Insecta Mundi, Volume 6 (1992)
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Book Review: Species in the genus Spermophagus are found in all of the Old World regions except Australia. Prior to this fine monograph, the taxonomy was a hodgepodge of local faunal treatments and single species descriptions with few usable keys or illustrations. Now we have available keys to 90 species with full descriptions, geographical distributions, and excellent illustrations of dorsal habitus, male genitalia, and many of the female genital valves.
The annulatipes group of the genus Forcipomyia Meigen, subgenus Lepidohelea Kieffer, is represented in the Western Hemisphere by 12 species. Keys are presented for their identification, and to distinguish them from other groups of the subgenus Lepidohelea. The three previously known species, annulatipes Macfie, brasiliensis Macfie, and kuanoskeles Macfie, from southern Brazil, as well as the following nine new species, are described and illustrated: bahiensis, basifemoralis, bifida, convexipenis, euthystyla, gravesi, herediae, hobbsi, and weemsi.
The following new species are described: Nyctonympha andersoni, sp. n., and N. howdenarum, sp. n., both from Colombia; N. genieri, sp. n., from Ecuador; N. taeniata, sp. n., from Trinidad; Falsamblesthis microps, sp. n., from Venezuela; Bactriola circundata, sp. n., from Brazil (Rio de Janeiro); B. maculata, sp. n., from Venezuela and Ecuador; and B. falsa, sp. n., from Brazil (Minas Gerais to Rio Grande do Sul). A redescription of Bactriola vittulata Bates, 1886, herein designated as the type species of the genus, is provided. Accurate data on the occurrence of Saepiseuthes chilensis Thomson, 1868, in Chile are given. Keys to the species of Bactriola Bates, 1886 and Nyctonympha Thomson, 1868 are added.
Twenty nine species of Delphacidae are recorded from the Yukon Territory, Canada, two additional ones from an adjacent region of Northwest Territories, and one species from coastal Alaska. Two new genera are described: Aschedelphax Wilson and Yukonodelphax Wilson. Six new species are described: Aschedelphax hochae Wilson, Delphacodes anufrievi Wilson, D. emeljanovi Wilson, Javesella lla Wilson, Nothodelphax glacia Wilson, and Yukonodelphax kendallae Wilson. Aschedelphax coloradensis (Beamer), Javesella kilmani (Van Duzee), Yukonodelphax pediforma (Beamer) and Y. stramineosa (Beamer) are new combinations. Kusnezoviella matisi Anufriev and Emeljanov is a junior synonym of K. macleani Wilson and Delphacodes hyalina Beamer is a junior synonym of Nothodelphax albocarinata (Stil). Of the 32 species included in the study, 18 have a Holarctic distribution - 10 of these are amphi-Beringian. The remaining 14 species are restricted to the Nearctic, 5 of these are recorded only from the Yukon and Northwest Territories.
Only five species of Bruchidae have been recorded from the Dominican Republic D.R) per se although records exist for “Hispaniola” and Haiti. Collections made during a recent trip (1992) by R. Turnbow and M.C. Thomas have added data for five additional species, one of which is a new West Indian record whereas the other three are range extensions of species previously known from the West Indies. Geographical ranges for each species are briefly indicated.
The following subgenera of Apion Herbst are elevated to generic status: Bothryopteron Wagner (type species: Apion grallarium Sharp); Coelocephiilapion Wagner (type species: Apion bryanti Wagner); Coelopterapion Wagner (type species: Apion testaceum Wagner); Fallapion Kissinger (type species: Apien impunctistriatum Smith); and Stenapion Wagner (type Species: Apion constricticolle Sharp). Twelve areas of apionid rostral sulci and carinae are defined and illustrated. Six new species of Coelooephalapien are described: four similar to C. bryanti, (Wagner): Jumentum (panama and Honduras), kektaon (Belize), pelor (Panama), and schema (panama); and two similar to C. spretissimum (Sharp): adhocum (Mexico) and pigrae (Venezuela). C. pilirostre (Wagner), near bryanti, is redescribed from Mexico and Honduras with neotype designation.
Affinities, diagnoses, and descriptions are provided for two new species of Plusiotis: P. spectabilis from an unknown locality in Central America and P. dianae from Veracruz state in Mexico. Plusiotis spectabilis is described from a single female and is the largest species in the genus (41 mm in length).
A new status is proposed for the genera Glabromyzus Richards, 1960 and Juncomyzus Hille Ris Lambers, 1965, which are now treated as subgenera of Carolinaia Wilson, 1911. The relationship between Carolinaia and Utamphorophoro Knowlton, 1947 is discussed. The new name C. (C.) tissoti is given for Carolinaia rhois Tissot, 1928 nec rhois Monell, 1879. The species known as Juncomyzus rhois (Takahashi, 1924) becomes C. (J.) japonica (Takahashi, 1961). The oviparous female of C. (G.) schlingeri, C. (J.) japonica, and C. (J.) nigra are described as well as the alate viviparous female and the male of the last species. Four keys are given for the apterous and alate living on Rhus and on Monocotyledones plants. The following 4 new species are described: C. (C.) floridensis, from USA, C. (G.) quadnaui from Canada, C. (G.) corazonensis and C. (C.) setariae both from Mexico. The host plants, life cycle and distribution of the 17 species of Carolinaia are discussed.
An undescribed genus and species of flightless longhorned beetle, Apteralcidion lupierrei new genus, new species, in the subfamily Lamiinae, has been collected from giant thistle, Cirsium subcoriaccum, at high elevations in Costa Rica and Panama. This new taxon appears most-closely related to genera in the tribe Acanthocini.