Oriental InsectsPub Date : 2023-03-30DOI: 10.1080/00305316.2023.2192530
P. M. Sureshan, A. P. Kamila, Antonio Fasano
{"title":"Description of a new species of praying mantis (Insecta: Mantodea) from Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve, India","authors":"P. M. Sureshan, A. P. Kamila, Antonio Fasano","doi":"10.1080/00305316.2023.2192530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.2023.2192530","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A new species of praying mantis of the genus Parananomantis Mukherjee, 1995, Parananomantis fascifemorata sp. nov., from the forest area of Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve, Kerala, India, is described and illustrated. A dichotomous key to the species of the genus and the description of male genitalia of the new species are also provided. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:8585581B-E3A6-40A7-AFE0-98C0893DB18A","PeriodicalId":19728,"journal":{"name":"Oriental Insects","volume":"35 1","pages":"1128 - 1139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76604161","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}
Oriental InsectsPub Date : 2023-03-14DOI: 10.1080/00305316.2023.2186507
Romila Devi, Pawan Kumar, V. K. Mattu
{"title":"An assessment of diversity patterns of butterfly fauna (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) from subalpine zone of Western Himalaya","authors":"Romila Devi, Pawan Kumar, V. K. Mattu","doi":"10.1080/00305316.2023.2186507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.2023.2186507","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The subalpine zone of the Himalaya epitomises a transition (ecotone) between alpine grassland and temperate forest ecosystems. This research was conducted in seven sites Chanshal, Marhi, Chotabanghal, Hattu, Shipkila, Jot, and Pangi Valley of Himachal Pradesh. A total of 61 species of butterflies belonging to 45 genera, 5 families, and 16 subfamilies were documented. The members of the family Papilionidae and Hesperiidae have been least recorded. We have carried out butterfly sampling along an elevational gradient (2300–3899 m). A Kruskal Wallis test for diversity indices for seven different sites from the year 2013 to 2015 (H = 1.024, df = 6 p = 0.984, H = 0.642 df = 6 p = 0.995, H = 0.690 df = 6 p = 0.994 p > 0.05) revealed no significant difference. Three species legally protected under Wildlife Protection Act, India, 1972, have been detected. They are Lampides boeticus, Maniola devendra devendra Schedule II Part II and Euploea mulciber Schedule IV.","PeriodicalId":19728,"journal":{"name":"Oriental Insects","volume":"2 1","pages":"1084 - 1101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81089000","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}
Oriental InsectsPub Date : 2023-03-13DOI: 10.1080/00305316.2023.2187892
Moufida Saoucen Alayat, F. Bendali-Saoudi, Khaoula Mahmoudi, N. Soltani
{"title":"Diversity and spatio-temporal distribution of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Laghouat arid region (Algerian northern Sahara)","authors":"Moufida Saoucen Alayat, F. Bendali-Saoudi, Khaoula Mahmoudi, N. Soltani","doi":"10.1080/00305316.2023.2187892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.2023.2187892","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The study concerned the mosquitoes of the region of Laghouat (Septentrional Sahara of Algeria), for one year (December 2018 to November 2019). This study contributes to the identification and systematic determination of collected species. The surveyed sites are of rural, peri-urban, and urban types. The systematic study revealed the presence of fifteen species belonging to the Anophelinae and Culicinae subfamilies. Four registered genera were presented by Anopheles with 5 species identified for the first time; Aedes with (1 single species), Culex (7 species) and Culiseta (2 species). Culiseta longiareolata was the most abundant and frequent species with 633 individuals, followed by Culex theileri (403 individuals) and Anopheles sergentii sergentii (238 individuals). Concerning the bio-ecological aspect of the distribution of these species, the influence of 5 physicochemical parameters and other biotic parameters (aquatic vegetation, lodges) on the spatio-temporal distribution of the species revealed the existence of two groups of sites and species collected with a preference of the presence of all the species of the genus Anopheles in the saline waters (brackish), alkaline, less charged in MES, with a high level of DBO5 and rich in green algae.","PeriodicalId":19728,"journal":{"name":"Oriental Insects","volume":"95 1","pages":"1102 - 1127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84949384","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}
