Latest documents http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/index/index/ Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:32:53 +0100 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:32:53 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13350 Chrysina diversa (Ohaus, 1912) is recorded for the first time from Belize. Detailed information on its capture in that country is presented. Conrad P. D. T. Gillett book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13350 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:32:53 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13349 Thirty-one species of Cephaloleiini are assigned to new genera, creating new combinations: 19 to Parimatidium Spaeth, 10 to Stilpnaspis Weise, and two to Demotispa Baly. Demotispa peruana membrata Uhmann, 1957 is raised to full species status. As the transfer of Cephaloleia limbatum Pic to Demotispa creates a homonymy, the species is renamed Demotispa pici nomen novum. Charles L. Staines book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13349 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:31:09 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13348 The published beetle fauna of the island of St. Lucia is summarized. It contains 135 genera, and 175 species in 25 families. Four species are accidentally introduced by human activities. Twenty three species are endemic (restricted) to the island. Twenty seven species on St. Lucia are shared only with other islands of the Lesser Antilles, and 22 species are widespread Antilles endemics. The remaining 56.6% of the fauna is otherwise mostly one which is widely distributed in the Antilles and the Neotropics. This suggests that it is mostly an immigrant fauna originating in the continental Neotropics. Undoubtedly, the actual numbers of species on St. Lucia are many times higher than now reported and may originally have been as high as around 1400 species. Of the St. Lucia species known to occur on other islands, the largest numbers are shared with Guadeloupe (102), St. Vincent (79), and Martinique (55). Stewart B. Peck book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13348 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:29:07 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13347 With documentation of an unidentifiable adult female and juvenile Tingupidae (Chordeumatida), Kodiak Island, Alaska, becomes the westernmost indigenous diplopod locality in North America including continental islands. The northernmost and most proximate locality, Yakutat, lies ca. 935 mi (1,496 km) to the eastnortheast, while Haines, the type locality of Tingupa tlingitorum Shear and Shelley, some 1,196 mi (1,914 km) in this direction, is the most proximate familial site. Kodiak is also one of the most remote indigenous milliped localities in the Pacific, the most proximate ones to the west and south, Kamchatka, Russia, and the Hawaiian Islands, United States, being over 3,300 mi (5, 280 km) distant. Tingupidae is recorded for the first time from Canada excluding the Queen Charlotte Islands, and geographically remote, ostensibly indigenous records from the North Pacific Ocean and environs are tabulated. Rowland M. Shelley; Michael F. Medrano; Kristiina Ovaska book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13347 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:27:29 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13346 Distribution and habitat information are provided for 1578 adult specimens of Odonata representing 127 species in 70 genera and 16 families that were collected from 143 locations throughout Thailand. Of the species collected, 25 (20%) were represented by a single specimen, and 40 (31%) were collected from a single location. Collections were made at 49 lentic and 85 lotic sites, and an average of 6.9 and 6.6 species were collected at each site in each habitat, respectively. Michael L. Ferro; Robert W. Sites; Akekawat Vitheepradit book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13346 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:25:14 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13345 Curius chemsaki Nearns and Ray, 2006 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Curiini), is reported from Colombia for the first time. In addition, the range of this taxon within Venezuela is extended to the Andean Province of Táchira. Eugenio H. Nearns; Ian P. Swift; Luis J. Joly book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13345 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:23:10 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13344 The Southeast Asian scarab beetle genus Peltonotus Burmeister (Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) is associated with aroid flowers and possesses a unique, articulated maxillary tooth. We describe five new species of Peltonotus: P. animus and P. cybele from Sumatra, P. favonius from Vietnam, P. mushiyaus from Borneo, and P. tigerus from Thailand. The circumscription of P. karubei Muramoto is broadened to include new color variation, and the body size range for the genus is increased with Peltonotus mushiyaus, n. sp., now being the smallest member of the genus. We provide an amended key to species, distribution maps, diagnoses and accompanying comparative images, and discuss classification of the genus within the