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":"Study of types of the Arthrostenus Schoenherr in C. J. Schoenherr collection, with a new synonymy (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)","authors":"N. Gültekin","doi":"10.12976/jib/2023.37.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12976/jib/2023.37.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"Types of the three species of Arthrostenus Schoenherr, 1826 described by C. H. Boheman, housed at the C. J. Schoenherr collection in the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm are examined. The lectotype is designated for Arthrostenus fullo Boheman, 1836. The holotypes of Arthrostenus spadiceus Boheman, 1836 and Arthrostenus cinereus Boheman, 1836 are conspecific, which resulted in a new synonymy as follows: Arthrostenus spadiceus Boheman, 1836 = Arthrostenus cinereus Boheman, 1836; syn. nov. Digital photographs for the three types are presented.","PeriodicalId":36221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Insect Biodiversity","volume":"600 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72440731","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":"Mealybug species (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in agricultural and natural habitats in Aydın Province, Turkey","authors":"H. Yerlikaya, H. Başpınar, M. Kaydan","doi":"10.12976/jib/2023.37.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12976/jib/2023.37.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"Mealybugs (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) were collected from Aydın province, Turkey between 2019 and 2021 to document the species found in agricultural and non-agricultural areas. Thirty-five species belonging to 16 genera were collected from more than 150 host plants. Six of the species are new country records for Turkey: Allotrionymus multipori Kawai, 1973; Kiritshenkella sacchari (Green, 1900); Phenacoccus parietaricola Goux, 1938; Phenacoccus peruvianus Granara de Willink, 2007; Phenacoccus schmelevi Bazarov, 1980 and Spilococcus flavus (Borchsenius, 1949). Seyneria neohordei (Marotta, 1992) is returned to its original genus assignment, as Phenacoccus neohordei Marotta comb. rev.","PeriodicalId":36221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Insect Biodiversity","volume":"117 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90734082","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}
B. Çerçi, N. Gültekin, C. Gözüaçık, M. Güçlü, Di̇lek Doğan
{"title":"Contributions to the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Anatolia with new records for Turkey","authors":"B. Çerçi, N. Gültekin, C. Gözüaçık, M. Güçlü, Di̇lek Doğan","doi":"10.12976/jib/2022.36.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12976/jib/2022.36.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"Heteroptera species collected from numerous localities in Anatolia, particularly Eastern Anatolia, between 1998 and 2021 are presented. 124 species in 97 genera belonging to following 20 families are recorded: Miridae (32), Nabidae (2), Anthocoridae (1), Tingidae (1), Reduviidae (7), Pentatomidae (33), Scutelleridae (9), Acanthosomatidae (1), Cydnidae (1), Coreidae (6), Rhopalidae (4), Alydidae (3), Stenocephalidae (2), Rhyparochromidae (12), Lygaeidae (3), Geocoridae (3), Artheneidae (1), Heterogasteridae (1), Oxycarenidae (1) and Pyrrhocoridae (1). Among them, Xanthochilus omissus (Horváth, 1911) (Rhyparochromidae) and Ceratocranum caucasicum Jakovlev, 1879 (Scutelleridae) are new for the Heteroptera fauna of Turkey. Furthermore, Dryophilocoris (Dryophilocoris) flavoquadrimaculatus (De Geer, 1773), Odontoplatys suturalis (Jakovlev, 1883) (Miridae) and Engistus salinus Jakovlev, 1874 (Geocoridae) that had been recorded from Turkey only once, are recorded from new localities. Additionally, most of the recorded species are new for the provinces that they are collected from, and following ten species are recorded from the Eastern Anatolian region for the first time: Cyllecoris histrionius (Linnaeus, 1767), Eurycolpus aureolus Seidenstücker, 1961, Odontoplatys suturalis (Jakovlev, 1883), Polymerus (Poeciloscytus) brevicornis (Reuter, 1879) (Miridae), Jalla dumosa (Linnaeus, 1758), Leprosoma tuberculatum Jakovlev, 1874, Picromerus conformis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1841) (Pentatomidae), Megalonotus emarginatus (Rey, 1888), Peritrechus nubilus (Fallén, 1807) (Rhyparochromidae) and Horvathiolus syriacus (Reuter, 1885) (Lygaeidae). Finally, the Heteroptera fauna of Transcaucasian region is briefly analyzed. It is revealed that among 1113 species known from this region, 255 species have not yet been recorded from Turkey and most of these species remain to be discovered from Eastern Anatolian region of Turkey, reflecting the need for future field researches in this region.","PeriodicalId":36221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Insect Biodiversity","volume":"55 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87708388","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}