carried out during the transmission season (Andrade-Narvaez et al., 2003), from November to March 2001-2002 and November to February 2002-2003 using Shannon and Disney traps between 18.00-22.00 h and 18.00-07.00 h, respectively. Once identified using a sand fly key (Biagi 1966), the insects were stored in 80% ethanol in groups of 15-20 specimens per vial (2001-2002 collections), or groups of 5-10 specimens per vial (2002-2003 collections). DNA was extracted as des- cribed by Aransay et al. (2000). Briefly, sand fly bodies were homogenized and DNA was extracted using 100ul of extraction buffer, and samples were incubated at 65°C for 30 min. Following the addition of 14.0 ul 8 M potassium acetate (pH 7.2) the homogenates were incubated on ice for 30 min and then centrifuged at 13000 rpm for 10 min. Supernatants were recovered and DNA was precipitated with the addition of 200 uml of 100% ethanol. DNA pellets were resuspended in 20 ml of Tris-EDTA buffer. Primers specific for Leishmania genus, namely 13 yey (GTGGGGGAGGGGCGTTCT) and 13 B (ATTTTACACCAACCCCCAGTT), B-4 (TCGTACTCCCCGACATGCCTC) for the subgenus Viannia, and M1.1 (CCAGTTTCGACCGCCGGAGC) for the subgenus Leishmania were designed within the conserved region of the KDNA minicircle by Dr. Peter C. Melby, Health Sciences Center, The University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas USA (Invitrogen). The PCR was standardized using L. (L.) mexicana (MHET/MX97/Hd18) iden- tified by monoclonal antibodies (Canto Lara et al., 1999) and L. (V.) braziliensis WHO reference strain (MHOM/BR/LTB300). RESULTS AND DISCUSSION In the states of Campeche and Quintana Roo, 290 and 295 L. O. olmeca speci- mens were captured during the first and second study seasons, respectively. However, in the state of Yucatan, just 25 and 30 Lu. cruciata were trapped each sea- son (Tables 1 and 2), highlighting the differences in sand fly abundance between each microfocus. Only two species of Leishmania have been reported in the Yucatan peninsula: L. (L.) mexicana has been predominantly identified in humans and wild rodents, whereas L. (V) braziliensis was present in only a few cases of LCL (Pérez-Mutil et al., 1994; Canto-Lara et al., 1999). Therefore, the use of primers for each subgenus (Leishmania, M1.1 and Viannia, B-4) permitted indirect species identification. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 219 Table 1. Detection of the subgenus Leishmania by PCR in wild-caught sand flies during the transmission season 2001-2002 in the Yucatan Peninsula. Study site State No. Lutzomyia/ Pools positive Lutzomyia spp. % No. vials La Libertad Campeche 80/4 olmeca 4 (100 %) La Guadalupe Campeche 96/5 olmeca 4 (80 %) Dos Naciones Campeche 86/5 olmeca 3 (75 %) Santa. Isabel § Quintana Roo 23/2 olmeca 2 (100 %) Becanchen Yucatan 251 2 cruciata 1 (50 %) Table 2. Detection of the subgenus Leishmania detected by PCR in wild-caught sand flies during the transmission season 2002-2003 in the Yucatan peninsula. Study site State No. Lutzomyia/ Pools positive Lutzomyia spp. % No. vials La Libertad Campeche 15/2 olmeca 0 (0 %) La Guadalupe Campeche 100/11 olmeca 3 (27 %) Las Virgencitas Campeche 140/14 olmeca 7 (50 %) Santa. Isabel §_ Quintana Roo 40/4 olmeca 1 (25 %) Becanchen Yucatan 30/3 cruciata 0 (0 %) In a two-year study on vectors of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the state of Campeche previously reported, five Lutzomyia species were found infected with flagellates believed to be Leishmania spp. (Rebollar-Téllez et al., 1996a). The high- est prevalence of infection was observed in L. O. olmeca (7.1%) followed by L. cruciata (4.5%). Two classical methods exist for the estimation of infection rates in vectors, microscopic analysis and isolation of parasites in culture which requires absence of bacterial and/or fungal contamination. Both are laborious and inaccurate for iden- tification of the parasite in sand flies. The second one has been tried unsuccessful- ly due to contamination. The most successful method for detection and identifica- tion of Leishmania in naturally infected sand flies has been PCR directed to ampli- fy kDNA (Rodriguez et al., 1999; Aransay et al., 2000; Santamaria et al., 2005). Most studies done recently have been based on Aransay et al. (2000) method (Santamaria et al., 2005, Gomez-Saladin et al., 2005, Jorquera et al., 2005). It must be expected that there could be some differences regarding endemic area, Leish- 220 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS mania spp. involved, as so Lutzomyia studied. In all of them pools from sand flies as suggested by the methodology have been examined. In the present study pool samples varied from 15-20 (first collection) and 5-10 (second collection). This was based on a previous standardization of specificity of the PCR assay using a tem- plate genomic DNA equivalent to 10, 100 and 1000 promastigotes of L. (L) mexi- cana. The sensitivity was high enough to detect 10 Leishmania promastigotes. In the present study we confirmed L. O. olmeca as vector of L. (L.) mexicana through detection and identification of subgenus Leishmania kDNA by PCR (Figure 1). For the first time the subgenus Leishmania was detected and identified in a pool of L. cruciata from the state of Yucatan. However, it should be highlight- ed that Becanchen, Tekax, in Yucatan has never been documented as a hyperen- demic area of LCL (Albertos-Alpuche et al., 1996). l 2 3 4 5 6 q 8 9 ll 500 bp 300 bp 120 bp 100 bp 25 bp Figure 1. Detection and identification of kKDNA specific for the genus and subgenus Leishmania in Lu. 0. olmeca by PCR. Lanes, as follows: 1. Marker (bp), 2. Control (-), 3. Control (+) genus Leishmania, 4. Lu. 0. olmeca, 5. Lu. o. olmeca, 6. Lu. 0. olmeca, 7. Control (-), 8. Control (+) subgenus Leishmania, 9. Lu. 0. olmeca, 10. Lu. 0. olmeca, 11. Lu. o. olmeca. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 pM The potential of L. cruciata as vector of L. (L.) mexicana should be confirmed by performing studies in the state of Campeche where L. cruciata population dynamics and biting rhythm of the anthropophilic sand fly Lutzomyia cruciata (Diptera: Psychodidae) has been documented (Rebollar-Téllez et al., 1996b). Moreover, the incidence-prevalence of LCL caused by L. (L.) mexicana is well established (Andrade-Narvaez et al., 1990). In summary, PCR technique employed must be improved to detect kDNA in one sand fly in order to become a very useful tool not only for monitoring the Leishmania infection rate in sand fly populations, but also for the rapid identifica- tion of both prevalent Leishmania and sand fly species in endemic areas as it has been proposed by Kato et al. (2005). ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This investigation received:financial support from the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT, Mexico) ID:33211-M, and from the UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR/WHO) ID A00732. 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Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 223 TWO NEW SPECIES OF PALINGONALTIA (HEMIPTERA: CICADELLIDAE: CICADELLINAE) FROM COLOMBIA' Paul H. Freytag’ and Juan M. Vargas’ ABSTRACT: Two new species are added to the genus Palingonalia Young, 1977 (Hemiptera: Cica- dellidae: Cicadellinae) from Colombia, P. subta and P. hypera. KEY WORDS: Palingonalia, Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Colombia The genus Palingonalia was described by Young (1977) for the single species P. bigutta (Signoret, 1854) from French Guiana and Brazil. This species has only been known from this Northeastern part of South America. In this paper two new species are added from Colombia. The new species have many features which are similar to P. bigutta, but the color patterns of both are quite different from each other and from P. bigutta. These two species are pictured on http://www. ciencias.unal.edu.co/galeria/detalle_dep.php?id=7&coleccionfiltered=49 The acronyms used in this paper are: IHVL = Instituto von Humboldt, Villa de Leyva, Colombia; UK YL = University of Kentucky, Department of Entomology, Insect Collection, Lexington, Kentucky, USA. Palingonalia subta Freytag and Vargas, NEW SPECIES (Figures 1, 3, and 5) Description: Length of males 7.0-7.2 mm., females 7.1-7.5 mm. Similar to bigutta, but with a different color pattern. Generally brownish black with orange markings. Head (Fig. 1) with crown orange with pair of large black spots on ante- rior margin and median black rectangular area from between ocelli back to pos- terior margin. Face uniformly yellowish orange. Pronotum brownish black with three bands of orange, one longitudinal band on each side near lateral margin and one between these which is U-shaped. Scutellum entirely brownish black. Forewing brownish black with three longi- tudinal orange bands. One short band along anterior of commisure, one from base of clavus to apex of clavus, and one from near base of corium to base of second apical cell. Ventral side of thorax and abdomen mostly yellowish orange with legs mostly orange. Female with apex of seventh sternum black. Male genitalia: Pygofer (Fig. 5) broadly rounded. Subgenital plates (Fig. 5) short, with a triangu- lar dorsal extension on medial side. Aedeagus (Fig. 5) large, similar to bigutta. Connective and second phallobase as in bigutta. Style short, sharply hooked at apex. Female seventh sternum (Fig. 3) long, narrowing to bifurcate apex. ‘Received on September 19, 2006. Accepted on May 18, 2007. > Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 40546 U.S.A. E-mail: freytag2 104@windstream.net. * Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Labotatorio de sistematica y biologia comparada de insectos, Uni- versidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia. E-mail: jmvargasr@unal.edu.co. Mailed on July 31, 2007 224 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Type Data: Holotype male: Colombia: Vaupés, RN Mosiro-Itajura (Caparu) Centro Ambiental, 1°4'S 69°31'W, 60 m., Malaise, 20-I-1-II-2003, M. Sharkey and D. Arias, M 3386 (IHVL). Paratypes: two males, two females, same data as holotype (IHVL and UKYL) Additional Specimens: Colombia: One male, Amazonas, PNN Amacayacu, Cabana Lorenal, 3°0'S 69°59'W, 210 m., 27-VIII-2001, Red, D. Campos, M 2234 (IHVL); one female, same data, except Malaise, M 2238; one female, same data, except San Martin, 3°23'S 70°6'W, 150 m., Malaise, 2-7-VII-2000, B. Amado, M 699 CHVL); one female, same data, except Matamata, Tierra Firme, 8-12-III- 2000, Malaise, M. Sharkey; one female, same data as holotype, except FIT, M 3388 (IHVL); one male, same data as holotype, except Antigua Cabana, 1°4'N 69°3'W, 60 m., Malaise, 27-III-3-IV-2003, J. Pinzon, M 3634 (IHVL); one male, same data, except 9-25-II-2003, M 3629: one male, same data, except 10-[I-17- IV-2003, M 3613 (IHVL); one female, same data, except Igapo, 1°4'S 69°3 1'W, 60 m., 4-11-III-2003, M 3623; one male, same data, except 7-22-X-2002, L. Benavides, M 3395 (IHVL); one female, Caqueta, PNN Chiribiquete, Cunare- Amu, 1°12'N 72°24'W, 300 m., Malaise, 14-17-II-2001, M. Ospina and E. Gon- zalez, M 1388 (HVL). Notes: This species is named for the more posterior median U-shaped orange marking on the pronotum. oF liga Figures 1, 3. Palingonalia subta n. sp. Figures 2, 4. PR. hypera n. sp. Fig. 1-2. Dorsal view of head, pronotum and scutellum. Fig. 3-4. Female abdominal terminal segments, ventral view (setae not shown). All drawn to the same scale, which equals 1 mm. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 2S Palingonalia hypera Freytag and Vargas, NEW SPECIES (Figures 2, 4, and 6 ) Description: Length of males 7.0-7.5 mm., females 7.3-7.5 mm. Similar to subta, but with different color pattern and genitalia. Generally brownish ‘black with orange markings. Head (Fig. 2) with orange crown with pair of large black spots on anterior margin and large rectangular black area from between ocelli back to posterior margin. Face uniformly yellowish orange. Pronotum brownish black with three orange bands. One longitudinal band on each side near lateral margin and one horizontal band between them along median anterior margin. Scutellum brownish black with small orange median spot near posterior prono- tal margin. Forewing brownish black with two longitudinal orange bands, one from base of clavus to apex of clavus, and one from near base of corium to base of second apical cell, sometimes with a third small orange band along com- misure, as in subta. Female seventh sternum black at apex. Male genitalia: Pygo- fer (Fig. 6) smaller than subta, more truncate at apex. Subgenital plate (Fig. 6) small, with dorsal triangular median process. Aedeagus (Fig. 6) similar to subta, but half the size. Connective and second phallobase similar to subta. Style sim- ilar to subta. Female seventh sternum (Fig. 4) long, narrowing to somewhat pointed apex. Type Data: Holotype male: Colombia: Caqueta, PNN Chiribiquete, Rio Cu- fare, 0°30'N 72°37'W, 300 m., Malaise, 1-5-XI-2000, E. Gonzalez and M. Ospina, M 960 (IHVL). Paratypes: Five males, six females, same data as holotype (HVL and UKYL). SUBTA HYPERA Figures 5-6. Male genital capsule, lateral view, showing internal genitalia (setae not shown). Fig. 5. Palingonalia subta n. sp. Fig. 6. P. hypera n. sp. Both drawn to the same scale, which equals 1 mm. 226 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Additional Specimens: Colombia: Seven males, same data as holotype, except 0°31'N 72°38'W, 10-14-XI-2000, M 959 (IHVL and UKYL); one male, same data, except Rio Mesay, 0°14'N 72°56'W, 300 m., Malaise, 26-28-I-2000, F. Quevedo, M 222 (IHVL): one male, one female, same data, except Cufare- Amu, 0°12'N 72°24'W, 300 m., Malaise, 14-17-II-2001, M 1388 (IHVL); one female, Amazonas, PNN Amacayacu, Matamata, 3°23'S 70°6'W, 150 m., Ma- laise, 29-V-6-VI-2000, A. Parente, M 680 (IHVL); one female, same data as last, except 15-29-I-2001, A. Alvarado, M 1320 HVL); one male, same data as last, except, Cabana Lorenal, 3°0'S 69°59'W, 210 m., Pantrap, 31-VIII-2001, D. Campos, M 2204 (IHVL); and one female, same data, except San Martin, 3°23'S 70°6'W, 150 m., Malaise, D. Chota, M 2774 (HVL). Remarks: This species is named for the median anterior orange band on the pronotum. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank Michael J. Sharkey, Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, for making it possible to study the specimens used in this study through his National Science Foundation Grant no. DEB 0205982. LITERATURE CITED Young, D. A. 1977. Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Part 2. New World Cicadellini and the genus Cicadella. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 239. 1135 pp. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 227 MORPHOLOGY AND CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF THE METATHORACIC SCENT GLANDS OF COREUS MARGINATUS (LINNAEUS, 1758) (HETEROPTERA: COREIDAE) FROM TURKEY ' Dilek Durak’ and Yusuf Kalender° ABSTRACT: The morphology of the metathoracic scent glands of Coreus marginatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Heteroptera: Coreidae) was studied by scanning electron microscopy. The metathoracic scent glands are composed of a reservoir and a pair of lateral glands that connect to the reservoir through a duct. The metathoracic scent glands open to the surface through paired ostioles located between the 2nd and 3rd coxae in evaporation areas with a mushroom-like structure. Extracts of the volatile frac- tion from male and female metathoracic gland secretions were analyzed by capillary gas chromatog- raphy-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Thirteen and sixteen compounds were detected in males and females, respectively. Most of the chemical compounds are qualitatively similar on each male and female but they differ in their quantity. In the analyses of metathoracic scent glands of females of C. marginatus, n-hexenoic acid (22.46%) was determined at the most and 14-Beta-H-Pregna (0.12%) was determined at the least in all samples. In males, octadecanoic acid (57.78%) was determined at the most and n-hexyl acetate (0.06%) was determined at the least in all samples. KEY WORDS: Coreus marginatus, Heteroptera, Coreidae, scent glands, electron microscopy, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, Turkey Many heteropterans are characterized by the production of large quantities of strong-smelling and irritating defensive chemicals that are released when these insects are disturbed (Aldrich, 1988). Odorous compounds are produced by both adults and immatures (Staddon, 1979, Pavis et al., 1994, Ho and Millar, 2001) and several reports attest to their efficacy as effective defenses against predation (Krall et al., 1999; Ho and Millar, 2001). These chemicals may also have a role as alarm pheromones (Gunawardena and Bandumathie, 1993; Leal et al., 1994). The source of these defensive/alarm compounds could be a single or a pair of median or ventral scent glands usually located in the metathoracic region of Heteroptera (Carayon, 1971). Coreus marginatus is a cosmopolitan species and that feeds on many flowers both in the garden and open grassy areas, especially plants belonging to the Poly- gonaceae, such as Rumex (Hoberlandt, 1955). These bugs are ideal for this study because they can be captured in nature simultaneously at various stages of devel- opment of leaf surfaces of their host plant. This insect is common in central Turkey reaching a length of 12-15 mm and can be collected from early spring to early autumn, being prone to fly away when disturbed or hide between the spines and the brown fibres of the leaves. Large quantities of volaties are released by C. marginatus in response to disturbance (Aldrich, 1988). ‘Received on July 21, 2006. Accepted on April 16, 2007. * Bozok University, Yozgat Faculty of Arts and Science, Biology Department, 66100, Yozgat, Turkey. E-mail: dilekdurak@erciyes.edu.tr * Gazi University, Faculty of Arts and Science, Biology Department, 06500 Ankara, Turkey. E-mail: kalender@gazi.edu.tr. Corresponding author. Mailed on July 31, 2007 228 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS In this work, the morphology of the metathoracic scent gland (MTG) of this species was described by scanning electron microscopy and volatiles released from extracts of these glands were analyzed by GC-MS. METHODS Insects Adult C. marginatus were collected (15 females and males) on various Poly- gonaceae in Ayas, Ankara, Turkey, from June to September 2005. Insects were reared in the laboratory and maintained in plastic jars at 22-24°C and 70% relative humidity with a 12:12 light-dark photoperiodic regime. Bugs were maintained on fresh host-plants until dissection. Insects were dissected under insect’s saline (0.7% NaCl + 0.3% KCI, Santos-Mallet and De Souza, 1990). Morphology of the metathoracic scent glands To study the morphology of the metathoracic scent glands of C. marginatus a scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used. To prevent the insect discharge of gland contents, bugs were anesthetized with CO, and then killed by freezing. The thoracic region was dissected in a Petri dish, the tergites were removed, and the metathoracic scent glands (reservoir and glands) were fixed for 3 hrs on 3% glu- taraldehyde (0.1 M sodium phosphate buffer, pH 7.2). After washing in fresh buff- er, the metathoracic scent glands were post fixed with 1% osmium tetroxide (0.1 M sodium phosphate buffer), dehydrated in a graded ethanol series, dried using 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexamethyldisilazane (HMDS), mounted in stubs, and sputter-coated with gold. The observations were made in a JEOL JSM 5600 scanning electron microscope. Chemical Analyses Analyses of the metathoracic scent glands of C. marginatus were done on each male and female. The metathoracic scent glands were removed and immersed in ~100 pL analytical grade hexane distilled from calcium hydride (CaH2) and stored at -20°C for posterior analyses. Extracts were analyzed (~2 wL of the extract) by splitless coupled gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS, Agilent 6890 series) fitted with a HP-5 MS column (30m x 0,25 mm I.D. x 0,25 um film) and interfaced to a mass selective detector (Agilent 5973, electron impact ionization, 106 eV). The GC temperature program for the column oven was 50°C/2 min and then 5°C/min to 250°C, with injector and transfer line temperatures of 250 and 280°C, respectively. Helium was used as carrier gas. Compounds were preliminary identified by GC-MS. RESULTS The morphology of the metathoracic scent glands of C. marginatus The metathoracic scent glands of C. marginatus have a well-developed bag-like reservoir and paired glands located in the upper-lateral areas of the reservoir (Fig. 1A). There are irregular projections and intrusions on the reservoir’s surface. Reservoir connects to the glands by a canal in the apical surface (Fig. 1A). Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 229 Fig. 1A. Scanning electron micrograph of the metathoracic scent glands of C. marginatus. B. Multitubular lateral glands of metathoracic scent glands. C. Ostiole (O) and evaporation area (*). D. Evaporation area, LG: Lateral gland, R: Reservoir, OD: Ostiolar duct. Lateral glands connect to the reservoir via a duct and have many tubular struc- tures (Fig. 1B). The metathoracic glands open onto the surface of the coreid through paired oval ostioles located between the 2nd and 3rd coxae (Fig. 1C). A long, wide and groove-like structure extends downwards from ostioles (ostiolar duct, OD on Fig. 1C). The ostiole, ostiolar groove and their surroundings are col- lectively called evaporation area. The metathoracic scent gland secretions exit from the ostiole and it spreads out this region through the ostiolar groove and into the rest of the evaporation area which is endowed with mushroom-like structures (Fig. 1D). The polygonal mushroom-like structures, which are slightly convex in the center, have irregular projections. The mushroom-like structures linked to each other through cuticular ridges and numerous trabecules found under the ridges (Fig. 1D). No sexual differences in the fine structure of the metathoracic scent glands of C. marginatus were found. Odors from the metathoracic scent glands of C. marginatus Analyses of the metathoracic scent glands of C. marginatus were done on each male and female (15 males and females). While sixteen different compounds were detected for females, thirteen different compounds were detected for males (Table 1). Quantitative and qualitative compositions of these compounds differ in both 230 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS sexes. In C. marginatus females, five alkanes (cyclooctane, octadecane, tetracosane, octacosane, tricosane), two esters [n-hexyl ester, S-(2-aminoethy]) ester], two alde- hydes [n-hexenal, (E)-2-octenal], three acids (n-hexanoic acid, n-hexadecanoic acid, octadecanoic acid), one steroid (14-Beta-H-Pregna), one ether (vinyl cetyl ether), and two alcohols (4-methyl-5-decanol, 1-octadecanethiol) were found. In C. marginatus female’s metathoracic scent glands, n-Hexenoic acid (22.46%) was the most abundant compound detected and 14-Beta-H-Pregna (0.12%) was the least (Fig. 2). In the male, three alkanes (cyclooctane, tetracosane, docosane), three esters [n-hexyl ester, ethyl ester, methyl ester], two aldehydes [n-hexenal, (E)-2-octenal], four acids (n-Hexadecanoic acid, n-hexanoic acid, 2-methyl, 2-butenoic acid, octadecanoic acid), and one steroid (14-Beta-H-Pregna) were found. Octadecanoic acid (57.78%) was the most abundant compound detected in the male and n-hexyl acetate (0.06%) was the least (Fig. 3). DISCUSSION Three different categories of scent glands are described in insects: metathoracic scent glands, Brindley’s glands, and ventral glands. The metathoracic scent glands and Brindley’s glands are situated in the insect’s metathoracic region (Schofield and Upton, 1978). Metathoracic scent glands are present in most of heteroptera and are usually found in the third thorax region of C. marginatus. Kalin and Barret (1975) described the Brindley’s glands of the haematophagous bug Rhodnius pro- lixus. These paired glands are dorsally located extending into the second abdomi- nal segment and are found only in reduviids (Santos-Mallet and De Souza, 1990). Shape, size and aspect of Brindley’s glands vary according to the feeding status Abundance de+07 5 2.9e+07 ne+or7 \,S@e+oT 1 7 14 1e+07 13 17 2 5000000 3 4 6 8 21019 3] vel fj, 16 4.00 6.00 £.00 1§06.900 §2.00 14.00 16.00 18.00 20.00 22.00 24.00 26.0060 T liveerete Fig. 2. 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Gas chromatogram of the compounds present in the male’s metathoracic scent glands of C. marginatus. 1-n-Hexanal, 2-n-Hexanoic acid, 3-n-Hexyl ester, 4-Cyclooctane, 5-(E)- 2-Octenal, 6-n-Hexanoic acid, 7-2-methyl, 2-butenoic acid, 8-n-Hexadecanoic acid, 9-Ethyl ester, 10-Octadecanoic acid, 11-14-Beta-H-Pregna, 12-Docosane, 13-Methyl ester, 14- Tetracosane, RT: Retention time in minutes. (Santos-Mallet and De Souza, 1990). However, Kalin and Barret (1975) did not observe any difference between insects unfed for 30-40 days and those fed 1 or 2 days before examination. In well-fed C. marginatus bugs (15 males and 15 females), the metathoracic scent glands extend into the abdominal cavity up to the second segment, whereas in starved bugs the aspect was milky and shriveled and they were located just in the thorax. However, size differences were observed in the reservoir, whether it was full or empty. There are two types of metathoracic scent glands in heteroptera: the diastomien type and the omphalien type. In the distomien type, scent glands always open to the outside through more than one ostiole, whereas omphalien scent glands open through one ostiole. We found that C. marginatus has diastomien metathoracic scent glands. There is one scent gland between the second and third coxa in C. mar- ginatus. 232 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Table 1. Percentages of compounds detected in metathoracic scent secretion of female and male of C.marginatus, n.d.= not detected C. marginatus sex Group Chemical Compounds Female % Male % ALKANES» Cyclooctane O25 02 Octadecane 0.32 n.d Tetracosane Onn 2.82 Octacosane 20.45 n.d Tricosane 0.19 n.d Docosane n.d 222 ALDEHYDES (E)-2-Octenal 24! 0.40 n-Hexanal 5.09 0.63 ESTERS Methyl ester n.d 0.09 Ethyl ester n.d 1.38 n-Hexyl ester 6.22 0.06 S-(2-aminoethyl) ester 1.50 n.d ACIDS n-Hexanoic acid 22.46 8.17 n-Hexadecanoic acid 3.26 19.61 Octadecanoic acid 7.50 57.78 2-methyl, 2-butenoic acid n.d 0.12 ALCOHOLS 4-Methyl-5-decanol 15..43 n.d 1-Octadecanethiol 0.42 n.d ETHER Vinyl cetyl ether 0.32 n.d STEROID 14-Beta-H-Pregna 0.12 1.38 Ostiole structure of metathoracic scent glands is often used in systematic keys and diagnosis (Kamaluddin and Ahmad, 1988). In C. marginatus, the metathoracic scent gland ostiole has an elongate peritreme (ostiolar duct) with mushroom-like surfaces of evaporation, features that can be used as systematic keys and diagnosis for C. marginatus. The evaporation area, i.e., the mushroom-like structure, may show differences between species of the same genus or family (Davidova- Vilimova, 2000). As suggested by Carayon (1971), mushroom-like structures and ostiolar grooves are different in evaporation areas of species belong to Xylocoris. Moreover, we found that the ostiolar grooves are short and the ostioles structures are folded. In addition, the mushroom-like structures of the evaporation area are polygonal and are connected to each other through numerous trabecules. It is Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 233 thought that many of the ridges found in the evaporation area contribute to the long residency of volatiles (Carayon, 1971). Our results on the comparative study of the chemical analysis of the metatho- racic scent glands of male and female of the C. marginatus revealed a lot of com- pounds identified on individual specimens. Octadecane, octacosane, tricosane, S-(2-aminoethyl) ester, 4-methyl-5-decanol, 1-octadecanethiol, vinyl cetyl ether are specific to only females but docosane, methyl ester, ethyl ester and 2-methy], 2-butenoic acid are specific to males. Some of these compounds may be sex phero- mone (Durak and Kalender, 2007). According to the chemical analyses performed, compounds of metathoracic scent gland can be divided into eleven chemical groups: aldehydes, saturated hydrocarbons, acetates, alcohols, terpenes, lactones, ketones, esters, alcenes, acids and miscellaneous compounds (Farine et al., 1993). In our study, seven different chemical groups were detected in the chemical analyses of MTG of C. margina- tus: alkanes, aldehydes, acetates, steroid, acids, alcohols and ether. A kind of steroid, 14-Beta-H-Pregna, was detected only in females. This compound may lead not only defensive chemicals but also would function as a sex pheromone. Chemical and behavioral analyses showed that aldehydes and hydrocarbons found in the scent glands of a number of Heteroptera species have a dual function. In addition, these compounds may have different effects according to their level of viscosity (Farine et al., 1992). Here two aldehydes and five hydrocarbons were identified in the female and two aldehydes and three hydrocarbons were identified in C. marginatus male. These compounds may have a dual function in this sex. As suggested by Waterhouse (1964), the various paraffins compounds like hexacosane, tricosane, octacosane have been shown to aid in the penetration of the cuticle of insect enemies and, by delaying evaporation, acting as ‘odor fixatives’ for the more volatile constituents. There are not these components in the metatho- racic scent glands of every species. These compounds were identified in C. mar- ginatus, and we can speculate that they may quickly block the evaporation of scent compounds after the release of them. That is, paraffins compounds may also be an odor fixative for C. marginatus. Besides, it would be interesting to know the rel- ative efficiencies of scents with and without paraffins in deterring natural ene- mies. MTG contents are primarily for defense and have a role as sex pheromones. In addition to these hypothetical defensive and pheromonal activities, other functions could be attributed to the secretion of the MTG of C. marginatus by comparing them with other close bug species. The composition and structure of the MTG has been identified and quantified in many Heteroptera, the biological function of each compound in the scent secretion still needs further study. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We thank Ayse Ogutcu, Meltem Uzunhisarcykly, and Fatma Bayrakdar for their help in our study. 234 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS LITERATURE CITED Aldrich, J. R. 1988. Chemical ecology of the Heteroptera. Annual Review of Entomology 33: 211- 238. Carayon, J. 1971. Notes et documents sur I’appareil odorant metathoracique des Hemipteres. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 7 (4): 737-770. Davidova-Vilimova, J.. M. Nejedla, and W. Schaefer. 2000. Dorsa-abdominal scent glands and metathoracic evaporatoria in adults of central European Rhopalidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), with a discussion of phylogeny and higher systematics. European Journal of Entomology 97: 213-221. Durak, D. and Y. Kalender. 2007. Fine structure and chemical analysis of the metathoracic scent glands Graphosoma semipunctatum (Fabricius, 1775) (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae). Journal of Applied Biological Science 1: 13-22. Farine, J. P., O. Bonnard, R. Brossut, and J. L. Quere. 1992. 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The adult scent glands and scent of nine bugs of the super- family Coreoidea. Journal of Insect Physiology 10: 977-987. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 2B POSTEMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER MEIGEN, 1830 UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF QUERCETIN’ Ana Sari¢é,? Mirjana Kalafatié,? Gordana Rusak,’ Goran Kovaéevic¢, Damjan Franjevi¢,’ and Herwig O. Gutzeit* ABSTRACT: Quercetin is one of the best studied and most abundant flavonoid molecules in plants. Flavonoids are a large group of natural polyphenols that are almost ubiquitously present in the plants. The consumption of fruit and vegetables containing quercetin has been associated with several health benefits. In this study, we examined the impact of dietary quercetin (0, 0.005, 0.05, 0.5 and 1.75% quercetin by weight) on Drosophila melanogaster Meigen, 1830 postembryonic development and histological changes in larvae and females. A possible hormonmimetic (ecdysonergic) activity of quecetin was also studied on polytene chromosomes present in the larval salivary glands. We noticed a decrease in the duration of the larval period of flies raised on 1.75% quercetin diet. Quercetin-fed larvae entered metamorphosis sooner than the control ones. The most dramatic change was observed in larval fat body. Dark round structures were observed in fat body cells from larvae treated with quercetin. KEY WORDS: Drosophila melanogaster, Diptera, Drosophilidae, quercetin, postembryonic devel- opment, fat body, polytene chromosomes Quercetin is one of the best-studied and most-abundant flavonoid molecules in plants. The quercetin is naturally present in plant foods and particularly abun- dant in apples (Rosaceae), broccoli (Brassicaceae), and onions (Alliaceae). The consumption of fruit and vegetables containing quercetin has been associated with several health benefits, including reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and some forms of cancer (Graf et al., 2006). Flavonoids comprise a large group of natural polyphenols that are almost ubiquitously present in the plant kingdom and exhibit a wide range of biological activities arising mainly from their ability to chelate bivalent metals, modulate activity of various enzymes or nuclear receptors and consequently alter gene expression (Rusak et al., 2002). The effect of flavonoids on insect development is investigated mainly in the light of insect nutritional ecology, with less empha- sis on the mechanism of action. (Anti)estrogenic effects of flavonoids may arise due to the interaction of the flavonoid with the estradiol receptor (Kuiper et al., 1998). ‘Received on September 20, 2006. Accepted on May 18, 2007. *Department of Molecular Medicine, Ruder Boskovic Institute, Bijeni¢ka cesta 54, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia. E-mail: ana.saric@irb.hr *Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Rooseveltov trg 6, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia. E-mails: (MK) calafatm@zg.biol.pmf.hr, (GK) goran@zg.biol.pmf.hr, (DF, corresponding author) damianf@zg.biol.pmf.hr * Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Rooseveltov trg 6, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia. E-mail: gordana@botanic.hr > TU Dresden, D-01062 Dresden, Germany. E-mail: herwig.gutzeit@tu-dresden.de Mailed on July 31, 2007 236 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Quercetin is able to inhibit ecdysone receptor (EcR)-dependent reporter-gene expression when given in conjunction with ecdysteroid. Increase in ecdysone titer induces changes in gene expression through the activation of transcription of small set of so-called “early” genes. In giant polytene chromosomes, tran- scribed genes are represented as puffs making it possible to visualize the effect of steroid hormone, or his analogue, on gene expression (Ashburner 1990). The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of quercetin on D. melanogaster Meigen, 1830, postembryonic development. Therefore, we have examined the influence of dietary quercetin on the duration of D. melanogaster larval period and the histological changes in larvae and adult females. A possible hormonmimetic (ecdysonergic) activity of quercetin was also studied on polytene chromosomes present in larval salivary glands. METHODS Wild-type D. melanogaster provided by Bloomington Drosophila Stock Cen- ter at Indiana University was raised on cooked food composed of cornmeal, sugar, baker’s yeast, agar and propionic acid (to retard mold growth). After boil- ing and mixing, food was cooled, poured into glass tubes (20 x 2 cm diameter), and allowed to harden during the night. Each tube contained 10 ml of culture medium and was plugged with foam rubber. Adult flies were allowed to lay eggs for 20 h. After 24 h of egg incubation, a freshly hatched first instar larvae were gently transferred to tubes (20 larvae/tube) containing 10 ml of culture medium, supplemented with 0, 0.005, 0.05, 0.5 or 1.75% quercetin by weight. Quercetin (Sigma-Aldrich, Switzerland) was mixed into the diet when the food had cooled under ~ 50°C (just prior to solidification and pouring). For each quercetin concentration, plus control, 6 replicates were prepared. From the onset of pupariation (identified by the ever- sion of anterior spiracles), the newly formed prepupae were counted once a day. Each prepupa was marked with ink on the tube wall as counted. The larvae that pupariated on the medium were also counted. When adults began to emerge from the pupal case, they were counted separately, males and females. The mean developmental time from hatching to pupariation (and from hatching to eclosion, for each sex separately) was calculated for each concentration used. One-way ANOVA (Statistica 6, Neural Networks) was used to determine significant dif- ferences (P < 0.05) between the experimental groups. A post-hoc Newman-Keuls test was used to determine which groups differed significantly in their distribu- tion. Histological analyses were performed on the third instar larvae and on females (1,5 and 22,5 h after eclosion), raised on a 1.75% quercetin diet or regular food. Females spent an indicated period following eclosion together with untreated males. The specimens were then fixed in Bouin’s solution for 24 hours, dehy- drated through a graded series of alcohol, embedded in paraffin and sectioned with microtome at 7 um. Sections were stained with 0.1% toluidin blue and examined with a light microscope (Opton III Zeiss). Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 237 Salivary glands from the late third instar larvae had to be dissected prior to ecdysone release, meaning during the puffing stage one (PS 1) approximately 12- 18 h from pupariation (FarkaS and Slama 1999). In order to stage the animals correctly, they were grown on food supplemented with 0.05% bromphenolblue. Actively crawling larvae with blue content in the gut were selected. Larvae with completely cleared guts were thought to be 3 h from pupariation (Karim and Thummel 1991). To determine more accurately larvae of the salivary PS1, puff analysis of one salivary gland lobe from each animal had to be done, since two sister lobes have an identical puffing pattern. Following dissection in Ringer solution and under the stereomicroscope, the two salivary gland lobes were sep- arated: one lobe was cultured, and the second one immediately fixed in 40% acetic acid, stained with lacto-orcein, squashed, and its puffing pattern was examined under the light microscope. Puff analysis was determined (Ashburner 1989) using cytology maps (Lindley and Zimm 1992). The sister lobe was cul- tured in 50 ul of Grace’s media (Grace 1962) diluted in ratio 5:1 in distilled water (Ashburner 1989). Incubation of lobes took place at 20-22°C in humified cham- bers for 1, 2 or 3 h with or without quercetin. At the end of the incubation peri- od, puffing pattern of treated glands was examined. Only glands that were ini- tially in PS 1 were used for interpreting results. Quercetin was stored in required stock solution of DMSO, and added to Grace’s medium to yield a final concen- tration of 10 uM or 100 uM quercetin and 0.1% of DMSO. Solvent controls were also run. For each exposure level, at each incubation time, 4-6 glands were squashed. Minimally two nuclei from each gland were examined. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Quercetin-fed larvae entered metamorphosis sooner than the control larvae. Stamp et al. (1994) has conducted experiments showing that rutin (quercetin gly- coside) reduces growth, prolongs development, and increases survival of various insects. Mean larval developmental time of flies reared on 1.75% quercetin diet was decreased for an average of 7 h in comparison to other experimental groups, including the control. On the fourth day after egg-laying, 34.7% flies from 1.75% quercetin fed group had pupariated, while in the control group only 11.7% flies had done so. This effect was statistically significant (P < 0.0001). While larvae fed with 1.75% quercetin preferentially selected medium as pupariation place, larvae from all other experimental groups mostly pupariated on the tube wall (Fis: 1): 238 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Fly pupariation on the media ;: LS Means Current effect: F(4, 25)=4,2650, p=,00910 Vertical bars denote 0,95 confidence intervals F lies (%) 0 0,005 0,05 0,5 1.05 Quercetin in media (% by weight) Figure 1. Effect of quercetin on pupariation. Summary of F-statistic from one-way ANOVA. Each point represents the mean value of all results from each group (there were six tubes per exposure level of quercetin, each tube recieved 20 newly hached larvae). Difference between control vs. 1,75% quercetin-treated group was significant at p = 0.008687 level as indicted by a post-hoc Neuman-Keuls analysis. Besides direct binding to ecdysone receptor, querectin can interfere with steroid hormone system by modulating the activity of ecdysone 20-mono-oxy- genase, an enzyme belonging to cytochrome P450 family (Mitchell et al., 1993). This may also account for the shorter development of quercetin-fed larvae. Fly survival and duration of metamorphosis were not affected by the treat- ment. The examined structure of ovarioles did not differ between control and treated groups. The most dramatic change was observed in larval fat body. Dark round struc- tures were observed in fat body cells from larvae treated with quercetin (Fig. 2). Fat body is insect analogue of liver in vertebrates. It is a major site of xenobiot- ic metabolism. The dark round structures were found in fat body from larvae fed quercetin. There is a possibility that this could be some quercetin metabolite, but this needs further investigation. Salivary glands which were initially in PS1 were incubated with quercetin in order to investigate quercetin activity as ecdysone analogue. PS1 lobe was iden- tified by puffs at 3C, 68C, 25B loci. Then, after 1, 2, or 3 h incubation, puffing pattern of sister lobe was determined. We were most concerned in examining the puffs at 2B5, 74EF and 75B loci, but we did not detect induction of puffs at these Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 239 Figure 2. Top Panel. Control larvae without round structures in fat body cells. Bottom Panel. Round structures in fat body cells of third instar larvae raised on a 1.75% quercetin diet. Stained with 0.1% toluidin blue. Magnification 40 x 6.3. 240 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS loci after incubation with 10 or 100 uM of quercetin. Using this system of cul- tured salivary glands we wanted to test our hypothesis that quercetin acted as ecdysone analogue when shortening larval period in our feeding experiments. This system has already been used when investigating ecdysone-agonist proper- ties of compounds that stimulate precocious development in immature stages of various insects (Farkas and Slama 1999). Quercetin activation of ecdysone- inducible puffs was not confirmed. The main reason for such results probably lies in limited understanding of the absorption, metabolism and mechanisms of action of quercetin in metabolism. It has been shown that quercetin is rapidly metabolized in living organism (Williamson et al., 2000). That confirms the fact that different tissues may respond differently, therefore it may be possible that in our experiment quercetin didn’t accelerate development of all organs equally. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We are grateful to Prof. Gordana Lackovic-Venturin, Faculty of Natural Science, Division of Biology, Zagreb, for her suggestions and comments on the text, and to Ms. Nada Vincek, Faculty of Natural Science, Division of Biology (Zagreb) for her technical assistance. LITERATURE CITED Ashburner, M. 1989. Drosophila. A laboratory handbook. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Cold Spring Harbor, New York, NY, U.S.A. 1331 p. Ashburner, M. 1990. Puffs, genes and hormones revisited. Cell 61:1-3. Farkas, R. and K. Slama. 1999. Effect of bisacylhydrazine ecdysteroid mimics (RH-5849 and RH- 5992) on chromosomal puffing, imaginal disc proliferation and pupariation in larvae of Droso- phila melanogaster. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 29:1015-1027. Grace, T. D. 1962. Establishment of four strains of cells from insect tissues grown in vitro. Nature 195:788-789. Graf, B., C. Ameho, G. G. Dolnikowski, P. E. Milbury, C. Chen, and J. B. Blumberg. 2006. Rat gastrointestinal tissues metabolize quercetin. Journal of Nutrition. 136(1):39-44. Karim, F. D. and C. S. Thummel. 1991. Ecdysone coordinates the timing and amounts of E74A and E74B transcription in Drosophila. Genes & Development 5:1067-1079. Kuiper, G. G., J. G. Lemmen, B. Carlsson, J. C. Corton, S. H. Safe, P. T. van der Saag, B. van der Burg, and J. Gustafsson. 1998. Interaction of estrogenic chemicals and phytoestrogens with estrogen receptor beta. Endocrinology 139:4252-4263. Lindsley, D. L. and G. G. Zimm. 1992. The genome of Drosophila melanogaster. Academic Press. San Diego, California, U.S.A. Mitchell, M. J., D. P. Keogh, J. R. Crooks, and S. L. Smith. 1993. Effects of plant flavonoids and other allelochemicals on insect cytochrome P-450 dependent steroid hydroxylase activity. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 23:65-71. Rusak, G., H. O. Gutzeit, and J. Ludwig-Miiller. 2002. Effects of structurally related flavonoids on hsp gene expression in human promyeloid leukemia cells. Food Technology and Biotech- nology 40:267-273. Stamp, N. E., M. P. Temple, M. S. Traugott, and R. T. Wilkens. 1994. Temperature allelochem- ical interactive effects on performance of Manduca sexta caterpillars. Entomologia Experi- mentalis et Applicata 73:199- 210. Williamson, G., A. J. Day, G. W. Plumb, and D. Couteau. 2000. Human metabolic pathways of dietary flavonoids and cinnamates. Biochemical Society Transactions 28:16—22. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 241 ROBBER FLIES (DIPTERA: ASILIDAE) OF ARKANSAS, U.S.A.: NOTES AND A CHECKLIST’ Jeffrey K. Barnes,’ Norman Lavers,’ and Herschel Raney’ ABSTRACT: A checklist of 131 species of robber flies from Arkansas is presented. It includes 101 species studied by the authors, of which 66 species are here recorded for the first time from the state. Seven more species have been recorded in the literature, and 23 species that might occur in the state have never been recorded. The Arkansas robber fly fauna has close affinities with the fauna of the eastern United States. Distributional notes are given for several species, and biological notes are pre- sented for Orthogonis stygia. Ceraturgus fasciatus is resurrected from synonymy with C. cruciatus. KEY WORDS: Robber flies, Asilidae, Arkansas, Ceraturgus fasciatus, Orthogonis, Zabrops Robber flies comprise one of the most taxonomically diverse, speciose, and conspicuous families of Diptera. More than seven thousand species have been described worldwide, and about one thousand are known to occur in the Nearctic Region (Geller-Grimm 2005, Poole 1996). Most species have restricted ecologi- cal requirements and are rather locally distributed. Within their broader ranges, individuals tend to be found in isolated, local colonies (Martin 1965). Most North American robber flies are associated with dry, open habitats, and the family has a predominantly southern and western distribution. Asilids have been collected from short, mixed, and tallgrass prairies, glades, savannas, and open woodlands. Adult robber flies are opportunistic, aerial predators of many kinds of insects. Upon seizing its prey, the fly kills it with paralyzing saliva injected through its hypopharynx. The liquefied contents of the victim are then sucked up through the proboscis. Certain robber fly species seem to prefer bum- blebees, wasps, dragonflies, grasshoppers, or beetles. The larval stage is spent in the soil, among plant roots, or in decaying stumps and logs, usually within the galleries of wood-boring insects. Asilid larvae are predators or ectoparasites that feed on eggs, larvae, or pupae of other insects. Larvae of most species that have been reared feed on white grubs (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), but some have been known to prey on larvae of other beetle families, Hymenoptera, Diptera, or Orthoptera eggs (Knutson 1972, Lavigne et al. 1978, Wood 1981, Foote 1991). Their specialized habitats and other species-specific specializations, together with their ecological roles as primary predators among the insects, make robber flies significant elements of the ecosystem. Along with butterflies (Lepidoptera), tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae), and dragonflies (Odonata), robber flies are increasingly viewed as a focal group of conservation concern. ‘Received on June 7, 2006. Accepted on April 16, 2007. * University of Arkansas, Department of Entomology, The Arthropod Museum, 319 Agriculture Building, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701 U.S.A. E-mail: jbarnes@uark.edu. * 3068 County Route 901, Jonesboro, Arkansas 72401 U.S.A. E-mail: clavers@gmail.com. *4430 Raleigh Drive, Conway, Arkansas 72034 U.S.A. E-mail: herschel.raney@conwaycorp.net. Mailed on July 31, 2007 242 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Due to the dependence of some species on much-reduced habitat types, such as prairies, there is concern that several species may have experienced popula- tion declines. In general, grasslands support a highly diverse robber fly fauna, and perhaps the most serious historic anthropogenic stress on robber fly popula- tions has been the destruction of grasslands by farming, overgrazing, fire sup- pression, vehicular traffic, and introduction of weeds. Forest species may be adversely affected by logging operations, especially those that remove woody debris used as breeding sites by asilid larvae. Of the 101 species of Asilidae recorded from Canada’s Montane Cordillera Ecozone, 8 are considered endan- gered, threatened, or vulnerable. Most of these species are associated with van- ishing grasslands (Cannings 1998). In Finland, some robber flies have declined due to changes in forestry and agricultural practices (Vaisanen 1982). To date, there has been no systematic inventory of robber flies in Arkansas. Before 2005, only 42 species from Arkansas had been recorded in the published literature. Ceraturgus cruciatus (Say) was the first species recorded from the state. Say (1823) described it as Dasypogon cruciatus from “Arkansa.” Up to 1964, only 4 more species were recorded (Back 1909, Wilcox 1936b, 1960, Martin 1957). That year, Whitcomb and Bell (1964) identified 21 species (ex- cluding one misidentification) of Asilidae from Arkansas cotton fields, all new records for the state. The specimens they collected form the core of the Univer- sity of Arkansas Arthropod Museum (UAAM) robber fly collection. Their Nerax rufibarbis (Macquart) is a junior synonym of Efferia pogonias (Wiedemann), and their Proctacanthella ieucopogon (Williston) 1s apparently misidentified Philonicus rufipennis Hine. The following year, Martin (1965), unaware of the 1964 report, was able to tally only 12 species from Arkansas, and he also found other states bordering the Mississippi River to have a dearth of species. Scar- brough (1972) recorded 22 species found in the northeastern part of the state. Twelve of those were new state records. Scarbrough’s Arkansas specimens are now at the National Museum of Natural History and the University of Arkansas Arthropod Museum. Accomplished robber fly taxonomist Joe Wilcox recorded Ceraturgus cornutus (Wiedemann) from Arkansas in an unpublished generic revision dated 1975. Adisoemarto and Wood (1975) recorded one more species, Bullington (1986) recorded two, and Warriner (2004) recorded one. Several more records appear in the unpublished draft Catalog of the Robber Flies (Diptera: Asilidae) of the Nearctic Region by Eric M. Fisher and Joe Wilcox dated 1997. Recent collecting and analysis have revealed that Arkansas has a fauna of more than one hundred recorded robber fly species, plus another 20% of that number that potentially occur here but have not yet been found. Artigas and Papavero (1997) subdivided the genus Efferia. They placed some species in old genera, including Nerax, which had been treated as a synonym. They also described five new genera — Albibarbefferia, Aridefferia, Carinefferia, Pogoniefferia, and Tuberculefferia — to receive other species. The latest catalog of robber fly genera recognizes all of these genera (Geller-Grimm 2003). Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 243 However, we feel that the subdivision of Efferia was based on insufficient evi- dence and continue to use Efferia sensu lato. METHODS Specimens were keyed to genus using Wood’s (1981) key, and they were keyed to species using the references cited therein or more recent works. The unpublished draft catalog of Nearctic robber flies was indispensable for deter- mining which species probably occur in Arkansas. Specimens from the follow- ing collections were studied: California Academy of Sciences, Department of Entomology, San Francisco (CASE); Hot Springs National Park Collections, Hot Springs, Arkansas (HSNP); Louisiana State Arthropod Museum, Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (LSAM); Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (MCZH); National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (NMNH); K.C. Emerson Museum, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater (OSEC); Snow Entomological Collections, University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Lawrence (SEMC); and the University of Arkansas Arthropod Muse- um, Department of Entomology, Fayetteville (UAAM). DISTRIBUTIONAL, TAXONOMIC, AND BIOLOGICAL NOTES Notes are here provided on several species for which our records significant- ly extend the known ranges, provide new biological or taxonomic information, or correct inaccurate published data. These notes are arranged alphabetically by species name. Atomosia punctifera Hermann This taxon was described by Hermann (1912) as a Mexican variety of Atomosia rufipes Macquart. Fisher and Wilcox raised it to species rank in their unpublished catalog and recorded it from Kansas to Texas and Mississippi as well as Mexico. Beckemeyer (2001), under the influence of the Fisher and Wilcox catalog, published this new status without annotation or comment. Atomosia punctifera has not been recorded from Arkansas, although it occurs in at least two neighboring states. Ceraturgus cornutus (Wiedemann) Arkansas: Benton County, 7 June 1933, 1 female, S. A. Summerland, VAAM. In his unpublished revision of Ceraturgus, Joe Wilcox recorded the following specimens from Arkansas: Washington County: 5 June 1960, 12 June 1939 and 17 June 1941, one with a second label, Oenothera, 3 females, VAAM (examined by JW, now apparently lost). 244 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Ceraturgus fasciatus Walker Unpublished revisionary work on the genus Ceraturgus by the senior author has resulted in Ceraturgus fasciatus being resurrected from synonymy with C. cruciatus (Say). The Midwestern species Ceraturgus cruciatus has not been recorded from Arkansas since Say (1823) described it from the state. Ceraturgus fasciatus has not been recorded from Arkansas, although it is known from near- by localities in Mississippi. From there its range extends to the Northeast. The ranges of the two species apparently do not overlap. Cyrtopogon lutatius (Walker) Arkansas: Logan County, Mt. Magazine State Park, N 35°10.550' W 93°37.063', oak-hickory forest, 4-18 May 2004, 1 female, J. K. Barnes, UAAM; Pulaski County, Little Rock, flight intercept trap, 10 April 1998, 1 female, B. Baldwin, UAAM. Cyrtopogon lutatius was previously known from Michigan to Nova Scotia, south to Pennsylvania (Martin and Wilcox 1965). These Arkansas records sig- nificantly extend the southwestern corner of the known range. Diogmites angustipennis Loew Some Arkansas Diogmites specimens could be identified as D. symmachus Loew using existing keys (Bromley 1936b, Artigas 1966). We are considering these to be light colored variants of D. angustipennis. Loew (1866) described D. angustipennis in 1866 from two relatively robust and dark colored females collected in Kansas. A few years later, he described D. symmachus Loew from two smaller, light colored specimens collected in Texas, both a male and a female (Loew 1872). In females from both type series, abdominal tergites 1-5 and the corresponding sternites are dull and pollinose, whereas tergites 6-8 and the cor- responding sternites are glabrous except for the lightly pollinose extreme lateral edges of tergite 6. D. angustipennis is common and widespread in Arkansas. In a similar, but as yet undescribed, species, females have abdominal tergites 1-6 pollinose and dull dorsally, tergites 7-8 glabrous dorsally and dull laterally, and all abdominal sternites pollinose and dull. This new species is apparently rare in Arkansas, occurring only in the southwest portion of the state, but it is wide- spread from Colorado and Kansas south to the United States border from Cali- fornia to Louisiana. More will be said about synonymy, and the new species will be described, in a future publication. Diogmites discolor Loew Arkansas: Garland County, Hot Springs, 13 August 1962, 1 female, E. Coch- rane, OSEC; Montgomery County, Mt. Ida, 23 July 1963, 1 male, M. E. Coch- rane, VAAM. Most recorded specimens of D. discolor have been collected from Ohio and Kentucky east to Massachusetts and Virginia, but the species has also been Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 245 recorded from Alabama (Artigas 1966, Martin and Wilcox 1965). These records extend the southwestern border of the known range. Echthodopa formosa Loew Arkansas: Craighead County, Craighead Forest Park, woodland trail, 22 April 2004, 1 male, N. Lavers, VAAM; Greene County, Crowley’s Ridge State Park, woodland path, 10 May 2004, 1 male, N. Lavers, UAAM; Poinsett County, Lake Hogue, open woodland, understory in sun, 15 April 2004, 2 males, N. Lavers, VAAM. Echthodopa formosa was previously known to range from Massachusetts to Mississippi (Adisoemarto and Wood 1975). Echthodopa pubera Loew Arkansas: Boone County, Baker Prairie Natural Area, 30 May 2003, 1 male, M. D. Warriner, UAAM. This is the most southeastern record for this species (Adisoemarto and Wood 1975). Efferia kansensis (Hine) Arkansas: Crawford County, 19 June 1964, 2 males, 1 female, UAAM; ex Des- modium, 6 July 1970, 1 male, P. Tugwell, UAAM; 6 August 1970, 1 male, P. Tugwell, VAAM. Efferia kansensis was previously known only from Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas (Wilcox 1966). Efferia prairiensis (Bromley) Arkansas: Greene County, Scatter Creek Wildlife Management Area, path in grassland, 16 June 2004, 1 female, N. Lavers, UAAM; Poinsett County, Lake Hogue, 26 July 2003, 1 male, N. Lavers, UAAM. Efferia prairiensis was previously known only from Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas (Wilcox 1966). Efferia texana (Banks) Arkansas: Calhoun County, 2 July 1964, 1 female, UAAM; Garland County, Hot Springs National Park, 18 June 1961, 1 female, HSNP; Montgomery County, Richardson Bottoms, 5 September 2003, 1 female, T. D. Marsico, UAAM;; Pulaski County, 22 May 1965, 1 female, H. R. Dodge, UAAM; 12 June 1965, 1 male, H. R. Dodge, UAAM. Efferia texana was previously known from Oklahoma, Texas, and Arizona (Wilcox 1966). 246 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Heteropogon macerinus (Walker) Arkansas: Cross County, Village Creek State Park, 9 September 2003, 1 female, N. Lavers, VAAM; 25 August 2005, 1 female, N. Lavers, UAAM; Craighead County, Bono Bog, 26 August 2005, 1 female, N. Lavers, VAAM. Heteropogon macerinus was previously recorded from New York to Kentucky (Martin and Wilcox 1965). Laphria affinis Macquart Arkansas: Pulaski County, Little Rock, Malaise trap, 4 October 1999, 1 male, B. Baldwin, UAAM. Most species of Laphria fly in late spring or early summer. Laphria affinis, however, flies in late summer and fall. It was previously recorded from Massa- chusetts to to Georgia and Louisiana (Bromley 1934b, Martin and Wilcox 1965). McAtee and Banks (1920) found this species to be plentiful in Washington, D.C., in autumn, and they identified two prey species, one a staphylinid beetle and the other a chrysomelid beetle. Bromley (1934b) found this species to be quite common at Chadbourne, Columbus County, North Carolina, in September and October 1925. One individual fed on a lampyrid beetle. Laphria divisor (Banks) Arkansas: Stone County, Sylamore Creek, trail, open woodland, understory in sun, 5 May 2004, 1 male, N. Lavers, VAAM. Laphria divisor was previously known from Ontario, Maine to Wisconsin, and south to North Carolina and Illinois (Martin and Wilcox 1965, Skevington 1999). Laphria vorax (Bromley) Arkansas: Boone County, Baker Prairie Natural Area, Jenkins Road, east sec- tion, 11 July 2002, 2 males, M. D. Warriner, UAAM; Baker Prairie Natural Area, 2 July 2003, 1 male, M. D. Warriner, UAAM; Franklin County, Cherokee Prairie Natural Area, 19 May 2003, 1 female, M. D. Warriner, UAAM; H. E. Flanagan Prairie Natural Area, 3 June 2003, 2 males, M. D. Warriner, UAAM. Laphria vorax was previously known from the prairie states Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma (Bromley 1934b). The Arkansas records are all from prairie remnant habitats. Leptogaster atridorsalis Back Arkansas: Carroll County, Urbanette, N 36°25.064' W 93°28.574', 2-9 July 2004, 1 male, J. K. Barnes, UAAM; Craighead County, 21 June 2005, 1 male, N. Lavers, UAAM; Hempstead County, Rick Evans Grandview Prairie, N 33°48.076', W 93°48.082', 25 May-2 June 2004, 1 male, J. K. Barnes, UAAM. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 247 Leptogaster atridorsalis was previously thought to be confined to a rather small area from southern Pennsylvania to North Carolina and westward as far as Indiana (Martin 1957). Machimus virginicus (Banks) Arkansas: Clay County, Chalk Bluff, 30 June 2005, 1 male, N. Lavers, UAAM; Cleburne County, Cherokee Wildlife Management Area, logging road, near pasture, 15 June 2004, 1 male, H. Raney, UAAM; Craighead County, Bono Bog, 22 May 2003, 1 male, 1 female, N. Lavers, UAAM; Craighead Forest Park, 10 May 2003, 1 male, N. Lavers, UAAM; 23 May 2004, 2 males, | female, N. Lavers, UAAM; Jonesboro, 28 May 2005, 1 male, 1 female, N. Lavers, UAAM; | June 2005, 1 male, N. Lavers, VAAM; Cross County, Vill- age Creek State Park, woodland, 11 June 2004, 1 male, 1 female, N. Lavers, UAAM; Greene County, Crowley’s Ridge State Park, 26 May 2003, 1 male, N. Lavers, UAAM; 17 June 1971, 2 males, 2 females, A. G. Scarbrough, UAAM; Scatter Creek, woodland edge, 14 May 2005, 1 female, N. Lavers, UAAM; Scatter Creek Wildlife Management Area, 27 May 2005, 1 male, 1 female, N. Lavers, UAAM; Newton County, woodland trail near Pruitt, 5 June 2004, 2 males, | female, N. Lavers, VAAM; Buffalo National River, Cecil Cove Trail, 3 km NW Erbie, 24-28 June 1994, 1 female, C. E. Carlton, UAAM; Perry County, 2 mi. NE Lake Sylvia, 16 June 1993, 1 male, C. E. Carlton, VAAM; Pope County, Piney Creeks Wildlife Management Area, 18 June 2005, 1 male, N. Lavers, VAAM; Scott County, Mill Creek, 5 mi. E of Y City, 21 May 1978, 1 male, G. W. Byers & C. W. Young, SEMC. Scarbrough (1972) reported M. notatus (Wiedemann) from Arkansas, but his specimens are more likely referable to M. virginicus. McAtee and Banks (1920) found M. notatus and M. virginicus to be similar species, distinguishable by char- acters of the male genitalia. Inspection of the male genitalia of Scarbrough’s specimens, and all other male specimens collected in Arkansas, reveals that each half of the epandrium (= superior forceps) has the apex projecting straight back- wards as in M. virginicus, not downturned as in M. notatus. Megaphorus clausicellus (Macquart) Whitcomb and Bell (1964) recorded this species from Arkansas cotton fields. We have not been able to confirm its presence in the state. At UAAM, there is a single specimen of Megaphorus acrus (Curran) misidentified as M. clausicellus. It was collected in Conway County, 29 July 1959. Microstylum morosum Loew Arkansas: Howard County, 1994, 1 female, S. Reeder, VAAM. Until recently, these giant asilids, up to 50 mm long, were known from only Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona (Beckemeyer and Charlton 2000). Warriner (2004) recorded the species from Terre Noire 248 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Natural Area, a blackland prairie remnant near Arkadelphia, Clark County, Arkansas. The specimen recorded here was found in the student collection of Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, and was presented to UAAM as a gift by Dr. Randall Adams. Neoitamus orphne (Walker) Arkansas: Polk County, 21-24 April 1998, 1 female, V. L. Moseley, LSAM. Neoitamus orphne was previously recorded from Colorado to Wisconsin and Maine, south to North Carolina (Martin and Wilcox 1965). Neomochtherus auricomus (Hine) Arkansas: Carroll County, Urbanette, N 36°25.064', W 93°28.574', 24 August- 1 September 2004, 1 male, J. K. Barnes, UAAM; Logan County, Mt. Magazine State Park, N 35°10.550', W 93°37.063', oak-hickory forest, 16 August-1 Sep- tember 2004, 1 male, J. K. Barnes, UAAM; Montgomery County, Crystal Mountain Scenic Area, 22 September 1993, 2 males, C. E. Carlton, UAAM; off Hwy 270 at Co. 527, 23-30 September 1999, 4 males, C. Lewis, UAAM; Pu- laski County, Little Rock, in house, 20 September 1996, 1 female, B. Baldwin, UAAM;; Little Rock, Malaise trap, 17 September 1998, 2 males, B. Baldwin, UAAM;; Little Rock, 21 October 2003, 1 female, B. Baldwin, UAAM; Wash- ington County, near West Fork, 14634 Hwy 170, 22 September 2004, 1 female, J. J. Riggins, UAAM; woods, 25 September 1984, 1 male, B. White, UAAM. Oklahoma: Grady County, Tuttle, 17 September 2005, 3 females, B. Baldwin, UAAM;; 18 September 2005, 2 males, B. Baldwin, UAAM; 2 October 2005, 2 males, 2 females, B. Baldwin, VAAM. These records represent a significant range extension from the previously known range, which includes Ontario, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Connecticut (Martin and Wilcox 1965, Skevington 1999). This species was previously placed in the genus Asilus. In their unpublished catalog, Fisher and Wilcox moved it to the predominantly Palaearctic genus Neomochtherus. Skevington (1999) published this combination without com- ment, apparently under the influence of the Fisher and Wilcox catalog. Nicocles pictus (Loew) Arkansas: Cross County, Village Creek State Park, woodland trail, 5 March 2005, 1 female, N. Lavers, UAAM; Washington County, 1959, 1 female, J. Lindsey, VAAM. Nicocles pictus was previously recorded from New Jersey; Washington, D.C.; Georgia; Florida; and Alabama (Martin and Wilcox 1965). It flies early in the season, and it has been known to prey on ants of the genus Lasius and the dung beetle Aphodius femoralis Say (McAtee and Banks 1920). Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 249 Orthogonis stygia (Bromley) Arkansas: Clay County, Chalk Bluff, fallen oak log, 8 July 2004, 1 male, N. Lavers, UAAM; poison ivy, 14 July 2004, 1 female, N. Lavers, VAAM; Cross County, Village Creek State Park, oak log in deep woods canyonside, 23 July 2004, 1 male, N. Lavers, VAAM; Phillips County, Saint Francis National Forest, 20 July 2005, 1 male, N. Lavers, VAAM; Washington County, Fayette- ville vicinity, 25 June 1962, 1 female, L. J. Paulissen, VAAM. This exceptionally rare robber fly is large, about 2.5 cm long. With its black and metallic blue coloration, it resembles a spider wasp, family Pompilidae. Bromley (1931a) originally described this species in the genus Laphria. Hull (1962) placed it in Smeryngolaphria, but Martin and Wilcox (1965) placed it in Orthogonis, and Eric Fisher (personal communication) finds that it is “definite- ly congeneric with typical Orthogonis.” The holotype female was collected in Stovall, Granville County, North Carolina, 26 June 1919, and the paratype females were collected in Ovett, Jones County, Mississippi, 20 June 1914. All type specimens were from the Hine Collection, Ohio State University. Bromley (1950) later recorded the species from Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida. Taber and Fleenor (2003) recorded two female specimens in the Texas A&M University Insect Collection collected by Bromley in 1934 in Liberty, Texas, and they reported on a single female that they collected in June in the Ottine Swamps of Gonzales County, south central Texas, but they failed to report the day or year of collection and the specimen depository. The specimen was found on a trail in a swamp characterized by green ash, Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marshall, and dwarf palmetto, Sabal minor (Jacquin) Persoon. Our specimens include the first recorded males. On 9 July 2004, at Chalk Bluff, Clay County, Arkansas, NL tried to net a male specimen on a rotting oak log. It escaped, but flew only to the other end of the log, where NL succeeded in capturing it. Two days later, on 11 July, examination of about 20 other logs did not turn up any new specimens, but a second male was found upon returning to the original log. This log was in closed-canopy woods consisting of hardwoods, mostly oaks, with dappled shade. The understory was mostly bare, with only dried leaf litter and the occasional seedling or sapling tree. The log attractive to O. stygia was well rotted, about 0.5 m in diameter and 12 m long, and lying on an eastward-facing slope of about 30 degrees. The log was ori- ented up and down the slope, rather than across it. The soil was highly erodible loess, and there was a stream at the bottom of the slope. When first spotted, the second male was flying along the ground about 2 m from the log carrying a 6-7 mm ichneumonid or braconid wasp. When pursued, the robber fly made frequent, brief flights, but over a period of two hours or more it always landed on or close to the rotting log, as if it was defending its territory. A male Laphria grossa (Fabricius) shared the environs of the log, but it was far less active than the Orthogonis male. 250 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS NL returned to the same area about 10:00 AM on 14 July and found a male Orthogonis stygia active on top of, and in the immediate vicinity of, the rotting log, never flying more than about a meter above the ground. It flew beyond the log about 3 m, then it quickly returned carrying an ichneumonid wasp 8 mm long. NL then walked to the ridge top above the log, about 60-70 m from the log, and there in closed-canopy woods with a dense ground cover of poison ivy and other low, woody plants was a female O. stygia. This habitat was much richer in potential prey than the areas being guarded by the males. The female escaped NL’s first attempt to net it, but like the males, when pursued, she only flew 2-3 m away and then landed on low vegetation. It was eventually netted. NL returned to the log on 17 July and again found a male O. stygia seemingly guard- ing it. It flew beyond the log and returned with an ichneumonid wasp, 6 mm long. On 23 July, NL visited Village Creek State Park in Cross County, still on Crowley’s Ridge, but some 150 km south of the previous site, where he found similar habitat: closed canopy, oak/beech forest on loess soil in a steep sided ravine. When he approached a large, rotting log, 16-17 m long and 0.5 m in diam- eter, positioned up and down a 35 degree, east-facing slope, a male O. stygia appeared. It performed what appeared to be a wasp-like warning display, buzzing loudly about 0.3 m from his face. This same behavior had been noted in the males observed at Chalk Bluff. When pursued with an insect net, the fly scram- bled away two or three times but refused to leave the log. It was finally caught. Further observation on 27 July revealed no more specimens of O. stygia at this site. The following specimen was examined by Eric Fisher (personal communica- tion) at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco: Arkansas: Washing- ton County, Cave Creek Valley, 1000 ft., “1955-56,” 1 female, M. Hite, CASE. The following three specimens were examined by JKB at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: Alabama: 1 female [no other data], NUNH; Oklahoma: Muskogee County, Fort Gibson, 21 July 1937, 1 female, Standish-Kaiser, NMNH; and Mississippi: Oktibbeha County, Agricultural College, July 1894, 1 female, H. E. Weed, NMNH. Proctacanthella leucopogon (Williston) Whitcomb and Bell (1964) reported finding Proctacanthella leucopogon in Arkansas, but this record is probably an error. Many specimens of Philonicus rufipennis Hine were found at UAAM misidentified as this species. Stichopogon colei Bromley Arkansas: Little River County, weeds, 4 July 1961, 2 females, UAAM; Perry County, Toad Suck, 7 September 2003, 1 female, H. Raney, UAAM; Toad Suck Park, along sandy Arkansas River beach, 5 September 2004, 1 female, H. Raney, VAAM. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 DIS \\ This species was previously recorded only from Texas (Martin and Wilcox 1965). The three species of Stichopogon that are known to occur in the central United States are distinguished from other North American species by the lack of marginal hairs or bristles on the scutellum. Stichopogon trifasciatus (Say) 1s readily distinguished by entirely black tibiae and the silvery pollinose abdominal segments 1, 4, and 8 contrasting sharply with the otherwise velvety black abdo- men. Stichopogon colei Bromley has the tibiae reddish basally, and it has dis- tinctive black or dark brown triangles on tergites 1-7 (Bromley 1934c, Wilcox 1936a). In the specimens that we have seen the frons and vertex are covered with golden brown pollen. Stichopogon pritchardi Bromley has the tibiae yellowish basally and the abdomen is fairly uniformly yellowish red (Bromley 1951). The frons is white pollinose, and the vertex usually has at least a transverse line of golden brown pollen at about the level of the ocellar triangle. It is sometimes very difficult to distinguish between S. colei and S. pritchardi. Further study might prove them to be synonymous. Zabrops flavipilis (Jones) Arkansas: Pope County, Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge, NW side, in shad- ed woods, perching on leaf tops, 5 July 2005, 1 female, H. D. Raney (UAAM). The habitat was bottomland hardwood, oak, hickory, and cottonwood in full shade with an open understory of ferns, sapling oaks, and poison ivy. It was sev- eral hundred yards from the Arkansas River channel, out of the floodplain except for extraordinary flood years. The soil was covered with rich leaf litter and prob- ably a deeper sandy base. The soils are generally moist, with some puddle and pool areas, but they were mostly dried at the time this specimen was collected. Also found perching on leaf tops in the vicinity were Diogmites neoternatus (Bromley) and Machimus antimachus (Walker). This species was described from a female holotype specimen collected in Meadow [county unknown], Nebraska (Jones 1907). Published records also exist for Riley County, Kansas (1 male) and Scioto County, Ohio (1 male) (Fisher 1977). E. Fisher (personal communication) provided the following unpublished records: Iowa: Pottawattamie County, Council Bluffs, 19 July 1940, 2 females, F. S. Stancliffe (Larry Bezark Collection); Missouri: Linn County, Pershing State Park, malaise trap, 16 July 2004, 1 female, D. A. Woller (D. A. Woller Collec- tion). CHECKLIST The recorded robber fly fauna of Arkansas comprises 108 species. We have collected, or studied museum specimens of, 101 species, of which 35 were pre- viously recorded from the state, and 66 are here recorded for the first time (names in boldface type). In most cases specimens are deposited in the UAAM. Another 7 species have been reported in the literature, but we have not yet con- firmed their presence in the state (names followed by a dagger, ft, followed by 252 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS the relevant reference), for a total of 108 recorded species. We consider another 23 species to be potential residents of the state, based on known distributions in nearby states (names followed by an asterisk, *), for a state faunal list consisting of 131 species. We have adopted the subfamily classification found in Geller- Grimm ’s (2003) world catalog of robber fly genera. Subfamily Apocleinae Efferia aestuans (Linnaeus) Efferia albibarbis (Macquatt) Efferia apicalis (Wiedemann)* Efferia bicolor (Bellardi)* Efferia kansensis (Hine) Efferia nemoralis (Hine) Efferia plena (Hine) Efferia pogonias (Wiedemann) Efferia prairiensis (Bromley) Efferia texana (Banks) Mallophora orcina (Wiedemann) Megaphorus acrus (Curran) Megaphorus clausicellus (Macquart)+ (Whitcomb and Bell 1964) Megaphorus guildiana (Williston)* Proctacanthella cacopiloga (Hine) Proctacanthus brevipennis (Wiedemann)t (Whitcomb and Bell 1964) Proctacanthus duryi Hine Proctacanthus hinei Bromley Proctacanthus longus (Wiedemann)* Proctacanthus milbertii Macquart Proctacanthus rufus Williston Promachus bastardii (Macquart) Promachus fitchii Osten Sacken Promachus hinei Bromley Promachus oklahomensis Pritchard* Promachus rufipes (Fabricius)t (Scarbrough 1972) Promachus vertebratus (Say) Triorla interrupta (Macquart) Subfamily Asilinae Asilus sericeus Say Dicropaltum rubicundus (Hine) Machimus antimachus (Walker) Machimus erythocnemius (Hine) Machimus notatus (Wiedemann) (Scarbrough 1972) Machimus paropus (Walker) Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 Machimus prairiensis (Tucker) Machimus sadyates (Walker) Machimus snowii (Hine) Machimus virginicus (Banks) Neoitamus flavofemoratus (Hine) Neoitamus orphne (Walker) Neomochtherus auricomus (Hine) Philonicus rufipennis Hine Subfamily Dasypogoninae Diogmites angustipennis Loew Diogmites basalis (Walker) Diogmites discolor Loew Diogmites misellus Loew Diogmites missouriensis Bromley Diogmites neoternatus (Bromley) Diogmites platypterus Loew Diogmites properans Bromley* Diogmites salutans Bromley* Diogmites texanus Bromley Nicocles pictus (Loew) Taracticus octopunctatus (Say) Subfamily Dioctriinae Echthodopa formosa Loew Echthodopa pubera Loew Eudioctria tibialis (Banks) Subfamily Laphriinae Andrenosoma fulvicauda (Say) Atomosia glabrata (Say) Atomosia melanopogon Hermann Atomosia puella (Wiedemann) Atomosia punctifera Hermann* Atomosia pusilla Macquart* Atomosia rufipes Macquart Atomosia sayii Johnson Cerotainia albipilosa Curran Cerotainia macrocera (Say) Lampria bicolor (Weidemann) Lampria rubriventris (Macquart) Laphria affinis Macquart Laphria aktis McAteet (Bullington 1986) 254 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Laphria apila (Bromley) Laphria cinerea (Back) Laphria divisor (Banks) Laphria flavicollis Say Laphria grossa (Fabricius) Laphria index McAtee Laphria ithypyga McAtee Laphria lata Macquart Laphria macquarti (Banks) Laphria saffrana Fabricius Laphria sericea Say* Laphria sicula McAtee Laphria thoracica Fabricius Laphria vorax (Bromley) Orthogonis stygia (Bromley) Pogonosoma dorsatum (Say) Pogonosoma ridingsi Cresson* Subfamily Laphystiinae Laphystia bromleyi Wilcox Laphystia notata (Bigot)* Laphystia ochreifrons Curran* Laphystia sexfasciata (Say) Psilocurus birdi birdi Curran Psilocurus nudiusculus Loew Zabrops flavipilis (Jones) Subfamily Leptogastrinae Apachekolos tenuipes (Loew) Beameromyia disfascia Martin* Beameromyia vulgaris Martin Leptogaster aegra Martin Leptogaster atridorsalis Back Leptogaster brevicornis Loew Leptogaster flavipes Loew* Leptogaster incisuralis Loew* Leptogaster murina Loew Leptogaster virgata Coquillett Psilonyx annulatus (Say) Tipulogaster glabrata (Wiedemann) Subfamily Ommatiinae Ommatius gemma Brimley Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 255 Ommatius oklahomensis Bullington and Lavigne* Ommatius ouachitensis Bullington and Lavigne Ommatius tibialis Say (Scarbrough 1972) Ommatius wilcoxi Bullington and Lavigne* Subfamily Stenopogoninae Ceraturgus cruciatus (Say)f (Say 1823) Ceraturgus cornutus (Wiedemann) Ceraturgus elizabethae Brimley Ceraturgus fasciatus Walker* Ceraturgus mitchelli Brimley* Cyrtopogon lutatius (Walker) Heteropogon macerinus (Walker) Holopogon guttulus (Wiedemann)* Holopogon phaeonotus Loew Microstylum morosum Loew Prolepsis tristis (Walker) Scleropogon subulatus (Wiedemann) Subfamily Stichopogoninae Stichopogon colei Bromley Stichopogon pritchardi Bromley Stichopogon trifasciatus (Say) Townsendia nigra Back* Subfamily Trigonomiminae Holcocephala abdominalis (Say)* Holcocephala calva (Loew) Holcocephala fusca Bromley DISCUSSION The checklist of Arkansas robber flies now comprises 131 species. It includes 101 species studied by the authors, of which 66 species are recorded for the first time from the state. Seven more species have been recorded in the literature, and 23 species that might occur in the state have never been recorded. Preliminary evidence seems to indicate that Arkansas robber fly biodiversity is greatest in areas with friable soils, such as the loess of Crowley’s Ridge and the sands of the riparian habitat at Toad Suck on the Arkansas River. The Arkansas robber fly fauna shares many species with the fauna of the east- ern United States, sharing nearly 60% of its species with Kansas (Beckemeyer 2001), which has a fauna consisting of 122 recorded species and another 14 that might occur there, over half of its species with Michigan, which has a fauna con- 256 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS sisting of 72 recorded species and another 7 that might occur there (Baker and Fischer 1975), and over half of its species with Ohio, which has a fauna consist- ing of 90 recorded species and another 9 that might occur there (Bromley 193 1b, 1933, 1934a, 1936a, 1947). In contrast, less than 10 percent of Arkansas’ species are shared with Utah, which has a fauna consisting of some 158 recorded species (Nelson 1987). The species shared with Utah tend to be those that occur over all or most of the United States, such as Stichopogon trifasciatus (Say), Triorla interrupta (Macquart), Efferia aestuans (Linnaeus), E. albibarbis (Macquart), Machimus paropus (Walker), and Proctacanthus milbertii Macquatt. