Pub Date : 2022-12-08DOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.124.3.527
P. Kolesik, Luke Halling
Abstract. Stomatosematidi are by far the smallest of the four supertribes of Cecidomyiinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) containing 56 species. The life history of only one species has been known previously: adults of Stomatosema nemorum Kieffer were reared from larvae feeding on a mushroom, Lactarius sp. (Fungi: Russulaceae). Here we describe the larva and adults of a new species, Stomatosema gagnei Kolesik, that was found inducing pustulate leaf galls on Causonis trifolia (Vitaceae) plants in Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Stomatosema gagnei is the first Stomatosematidi with a described larva and the first known to cause a gall. The fact that a species of Stomatosematidi, a supertribe hypothesized to be the sister group to all remaining Cecidomyiinae, was found inducing a plant gall suggests that the first of the transitions from the ancestral fungus-feeding habit to plant-feeding occurred in Cecidomyiidae at the base of the Cecidomyiinae clade more than 100–110 million years ago, during the lower Cretaceous.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-08DOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.124.3.549
D. Bickel
Abstract. The genus Hercostomoides Meuffels and Grootaert (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Sympycninae) is revised and now comprises seven species. The type species, Hercostomoides indonesianus (Hollis) is now regarded as a junior synonym of Campsicnemus rufinus Frey, new synonym in the combination Hercostomoides rufinus (Frey), new combination. This species is widespread, ranging from the tropical Orient to Korea, and also Australia. Other species include Hercostomoides bhartii Grichanov and H. wauensis, new species, both from New Guinea, H. flavipleurus, new species, H. baroalba, new species, and H. gagnei, new species, all from Australia, and H. yapensis, new species from the Yap Islands and Guam. The generic definition of Hercostomoides is revised to comprise Sympycninae that have femur III without a strong anterior preapical seta, dorsal setae present on the antennal scape, and whose females have a tectiform clypeus.
摘要Hercostomoides Meuffels and Grootaert属（直翅目：Dolichopodae：Sympycininae）经过修订，目前包括7个物种。模式种，印度尼西亚Hercostomoides indonesianus（Hollis）现在被认为是Campsicnemus rufinus Frey的初级异名，在组合Hercostomodies rufinus（Frey）中的新异名，新组合。该物种分布广泛，从热带的东方到韩国，还有澳大利亚。其他物种包括均来自新几内亚的Hercostomoides bhartii Grichanov和H.wauensis，新种，H.黄腹龙，新种，H.baroalba，新种和H.gagnei，新种，均来自澳大利亚，以及H.yapensis，来自雅普群岛和关岛的新种。Hercostomoides的一般定义被修改为包括具有股骨III而没有强大的尖前刚毛、存在于触角景观上的背侧刚毛的Symycninae，并且其雌性具有保护性灌肠。
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Pub Date : 2022-12-08DOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.124.3.411
A. Norrbom, N. Dorchin, M. Jaschhof
We are pleased to dedicate this special issue of the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington in honor of Dr. Raymond J. Gagné (Fig. 1), a long-term and active member of the Society, in recognition of his many contributions to the systematics and biology of Diptera, particularly the gall midges (Cecidomyiidae). Ray was born August 27, 1935 in Meriden, Connecticut, the fourth child of Albert Joseph and Irene Marie LaQuerre Gagné. He attended the Oblate Juniorate in Bucksport, Maine, for the first three years of high school and graduated from Meriden High School in 1953. After working in local factories for a year and a half, he served in the US Army from March 1955 to February 1958 as a nuclear weapons assemblyman. While in the Army he attended night classes at a nearby college and, nearing his discharge, he applied to the University of Connecticut at Storrs. Thinking he needed to fill in all the blanks on his application, he searched through a long list of courses in the printed catalog (this was in 1957) to find PROC. ENTOMOL. SOC. WASH. 124(3), 2022, pp. 411–415
{"title":"Raymond J. Gagné: A Festschrift in Honor of His Contributions to Entomology and Cecidomyiid Systematics","authors":"A. Norrbom, N. Dorchin, M. Jaschhof","doi":"10.4289/0013-8797.124.3.411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797.124.3.411","url":null,"abstract":"We are pleased to dedicate this special issue of the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington in honor of Dr. Raymond J. Gagné (Fig. 1), a long-term and active member of the Society, in recognition of his many contributions to the systematics and biology of Diptera, particularly the gall midges (Cecidomyiidae). Ray was born August 27, 1935 in Meriden, Connecticut, the fourth child of Albert Joseph and Irene Marie LaQuerre Gagné. He attended the Oblate Juniorate in Bucksport, Maine, for the first three years of high school and graduated from Meriden High School in 1953. After working in local factories for a year and a half, he served in the US Army from March 1955 to February 1958 as a nuclear weapons assemblyman. While in the Army he attended night classes at a nearby college and, nearing his discharge, he applied to the University of Connecticut at Storrs. Thinking he needed to fill in all the blanks on his application, he searched through a long list of courses in the printed catalog (this was in 1957) to find PROC. ENTOMOL. SOC. WASH. 124(3), 2022, pp. 411–415","PeriodicalId":54576,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44452035","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}
