ABSTRACT: The poorly known crab spider Ozyptila aculipalpa Wunderlich, 1995 (Araneae, Thomisidae) was originally described on the basis of a male specimen from Iran. The species is redescribed here using new specimens collected from Turkey. The previously unknown female of this species is described for the first time.
{"title":"Redescription of Ozyptila aculipalpa Wunderlich, 1995 (Araneae: Thomisidae), with a Description of Unknown Female","authors":"T. Danişman, İ. Coşar","doi":"10.3157/021.129.0403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3157/021.129.0403","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: The poorly known crab spider Ozyptila aculipalpa Wunderlich, 1995 (Araneae, Thomisidae) was originally described on the basis of a male specimen from Iran. The species is redescribed here using new specimens collected from Turkey. The previously unknown female of this species is described for the first time.","PeriodicalId":11719,"journal":{"name":"Entomological News","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45521495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to a New Genus and Five New Species of Agalliinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from Central America Entomological News 122:424-431 (2011)","authors":"","doi":"10.3157/021.129.0417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3157/021.129.0417","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11719,"journal":{"name":"Entomological News","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47655437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT: The fauna of Iranian Dascillidae and Rhipiceridae (Coleoptera: Dascilloidea) is summarized in this paper. In total, 6 species of Dascillidae from 2 genera, Dascillus Latreille, 1797 (1 species) and Karumia Escalera, 1913 (5 species), and 2 species of Rhipiceridae from the genus Arrhaphipterus Schaum, 1862 are listed. The lectotype of K. estaphilinoides Escalera, 1913 is to be considered the holotype.
{"title":"Annotated Catalogue of the Superfamily Dascilloidea (Coleoptera: Elateriformia) of Iran","authors":"H. Ghahari, F. Ceccolini, F. Cianferoni","doi":"10.3157/021.129.0401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3157/021.129.0401","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: The fauna of Iranian Dascillidae and Rhipiceridae (Coleoptera: Dascilloidea) is summarized in this paper. In total, 6 species of Dascillidae from 2 genera, Dascillus Latreille, 1797 (1 species) and Karumia Escalera, 1913 (5 species), and 2 species of Rhipiceridae from the genus Arrhaphipterus Schaum, 1862 are listed. The lectotype of K. estaphilinoides Escalera, 1913 is to be considered the holotype.","PeriodicalId":11719,"journal":{"name":"Entomological News","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46182727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Talarico, F. Cavaliere, A. Mazzei, P. Brandmayr
Several parameters, from physiological processes to environmental pressures, play a role in determining the body size and related morphological parameters in insects. Among a wide range of factors, the most prominent reported influencing body size were ontogenesis, biomechanical constraints, sexual selection, fecundity, size-specific predation, resource quality and availability, overcrowding, competition and temperature (Berven, 1983; Juliano, 1985; Wheeler, 1996; Angilletta, 2003). Most of these factors may vary from one habitat to another and geographic variation in body size has thus been studied extensively (Chown, 2003; Boggs, 2005). On a large geographic scale, clinal variation of morphological parameters within species from different taxa has been found (Hallas, 2002; Blanckenhorn, 2004). The nature of such variation has been addressed frequently along altitudinal and/or latitudinal climatic gradients (Blanckenhorn, 2006; Arthur, 2008). Carabids can be good indicators of environmental disturbance and impact of management (Kotze et al., 2011; Brandmayr et al., 2013).