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We are grateful to Eric M. Fisher (California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento) for providing label data from specimens that he examined, a copy of Joe Wilcox’s unpublished revi- sion of Ceraturgus, and a copy of the Fisher and Wilcox unpublished draft catalog of Nearctic rob- ber flies. Eric Fisher, Torsten Dikow (Cornell University and American Museum of Natural History), and Fritz Geller-Grimm (Museum Wiesbaden) reviewed an early draft of this paper and made many suggestions that substantially improved it. 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Peterson, G. E. Shewell, H. J. Teskey, J. R. Vockeroth, and D. M. Wood (Editors). Volume 1. Agriculture Canada Research Branch Monograph 27. 674 pp. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 259 XANTHOGALERUCA SUBCOERULESCENS (WEISE, 1884) (COLEOPTERA: CHRYSOMELIDAE), A LITTLE-KNOWN GALERUCINE FROM TURKEY, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE FEMALE, ADDITIONS TO THE DESCRIPTION OF THE MALE, AND ECOLOGICAL REMARKS' Ali Gék,’? Ebru Gil Aslan,’ and Baran Aslan’ ABSTRACT: Xanthogaleruca subcoerulescens (Weise, 1884), has been rediscovered recently in south- ern Turkey. Beetles were found feeding on the leaves of Celtis glabrata Steven ex Planchon (Ulmaceae), leaving behind small, round holes. Redescriptions of the male and female are presented. The spermath- eca is illustrated for the first time. KEY WORDS: Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Xanthogaleruca subcoerulescens, host plant, Turkey The genus Xanthogaleruca Laboissiére, 1934 is characterized by the following combination of characters: body oblong, parallel-sided, upperside pubescent; third antennomere equal to fourth or a little shorter, following segments about twice as long as wide; aedeagus with a remarkable long internal comb-shaped sclerite (Silfverberg, 1974; Beenen, 2003; Warchalowski, 2003). Xanthogaleruca 1s represented by two species throughout the western Palearctic region: X. /uteola (Miller, 1766) and X. subcoerulescens (see Silfverberg, 1974; Beenen, 2003). Xanthogaleruca luteola is a well-known species with a large distri- bution area in the western Palearctic region, including Turkey (Silfverberg, 1974; Warchalowski, 2003). However, X. subcoerulescens is known only from Turkey (Weise, 1884; Silfverberg, 1974; Beenen, 2003; Warchalowski, 2003). Xanthogaleruca subcoerulescens was first described based on a single male specimen collected from Amasya (Turkey) by Weise (1884). This was a very brief description lacking illustrations. Then, the species went unrecorded for about a cen- tury. During faunistic trips in the southern provinces of Turkey between 1988 and 1993, a few specimens of X. subcoerulescens were collected outside the type local- ity. Beenen (2003) dealt with these specimens in his recent paper which included illustrations of male genitalia and a key for western Palearctic species of the genus Xanthogaleruca. Neither the original description nor Beenen’s paper contain a description of the female or data on host plant and habitat. In 2005, during a field research in southwest Turkey, specimens of X. swbcoerulescens were found feeding on leaves of Celtis glabrata Steven ex Planchon (Ulmaceae). The goals of this paper are to supplement the original description of X. subcoe- rulescens with a description of the female, to add to the description of the male with illustrations of the aedeagus, and to provide information on habitat and host plant. ‘Received on June 1, 2006. Accepted on April 17, 2007. *Biology Department, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Stileyman Demirel University, 32260 Isparta, Turkey. E-mails: aligok@fef.sdu.edu.tr and egul@fef.sdu.edu.tr, respectively. *Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Stileyman Demirel University, 32260 Isparta, Turkey. E-mail: aslanb@ziraat.sdu.edu.tr Mailed on July 31, 2007 260 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS METHODS This jaa. was based on X. subcoerulescens specimens collected in Antalya (Turkey) by the authors. Samples were taken from the host plant using an aspirator and sweep net. Genitalia were photographed with a Camedia C-5060 digital cam- era attached to an Olympus SZX12 stereomicroscope. Ten specimens (5 males and 5 females), including the largest and smallest ones of each sex were used for meas- urements. Voucher specimens are deposited at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Stleyman Demirel University, Turkey. The ecological notes are summarized from personal observations. SYSTEMIC ENTOMOLOGY Xanthogaleruca subcoerulescens (Weise, 1884) Description of the female. Body parallel, 5.58 - 5.73 mm long, covered entirely with long white hairs. Macropterous. Head, pronotum, legs and the ventral part of antennomeres 1-7 pale yellow; elytra dark brown with usually bluish sheen, or dark reddish in some specimens. Venter: underside yellowish in the greatest part; metas- ternites moderately black; all abdominal sternites pale yellow with a black spot at both side of each sternite. Legs entirely pale eee. The last abdominal sternite very slightly emarginate. Head: maximum width of head 1.27-1.31 mm, distance across the eyes 0.72- 0.75 mm. Vertex with deep and dense punctures, and a fine and regular median lon- gitudinal impression. Frontal tubercles distinct; raised; impunctate and glabrous. Antennae pubescent; segments 1-7 black dorsally, yellow ventrally; the remaining segments completely black. Frontal keel evident; lateral margins with hairs. Labrum with eight regular, large bristles. Mandibles small, black apically; palps yellow. Pronotum: maximum width about 2.02.mm; maximum length 1.01 mm. Front margin of pronotum slightly arched. Margin of lateral borders small; lateral mar- gins faintly rounded from front to base. Upper surface of pronotum rather punctate; punctures mostly large. Pronatal disc with 1-3 black spots in the middle; a large hollow at each side of the disc. Scutellum: broad and moderately rounded; punctation sparser than on pronotum and elytra. Elytra: almost parallel; maximum width about 2.93 mm; maximum length 4.53 mm. Lateral margins quite visible from above; flat and broad; gradually narrowing from base to apex, disappearing at apex. Humeral calli well-developed; elytral mar- gin becoming slightly narrow just behind the humerus, extending again to the apex. Elytra coarsely and densely punctate; covered completely with white hairs. Elytral epipleura distinct; wide at base, narrowing gradually towards apex. Spermatheca: nodulus of spermatheca moderately long with transverse wrin- kles, roundish at the base; cornu long, thin, hook-shaped; ductus short, attached to dorsal side of nodulus (Figure 1A). Sexual dimorphism: Males resemble females except for the following traits: body length 5.13-5.47 mm (5.58 - 5.73 in females); antennomeres 1-8 black dor- sally, yellow ventrally; antennomere 9 black dorsally, partly brownish-black ven- trally (antennomeres 1-7 black dorsally, yellow ventrally; the remaining anten- nomere completely black on females); the last two antennomeres completely black; Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 261 the last abdominal sternite distinctly and deeply emarginated (very slightly emar- ginate in the female). Aedeagus: about 2.02 mm in length; quite typical, slender with a strongly elongate apex; apex slightly curved dorsally in lateral view (Figure 1B); characterized by the presence of a long internal comb-shaped sclerite which is also treated as an important distinctive feature of the genus Xanthogaleruca (Figure LC). Habitat and host plant: Beetles were collected during July, August, and Sep- tember from a mountain slope in Dibek Nature Reserve (Antalya) at an elevation of 1362 m above sea level. The scrubland consists mainly of Quercus spp. (Fagaceae), Juniperus spp. (Cupressaceae) and Crataegus spp. (Rosaceae) inter- spersed with Cedrus spp. (Pinaceae) at the higher elevations. Adult X. subcoe- rulescens were found feeding on the leaves of a shrub or small tree with shiny, glabrous twigs, Celtis glabrata Steven ex Planchon (Ulmaceae), leaving behind tiny, round (approximately 4 mm) holes. Fully grown leaves of C. glabrata are 2.5-8.0 x 2.0-5.0 cm; yellowish green; broadly ovate to narrowly ovate, sometimes serrate in shape. The fruit, a drupe, is globose, yellow to orange. Celtis glabrata mainly occurs in open rocky slopes 0,5 mm A B Figure 1. Xanthogaleruca subcoerulescens (Weise), genitalia. (A) spermatheca; (B) aedea- gus lateral view; (C) aedeagus dorsal view Scale bar = 0.5 mm. 262 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS between the altitudes of 650-1370(-1800) m and it is widely distributed in Turkey, the Balkans, Crimea, Caucasia, Iran and northern Iraq (Davis, 1982). Material Examined: SW Turkey, Antalya, Kumluca, Dibek Nature Reserve (36° 38' 76" N, 30° 16' 78" E), 1362 m, 16.07.2005, 9 males, 7 females; 06.08.2005, 8 males, 6 females; 10.09.2005, 10 males, 7 females. DISCUSSION Although the classification of Xanthogaleruca is not settled (Beenen, 2003), it is widely recognized as a genus with two western Palearctic species. Xanthogale- ruca luteola has been known from central and south Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia, Turkey, Iran, North Africa, and North America, where it was introduced (Silfverberg, 1974; Gruev and Tomov, 1998; Beenen, 2003; Warchalowski, 2003). Xanthogaleruca subcoerulescens is a less studied species, recorded only from Tur- key up to now (Silfverberg, 1974; Beenen, 2003; Warchalowski, 2003). Its type locality was Amasya, located in northern Turkey. Additionally, it has been record- ed from Adana, Antalya, and Icel situated in southern Turkey (Beenen, 2003). This distributional disjunction can now be explained by the parallel distribution of the host plant. Celtis glabrata has a scattered distribution in central, northern, eastern and southern Turkey (Davis, 1982). We predict that X. subcoerulescens should be present in all except western Turkey where the host plant, C. glabrata, does not occur. Xanthogaleruca luteola feeds on Ulmus sp. (Ulmaceae) (Gruev and Tomov, 1998; Warchalowski, 2003), suggesting that species of Xanthogaleruca are associ- ated with ulmaceans. Additionally, other factors may also affect the distribution of X. subcoerulescens. There is variability in antennomere and coloration as well as beetle length. For instance, in the key to western Palearctic species of Xanthogaleruca (Beenen, 2003), the legs and antennae are reported as black. However, in our samples legs are entirely pale yellow and antennomeres 1-8 (in female 1-7) are black dorsally, yellow ventrally. According to Warchalowski (2003), the length of X. subcoerule- scens 1s about 4.5 mm, the specimens which Beenen (2003) examined were 7-8 mm; whereas our specimens are 5-6 mm long. LITERATURE CITED Beenen, R. 2003. New records of Xanthogaleruca subcoerulescens (Weise) in southern Turkey (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae). Entomologische Blatter 99: 99-103. Davis, P. H. 1982. Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands. Volume 7. University Press. Edinburgh, England, United Kingdom. 947 pp. Gruey, B. and V. Tomov. 1998. Catalogus Faunae Bulgaricae 3 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Pensoft Publishers. Sofia, Bulgaria. 160 pp. Silfverberg, H. 1974. The West Palearctic species of Galerucella Crotch and related genera (Coleo- ptera, Chrysomelidae). Contribution to the study of Galerucinae 6. Notulae Entomologicae 54: 1-11. Warchalowski, A. 2003. Chrysomelidae: The leaf beetles of Europe and the Mediterranean area. Natura optima dux Foundation. Warszawa, Poland. 600 pp. Weise, J. 1884. Beitrag zur Chrysomeliden-Fauna von Amasia. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 28: 157-160. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 263 HETEROCERAN FAUNA OF GOKCEADA AND BOZCAADA (NORTH AEGEAN ISLANDS, TURKEY), WITH A NEW RECORD OF NOCTUIDAE (LEPIDOPTERA), AND BIOGEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSES! Zuhal Okyar’ and Nihat Aktac’ ABSTRACT: During 1988-1989, 72 species of heterocerans (Lepidoptera) were collected and iden- tified in Gdkceada and Bozcaada islands. One species collected on Gok¢eada Caradrina ingrata (Staudinger, 1897), is the first record for Turkey and the North Aegean Islands. All identified species are first records for Gdk¢eada and Bozcaada, whereas 32 of them are first records of heterocerans for the North Aegean Islands. KEY WORDS: North Aegean Islands, Gdkc¢eada, Bozcaada, Heterocera, Lepidoptera, fauna, new record Islands are areas somewhat independent from continents that tend to have peculiar ecological conditions and Islands biogeographic characteristics. Compared to the continent, species diversity can be different in islands that are completely isolated. The study of the heteroceran Lepidoptera of the Greek islands of Thasos, Limnos, and Samothraki began with Staudinger (1870) followed by Beier (1936), Reiser (1946), Rebel (1935, 1938), and Koutsaftikis (1970, 1973). In total, 250 species of Heterocera have been identified. Many of these species were the first records for the Balkans, Greece, and the Aegean Sea island fauna (Kout- saftikis, 1973). However, up to the present study, no heteroceran lepidopteran has been recorded for the islands of Gdkceada and Bozcaada. There is only one study on Gok¢eada’s lepidopterans (Kili¢, 1987) that included 32 diurnal species. METHODS The current study was performed expecting that the heteroceran Lepidoptera fauna of islands possessing typical features of Mediterranean region climate and vegetation, such as Gék¢eada and Bozcaada, should be represented by more species than the number of species collected from this region previously. Adult specimens were collected from various habitats such as woodlands, orchards and cultivated areas, areas around water channels and areas where small sized annu- al plants (/nula sp. and Carthamus sp., Asteraceae) present of Gokceada and Bozcaada in 1998 and 1999. Collections were made only during their peak active months (between April and October), thus excluding the species which would possibly be found during the winter period and nonadult stages of all species. Materials were also collected with a light trap and a sweeping net during the day. ‘Received on April 2006. Accepted on May 7, 2007. *Trakya University, Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Biology, 22030 Edirne-Turkey. E-mails: zuhalo@trakya.edu.tr, nihata@trakya.edu.tr, respectively. Mailed on July 31, 2007 264 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Specimens were prepared and identified and prepared following the methods used by previous researchers (Pierce, 1967; Kornosor, 1982; Fernandez, 1986). Expert identified specimens, deposited both at Trakya University (Science and Art Faculty, Biology Department) and at Cukurova University (Agriculture Faculty Plant Protection Department), were utilized to identify the species. Faunistic studies done for neighboring countries (Hacker, 1989, 1990; Dufay, 1975; Kloet and Hincks, 1972) and systematic studies were also used (Stau- dinger, 1878, 1881; Pierce, 1967, 1978; Forster and Wohlfahrt, 1971; Wolfsberg- er, 1965, 1971; Scheuringer, 1972; Bustillo and Varela, 1981; Arnsheid, 1981; Calle, 1982; Rezbanyai-Reser, 1983, 1986; Vardikyan, 1985; Skou, 1986; Freina and Witt, 1987; Kornosor, 1987; Hacker, 1990; Fibiger, 1993; Rezbanyai-Reser et al., 1997; Hausmann, 2001; Hacker et al., 2002; Mironov, 2003; Hacker, 2004; http://www. faunaeur.org/index.php). The study islands and the collecting local- ities are shown in Figure 1. RESULTS Fifty-two genera and 72 species belonging to 8 families were identified in the islands. Of these, 1 genus and | species belong to the Hepialidae, 1 genus and 1 species to the Pyralidae, 15 genera and 27 species to the Geometridae, 5 gen- era and 5 species to the Sphingidae, 2 genera and 2 species to the Notodontidae, 2 genera and 2 species to the Lymantridae, 2 genera and 2 species to the Arcti- dae and 25 genera and 32 species to the Noctuidae. All identified species are first records for Gokcgeada and Bozcaada. Thirty-two of these species (H. sylvina, T: smaragdaria, T: fimbrialis, C. pendularia, T: comea, S. flaccidaria, I. dilu- taria, I. dimidiata, I. subsericeata, I. filicata, I. politaria, I. rusticata, I. determi- nata, E. centaurata, C. aestimaria, C. pennaria, E. regina, L. populi, M. quercus, T. pityocampa, E. chrysorrhoea, P. palpina, E. crypta, N. orbona, M. albipuncta, P. effusa, T. matura, C. ingrata, C. clavipalpis, A. melanura, A. triplasia, P. plumigeralis) are also first records for the North Aegean Islands (Table 1). Caradrina ingrata Staudinger, 1897 caught in Gékceada is the first record for Turkey and North Aegean Islands’ Noctuidae fauna. Noctuidae Caradrina ingrata Staudinger, 1897, Dt.Ent.Z.Iris 10:175 Material Examined: Canakkale-Gokceada-A gricultural Management Office, 22.09.1998, 1 & (Fig. 1). Geographical Distribution: Middle Italy (Wolfsberger, 1965, 1971; Scheu- ringer, 1972); The Alps (Arnscheid, 1981); North Half of Spain (Calle, 1982); Syria, Libya, Israel, Iraq, Arab Peninsula, Egypt (Hacker, 1990); Greece-Crete (Hacker, 2004). Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 265 GREECE MARMARA SEA Gékceada 2 ae Canakkale Bozcaada < Li ¢2) Zz < Lu oO LU < Tepekdy @ BOZCAADA a4 rn @GOKCEADA *Zeytinlik 2 e Papazbahce Figure 1. A. The Location of the Islands of Gdkceada and Bozcaada in the Aegean Sea. ----: Canakkale city border; B. Collecting sites in Gdkceada, (A 4. Collecting site of C. ingrata: Agricultural Management Office); C. Collecting sites in Bozcaada. 266 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Table 1. Distribution of the species that identified in GOk¢eada and Bozcaada in neighboring countries. Asterisk,*, means first record for Turkey and North Aegean Islands’ noctuid fauna. NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES SPECIES HEPIALIDAE 1. Hepialus sylvina (Linnaeus, 1761) + | + 48 ae ae PYRALIDAE 2. Pyrausta aurata (Scopoli, 1763) or + | +] + [+ GEOMETRIDAE . Thetidia smaragdaria Fabricius, 1787 + +] + ]+ 5 4. Thalera fimbrialis (Scopoli, 1763) aati = ne 5. Cyclophora pendularia (Clerck, 1759) [+ | [| | [+ [+ 6. Timandra comea Schmidt, 1931 Ic? | eeviellh eey atl et aia oh 1 8 9 zcaada Aegean Islands . Scopula marginepunctata (Goeze, 1781) |+ | | + | + | + [+ . Scopula imitaria (Hiibner, 1799) Pee) le hrckeed| See ian . Scopula flaccidaria (Zeller, 1852) eo) ‘hel spe a aa + 10. Idaea ochrata (Scopoli, 1763) co ens 11. Idaea dilutaria (Hiibner, 1799) el eS 12. Idaea seriata (Schrank, 1802) ES a = a 13. Idaea dimidiata (Hufnagel, 1767) Gsm mie ies amazed 14. Idaea subsericeata (Haworth, 1809) eee tee Fe a 15. Idaea filicata (Hubner, 1799) 1 Tick] mse | en ce 16. Idaea politaria (Hubner, 1799) FEN + 17. Idaea rusticata | a (Denis-Schiffermiiller, 1775) 2 + | 18. Idaea palaestinensis (Sterneck, 1933) ct Basle: gnu (ae ea + 19. Idaea determinata (Staudinger, 1876) i tec lubitarall Ai aa ie if 20. Rhodometra sacraria (Linnaeus, 1767) 20 21. Xanthorhoe fluctuata (Linnaeus, 1758) Nove: ads eS + 22. Camptogramma bilineata (Linnaeus, 1758) Ve por of Sevale eae is 23. Eupithecia breviculata (Donzel, 1837) SEAS | - 24. Eupithecia centaurata (Denis-Schiffermiller, 1775) 4 | ook +] + ]+ 25. Isturgia arenacearia (Denis-Schiffermiller, 1775) + + +] + [+ Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 267 NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES SPECIES 26. Chiasmia aestimaria Hubner, 1809 pos eee 2 27. Colotois pennaria (Linnaeus, 1761) ieeinWaie joa sie 25) 3h 28. Eumera regina Staudinger, 1892 LTE EE 29. Aspilates ochrearia (Rossi, 1794) SSeS + | + SPHINGIDAE a ae 30. Laothoe populi (Linnaeus, 1758) she =} sie eee 31. Marumba quercus uae Ee a ee (Denis-Schiffermuller, 1775) “+ sk | ation ots 32. Agrius convolvuli (Linnaeus, 1758) ae eee eS as 33. Macroglossum stellatarum (Linnaeus, 1758 ee er eee nee + 34. Hyles livornica (Esper, 1780) | ld eae a ee ce NOTODONTIDAE 35. Traumetopoea pitvocampa (Denis-Schiffermuller, 1775) + pl ect all et 36. Pterostoma palpinum (Clerck, 1759) ee ee ee ee LYMANTRIIDAE 37. Lymantria dispar (Linnaeus, 1758) 32 | SS eae eA SAA jes 38. Euproctis chrysorrhoea (Linnaeus, 1758) [po or ere eee a ARCTIIDAE 39. Pragmatobia fuliginosa (Linnaeus, 1758) | + ifr a iu 40. Arctia villica (Linnaeus, 1758) ZS rr =e NOCTUIDAE 41. Euxoa crypta (Dadd, 1927) = + + 42. Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766) [Pep eee || x 43. Noctua orbona (Hufnagel, 1766) [SS er ae Pe ee i 44. Noctua comes Hiibner, 1813 eee a cc pe ee 45. Peridroma saucia (Hubner, 1808) EES ree iz 46. Hadula trifolii (Hufnagel, 1766) lictecsdh Cheqar | cpctand | gate a ata fo 47. Hecatera dysodea (Denis-Schiffermiller, 1775) + a aoe (aml cht 43 48. Mythimna albipuncta (Denis-Schiffermiiller, 1775) ats Teel Gero 49. Mythimna unipuncta (Haworth, 1809) a ate leans a eee eereslace 50. Acronicta rumicis (Linnaeus, 1758) co eee eee a Aegean Islands 268 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Ss NEIGHBORING & SPECIES COUNTRIES 3 = as 5 S| 9 (Sai On ‘D) Oo BD x 6 o| 2) eis O 4| 0) eae 51. Pyrois effusa (Boisduval, 1828) he | | ee ai 52. Thalpophila matura (Hufnagel, 1766) ETT > 53. Caradrina ingrata Staudinger, 1897 * |: eid! ) [oe epee a 54. Caradrina clavipalpis (Scopoli, 1763) | bros verte ernie ste eel 7 55. Spodoptera exigua (Hubner, 1808) | aahSl) aictstydlog teal Tay 56. Heliothis peltigera (Denis-Schiffermiller, 1775) alee eae a3 +) eee 57. Protoschinia scutosa (Denis-Schiffermiller, 1775) Se =f P| aaa 58. Emmelia trabealis (Scopoli, 1763) (Zatlers als 59. Acontia melanura (Tauscher, 1809) a 60. Acontia lucida (Hufnagel, 1766) Se a 61. Abrostola triplasia (Linnaeus, 1758) (ies ns in nee | are es 62. Autographa gamma (Linnaeus, 1758) Ea aise = = 63. Trichoplusia ni (Hiibner, 1803) CRMs 64. Catocala elocata (Esper, 1787) a ae or 65. Catocala conjuncta (Esper, 1787) SSS aoe ae 66. Catocala conversa (Esper, 1783) ee ee ° 67. Catocala nymphagoga (Esper, 1787) ea males Gt. | Fil hain 68. Dysgonia algira (Linnaeus, 1767) Peete ee ee ee a 69. Grammodes stolida (Fabricius, 1775) ea ieee eee le ri A aa 70. Euclidia glyphica (Linnaeus, 1758) Eire =| 23 71. Tyta luctuosa (Denis-Schiffermiiller, 1775)|+ | + | + | + | + |+ 72. Polypogon plumigeralis (Hiibner, 1825) [+ | | | +] + |+ Totals 68 | 14 | 40 | 70 | 69 | 71 Caradrina ingrata (Staudinger, 1897) is a first record for Turkey and North Aegean Islands. Caradrina ingrata (Staudinger, 1897) collected in Gékceada is a supramediterranian-asiatic member according to Bustillo and Vaela (1981). Thus far, it has been reported from middle Italy, the Alps (Wolfsberger, 1965, 1971; Scheuringer, 1972; Arnscheid, 1981), northern half of Spain (Calle, 1982, Draudt, 1934), south France, and Switzerland (Rezbanyai-Reser, 1983). Outside Europe, C. ingrata has also been found in Syria, Palestine (Warren, 1914; Draudt, 1934), Libya, Israel, the Arabic Peninsula, Egypt (Hacker, 1990), and Greece-Crete (Hacker, 2004). Rezbanyai-Reser (1983) has questioned whether C. ingrata is a newly discovered native species in Middle Europe or a migrant. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 269 He reported that more investigations must be done to clarify the situation. Because C. ingrata resembles C. clavipalpis in terms of external morphology, Rezbanyai- Reser (1983) emphasized that specimens identified as C. clavipalpis should be rei- dentified using external genital organ investigations (Figure 2). By doing so, the existence of C. ingrata in previous years in Europe perhaps will be clarified. 1mm A B Figure 2. Caradrina ingrata Staudinger, 1897. Male external genital organs. A. Valve, B. Aedeagus. BIOGEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSES Seventy-one species identified in GOkceada and Bozcaada show similarities with the Heterocera fauna of Turkey. Similarly, 69, 70 and 40 species show simi- larity with Heterocera fauna of Bulgaria, Greece and Aegean islands (Table 1). The data given above show that the heteroceran fauna of Gdkceada and Bozcaada have great similarity with that of the mainland. Seventy-eight species from Thasos, the North Aegean Island, 68 species from Samothraki and 35 species from Limnos were identified (Koutsaftikis 1973). When the nearness of the islands to the continent, their surface areas and the vegetation types present here are taken into consideration, it is reasonable to say that 68 species identified in Gdkceada and 14 species identified in Bozcaada make the number of species in these islands to be in expected values. During the study, 68 of 72 species were identified in G6kceada, but only 14 species were found in Bozcaada. This relatively low number in Bozcaada is somewhat surprising. Per- haps the predominant xerophyllous and herbaceous vegetation and the continuous wind limit species diversity in Bozcaada. 270 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS The theory of island biogeography holds that the number of species found on an island is directly related by island size and inversely related to the distance from the mainland. These would affect the rates of extinction and immigration on the islands. For instance, islands closer to the mainland are more likely to receive immigrants than those far from the mainland. The chance of extinction on smaller islands is greater than on larger ones. Thus, larger islands can hold more species than smaller ones (Mac Arthur and Wilson, 1967). Larger islands closer to the mainland are predicted to hold more species than tiny islands located far from the mainland. Table 2. Surface areas, the distances to mainland and the number of species kept of five islands in the northern Aegean Sea. Data from Ering and Ytcel (1988), http:// www.holiday-european-island.eu/Greece.php, http://thasos.netfirms.com/ index.htm, http://www. wikipedia.org/wiki/Samothrace, http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bozcaada. Distance (km) Number of Island Name Area (km2) from nearest species olf mainland Heterocera Bozcaada 40 6 14 Gokceada 285 16 68 Limnos 476 59 35 Thasos 399 10 78 Samothraki 178 40 68 90 90 80 @ Thasos 80 A Thasos ae Samothraki @ @ Gokceada aah A Gikceada & Samothraki a 60 2 60 2 50 s54-----—-_-_—-_-—-——- : : Limnos 2 A Limnos @ Bozcaada 0 100 200 300 400 500 Area (km?) Distance (km) Figures 3-4. Relationship between area and numbers of species on five islands in the northern Aegean Sea. Relationship between distances to the mainland and numbers of species of five islands in the northern Aegean Sea. When Bozcaada, Gok¢eada, Limnos, Thasos, Samothraki are compared according to their surface areas, the distance from the mainland, and the number of species they possess (Table 2), it appears that there is a weak correlation between the number of species and surface area (Fig. 3, r = 0.392; in semi-log scale log r = 0.633, p > 0.05). There is also a weak negative correlation between the number of species and the dis- tance from mainland (Fig. 4, r = -0.063; in semi-log scale, log r = 0.16, p > 0.05). Although Samothraki Island seems not to fit island biogeography theory (Table 2), this situation can be explained by the fact that it is probably exposed to continuing migrations from the mainland, both Turkish Thrace and Greece, never reaching equi- Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 271 librium. Also, Samothraki was studied by Koutsaftikis (1973). He also collected his specimens using light traps and only during active period, not during the winter, as we did. We do not know whether he collected nonadult stages. Both the continuing dispersal of lepidopterans from the mainland to Gok¢eada and Bozcaada and ship- ping activities providing a continuous link between these land masses diminish the likelihood of isolation. 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KEY WORDS: long range dispersal, Clunio, Pontomyia, Diptera, Chironomidae, turtles, Puerto Rico Pontomyia Edwards (Diptera: Chironomidae) is considered the only truly marine midge (Pinder 1995), occurring at depths down to 30 meters in Belize (Bretschko 1982) as well as in shallow coastal waters (Hashimoto 1976; Epler 2001). Larval Pontomyia and Clunio Haliday have been found associated with algae and are commonly collected in benthic samples and plankton tows (Tokunaga 1932; Hashimoto 1959). Most reports of Pontomyia species are from Indo-Pacific locations (Soong et al., 1999), but a single report exists from the Caribbean (Bretschko 1982), and Hudson et al. (1990) and Epler (1992, 1995, 2001) have reported the genus from Florida. Clunio has a worldwide distribution along temperate and tropical sea coasts. This note describes the presence of Pontomyia sp. and Clunio sp. as Hawksbill sea turtle [Eretmochelys imbricata (L.)] epibiota in Puerto Rico. Previous studies of marine turtle epibiota have reported diverse assemblages of marine organisms (Caine 1986; Frick et al., 1998; Scharer 2003). Special reports have been generated for epibiotic groups such as barnacles (Bugoni et al., 2001; Gramentz 1988; Matsuura and Nakamura 1993; Monroe and Limpus 1979), mollusks (Frazier et al., 1985), crabs (Davenport 1994; Dellinger et al., 1997; Frick et al., 2000), tunicates (Frazier et al., 1991), Bryozoa (Frazier et al., 1992), and algae (Senties et al., 1999). Although midge larvae have been report- ed as commensals or parasites on a wide variety of invertebrates and vertebrates (Tokeshi 1993, 1995; Epler 2001), chironomids have not previously been report- ed as epibionts on marine turtles. This research theme may provide knowledge about the dispersal of epibionts as well as insight into habitat use and migrations by their hosts. Marine turtles inhabit coastal areas where intertidal organisms are present, and surfacing through the water column increases the likelihood for acquiring planktonic and benthic larval organisms. Results of epibiotic commu- nity studies on E. imbricata have identified groups previously unrecorded, such as the only known submarine Chironomidae. ‘Received on September 12, 2006. Accepted on May 18, 2007. * Department of Marine Sciences, P. O. Box 9013, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagtiez, Puerto Rico 00681. E-mail: m_scharer@hotmail.com. * 461 Tiger Hammock Road, Crawfordville, FL 32327, USA. E-mail: johnepler@earthlink.net (cor- responding author) Mailed on July 31, 2007 274 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Mona Island and satellite Monito Island are located in the Mona Passage, between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, approximately 75 km west of Puerto Rico, between 18° 00' N and 18° 13' N and between 67° 01' W and 67° 48' W. The islands’ coasts are surrounded by limestone vertical walls, seagrass lagoons, reefs, and sandy beaches, which are nesting habitat for marine turtles. The water temperatures around Mona fluctuated between 25.5° and 30.5°C throughout the year. The islands’ coasts provide foraging habitat for endangered species of sea turtles [E. imbricata and Chelonia mydas (L.)]. The epibiota were identified from 105 turtles collected in July and August of 1999. Pontomyia and Clunio larvae were present on 19 turtles (18%) which were also covered with patches of filamentous turf algae. This turtle-chironomid asso- ciation was more frequent in coral reef (17 of 39) vs. cliff wall areas (2 of 66). Percent occurrence of chironomids was ten times higher on turtles of coral reef habitat (35.8%) than in cliff walls (3.0%); the difference is significant at p < 0.001 in Chr’, 2x2 contingency tables (X*° = 22.7). Individual Pontomyia and Clunio larvae were observed in the samples col- lected, swimming and crawling within algae and unconsolidated substrate com- posed of calcareous sediment, with foraminiferan tests, small shells, and other unidentified fragments. Chironomids were also observed within tubes of sand particles probably constructed by the larvae. The turtle project was not designed as a midge study; thus the numbers of larvae on each turtle were not recorded, only their frequency of occurrence was noted. The more frequent occurrence of larvae on turtles from coral reef habitat compared to those from cliff wall habi- tat may be related to the accumulation of sand and turf algae on the carapace of coral reef turtles; in cliff wall habitats this accumulation was less common. Because only larvae were collected from the turtles, it was not possible to identify specimens of either genus to species. Only one species of Clunio, C. marshalli Stone and Wirth, has been described from the northwestern Atlantic, with a northernmost record from North Carolina (Epler 2001). The identity of the south Florida/Caribbean species of Pontomyia is unknown, because adult males, necessary for species identification, have not been collected. Bretschko (1982) suggested the most likely species would be P. natans Edwards, but the insects collected in the Caribbean and Florida could represent an undescribed species. Because Bretschko collected only larvae, pupae and females, he postulated that the Belize population may be parthenogenetic. According to Soong et al., (1999), P. oceana Tokunaga larvae hatch and molt through 4 instars in a generation time of 30 days. Larvae lived up to 45 days under laboratory conditions; adult life stages lasted one to two hours. Soong et al. (1999) stated that the presence of males appears to be necessary for eclosion of females, but offered no explanation. In another marine midge, Clunio marinus Haliday, males must strip the pupal exuviae from females before mating (sever- al papers summarized by Armitage 1995). Cheng and Collins (1980) hypothe- sized that such behavior may occur in Pontomyia, but it has never, to our knowl- edge, been observed. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 275 In some parthenogenetic chironomid taxa, such as Paratanytarsus grimmii (Schneider), at least some eggs may be deposited within the pupal exuviae before eclosion (Langton et al., 1988) or all eggs may be laid within the pupal exuviae by uneclosed females (P.S. Cranston, pers. comm.). Thus eclosion, whether aided by males or not, may not be necessary for successful reproduction. Bretschko (1982) did not report any eggs within pupal exuviae. Clunio males are fully winged and have been collected in light traps in the Florida Keys (Hribar and Epler 2007), but females of C/unio and Pontomyia are wingless (and essentially legless). Pontomyia males possess shortened wings, useless for flight, which are used as oars as the midges skate across the water’s surface. Males of Clunio may be able to disperse by flight over great distances, but Clunio females and both sexes of Pontomyia would be unable to do so. Thus, sea turtles may provide a significant means for long range dispersal for members of these two genera. It could also be hypothesized that Thalassomya, another coastal marine genus that can occur with Clunio (Epler 2001), may eventually be found on the carapace of sea turtles. However, in Thalassomya bureni Wirth, along with the other known coastal marine species in the Gulf of Mexico, Tel- matogeton japonicus Tokunaga, both sexes are fully winged. Much has been written about the life history of marine midges and the influ- ence of tidal, lunar and diel effects (see Armitage 1995 for summary), but little has been observed or hypothesized concerning the dispersal abilities of marine flightless midges. Cheng and Hashimoto (1978) offered two hypotheses: males dragging their mates in copula would be attracted to fishing vessels, with some egg masses adhering to the algae growing on the sides of the vessels; or eggs could be embedded in floating algal mats which are then dispersed by currents, etc. There appear to be no fossil records of flightless marine midges and we do not know the extent of distribution of these taxa before humans began plying the seas. The fishing vessel hypothesis may partially explain “modern” distribution and dispersal, but it cannot be tested without a fossil record. Growth of the epibiotic community on a turtle may be enhanced by increased water flow over the carapace, increased exposure to light (when the turtle is sur- facing to breathe), and protection from predation or escape from unfavorable conditions. The distribution of marine chironomids and E. imbricata overlap in Pacific and Caribbean tropical regions. Trans-Caribbean migrations of adult sea turtles (Van Dam and Diez, unpublished data) may provide for distribution of chironomid species with limited dispersal capabilities, such as Clunio and Pon- tomyia. With the recent report (Green and Sanchez 2006) of live midge larvae being transported in the feces of Black-tailed Godwits [Aves: Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae: Limosa limosa (L.)], biogeographical hypotheses for marine in- vertebrates with limited dispersion capabilities should also be reviewed in light of this new observation of turtle transportation. Or, in other words, testudine transportation of tiny tenacious “tendipedids” may partially account for their dis- tribution. 276 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Field work would not have been possible without the support of Chelonia Inc. and the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources of Puerto Rico. J. Holmquist was essential in initial identi- fication of the chironomids; E. Williams, P. S. Cranston, B. A. 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An astonishing exploration of nature’s strangest behavior 2002 by John Downer. Firefly Books Ltd. BBC World Limited. London, England, U.K. 156 pp. ' Jorge A. Santiago-Blay, Department of Paleobiology, MRC-121, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia 20013-7012 U.S.A. E-mail: blayj@si.edu. Mailed on July 31, 2007 Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 279 A LIGHT-TRAPPED ANT, DOLICHODERUS BISPINOSUS (FORMICIDAE) WITH EVIDENCE OF STYLOPIZATION BY MALE CAENOCHOLAX FENYESI WALOFFI (STREPSIPTERA: MYRMECOLACIDAE) FROM MEXICO’ Jeyaraney Kathirithamby,’ Steven J. Taylor,’ Jorge E. Valenzuela,‘ Jaime Gomez,° and Juan F. Barrera® Most Strepsiptera (Insecta) are collected as free-living adult males from light or Malaise traps. The family Myrmecolacidae is exclusively night flying, and light-trapped Strepsiptera are typically adult male members of this family (Kathirithamby, unpublished). Of the 113 species of Myrmecolacidae described thus far (Kathirithamby 2006), only 6 have been found and definitely associat- ed with their ant hosts (Kathirithamby and Johnston 2004; Kathirithamby, unpublished). The sexes in Myrmecolacidae have different hosts: males para- sitize ants and females orthopterans (Ogloblin 1939; Kathirithamby and Hamil- ton 1972). Only two stylopised ants had been discovered so far outside their nests (Westwood 1861; Ogloblin 1939). Ogloblin (1939) indicated that the behavior of ants is altered when stylopized stating that they: “change their nocturnal habits, acquiring positive phototropism, but evidently lose their social instincts, aban- doning their nests and rambling singly, often climbing high on grass and bush- es.” Westwood (1861) notes “...a species of ant, which had ascended a tuft of grass on an extensive pattena (sic), or meadow, the parasite making its exit back to back from the ant.” It was therefore assumed that stylopized ants abandoned the nest, thus explaining why they are rarely found: “The myrmecologists used, almost without exception, a special method of only collecting the ants in their nests, in order to get all forms of polymorphic colonies, mostly progeny of a sin- gle or of a few females. This method gave the students of ants little chance to meet stylopized specimens which evidently abandon the nest soon after the male parasites extert their puparium” (Ogloblin 1939). However, if this was what was happening, stylopized ants would be more frequently encountered because ants ' Submitted on September 13, 2006. Accepted March 6, 2007. * Department of Zoology, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, U.K. E-mail: jeyaraney.kathirithamby@zoo.ox.ac.uk *Tilinois Natural History Survey, 1816 South Oak Street (MC-652), Champaign, Ilinois 61820-6953 U.S.A. E-mail: sjtaylor@uiuc.edu *Instituto de Ecologia, A.C. (INECOL), Apartado Postal 63, Km. 2.5 Carretera Antigua a Coatepec 351, Congregacion El Haya, Xalapa, Veracruz CP 91070, México. E-mail: valenjor@ ecologia.edu.mx ° El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Apartado Postal 36, Carretera AntiguoAeropuerto km 2.5, Tapachula, Chiapas CP 30700 Mexico. E-mails: jbarrera@tap-ecosur.edu.mx and jgomez@ tap-ecosur.edu.mx (JG, JFB, respectively): Mailed on July 31, 2007 280 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS are one of the most abundant macroinvertebrates in terrestrial ecosystems (Kathirithamby and Hamilton 1972). More recently, Kathirithamby and Hamil- ton (1972) and Kathirithamby (2005) have speculated that, unlike stylopized wasps and bees, stylopized ants remain in the nest until the male strepsipteran is ready to emerge. This has been confirmed by the collection and dissections of several nests which contained ants parasitized by late pupal stages of male myrmecolacids (Kathirithamby 1991; Kathirithamby and Johnston 1992, 2004; Kathirithamby and Hughes 2002; Hughes et al., 2003). Until now, stylopized ants have not been found in traps. One such specimen was encountered during field collections in southeastern Mexico, and is reported here. METHODS A black light trap was set up and checked daily at Estacién de Biologia Tropical “Los Tuxtlas” Instituto de Biologia (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México), Km 30 Carretera Catemaco-Montepio, San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz, Mexico (18° 35'N 95° W). The trap, designated as ECOIAPAR-L, consists of an empty transparent plastic drinks bottle (2.0 1) with an opening (11 x 20 cm) on its side. The black light (20 watt fluorescent lamp black light blue) was sus- pended inside of the top of the bottle, and the insects trapped in soapy water at the bottom. The insects were sorted under a dissecting microscope, and preserved in ethanol. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION An empty strepsipteran puparium was noted in a male Dolichoderus bispinosus Olivier (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae). The puparial cap (cephalothe- ca) of Caenocholax fenyesi waloffi Kathirithamby and Johnston was hinged to the side of the puparium (Fig. 1). In Myrmecolacidae the male cephalotheca does not break all the way round as in other strepsipterans, but instead it “closes back” on the puparium after the emergence of the male (Kathirithamby 1991). Description of the cephalotheca: An illustration of a cephalotheca of a myrmecolacid was given by Kinzelbach (1971), but the species name was not given. This is the first description of the cephalotheca of C. f waloffi and of any named Myrmecolacidae. Length: 0.75mm. Width: 0.52mm. Complex eyes (e): Rudiments of ommatidia are presented as 22 small thickenings of the sclerite on either side of the cephalotheca. Antennal rudiments (ant) occur as a patch of pig- ments which represent the scapus and pedicellus, and a slight bulge enclosed within the pedicellus which represents the vestige of a flabellum. Mandibles (mdb): These appear during the last larval instar before extrusion and participate in the extrusion of the male larva through the host cuticle prior to pupation. These occur on either side below the eyes with an outward pointing tooth. Clypeus (cly): is a raised region in the center of the cephalotheca. Mouth opening (mth): below the clypeus. Labrum (lbr): lies just below the eyes. Hinge (h): was attached to the host and puparium within the host when the rest of the cephalo- Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 281 theca was broken by the emerging adult male C. f waloffi. Vertex (vtx) and occipital suture (ocs) are found on the dorsal region of the cap. Dolichoderus bispinosus has been recorded to be parasitized by C. f waloffi (Kathirithamby and Johnston 2004), and although many workers and sexuals have been found to be stylopized in the nests, none have so far been found in the traps. This is the first record of an ant with an empty male strepsipteran pupa in a trap. wu 20 Fig. 1 Dorsal view of the male puparial cap (cephalotheca) of Caenocholax fenyesi walof- fi Kathirithamby and Johnston (Strepsiptera: Myrmecolacidae) which was attached to a male Dolichoderus bispinosus Olivier (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) A. Light micro- scope photograph. B. Line drawing, with position of eye facets indicated by shad- ing. Abberviations: ant - antenna and antennal sclerite; cly - clypeus; e - compound eye; h - hinge of puparial cap; lbr - labrum; mdb - mandible; mth - mouth; ocs - occipital suture; vtx - vertex. 282 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We thank Martin Ricker of the Estacion de Biologia Tropical “Los Tuxtlas” Instituto de Biologia UNAM, Veracruz, Mexico, for permission to collect; and the Royal Society of London and the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias for the study visit grant to JK. LITERATURE CITED Hughes, D. P., G. Moya-Rygoza, and J. Kathirithamby. 2003. The first record among Dolicho- derinae (Formicidae) of parasitism by Strepsiptera. Insectes Sociaux 50:148-150. Kathirithamby, J. 1991. Stichotrema robertsoni spec. n. (Strepsiptera: Myrmecolacidae): The first report of stylopization in minor workers of an ant (Pheidole sp.: Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of South Africa 54:9-15. Kathirithamby, J. 2005. Further homage to Santa Rosalia: Discovery at last of the elusive females of a species of Myrmecolacidae (Strepsiptera: Insecta). pp. 117-134. Jn, M. Ridley (Editor). Narrow Roads of Gene Land. Volume III. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Oxford, UK. 480 pp. Kathirithamby, J. 2006. Partial list of Strepsiptera species. http://tolweb.org/notes/?note_id=2978 (accessed 17 August 2006). Kathirithamby, J. and W. D. Hamilton. 1992. More covert sex: The elusive females of Myrme- colacidae. Trends Ecology and Evolution 7:349-351. Kathirithamby, J. and D. P. Hughes. 2002. Caenocholax fenyesi Pierce (Strepsiptera: Myrme- colacidae) parasitic in Camponotus planatus Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Mexico: Is this the original host? Annals of the Entomological Society of America 95:558-563. Kathirithamby, J. and J. S. Johnston. 1992. Stylopization of Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Caenocholax fenyesi (Strepsiptera: Myrmecolacidae) in Texas. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 85:293-297. Kathirithamby, J. and J. S. Johnston. 2004. The discovery after 94 years of the elusive female of a myrmecolacid (Strepsiptera), and the cryptic species of Caenocholax fenyesi Pierce sensu lato. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B (Supplement 3) 271, S5-S8. Kinzelbach, R. K. 1971. Morphologische Befunde an Facherfluglern und ihre phylogenetische Bedeutung (Insecta, Strepsiptera). Zoologica (Stuttgart) 41 (119) 1/2: 256 pp. Ogloblin, A. A. 1939. The Strepsiptera parasites of ants. International Congress of Entomology, Berlin (1938) 2:1277-1284. Westwood, J. O. 1861. Notice on the occurrence of a strepsipterous insect parasitic on ants dis- covered in Ceylon by Herr Niener. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 5:418- 420. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 283 MICRODON FALCATUS WILLISTON (DIPTERA: SYRPHIDAE): A REDESCRIPTION, WITH LECTOTYPE DESIGNATION AND NEW SYNONYMS' F. Christian Thompson’ ABSTRACT: Microdon falcatus Williston 1887 (Diptera: Syrphidae) is redescribed. A lectotype is designated for the name and three new synonyms are proposed (Microdon aquilinus Giglio-Tos 1892, Microdon hondanaria Hull 1940, and Microdon mellogutta Hull 1943). KEY WORDS: Microdon falcatus, Diptera, Syrphidae, redescrition, lectotype, synonyms, Neo- tropics More than a century ago Williston (1887) described a small microdontine fly from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Mexico) and named the fly Microdon falcatus, due to the distinctive shape of the basoflagellomere. The basoflagellomere is elongate and curved, with its base swollen, and the arista is short and thick (Fig. 1-4). Giglio-Tos (1892) recognized the species and described a related one, aquilinus, but since then no one has recognized either name. Hull, however, did redescribe the species twice (Hull 1940, 1943), and upon the second time declared his “new” species was related to no known species. This situation rep- resents a common problem in the study of the Neotropical flower fly fauna, lots of new species descriptions, but little synthetic, monograph work. As previously noted (Thompson et al., 1976: 1), the Neotropical fauna is undoubtedly the rich- est, most diverse one in the World and hundreds of new species await descrip- tion, but first, two centuries of names must be resolved, so new synonymies are now more important than new species descriptions. The challenges are to under- stand the species, their characters, variation and distribution, then re-examine types of old names where available or original descriptions where types are lost. So, this paper makes one small step toward that goal of resolving the Neotropical flower fly fauna, so we can begin to fully and accurately enumerate it. METHODS This paper presents a revision of a species, with a complete synonymy, distri- butional and biological data for the species, as well as a lectotype designation and notes on the type specimens of each name. Adult terminology follows Thompson (1999), the abbreviations found in the synonymies follow Thompson (2006), the use of the asterisk in the distribution statement refers to verified records found in the material examined section, ellipses (“...”) are used in the material examined section to replace data that is the same as the immediately pre- ceding record. In the literature cited section, an attempt has been made to pro- vide precise publication dates for all critical works (those with nomenclatural "Received on December 27, 2005. Accepted on August 25, 2006. * Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA, NHB-168 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 20560 U.S.A. E-mail: chris.thompson@ars.usda.gov Mailed on July 31, 2007 284 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS acts). These are in the numerical format of Year: Month: Day, with question marks used for unknown values. Color images of the species and more extensive information is provided at the Diptera WWW site under Flies and Syrphidae (see www.diptera.org/syrphid/syrphid.htm). SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY Microdon falcatus Williston Microdon falcatus Williston 1887: 9. Mexico, Isthmus of Tehuantepec. LT 0 USNM here designated. Williston 1891: 3 (key ref., Mexico [Guerrero), notes]; Giglio-Tos 1892: 36 (description, Mexico); Aldrich 1905: 345 (cata- log citation); Kertész 1910: 355 (catalog citation); Fluke 1957: 26 (catalog citation); Thompson et al., 1976: 64 (catalog citation). Microdon aquilinus Giglio-Tos 1892: 2. Mexico, Veracruz, Tuxpango. HT 9 MRSN. Giglio-Tos 1893: 133 (description, Mexico); Aldrich 1905: 345 (cat- alog citation); Kertész 1910: 352 (catalog citation); Fluke 1957: 21 (catalog citation); Thompson et al., 1976: 63 (catalog citation). NEW SYNONYM. Microdon hondurania Hull 1940: 247. Honduras, Salada River, 15 miles inland from Ceiba. HT & CNC. Fluke 1957: 28 (catalog citation); Cooper and Cumming 1993: 65 (HT in CNC). NEW SYNONYM. Microdon honduranius. Thompson et al., 1976: 247 (catalog citation). Microdon mellogutta Hull 1943: 104. Brazil, Amazon. HT 9 BMNH. Fluke 1957: 30 (catalog citation); Thompson et al., 1976: 66 (catalog citation). NEW SYNONYM. Lectotype (Fig. 2) Male. Head (Fig. 3): Face yellowish orange, shiny, black pilose; facial stipe very narrow ventrally, expanded dorsally, brownish-white pollinose; lunule black; frons yellowish orange except for small black punctum just dorsad to antenna, shiny, black pilose; vertex yellowish orange except ocel- lar triangle black, black pilose; occiput narrow on ventral 3/4, expanded dorsal- ly, black and grayish-white pollinose on ventral 3/4, yellowish orange dorsally, black pilose; antenna black, black pilose; basoflagellomere elongate and curved, with distinct round basolateral sensory pit; arista thick, about 3/4 as long as basoflagellomere, with very fine, short pile, with pile about ? as long as aristal diameter; antennal ratio 5:1:12. Thorax: Postpronotum reddish orange, black pilose; scutum (Fig. 6) reddish orange except large medial and submedial black vittae which merge together along most of their length which is about medial 3/4 of scutum, black pilose; scutellum (Fig. 8) reddish yellow, black pilose, with small black microtrichose apical tubercle; pleuron yellow except pectus black, black pilose; anepisternum uniformly pilose dorsally; katepisternum pilose dorsally; anepimeron pilose; metasternum greatly reduced, bare; plumula short, pale; calypter brownish black; halter yellow with brown capitulum. Legs. black, black pilose. Wing. hyaline Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 285 except veins diffusely brownish bordered; completely microtrichose; crossvein sc-r present; vein R4+5 with distinct spur; vein M1 (apical crossvein) straight, perpendicular to vein R4+5. Abdomen (Fig. 7): Reddish orange, black pilose; Ist sternum narrow, pilose; male genitalia (Fig. 10) as figured, typical Microdon structure with apically fur- cate aedeagus; cercus simple; 9th tergum with short dense pile dorsally; surstyle triangular in lateral view with posteroventral process; aedeagus with short apical processes. Length. 7 mm (LT), 5-10 mm; wing: 5 mm (LT), 5-6 mm. Variation: As is usual with many syrphid species, color develops and darkens after the adult emerges. Freshly emerged adults (young specimens) appear paler (Fig. 6), whereas older ones are much darker (Fig. 5). Examination of specimens of falcatus indicates that the extent of pale (yellow to reddish orange) coloration on the scutum and abdomen is a factor of age, individual and geographic varia- tion. Also, there is the normal sexual dimorphism related to the eyes and the female basoflagellomere is not so swolllen basally (Fig. 4). The lectotype as described above is rather typical of the specimens from Mexico. The darkest individual specimen examined (Costa Rica, INBIO ... 459599, male) differs in having the frons completely brownish black, scutum and scutellum entirely brownish black and the abdomen almost entirely brownish black with only narrow pale areas along apical margin of 2nd tergum and basal and apicolateral margins of 4th tergum. The lightest individuals are the speci- mens from Brazil and Bolivia. In these the thorax and legs are entirely pale, yel- low to orange, and pale pilose; the abdomen may have large brownish fasciate maculae on 3rd and 4th terga, but the abdomens are entirely pale pilose. Intermediate specimens have different combinations of partially pale legs (coxae, trochanters and basal 1/2 to 3/4 of femora pale), partially pale pilose scutella and scuta, dark frons, etc. So, there is a male specimen with black pilose scutellum, partially pale legs and dark frons (Costa Rica, INBIO ... 2426262) collected with a female specimen with pale pilose scutellum, partially pale legs and pale frons -(Costa Rica, INBIO ... 2426255) [‘“with” means labeled as being of the same lot, same place, time and collector]. While comparison of typical specimens from Mexico with those from Brazil suggests differences that in many cases warrant species recognition, the various intermediate forms found in Costa Rica and Panama strongly suggest instead individual and geographic variation which will be confirmed when additional material from Colombia and Ecuador are studied. Hence, only one species is here recognized. Types. Microdon falcatus Williston was described from 4 “female” specimens in the C. V. Riley collection from Tehuantepec. All these syntypes are still pres- ent in USNM collection, but are males! All have identical locality labels, but one is also labeled with a USNM type label and what appears to be a Williston deter- mination label. This specimen is here designated lectotype to fix and ensure con- sistent interpretation of the name. This lectotype is labeled as follows (Fig. 9): 286 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS “Isthmus of, Tehauntepec, Sumchrast;” “Type, No. 796, U.S.N.M. [red];” ‘““Microdon, falcatus, Type Will” [black bordered, apparently in Williston’s hand]. I have added a yellow lectotype label. The lectotype is in fair condition, the left wing is missing and the base of the abdomen has been damaged by dermestid beetle larvae. Microdon aquilinus Giglio-Tos was described from a single female from Tuxpango collected by Sumichrast. In the Bellardi Mexican collection (MRSN), the holotype is labeled with “288,” and “Microdon aquilinus, [upside down male sex symbol] Giglio-Tos” [in Giglio-Tos’ hand] and is above the green Bellardi collection label of “Microdon, 2 [upside down female sex symbol], Tuxpango (Sumichr.) 288.” Microdon honduriana Hull was described from a specimen he collected “on small, low herbage along the Salada River ... “ The holotype is now in the CNC and is labeled: ‘Salado R., 20 mi inland, Hond., 8.30.38;’ F. M. Hull collector;” “HOLOTYPE hondurania Hull;” and “HOLOTYPE, Microdon, hondurania Hull, CNC No. 20440.” The right wing is missing from the holotype. In describ- ing honduriana, Hull provided no comparative information. Microdon mellogutta Hull was described from a single female collected from the “Amazon” by Henry W. Bates. This specimen is in good condition in the Natural History Museum, London, and is labeled: “Holo-, type” [red circular BMNH type label], “Amazon, 66: 53”, and “Holotype, Microdon, mellogutta Hull” [red, in Hull’s hand]. In describing mellogutta Hull wrote “Not related to known species.” Hull apparently did not know many Microdon species and even some of his own species! Distribution. Mexico (Tamaulipas*), El Salvador,* Honduras,* Costa Rica,* Panama,* Brazil,* Bolivia.* | 287 ] Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 _ Seg tr7s » MGDYE kd Aso he hes Bo S 0 .v Sas —= O- Le Ss er = S 3s s YM lx oO a & iter = s) SER 285 (Dima eat Sek Sh 2 be 53 2 .- 3 o> < 23 irae “~ WO BS SPs 4oOg — +} re Oe i iets Q é oO ss... SB Se a. Ss: Sas = se .2 sc 8s 5 RS — oc OS cS) (uta me I S538 Se K .& 8 p Cure ieee “885 yey ob FO" mon o 288 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Fig. 10. Microdon falcatus (Williston). Male genitalia, lateral view. Material Examined (42). BRAZIL. [? State] “Amazon,” (HT 9 of mellogut- ta). Para: Belem, 48. 29 W 1. 27 S 1967 Apr 12, Y. Sedman, (Q USNM ENT00038259 USNM). BOLIVIA. Cochabamba Prov., Villa Tunari, 16 54' 55" S 65 22' 06" W, March 2001, Malaise Trap, H. Haider (9, G. Stahls FMNH DNA voucher Y 128, FMNH). COSTA RICA. Cartago: Ref. Nac. Fauna Silv. Tapanti, Quebrada Segunda, 1200 m, LN 194000 560000, 1992 Apr, R. Vargas (& INBIOCRI000459599 USNM). Limon: Res. Biol. Hitoy Cerere, Rio Cerere, Est. Hitoy-Cerere, LN 184200 643300, 200 m, 1991 Apr, G. Carballo (0 INBIOCRI000601465 USNM); ..., LN 643400 184600, 100 m, 1993 Jan, G. Carballo (“5-6cc-93”), #1775 (& INBIOCRI001742876 USNM); Bribri, 4 km NE, 1989 Sept-Nov, P. Hanson, (1 9 3 O&O’ USNM ENT00038254-7 USNM). Guanacaste: Sector Las Pailas, 4.5 km SW del Volcan Rincon de la Vieja, LN 306300 388600, 800 m, 1995 Jun 24-Jul 10, K. Taylor, #6198 (& INBIOCRI002426262, 9 INBIOCRI002426255 USNM); A. C. Guanacaste, P. N. Guanacaste, Sector Las Pailas, 800 m, 1994 Jun 6-26, K Taylor, #3063 (0 INBIOCRIO001908659 USNM); Estacion Expt Enrique Jimenez Nunez, 20 km SW Canad, 1991 Nov 5-17, A S Menke, (& USNM ENT00038250 USNM). Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 289 Puntarenas: R. F. Golfo Dulce, 24 km w Piedras Blancas, 200 m, 1990 Nov, P. Hanson (& USNM ENT00038258 USNM). EL SALVADOR. Cuscatlan: Rosario, 88. 55 W 13. 46 N 1957 June 15 (& USNM ENT00038243 USNM); Quezaitepeque, 3 miles W, 1961 Aug 24, M. E. Irwin (3 CO USNM ENT00038266-8 USNM); ..., 1961 July 19, M. E. Irwin (Q USNM ENT00038269 UCDavis); San Salvador, 1958 June 22, O. L. Cartwright ( USNM ENT00038252 USNM), ..., 1958 May 24, O. L. Cartwright (Q USNM ENT00038253 USNM). GUATEMALA. Coyotenango “Such”, Finca San Rafael Olimpo, 1700 ft, 1965 May 1, J. M. Campbell (Q USNM ENT00038272 CNC); Siquinala, (Q USNM ENT00038248 USNM). HONDURAS. La Lima, 1958-1959, J. G. Mattysse (O& USNM ENT00038270 Cornell); Salado River, 20 miles inland from Ceiba, 30 Aug 1938, F. M. Hull (HT of honduriana, & CNC). MEXICO. Chiapas: Huixtla, 20 miles N, 3000 ft, 1969 June 5, Malaise Trap (0 © USNM ENT00038277-8 CNC); ..., Huixtla, 20-25 miles NE, 3000 ft, 1969 June 1, H. J. Teskey (2 9 USNM ENT00038273-4 CNC); ..., Tapachula, Craw- ford, (OQ USNM ENT00038244-5 USNM); Colima: Colima, 103 41 W 19 14 N. L. Conradt, (CoQ USNM ENT00038246-7 USNM); Oaxaca: Palomares, 1961 Sep 5-21, R. and K. Dreisbach (2 O&O’ USNM ENT00038260-1 USNM); Sinaloa: Concordia, 20 miles east, 3000 ft, 1964 Aug 8, W. R. M. Mason (& USNM ENT00038279 CNC); ..., Mazatlan, 1964 Aug 16, J. F. McAlpine, Malaise Trap (& USNM ENT00038275 CNC); Tamaulipas: Gomez Farias, and vicinity, 1965 July 20-24, Cornell Mexican Field Party, Malaise Trap, (& USNM ENT00038271 Cornell); Veracruz, Tuxpango, 18E49'N 97E01W (holotype of aquilinus, MRSN); [state?], Tehauntepec, Isthmus of, [95 0' 0" W 16 30' 0" NJ, Sumichrast, C. V. Riley Collection, (LT 9, 3 O&O PLT of furcatus, USNM ENT00038262-4 USNM); Veracruz: Lake Catemaco, 1969 June 17, B. V. Peter- son, (0 USNM ENT00038276 CNC). PANAMA. Canal Zone: Ancon, [80. 0. OW 9. 0. ON] 1918 Aug 9, R. P. Dietz (Q USNM ENT00038251 USNM); ..., Summit, [79. 7 W 9. 1 N] 1946 Dec, N. L. H. Kraus (& USNM ENT00038249 USNM). Remarks. Curran (1925, 1936, 1940, 1941), the last worker to attempt to publish comprehensive treatments of the genus Microdon, did not recognize these names (falcatus Williston, aquilinus Giglio-Tos) as he only worked from specimens previously identified in the collection of his museum (see Curran 1936: 1). He simply ignored the descriptions of other species by earlier authors. In the last published key to the Neotropical species of Microdon (Curran 1941), falcatus runs to couplet #21, where typical specimens do not match either alter- native well (thorax black or dull orange) as the thorax is both black and pale yel- low / orange. In those specimens, where the thorax is entirely yellow, falcatus is readily distinguished from Aristosyrphus currani Goot [replacement name for clavicornis Curran] by antennal shape, wing venation and coloration. Among the New World microdontine flies, Microdon falcatus is easily recog- nized by its distinctive antennal shape as noted above. Other diagnostic charac- 290 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ters are: 1) a greatly reduced and bare metasternum; 2) unarmed (without apical calcar) scutellum or one with small apical microtrichose tubercles; 3) oval abdomen; 4) vein R4+5 with distinct spur; and 4) vein M1 (apical crossvein) straight and joining vein R4+5 perpendicularly. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I thank Richard Vane-Wright and Nigel Wyatt, the Natural History Museum [formerly the British Museum (Natural History)], London (BMNH); J. Cumming and J. Richard Vockeroth, Canadian National Collection, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa (CNC); James Liebherr and Richard Hoebeke, Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca (Cornell); Gunilla Stahls, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki (FMNH); Manuel Zumbado, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Santo Domingo de Heredia (INBIO); Paul Hanson, Museo de Insectos, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro de Montes de Oca, San Jose (MIUCR); Mauro Daccordi, Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Turin (MRSN); for permission to study material in their care. The other museum acronym used in the text is USNM for the Smithsonian Institution, Washington. Taina Litwak prepared the fig- ures of the male genitalia; Lucrecia Rodriquez prepared the other images and made the final plate. I also thank Allen Norrbom, Steven W. Lingafelter, and Alma Solis of the Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA, Washington; and Martin Hauser, Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, California Department of Food and Agricuture, Sacramento; Wayne N. Mathis of National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, for their critical review of the manuscript. This study resulted from an investigation of the flower fly fauna of Costa Rica and is the 18th in a series dedicated to the documentation of the Costa Rican flower fly fauna, started in 1991 with the encouragement of Daniel H. Janzen. Beyond the support of my organization, additional funding has been provided by the S. W. Williston Diptera Research Fund of the Smithsonian Institution and the Global Environmental Facility Trust Fund of the World Bank (project # CR-GE-39876). LITERATURE CITED Aldrich, J. M. 1905. A catalogue of North American Diptera. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collec- tions 46 (2[=pub. 1444]), 680 pp. Washington, D.C., U.S.A. [before 1905.05.25] Cooper, B. E. and J. M. Cumming. 1993. Diptera types in the Canadian National Collection of Insects. Part 2 Brachycera (exclusive of Schizophora). Research Branch, Agriculture Canada Publication 1896/B, iii + 105 pp. [1993.??.??] Curran, C. H. 1925. Contribution to a monograph of the American Syrphidae (Diptera) from north of Mexico. Kansas University Science Bulletin [1924] 15: 7-216. [1925.12.01] Curran, C. H. 1936. New Neotropical Syrphidae (Diptera). American Museum Novitates 882, 17 pp. [1936.10.09] Curran, C. H. 1940. Some new Neotropical Syrphidae (Diptera). American Museum Novitates 1086, 14 pp. [1940.10.16] Curran, C. H. 1941. New American Syrphidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 78: 243-304. [1941.08.07] Fluke, C. L., Jr. 1957. Catalogue of the family Syrphidae in the Neotropical Region (Diptera) [part]. Revista Brasileira Entomologia 7: 1-181; Sao Paulo. [1957.06.20] Giglio-Tos, E. 1892. Diagnosi di nuove specie di Ditteri. VI. 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A key to the genera of the flower flies of the Neotropical Region including the descriptions of genera and species and a glossary of taxonomic terms.- Contributions, Entomology International 3: 319-378. [1999.08.23] Thompson, F. C. 2007. Nearctic Flower Flies (Diptera: Syrphidae). Myia 13, 569 pp. [2007.??.??] Thompson, F. C., J. R. Vockeroth, and Y. S. Sedman. 1976. Family Syrphidae. Catalog of the Diptera of America south of the United States 46, 195 pp. [1976.08.09] Williston, S. W. 1887. Synopsis of the North American Syrphidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (1886) 31, xxx + 335 pp. [before 1887.06.30] Williston, S. W. 1891. Fam. Syrphidae. pp. 1-56, [1891.12.??] [cont.]. Jn, F. D. Godman and O. Salvin (Editors), Biologia Centrali-Americana. Zoologia-Insecta-Diptera. Vol. 3, 127 pp., 2 pls. London, U.K. 292 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS CAVE CRICKETS (ORTHOPTERA: RHAPHIDOPHORIDAE) AS VECTORS OF DICTYOSTELIDS (PROTISTA: DICTYOSTELIIDA)' Steven L. Stephenson,’ Michael E. Slay,’ Christy A. Slay,’ and Alicia E. Tuggle’ ABSTRACT Our study was done to determine if cave crickets (Ceuthophilus gracilipes gracilipes) are able to transport dictyostelid cellular slime molds into and within caves. Large cave crickets were captured from Pigeon Roost Cave in northwestern Arkansas. Crickets were individually washed to remove dictyostelid spores, and fecal pellets collected aseptically from the washed crickets. Five spec- ies of dictyostelids, assigned to two genera (Dictyostelium and Polysphondylium), were recovered from the surface of six crickets, and a single species (D. sphaerocephalum) from one sample of fecal pellets. Since cave crickets forage outside the cave, they can introduce dictylostelids to caves from out- side sources, and can serve as vectors for transporting dictyotelids within caves. The present study is the first to demonstrate that cave-dwelling invertebrates are capable of transporting these organisms. KEY WORDS: Rhapidophoridae, Ceuthophilus, dictyostelids, cave, Arkansas, U.S.A. Dictyostelid cellular slime molds (Dictyosteliida: Dictyosteliidae) are single- celled, eukaryotic, phagotrophic bacterivores usually present and often abundant in terrestrial ecosystems. These organisms represent a normal component of the microflora in soils and apparently play a role in maintaining the natural balance that exists between bacteria and other microorganisms in the soil environment. Dictyostelids are most abundant in the surface humus layer of forest soils, but they also occur in the soil-like material found in caves. In a recent study, 17 dic- tyostelid species were recovered from over 100 caves in eastern North America (Landolt et al., 2006). Five species of dictyostelids were recovered in more than 25 different caves, and three additional species were present in more than 20 dif- ferent caves. In general, based on available data, the distribution of dictyostelids in caves appears to be rather patchy, but in the microhabitats where they do occur, these organisms can exhibit surprisingly high levels of abundance and diversity. Unlike many microorganisms, dictyostelids produce spores that appear to have a rather limited potential for dispersal. In the dictyostelid life cycle, the uni- cellular amoeboid cells that represent the vegetative stage aggregate to form a structure called a pseudo-plasmodium, which then gives rise to one or more fruit- ing bodies (sorocarps), each bearing one to several masses of spores (sori). Because the spores are embedded in a mucilaginous matrix that dries and hard- ens, they stand little chance of being dispersed by wind (Cavender, 1973; Olive, 1975). Various animals, ranging from invertebrates to amphibians, small mam- mals, and birds are capable of dispersing the spores of dictyostelids by means of ingestion-defecation (Suthers, 1985; Huss, 1989; Stephenson and Landolt, 1992). Dictyostelids may be introduced to caves by bats (Stephenson and Lan- dolt (1992). However, are there other organisms that could serve as vectors for ‘Received June 27, 2006. Accepted on April 19, 2007. > Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701 U.S.A. SLS, corresponding authors, E-mail: slsteph@uark.edu. CAS, E-mail: cmelhar@uark.edu. AET, E-mail: atuggle@uark.edu. >The Nature Conservancy, 601 North University Avenue, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205 U.S.A. E-mail: mslay@tnc.org. Mailed on July 31, 2007 Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 293 dictyostelid spores, either for short range dispersal within a cave or introduction to the cave from outside? Cave and camel crickets (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae) represent an impor- tant component of the animal communities associated with caves in North America, and several species are considered critical members of these commu- nities (Benoit et al., 2004; Taylor et al., 2005). Cave and camel crickets forage on the surface at night and then return to caves to roost during the day. In doing SO, organic material in the form of cricket fecal material, cricket eggs, and cadav- ers of crickets are introduced to the cave, which supplies nutrients to a number of invertebrate species. In addition to transferring organic material, 14 genera of fungi were recovered from external body surfaces and internal contents of the raphidophorid Hadenoecus cumberlandicus inhabiting two Kentucky caves (Benoit et al., 2004). Most of these fungi were common soil saprophytes typi- cally found in caves, but two plant pathogen species, which were isolated only internally, were believed to have been acquired during foraging outside the cave. The presence of fungi externally and internally on cave crickets plus their sur- face foraging and subsurface roosting behavior suggests that these organisms also might be capable of vectoring slime molds. Our primary objective of the study reported herein was to investigate the potential role that these crickets may play in the dispersal of dictyostelids into and within caves. METHODS Ceuthophilus gracilipes gracilipes (Haldeman) is a species of rhaphidophorid cricket commonly found inhabiting caves and forest floors across central and eastern United States (Hubbell, 1936). It has been reported from a number of caves in Arkansas (Graening et al., 2004). Pigeon Roost Cave in Benton County, Arkansas, was selected for this study because the site contained C. gracilipes gracilipes and because human access to the cave is restricted due to the season- al presence of federally endangered gray bats (Myotis grisescens). Pigeon Roost Cave is developed in Mississippian aged limestones, specifically the Boone and underlying St. Joe formations. The cave is located in an oak-hickory forest typi- cal of the type found throughout much of northern Arkansas (Spetich, 2004). Twelve crickets were captured alive inside the cave. While in the cave, each cricket was placed into separate 50 mL centrifuge tubes containing 7.5 mL of sterile deionized water and 0.25 mL of a wetting agent (Tween 20). The surfac- tant was used as a wetting agent to elute any substances carried by the crickets. The tube was shaken gently for a few seconds, after which the cricket was removed and placed in a single holding container lined with sterile paper. Crickets were removed from the cave and held in the holding container without food for 5 days at 20°C to collect fecal pellets. Fecal pellets (frass) deposited by the crickets on the bottom of the holding container were combined into two samples. Each sample was transferred to a sterile 50 mL centrifuge tube containing 7.5 mL of sterile distilled water. The pel- lets in each tube were broken up with the use of a sterile glass rod and vigorous shaking of the sealed tubes. Isolation procedures used for dictyostelids were those described by Cavender and Raper (1965). Aliquots (each 0.5 mL) of the “cricket wash” from each of the 294 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 12 tubes were added to each of two 100 x 15 mm culture plates prepared with hay infusion agar (Raper, 1984). The same procedure was followed for the two tubes containing the suspended material from the fecal pellets except that three plates were prepared from each tube. Approximately 0.4 ml of a heavy suspen- sion of E. coli was added to each culture plate, and plates were incubated under diffuse light at 20—25°C. Each plate was examined at least once a day for sever- al days following appearance of initial aggregations, and the location of each aggregate clone marked. When necessary, isolates were subcultured to facilitate identification. Nomenclature used herein follows Raper (1984). RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Five different species of dictyostelids appeared in one or both of the plates prepared with “cricket wash” from six of the twelve crickets we examined (Table 1), and three of these were recovered from a single cricket. Because Pigeon Roost Cave was one of the caves investigated for the presence of dictyostelids in a larger study of the distribution and occurrence of these organisms (Landolt et al., 2006), data are available on the species present. Dictyostelium purpureum, recovered from crickets, was not isolated from samples of cave soil. Two other species (D. rosarium Raper and Cavender and Polysphondylium pallidum Olive), recorded from cave soil, were not recovered from the crickets. One of the six plates prepared with suspended material from the fecal pellets yielded a single colony of D. sphaerocephalum. Table 1. Occurrence of dictyostelids in the two sets of samples. Plus (+) indi- cates presence, minus (-) indicates absence. Dictyostelid Species Cricket Wash Cricket Frass Dictyostelium giganteum Singh -: 2 Dictyostelilum mucoroides Brefeld “i. - Dictyostelium purpureum Olive + = Dictyostelium sphaerocephalum (Oudem) Sacc and Marchal oF ae Polysphondylium violaceum Brefeld + 7 Because several surface-dwelling invertebrates have been reported as vectors of dictyostelid spores (Huss, 1989), the results obtained in the present study are not unexpected. However, the fact that we were able to recover dictyostelids from half of the crickets examined suggests that these organisms potentially play a role in spore dispersal. A still unanswered question is whether cave crickets can introduce dictyostelids to caves. As noted above, cave crickets forage in the lit- ter layer on the forest floor outside the cave. Although the primary microhabitat for dictyostelids in forests is represented by the soil/humus layer that occurs at the interface of soil and the decomposing organic material (mostly leaf litter) located above the soil, dictyostelids also occur in the leaf litter itself (Stephenson and Landolt, 1996). As such, crickets would have the opportunity to come into Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 295 contact with dictyostelid spores during their foraging activities in leaf litter. It seems likely that some of these spores could be introduced to caves. In summary, our data indicate that cave crickets can serve as vectors for dic- tyostelid spores within caves. Since the crickets forage outside the cave, it is pos- sible that they also introduce spores to caves from outside sources. The present study is the first to demonstrate that cave-dwelling invertebrates are capable of transporting dictyostelid spores. