M. Kaydan, Evi̇n Polat Akköprü, H. Yerlikaya, V. C. P. DA SILVA
{"title":"Molecular and morphological studies on the genus Pseudococcus Westwood (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) in Turkey","authors":"M. Kaydan, Evi̇n Polat Akköprü, H. Yerlikaya, V. C. P. DA SILVA","doi":"10.12976/jib/2023.38.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12976/jib/2023.38.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"Mealybugs (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) include economically important insect pests worldwide. Pseudococcus Westwood is the second biggest genus in Pseudococcidae, with several pest species. Pseudococcus adult females were collected and identified from wild and cultivated plants in Turkey. Molecular and morphological characters were analyzed to investigate the relationship among species. It was recognized that Pseudoccoccus species are shown in three distinctive groups concerning to both morphological and molecular aspects.","PeriodicalId":36221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Insect Biodiversity","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91237996","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":"Henosepilachna vigintioctomaculata Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae): morphotypes in an East Asian population","authors":"N. Matsishina, M. A. Ermak, P. Fisenko, O. Sobko","doi":"10.12976/jib/2023.38.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12976/jib/2023.38.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"The 28-spotted potato ladybird beetle Henosepilachna vigintioctomaculata is an endemic pest of field crops in the Russian Far East. The study on the morphotypic structure of a population of this phytophagous insect can facilitate the monitoring of processes occurring in ecosystems. It might contribute to the research on the endemic fauna of the Russian Far East and reveal how varieties form resistance to pesticides. To study the polymorphism and structure of a potato ladybird beetle population, an analysis of elytral color patterns was conducted. The following features were considered: the size and shape of spots, the intensity of color, the position of spots on the elytra relative to the elytral suture, the presence of merged spots. As the result, nine morphotypes were identified. The morphotype A2 was the most frequent (47.81 %) and followed by the morphotypes A1 and A6. The morphotype A9 had the lowest frequency of occurrence (1.82 %). It was also determined that morphotypes differed in the linear dimension of spots on the elytra. The form A2 was characterized by the largest spots. The size of the color patterns varied from 104.98 ± 0.071 to 297.01 ± 0.065 µ. The form A1 had the smallest spots.","PeriodicalId":36221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Insect Biodiversity","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89354890","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}
M. A. Hassan, Anjum Shehzad, Muhammad Ali, Zafar Iqbal, Muhammad Qasim, Zershina Maryam
{"title":"Notes on the genus Sepsis Fallén, 1810 (Diptera: Sepsidae) from Pakistan with two new country records","authors":"M. A. Hassan, Anjum Shehzad, Muhammad Ali, Zafar Iqbal, Muhammad Qasim, Zershina Maryam","doi":"10.12976/jib/2023.38.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12976/jib/2023.38.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"An overview of the genus Sepsis in Pakistan is presented. Two species are newly recorded for the country: S. coprophila de Meijere, 1906, and S. indica Wiedemann, 1824. A brief diagnosis and detailed photographs of the newly recorded species are provided. The dorsal and lateral habitus of the following four species are also presented: S. dissimilis Brunetti, 1910, S. nitens Wiedemann, 1824, S. orthocnemis Frey, 1908, and S. thoracica (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830). An updated checklist, key to known species, and distribution data in Pakistan are summarized.","PeriodicalId":36221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Insect Biodiversity","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85694407","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}
M. Nabozhenko, I. Chigray, L. V. Gagarina, S. Nabozhenko
{"title":"Naturalisation of the Transcaucasian and East Anatolian darkling beetle Odocnemis aurichalcea (Adams, 1817) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Helopini) in the North Caucasus","authors":"M. Nabozhenko, I. Chigray, L. V. Gagarina, S. Nabozhenko","doi":"10.12976/jib/2023.37.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12976/jib/2023.37.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"The present state of the invasive population of Odocnemis aurichalcea (Adams, 1817) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in North Caucasus is studied. This species is widespread in Transcaucasia and has entered Nalchik and Nartkala towns (North Caucasus, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia) possibly during urban greening where it is mentioned in these localities since at least the middle of the 20th century. Nothing was known about the status of this invasive population for 54 years.\u0000 A rich population of this species was discovered in the outskirts of Nalchik in a natural beech forest in 2022. The species is naturalized in the North Caucasus, but inhabits only a very narrow, isolated range in this region. Diurnal activity, the response of adults to high temperature and humidity, habitat and trophic associations, and current distribution of the species in the North Caucasus are assessed. Taxocenes of tenebrionids from the tribe Helopini, including O. aurichalcea, were described. We establish that imagoes of the species occupy a narrower ecological niche in the invasive range under natural conditions, than in the native range, inhabiting exclusively beeches and feeding on algae of the genus Desmococcus F. Brand, 1925 (Chlorophyta: Trebouxiophyceae).","PeriodicalId":36221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Insect Biodiversity","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86215086","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":"Larinus atauni sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a new species from eastern Turkey, with taxonomic notes on the leuzeae species complex","authors":"L. Gülteki̇n","doi":"10.12976/jib/2022.36.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12976/jib/2022.36.