{"title":"Morphometric Differences in Populations of Carabus lefebvrei Dejean, 1826","authors":"F. Talarico, F. Cavaliere, A. Mazzei, P. Brandmayr","doi":"10.3157/021.129.0415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3157/021.129.0415","url":null,"abstract":"Several parameters, from physiological processes to environmental pressures, play a role in determining the body size and related morphological parameters in insects. Among a wide range of factors, the most prominent reported influencing body size were ontogenesis, biomechanical constraints, sexual selection, fecundity, size-specific predation, resource quality and availability, overcrowding, competition and temperature (Berven, 1983; Juliano, 1985; Wheeler, 1996; Angilletta, 2003). Most of these factors may vary from one habitat to another and geographic variation in body size has thus been studied extensively (Chown, 2003; Boggs, 2005). On a large geographic scale, clinal variation of morphological parameters within species from different taxa has been found (Hallas, 2002; Blanckenhorn, 2004). The nature of such variation has been addressed frequently along altitudinal and/or latitudinal climatic gradients (Blanckenhorn, 2006; Arthur, 2008). Carabids can be good indicators of environmental disturbance and impact of management (Kotze et al., 2011; Brandmayr et al., 2013).","PeriodicalId":11719,"journal":{"name":"Entomological News","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41516562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
André Felipe de Araújo Lira, E. P. Lorenzo, A. M. DeSouza
ABSTRACT: Solifuges represent a poorly described group of arachnids with a worldwide distribution. Within this group, many species have not been described, and for those that are, the geographical distributions are not known. Here, we describe the expanded distribution range of the mummuciid species, Gaucha mauryi, recorded for the first time in the state of Pernambuco, in Northeastern Brazil. In addition, we provide a list, compiled from the literature, of solifuge species in Brazil.
{"title":"The First Record of Gaucha mauryi (Solifugae: Mummucidae) in the State of Pernambuco, Brazil, and Notes on Brazilian Solifuge Species Distribution","authors":"André Felipe de Araújo Lira, E. P. Lorenzo, A. M. DeSouza","doi":"10.3157/021.129.0409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3157/021.129.0409","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: Solifuges represent a poorly described group of arachnids with a worldwide distribution. Within this group, many species have not been described, and for those that are, the geographical distributions are not known. Here, we describe the expanded distribution range of the mummuciid species, Gaucha mauryi, recorded for the first time in the state of Pernambuco, in Northeastern Brazil. In addition, we provide a list, compiled from the literature, of solifuge species in Brazil.","PeriodicalId":11719,"journal":{"name":"Entomological News","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46580267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT: New geographic records are reported from the northeastern United States for four species of lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). Delphastus pusillus (LeConte, 1852) is newly reported from the states of Maine and New Hampshire, while Nephus ornatus naviculatus (Casey, 1899), Hyperaspidius transfugatus Casey, 1899, and Hyperaspis brunnescens Dobzhansky, 1941 are newly reported for New Hampshire. The new records represent modest range extensions for these species. The records improve fundamental knowledge about insect communities in the northeastern United States, but additional sampling is needed to ascertain the extent of their distributions and to determine prey associations for these species in this region.
{"title":"New Records of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) from the Northeastern United States","authors":"L. Hesler","doi":"10.3157/021.129.0407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3157/021.129.0407","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: New geographic records are reported from the northeastern United States for four species of lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). Delphastus pusillus (LeConte, 1852) is newly reported from the states of Maine and New Hampshire, while Nephus ornatus naviculatus (Casey, 1899), Hyperaspidius transfugatus Casey, 1899, and Hyperaspis brunnescens Dobzhansky, 1941 are newly reported for New Hampshire. The new records represent modest range extensions for these species. The records improve fundamental knowledge about insect communities in the northeastern United States, but additional sampling is needed to ascertain the extent of their distributions and to determine prey associations for these species in this region.","PeriodicalId":11719,"journal":{"name":"Entomological News","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45638855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT: Maize cultivation has enormously increased in Southeastern Turkey in recent years. The naked grass-mealybug, Heterococcus nudus (Green, 1926) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), is known as a pest for many uncultivated Poaceae plants. The aims of this study are to report maize as a new host plant for H. nudus and its early region-wide distribution in Southeastern Turkey and to examine its parasitoids. The mealybug was detected on the first (sown in March-April) crop maize plants in Çınar during periodic surveys in June and August 2018. In total, forty-two maize fields from fourteen counties belonging to five provinces, namely Adıyaman, Batman, Diyarbakır, Mardin, and Şanlıurfa, were checked for the presence of the mealybug and its parasitoids. The mealybug was recorded in only two counties, Bismil and Çınar of Diyarbakır province while it was not present on maize plants in other surveyed provinces. Mealybug specimens were found feeding between leaf sheets and the stem of maize plants. Mean infestation ratios, i.e. the number of adults + larvae (±SEM), were 2.69 (± 0.52) and 0.5 (± 0.23) adult ± larvae for Çınar and Bismil respectively. The pest did not infest second crop maize plants (sown in June-July). In addition, incubation of collected grass mealybug individuals yielded no parasitoids. Since the pest is not widely distributed throughout the region and currently has very low population densities, no control practices are recommended for the pest.