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The research reported herein was supported in part by a grant (DEB-0316284) from the National Science Foundation and in part by The Nature Conservancy. Appreciation is extended to S. Taylor for suggesting the project. We thank G. Graening and S. Taylor for reviewing an early draft of the manuscript. LITERATURE CITED Benoit, J. G., J. A. Yoder, L. W. Zettler, and H. H. Hobbs II. 2004. Mycoflora of a trogloxenic cave cricket, Hadenoecus cumberlandicus (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae), from two small caves in northeastern Kentucky. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 97: 989-993. Cavender, J. C. 1973. Geographical distribution of Acrasiae. Mycologia 65: 1044-1054. Cavender, J. C. and K. B. Raper. 1965. The Acrasieae in nature. I. Isolation. American Journal of Botany 52: 294-296. Graening, G. O., M. E. Slay, and K. K. Tinkle. 2004. Bioinventory and bioassessment of caves of the Sylamore Ranger District, Ozark National Forest, Arkansas. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 57: 44-58. Hubbell, T. H. 1936. A monographic revision of the genus Ceuthophilus (Orthoptera, Grylla- crididae, Rhapidophorinae). University of Florida Publication, Biological Science Series 2: 1- Ss. Huss, M. J. 1989. Dispersal of cellular slime molds by two soil invertebrates. Mycologia 81: 677- 682. Landolt, J. C., S. L. Stephenson, and M. E. Slay. 2006. Dictyostelid cellular slime molds from caves. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 68: 22-26. Olive, L. S. 1975. The Mycetozoans. Academic Press. New York, New York, U.S.A. 293 pp. Raper, K. B. 1984. The dictyostelids. Princeton University Press. 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American Midland Naturalist 154: 97-114. 296 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS THE GENUS ZOGRAPHETUS WATSON (LEPIDOPTERA: HESPERITDAE) IN CHINA, WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW SPECIES' Xiao-ling Fan,’ Min Wang,’ Liu-sheng Chen,’ and Ling Zeng’ ABSTRACT: Two new species, Zographetus pangi Fan and Wang sp. nov. from Nanling National Nature Reserve, Guangdong, and Z. hainanensis Fan and Wang sp. nov. from Yinggeling, Hainan, China, are described and illustrated. Z. pangi is allied to Z. rama, but can be easily separated from the latter by forewing lack of swollen vein in the male, and hindwing underside having dark brown spots, as well as the valva of male genitalia without pointed protruding in the upper margin of the harpal process. Z. hainanensis is closely related to Z. pangi, differing from the latter in having the small white spot in space M, on forewing upperside and that on underside more distinct, the spot in upper cell rather smaller; valva with the harpal process nearly rectangular, the upper margin nearly straight. Female genitalia of Z. satwa de Nicéville is described for the first time. KEY WORDS: Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae, Zographetus, new species, China The genus Zographetus was described by Watson in 1893 with Jsoteinon satwa de Nicéville, 1884 as its type. The striking features of the genus are small- er size; palpi with the third segment short; forewing vein M, down-curved at its base, with ground color on upperside dark brown, and small white hyaline spots; hindwing underside with ground color ferruginous, and black spots in cell and postdiscal area. Based on forewing venation and secondary sexual characters, the genus includes two remarkable groups, e.g., the Z. satwa group and Z. ogygia group. The former comprises Z. satwa, Z. rama, Z. abima and Z. pallens with forewing vein Cu, arising much closer to the wing base than to vein Cu,, and the basal portion of vein Cu, and the cubitus are swollen in the male (de Jong, 1993); the latter is composed of the remaining species, with forewing vein Cu, arising slightly closer to vein Cu, than to the wing base, male without swollen vein (Eliot, 1992; de Jong, 1993). The knowledge of the genus Zographetus from China has been summarized by Chou (1994), in which three species are included. Later, four species of the genus were reported from Hainan (Gu and Chen, 1998). Unfortunately, most of the species they recognized are misidentified. Prior to the present study, only nine species are known in the genus (Bridge, 1994), ranging from northeastern India through southern China and the Malay Peninsula to the Philippines, Sulawesi and the Lesser Sunda Islands, of which one species, Zographetus satwa (de Nicéville, 1884) has been recorded in China. Recently, we conducted a systematic research of the genus from China based on our collection, and two species were confirmed as new to science. 'Received on July 11, 2006. Accepted on April 3, 2002. > Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510640, Guangdong, China. E-mails: fanxiaol66@scau.edu.cn, minwang@scau.edu.cn, Ishchen78@163.com, zengling @scau.edu.cn, respectively. Mailed on July 31, 2007 Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 237), METHODS The terminology used in descriptions of morphology follows Evans (1949) and Shirdzu (1960). Photographs were taken with a Nikon Coolpix 995 digital camera, along with a Leica MZ125 for genitalic photos. Digital images were imported into Adobe Photoshop 6.0 for labeling and plate composition. Measure- ments are given in millimeters. Zographetus satwa (de Nicéville, 1884) Isoteinon satwa de Nicéville, 1884: 86. (Type locality: Assam, India) Zographetus satwa: Watson, 1893: 85; Seitz, 1927: 1067; Evans, 1949: 299; Pinratana, 1985: 71; Chou, 1994: 740; Gu and Chen, 1998: 329; Huang (Ed.), 2001, 4: 147. Widespread species; hindwing underside with basal half yellow, distal half brown making it different from other congenerics. Herein, we describe and illus- trate the female genitalia for the first time. Female genitalia (Fig. 1): Papilla analis completely sclerotized; lamella ante- vaginalis broad, with upper-lateral processes; lamella postvaginalis long and nar- row rectangular, protruded medianly; ductus bursa short and sclerotized; copula- trix bursa long globular; signum absent. Fig. 1. Female genitalia of Zographetus satwa (de Nicéville, 1884), scale = 1 mm. 298 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Examined Specimens: | male, China: Hainan, Jianfengling, 1983. III. 26, leg. M. B. Gu; 1 female, China: Yunnan, Mengla County, 1994. IV. 17, leg. X. L. Fan and M. Wang. Distribution: Yunnan, Hainan, Hong Kong; Sikkim, India, Burma, Thailand, W. Malaysia, Sumatra, Java. Zographetus pangi Fan and Wang, NEW SPECIES (Figs. 2-3) Diagnosis: Externally the new species is closely allied to Z. rama (refer to Eliot, 1992; Evans, 1949 for photos of adults and male geinitalia), but can be dis- tingished from the latter by forewing with the spots in cell connected; hindwing underside with dark brown spots in spaces M3, Cu,, Cu,, and M;; the valva of male genitalia without pointed protruding in the upper margin of the harpal process. Description of the male: Forewing length 16 mm, antenna length 11 mm (Fig. 2). Head. Antennae longer than 1/2 of forewing costa, dark brown with club pale yellow inwardly before the apiculus, which is pointed and hooked; palpi second segment porrect, densely covered with long yellow scales ventrally, third segment short and small. Wing. Wings upperside with ground color dark brown. Forewing with orange hair tuft at the basal dorsum, and five white spots in spaces R;, M3, Cu, and cell, of which the double spots in cell connected and the one in space R; and upper cell rather small; hindwing unmarked. Forewing underside with ground color and white spots the same as of the upperside, covered with yellow brown scales along costa and at apex, small black spots in spaces M, and M,; hindwing underside yel- low, costa and termen dark brown, with small dark brown spots in the spaces M,, Cu,, Cu,, and M,, the one in space M, blurred, distal cell spot dark brown with yel- low centrally. Male genitalia (Fig. 3). Uncus long and thin with distinct fenestrula; socius and gnathos absent; saccus broad and long; valva nearly rectangular, the harpal process broad with upper margin wavy and armed with small spines basally, end blunt, the ampullar process thin and digit-shaped, shorter than the harpal process; aedeagus with subzonal sheath slim basally, suprazonal sheath stout; juxta U-shaped with a common base. Female: Unknown. Type Data: Holotype, male, China: Guangdong, Ruyuan, Nanling National Nature Reserve, 2003. VI. 12, leg. Min Wang and Guo-Hua Huang. Paratype, | male, same data as holotype. Deposited in Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. Host Plant: Unknown. Distribution: Known only from the type locality. Etymology of specific epithet: Named in honor of the late Prof. Xongfei Pang for his contributions to entomology in China. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 20 Fig. 2. Zographetus pangi sp. nov. ( scale = 10 mm) A. Dorsal view. B. Ventral view. Figs. 3. Male genitalia of Zographetus pangi sp. nov. A. ring, lateral view. B. tegumen, dorsal view. C. valva, inner view. D. aedeagus. E. juxta. Scale = 1 mm. Zographetus hainanensis Fan and Wang, NEW SPECIES (Figs. 4-5) Diagnosis: The new species is similar to Z. rama in appearance, differing from the latter in the small white spot in space M, on forewing upperside, and that on underside more distinct, the spot in upper cell rather small; hindwing with dark brown spots in spaces M3, Cul and Cu,; the valva of male genitalia with- out pointed protruding in the upper margin of the harpal process. Description of the male: Forewing length 14 mm, antenna length 9 mm (Fig. 4). Head. Antennae longer than 1/2 of forewing costa, dark brown with club pale yellow inwardly before the apiculus, which is pointed and hooked; palpi second segment porrect, densely covered with long gray scales ventrally, third segment short and small. 300 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Wing. Wings upperside with ground color dark brown. Forewing with orange hair tuft at the basal dorsum, and white spots in spaces R;, M3, M,, Cu, and cell, of which the spots in space M, and upper cell very small; hindwing unmarked. Forewing underside with ground color and white spots the same as of the upper- side, covered with yellow brown scales along costa and at apex; hindwing under- side yellow brown, costa and termen dark brown, with small dark brown spots in the spaces M3, Cu,, Cu, distal cell spot dark brown and comma-shaped. Male genitalia (Fig. 5). Uncus long and thin with distinct fenestrula; socius and gnahos absent; saccus broad and long; valva broad and long, the harpal process nearly rectangular with upper margin straight and covered with small spines, the ampullar process thin and digit-shaped, shorter than the harpal process; aedeagus with subzonal sheath thinner than suprazonal sheath; juxta U- shaped with a common base, lateral arms broader. Fig. 4. Zographetus hainanensis sp. nov. (scale = 10 mm) A. Dorsal view. B. Ventral view. Fig. 5. Male genitalia of Zographetus hainanensis sp. nov. A. ring, lateral view. B. tegu- men, dorsal view. C. valva, inner view. D. aedeagus. E. juxta. Scale = 1mm. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 301 Female: Unknown. Type Data: Holotype, male, China: Hainan, Yinggeling, 2005. V. 12, leg. Min Wang and Liu-Sheng Chen. Paratype, 1 male, same data as holotype. Deposited in Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. Host Plant: Unknown. Distribution: Known only from the type locality. Etymology of specific epithet: Referring to the type locality. DISCUSSION The genus Zographetus comprises a rather heterogeneous group of species, with differences in forewing venation and secondary sexual characters (Eliot, 1992). The two new species, Z. pangi and Z. hainanensis, share the following characters: forewing upper side with an orange hair tuft at the basal dorsum, vein Cu, arises slightly closer to the wing base than to vein Cu,, no veins are swollen in the male; hindwing underside with dark brown spots. However, the latter differs from the former in forewing having the spot in upper cell rather smaller, while it is larger and distinct in Z. pangi; the spot in space M, is white on both sides in Z. hainanensis, while it is unmarked on upper- side and black on underside in Z. pangi; aedeagus with subzonal sheath is straight in Z. hainanensis, but it is bent in Z. pangi; valva with the dented upper margin of harpal process sinuated in Z. pangi, but it is straighter in Z. hainanensis. Zographetus pangi and Z. hainanensis differ from the species in the Z. ogygia group by having the forewing upper side with an orange hair tuft, from the Z. satwa group by the forewing lack of a swollen vein in the male. The forewing upper side has a hair tuft, which is also present in Z. rama, but Z. pangi and Z. hainanensis are easily separated from the latter by forewing lack of swollen vein in the male, and hindwing underside having dark brown spots, as well as the valva of male genitalia without pointed protruding in the upper margin of the harpal process. Obviously, the two species are very different from all other species of the genus. Further studies are required to infer monophyletic lineage and the species group of the genus Zographetus. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank the staff members of the Yinggeling and Nanling Nature Reserves for their kind help during the surveys, as well as Mr. Guo-hua Hang for collecting the specimens. LITERATURE CITED Bridges, C. A. 1994. Catalogue of the family-group, genus-group and species-group names of the Hesperioidea (Lepidoptera) of the World. Part IX: 75. Charles A. Bridges. Urbana, U.S.A. 76 pp. 302 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Chou, I. (Editor) 1994. Monographia Rhopalocerorum Sinensium. Henan Scientific and Technological Publishing House. Zhengzhou, China. 854 pp. Eliot, J. N. 1992. Revision of Corbet, A. S. and H. M. Pendlebury. The butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. Malayan Nature Society. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 597 pp. de Nicéville, C. L. A. 1884. On new and little-known Rhopalocera from the Indian Region. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part II 52(2/4): 65-91. Evans, W. H. 1949. A catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia & Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). The British Museum. London, England, United Kingdom. 502 pp, pls) 1-537 Gu, M. B. and P. Z. Chen. 1998. Butterflies Hainan Island. China Forestry Publishing House. Being, China. 355 pp. Huang, B. K. (Editor) 2001. Fauna of Insects in Fujian Province of China. Volume 4. Fujian Scientific and Technological Publishing House. Fuzhou, China. 165 pp. Pinratana, A. 1985. Butterflies in Thailand Volume 5. Hesperiidae. Viratham Press. Bangkok, Thailand. vi + 152 pp. Seitz, A. (Editor) 1912-1927. Macrolepidoptera of the World. Volume 9. Indo-Australian Butter- flies. Alfred Kernen. Stuttgart, Germany. 1197 pp. Shirézu, T. 1960. Butterflies of Formosa in Colour. Hoikusha. Osaka, Japan. 4to: vi + 481, tfs 1- 479, pls 1-76. Watson, E. Y. 1893. A proposed classification of the Hesperiidae, with a revision of the genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 3-132. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 303 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LACEWING FAUNA OF TURKEY (NEUROPTERA: CONIOPTERYGIDAE, MYRMELEONTIDAE), WITH SOME ECOLOGICAL REMARKS Savas Canbulat ABSTRACT: I report on three lacewings, a dusty wing, Parasemidalis fuscipennis, and two rare myrmeleontids, Myrmecaelurus spectabilis and Distoleon kabulensis, coming from Turkish lacewing fauna. Faunistic data and habitats are provided. Photographs of wings of two ant lions, drawings on male and female external and internal genitalia structure of Myrmecaelurus spectabilis and female genitalia of Distoleon kabulensis are illustrated with 9 figures. The distribution map with new record- ing sites is also given. KEY WORDS: Neuroptera, Coniopterygidae, Myrmeleontidae, new records, Turkey Until the 1960s neuropterologists did not pay attention to the rich Turkish lacewing fauna. In the past four decades, however, all families of Neuroptera (Osmylidae, Coniopterygidae, Hemerobiidae, Chrysopidae, Dilaridae Mantispi- dae, Berothidae, Nemopteridae, Myrmeleontidae, Ascalaphidae) living in Turkey have been intensively researched. Turkish and foreign neuropterologists have collected and identified many lacewings from various localities of Turkey (Aspock and Aspock 1969; Aspock and Holzel 1996; Aspock et al., 1980, 2001; Canbulat 2002; Canbulat and Kiyak 2002a, 2005a; Gepp 1974; H6lzel 1972, 1987; Kacirek 1998; Meinander 1990; Monserrat and Hélzel 1987; Popov 1986; Sengonca 1979). Nevertheless, the lacewing fauna of Turkey is believed to be richer. Previous studies have mostly focused on the local fauna of Neuroptera, and only a few pieces of information are available on the distribution of Neuroptera at national level due to the lack of provincial and countrywide surveys. Aspock et al. (2001) catalogued 170 species and 1 subspecies from 10 lacewing families, but subsequent studies revealed the presence of 11 other species for the Turkish fauna (Canbulat and Kiyak 2002b, 2003a, b, 2004, 2005b; Kacirek 1998; Onar and Aktag 2002) yielding 181 lacewing species and | subspecies. The aim of this study was to investigate the lacewing fauna of Turkey at the provincial level looking for new records which will be added to the forthcoming checklist of Neuroptera of Turkey. METHODS In 2004 and 2005, neuropterans were collected from Kayseri and Bolu provinces of Turkey by sweep net. Specimens were killed in ethyl acetate and cyanide jars, prepared and labeled according to the standard procedures for Received on April 24, 2006. Accepted on April 17, 2007. * Sakarya University, Arts and Sciences Faculty, Department of Biology, 54140 Sakarya, Turkey. E-mail: scanbulat@sakarya.edu.tr. Mailed on July 31, 2007 304 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS museum material. Specimens were identified based on the taxonomic keys of Aspock et al. (1980), Hélzel (1972), Krivokhatsky (1998) and Meinander (1972). The drawings of gonarcus-parameres complexes and apex of abdomen of M. spectabilis and drawings of spermatheca and apex of abdomen of D. kabu- lensis were made by using an Olympus BX41 microscope with a drawing attach- ment. The drawings of genitalic structures of both ant-lion females give adequate information from taxonomical and morphological point of view to identify the specimens. Specimens of the newly recorded species are deposited in the insect collection of Sakarya University, Science, as well as in the Art Faculty in the Department of Biology, Sakarya, Turkey. SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY Parasemidalis fuscipennis (Reuter, 1894) Material Examined: Turkey, Kayseri province (Hisarik town; 5. km from Hisarik to Develi, Erctyes Mountain), 38°20'N/35°49'E, 1520 m, one female, 28.V.2004. This species was collected by a net in a coniferous forest (Abies cili- cica subsp. cilicica) (Leg. S. Canbulat). Drawings of the genitalia segments and identification keys to species of Coniopterygidae can be found in Aspock et al. (1980) and Meinander (1972). Sziraki (1992) reported collecting of P fuscipennis on oak trees in a gallery forest in Hungary. Popov (1986) found this species in Juniperus spp. (asl. 700 m) in Bulgaria. Greve (1997) showed an association between P. fuscipennis and coniferous trees, especially Pinus sylvestris and Juniperus communis by using light traps. However, Monserrat and Diaz-Aranda (1987) caught this species in Crataegus monogyna. In Norway the seasonal flight activity of imago was found from June to early July (Greve 1997). Aspock et al. (1980) encountered small hoki tei of this species in Europe. The species spread in Holarctic distribution, and were mainly recorded from Europe: Austria, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Croatia, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro. Asia: Mongolia. North America: USA (Michigan, Arizona, Cali- fornia), Mexico (Durango) (Aspock et al., 2001). Myrmecaelurus spectabilis Navas, 1912 Figure 1-6 Material Examined: Turkey, Bolu province (Ankara-Gerede road, 13 km to Gerede), 1300 m, one male, two females, 17.VI.2005. This species was collect- ed by a net on steppe vegetation (Leg. S. Canbulat). The original description of the species was short but later a partial description (without female figures) of wings, male genitalia and end of abdomen was given by Krivokhatsky (1998: 45 Figure 11), based on the specimens collected in Ar- Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 305 menia (Arax River) and presently deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. However, even this study did not provide any information on the female genitalia. This species has been collected in Armenia and Russia, but the actual range of the species remains unknown (Aspock et al., 2001). Krivokhatsky (http://www. zin.ru/projects/zinsecta/eng/ZInsecta.asp) reported some specimens of M. spec- tabilis from Russia (Duske) (2 males, 5 females) (missing) (FZM), Armenia (Artik) of 1937 Armenia (Artik) (1 female) (ZIN) and 14 km southeast of Sarikamis in Turkey (18.VII.1999, 4 males) (ZIN). As it is the second time for M. spectabilis to be detected in Turkey, the author gives the male and female genitalia drawings and a photograph of wings of M. spectabilis in Figs. 1-6 to ease species recognition. Figure 1. Myrmecaelurus spectabilis: 1. Right wings. 306 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Figures 2-6. Myrmecaelurus spectabilis: 2. Pleuritosquamae and apex of male abdomen, lateral view. 3. Genital structure of male, lateral view. 4. Gonarcus and parameres com- plex, lateral view. 5. Apex of female abdomen, lateral view. 6. Spermatheca, lateral view. Distoleon kabulensis H6lzel, 1972 ‘Figure 7-9 Material Examined: Turkey, Kayseri province (Pinarbasi town, around Cinlidren Village), 38°50'N/36°15'E, one female, 1350 m, 14.VII.2004. The specimen was found in habitat with dense vegetation consisting of various species of Poaceae (Leg. S. Canbulat). Distoleon kabulensis was originally described from Afghanistan, Iran, and Anatolia (Turkey), and seems to be widespread, but rarely collected in the south- west Palaearctic region. There is no available information on its ecological tolerance (H6lzel 1972). Distoleon kabulensis is thought to be an Iranoeremial faunal element (Aspock et al., 2001). The description of D. kabulensis by Hélzel (1972) was not complete and lacked genitalia drawings. Because of this a description of the female of the species follows. Description of female D. kabulensis Body 23 mm, forewings 23 mm, hind wings 21 mm. Body color brown. Head brown, clypeus and frons yellow, terminal segment of labial palps thick- ened with brown and brown hairs. Vertex curved, with medial line and two rows across with dark brown spots. Eyes convex. Antennae clavate, length 6 mm, fla- gellum segment with brown, distally becoming progressively brighter. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 307 Figures 7-9. Distoleon kabulensis: 7. Right wings. 8. Apex of female abdomen, lateral view. 9. Spermatheca, lateral view. Pronotum brief, not longer than broad, yellowish strips before the side edge, white bristle lateral. Meso and metanotum dark; small yellow marks only at the mesocutellum. Wings yellow with interrupted brown lines, interrupted with brown at intersections of crossveins, membranes shaded with brown (Fig. 7). Forewing shading, longitudinal veins pale, interrupted with brown at intersec- tions of crossveins, Sc, and last part of R, Cua fork, Cua, completely dark brown, in forewing 6 crossveins before last part of Rs and crossveins between with dark brown. Hinterwing Rs fork last part brown. Pterostigma distinct. Legs; coxae and femora yellow, tibia yellow distal part brown. Tibia of all legs white bristle and dark long thorn. Fifth segment of tarsi as long as 1-4 tarsi. Spurs basal pale yel- low distal brown, slightly curved, as long as tarsi 1-4. 308 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Abdomen of female shorter than wings, with clear brown with short white hair. Apex of female abdomen as in (Fig. 8). Ectoprocts with digging setae on ventral surface; two pairs of gonapophyses present: with short cylindrical gona- pophyses anterior and spherically round gonapophyses posterior, forming a glo- bose structure with digging setae. Spermatheca twist, slightly enlarged distally (Fig. 9). Drawings of female genitalia, spermatheca, and photograph of wings (Figs. 7- 9) are published here for the first time. Figure 10. Distribution of (M) Parasemidalis fuscipennis, (A) Myrmecaelurus spectabilis and (%) Distoleon kabulensis in Turkey. DISCUSSION Five species of Parasemidalis are known from Europe, Mongolia, U.S.A., and Mexico (Meinander 1990). This is the first report for the genus and species (P. fuscipennis) for the Turkish lacewing fauna, southwest part of Palaearctic region. Due to their very small size, many dusty wing species may still remain undetected in Turkey. The dry climate, loose soil, and scarce vegetation are favorable to ant-lions and, not surprisingly, the Turkish ant-lion fauna is extremely rich in species as compared with the European counterpart. Due to the intensive fieldwork made by Turkish neuropterologists, the number of Turkish ant-lion species has contin- uously increased in the last twenty years, useful in faunistical and zoogeograph- ical evaluations. The second male and the first female of M. spectabilis, the very rare species were recorded from Turkey. Until now only a male specimen has been known in Sarikamis (Kars, Turkey) (Krivokhatsky [http://www.zin.ru)]. It should be noted that M. spectabilis is formally new to the country. Furthermore, the female of this species is recorded for the first time in Turkey. In West Anatolia, where M. spec- Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 309 tabilis was collected, the transition among the Mediterranean, Euro-Siberian, and Irano-Turanian regions is occupied by scrub or even parklike forest often domi- nated by junipers and deciduous forests. Species of Distoleon are one of the least known groups of Myrmeleontidae in Turkey. In this genus, three species have been recorded in Turkey (Aspock et al., 2001). Distoleon kabulensis was also found for the second time in Turkey. This species was recorded in the part of type series from Anatolia (Turkey) in Elazig province (Ergani-Maden town) (Holzel 1972). On the other hand, Aspéck et al. (2001) did not cite the data of the paratype female in the catalogue of west Palearctic fauna. 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Nineta pallida (Schneider, 1846) new to Turkey (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). Journal of the Entomological Research Society 4(1): 11-14. Canbulat, S. and S. Kiyak. 2003a. A new record of ant-lions for the Turkish fauna (Insecta, Neuroptera, Myrmeleontidae). Journal of the Entomological Research Society 5(1): 17-20. Canbulat, S. and S. Kiyak. 2003b. A new species of the Genus Nineta from Turkey (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 50(1): 129-131. 310 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Canbulat, S. and S. Kiyak. 2004. Four species of Lacewing (Insecta; Neuroptera) new to the fauna of Turkey. Zoology in the Middle East. 32: 113-114. Canbulat, S. and S. Kiyak. 2005a. Contribution of the Fauna of Neuroptera (Insecta) of South- Western Anatolia. Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum, Entomology 13: 9-60. Canbulat, S. and S. Kiyak. 2005b. A new species of the Genus Dichochrysa from Turkey (Neu- roptera: Chrysopidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 52(2): 225-228. Gepp, J. 1974. 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A revision of the family Coniopterygidae (Planipennia). Acta Zoologica Fennica 136: 1-357. Meinander, M. 1990. The Coniopterygidae (Neuroptera: Planipennia). A check-list of the species of the world, descriptions of new species and other new data. Acta Zoologica Fennica 189: 1-95. Monserrat, V. J. and L. M. Diaz-Aranda. 1987. Contribucion al conocimiento de los neuropteros de Cuenca (Neuropteroidea, Raphidioptera, Planipennia). Boletin de la Asociacion. Espanola de Entomologia 11: 171-189. Monserrat, V. J. and H. Holzel. 1987. Contribucion al conocimiento de los neuropteros de Anatolia (Neuropteroidea, Planipennia). Eos 63: 133-142. Onar, N. and N. Aktag. 2002. Edirne yéresi Chrysopidae (Neuroptera) Faunasi tzerine Taksono- mik ve Faunistik Arastirmalar. Tiirk Entomoloji Dergisi 26(2): 121-134. Popov, A. 1986. Coniopterygiden aus Bulgarien (Neuroptera). Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte 30: 167-171. Sziraki, G. 1992. Coniopterygidae of Hungary with a key to the identification of Coniopteryx Curtis females (Insecta: Neuroptera: Coniopterygidae), pp 359-366. In, M. Canard, H. Aspock, and M. W. Mansell, (Editors): Current Research in Neuropterology. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Neuropterology. Symposium held in Bagnéres-de-Luchon, France. Sengonca, ©. 1979. Beitrag zur Neuropterenfauna der Tiirkei. Nachrichtenblatt der Bayerischen Entomologen 28(1): 10-15. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 311 SCIENTIFIC NOTE ORTHOGRAPHY AND DISTRIBUTION OF PARALEPTOPHLEBIA PACKTT (EPHEMEROPTERA: LEPTOPHLEBIIDAE) IN WESTERN NORTH AMERICA’ W. P. McCafferty’ Leptophlebia packii Needham was originally described from the North Fork of the Ogden River, Weber County, Utah, by Needham (1927). This species is one of the tusked burrowing leptophlebiids of western North America (e.g. Edmunds and McCafferty 1996), and was referred to as Pack’s Tusker by Need- ham and Christenson (1927). Traver (1935) correctly referred to it as the recom- bined Paraleptophlebia packii (Needham). Beginning with its citation in a checklist by Edmunds and Allen (1957), it has been incorrectly referred to as Paraleptophlebia packi. As per the recent correction of the name Drunella doddsii (Needham) by Jacobus and McCafferty (2004), even if the subsequent emendation of orthography was deliberate, the use of the first spelling ending in “-117” is mandated by Section 4 of Article 33 of the current International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999), and the original orthography is here restored. This species has been known from Grand and Jackson Counties in Colorado (McCafferty et al., 1993), Weber County in Utah (Needham 1927), and Teton County in Wyoming (Kroger 1974). New records of P. packii based on materials residing in the Purdue Entomo- logical Research Collection, West Lafayette, Indiana, or on data provided by the late George Edmunds, include the following: UTAH: Summit County, Weber River, at Peoa, 14-X-1970, M. M. Boreman (larvae); Wasatch County, Provo River, at Midway, 11-XI-1947, G. F. Edmunds (larvae and adults); Weber County, South Fork Weber River, at Huntsville, 20- XI-1968, G. Z. Jacobi (larvae). WYOMING: Natrona County, North Platte River, at By-The-Way Ranch, ca. 24 miles southwest of Casper, off State Road 220, 8-X-2001, W. P. and N. McCafferty (larvae). LITERATURE CITED Edmunds, G. F. and R. K. Allen. 1957. A checklist of the Ephemeroptera of North America north of Mexico. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 50: 317-324. Edmunds, G. F. and W. P. McCafferty. 1996. New field observations on burrowing in Ephemer- optera from around the world. Entomological News 107: 68-76. ‘Received on October 24, 2006. Accepted on May 18, 2007. *Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 U.S.A. E-mail: mecaffer@purdue.edu. Mailed on July 31, 2007 312 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Jacobus, L. M. and W. P. McCafferty. 2004. Revisionary contributions to the genus Drunella (Ephemeroptera: Ephemerellidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 112: 127-147. Kroger, R. W. 1974. Invertebrate drift in the Snake River, Wyoming. Hydrobiologia 44: 369-380. McCafferty, W. P., R. S Durfee, and B. C Kondratieff. 1993. Colorado mayflies (Ephemerop- tera): an annotated inventory. Southwestern Naturalist 38: 252-274. Needham, J. G. 1927. A baetine mayfly nymph with tusked mandibles. Canadian Entomologist 59: 44-47. Needham, J. G. and R. O. Christenson. 1927. Economic insects in some streams of northern Utah. Utah Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 201: 3-34. Traver, J. R. 1935. Part II, Systematic. Pp. 239-739 In, The Biology of mayflies. J. Needham, J. Traver, and Y. Hsu (Editors). Comstock Publishers. Ithaca, NY, U.S.A. 759 pp. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 313 SCIENTIFIC NOTE FIRST RECORD OF ITHYTRICHIA (TRICHOPTERA: HYDROPTILIDAE) IN MICHIGAN, U.S.A.! Jaquelyn M. Craig’ and Margret A. Chriscinske’ The microcaddisfly genus [thytrichia Eaton (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae) has been previously reported from many Great Lakes states (Illinois: Ross 1944, Ohio: Huryn and Foote 1983, Wisconsin: Hilsenhoff 1995, Pennsylvania: Moulton et al., 1999, Minnesota: Houghton et al., 2001, New York: Bode et al., 2002) and Canada (Barton and Hynes 1978), but had not previously been docu- mented from Michigan. /thytrichia larvae are strongly compressed laterally and have distinct lobate projections. They produce a purse-like case made of silk secretions and live on rocks and moss in lotic habitats where their ability to keep the flat side of their case against the substrate is advantageous (Wiggins 1996). Ithytrichia specimens were identified as part of a benthic macroinvertebrate community survey for the Crystal River within Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, conducted in July and September 2004 and June 2005. The park is located along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan in Leelanau County, Michigan. Our observations in conjunction with those of White (1987) describe the river as follows: it originates in Glen Lake, passes through Fisher Lake, and empties into Lake Michigan. Total stream length is <10 km, half of which is within the park. Although the river receives ground-water input, discharge is primarily surface water from the lakes, resulting in warm, rich, hard water. Beds of submerged aquatic vegetation over a sandy substrate are extensive in certain reaches of the river, while other areas are characterized by pool-riffle-run over sand and grav- el, and some segments of the stream are runs of bare sand. The low-head dam and culverts at County Road 675 provide areas of tailrace whitewater flow over cobble and gravel. Although depths range from less than 3 cm over some gravel bars to about 1.5 m in a deep run, the overall average depth of the river is about 0.3-0.6 m. Typically, the shoreline is littered with woody debris and detritus. Benthic macroinvertebrate samples were collected by D-frame dip-net. All samples were preserved in 10% buffered formalin and transported to the Great Lakes Science Center in Ann Arbor, MI, where they were sorted and identified. Trichoptera identification was based on Wiggins (1996), and representative spec- imens were donated to the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Insect Division, Trichoptera Collection. All 14 Ithytrichia specimens we encountered were larvae and were collected from a variety of substrate types and flow regimes. Whereas the literature indi- "Received on June 14, 2006. Accepted on May 18, 2007. *U.S. Geological Survey, Great Lakes Science Center, 1451 Green Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48105 U.S.A. E-mails: jcraig@usgs.gov, mchriscinske@usgs.gov Mailed on July 31, 2007 314 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS cates that [thytrichia larvae inhabit rocks and moss in running water (Wiggins 1996), the Crystal River specimens were found primarily on sand substrates, occasionally with gravel and/or aquatic vegetation. Numerous empty cases were found in most of the samples, indicating that occurrence of Jthytrichia in the Crystal River may be common. Although there is no larval key to species, our specimens are likely Jthytrichia clavata, based on known ranges of the three North American species. Future studies of Ithytrichia in Michigan should include adult light-traps and larval rearing to confirm species identification. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This study was funded by the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Park Service through the National Resources Preservation Program. Field collections were performed by USGS-GLSC per- sonnel: Greg Kennedy, Glen Black, Jeff Allen, and Jerrine Nichols. This is contribution #1428 of the United States Geological Survey, Great Lakes Science Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. LITERATURE CITED Barton, D. R. and H. B. N. Hynes. 1978. Wave-zone macrobenthos of the exposed Canadian shores of the St. Lawrence Great Lakes. Journal of Great Lakes Research 4: 27-45. Bode, R. W., M. A. Novak, L. E. Abele, D. L. Heitzman, and A. J. Smith. 2002. Quality assur- ance work plan for biological stream monitoring in New York State. Stream Biomonitoring Unit, Bureau of Water Assessment and Management, Division of Water, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. City, New York, U.S.A. 122 pp. Hilsenhoff, W. L. 1995. Aquatic Insects of Wisconsin, Keys to Wisconsin Genera and Notes on Biology, Habitat, Distribution and Species. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Natural History Museums Council, No. 3., Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A. 79 pp. Houghton, D. C., R. W. Holzenthal, M. P. Monson, and D. B. MacLean. 2001. Updated check- list of the Minnesota caddisflies (Trichoptera) with geographic affinities. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 127: 495-512. Huryn, A. D. and B. A. Foote. 1983. An annotated list of the caddisflies (Trichoptera) of Ohio. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 85: 783. Moulton, I. S. R., S. C. Harris, and J. P. Slusark. 1999. The microcaddisfly genus Ithytrichia Eaton (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae) in North America. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 101: 233-241. Ross, H. H. 1944. The caddis flies, or Trichoptera, of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey 23: 1-326. White, D. S. 1987. Analysis of the limnology of four streams (Platte River, Crystal River, Shalda Creek, Otter Creek) in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Seashore based on the macroinverte- brate fauna: A report to the National Park Service, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Empire, Michigan. Great Lakes Research Division, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michi- gan, U.S.A. 116 pp. Wiggins, G. B. 1996. Larvae of the North American caddisfly genera (Trichoptera). University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada. 457 pp. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 315 SCIENTIFIC NOTE OCCURRENCE OF THE CENTIPEDE, PARACRYPTOPS INEXPECTUS CHAMBERLIN, 1914, IN BARBADOS (SCOLOPENDROMORPHA: CRYPTOPIDAE: CRYPTOPINAE)' Rowland M. Shelley’ The cryptopine centipede genus, Paracryptops Pocock, 1891, comprises four small-bodied species in southern/southeastern Asia and one in the West Indies (Lesser Antilles) and northeastern South America, which is based on a specimen discovered during a quarantine inspection in Washington, DC, USA. Chamberlin (1914) proposed P inexpectus for this centipede, and the nominal species is known from Guyana and Dominica (Chamberlin 1914; Attems 1930; Biicherl 1939, 1941, 1974; Chagas and Shelley 2004). As few anatomical differences exist between it and the type species, P weberi Pocock, 1891, occurring in India, Vietnam, and Singapore, the last authors suggested that the names may be syn- onymous and that P. inexpectus may be the one applied to New World specimens of P. weberi. Species of Paracryptops are intimately associated with man, as they are cryptic, have twice been intercepted in quarantines, and 5 (29.4%) of the now 17 samples were encountered in urban environments where introduced species are common. Chagas and Shelley (2004) therefore suggested that Para- cryptops may consist of only one or two species that have been unknowingly car- ried by man to other locations and then discovered and redescribed as new species. A definitive conclusion as to the origin of Paracryptops in the New World can only come from a full generic revision, in which all specimens are examined and compared, and all available names are evaulated. While visiting the Zoological Museum of the Danish Museum of Natural History, Copenhagen (ZMUC), in August 2005, I discovered a sample with two individuals of P. inexpectus from Cole’s Cave, Barbados, Lesser Antilles. This is a somewhat inaccessible cave with a resident bat colony that tourists can visit with a guide, and it is located near the village of Proutes in the center of the island, about an hour’s drive northeast of Bridgetown. The sample thus repre- sents both the third country and locality for P inexpectus and Paracryptops in the Western Hemisphere and the second generic record from a cave, the other being the type of P. indicus Silvestri, 1924, from Siju Cave, Meghalaya State, India (Jangi and Dass 1978, Khanna 2001, Chagas and Shelley 2004). The centipedes were encountered “in guano” well inside Cole’s Cave, the same locality and habitat where the same collector found the widespread Caribbean milliped, ‘Received April 3, 2006. Accepted April 17, 2007. * Research Laboratory, North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, 4301 Reedy Creek Road, Raleigh, North Carolina 27607 U.S.A. E-mail: rowland.shelley@ncmail.net Mailed on July 31, 2007 316 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Orthoporus antillanus (Pocock, 1894) (Spirostreptida: Spirostreptidae), two years later (Krabbe and Enghoff 1985). Sample data are as follows: Barbados: ca. 24 km (15 mi) NE Bridgetown, Cole’s Cave near Proutes, 400- 500 m (1,312-1,640 ft.) from entrance, in guano, 2 specimens, 7 March 1976, T. Wolff (ZMUC). New Country and Island Record. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I thank H. Enghoff, for access to the Zoological Museum collections, and R. L. Hoffman, for a pre-submission review. LITERATURE CITED Attems, C. 1930. Myriapoda 2. Scolopendromorpha. Das Tierreich, Lief 54:1-308. Biicherl, W. 1939. Os Quilopodos do Brasil. Memorias do Instituto Butantan 13:43-362. Biicherl, W. 1941. Catalogo dos Quilopodos da Zona Neotropica. Memorias do Instituto Butantan 15: 25i1- 35/2. Biicherl, W. 1974. Die Scolopendromorpha der Neotropischen Region. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London No. 32:99-133. Chagas, A. and R. M. Shelley. 2004. Rediscovery and redescription of the centipede Paracryptops inexpectus Chamberlin, 1914, with an account of the genus (Scolopendromorpha: Cryptopidae: Cryptopinae). Zootaxa 475:1-8. Chamberlin, R. V. 1914. The Stanford expedition to Brazil, 1911, John C. Branner, Director. The Chilopoda of Brazil. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 58(3):151-221. Jangi, B. S. and C. M. S. Dass. 1978. A new species of the genus Paracryptops from India, with remarks on the generic and species characters (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Cryptopidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 64:327-330. Khanna, V. 2001. A checklist of the Indian species of the centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendro- morpha). Annals of Forestry 9(2):199-219. Krabbe, E. and H. Enghoff. 1985. Morphological variability in a population of Orthoporus antil- lanus (Pocock, 1894) from Barbados, with notes on the taxonomic status of the species (Diplo- poda: Spirostreptida, Spirostreptidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 15:333-339. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 Sil7. SCIENTIFIC NOTE NEW RECORDS OF RHAMMATOCERUS VIATORIUS (ORTHOPTERA: ACRIDIDAE: GOMPHOCERINAE) FROM TEXAS, U.S.A.’ Thomas Stidham’ and John Stidham? The grasshopper Rhammatocerus viatorius (Saussure) occurs from South America northward to the southwestern United States (Otte 1981). In the United States, it occurs in south central Arizona, and there are two specimens collected in 1930 and 1931 from the Chinati Mountains in Presidio County (Figure 1) in Trans-Pecos Texas (Tinkham 1948). These are the only records of this species known from Texas. On | July 2005, the authors collected an adult male and an adult female Rhammatocerus viatorius on a rocky hillside with tall grass (60-80 cm in height) on route 118 northwest of the McDonald Observatory, north of Ft. Davis in the Davis Mountains, Jeff Davis County, Texas (Figure 1). The locality is approximately 2000 m (6500 ft) in elevation. Other grasshoppers observed at the locality with Rhammatocerus were Melanoplus lakinus, Melanoplus aridus, Opeia obscura, Dactylotum bicolor variegatum, Mermeria texana, and Eritettix tricarinatus. These are the first records of R. viatorius in over 70 years from Texas and are a northeastern range extension of that species’ occurrence in Texas by approximately 100 km (65 miles). The Chinati and Davis Mountains are not connected mountain ranges and have intervening desert. Thus, these individuals may be from an isolated population separate from those in the Chinati Mountains or they may be recent dispersers to Jeff Davis County. These new specimens will be placed in Texas A&M University Insect Collection (Department of Ento- mology, Texas A&M University). The occurrence of adults in the Davis Mountains in early July differs from reports of adults in the late spring in Arizona and the Chinati Mountains (Otte 1981). However, the morphology of the specimens is consistent with previously described specimens, having red hind tibiae, six to eight large black spots on the tegmen, and angular bands on the outer face of the hind femora. In addition, the sulci on the pronotum match those illustrated by Otte (1981), and the male spec- imen’s phallus and epiphallus do not differ from those illustrated for specimens from Mexico (de Assis-Pujol 1998). Additional collections are necessary to de- termine if these individuals are late survivors from the previous spring or if the Davis Mountains individuals occur at a different time of year. "Received on March 31, 2006. Accepted on April 16, 2007. * Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, 3258 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843-3258 U.S.A. E-mail: furcula@mail.bio.tamu.edu. * 301 PebbleCreek Dr., Garland, Texas 75040 U.S.A. E-mail: johnstidham@acceleratedmarket.com. Mailed on July 31, 2007 318 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS New Mexico Mexico Brewster 100 k Figure 1. Map of the counties of Trans-Pecos Texas. Dots indicate the localities where Rhammatocerus viatorius have been collected. The shaded areas are the extent of the Davis and Chinati Mountains. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank Ed Riley, Merrill Sweet, and four anonymous reviewers for comments on an earlier ver- sion of the manuscript. LITERATURE CITED de Assis-Pujol, C. V. 1998. Aspectos morfologicos, taxondnomicos e distribuig¢ao geografica de cinco espécies de Rhammatocerus Saussure, 1861 (Acrididae, Gomphocerinae, Scyllinini). Bo- letin do Museu Nacional Nova Série. 387:1-27. Otte, D. 1981. The North American Grasshoppers Volume 1 Acrididae Gomphocerinae and Acri- dinae. Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 275 pp. Tinkham, E. R. 1948. Faunistic and ecological studies on the Orthoptera of the Big Bend Region of Trans-Pecos Texas, with especial reference to the orthopteran zones and faunae of midwestern North America. American Midland Naturalist 40:521-663. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 319 SCIENTIFIC NOTE OCCURRENCE OF THE MILLIPED GENUS SCYTONOTUS C. L. KOCH, 1847 (POLYDESMIDA: POLYDESMIDAE) IN ALBERTA, CANADA’ Rowland M. Shelley’ The milliped genus Scytonotus C. L. Koch, 1847, occupies four areas of North America, one east of the Central Plains and three west of the Continental Divide (one coastal and two in the interior) (Shelley 1993, Hoffman 1999, Shelley et al., 2005). The western coastal area extends along the Pacific from Yakutat Bay, Alaska, to Marin and San Joaquin counties, California, including all intervening offshore islands except the Queen Charlottes, British Columbia (BC). One inte- rior area encompasses the Wasatch and Teton mountains, and associated ranges, in western Wyoming, eastern Idaho, and northern Utah, and the other centers on the Columbia River Valley and the Rocky and Selkirk Mountains from Revel- stoke and Yoho National Parks, BC, to southeastern Washington, northern Idaho, and western Montana (Kevan 1983; Shelley 1990, 1993, 2002). Three species inhabit the last area, but only S. columbianus Chamberlin, 1920, occurs in BC, where it extends northward to the vicinity of Takkakaw Falls in Yoho. While recently perusing samples in the Virginia Museum of Natural History (VMNH), Martinsville, I discovered one with three unidentifiable females of Scytonotus from “Sta. 2,” 4,000', Jasper National Park, Alberta, the first record of the genus from this Canadian province. The specimens were collected on 2-4 October 1964 by the late D. R. Whitehead, an experienced arthropod field collector, so there is no reason to suspect a labeling error; Jasper is also where he routinely collected beetles in the course of doctoral program at the University of Alberta. The pre- cise location of “Sta. 2” is unknown, but Dr. Whitehead sampled extensively in the vicinity of Mt. Edith Cavell, some 144 km (90 mi) NNW of the site in Yoho. “Sta. 2” may not have been here, but the southern boundary of Jasper Park is ca. 88 km (55 mi) NNW of the Yoho locality, and the northward generic range exten- sion is probably between these distances because the part of the Park north of Jasper village and highway 16 is largely roadless and inaccessible. Males are necessary for a specific determination, but considering the magnitude of this extension and the fact that the locality lies east of the Divide, a formidable dis- tribution barrier that runs along the border between BC & Alberta, the species seems more likely to be undescribed than S. columbianus. Canadian biologists should be aware of the possibility of an undescribed milliped species in Jasper, and if true, it will be the second that is known only from the Park, the other being Austrotyla borealis Shear, 1971 (Chordeumatida: Conotylidae), whose holotype and only known specimen was collected by Dr. Whitehead in 1967 at “Sta. 5,” precise location also unknown (Shear 1971; Shelley 1990, 2002; Hoffman 1999). "Received February 3, 2006. Accepted April 17, 2006. * Research Laboratory, North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, 4301 Reedy Creek Road, Raleigh, North Carolina 27607 U.S.A. E-mail: rowland.shelley@ncmail.net Mailed on July 31, 2007 320 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS The distribution of Scytonotus in southeastern BC and Alberta is shown in Fig. le Fig. 1. Occurrences of Scytonotus in Alberta (Alb) and southeastern British Columbia (BC). Dots, S. columbianus; star, Scytonotus sp. J, Jasper National Park; Y, Yoho National Park. Areas directly under BC represent the parts of the states of Washington, Idaho, and Montana (U.S.A.). ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I thank R. L. Hoffman, for access to the Alberta sample in the VMNH milliped collection, and G. E. Ball, for a prepublication review. LITERATURE CITED Hoffman, R. L. 1999. Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 5:1-504. Kevan, D. K. McE. 1983. A preliminary survey of known and potentially Canadian millipedes (Diplopoda). Canadian Journal of Zoology 61(12):2956-2975. Shear, W. A. 1971. The milliped family Conotylidae in North America, with a description of the new family Adritylidae (Diplopoda: Chordeumida). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoo- logy 141(2):55-97. Shelley, R. M. 1990. A new milliped of the genus Metaxycheir from the Pacific coast of Canada (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae), with remarks on the tribe Chonaphini and the western Canadian and Alaskan diplopod fauna. Canadian Journal of Zoology 68:2310-2322. Shelley, R. M. 1993. Revision of the milliped genus Scytonotus Koch (Polydesmida: Polydesmi- dae). Brimleyana 19:1-60. Shelley, R. M. 2002. The millipeds of central Canada (Arthropoda: Diplopoda), with reviews of the Canadian fauna and diplopod faunistic studies. Canadian Journal of Zoology 80:1863-1875. Shelley, R. M., C. T. McAllister, and Z. D. Ramsey. 2005. Discovery of the milliped Scytonotus granulatus (Say, 1821) in Oklahoma and Alabama, with a review of its distribution. Western North American Naturalist 65(1):P112-117. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 32 Il SCIENTIFIC NOTE AN UNUSUAL PREY RECORD FOR TACHYTES CHRYSOPYGA OBSCURUS CRESSON (HYMENOPTERA: SPHECIDAE: LARRINAE) FROM IOWA, U.S.A.’ G. K. Lechner’ The genus Zachytes Panzer is a large group of solitary fossorial wasps with over 300 species worldwide and 35 species in America north of Mexico (Bohart 1994). Tachytes has been classified into subgenera (Banks 1942) or into species groups (Bohart and Menke 1976; Kurczewski and Spofford 1986; Bohart 1994). Tachytes are described as hunters of Orthoptera (although two separate workers had noted the aberrant behavior of 7’ bidens and T: ambidens preying on lepi- dopterous larvae of the family Geometridae in certain states of the former USSR), and prey specificity is reported to be fairly constant at the family level (Bohart and Menke 1976). Kurczewski and Spofford (1986) delineate the prey of Tachytes by species groups as follows: species in the aurulentus group hunt Tet- tigoniidae (katydids); the pepticus and distinctus groups hunt Acrididae (true grasshoppers and locusts); the mergus group preys on Tridactylidae (pygmy mole crickets); and in the group exhibiting the most diverse behavior, abdominalis, prey records include Tetrigidae (pygmy grasshoppers), Tridactylidae and Acridi- dae (for common names of orthopterans, see Capinera, et.al., 2004). Tachytes chrysopyga is a member of the abdominalis group and is reported to store Acrididae (Kurczewski and Spofford 1986). This species ranges from southern Mexico to southern Brazil; however, the subspecies obscurus inhabits the United States and northern Mexico (Bohart and Menke 1976). I had a chance meeting with a female 7’ chrysopyga obscurus on 26 July 2006 as she was transporting prey to the nest. This incident was my first, and so far only, encounter with this species. At approximately 1415 hrs, the wasp in ques- tion flew in and landed at my feet in the lawn of a residential lot in Sioux City, Iowa, very close to the base of a retaining wall constructed of small slabs of bro- ken concrete. She immediately began walking toward an interstice in the wall; but before she could enter, I was able to collect her prey, a snowy tree cricket (Oecanthus fultoni Walker, T.) She ignored my intrusion and walked straight- away into a gap between two concrete slabs. I set a clear plastic jar against the wall; and when the wasp emerged, she was trapped. This 7’ chrysopyga obscu- rus was in good condition (only minor fraying on the wings); and, at approxi- mately 13 mm in length, was of a normal size for a female of this species (length range: 13-14 mm; W. J. Pulawski, pers. comm.). ‘Received on February 20, 2007. Accepted on April 3, 2007. > 1227 3st Street #28D, Sioux City, lowa 51104 U.S.A. E-mail: lechnerg_wcqma@yahoo.com Mailed on July 31, 2007 Be: ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS My review of the literature indicates that the use of an Oecanthus fultoni (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Oecanthinae) as prey by Zachytes chrysopyga obscurus may represent a new prey record for this species of wasp (Evans and Kurczewski 1966, Kurczewski 1976, Kurczewski and Ginsberg 1971, Kurczewski and Kurc- zewski 1971, Kurczewski and Spofford 1986, Lin 1967, Parker 1921, Pulawski 1999, Rau 1923, 1946). The wasp has been retained in my personal collection; the snowy tree cricket has been donated to the ensiferan Orthoptera collection of the Florida State Collection of Arthropods. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am indebted to Terry P. Nuhn, USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Washington, D.C., and A. S. Menke, Bisbee, Arizona, for suggestions on locating an expert to verify the species of the wasp involved. In this regard, my thanks go to W. J. Pulawski, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, for identifying the Zachytes and for providing clarification on nomenclature and size ranges. Likewise, I am grateful to T. J. Walker, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, who kindly identified the snowy tree cricket. LITERATURE CITED Banks, N. 1942. Notes on the United States species of Zachytes. Bulletin of the Museum of Com- parative Zoology 89: 395-436. Bohart, R. M. 1994. A key to the genus Zachytes in North America north of Mexico with descriptions of three new species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 96: 342-349. Bohart, R. M. and A. S. Menke. 1976. Sphecid wasps of the World: A generic revision. University of California Press. Berkeley, California, U.S.A. 695 pp. Capinera, J. L., R. D. Scott, and T. J. Walker. 2004. Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets. Cornell University Press. Ithaca, New York, U.S.A. 249 pp. Evans, M. E. and F. E. Kurcezewski. 1966. Observations on the nesting behavior of some species of Tachytes (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Larrinae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 39: 323-332. Kurczewski, F. E. 1976. Behavioral observations on some Tachytini and Larrini (Hymenoptera: Sphe- cidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 49: 327-332. Kurczewski, F. E. and S. E. Ginsberg. 1971. Nesting behavior of Tachytes (Tachyplena) validus. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 44: 113-131. Kurczewski, F. E. and E. J. Kurczewski. 1971. Host records for some species of Zachytes and other Larrinae. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 44: 131-136. Kurczewski, F. E. and M. G. Spofford. 1986. Observations on the nesting behaviors of Tachytes parvus Fox and T: obductus Fox (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 88: 13-24. Lin, C. S. 1967. Nesting behavior of TJachytes (Tachyplena) praedator Fox with a Review of the biol- ogy of the genus (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Larrinae). American Midlands Naturalist 77: 241-245. Parker, J. B. 1921. Notes on the nesting habits of Jachytes. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 23: 103-107. Pulawski, W. J. 1999 (revised 4 February 2007). Bibliography of Sphecidae. http://www.cal. academy.org/research/entomology/Entomology/Resource/Hymenoptera/sphecidae/bibliography.pdf Rau, P. 1923. A note on the nesting habits of Zachytes distinctus. Psyche 30: 220-221. Rau, P. 1946. Notes on the behavior of a few solitary wasps. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 41: 10-11. Volume 118, Number 3, May and June 2007 323 SCIENTIFIC NOTE A FOURTH BAHAMIAN RECORD OF THE MILLIPED, AMPHELICTOGON SUBTERRANEUS BAHAMIENSIS CHAMBERLIN, 1918 (POLYDESMIDA: CHELODESMIDAE)' Rowland M. Shelley’ The milliped, Amphelictogon subterraneus bahamiensis Chamberlin, 1918, a senior synonym of 4. bidens Loomis, 1934, is common in Cayo Coco, in the Archipiélago de Camaguey, Cuba, and is known from three islands in the Bahamas: Andros, Cat, and Eleuthera (Chamberlin 1918, Perez-Asso 1996, Shelley 2003). It is the only Bahamian representative of the Chelodesmidae and the polydesmidan suborder Leptodesmidea, and these occurrences are the only New World representations of the family north of the Tropic of Cancer. Shelley (2003) hypothesized that the Bahamian populations arose during the Pleistocene via rafting between the existing Cuban and “Great Bahama Bank” land masses, whereupon the milliped dispersed through the latter. The present populations therefore represent fragments of the Pleistocene population that became isolated on today’s islands as sea levels rose in the post-Pleistocene era. If true and if modern populations survive, A. s. bahamiensis would be expected on other islands that were formerly united in the “Great Bahama Bank” land mass — Long Island, the Exumas, New Providence, the Guana Cays, and possibly Bimini (see Shelley 2003, fig. 4). While recently perusing milliped samples at the Florida State Collection of Arthropods (FSCA), Gainesville, I discovered one of A. s. bahamiensis from New Providence Island, which supports this hypothesis. It is the fourth island and the fourth Bahamian locality for the species, genus, family, and suborder, and it supplants Eleuthera as the northernmost record of the species, genus, and family in the New World. Sample data are as follows: BAHAMAS: New Providence I., east end, “beach,” &, 9, 12 July 1964, E. M. & W. Loomis. The Andros, Cat, and Eleuthera samples were collected from 74 to 116 years ago. This one was taken only 42 years ago but still far enough in the past that it does not constitute evidence of present occurrence. Investigations are still need- ed to determine if Bahamian populations survive today, and with three records from the former “eastern arm” of the Pleistocene island, the exception being that from Andros, other components of this “arm” — Long Island, the Exumas, and the Guana Cays — are promising places to search. "Received June 27, 2006. Accepted April 17, 2007. * Research Laboratory, North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, 4301 Reedy Creek Road, Raleigh, North Carolina 27607 U.S.A. E-mail: rowland.shelley@ncmail.net Mailed on July 31, 2007 324 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS The meaning of the notation, “beach,” and whether the millipeds were actual- ly found on the sand itself, probably in association with wood or debris, is unknown. They seemingly could have come from surrounding forest and washed onto the beach along with litter during a storm, as I have seen an example of this situation from a beach in Oregon. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I thank G. B. Edwards, curator at the Florida State Collection of Arthropods, for access to the mil- liped collection and for loaning the New Providence sample. R. L. Hoffman provided a pre-submis- sion review. LITERATURE CITED Chamberlin, R. V. 1918. The Chilopoda and Diplopoda of the West Indies. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoélogy at Harvard College 62(5):149-262. Pérez-Asso, A. R. 1996. Revision del género Amphelictogon (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Chelodes- midae) en Cuba. Insecta Mundi 10(1-4):181-216. Shelley, R. M. 2003. Redescription of the milliped Amphelictogon subterraneus bahamiensis Chamberlin, 1918, with an assessment of the family Chelodesmidae in the Bahamas (Poly- desmida: Leptodesmidea). Zootaxa 180:1-8. 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All manuscripts, including scientific notes and book reviews, submitted for publication in Entomological News as well as all asso- ciated editorial communications must be sent electronically to the Editor, Jorge A. Santiago-Blay at: blayjorge@ gmail.com. E-mail is the preferred way to contact the Editor and the fastest way to get a reply. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged and, if accepted, they will be published as soon as possible. Previous Editors of Entomological News: 1(1) January 1890 and 1(2) February 1890, Eugene Murray Aaron (1852-1940); 1(3) March 1890 to 21(10) December 1910, Henry Skinner (1861-1926); 22(1) January 1911 to 54(9) November 1943, Phillip P. Calvert (1871-1961); 54(10) December 1943 to 57(10) December 1946, Editorial Staff with A. Glenn Richards (1909-1993) and R. G. Schmieder (1898-1967) as co-Editors; 58(1) January 1947 to 79(7) July 1968, R. G. Schmieder; 79(8) October 1968 to 83(10) to December 1972, Ross H. Arnett, Jr. (1919-1999); 84(1) January 1973 to 85(4) April 1974, R. W. Lake; 85(5-6) May & June 1974 to 113(3) May & June 2003, Howard P. Boyd; 113(4) September & October 2002 to 113(5) November & December 2002, F. Christian Thompson and Michael Pogue. Cover Design by Jane Spencer Mailed on November 14, 2007 Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 325 A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF THE HOPLOPLEURA AITKENI GROUP (PHTHIRAPTERA: ANOPLURA: HOPLOPLURIDAE) PARASITIC ON SOUTH AMERICAN RODENTS (MAMMALIA: RODENTIA) IN ARGENTINA’ Dolores del C. Castro,’ Alda Gonzalez,’ Mariano Lattari,’ Natalia Martino,’ and Mariano D. Romero‘ ABSTRACT: Hoplopleura paranaensis sp. nov. 1s described from specimens collected from Deltamys kempi Thomas, 1917, on the Delta del Parana, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Detailed descriptions of sexes, the three nymphal instars, external architecture of eggs (by scanning electron microscopy), and sites of oviposition are provided. Differences from Hoplopleura aitkeni Johnson, 1972 are included. A key and discussion of the distribution of the ten species of the aitkeni-group on their hosts, and their respective geographical ranges in Argentina is also given. KEY WORDS: Phthiraptera, Anoplura, Holplopluridae, parasitism, eggs, nymphs, adults, new species, Argentina, South America, mammalian, Rodentia, new species, key We describe herein a new species of anopluran lice, Hoplopleura paranaensis, based on specimens collected from Deltamys kempi Thomas, 1917 from Campana, Parana de Las Palmas River, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. This new species resembles Hoplopleura aitkeni Johnson, 1972 and is included in the “aitkeni”’ species-group, which contains nine species known from Argentina (Castro 1984, 1988, 1997, Castro et al., 1998, Castro and Gonzalez, 2003). METHODS Studied specimens were obtained directly from museum host skins. Lice were cleared and mounted on conventional microscope slides following the procedure described by Castro and Cicchino (1978). Procedures for scanning electronic microscopic study included hydration with decreasing ethanol, cleaned in physio- logical solution by means of an ultrasonic vibrator, rinsed in distilled water, fixed in 70% ethanol solution, dehydrated with increasing ethanol solutions. They were then mounted in stubs, coated with gold/palladtum, and observed and pho- tographed at different magnifications in a Jeol/RO 1.1 scanning electron micro- scope at the Electronic Microscopy Service of Museo de La Plata, Buenos Aires "Received on October 25, 2006. Accepted on April 16, 2007. * Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, UNLP, Laboratorio 32, calle 64 N° 3, 1900, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mails: (DCC) castrodreon@Lpsat.com, (ML) marianolattari@yahoo.com.ar, and (NM) nsmartino@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar *CEPAVE (CONICET-UNLP), Calle 2 N° 584, 1900 La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mail: asgonzalez@cepave.edu.ar *Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales “Lorenzo Scaglia” Area Mastozoologia. Avenida Libertad 3099, 7600 Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mail: dromeromuseo@yahoo.com.ar ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 118 (4): 325, September and October 2007 Mailed on November 14, 2007 326 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Province. Nomenclature of the different structures of the egg follows Castro et al. (1991). Body measurements, given in millimeters, were taken directly from mount- ed specimens using a calibrated eyepiece and are identified in the text by the fol- lowing abbreviations: HL, head length; HW, maximum head width; THL, thorax length; THW, maximum thorax width; AL, abdomen length; AW, maximum abdo- men width; TL, total body length. Scale: the figures are represented in millimeters. Measurements include the range of the available specimens. Magnifications for SEM pictures were obtained directly from the automatic scale. Figure scales are represented in micrometers. Cephalic chaetotaxy follows Kim and Ludwig (1978). Illustrations were drawn with the aid of a camera lucida. Holotype, allotype and most of the paratypes are deposited in Museo de La Plata collections, Buenos Aires province, Argentina (MLP). SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY Hoplopleura paranaensis sp. nov. (Figs. 1-10, 11j, 12-15) Male Holotype: Fig. 1. Head slightly longer than broad, with anterior border rectilineous and lateral borders convex; postantennal angles rounded. Cephalic chaetotaxy: dorsal principal head seta long and robust; accessory small and robust; sutural 2 thin; preantennal 2 thin; anterior marginal | thin; apical 1-2 thin; ventral principal head seta long and robust; preantennal long and thin; anterior marginal 3- 4 small and thin, 1 long. Thorax slightly broader than long, seta medial to mesotho- racic spiracle long and robust, sternal plate twice longer than broad, with its poste- rior margin rounded in contact with coxa III (Fig. 3). Abdomen with sternal plates well developed and with remarkably uniform setae on each. Tergal plates well developed starting with tergite IV. Number of setae on tergite I: 4 thin and of same length; tergite II: 4 external ones much longer than central ones; tergite III: 8-10 thin and of same length; tergites IV-V: 6-7 thin and of same length; tergites VI-VI: 4 thin and of same length. Paratergal plates with the following characteristics: I: with 2 unequal acute lobes, ventral much longer and thinner than dorsal, and with 2 different sized setae, with scaly appearance in medial third; HI: with 2 rounded subequal lobes, with 2 much longer setae of the same length, with markedly scaly appearance in all its length; [V-V: with 2 lobes, ventral one narrow, with 2 setae, one of them tiny, and markedly scaly appearance in all its length; VI: with 2 lobes, ventral much thinner than dorsal, with 2 setae, one of them tiny and markedly scaly appearance in all its length; VII: with 2 lobes, ventral short and rounded and dor- sal longer and thin, with 2 macrochaetae; VIII: without lobes, with 2 macrochaetae (Figs. 7, 11j). Abdominal terminalia as in Figure 5. Genitalia: well developed, long and narrow basal plate, parameres moderately developed and rounded apically; pseudopenis well developed and serrate in medi- al third, narrowed to acute apex (Fig. 4). Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 327 Female Allotype: Similar to male, differing in measurements, abdominal terminalia, and greater number of tergites and sternites. Gonapophysis: with longer and robust setae (Figs. 2, 6). Figs. 1-2. Hoplopleura paranaensis sp. nov. 1. Male, dorsal and ventral view. 2. Fe- male, dorsal and ventral view. Scale 0.1mm. 328 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 2Ehwmn Bee4 , 3 6 Figs. 3-6. Hoplopleura paranaensis sp.nov. 3. Scanning electron micrograph of thoracic ster- nal plate, x650, scale 20 um. 4. Male genitalia. 5. Male terminalia. 6. Female terminalia, scale 0.05mm. 329 Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 On en” eexnraseiml, i.e a a ANNAN Mari Alisgy “Wa, ik NA ARONA Se Cae Ny r r a AE tH f i i ‘ “iininine i wt Figs.7-10. Hoplopleura paranaensis sp.nov. 7. Female paratergal plates, scale 0.1mm. 8. Nymph I, scale 0.1mm. 9. Nymph II, scale 0.1mm. 10. Nymph III, scale 0.1mm. 330 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS mn ‘ “ oO \ pastas fis Ayes Pay wi sKhghy ted A ee VSS, ene "al win 9/55 Cant 4 i v, of St ti Po: v4 Ree ke we i reel ee + Pee shat at yOu hercee Vk ast. & tba. CAT. Soe Let Nine .*) ( Ubu oe Rees CNS As fae ue thee ae ve gt | t at A) wil Syte has EAS eet Lo vy ER Sa at BASEEN G ALAS us f iy \ tL it “\ . i f 2 en if Fig. 11. Paratergal plates of the species of the “aitkeni” group: a. H. aitkeni; b. H. impar- ata; c. H. mendozana; d. H. nicolai; e. H. serrulata; f. H. varia; g. H. riojensis, h. H. misionalis; 1. H. massoiai; j. H. paranaensis sp. nov. All figures were taken from original descriptions. Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 aol First nymphal instar: Dorsal principal head seta well developed and short; accessory poorly developed and thin; ventral principal seta long and thin; abdomen with marked and forked anal lobe, with 2 macrochaetae on each side (Fig. 8). Second nymphal instar: Dorsal principal head seta well developed, long and thin; accessory well developed and thin; sutural 2 poorly developed; ventral prin- cipal seta long and thin; preantennal long and thin; abdomen with marked and forked anal lobe, with 4 macrochaetae on each side (Fig. 9). Third nymphal instar: Dorsal principal head seta well developed, long and robust; accessory long and thin; sutural 2 well developed, of equal size and thin; preantennal 2 short and thin; ventral principal seta long and robust; central anteri- or | short and thin; preantennal long and thin; abdomen with marked and forked anal lobe, with 4 macrochaetae on each side (Fig. 10). Measurements. Males (n = 5) HL= 0.15-0.16; HW= 0.13- 0.14; THL= 0.13- 0.14; THW= 0.17-0.18; AL= 0.67-0.4; AW= 0.34-0.37; TL= 0.93- 1.05. Females (n= 7) HL=0.16-0.17; HW= 0.14; THL= 0.13-0.15; THW= 0.17-0.17; AL= 0.77- 0.87; AW= 0.34-0.38; TL= 1.05-1.15. Nymphs I (n= 4) HL= 0.11-0.12; HW= 0.10- 0.11; THL= 0.05-0.07; THW= 0.12-0.15; AL= 0.16-0.27; AW= 0.11-0.27; TL= 0.29-0.44. Nymphs II (n= 3) HL= 0.12-0.13; HW= 0.120-0.21; THL= 0.06-0.06; THW2= 0.16-0.17; AL= 0.33); AW= 0.27-0.28; TL= 0.49-0.60. Nymphs HI (n= 3) HL= 0.13-0.14; HW= 0.12; THL= 0.09-0.11; THW= 0.17-0.20; AL= 0.40-0.54; AW= 0.30-0.38; TL= 0.65-0.77. Figs.12-15. Scanning electron microphotograph of the egg of Hoplopleura paranaensis sp.nov.: 12. General view x 200 (Scale 100 um); 13. Operculum, showing air chambers and adjacent region of amphora x 750 (Scale 50 tm); 14. Detail of air chamber showingthe loca- tion of the micropyle x 5000 (Scale 10 um); 15. Detail of ornamentation of amphora x 1500 (Scale 10 um). ; 332 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Egg: Silhouette ellipsoidal (Fig.12), type of ornamentation of amphora: pavi- mentose, strongly impressed (Fig.15), kind of aerial chamber: ampullacea nor- mal (Figs. 13, 14), relationship among aerial chambers: isolated; number of air chambers: 9-10 (Fig. 13). Total length: 596um. Taxonomic Summary Type Host: Deltamys kempi Thomas, 1917 (Rodentia, Muridae, Sigmodon- tinae) MBR. N° 15612 and 15613: Buenos Aires, Delta, Parana de las Palmas. 