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"Notes on the Larinus leuzeae species complex are given. Lectotypes are designated for Larinus leuzeae Fabre var. staehelinae Bedel, 1908 and L. microlonchi Peyerimhoff, 1911. The new species Larinus atauni sp. nov., closely related to L. leuzeae and L. microlonchi, is described from Turkey. Its biology on the Serratula serratuloides (Asteraceae) is also described.","PeriodicalId":36221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Insect Biodiversity","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87010645","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":"To the knowledge of the genus Parameira Seidlitz, 1868 (Сoleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae)","authors":"G. Davidian, L. Gülteki̇n","doi":"10.12976/jib/2022.36.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12976/jib/2022.36.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"New data about morphology, taxonomy and ecology of the genus Parameira Seidlitz, 1868 are given. The revised combination Parameira imparisetosa (Smreczyński, 1977), species transferred from Otiorhynchus, is proposed. Colour illustrations of important morphological characters are presented.","PeriodicalId":36221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Insect Biodiversity","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76737525","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 new micropterous species of the Assassin Bug genus Sastrapada Amyot & Serville, 1843 (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Reduviidae) from Japan","authors":"K. Okuda","doi":"10.12976/jib/2022.35.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12976/jib/2022.35.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"Sastrapada lativentralis sp. nov. is described based on specimens that were previously collected from Ryukyus, Japan, and during field surveys. Additional specimens were also obtained and photographed alive during a recent field survey in Ryukyus. This species is characterized by a distinctively broad abdomen and very shortened hemelytra. It can be distinguished from other species of Sastrapada Amyot & Serville, 1843, especially the related species S. brevicornis Breddin, 1900, S. brevipennis China, 1940, and S. microptera Miller, 1940, by the broader abdomen and the two-segmented protarsi. This new species is only known in the micropterous form at this time.","PeriodicalId":36221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Insect Biodiversity","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81871749","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":"Synoptic catalogue of insect parasitoids associated with Lixinae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Curculionidae)","authors":"S. Volovnik","doi":"10.12976/jib/2022.35.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12976/jib/2022.35.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"The first host-parasitoid catalogue for Lixinae is presented. This survey is based on literature search (~300 references) and followed by two parts, firstly one of the Lixinae, and secondly one of parasitoids with distinguishing numbers of their Lixine hosts. There are at least 221 species recorded as parasitoids on 108 lixine species. Records on 12 host-parasitoid associations seem to be questable or based on misidentifications. Most common hosts are species of two genera: Lixus (112 parasitoid species) and Larinus (43). All actually known parasitoids of Lixinae are dipterans (belonging to three families) and hymenopterans (15 families). The latter listed as parasitoids of no less than 102 lixine species (94.4%) and 22 hosts (19.4%) associated with Diptera. Six lixine species associated with dipterans only. Most common parasitoids are braconids. Four parasitoid species have the most extensive list of the hosts: Exeristes roborator (at least 29 host species), Cerceris tuberculata (12), Bracon urinator (11) and Zeuxia cinerea (10). Parasitoid complex of some hosts can include more than 10 (to 44!) species. Information contained in catalogue will be helpful for programs of effective biological control of economic important pests and weeds.","PeriodicalId":36221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Insect Biodiversity","volume":"197 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74417690","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}
Mohd Zahier Khan, A. Bhardwaj, Sonali Khali, P. Sati, M. Toda, R. S. Fartyal
{"title":"Morphological comparison between a pair of wing-pigmented and non-pigmented sibling species of the genus Hirtodrosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae), with description of a new species from Western Himalaya","authors":"Mohd Zahier Khan, A. Bhardwaj, Sonali Khali, P. Sati, M. Toda, R. S. Fartyal","doi":"10.12976/jib/2022.34.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12976/jib/2022.34.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"Hirtodrosophila fascipennis (Okada, 1967) and its closely related species, Hirtodrosophila pellucidipennis Bhardwaj, Khan & Fartyal, sp. nov., have been found in sympatry from Western Himalaya, India, and the latter is described here with detailed morphological comparison to the former. The most distinctive characteristic is that, while H. fascipennis has a distinct pattern of pigmentation on its wings, the new species lacks such wing pigmentation.","PeriodicalId":36221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Insect Biodiversity","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80587714","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":"Description of the moss-eating flea beetle Cangshanaltica fuanensis sp. nov. (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini) from China","authors":"Yongying Ruan, A. Konstantinov, Albert F. Damaška","doi":"10.12976/jib/2022.34.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12976/jib/2022.34.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"The species name Cangshanaltica fuanensis, previously published in Ruan et al. (2020), is invalid. In this paper, we described Cangshanaltica fuanensis sp. nov. from Fujian, China in order to fully meet the criteria for the publication of a new species according to the Amendment of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (2012).","PeriodicalId":36221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Insect Biodiversity","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72648612","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}