{"title":"Maize (Zea mays L.) as a New Host Plant for the Naked Grass-Mealybug, Heterococcus nudus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae)","authors":"A. Tonğa, Mustafa Ataş, A. Bayram","doi":"10.3157/021.129.0406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3157/021.129.0406","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: Maize cultivation has enormously increased in Southeastern Turkey in recent years. The naked grass-mealybug, Heterococcus nudus (Green, 1926) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), is known as a pest for many uncultivated Poaceae plants. The aims of this study are to report maize as a new host plant for H. nudus and its early region-wide distribution in Southeastern Turkey and to examine its parasitoids. The mealybug was detected on the first (sown in March-April) crop maize plants in Çınar during periodic surveys in June and August 2018. In total, forty-two maize fields from fourteen counties belonging to five provinces, namely Adıyaman, Batman, Diyarbakır, Mardin, and Şanlıurfa, were checked for the presence of the mealybug and its parasitoids. The mealybug was recorded in only two counties, Bismil and Çınar of Diyarbakır province while it was not present on maize plants in other surveyed provinces. Mealybug specimens were found feeding between leaf sheets and the stem of maize plants. Mean infestation ratios, i.e. the number of adults + larvae (±SEM), were 2.69 (± 0.52) and 0.5 (± 0.23) adult ± larvae for Çınar and Bismil respectively. The pest did not infest second crop maize plants (sown in June-July). In addition, incubation of collected grass mealybug individuals yielded no parasitoids. Since the pest is not widely distributed throughout the region and currently has very low population densities, no control practices are recommended for the pest.","PeriodicalId":11719,"journal":{"name":"Entomological News","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45688459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT: Pseuodoscorpions (Pseudoscorpiones) have been little studied, although they are the third largest group in the Arachnida in number of species. Pseudoscorpions have features resembling those of true scorpions. Due to their small size (the largest pseudoscorpion being no larger than 1 cm) systematic studies have proven difficult. A high-performance microscope is necessary for detailed studies. In the present study, the pseudoscorpion Atemnus politus (Simon, 1878) collected in Osmaniye province, Turkey, was used to describe systematic and taxonomic characters, including chelicerae, pedipalps, walking legs, and cuticular structures on appendages using stereo light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The study revealed characteristic features of this species. This is the first SEM study of A. politus and provides an important contribution to understanding the morphology of pseudoscorpions and demonstrates the taxonomic value of SEM micrographs. Probable functions of some of the structures observed are discussed.
{"title":"External Morphological Properties of Atemnus politus (Simon, 1878) (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones): A Scanning Electron Microscopy Study","authors":"İ. Öcal, N. Y. Kayhan, Hilal Sağlam Öcal","doi":"10.3157/021.129.0304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3157/021.129.0304","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: Pseuodoscorpions (Pseudoscorpiones) have been little studied, although they are the third largest group in the Arachnida in number of species. Pseudoscorpions have features resembling those of true scorpions. Due to their small size (the largest pseudoscorpion being no larger than 1 cm) systematic studies have proven difficult. A high-performance microscope is necessary for detailed studies. In the present study, the pseudoscorpion Atemnus politus (Simon, 1878) collected in Osmaniye province, Turkey, was used to describe systematic and taxonomic characters, including chelicerae, pedipalps, walking legs, and cuticular structures on appendages using stereo light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The study revealed characteristic features of this species. This is the first SEM study of A. politus and provides an important contribution to understanding the morphology of pseudoscorpions and demonstrates the taxonomic value of SEM micrographs. Probable functions of some of the structures observed are discussed.","PeriodicalId":11719,"journal":{"name":"Entomological News","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48834374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The southern yellowjacket, Vespula squamosa (Drury), was initially reported to be a facultative temporary social parasite by Taylor (1939), who found a queen in a nest of Vespula vidua (Saussure). Later, Mac Donald and Matthews (1975, 1984) found Vespula squamosa to be a frequent facultative parasite of Vespula maculifrons (du Buysson). These authors also mentioned one case of a nest of Vespula flavopilosa Jacobson usurped by a queen of Vespula squamosa. Other hosts of Vespula squamosa include Vespula germanica (Fabr.) and the much-larger hornet, Vespa crabro L. (Greene, 1991). We now report on the Baldfaced Hornet, Dolichovespula maculata (L.), as a new intergeneric host for Vespula squamosa.