Pub Date : 2022-12-08DOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.124.3.606
W. L. Murphy
Abstract. Described as new are 12 species of snail-killing flies (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) of the genus Dictya Meigen from the Americas: D. ahbellae, D. aprilae, D. coryi, D. dunnei, D. emrehorum, D. garlandi, D. gibbsi, D. heyjimi, D. jemae, D. jofusi, D. malloyi, and D. youngi. Specimens representing these species were discovered among more than 5600 specimens of Dictya examined by the author between 2007 and 2022. The 12 new species bring to 56 the number of described, valid species in the genus Dictya. Also identified and described for the first time is the female of D. praecipua Orth.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-08DOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.124.3.486
N. Dorchin, Tselila Ben David, Yaacov Gottlieb, Yair Tamari
Abstract. Macrolabis molesta Dorchin, new species damaging young shoots of commercially grown spineless butcher's broom (Ruscus hypophyllum L.) in Israel is described based on adults, larvae and pupae. Larvae develop gregariously in growing shoots, causing distortion and rotting of the apical meristem, thus rendering affected shoots unsuitable for marketing. This is the first Macrolabis species to be recorded from a monocotyledonous plant. It completes at least one generation a year in fall and early winter, sometimes with an additional generation in spring. Macrolabis molesta has not been detected on the native butcher's broom, R. aculeatus L., thus it may have been introduced into Israel with its host plant in the early 20th century.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-08DOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.124.3.479
R. Adair, P. Kolesik
Abstract. A new species of gall midge, Gagnemyia alstoniae Adair and Kolesik, is described from flower bud galls on milkwood tree Alstonia actinophylla (A. Cunn.) K. Schum. in far northern Australia. Galled flower buds fail to open and set seed. Larva, pupa, male, and female of the new species are described and illustrated. A new genus, Gagnemyia Adair and Kolesik, is proposed to contain the new species. Gagnemyia is tentatively placed in the tribe Clinodiplosini and is characterised by a robust aedeagus bearing asetose sensilla, an undivided male hypoproct that is wrapped around the aedeagus, a needle-like ovipositor, toothed tarsal claws and larval terminus bearing two pairs of corniform and two pairs of setiform papillae. This is the first record for Cecidomyiidae feeding on Apocynaceae in Australia.
摘要报道了乳木Alstonia actinophylla (A. Cunn.)花芽瘿蚊一新种Alstonia alstoniae Adair and Kolesik。k . Schum。在遥远的澳大利亚北部。被擦伤的花蕾不能开放和结实。对新种的幼虫、蛹、雌雄进行了描述和图解。一个新的属，Gagnemyia Adair and Kolesik，被提议包含新种。Gagnemyia暂时被置于Clinodiplosini部落中，其特征是有一个强壮的带无定形感受器的aedeagus，一个包裹在aedeagus周围的未分裂的雄性下突，一个针状的产卵器，齿状的跗骨爪和幼虫末端有两对角状和两对定形乳头。这是澳大利亚首次记录到绢蚧科昆虫以夹竹桃科植物为食。
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Pub Date : 2022-12-08DOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.124.3.416
Jostein Kjærandsen, J. Jakovlev, A. Polevoi, Jukka Salmela, O. Kurina
Abstract. We celebrate Raymond J. Gagné for his contributions to taxonomy of the Mycetophilidae (Diptera), specifically for his forty-one-years-old monograph of Holarctic Trichonta Winnertz, 1864 that is still the primary source used for species identification in the genus. We briefly reflect on his monograph's impact and demonstrate by use of recent DNA barcode data extracted from BOLD Systems (BOLD) that the model for the distribution of Holarctic Mycetophilidae that Gagné presented in the monograph still holds up to scrutiny. To demonstrate the refined species concept now being applied by use of an integrative taxonomic approach that includes DNA barcodes, we revise a small, but distinct, species complex that Gagné recognized as one morphologically defined species and used as an example of an old pan-Holarctic taxon, Trichonta vulcani (Dziedzicki, 1889). We find the Trichonta vulcani species complex (sensu Kallweit 1998) to consist of at least six species in the Holarctic Region of which three are being described as new to science: Trichonta japonica Kurina, new species (East Palearctic), Trichonta neovulcani Kjaerandsen, new species (East Nearctic), Trichonta raymondgagnei Kjaerandsen, new species (Holarctic), Trichonta trifida Lundstrom, 1909 (wide Palearctic), Trichonta tristis (Strobl, 1898) (wide Palearctic), and Trichonta vulcani (Dziedzicki, 1889) (wide Palearctic). All six species are distinctly separated by DNA barcodes that correspond well to minor, but constant, differences in their male terminalia. However, one of the widespread species, Trichonta trifida, displays some genetic and morphological differentiation between western and eastern Palaearctic populations. We presently consider these populations conspecific pending broader sampling. We further propose a replacement name Trichonta nepalensis Kjaerandsen, new name for Trichonta superba Gagné, 1981, a junior primary homonym of Trichonta superba Ostroverkhova, 1979, the latter being a junior secondary synonym of Trichonta tristis (Strobl, 1898).
