{"title":"Phragmatobia amurensis edita, a new subspecies from Shaanxi Province, China (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Arctiini)","authors":"Günter C. Müller, Aidas Saldaitis, A. V. Volynkin","doi":"10.37828/em.2024.71.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.71.12","url":null,"abstract":"A new subspecies of Phragmatobia amurensis Seitz, 1910, Phragmatobia amurensis edita ssp. n. is described from the Shaanxi Province of China. Adults and genitalia of both sexes of all subspecies of P. amurensis as well as the similar P. fuliginosa (Linnaeus, 1758) and P. placida (Frivaldszky, 1835) are illustrated.","PeriodicalId":504865,"journal":{"name":"Ecologica Montenegrina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139777354","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}
Duong Ngoc Danh, R. V. Yakovlev, Tran Thi Le Tra, Tran Thi Phuong, Vu Duc Binh, Nguyen Thi Thanh Nga, Pham Tien Hung, Nguyen Hoa, N. P. Nhung, Pham Xuan Truong, N. Chi
{"title":"Bark-feeding Kamalia priapus (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) damaging Homalium ceylanicum trees in Vietnam","authors":"Duong Ngoc Danh, R. V. Yakovlev, Tran Thi Le Tra, Tran Thi Phuong, Vu Duc Binh, Nguyen Thi Thanh Nga, Pham Tien Hung, Nguyen Hoa, N. P. Nhung, Pham Xuan Truong, N. Chi","doi":"10.37828/em.2024.71.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.71.11","url":null,"abstract":"Kamalia priapus (Schitlmeister, 1997) (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) is a dangerous species which larva is bark-feeding and damaging Homalium ceylanicum trees in plantations and urban areas in Vietnam. Recent field surveys conducted in the central provinces of Quang Binh, Quang Tri, and Thua Thien Hue in Vietnam highlighted the significant impact of K. priapus on H. ceylanicum trees. Their findings reveal a damage incidence (P%) ranging from 30.6 to 36.5% and damage index (DI) between 1.01 to 1.33 in plantations. Furthermore, effects were observed in urban areas with P% increasing to 39.5–51.3% and DI reaching 1.50–1.68. The extensive damage caused by K. priapus has significantly affected the growth and quality of the trees, resulting in numerous large scars on the trunks of the affected trees. To effectively control the pest, breaking nests and killing the larvae may be helpful. However, it is crucial to implement these methods when the larvae are still young. Future research directions have been proposed to understand the biological and ecological characteristics of K. priapus and developed management solutions to control this pest.","PeriodicalId":504865,"journal":{"name":"Ecologica Montenegrina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139868707","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}
Duong Ngoc Danh, R. V. Yakovlev, Tran Thi Le Tra, Tran Thi Phuong, Vu Duc Binh, Nguyen Thi Thanh Nga, Pham Tien Hung, Nguyen Hoa, N. P. Nhung, Pham Xuan Truong, N. Chi
{"title":"Bark-feeding Kamalia priapus (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) damaging Homalium ceylanicum trees in Vietnam","authors":"Duong Ngoc Danh, R. V. Yakovlev, Tran Thi Le Tra, Tran Thi Phuong, Vu Duc Binh, Nguyen Thi Thanh Nga, Pham Tien Hung, Nguyen Hoa, N. P. Nhung, Pham Xuan Truong, N. Chi","doi":"10.37828/em.2024.71.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.71.11","url":null,"abstract":"Kamalia priapus (Schitlmeister, 1997) (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) is a dangerous species which larva is bark-feeding and damaging Homalium ceylanicum trees in plantations and urban areas in Vietnam. Recent field surveys conducted in the central provinces of Quang Binh, Quang Tri, and Thua Thien Hue in Vietnam highlighted the significant impact of K. priapus on H. ceylanicum trees. Their findings reveal a damage incidence (P%) ranging from 30.6 to 36.5% and damage index (DI) between 1.01 to 1.33 in plantations. Furthermore, effects were observed in urban areas with P% increasing to 39.5–51.3% and DI reaching 1.50–1.68. The extensive damage caused by K. priapus has significantly affected the growth and quality of the trees, resulting in numerous large scars on the trunks of the affected trees. To effectively control the pest, breaking nests and killing the larvae may be helpful. However, it is crucial to implement these methods when the larvae are still young. Future research directions have been proposed to understand the biological and ecological characteristics of K. priapus and developed management solutions to control this pest.","PeriodicalId":504865,"journal":{"name":"Ecologica Montenegrina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139808536","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":"Stephanopachys ambericus Zahradník et Háva, 2015 (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) from Eocene Danish amber and Baltic amber from Latvia in collection of the Natural History Museum of Denmark","authors":"A. Legalov, D. Vasilenko, E. Perkovsky","doi":"10.37828/em.2024.71.