{"title":"A Nest of Dolichovespula maculata (l.) Usurped by Vespula squamosa (Drury) (Hymenoptera:Vespidae)1","authors":"Greg Allen, R. Jacobson, C.P. Borowski Jr","doi":"10.3157/021.129.0312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3157/021.129.0312","url":null,"abstract":"The southern yellowjacket, Vespula squamosa (Drury), was initially reported to be a facultative temporary social parasite by Taylor (1939), who found a queen in a nest of Vespula vidua (Saussure). Later, Mac Donald and Matthews (1975, 1984) found Vespula squamosa to be a frequent facultative parasite of Vespula maculifrons (du Buysson). These authors also mentioned one case of a nest of Vespula flavopilosa Jacobson usurped by a queen of Vespula squamosa. Other hosts of Vespula squamosa include Vespula germanica (Fabr.) and the much-larger hornet, Vespa crabro L. (Greene, 1991). We now report on the Baldfaced Hornet, Dolichovespula maculata (L.), as a new intergeneric host for Vespula squamosa.","PeriodicalId":11719,"journal":{"name":"Entomological News","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46091148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT: The accidentally introduced leaf beetle Ophraella communa LeSage has become widely dispersed over regions with different climates in East Asia, following its host plant—the alien invasive ragweed Ambrosia artemisiifolia. During this range expansion, some of its life history traits have changed in response to environmental conditions in newly-colonized habitats. In this study we examined genetic variation in mtCOI gene among nine geographical populations of O. communa in East Asia, including one from Japan, one from Korea and seven from China. Our analysis identified two distinct clades (C1 and C2) among these populations, C2 including only the Fujian population from China and C1 including the other populations; haplotype sequence divergence was as large as ≥ 3% between the two clades yet negligible within each of them. Our results suggest that the Fujian population of O. communa is distinctly diverged at mtCOI genetic level from the other populations.
{"title":"Mitochondrial DNA Polymorphism in the Leaf Beetle Ophraella communa, an Introduced Biocontrol Agent of the Common Ragweed Ambrosia artemisiifolia (Asteraceae) Invading East Asia","authors":"Libin Ma, Hongran Li, Baoping Li, L. Meng","doi":"10.3157/021.129.0306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3157/021.129.0306","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: The accidentally introduced leaf beetle Ophraella communa LeSage has become widely dispersed over regions with different climates in East Asia, following its host plant—the alien invasive ragweed Ambrosia artemisiifolia. During this range expansion, some of its life history traits have changed in response to environmental conditions in newly-colonized habitats. In this study we examined genetic variation in mtCOI gene among nine geographical populations of O. communa in East Asia, including one from Japan, one from Korea and seven from China. Our analysis identified two distinct clades (C1 and C2) among these populations, C2 including only the Fujian population from China and C1 including the other populations; haplotype sequence divergence was as large as ≥ 3% between the two clades yet negligible within each of them. Our results suggest that the Fujian population of O. communa is distinctly diverged at mtCOI genetic level from the other populations.","PeriodicalId":11719,"journal":{"name":"Entomological News","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42077616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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