23-IV-1964; 28-VII-1964, Coll. Massoia; Museo Bernardino Rivadavia (MBR); N° 18668: Buenos Aires, Delta INTA. 03-V-1988; 04-V-1988 Coll. Piantanida. (MBR). Type locality: Estacion Experimental INTA, Campana (34° 12'S; 58° 56'W), Delta, Parana de las Palmas River, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Type specimens: Male holotype, female allotype; 4 male; 6 female and 7 nymph I; 3nymph IJ; 3 nymph III paratypes, 9-V-1998, Castro Coll. in MLP. Ethymology. Paranaensis is named after the region 1n which the host was col- lected: Parana de Las Palmas River. Sites of oviposition on the host: We examined eight host individuals; six of them were parasitized, although in low density, by H. paranaensis sp. nov. Each had a similar infestation pattern, always on the flanks of the thorax and cephalic posterior dorsal region. All the eggs were fixed with a little spumaline only at the base of the hair. Host: Deltamys kempi Thomas, 1917. Type locality: “Isla Ella, in the delta of the Rio Parana at the top of the La Plata Estuary.” The Delta del Parana is a large area of islands, marshes, and small rivers and creeks of the Parana River estu- ary, between the provinces of Buenos Aires and Entre Rios (about 34°S and 59°W, Argentina) (Gonzalez and Pardifias, 2002). Deltamys kempi has 2 sub- species (Gonzalez and Massoia, 1995): D. k. kempi and D. k. langguthi. In Argentina D. k. kempi is known from the Delta del Parana area and from sever- al localities bordering the Rio de La Plata estuary (from islands of the Ibicuy in Entre Rios province and La Balandra in the Buenos Aires province) (Gonzalez and Pardinas, 2002). Sauthier et al. (2005) extend the rank of their distribution 40 Km South of La Balandra. Remarks Hoplopleura paranaensis sp. nov. is morphologically similar to H. aitkeni, differing in the shape and dimensions of the thoracic plate, structure of the paratergal plates, male external genitalia, body shape and measurements. DISCUSSION In Argentina, Hoplopleura Enderlein, 1904 includes 27 species (including H. paranaensis sp. nov.), all are parasites of rodents from Sciuridae and Muridae families, excluding the four species assigned to Ferrisella Ewing, 1929 by Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 333 Castro and Verzi (2002). Distribution of the 10 members species of “aitkeni”’ group in South America includes Venezuela, Brasil and Argentina. Of those 10 species, one (H. aitkeni) of them has been described from Venezuela and recorded from Argentina, (H. imparata Linardi, Teixeira and Botehlo, 1984) from Brazil, and the remaining eight from Argentina (H. men- dozana Castro, 1984; H. varia Castro, 1988; H. misionales Castro, 1988; H. rio- Jensis Castro, 1997; H. serrulata Castro, 1997; H. nicolai Castro et al., 1998; H. massoiai Castro and Gonzalez, 2003 and H. paranaensis sp. nov.). In Argentina the “aitkeni” species-group distribution includes the northwestern provinces of Catamarca, La Rioja and Jujuy, the northeastern provinces of Chaco and Misiones, the central western provinces of Mendoza and San Luis, the cen- tral eastern province of Buenos Aires and the southwestern province of Neuquen. The known species of the “aikteni” group parasitize Muroidea rodents, from Muridae family, Sigmodontinae subfamily. Most of “aitkeni” group are parasites of Akodontini rodents. Key to the Hoplopleura aitkeni species-group 1. Paratergal plate II with two lobes of similar length .............00 cc ccceeeeeeeeeee 2 Paratergal plate II with two lobes of different length........00.0... eee 3 — 2. Paratergal plate VII narrow, with ventral lobe longer than the dorsal one. Plates IV-V with dorsal lobe narrower than the ventral one ............eeeeeeeee Pemerienii slo the tyne denne tre ie A H. serrullata Castro (Fig. 11e) Paratergal plate VII wide, with dorsal lobe longer than the ventral one. Plates IV-V with dorsal lobe wider than the ventral one ..............:cceeeeeeeesteeeeeeeeeeeeeees PEE Aes san otis ceoaren ue n ko ise | eset H. aitkeni Johnson (Fig. 11a) 2 3. Paratergal plate II with long dorsal lobe and short ventral lobe....................... I oe ose sO SE 8 cack coh cna scncie H. riojensis Castro (Fig. 11g) 3' Paratergal plate II with short dorsal lobe and long ventral lobe..................... 4 4. Paratergal plate VII without lobes................ H. nicolai Castro et al. (Fig. 11d) PeLatsereal mate vy Wl wit One. OF UWO LOWES ......-cad-..2.cc--c¢ pence aopeerescescecosncsetenaete 5 eee ACES Al aten VIG a THA OMEN ODE. Hg _ re chinc.ts...00.c0-scne+-cenoserseoersaccece-teeeeneenenes 6 > aparnersal plate Vill with two lobes. 2.2.22. .2e ens. 28h nk LE 7 6. Paratergal plate VII wide, with long and thin dorsal lobe ........ eee SC CURRE «Waa tee DANTE enters ba a 3 sad rat a H. imparata Linardi et al. (Fig. 11b) 6' Paratergal plate VII narrow, with short dorsal lobe... eee eee eeeeeeeeee Ro aia ty ele Dose a te AS SO aerate EEE H. mendozana Castro (Fig. 11c) 7. Paratergal plate VII with dorsal and ventral lobes subequal in length........... 8 7' Paratergal plates VII with dorsal and ventral lobes very different in length..9 334 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 8. Paratergal plate VII with ventral lobe slightly longer than the dorsal one. Par- atergal plates [V-VI with one much longer setae ....H. varia Castro (Fig. 11f) 8' Paratergal plate VII with dorsal lobe slightly longer than the ventral one. Paratergal plates IV-VI with evident lateral denticle and 2 short and similar setae |2IN LAI ee, Meee BO H. massoiai Castro and Gonzalez (Fig. 111) 9. Paratergal plate VII wide, with rounded dorsal lobe. Paratergal plates IV-VI with reduced lateral denticulation................... H.. misionalis Castro (Fig. 11h) 9' Paratergal plate VII narrow, with thin dorsal lobe. Paratergal plates IV-VI with noticeable lateral denticulation........... H. paranaensis sp. nov. (Fig. 11j) ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors thank Olga Vaccaro for the information of the host. LITERATURE CITED Castro, D. del C. and A. C. Cicchino. 1978. Contribucién al conocimiento de los malofagos argentinos III. Revista Sociedad Entomologica Argentina. Buenos Aires 37: 77-83. Castro, D. del C. 1984. Contribucion al conocimiento de los Anopluras neotropicales II. Revista Sociedad Entomologica Argentina, Buenos Aires 43 (1/4): 159-163. Castro, D. del C. 1988. Sobre dos nuevas especies del género Hoplopleura Enderlein, 1904 (Phthiraptera, Anoplura) parasitas de roedores (Rodentia, Cricetidae). Revista Iberica de Parasitologia, Madrid, Espana 48 (1): 63-70. Castro, D. del C., A. C. Cicchino, and L. C. De Villalobos. 1991. A comparative study of the external architecture of the eggs of some neotropical species of the genus Hoplopleura Enderlein, 1904 (Phthiraptera, Anoplura). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, Sao Paulo, Brasil 35: 663-669. Castro, D. del C. 1997. Dos nuevas especies del género Hoplopleura Enderlein, 1904 parasitas de roedores Miomorfos. Iheringia, Serie Zoologia, Porto Alegre 83: 23-30. Castro, D. del C., A. Gonzalez, and E. Caviedes Vidal. 1998. Hoplopleura nicolai sp. nov. (Anoplura, Hoplopleuridae), parasita de Andalgalomys sp. (Muridae, Rodentia). Revista de la Academia de Ciencias, Zaragoza, 53: 297-306. Castro, D. del C. and D. Verzi. 2002. A new species of Ferrisella (Phthiraptera, Anoplura) para- sitic on desert adapted Rodent 7ympanoctomys (Rodentia, Octodontidae). Rudolstadter Natur- historische Schriften 4: 113-123. Castro, D. del C. and A. Gonzalez. 2003. Una nueva especie de Hoplopleura (Phthiraptera, Anoplura) parasita de tres especies de Bibimys (Muridae, Sigmodontinae, Rodentia). Iheringia, Série Zoologia, Porto Alegre 93 (2): 183-188. Gonzalez, E. M. and E. Massoia. 1995. Revalidacion del género Deltamys Thomas, 1917, con la descripcion de una nueva subespecie de Uruguay y Sur del Brasil (Mammalia, Rodentia: Cri- cetidae). Comunicaciones Zoologicas del Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo 12 (182): 1- 8. Gonzalez, E. M. and U. F. J. Pardifias. 2002. Deltamys kempi. Mammalian Species. The Ameri- can Society of Mammalogists 711: 1-4. Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 335 Johnson, P. T. 1972. Sucking lice of Venezuelan rodents, with remarks on related species (Ano- plura). Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series, 17: 1-62. Kim, K. C. and H. W. Ludwig. 1978. The family classification of the Anoplura. Systematic Ento- mology, 3:249-284. Linardi, P. M., V. Teixeira, and J. R. Botelho. 1984. Hoplopleura imparata sp. nov. de Minas Gerais e notas sobre outras espécies brasileiras de Hoplopleura (Anoplura: Hoplopleuridae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 44 (4): 533-539. Udrizar Sauthier, D. E., A. M. Abba, L. G. Pagano, and U. F. J. Pardifias. 2005. Ingreso de micromamiferos brasilicos en la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Mastozoologia Neotrop- eal 12 (1)° 91-95: ERRATUM A NOTE ON THE PRIMARY TYPE DEPOSITORY OF TETRACNEMOIDEA COIMBRENSIS (HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA: ENCYRTIDAE) AND A COMMENT ON THE CORRECT SPELLING OF THE SPECIES NAME! G. Japoshvili In a recent paper, Japoshvili and Abrantes (2006) published the descriptions of several new species of Encyrtidae from Portugal, including Tetracnemoidea coimbrensis. Unfortunately, when listing the type depository for this species we inadvertently included the type depository for another species described in the same paper, namely that of Pseudaphycus portugalensis. Technically, under the current International Code of Zoological Nomenclature this renders the name Tetracnemoidea coimbrensis unavailable for use because the type depository of the primary type of this species is not given (see International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, 1999: Article 16.4.2). To ensure that there is no ambiguity in the availability of this species name we hereby state that the holotype of Tetracne- moidea coimbrensis is deposited in the collections of the Institute of Zoology, Tbilisi, Georgia. We also note that 7etracnemoidea coimbrensis is misspelled as Tetrachnemoidea in the title of description on the page 429 and conimbrigensis in the caption for Figures 4-5 on same page. The correct spelling of the species name is Zetracnemoidea coimbrensis Japoshvili. LITERATURE CITED Japoshvili, G. and I. Abrantes. 2006. New records of encyrtids (Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae) from Portugal, including description of two new species. Entomological News, Vol. 117(4):423-431. International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. 1999. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Available from http://www.iczn.org/iczn/index.jsp (Accessed 17 July 2007). ‘Received on July 16, 2007. Accepted on July 19, 2007. * Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey. E-mail: giorgij70@yahoo.com Mailed on November 14, 2007 336 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS NEW RECORDS OF PENTATOMOIDEA (HETEROPTERA) FOR THE FAUNA OF EUROPE, TURKEY, AND THE TURKISH THRACE’ Meral Fent’? and Nihat Aktag’ ABSTRACT: This study was carried out in various localities in five provinces of the Turkish Thrace, between the years 1992 and 2003. A total of 101 species from six heteropteran families (Pentato- midae, Scutelleridae, Thyreocoridae, Cydnidae, Acanthosomatidae and Plataspidae) were deter- mined, 22 of the species are new records of the Pentatomoidea for the Turkish Thrace. Of these, three species (Thyreocoris fulvipennis, Neottiglossa lineolata, Podops inuncta) are first records for Turkey. It seems that Podops is a new genus record for Turkey. Picromerus brachypterus, which has previ- ously been recorded from Anatolia (Turkey), is considered a new record for Europe. KEY WORDS: Europe, Turkey, Turkish Thrace, Pentatomoidea, new records Early biological studies of the Turkish Thrace heteropterans date back to the early 1900s (Horvath, 1906, 1917, 1918, 1919). The report of Zwolfer (1930) dis- cussed a number of localities from Anatolia, and also included records from Edirne and Istanbul of the Turkish Thrace. Gadeau de Kerrville (1939) and Hober- landt (1955), who studied different parts of Anatolia, prepared a detailed species list that included some species from Edirne, in the Turkish Thrace. Also, Reuter (1900) has species records from the region but he gave no precise locality. Fahringer (1922) gives some records from Istanbul, particularly from the Belgrad Forest. In addition, there are species records of Schmitschek (1944) and Linna- vuori (1965) for different places in Istanbul. Wagner (1966) identified a few species only from Tekirdag. Josifov (1986) included some information about the Turkish Thrace in the Heteroptera checklist of the Balkan Peninsula. In addition, some species have been recorded from different localities in the region, including papers by Lodos et al. (1978), Lodos and Onder (1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983), Onder et al. (1984), Abbas and Onder (1990), Ahmad and Onder (1990, 1990a), Kivan (1998, 2004), and Fent and Akta¢ (1999, 2002). When all these studies summarized, it appears that 98 species have been recorded from the Turkish Thrace, with three of them being new records (Ahmad and Onder 1990, 1990a). In this study we aim to contribute to the knowledge of the Pentatomoidae fauna of the Turkish Thrace which has a wide variety of vegetation and is also a bridge between the Balkans, Europe, and Asia. METHODS The study material was collected from different habitat types in the Turkish Thrace during the active period of the Pentatomoidea (May - September) for three years from 2000 to 2003. Additionally, some data belonging to our previ- ous field samplings, some as early as 1992, were also evaluated for the present work. ‘Received on April 24, 2006. Accepted on April 17, 2007. >Trakya University, Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Biology 22030 Edirne-Turkey. E-mails: m_ fent@hotmail.com, nihata@trakya.edu.tr, respectively. Mailed on November 14, 2007 Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 3B) Different regions, each with particular vegetation and climatic characters in the study area (e.g. dry and humid forests in the Istranca Mountains, Ergene River basin, an anthropogenic steppe, and coastal plain which has Mediterranean type vegetation), were chosen as sampling sites. These sites were surveyed reg- ularly every year in order to search the whole area horizontally and vertically. The identification of the species was made following Tamanini (1959), Stichel (1960, 1961, 1962), Wagner (1965), Awel (1977), Lodos and Onder (1979); Seidenstiicker (1963, 1971) Stys and Davidovd (1980), Gdllner-Scheiding (1986, 1990) and Abbas and Onder (1990), as well as Ahmad and Onder (1990, 1990a). Also, during the identification process, several species were compared with the materials in the Niyazi Lodos Museum at the Plant Protection Depart- ment of the Faculty of Agriculture at Ege University (Izmir, Turkey). The alti- tude, type of habitats and sampling dates in the study sites are summarized in Table 1. The localities are shown in Figure 1. The study materials have been pre- served in the Entomology Museum at the Biology Department of the Faculty of Arts and Science at Trakya University. BULGARIA BLACK SEA TEKIRDAG e MARMARA SEA Figure 1. Collecting localities for this study. 338 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Table 1. The localities, altitudes, habitats, and dates where Pentatomoidea species were recorded in Turkish Thrace. Loc. Altitude Collection no Province Locality Coordinates (m) Habitat Dates 1 Tekirdag Malkara 40° 52' ON 200 Alfalfa field Medicago 26.09.1992 (izgar Koy) 26° 46'0 sativa (Fabaceae ) 18.09.1994 meadow 28.07.1998 05.05.2001 2 Edirne Kapikule 41° 40'28N = 41 Populus alba 23.06.1993 26° 33' 39E (Salicaceae), meadow 21.07.1993 3 Istanbul Bahc¢ekéy 41°10' 47N D5 Mixed forest Quercus 24.06.1993 (Bilezikgi Ds) D3, SNE spp., Fagus orientalis, 14.06.2001 Ciftligi) (Fagaceae) Populus spp. (Salicaceae) 4 Edirne Lalapasa 41° 54'33N 400 Pasture 21.07.1993 (Haci 26° 49' 24E danisment) 5 Edirne Centre 41° 40'28N = 41 Fruit trees Prunus 02.12.1995 Centre 2635) 39E domestica, Malus 13.01.2001 Gullapoglu sylvestris, (Rosaceae) 28.05.2002 Yerleskesi flowering plants 06.06.2002 12.06.2003 18.06.2003 6 Edirne Kesan 40° 37'60N ‘Sea Roadside 17.05.1997 (Yayla) 26° 23'60E _ level 7 Edirne Lalapasa 41°55'60N 350 Mixed forest Ulmus 05.07.1997 (Dogankéy) 26° 41' 60E sp. (Ulmacea) Acer sp. 01.09.2001 (Aceraceae) Quercus spp. (Fagaceae) Alnus sp. (Betulaceae) 8 Kurklareli Pinarhisar 41° 43'58N = 450 Oak forest: Quercus 06.07.1997 (Yenice) 28 TE spp. (Fagaceae) 9 Kurklareli Demirkoy 41° 55'60N 292 Oak forest: Quercus 06.07.1997 (Yigitbas1) 27° 38' 60E spp. (Fagaceae) 10 Istanbul Silivri 41° 13'S59N 163 Streamside, Populus 15.08.1997 (Beyciler) 238i OE alba (Salicaceae) 11 Tekirdag Saray 41° 23'30N = 125 Streamside, Populus 11.09.1997 (Sinanl) 27° 46' 20E tremula, (Salicaceae) 12 Tekirdag Malkara 41° 1'18N 242 Pasture 29.07.1998 (Sahin) 26° 50' 33E 13. Tekirdag Malkara 40° 57' ON 120 Pasture 29.07.1998 (Karaidemir) 27° 1'60E 14 Tekirdag Sarkoy 40° 46'60N ‘110 Alfalfa field Medicago 30.07.1998 (Emiral1) 27° 1' 60E sativa, (Fabaceae) 15 Tekirdag | Ugmakdere 40° 47'49N — 33 Oak forest: Quercus 06.08.1998 21 2 Sa spp. (Fagaceae) 16 Kairklareli Cukurpinar 41° 50' 7N 533 Oak forest: Quercus 25.08.1998 2), owe spp. (Fagaceae) Loc. no Province Locality Coordinates Al’ 27° 41° ZY 41° 28° 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Kirklareli Kuirklareli Istanbul Edirne Kirklareli Kuirklareli Edirne Edirne Edirne Tekirdag Istanbul Istanbul Tekirdag Tekirdag Canakkale Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 Kuzucu Vize Catalca (Durusu) Kesan (Sazlidere) Centre Kofcaz Lalapasa (Omeroba) Havsa (Haskoy) Kegan (Korudag1) Nusratfaki Silivri (Buytkkilich) Gaziosmanpas (Bogazkoy) Malkara (Mahraml1) Sarkoy (Yenikéy) Gelibolu (Koca¢ges me) 40° 26° 41° 27; 41° 27° 41° 26° 41° 26° 40° 26" 40° Je 41° 28° 41° 28° 40° 2g 40° 26° 40° 26° 52' ON 15' OE 34' 21N 45' 57E 18' 19N 40' 36E 39' SON B 7] S3E 43' 54N 13" 29E 55' 42N 9' 40E 55' ON 55' 60E 38' 28N Si 31 46' ON 38' 60E 57' ON 19' OE 9' 25N 10' 14E 10' 59N 46' 20E 55' 60N 10' 60E 38' 60N 58' 60E 39' 47N 48' 1E Altitude (m) 423 186 40 10 200 500 310 95 300 189 56 116 123 160 350 Habitat Oak forest: Quercus spp. (Fagaceae) Oak forest: Quercus spp. (Fagaceae) Mixed forest: Quercus spp. (Fagaceae), Pinus ssp. (Pinaceae), maquis: Juniperus oxycedrus (Cupressaceae), Cistus sp. (Cictaceae) Pine Forest: Pinus brutia, Pinus nigra (Pinaceae) Hayfield, fruit garden Amygdalus communis (Rosaceae) Streamside Oak forest: Quercus spp. (Fagaceae) Fruit garden: Malus silvestris, Amygdalus communis, Pirus communis (Rosaceae) Mixed forest: Quercus spp. (Fagaceae), Pinus spp. (Pinaceae) Mixed forest: Ulmus sp. (Ulmaceae), Cornus mas (Cornaceae) Streamside Mixed forest: (Corylus avellena Corylaceae Quercus sp. (Fagaceae), Ulmus sp. (Ulmaceae), Pinus spp. (Pinaceae) Mixed forest: Quercus sp. (Fagaceae), Ulmus sp. (Ulmaceae), Picea abies (Pinaceae) Mixed forest: Thuja sp., Cupressus sp. (Cupressaceaea) Pinus nigra (Pinaceae) Pine forest: Pinus brutia, Pinus nigra (Pinaceae) 359 Collection Dates 25.08.1998 27.08.1998 29.08.1998 31005:1999 17.07.2000 02.08.2000 29.06.2002 02.08.2000 11.05.2001 07.06.2001 09.06.2001 15.06.2001 15.06.2001 07.08.2001 10.08.2001 10.08.2001 20.05.2003 340 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Loc. Altitude Collection no Province Locality Coordinates (m) Habitat Dates 32 Canakkale Gelibolu 40° 17'60N 160 Pine forest: Pinus 11.08.2001 Ilgardere 26° 28' 60E brutia (Pinaceae) 33, Canakkale Eceabat 39° 45'29N 170 Mixed forest: Pinus 12.08.2001 (Kemalyeri) 26° 14' 8E brutia, Cedrus sp. (Pinaceae) Cupressus sp. (Cupressaceae) 34 Edirne Karaagac¢ 41° 39'28N =. 23 Populus nigra 12.09.2001 26% 3" 25E (Salicaceae) 21.05.2003 Medicago sativa (Fabaceaea) 35 Tekirdag Malkara 40° 49' ON 210 Streamside 14.09.2001 (Karacahalil) 26° 55'60E 36 Tekirdag Corlu 41° 14'6N 120 Mixed forest: Pinus 17.05.2002 (UlaS) 27° 42' 39E sp. (Pinaceaea), Ulmus sp. (Ulmacaeae) 37 Edirne Sarayi¢i 41° 40'28N ss 41 Mixed forest: Ulmus 12.05.2002 (Tavuk AS BSP 3S)3 sp. (Ulmaceaea), 21.05.2002 Orman1) Populus alba, Salix alba (Salicaceae) 38 Tekirdag Malkara 41° 1'SN 250 Mixed forest: Quercus 19.05.2002 (Kozy6ruk) 26us6 39% sp. (Fagaceae) 39 Edirme Siileoglu 41° 46'2N 156 Dam side 24.05.2002 (Baraj) 26° 54' 43E 25.06.2002 40 Kurklareli Demirkoy 41° 46'S57N Sea Mixed forest: Populus 26.05.2002 (Igneada Viel Sor Wievel spp. (Salicaceae) Pedina Golu) Quercus spp. (Fagaceae) Alnus sp. (Betulaceae) Ulmus sp. (Ulmaceae) 41 Karklareli Uskiip 41° 43'60N = 297 Roadside 27.06.2002 (Hacifakl) 27° 26' 60E 42 Kuirklareli Caglayik 42° 1' 60N 347 Mixed forest: Quercus 28.06.2002 271419) OE spp. (Fagaceae), Alnus sp. (Betulaceaea), Ulmus sp. (Ulmaceae) Corylus avellen (Corylaceae) 43 Kurklareli Derekdy 42° 1' 60N 430 Oak forest: Quercus 28.06.2002 27. 20' OE spp. (Fageceae) 44 Kirklareli Lileburgaz 41° 28'0N 136 Pasture 28.08.2002 (Kurik) 27° 14' 58E 45 Kirklareli Demirkdy 41° 50' 8N 700 Mixed forest: Populus 29.08.2002 (Balaban) 27° 40' 34E alba (Salicaceae) Ulmus sp. (Ulmaceae) Quercus sp. (Fagaceae) 46 Kirklareli Vize 41° 42'19N = 425 Meadow 29.08.2002 (Sergen) 2142! 30E Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 341 Loc. Altitude Collection no Province Locality Coordinates (m) Habitat Dates 47 Karklareli Prnarhisar 41° 34'60N = =248 Mixed forest: Quercus 29.08.2002 (Tozakl1) 27° 34' OE spp. (Fagaceae) Ulmus sp. (Ulmaceae) Alnus sp. (Betulaceae) 48 Kurklareli Pinarhisar 41° 43'S55N 800 Mixed forest: Fagus 07.06.2003 (Mahya Di 38 KE orientalis (Fagaceae) Tepesi) Carpinus betulus (Oleaceae) 41° 45'46N 880 Anthropogenic steppe 07.06.2003 Die sie Ts SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY Acanthosomatidae Stal, 1865 Cyphostethus tristriatus (Fabricius, 1787) Material Examined: loc. 30,2 0C. Distribution: Widely distributed in the Balkan Peninsula and found in many localities in Anatolia. First record for the Turkish Thrace. Thyreocoridae Amyot and Serville, 1843 Thyreocoris fulvipennis (Dallas, 1851) Material Examined: loc. 5, 3 99. Distribution: Recorded from Austria, Bulgaria, Corsica, Czechoslovakia, South of France, Italy, Macedonia, Spain, Slovakia, Portugal, Yugoslavia, Hun- gary, Romania, and from Algeria and Morocco (Stichel, 1961; Stys and Davidova, 1980). This species is the first record for Turkish fauna. The study area can be considered the eastern border of the distribution range of the species. Diagnosis and Comments: The most important characters of Thyrecoris ful- vipennis used to differentiate it from other Thyrecoris species is the ratio of the lengths of the 2nd and 3rd antennal segments and the corium coloration. When our specimens were compared with the description of Stys and Davidova (1980), it appears that the length of the 2nd antennal segment is 1/3 of the 3rd. On the other hand, the 2nd antennal segment of 7’ scarabaeoides has a length of more than half of the 3rd. 7’ ohridanus can be placed between these two species in terms of the same length character. The 2nd antennal segment of this species is shorter compared to that of 7’ scarabaeoides and the 3rd is shorter compared to that of TZ. fulvipennis (Stys and Davidova, 1980). Corium of 7. fulvipennis is brown with reddish yellow shades while it is black with metallic reflections in T’ scarabaeoides. Our specimens of 7. fulvipennis are also in accordance with descriptions of Stichel (1961) and Josifov (1981). The contact among the populations that are distributed mostly in Europe is continued. 342 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Cydnidae Billberg, 1820 Microporus nigrita (Fabricius, 1794) Material Examined: loc. 39, 1 &. Distribution: Distributed in a broad area, particularly in Europe. Known to occur in a few localities of Anatolia. New record for the Turkish Thrace. Plataspidae Dallas, 1851 Coptosoma mucronatum Seidensticker, 1963 Material Examined: loc. 23, 1 C’; loc. 26, 1 9,5 OC; loc. 48, 1 o&. Distribution: Distributed in several eastern European countries, as well as in Russia, and Kazakhstan. Found in Anatolia, particularly in the midland. New record for the Turkish Thrace. Scutelleridae Leach, 1815 Odontoscelis minuta Jakovlev, 1881 Material Examined: loc. 39, 8 99,17 OO’; loc. 40, 4 99,7 So. Distribution: Widely distributed in Balkan Peninsula and Anatolia. Record- ed for the first time from Turkish Thrace during the present study. Comments: The male genitalia morphology obtained by genital preparations of males, as well as other morphological characters are in accordance with those of Seidenstiicker (1971) and Gollner-Scheiding (1986). Psacasia tuberculata (Fabricius, 1781) Material Examined: loc. 2, 1 9. Distribution: Widespread in Europe, Mediterranean countries, and in the south of Russia. Occurs in many parts of Anatolia and it is particularly common in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. Recorded for the first time for the Turkish Thrace. Psacasta neglecta (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1837) Material Examined: loc. 4, 1 9. Distribution: Common in the Balkan Peninsula, but known to occur in only two localities in Anatolia. First record for the Turkish Thrace. Odontotarsus freyi Puton, 1882 Material Examined: loc. 1, 1 9, 2 OO’; loc. 15, 2 99; loc. 20, 1 9; loc. 25, 19,10; loc. 31, 599,200. Distribution: Found in the north African countries, Spain, and Greece, as well as in Aegean and Mediterranean regions of Turkey (Lodos, et al., 1978, 1998; Onder et al., 1995). First record for the Turkish Thrace. Odontotarsus plicatulus Horvath, 1906 Material Examined: loc. 15, 1 9, 6 OO’; loc. 35, 1 &, 41, 1 9,1 oc. Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 343 Distribution: Although this species is known to occur from Macedonia to Anatolia and northern Syria (Gollner-Scheiding, 1990), it has been recorded for the first time in the Turkish Thrace during the present study. Odontotarsus rufescens Fieber, 1861 Material Examined: loc. 7, 1 &; loc. 8, 1 &; loc. 9, 1 &; loc. 12, 1 &; loc. 13,19: loc. 14, 1 GO: low! 16;1kO::, toc 2171 92 O'C’: log 18's = 10e222, 1 QO, 10; loc. 23, 1 9: loc. 28, 2 99; loc. 33, 1 9; loc. 37, 1 &; loc. 38, 1 Y; loc. 42,10; loc. 44,2 OC; loc. 48, 19,2 0o°. Distribution: This species has a distribution range including Greece, Bul- garia, Crete, Cyprus, Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Anatolia. It is a new record for the Turkish Thrace fauna. Comments and Diagnosis: The morphological characters of Odontotarsus freyi, O. plicatulus, and O. rufescens in this present study are in accordance with those reported by Stichel (1961) and Gollner-Scheiding (1990). Moreover, geni- tal preparations of male specimens of these three species confirmed the data of Gollner-Scheiding (1990). Pentatomidae Leach, 1815 Picromerus brachypterus Ahmad and Onder, 1990 Material Examined: loc. 7, 3 99. Distribution: This species is known to occur only in Turkey and its type locality is the Bayburt-Kackar Mountains. Since it was recorded for the first time from the Turkish Thrace during the present study, it is also the first record for the Balkan Fauna and Europe. Diagnosis and Comments: Membrane of hemelytra in P. brachypterus 1s short and does not entirely cover the distal part. Second antennal segment is at least 1% x or about 1% x length of third, and usually is distinctly longer than the fourth. The fourth and fifth segments are almost equal; paraclypeus are as long as clypeus. The close species to this species are P. bidens and P. pseudobidens. According to Ahmad and Onder (1990), hemelytra in P. bidens reaches till the distal part of abdomen entirely, second antennal segment is longer than the third but less than 1% x length of third, and equal to the fourth, the fourth and fifth segments are equal. Paraclypeus are equal to clypeus or shorter. In the other species P. pseudobidens, the hemelytra distinctly reaches beyond abdomen; the second antennal segment is equal or slightly longer than the third, and is longer than the fifth; paraclypeus is equal or slightly longer than the clypeus. Our P. barchypterus material conforms to the study of Ahmad and Onder (1990). Jalla dumosa (Linnaeus, 1758) Material Examined: loc. 48, | 9. Distribution: This species has a wide geographic range and is commonly found throughout Europe. It is also known to occur in many localities in Anatolia, but the present study represents the first record for the Turkish Thrace. 344 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Sciocoris (Aposciocoris) homalonotus Fieber, 1852 Material Examined: loc. 36,4 99, 1 G&; loc. 37, 1 9. Distribution: Exhibits a wide distribution in Europe, but is found in a few localities in Anatolia, also is the first record for the Turkish Thrace. Aelia albovittata Fieber, 1868 Material Examined: loc. 6, 1 9; loc. 31, 2 99,2 0Oo. Distribution: This species has been reported from Greece and Bulgaria which are contiguous countries to the study area. It is known to occur in Syria and many localities in Anatolia but is the first record for the Turkish Thrace. Neottiglossa leporina (Herrich-Schaffer, 1830) Material Examined: loc. 17, 1 9. Distribution: Common in Europe and also found in the south of Russia and Siberia. This species has been reported from several localities in Anatolia. It was recorded from only one locality in our study area and it is the first record for the Turkish Thrace. Neottiglossa lineolata (Mulsant and Rey, 1852) Material Examined: loc. 27, 2 99; loc. 37, 2 99. Distribution: This species has been found in European countries which are on the Mediterranean coast, in the Balkan Peninsula and in the south of Russia. It was found in only two localities in Turkish Thrace and is the new record for the Turkish Fauna. Comments and Diagnosis: The taxonomic status of this species is highly complicated and, therefore, it has been included in different taxa by several authors. This species is very close to N. pusilla but, as Wagner (1954) stated, due to several head and genital parts it is definitely different from that species. According to Stichel (1961), the medial part of the venter forms a dark triangle- shaped spot distally, laterally with a dark black stripe consisting of black punc- tures, the area between these stripes and the middle part of the abdomen is pale yellow and has scarce brown punctures. The venter described above is the same in our specimens. Stichel (1961) regards these features as distinctive between N. lineolata and N. pusilla. Wagner (1954) and Josifov (1981) have given these features of the venter for N. pusilla. Josifov (1981) separated the two species according to the coloration on the connexivum. According to Josifov (1981), there are triangle-shaped spots on the connexivum of each paratergites in N. line- olata. Stichel (1961) states that the dark punctures are distributed homogeneous- ly on connexivum or that they are found densely on each of proximal and distal margins. The shape of punctures on connexivum in our study conforms to description of Josifov (1981). Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 345 Acrosternum heegeri Fieber, 1861 Material Examined: loc. 34, 1 9. Distribution: Widely distributed throughout Palaearctic, particularly com- mon in southern Europe. Although this species has previously been reported from several localities in Anatolia, it is the first record for the Turkish Thrace. Holcostethus albipes (Fabricius, 1781) Material Examined: loc 1, 2 99; loc. 21, 1 9. Distribution: Distributed particularly in Mediteranean countries and in Europe, but is reported from a few localities in Anatolia. First record for the Turkish Thrace. Holcostethus sphacelatus Fabricius, 1794 Material Examined: loc. 48, 1 9. Distribution: Distributed in Europe, Mediterranean countries, southern Rus- sia, and in a few localities in Anatolia. First record for the Turkish Thrace. Carpocoris melanocerus (Mulsant and Rey, 1852) Material Examined: loc. 7, 1 0; loc. 11, 1 9; loc. 16, 1 9; loc. 19, 1 9; loc. 25, 1 9; loc. 29, 1 9; loc. 32, 1 9; loc. 46, 1 &. Distribution: Distributed in Europe, Caucasia, and found in many localities in Anatolia. First record for the Turkish Thrace. Stagonomus bipunctatus (Linnaeus, 1758) Material Examined: loc. 3, 2 OC’; loc. 7, 1 &; loc. 10, 2 99, 1G; loc. 43, 2'OO. loc.45.)1.0.. loc, 47. 1-C. Distribution: This species is widely distributed in Europe, North Africa, Caucasia, the Middle East, and several localities in Anatolia. First record for the Turkish Thrace. Podops (Podops) inuncta (Fabricius, 1775) Material Examined: loc. 3, 1 9. Distribution: This species has a wide distribution in Europe, particularly in the Balkan Peninsula. It is the first record for Turkish fauna at genus level. The genus Podops is represented by 10 species belonging to 3 subgenera in the Palaearctic (Josifov, 1981; Derzhansky, 2000). The presence of the genus in Turkey is shown for the first time during the present study in which we record- ed Podops inuncta. The subgenera of Podops are Petalodera, Podops, and Opo- crates. The genus Podops is characterized by the peculiar shape of the distal cor- ner of the pronotal projections, such as axe, tongue, pen, or spine (Stichel, 1961). Diagnosis: According to the description of Stichel (1961) regarding Podops inuncta, the circular brown spot on the distal portion of the femur is single, tibia is yellow without a longitudinal line, tarsi are entirely yellow. Moreover, the 346 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS number of tubercles is three or may be five. In the study material, the femur has circular brown spots, brown pretarsi, and the ventral side of the tibia with brown longitudinal stripe. The number of tubercles on the proximal side of scutellum is three. DISCUSSION As a result of this study, 22 new records belonging to 6 families (Pentatomi- dae, Scutelleridae, Thyreocoridae, Cydnidae, Acanthosomatidae and Plataspi- dae) for Turkish Thrace were determined. Three of these species (Thyreocoris fulvipennis, Neottiglossa lineolata, Podops inuncta) are new records for Penta- tomidae fauna of Turkey. The genus Podops is also new for Turkey. Picromerus brachypterus is the first record for Europe and for the Balkan Peninsula. In the previous studies dealing with the geographical distribution, no species belonging to genus Podops had been reported for the Turkish Thrace and Anatolia. However, this genus is represented by the species P inuncta, and P. rectidens, in Bulgaria, as well as P. curvidens and P. rectidens in Greece (Josifov, 1981, 1986). Podops inuncta, which was found only in Istanbul-Belgrad Forests for the first time during the study, may be considered a European species in terms of its geographic distribution. Three species of the genus Thyreocoris have been known from the Palaearctic. These are 7: scarabaeoides, T. fulvipennis, and T: ohridanus (Josifov, 1981, 1986). Only 7. scarabaeoides has been known from Turkey up to now. In the early studies, 7’ scarabaeeides was recorded from Ankara (Escherich, 1897; Hoberlandt, 1955) and Istanbul-Belgrad Forests (Fahringer, 1922). In later stud- ies, it was reported from Antalya, Nevsehir and Izmir (Lodos and Onder, 1980; Lodos et al., 1998). Thyreocoris scrabaeoides has been known to occur in Bul- garia and Greece which are the neighbor countries to the study area (Josifov, 1986). Thyreocoris fulvipennis is known to occur in a few European countries including Bulgaria (Stichel, 1962; Josifov, 1981), which also was contributed to Turkish fauna by the present study. The third species, 7. ohridanus, was report- ed from southwestern Bulgaria, though it was not found in the Turkish Thrace during this study. However, this species may possibly be found in the area if its distribution is regarded. Josifov (1981) pointed out that 7! fulvipennis is a moun- tainous species particularly for high altitudes, since it is found at mountains (Rhodope, Vitosha and Lozen) above 800 m in Bulgaria. However, our findings do not support Josifov’s (1981) suggestions because it was found at 41 m altitude in Edirne. In central Europe 7: fulvipennis occurs only in lowlands (Stys and Davidova, 1980). Neottiglossa lineolata, which was the first record in the study area, has been reported to occur in only Europe and in the Balkans regarding its geographic dis- tribution. This species was found in two localities (Edirne-Sarayici and Silivri- Buyiikkiligly) which are located at a long distance from each other. It is possible that this species may have a broader distribution. The study area may be consid- Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 347 ered as the eastern boundary of its distribution, because this species has never been reported from Anatolia. The species Cyphostethus tristriatus, Microporus nigrita, Coptosoma mucro- natum, Odontoscelis minuta, Odontotarsus freyi, O. rufescens, O. plicatulus, Psacasta tuberculata, P. neglecta, Jalla dumosa, Sciocoris homalonatus, A. al- bovittata, Nettiglossa leporina, Acrosternum heegeri, Holcostethus albipes, H. sphacelatus, Carpocoris melanocerus and Stagonomus bipunctatus, which appeared as new records for the Turkish Thrace, are widespread in Anatolia, the Balkans, and particularly in Greece and Bulgaria. 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Santiago-Blay, Editor Entomological News MAILING DATES FOR VOLUMES 117(5) 2006 AND 118(1-4) 2007 No. Date of Issue Pages Mailing Date 3) November and December 2006 465-572 February 28, 2007 | January and February 2007 1-108 April 27, 2007 ps March and April 2007 109-216 June 18, 2007 3 May and June 2007 217-324 August 3, 2007 4 September and October 2007 325-432 November 14, 2007 5 November and December 2007 To be listed in next Statement of Ownership Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 351 A PROPOSAL OF GENERIC AND SUBGENERIC ABBREVIATIONS FOR PHLEBOTOMINE SANDFLIES (DIPTERA: PSYCHODIDAE: PHLEBOTOMINAE) OF THE WORLD' Carlos Brisola Marcondes’ ABSTRACT: The systematics of Phlebotomine sandflies has been studied and discussed since the beginning of the 20th century, and many systems have been proposed. Complex and well-based sys- tems, dividing Phlebotominae in many genera and subgenera, proposed for Old and New World species, have been progressively understood and accepted by the workers in the subfamily. Due to its complex nature, a system of abbreviations, similar to that utilized for Culicidae, is proposed here for these groups of Phlebotominae. It uses two letters for genera and three for subgenera. KEY WORDS: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae, nomenclature, systematics, abbreviation, genus, sub- genus Many systems of classification of the species of Phlebotomine sandflies have been proposed since Newstead (1911). Galati (1995, 2003) revised the existing proposals for New World sandflies, and created a new system, based on a careful phyllogenetic study. It includes a complete review and reorganization of the spec- ies of the subfamily Phlebotominae into two tribes (Hertigiini and Phlebotomini). The first was divided in the subtribes Hertigiina and Idiophlebotomina, and the second in Phlebotomina, Australophlebotomina, Brumptomyiina, Sergentomyiina, Lutzomyiina and Psychodopygina. Galati (1995, 2003) did not analyze the infrageneric systematics of the genus Phlebotomus; moreover, Rispail and Léger (1998) proposed a new classification of genera and subgenera for Old World Phlebotominae sandflies, based in a mor- phological study, which is utilized here. Older classifications are discussed by Galati (1995, 2003) and Rispail and Léger (1998), in their analyses and new pro- posals. Several of the many genera and subgenera of Phlebotominae have the same ini- tial letter, preventing the use of abbreviations in publications. If the authors choose to abbreviate in publications, some confusion may occur. A system of abbreviations for these categories is proposed. It is similar to the system proposed by Reinert (1975, 1982, 1992, 2001) for the genera of Culicidae, which has been very useful. METHODS The abbreviations of genera utilize the first two letters of the genus and those of subgenera the first three of the subgenus. When necessary to avoid confusion, another combination of letters is proposed. Since some publications include refer- ences to Culicidae and Phlebotominae, the abbreviations for the last group were usually conciliated to those of Reinert (2001). ‘Received on May 17, 2006. Accepted on April 20, 2007. * Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Center of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Santa Catarina, 88040-900 Florianopolis- SC, Brazil. E-mail: cbrisola@mbox1.ufsc.br. Mailed on November 14, 2007 BSA ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Since series and groups are provisory, and these categories are not recognized by the Code of Zoological Nomenclature, no abbreviations are proposed for them. PROPOSALS The abbreviations for 31 genera and 35 subgenera proposed by Galati (2003) and Rispail et al. (1998) are shown below. Adequate utilization of abbreviations is recommended by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, Chapter 7, Article 25, Recommendation 25A, 1999), to prevent confusion be- tween genera and subgenera with the same initial. Periods must be used with the generic and subgeneric abbreviations (ICZN, Appendix B11, 1999). Proposed abbreviations for genera of Phlebotominae Genus Abbreviation Australophlebotomus Theodor Au. Bichromomyia Artemiev Bi. Brumptomyia Franca and Parrot Br. Chinius Leng Ch. Dampfomyia Addis Da. Deanemyia Galati De. Evandromyia Mangabeira Ey. Expapillata Galati Ex. Hertigia Fairchild He. Idiophlebotomus Quate and Fairchild Id. Lutzomyia Franga Lu. Martinsmyia Galati Mt. Micropygomyia Barretto Mi. Migonemyia Galati Mg. Nyssomyia Barretto Ny. Oligodontomyia Galati OL. +Phlebotomiella Hennig Pe. +Phlebotomites Meunier PE Phlebotomus Rondani and Berté Ph. Pintomyia Costa Lima Pi. Pressatia Mangabeira Pr. Psathyromyia Barretto Pa. Psychodopygus Mangabeira Ps. Sciopemyia Barretto Sc. Sergentomyia Franga and Parrot Se. Spelaeomyia Theodor, 1948 Sa. Spelaeophlebotomus Theodor SI. Trichophoromyia Barretto Th. Trichopygomyia Barretto Ty. Viannamyia Mangabeira Vi. Warileya Hertig Wa. + Extinct Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 Proposed abbreviations for subgenera of Phlebotominae Subgenus Coromyia Dampfomyia Aldamyia Barrettomyia Evandromyia Castromyia Lutzomyia Helcocyrtomyia Tricholateralis Coquilletimyia Micropygomyia Sauromyia Silvamyia Blancasmyia Migomemyia Adlerius Anaphlebotomus Euphlebotomus Kasaulius Larroussius Paraphlebotomus Phlebotomus Synphlebotomus Transphlebotomus Pifanomyia Pintomyia Forattiniella Psathyromyia Xiphomyia Abbreviation Genus Dampfomyia Cor. Dam. Genus Evandromyia Ald. Bar. Eva. Genus Lutzomyia Gas. Lut. Hel. Trl. Genus Micropygomyia Col. Mic. Sau. Sel: Genus Migonemyia Bla. Mig. Genus Phlebotomus Adl. Ana. Eup. Kas. Lar. Par. PAhl. Syn. Tra. Genus Pintomyia Pif- Pin: Genus Psathyromyia For. Psa. Xip. 353 354 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Genus Sergentomyia Demeillonius Dem. Grassomyia Gra. Neophlebotomus Neo. Parrotomyia Par. Sergentomyia Ser. Sintonius Sin. The abbreviation Ps. was utilized for Psychodopygus, in a similar way to the proposition of this as a genus (Ready et al., 1980); this genus, narrower than that previously proposed by Forattini (1971), is accepted by Galati (1995, 2003). The abbreviation Mt. was utilized for Martinsmyia and Col. for the subgenus Coquillettimyia to avoid confusion with Ma. for Mansonia, and Cog. for the sub- genus Coquillettidia, both in the Culicidae. The abbreviation 7h. was utilized for Trichophoromyia and Ty. for Trichopygomyia, to avoid confusion with Tricho- prosopon (Reinert 2001); h and y refer to, respectively, phoreus (“carrier”) and pygos (“rump, buttocks”) (Brown 1956). Both genera of Culicidae are common in the American continent (Knight and Stone, 1977), adopting the narrower con- cept of Trichoprosopon of Zavortink (1979). It was not considered necessary to avoid the utilization of Mi. for Micropy- gomyia, Mg. for Migomemyia, Bar. for Barrettomyia, and Ch. for Chinius (Gal- ati 2003), because there is no coincidence between the distributions of these groups and those of Mimomyia, Maorigoeldia, Barraudius, and Chagasia (Knight and Stone, 1977). The coincidence of abbreviations is not important in papers which do not include both families. The abbreviation 7r/. was utilized for Tricholateralis to prevent any associa- tion to Trichopygomyia and to recall Jateralis (“of the side’), and S/. for Spelaeophlebotomus, instead of Sp., to prevent confusion with sp. for undefined species. The maintenance of Lu. for the genus Lutzomyia agrees with the use in papers also referring to Leishmania (Protozoa: Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae), in which the last genus is abbreviated as Le. or L. (e.g., Lainson et al., 1977). Since Depaquit et al. (1998) considered Phlebotomus, including Larroussius, as a paraphylletic group, some modifications may occur in the genus, which would change the status of this subgenus. The study of more characters of Old World Phlebotomine sandflies than those utilized by Rispail and Léger (1998) and of their polarity will possibly lead to modifications on the classification of these species (Galati, unpublished data). | No classification can be considered as perpetual, as confirmed by the new proposals for the raising to the genus level of Ochlerotatus (Reinert, 2000) and Stegomyia (Reinert et al., 2004). The classification of Phlebotominae of Galati (1995, 2003) is based on sound morphological basis. It has been confirmed by the molecular study of Depaquit et al. (1998), which showed Sergentomyia near- er to Lutzomyia than to Phlebotomus. Beaty et al. (2004) distinguished two Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 395 clades, one corresponding to Psychodopygina and other to Lutzomyiina in the classification of Galati (1995, 2003); in the last clade, a subclade, equivalent to genus Lutzomyia, and another, equivalent to Migonemyia+, both proposed by Galati (1995, 2003), can easily be distinguished. The adequacy of the acceptance of new proposals for taxonomic changes was recently commented (Marcondes, 2007; but see Polaszek 2007) and, if not dis- proved in an adequate period, they should be accepted and utilized. The number of known species of Culicidae (ca. 3,500) is greater than that of Phlebotominae (ca. 700). However, since the number of genera of the last group (31) is compa- rable to that of the first (39) (Reinert, 2001) plus Stegomyia (Reinert et al., 2004), the proposed “abbreviations” are also useful. The proposed abbreviations can be adapted to any future modification of the classification, as done by Reinert (1982, 1992, 2001) for Culicidae. Since gener- ic names of Phlebotomine sandflies are much less known to general public than those of mosquitoes, the acceptance of the new classification (Galati, 1995, 2003; Rispail and Léger, 1998) would be much less traumatic for them; in fact, some medical personnel still refer to sandflies as “Phlebotomus.” The recom- mendations of Editor JME (2005) to manage the modifications for Aedine mos- quitoes, if applied for sandflies, will form, for example, Nyssomyia neivai (=Lutzomyia neivai see Galati, 2003). If, after an adequate study on phylogeny, some subgenus is raised to generic status (or vice-versa), it will be easy to change the abbreviation (e.g., Xip. to Xi or. Ny. to Nys.). ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS To Dr. Eunice A. B. 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Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 357 A NEW SPECIES OF NEOTOURNIERIA APFELBECK, 1932 (COLEOPTERA: CURCULIONIDAE) FROM TURKEY ' Luigi Magnano’ and Osman Sert’ ABSTRACT: Neotournieria ambigener n. sp. from Turkey is described and compared with the three known species of the genus. The new species is the only amphigonic known member of Neotournieria. KEY WORDS: Neotournieria, new species, amphigony, Turkey, Coleoptera, Curculionidae Neotournieria was described by Apfelbeck (1932) as subgenus of Otiorhynchus Germar, 1822 and raised to generic level by Magnano (1998). Thus far, only three species, all apparently parthenogenetic, are included in it. However, the new species herein described is amphigonic, namely it has both sexes. It can be remind- ed that Lona (1943) described Otiorhynchus liebmanni Lona, 1943 approaching it to the quite unrelated species O. (Panorosemus) gibbicollis Boheman, 1843, O. (Tournieria) veluchianus Apfelbeck, 1908 and Neotournieria bureschi (Apfel- beck, 1932), although he did not included O. liebmanni to any of the then described subgenera. Judging from the description, it could be possible that it also belongs in Neotournieria, and only the future study of types will clarify its systematic posi- tion. SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY Neotournieria ambigener n. sp. Diagnosis: Neotournieria related to N. bureschi (Apfelbeck, 1932) with which it shares the minutely granulate elytra, but easily recognizable by its larger size and the patches of golden hairlike scales on elytra. Type Data: Holotypus 9: “Turkey Aysebacy village, Balikesir, 02.06.1994, leg. S. Varli” in Magnano collection. Genitalia included in Euparal® and sternites 1-5 glued on a transparent label below the specimen and borne by the same pin. Paratypes: 1 & “Turkey Aysebacy village, Balikesir, 02.06.1994, leg. S. Varli,” in Magnano collection; 2 99 “Turkey Aysebacy village, Balikesir, 02.06.1994, leg. S. Varli,” in Sert collection. Description: Holotypus 9. Length (prothorax + elytra) mm 8.5, maximum ely- tral width mm 4.5. Integument black, apex of tibiae, tarsi and antenna dark brown. Rostrum, pterygia included, 1.55 times as long as wide, slightly conically tapering from anterior margin of eyes to posterior margin of pterygia. Scrobe deep, with anterior margin notched, and not extending toward eye. Epistoma shining, acutely arch-shaped and keeled posteriorly. Frons sloping forward at the level of hind mar- gin of scrobe. Epifrons parallel-sided with a faint longitudinal carina, areolate punctures dense and deeper than those on frons, hairlike scales sparse and with weak golden lustre. Clubbed scape almost straight and gradually thickened toward ‘Received July 27, 2006. Accepted on May 18, 2007. *-Via Montenero, 53 I-53036 Poggibonsi SI Italy. E-mail: luigimagnano@libero.it. > Hacettepe University, Department of Biology, Section of Applied Biology, Beytepe Ankara Turkey. E-mail: sert@hacettepe.edu.tr. Mailed on November 14, 2007 358 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS apex, long as to reach the level of the apical third of pronotum in repose. First anten- nal joint twice as long as wide, subcylindrical; segment two 4.2 times as long as wide and 2.2 times as long as first; third 1.5 times as long as wide; fourth and fifth 1.2 times as long as wide; sixth and seventh as wide as long. Club fusiform, 2 times as long as wide and barely shorter than the five preceding joints. Scape clothed by whitish recumbent setae as long as those on rostrum, antennal segments with lifted similar scales as long as one of them, club with dense short setae. Head 2 times as wide as long. Vertex convex, interocular surface flat and with a small pit in the mid- dle, slightly wider than epifrons at the level of antennal insertion, grained surface with small not deep areolate punctures. Eyes small, slightly oval, convex, their greater diameter 3 times shorter than the width of the interocular distance. Pronotum much convex, 1.2 times as wide as long, maximum width just basad of middle. Anterior to middle part of pronotal disc with middle-sized areolate punctures spaced by a distance equal to the diameter of one of them. Sides and base of pronotal disc with granules gradually more convex and partially fused to form concentric wrin- kles. Hairs on pronotum sparse, as long as one diameter of a pit of elytral striae, and white with feeble golden lustre. Elytra oval, 1.6 times as long as wide, maximum width at the level of anterior third. Areolate punctures of dorsal striae large and deep on disc, gradually becoming smaller toward apex, whereas those of lateral striae are just a little smaller at apex than at base. Intervals a little convex, 3 times wider than striae, with minute granules flattened on disc and gradually more convex toward apex. Suture appearing more convex since its granules are so dense that elytral apex is almost vertical (Fig. 3). Elytra clothed by recumbent quite sparse, thin, white with feeble olden lustre setae, which are as long as one of the strial punctures on disc. In addition there are golden piliform scales about twice as long as the whitish ones, and condensed in patches. Anterior legs longer than others. Profemora with a medium- sized tooth, meso and metafemora with small tooth. Femora clothed by sparse short white hairs. Protibiae thin at base, outer margin quite straight and only widening near apex, whereas the inner margin is slightly outcurved up to basal 1/5, then straightly widening toward apex like the inner margin. Meso and metatibiae only slightly widening toward apex. Recumbent setae on tibiae thicker and longer than those on femora. Tarsal segments 1 and 2 equal in length, third deeply bilobe and wider than 2, onychium projecting from 3 half of length of 3. Tarsal vestiture simi- lar to that of apex of tibiae. Urosternites with small not deep punctures, and thin short hairs. Habitus: fig. 1. Spermatheca and spiculum ventrale: figs. 4, 5. Paratypes females do not differ from the holotype. The single male available is smaller (mm 5.0), thinner, its maximum elytral width is mm 4.2 mm, and its elytra are subtriangular with sides much less rounded than those of females (figs. 2, 3, 6, ism) Remarks: Neotournieria ambigener n. sp. is the first known amphigonic species of the genus, having been collected thus far only females of the three remaining members of Neotournieria. The new species is immediately differenti- ated by the patches of golden scales on elytra. Comparative Descriptions: The following table will facilitate the identifica- tion of all of the four species of the genus. Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 359 Neotournieria ambigener n. sp. Eyes scarcely oval, convex. Interocular distance 3.5 times as the greater diameter of an eye, and wider than epifrons between anten- 0.5mm 0.5mm 6 Figs. 1-8. 1. Neotournieria ambigener n. sp., holotype. Habitus. 2. Neotournieria ambi- gener n. sp., male paratype. Habitus in dorsal view. 3. Neotournieria ambigener n. sp., male paratype. Habitus, lateral view. 4-5. Neotournieria ambigener n. sp., holotype. Spermateca (4) and spiculum ventrale (5). 6. Neotournieria ambigener n. sp., male paratype. Uroster- nites. 7-8. Neotournieria ambigener n. sp., male paratype. Aedeagus in lateral (7) and (8) dorsal view. 360 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS nal insertion. Second funicular joint 1.3 times as long as 1, 3-7 hardly longer than wide. Pronotum much convex, transversal, sides strongly rounded, disc with areo- late punctures intermingled with granules. Elytral sides rounded, intervals slightly convex and thinly granulose. Patches of golden scales on elytra. Turkey. Neotournieria lodosianus (Magnano, 1977). Eyes scarcely oval, slightly convex. Interocular distance 2 times the greater diameter of an eye, and wider than epifrons between antennal insertion. Second funicular joint slightly longer than 1, 3-7 trans- verse. Pronotum feebly convex, transversal, sides slightly rounded, disc with areo- late punctures. Elytra subtriangular, intervals convex and somewhat wrinkled. No patches of golden scales on elytra. Western Turkey. Neotournieriawitzgalli (Braun, 1991). Eyes oval, convex. Interocular distance equal to the width of epifrons between antennal insertion. Second funicular almost twice longer than 1, 3-7 longer than wide. Pronotum much convex, much wider than long, disc without areolate punctures. Elytral intervals flat and feebly wrin- kled-granulose. No patches of golden scales on elytra. Turkey. Neotournieriabureschi (Apfelbeck, 1932). Eyes scarcely oval, convex. Inter- ocular distance 3 times the greater diameter of an eye, and as wide as epifrons between antennal insertion. Second funicular joint 11% longer than 1, 3-7 as long as wide. Pronotum feebly convex, transversal, sides slightly rounded, disc with areo- late punctures. Elytral sides rounded, intervals flat and thinly granulose. No patch- es of golden scales on elytra. Bulgaria, Turkey. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank Dr. Sakin Varly for his kind permission to keep all the specimens he col- lected. LITERATURE CITED Apfelbeck, V. 1932. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der bulgarischen Curculioniden. I. Mitteilungen aus den K6niglichen Naturwissenschaftlichen Institut in Sofia. V: 153-161. Braun, W. 1991. Eine neue Art der Gattung Otiorhynchus Germar aus Anatolien (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 101(1): 193-208. Lona, C. 1943. Studi sugli Otiorrhynchus. IV. Le razze balcaniche dell’ Otiorrhynchus winkleri Solari (glabratus Stierl.) e dell’ Otiorrhynchus macedonicus Reitt. Ibridismo tra |’ Ot. arenosus Strl. e lo Ot. heeri Strl. Ot. lavandus Germ. e i suoi affini. L’Otiorrhynchus kopaonicensis Apfelb. e le specie affi- ni. Distribuzione geografica dell’ Ot. cribrirostris Leoni. Revisione degli Otiorrhynchus del gruppo brevicornis Boh. Contributo alla conoscenza dei Curculionidi dell’Asia Minore e zone limitrofe. Otiorrhynchus korabensis n. sp., Otiorrhynchus bonomii, Otiorrhynchus shardaghensis, Otiorrhyn- chus arammichnoides, liebmanni nn. spp. Memorie della Societa entomologica italiana 23: 5-37. Magnano, L. 1977. Due nuove specie di Otiorhynchus della Turchia e osservazioni su alcune altre dei paesi balcanici. (Coleoptera, Curculionidae.) (XVI Contributo alla conoscenza dei Curculionidi.) Fragmenta Entomologica XIII (2): 163-182. Magnano L. 1998. Notes on the Otiorhynchus Germar, 1824 complex. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) (pp. 51-80). Jn: Colonnelli E., Louw S. & Osella G. (Eds.). Taxonomy, ecology and distribution of Curculionoidea (Coleoptera: Polyphaga). Proceeding of a Symposium (28 August, 1996, Florence, Italy). XX International Congress of Entomology. Atti del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali. Torino, Italy. 294 pp. Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 361 REDESCRIPTION OF THE PUPA OF PARYPHOCONUS OLIVEIRAI LANE (DIPTERA: CERATOPOGONIDAE) FROM BRAZIL’ Maria M. Ronderos,’ Gustavo R. Spinelli,’ and Daiane Silveira Carrasco’ ABSTRACT: The pupa of Paryphoconus oliveirai Lane is described from a specimen collected from a sandy bottom of a shallow human disturbed stream near Manaus, Brazil. The pupa of P. oliveirai is compared with previous descriptions of the pupa of this species and with the pupae of its congeners, P. flavidus (Johannsen), and P. mayeri Wirth. KEY WORDS: Paryphoconus oliveirai, predaceous midge, pupa, Diptera, Ceratopogonidae, Manaus, Brazil The predaceous midge genus Paryphoconus Enderlein is exclusively Neotrop- ical, and includes medium-sized to large midges (female wing lengths 1.5-7.0 mm). Presently there are 40 species in this genus (Borkent and Spinelli, 2000), and Spinelli and Wirth (1984) provided a key to females of 38 of these. The pupae of only three species have been previously described: P._ flavidus (Johann- sen) (as P. lanei) and P. mayeri Wirth by Mayer (1959), and P. oliveirai Lane by Wirth and Ratanaworabhan (1972). These prior pupal descriptions are very brief and incomplete, and it is almost impossible from them to determine the most rel- evant structures at even the generic level. During recent field sampling by DSC in the vicinity of Manaus, Brazil, one pupa of P. oliveirai was collected. The purpose of this paper is to redescribe and illustrate the pupa of this species, the first detailed description of a pupa of Paryphoconus sp. METHODS A single live pupa of P. oliveirai was collected from the sandy bottom of a shallow human disturbed stream (Fig. 1). The sandy sediment was collected with an aquatic net (Fig. 2) and transported to the laboratory with water from the nat- ural environment in a 5 liter plastic container. The pupa was lab reared and the adult eventually emerged and its exoskeleton allowed to harden before preserva- tion in 70% ethanol. This adult female and its pupal exuvia was slide-mounted in Canada balsam following the technique of Borkent (2000), and examined and measured with a binocular compound microscope. Illustrations were made with pen and ink using an attached camera lucida. This specimen is deposited in the collection of Invertebrates, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Manaus, Brazil (INPA). Photomicrographs ‘Received on September 13, 2006. Accepted on .May 18, 2007. * Division Entomologia, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina. E-mails (respectively) ronderos@museo.fcnym.unlp.edu.ar; spinelli@museo.fenym.unlp.edu.ar * Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Manaus, Brazil. E-mail: daiane.carrasco@bol.com.br Mailed on November 14, 2007 362 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS of pupa were taken with a Pentax Optio, Power Shot, S60, digital camera through a Leitz, SM-Lux microscope at 10X and 40X, and the images assembled in Photoshop 7.0. For special terminology of ceratopogonid terminology, see Nevill and Dyce (1994). Figs. 1-5: Paryphoconus oliveirai, female pupa. 1, collecting site; 2, collecting with aquatic net; 3, female pupa; 4, prothoracic respiratory horn (PRH) and anterodorsal (ad) and dorsolateral (dl) tubercles; 5, caudal segment, posterolateral processes (PP). Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 363 SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY Paryphoconus oliveirai Lane (Figs. 3-14) Paryphoconus oliveirai Lane, 1956: 303 (female; Brazil); Wirth and Ratana- worabhan, 1972: 1374 (female, male, pupa; Brazil); Spinelli and Wirth, 1984: 902 (in key; Colombia record); Borkent and Spinelli, 2000: 66 (in catalog). Redescription of female pupa. Length 6.00 mm. Exuvia dark brown (Figs. 3, 6). Cephalothorax quadrangular, length 2.07 mm, width 1.56 mm; cephalotho- racic tubercles (Figs.7-9) as follows: anterodorsal tubercle (ad) (Figs. 4, 7-8) with one long, thin seta; dorsolateral tubercle (dl) (Figs. 4, 7-8) with two long, thin, subequal setae; dorsal tubercles (d) (Figs. 7, 9): 1-i11,v with long, thin seta, iv pore, setae of ili,v slightly longer than setae of 1-11; two stout ventromedian setae (vm) (Fig. 11), one longer than other; apparently one very thin ventrolater- al seta (vl) (Fig. 11). Respiratory horn (Figs. 4, 8) 4.57 times longer than broad, length 0.26 mm, surface with reticular cell-like pattern, apex with 18-20 spira- cles; pedicel short, stout, length 0.10 mm; P/H 0.38. Operculum (Fig. 10) as long as broad; anterior margin pointed with single row of marginal rounded tubercles; mesal V-shaped band of spicules extending 0.13 mm under the angle of disc, disc mostly smooth; two anteromarginal tubercles (am) with single long seta and basal sensillum present; posterior margin concave with small, rounded, antero- mesal tubercles; OL 0.1 mm; OW 0.3 mm; OW/OL 3.0. Abdominal segments with abundant spicules. Fourth abdominal segment (Figs. 3, 12-13) with two dor- sal anterosubmarginal tubercles (dasm): 1,11 with long, stout, subequal setae; four dorsal posteromarginal tubercles (dpm): i,11,iv with long, stout, subequal setae, 111 pore; three lateral posteromarginal tubercles (lpm): 1,11 with long stout setae, sharing stout triangular base, iii with long, stout seta; two lateral anterosubmar- ginal tubercles (lasm), i pore, ii with long, stout seta; three ventral posteromar- ginal tubercles (vpm), each with long, stout seta; tubercles with stout, quadran- gular base (except lpm i, ii). Caudal segment (Figs. 5-6, 14) length 0.45 mm, width 0.25 mm, lateral margins concave; ventral surface with abundant posteri- orly directed spinules, also present on posterolateral processes. Posterolateral processes (PP) stout, curved, divergent, with base broad, apical 1/3 pigmented, tips bare, sharply pointed. Distribution. Brazil (Amazonas, Para), Colombia. Material Examined. Brazil, Amazonas, Igarapé, Parque das Gargas (bacia Mind) Trecho Tributario, 03°03'41,2"; 59°58'09,0", 14-X-2005, D. Carrasco- J. Oliveira, 1 female (with pupal exuvia) (in slide in Canada balsam, INPA); Brazil, Amazonas, rio Aripuana, Igarapé das Pedras, 18-I-1962, E .J. Fittkau, 1 female, at light (in Museo de La Plata, Argentina, MLP). 364 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Figs. 6-14. Paryphoconus oliveirai, female pupa. 6, entire pupa; 7, cephalothorax, dorso- lateral view: prothoracic respiratory horn (PRH), pedicel (P), anterodorsal tubercle (ad), dorsolateral tubercle (dl); 8, prothoracic respiratory horn (PRH), anterodorsal tubercle (ad), dorsolateral tubercles (dl); 9 dorsal tubercles (d); 10, operculum, anteromarginal tubercle (am), basal sensillum (bs); 11, ventral setae: ventrolateral setae (vl), ventromedi- an setae (vm); 12, 4th abdominal segment; 13, abdominal tubercles of 4th abdominal seg- ment: lateral anterosubmarginal tubercle (lasm); dorsal posteromarginal tubercle (dpm); dorsal anterosubmarginal tubercle (dasm); ventral posteromarginal tubercle (vpm); later- al posteromarginal tubercle (lpm); 14, caudal segment, posterolateral processes (PP). Scale bars: 0.05 mm Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 365 Remarks. The adult female keys out to P. oliveirai in couplet 26 in the key by Spinelli and Wirth (1984). It was also compared with one female examined by Wirth and Ratanaworabhan (1972) as P. oliveirai, who briefly described the pupa of this species based on material from the same locality and date. However, their pupa differs from the pupa described herein in having 13 spiracles on the respi- ratory horn and in the shape of the caudal segment, has subparallel lateral mar- gins and the posterolateral processes are nearly straight, not divergent. Mayer (1959) described the pupa of P. mayeri, which is much smaller (length 4.3 mm) than our pupa of P. oliveirai. Also, despite the terminology of the cephalothoracic tubercles is different from the one used in this redescription, Mayer mentioned one ad and three dl tubercles (as a spine devoid of seta and 3 setae at the base of the respiratory organ, respectively) and only one vm seta, which are the most important differences with respect to the pupa of P. oliveirai. Mayer (1959) also described the pupa of P. flavidus (as P. lanei), and stated that it is very similar to the one of P. mayeri except for the vm which is represented by a short seta. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We would like to acknowledge Dr. William L. Grogan for his critical review of an earlier version of the manuscript. We are also grateful to Drs. Ruth Leila Menezes Ferreira and Neusa Hamada, directors of the Master Thesis of Daiane Carrasco, for their continuous support during this investi- gation LITERATURE CITED Borkent, A. and G. R. Spinelli. 2000. Catalog of the new World biting midges south of the United States of America (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Contributions on Entomology, International 4: 1- 107. Lane, J. 1956. On “Paryphoconus” and “Stenoxenus’” (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Revista Bra- sileira de Biologia 16: 299-308. Mayer, K. 1959. Die puppen brasilianischer Heleiden (Diptera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeit- schrift 6: 230-233. Nevil, H. and A. L. Dyce. 1994. Afrotropical Culicoides: Description and comparison of the pupae of seven species of the similis supergroup (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research 61: 85-106. Spinelli, G. R. and W. W. Wirth. 1984. A review of the Neotropical predaceous midge genus Parayphoconus (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washing- ton 97: 882-908. Wirth, W. W. and N. C. Ratanaworabhan. 1972. A revision of the tribe Stenoxenini (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 65: 1368-1388. 366 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS A NEW GENUS AND A NEW SPECIES OF ACRIDIDAE (ORTHOPTERA) FROM YUNNAN, CHINA’ Ben-Yong Mao”? and Guo-Dong Ren’ ABSTRACT: A new genus Sinocaryanda gen. nov. is proposed for Sinocaryanda macrocercusa sp. nov. from Yunnan, China. The new genus is an aberrant member of the Oxyinae and resembles Caryanda Stal, 1878, and Nepalocaryanda Ingrisch, 1990. It differs from the latter two by the follow- ing features in male: terminalia dorsally broad; 10th tergite broadly interrupted in midline with widened, rounded, medial margins; cerci reaching to or beyond apex of subgenital plate; epiphallus not divided in middle, and aberrant connecting mode of anchorae with bridge. KEY WORDS: Orthoptera, Acrididae, new genus, new species, China While identifying the grasshoppers collected from the western Yunnan, we found a new species belonging to a new genus, herein named Sinocaryanda gen. nov. Type specimens are deposited in the College of Life Sciences and Chemistry, Dali University (CLDU), Yunnan Province. In this paper, we adopt the classification system of Vickery and Kevan (1983) which seems to be the most appropriate at the present knowledge, and follow the methods used by Ingrisch (1989) and the main terminology utilized by Dirsh (1975). Sinocaryanda, NEW GENUS Diagnoses: Size small. Head conical. Vertex convex with apex roundly angular, fastigum moderately broader than long; face oblique in lateral view; frontal ridge sulcated in whole length; lateral facial carinae straight. Antennae filiform, surpass- ing hind margin of pronotum. Eyes long oval. Pronotum cylindrical, anterior mar- gin broad round, posterior margin with a triangular breach; median carina faint, intersected by three sulci, lateral carinae absent. Prosternal spine long conical. Mesosternal interspace longer than wide. Squamipterous. Tympana distinct. Hind femora with upper carina smooth, terminating in a short spine; lower genicular lobes spinous. Hind tibiae with apical half nearly cylindrical; external apical spine present. Terminalia broad in dorsal view; 10th abdominal tergite broadly interrupt- ed in midline with widened, rounded, medial margins; cerci compressed, triangu- lar, reaching to or beyond apex of subgenital plate. Subgenital plate short conical. Epiphallus very broad with only one pair of large lophi; bridge nearly entire, not divided in middle; anchorae hooked, dorsad projecting in a 90° angle from bridge, connected with bridge by membrane. Oval sclerites elongate. Cingular valves not fused apically, paired. Type species: Sinocaryanda macrocercusa, sp. nov. Remarks: The keys in Willemse (1955) and Li and Xia (2006) run to Caryanda 'Received on May 18, 2006. Accepted on April 17, 2007. ? College of Life Sciences and Chemistry, Dali University, Dali 671000, P. R. China. E-mails: (B-YM) maobenyong@yahoo.com.cn, (G-DR) gdren@mail.hbu.edu.cn (corresponding author). > College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, P. R. China. E-mail: gdren@mail.hbu. edu.cn. Mailed on November 14, 2007 Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 367 Stal, 1878, which is listed under the Oxyinae (Vickery and Kevan, 1983; Otte et al., 2005). However, the new genus has the following striking differences from Car- yanda except general appearance: male terminalia dorsally very broad; 10th tergite broadly interrupted in midline with widened, rounded, medial margins, instead of with small furculae on posterior margin; cerci reaching to or beyond apex of sub- genital plate instead of supra anal plate. Further differences appear on the shape of epiphallus with bridge not divided in middle, large extending lophi, anchorae point- ing dorsad, and mode of anchorae connecting with bridge; on cingular valves which is apically divided instead of fused. The new genus also is closest to Nepalocaryanda Ingrisch, 1990, but differs from the latter by fastigum that is mod- erately broad instead of very broad; ventral genicular lobes of posterior femora are spined; apical half of posterior tibiae is nearly cylindrical; and abdominal sternites have tufts of hairs. The differences are listed in detail in Table 1. The new genus is an aberrant member of the Oxyinae. It does not possess the following very charac- teristic features of the subfamily: the apical expansion of the hind tibiae, the divid- ed bridge of epiphallus, and the fusion of the cingular valves. It agrees with the Oxyinae in general appearance, the apical spine of the ventral genicular lobes of the posterior femora, the tufts of hair on the abdominal sternites. The scientific name derives from its distribution and similarity to Caryanda Stal, 1878. Table 1. Comparisons among Sinocaryanda gen. nov. and its allied genera Caryanda Fastigum moderately broad Ventral genicular lobes of posterior femora spined Posterior tibiae with apical half cylindrical Terminalia dorsally normal; abdominal sternites with tufts of hairs 10th tergite in male narrow with or without small furculae Cerci conical Epiphallus divided, with 1-2 pairs lophi; cingular valves fused apically; anchorae pointing apicad, directly connected with bridge Sinocaryanda, gen. nov. Fastigum moderately broad (Fig. 2) Ventral genicular lobes of posterior femora spined Posterior tibiae with apical half nearly cylindrical Terminalia dorsally broad (Fig. 5); abdominal sternites with tufts of hairs (Fig. 1) 10th abdominal tergite broadly interrupted in midline with widened, rounded, medical margins (Fig. 5) Cerci compressed (Figs. 1, 4-5) Epiphallus not divided, with a pair of lophi; cingular valves divided apically; anchorae hooked, dorsad projecting in a 90° angle from bridge, connected with bridge by a soft membrane (Figs. 6-11) Nepalocaryanda Fastigum very broad Ventral genicular lobes of posterior femora unspined Posterior tibiae expanded apically Terminalia dorsally normal; abdominal sternites without tufts of hairs 10th tergite in male narrow, with small, prominent furculae Cerci compressed Epiphallus divided, with a pair lophi; cingular valves divided apically; anchorae pointing apicad, directly connected with bridge 368 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Sinocaryanda macrocercusa, NEW SPECIES (Figs. 1-11) Type Locality. Mt. Wuliang, Nanjian County, Yunnan Province, China (24° 12'N, 100°48'E), 2000 m, 17Jul. 2003. Description. Male (Figs. 1-11). Body small-sized. Vertex convex with apex roundly angular, fastigum moderately broader, width in front of eyes 2.3—2.4 times larger than length. Frons oblique in lateral view; frontal ridge sulcated in whole length, lateral margins somewhat parallel, slightly broad near the median ocellus. Interocular distance about 1.3 times larger than width of frontal ridge between antennae. Lateral facial keels straight. Antennae filiform, reaching base of hind femur, any middle segment about 2.9-3.1 times longer than wide. Eyes long oval, longitudinal diameter about 1.4 times as long as horizontal one, and about 2.4 times as long as subocular furrow. Pronotum nearly cylindrical, anteri- or margin broad round, posterior margin with a triangular breach; median carina faint, distinctly intersected by three sulci, lateral carinae absent; prozona 2.0 times as long as metazona (Fig. 2). Prosternal spine long conical, apex subacute. Mesosternal interspace about 2.5—2.6 times as long as minimum width; mesosteral lobes 1.2 times wider than long; metasternal lobes contiguous (Fig. 3). Tegmina narrow squamiform, length 2.8—2.9 times as long as maximum width, reaching posterior margin of Ist abdominal tergite (Fig. 1). Hind femur with upper carina smooth, terminating in a short spine; apex of lower knee lobe spinous. Hind tibia with apical half nearly cylindrical, with 7 external and 9 inter- nal spines on dorsal side; external apical spine present. Abdomen with median carinula. Tympana opening nearly rounded. Abdominal sternites with tufts of hairs (Fig. 1). Terminalia broad in dorsal view. Tenth abdominal tergite broadly interrupted in midline with widened, rounded, medial margins. Supra anal plate broadly triangular, 1.6 times wider than long, with a middle longitudinal sulcus along whole length. Cerci laterally compressed, large, triangular; apex pointed, reaching to or beyond apex of subgenital plate. Subgenital plate short conical, apex blunt (Figs. 4-5). Epiphallus very broad with only one pair of lophi pro- jecting in a 90° angle from bridge; lophi large (length about 1.3 mm), stout, tri- angular with apex gently incurved, acute; lateral plates narrow, undulate; anteri- or projections obtuse; bridge cross-shaped, not divided or with only indication of split in middle; anchorae hooked, dorsad projecting in a 90° angle from bridge, connected with bridge by a soft membrane which has many cylindrical promi- nences on the surface. Oval sclerites elongate. Cingulum with apodemes, zygo- ma and rami; apodemes narrow, lamellate; zygoma posteriorly connected with membraneous sheath covering the apical penis valves, laterally connected with rami. Cingular valves not fused apically, paired (Figs. 6-11). Coloration. Generally dark green. Frons and genae yellowish green. Antennae yellow. Eyes grey. Postocular bands black, laterally extending to 5th abdominal tergite. Lateral lobes of pronotum with two yellowish green maculae, ventral margins black. Tegmina black. Meso- and metathorax with episterna and Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 369 epimera yellow. Fore and mid legs with femora yellow, tibiae greenish yellow. Hind femora yellowish green, knee black. Hind tibiae blue.Tenth abdominal ter- gite, cerci black. Lateral areas of supra anal plate and apex of subgential plate black. Figs. 1-11. Sinocaryanda macrocercusa new species: 1. body of male, lateral view; 2. head and pronotum of male, dorsal view; 3. meso- and metasternum of male; 4. ter- minalia of male, lateral view; 5. terminalia of male, dorsal view. 6—8. epiphallus: 6. dor- sal view; 7. anterior view; 8. lateral view. 9-11. phallic complex: 9. ventral view; 10. dorsal view; 11. lateral view. (Abbreviations: an, ancora; ap, apical penis valves; apd, apodeme; br, bridge; cv, valves of cingulum; em, ectophallic membrane; lo, lophus; Ip, lateral plate; zy, zygoma.) Scale bars = 1 mm. 370 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Female. Unknown. Measurements. (mm). Length of body: male 19.0—-19.5; length of pronotum: male 3.6—3.7; length of tegmen: male 3.5—4.0; length of hind femur: male 10.5—10.8. Type Material. Holotype: male, Mt. Wuliang, Nanjian County, Yunnan Pro- vince, China (24°12'N, 100°48'E), 2000 m, 17 Jul. 2003. Collected by Ben-yong Mao. Paratype: 1 male (Sth instar nymph, emerged as adult after a week in the laboratory), other data same as holotype. Etymology. The specific name refers to the size of cercus of male. Biology. The species live in tussock grass under subtropical bushes and broad- leaf trees which grow in the wet and half-shady zone at medium elevation in Yunnan. The food plant of this species has been unknown in field, but in labora- tory, it appears to feed on some grass, such as Arthraxon hispidus (Thunb.) Makino, Oplismenus compositus (Linn.) Beauv. and Echinochloa crusgalli (Linn.) Beauv. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We are grateful to Dr. Zi-Zhong Yang and Mr. Ji-Shan Xu for their assistance in collecting spec- imens, also to Dr. Fu-Min Shi and Dr. Yao Niu for providing us with some copies of related litera- ture. The present study was supported by the Major Item Foundation of Dali University. LITERATURE CITED Dirsh, V. M. 1975. Classification of the Acridomorphoid Insects. E. W. Classey Ltd, Farringdon, Oxon. Oxford, England. 171 pp. Ingrisch, S. 1989. Records, descriptions, and revisionary studies of Acrididae from Thailand and adjacent regions (Orthoptera, Acridoidea). Spixiana 11(3): 205—242. Ingrisch, S. 1990. Grylloptera and Orthoptera s. str. from Nepal and Darjeeling in the Zoologische Staatssammlung Miinchen. Spixiana 13(2): 149-182. Li, H. C. and K. L. Xia. 2006. Fauna Sinica, Insecta. Volume 43. Orthoptera, Acridoidea: Catantopidae. Science Press. Beijing, China. 724 pp. Otte, D., D. C. Eades, and P. Naskrecki. 2005. Orthoptera Species File Online (http://osf2x. orthoptera.org). Vickery, V. R. and D. K. McE Kevan. 1983. A monograph of the orthopteroid insects of Canada and adjacent regions. Memoirs of the Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory 13(2): 681-1462. Willemse, C. 1956. Synopsis of the Acridoidea of the Indo-Malayan and adjacent regions (Insecta, Orthoptera) part 2. Fam. Acrididae, Subfam. Catantopinae, part 1. Publicaties van het Natuur- historisch Genootschap. Maastricht, Limburg, The Netherlands. 225 pp. Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 371 A NEW SPECIES OF PSYLLIODES LATREILLE (COLEOPTERA: CHRYSOMELIDAE) FROM TURKEY ' Ali Gok? and Ebru Giil Aslan’ ABSTRACT: A new species of Psylliodes (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae), P. kasnakensis, is described and illustrated from Isparta, southwest Turkey. The new species, a member of the P. pic- ina Marsham species group, is compared with its congeners. The distinguishing features of the species are specified; habitat and host plant notes are presented. KEY WORDS: Chrysomelidae, Psylliodes kasnakensis, new species, Quercus spp., Fagaceae, Turkey The genus Psylliodes Latreille, one of the cosmopolitan genera of Alticinae, is distributed in all of the zoogeographical regions of the world, comprises nearly 200 species worldwide (Konstantinov and Vandenberg, 1996), and 125 of them are known to occur in the Palearctic region (Baselga and Novoa, 2003). The cur- rent number of the Turkish Psylliodes is estimated to be over 50. Recently, during surveys on the diversity of Chrysomelidae of “Kasnak Oak Forests,” a nature reserve mainly consisting of pure stands of vulcanic oak [(Quercus vulcanica Boiss. & Heldr. ex) Kotschy.], which is endemic to Turkey, a considerable number of specimens belonging to an unknown Psylliodes species were found on Quercus spp. The new species belongs to /uteolus subgroup of Psylliodes picina species group and differs from all other known species in the group by having its dorsum conspicuously bicolored. The main purpose of this work is to describe the new species and to present its habitat and host plants. METHODS Ten specimens including the largest and smallest ones of each sex were exam- ined. Specimens were measured for six characters that have been found impor- tant in comparing closest species in the picina species group. Character abbrevi- ations are as follows: Lb = body length; Le = elytron length; Lp = pronotum length; La = aedeagus length (for males); Ls = spermatheca length (for females); We = maximum width of elytra at middle; Wp = pronotum width. The ratio Le/Lp (relative prothorax size) has been calculated which is also useful for dif- ferentiation. All measurements were made with an ocular micrometer and given in millimeters. ' Submitted on September 14, 2006. Accepted on May 18, 2007. * Suleyman Demirel University, Faculty of Arts and Science, Biology Department, 32260 Isparta, Turkey. E-mails: aligok@fef.sdu.edu.tr (corresponding author) and egul@fef.sdu.edu.tr or egaslam @gmail.com Mailed on November 14, 2007 SIZ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Psylliodes kasnakensis Gok and Aslan, sp. nov. (Figs. 1-2) Type Material. Holotype, Male: Southwest Turkey, Isparta, Kasnak Forest Nature Reserve (37° 44' 53" N, 30° 49' 83" E), 1557 m, leg. A. Gok [printed on red paper]. Paratypes (257 specimens): all same locality as holotype collected at different dates; 14 males, 16 females, 22.06.2006; 21 males, 27 females, 06.07.2006; 25 males, 26 females, 18.07.2006; 31 males, 33 females, 01.08.2006; 18 males, 22 females, 23.08.2006; 9 males, 15 females, 02.09.2006, legs. A. Gok and E. G. Aslan. Holotype and paratypes are deposited in Suleyman Demirel University (SDU), Biology Department, Isparta, Turkey. Etymology: The species epithet, kasnakensis, derived from “kasnak” means “riddle-frame oak” in Turkish and refers to the locality “Kasnak Oak Forest” in Isparta, southwest Turkey where the specimens were collected. Diagnosis: The new species appears different from all other known taxa of the Psylliodes picina species group and can be easily recognized by the follow- ing combination of the characters: head and pronotum orange or reddish, elytra black (having bicolored upperside makes P. kasnakensis unique in the group); in males first tarsal segment of fore and middle legs obviously widened and extend- ed; humeral calli quite evident, impunctate; elytra with regular rows of punctures effaced towards apex; aedeagus almost parallel sided, ventral groove deep and long, ligula distinct in dorsal view; receptacle of spermatheca long, pump dis- tinctly divided from receptacle, ductus reaches to half of the receptacle, has a thin and long extension at apex. Description: Measurements. Males: Lb = 2.02-2.60 (Mean: 2.37, SD: 0.19); Le = 1.43-1.95 (Mean: 1.70, SD: 0.18); We = 1.04-1.36 (Mean: 1.20, SD: 0.11); Lp = 0.48-0.58 (Mean: 0.53, SD: 0.03); Wp = 0.75-0.97 (Mean: 0.85, SD: 0.06); La = 0.88-1.04 (Mean: 0.97, SD: 0.05); Le/Lp = 2.93-3.33 (Mean: 3.16, SD: 0.15). Females: Lb = 1.98-2.60 (Mean: 2.33, SD: 0.22); Le = 1.40-1.95 (Mean: 1.68, SD: 0.21); We = 0.97-1.33 (Mean: 1.15, SD: 0.12); Lp = 0.45-0.58 (Mean: 0.52, SD: 0.05); Wp = 0.68-0.97 (Mean: 0.82, SD: 0.11); Ls = 0.29-0.32 (Mean: 0.31, SD: 0.01); Le/Lp = 3.07-3.33 (Mean: 3.24, SD: 0.09). Holotype, Male: Lb = 2.34; Le = 1.69; We = 1.20; Lp = 0.52; Wp = 0.88; La = 1.04. Habitus (Fig. 1): Body convex-elongated, about twice longer than broad. Dorsum bicolored; head and pronotum orange or reddish, elytra black or black- ish brown. Antennae and legs except metafemora completely yellow. Labrum and apical parts of mandibula brown, maxillary palpi and other mouth append- ages yellowish. Head: seen from above in dorsal view; vertex with few minute punctures; frontal punctures denser and more distinct than those on vertex; background tex- ture smooth; antennal calli evident, moderately raised; frontal ridge wide and flattened, impunctate; antennal sockets and labrum with sparse long hairs; first antennal segment 2.0 times longer than second, fourth 1.2 times longer than third, fifth as long as third. Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 S/S Pronotum: about 1.5 times broader than long; with two small longitudinal impressions basally; basal border narrower than that of elytra; lateroposterior margins clearly visible from above; surface finely and densely punctate; back- ground texture almost smooth. Fig. 1. Psylliodes kasnakensis, habitus Elytra: about 1.4 times longer than broad, widest at middle; slightly tapering posteriorly; humeral calli well developed, without punctures; elytral punctures larger than those on pronotal disc, arranged in longitudinal rows; rows almost effaced towards apex, interrows very slightly convex and minutely punctate. Venter: abdominal sternites relatively convex; covered with sparse white hairs; in males apical part of the last abdominal sternite depressed. Legs: completely yellow except blackish metafemora; first tarsal segments of the fore and middle legs remarkably widened in males, normal in females. Aedeagus (Fig. 2A-C): in ventral view almost parallel sided, rounded apical- ly, with an indistinct apical tip; ventral groove deep and long, reaches to basal opening; in lateral view apex feebly deflexed ventrally; ligula distinct in the api- cal third in dorsal view basally wide narrowed to the apex. Spermatheca (Fig. 2D): receptacle fairly long, well delimited from pump; pump moderately long, slightly curved ventrally; ductus simple, attached to lat- eral side of receptacle with a long, indistinct line shaped extension outgoing from its apex. Sexual Dimorphism: The most obvious distinction between males and fe- males occurs in tarsal segments. In males first tarsal segments of fore and mid- dle legs are conspicuously wider than the following two segments; the first one is as long as the second and third combined. All tarsal segments are, however, normally sized in females. The other distinguishing feature is the small depres- sion on the last abdominal sternite of males. Both sexes are virtually similar except for the characters mentioned above. Variation: Some specimens, especially the most poorly developed ones, have pale color variations. In these specimens pronotum, elytra and abdominal seg- ments are somewhat paler than that of original colors described. Aedeagus and 374 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS spermatheca forms of these specimens are likewise little sclerized. Color of the humeral calli is also variable among different individuals. There are individuals presenting dark brownish or reddish humeral calli although most of the speci- mens have completely black elytra. Fig. 2. Psylliodes kasnakensis, genitalia. (A) aedeagus ventral view; (B) aedeagus dorsal view; (C) aedeagus lateral view; (D) spermatheca (scale, 0.5 mm). Habitat and Host Plants: The type specimens were collected from xeric mountain slopes in Kasnak Forest Nature Reserve (Isparta) at an altitude of 1557 m a.s.l. from June to September 2006. Kasnak Forest, covering an area of 1300 ha, presents dense forests composed of mixed conifer, including Pinus nigra, P. brutia, Cedrus libani, Abies cilicica (Pinaceae), Juniperus oxycedrus, J. excel- sa, J. foettidissima (Cupressaceae), and deciduous species, Quercus vulcanica, Q. cerris, Q. libani, Q. infectoria, Q. coccifera, Q. frainetto (Fagaceae), Acer platanoides, A. hyrcanum (Aceraceae), Populus tremula (Salicaceae), Celtis ori- entalis (Legumonosae), Pistacia terebinthus (Anacardiaceae), Cornus mas (Cornaceae), Ulmus glabra (Ulmaceae), and Phillyrea latifolia, Fraxinus oxy- carpa, F; ornus (Oleaceae). Having such a rich flora, accompanied with impor- tant populations of Quercus vulcanica (endemic vulcanic oak), makes the Kas- nak Forest a natural arboretum in addition to its esthetic beauty. Hence, the area was declared as nature reserve in 1987. Specimens of P. kasnakensis feeding marks consist of minute holes that tra- verse the blades. They feed primarily on shrub forms of Q. cerris and Q. vul- canica (about 1.5-2.5 m high), rarely on Q. libani. They prefer the young leaves of the host plants and, together with P. anatolicus Gok & Cilbiroglu, they feed in large numbers, particularly on Q. cerris. Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 SHS Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae), Solanaceae, and Graminae (or Poaceae) are the preferred host plant families of species of Psylliodes species (Biondi, 1994; Furth, 1983; Mohr, 1966). However, we observed significant series of P. kasna- kensis feeding simultaneously on the Quercus species mentioned above. Similar host records were also reported by Furth (1979) for some alticines especially in the summer and fall months. Anyway, it is difficult to say whether Quercus species are the actual host plants of the new species or not. DISCUSSION Psylliodes kasnakensis is a member of the picina species group because of its general aedeagal shape, shortened orbital lines and very particular shape of hind tibia emphasized by Leonardi (1970, 1978). Having two small longitudinal im- pressions at the base of the pronotum incorporates the new species into the Psylliodes luteolus subgroup (Leonardi, 1970). Among the taxa in the luteolus subgroup it resembles P. algiricus Allard, P wachsmanni Csiki, and P. luteolus (Miller), but is unique because of its conspicuous body coloration as well as the strongly widened first tarsal segments of fore and middle legs in males. The new species can be easily distinguished from the aforementioned species by its bicolored dorsum (head and pronotum orange or reddish, elytra black) which is entirely yellow reddish in P. algiricus, reddish brown in P- wachsman- ni, and rusty red in P. Iuteolus (Leonardi, 1972; Warchalowski, 2003). Further- more, it can be seperated from P. algiricus by having distinct and dense frontal punctures (almost lacking punctures in P. algiricus), parallel sided aedeagus with a rounded apex (distinctly narrowed in the apical third in P. algiricus), and the parallel sided receptacle of spermatheca which is strongly narrowed at base in P. algiricus. Spermatheca shape of P. kasnakensis is more similar to that of P. wachsmanni, but it differs from the latter species by the comparatively small- er body length, puncturation of elytra (larger sized in P. wachsmanni), and more importantly the symmetric form of aedeagus. (According to Leonardi (1972) P. wachsmanni has a recognizable aedeagic asymmetry.) From P. luteolus, sper- matheca form can seperate it (ductus longer in /uteolus), as well as the lighter colour of apical antennal segments and form of the aedeagus. Psylliodes kasnakensis can be incorporated into the key to the taxa of Psylliodes picina complex given by Leonardi and Gruev (1993) by modifying couplet 1 as follows: 1. Dorsum usually yellow-reddish or bicoloured, rarely brown. Frons fairly well punctured, or else hind tibiae comparatively elongate (see Leonardi, 1972: 143, fig. 11) and supraorbital grooves close to inner border of eyes, almost at right angle to supratubercular lines (see Leonardi, 1972: 141, fig. 6): complex GES CONUS: SUD STOW occ cork casas cectessnsueetevonsd sousxcaisinna bss eat aesiauess cones teueeeens la — Dorsum usually red-brown, pitchy brown or blackish, often with more or less evident metallic lustre. Frons usually unpunctured or covered with very fine to almost unperceivable punctures which are often more densely distributed 376 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS and less obscure just behind frontal tubercles. Supraorbital grooves more dis- tant from inner border of eyes, at a largely obtuse angle to supratubercular lines (see Leonardi, 1972: 141, fig. 5). Hind tibia stout and greatly curved: complex‘of (Psy pieinusi(Marshs) xs.) 20s.20. 0 eeeenel Bee Bee 2 la. Dorsum bicoloured; head and pronotum orange or reddish, elytra black or blaekiSh Dro yittterperes retest Bechet esto tevte- teoréeeeac ee eeceaseereenton te P. kasnakensis — Dorsum unicoloured, usually yellow reddish, rarely brown...............:::.:cceee other species of the P. luteolus subgroup [P. luteolus (Mull.), P wachsmanni Csiki, P. leonhardi Heiktgr., P. pallidicolor Pic, nigripennis All., P. algiricus All., PR. puncticollis Rosh]. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We thank The Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) for the finan- cial support to perform the present study by the project No. TOVAG 1050181. 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Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 133: 13-32. Mohr, K. H. 1966. Chrysomelidae. pp. 95-299. Jn, Freude, H., K. Harde, and G. A. Lohse (Editors). Die Kafer Mitteleuropas. Krefeld, Germany. 299 pp. Warchalowski, A. 2003. Chrysomelidae: The leaf beetles of Europe and the Mediterranean area. Natura optima dux Foundation. Warszawa, Poland. 600 pp. Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 BM: A NEW SPECIES OF PHTHEIROPOIOS EICHLER, 1940 (PHTHIRAPTERA: AMBLYCERA: GYROPIDAE) FROM ARGENTINA, WITH A KEY TO THE MALES COLLECTED FROM CTENOMYS (MAMMALIA: RODENTIA) FROM SOUTH AMERICA' Dolores del C. Castro,’ Armando Cicchino,’ Marta Arce de Hamity,* and Félix Ortiz‘ ABSTRACT: The species Phtheiropoios susquensis sp. nov. is described and illustrated from spec- imens of Ctenomys sp. collected from Laguna Mucar, Susques District, Jujuy Province, Argentina. Diagnostic features for the new species include a proportion of male forficula, male external geni- talia, and counts of setae, body measurements in both sexes and external architecture of the egg. Its morphological affinities with allied species are briefly commented. A key to males of all species of the genus Phtheiropoios known to parasitize rodents of the genus Ctenomys, is included. KEY WORDS: Phtheiropoios, Phthiraptera, descriptions, Ctenomys, Jujuy Province, Argentina, new species To date, the genus Phtheiropoios Eichler includes 13 species, all parasitic on mammalian rodents of the genus Ctenomys Blainville (Rodentia: Octodontidae: Ctenomyinae). Other two species customarily included in this genus (e.g. Price et al., 2003) parasitize species of Chinchilla Bennet (Rodentia: Chinchillidae) (Cicchino and Castro 1998a, Castro and Cichino 2001). A detailed study by the authors now in progress based on adult and egg morphology of these two species led us to conclude that they fit well in the genus Gyropus Nitzsch, 1818 and not in Phtheiropoios. The only species known from Jujuy Province is P. nematophal- lus (Werneck 1935) from C. opimus luteolus Thomas, 1900 (Cicchino et al., 2000). It was our aim to describe a new species from Ctenomys sp. collected from western locality in this province near the border with Chile. Also brief com- ments on the morphological affinities with P. nematophallus, its closest morpho- logical relative, are also provided. METHODS Specimens were collected from freshly trapped hosts, stained and mounted on slides following the procedure described by Cicchino and Castro (1998a). Type series and most of the specimens are housed in the collections of the Museo de La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. ‘Received on October 31, 2006. Accepted on April 17, 2007. *Facultad Ciencias Naturales y Museo, 64 N° 3, 1900, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-Mail: castrodreon@Lpsat.com *Facultad Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Dean Funes 3250, 7600 Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mail: cicchino@copetel.com.ar ‘Instituto de Biologia de la Altura, Av. Bolivia 1661, 4600 San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina. E-mails: (MAH) mghamity@inbial.unju.edu.ar, (FO) fortiz@inbial.unju.edu.ar Mailed on November 14, 2007 378 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Body measurements are in millimeters; they include maximum head length and width, maximum abdominal width and total length of the body. Terminology, including counts and notation of abdominal setae, follows that of Cicchino and Castro (1998a). Eggs taken from freshly trapped individuals of Ctenomys were stored in vials with ethanol 70°. Procedures for scanning electron microscopic study included hydration with decreasing ethanol, cleaned in physiological solution by means of an ultrasonic vibrator, rinsed in distilled water, fixed in 70% ethanol solution, dehydrated with increasing ethanol solution, mounted in stubs, coated with goldpalladium, then observed and photographed at different magnifications in a Jeol/RO 1.1 scanning electron microscope at the Electronic Microscopy Service of Museo de La Plata, Buenos Aires Province. Nomenclature of chorionic structures follows those used by Cicchino and Castro (1994, 1998b). Measurements are expressed in microm- eters (um). SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY Phtheiropoios susquensis sp. nov. (Figs. 1-9) Male Holotype (Fig. 1). Body shape elongated, reminiscent of P nemato- phallus. Measurements. Head length 0.313-0.326; head width 0.333-0.347; max- imum width of abdomen 0.687-0.708; total body length 1.926-2.069. Forficulae with “toe” not projected beyond level of second tarsomere (Fig. 2). Abdominal chaetotaxy. Tergal setae: I (3-6) 8-11; II (8-9) 14; III (9-13) 15-18; [TV (9-10) 16- 20; V (10- 14) 17; VI (10-15) 15-17; VII (10-12) 10-11; VIII (6-7) 2; sternal setae: I (2) 4-6; II (13-17) 14-17; HI (14-18) 15-17; IV (15-16) 16-17; V (13-15) 12-15; VI (11-15) 14-16; VII (8-13) 11-14; VIII (6-7) 2. External genitalia. Basal plate and general structure similar to P nematophallus, differing in shape and thickeness of the genital sclerite, shape and proportions of the basal plate, and pseudopenis (Figs. 3-4). Female: Similar to male, except for larger size and counts of abdominal setae. Measurements. Head length 0.326; head width 0.374-0.391; maximum width of the abdomen 0.694-0.803; total body length 2.096-2.273. Chaetotaxy. Tergal setae: I (6-8) 11; If (12-16) 14-15; HII (16-19) 16-19; IV (20-24) 18-19; V (20- 24) 20-21; VI (21-23) 17-18; VI (16-19) 10-11; VIII 5-8; sternal setae: I (2-3) 4-6; II (19-21) 18; HI(19-24) 17-18; TV (22) 17-18; V(21-22) 16-17; VI (16-20) 16; VII (12-17) 13-15. External genitalia: vulvar margin not differing signifi- cantly from that of P. mendocinus (see Cicchino and Castro 1998). Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 379 Figures 1-3 Phtheiropopios susquensis sp. nov. 1. Male, dorsal-ventral view (scale = 500 pm); 2. Idem, left forficula (scale = 50 um); 3. Idem, external gen- italia (scale =50 um). Figure 4. P nematophallus (Werneck 1935), external gen- italia (same scale as Fig. 3). 380 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ha Ay Mea fae ) iN Figures 5-9 Phtheiropoios susquensis sp. nov., egg, SEM pictures: 5. whole egg, 6. later- al aspect of the amphora, 7. detail of the mesh of the amphora, 8. operculum in semipolar view, 9. lateral view. Scales: Figs 5-6 = 100 um; Fig. 7 = 25 um; Figs. 8-9 = 50 um. External architecture of the egg: Silhouette largely elliptical (Fig. 5), with a prominent eccentric and deciduous phanerum (Fig. 5). Operculum: capitate (see Cicchino and Castro, 1994) strongly convex, with surface smooth (Figs. 8, 9), with 17-21 air chambers (Fig. 8). Opercular callus uniformly thickened, neither raised nor reflexed upwards (Figs. 8, 9). Callus of the amphora scarcely elevat- ed (Figs. 8, 9). Amphora: surface ornamented with an irregular mesh composed of unequal semielliptical areolae (diameter ranging from 2.3 to 13.6 um), becom- ing smaller toward the surface faced with the hair and the posterior end of the Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 381 egg (Fig. 6). Measurements: diameter of the operculum 115-123 um, opercular height 75.7-81.2 um, diameter of the amphora 281-360 um, length of the ampho- ra 544-588 um, Length of the opercular phanerum 98-105 um, total length of the egg 611-659 um. Specimens Examined: Holotype male, 5 males and 5 females Paratypes. Laguna Mucar, Susques District, Jujuy Province, Argentina, 3700 meters above sea level, 17-[X-2000, Yanina Arzamendia. Holotype and most of the paratypes at the Museum of La Plata. Etymology: The epithet susquensis refers to the geographical district where the type series was collected, located at the SW Jujuy Province in Argentina. Diagnosis: This species is close to P. nematophallus (Werneck, 1935), differ- ing greatly in shape and structure of the genital sclerite of males; both sexes show a large number of setae in the abdomen, body silhouette and measurements. Host: Ctenomys sp from Laguna Mucar (23°28’ S; 67°8’ W, 3700 meters above sea level), Susques Department, Jujuy Province, Argentina. Within the geographic area, two species and subspecies of Ctenomys are cited: C. frater Thomas, 1902 from the yunga and andean highlands of Jujuy and Salta Pro- vinces, and C. opimus luteolus Thomas, 1900 from the punean highlands of the Andes of Catamarca, Salta and Jujuy provinces (Bidau, 2006). Identity of the specimens from which lice were collected is still uncertain, and it is now under study in the Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Argentina. Remarks: Strong morphological similarities to P nematophallus (Werneck, 1935), P. ewingi (Werneck, 1936) and P. susquensis sp. nov. seem to be consis- tent with the currently accepted evolutionary theory of the different lineages of Ctenomys (Contreras and Bidau, 1999). Hosts of the three species belong to derivatives of the main stem of this genus, originated in the highlands of Bolivia and adjacent parts of Argentina (Reig et al.,1990); some of them are associated with the above cited lice species (Contreras et al., 1999). Key to males of the genus Phtheiropoios known to parasitize species of the genus Ctenomys 1. Pseudopenis deeply V-shaped, noticeably widened, thickened, and produced backwards in middle. Apical portion of basal plate slightly widened. No traces of sclerite in genital sac ................eee. P. tucumanus Cicchino, 1986 1' Pseudopenis otherwise, slightly widened, and produced backward in middle and sometimes also at sides. Apical portion of basal plate noticeably widened. Sclerite present, or at least discernable at the differentiation of the apex of the genital sac and consistently associated with the latter .............. 2 2. Genital sclerite present as unpigmented or slightly pigmented differentiation OPapex of SenttalSaG sa BY hPL, gs A, 4, a 3 2' Genital sclerite always well differentiated and pigmented ........................ 10 382 5' 6' 9 Q' 10. 10' [at ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Genital sclerite tube-like and partially contorted, unpigmented. Lateral edges of pseudopenis produced caudally .... P- centralis Castro and Cicchino, 2001 Genital sclerite otherwise, always slightly pigmented. Lateral edges of pseudopenis caudally produced or not ...2.:..:......:.cccvasce-- us acaaeee eee eee 4 Genital sclerite not V-or U-shaped ..2...0..2:.00cc.02.-b-2cccheensdee veces coertee ss eee 5 Genital selerite V-shaped or U-shaped. Pseudopenis always slightly thick- ened and:caudally produced im middle..........2..2.sce-c:-s207- teeeeeca-cetee eee eee 6 Genital sclerite pear-shaped, caudally round. Pseudopenis greatly thickened and produced medially................. P. rionegrensis Cicchino and Castro, 1994 Genital sclerite rounded, caudally produced and forming a double series of small sclerites. Pseudopenis slender and caudally produced in the middle SNS Gc con Sotto ee Getic a ee P. inaequalis Castro and Cicchino, 2007 Genital ’Sclentte V-shaped. ...2.5.~..2.5.25.0.csdetanessantecetonrreeh- eee teee ee 7 Genital sclembe W=Shaped tos. cc..cns.-ss.eccceesoonceonsessteetarteedee ceeteneceeee see 9 “Thumb” of forficula short, not reaching level of second tarsomere. Body sil- houette slender: maximum width of abdomen 0.52-0.58 mm ...............::008 ee ek Meee OPM Se cnniitas, aaacens P. mendocinus Cicchino and Castro, 1998 “Thumb” of forficula long, exceeding level of apex of second tarsomere. Odyr SulhOUelie SLOUE ea as. 52) bese one wonteseavadscnene denbshouesenahecceeeeee ee tee 8 Maximum width of abdomen 0.63-0.67 .........cccc-cccese+-eonecosessccnsede deseo CRU NN Cut atta, od ey P. cordobensis Castro and Cicchino, 2002 Maximum width of abdomen 0.73-0.78 mam .................2...c0ecceeecoosscnnecersecenees Tibia almost as wide as pro-femur. Meta-femur almost as wide as meso- femur. Thumb of forficula greatly enlarged and its apical third somewhat UIE, AMMA LS foes ah; Saar vole cas cashotenca Staencuu don P. latipollicaris (Ewing, 1924) Tibia 1 more slender than pro-femur. Meta-femur noticeably more slender than the meso-femur. Thumb of forficula not enlarged or curved inwards ee ae eS ee ee Oe ee Se ee P. gracilipes (Ewing, 1924) Genital sclerite short and stout, composed of two subtriangular and superim- posed pieces. Pseudopenis very narrow................ P. wetmorei (Ewing, 1924) Genital sclerite elongated, composed of single piece ...............ccceeeeeeeeeeeees 11 Genital sclerite short (length 68-75 um), bacilliform .............ceeeeeeeeeeeeeees rsh Sa) B88 Sse bach ASR ee en eMbedhre Ties toot ayy eet Peete Mabe ed P. pollicaris (Ewing, 1924) Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 383 11' Genital sclerite very long (over 200 um), with its basal end widened....... 2 12. Genital sclerite deflexed, spoonlikev................... P. ewingi (Werneck, 1936) 1 Genital Selenite almna@StiStr al oo. oc coc encsesc toes oe sdccccescsseesvveastuuaeedstwosootugergesees 13 132 Maximum width of the Genital sclerife 6.8-8 [i ..........:..:.ss0cbiets deaseeenecs ann prscrat, cans be sei ot cnntee temanes Jipeintietore tia thee tnans P. nematophallus (Werneck, 1935) 13' Maximum width of the genital sclerite 14-16 um........ P. susquensis sp. nov. ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors thank Dr. Lilia E. Neder (Instituto de Biologia de la Altura, Jujuy province, Argentina) for reading the manuscript. LITERATURE CITED Bidau, C. J. 2006. Superfamilia Octodontoidea Waterhouse, 1839. Familia Ctenomyidae Lesson, 1842. pp. 212-231. In, R. M. Barquez, M. M. Diaz and R. A. Ojeda (Editors). Mamiferos de Argentina, Sistematica y distribucidn. Sociedad Argentina para el Estudio de los Mamiferos (SAREM), Tucuman, Argentina. 359 pp. Castro, D del C. and A. C. Cicchino. 2001. A new species of the genus Phtheiropoios Eichler, 1939 (Phthiraptera, Gyropidae), parasitic on a Ctenomys (Mammalia, Octodontidae) from central Cordoba, Argentina. The Canadian Entomologist 133 (1):87 - 92. Castro, D del C. and A. C. Cicchino. 2007 (in press). Two remarkable species of Phtheiropoios Eichler (Phthiraptera: Gyropidae) from Tucuman province, Argentina. The Canadian Entomo- logist 139:472 - 477. Cicchino, A. C. and D. del C. Castro. 1994. On Gyropus parvus parvus (Ewing, 1924) and Phtheiropoios rionegrensis sp. nov. (Phthiraptera, Amblycera, Gyropidae), parasitic on Ctenomys haighi Thomas, 1919 (Mammalia, Rodentia, Ctenomyidae) Iheringia, Serie Zoologia (77):3 - 14. Cicchino, A. C. and D. del C. Castro. 1998. Phtheiropoios mendocinus sp. nov. y estado del conocimiento de las demas especies del genero Phtheiropoios Eichler, 1940 (Phthiraptera: Gyropidae) en la provincia de Mendoza, Argentina. Gayana Zoologia 62:183 - 190. Cicchino, A. C. and D. del C. Castro. 1998b. Identificacion de las especies de Gyropidae (Phthiraptera, Amblycera) parasitas de Ctenomyidae (Rodentia) de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina, en base a la morfologia coridnica de los huevos. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 41 (2-4):199 - 202. Cicchino, A. C., D. del C. Castro, and J. J. Baldo. 2000. Elenco de los Phthiraptera (Insecta) hal- lados en distintas poblaciones locales de Ctenomys (Rodentia: Octodontidae) de la Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia y Brasil. Papeis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia de Sao Paulo 41(13):197 - 211. Contreras, J. R. and C. J. Bidau. 1999. Lineas generales del panorama evolutivo de los roedores excavadores sudamericanos del género Ctenomys (Mammalia, Rodentia, Caviomorpha: Ctenomyidae). Fundacién Bartolomé Hidalgo, Ciencia Siglo XXI, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1:1 - 2 384 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Contreras, J. R., D. del C. Castro, and A. C. Cicchino. 1999. Relaciones de los Phthiraptera (Insecta, Amblycera, Gyropidae) con la distribucién taxonédmica del género Ctenomys (Mammalia, Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) Fundacion Bartolomé Hidalgo, Ciencia Siglo XXI, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2:1 - 32. Price, R. D., R. A. Hellenthal, R. L. Palma, K. P. Johnson, and D. H. Clayton. 2003. The chew- ing lice: world checklist and biological overview. Illinois Natural History Survey Special Publi- cation 24. 501 pp. Reig, O. A., C. Busch, C. O. Ortells, and J. Contreras. 1990. An overview of evolution, system- atics, population biology, cytogenetics, molecular biology and speciation in Ctenomys. In, E. Nevo, and O. Reig (Editors) Evolution of subterranean mammals at the organismal and molec- ular levels. Progress in Clinical and Biological Research 335:71 - 96. Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 385 TWO NEW GENERA AND SIX NEW SPECIES OF LEAFHOPPERS (HEMIPTERA: CICADELLIDAE: CICADELLINAE) FROM HISPANIOLA ' Paul H. Freytag’ ABSTRACT: Two new genera and six new species related to the genus Hadria are described from Hispaniola. Parahadria new genus, includes but the type species P. octolineata n. sp. Neohadria new genus, includes five new species, N. maculata, type species, N. amaurota, N. delecta, N. diversa, and N. grisea. Parahadria octolineata is found commonly throughout the island, while all Neohadria species are found only in the higher elevations of the central and western part of the island. KEY WORDS: Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Cicadellinae, Parahadria, Neohadria, Hadria, Dominican Republic, Hispaniola Two new genera closely related to the genus Hadria Metcalf and Bruner (1936) are described from Hispaniola. Both genera include species which look much like the species found in Hadria, but differ in the number of anteapical cells in the forewing and some differences in the male and female genitalia. Young (1977) included sixteen species in the genus Hadria from Cuba and Hispaniola. Dlabola and Novoa (1976a, 1976b) added two species to the genus Arezzia Metcalf and Bruner (1936) and two species to the genus Hadria. Young (1977) considered Arezzia and Lucumius Metcalf and Bruner (1936) synonyms of Hadria, as all species have two anteapical cells in the forewing. In this paper I accept Young’s concept of the genus, so there are about 20 species in the genus Hadria. The new genera being described have but one anteapical cell or none, and are only found on Hispaniola. This difference is usually easily seen, so the two new genera are quickly separated from Hadria. The acronyms used for the repositories alluded to in this paper are, as follows: CMNH- Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; USNM— National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.; FSCA—Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville; UKYL—University of Kentucky Col- lection, Lexington; MHND—Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santo Domin- go, Dominican Republic. Key to the species of the Hadria complex 1. Forewings with two anteapical cells, either normal sized (Young, 1977, Fig. 790p) or very small (Young, 1977, Fig. 782p), male paraphysis absent, or with ONE OM IVO PEOCESSES Ye vacate cco cos ete na bee cat ean Hadria Metcalf and Bruner 1'. Forewings with one anteapical cell (Fig. 4) or none (Fig. 2) .................. Z ‘Received on August 7, 2006. Accepted on May 17, 2007. * Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40546 U.S.A. E-mail: freytag2 104@vwindstream.net Mailed on November 14, 2007 386 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 2. Forewings with one anteapical cell (Fig. 4), male paraphysis reduced to small sclefite. (Figs DEA Ao AAS Eee Neohadria Freytag n. g. 2'. Forewings with no anteapical cell (Fig. 2), male paraphysis with long thin base and long single process (Fig. 9)...........::c:sccee Parahadria Freytag n. g. Parahadria Freytag NEW GENUS Body: Length 5.9-7 mm. Head moderately produced, ocelli slightly closer to eye than median line. Thorax with pronotal width less than transocular width of head, lateral margins rounded. Forewing with membrane extending over all api- cal cells, except basal portion of third and outer apical cell, second and third api- cal cells nearly equal in length, wider at wing margin, with no anteapical cell. Hindleg with femoral setal formula 2:1:1. Male genitalia: Pygofer moderately produced, apex rounded, macrosetae few located on posterior half. Subgenital plates extending two-thirds length of pygofer, with uniseriate mirosetae. Style small, extending about half length of connective, pointed at apex. Connective T-shaped, long. Aedeagus with shaft short, without processes. Paraphysis present, asymmetrical with a single, long apical process. Female seventh sternum large, rounded at posterior margin, with median slightly produced, bifurcate. Type species: Parahadria octolineata Freytag, n. sp. Remarks: This genus is close to the genus Hadria, but differs from that genus by having no anteapical cell in the forewing, and the male paraphysis has a longer, thinner base than found in any of the Hadria species. Parahadria octolineata Freytag NEW SPECIES (Figures 1-2 and 7-11) Description: Length of male 5.9-6.1 mm, female 6.5-7 mm. Similar to Hadria maldonadoi but slightly larger and with a lighter yellow green color. Head yel- low with dark brown markings (Fig. 1), with face mostly yellow with median dark brown spot. Pronotum with anterior, yellow, with posterior two-thirds green, marked with eight longitudinal thin lines of black dots (Fig. 1). Scutellum yellow, with brown markings (Fig. 1). Forewings mostly green, with yellow costal area, viens brown; apical cells membranous, except for whitish patch across base of third and forth cells (Fig. 2). Legs yellow. Abdomen yellow ven- trally, dark brown dorsally. Male genitalia: Pygofer rounded at apex (Fig. 7). Subgenital plates with wide base narrowing to thin, rounded apex (Fig. 8), about half length of pygofer. Aedeagus (Fig. 9) short, finger-like, curving ventrally. Connective T-shaped, with long shaft. Paraphysis (Fig. 9) with long narrow base, with single long wide process narrowing near apex which is pointed. Style (Fig. 10) small, narrowing from base to sharply pointed apex. Female seventh sternum (Fig. 11) long, rounded to slightly prolonged median bifurcate apex. Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 387 \ aie ae ee las mee OCTOLINEATA OCTOLINEATA ye te : 3 : 4 mm MACULATA Figures 1-2. Parahadria octolineata n. sp. Fig. 1. Dorsal view of head, prono- tum and scutellum. Fig. 2. Forewing, apical half. Figures 3-4. Neohadria mac- ulata n. sp. Fig. 3. Dorsal view of head, pronotum and scutellum. Fig. 4. Forewing, apical half. Figure 5. Neohadria diversa n. sp., dorsal view of head, pronotum and scutellum. Figure 6. Neohadria amaurota n. sp., dorsal view of head, pronotum and scutellum. All drawn to the same scale. 388 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 8 OCTOLINEATA [mm 10 9 ’ | 2 | 13 I4 MACULATA Figures 7-14. Figures 7-11. Parahadria octolineata n. sp. Fig. 7. Male genital capsule, lateral view, setae not shown. Fig. 8. Male valve and subgenital plates, ventral view, setae not shown. Fig. 9. Male aedeagus, paraphysis and apex of connective, lateral view. Fig. 10. Male style, lateroventral view. Fig. 11. Female seventh sternum, ventral view. Figures 12-14. Neohadria maculata n. sp. Fig. 12. Male genital capsule, lateral view, setae not shown. Fig. 13. Male styles, con- nective and paraphysis, ventral view. Fig. 14. Male valve and subgenital plates, ventral view, setae not shown. All drawn to the same scale. Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 389 Type Data: Holotype male: Dominican Republic: Duarte, Reserva Loma Quita Espuela, canelo, 13.1 km NNE San Francisco de Macoris, 19-24-44 N 70- 09-47 W, 512 m., 6-IV-2004, C. Young, R. Davidson and J. Rawlins, burned patch in broadleaf forest, uv light, sample 11313 (CMNH). Paratypes: Three males, three females, same data as holotype; 1 male, 2 females, same data as holotype, except 13.2 km, 19-24-46 N 70-09-52 W, 515 m., edge of wet broadleaf forest; and 5 males, 2 females, same data as holotype, except 13.2 km, 19-24-47 N 70-09-54 W, 523 m., disturbed field near wet forest fragment. Nine male, seven female paratypes (CMNH); two male, two female paratypes (FSCA); and two male, two female paratypes (UK YL). Additional Specimens: Over 600 specimens have been seen from nearly all parts of the Dominican Republic. Over 200 specimens (CMNH), 150 specimens (MHND); 150 specimens (FSCA); 55 specimens (UKYL); and the remainder (USNM). Remarks: This species is larger than Hadria maldonadoi, and with a differ- ent color pattern. However, this species was mixed with the specimens Young (1977) had when he described that species. All specimens of H. omaldonadoi from the type locality appear to be that species. The other specimens in the series from other localities appear to be octolineata. Some of the drawings, such as the wing (Young, 1977, fig. 794p), are also probably of octolineata. This species is fairly common throughout the island, while H. omaldonadoi is uncommon and rarely collected. Neohadria Freytag NEW GENUS Body: Length 6-8.5 mm. Head moderately produced, ocelli closer to eye than median line. Thorax with pronotal width nearly same as transocular width of head, lateral margin rounded. Forewing with membrane extending to second api- cal cell, except for basal portion of second cell, second apical cell small, parallel sided, shorter then third apical cell, one anteapical cell. Hindleg with femoral setal formula 2:1:1. Male genitalia: Pygofer moderately produced, apex rounded, macrosetae few located on posterior half. Subgenital plates variable, extending nearly to pygofer apex, with uniseriate microsetae. Styles variable, usually with pointed apex. Connective T-shaped, short. Aedeagus with shaft short, without processes. Paraphysis vestigial, represented by small sclerite between connective and aedeagus. Female seventh sternum large, wide, with posterior margin rounded to small sharply pointed median. Type species: Neohadria maculata Freytag, n. sp. Remarks: This genus is near the genus Hadria, but has only one anteapical cell in the forewing, and the male paraphysis is represented by a small sclerite, which is not found in any of the species of Hadria. 390 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS DELECTA GRISEA DIVERSA I9 MACULATA Figures 15-20. Figures 15-16. Neohadria delecta n. sp. Fig. 15. Head, pronotum and scutellum, dorsal view. Fig. 16. Female seventh sternum, ventral view. Figures 17-18. Neohadria grisea n. sp. Fig. 17. Head, pronotum and scutellum, dorsal view. Fig. 18. Female seventh sternum, ventral view. Figure 19. Neohadria diversa n. sp., female sev- enth sternum, ventral view. Figure 20. Neohadria maculata n. sp., female seventh ster- num, ventral view. All drawn to the same scale. Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 391 VaEAG cS -a| 22 DIVERSA a) Imm 23 GRISEA co 26 eo Figures 21-26. Figures 21-23. Neohadria diversa n. sp. Fig. 21. Male genital capsule, lat- eral view, setae not shown. Fig. 22. Male valve and subgenital plates, ventral view, setae not shown. Fig. 23. Male styles, connective and paraphysis, ventral view. Figures 24-26. Neohadria grisea n. sp. Fig. 24. Male genital capsule, lateral view, setae not shown. Fig. 25. Male valve and subgenital plates, ventral view, setae not shown. Fig. 26. Male styles, connective and paraphysis, ventral view. All drawn to the same scale. 392 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 29 — 28 Pa AMAUROTA Imm i 32 oe DELECTA Figures 27-32. Figures 27-29. Neohadria amaurota n. sp. Fig. 27. Male genital capsule, lateral view, setae not shown. Fig. 28. Male valve and subgenital plates, ventral view, setae not shown. Fig. 29. Male styles, connective and paraphysis, ventral view. Figures 30-32. Neohadria delecta n. sp. Fig. 30. Male genital capsule, lateral view, setae not shown. Fig. 31. Male valve and subgenital plates, ventral view, setae not shown. Fig. 32. Male styles, connective and paraphysis, ventral view. All drawn to the same scale. 3| Key to the species of Neohadria 1. Male subgenital plates smaller and triangular (Figs. 14, 28, 31)... 2 1’. Male subgenital plates larger and rounded (Figs. 22, 25)...........ccsccceseeeeeeees 4 2. Dorsal part of head and pronotum black with many small yellow spots (Fig. Oa decsiey ag se die Rin de iste AT Socio « + Rr amaurota n. sp. Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 393 3. Head and pronotum green with randomly spaced dark spots (Fig. 3) ............ Fr SRE URE RE EIN | OE TC STAN Fe aye feo maculata n. sp. 3’. Head and pronotum gray with irregular dark spots and a prominent horizon- talimeantenortorocelli (Pie 15) ek. delecta n. sp. 4. Male styles large, evenly curving to a sharp apex (Fig. 23)..... diversa N. sp. 4’. Male styles small, curving to near apex which is slanted (Fig. 26)................. Fe ata ce Rar Mh Cee AO REEL oR een Ee eR grisea N. Sp. Neohadria maculata Freytag NEW SPECIES (Figures 3, 12-14 and 20) Description: Length of male 6.4-7 mm, female 6.5-7.5 mm. Head yellow with dark brown markings (Fig. 3). Pronotum yellow, except for posterior mar- gin and much of median, green, with brown markings (Fig. 3). Forewings green with brown viens and numerous small brown spots in most cells, first and most of second apical cells, membranous; third apical cell with small dark brown spot near apex (Fig. 4). Legs yellow. Abdomen mostly yellow ventrally, reddish brown dorsally. Male genitalia: Pygofer broadly rounded at apex (Fig. 12). Subgenital plates triangular, gradually narrowing to rounded apex (Fig. 14), about three-fourths length of pygofer. Aedeagus (Fig. 12) short, stout with trun- cate apex. Style (Fig. 13) robust at base narrowing to apex which is angled, pointed. Connective (Fig. 13) T-shaped, short. Paraphysis vestigial, represented by a small sclerite. Female seventh sternum (Fig. 20) robust, posterior margin rounded to a small pointed median projection . Type Data: Holotype male: Dominican Republic, Barahona, Eastern Sierra Bahoruco, Reserva Cachote, 12.8 km NE Paraiso, 18-05-52N 71-11-19W, 1198 m., 21-23-III-2004, J. Rawlins, C. Young, R. Davidson, C. Nunez, M. Rial, semi- disturbed wet broadleaf, UV light, Sample 44313, specimen 364,226 (CMNH). Paratypes: Nine males, three females, same data as holotype, except for speci- men number (5 males, 1 female, CMNH; 2 males, 1 female, FSCA; 2 males, 1 female, UKYL). Additional Specimens: Over 400 specimens of this species have been seen from Barahona and Independencia (CMNH, FSCA). Some 150 specimens from other areas including Puerto Plata, Pedernales, Santiago, Elias Pifa, Duarte, La Vega, San Christobal and Distrito Nacional (CMNH, FSCA, MHND, UKYL, USNM). Remarks: At this time this is the most common species in this genus. It somewhat resembles Hadria cubana, but can easily be separated by having but one anteapical cell in the forewing, and quite different male and female genitalia. Neohadria diversa Freytag NEW SPECIES (Figures 5, 19 and 21-23) Body: Length of males 7.5-8 mm, females 8.2-8.5 mm. Head yellow, with 394 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS black irregular markings from ocelli back to posterior margin (Fig. 5), eyes red- dish brown. Pronotum and scutellum with many black irregular markings (Fig. 5). Forewings yellowish green, covered with many black irregular markings, except first and over half of second apical cells, membranous. Legs yellow orange. Abdomen mostly yellow ventrally, dark brown dorsally with band of red- dish orange between each segment. Male genitalia: Pygofer (Fig. 21) narrowing to a truncate apex. Subgenital plates (Fig. 22) robust, rounded then narrowed to rounded apex. Aedeagus (Fig. 21) simple, long, finger-like. Style (Fig. 23) large, crescent-shaped, sharply pointed at apex. Connective (Fig. 23) T-shaped, with short shaft. Paraphysis ves- tigial, represented by a small sclerite. Female seventh sternum (Fig. 19) robust, posterior margin rounded on each side of convex area each side of small pointed median projection. Type Data: Holotype male: Dominican Republic, Independencia, Sierra de Neiba near crest, 5.5 km NNW Angel Feliz, 18-41N 71-47W, 1750 m., 21-22- VII-1992, J. Rawlins, S. Thompson, C. Young, R. Davidson, Dense Cloud Forest (CMNH). Paratypes: Two males, same data as holotype (1 male, CMNH; 1 male FSCA). Additional Specimens: One male, two females, similar data to holotype, except south slope near summit, 4.1 km N Angel Feliz, 18-40-24N 71-46-04W, 1851 m., 1-2-IV-2004, canopy trap, sample 34193 (CMNH); 4 males, same, except sample 34113 (CMNH); 3 males, 5 females, same, except sample 34243 (CMNH); 13 males, 6 females, same, except sample 34213 (9 males, 2 females CMNH; 2 males, 2 females FSCA; 2 males, 2 females UK YL); 1 male, same, except sample 34283 (CMNH); | male, same, except sample 34263 (CMNH). Remarks: This species is related to maculata but with a different color pat- tern and male genitalia. Neohadria amaurota Freytag NEW SPECIES (Figures 6 and 27-29) Body: Length of males 7-7.5 mm, females unknown. Head, pronotum and scutellum blackish brown with yellow spots (Fig. 6). Face uniformly black, eyes reddish orange. Forewings blackish brown with numerous small grayish spots overall, except for membranous first and apical half of second apical cells. Legs orange red. Abdomen blackish brown with orange red membranous areas. Male genitalia: Pygofer (Fig. 27) robust, with a truncate apex. Subgenital plates (Fig. 28) triangular, narrowing to a nearly pointed apex. Aedeagus (Fig. 27) small, short, truncate. Style (Fig. 29) gradually narrowing to a pointed apex. Connective (Fig. 29) small, with lateral arms short. Paraphysis vestigial, repre- sented by small sclerite. Type Data: Holotype male: Dominican Republic, Independencia, Sierra de Bahoruco, Loma del Toro, 5.3 km SW El Aguacate, 18-17-16 N 71-42-46 W, 2316 m., 29-30-III-2004, C. Young, R. Davidson, J. Rawlings, Pinus, Garrya Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 395 montane forest, Malaise trap, sample 43283, specimen # CMNH 364,337 (CMNH). Paratypes: Three males, same data as holotype, except specimen # 362,977, 363,194 and 364,345 (one in each CMNH, FSCA and UKYL). Remarks: This species has a unique color pattern which separates it from the other species of the genus. Neohadria delecta Freytag NEW SPECIES (Figures 15-16 and 30-32) Body: Length of males 6.8-7.1 mm, females 7.3-7.5 mm. Head yellow, marked with blackish brown (Fig. 15). Face yellow with faint brown markings overall. Pronotum and scutellum yellow, with brown markings (Fig. 15). Fore- wings greenish yellow, with first and second apical cells membranous, and two dark brown spots, one in base of anteapical cell, other at apex of third apical cell. Legs yellow. Abdomen yellow ventrally, red dorsally. Male genitalia: Pygofer (Fig. 30) gradually narrowed to rounded apex. Sub- genital plates (Fig. 31) triangular, narrow, elongate, extending nearly to apex of pygofer. Aedeagus (Fig. 31) short, stubby. Style (Fig. 32) with a stout base, nar- rowing to bent, sharply pointed apex. Connective (Fig. 32) T-shaped. Paraphysis vestigial, represented by small sclerite. Female seventh sternum (Fig. 16) robust, posterior margin angled to a small pointed median projection. Type Data: Holotype male: Dominican Republic, Barahona, Filipinas, Larimar Mine, 1006 m., 12-IV-1997, blacklight trap, R. E. Woodruff (FSCA). Paratypes: Ten males, two females, same data as holotype (6 males, 1 female FSCA; 2 males, 1 female CMNH; 2 males UKYL). Additional Specimens: Six males, one female, same data as holotype, except at light, 16-17-XII-1995 (FSCA); 1 male, 1 female, same data as holotype, except mercury vapor light, 6-11-VII-1993 (FSCA); 1 male, Barahona, Eastern Sierra Bahoruco, Reserva Cachote, 12.8 km NE Paraiso, 18-05-52N 71-11-19W, 1198 m., 22-23-XI-2004, J. Rawlins, V. Verdecia, C. Young, C. Nunez, W. Zanol, semi-disturbed wet broadleaf, UV light, sample 44315, specimen 383,217 (CMNH). Remarks: This species is closely related to maculata with a different color pattern and different male genitalia. Neohadria grisea Freytag NEW SPECIES (Figures 17-18 and 24-26) Body: Length of males 6.4-7.1 mm, females 7.3-7.5 mm. Head, pronotum and scutellum grayish yellow, with numerous brown markings (Fig. 17). Fore- wings grayish yellow, with brown veins, brown modeling overall, with first and second apical cells, membranous. Legs grayish yellow. Abdomen grayish yellow ventrally, reddish brown dorsally. Male genitalia: Pygofer (Fig. 24) narrowing to rounded apex. Subgenital plates (Fig. 25) robust, with stubby rounded apex. Aedeagus (Fig. 24) small, 396 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS short, truncate. Style (Fig. 26) with robust base, narrowing to slanted, sharply pointed apex. Connective (Fig. 26) T-shaped, with shaft same length as arms. Paraphysis vestigial, represented by a small sclerite. Female seventh sternum (Fig. 18) robust, truncate, with sharply pointed median projection. Type Data: Holotype male: Dominican Republic, Barahona, Filipinas, Larimar Mine, 1006 m., 12-IV-1997, blacklight trap, R. E. Woodruff (FSCA). Paratypes: 9 males, 6 females, same data as holotype (5 males, 2 females FSCA; 2 males, 2 females CMNH; 2 males, 2 females UK YL). Additional Specimens: One male, Dominican Republic: Barahona, Eastern Sierra Bahoruco, Reserva Cachote, 12.8 km NE Paraiso, 18-05-54N 71-11-21W, 1230 m., 21-23-II-2004, J. Rawlins, C. Young, R. Davidson, C. Nunez, M. Rial, cloud forest with tree ferns, Malaise trap, sample 44283 (CMNH); one female, Independencia, Sierra de Neiba just south of crest, 5 km NW Angel Feliz, 1780 m., 18-41N 71-47W, 13-15-X-1991, J. Rawlins, R. Davidson, C. Young, S. Thompson, cloud forest (CMNH); one male, two females, Independencia, Sierra de Neiba south slope near summit, 4.0 km N Angel Feliz, 18-40-21N 71- 46-05 W, 1825 m., 1-2-IV-2004, J. Rawlins, C. Young, R. Davidson, broadleaf cloud forest without pine, UV light, sample 34213 (CMNH); one female, same data, except 18-40-17N 71-46-03W, 1821 m., disturbed cloud forest with fields, sample 34313 (CMNH); one female, La Vega, Cordillera Central, Loma Casabito, 15.4 km NW Bonao, 19-02-00N 70-30-58W, 1385 m., 28-V-2003, J. Rawlins, C. Young, R. Davidson, C. Nunez, P. Acevedo, disturbed evergreen cloud forest, UV light, sample 21312 (CMNH); one male, similar data to last, except 15.8 km NW Bonao, 19-02-12N 70-31-08W, 1455 m., sample 21212 (CMNH); one female, similar data as last, except 19-03N 70-31 W, 1390 m., 3- XI-2002, V. A. Zanol, C. W. Young, C. Staresinie, J. Rawlins, wet cloud forest, sample 24119 (CMNH). Remarks: This species is related to maculata, but is gray in color and has dif- ferent male genitalia. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many thanks are extended to Dr. Chen Young, Carnegie Museum of Natural History and Dr. Robert E. Woodruff, Florida State Collection of Arthropods for making the specimens available for this study. LITERATURE CITED Dlabola, J. and N. Novoa. 1976a. Dos Nuevas Especies del Género Hadria Metcalf y Bruner, 1936 (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha) y Revision de Otras Especies Cubanas. Poeyana 157: 1-17. Dlabola, J. and N. Novoa. 1976b. Dos Nuevas Especies del género Arezzia Metcalf y Bruner, 1936 (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha) y Revision de Otras Especies Cubanas. Poeyana 158: 1-27. Young, D. A. 1977. Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Part 2. New World Cicadellini and the genus Cicadella. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 239. 1135 pp. Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 397 TAXONOMIC STUDY ON THE GENUS LAMBERTIODES DIAKONOFF (LEPIDOPTERA: TORTRICIDAE), WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES FROM CHINA’ Xinpu Wang” and Houhun Li’ ABSTRACT: The genus Lambertiodes Diakonoff is reviewed, with Lambertiodes multipunctata sp. nov. described as new to science. The adult and genital structures of the new species are illustrated, and keys to distinguish the two known species of Lambertiodes are provided. KEY WORDS: Lepidoptera, Tortricidae, Lambertiodes, new species, China Lambertiodes is a monotypic genus in the tribe Sparganothini. It was proposed by Diakonoff in 1959 to include Epagoge harmonia Meyrick. To date, the genus contains only the type species, which is distributed in China, Burma, Thailand, India and Nepal (Meyrick, 1908, 1913; Clarke, 1958; Diakonoff, 1959, 1976; Horak, 1991, 1998; Tuck, 1995; Liu and Li, 2002; Brown, 2005). The tribe Sparganothini is widely distributed and diverse in the Nearctic Region, but has limited distribution in the Palaearctic Region. Razowski (1993) recognized only five Palaearctic species of the genus Sparganothis. Lamber- tiodes is another genus of Sparganothini occurring in the Oriental Region. Based on the known distribution, we think that Lambertiodes might be confined to the Oriental Region. In this paper, we describe one species, Lambertiodes multipunctata sp. nov. and distinguish it from L. harmonia (Meyrick). All the studied specimens, in- cluding the type series, are deposited in the Insect Collection, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. Lambertiodes Diakonoff, 1959 Lambertiodes Diakonoff, 1959, Ark. Zool., 12(13): 166. Type Species: Epagoge harmonia Meyrick, 1908, by monotype. Head with appressed scales, a long pointed tuft projecting over forehead. Ocellus posterior. Labial palpus in male long, more than 2.5 times length of diameter of compound eye. Forewing with vein R, arising from middle of cell, strongly bent in middle; veins Ry and Rs long stalked to 1/3 length, R3; from beyond middle of distance between Ry,5 and R>, Cu,-M, rather remote, CuP present but not developed. Hindwing without cubital pecten, Cu, and M3; con- nate from angle, M, closely approximate at base. ‘Received on September 14, 2006. Accepted on May 18, 2007. * College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China. E-mail: lihouhun@nankai. edu.cn. To whom correspondence and reprint requests should be addressed. * College of Agriculture, Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021, China. E-mail: wangxinpu@eyou. com. Mailed on November 14, 2007 398 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Male genitalia. Uncus long and slender, curved down. Socius usually longer than length of tegumen, densely setose. Gnathos arm slender, fused with socius. Transtilla spinose along upper edge. Valva simple. Female genitalia. Sterigma with length half width of SVHI. Antrum with internal sclerites. Signum present. Biology unknown. Key to species of the genus Lambertiodes based on the external characters 1. Forewing with 25-30 dark brown dots throughout and a large spot at middle, without median fascia...............0000 0 ee L. multipunctata sp. nov. - Forewing with 8-12 dark brown dots, without large spot at middle, with a dis- tinct but short median fascia .................. L. harmonia (Meyrick) Key to species of the genus Lambertiodes based on the genital characters 1. Uncus slender, nearly as long as socius; socius distinctly narrowed apically; aedeagus slender, with a small subapical tooth dorsally ............... Se ER Oe di 2s, ol th Ae L. harmonia (Meyrick) - Uncus stout, shorter than socius; socius thick, without distinctly narrowed part; aedeagus stout, without subapical tooth..... L. multipunctata sp. nov. Lambertiodes multipunctata sp. nov. Type Material. Holotype &, China, Médog County (29°13'N, 95°18'E), Tibet, alt. 2380 m, 9. Aug. 2003, leg. WANG Xinpu and XUE Huayun. Paratypes 2 0O’,, 1 Y, same data as holotype. Description. Adult (Fig. 1): Wingspan 27.5-29.5 mm in male, 31.5 mm in female. Labial palpus about 2.5 times as long as diameter of compound eye; first segment short, yellowish brown; second segment long, curved upward, dilated apically, rust brown; third segment short, porrect, dark brown. Frons and vertex with erect and rough yellowish brown scales. Antenna thick, ciliate, dark brown. Tegula brown basally, yellowish brown distally. Thorax yellowish brown, mixed with some rusty brown scales. Forewing broad, expanded distally; costal margin arched slightly; apex blunt; termen almost straight, sinuate slightly beyond apex; tornus broad. Forewing with ground color pale yellow, with 25-30 scattered dark brown dots; costal margin dark brown in basal 1/4, with a yellowish brown blotch at middle; a large yellowish brown blotch extending from costal 2/3 almost to apex, stretching nearly to middle of termen; a large dot at middle, mixed with yel- lowish brown and pale brown scales; some yellowish brown scales along basal portion of dorsum; cilia yellowish brown. Hindwing pale gray, slightly yellow- ish at apex; cilia darker than ground colour. Legs yellowish brown, with some dark brown scales. Abdomen slender, gray dorsally, pale yellowish ventrally. Male genitalia (Fig. 3): Tegumen about 4/5 length of socius. Uncus stout, curved, with a few bristles apically, expanded basally. Socius long and thick, without distinctly narrowed part, covered with dense long hairs. Gnathos thin and short. Transtilla half as long as width, sclerotized dorsally, densely with long Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 399 and short spinules along upper edge. Valva broad, more or less narrowed distal- ly, costa developed basally. Sacculus short and narrow. Aedeagus stout, some- what curved, smooth and narrowed subapically, with 8-9 spinose cornuti. Juxta broad, coecum penis developed, caulis slender. Female genitalia (Fig. 4): Papilla analis with length 3 times width. Posterior apophysis with broad basal plate. Lateral portion of sterigma spinulate. Antrum short and broad, with two internal sclerites. Ductus bursae membranous; ductus seminalis arising from near middle. Corpus bursae ovoid; signum a U-shaped sclerite. Diagnosis. The new species is similar to L. harmonia (Meyrick) in appear- ance and male genitalia, but can be separated from the latter by the forewing with 25-30 dark brown dots and a large spot at middle, but lacking median fascia; the uncus shorter than socius, the socius without distinctly narrowed part, and the aedeagus smooth and narrowed subapically. Figs. 1-5. Lambertiodes spp. Figs. 1, 3, and 4: L. multipunctata sp. nov. 1. Adult, holo- type. 3. Male genitalia, holotype. 4. Female genitalia, paratype. Figs. 2 and 5: L. harmo- nia (Meyrick). 2. Adult. 5. Male genitalia. 400 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Biology. Unknown. Etymology. The new specific name is derived from the Latin prefix multi- = numerous and word punctatus = punctate, referring to forewing having many dark brown dots. Remarks. There are two small “‘sclerites” inside the corpus bursae posterior- ly. The “sclerites” cannot be removed with pin when making genital slide. They might represent two signa, but further study is needed for confirmation. Lambertiodes harmonia (Meyrick, 1908) Epagoge harmonia Meyrick, 1908, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 18: 617. Capua harmonia (Meyrick): Obraztsov, 1954, Tijdschrift poor Entomologia 97: 154; Clarke, 1958, Catalogue of the Type Specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British Museum described by Edward Meyrick 3: 68, pl. 34, figs. 4-4b; Liu and Li, 2002, Fauna Sinica, 27: 141, pl. XVIII-179a, b, LX VII-179, CX- 179. Lambertiodes harmonia (Meyrick): Diakonoff, 1959, Ark. Zool. 12(13): 167, fig. 1, pl. I, figs. 1-3; Diakonoff, 1976, Zool. Verh., 144: 69; Tuck, 1995, Micro- lepid. Thailand 3: 89; Brown, 2005, World Catalogue of Insects 5: 398. Materials Examined. China: 2 0'O’, Bomi County (29°53'N, 95°45'E), Tibet, alt. 2800 m, 2003-VIII-19, leg. WANG Xinpu and XUE Huaijun; 1 0, Médog County (29°13'N, 95°18'E), Tibet, alt. 1200 m, 2003-VIII-10, leg. WANG Xinpu and XUE Huaijun; 2 O'O’, Xiaoheishan, Longling County (24°35'N, 98°41'E), Yunnan, alt. 2300 m, 2005-VIII-10, leg. Ren Yingdang. Adult (Fig. 2). Wingspan: 21.0-23.0 mm in male. Male genitalia (Fig. 5): As illustrated. Distribution. China (Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet), Burma, Thailand, India, and Nepal. Remarks. This species can be distinguished easily from LZ. multipunctata sp. nov. by the forewing with a distinct but short median fascia, the uncus nearly as long as socius, smooth and distinctly narrowed apically. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We wish to express our thanks to Mr. K. Tuck (The Natural History Museum, London) for pro- viding us with helpful references. The research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30660151), the Fok Ying Tung Educational Foundation (101022), and the Natural Science Foundation of Ningxia, China (NZ 0518). LITERATURE CITED Brown, J. W. 2005. Tortricidae (Lepidoptera). Jn, World Catalogue of Insects 5. Apollo Books. Stenstrup, Denmark. 741 pp. Clarke, J. F.G. 1958. Catalogue of the type specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British Museum Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 401 (Natural History) described by Edward Meyrick. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). London, England, U.K. 3: 600 pp. Diakonoff, A. 1959. Entomological results from the Swedish expedition 1934 to Burma and Brit- ish India, Lepidoptera collected by René Malasie Microlepid. II. Arkiv for Zoologi 12(13): 165- 182. Diakonoff, A. 1976. Tortricidae from Nepal 2. Zoologische Verhandelingen 144: 1-145. Horak, M. 1984. Assessment of taxonomically significant structures in Tortricinae (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 57(1): 3-64. Horak, M. 1998. The Tortricoidea (Lepidoptera). Handbuch der Zoologie 4(35): 199-215. Horak, M. and R. L. Brown. 1991. Taxonomy and Phylogeny. 23-48. Jn, L. P. S. van der Geest and H. H. Evenhuis (Editors). World Crop Pest 5: Tortricid Pest, Their Biology, Natural Enemies and Contral. Elsevier Science Publishers. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Liu, Y. Q. and G. W. Li. 2002. Lepidoptera Tortricidae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta 27. Science Press, Beijing, China. 463 pp. Meyrick, E. 1908. Descriptions of Indian Micro-Lepidoptera. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 18: 613-638. Meyrick, E. 1913. Fam. Tortricidae Jn, P. Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, Lepidoptera Heterocera. Bruxelles, Belgium. 81 pp, 5 plates. Obraztsov, N. S. 1954. Die Gattungen der Palaearktischen Tortricidae. I. Allgemeine Aufteillung der Familie und dis Unterfamilien Tortricinae und Sparganothinae. Tijdschrift poor Entomologia 97: 141-231. Razowski, J. 1993. The catalogue of the species of Tortricidae (Lepidoptera). Part II: Palaearctics, Sparganothini, Euliini, Ramapesiini and Archipini. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 35(3): 665- 703. Tuck, K. R. 1995. A checklist of described species of Chlidanotinae and Tortricinae (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) of Thailand, with description of a new species of Ancyroclepsis Diakonoff. Micro- lepidoptera of Thailand 3: 87-92. 402 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS HYPERASPIS BRUNNESCENS DOBZHANSKY (COLEOPTERA: COCCINELLIDAE) NEWLY RECORDED IN CANADA FROM SCATARIE ISLAND, NOVA SCOTIA Christopher Majka,’ Kathleen R. Aikens,’ A. Andrew MacDonald,’ Sheena M. Townsend,’ and David B. McCorquodale’ ABSTRACT: Ayperaspis brunnescens Dobzhansky is newly recorded in Canada and eastern North America from a storm-petrel burrow on Scatarie Island, Nova Scotia. This record extends the range of the species 2,100 km to the east. Hypotheses with respect to the ecology of the species are dis- cussed, as are possible zoogeographic scenarios that might account for its presence in Nova Scotia. KEY WORDS: Hyperaspis brunnescens, Coccinellidae, Scymninae, Hyperaspidini, range exten- sions Hyperaspis brunnescens Dobzhansky, 1941 is a rare and little-known lady beetle (Coccinellidae) described from specimens collected in Illinois. Gordon (1985) reported a specimen from Iowa, and Fauske et al. (2003) found it in Min- nesota. Only 19 individuals have previously been collected. Consequently, it was of some interest when a specimen of H. brunnescens was discovered in Nova Scotia, Canada, circa 2,100 kilometers east of the previously reported range. SITE DESCRIPTION, METHODS, AND CONVENTIONS Scatarie is a small (1,497 ha) island located approximately two km off the eastern shore of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, near Main-a-Dieu. Cool ocean waters and salt spray result in vegetation with boreal characteristics; dense stands of black spruce, Picea mariana (Mill.), and balsam fir, Abies balsamea (L.) Mill (Pinaceae), dominate much of the island (Davis and Browne 1997). Poor drainage contributes to extensive peatlands and small ponds, including coastal barrachois. The headlands in the east are heath barrens characterized by Empetrum nigrum L. (Empetraceae), Cornus canadensis L. (Cornaceae), and Vaccinium spp. (Ericaceae). The shoreline is mostly rocky, with a few small sand and pebble beaches, often with abundant beach wrack accumulation and back- shore zones of dune grasses, e.g. Elymus mollis Trin., Ammophila brevigulata Fern. (Poaceae), and beach pea, Lathyrus maritimus (L.) (Fabaceae). Thousands, likely tens of thousands, of Leach’s Storm-petrels (Oceanodroma leucorhoa (Vieillot)) (Procellaridae) dig nest burrows on the island, primarily among roots of spruces, but also in heath barrens. ‘Received on June 29, 2006. Accepted on July 8, 2006. > Nova Scotia Museum, 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3A6. E-mail: c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca. Corresponding author. *Cape Breton University, Department of Biology, 1250 Grand Lake Rd., Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada BIP 6L2. E-mails: (KA) kathleen_aikens@hotmail.com, (AM) andrew@yahoo.com, (SMT) sheenatown@gmail.com, and (DBM) david_mccorquodale@capebretonu.ca. Mailed on November 14, 2007 Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 403 Although the island is now uninhabited and protected under Nova Scotia’s Wilderness Protection Act, several dwellings remain on the eastern end of the island (Cameron 2004). European fishers have periodically used the island since the 15th century. During the 19th and 20th centuries, however, permanent resi- dences and communities were established on the island (Chrestien 2001). In areas where land was cleared, paper birch, Betula papyrifera Marshall (Betu- laceae), and white spruce, Picea glauca (Moench) Voss (Pinaceae), are promi- nent. A team of researchers visited Scatarie Island from 8-11 August 2005 to docu- ment the island’s biodiversity. Insects were collected by sweep-netting, pitfall and bowl trapping, and hand collection. Abbreviations of collections referred to in this study are, as follows: CASC, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA; INHS, Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois, USA; NSDU, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, USA; NSMC, Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; USNM, United States National Museum, Washington, DC, USA. RESULTS On 9 August 2005, Aikens and MacDonald were examining a Leach’s Storm- petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) burrow at Tin Cove, on the southern coast of Scatarie Island (46° 00.181' N, 59° 43.679' W) when they discovered a specimen of Hyperaspis brunnescens. C.G. Majka made the species determination after consulting with R. Gordon and N. Vandenberg. The strongly alutaceous dorsum of the specimen and the vittate colour pattern of the elytra separate the specimen from H. quadrivittata LeConte, 1852, the only similar species of Hyperaspis (Dobzhansky 1941, Gordon 1985). The burrow was located in a salt-spray barren dominated by (in decreasing order of abundance) Empetrum nigrum, Juniperus communis L. (Cupressaceae), and Potentilla tridentata Ait. (Rosaceae). The burrow was located about 50 m from the rocky edge of the seashore and about equally distant from a dense coniferous forest. The entrance of the burrow dropped approximately 10 cm before turning sharply to run parallel with the ground surface. The beetle was located near its mouth. The specimen represents the first record of H. brunnescens in Canada and northeastern North America. It will be deposited for reference in the Nova Scotia Museum collection. Previous records are: Illinois: state record, Hubbard and Schwartz, male, USNM;; northern Illinois, Peabody, 3 males & 6 females, USNM, INHS, & C.W. Leng collection; Edgebrook, Cook Co., 2 males & 3 females, CASC. Iowa: Iowa Experimental Station, Clarke Co., February 1934, little bluestem grass [Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash (Poaceae)], USNM. Minnesota: Clay 404 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Co., 2.5 mi. SSE of Felton, 9 September 1997, P. Tinerella and G. Fauske, pit- fall, NDSU; Clay Co., 2.5 mi. SSE of Felton, 24 September 1997, P. Tinerella, pitfall, NDSU; Clay Co., 2.5 mi. SSE of Felton, 13 August 1997, P. Tinerella and A. Abbott, NDSU. The following year on July 15-16, 2006, on a second excursion to Scatarie Island, efforts were made to locate additional specimens of H. brunnescens, how- ever, they were not successful. DISCUSSION The surprising discovery of this species on Scatarie Island, Nova Scotia, rais- es several questions. In Minnesota, H. brunnescens has been found in dry prairie and dry mesic prairie habitats (G. Fauske, pers. comm.), quite different from the salt-spray barren environment where the Nova Scotia specimen was collected. Both, however, are open habitats. Two of the three specimens in Minnesota were captured in pitfall traps (G. Fauske, pers. comm.), and the Nova Scotia specimen was in the mouth of a subterranean burrow suggesting that the species is regu- larly found on, in, or near the ground. Adults and larvae of Hyperaspis are pred- ators of scale insects and mealybugs (Homoptera: Coccoidea) (McClanahan 1970; Booth et al., 1995; Staubli Dreyer et al., 1997; Vandenberg 2002). Some larvae burrow into the egg sacks of female scales and approach a parasitic mode of existence (Vandenberg 2002). Some species of scales are subterranean, raising the possibility that the larvae of H. brunnescens could be specialist feeders on such insects, perhaps accounting for the scarcity of this species in collections. Another possibility might be that H. brunnescens could be myrmecophilous. Chapin (1966) described Hyperaspis acanthicola Chapin from the nests of Pseudomyrmex ants in Mexico and Hyperaspis reppensis (Herbst) is found in Europe in association with nests of Zapinoma erraticum var. nigerrimum Nylander (Chapin 1966). The presence of H. brunnescens on a remote, uninhabited island approxi- mately 2,100 km northeast of its previously known range also raises perplexing questions. Given the rarity of the species and distance from previously known populations in the American Midwest, an arrival by accidental or anthropochor- ous means seems unlikely. We therefore conclude that the specimen does repre- sent an indigenous population. If that is the case, is there a disjunct or relict pop- ulation in Nova Scotia, or has the species been overlooked in intervening regions? Recently Majka and McCorquodale (2006) surveyed the Coccinellidae of the Maritime Provinces of Canada and drew attention to species with apparently iso- lated or disjunct populations in Nova Scotia. These include Stethorus punctum punctum (LeConte, 1852), Scymnus caudalis LeConte, 1850, Diomus amabilis (LeConte, 1852), Hyperaspis troglodytes Mulsant, 1853, Naemia seriata seriata Melsheimer, 1847, and Cycloneda munda (Say, 1835) — all of which have not otherwise been recorded in Atlantic Canada. Two of these, D. amabilis and Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 405 N. s. seriata, are known in Canada solely from Nova Scotia. Diomus amabilis, H. troglodytes, and N. s. seriata are Atlantic coastal plain species whose distri- bution extends to Nova Scotia, whereas S. p. punctum, S. caudalis, and C. munda are found broadly in the central and eastern parts of the continent. None are as widely disjunct as H. brunnescens appears to be, however, Nova Scotia does sup- port a coccinellid fauna composed of a variety of zoogeographic elements, some of which exist as disjunct populations. If H. brunnescens 1s a relict species, the postglacial climatic history of Nova Scotia may have provided colonization opportunities. Miller and Elias (2000) interpret post-glacial fossil beetle assemblages (from ~ 12,600 years BP to the present) in the Maritime Provinces as illustrating four historical phases of colo- nization, each indicative of a different climatic regimen. Miller (1997) found specimens of the coccinellid, Nephus flavifrons (Melsheimer, 1847), a more southern species not currently found in Atlantic Canada, in peat deposits dating from circa 12,300 years BP on Cape Breton Island — an illustration of historical colonization by a species that has subsequently disappeared from the region. Scatarie Island represents part of the southern edge of the range of several northern plants including Cornus suecica L. (Cornaceae), Vaccinium uliginosum L. (Ericaceae), Prenanthes nana (Bigel) Torr. (Asteraceae) (Pronych and Wilson 1993), and Carex rariflora (Wahlenb.) J. E. Smith (Cyperaceae) (Roland 1998). The same coastal influence that results in cool summers causes a long frost-free season compared to nearby areas only a few kilometers from the coast. Much of the vegetation, however, is similar to that encountered in other coastal headland environments on Cape Breton Island and other parts of Nova Scotia. Conse- quently it would be worth investigating neighbouring areas to ascertain if H. brunnescens occurs more widely in the province. Although this discovery raises more questions than it answers, it emphasizes how much remains to be learned about the biodiversity of the Coleoptera of Nova Scotia. Majka and McCorquodale’s (2006) recent survey of the Coccinellidae of the region had scarcely appeared when yet another species was discovered. