{"title":"New Arabian Cranefly Records from Abu Dhabi (Diptera: Limoniidae)","authors":"E. Hancock","doi":"10.31184/m00138908.1583.4139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31184/m00138908.1583.4139","url":null,"abstract":"Limoniid species identified from a Malaise trap survey in Abu Dhabi (2015–2017) expand distribution records for the family. Females of Styringomyia ebejeri Hancock, 1997, are figured. Some information about larval stages can be linked with adult presence in the traps.","PeriodicalId":108722,"journal":{"name":"Entomologist's Monthly Magazine","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129549949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Fourth Species of Ensign Wasp from Malta (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae)","authors":"M. Ebejer","doi":"10.31184/m00138908.1583.4145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31184/m00138908.1583.4145","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":108722,"journal":{"name":"Entomologist's Monthly Magazine","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115783382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Records of the Cleptobiotic Stingless Bee Lestrimelitta Chacoana from Paraguay and Northwestern Argentina (Hymenoptera: Apidae)","authors":"M. Engel","doi":"10.31184/m00138908.1583.4132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31184/m00138908.1583.4132","url":null,"abstract":"New records of the Chaco Region cleptobiotic stingless bee Lestrimelitta (Lestrimelitta) chacoana Roig-Alsina are provided from Paraguay and northwestern Argentina at the western and eastern extremes of the greater Chaco, the latter at the transition from the humid\u0000 Chaco to the Atlantic Coastal Forest. Notes on character variation are provided along with images of the species, a key to species of Lestrimelitta Friese s. str ., and a key to subgenera of Lestrimelitta. The following new subgenera are established: Apiraptor subgen.\u0000 n., Hyrolestris subgen. n.","PeriodicalId":108722,"journal":{"name":"Entomologist's Monthly Magazine","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115375063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
António M. Franquinho Aguiar, D. Cravo, Luís M.F. Dantas, Teresa M. Vieira da Luz
{"title":"The Oriental Chestnut Gall-wasp Dryocosmus Kuriphilus Yasumatsu, 1951, (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) and Its Introduced and Native Parasitoids in Madeira Island, Portugal, with Notes on Some Other Parasitic Hymenoptera Reared from Gall Samples","authors":"António M. Franquinho Aguiar, D. Cravo, Luís M.F. Dantas, Teresa M. Vieira da Luz","doi":"10.31184/m00138908.1583.4143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31184/m00138908.1583.4143","url":null,"abstract":"The accidental introduction to Madeira of the invasive chestnut gall wasp (CGW), Dryocosmus kuriphilus, is reviewed, as is the subsequent biological control programme implemented by the Regional authorities. This control programme was based on the importation of a non-native\u0000 parasitoid, Torymus sinensis. Results from five years of parasitoid release are presented, including a list of native parasitoid species associated with D. kuriphilus galls in Madeira. Five species of Hymenoptera are listed as new records for Madeira: Dryocosmus kuriphilus\u0000 Yasumatsu, 1951; Torymus sinensis Kamijo, 1982; Bootanomyia dorsalis (Fabricius, 1798); Colpoclypeus florus (Walker, 1839), and Ufens foersteri (Kryger, 1918).","PeriodicalId":108722,"journal":{"name":"Entomologist's Monthly Magazine","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117106496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microrhina Kröber, 1928, a New Synonym of Heterotropus Loew, 1873 (Diptera: Bombyliidae)","authors":"N. Evenhuis","doi":"10.31184/m00138908.1583.4123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31184/m00138908.1583.4123","url":null,"abstract":"Missed in the previous cataloging of Bombyliidae regionally and worldwide, the nominal genus Microrhina Kröber, 1928, is found to be a junior synonym of Heterotropus Loew, 1873, n. syn. and its type species, Microrhina eburata Kröber, 1928, from Turkmenistan\u0000 is transferred to Heterotropus, as a junior synonym of Heterotropus kazanovskyi Paramonov, 1925, n. syn.","PeriodicalId":108722,"journal":{"name":"Entomologist's Monthly Magazine","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130814331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lepidoptera of the Falkland Islands (9): Provisional checklist of the Microlepidoptera – update no. 1","authors":"A. Wakeham-Dawson","doi":"10.31184/m00138908.1581.4107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31184/m00138908.1581.4107","url":null,"abstract":"This short paper provides an updated provisional checklist of all Microlepidoptera reported from the Falkland Islands.","PeriodicalId":108722,"journal":{"name":"Entomologist's Monthly Magazine","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114887401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BRITISH MOTHS – A GATEWAY GUIDE by James Lowen","authors":"R. Dickson","doi":"10.31184/m00138908.1581.4116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31184/m00138908.1581.4116","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":108722,"journal":{"name":"Entomologist's Monthly Magazine","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128988901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notes on the emergence of a stonefly, Stenoperla prasina (Newman, 1845) in New Zealand (Plecoptera: Eustheniidae)","authors":"Shodo Mtow, Brian J. Smith","doi":"10.31184/m00138908.1581.4111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31184/m00138908.1581.4111","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of an adult Stenoperla prasina (Newman, 1845) from a final instar nymph in North Island, New Zealand is described and videoed.","PeriodicalId":108722,"journal":{"name":"Entomologist's Monthly Magazine","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125097613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notes on South American stingless bees of the genus Scaptotrigona (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Part I: short-bristle species, the tubiba species group","authors":"M. Engel","doi":"10.31184/m00138908.1581.4087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31184/m00138908.1581.4087","url":null,"abstract":"Among the diversity of the stingless bee genus Scaptotrigona Moure (Apinae: Meliponini) there are a set of distinctive species distinguished from all others by their sparse and short bristles on the head and mesosoma, here treated as the tubiba species group. Four species\u0000 are included in this group, two of which are new to Science: Scaptotrigona pasiphaea, sp. n., from southern Amazonian Peru, and S . silviae, sp. n., from eastern and southeastern Brazil. The remaining two species are S . tubiba (Smith) and S . affabra\u0000 (Moure). A key is provided for their identification.","PeriodicalId":108722,"journal":{"name":"Entomologist's Monthly Magazine","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123285189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}