Scarabaeidae. Mary Liz Jameson; Kaoru Wada book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13344 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:20:48 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13343 Three new species of Maracandula are described from Mexico and included in a key to the five species in Mexico. Diagnoses of the species are given as well as distributional data. Robert B. Miller; Lionel A. Stange book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13343 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:18:48 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13342 Two species of Xyloryctes occur in the United States: X. jamaicensis (Drury) and X. thestalus Bates. Identification and distribution of these species has long been confused but is reviewed and clarified here. Xyloryctes jamaicensis occurs only in the eastern half of the U.S. and not in the southwestern U.S. as previously thought, while X. thestalus occurs in Guatemala and southern Mexico northwards to the southwestern United States. This hypothesis is corroborated by biogeographical and host plant data. Three new synonyms are listed for X. thestalus: X. faunus Casey 1915, X. hebes Casey 1915, and X. thestalus borealis Endrödi. The decline of Fraxinus spp., the food plant of Xyloryctes species, as a result of damage caused by the introduced emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire; Buprestidae) in the United States might portend a similar decline for Xyloryctes species in North America. Brett C. Ratcliffe book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13342 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:17:01 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13341 Six species of the tribe Oryctini, one species of Agaocephalini, and two species of Dynastini are presently recorded from the Cayo district of western Belize. The following five species are newly recorded from Belize: Heterogomphus mniszechi (Thomson), Strategus longichomperus Ratcliffe, S. jugurtha Burmeister, Spodistes mniszechi (Thomson), and Dynastes hercules (Linnaeus). The following two species are newly recorded from Cayo: Enema endymion Chevrolat and Strategus aloeus (Linnaeus). Biological and distributional comments relating to these records are presented and briefly discussed. Conrad P. D. T. Gillett book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13341 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:14:40 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13340 The first New World amber member of the family Lucanidae is described from the Dominican Republic. Its age is presumed to be Miocene (20-30 million YBP). It is also the fourth known amber species, the second Miocene fossil species, the second fossil species in the subfamily Syndesinae, and the first species (fossil or extant) of Lucanidae from the entire Caribbean. It is especially interesting because it is a member of the Australasian genus Syndesus MacLeay. Other such disjunct Dominican amber insect fossils are also discussed. Robert E. Woodruff book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13340 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:09:55 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13339 The tipu psyllid, Platycorypha nigrivirga Burckhardt (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Psylloidea), is reported for the first time in North America (USA: California). Diagnostic characters for identification of adults and nymphs, host and damage data, and known distribution are given. Alessandra Rung; Gevork Arakelian; Ray Gill; Nick Nisson book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13339 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:07:43 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13338 I provide the first record for the recently described hangingfly, Bittacus monastyrskiyi Bicha, 2007, from Há Tay Province (Ba Vi National Park), Vietnam, along with new seasonal, altitudinal, and habitat data. This is the only described species of bittacid from Vietnam, and this new record extends its range 100 km northnorthwest from its type locality in Cuc Phuong National Park, Thanh Hoa Province. Louis A. Somma book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13338 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:05:02 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13337 Novel host records and feeding behaviors are reported for five species in three genera of two cassidine beetle tribes, Hemisphaerotini and Imatidiini, from Ecuador. Carludovica Ruiz and Pav. (Cyclanthaceae) is reported as a new plant family and genus host for two species of Spaethiella Barber and Bridwell. Calathea G. Mey (Marantaceae) is reported as the first host record for Aslamidium capense (Herbst) and Calathea lutea Schult. and Calathea majestica (Linden) H. Kenn. are reported as the first host records for Aslamidium semicirculare (Olivier). Immature stages of Demotispa elaeicola (Aslam) are reported for the first time; larvae are external folivores and both larvae and pupae are solitary and lack exuvio-fecal shields. The adults and larvae of D. elaeicola feed by rasping palm fruits, a rare feeding pattern in Cassidinae. Wills Flowers; Caroline S. Chaboo book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13337 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:03:12 