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks to Max Barclay (The Natural History Museum, London), Gerald Fauske (North Dakota State University), Robert Gordon (Northern Plains Entomology), Natalia Vandenberg (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA), Alex Wilson (Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History), and Mary (Pixie) Williams for their assistance. Donna Giberson (University of Prince Edward Island), Doug Strongman (St. Mary’s University), and three anonymous reviewers read earlier versions of the man- uscript and contributed many constructive suggestions. C. G. Majka thanks David Christianson, Calum Ewing, and Andrew Hebda, for continuing support and encouragement. This work was assist- ed by research grants from Cape Breton University and the Board of Governors of the Nova Scotia Museum. We all thank Rob Cameron, Nova Scotia Department of Environment and Labour for organizing the collecting trip to Scatarie Island. LITERATURE CITED Booth, R. G., A. E. Cross, S. V. Fowler, and R. H. Shaw. 1995. The biology and taxonomy of Hyperaspis pantherina (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and the classical biological control of its 406 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS prey, Orthezia insignis (Homoptera: Ortheziidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 85: 307- 314. Cameron, R. P. 2004. Resources guide and ecological atlas for conducting research in Nova Scotia’s wilderness areas and nature reserves. Protected Areas Branch, Nova Scotia Environment and Labour Technical Report 0401. Chapin, E. A. 1966. 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Neuenschwander, and S. Dorn. 1997. The functional responses of two Hyperaspis notata strains to their prey, the cassava mealybug Phenacoccus manihoti. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique Suisse 70: 21-28. Vandenberg, N. J. 2002. Coccinellidae Latreille 1807. pp. 371-389. Jn, American Beetles, Volume 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. (R. H. Arnett Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, editors.) CRC Press. Boca Raton. Florida, USA. 861 pp. Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 407 NEW STATE RECORD OF THE MAYFLY BAETISCA LAURENTINA McDUNNOUGH FOR WEST VIRGINIA (EPHEMEROPTERA: BAETISCIDAE) AND NEW COUNTY RECORDS FOR SPECIES OF BAETISCA IN KENTUCKY AND WEST VIRGINIA, U.S.A.’ Donald C. Tarter,’ Dwight L. Chaffee,’ Jeffery E. Bailey,’ and Sandy Raimondo’ ABSTRACT: Baetisca laurentina McDunnough is reported for the first time from West Virginia. One male imago was collected near Twelvepole Creek, Wayne County, West Virginia. This record extends the range of this species eastward to the Mid-Atlantic coastal region. New distributional records (57) of Baetisca spp. are reported for Kentucky (15) and West Virginia (42). The following county records have been added to the list of Baetisca spp. from the two states: Baetisca berneri Tarter and Kirchner (KY/1 and WV/13), B. carolina Traver (WV/3), B. gibbera (WV/1), B. lacustris McDunnough KY/14 and WV/22), B. laurentina McDunnough (WV/1), and B. rubescens Pro- vancher (WV/2). Baetisca lacustris is the most widespread baetiscid in West Virginia (26 counties) and Kentucky (25 counties). This species was found in six drainage basins (I, II, IV, V, VI, VII) in West Virginia. Only one baetiscid mayfly, B. rubescens, was recorded for drainage basin III. KEY WORDS: Ephemeroptera, Baetisca, state and county records, Kentucky, West Virginia The North American endemic family Baetiscidae is monotypic, containing only the genus Baetisca (Pescador and Berner, 1981). Presently, twelve species are recorded for eastern North American, Great Plains, and the Northwest Terri- tories of Canada (Pescador and Berner, 1981). Nymphs of Baetisca live partial- ly buried in silt, sand, gravel of small to moderate sized streams. Distributional and/or ecological information on the Baetisca spp. in West Virginia and Ken- tucky have been reported by the following investigators: Traver (1931, 1935), Needham et al. (1935), Olson (1971), Berner (1977), Faulkner and Tarter (1977), Tarter and Kirchner (1978), Chaffee and Tarter (1979), Morris et al. (1980), Pescador and Berner (1981), Pettry and Tarter (1983, 1985), Tarter and Pettry (1983), Burgess and Tarter (1989), and Randolph and McCafferty (1998). Baetisca specimens used in this investigation were deposited at the following agencies/institutions: Biological Systems Consultants (Lexington, Kentucky), Colorado State University, Marshall University (West Virginia Benthological Survey), Morehead State University, United States Army Corps of Engineers (Huntington District), West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (Watershed Assessment Section), and West Virginia University. ‘Received April 26, 2006. Accepted April 25, 2007. * Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia 25755 U.S.A. E-mail: tarter@marshall.edu > Forest Biology Consultant, P. O. Box 814, Richmond, Kentucky 40476 U.S.A. “West Virginia Department Environmental Protection, 601 57th Street, S.E. Charleston, West Vir- ginia 25304 U.S.A. E-mail: jbailey@wvdep.org >USEPA Gulf Ecology Division, Gulf Breeze, Florida 32561 U.S.A. E-mail: sandyraimondo@ yahoo.com Mailed on November 14, 2007 408 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS DISTRIBUTIONAL RECORDS West Virginia Janssen (1973) divided the state into the following drainage basins (Fig. 1): I. Ohio River (industrialization and farming), Il. Monongahela River (high ele- vations and some acid mine pollution), III. Potomac River (farming, little pollu- tion), IV. Little Kanawha River (slow, low gradient streams), V. Kanawha River (industrialization), VI. Guyandot River (heavy acid mine pollution) and VII. Big Sandy River (mining, low gradient streams). All baetiscid records are listed by drainage basin and county. Morga “= _( Preston Berkeley/ AS ie eésants..\ ip | | : { il us) ddridge. Harrison Vey SQ Pinay L Barbour, Tucker jfoant C : Mineral / Hampshire &fferso { Ritchie Swit | = Se i . \ Jackson & — r K Massa), ae a t YF ‘ | c Y £ : ig : at ox Fe : Eke eek ee al ay 2 | Fayette G ex os ¢ Greenbrier V Ee ? q My, Figure 1. Janssen’s (1973) drainage basins in West Virginia. Baetisca berneri Tarter and Kirchner 1978 Tarter and Kirchner (1978) described mature nymphs from Laurel Fork of Pigeon Creek in Mingo County (drainage basin VII). Pescador and Berner (1981) reported this species from the Morgantown area in Monongalia County (drainage basin II). The following counties (13) are added to the distribution of this species (Fig. 2): Drainage basins II, V, VI, VI (Boone Co.: Bennett Fk., 23-14-97/Left Fk. of Joes Cr., 07-X-97 and Spicelick Fk., 17-[X-97; Clay Co.: Sycamore Cr., 11-[X-02; Kanawha Co.: Bells Cr., 16-VII-03/Slaughter Cr., 26-I[X-01/Bradley Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 409 Fk., 26-IX-01/Dry Br., 03-X-01 and Blue Cr., 05-[X-02; Lewis Co.: Little Kan- awha River, 25-IX-80; Logan Co.: Cow Cr., 09-V-78 and Pine Cr., 14-III-79; McDowell Co.: War Cr., 16-[X-03; Mercer Co.: Camp Cr., 10-VIII-99; Nicholas Co.: Panther Cr., 25-VII-75; Camp Cr., 15-X-05; Pocahontas Co.: Little River, 29-VII- 99; Raleigh Co.: Peachtree Cr., 25-IX-97 and Rock Cr., 07-X-97; Usphur Co.: Right Fk. of Buckhannon River, 06-X-02 and Left Fk. of Buckhannon River, 08-X-02; Webster Co.: Elk River, 07-XI-89; Wyoming Co.: Measle Fk., 05-IX-00). sept el ] | Jee eley site ans) Ha a a, Eapare A Tucker 355 } Randolph / 3 : i Zz f7 22g/ Pendleton F 260 Miles Fig. 2. County distribution records of Baetisca berneri in West Virginia. Baetisca callosa Traver 1931 Traver (1931) described B. callosa from a tributary of the Potomac River in West Virginia. However, Pescador and Berner (1981) studied the paratype nymphs from Preston and Mineral counties from West Virginia and concluded that the enigmatic species is not recognizable. From the examination of imma- ture nymphs of the species of Baetisca, they reported that B. callosa Traver rep- resents a very young stage of some species already described — perhaps B. car- olina Traver or B. berneri Tarter and Kirchner. One author (Tarter) has collected 410 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS and identified young and mature nymphs of Baetisca spp. for 30 years in West Virginia and has identified B. callosa from 10 counties. He disagrees with sug- gestions that B. callosa is a young stage of B. carolina Traver or B. berneri Tarter and Kirchner. Efforts are being made to collect and rear specimens from the type locality and other counties in drainage basin III to resolve the taxonomic prob- lem associated with this enigmatic species. Baetisca carolina Traver 1931 Pettry and Tarter (1985) reported the ecological life history of this species from Panther Creek, Nicholas County, West Virginia (drainage basin V). Need- ham et al. (1935) recorded this species from Monongalia County in West Virginia (drainage basin II). The following counties (3) are added to the distribution of this species (Fig. 2): Drainage Basin V (Greenbrier Co.: North Fk. of Cherry River, 25-VII-75; Pocahontas Co.: Tea Cr. of Williams River, 02-VIII-73; Web- ster Co.: Cranberry River, 05-VIII-77). mn ff N =) Xf Pocahontas —— a 2, a Nee oats Greenbrier = ‘iia ay Suen »> \ MORI: s iy Pe, wocar J aa eee 260 Miles Fig. 3. County distribution records of Baetisca carolina in West Virginia. Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 411 Baetisca gibbera Berner 1955 Nymphs of B. gibbera have been recorded from the cool mountain streams of the Appalachian Mountains and the warm waters of the Coastal Plain (Pescador and Berner, 1981). Burgess and Tarter (1989) recorded this from Indian Creek in Monroe County, West Virginia (drainage basin V). The following county is added to the distribution of this species (Fig. 4): Drainage basin V (Summers Co.: Indian Cr., 28-III-83). ee Ps S___ Biorgan/ ee a Berkeley age ots a De ‘<4 260 Miles Fig. 4. County distribution records of Baetisca gibbera in West Virginia. Baetisca lacustris McDunnough 1932 Baetisca lacustris (= B. bajkovi Neave) has been collected from the Great Lakes region and across the United States and Canada to the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains (Burks, 1953; Pescador and Berner, 1981). This species has been reported from following counties in West Virginia (drainage basins I, I, VI, VII): Lewis, Lincoln, Pleasants, Wayne (Olson, 1971; Faulkner and Tarter, 1977). Chaffee and Tarter (1979) reported the life history and ecology of this species from Beech Fork in Wayne County. The following counties (22) are 412 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS added to the distribution of this species (Fig. 5): Drainage basins I , IV, V, VI, VII (Boone Co.: Big Horse Cr., 25-XI-75/Spruce Laurel Fk., 25-[X-97 and Laurel Cr., 07-X-97; Braxton Co.: Coon Cr., no date/Falls Run, 25-IX-80 and Knawl Cr., 17-XI-77; Cabell Co.: Mill Cr., of Mud River, 12-IX-71 and Charley Cr., 16-[X-03; Calhoun Co.: no locality data: Clay Co.: Elk River, 22-VI-73; Doddridge Co.: Toms Fk., 16-[X-03 and Meathouse Fk., 16-IX-03; Gilmer Co.: Steer Run, 25-IV-74; Jackson Co.: Right Fk. of Sandy Cr., 15-IV-99; Kanawha Co.: Kanawha River, 13-IV-82 and Davis Cr., 06-V-02; Logan Co.: Hoover Fk. 04-V-98 and Seng Camp Cr., 07-VIII-02; Mason Co.: Jerry’s Run, 17-IV-74; Mingo Co.: East Fk. of Twelvepole Cr., 28-IV-03/Tug Fk. River, 24-IX- 03/Guyandotte River, 21-IV-82 and West Fr. of Twelvepole Cr., 03-V-00; Pocahontas Co.: Douthat Cr., 19-V-72/Mullenax Run, 20-VII-99/Little River of West Fk. of Greenbrier River, 29-VII-99 and East Fk. of Greenbrier River, 20- VII-00; Putnam Co.: Coon Cr., 19-III-73 and Clymer Cr., 24-II-73; Raleigh Co.: Marsh Fr. of Big Coal River, 13-XI-86; Ritchie Co.: South Fk. of Hughes River, no date and Indian Cr., 13-V-99; Roane Co.: Green Cr., 28-V-97 and Big Sandy Cr., 10-IX-02; Tyler Co.: Middle Island Cr., 15-X-99 and Indian Cr., 09-IX-03; Webster Co: Left Fk. of Holly River, 09-VII-78; Wetzel Co.: South Fk. of Fish- ing Cr., 26-I[V-99; Wood Co.: Worthington Cr., no date and Walker Cr., no date; Wyoming Co.: Guyandotte River, 21-I[V-82 and Measle Fk., 05-[X-00. | j Hagcock { Marshal ee i / io J =< We Pca 1 Wetzel f- si | & Sioa 3 fo 2 if ; eo gh \ Tyl Jor a piener 4 Preston aor rd a ae <7 OF. ro iV c. \ \Petean Saf) - Be ee Ba! ze acri 1/ Hampshire _} a re ne hen aa dono Harrison \** fy a me g Ne ( Biood a Ritchie \ ‘ ~_[ Barbour e Tucker ee } Se $ I oi vn ee (ies, Swe : : ee, ; 4 \ Wirt ie oe deus / ‘ — ey / Hardy a Gi Imer \ aay | oe t Laem] sistieg ea Nal Rendolph | f. ok & Reane Le Breson._ oe a ] ie aN y i aa = > \ webster ie 4 ie { Clay 7 *h oe F “ Kanawha \ e Nicholas Del, Pocahontas ee / he Poy! a } me ey te = oe iS Greenbrier e V S va J » SS EL nd ) Summers’ 5 N Z S / Monroe ° j a > 260 Miles Fig. 5. County distribution records of Baetisca lacustris in West Virginia. Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 413 Baetisca laurentina McDunnough 1932 Baetisca laurentina is widely distributed in many areas of eastern North America, the Great Plains, through Canada into the Northwest Territories (Pescador and Berner, 1981; Randolph and McCafferty, 1998). On 13 May 1990, one male imago of B. /aurentina was collected near Twelvepole Creek (Rt. 75, Shoals) in Wayne County, West Virginia (drainage basin VII (by Kondratieff, Welch, and Kirchner) (Fig. 6). This record extends the range of this species east- ward to the mid-Atlantic coastal region. Randolph and McCafferty recorded this species from nearby Ohio (Adams, Highland, and Lawrence counties). as re 3 Va ug pee oF Tyler > __f tare Sai) Preston | le iPad Pty a Plebsants. vo ys can 2 | i Mierat/ Hampshire 7 Taylor A | / pcs a Gedo Harison Cee ay \- ao, | on wes San \ a Lewis } a at Ao ft pegs aa y ee eran ere \ Sfecnoies © ce Nicholas > J ta - { E 3 ra i P | ‘S a 7 ea Boone ™ i Fayette 4 hes Na ? Greenbner vy $ a eh Ties: mers eis “Es a © Wayne sO EN spate “csc euinge iael eg! digiass ine “yf lew ee Le Mercer J ph Se —. 65 260 Miles Fig. 6. County distribution records of Baetisca laurentina in West Virginia. Baetisca rubescens Provancher 1876 Tarter and Pettry (1983) reported this species from Red Creek, Tucker County, West Virginia (drainage basin II). The following counties (2) are added to the dis- tribution of this species (Fig. 7): Drainage basin III, V Pendleton Co.: Seneca Cr., 07-X-00; Pocahontas Co.: East Fk. of Greenbrier River, 26-IV-87. 414 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Seer {| me Figure 7. Baetisca rubescens in West Virginia. ‘Ohio J Marshal IV Ms | Taylor ponent all Merk Harrison S od Ritchie \ *s, ja ein ins f ion 4 ( oe er \ Webster y = Kanawha \ id Nichols “Poca ; 5 oe “at = a as 260 Miles Fig. 7. County distribution records of Baetisca rubescens in West Virginia. Kentucky Two species of baetiscids, B. berneri and B. lacustris, have been reported from Kentucky (Pescador and Berner, 1981; Randolph and McCafferty, 1998). Based on collections from Ohio (Randolph and McCafferty, 1998) and western West Virginia, B. laurentina may also be found in Kentucky. Randolph and McCaf- ferty (1998) reported B. obesa from southwestern Ohio, suggesting that it also may occur in Kentucky. Baetisca berneri Tarter and Kirchner 1978 Prior to this investigation, B. berneri had been reported only from one drainage in Kentucky (Letcher County) (Randolph and McCafferty, 1998). On 19 October 1999, nymphs were collected from Brownies Creek in Harlan County. Baetisca lacustris McDunnough 1932 Prior to this study, B. Jacustris had been reported from 11 counties (Breathitt, Elliott, Floyd, Jackson, Knott, Lawrence, Lewis, Morgan, Pike, Pulaski, Wolfe) Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 415 in Kentucky (Pescador and Berner, 1981; Randolph and McCafferty, 1998). The following records (14) are added to the distribution of this species (http://www/ nws/noaa.gov/mirs/public/prods/maps/cnty_fips_kentucky.htm): Boyd Co.: East Fork of Little Sandy River, 14-XI-78; Carter Co.: no locality data; Clay Co.: Goose Cr., 17-X-78 and Redbird River, 03-I-00; Estill Co: Station Camp Cr., 18-IV-02, Johnson Co.: Little Paint Cr., 09-X-85/Paint Fk., 26-IX-77 and Open Fk. of Paint Creek, 21-XI-75; Lee Co.: Ross Cr., 04-X-00; Letcher Co.: Colliers Cr., no date; Magoffin Co.: Lick Cr., 12-X-00; Martin Co., Horse-Pin Cr., 18-V- 04; Menifee Co.: Gladie Cr., 23-X-00; Owsley Co., Wild Dog Cr., 04-X-00; Powell Co.: Fishtrap Br., 05-III-01; Rowan Co.: Elk Lick Fk., 16-II-06; Whitley Co.: Mud Cr., 12-X-04. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors are grateful to the following persons for the loan of Baetisca specimens and help in field work: Mr. Kerry Bledsoe (Marshall University), Dr. Linda Butler (West Virginia University), Jack Humphreys (Marshall University), Mr. Fred Kirchner (US Army Corps of Engineers, Hunting- ton District), Mr. Ed Kirk (Research Environmental & Industrial Consultants, Inc), Dr. Boris Kon- dratieff (Colorado State University), Dr. Sean O’Keefe (Morehead State University) and Mr. James Robinson (Biological Systems Consultants). Special thanks to Drs. Boris Kondratieff (Colorado State University) and Mike Little (Marshall University) for suggestions on the prepublication review of the manuscript. LITERATURE CITED Berner L. 1955. The southeastern species of Baetisca (Ephemeroptera: Baetiscidae). Quarterly Journal Florida Academy Science 18:1-19. Berner, L. 1977. Distributional patterns of southeastern mayflies (Ephemeroptera). 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Journal New York Entomological Society 39:45-66. Traver, J. R. 1935. Part II, Systematic. pp. 239-739 In, The biology of mayflies with a systematic account of North American species. J. G. Needham, J. R. Traver, and Y. C. Hsu (Editors). Com- stock Publishing Company. Ithaca, New York, U.S.A. 759 pp. Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 417 A NEW SPECIES OF LIRIS FABRICIUS FROM CHINA, WITH A KEY TO THE CHINESE SPECIES (HYMENOPTERA: CRABRONIDAE)' Tingjing Li,** Wanzhi Cai,’ and Qiang Li’ ABSTRACT: Liris ferrugineimarginalis new species from Guangdong and Fujian, China, is des- cribed and illustrated. A key to the Chinese species of the genus is provided KEY WORDS: Hymenoptera, Crabronidae, Liris, new species, China Liris Fabricius is a large cosmopolitan genus, most species of which inhabit the tropics. Pulawski listed 308 species and 32 subspecies of the genus Liris in the electronic Catalog of Sphecidae in October 2006. Six species and three sub- species occur in the Palaearctic, 94 species and 6 subspecies in the Oriental, | species and 2 subspecies in the Nearctic, 38 species in the Neotropical, 47 species and 4 subspecies in the Australian, 71 species and 14 subspecies in the Ethiopian, 5 species and 3 subspecies in the Palaearctic and Oriental, 8 species in the Palaearctic and Ethiopian, 6 species in the Oriental and Australian, 24 species in the Nearctic and Neotropical, 1 species in the Oriental and Nearctic, 2 species in the Palaearctic, Oriental and Australian, 2 species in the Palaearctic, Oriental and Ethiopian, | species in the Palaearctic, Ethiopian and Australian, 2 species in the Palaearctic, Oriental, Australian and Nearctic regions (Bohart and Menke, 1976; Tsuneki, 1976, 1982, 1983a, 1983b; Krombein and Shanks Gingras, 1984; Amarante, 2002). Sixteen species and five subspecies have been recorded from China (Smith, 1856; Bingham, 1897; Cameron, 1903; Dover, 1926; Richards, 1928; Gussakovskij, 1938; de Beaumont, 1961; Bohart and Menke, 1976; Tsuneki, 1966, 1967, 1971, 1972, 1983b; Pu, 1986; Wu and Zhou, 1996; Porter et al., 1999). During our study of the Chinese material of Liris, a new species from Guangdong and Fujian was discovered. A key to the Chinese species of Liris is provided and the new species is described and illustrated. For the terminology we mainly follow Bohart and Menke (1976). The diagnosis for Liris Fabricius is as follows: lateral ocellus reduced, flat and small; frons just below median ocellus with a transverse swelling extending from eye to eye and interrupted by median frontal line, and a linear swelling along inner orbit which joins transverse swelling to form an M shape; mandible sim- ple, most species with a conspicuous notch on outer margin, mostly with one or two teeth on inner margin; pronotal collar, scutum, scutellum and metanotum ‘Received on December 16, 2006. Accepted on May 20, 2007. * Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biodiversity for Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China. E-mails: (TL) Itjing1979@hotmail. com, (QL, corresponding author) liqiangkm@126.com. * Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100094, China. E-mail: caiwz@ cau.edu.cn. Mailed on November 14, 2007 418 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS punctuate, punctures longer than one to less than one diameter apart; forewing with three submarginal cells; pronotum is angular in dorsal view, and gaster without petiole. Liris Fabricius can be distinguished from Larra Fabricius by the following combination of the following characters: in female, last tarsomere angled in lateral view and sides parallel on apical half, pygidial plate mostly with setae and in most species with apically a transverse row of stout apical spinules; in male, propodeal side impunctate and dull or if shiny, then at most with sparse pinprick punctures, fore and hind femur excavate ventrally in some species. Body length 5.0 — 30.0 mm. METHODS The material examined during this study is deposited in the following institu- tions: Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang; Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China; China Agricultural University, Beijing; Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu; Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong; Northwest Science-Technology University of Agriculture and Forestry, Yangling, Shanxi; South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong; Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei; Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan. The specimens were observed and figured with the aid of an Olympus stere- omicroscope (SZ Series, Japan) with an ocular micrometer. The ratios used in the species descriptions were calculated at the same magnification. SYSTEMATICS Key to females of Liris from China 1. Mandible without notch on outer margin, pubescence on head and thorax golden, scape and pedicel, legs except basal portions ferruginous, wings pur- plish dark brown, body length 15.0—22.0 mm. Borneo, Caroline Islands, China (Guangdong, Hainan, Yunnan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan), Guam, Hawaiian Islands, India, Indonesia, Java, Malaysia, Mariana, Marshall, New Guinea, Philippines, Ryukyu and Okinawa Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand....... NUS PPA, CRO, CE), RIO Oe BY ESS L. aurulentus (Fabricius), 1787 - Mandible with well-defined notch on outer margin ............cceeeeeeeeeeteeee 2 2. Pyeicial plate dsetose Or NEALLY SOY .cocc.s2--cccce- sete cecessoe-ecceeeesecacens cone ene 3 SMP YOretal Pale tSelOSS 0). 21)..0.2 on MAeeeeett cco ctede eer anteentenc Gate ee aete er S 3. Pygidial plate dull, alutaceous, tarsal claws with tooth near base, mandible without teeth on inner margin, body length 12.0—-13.0 mm. China (Guang- dong, Yunnan, and Taiwan)................. L. larroides taiwanus (Tsunek1), 1967 - Pygidial plate polished, tarsal claws without tooth, mandible with two teeth iii IMS ONAN, 2.05 ois ewiise ous enne cuzuest nicss axequsres Ree maemo ane ese nee eae 4 4. Pygidial plate apically with short, stiff setae; pronotum not thick; anterior margin of clypeus somewhat rounded, mandible mostly black; body length 9.0-13.0 mm. Botel Tobago Islands, Burma, China (Beijing, Hebei, and ile Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 419 Henan), India, Malaysia, Mongolia, North Africa south to Sudan and Erithrea, Southern Europe, Southwestern and Central Asia.................ccc0 BUELL CIPI 8, Patek MORAINE aehitleessecctesasansecscess L. niger (Fabricius), 1775 Pygidial plate asetose, pronotum comparatively thick, clypeus broadly rounded anteriorly, mandible mostly red, body length 10.0—12.0 mm. China (Yunnan and Taiwan), India, Philippines, Thailand...........0.0. ccc ecceeseeeeeees BP dried oti. Ribot i etidre «A Maa rears hl MEBs Maihhas Entuet L. fuscinervus (Cameron), 1905 With a transverse sulcus adjacent to the free margin of the lateral clypeal lobe, a coarsely rugose propodeal dorsum, and the presence of a subbasal tooth on the female claw; body length 12.5 mm. China (no specific locality), Sia LLP iRl Re lyeteee tee rh ele ecladerr chenet L. vigilans (F. Smith, 1856); & unknown Without a transverse sulcus adjacent to the free margin of the lateral clypeal lobe, or without a subbasal tooth on the female claw ..............c.cceeeeeeeeeeeees 6 Mesopleuron sparsely punctuate, punctures distinctly more than one diame- ter apart, interspaces polished, body length 8.0—10.0 mm. Africa, China (Jiangsu), Southwestern Europe, Southwestern and Central Asia .................. nes ee nee ee coe eee oe Eee ene eee L. nigricans (Walker), 1871 Mesopleuron punctuate or rugose, punctures no more than one diameter ARPA CS EOUU Ueno tee cea nina tunics adatse ‘esdacl Jecabazqnedaace teeter 7 Gaster pruinose, middle sterna with long, black, stiff setae, body length 7.0 mm. China (Hong Kong), India .... L. anthracinus Kohl, 1892; ® unknown Gaster not pruinose or at most apical portions of segments with bands of pile, middle sterna without long black stiff setae in most specimens ................. 8 Side of propodeum coarsely reticulate, body length 8.0—11.0 mm. Burma, China (Guangxi), India, Indonesia, Java, Okinawa ..............:cccccceeesssneeeeeeeeeees een tee en acorn te oye L. tristis (F. Smith), 1856; © unknown Side of propodeum punctuate or obliquely rugose, not reticulate ............... 9 Pronotum, at least in middle, raised high, nearly reaching level of scutum .. EAR ok, St MANNS SAREE BU, AIBA MNT VIOREL chee tl LACIE. 10 Pronotum depressed much below level of scutum ..............eeeeeeeeeeees 12 . Gaster with four silvery bands of pile, head and thorax densely with silvery or whitish pubescence, body length 7.0—8.5 mm. China (Taiwan), Philip- pines, Ryukyu Islands, Thailand ...........00000... L. albopilosus Tsuneki, 1967 Gaster with three silvery bands of pile, pubescence on head and thorax sparse _Lpachgac Shaan saedech Saree A A tania aah Iedlche es hl Sie alin fede OCs icen rept oe MALE lead va tl 11 Lateral carina of propodeum strong and complete, rugae on side of propodeum mainly longitudinal, punctures on mesopleuron minuter and sparser, body length 6.0-12.0 mm. China (Yunnan, Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Taiwan), Japan, Korea, Ryukyu Islands, Thailand............. eee Br 22 HB, NOFEE TRG BIO LEIA GOO fee L. festinans japonicus (Kohl), 1884 Lateral carina of propodeum not strong or complete as above, rugae on side of propodeum oblique, punctures on mesopleuron coarser and sparser, body 420 12. 13. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS length 6.5—8.5 mm. China (Taiwan), Fiji, Guam, Mariana and Caroline Islands, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Philippines, Samoa ................ccc0cccc00 bs, Aepaaden tel fy weenie NB ce 5 asta te cee ea L. festinans manilae (Ashmead), 1904 Head and thorax closely with golden or brassy pubescence, punctures on clypeal anteriorly extending to margin and fairly dense, wings markedly yel- NO Wash. (xecscel eqneega desi six bOI A pe Re Nd A, a 13 Large species, body length 16.0—21.0 mm, setae erect on vertex and thorax, mesopleuron rugose, setae on pygidial plate dark brown, interocular distance at vertex slightly shorter than flagellomere I, clypeus broadly rounded ante- riorly, its free margin slightly emarginate mesally. China (Sichuan, Fujian, Yunnan, Jiangsu and Taiwan); Ryukyu Islands................c cc ccecceeesessteeeeeeeeeees Rete pepe pire die in ijsoccocdncose OAR een Pare L. deplanatus binghami Tsuneki, 1967 Medium-sized species, body length 11.0—16.0 mm, setae on head and thorax appressed, mesopleuron punctuate, setae on pygidial plate golden, interocu- lar distance on vertex longer than flagellomere I, free margin of clypeus not emarginate. Burma, China (Yunnan and Taiwan), Malaysia, Mariana Islands, Micronesia, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Thailand................cccccecesseeeeeteeees RE, ee en 2 RS L. laboriosus (F. Smith), 1856 . Tibiae, tarsi, hind femur, and mandible mostly red, body length about 12.0 mm. China (Yunnan and Taiwan), Philippines, Thailand ...........00...ceeeeeeee TASAALY Sak cee eee aaetnnett SALENL SY MUONS. elf 0 L. larriformis (F. Williams), 1928 Atleast tibiae’ and tarsn black ..)220,. oA. LI. ee ee 15 . Interocular distance on vertex less than flagellomere I, lateral carina of propodeunt. completerr ..2 Re SI Oe 16 Interocular distance on vertex equal to flagellomere I, lateral carina of propodeum in most specimens lacking, at most ill defined ..................00 19 . Apical margins of each gastral segment narrowly ferruginous, rhinaria pres- ent on flagellomeres IV—IX, elongate, elliptic, anterior margin of clypeus mostly smooth, sparsely punctuate, wings brown, body length 13.0 mm. China (Guangdong and Fujian) ................... L. ferrugineimarginalis sp. nov. Apical margins of gastral segments black, rhinaria present on flagellomeres NED viene Meee ata Me), MNS Aes Ue TMA Ll er 17 . Large, deep-black species, body length 17.0—20.0 mm, wings strongly infu- mate, with purplish shimmer, three bands of sparse brownish pile on gaster narrow, ill defined, setae of pygidial plate dark brown. China (Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Sichuan, and Taiwan), Ryukyu Islands... L. surusumi Tsuneki, 1966 Medium-sized species, less black due to more marked pile, wings not so strongly infumate, three bands on gaster fairly well-defined as seen from cer- [PIMA ONS etre scancnacsnexueerscaperdiceseanued ysitoce cage nftearetes eracasds tee Coelatn cate eae 18 . Body and wings much darker, with three bands of pile on gaster and setae of pygidial plate dark brown, body length 12.0-16.0 mm. China (Taiwan), Ryukyu. Islandsiageanreeel chee iosd-s L. rohweri formosanus Tsueki, 1973 19: Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 421 Body and wings less dark, with four bands of pile on gaster and setae of pygidial plate golden, body length 11.0-15.0 mm. China (Yunnan and ilanwan) Philippines. Ryukyuslslamds wx. bees eescctescuss. cavatiessas soevebworeueeesnenans yes. ee ee eee L. rohweri rohweri (F. Williams), 1928 Median lobe of clypeus broad, apical bevel of clypeus impunctate and pol- ished, body length 12.0—-15.0 mm. Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, China (Taiwan), Malaysia, Okinawa, Philippines, Ryukyu Islands, Thailand........... 1g ERIE OI IE RH SRE ER L. difficilis Tsuneki, 1983b Median lobe of clypeus comparatively narrow, apical bevel with transverse series of punctures below, or sparsely punctured, dull, body length 12.0—16.0 mm. Bismarck Archipelago, Botel Tobago Islands, China (Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Yunnan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong), Central to South Asia, Fiji, Hawaiian Islands, Japan, Marshall Islands, Mediterranean basin, Micronesia, Solomon Islands ......... L. subtessellatus (F. Smith), 1856 Key to males of Liris from China Mandible without notch on outer margin, scape, pedicel, and legs except basal portions ferruginous, clypeus not excavate and anterior margin of clypeus not truncate, body length 10.0—22.0 mm. Distributions as the female Ne ee ee eo occa sc eneteacdtcka L. aurulentus (Fabricius), 1787 Mandible with well-defined notch on outer margin; scape, pedicel, or legs not His iateth AMOI (CM MUS CUILCMEING conc cee dace case ncncdectecenetocneaeserereuecernecvnrecensesoeuseess 2 Mandible without teeth on inner margin, at most very weakly incised toward middle, rhinaria on flagellomere II only, in an elliptic flattened impression, leneth about 9.0 mimes: resciorce.c ise: L. larroides taiwanus (Tsuneki), 1967 Mandible with one or two teeth on inner Margin .......... eee eee eee eeeee eee 3 Anterior margin of clypeus obtusely angulate, distinctly prominent in middle, length relation among abscissae of radial vein of forewing: 2<5<3<4< 1, bodylemeth £.0—9:0 Mi... ct-t-ccseencacoccbe-neiectets---- L. niger (Fabricius), 1775 Anterior margin of clypeus not obtusely angulate, length relation among abscissae of radial vein of forewing usually 4>1>3>5>2 oe. + Mesopleuron sparsely punctuate, punctures distinctly more than one diame- ter apart, interspaces polished, hind femur simple, body length 5.0—8.0 mm. sate athe ea sd anne ees perenne leh geminata L. nigricans (Walker), 1871 Mesopleuron punctuate or rugose, punctures equal to or less than one diam- eter apart, interspaces not polished, hind femur excavate ventrally in some SSIES. scedasteceetect lak 6 atl cadena aha Mae tel heehee led dell taht reser nibs reed oe | CaN 5 . Pubescence on frons and clypeus golden, at least with brassy luster .......... 6 Pubescence onions and clypeus Sil Vly ..s... 14 ic.ces.coasssouss orspsbeesicesaetereae- a: 9 Apical margin of each gastral segment ferruginous, interocular distance on vertex less than combined length of pedicel and flagellomere I, rhinaria on flagellomeres II-XI, on IJ—X extending over full length of each segment, on MFApourd 7s leneth~ body tenet VIO mane eee eae ete cee cocoate seen eae Bd ae ine aba ee ek hope ee ri ee ce ibaa er L. ferrugineimarginalis sp. nov. 422 10. Lt. ze ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Apical margin of gastral segments black ..............eccccccccceessceccesessseeeeeesnseees i . Four broad silvery bands of pile on gaster, wings yellowish, apically fuscous punctures on vertex, scutum and mesopleuron minute, body length 10.0—12.0 Tanta +” GRRE AS a ee pe AAC eh L. laboriosus (F. Smith), 1856 Three bands of pile on gaster, wings markedly darkened, punctures on vertex and scutum comparatively coarse, at least subalar epimeral area of meso- pleuron ‘with reticulate mueae” 220. RES, it: A 8 Pile on frons and clypeus deep golden, clypeus nearly truncate apically, rhi- naria with surface smooth, body length 9.0-13.0 mm................ccccceccseseeeeeeees PO MEE eo os. L. deplanatus binghami Tsuneki, 1967 Pile on frons and clypeus pale yellow, clypeus roundly produced anteriorly, Bodiyy ler otha Sinai 86 onenninnitn>oaZh enn ateresnct L. surusumi Tsuneki, 1966 Pronotum thick, not transversely carinate on top, mesally raised nearly to level of scutum, body length 7.0—-9.0 mm ....L. fuscinervus (Cameron), 1905 Pronotum compressed in front, flattened anteriorly, with top transversely ridgedybelowclevelor scutumian.w. Ae Lae 10 Tibiae, tarsi, and hind femur wholly and mandible mostly red, clypeus ante- riorly polished, nearly truncate apically, without median incision, body Temetlr 720800: onc. sence cecsueasesecamse L. larriformis (F. Williams), 1928 Tibiae, tarsi, hind femur and mandible black or at most brown ................. jk Pronotum in middle raised nearly to level of scutum, punctures on scutum comparatively coarse, with well-defined interspaces, radial cell of forewing with apex more or less obliquely truncate ...............cveses: {jah -teeneshe, ee eRe 12 Pronotum depressed much below level of scutum, punctures on scutum minute and dense, radial cell of forewings truncate apically .........0...... 14 Clypeus on anterior margin with median tooth, silvery pubescence on frons, clypeus, gena and thorax thick, dense and long, body length 5.0—7.0 mm..... Mees Sou 5 OA RN, a i me ee ORM L. albopilosus Tsuneki, 1967 Clypeus on anterior margin without median tooth, silvery pubescence on frons, clypeus, gena and thorax not thick, dense or long ................:::eee 13 . Interocular distance on vertex slightly less than combined length of pedicel and flagellomere I, clypeus gently rounded and slightly produced in middle, body length 5.0—6.5 mm.................... L. festinans manilae (Ashmead), 1904 Interocular distance on vertex distinctly less than combined length of pedicel and flagellomere I, clypeus roundly produced anteriorly, not produced medi- ally, body length 5.0—10.0 mm................ L. festinans japonicus (Kohl), 1884 . Interocular distance on vertex distinctly less than combined length of pedicel and flagellomere I, pubescence on fore femur ventrally long and erect, wings fairly markedly darkened, lateral carina of propodeum complete............... iS Interocular distance on vertex longer than or as long as combined length of pedicel and flagellomere I, pubescence on fore femur ventrally short and flat- Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 423 tened, wings slightly darkened or yellowish, apically darker, lateral carina of propedcum™uncomplete or labkime i) Mee Ses Pe i, 15. Body and wings very dark, with only three bands of pile on the gaster, clypeus slightly rounded, body length 8.0 —10.0 mm... eee eee 1 cits MAE Rc RR RNR RE ll 5 A L. rohweri formosanus Tsuneki, 1973 - Body and wings less dark, with four bands of pile on the gaster ............... 16 16. Clypeus not emarginate medially, without sharp lateral angles, body length G7 mine, Chinan(Varwan) 80 evccec. 0. L. menkei Tsuneki, 1972; 9 unknown - Clypeus distinctly emarginate medially, with sharp lateral angles, body Fonee.8.0= 1 3 OMmNt. ave. scscteencceee L. rohweri rohweri (F. Williams), 1928 17. Interocular distance on vertex distinctly longer than combined length of pedi- cel and flagellomere I, as long as combined length of flagellomeres I and II, body length 5.5 mm China (Taiwan) ..................0.. L. hanedai Tsuneki, 1971 - Interocular distance on vertex as long as combined length of pedicel and fla- gellomere I, distinctly less than combined length of flagellomeres I and II... 18. Pubescence of femur fairly long ventrally, wings markedly fuscous, stigma and veins black, body length 14.0 mm. China (Taiwan ..............00.ccccceeeeees pee Geer ehn cee Merete! sess raels, does ecatinteante L. fuscatus Tsuneki, 1971; 9 unknown - Pubescence of femur short ventrally, wings hyaline, apical margin darkened, SMemIavaNG Views (ROW e.e288.. 0.0 de srsedes.Peegges bf. .dgdeofetsiecsachaee.. J oaqesceacelsbee: 19 19. Fore femur slightly excavate ventrally, median lobe of clypeus broad, para- mere of the male genitalia slender, body length 7.0-12.0 mm. .............0...0.0.. SETI. SA OTR ira hE ta ey TONIC! L. difficilis Tsuneki, 1983 - Fore femur strongly excavate ventrally, median lobe of clypeus narrow, para- mere of the male genitalia stout, body length 7.0-12.0 mm. ..............0.0.008 G tariun, Acute: poteks) .. seeeieay fe) L. subtessellatus (F. Smith), 1856 Liris ferruginimarginalis, NEW SPECIES Figures 1-8 Diagnosis. This new species can be distinguished from the related L. silvico- la (F. Williams), 1928 and all other species of the genus by the following com- bination of characters: apical margin of each gastral segment ferruginous; ante- rior part of clypeus broadly smooth, sparsely punctate, with median incision in female, emarginate apically in male; wings hyaline and partly brown, male gen- italia unique. Description. Female. Body length 13.0 mm. Black except the following: tib- ial and tarsal spines, apical margin of each gastral segment ferruginous; mandible apically dark ferruginous; palpi, tegula, stigma and veins of wings dark brown; wings hyaline and partly brown. Head, thorax, and gastral segments I-IV with silvery pubescence, pygidial plate (Fig. 3) with setae stiff, long and recumbent, and with a few erect longer setae, apical margin with 6 long spinules. 424 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Frons and vertex sparsely punctate, punctures on upper portion about one diameter apart, those on lower portion more than one diameter apart. Interocular distance on vertex less than length of flagellomere I. Flagellomere I as long as II and 3.2 times as long as apical breadth. Rhinaria on flagellomeres IV-IX, elon- gate, elliptic, on IV very small, on V about 0.1 length of the segment, on VI about 0.2 length of the segment, on VII-I[X about 0.25 length of each segment. Clypeus (Fig. 1): anterior part broadly smooth, sparsely punctuate, with median incision. Mandible with two teeth on inner margin. Thorax closely punctuate, punctures distinctly less than one diameter apart, but those on scutum larger, those on metanotum sparser, about one diameter apart, metapleuron with oblique rugae, interspaces between rugae polished; pro- podeal dorsum reticulate, without median carina, with lateral carina; side of pro- podeum alutaceous, sparsely obliquely, finely rugose; posterior side of pro- podeum alutaceous, basally with median furrow, sides of furrow sparsely, trans- versely rugose. Length relation among abscissae of radial vein of forewings: 5 < Dia eS Lae Pygidial plate (Fig. 3); length of tergum I: width at posterior margin = 69: 127. Male. Body length 12.0 mm. Similar to female. But pubescence on frons and clypeus golden, wings pale brown, the ferruginous apical margin of each seg- ment wider than in female. Interocular distance on vertex longer than the length of flagellomere I, shorter than combined length of pedicel and flagellomere I. Flagellomere I subequal to II and about 2 times as long as apical breadth. Rhinaria on flagellomeres Ii--XI, on II—X extending over full length of each seg- ment, on XI extending 0.75 length of the segment. Median lobe of clypeus (Fig. 2) narrower than in female, anterior margin medially emarginate. Fore femur dis- tinctly excavate ventrally, hind femur slightly excavate ventrally. Propodeal dor- sum reticulate, with short median carina; lateral side of propodeum alutaceous, thin and oblique rugae closer than in female. Gaster without pygidial plate, length of tergum I: width at posterior margin = 59: 82. Length relation among abscissae of radial vein of forewings: 5 < 2 <3 <1 <4. Sternum VIII (Fig. 5), lateral view of volsella (Fig. 4), inside view of right paramere (Fig. 6), dorsal view of right paramere (Fig. 7), lateral view of penis valve (Fig. 8). Material Examined. Holotype: 9, China, Guangdong, Huizhou, Xiangtou Mountain, 18. May 2002, Zaifu Xu; deposited in the Insect Collections of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Paratypes: 10°, China, Guangdong, Huizhou, Xiangtou mountain, 18 May 2002, Zaifu Xu; 10°, China, Guangdong, Xinyi, Dawuling, 5 May 2002, Zaifu Xu; 19, China, Hainan, Limu Mountain, 14 July 2002, Zaifu Xu; all paratypes deposited in the Insect Collections of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Distribution: China: Guangdong and Fujian. Etymology. The name ferrugineimarginalisis derived from the Latin words: ferrugineus (= ferruginous) and marginalis (= marginal), with reference to the ferruginous apical margin of each gastral segment in both sexes. WU 6/0 = 8-p SOINSIY JOJ UUW CQ" | = E—] SOINSIY IO} seq a]eos ‘OATCA STUad JO MOIA [eIOIeT °g ‘oJoWeIed JYSII JO MOIA [eSIOG “L “‘o1OWIeIEd JYBII JO MOIA OPISUT °9 [ITA WINUID}S “¢ “e[[ASTOA JO MIA [RIOT ‘p ‘oyeyd JerprsAd Jo Mota [estog “¢ ‘snodAjo Jo MIA [eIUOLy *Z ‘T “8—-p ‘7 WRI “€ ‘T ‘OTeUIay ‘soloods Mou ‘sypUIsiDWIUIsNALaf SIT °Q—] “SoINn314 425 G Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 426 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We are grateful to Wojciech J. Pulawski (California Academy of Sciences) for providing copies of many publications and Professor Yan-Ru Wu (Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Beijing), Professor Chikun Yang (China Agricultural University, Bejing), Professor Junhua He and Professor Xuexin Chen (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou), Professor Yalin Zhang and Professor Yunlun Wang (Northwest Science-Technology University of Agriculture and Forestry, Shanxi Province), Professor Lianfang Yang (Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province), Professor Zaifu Xu (South China Agricultural University, Guangdong Province) and Professor Guodong Ren (Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei Province) for providing us with specimens deposited in the insect col- lections under their care. 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Science Press, Beijing. 197 pp., 14 unnumbered color plates. 428 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS SCIENTIFIC NOTE SEVEN NEW RECORDS FOR THE TURKISH ARANEOFAUNA (ARACHNIDA: ARANEAE), WITH ZOOGEOGRAPHICAL REMARKS' Aydin Topcu,’ Hakan Demir,’ and Osman Seyyar* Arachnological studies of Turkey began towards the end of the 19th century. The spider fauna of Turkey needs further study. To date, 613 species of spiders have been recorded from Turkey (Topcu et al., 2005). In this paper, we add seven species to the spider fauna of Turkey. For each taxon, the paper includes zoo- geographical remarks and chorotype information. The specimens were collected from different parts of Turkey using pitfall traps and manual collection. Examined specimens are deposited in the Arachnology Museum of Nigde University (NUAM). The specimens were preserved in 70% ethanol. The identification was made with a ZX61 Olympus stereomicroscope. The keys of Heimer and Nentwig (1991) and Roberts (1995) were used to iden- tify all specimens. General distribution of all species follows Platnick (2007). The Range section indicates the actual known distribution for each taxon. The species distribution within Turkey is summarized in Remarks. The Chorotype, or zoogeographical characterization for the species, is given following Taglianti et. al. (1999). One chorotype designation is identified for each taxon. NEW RECORDS 1. Dictyna pusilla Thorell, 1856 (Dictynidae). Two males collected in Nigde in Central Anatolia, Turkey. They were collected on oaks (Quercus sp., Faga- ceae) shrubs on 18.11.2002. Description: Males 2-2.25 mm. Prosoma and ster- num brown. Abdomen dark brown and has blackish bands on the upper surface. Legs dark brown, usually annulated distinctly at the ends of segments. This species often resembles D. arundinacea closely. The males can be separated by the form and proportions of bifid tibial apophysis. Range and Chorotype. Palearctic. Remarks. New to Turkey. This species may be distributed in Central Anatolia. ' Submitted on May 3, 2006. Accepted on April 27, 2007. * Nigde University, Arts and Sciences Faculty, Department of Biology, 51200-Nigde, Turkey. E-mail: atopcu3(@msn.com. * Gazi University, Arts and Sciences Faculty, Department of Biology, 06500-Ankara, Turkey. E-mail: hakandemir@gazi.edu.tr. ‘Erciyes University, Faculty of Science and Arts, Department of Biology, TR-38039, Kayseri, Tur- key. E-mail: osmanseyyar@hotmail.com. Mailed on November 14, 2007 Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 429 2. Cheiracanthium pennyi O. P. Cambridge, 1873 (Miturgidae). One male was recorded from Nigde in June 2003. It was found under stone. Description: Male 6.5 mm. Prosoma oval, coppery light brown. Abdomen dark brown with black hairs. Legs long with the same colour of the carapace. This species often resembles C. erraticum very closely. The males can be separated by the cymbial spur of the male palp is long and blunt at terminal part. Range and Chorotype. Palearctic. Remarks. New to Turkey. This species may be distributed in Central Anatolia. 3. Micaria formicaria (Sundevall, 1831) (Gnaphosidae). Only mature female has been taken from Mersin (Sarusik village) in early July 2002. Specimen has been collected luckily among debris. Description: Female 7.2 mm. Prosoma clearly red-brown. Abdomen dark brown with white dots. Sternum is same colour with abdomen. Epigyne with lengthwise oval spermathecae which reach- es at least up to the transverse anterior margin. Range and Chorotype. Palearctic. Remarks. New to Turkey. The record of Turkey is indicated the most south- ern point of known range. 4. Erigone atra Blackwall, 1833 (Linyphiidae). Three females and five males were recorded from Meydan Plateau in Nigde. All specimens were collected in a stony grassland from under the same stone during October 2004. Description: Female 2.3-2.5 mm, Male 1.9-2.2 mm. Prosoma blackish-brown. In male, later- al sides of carapace light brown, with 12-14 teeth-like notches. In female, cara- pace darker than male. Abdomen oval and light brown. Sternum black with dark brown spots. Epigyne black, rather large and cutaneous. Tibialapophysis of male palp with a median rounded flat extension. Range and Chorotype. Holoarctic. Remarks. New to Turkey. This species may be distributed in Central Anatolia. 5. Agroeca inopina O. P. Cambridge, 1886 (Liocranidae). One female was recorded from Nigde (Maden village) in May 2002. It was collected from under stone. So far, no Agroeca species has been recorded from Turkey (Topcu et al., 2005). Description: Female 4.5 mm. Prosoma with bright central band. Both sides of carapace are blackish-brown. Anterior median eyes smaller than laterals, and equal in size to posterior medians. Abdomen reddish-brown, without recog- nizable dorsal pattern. Metatarsus I and II, ventrally with three pairs of spines. Epigyne strongly cutaneous, with long curved ducts in posterior half. This spec- ies resembles A. proxima in general appearance, but can be distinguished by sex- ual organs, very faint annulations of the legs and absence of a wedge-shaped ven- tral mark on abdomen. Range. Europe, Algeria. Chorotype. European. Remarks. New to Turkey. This species may be distributed in Central Anatolia. 430 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 6. Liocranoeca striata (Kulezynski, 1882) (Liocranidae). One male was recorded from Adana (Pozanty district) in July 2002. Specimen has been col- lected under stone. So far, no Liocranoeca species has been recorded from Turkey (Topg¢u et al., 2005). Description: Male 4.1 mm. General habitus resem- bles Agroeca. Prosoma oval, brown with a greyish-black borderline. Colour of chelicerae as carapace. Both rows of eyes procurved. Anterior medians slightly smaller than laterals. Abdomen elliptic, dusky grey with a yellow lighter central band reaching nearly to spinners. Sternum almost circular and light yellow. Legs yellow brown, tibiae and metatarsi I and II sometimes sooty grey or faintly annu- lated. The male palpal organ has long tibial apophysis. Range. Europe, Russia. Chorotype. Turano-European. Remarks. New to Turkey. The record of Turkey is southernmost point of its known range. 7. Scotina palliardii (L. Koch, 1881) (Liocranidae). One female was record- ed from Nigde (Camardy district) in June 2003. So far, no Scotina species has been recorded from Turkey (Top¢u et al., 2005). It was collected from under stone. Description: Female 3.2 mm. Prosoma reddish-brown with white hairs posteriorly, but the sides of carapace with black hairs. Abdomen blackish-brown. Legs light brown with black spots. The spermathecae are small. Range. Europe, Russia. Chorotype. Turano-European. Remarks. New to Turkey. This species may be distributed in Central Ana- tolia. LITERATURE CITED Heimer, S. and W. Nentwig. 1991. Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Verlag. Berlin, Germany, 543 pp. Platnick, N. I. 2007. The world spider catalog, version 7.5. American Museum of Natural History, online at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html. Roberts, M. J. 1995. Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins. London, England, U.K. 383 pp. Topcu, A., H. Demir, and O. Seyyar. 2005. A checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Serket 9(4): 109- 140. Taglianti, A. V., P. A. Audisio, M. Biondi, M. A. Bologna, G. M. Carpaneto, A. De Biase, S. Fattorini, E. Piattella, R. Sindaco, A. Venchi, and M. Zapparoli. 1999. A proposal for a chorotype classification of the Near East fauna, in the framework of the Western Palaearctic Region. Biogeographia 20: 31-59. Volume 118, Number 4, September and October 2007 431 SCIENTIFIC NOTE NEW RECORD OF THE ALDERFLY SIALIS MOHRI (MEGALOPTERA: SIALIDAE) FROM TEXAS AND LOUISIANA, U.S.A.’ Jason L. Locklin? Herein I report the occurrence of Sialis mohri Ross (Megaloptera: Sialidae) for the first time from Texas and Louisiana. On 15 April 2006, I collected six males and five females of S. mohri along the shoreline vegetation of a pond (approximately 5 hectares) just south of Joaquin in Shelby County, TX. I also collected two males of the same species from another pond (approximately 3 hectares) near Zwolle in Sabine Parish, LA on the same date. Currently 24 species of Sialis Latreille are known from America north of Mexico (Ross 1937, Townsend 1939, Flint 1964, Whiting 1991a). Ross (1937) described the holotype of Sialis mohri from the Trout River in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin. Known state/province records for this widely distributed species are Arkansas, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachu- setts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Brunswick, New Hamp- shire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Quebec, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, and Wisconsin (Ross 1937, Tarter et al., 1978, Stark and Lago 1980, Whiting 1991b). The two new state records report- ed here broaden the known southwestern distribution of S. mohri. Before these new records from Texas and Louisiana, three species of Sialis had been reported from Texas (S. velata Ross, S. itasca Ross, S. americana Rambur) (Ross 1937, Tarter et al., 1978) and only one (S. americana Rambur) from Louisiana (Tarter et al., 1978). The specimens are deposited in the person- al collection of the author (11) and in the Texas A&M University Insect Collec- tion (2). Collection Data: LOUISIANA, Sabine Parish near Zwolle (31°66'99N, 93°58'34W), 15 April 2006, J. L. Locklin, at large; 2 males. TEXAS, Shelby County near Joaquin (31°96'18N, 94°06'67W), 15 April 2006, J. L. Locklin, at large; 6 males, 5 females. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I thank Dr. David Bowles, National Park Service — Southwest Missouri State University, Dr. Darrell Vodopich, Baylor University, and three anonymous reviewers for the helpful comments made during their review of this manuscript. "Received on October 16, 2006. Accepted on May 18, 2007. * Department of Biology, Baylor University, One Bear Place 97388, Waco, Texas 76798-7388 U.S.A.; E-mail: jason_locklin@baylor.edu. Mailed on November 14, 2007 432 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS LITERATURE CITED Flint, O. S., Jr. 1964. New species and new state records of Sialis (Neuroptera: Sialidae). Ento- mological News 75:9-13. Ross, H. H. 1937. Studies of Nearctic aquatic insects. I Nearctic alderflies of the genus Sialis (Megaloptera, Sialidae). Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey 21:57-78. Stark, B. P. and P. K. Lago. 1980. New records of Nearctic Sialis (Megaloptera: Sialidae), with emphasis on Mississippi fauna. Entomological News 91:117-121. Tarter, D. C., W. D. Watkins, D. L. Ashley, and J. T. Goodwin. 1978. New state records and sea- sonal emergence patterns of alderflies east of the Rocky Mountains (Megaloptera: Sialidae). Entomological News 89:231-234. Townsend, L. H. 1939. A new species of Sialis (Megaloptera: Sialidae) from Kentucky. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 41:224-226. Whiting, M. F. 1991a. New species of Sialis from Southern California (Megaloptera: Sialidae). Great Basin Naturalist 51:411-413. Whiting, M. F. 1991b. A distributional study of Sialis (Megaloptera: Sialidae) in North America. Entomological News 102:50-56. Agreement. By submitting a paper for publication, authors tacitly agree to not submit in parallel the same manuscript to another journal. 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Cover Design by Jane Spencer Mailed on January 18, 2008 Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 433 A NEW NAME FOR A WHITEFLY, REDESCRIPTION AND INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION IN ALEUROLOBUS EXCEPTIONALIS REGU AND DAVID, A NEW RECORD OF ALEUROLOBUS, AND DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF DIALEURODES (HEMIPTERA: ALEYRODIDAE), ALL FROM INDIA’ Anil Kumar Dubey’ and Chiun-Cheng Ko’ ABSTRACT: A new name, Aleuroclava tarennae, is proposed for Aleuroclava davidi Dubey and Sundararaj, 2005, a homonym of Aleuroclava davidi Qureshi, 1982. Aleurolobus exceptionalis Regu and David, found infesting Madhuca latifolia (Sapotaceae) in India, is redescribed and its intraspe- cific variation reported. An African whitefly, Aleurolobus gruveli Cohic is recorded for the first time in India. A new species, Dialeurodes atalantiae, infesting Atalantia racemosa (Rutaceae) in India, is described and illustrated. KEY WORDS: Hemiptera, Aleyrodidae, intraspecific variation, new species, new record, new name, India The whiteflies comprise a single hemipterous family Aleyrodidae that in- cludes an economically important group of sap-sucking insects, infesting a wide range of host plants. They are small, inconspicuous and often found feeding on leaf surfaces. The family Aleyrodidae includes three subfamilies, Aleurodicinae Quaintance and Baker, Aleyrodinae Westwood and Udamoselinae Enderlein. The Indian whitefly fauna comprises two subfamilies, Aleurodicinae (1 genus and 4 species) and Aleurodinae (50 genera and 352 species). The economic loss is well known due to their activities of sucking the plant sap, acting as a vector of plant viruses causing diseases, and production of honey dew leading to the develop- ment of mould on leaves, thus, adversely affecting photosynthesis. In India, a few species that cause such damage are the greenhouse whitefly Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood), the sugarcane whitefly Neomaskellia bergii (Signo- ret) and Aleurolobus barodensis (Maskell), the jasmine whitefly Dialeurodes kir- kaldyi (Kotinsky) and Dialeurodes vulgaris (Singh), the cardamom whitefly Singhiella cardamomi (David and Subramaniam), the citrus whitefly Aleurocan- thus woglumi Ashby and Dialeurodes citri (Ashmead), and the cotton whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius). The biology includes egg, four nymphal instars and adult stage. The adults develop within the quiescent fourth instar usually referred to as the “puparium.” Except the first nymphal instar ‘crawler,’ the second, third and fourth instars are atrophied and sessile. The taxonomy of this group of insects is exclusively based ‘Received on December 19, 2006. Accepted on May 20, 2007. * Department of Entomology, National Taiwan University, 1 Roosevelt Road, Section 4, Taipei 106, Taiwan. E-mails: (AKD) ani2kd@yahoo.com, (C-CK) kocc2501@ntu.edu.tw. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 118 (5): 433, November and December 2007 Mailed on January 18, 2008 434 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS on the characteristics of the fourth nymphal instar so-called ‘pupal case’ or ‘puparium.’ It is found attached with leaf surface and often providing host plants identity. The whitefly which infests monocotyledonous host plants do not usual- ly feed on Dicotyledonous hosts. Some polyphagous species showing morpho- logical variation in puparia depend upon the host plant cuticle which often results in misidentification. The genera included herein comprises the maximum num- ber of species in India. We understand the paper includes additional information on morphotaxonomy of Indian aleyrodids. In this paper, we report a new name for a whitefly, redescribe and report the intraspecific variation in Aleurolobus exceptionalis, report a new record of Aleurolobus, and describe a new species of Dialeurodes, all from India. METHODS Host plant leaves infested with late instar nymphs of the new species were col- lected in paper covers and brought to the laboratory. Specimens were prepared for scanning electron microscopy by removing them from the host plant and washing them in 95% ethanol with an ultrasonic mini cleaner at 50-60 Hz for 2 minutes. Then, the specimens were sequentially dehydrated in 95% and 100% ethanol for one minute. Thereafter, specimens were critical point dried by using CO, as a transfer fluid, mounted on stubs, and sputter-coated with a gold-palla- dium alloy. The scanning electron microscope (JEOL S-800) of the Department of Entomology, National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan) was used to exam- ine the specimens and take micrographs. Descriptions and terminology of exter- nal morphological structures are based on Bink-Moenen (1983), Martin (1985), and Gill (1990). Specimen Depositories ANIC — Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Entomology, Canberra, ACT, Australia. BMNH - British Museum of Natural History, London, U.K. CDFA — California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, California, U.S.A. IARI — Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. NMNH -— National Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Israel. NTU — National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. SMTD — Staatliches Museum fiir Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany. USNM — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, U.S.A. (Ster- norrhyncha collections of the United States National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.). ZMU — Zoological Museum, Universitetsparken, Department of Zoology, Co- penhagen, Denmark. ZSI — Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, India. Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 435 SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY Part 1. A new name for an Indian whitefly Aleuroclava tarennae Dubey and Sundararaj, nomen novum Aleuroclava davidi Dubey and Sundararaj, 2005: 241-172. Aleurotuberculatus tarennae Dubey and Ko, nom. nov. for Aleuroclava davidi Dubey and Sundararaj, 2005 (preoccupied by Aleuroclava davidi (Qureshi), described as Aleurotuberculatus davidi Qureshi. 1982. Material Examined. Holotype puparium, India: Tamil Nadu: Jamunamara- thur Hills, on Zarenna asiatica, 19.viii.2001, A. K. Dubey. Paratypes, 5 puparia, data as for holotype (BMNH, SMTD, NMNH, NTU, USDA). Host Plant. Zarenna asiatica (Rubiaceae) (Dubey and Sundararaj, 2005). Distribution. India: Tamil Nadu (Dubey and Sundararaj, 2005). Etymology. The replacement name is given after host plant genus, Zarenna. Remarks. Dubey and Sundararaj (2005) described Aleuroclava davidi Dubey and Sundararaj from specimens collected on Zarenna asiatica in India. Qureshi (1982) described Aleurotuberculatus davidi (p.49-50) and used the species name, Aleurotuberculatus davidae, in his key, phenogram and discussion (pp. 56-57). Martin (1999) synonymised the genus Aleurotuberculatus Takahashi with Aleu- roclava Singh, therefore making Aleuroclava davidi Dubey and Sundararaj, 2005, a junior homonym of the former species. Hence, a replacement name is assigned to it. Part 2. Redescription and intraspecific variation of a species of Aleurolobus from India The whitefly genus, Aleurolobus Quaintance and Baker is represented in India by 49 species (Regu and David, 1993; Meganathan and David, 1994; Martin, 1999). Studies on this genus in the last decade have increased the number of species known from the Indian subcontinent and have revealed some of the com- plexities involved in determining their identity. This is mainly due to the over- looking of the variation occurring within a species and the use of variable mor- phological characters for identification. As pointed by Martin (1999), “many of the characters that have been used to separate species of Aleurolobus are subtle variations of cuticular folding and setal lengths, and undoubtedly some described species will eventually prove to be synonyms when phenotypic variation (as first described by Mound, 1963) is investigated.” Since whitefly taxonomy is largely based on puparial characters, the treatments of puparia with various chemicals and the duration of the treatments may result in the artifacts, the appearance or disappearance of certain characters, such as the presence of minute tubercles in caudal furrow, black spots on dorsum and toothlike processes at base of vasiform orifice. Slide mounting of specimens with curved, deflexed lateral margins or less bleaching of the puparia often results in variations in the number of teeth 436 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS observed in thoracic tracheal pores. For example, a species that normally has three teeth present in the tracheal pore may have only one tooth. The appearance of a single tooth in the thoracic tracheal pore depends on the prominence of mar- ginal teeth associated with the central one; it varies within a species and with the duration of chemical treatment. The discussion on variation observed in the puparia of Aleurolobus exceptionalis Regu and David (1993) emphasized the need for a revision of the species of Aleurolobus known from the Indian subcon- tinent. Regu and David (1993) discussed the puparial characters for the genus Aleurolobus. One African whitefly, Aleurolobus gruveli Cohic (1969) is record- ed for the first time from India and drawings are given for reference. This species is redescribed and its morphological variability reported due to morphological variations observed in type and other material. Aleurolobus exceptionalis Regu and David (Figs. 1-22) Aleurolobus exceptionalis Regu and David 1993: 25-26. Puparium. Black, most puparia with white wax secretions on dorsum, some puparia without wax secretions; oval in shape, broadest at first abdominal seg- ment, dimorphic, O 1.00-1.04 mm long, 0.62-0.74 mm wide; ? 1.08 mm long, 0.76 mm wide, found singly and scattered on the lower surface of leaves, abun- dant on lower right side of leaves. Margin smoothly crenulate (Fig. 16), 6-7 crenulations in 0.1 mm. Theracic (Fig. 2) and caudal tracheal comb (Figs. 12, 16) differentiated from lateral margin by three distinct teeth. Dorsum. (Figs. 1-19). Submargin incompletely separated from dorsal disc by a submarginal furrow. Submedian pockets present on all the abdominal segment sutures. Submedian depressions present on cephalothoracic and abdominal seg- ment sutures. Rhachis well developed on abdominal segments. Longitudinal moulting suture reaching margin and transverse moulting suture reaching sub- marginal furrow (Fig. 17). Submarginal lines broken. A row of minute granules present on submargin along the margin. Median submarginal area with a row of minute pores with associated porettes. Minute pores and associated porettes scat- tered throughout dorsum. Eye spots reniform. Vasiform orifice subcordate (Figs. 4,18), & 82-90 um long, 72-76 um wide, 9 90 um long, 78 um wide; oper- culum subtriangular shaped, no clear difference is seen in operculum of male and female puparia, 66-70 um long, 58-64 um wide. Inner caudal wall of vasiform orifice with irregular transverse markings. Three toothlike processes at base of vasiform orifice usually present (holotype Fig. 11), sometimes absent or one to six in number and simple or fimbriate at apices (Figs 5-7, 18, 19). Lingula tip concealed (Fig. 18, 19). Caudal furrow with few polygonal markings. Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 437 0.01 mm Figures 1-4. Aleurolobus exceptionalis Regu and David. 1. Puparium. 2. Thoracic tra- cheal pore. 3. Submarginal seta. 4. vasiform orifice. Chaetotaxy. Five pairs of dorsal setae present - one cephalic, two on the first abdominal, one on eighth abdominal segment cephalolaterad of vasiform orifice and one submarginal caudal pair. Submargin with a row of 16 pairs of setae, their bases distinct, (8 pairs each on cephalothorax and abdomen) (Figs. 3, 9, 15). Setae usually broken, in one specimen hook-shaped (Fig. 3), but in holotype stout (Fig. 10). Of the eight pairs of cephalothoracic setae, three pairs are locat- ed above the eye spots and five pairs are below them. Of the eight pairs of abdominal submarginal setae, one pair of setae located on each segment of abdominal segments I-VIII, position of setae found varying from subdorsum to submargin (on subdorsum, holotype Fig. 9). 438 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS \ ANN ANY we rs *\ rr Figures 8-13. Aleurolobus exceptionalis Regu and David. Holotype puparium 8-13. 8. First abdominal segment. 9. Cephalic submarginal area. 10. Submarginal seta. 11. Vasiform orifice with teeth at base. 12. Caudal tracheal pore. 13. Antenna and proleg. Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 439 16Gum ; _ SE rn ZZ SE barn | Ss 1G xm Figures 14-17. Aleurolobus exceptionalis Regu and David. 14. Puparium dorsal view. 15. Cephalic submarginal setae. 16. Tracheal comb and margin. 17. Abdominal segment. Venter. (Fig. 20). A pair of setae at base of meso- and metathoracic legs, 2 um long. Antennae reaching base of mesothoracic legs (holotype Figs. 13; 21). Ven- tral submargin with fold just below submarginal furrow (Fig. 1). A faint row of smooth papillae also present along margin. Caudal tracheal fold with stipples (Fig. 22), stipples absent in submarginal area of thoracic and caudal tracheal folds. Spiracles and adhesive sacs visible. 440 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 56 warn Figures 18-22. Aleurolobus exceptionalis Regu and David. 18, Vasiform orifice. 19. Vasi- form orifice with variable number of teeth. 20. Puparium ventral view. 21. Thoracic tra- cheal fold, legs, and antenna. 22. Ventral setae and caudal tracheal fold. Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 44] Material Examined: Type - Holotype puparium and six paratype specimens, India: Tamil Nadu: Khapoli, on unidentified plant, 12.x1.1988, K. Regu. Addi- tional material (paratypes)- 4 puparia on one slide, on unidentified plant, Kha- poli, 12.11.1988, K. Regu; 9 puparia on five slides, on unidentified plant, Khapolt, 12.x1.1988, K. Regu (loan from K. Regu); | puparium, on Ficus sp., Karnataka: Kudremukh National Park., 9.vi11.2001, A. K. Dubey; 40 puparia on 32 slides, Karnataka: Bangalore, on Madhuca latifolia, 25.vi.2006. A. K. Dubey (NTU GOEL): Host Plants. Ficus beddomei (Regu and David 1993), Ficus sp. (Dubey and Sundararaj 2006); Madhuca latifolia (Sapotaceae) (new host record). Distribution. India: Tamil Nadu: Khapoli (Regu and David 1993); Karna- taka: Kudremukh National Park (Dubey and Sundararaj 2006); Bangalore (Dubey and Ko) (new distribution record). Remarks. This species typically has two pairs of first abdominal setae as does Aleurolobus delamarei Cohic. Of the many slide-mounted specimens collected on Madhuca latifolia, one puparium had a single seta on one side of the first ab- dominal segment and two setae on the other side. Examination of holotype (A. exceptionalis) confirmed the presence of one seta on one side of the first abdom- inal segment and two setae on the other side (Fig. 8); however, in the paratype specimens, there are two setae on each side of the first abdominal segment, which was not noted by Regu and David (1993) in their description of the species. Examination of the holotype, six paratypes and additional specimens collected from Madhuca latifolia (Sapotaceae) confirmed that the number of submarginal setae varies in number from 14-16. The original description states that there is one pair of setae present on subdorsum above the eye spots: however, we ob- served that the position of cephalic subdorsal setae and submarginal setae may vary from the subdorsum to submargin. Interestingly, the apparent number of teeth in thoracic tracheal pores was not constant and varied from one to three depending upon the degree of bleaching used in processing the specimen. This suggests that the presence of two pairs of setae on the first abdominal segment (one pair each side) is variable and should not form the basis for the creation of a separate genus for the species of Aleurolobus which have this characteristic. The toothlike processes at the base of the vasiform orifice have long been used as characters for species identification. We observed that this character, in itself, is highly variable as the number of teeth varied between zero and six. Some of the teeth are unclearly separated at base and in some puparia the toothlike processes have fimbriate apices (Figs. 4-7). This kind of variation has also been observed in puparia of other A/eurolobus species (personal observations). Host-correlated variation occurring in Aleurolobus marlatti (Quaintance) (=Aleurolobus niloticus Priesner and Hosny) as noted by Regu and David (1993) and Martin (1999), is clear evidence that the lack of knowledge regarding the intraspecific variation occurring in a species has sometimes resulted in description of several new taxa. Regu and David (1993) described seven new species of Aleurolobus; namely, A. cephalidistinctus with bluish black puparia and A. cohici, A. diacritica, A. hosu- 442 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS rensis, A. patchily, A. rhachisphora, and A. sundararaji, which have black pu- paria. They distinguished these species from closely related species based on the presence of black spots on dorsum (except A. sundararaji, which has black spots that are shown in the diagram (see Regu and David, 1993). We now understand that the appearance of such black spots is a result of not bleaching the puparia prior to slide mounting, and it is very unlikely that the black cuticle of puparia would indeed, have black spots on it. Bleaching of the puparia results in the dis- appearance of the black spots. With these observations, we conclude that using characters such as the number and characteristics of the tooth-like processes at the base of the vasiform orifice, the position of submarginal setae, and the presence or absence of the black spots on the dorsum as a basis for species identification must be avoided. These variations observed in A. exceptionalis, and the facts dis- cussed herein, will help in attaining a proper understanding of similar variation that may occur in other species of Aleurolobus, and determining their identity. Part 3. A new record of Aleurolobus from India Eighteen species of the genus Aleurolobus are known to occur in Africa; how- ever, only one species, Aleurolobus onitshae Mound, known from Nigeria (Mound, 1965), Ivory Coast (Cohic, 1969) and Tchad (Bink-Moenen, 1983), has been reported to occur in India (Regu and David, 1993). The new record of Aleurolobus gruveli Cohic from India indicates the possibility that the distribution range of other African Aleurolobus species may extend into the Oriental region. Aleurolobus gruveli Cohic (Figs. 23-30) Aleurolobus gruveli Cohic, 1968: 88-91. Material Examined. One puparium, India: Karnataka: Bangalore (13.12193' N, 77.54866' E; 930 m. asl.), on Vetiveria zizanioides (Poaceae), 22.1x.2005, A. K. Dubey. Host Plants. Poaceae [=Gramineae] (Cohic, 1968); Coelorhachis afrautica (Bink-Moenen, 1983); Vetiveria zizaniodes (Poaceae) (new host record). Distribution. South Africa; Cameroon (Cohic, 1968); Tchad: Bebediia (Bink-Moenen, 1983); India: Bangalore (new record). Remarks. This species was described by Cohic (1968) from the Poaceae [=Graminae] family. The description provided by him and variation noted by Bink-Moenen (1983) are adequate; however, figures are given herein for refer- ence. Discussion. Bink-Moenen (1983) recorded variation in numbers of submar- ginal setae occurring in this species as “15 pairs of spine-like setae instead of ten” and observed one of the submedian pairs occasionally missing (see p. 49). The specimen of this species collected from Vetiveria zizaniodes from India shows 10 pairs of submarginal setae and no submedian setae; however, the exter- nal appearance of puparium is the same as she had observed. We agree that the Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 443 al Seay iy? 2 VS OU OO We’ Na a) JY UUUY OE I nan ira) PO ee YU OO i) -) (ae) oS om) [5 al ; Figures 23-25. Aleurolobus gruveli Cohic. 23. Puparium. 24. Thoracic tracheal pore. 25. Vasiform orifice, photomicrographs. 444 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Figures 26-30. Aleurolobus gruveli Cohic. 26. Puparium. 27. Thoracic tracheal pore. 28. Margin. 29. Abdominal pockets. 30. Vasiform orifice and caudal furrow. Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 445 puparia of this species are highly variable in terms of submarginal and submedi- an setae. Figures are given for reference. Part 4. Description of a new species of Dialeurodes from India Dialeurodes atalantiae Dubey and Ko, new species (Figs. 31-42) Puparium. Pale white, with thin layer of white wax on dorsum, median area of cephalothorax and abdomen with a light red spot in some puparia; subpentag- onal in shape, dimorphic, constricted at the posterior abdominal region and widest across the transverse moulting suture region; measures & 1.0-1.08 mm long, 60-68 mm wide, 9 1.34-1.36 mm long, 90 mm wide; found singly, one or two per leaf on the lower surface of leaves. Margin smoothly crenulate; thoracic (Figs. 32, 36) and caudal tracheal pores indicated by invaginated internal teeth and inner demarcation of caudal tracheal pore (Fig. 39) bilobed, clear in slide mounting. Nw “Nii nw ‘\ ss oS oft i wea Figures 31-33. Dialeurodes atalantiae Dubey and Ko sp. nov. 31. Puparium. 32. Thoracic tracheal pore. 33. Vasiform orifice; photomicrographs. 446 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS NY M\ \ x ft on Figures 34-39. Dialeurodes atalantiae 34. Puparium dorsal view. 35. Posterior abdomi- nal area. 36. Thoracic tracheal pore. 37. Obliquely elevated ridges on submedian area of prothorax. 38. dorsal pore and porette. 