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.71.10","url":null,"abstract":"Stephanopachys ambericus Zahradník & Háva, 2015 from the subfamily Dinoderinae is recorded from Eocene Danish amber and Baltic amber from Latvia for the first time. Diagnosis of this species is made, and illustrations are given. Fossil records of auger beetles are discussed.","PeriodicalId":504865,"journal":{"name":"Ecologica Montenegrina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139870757","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":"Stephanopachys ambericus Zahradník et Háva, 2015 (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) from Eocene Danish amber and Baltic amber from Latvia in collection of the Natural History Museum of Denmark","authors":"A. Legalov, D. Vasilenko, E. Perkovsky","doi":"10.37828/em.2024.71.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.71.10","url":null,"abstract":"Stephanopachys ambericus Zahradník & Háva, 2015 from the subfamily Dinoderinae is recorded from Eocene Danish amber and Baltic amber from Latvia for the first time. Diagnosis of this species is made, and illustrations are given. Fossil records of auger beetles are discussed.","PeriodicalId":504865,"journal":{"name":"Ecologica Montenegrina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139811128","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}
F. Z. Guennoun, L. Mostakim, S. Moutaouakil, M. Ghamizi
{"title":"Assessment of terrestrial snails’ diversity and composition in six forests of west central - Morocco along an altitudinal gradient","authors":"F. Z. Guennoun, L. Mostakim, S. Moutaouakil, M. Ghamizi","doi":"10.37828/em.2024.71.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.71.8","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to investigate the diversity of terrestrial gastropods in west-central Morocco. It also examines how elevation and other abiotic factors affect the distribution and composition patterns of said malacofauna. The sampling covered six different forest sites with thirty stations spanning on an altitudinal gradient that ranges from 24 to 2434m. The influence of abiotic factors on species richness and abundance was evaluated via the Pearson correlation. The Shannon index evaluated the malacofaunal diversity within each station. Whittaker’s index assessed heterogeneity of each forest site. The similarity between the forest sites was determined by multivariate analyses; namely the Jaccard index and the Nonmetric Multi-Dimentional Scaling analysis (NMDS). A total of 31312 specimens representing 30 species were recorded. Low altitude stations display the highest values of diversity and uniformity, while the highest altitude stations present the opposite trend. The NMDS analysis revealed that the elevation and vegetation type represent the principal factors affecting the distribution of land snails in the six forest sites.","PeriodicalId":504865,"journal":{"name":"Ecologica Montenegrina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139595209","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":"Tabanidae Fauna (Order: Diptera) of the Arab Countries in the Middle East","authors":"H. Al-Talafha, Z. Amr","doi":"10.37828/em.2024.71.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.71.7","url":null,"abstract":"Family Tabanidae (Diptera) has cosmopolitan distribution with about 4455 described species. A comprehensive review of literature was conducted to list the recorded species from Arab countries of the Middle East (Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Syria, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen). The study reveals the presence of 110 species in four subfamilies and 13 genera. To the moment, the Tabanidae of the Arab countries of the Middle East is poorly studied. Syria and Lebanon do not have a valid checklist, while Iraq, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates are fragmentarily studied. Jordan and Saudi Arabia were well studied. However, this study did not list any species from Bahrain and Qatar.","PeriodicalId":504865,"journal":{"name":"Ecologica Montenegrina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139599725","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}