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13336 Geographic variation and subspecific taxonomy of United States populations of the tiger beetle Cicindela obsoleta Say are reviewed. Study of primary types and 1,424 museum specimens indicates that four subspecific entities are present in the U.S., for which the valid names are C. o. obsoleta Say, C. o. santaclarae Bates, C. o. vulturina LeConte, and C. o. neojuvenilis Vogt. All four subspecies are illustrated, including many color variants. ArcView Geographic Information System (GIS) computer software is used to study the distribution of these subspecies in the United States. Cicindela o. obsoleta and C. o. santaclarae are only partially allopatric, with extensive areas in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas where their distributions overlap. Specimens intermediate in their elytral markings between C. o. obsoleta and C. o. santaclarae are reported from localities in New Mexico and Texas where these two subspecies co-occur. In contrast, C. o. vulturina and C. o. neojuvenilis are largely allopatric and show little intergradation with the C. o. obsoleta - C. o. santaclarae complex. It has been suggested recently that disjunct (but as yet unnamed) populations of C. o. vulturina in Missouri and Arkansas may represent a separate subspecies of C. obsoleta. However, the color and elytral pattern characteristics which have been interpreted as diagnostic features of these disjunct populations are also found in many Texas populations of C. o. vulturina, suggesting that the Arkansas and Missouri populations do not merit recognition as a separate subspecies on the basis of these characters alone. Jonathan R. Mawdsley book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13336 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:01:15 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13335 Presented herein is a key to identify species of Bruchidae associated with Acacia cornigera (L.). For each species, host records, distributions and bionomics are given. A new species of Acanthoscelides Schilsky is described and figured; Acanthoscelides sauli Romero, Cruz, and Kingsolver. Jesus Romero Napoles; Aracely de la Cruz Perez; John M. Kingsolver book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13335 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:58:48 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13333 An annotated list is presented for 81 species of lady beetles (Coccinellidae: Coleoptera) that occur in the state of Iowa, U.S.A., based on literature searches and a review of over 3500 specimens in institutional and private collections. The list includes new state records for Scymnus tenebrosus Mulsant, Diomus debilis (LeConte), Hyperaspis lateralis Mulsant, Hyperaspis deludens Gordon, Epilachna borealis (F.), and Subcoccinella vigintiquatuorpunctata (L.), as well as county records for the non-native species, Harmonia axyridis (Pallas). Collection records are discussed for Nephaspis oculatus (Blatchley), Hyperaspidius militaris (LeConte), Coccinella californica Mannerheim, and S. vigintiquatuorpunctata, which have Iowa records that are disjunct from their larger geographic distributions in North America. I also discuss collection records and the need for additional collecting of coccinellids in Iowa, especially Adalia bipunctata (Schneider), Coccinella transversoguttata richardsoni Brown, and Coccinella novemnotata Herbst, which were once common and widespread but have declined drastically over much of North America, including Iowa. Louis S. Hesler book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13333 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:54:21 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13332 A taxonomic overview for the fritillary genus Speyeria Scudder (= Argynnis Fabricius) and its placement within the Heliconiinae (Nymphalidae) is presented. Taxonomic accounts, type images, and relevant literature for the 25 subspecies within the Speyeria atlantis (Edwards) and Speyeria hesperis (Edwards) complexes and the 16 nominate Speyeria species are included. Errors in nomenclature are identified, taxonomic, life history, and distributional information are updated, and type locality information is discussed. Images of primary type specimens for all 16 Speyeria species and the 25 subspecies in the atlantis - hesperis complexes appear together in color here for the first time. One new combination of a species-subspecies is created: Speyeria hesperis hanseni Emmel, Emmel, and Matoon, 1998, new combination, which was previously Speyeria atlantis hanseni Emmel, Emmel, and Matoon. James C. Dunford book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13332 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:52:20 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13331 Thirteen species of skippers (six newly described; Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae: Hesperiini) from higher elevations of Mexico and Central America are reviewed. These are included in four genera (one newly described), some with proposed new combinations. Onespa Steinhauser, 1974, originally described as monotypic, is shown to include three species in addition to its type species, Onespa nubis Steinhauser, 1974. One of these, Atrytone gala Godman, 1900, that has been misplaced in