39. Caudal tracheal pore and seta. Dorsum. (Figs. 31-39). Dorsum with typical large pores sometimes contain- ing two to three minute scattered porettes (Fig. 38). A pair of obliquely elevated submedian ridges on prothorax and laterad of seventh abdominal segment pres- Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 447 ent (Fig. 37). Submarginal striations reaching subdorsal area. Subdorsum with wavy markings. Median length of abdominal segment VII shorter than VIII (Fig. 35). Submedian pockets present in all the cephalothoracic and abdominal seg- ment sutures. Submedian depressions faintly discernible in all the segments. Longitudinal moulting suture reaching margin and transverse moulting suture reaching submargin. Pockets not contiguous. Vasiform orifice subcircular (Fig. 33, 35), as long as wide or slightly longer than wide, & 49-50 um long, 50 um wide, 9 60-64 um long, & 58-60 um wide, inner posteriolateral wall of orifice without a comb of teeth; operculum subcordate, 9 38 um long, 38 um wide, & 30 um long, 30 um wide, not completely covering the orifice. Lingula obscured. Caudal tracheal furrow not clearly defined and appears to be granulated. A pair of minute setae slightly above the caudal tracheal pore, 8 um long distinct. Chaetotaxy. Cephalic setae present, first abdominal setae 12 um long and eight abdominal setae cephalolaterad of vasiform orifice 14 um long and sub- marginal caudal setae 8 um long (Fig. 39). Submargin with a row of minute setae, each 8 um long, number and position of setae varying within puparium. Figures 40-42. Dialeurodes atalantiae 40. Puparium ventral view. 41. Thoracic tracheal fold and legs. 42. Caudal tracheal fold. 448 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Venter. (Figs. 40-42). Minute setae at the base of meso- and metathoracic legs, each 10 um long evident. Ventral setae present. Thoracic (Fig. 41) and cau- dal tracheal fold (Fig. 42) distinct with stipples. Antennae reaching to base of prothoracic legs, inside. Legs not confluent (Fig. 41). Spiracles and adhesive sacs visible. Material Examined. Holotype puparium, India: Tamil Nadu: Chennai (13.04°N, 80.17°E), on Atalantia racemosa, 16.v.2004, A. K. Dubey (ZSI). Para- types, 12 puparia, data same as for holotype (ANIC, BNHM, CDFA, JARI, NMNH, SMTD, USNM, ZMU, ZSI and remainder in NTU). Host Plant. Atalantia racemosa (Rutaceae). Distribution. India: Tamil Nadu. Etymology. This species is named after its host plant genus, Atalantia. Remarks. This species is similar to Dialeurodes abbotabadiensis Qureshi, 1982 in shape but differs from it in having two pairs of obliquely elevated sub- median tubercles—one pair each on prothorax and laterad of seventh abdominal segment, variable number of subdorsal setae, wider at abdominal region than D. abbotabadiensis, distinct pores with associated porettes on dorsum (Fig. 38) and tracheal folds with dots (Figs. 41, 42). Jensen (2001) mentioned in his cladis- tic analysis of Dialeurodes species group taxa “the practical definition of Dialeu- rodes in use today encompasses a great variety of species, the primary shared characters of which are having some sort of distinct marginal tracheal pore, a vasiform orifice with the lingula included and the operculum nearly filling ori- fice and usually covering the lingula.” Martin (1999) diagnosed the following characteristics to separate species of Singhiella from Dialeurodes: margin not or very little, modified at thoracic tracheal pore openings at margin, a small caudal indentation present, variably developed submarginal setae present, typically as an even row of 13 pairs, including caudal setae; and ventrally, tracheal folds sometimes developed but not usually sculptured. The new species has very clear, deeply invaginated thoracic and caudal tracheal pores with internal teeth, a vari- able number of subdorsal setae and characters of the vasiform orifice as defined by Jensen (2001) for the genus Dialeurodes. This species differs from Singhiella species primarily in having a well-defined tracheal pore opening which accord- ing to Martin (1999) is not well defined or little modified from the lateral mar- gin in Singhiella species. In addition, the following 14 species of the genus Dialeurodes are already recorded from India: D. armatus David and Subramaniam, D. brideliae Jesuda- san and David, D. citri (Ashmead), D. davidi Mound and Halsey, D. delhiensis David and Sundararaj, D. icfreae Sundararaj and Dubey, D. indicus David and Subramaniam, D. kirkaldyi (Kotinsky), D. malabaricus Jesudasan and David, D. martini Jesudasan and David, D. rotunda Singh, D. saklespurensis David, D. sundararajani Sundararaj and David, and D. wendlandiae Meganathan and David. In general, species of Dialeurodes possess 12-14 pairs of submarginal or Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 449 subdorsal setae. Details of the number of these setae in a few of the Indian species have not been published and, therefore, the specimens need to be reex- amined and these data added to their description. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We thank H. F. Hung (NTU) for assistance for scanning electron photomicrographs, to B. V. David and K. Regu, India, for loaning of type specimens, to Jon Martin, BMNH, UK for providing information on the homonymy of Aleuroclava davidi, G. A. Evans, USDA, ARS, USA for sugges- tions and editing the draft, and to Y. F. Chen (NTU) for help in formatting this manuscript. Publi- cation is supported by part of a grant from National Taiwan University, Tarwan (NTU 95R0044), and National Science Council (NSC95-2621-B-002-012). LITERATURE CITED Bink-Moenen, R. M. 1983. 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Pakistan Journal of Zoology 14(1): 45-47. Regu, K. and B. V. David. 1993. Taxonomic studies on Indian Aleyrodids of the tribe Aleurolobini (Aleyrodinae: Aleyrodidae: Homoptera). Fredric Institute of Plant Protection and Toxicology, Entomology Series 4: 1-79. 450 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ON THE GENUS SYRISTA KONOW, WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES FROM CHINA (HYMENOPTERA: CEPHIDAE)' Meicai Wei ” ABSTRACT: Syrista xiaoi Wei, sp. nov. (Cephidae: Hymenoptera) is described from Sichuan, China. Syrista xiaoi is similar to S. similis Mocsary, 1904. Syrista Konow 1896 is redescribed in detail. A key to species of the genus is provided and new distribution records are given. KEY WORDS: Hymenoptera, Cephidae, Syrista, new species, China The genus Syrista was proposed by Konow in 1896 for Cephus parreyssii Spinola, a stem sawfly species distributed in the West Palaearctic (Benson 1968, Taeger et al., 2006). Syrista parreyssii is unique in Cephidae as the anal cell in forewing without cross vein. Mocsary (1904) described the second species of the genus from Japan, Syrista similis Mocsary, 1904. Benson (1935) described a new genus and a new species, Neosyrista japonica Benson, 1935, which has the anal cell in forewing with a normal cross vein. Takeuchi accepted Neosyrista Benson but pointed out that Neosyrista japonica Benson, 1935 is a synonym of Syrista similis Mocsary, 1904 (Takeuchi, 1938). Benson (1946) himself treated Syrista and Neosyrista as nomenclatural synonyms. Benson's opinion (Benson, 1946) was accepted by subsequent researchers of Cephidae (Maa, 1949; Okutani, 1974; Muche, 1981; Abe and Smith, 1991; Wei and Nie, 1996). Syrista xiaoi sp. nov., a new species similar to Syrista similis, is described from China herein. The rela- tionship between the two E. Asian species, S. similis and S. xiaoi sp. nov., and the West Palaearctic, S. parreyssii, requires additional scrutiny. Based on new mate- rial Syrista Konow is redescribed in detail and a key to the known species pro- vided. The type specimen of the new species is deposited in the Insect Collection of the Central South Forestry University, Changsha, China. Syrista Konow Syrista Konow, 1896, Wien. Ent. Zeit. 15: 150, 152-153. Type species: Cephus parreyssii Spinola, 1843, by monotypy. Neosyrista Benson, 1935, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (10)16: 547. Type species: Neosyrista japonica Benson, 1935, by original designation. Description: Body slender. Left mandible bidentate, inner tooth feebly shouldered and as long as or slightly longer than outer tooth, outer tooth simple (Fig. 1); right mandible tridentate, inner tooth much longer than middle and outer ‘Received on April 5, 2006. Accepted on April 27, 2007. > College of Life Science, Central South Forestry University, 498 South Shaoshan Road, Changsha 410004, China. E-mail: weimc@126.com. Mailed on January 18, 2008 Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 451 tooth; maxillary palp with 6th segment emerging from middle of 5th, 3rd seg- ment enlarged, 4th segment slender and 1.5 times longer than 6th segment (Fig. 2); labial palp 4-segmented, Ist segment longer than 2nd segment, 2nd segment more than 2 times length of 3rd segment, 4th segment longer and broader than Ist segment; (Figs. 3, 7, 12); clypeus flat and apically truncate; malar space as broad as or slightly broader than diameter of front ocellus; inner margins of eyes feebly divergent downwards, shortest distance between eyes broader than height of an eye; distance between antennal sockets slightly narrower than distance between an antennal socket and inner margin of eye, and clearly shorter than dis- tance between an antennal socket and a tentorial pit on same side; head not strongly swollen behind eyes and 1.5 times broader than long, temple as long as or slightly longer than eye, lateral sides parallel or narrowing backwards in dor- sal view; POL slightly narrower than OOL, OCL 2.5-3.2 times POL; occipital carina extending to upper part of hind orbit. Antenna filiform, 25-34 segmented and shorter than abdomen, flagellum not distinctly swelling, pedicel broader than long, 3rd segment much longer than 4th segment. Pronotum distinctly broader than long. Abdomen distinctly compressed laterally, lst tergite not merged at middle, 2nd segment higher than long. Middle tibia with | preapical spur, hind tibia with 2 preapical spurs; hind basitarsus slender and about as long as or slight- ly longer than following 3 tarsomeres together; claw bifid and without a basal lobe (Figs. 4, 8, 10, 13). Cell C of forewing narrow, vein Sc absent, Ir entire and joining stigma at extreme base, 2r joining stigma beyond middle; hind wing with cell Rs and M closed, both much more than 2 times as long as broad. Ovipositor not shorter than hind tibia and distinctly bent ventrally, sheath about as long as basal plate and about 6-8 times length of cercus (Fig. 5). Lancet very slender and simple with 19-22 serrulae and 5-6 apical annular sutures, serrulae subtruncate and shallowly emarginated ventrally, without fine subbasal tooth (Figs. 6, 9). Distribution: Eastern Asia, West Palaearctic. Host: Rosa spp. (Rosaceae) (Ho 1936, Maeda 1938, Scheibelreiter 1969). Three species of the genus have been found, which can be identified using the following key. Key to species of Syrista Konow 2. Tibia, tarsus and apex of antenna reddish brown; pronotum and hind coxa entirely black; abdominal tergites and mandibles black and red, without yel- low macula; area between antennal sockets evenly elevated, without a keel; pterostigma pale brown; head in dorsal view hardly narrowed behind eyes; head and thorax dorsally distinctly punctured; anal cell in forewing without a 452 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS cross vein; body length 15-21mm. West Palaearctic............ Syrista parreyssii (Spinola, 1843) Hind tibia black with basal third white, antenna entirely black; basal half of mandible yellow, outer side of hind coxa, abdominal tergites 2 and 6 with dis- tinct yellow maculae; area between antennal sockets strongly elevated with a distinct keel; pterostigma dark brown to black; head in dorsal view distinctly narrowed behind eyes; head and thorax dorsally almost impunctate; anal cell in forewing. withVarerassaviewinn ASIA 20. 22 ..2....c.sdnacs oogetee eae seecee eee eee ee 3 3. Hind tarsus red brown; abdominal tergites 4-7 largely red; pterostigma black; claw with inner tooth distinctly longer than outer tooth; body length 20mm. WestiCiima ct eerie sees. Mer ome Oe eee Syrista xiaoi, Sp. NOV. Hind tarsus black to dark brown; abdominal tergites 3-5 largely red; pterostig- ma dark brown; claw with inner tooth hardly longer than outer tooth; body length 13-15 mm. East China, Japan................ Syrista similis Mocsary, 1904 4. Anal cell in forewing without a cross vein; hind tibia, tarsus and apex of antenna reddish brown; pterostigma pale brown; apical half of 7th sternite depressed with posterior margin straight, not emarginated, 8th sternite dis- tinctly emarginated at apex (Fig. 14).........0.... Syrista similis Mocsary, 1904 Anal cell in forewing with a cross vein; basal 1/3 of hind tibia white, apical 2/3 of hind tibia and hind tarsus entirely black; pterostigma dark brown; pos- terior margin of 7th sternite deeply incised, apex of 8th sternite round (Fig. DL i tice sete ie i nan ee Mes rite oe as Syrista parreyssii (Spinola, 1843) Syrista xiaoi, NEW SPECIES (Figs. 1-6, 15) Diagnosis: Body black with yellow maculae on head and abdomen; claw with inner tooth much longer and broader than outer tooth; area between anten- nal sockets elevated with a distinct keel; third segment of labial palp 2 times longer than broad; pterostigma black. Female (Fig. 15): Body (including sheath) length 20 mm, black, basal half of mandible, a stripe on lower inner orbit, a dot on upper inner orbit, a triangular spot on hind orbit and lateral stripes on abdominal tergites 2-7 yellow, abdomi- nal tergites 4-7 largely and sternites 4-5 partly red. Legs black, outside of hind coxa and basal third of each tibia yellow; apex of fore femur, fore and middle tib- iae and tarsus largely and hind tarsus entirely pale brown, apical 2/3 of middle tibia dorsally dark brown. Body hairs pale brown. Wings distinctly infuscate toward apex, veins and pterostigma black. Head and thorax extremely minutely punctured and shining, mesepisternum and metapleuron finely and densely microsculptured, feebly shining; abdomen indistinctly microsculptured. Left mandible as in Fig. 1, inner tooth slightly long- Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 453 er than outer tooth; maxillary palp as in Fig. 2; labial palp as in Fig. 3, third seg- ment 2 times longer than broad; malar space slightly broader than diameter of an ocellus; area between antennal sockets elevated with a distinct keel; middle fovea indistinct; interocellar furrow fine and shallow, postocellar furrow broad and shallow; OOL: POL: OCL =3: 2: 6; head behind eyes slightly longer than eye in dorsal view, lateral margins distinctly narrowing backwards. Antenna 34- segmented, third segment 1.3 times longer than fourth segment. Posterior margin of pronotum clearly incised and 1.5 times breadth of anterior margin; mesoscu- tellum flat with a low carina posteriorly. Claw with inner tooth much longer and broader than outer tooth (Fig. 4). Anal cell of forewing with a cross vein; cu-a joining cell 1M at its basal 1/4, cell 2Rs slightly longer than 1Rs; cell Rs about as long as cell M and both of them 3 times longer than broad. Abdomen (includ- ing propodeum and excluding sheath) 2 times as long as head and thorax (exclud- ing propodeum) together, 2nd segment 1.3 times higher than long; ovipositor 1.2 times as long as hind tibia, sheath as long as basal plate and 7 times length of cer- cus (Fig. 5). Lancet with 22 serrulae and 5-6 apical annular sutures, middle ser- rulae oblique, distance between serrulae triple the breadth of a serrula (Fig. 6). Male: Unknown. Type Data: Holotype female, Sichuan: Luding, Hailuogou, 2003. VI. 17, W. Liu (deposited in the Insect Collection of the Central South Forestry University, Changsha, China). Etymology: The species is named after Prof. Gangrou X1ao, a famous sawfly researcher of China. Distribution: China (Sichuan). Remarks: The new species is similar to Syrista similis but it can be separat- ed from the latter by the following features: body larger (20 mm in female), the 10th abdominal tergite and fore coxa entirely black, the hind tarsus reddish brown, pterostigma black, the inner tooth of claw much longer and broader than the outer tooth, abdomen 2 times longer than head and thorax together, oviposi- tor distinctly longer than hind tibia, and the middle serrulae smaller and oblique, remote to each other. In S. similis the body is smaller (13-15mm in female), a spot on the ventral side of fore coxa, the 10th abdominal tergite yellow, the hind tarsus blackish brown, pterostigma dark brown, the inner tooth of claw hardly longer than the outer tooth, abdomen about 1.7 times longer than head and tho- rax together, ovipositor as long as hind tibia, the middle serrulae of lancet close to each other and not oblique. 454 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Figures 1-6: Syrista xiaoi sp. nov. |. Left mandible. 2. Maxillary palp. 3. Labial palp. 4. Claw. 5. Ovipositor. 6. The 9-10th serrulae. Figures 7-11: Syrista similis Mocsary. 7. Labial palp. 8. Female claw 9. The 9-10th serrulae. 10. Male claw. 11. The 7th and 8th sternites, male. Figures 12-14: Syrista parreyssii (Spinola). 12. Labial palp. 13. Male claw. 14. The 7th and 8th sternites, male. 455 Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 19 Figures 16-17. Syrista similis Mocsary: Figure 15. Syrista xiaoi sp. nov., Female adult. Syrista parreyssii (Spinola): 18. Female 16. Female adult; 17. Male adult. Figures 18-19. adult; 19. Male adult. 456 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Syrista similis Mocsary, 1904 (Figs. 7-11, 16-17) Syrista similis Mocsary, 1904, Ann. Mus. Hungar., 2: 496. Cephus subrufus Matsumura, 1912, Thous. Ins. Jap. Suppl. 4: 212. ? Neosyrista japonica Benson, 1935, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. s. 10, 16: 552. Diagnosis: Body length 14-15 mm in female and 13 mm in male. Posterior margin of pronotum, tegulae, mesoscutellum largely, a spot on the ventral side of fore coxa, the 10th abdominal tergite yellow, posterior margins of the 3rd and 7th abdominal tergites each with a distinct yellow band; 3rd segment of labial palp as long as broad (Fig. 7); head distinctly narrowing behind eyes; inner tooth of claw hardly longer than outer tooth (Fig. 8, female; Fig. 10, male); abdomen about 1.7 times longer than head and thorax together, posterior margin of 7th sternite deeply incised, apex of 8th sternite round (Fig. 11); ovipositor as long as hind tibia, middle serrulae of lancet close to each other and not oblique (Fig. 9). The female and male adults as in Figs. 16-17. Notes: The above diagnosis is based on the type of the species (in the Hun- garian Natural History Museum) and specimens examined by the author from China (in the collection of the Central South Forestry University) and Japan (in DEI, Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Miincheberg). All those specimens have the pronotum with a distinct yellow hind margin. However, the type speci- mens of Neosyrista japonica Benson, 1935, have the pronotum entirely black. The color of the posterior margin of pronotum may be variable. The male of this species 1s very variable in the color of the abdominal tergites 4-5, which may be entirely red or dominantly black, and posteriorly reddish or golden yellow. Specimens Examined: 8 females and 3 males, Zhejiang: Hangzhou, 1984. IV. 25, leg. J. He; 1 male, Zhejiang: Longquan, Mt. Fengyang, 1982. VIII, leg. K. Zhu (Zhejiang University); 1 female and 1 specimen (abdomen missing, possi- bly a male), Japan, Nose-Hatsutani (Oosaka), 1972. VII. 5, leg. H. Kumamoto (DEI). Type examined (type is deposited in Hungarian Natural History Museum, a female specimen with collecting data and name labels handwritten by Mocsary. I had recorded the data of the type when I visit Budapest in the summer of 2005 but lost them with my computer in Paris). Distribution: China (Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian); Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu after Takeuchi 1938). Syrista parreyssii (Spinola, 1843) (Figs. 12-14, 18-19) Cephus parreyssii Spinola, 1843, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, s. 2, 1: 116-117. Cephus orientalis Tischbein, 1852, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 13: 139. Cephus spectabilis Stein, 1876, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 37: 58-59. Macrocephus robustus Mocsary, 1883, Magyar. Ak. Termés Ertek 13(11): 9-10. Cephus parreyssi (Sic!) var. rufiventris Jakovlev, 1888, Horae Soc. Ent. Ross. 22: 373. Primary homonym of Cephus rufiventris Cresson, 1880. Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 457 Diagnosis: Body length 15-21 mm. Body and legs black, abdominal seg- ments 2-4(5) and apex of antenna red, apex of each femur, tibiae and tarsi red or reddish brown, hind tarsus more or less infuscate; wings distinctly infuscate, pterostigma pale brown; third segment of labial palp broader than long (Fig. 12); antenna with 25-30 segments; area between antennal sockets low and evenly ele- vated, without a keel; head in dorsal view hardly narrowed behind eyes; abdo- men about 2 times as long as head and thorax together; anal cell in forewing without a cross vein; claw with inner tooth hardly as long as outer tooth in both sexes (Fig. 13); head and thorax dorsally distinctly punctured; apical half of 7th sternite in male depressed with posterior margin straight, not emarginated, 8th sternite distinctly emarginated at apex (Fig. 14). The female and male adults as in Figs. 18-19. Specimens Examined: 2 females and | male, USSR, Armenia, Arzakhan, 1700m, 1977.VIL., leg. L. Zombori (Hungarian Museum of Natural History); 1 male, Turkey, Nevsehir province, Urgiip, 1970. VI. 11, leg. J. Gusenleitner (Coll. Blank); 1 female, Turkey, Hakkari province, on the city limits of Hakkari, 1800 m altitude, 1988. VII. 24, leg. C. Schmid-Egger (Coll. Blank); 1 female. Turkei, Konya, 20km W., 1978. VI. 12, leg. Max Schwarz (DEI); 2 males, Turkei, Loel, Sertavul, 1978. VI. 9-10, 1400m, leg. Max Schwarz (DEI); 1 male, [possibly Azebaijan], Caucasus, Araxes valley, leg. Leder & Reitter (DEI); 1 female (abdomen missing), Croatia, Dubrovnik (“Ragusa”), leg. Rudolph (DEI); 1 female, without collecting data (DEI); 1 male, Armenien, 40km O Jerewan, 1987. VII. 13, leg. Gechard 1200m, J. Oehlke (DEI). Distribution: West Palaearctic (Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greek, Iran, Israel, Italia, Macedonia, Spanish, Turkey). ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I thank Mr. M. D. Liston of DEI (Miincheberg, Germany) for review of this manuscript. Thanks also to Dr. L. Zombori (Budapest, Hungary), Dr. A. Taeger and Dr. S. Blank (Miincheberg, Germany) for their kindly help when I was in Europe to examine specimens deposited in their collections, and to Prof. S. Zhang (Hunan Province, China) for taking photos. The research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30371166, 30571504), the Trans-century Training Programme Foundation for Talents, Education Ministry of China (2003), and the Special President Foundation of Central South Forestry University (2001-2005). LITERATURE CITED Abe, M. and D. R. Smith. 1991. The genus-group names of Symphyta (Hymenoptera) and their type species. Esakia 31: 1-115. Benson, R. B. 1935. On the genera of the Cephidae and the erection of a new family Syntexidae (Hymenoptera. Tenthredinidae). Annals and Magazine of National History, Series (10) 16: 535- Spt Benson, R. B. 1946. Classification of the Cephidae (Hymenoptera Symphyta). 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Lanteri ABSTRACT: A new monotypic genus of Naupactini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Thoracon- aupactus del Rio and Lanteri is described based on the new species Thoraconaupactus vaninii del Rio and Lanteri (Type locality: Brazil, Bahia, Itaji). Two different morphotypes are distinguished by characters of the vestiture: one from Itaji, with integument brown, smooth, and vestiture mostly setose; the other from Ibiraba with integument black, rugose and vestiture mostly squamose. Thoraconaupactus is similar to Naupactus Dejean and Teratopactus Heller in several characters, and shows some unique features such as the strongly transverse pronotum with a sub-basal tooth-like pro- jection on each side. Specimens were collected in association with a species of Leucaena (Fabaceae). The paper includes habitus photographs and line drawings of genitalia, mouthparts, and other exter- nal features of taxonomic value. KEY WORDS: Curculionidae, Naupactini, Thoraconaupactus vaninii, new genus, new species The tribe Naupactini (Curculionidae: Entiminae) consists of approximately 65 genera (Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal, 1999) with over 500 species mainly distrib- uted in Central and South America. Most species of this weevil tribe have been classified in Naupactus Dejean, a genus currently under revision, which includes 161 species (O’Brien and Wibmer, 1982; Wibmer and O’Brien, 1986) or 214 according to Morrone (1999), who included all Pantomorus Schoenherr species from South America within Naupactus. The genus Naupactus is not only a key genus to understanding the phylogeny of the Naupactini but also a taxon that contains a great number of agricultural pest species, such as the “white-fringed beetle,” N. leucoloma Boheman and the “rose weevil,” N. cervinus Boheman (Scataglini et al., 2005). These species cause serious damage to legumes, citrus, ornamental plants, and several other cultures (Lanteri and Marvaldi, 1995; Lanteri et al., 2002). In the present contribution we describe a new monotypic genus of Naupactini close to Naupactus and Teratopactus Heller, the latter recently revised by del Rio et al. (2006). The new genus Thoraconaupactus is endemic to northeastern Brazil and its single species was collected on Leucaena sp. (Fabaceae). METHODS This study is based on specimens housed at the Museu de Zoologia da Uni- versidade de Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil (MZSP). No other specimens have been seen ' Received on November 8, 2006. Accepted on April 9, 2007. * Division Entomologia, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina. E-mails: gdelrio@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar (MGR); alanteri@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar (AAL). Mailed on January 18, 2008 460 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS in other entomological collections examined. One paratype specimen has been deposited at Museo de La Plata (MLPC). Dissections of female and male genitalia were made according to standard entomological techniques. Specimens were drawn using a camera lucida adapt- ed to a stereoscopic microscope. Measurements were taken with an ocular micro- meter. Abbreviations herein used are the following: WF—width of frons between anterior margin of eyes; WR—width of rostrum across apex; LR—length of ros- trum from anterior margin of eye to apex; WC—maximum width of club; LC— maximum length of club; WP—maximum width of pronotum; LP—maximum length of pronotum; WE—maximum width of elytra; LE—maximum length of elytra. The terminology used for the metatibial apex follows Thompson (1992). ‘Outer bevel present’ is used instead of ‘corbel enclosed’ (Emden, 1944), and ‘metatibial apex simple or bevel absent,’ instead of “corbel open.’ Type labels include the species name, the type status and the authors of the name. They are red and yellow for holotype and paratypes, respectively. The sex of each specimen is also indicated. SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY Thoraconaupactus new genus, del Rio and Lanteri Type species: Thoraconaupactus vaninii new species, del Rio and Lanteri. Herein designated by monotypy. Etymology: The generic name is a combination of the latin word thorax (re- ferring to the particular subtrapezoidal and tuberculate pronotum) and naupactus (alluding to its probable close relationship to Naupactus Dejean). Diagnosis: Thoraconaupactus 1s easily distinguished from other genera of Naupactini by the large body size (close to 20 mm) and the strongly transverse subtrapezoidal pronotum, having a pair of tooth-like projections directed out- wards near the base (Figs. 1-4). All tibiae bear a mucro and rows of denticles on the inner margins. Metatibial apex with outer bevel present and oblique with respect to the main tibial axis. The ovipositor has styli and rows of setae on each side of the distal half. Description: Large and robust (female 17-19.5 mm long; male 15-16 mm). Integument brown to black, mostly visible. Vestiture of dorsum mainly composed of scales forming a longitudinal white vitta along rostrum and pronotum and pairs of ocher or white vittae along elytra; venter and inner face of femora and tibiae mostly covered with very long setae. Rostrum (Figs. 5-6) about as long as, to slightly longer than wide at apex (LR/WR:1-1.27), lacking lateral carinae but with slightly elevated lateral borders; rostral groove widened at apex, exceeding hind margin of eyes; scrobes slightly curved downwards, ending below eyes; epistome slightly depressed, broad and densely squamose; gular angle obtuse. Frons somewhat depressed. Vertex slightly convex. Eyes (Figs. 5-6) moderately convex; preocular impression distinct. Mouthparts. Prementum (Fig. 8) subcor- Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 461 date, external surface slightly concave, without setae; internal surface with a moderately developed median keel flanked by lateral depressions; palpi shorter than prementum and forming an obtuse angle with it. Maxillae (Fig. 9) with mala almost perpendicular to axis of palpus, having seven basal lacinial teeth and numerous setae; article 1 of palpi elongate, article 2 transverse and article 3 sub- cylindrical, apically papillate. Antennae (Fig. 10) very long; scape reaching hind margin of eye; funicular article 2 more than 2x as long as article 1; articles 3-5 about 3x as long as wide; articles 6-7 about 2x as long as wide; club oval to slightly fusiform (LC/WC: 2.50-3.30). Pronotum (Figs. 1-4) subtrapezoidal, strongly transverse (WP/LP: 1.69-1.87); anterior margin strongly thickened; disc finely punctuate, elevated regarding the anterior and posterior margins, with var- ious transversal prominences, three pairs near midline (the posterior one crested) and two pairs near sides; flanks with a small hole placed on a distinct elevation and a strong tooth-like projection directed outwards, near base; posterior margin strongly constricted. Scute//um distinct, squamose. Elytra (Figs. 1-5) moderately elongate (LE/WE: 1.47-1.77); base slightly bisinuate; humeri largely developed; disc slightly convex, forming edges with sides at interval 7; striae distinct, with punctures medium-sized to large; intervals slightly convex; apical declivity slight, apex subacute. Metathoracic wings well developed. Legs. Front coxae slightly separated from each other; slightly closer to anterior than to posterior margin of pronotum; all tibiae with strong mucro and a row of six strong denti- cles on inner margin, intercalated with smaller denticles (Fig. 7); all denticles de- creasing in size from front to hind tibiae; metatibial apex with broad, setose outer bevel, oblique with respect to main tibial axis; apical comb very long, dorsal comb almost indistinct. Abdomen (Figs. 11-12). Ventrite 2 as long as 3+4; apex of ventrite 5 subacute in female and truncate in male; tergites strongly sclerotized. Female genitalia (Figs. 13-16). Sternite VIII (Fig. 14) subrhomboidal, with distal part shorter than proximal part, bearing minute short setae and apical tuft of long setae, base with pair of linear sclerotizations; apodeme about 3x as long as plate. Ovipositor (Fig. 13) slightly longer than abdomen, studded with micro- scopic oval scales and a row of long setae on each side of baculi, on distal part (Fig. 15); ventral baculi slightly divergent towards proximal end; hemisternites moderately sclerotized; styli present. Spermatheca (Fig. 16) subcylindrical with short conical nodulus, indistinct ramus and moderately long cornu. Male genitalia (Figs. 17-18). Aedeagus (median lobe plus apodemes) slightly longer than abdomen; median lobe scarcely curved and slightly longer than its apodemes (Fig. 17); apex somewhat expanded and with a distinct point (Fig. 18); endophallus folded and with surface studded with short, pointed spines on distal half, lacking endophallic armature. Sexual Dimorphism: Males (Figs. 3- 4) smaller than females (Figs. 1-2); rostrum slightly longer (LR/WR, female: 1-1.10; male: 1.15-1.27); pronotum less transverse (WP/LP, female: 1.76-1.87; male: 1.69-1.72); prominences of the pronotum more distinct; and elytra more slender and elongate than in females (LE/WE, female: 1.47-1.55; male: 1.70-1.77). 462 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Figs 1-4. Dorsal habitus of Thoraconaupactus vaninii. 1 and 3 morphotype A, 1 holotype female, 3 paratype male; 2 and 4 morphotype B, 2 paratype female, 4 paratype male. Scales: 3 mm. Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 463 Figs 5-7. External morphology of Thoraconaupactus vaninii. 5 Habitus, lateral; 6 head and rostrum, frontal; 7 front tibia, external. Scales: 3 mm (habitus); 1 mm (rostrum and head, tibia). 464 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 11 12 Figs 8-12. Mouthparts, antenna, and abdomens of Thoraconaupactus vaninii. 8 premen- tun, external; 9 left maxilla; 10 left antenna; 11 abdomen, female; 12 abdomen, male. Scales: 0.5 mm (prementum); 1 mm (maxilla, antenna); 2 mm (abdomens). Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 465 Figs 13-18. Genitalia of Thoraconaupactus vaninii. 13 ovipositor, lateral, with sperma- theca attached to bursa copulatrix through spermathecal duct; 14 sternite VIII; 15 ovipos- itor, ventral, distal half; 16 spermatheca; 17-18 aedeagus, lateral and ventral. Scales: 0.5 mm (spermatheca); 1 mm (sternite VIII, ovipositor, aedeagus). 466 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Remarks: Thoraconaupactus is placed in the tribe Naupactini sensu Emden (1944). It is distinguished by a particular combination of characters and some special features not seen in other genera of Naupactini that justify the description of a new generic entity. The most diagnostic character of Thoraconaupactus is the strongly transverse subtrapezoidal pronotum, very constricted at the base, with tooth-like projections directed outwards on the posterior third of the sides, and with an elevated disc bearing several transverse prominences (the posterior ones crested). Other particular character of the new genus is the metatibial bevel oblique with respect to the main axis of the tibia, the very long apical comb of the metatibia, and the presence of a distinct elevation on each side of the prono- tum, bearing a small hole on top (function unknown). The most closely related genera of Thoraconaupactus are probably Naupactus Dejean and Jeratopactus Heller. The former is a highly diversified genus main- ly distributed in tropical and subtropical South America, and the latter includes seven species mainly distributed along the Chacoan and Parana subregions of the Neotropical region (del Rio et al., 2006). Thoraconaupactus shares several char- acters of generic value with the typical Naupactus (type species Naupactus rivu- losus Olivier) such as the shape of the rostrum, the long and slender antennae, the well developed humeri and metathoracic wings, the broad bevel of the metat- ibial apex, and the ovipositor bearing styli, with moderately sclerotized hemis- ternites (see Lanteri, 1981). The characters that relate Thoraconaupactus to Teratopactus are the separate front coxae and the presence of a row of denticles along the inner margin of the three pairs of tibiae, but 7eratopactus is distinct by the lack of metatibial outer bevels, the presence of humeral teeth, the reduction of metathoracic wings, and the ovipositor lacking styli and with strongly sclero- tized hemisternites prolonged in a nail-like process. Among all species of Terato- pactus, the most similar to Thoraconaupactus 1s the basal Teratopactus tubercu- latus Arrow, the only species with a primitive type of ovipositor (with styli and lacking hemisternites prolonged in a nail-like process) (del Rio et al., 2006). Moreover, the three genera share the presence of two rows of setae along the distal half of the ovipositor on each side of the ventral baculi that is a character not seen in any other genus of Naupactini. Geographical Distribution: Thoraconaupactus seems to be endemic to the state of Bahia, northeastern Brazil. Its distribution corresponds to the biogeo- graphic province of the Caatinga (American Indian language that means “open forest”), according to the schemes of Cabrera and Willink (1973) and Morrone (2006). This province of the Neotropical region is a dry savanna with scattered xerophyllous forests, bounded by the Brazilian Atlantic forest on the east side and the Cerrado on the west side. The former biogeographic province is a humid tropical forest and the latter is characterized by open xerophyllous forests with low trees, shrub and a stratum of herbs rich in Poaceae and Fabaceae, with gallery forests extended along the rivers. Host Plants: Fabaceae are one of the main hosts for most Naupactini species and the adults of Thoraconaupactus were collected on Leucaena sp., a mimosoid Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 467 legume native to the Neotropical Region. Leucaena includes thirteen species that grow as trees and short shrubs, with high quality foliage attractive to herbivores (Zarate, 1994). Three of these species are recorded for Brazil, but only one, L. leucocephala, ranges into the state of Bahia, a fact that makes us suspect that it is probably the host plant of Thoraconaupactus. Leucaena leucocephala is widely distributed in tropical America, restricted to lowlands up to 1000 m and has been introduced as a multipurpose tree to several tropical countries (Shelton and Brewbaker, 1994). Thoraconaupactus vaninii new species, del Rio and Lanteri Etymology: The species is named after the outstanding weevil specialist Dr. Sergio Vanin (Museu de Sao Paulo, Brazil), who loaned us the material for this study. The gender of the name is masculine. Type Material: Holotype. Female, 19.5 mm long, “F.N.P. Itaji, BA. BRAZIL, 04/06/84, E. Cunha, s/ Leucaena, 2290” (MZSP). Genitalia dissected and placed in a vial with glycerine Allotype. Male, 16 mm long, same data as holotype (MZSP). Genitalia dissected and placed in a vial with glycerine. Paratypes. 1 female, same data as holotype (MLPC); 1 female and 1 male, Ibiraba, BA, Brazil, Rocha & Xavier col, 1-III-1996 (MZSP). Description: Holotype female (Fig. 1) large and robust (19.5 mm long). In- tegument dark brown, mostly visible. Dorsum with a white median stripe of dense oval scales, from apex of rostrum to base of pronotum; scutellum white; sides with a scarcely defined vittae from apex of rostrum to apex of elytra, pass- ing below eyes, extended along sides of pronotum and covering intervals 8-10 (Fig. 5). Elytra with three pairs of ocher longitudinal vittae (Fig. 1), composed of suberect seta-like scales, covering depressed surfaces of stria 2, interval 4 and intervals 8-9. First and second vittae anteriorly connected by a transverse seg- ment extended from striae 2 to 5 (Fig. 1); third vitta partially overlapped with lat- eral white stripe (Fig. 5). Elytral apex with disperse erect fine black setae. Legs mostly setose; coxae and femora covered with setae and moderately dense oval scales; setae on anterior face of front coxae, inner face of femora (especially fore femora) and tibiae very long and dense. Venter covered with oval scales distrib- uted along head, sides of thoracic sterna and sides of abdomen, mixed with recumbent long setae, particularly dense along middle of ventrites. Other mor- phological features as those described for the genus. Morphometric ratios: ros- trum LR/WR: 1.05; WF/WR: 1.31; antennal club LC/WC: 2.5; pronotum WP/ LP: 1.87; elytra LE/WE: 1.55; LE/LP: 1.33. Allotype male. Smaller and more slender than female, 16 mm long. Morphometric ratios: rostrum LR/WR: 1.15; WE/WR: 1.12; antennal club (missing); pronotum WP/LP: 1.69; elytra LE/WE: Ms PEL P11: Variation: Within 7. vaninii we distinguish two morphotypes mainly based on characters of the vestiture, color pattern and morphometrics: A) Holotype, allotype and other specimen from Itaji (Figs. 1, 3, and 5). Integument brown and 468 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS smooth. Elytral vittae well defined, composed of ocher suberect seta-like scales. Venter mostly setose; setae very long and dense; ventral scales almost restricted to head, sides of thoracic sterna and sides of abdomen. Pronotal prominences moderate. Elytra moderately elongate (LE/WE, female: 1.55, male: 1.77) B) Specimens from Ibiraba (Figs. 2 and 4). Integument black and slightly rugose. Elytral vittae not well defined, but interrupted, composed of whitish oval scales. Venter mostly squamose; setae long, moderately dense; scales covering most ventral surfaces from head to abdomen. Pronotal prominences strong. Elytra less elongate than in morphotype “A” (LE/WE, female: 1.47, male: 1.70). We consider that the differences between the morphotypes does not justify a species distinction but corresponds to intraspecific variation. The pattern des- cribed for 7! vaninii was also seen in other species of Naupactini, such as Nau- pactus leucoloma Boheman, Atrichonotus taeniatulus (Berg) and Teratopactus nodicollis (Boheman) (Lanteri and O’ Brien, 1990; Lanteri and Marvaldi, 1995; del Rio et al., 2006), all of which have two different morphotypes in some of their populations, distinguished mainly by characters of the vestiture and mor- phometrics. The localities where morphotypes were collected correspond to areas 600 km distant, with slightly different climate and vegetation conditions. Morphotype “A” comes from Itaji (14° 10' S, 40° 00' W), 210 km NW of Sal- vador and 110 km from the Atlantic coast, at 600 m above sea level. This local- ity is on the boundary with the Brazilian Atlantic forest, which is a humid envi- ronment (tropical forest, 100 km wide, extended from the state of Recife in the north to Rio Grande do Sul in the south). Morphotype “B” comes from Ibiraba (10° 45'S, 42° 48' W), 530 km NW of Salvador and the Atlantic coast, at 400 m above sea level. This location is more distant from the coast, closer to the Cerrado biogeographic province, and drier than the locality of morphotype “A” (although it is near the banks of the San Francisco River). It is possible that the infraspecific variation herein described for 7! vaninii is associated with the geo- graphic distribution. This hypothesis should be tested with the study of larger samples of specimens from different localities. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We wish to express our appreciation to Sergio Vanin (Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo) who loaned us the specimens for study and to Sara Montemayor for her help with the photo- graphs that illustrate this paper. We also would like to thank Juan José Morrone, Sergio Vanin, Adriana Marvaldi and an anonimous referee for the critical reading of this manuscript, and the “Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas” (CONICET), Argentina, for its con- tinuous financial support. LITERATURE CITED Alonso-Zarazaga, M. A. and C. H. C. Lyal. 1999. A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera). Entomopraxis S. C. P. Spain. 315 pp. Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 469 Cabrera, A. L. and A. Willink. 1973. Biogeografia de América Latina. Monografia 13, Serie de Biologia. Organizacion de Estados Americanos (OEA). Washington, District of Columbia, USA, 122 pp. del Rio, M. G., A. A. Lanteri, and J. C. Guedes. 2006. Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of Teratopactus Heller (Coleoptera, Curculionidae). Invertebrate Systematics 20: 585-602. Emden, F. I. van. 1944. A key to the genera of Brachyderinae of the world. 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KEY WORDS: Dissomphalus, phoretic copulation, Hymenoptera, Bethylidae, U.S.A. Dissomphalus Ashmead, 1893 (Bethylidae: Pristocerinae), was described based on some male specimens possessing two pubescent tubercles on the sec- ond metasomal tergite (Evans 1954). These tergal processes seem to be an orna- mented opening of a gland on the surface of this tergite (Evans 1979). Taxonomy of Dissomphalus is strongly based on males (Azevedo 1999b), however the females are also highly modified in comparison with males with different species being very similar and hardly separable (Azevedo 1999b). Females are very rare in collections, and association with males is virtually impossible unless couples are taken in copula (Azevedo 2003). The copula is important also because the males can carry the females about during copulation as predicted by Evans (1962), who suggests the phoretic behavior based on two specimens of D. barberi mounted on the same pin and without certified genital union between them, from Maine with the following . data: 1 male, 1 female, on same pin, August 24, 1947, “flying 6 P.M.” (A. E. Broer) [USNM]. This is until now the nearest sign of the phoretic copula- tion in Dissomphalus xanthopus. The first records of pairs of Dissomphalus taken in copula are the specimens sampled by Mr. Fritz Plaumann. These specimens were described by Evans (1966) as D. connubialis, with material containing 14 pairs, all from Nova Teutonia, Santa Catarina, Brazil, various dates Oct-March, 1962-65 (F. Plau- mann) [MCZ, USNM]. This phenomenon has been recorded again with certain- ty for this genus by (Azevedo 1999 a, b), through D. mirabilis, D. bisserratus, and D. bifurcatus. Dissomphalus xanthopus is the type species of the genus. It has widespread distribution throughout the United States and Mexico (Evans 1978) and the com- monest species of the genus in USA collections. The species has been recorded for Kentucky just one time before by Evans (1962), one of these specimens were later further analyzed by Azevedo (1999a). The most recent new locality records in USA were Pennsylvania and Indiana by Azevedo (1999c). ' Received on November 20, 2006. Accepted on May 20, 2007. * Laboratorio de sistematica y biologia comparada de insectos, Prof. Carlos Sarmiento, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, A. A. 7495 Bogota, Colombia. E-mail: jmvargasr@unal.edu.co Mailed on January 18, 2008 Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 471 Figure 1. A. Detail of the male head, the arrow shows the clypeal shape in dorsal view, B. Dorsal pits of the male second tergite of the gaster, C. D xanthopus pair in copula, D. Male fore wings, E. Posterodorsal view of the female head, F. Lateral view of female in copula, showing the fairly distinct pedicel (arrow). 472 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS This species can be recognized by the rather broad and flat-topped median elevation of the clypeus (Fig. 1A). The pits on the second metasomal tergite are characteristic although rather variable in size (Fig. 1B). The females show con- siderable variation in head shape, and Evans (1962) believes that the female which he described and figured in 1954 as the allotype of D. barberi 1s actually D. xanthopus. Evans (1954) comments that D. barberi Evans is closely allied to D. xanthopus, but the male differs in characters of the clypeus, propodeum, sec- ond tergite and genitalia, the female is also very similar to that of D. xanthopus, differing only in head shape and in the complete lack of sculpturing on the front. The capture of a male and female in copula (Fig. 1C) is important evidence for conspecificity (Gordh 1990) especially in the pristocerine genera because of the profound sexual dimorphism. Gordh (1990) found the first Australian record of the genus Apenesia in phoretic copulation, he added that the aedeagal clasp would give the female control over the timing of release, presumably mediated by stimuli from an appropriate habitat or host, and that phoretic copulation pos- sibly evolved once in the subfamily Pristocerinae occurring early in the devel- opment of the group of genera which subscribe to it. This paper helps to clarify the sex association between male and female through a short description of them. METHODS Abbreviations used in the text are as follow: LH, length of head at middle, measured in frontal view, from the vertex crest to the median apical margin of the clypeus; OOL, ocello-ocular line, measured in latero-dorsal view, the short- est distance from the eye top to the posterior ocellus; VOL, vertex-ocular line, measured in lateral view, the distance from the eye top to vertex crest; WF, width of frons, measured in frontal view, its minimum width, usually about the bottom of the eyes; HE, height of eye, measured in lateral view, across its maximum height (length); WH, largest width of head, measured in frontal view, its max1- mum width including the eyes; WOT, width of the ocellar triangle, measured in frontal view, the maximum width, including the ocelli. The nomenclature for the sculpture follows Eady (1968). Terminology follows Evans (1964). Collection Data: USA. KENTUCKY: Franklin Co., Cove Springs Park. 38° 13.178'N 84° 51.325'W. MT 1: Floodplain [HI#246]. 7-14.vii.2005. (Lindsay & Edelen.) Malaise trap. K. Seltman. The material is deposited in UK YC. RESULTS This pair is showing a position consistent with the female-above-male copu- latory stance, very common in the other bethylids taken before in copula (Fig. 3). The characters discussed here do not include the genitalia due to the scarcity of pairs “in copula.” Furthermore the separation could be unsuccessful as the union may be very firm like in Apenesia nitida (Evans 1969). The main characters of these specimens are: Male: Length 2.88 mm. LH 1.17 x WH; WF 1.84 x WH; WF 1.74 x HE; OOL 1.10 x WOT; VOL 3.47 x HE; Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 473 propodeal disc 1.2 x as long as wide. Costal vein not extending beyond the stig- ma (Fig. 1D). Female: Length 1.65 mm. nearly half the length of male. LH 0.69 x WH; distance eye - mandible 0.084 mm. The female’s head position is an obstacle to take the mandible length measure. Body color nearly pale yellowish brown; body sparsely covered with high pale yellowish hairs. Eyes dark; front shining, with very fine reticulate coriaceus sculpturing visible under high mag- nification; punctures widely separated; sides of head slightly convex. Posterior margin of head, in frontal view, slightly concave (Fig. 1E). Dorsum of thorax and propodeum somewhat shining, with reticulate sculpturing like that of head. Propodeum with small spiracles, directed laterad and carinae along dorsum sides fairly well developed, gaster with pedicel fairly distinct (Fig. 1F). The characters related here support the inference of Evans 1978 about the dif- ferences between the females of the two species (barberi and xanthopus), now 1s possible to be categorical about the identity of each species. The key made by Evans (1978) is the very fair tool to the identification of females in the USA. DISCUSSION This is the first ttme D. xanthopus Asmead has been found in phoretic copu- lation. This behavior has been recorded for the genus Apenesia from both South America and Australia, for Pristocera from Rumania, The Far East and Hungary (Gordh 1990), and for Dissomphalus from Brazil (Evans 1966, Azevedo 1999 a, b). Since Evans (1954), who considered that the female is not easily associated with the male, this is the first opportunity to confirm the characters of the female for this species. The features agree with the abridged description on page 296 of the same paper. Several ratios are given here in order to update the description. This is the first record of this behavior for Dissomphalus in North America and for the species D. xanthopus in the World. The only Dissomphalus species with phoretic copulation recorded are D. con- nubialis (Evans 1966) designated after as synonymy by Azevedo (1999a) of D. brasiliensis Kieffer 1910, D. mirabilis (Evans 1966), D. bisserratus and D. bifurcatus (Azevedo 1999b), seemingly D. barberi (Evans 1978) and now D. xanthopus. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS To Michel Sharkey (University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY) for the loan of the specimens and for making this study possible through his National Science Foundation Grant no. DEB 0205982, to Paul Freytag (University of Kentucky) for his hospitality in Lexington, KY, and his revision of the text, to Celso Oliveira Azevedo (UFES) for his specialized opinions about the species, and to my friends and colleagues Carlos Sarmiento (ICN) and Edgard Palacio for their valuable comments. 474 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS LITERATURE CITED Azevedo, C.O. 1999a. Additional notes on systematic of Neotropical Dissomphalus Ashmead (Hy- menoptera, Bethylidae). Revista brasileira de Zoologia 16 (4): 921-949. Azevedo, C. O. 1999b. Revision of the Neotropical Dissomphalus Ashmead, 1893 (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) with median tergal processes. Arquivos de Zoologia 35 (4): 301-394. Azevedo, C. O. 1999c. On Neartic Dissomphalus (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), with the description of two new species from Florida. 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Evans, H. E. 1966. Further studies on Neotropical Pristocerinae (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae). Acta Hymenopterologica 2(3): 99-117. Evans, H. E. 1969. Phoretic copuiation in Hymenoptera. Entomological News 80: 113-124. Evans, H. E. 1978. The Bethylidae of America North of Mexico. Memoires of the American Entomological Institute 27: 1-332. Evans, H. E. 1979. The genus Dissomphalus in Northwestern South America (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 81(2): 276-284. Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 475 MORPHOLOGY OF THE SPERMATHECA OF SEVERAL SPECIES OF DYSMACHUS (DIPTERA: ASILIDAE) FROM TURKEY: A SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE STUDY, SECOND PART' Mahmut Erbey,’ Selami Candan,’ and Abdullah Hasbenli? ABSTRACT: The spermathecae of four species of the asilid genus Dysmachus (D. cephalenus, D. obtusus, D. safranboluticus, and D. tricuspis) were studied with both light and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). There are three spermathecae the species examined. The spermatheca consists of receptaculum seminis (reservoir), ductus receptaculum (spermathecal ducts), ejection apparatus, apodemes of furca and furca. Receptaculum seminis of D. cephalenus, D. obtusus, D. safranboluti- cus and D. tricuspis have a swollen structure at the base but it extends apically like a duct. Sperm is kept in receptaculum seminis. In all species, the spermathecal ducts are covered by chitin layer. Spermathecal ducts are not connected with a common duct, but open separately to the bursa copula- trix. The ejection apparatus controls the passage of spermatozoa. The ejection apparatus are covered by strong muscles that regulate its opening and closing. Furca in D. cephalenus and D. tricuspis divided, with a triangular apodeme, lateral arms broad; Y-shaped in D. obtusus and D. safran- boluticus. KEY WORDS: spermatheca, Dysmachus, Asilidae, Diptera, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) The spermatheca is an accessory female reproductive organ that occurs in all orders of insects except for Protura and Collembola (Matsuda, 1976). It is a complex organ and it varies greatly in shape and histology between insect groups (Pendergrast, 1957). The spermatheca plays a significant role in sperm storage, copulation, fertilization, and oviposition, among others (Gschwenthner and Tad- ler, 2000). In general, insect spermatozoa are transfered during copulation and stored by the female in the spermatheca where they remain viable until they are used to fer- tilize eggs (Davey, 1965). The period of storage ranges in different insects, from hours to months, and in exceptional cases such as the honey bee, sperm may be stored in the spermatheca for years. In insects, the spermatheca has different structures depending on the insect group (Lay et al., 1999). The spermatheca opens to the vagina through sper- mathecal ducts (Dallai et al., 1993). The spermatheca usually consists of a recep- taculum seminis (receptacle) and a spermathecal duct (ductus receptaculum), which is covered by muscle fibers. While the receptacle stores and nourishes the spermatozoa, the spermathecal duct transports spermatozoa in opposite direc- tions, first to the receptacle at mating and then to the vagina at fertilization. The structural organization of the spermatheca reflects these two functions (Dallai et ‘Received on December 19, 2006. Accepted on April 15, 2007. ? Ahi Evran University, Faculty of Arts & Sciences Department of Biology, Kirsehir, Turkey. E-mail: (ME) merbey@gazi.edu.tr. *Gazi University, Faculty of Arts & Sciences Department of Biology, 06500, Ankara, Turkey. E-mails: (SC) scandan@gazi.edu.tr and (AH) hasbenli@gazi.edu.tr, respectively. Mailed on January 18, 2008 476 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS al., 1993). The ejection apparatus is generally located at the middle of the sper- mathecal ducts, and it controls the passage of spermatozoa by contractions of muscle fibers (Theodor, 1976; Rodriguez, 1994; Pabalan et al., 1996; Yuval et al., 1996; Bloch Qazi et al., 1998; Gschwentner and Tadler, 2000; Fritz et al., 2002). In most species of Asilidae, the spermatheca consists of the following parts: reservoir; spermathecal duct, which may be short or very long, it may show dif- ferentiations in its various parts; a funnel-shaped valve which opens into a dif- ferentiated part of the duct (= the furca); and two accessory glands (Theodor, 1976). The literature contains little information on the spermathecae of the Asilidae although it has been extensively studied by light microscopy. The spermathecae of Laphria flava have been described by Reichardt (1929). Osley (1946), Artigas and Papavero (1988a, b), Artigas et al. (1988), and Artigas and Papavero (1991) described with egg as well as the spermathecae of several American species of asilids and gave information on the glands and musculature but did not describe other structures in more detail. Sixteen species of Dysmachus are known from Turkey (Hasbenli and Geller- Grimm, 1999; Geller-Grimm, 2006). The structure of the spermatheca in four species of Dysmachus (D. fuscipennis, D. picipes, D. praemorsus, and D. tran- scaucasicus) from Turkey was examined by Candan and Erbey (2006). Also Hasbenli et al. (2006) described a new species (Leptogaster suleymani) from Turkey and described the with egg as well as the spermathecal structure. In this study, the spermatheca structure of four additional species of Dysmachus has been examined in detail by light and SEM microscopes for the first time. METHODS In this study, specimens of Dysmachus cephalenus, D. obtusus, D. Safranbo- luticus, and D. tricuspis were obtained from dried museum material (Zoological Museum of Gazi University). To prepare the spermatheca, abdomens were first soaked in the 10% KOH (potassium hydroxide) for about 24 hours at 30°C to soften by hydrolysis the surrounding tissues. Then, the tissues were removed manually and the spermatheca were exposed and cleaned by fine dissection. Six cleaned spermatheca of each species were placed in glycerine. Observations and measurement were made using steromicroscope (Olympus SZX12) at a magnifi- cation of 40x. For examination in the scanning electron microscope (SEM), the samples were fixed with 2.5 % glutaraldehyde in sodium phosphate buffer (pH 7.2) for 2 hours. Thereafter, they were washed with same buffer (pH 7.2) for 10 min., and then gradually dehydrated in an increasingly concentrated ethanol series (10 min each in 50-100%). Spermathecae were cleaned, dried, and mounted using a dou- ble-sided sticky tape on SEM stubs, coated with gold in a Polaron SC 502 Sputter Coater, and examined with a JOEL JSM 5600 Scanning Electron microscope at accelerating voltage of 20 kV. Spermathecal nomenclature follows Theodor (1976). Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 477 wt Wi Mth li Wi \ aM wi i Ky ST aon \ AWN NS yy he ot Reservior (Receptacuhun serurus) \ jon Wh \ em AH ny gooey “tthe to ae LEAN i nal ak EE oe Mrs Me y ww 4 we N uae AN NAW Ductus receptacubim atti AN Ejection apparatus Apodeme Bursa copulatnix Fig.1. Spermatheca in Dysmachus (D. cephalenus) Scale bar: 0.5 mm. SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY Dysmachus cephalenus Loew, 1871 (Figs. 2 a- d) The receptacle is very wide at the base and extends cylindirically towards the anterior. In anterior, spines are towards the receptacle (Fig. 2a). The length of receptaculum is 1.7 mm; its diameter, 0.3mm. Posteriorly, the receptacle 1s con- nected to spermathecal duct. The surface of the receptacle is covered by layer of chitin. The spermathecal ducts do not connect, instead they open separately into bursa copulatrix. The ducts are covered by chitin in a curly structure (Fig. 2b). The length of ducts between receptacle and ejection apparatus is 0.65 mm; its diameter, 0.03mm. The ejection apparatus is located at the middle of spermathe- cal duct. The ejection apparatus is a wider, swollen structure than the spermath- ecal duct (Figs. 2a, c). The spermathecal ducts are connecting to the anterior furca (Fig. 2d). The length of the ducts between the ejection apparatus and furca is 1.15mm; its diameter is 0.02mm. The length of furca is 1.55 mm; its diameter 478 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 0.28mm. In the posterior portion of the furca, the lateral signs are clearly evident. The bursa copulatrix extends anteriorly. The spermathecal ducts open to between the extension of bursa copulatrix and the apodeme (Fig. 2d). The furca is strong- ly chitinized and divided, bearing a triangular apodeme; the lateral arms are broad. Apodeme is chitinized and triangular shaped. The length of apodeme is 0.8mm. The portion of the apodeme that is connected to the furca is wide while the rest is thin (Fig. 2d). Dysmachus obtusus Becker, 1923 (Figs. 3 a- d) The receptacle is very wide at the base and extends cylindrically. In the ante- rior, spines are towards receptacle (Fig. 3a). The length of receptaculum is 0.85mm; its diameter, 0. 14 mm. The surface of receptacle is covered by layer of chitin. The spermathecal ducts are not connected but separate from the bursa copulatrix. The ducts are covered by chitin in curly structure. Groove-like struc- tures are present on the surface of ducts, extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of duct (Fig. 3b). The length of duct between receptacle and ejection appa- ratus is 0.3mm; its diameter, 0.02mm. The ejection apparatus is wider, more swollen than the spermathecal duct. The ejection apparatus is nearer the recepta- cle than to the furca (Figs. 3a, c). The length of the ejection apparatus is 0.05mm; its diameter 0.03mm. The ejection apparatus is strongly chitinized and has over- lapping layers of chitin (Fig. 3c). The length of duct between ejection apparatus and furca is 1.3mm; its diameter 0.01mm. The furca is strongly chitinized. The length of furca is 1.15mm; its diameter 0.3mm. The furca are wide anteriorly, narrow posteriorly and V shaped (Figs. 3a, d). The portion of apodeme that is connected to the furca is narrow and the rest of apodeme is wide. The apodeme is strongly chitinized and triangular shaped (Fig. 3d). The length of the apodeme is 0.45mm. Dysmachus safranboluticus Hasbenli and Geller-Grimm, 1999 (Figs. 4 a- d) The receptacle 1s a little wide but it becomes narrow anteriorly. Anteriorly, the Spines point toward the receptacle (Fig. 4a). The length of receptaculum is 1.1mm; its diameter 0.14mm. The surface of the receptacle is covered by a layer of chitin. The length of the spermathecal duct between the receptacle and the ejection apparatus is 0.3mm, its diameter 0.0Smm. The ducts are covered by chitin forming a curly structure (Fig. 4b). The ejection apparatus is wider and more swollen than the spermathecal duct (Figs. 4a, c). The length of ejection apparatus is 0.05mm, its diameter 0.03mm. The ejection apparatus is strongly chitinized with overlapping layers of chitin. (Fig. 4c). The length of duct between the ejection apparatus and the furca is 1.5mm, its diameter 0.01mm. The furca is strongly chitinized (Fig. 4a). The length of furca is 1.4mm, its diameter 0.5mm. It 1s wide anteriorly, narrow posteriorly and V shaped. The portion of the apodeme connected to the furca is narrow and other part of apodeme is wide (Figs. 4a, d). The apodeme is strongly chitinized and triangular-shaped (Fig. 4d). The length of apodeme is 0.46mm. Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 479 “SSS 20-m 6600 KIRIKKALE MiS@ 1806. S680 KI IKKALE Figure 2 a-d. Light and SEM micrographs of spermatheca of D. cephalenus a. Spermatheca general view (Light microscope, scala bar: 0.5mm). b. Spermathecal ducts. c. Ejection apparatus. d. Apodeme and anterior of furca. 5] wa caso Figure 3 a-d. Light and SEM micrographs of spermatheca of D. obtusus. a. Spermatheca general view (Light microscope, scala bar: 0.5mm). b. Spermathecal ducts. c. Ejection apparatus. d. Apodeme and anterior of furca. 480 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 26k Al, 18¢ igme GHGS KIF IKKE | 8166 1884m 8800 KIRIKKALE Figures 4 a-d. Light and SEM micrographs of spermatheca of D. safranboluticus. a. Spermatheca general view (Light microscope, scala bar: 0.5mm). b. Spermathecal ducts. c. Ejection apparatus. d. Apodeme and anterior of furca. Dysmachus tricuspis (Loew, 1848) (Figs. 5 a-d) The receptacle is very wide at the base and extends cylindrically anteriorly. Anteriorly, the spines point towards the receptacle (Fig. 5a). The length of recep- taculum is 2.4mm; its diameter 0.3 mm. Posteriorly, the receptacle is connected to the spermathecal duct. The surface of receptacle is covered by a layer of chitin. The spermathecal ducts connect separately to the bursa copulatrix. The surround- ings of ducts are covered by chitin in curly structure (Fig. 5b). The length of duct between the receptacle and ejection apparatus is 0.65mm; its diameter 0.05mm. The ejection apparatus is located at the middle of spermathecal duct. The ejec- tion apparatus is wider and more swollen than the spermathecal duct (Figs. 5a, c). The length of ejection apparatus is 0.16mm; its diameter 0.08mm. The sper- mathecal ducts are connected to the anterior of furca. The length of duct between the ejection apparatus and furca is 0.8mm; its diameter 0.02mm. The furca is strongly chitinized and divided, and the lateral arms are broad (Fig. 5d). The length of furca is 2.4mm; its diameter 0.62mm. The apodeme is chitinized and triangular-shaped. The length of apodeme [0.4mm] is short and wide (Fig. 5d). Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 481 DISCUSSION Spermathecae are ectodermal glands opening into the anterior tract of the common oviduct of female insects. It plays a significant role in many functions such as sperm storage, copulation, fertilization and ovipozition (Gschwantner and Tadler, 2000). In the vast majority of insects, spermatozoa are transferred to the genital area of female during copulation. Thereafter, spermatozoa are stored in the spermatheca where they remain until they are used for fertilization (Davey and Webster, 1967; Villavaso, 1975). In insects, accessory glands of the spermatheca produce secretions that flow into the lumen of the spermathecal duct or to the receptacle, contributing to the protection of the spermatozoa (Villavaso, 1975; Dallai, 1975). Fertilization occurs on the apical part of the bursa copulatrix. The eggs are inseminated by spermatozoa and fertilized eggs are oviposited. All insects, except the orders Protura and Collembola, have spermatheca (Matsuda, 1976). Some groups of Diptera have one (e.g. Drosophilidae), two (e.g. Tephritidae, a few members of the Asilidae and Muscidae) or three sper- mathecae (e.g. some of Muscidae, most members of Asilidae and Bombylidae) (Couri 2004; Theodor 1976, 1983, Hasbenli et al., 2006). Three spermatheca are common in flies. Theodor states “There are three spermathecae in all the Asilidae examined exept Proctacanthus, Eccritosia, and Myaptex,” in which there are x2,56€ lOum @90€ KIRIKKALE MBSE 20m 3006 KIRIKKALE eek 1GGum 8@@0 KIRIKKALE Figures 5 a-d. Light and SEM micrographs of spermatheca of D. tricuspis. a. Spermatheca general view (Light microscope, scala bar: 0.5 mm). b. Spermathecal ducts. c. Ejection apparatus. d. Apodeme and anterior of furca. 482 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS only two. In this study, we observed that the examined species of Dysmachus have three sparmatheca (Figs. 2a, 3a, 4a, 5a). All three spermathecae are usually of the same form, but the median spermatheca is of slightly different form in some species (Polyphonies). The only exeptions so far found are Leptogaster and Euscelidae in which the median spermatheca is markedly different from the lat- eral spermatheca in some species (Thedor, 1976; Hasbenli et al., 2006). In most examined Dysmachus species, the spermatheca is basally swollen but apically is extended and narrowed, like a duct (Figs. 2a, 3a, 4a, 5a). According to Theodor (1976), there are two different types of receptacle-resorvoir in Dysmachus, one type is a cylindrical or tubular; the second type is very wide. In this study, examined species of Dysmachus (D. cephalenus, D. obtusus, D. safranboluticus and D. tricuspis) have wide types. In all species, the structure of receptacle seems to be similar throughout, but the length of receptacles varies between species (Figs. 2a, 3a, 4a, 5a). Candan and Erbey (2006) stated that there are two different types of receptacles in some Dysmachus species. Cylindrical, as in D. fuscipennis and rather wide as in D. praemorsus, D. picipes, and D. tran- SCQUCASICUS. In different insect groups, the surface of the receptacle and of the spermathe- cal duct is covered by a layer of chitin, especially in Ceratitis capitata and Dacus oleae (Tehpritidae: Diptera), Locusta migratoria (Acrididae: Orthoptera), and Aedes aegypti (Culicidae: Diptera) (Clements and Potter, 1967; Dallai et al., 1993; Lay et al., 1999). In Dysmachus, we determined that the surface of the receptacle and of the spermathecal ducts is also covered by a curly chitin struc- ture. However, the character of the surface is different among species (Figs. 2b, 3b, 4b, 5b). The ejection apparatus differs in the four investigated species. In D. obtusus and D. safranboluticus, it is strongly chitinized or there are overlap- ping layers of chitin (Fig. 3c, 4c). Chitin is accumulated in middle part of ejec- tion apparatus, but in D. cephalenus and D. tricuspis, the ejection apparatus is located at the middle of the spermathecal duct. The ejection apparatus is very wide and more swollen than the spermathecal duct (Figs. 2a, 5a). In this study, we observed that the spermathecal duct is connected to the ante- rior portion of the furca. The bursa copulatrix occurs in the anterior portion of the furca. Spermathecal ducts are not connected with a common duct but open sep- arately to the bursa copulatrix. In all species, spermathecal duct connections to bursa copulatrix are different from each other (Figs. 2d, 3d, 4d, 5d). In D. obtusus and D. safranboluticus spermathacal ducts are similar structurally (Figs. 3b, 4b). Theodor (1976) noted that the furca has apodeme in some group of Diptera, but he does not provide information on the functional significance of apodeme. Members of the Laphriinae and the Dasypogoninae (Asilidae) have a short and wide apodeme but members of Asilinae have a long apical apodeme (Theodor, 1976). In all species, we observed that apodeme of furca has a different structure (Figs. 2d, 3d, 4d, 5d). Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 483 In D. cephalenus and D. tricuspis, the apodeme is wide basally, but apically it is narrow and triangular. A swollen pillow-like structure is present at the base of the apodeme. This structure probably supports the spermathecal ducts (Figs. 2d, 5d). In D. obtusus and D. safranboluticus, the apodeme is narrow basally and tri- angular (Figs. 3d, 4d). The furca is a modified sternite 9. It consists of a ‘frame’ with a membrane between the lateral arms in which the ducts, or the common duct, opens. It varies widely in form. It is more or less U or V shaped in the Laphriinae and Dasypogo- ninae; it consists of only lateral arms connected by a membrane in Leptogaster and Dioctia. The furca of the Asilinae differs markedly. It consists of a usually long, slender frame, with a distal apodeme of varying form and length and a pos- terior median sclerite between the posterior ends of the lateral arms (Thedor 1976). In this study, the furca of D. cephalenus and D. tricuspis is divided and the lateral arms are broad (Figs. 2a, 5a), but it is Y shaped in D. obtusus and D. safranboluticus (Figs. 3a, 4a). The structure of the spermathecae has important systematic characters in some groups of insect. It has been used successfully in the systematics of fleas, and may be useful to elucidate taxonomic and phylogenetic relationships among asilids. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We are indebted to G.U. Research Foundation for partially supporting this Project and Kirikkale University Research Center (KIRIKKALE) for providing SEM facilities. We also thank Associate Professor Dr. Abdullah Hasbenli for identifying species of Dysmachus cephalenus, D. obtusus, D. safranboluticus, and D. tricuspis. LITERATURE CITED Adler, S. and O. Thedor. 1926. On the minutus Group of the Genus Phlebotomus in Palastine. Bulletin of Entomological Research. 16: 399-405. Artigas, J. N. and N. Papavero. 1988a. 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On the structure of the spermathecae and aedeagus in the Asilidae and their importance in the systematics of the family. Israel Academy of Sciences & Humanities. Jerusalem, Israel. 175 pp. Theodor, O. 1983. The genitalia of Bombyliidae. Israel Academy of Sciences & Humanities. Jerusalem, Israel. 275 pp. Villavaso, E. J. 1975. The role of the spermathecal gland of the boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis. Journal of Insect Physiology 21: 1457-1462. Yuval, B., S. Blay, and R. Kaspi. 1996. Sperm transfer and storage in the Mediterranean fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 89: 486-492. ERRATA The recently published paper, entitled “New state record of the mayfly Baetisca laurentina ...” by Tarter et al. [2007 Entomologi- cal News 118(4), pp. 407-416] was published with several mis- takes in the correspondence between the figures and the legends. Herein, these mistakes are corrected. Figure 1. County distribution records of Baetisca berneri in West Virginia. Figure 2. County distribution records of Baetisca carolina in West Virginia. Figure 3. County distribution records of Baetisca gibbera in West Virginia. Figure 4. County distribution records of Baetisca lacustris in West Virginia. Figure 5. County distribution records of Baetisca laurentina in West Virginia. Figure 6. County distribution records of Baetisca rubescens in West Virginia. Figure 6 was printed twice. THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL S@G@IETY APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP Membership coincides with the calendar year running from January 1 to December 31. If join- ing midyear, back issues will be mailed. Unless requested otherwise, membership application received after October 1 will be credited to the following year. 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Pleurocerinella belongs to a group of genera having a very long first flagellomere two to four times as long as the relatively short pedi- cel. These genera, known as the Microconops-group, are all from Australia. A paper of the Old World species of Pleurocerinella is planned. Pleurocerinella neotropica, NEW SPECIES (Fig. 1) Head. Vertex short, dark brownish. Ocellar tubercle black, with three ocelli. Frons black, smooth. Face, parafacial, and gena yellow. Ground color of face gray, covered with yellow-whitish pollen. Antenna black. Scape and pedicel subequal, first flagellomere three times as long as pedicel. Stylus black, two segmented. Proximal segment of stylus black, its process short; apical segment partly yellow- ish, elongated and sharply pointed. Proboscis black, about 1.75 times as long as head length. Occiput black. Thorax black, scutellum slightly brownish. Pleural stripe yellowish white polli- nose as are the coxae. Legs black. Tibiae yellowish and white pollinose basally. Tarsi somewhat brownish. Pulvillae yellow; claws yellow, black apically. Wings hyaline with a gray stripe filling cell r,,, (submarginal). Remainder of wing hya- line. Halteres yellow. Abdomen black, partly with black sheen. Tergites with some white pollinose posterior margins, becoming wider and more distinct laterally on second and third tergites. Theca long and narrow, as long as height of its tergite. Length: 6 mm. Type Data: Holotype 9. Bolivia: Cochabomba 26.1.1976 L.E. Pena (Canadian National Collection). Paratype 9. Same data. (CNC) To be retained in the Field Museum Collection. Very similar to the holotype. Length: 5 mm. See comment about the face under “Remarks.” Remarks. This species is closest to Pleurocerinella dioctriaeformis Brunetti (p. 368-9) but has a long proboscis rather than the usual short proboscis as long as the head. The long narrow wing stripe will distinguish P. neotropica from all the ‘Received on February 5, 2007. Accepted on May 8, 2007. > Associate, Division of Insects, The Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605- 246 U.S.A. E-mail: rshuman@fieldmuseum.org Mailed on January 18, 2008 488 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Figure 1. Pleurocerinella neotropica. Holotype. other species of the genus. I believe that this wing pattern is unique. The genus and its tribe are immediately distinguished from all the other new world species of Conopinae by the long first flagellomere being three times as long as the short pedicel. This species is easily distinguished from all of the other Conopidae in the New World by the very long first antennomere and very short pedicel. The wing pattern is also very distinctive. The narrow face compared to a wide frons in many of the specimens at hand from the Old World, was at first thought to be species significant. Later I realized that the narrow face was due to contraction and drying. The holotype of the new species has the face fully inflated, but in the paratype it is contracted on one side and normal on the other. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Rebekah Shuman and James Boone of the Division of Insects at the Field Museum (Chicago, Illinois) assisted in the preparation of this work. F. C. Thompson (Department of Entomology, Sys- tematic Entomology Laboratory, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC) reviewed the manuscript and made some valuable suggestions and corrections. LITERATURE CITED Smith, K. G. V. 1960. A new species of Pleurocerinella Brunetti (Diptera, Conopidae) from South Africa. Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 96: 43-44. Brunetti, E. 1923. Fauna of British India. Conopidae 3: 340-383. Camras, S. 2000. New Information on Afrotropical Conopidae. Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 136: 219-233. Krober, O. 1939. Beitrage zur Kenntinis der Conopiden — 1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11) 4: 362-395. Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 489 A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ALGERIAN AQUATIC COLEOPTERA (HELOPHORIDAE) FAUNA, WITH TWO NEW RECORDS, AND A DISCUSSION ON TOTAL AEDEAGOPHORE LENGTH OF HELOPHORUS AQUATICUS (LINNAEUS, 1758)! U. Incekara,” H. Ibncherif,’ and S. Bouzid* ABSTRACT: Distributional and systematic notes on northeastern Algerian Helophoridae species are given. Two newly recorded species [Helophorus (sensu stricto) aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758) and Helophorus (R.) lapponicus Thomson, 1853] are described, and their distribution in Algeria and worldwide is presented. The total aedeagophore length of H. aquaticus may reach 1.0-1.1 mm. KEY WORDS: Coleoptera, Helophoridae, new records, distribution, systematics, Algeria Although Helophorus aquaticus and H. lapponicus are frequently collected cosmopolitan coleopterans, there is no record of them from Algeria. In Algeria, H. aquaticus is generally widespread in highlands but all samples treated here were collected in lowland to moderate highlands of northeastern Algeria (maxi- mum 523.34 m above sea level). METHODS Specimens of aquatic Coleoptera were collected in various parts of North- eastern Algeria (Fig. 1) in different surveys in 2005. The beetles were killed using ethyl acetate or in 96% ethanol. Aedeagophores of the beetles, cleaned with brushes, were dissected under a stereo microscope and left in 10% KOH solution for 1-2h at room temperature. Photographs were taken using an SMZ- 1500 Nikon type 104 microscope. SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY Helophorus (sensu stricto) aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758) Body 5.9 mm long; females are always larger than males (arithmetic average of 20 specimens, 10 males, 10 females; two males are 6.1 mm). Head bronze to black. “Y” groove large and deep. Antennae brown. Maxillary palpi dark brown and terminal segment asymmetrical. Colouration of pronotum as head, lateral margins narrowed posteriorly. Elytra brown to dark brown. Scutellum small and oval. Sutural A-mark easily visible. Legs thick and long. Last segments of tarsi and claws are black; other parts of legs are brown to dark brown. Last abdomi- ‘Received on January 24, 2007. Accepted on June 13, 2007. * Atatiirk University, Science and Arts Faculty, Department of Biology, 25240 Erzurum, Turkey. E-mail: incekara@atauni.edu.tr, incekaraumit@gmail.com. * Annaba University, Department of Biology, BP 12, 23000, Annaba, Algeria. E-mail: ibnchayet@ yahoo. fr. * Annaba University, Department of Biochemistry, BP 12, 23000, Annaba, Algeria. E-mails: sbouzid @gmail.com, sbouzid@univ-annaba.org. Mailed on January 18, 2008 490 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS nal sternite rather descriptive (Fig. 4). Aedeagophore 1.0 mm long (two of them are 1.1 mm, arithmetic average of 10 specimens) (Fig. 2). _ 2 ......_ _WMediterraneansea ~~ Souk Ahras__ z = Z Figures 1-4. 1. Map of research area in northeastern Algeria. 2. Helophorus aquaticus, aedeagophore. 3. H. lapponicus, aedeagophore. 4. H. aquaticus, last abdominal sternite (scale bar on aedeagophore of H. aquaticus represents 0.2 mm for H. aquaticus; 0.1 mm for H. lapponicus). Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 491 Distribution in the World: Austria, Belgium, “Caucasus,” Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and Ukraine (Angus, 1992, Hansen, 1999; Lobl and Smetana, 2004). Material Examined: Ain Damous, 19.V.2005, 2 O&O’, 1 9. N 36° 25.350'E 007° 51.367' (523.34 m a.s.l.); Bir Lalalcha, 18.V.2005, 2 00’, 3 99. N 36° 25.223' E 007° 50.536' (436.78 m a.s.l.); Ain Chef, 18.V.2005, 11 00’, 3 99, 23.VII.2005, 4 &0’", 8 99. N 36° 25.028' E 007° 50.826' (491.34 ma.s.l.); Med- jen Djenen H'mouda, 19.V.2005, 14 Oo’, 12 99. N 36° 25.607' E 007° 51.360' (396.24 maz.s.l.); Bir Bentaryaga, 19.V.2005, 3 0&0", 5 99. N 36° 25.427' E 007° 50.652' (414.53 maz.s.l.); Bir Slaymates, 19.V.2005, 4 oG® N 36° 25.188' E 007° 50.752' (476.10 m a.s.1.). Helophorus (Rhopalhelophorus) lapponicus Thomson, 1853 Body 2.65 mm long (range 2.5-2.7) females are always larger than males (arithmetic average of 10 specimens, 5 males, 5 females). Head pitchy with bronze reflections (sometimes with green reflections). Clypeus rather raised medially, “Y” groove distinct, its stem expanded posteriorly. Maxillary palpi yel- lowish, only darker at the extreme top. Antennae brown, club slightly darker. Pronotum evenly arched, granulate and coloration as head. There is a narrow yel- lowish band at the anterior margin of pronotum. Pronotal grooves narrow and shallow. Elytra brown, parallel sided, anterior sides curved. Under face black. Legs long, yellowish to brown. Tarsi have well-developed long swimming-hairs. Aedeagophore 0.5 mm long (arithmetic average of 5 specimens, Fig. 3). Distribution in the world: Belarus, Denmark, Finland, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey (Angus, 1992; Han- sen, 1999; Incekara et al., 2004; Lobl and Smetana, 2004). Material Examined: Bir Bentaryaga, 19.V.2005, 7 &O’", 3 QQ. N 36° 25.427! E 007° 50.652' (414.53 m a.s.l.); El Medjen, 09. VII.2005, 5 00’, 4 QQ. N 36° 25.535' E 007° 50.693' (412.09 m a.s.l.); Bir Lalalcha, 18.V.2005, 2 CO, 1 Q. N 36> 25.2232 E. 007° 50.536) (436.78.m.a.s.l.). DISCUSSION According to Angus (1992), some H. aquaticus from southeastern Europe and adjacent territories, occasionally have an aedeagophore up to 1.0 mm long, instead of the typical size range of 0.75-0.92 mm. Angus (1988, 1992) has point- ed out that these differences in aedeagophore size represent local size variants, not a new species. Our study supports that statement. For instance, we have also recorded such samples (aedeagophore up to 1.0 mm long) from various parts of Turkey (Incekara et al., 2004). In Algeria, most specimens have an aedeagophore 1.0 mm long. Furthermore, two of them have aedeagophores 1.1 mm long. These results show that large aedeagophores are common in H. aquaticus. No relation- ship has been found between beetle length and aedeagophore length for this 492 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS group of beetles. We suspect that aedeagophore shape is more functionally important than its length for this group of beetles. LITERATURE CITED Angus, R. B. 1988. Notes on the Helophorus (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae) occuring in Turkey, Iran and neighbouring territories. Revue suisse de Zoologie 95 (1): 209-248. Angus, R. B. 1992. Stisswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa (Insecta: Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Helo- phorinae). Gustav Fischer Verlag. Jena, Germany. 144 pp. Hansen, M. 1999. World Cataloque of Insects. Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera). Apollo Books. Vol- ume 2. Stenstrup, Denmark. 416 pp. Incekara, U., A. Mart, and O. Erman. 2004. Distribution of Turkish Helophorus Fabricius, 1775 (Coleoptera, Helophoridae) I. Subgenus Rhopalhelophorus, with two new records. Gazi Entomo- logical Research Society 6 (2): 51-62. Lobl, I. and A. Smetana (Editors). 2004. Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Volume 2. Hydro- philoidea-Staphylinoidea. Apollo Books. Copenhagen, Denmark. 942 pp. Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 493 A NEW SPECIES OF OTIORHYNCHUS GERMAR, 1822 (COLEOPTERA: CURCULIONIDAE: ENTIMINAE) FROM ANATOLIA, TURKEY' Bekir Keskin’ and I. Ethem Cevik’? ABSTRACT: A new species of Otiorhynchus is described from western Turkey. Otiorhynchus (Pliadonus) lilligi sp. n., is easily distinguishable from O. (Pliadonus) frater Styerlyn, 1861 by the existence of a sharp tooth on the mesofemora of the former. KEY WORDS: Orfiorhynchus, Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae, Turkey, new species The genus Otiorhynchus Germar, 1822 is one of the most speciose groups of Coleopterous weevils (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) with a mostly Palearctic dis- tribution (Magnano, 1998). In recent years, following the work of Magnano (1998), the taxonomy of the genus Otiorhynchus has undergone several impor- tant changes: the status of previously recognized species groups have been reor- ganized and defined as subgenera. Currently, the subgenus Pliadonus (Reitter, 1912) is a controversial group of Otiorhynchus on its systematic. Pliadonus which was previously defined as a species group in the subgenus Journieria (sensu Reitter) by Reitter (1912) is considered as the synonym of the Tournieria (Magnano, 1998, Alonzo-Zarazaga, 1999). Based on morphological data, Davidian and Savitsky (2005) also defined this species group as a subgenus. On the other hand, cluster analysis of Bray Curtis similarity indices and their dis- tinction discriminant analysis of data from 43 morphological characters of 24 Western Anatolian species belonging to 16 genera of Otiorhynchus indicate that Pliadonus should be defined as subgenus (Keskin, 2005). Only one species, Otiorhynchus frater (Stierlin, 1861), belonging to the sub- genus Pliadonus lives in West Anatolia (Reitter 1913, Lona 1936). The geo- graphical distribution of O. frater includes the area comprised by eastern Bul- garia to northwestern Turkey (Angelov 1976). The southernmost border known for this species is Uludag (Lodos et al., 1978). Other species of Turkish Pliadonus live in the Alpine and sub-Alpine zones of northeastern Anatolia and the Caucasus (Reitter 1913, Davidian and Savitsky 2005). Here, a new species of Otiorhynchus, subgenus Pliadonus is described from Bozdg, a 2500 m high mountain of Western Anatolia with many endemic species. Most of the species belonging to tribus Otiorhynchini living in Bozdag at only above 1100 mare either endemic /O. (Cryphiphorus) dubitabilis Fairmaire, 1866 and Neotournieria lodosianus (Magnano, 1977)] or subendemic /O. (Podoro- pelmus) kaltakkirani Voss, 1936 and O. (Tecutinus) latifrons Stierlin, 1893]. Apart from these species, the widely distributed species O. (Melasemnus) ovali- ‘Received on March 14, 2007. Accepted on May 21, 2007. * Department of Biology, Ege University, Izmir 35100, Turkey. E-mails: (BK) bekir.keskin@ege. edu.tr, (IEC) ethem.cevik@ege.edu.tr. Mailed on January 18, 2008 494 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS pennis Boheman in Schonherr, 1843 and O. (Choilisanus) balcanicus Boheman in Schonherr, 1843 are also found in Bozdag. Therefore, together with its loca- tion in Western Anatolia as refugia for many animal groups during the last gla- cial maximum (Demirsoy 1996), Bozdag is currently, one of the important areas of endemism in Western Anatolia. Otiorhynchus (Pliadonus) lilligi sp. n. Figures 1 (A-H) Material Examined. Holotype: Male, ZDEU Ent. 2006/502, 21.V.2006, Bozdag -Izmir, leg. S. Anlas, 1537 m, 38°20'28"N-28°06'49"E (Fig. 1, A). Para- types: 1 Female, 2003/426, 17.VIII.2003, Bozdag-Izmir, B. Keskin, 1537 m, 38°20'28"N-28°06'49"E; 1 Male, ZDEU Ent. 2006/503, 17.XI.2006, Bozdag - Izmir, H. Kog, 1537 m, 38°20'28"N - 28°06'49"E. The specimens were collected under stones. Diagnosis. The new species is included in the species group Pliadonus, one of the species groups arranged by Reitter (1912), because it has a large triangu- lar tooth on the profemur and a flat protibial inner edge. It resembles O. (Plia- donus) frater Stierlin, 1861 distributed in the Marmara Region of Turkey, partic- ularly in elevated regions. Otiorhynchus (Pliadonus) lilligi sp. n. can be distin- guished easily from O. (Pliadonus) frater by the presence of a larger tooth on the mesofemur and by the morphology of the female genitalia [Fig. 1 (D, E, and F)]. Otiorhynchus (Pliadonus) lilligi sp. n. is dioecious species and the male genitalia illustrated in Fig. 1 (G and Hy). Description. Body dark brown, extremities light brown. Head finely punc- tured, stronger punctures on rostrum and frons. Length of rostrum not more than its width and with an apical U-shaped wide median depression. Rostrum as long as width of pterigia. Dorsal and lateral carinae lengthening till, to the front of eyes. Eyes protruding outward and placed dorsolaterally. In dorsal view, eyes small and spherical and in lateral view, eyes egg-shaped (Fig. 1, B). Antenna with a long and thin structure. First segment of funicle longer than second segment. Third and all the subsequent segments at least twice longer than width. Clava long, thin and oval. Length of pronotum as much as its width. Widest area placed on hind of the center. Upper part with thin granules and very small hollows on them [Fig. 1 (C)]. Elytra short and oval shaped and quite wide. Punctures strong on elytral lines. Elytral lines little deep on the middle part, but quite deep at the sides; 3 or 4 rows of yellow hairs placed between intervals with very thin granules. A big and triangular tooth on profemur. So, width of this area at least twice more than the width of distal edge of profemur. Tooth on each mesofemur; however, these teeth much smaller than the previous one. No gran- ules on the inner edge of protibia, in other words, flat. Etymology. This new species has been attributed to Dr. Martin Lillig, Ger- man coleopterologist who has been carrying out investigations on the species of the family Tenebrionidae. Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 495 Figures 1. A. Otiorhynchus (Pliadonus) lilligi sp. n., (Male) (Holotype), B. Head plate, C. Pronotum, D. Spiculum ventrale of O. (Pliadonus) frater Styerlyn, 1861, E. Spiculum ventrale, F. Spermatheca of Otiorhynchus (Pliadonus) lilligi sp. n., G. Dorsal view of male genitalia, H. Lateral view of male genitalia (bars 1 mm). 496 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We thank Dr. Mehmet K. Atatiir for helpful comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript. This research was supported partially by Ege University Research Fund (2001 FEN 048). LITERATURE CITED Alonso-Zarazaga, M. A. and C. H. C. Lyal. 1999. A wold catalogue of families and genera of cur- culionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (Excepting Scolytidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis. SCP Edition. Barcelona, Spain. 315 pp. Angelov, P. 1976. Fauna Bulgarica (5) Coleoptera, Curculionidae I Part (Apioninae, Otiorhyn- chinae). Aedibus Academiae Scientiarum Bulgaricae. Sofia, Bulgaria. 355 pp. Davidian, G. E. and V. Yu. Savitsky. 2005. To the knowledge of weevils of the genus Otiorhyn- chus Germar (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from the Caucasus and adjacent territories. Russian Entomological Journal, 14 (4): 283-328. Demirsoy, A. 1996. Zoogeography (Turkey and General). -Meteksan Yayinlary, Ankara-Turkey. 630 pp. (In Turkish). Keskin, B. 2005. Systematic researches on the genus Otiorhynchus Germar, 1822 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Izmir. Ph.D. Dissertation, Ege University-Izmir. 206 pp. (In Turkish). Lodos, N., F. Onder, E. Pehlivan, and R. Atalay. 1978. Studies on the harmful insect fauna of Marmara and Aegean regions. -Ankara Zirai Miicadele Merkez Atelye ve Ikmal Miidtrlugt Ofset Bask: Tesisleri. 301 pp. (In Turkish). Lona, C. 1936. Curculionidae, Otiorrhynchinae I. Jn; S. Schenkling (Ed), Coleopterorum Cato- logus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk, Pars 148. s’Gravenhage, Netherlands, 226 pp. Magnano, L. 1998. Notes on the Otiorhynchus Germar, 1824 complex (Coleoptera: Curculioni- dae), pp. 51-80. In, E. Colonelli, S. Louw, and G. Osella (Editors) Taxonomy, ecology and distri- bution of Curculionidae (Coleoptera: Polyphaga). Proceedings of a Symposium (28 August, 1996, Florence, Italy) XX. International Congress of Entomology. Atti del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali. Torino, Italy. 294 pp. Reitter, E. 1912. Ubersicht der Untergattungen und der Arten-gruppen des genus Otiorhynchus Germ. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 31 (II): 46-67. Reitter, E. 1913. Bestimmungstabellen der Otiorhynchus-Arten mit gezéhnten Schenkeln aus der palaearktischen Fauna. Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Brinn 52: 129-251. Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 497 TWO NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS CORNUTRYPETA HAN AND WANG (DIPTERA: TEPHRITIDAE) FROM CHINA’ Xiaolin Chen’ and Xingjian Wang* ABSTRACT: Two new tephritid species, Cornutrypeta hunanica sp. nov. and Cornutrypeta gansunica sp. nov. from China are described and illustrated. A revised key to all the Cornutrypeta species 1s provided. KEY WORDS: Diptera, Tephritidae, Cornutrypeta, new species, China The genus Cornutrypeta was erected by Han and Wang (1993) for the type species, 7rypeta superciliata Frey, 1935 from Finland. Recently, Han (1996) added another species, Cornutrypeta taiwanensis Han. The only biological data available for the genus relates to the larvae of Cornutrypeta spinifrons (Shroeder) from Europe which has been reported to mine the leaves of Solidago vergaurea and Aster sp. (Asteraceae) (White, 1988). In this work, two additional new species, C. hunania and C. gansunica from China are described. So far, eleven species are known from the Palaearctic and Oriental Regions, eight of which occur in China. A revised key to all the species is provided. Terminology and abbreviations concerning gross morphology generally follows White el al. (1999), McAlpine (1981), Han et al. (1993), and Han (1996). The abbre- viations for type-specimen depositories used in this paper are as follows: IZCAS, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY Cornutrypeta Han and Wang, 1993 Cornutrypeta Han and Wang, 1993: 169. Type species: 7rypeta superciliata Frey, 1935, by original designation. Diagnosis. Cornutrypeta is a sexually dimorphic genus for which diagnosis is only available for male specimens, the females being almost impossible to separate from the closely related genus 7rypeta Meigen. Males differ from the other Oriental and Palaearctic Trypetine genera by the following combination of characters: (1) 3- 5 frontal setae with at least 2 anterior frontal setae greatly enlarged, the remaining setae normal in shape; (2) frons enlarged to accommodate the extensive elaboration of the anterior frontal setae; (3) glans with median granulate sclerite large, apicodor- sal rod usually present (Han et al., 1993). ‘Received on December 28, 2006. Accepted on May 20, 2007. * Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Datun Road, Chaoyang, Beijing 100101, P.R.China. E-mail: Xlchen@ioz.ac.cn * Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Datun Road, Chaoyang, Beijing 100101, P.R.China. E-mail: Wangxj@ioz.ac.cn Mailed on January 18, 2008 498 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS A key to the species of Cornutrypeta Han and Wang . Scutum largely danke pirowwanie es *. C8850. RA ee 2 Scutum almost entirely yellowish brown to orange browN................:ccceseeeees 3 2. Wing with small brown spot from middle of cell r2+3 to costa......... eee ssa tana snsladtnnoanetadddenesse: teen ee meee ROMRe ORE Nene C. yushunia Han and Wang — Wing, MyithOubeS UIE MOpee ee 8. a eecnde 2: sonncee School of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, P. R. China. Emails: jessyding@hotmail.com, gfgao@njau.edu.cn, bsp1226@sina.com. Yufeng Ding is the correspond- ing author. Mailed on January 18, 2008 Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 Byi183 : ae iar we Seer euy 5 ee) =e Sevv ve veuy covey ete vs ’ 2 Gs Sic ie uw tulece we huvy ous 3 anes Bo SA Vy o ‘ r ay tyvguufe " : ‘ ) u = \ CAN Hes agie 1 —S——_ in \ uv c ce y uv vg (a C = L Uy KS « &u a y v < > - WAG 1 f ‘ 7 ois wrvvesy Figures 1-8. Pachyotoma emeiensis, sp. nov. 1. PAO and eyes; 2. maxillary outer lobe; 3. head (part), front view; 4. groups of proximal, basomedial and postlabial chaetae; 5. Ant. 1-3 (only sensillae and basal microsensillae shown); 6. sensillae, microsensillae and common chaetae on Th. IJ; 7. sensillae and common chaetae on Abd. IV; 8. general dis- tribution of sensillar elements on body. 514 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ~wes wou ~ew 7 eS, yw —- Xv 13 Figures 9-14. Pachyotoma emeiensis, sp. nov. 9. tibiotarsus and claw of hind leg; 10. ventral tube; 11. retinaculum; 12. chaetotaxy of subcoxa furcalis, (right side); 13. furcu- la (lateral view); 14. cuticle of Th. II (part). Abbreviations. AO, antennal organ of third antennal segment; PAO, postan- tennal organ; Abd. I-VI, abdominal segments I — VI; Ant. 1, 2, 3, 4 - antennal segments; 1, 2, 3, 4, VT, ventral tube; al, anteriolateral furcal subcoxa; am, ante- riomedial furcal subcoxa; p, posterior furcal subcoxa; bms, basal microsensillum on antennal segments; ms — microsensillum; p-row, posterior row of tergal chaetae; s, sensillum. Description. Maximum body length 1.3 mm. Color. Heavily darkish black including appendages. Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 515 Integument. With inner reticulation and large secondary granulation all over the tergites; secondary granulation also present on appendages but inner reticu- lation absent there. Head. Ommatidia 8+8, G and H slightly smaller or subequal to the other six. PAO oval, without distinct constriction nor inner denticles, almost as long as nearest ommatidia and basal width of Ant. 1, and with 2 guard chaetae along its outer margin (Fig. 1). Maxillary palp simple, maxillary outer lobe with 4 sublo- bial hairs (Fig. 2). Labral formula 4/5, 5, 4. Clypeus with about 25 chaetae, those in the 3 transversal rows closer to labrum stronger than the rest (Fig. 3). Labium with 3+3 proximal cheatae and 4+4 basomedian chaetae. Ventral side of head with 4+4 chaetae along linea ventralis (Fig. 4). Ant. 1 with 2 bms, dorsal and ventral, and 2 ventral s; Ant. 2 with 2 bms and 1 latero-distal s; Ant. 3 with 5 dis- tal s (2 inner, 2 outer and | lateral) and without bms; inner sensilla of AO are elongate, of almost the same size as outer sensilla, just slightly shorter than common chaetae on Ant. 3 (Fig. 5). Numerous sensilla present on Ant. 4, sub- apical organelle small. Body Chaetotaxy. Macrochaetae (Mac) generally not differentiated, only distally on Abd. VI with 1+1 macrochaetae. Length of the two macrochaetae twice that of longer common chaetae and almost equal to that of mucro. Most of body sensilla slightly shorter than common chaetae except those on Abd. IV. Sensilla on Abd. IV curved more than those on other body segments and rela- tively longer than common chaetae on the same segment (Figs. 6 and 7). Tergites of Th. If — Abd. V covered with numerous sensilla along p-row and on medial and lateral parts. Sensilla and common cheatae along p-rows of the segments mostly alternately arranged. Sensillar and microsensillar formulae respectively as 25-28, 29-33/ 17-20, 28-31, 24—29, 51-57, 26—29(s) and 1, 1/1, 1, 1, 1 (ms). Axial setae (common setae along median line on each side) of Th. II-Abd. II: 10-11, 8—10/6—7, 6-7, 6—7 (Fig. 8). Th. III with 45-48 chaetae in p-row. Thorax without ventral chaetae. Appendages. Upper and lower subcoxa of leg 1, 2, 3 with 0, 2, 2 and 1, 5, 6 chaetae respectively. Unguis of normal size and shape, with inner tooth. Tibiotarsi of all legs with numerous additional chaetae (Fig. 9). Tenent hairs thin and pointed. Ventral tube with 8+8 latero-distal and 8—10 posterior chaetae (Fig. 10). Retinaculum with 4+4 teeth on rami and | chaetae on ventral side of corpus (Fig. 11). Anterior part of furcal subcoxa divided into two groups, anteriolateral with 10—11 chaetae and anteriomedial with 30-34 chaetae, posterior furcal sub- coxa with 11-15 chaetae (Fig. 12). Anterior side of manubrium smooth and with no chaetae present, posterior side granulated and with 30-40 chaetae. Medial part of manubrium thickening bispinose. Dens with 4 anterior chaetae, | distal and 3 basomedial. Posterior side of dens with clear secondary granulation and 12-13 chaetae, with 8—9 chaetae in basal part and 4 in distal part. Mucro strong, with | apical tooth, 2 symmetrical subapical teeth and 2 lamella. Each subapical tooth connected with base of mucro by one lamella. Mucro with a hook-shaped apex (Fig. 13). Ratio of manubrium: dens: mucro as 3.3—3.5: 2.7—3.0: 1. 516 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Ecological Remarks. Found under rocks in a mixed forest comprising of Musa, bamboo and broad-leaf trees. Etymology. The new species is named after the type locality. DISCUSSION There were no reports of the genus Pachyotoma in China before Potapov et al. (2005) moved P. dabeiensis, which was described from southwest China, from Bonetrura into Pachyotoma. Potapovy made the change because Bonetrura Christiansen and Bellinger, 1980 was established mostly on missing chaetae located on the anterior side of dens (P. dabeiensis does have these chaetae). We agree with this placement and wish to supplement it. According to the original description of Bonetrura boneti its pronotum is well- developed. This remarkable character is found that the same occurs in our spec- imens collected from Yellow Mountain, Anhui Province, China. Also, all these specimens should be placed in the genus Bonetrura for possessing secondary granulation and a well-developed dens lacking chaetae on its anterior side. Likewise, they also possess a well-developed and elongate pronotum, which is equal to or longer than the mesonotum. However, Tamura and Zhao did not men- tion this in their description of P. dabeiensis and according to the original figure, the pronotum of the species is reduced. The presence of both endoskeletal reticulation and secondary granulation 1s shown in the descriptions for Jestella siva and J. armata, but not found in the described species of Pachyotoma. Mucro shape of the new species is distinct from all other species of Pachyotoma. These two characters clearly define P. emeiensis sp. nov. LITERATURE CITED Christiansen, K. A. and P. F. Bellinger. 1998. The Collembola of North America north of the Rio Grande, a taxonomic analysis, II. Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, U.S.A. Pp. 462-463 Potapov, M. 2001. Synopses on Palaearctic Collembola. Volume 3. Staatliches Museum fiir Natur- kunde. Gorlitz, Gorlitz, Germany. Pp. 365-375. Potapov, M. B., L. E. Lobkova, and J. E. Shrubovych. 2005. New and little known Palaearctic Pachyotominae (Collembola: Isotomidae). Russian Entomological Journal 14(1): 75-82. Tamura H. and L.-J. Zhao. 2000. A new species of the genus Bonetrura from Yunnan, Southwest China (Collembola: Isotomidae). Contributions from the Biological Laboratory Kyoto Univer- sity. 29: 95-97. Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 Bl iii SCIENTIFIC NOTE NEW ADDITIONS TO THE INVENTORY OF COLORADO MAYFLIES (EPHEMEROPTERA) AND CADDISFLIES (TRICHOPTERA)! L. W. Myers’ and R. E. Younghanz’ There are currently 102 species of mayflies (McCafferty et al., 1993, Durfee and Kondratieff 1994, Durfee and Kondratieff 1997) and 198 species of caddis- flies (Herrmann et al., 1986, Ruiter 1990, Ruiter 1999) known from Colorado. In this paper, we report one new species record of mayfly Stenacron interpuncta- tum (Say) and one new species record of caddisfly Brachycentrus numerosus (Say) for the state. Both species were collected from the North Fork Republican River in Wray, Colorado, near the Kansas border. These collections extend the range westward for these two common, primarily eastern North American spec- ies (McCafferty and Huff 1978, Flint 1984). Stenacron interpunctatum is known to occur throughout Nebraska and Kansas (McCafferty et al., 2001). Likewise, B. numerosus is known from the central Nebraska counties of Brown and Thomas (unpublished data, C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, Colo- rado State University), as well as from southwestern Kansas (Hamilton et al., 1983). These recent collections provide further evidence of the western dispersal of numerous aquatic insects via the Missouri River tributaries of eastern Colorado (Kondratieff and Ward 1987, Evans 1988, Zuellig et al., 2006). Further study is needed to determine where the two species occur in other suitable habi- tats of eastern Colorado in the South Platte and Arkansas River basins. The pres- ence of both S. interpunctatum and B. numerosus in southwestern Kansas sug- gests their possible occurrence in the Arkansas River basin near the Kansas- Colorado border. Selected Material Examined: Stenacron interpunctatum, Yuma Co., North Fork Republican River, Hatchery Bridge Recreation Area 0.5 miles East of Wray, N 40° 4.738', W 102° 14.840', 5 November 2005, L. Myers and R. Younghanz, 4 larvae. Brachycentrus numerosus, Yuma Co., North Fork Republican River, Hatchery Bridge Recreation Area 0.5 miles East of Wray, N 40° 4.738', W 102° 14.840', 5 November 2005, L. Myers and R. Younghanz, 4 larvae; Yuma Co., North Fork Republican River, Park in Wray, Colorado, N 40° 4.800', W 102° 13.159", 9 January 2005, B. Kondratieff, R. Younghanz and L. Myers, 4 males, 2 females (reared). Yuma Co., North Fork Republican River, Hatchery Bridge Recreation Area 0.5 miles East of Wray, N 40° 4.738', W 102° 14.840', 9 January ‘Received on November 11, 2006. Accepted on May 7, 2007. * Colorado State University, Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, U.S.A. E-mails: (LWM) myersl@lamar.Colostate.edu, (REY) ryounghanz@msn.com. Mailed on January 18, 2008 518 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 2005, B. Kondratieff, R. Younghanz and L. Myers, 3 males (reared). All materi- al is deposited in the C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank Dave Ruiter, Centennial, Colorado, for confirming the identification of B. numerosus and Dr. Boris C. Kondratieff, Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Colorado State University for review of this manuscript and assistance collecting material. Also we would like to thank Dr. Robert E. Zuellig of the USGS Fort Collins, Colorado, for review of this manuscript. LITERATURE CITED Durfee, R. S. and B. C. Kondratieff. 1994. New additions to the inventory of Colorado mayflies (Ephemeroptera). Entomological News 105: 222-227. Durfee, R. S. and B. C. Kondratieff. 1997. Description of the adults of Labiobaetis apache (Ephe- meroptera: Baetidae) with additions and corrections to the inventory of Colorado mayflies. Entomological News 108: 97-101. Evans, M. A. 1988. Checklist of the Odonata of Colorado. Great Basin Naturalist 48: 96-101. Flint, O. S. Jr. 1984. The genus Brachycentrus in North America, with a proposed phylogeny of the genera of Brachycentridae (Trichoptera). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 398. 58 pp. Hamilton, S. W., G. A. Schuster, and M. B. Dubois. 1983. Checklist of the Trichoptera of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 86: 10-23. Herrmann, S. J., D. E. Ruiter, and J. D. Unzicker. 1986. Distribution and records of Colorado Trichoptera. The Southwestern Naturalist 31: 421-457. Kondratieff, B. C. and J. V. Ward. 1987. Taeniopteryx burksi (Plecoptera: Taeniopterygidae) in Colorado, with notes on aquatic insects of plains streams. Entomological News 98: 13-16. McCafferty, W. P. and B. L. Huff. 1978. The life cycle of the mayfly Stenacron interpunctatum (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae). The Great Lakes Entomologist. 11: 209-216 McCafferty, W. P., R. S. Durfee, and B. C. Kondratieff. 1993. Colorado mayflies (Ephemerop- tera): an annotated inventory. The Southwestern Naturalist 38: 252-274. McCafferty, W. P., T. H. Klubertanz, R. P. Randolph, A. V. Provonsha, H. R. Lawson, and B. C. Kondratieff. 2001. Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) of the Great Plains, I: Nebraska. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 127: 5-29. Ruiter, D. E. 1990. A new species of Neotrichia (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae) from Colorado with additions and corrections to the distribution and records of Colorado Trichoptera. Entomological News 101: 88-92. Ruiter, D. E. 1999. A new species and new synonym in the genus Psychoronia (Limnephilidae), with significant records for caddisflies (Trichoptera) from western North America. Great Basin Naturalist 59: 160-168. Zuellig, R. E., B. C. Kondratieff, and R. W. Hood. 2006. Studies on stoneflies (Plecoptera) of Colorado with eastern faunal affinities, including a new state record of the midwestern salmonfly, Pteronarcys pictetii Hagen (Plecoptera: Pteronarcyiidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 108: 335-340. Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 519 SCIENTIFIC NOTE TELENOMUS (HYMENOPTERA: SCELIONIDAE), EGG PARASITOID OF CALIGO BRASILIENSIS (C. FELDER, 1862) (LEPIDOPTERA: NYMPHALIDAE) IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL’ Cecilia B. Margaria,’ Hélcio R. Gil-Santana,’ Oton Meira Marques,‘ and Marta S. Loiacono’ Caligo brasiliensis (C. Felder, 1862) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Morphinae: Brassolini) (Casagrande, 2004), is a common butterfly in southern Brazil. The larvae feed on leaves of Musa argentea L., Musa sapientum L., Musa parasidi- aca L. (Musaceae), Hedychium coronarium Koen. (Zingiberaceae) and Euterpe edulis Mart. (Palmae) according to Silva (1907), Silva et al. (1968) and D’ Abrera (1987). Caligo spp. larvae, sometimes, are even abundant enough to be considered as a pest on banana plantations (Hogue, 1993) but rarely reaching economic impor- tance (Fancelli et al., 1998). Nevertheless, Malo and Willis (1961) suggested that Caligo eurilochus (Cramer, 1775), a very close species of C. brasiliensis, in the absence of effective natural biological control, could easily become a serious banana pest. Information about egg parasitoids of Caligo spp. 1s scanty. In banana planta- tions particularly, the attack of the trichogrammatid species related to Xenufens ruskini Girault, 1915 is recorded for C. eurilochus in Ecuador (Malo and Willis, 1961); Xenufens ruskini for Caligo memnon (C. Felder et R. Felder, 1867). In Honduras and Colombia the attack of the encyrtid Ooencyrtus caligo Noyes is the record for Caligo illioneus (Cramer, 1775) eggs (Noyes, 1985) and Ooen- cyrtus sp. in eggs collected in Costa Rica (Harrison, 1963). There is no record about Caligo brasiliensis egg parasitoids in literature. Johnson (1984) established eleven host-specific groups of Jelenomus Haliday: T: tabanivorus from Diptera, T. californicus, T: arzamae, and T. dalmanni species group complex from Lepidoptera, 7’ floridanus, T: crassiclava, T: podisi, T: phy- matae, T: laricis, T. nigricoxalis from Hemiptera, and T. longicornis with host unknown. From Brazil, several species of Telenomus californicus species group (Johnson, 1984) were recorded as endoparasitoids of lepidopteran eggs (Loiacono and Margaria, 2002). "Received on February 20, 2007. Accepted on May 20, 2007. * Division Entomologia, Museo de La Plata, Paseo Del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mails: (CBM) cmargaria@fenym.unlp.edu.ar, (MSL) loiacono@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar. * Laboratorio de Diptera, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil, 4365, Manguinhos, CEP 21045-900 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. E-mail: helciogil@uol.com.br. *Departamento de Fitotecnia, Centro de Ciéncias Agrarias e Ambientais, Universidade Federal da Bahia. 44380-000 Cruz das Almas - BA, Brasil. E-mail: oton@ufba.br. Mailed on January 18, 2008 520 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS The vast majority of species of Jelenomus are solitary egg parasitoids, i.e., one parasite develops per host egg. However, a few gregarious species attack large- sized host eggs of different insect orders, e.g., TZ. monilicornis Ashmead, 1894, T: dendrolimi Matsumura, 1925 and 7: fariai Costa Lima, 1928. In these cases usually five to ten wasps complete development within an egg (Johnson, 1984). METHODS Caligo brasiliensis egg clusters (Figure 1) were collected on leaves of Musa argentea by the second author in Cabo Frio (22° 51'S - 42° 03' W), State of Rio de Janeiro in August and September 2005 and maintained in laboratory condi- tions. Figures 1-2. 1. Caligo brasiliensis egg cluster after the emergence of adults wasps. 2. The wasps in a sectioned Caligo brasiliensis egg before their emergence. Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 521 The lepidopteran species was identified based on D’Abrera (1987) and is deposited at “Cole¢ao Entomologica do Museu Nacional da Universidade Fed- eral do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ).” The Scelionidae species that emerged from Caligo brasiliensis was identified following Johnson (1984) and the voucher specimens are deposited at Colecdo Entomoldgica do Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ, Brazil) and Division Entomologia of the Museo de La Plata (MLP, Argentina). RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Two clusters of host eggs were attacked by Zelenomus: 235 adults emerged from an eleven-egg butterfly cluster (1. VIII.2005) and 190 specimens from a ten- egg cluster (5.1X.2005) (Figure 1, see previous page), showing gregarious be- havior with more than twenty parasitoid adults emerging per egg (Figure 2, see previous page). The specimens reared belong to the Zelenomus californicus species group as defined by Johnson (1984), and are closed to Telenomus solitus Johnson, 1983, differing principally on the basis of genitalia structure. Telenomus solitus has been reared from an unidentified noctuid egg and also it was cultured in labora- tory from Trichoplusia ni (Hubner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Guatemala (Johnson, 1983). This record confirms the Lepidoptera host-specific of T. cali- fornicus species group. This is the first record of Caligo brasiliensis egg para- sitoid species. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We thank Olaf H.H. Mielke by information about the taxonomy of C. brasiliensis and financial support from the Secretaria de Ciencia y Técnica de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas (Argentina). LITERATURE CITED Casagrande, M. M. 2004. Jn, Lamas, G. (Editor). Checklist: Part 4A. Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea. Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera SA. Association of Tropical Lepidoptera/Scientific publishers, Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A. pp. 201-205. D’Abrera, B. 1987. Butterflies of the Neotropical Region. Part III Brassolidae, Acraeidae, Nym- phalidae (partim). Hill House. Victoria, Melbourne. 139 pp. Fancelli, M., A. Lindemberg, and M. Mesquita. 1998. Pragas da bananeira. Jn, Pragas de fruteiras tropicais de importancia agroindustrial. (Sobrinho, Cardoso & Freire). Embrapa SPI. Brasilia, Brasil. pp. 41-51. Harrison, J. O. 1963. The natural enemies of some banana insect pests in Costa Rica. Journal of Economic Entomology 56(3): 282-285. Hogue, C. L. 1993. Latin American insects and entomology. University of California Press. Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. 536 pp. 522. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Johnson, N. F. 1983. Description of Zelenomus solitus n. sp. (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae), a noctu- id egg parasitoid. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 85: 226-228. Johnson, N. F. 1984. Systematic of Nearctic 7elenomus. Bulletin of the Ohio Biological Survey 6: 1-113. Loiacono, M. S. and C. B. Margaria. 2002. Ceraphronoidea, Platygastroidea and Proctotrupoidea from Brazil (Hymenoptera). Neotropical Entomology 31(4): 551-560. Malo, F. and E. R. Willis. 1961. Life history and biological control of Caligo eurilochus, a pest of banana. Journal of Economic Entomology 54(3): 530-536. Noyes, J. S. 1985. A review of the Neotropical species of Ooencyrtus Ashmead, 1900 (Hy- menoptera: Encyrtidae). Journal of the Natural History 19: 533- 554. Silva, B. R. 1907. Contribuigao para a historia natural dos lepidopteros do Brasil. Imprensa Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. 179 pp. Silva, A. G. A., C. R. Goncalves, D. M. Galvao, A. J. L. Goncalves, J. Gomes, M. N. Silva, and L. Simoni. 1968. Quarto catalogo dos insetos que vivem nas plantas do Brasil — seus parasitas e predadores. Ministério da Agricultura, Rio de Janeiro. Parte II, 1° Tomo. 622 pp. Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 323 SCIENTIFIC NOTE CONFIRMATION DATA FOR THREE SPECIES OF MAYFLIES IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, U.S.A. (EPHEMEROPTERA: EPHEMERELLIDAE, EPHEMERIDAE, HEPTAGENIIDAE)' W. P. McCafferty’ and M. D. Meyer’ Eaton (1885) reported Cinygma integrum Eaton (Heptageniidae) from ‘Washington Territory” and Mount Hood, Oregon. No collection data were given by Eaton, and there have been no additional reports from the state of Washington. Spieth (1941) listed Washington (as Washington Territory) among states and provinces from where he had seen specimens of Hexagenia limbata limbata (Serville) [now H. limbata] (Ephemeridae). No other data were given by Spieth, and there have been no additional reports from the state of Washington. Landa et al. (1982) noted Caudatella edmundsi Allen (Ephemerellidae) from Washington but provided no other data. There have been no other reports from the state of Washington. From our study of numerous collections (see below), we are able to confirm each of the three species mentioned above with Washington State collection data, as per required for establishing valid species ranges (McCafferty 2000) as fol- lows: Caudatella edmundsi (all larvae): Chelan Co, Wenatchee R, 10-VII-2003 (United States Environmental Protection Agency, Corvallis, OR); Okanogan Co, North Fork Toats Coulee Cr, 7-[X-1995 (WDE: Washington Dept Ecology, Olympia, WA); Spokane Co, Deadman Cr, Deadman Rd, 7-VII-1962 (PERC: Purdue Entomological Research Collection, West Lafayette, IN); Whatcom Co, Thompson Cr, 16-IX-1996 (WDE). Hexagenia limbata: adults, Benton Co, Snake R, 20-VII-1996 (RN: Robert Newell-Flathead Lake Biological Station Collection, Polson, MT); adults, Chelan Co, Lake Chelan, 6-VI-1964 (PERC); adults, Columbia Co, Touchet R, 15-VIII-1999 (RN); larvae, Spokane Co, Spokane, 1940 (Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, IL). Cinygma integrum (all larvae): Asotin Co, Fields Spring St Prk, 22-[V-1972 (WSU: Washington State University, Pullman, WA); Challam Co, Indian Cr, Lake Aldwell, 18-VI-2001 (PERC); Lewis Co, Ohanapecosh, Mt Rainier Natl Prk, 16-V-2001 (C. P. Gillette Museum, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, ‘Submitted January 5, 2007. Accepted April 26, 2007. *Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 U.S.A. E-mail: mecaffer@purdue.edu. > Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Science, Christopher Newport University, | University Place, Newport, Virginia 23606 U.S.A. E-mail: michael.meyer@cnu.edu. Mailed on January 18, 2008 524 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS CO); Okanogan Co, 8 Mile Cr, Winthrop, 24-VI-1936 (WSU); Pierce Co, West End Rd, Mt Rainier Natl Prk, 12-VHJ-1977 (WSU); San Juan Co, Deadman Cr, San Juan Island, 19-V-1978 (Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT); Yakima Co, Rimrock Lake, 12-VI-1973 (WSU). Possible confusion regarding one other “Washington” species with no state of Washington data involves Procloeon vicinum (Hagen) (Baetidae). This species was described from “Washington” by Hagen (1861) (as Cloe vincina). That record, however, is referable to Washington (District of Columbia) as indicated by Edmunds (1962). LITERATURE CITED Eaton, A. E. 1883-88. A revisional monograph of recent Ephemeridae or mayflies. Transactions of the Linnaean Society of London, 2nd Series Zoology 3: 1-352. Edmunds, G. F. 1962. The type localities of the Ephemeroptera of North America north of Mexico. University of Utah Biological Series 12. 39 pp. Hagen, H. 1861. Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North America, with a list of the South American species. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 1861. 347 pp. Landa, V., T. Soldan, and G. F. Edmunds. 1982. Comparative anatomy of larvae of the family Ephemerellidae (Ephemeroptera). Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca 79: 241-253. McCafferty, W. P. 2000. Reporting species record data. Entomological News 111: 311-312. Spieth, H. T. 1941. Taxonomic studies of the Ephemeroptera. The genus Hexagenia. The American Midland Naturalist 26: 233-281. Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 525 SCIENTIFIC NOTE NOTES ON THE SYNONYMY OF THE CENTIPEDE OTOSTIGMUS ETHONYX CHAMBERLIN, 1955 (SCOLOPENDROMORPHA: SCOLOPENDRIDAE: OTOSTIGMINAE) FROM PERU' Amazonas Chagas-Junior’ The subfamily Otostigminae in the Neotropical Region is represented by two genera: Otostigmus Porat, 1876 and Rhysida Wood, 1862. Otostigmus is divided into two subgenera: Otostigmus and Parotostigmus Pocock, 1896. Only Parotostig- mus occurs in the Neotropics.There are also six species of Parotostigmus in West and Central Africa. Parotostigmus is one of the most diverse subgenera of scolo- pendromorphs from Neotropics, with 56 species and 14 subspecies (Minelli, 2006). Eight species, five endemic, and one subspecies have been recorded from Peru. Half of the species have been described by Chamberlin (1914, 1944, 1955, 1957). Chamberlin (1955) described three species of Otostigmus: O. ethonyx, O. leior, and O. volcanus, all of them without illustration. The last two species cited by Cham- berlin (1955) were by the original description assigned to the subgenus Parotostig- mus, however O. ethonyx was not. The characters given in the brief description of O. ethonyx such as prefemur of the ultimate leg with spines and the coxopleuron with a conical process are characteristics of the species of the subgenus Otostigmus that occurs only in the Old World. Kraus (1957) investigated the Myriapoda fauna from Peru and kept Chamberlin’s arrangement, listing four species of Otostigmus, three of them were placed in the subgenus Parotostigmus, while O. ethonyx was classified under Ofostigmus. Apparently, Kraus did not collect any other specimen of O. ethonyx or analyzed the holotype described by Chamberlin (1955). Because of this, he followed Chamberlin (1955) but pointed out that the occurrence in Peru of a species of the Old World subgenus Otostigmus was remarkable and that the species was inadequately described. Bucherl (1974) was the first author who listed O. ethonyx under the subgenus Parotostigmus; however he did not give any expla- nation about this alternative arrangement. Therefore the status of O. ethonyx needs to be reassessed. For this project, the holotype of O. ethonyx has been borrowed and analyzed. Four characters mentioned by Chamberlin (1955) such as ultimate legs incrassate, tergites from the first to twentieth with two complete paramedian sutures, claws of the legs as long as the second tarsal and tarsi of the legs without spines are characteristics of the genus Cormocephalus Newport, 1844. Of the char- acters cited above, legs without spines are present in only Otostigmus (P.) limbat- us Meinert, 1886. Moreover, no species of Parotostigmus has paramedian sutures on the first tergite and claw longer than the second tarsus. The spiracles in Otostig- ‘Received on April 11, 2007. Accepted on May 20, 2007. * Departamento de Invertebrados, Museu Nacional/UFRJ. Quinta da Boa Vista, s/nimero, Sao Crist6- vao, Rio de Janeiro, RJ. CEP-20940-040. Brasil. E-mail: rhoda@terra.com.br or amazonaschagas @gmail.com. Mailed on January 18, 2008 526 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS minae do not have flaps and in Cormocephalus they are divided into three flaps, the diagnostic feature of Scolopendrinae. The holotype of O. ethonyx was compared with the holotype of C. andinus. The former presents nine relevant characters that match those in the latter: antenna with 17 antennomeres, first seven or eight anten- nomeres glabrous, cephalic plate with two longitudinal sutures diverging anterior- ly, tooth plates 3+3, complete paramedian sutures present from Ist to 20th tergites, ultimate tergite with complete longitudinal suture, complete paramedian sutures present from 2nd to 20th sternites, coxopleuron with a short process and two api- cal spines, prefemora of the ultimate leg with two apical dorsolateral spines, two lateral spines, two median spines and four ventral spines and from the medial por- tion of the dorsal face of the prefemora, femora and tibia with a longitudinal depression, like a sulcus. Therefore, I conclude that the holotype of O. ethonyx actually corresponds to a juvenile of Cormocephalus andinus (Kraepelin, 1903). Cormocephalus andinus is the most common of the six species of Cormocephalus recorded from Peru. The comparison of the two types was necessary because there is another species of Cormocephalus — Cormocephalus mundus Chamberlin, 1955 — in Abancay, type locality of O. ethonyx. The results presented here support the following conclusions: 1) O. ethonyx is a junior subjective synonym of C. andinus and 2) there are no known representatives of the subgenus Ofostigmus in the Neotropics, corroborating the hypothesis of Kraus (1957). ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am grateful to Charles Griswold of the California Academy of Sciences for the loan of the holo- type of O. ethonyx for this study and to Hieronymus Dastych for the facilities during my visit to the Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum, Hamburg, Germany, for the study of the holotype of C. andinus. 1 thank Adriano Brilhante Kury and several anonymous reviewers for the helpful sugges- tions and criticisms of the manuscript. This research was supported in part by scholarships from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) and Fundacao Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ). Several anonymous reviewers offered helpful comments to an earlier version of this manuscript. LITERATURE CITED Biicherl, W. 1974. Die Scolopendromorpha der neotropichen region. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London 32: 99-133. Chamberlin, R. V. 1914. The Stanford expedition to Brazil, 1911, John C. Branner, Director. The Chilopoda of Brazil. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 58(3): 151-221. Chamberlin, R. V. 1944. Chilopods in the collections of Field Museum of Natural History. Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology 28: 175-216. Chamberlin, R. V. 1955. The Chilopoda of the Lund University and California Academy of Sciences Expedition. Lunds Universitets Arsskrift 2, 51(5): 3-61 Chamberlin, R. V. 1957. Scolopendrid chilopods of the Northern Andes region taken on the Cali- fornia Academy South America Expedition of 1954-1955. The Great Basin Naturalist 17(1-2): 30- 41. Kraus, O. 1957. Myriapoden aus Peru, VI: Chilopoden. Senckenbergiana Biologica 38: 359-404. Minelli, A. 2006. Chilobase. A world catalogue of centipedes (Chilopoda) for the web. Available on- line at: http://chilobase.bio.unip. it. Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 mPa SCIENTIFIC NOTE THE USE BY RED IMPORTED FIRE ANTS, SOLENOPSIS INVICTA (HYMENOPGEFA: FORMICIDAE), OF POTAMOGETON NODOSUS (POTAMOGETONACEAE) LEAVES AS PLATFORMS INTO THE LITTORAL ZONE IN TEXAS, U.S.A.’ Richard J. W. Patrock? It has become increasingly clear that waterways facilitate the invasion process for many species, including terrestrial species, such as ants (Walker 2006). The underlying reason may be directly related to transportation, as in the case of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren whose colonies can spread by rafting on moving water (Banks et al., 1981). In other instances, periodic flood- ing along riparian courses often creates disturbance regimes, which promote invasions (Ellis et al., 2001). Additional habitat considerations include elevated soil moisture (Holway et al., 2002) and high productivity associated with ripari- an ecosystems (Kennedy 1998, Paetzold et al., 2006). These conditions are like- ly to promote high colony growth rates and an associated higher propagule pres- sure, furthering the invasion process. Ants that are predisposed to be around water are more likely to be able to take opportunistic advantage of waterways for their dispersal (Suarez et al., 2005). Many Solenopsis species, especially the most widely distributed species, com- monly forage around water (Wilson 1986). The black imported fire ant, for instance, has been found preying on tubeworms exposed during low tides (Palo- mo et al., 2003), while S. invicta is considered a threat to wildlife in wetland habitats (Freed and Neitman 1988). The latter study noted that the fire ants were able to extend their reach into the pond by utilizing unspecified vegetation as a walkway but gave no additional details. This note offers further information as to the use by fire ants of floating vegetation as natural roads. In June of 2002, I first observed S. invicta workers crossing long leaf pond- weed, Potamotegon nodusus leaves lying on the water surface of a manmade lake in Lee County, TX (N30.14, W96.88). Potamotegon nodosus 1s a fast-grow- ing aquatic plant that forms extensive platforms of networked leaves on the water surface of the littoral zone. In the situation observed, these platforms were grow- ing in an emergent area of the lake with seasonal inundation. I was able to observe the ants closely out over the water because of the presence of a 15m long raised pier that paralleled the pondweed. Many of my observations were made using a Sony PCV DCR-TRV9. ‘Received on November 7, 2006. Accepted on May 20, 2007. * Brackenridge Field Laboratory and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712 U.S.A. and Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, B1876BXD, Bernal, Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mail: patrock@mail.utexas.edu. Mailed on January 18, 2008 528 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Foraging fire ants set up observable trails over the leaves that extended ca. 8 meters from the edge of the lake. No other ants were observed on the leaves, nor on the edge of the lake at this vicinity during 22 visits to the field site. I was unable to record any instances of prey capture by the ants, despite the panoram- ic view and the abundance of various insects and other invertebrates on or near the leaf surfaces. In only a few cases were ants seen running in tandem, and the multi-directional paths seen for all the ants at any given time suggested that I was observing only scouting. The surface temperatures of the leaves measured using a MiniTemp MT4 Portable IR thermometer was almost identical to that of the water surface, as well as being significantly cooler and much less variable than the soil surface tem- peratures registered at midday (ca. 5-25°C less depending on the level of shade and moisture). On two separate days (15 July and 12 August 2003), I followed the activity of the fire ants on the pondweed, as well as at bait transects in an adjacent meadow. The transects consisted of 10 hotdog baits, spaced at 10m intervals, set out in the late morning until the late afternoon, before and after sur- face soil temperatures reached 30°C and at least 40°C, respectively. As expected, recruitment was temperature limited with no ants moving to the baits when sur- face temperatures were above 45°C. There was a corresponding reduction and negation in fire ant movements on the pondweed at these times, as well, despite the much cooler surface temperatures (25-27°C). These observations suggested that a temperature constraint existed somewhere on the path to the pondweed or there was a general termination of foraging by the colony(ies) according to ambi- ent soil conditions. Foraging on the pondweed therefore did not appear to allow for an expansion of the temporal window of activity for the fire ants. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The inspiration for this note came from Fernando Pessoa: “Navegar € preciso; viver nao é pre- ciso”. Many thanks go to the owners and managers of the Delta P for allowing our laboratory access to the property. I am grateful to Jerry Cook who read an early draft of the manuscript. Support came through the Lee and Ramona Bass Foundation, the Robert J. Kleberg and Helen C. Kleberg Founda- tion and the State of Texas Fire Ant Research and Management Project (FARMAAC) to Lawrence E. Gilbert at the University of Texas at Austin. LITERATURE CITED Banks, W. A., C. S. Lofgren, D. P. Jouvenaz, C. E. Stringer, P. M. Bishop, D. F. Williams, D. P. Wojcik, and B. M. Glancey. 1981. Techniques for collecting, rearing, and handling imported fire ants. USDA, SEA, AATS-S-21, 9 pp. Ellis, L. M., C. S. Crawford, and J. Molles, and C. Manuel. 2001. Influence of annual flooding on terrestrial arthropod assemblages of a Rio Grande riparian forest. Regulated Rivers: Research & Management 17: 1-20. Freed, P. S., and K. Neitman. 1988. Notes on predation on the endangered Houston toad, Bufo houstonensis. Texas Journal of Science 40: 454-456. Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 529 Holway, D. A., A. V. Suarez, and T. J. Case. 2002. Role of abiotic factors in governing suscepti- bility to invasion: A test with Argentine ants. Ecology 83: 1610-1619. Kennedy, T. A. 1998. Patterns of an invasion by Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) in a riparian corridor and its effects on ant diversity. American Midland Naturalist 140: 343-350. Paetzold, A., J. Bernet, F. and K. Tockner. 2006. Consumer-specific responses to riverine subsidy pulses in a riparian arthropod assemblage. Freshwater Biology 51: 1103-1115. Palomo, G., P. Martinetto, C. Perez, and O. Iribarne. 2003. Ant predation on intertidal poly- chaetes in a SW Atlantic estuary. Marine Ecology Progress Series 253: 165-173. Suarez, A. V., D. A. Holway, and P. S. Ward. 2005. The role of opportunity in the unintentional introduction of non-native ants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 102: 17032-17035. Walker, K. L. 2006. Impact of the Little Fire Ant, Wasmannia auropunctata, on Native Forest Ants in Gabon. Biotropica 38: 666-673. Wilson, E. O. 1986. The defining traits of fire ants and leaf-cutting ants, pp. 1-9. Jn C. S. Lofgren and R. K. Vander Meer (Editors). Fire ants and leaf-cutting ants. Biology and management. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. 435 pp. ERRATA The recently published paper, entitled ““Redescription of the pupa of Paryphoconus oliveirai Lane (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Brazil” by Ronderos et al. (2007) was published with several mistakes, herein corrected: Page 363: lines 11 and 12 — where it reads “dorsal tubercles (d) (Figs. 7, 9): 1-i1i,v with long, thin seta, iv pore, setae of ili,v slightly longer than setae of 1-11” — it should read “dorsal tubercles (d) (Figs. 7, 9): 1-1v, with long, thin seta, v,vi pore, setae of 111,1v slightly longer than setae of 1-11; Page 363: lines 24-27 — where it reads “four dorsal posteromar- ginal tubercles (dpm): 1,11,1v with long, stout, subequal setae, 111 pore; three lateral posteromarginal tubercles (Ipm): 1,11 with long, stout setae, sharing stout triangular base, iii with long, stout seta” — it should read “four dorsal posteromarginal tubercles (dpm): i,i11,1v with long, stout, subequal setae, ii pore; three lateral posteromarginal tubercles (lpm): stout seta”; Page 363: line 29 — where it reads “except Ipm 1,11” — it should 530 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS SCIENTIFIC NOTE RANATRA QUADRIDENTATA STAL (HETEROPTERA: NEPIDAE) FROM LOUISIANA, U.S.A., A NEW STATE RECORD! Ethan Bright’ and Robert W. Sites’ The family Nepidae in the United States and Canada was last reviewed by Sites and Polhemus (1994), who gave a diagnosis of Ranatra quadridentata Stal. This species ranges from southwestern California towards eastern Texas, and south through Mexico to Nicaragua. The combination of 1) a long, penultimate antennal segment, 2) a strongly developed profemoral distal tooth followed by a unique deep notch, and 3) a raised, arcuate, digitate metaxyphus distinguishes this species from other species of Ranatra known to occur in the United States. Examining specimens from samples collected many years before their sorting and processing can often lead to interesting surprises. One specimen of R. quadridentata was identified in 2003 by EB and confirmed by RWS, from a batch of samples collected on September 12, 1940, from Louisiana, in Lincoln Parish, by Reeve Bailey and Max Davis, of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ) Fish Division. This location represents an eastward exten- sion of over three hundred kilometers from its known range (Sites and Polhemus 1994), and a new state record. From Dr. Bailey’s field notes and personal com- munication, the collection site (approximate lat-long: 32.519°N, 92.455°W) was located in an overflow pool of Bayou Chaudrant, 5 miles west of Calhoun, along US-80 at Tremont. The site was described as a turbid, stagnant overflow pool, about 18m in diameter and less than 1 m depth, with bare mud flat shores. Specimens were collected with a 10-foot seine, preserved on site in 10% forma- lin and later transferred to 70% EtOH. The specimen is deposited at the UMMZ- Insect Division and preserved in 80% EtOH. LITERATURE CITED Sites, R. W. and J. T. Polhemus. 1994. Nepidae (Hemiptera) of the United States and Canada. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 87(1):27-42. ‘Received on March 3, 2007. Accepted on May 16, 2007. > University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Insect Division, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1079, U.S.A. E-mail: ethanbr@umich.edu. *Enns Entomology Museum, Department of Entomology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mis- souri 65211, U.S.A. E-mail: sitesr@umce.edu. Mailed on January 18, 2008 Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 531 SCIENTIFIC NOTE A LONG JOURNEY: OBSERVATIONS ON THE STEEL-BLUE CRICKET HUNTER CHLORION AERARIUM PATTON (HYMENOPTERA: SPHECIDAE)' G. K. Lechner’ According to Bohart and Menke (1963), the Steel-Blue Cricket Hunter, Chlorion aerarium Patton, ranges throughout the United States into southern Canada and to the Mexican state of Puebla. Reports on this large (25 mm — Peck- ham and Kurczewski, 1978) metallic colored bluish-violet wasp appear scattered in the literature going back to the late 19th century. Most references are some- what limited in scope. The Peckhams (1898, 1900) observed C. aerarium (as C. coeruleum) carrying a cricket (Gryllus abbreviatus). Williams and Hungerford (1912), Rau and Rau (1918), Krombein (1953, 1959), Evans (1974), O’Brien (1989), and Lechner (2006) also report observations of C. aerarium interactions with prey. Bohart and Menke (1976) synopsized the published reports up to that time. The most comprehensive paper I am aware of discussing C. aerarium is Peckham and Kurczewski (1978), where they detail the nesting behavior and prey transport. As an addition to the knowledge of Chlorion aerarium interac- tions with its prey, I offer the following intriguing encounter from the summer of 2005. Just prior to noon on 21 July 2005, I observed a female C. aerarium fly in and land on the curb of the concrete driveway of a single-family dwelling at 3624 Virginia Street, Sioux City, lowa, U.S.A. Her landing point was six paces west of the free-standing garage at this residence. Upon approach, I saw that this wasp was carrying a cricket, and I dropped an insect sweep net over her. Unfazed she continued to walk around carrying her cricket. By manipulating the net, I in- duced her to climb into the net with her prey. Seeking a more convenient place to examine my capture, I took the wasp into the garage, and using the trunk lid of the car as a work surface, I introduced a jar into the net and caught the wasp in it. By this time, however, she had dropped her cricket which landed venter upward on the trunk lid. The cricket remained motionless. It was a black field cricket (Gryllus) intact except for a missing right rear tibia. In an effort to see if the wasp would reclaim her prize, I inverted the capture jar over the cricket and dumped the wasp out. She immediately investigated the cricket. Faster than my eye could follow, the female C. aerarium flipped the cricket so that it was now dorsum upward and head-to-head with her as she strad- dled it and began carrying it with short hopping flights across the trunk lid and ‘Received on February 20, 2007. Accepted on April 3, 2007. * 3624 Virginia Street, Sioux City, lowa 51104, U.S.A. E-mail: lechnerg wceqma@yahoo.com. Mailed on January 18, 2008 532 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS then down to the concrete floor of the garage. This is at variance with O’Brien (1989) who reported prey transport by C. aerarium in the venter upward posi- tion. Peckham and Kurczewski (1978), however, report prey transport as dorsum upward. Upon landing on the garage floor, the wasp gave up her grip on the cricket briefly, then restraddled it and began walking westward. Although the garage door for the car was fully open, the wasp chose to leave the garage through the adjacent foot traffic door. After exiting, and instead of continuing west toward her original landing site, the wasp turned northward and then eastward walking onto the concrete patio which abuts the garage along its entire north side. She released the cricket again briefly. The she continued walking eastward, flew for- ward a short distance, landed, and continued walking until she arrived at the northeast corner of the garage. As she walked, she flicked her wings almost con- stantly. At this location, she paused on one of the pieces of broken concrete that form a perimeter border around the small garden on the east side of the garage. I approached her very closely at this time, and she was persuaded to move. Instead of walking through the garden, she climbed while still carrying her prey to the top surface of a nearly horizontal enclosed metal rain spout that runs near the foundation along the east side of the garage. The wasp continued southward along the top surface of the spout until reaching the southeast corner. Here the rain spout turns upward and runs vertically to the rain gutter along the south eave. The wasp began climbing this spout; but after only a few steps, she dropped to the ground into a bed of tansy (Janacetum vulgare). Because the tansy had been thinned out recently, I could see the wasp as she walked westward staying near to the garage foundation. She even once set the cricket down and appeared to malaxate her victim briefly in the area anterior to the pronotum before pick- ing it up again and resuming her walk. After reaching the southwest corner, the wasp walked onto the top of the driveway curb, briskly continuing west until she arrived at the approximate loca- tion where I originally captured her. Here, she seemed to recognize that she was near her destination, but she hesitated and walked back and forth a bit, even entering the Sedum adjacent to the driveway curb a couple times before re- emerging. This Sedum provides protective ground cover at the top of a concrete slab retaining wall which bears some of the load of the driveway. I have written of this wall in a previous note on C. aerarium (Lechner 2006). She retreated east- ward and entered the Sedum again. This was apparently the spot she wanted for she did not come back out of the Sedum, and I discontinued observation. Peck- ham and Kurczewski (1978) reported that C. aerarium nests in burrows con- structed by Sphecius speciosus; and although these hunters of cicadas are fre- quent nesters in the retaining wall, and have been for several years, I can neither confirm nor rule out that the C. aerarium that is the subject of this report was using an S. speciosus burrow. Following the wasp’s path into the Sedum was not Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 5)3/5) deemed prudent since excavating here might compromise the structural integrity of the wall and lead to collapse of the driveway. This entire episode lasted five to seven minutes, and because the garage is of fairly standard dimensions, by traversing the long way around, this persistent wasp undertook an expedition at least three times the length of the direct route she could have taken to her burrow and more than 800 times her entire length. LITERATURE CITED Bohart, R.M. and A. S. Menke. 1963. A reclassification of the Sphecinae with a revision of the Nearctic species of the tribes Sceliphronini and Sphecini (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). University of California Publications: Entomology 30:91-192. Bohart, R. M. and A. S. Menke. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World: A Generic Revision. Univer- sity of California Press. Berkeley, California, U.S.A. 695 pp. Evans, H. E. 1974. Digger wasps as colonizers of new habitats (Hymenoptera: Aculeata). New York Entomological Society 82:259-267. Krombein, K. V. 1953. Biological and taxonomic observations on the wasps in a coastal area of North Carolina (Hymenoptera: Aculeata). Wasmann Journal of Biology 10:257-341. Krombein, K. V. 1959. Biological notes on some ground nesting wasps at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, 1958, and additions to the faunal list. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 61:193-199. Lechner, G. K. 2006. An observational note on the Steel-Blue Cricket Hunter, Chlorion aerarium Patton (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) from Iowa, U.S.A. Entomological News 117:242. O’Brien, M. F 1989. Distribution and biology of the Sphecine wasps of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Sphecinae). Great Lakes Entomologist 22:199-217. Peckham, D. J. and F. E. Kurezeski. 1978. Nesting behavior of Chlorion aerarium. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 71:758-761. Peckham, G. W. and E. G. Peckham. 1898. On the instincts and habits of the solitary wasp. Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey. Scientific Series No. 1. Bulletin No. 2. 245 Pp. Peckham, G. W. and E. G. Peckham. 1900. Additional observations on the instincts and habits of the solitary wasps. Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society 1:85-93. Rau, P. and N. Rau. 1918. Wasp Studies Afield. Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A. 372 pp. Williams, F. X. and H. B. Hungerford. 1912. Biological notes on some Kansas Hymenoptera. Entomological News 23:241-260. 534 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS SCIENTIFIC NOTE AGATHIS MONTANA SHESTAKOV (HYMENOPTERA: BRACONIDAE), A NEW PARASITOID OF PANDEMIS CERASANA HUBNER (LEPIDPOTERA: TORTRICIDAE) IN TURKEY! Coskun Guclw and Hikmet Ozbek’ The genus Agathis Latreille is well documented in West Palaearctic region (Simbolotti and van Achterberg, 1999), in Central Asia, Eastern Europe (Tobias, 1986; Nixon, 1986; Simbolotti and van Achterberg, 1999), and in Turkey (Nixon, 1986; Zettel and Beyarslan, 1992; Cetin and Beyarslan, 2000; Guclu and Ozbek, 2002). The members of Agathis are koinobiont endoparasitoids of the larvae of some lepidopteran families, especially Gele- chiidae, Coleophoridae, Noctuidae, Tineidae, Oecophoridae, Heliodinidae, Pyraustidae, Cochylidae, Momphidae, Epermeniidae Incurvariidae and Tortricidae (Tobias 1976, 1986; Simbolotti and van Achterberg, 1999). Some species of Agathis are very significant as bio- logical control agents of economically important insects (Raske and Schooley, 1979). Agathis females prefer to lay their eggs in concealed hosts like larvae of Pandemis spp. Agathis montana Shestakov is reported for the first time as a parasitoid of Pandemis cerasana Hubner (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) in Turkey. It frequently causes economic dam- age to flowers, fruitlets or fruits of some pome fruits directly (Labanowski 1979). There is no information on the hosts of A. montana in the present literature. The host, Pyrausta aurata Scopoli (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae), given by Tobias (1986), for this species is proba- bly based on misidentifications (Simbolotti and van Achterberg, 1999). Material Examined: Turkey, Erzurum, Askale, 1900 m 11.VI.2004, 4 females, 2 males (leg. C. Guclu). LITERATURE CITED Cetin, O. and A. Beyarslan. 2000. The Agathidinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) fauna of the Marmara Region. Turkish Journal of Zoology 25: 257-268. Guclu, C. and H. Ozbek. 2002. The subfamily Agathidinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) of Erzurum Province. 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Uber Agathidinae aus der Tiirkei (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). Ento- mofauna. 13: 121-132. ‘Received on November 29, 2006. Accepted on April 27, 2007. > Ataturk University, Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, 25240 Erzurum, Turkey. E-mails: cguclu@atauni.edu.tr, hozbek@atauni.edu.tr Mailed on January 18, 2008 Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 585 INDEX — VOLUME 118(1-5) 2007 PRO DEVELO RSE Ae Score nwaruneancoverarentedscnveent toes 350 PRAT COLI oc eceeccucerenice terete ROR 173 FIRE poche Be che ac ceck ect cseliacetlnia ware iumnverbectuiens 77 PETA NASW cet cores tucedt nanetacer evens ehstis 207,317, 366 IER ck eet tmcer ouvir teense te oe a 325 PLE KMOWICU SIIEMES wcoecnnciecnerecsseiiorenseenterdiocs 540 Pedcasophore length cccccccccssccesicenceesetn teens 489 PREP edRAS ANUS Rak awe AA 263 PHRPEES MOUND: cesaeaRe ee cee 433 Dutak: Wiles Se osc Meenas ais 227 SIG CIIUS cts caas Ah ci an iaisnnen sete -antetenetetcceeeses cone ee 263 Female, «:.ssiviinedasienae eee DSS) Fent, Metall ciicciec.nacs.0n000000e..0 336 FRG. £022 sacacesnensesaéeccessosesnecees: 20 eee eae 3h First localities: \..1.2.:.1..420%es4...23 eee 213 Binstececord .5.7...4524..08 127, 213, 31393159470 Boot, BA .ccc.csescscencnesncccoseasessesee se eee eee 193 Bormicidae .;..;....-+.-.:0 2 eee DOS 27; Fortier, Joseph: Cx ..c.s105.c0ensscenuen eee eee 1] ROSSI 5 n.sccnonssssscacpeacs-nacnaccsneen aie eee 105 Fowler; Harold 'G, iviisccsecs.. cea 209 Franjevie, Datnyjam «.....:...:..s-ca-c.cce-e--ee eee 235 neyéace (Paul le nee 154, 223.385 Fi, Yule-Giiai .............0:0cconccscnenseoonee 68 FB OPOIIE A ccsc5sdcc eye: Peers ee 49, 168 Fulgoromorpha: «;.. Scstc..c1-scusss et 49 Functional morpholoey ..........2-2:.- dlr 350 Geometridae ...2...ccasssnecanseeseseanes 1] Georgia, US Are iceeeceiesccntece ene 203 Gil=Santana. Héleto: Re &...j..d2-6-20:0.nceeeee 519 Glomeridesmida ...;..,..:..,.c-».an--sskes eee 199 GOK AUT cassesseericeceanceeereseeeece eee 259.37 Gokceada Island; Turkey ..................0eeeeeeeeene 263 Gomez, JaiiMne: .. 2. {-ciccssnoncieecpcastnes eee 219, GOMPHOCEMNAE -onccsenessossnnspenspsenenneaaceoee ee 317 GONZALEZ AIDA ceciccicicsnnonnravncscskamsnisckeneee eee 325 Green ACE WINGS. .......1.2»:000s.s0enssnas< se eee 139 Gianexd, CHMA oes neniccininonscrnes 83 Volume 118, Number 5, November and December 2007 581 SSNS GOSS 1) oe eS FEE a tags 534 Rens Kea TN IER CIN ZAT ce eon ccodeseensckencn cee ARM hoe wh Sil OUEST ae) 0 © pee ee per Ana ei Oh 235 RRR ATNOT OMMOU II oct ens sc dis aamcdnnnnedoutendcona nee 134 UTE SE EY Ratan ree ect eee 154 MRRP ANILINE Ce doce clans acca sicteeuroncen s Reve Rou oct 154 ARNE A oe ae MEER 377 Meer MA Al OMANI G oh scl oose ence nace ceannnceencwae as eee eee 31 al GIA 9 cs dseid osc a aase oetiec wee IE 385 EACEERCS AMIRG DOC IINES ec FER FS cocsseh caus sasus dees BRR 109 ELE AOTC CET) eee se ee 90 Mashenkt, Abdullah .............----.----+- 143, 179, 475 NaN ec ge eco RU RA 87 152 OVA OVE (G21 aap oe 489 PACIOPMOFUS AQUALICUS...... 20. SAI OE 489 Hemiptera ........ 49, 154, 168, 173, 223, 385, 433 JE LES DE INC a ee ne rot me 523 =| DSR ECTI (GEO eae see ee PE cate 296 ELEN ONG C1 eee 2 263 |= [ENTS Ojo) Kel ne eee oe 173.227. 33868580 50 SDE EE en non AS 385 PISO CO GIN soc, BANSNL. ARTA DRO te 184 J EQVID 0011) 1 See ee ace 49, 68 LISP et cairns seen nmc inns SRR SO 503 Hoplopleura aitkeni group ..........:esceeeeeeeeeeeee 325 a pinnlounGag ..o.05...... ee 325 RS MUAMIVUS ARE 2... ccsonctcnstowsnss Mee Reese a 207 EI DSC a eee eee ener FF USS. EE CERO LD EN Gr ene te eee ROEM ere 68 PUIG AA AT ASTUUS ID vc cessencssnnssversnecvsnsceeersctes2tit qi LER OTC near 5c a. Ree ee 83 PAPAKOCHACHIS Hy ArOCHACrIS ee Re 77 FA VARO PUI AS 2... wn ocece-Tas aes ate ct nsw 313 Hymenoptera ..... 11.168,,.1395 3215355, 417, 450: 470, 519, 527, 531, 534 UST ASCII 55 nas «ou scwonnena ct SR ee 402 PAGACKASDIS. DYUNNESCENS. 2.0ea00scaraccentceeses siete: 402 MRR eM MI AN ODN os atest taco aGocenn eens eee oe 41, 217 2c Grey | (ee mM RE asa 489 RN TiS ie te io cecnnto sano ceapeaaecone COI 433 HISEGL CONS CIV AMON osscneaccecen ss 109 HMGASD SCM AG WaTIA ON, oc. 2 cacsacaee sheer ste wht 433 ITO GN CEOs SDC CIES 5 5050 sconnonnno-snucvocontes MELEE q8 WIS eT coe occ asccc ese sviznmececenec Me ERE NE al7 ONE GEIR UIST AS na Mm 82a a oe SpA UROBOUIA ClCOANS, |. Loess cninnnnenecesnonses eee eae 139 MONIES tee cee sce oes cuiat enh bea sevice tees MO 41, 105 MESGa CONTE eee oot Anion S.A 512 ir AIS a EE ooo nics BERET 127 AN ies NS ees 2 Sree cctseinn SRL 127 SN LAE CMIU ba Fontes acest a ROE 313 RNS LE oe ee ce Seve isch LE ERD AN 8 ec SE en BS ee tons oss OEE 134 apeshyilt,, Georse O., io iceneccctesivecsac css: SR 33815) jujay Province; Argentinaie... keen ke Sa MELE TELA DS a ee ene ene ee S FLT Peo 134 SOIT PTT am Ig 211 her nnene Se LE tere 8 235 KGCTIGSILY ISIE o-c-sc2,... 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SeeRe: ae Oe 90 coven avert OY 1101 Be | oi 90 LETS STEN RUE ey eee 8 ee OB 105 IDE LOFA TTP REIY ETRE COB ee a OL Wa FACS MINS MUNA eae cnessoactanccorniues BUS e ee IS 303 UL BICTNOVETTINCTC ANS AG ee ce ee 397 Laminatopina orientalis gen et sp. nov........... 168 MPa SMS ee essen perac were thee abt. ck REM 193 ME ara Stee NANA Ngo cece crctcniva vance cesnnas se Reseeeeet 459 WPAN AC dacarine Ma pee tse esos Sacer: oad UNOK «FBI 321 eat atalh pana ice ee nerete deni. EE. . REST 325 ME ARSTS a NOLAN b- teseeeacsosscccscossorcn See ee 241 CAMINO PPELS ces n-ne eee eaters 154, 385 JRSAVES AS PhatLOTMAS c. ceecee-