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Pub Date : 2022-11-30DOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.124.2.202
Charles S. Eiseman, Julia A. Blyth
Abstract. Records of Coleoptera and their hymenopteran parasitoids are reported from a ten-year study of herbivorous insects of Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA, with a focus on searching for galls, leaf mines, and other characteristic feeding evidence on host plants. Our field observations and reared specimens are compared with Johnson's (1930) list of the insect fauna of Nantucket. We add 25 beetle species to Johnson's list, one of which (Buprestidae: Brachys howdeni Hespenheide) was described using one of our specimens as a paratype. Several new host records are reported, and we provide the first accounts of the larval habits of Erynephala maritima (LeConte) and Oulema palustris (Blatchley) (Chrysomelidae).
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Pub Date : 2022-11-30DOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.124.2.332
M. Skvarla, J. Ray Fisher
Abstract. Polystoechotes punctata (Fabricius, 1793) (Neuroptera: Ithonidae) was formerly widespread across North America, but was extirpated from eastern North America by the 1950s. We report a specimen collected from Fayetteville, Arkansas, which represents a new state record and the first specimen recorded in eastern North America in over fifty years. We also reexamine a previously published dataset and discuss the history of P. punctata in eastern North America. The importance of community science efforts are discussed and compared with museum holdings. We propose that P. punctata may have always been uncommon in eastern North America, or at least when insect collecting began in earnest in the late 1800s, and support our case by examining collection effort in other insects. This discovery suggests there may be relictual populations of this large, charismatic insect yet to be discovered.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-30DOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.124.2.302
X. Mengual
Abstract. New species records of flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae: Syrphinae) are reported from China, South Korea, and Malaysia, as well as several new province records for Korea and China. Baccha laphrieformis Violovitsh, Episyrphus perscitus He and Chu, Eupeodes bucculatus (Rondani), Meligramma cingulata (Egger), Parasyrphus punctulatus (Verrall), Sphaerophoria indiana Bigot, and Sphaerophoria macrogaster (Thomson) are recorded from South Korea. Epistrophe aequalis (Walker) is reported from Malaysia, and Epistrophe sasayamana (Matsumura), Meliscaeva strigifrons (de Meijere), and Sphaerophoria reginae Claußen and Mutin are reported from China. The first female specimens of Epistrophe nigritibia Huo, Ren, and Zheng are documented from Zhejiang province, China.
摘要本文报道了中国、韩国和马来西亚花蝇(双翅目:花蝇科:花蝇科)的新种记录，以及韩国和中国省区的若干新种记录。韩国记录有白背棘球绦虫(Baccha laphrieformis Violovitsh)、佩西棘球绦虫(Episyrphus perscitus He and Chu)、bucculatus (Rondani)、Meligramma cingulata (Egger)、斑点棘球绦虫(Verrall)、Sphaerophoria indiana Bigot和Sphaerophoria macrogaster (Thomson)。马来西亚报道有aequalis Epistrophe (Walker)，中国报道有sasayamana (Matsumura)、Meliscaeva strigifrons (de Meijere)和Sphaerophoria reginae clausen和Mutin。霍、任、郑三种黑喙虫的首批雌性标本是在中国浙江省发现的。
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