Insecta Mundi, Volume 6 (1992)
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One hundred forty-five species of caddisflies representing 15 families and 46 genera are reported from Oklahoma. Thirty-nine species are new state records. Families having the greatest species richness were Hydroptilidae (44 species), Leptoceridae (31 species), Hydropsychidae (26 species), and Polycentropodidae (13 species).
Book Review: A comprehensive treatment of the ecology of aquatic insects in one place is needed for both students and researchers. Professor Ward is doing this in two volumes. The first volume covers the biology and habitats, as indicated in the subtitle, of the 13 insect orders that are either entirely aquatic at some stage, or those with some members aquatic at some stage. The second volume will be devoted entirely to the feeding ecology of these aquatic species.
Specific Alaskan and Canadian localities are recorded for the chilopod Scolopocryptops sexspinosus (Say) (Cryptopidae), the only indigenous Nearctic scolopendromorph species occurring north of the lower 48 states. It occurs west of the crest of the Coast Range in British Columbia, extending northward to the southernmost islands of Alaska, and is recorded for the first time from eastern Canada, from Niagara Gorge, Ontario. Reports of S. rubiginosus Koch from southern Alaska are based on a misidentification of S. sexspinosus, and records from the north-central United States are too distant from the international border for it to be plausible for Manitoba and western Ontario. This centipede does not occur along the Pacific Coast and is improbable for any other part of Canada.
Vincent Golia, Delray Beach, Florida, collected a single female specimen of the tamarind seed beetle, Caryedon serratus, in an orange grove near Homestead. This is the first record of this bruchid for continental United States although the species is recorded from the Hawaiian Islands, and is often intercepted during port inspections.
New records of the xystodesmid diplopod Stenodesmus tuobitus (Chamberlin) extend its range and those of the family and suborder Chelodesmidea into southwestern New Mexico, west of the Rio Grande. They confirm that it inhabits arid juniper environments at relatively low elevations as well as moist deciduous fir forests at high elevations, thereby lending credence to past records from the former habitat in Lincoln County. Discovery of the milliped in neighboring mountain ranges to the north and west is now likely, with the distant possibility that it may occur in eastern Arizona.
Ommatius fimbriatus and O. subtus are based upon four specimens embedded in Dominican amber from the El Mamey Formation in the Dominican Republic. The amber is from the Lower Oligocene - Upper Eocene, originating between 25 and 40 million years ago. The specimens are the first reported fossils of Ommatius. Both species are described and compared with modern species. Significant characters are illustrated and/or photographed.
The following species of Meloidae are recorded, together with notes on adult seasonal distribution and food plants, from the northwestern Argentine province of Salta: Protomeloe wagneri, Spastica sphaerodera, Acrolytta colon, Pyrota homcioi, P. signata, P. vittigera, P. wagneri, Pseudopyrota riojanensis, Wagneronota aratae, Pseudomeloe andensis, P. gracilior, P. ogloblini, Epicauta atomaria, E. bruchi, E. excavata, E. floydwerneri, E. fourcadei, E. fulvicornis, E. grammica, E. griseonigra, E. leopardina, E. lizeri, E. monachica, E. nigripes Borchmann (=E. langei Borchmann, syn. nov.), E. pluvialis, E. rosiilloi, E. rubella, E. rutilifirons, E. talpa, E. tristis, E. zebra, Tetraonyx brunnescens, T. kirschi, T. lampyroides, T. propinquu, T. sericea, Cissites maculata, Nemognatha coeruleipennis, N. nigronotata, N. nigrotarsata, N. subparallela, N. weiseri Pic (st. nov.), Pseudozonitis impressithorax (Pic) (comb. nov.). Eleven of the species are recorded from the province for the first time.