Oriental InsectsPub Date : 2023-02-20DOI: 10.1080/00305316.2023.2171497
Urmila Dyola, C. Baniya, P. Acharya, M. A. Hassan, Anjeela Pandey, K. Sapkota
{"title":"A faunistic study on the hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park, Central Nepal","authors":"Urmila Dyola, C. Baniya, P. Acharya, M. A. Hassan, Anjeela Pandey, K. Sapkota","doi":"10.1080/00305316.2023.2171497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.2023.2171497","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Nepal is a mountainous country in the Central Himalayas, well known for its high biodiversity and unique fauna. The vivid habitat of Nepal seems to possess high diversity of hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae), however, little investigation has been done on these flies in this country. The present study aims to explore the hoverfly fauna based on present field sampling from the Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park. The field collection includes 454 hoverfly specimens belonging to 34 species from the park with three new country records: Graptomyza nigripes, Lycastris albipes and Volucella trifasciata. The photographs of dorsal and lateral habitus of all 34 collected species are presented. The present collection of hoverfly specimens in the park shows equal number of species in both subfamilies; Eristalinae and Syrphinae while none of the specimen collected from subfamilies Pipizinae and Microdontinae.","PeriodicalId":19728,"journal":{"name":"Oriental Insects","volume":"40 1","pages":"1004 - 1040"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73965290","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}
Oriental InsectsPub Date : 2023-02-14DOI: 10.1080/00305316.2023.2172747
Kai Yan, Ming-Jun Wu, Gui-Qiang Huang
{"title":"A taxonomic revision of some species of Mispila Pascoe, 1864 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Pteropliini)","authors":"Kai Yan, Ming-Jun Wu, Gui-Qiang Huang","doi":"10.1080/00305316.2023.2172747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.2023.2172747","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Sodus tenuevittatus is removed from synonymy with Mispila (s. str.) venosa and considered as bona species: Mispila (s. str.) tenuevittata comb. nov. The following synonymies are proposed: Mispila tenuevittata = Mispila (Dryusa) sonthianae syn. nov. and Mispila (s. str.) tonkinea = Mispila (s. str.) punctifrons syn. nov. New distributional records for M. tenuevittata and M. tonkinea are provided. The lectotypes of M. venosa and M. tonkinea are designated.","PeriodicalId":19728,"journal":{"name":"Oriental Insects","volume":"109 1","pages":"1041 - 1051"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85710897","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}
Oriental InsectsPub Date : 2023-02-09DOI: 10.1080/00305316.2023.2174610
C. Amri, N. Ouchtati
{"title":"Family Carabidae (Coleoptera) in an Algerian salt wetland: taxonomic diversity, functional traits and effect of environmental drivers on their structure and composition","authors":"C. Amri, N. Ouchtati","doi":"10.1080/00305316.2023.2174610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.2023.2174610","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study treated the taxonomic diversity and the functional traits of the carabid beetle communities living at Sebkha Ezzemoul in Northeastern Algeria. The fauna was fortnightly sampled using pitfall traps, set up in two stations at the wetland vicinity, during one year. Alpha diversity was evaluated by calculating non-parametric indices. Moreover, several functional traits of the beetles, such as body size, diet, humidity requirement, wing morphology and chorotypes, were studied. The GLMM test was applied to test the spatiotemporal effect and the effects of the environmental variables on the variation of beetles’ diversity. The CCA was applied to determine how environmental factors influence the functional traits of the carabid community. Catches totalled 173 individuals belonging to 18 species, 14 genera and 9 subfamilies. The most abundant species is Cicindela maura with 51 individuals (29.48%). The collected species were dominated by medium-sized body (55.55%), zoophagous (72.22%), hygrophilous (61.11%) and macropterous species (94.44). Most of them were Mediterranean (77.77%). The use of GLMM showed significant effects of the environmental factors on the Carabidae communities. The CCA demonstrated that mesophilous and zoophagous as well as small- and medium-sized species were positively correlated with the environmental factor except the soil pH.","PeriodicalId":19728,"journal":{"name":"Oriental Insects","volume":"44 1","pages":"1061 - 1083"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87181589","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}