several genera since its description, represents a new combination. The other two species, distributed in montane habitats in northwestern Mexico and in Costa Rica, are described as new. Buzyges Godman, 1900, distributed in Mexico and Central America and also formerly considered monotypic, is shown to embrace four species. Besides the type species, Buzyges idothea Godman, 1900, two species long placed in Poanes Scudder, 1872, Pamphila rolla Mabille, 1883, and Poanes benito Freeman, 1979, are included as new combinations. Another species, known only from Costa Rica, is described as new. These are united by several superficial characters, but especially by genital morphology of both sexes. Librita Evans, 1955, was described to include three species of which one, Librita raspa Evans, 1955, was subsequently removed. Augiades heras Godman, 1900 is here also removed from Librita and placed in a new genus with three previously undescribed species. This completes the disintegration of Librita, which is now monotypic. The four genera, although exhibiting similarities suggesting potential alliance, differ in their unique combinations of several superficial and genital traits from each other and other hesperiine skippers. George T. Austin; Andrew D. Warren book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13331 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:49:34 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13330 The Ligurian leafhoppter, Eupteryx decemnotata Rey (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae), is reported for the first time in North America (USA: Florida and California). Diagnostic characters for species identification, summary of hosts and damage, and U.S. known distribution are given. Alessandra Rung; Susan E. Halbert; David C. Ziesk; Raymond J. Gill book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13330 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:46:31 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13329 New distribution records for the State of Florida are given for several genera and species of water beetles. These include Dytiscidae: Acilius confusus Bergsten; Dytiscus carolinus Aubé; Matus bicarinatus (Say); Elmidae: Oulimnius nitidulus LeConte; Stenelmis mera Sanderson; S. morsei White; Hydrophilidae: Laccobius minutoides d’Orchymont; Scirtidae: Sarabandus robustus (LeConte); Scirtes oblongus Guérin-Méneville. Additional information is provided on the distribution, morphology and three color forms of S. oblongus which is considered to be a senior synonym of Scirtes sexlineatus Chevrolat and S. interruptus Chevrolat. John H. Epler book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13329 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:43:40 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13328 The species belonging to the genus Coelotrachelus Schmidt, 1913 are redescribed and figured. The Mexican Coelotrachelus ixtapalapaensis, new species, is described. Marco Dellacasa; Giovanni Dellacasa; Robert D. Gordon book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13328 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:41:47 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13327 Polyphylla starkae Skelley, new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Melolonthini), is described from peninsular Florida, USA. Observations on its life history and a key to related species are provided. Paul E. Skelley book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13327 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:39:35 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13326 We provide new county records for four species of panorpids (Panorpa americana Swederus, Panorpa lugubris Swederus, Panorpa sp. undetermined, and one undescribed species from the Panorpa rufescens Rambur species group) and two species of bittacids (Bittacus pilicornis Westwood, Bittacus punctiger Westwood), and call attention to a previously published county record for another species, Panorpa rufa Gray, in Florida. Additionally, we reject a previously published record for the scorpionfly Panorpa claripennis Hine in Florida, which we overlooked in our 2008 preliminary checklist of Florida mecopterans. The record for P. lugubris in Miami-Dade County is the southernmost record for any panorpid in the continental United States. Louis A. Somma; James C. Dunford book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13326 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:38:01 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13325 The class Diplopoda, represented by the families Spirostreptidae (Spirostreptida) and Paradoxosomatidae (Polydesmida), is recorded from Saudi Arabia for the first time. Archispirostreptus transmarinus Hoffman, 1965 (Spirostreptidae) inhabits the Jabal Al-Hijaz Mountains in the southwest, and the Paradoxosomatidae, represented by an unidentifiable, indigenous female, occurs in a “wadi” in the center of the country. Other Middle Eastern familial records are documented, and occurrences in the Arabian Peninsula are mapped. Males, necessary to identify the paradoxosomatid, may be encountered if samplings are timed to coincide with seasonal rains. Rowland M. Shelley book http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13325 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:36:04 +0100