R. Verovnik, Marko Kosmač, Alrabea A. E. Ishag, H. A. Al Dhafer, Michael Seizmair
{"title":"Mount Faifa, a local hotspot of butterfly diversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia","authors":"R. Verovnik, Marko Kosmač, Alrabea A. E. Ishag, H. A. Al Dhafer, Michael Seizmair","doi":"10.37828/em.2024.71.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.71.6","url":null,"abstract":"During four surveys in 2022 and 2023, we studied the butterfly fauna of Mt. Faifa at 25 locations situated mainly on the wooded north western side of the mountain. A total of 75 species were recorded, bringing the species count for the mountain to 82, which represents 65 % of the butterfly fauna of Saudi Arabia. Several rare species were recorded including Lepidochrysops haveni, which is reported in Saudi Arabia for the first time. Given the proximity of the African continent, widespread Pan-African species dominate the biogeographic composition. There are only a few montane species present on Mt. Faifa, and both mid-elevation maximum and a decline in butterfly richness towards the higher altitudes was noticeable. This mountain could be considered a hot spot of butterfly diversity, thus some efforts should be made to preserve the remaining woodlands and other butterfly-rich habitats.","PeriodicalId":504865,"journal":{"name":"Ecologica Montenegrina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139603374","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}
Harald Sulak, Aidas Saldaitis, R. V. Yakovlev, Yulia S. Volkova, Mohamed M. Traore, Günter C. Müller, Edita E. Revay, Tatiana A. Prozorova, Alexey M. Prozorov
{"title":"Two new species for the Afrotropic genus Leptometa: Leptometa danieli and Leptometa gabrielae (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae)","authors":"Harald Sulak, Aidas Saldaitis, R. V. Yakovlev, Yulia S. Volkova, Mohamed M. Traore, Günter C. Müller, Edita E. Revay, Tatiana A. Prozorova, Alexey M. Prozorov","doi":"10.37828/em.2024.71.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.71.5","url":null,"abstract":"Two new species of the genus Leptometa Aurivillius, 1927 are described from the rich Congolian forests: Leptometa danieli sp. n. and Leptometa gabrielae sp. n. Both species are known by short series of males which are compared with males of five other species of the genus.","PeriodicalId":504865,"journal":{"name":"Ecologica Montenegrina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139604777","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}
G. S. Potapov, G. Bovykina, A. Kondakov, L. Rybalov, Yulia S. Kolosova, M. Gofarov, I. Bolotov
{"title":"Discovery of a Nearctic vicariant bumblebee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Eurasia uncovers secondary trans-Beringian exchanges of insect faunas","authors":"G. S. Potapov, G. Bovykina, A. Kondakov, L. Rybalov, Yulia S. Kolosova, M. Gofarov, I. Bolotov","doi":"10.37828/em.2024.71.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.71.4","url":null,"abstract":"Repeated emergence and disappearance of the Bering Land Bridge during the Quaternary triggered multiple faunal exchanges between northeast Asia and North America. Older (Early to Middle Pleistocene) dispersal events through the bridge followed by its submergence often lead to the vicariant origin of sister species, whose allopatric ranges are currently separated by the Bering Strait. Among bumblebees, examples of these pairs include Bombus balteatus Dahlbom 1832 – B. kirbiellus Curtis 1835, B. pyrrhopygus Friese 1902 – B. polaris Curtis 1835, and B. hyperboreus Schönherr 1809 – B. natvigi Richards 1931. However, integrative taxonomic analyses of new bumblebee samples from hard-to-reach areas of the Chukotka Peninsula (Russian Far East) reveal that the Nearctic B. kirbiellus is present at the north-eastern margin of Asia and that its Asian specimens share the COI haplotype with populations from Alaska. Although B. kirbiellus originated as a Nearctic relative of B. balteatus and was thought to be an endemic to North America, there was a Late Pleistocene (or more recent) expansion of this species from Alaska to Chukotka. Our findings indicate the possibility of secondary expansion of vicariant species through the Beringia during the Last Glacial Maximum or via a more recent migration event across the Bering Strait.","PeriodicalId":504865,"journal":{"name":"Ecologica Montenegrina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139610471","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}