Oriental InsectsPub Date : 2023-02-09DOI: 10.1080/00305316.2023.2173326
A. Prakash, T. Jobiraj, C. Bijoy
{"title":"A new species of cuckoo bee genus Thyreus (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apidae) from India with a revised key to Indian species","authors":"A. Prakash, T. Jobiraj, C. Bijoy","doi":"10.1080/00305316.2023.2173326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.2023.2173326","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A new species of cuckoo bee, Thyreus narendrani sp. nov. is described from Kerala, India. This species resembles Thyreus massuri and Thyreus irena and mainly differs by the presence of unequally divided hair band of tergite 3, which forms two isolated spots. http://urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DE52F4A4-078D-422A-AB76-8A594694A625","PeriodicalId":19728,"journal":{"name":"Oriental Insects","volume":"38 1","pages":"1052 - 1060"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77046843","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}
Oriental InsectsPub Date : 2023-02-05DOI: 10.1080/00305316.2023.2170489
Bindarika Mukherjee, Poulami Hui, N. Hazra
{"title":"Two new species of the genus Paracladopelma Harnisch of Harnischia complex from India (Diptera: Chironomidae)","authors":"Bindarika Mukherjee, Poulami Hui, N. Hazra","doi":"10.1080/00305316.2023.2170489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.2023.2170489","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Two new species of the genus Paracladopelma are described on the basis of adult males from India. They are P. clavatum and P. ovatum. Molecular barcoding of two new species is provided. A revised key to the known males of the Oriental members of the genus is also designed herewith. http://urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C5CCFE65-FF3F-45D9-9B94-C674A14FC8DF","PeriodicalId":19728,"journal":{"name":"Oriental Insects","volume":"30 1","pages":"991 - 1003"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74856525","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}
Oriental InsectsPub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1080/00305316.2023.2169843
Hao Tang, Huateng Huang
{"title":"A new species of Clephydroneura (Diptera: Asilidae) with a revised key to its species in China","authors":"Hao Tang, Huateng Huang","doi":"10.1080/00305316.2023.2169843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.2023.2169843","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A new species of Clephydroneura Becker, C. jiangxiensis sp. nov., from Jiangxi, China, is described and illustrated. Previously 14 species have been recorded from other Chinese provinces (i.e., Hainan, Guangxi, and Yunnan). This new species C. jiangxiensis sp. nov can be differentiated from other closely related species by its prolonged and apically expanded epandrium, two short separated black stripes on the thorax and key-shaped phallus. A key to Clephydroneura species known from China is provided. http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:CF2624DB-67FC-469F-8E19-D5C2D7A31B11 http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:42B8F471-E66D-4456-AE0B-A3E419686F7E","PeriodicalId":19728,"journal":{"name":"Oriental Insects","volume":"18 1","pages":"982 - 990"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72775704","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":"Taxonomy of agriculturally important Spilomelinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) of Karnataka, India","authors":"Maheswara Reddy Pasam, Shankara Murthy Muddappa, Prabhuraj Aralimarad","doi":"10.1080/00305316.2022.2162142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.2022.2162142","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Spilomelinae includes several pest species on various crop plants and larvae act as shoot borers, fruit borers, leaf webbers, leaf folders and leaf rollers. In the current paper, Spilomelinae fauna associated with crop plants in Karnataka are reviewed. Totally, 27 species were collected and reared on their host plants. Of these, five species are new records from Karnataka. Further, the morphological characteristics of adults of all the 27 species are described with photographs and keys.","PeriodicalId":19728,"journal":{"name":"Oriental Insects","volume":"23 5","pages":"839 - 897"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72543912","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}