Entomologist's Gazette - Vol. 69, No. 1, 2018
Published: 1/26/2018
Article Details for this issue
The distribution and ecology of Gnophos dumetata Treitschke, 1827 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) in the Burren of western Ireland
By: WILL WOODROW, BRIAN NELSON, DAVE ALLEN, EMMA GLANVILLE, MAURICE HUGHES, VINCENT MCLAUGHLIN, CLIVE MELLON & PAUL WARING
Page: 1–14
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
The geometrid moth Gnophos dumetata Treitschke, 1827, is restricted within Britain and Ireland to the Burren, Co. Clare. A study was initiated by the Burren National Park to investigate the distribution and food plant choice of the species in order to determine if it would be affected by management of scrub. The distribution of the species was investigated by trapping of adults and searching for larvae. This was combined with historical records to determine that the species is confined to the limestone pavement in the eastern Burren between
Corofin and Gort. The larvae show a preference for small, isolated plants of Rhamnus cathartica L. growing over bare pavement. Our conclusion is that the species will not be affected by planned management which is aimed at removing dense invasive scrub from grassland areas.
A southward extension to the currently known range of Papilio alexanor Esper, 1799 (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) in Croatia
By: PETER RUSSELL & JAMES PATEMAN
Page: 15–17
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Papilio alexanor Esper, 1799 discovered in the foothills of Mt. Sniježnica, Neretva Canton, Croatia. Larvae were observed feeding on Opopanax chironium (L.) Koch. This location is further to the southeast than any previous records for this species in Croatia.
Cacyreus marshalli Butler, 1898 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae): a preliminary note on its appearance in Crete and on range expansion in Greece and coastal areas of northwestern Turkey
By: EDDIE JOHN, BETHAN THOMAS, ONAT BAŞBAY, ZEYNEL CEBECİ & JOHN G. COUTSIS
Page: 18
Type: Short Notes
A new species and first rearing record of the genus Thibetoides Davis (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Tryphoninae) from France
By: MARK R. SHAW, PIETER KAN & BRIGITTE KAN-VAN LIMBURG STIRUM
Page: 19–23
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
The genus Thibetoides, known from the western USA and various parts of the former USSR, Turkey and Eastern Europe, is reported from Western Europe for the first time. A single female of Thibetoides aprosthemae Shaw sp. nov. was reared from a cocoon of the argid sawfly Aprosthema tardum collected in the south of France. The new species is described, figured and distinguished from its close relative T. anatolicus Kasparyan, known from S. E. Turkey. A figure is given of the very differently coloured T. acerbus Viktorov, which occurs in Ukraine and Bulgaria and is geographically the closest to the new species, and some morphological points of difference are noted.
Celastrina argiolus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) taking nutrition from rain water
By: P. B. HARDY
Page: 24
Type: Short Notes
A novel host of Itoplectis viduata (Gravenhorst) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae), with some wider rearing records
By: MARK R. SHAW & NATALIA V. BORISOVA
Page: 25–27
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
The apparently regular use of cocoons of a species of Pompilidae, Homonotus sanguinolentus, by the ichneumonid parasitoid Itoplectis viduata at a site in Russia is reported, and seen in the context of the host range of I. viduata as revealed by reared material in the National Museums of Scotland (NMS).
Note on Oestrus ovis Linnaeus, 1758 (Diptera: Oestridae) in Gloucestershire
By: CHARLES F. DEWHURST
Page: 28-30
Type: Short Notes
‘Fool me once, but rarely fool me twice’: Recapture rates and the effect of lure-ageing in pheromone traps for the burnet moth Zygaena filipendulae (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae)
By: ASHEN OLEANDER, JOSEPH BURMAN & VICTORIA BUSWELL
Page: 31–42
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Pheromone lures are a powerful tool in monitoring and recording moths. An important part of accurately interpreting the data obtained is determining the recapture rate of pheromone traps and the longevity of pheromone lures. this study investigates the recapture rate and longevity of Zygaena filipendulae (linnaeus, 1758) pheromone lures. 175 Z. filipendulae were trapped using a pheromone, individually marked and then released within a 1 metre radius of a pheromone trap. the recapture rate of the pheromone traps and the number of times individuals were caught was studied over 5 consecutive days. the recapture rate dropped from 52% on the first day to 9% on the fifth day. 45% of marked moths were not recaptured, 36% were recaptured once, 14% were recaptured twice, 2% were recaptured 3 times and 3% were recaptured 4 times. in the lure longevity experiment lures were exposed to field conditions for 0, 1, 3, 5, 7, 14, 28, 42, 56, 70 and 84 days. the lures of different ages were tested for attractiveness in the field. lures that had been exposed for 0, 1 and 3 days attracted significantly more moths, but all lures still attracted moths and an endpoint in the lure’s longevity was not reached. the implications of these findings are discussed.
BOOK REVIEW: The Natural History of Burnet Moths. Part 1, by A. F. Hofmann & W. G. Tremewan
By: LAURENCE COOK
Page: 43-45
Type: Book Review
Hypena obsitalis (Hübner, 1813) (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) overwintering in Surrey
By: J. D. HOLLOWAY
Page: 46
Type: Short Notes
Lord Walsingham and the Manchester Moth
By: LAURENCE COOK & CHRISTIAN MCCONVILLE
Page: 47–63
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
An interaction is described between three nineteenth century naturalists of different back - ground and character. They were the sixth Baron Walsingham, John Hartley Durrant and Robert Cribb, the first two of them noted taxonomists and the third an artisan collector. Their activities led to the acquisition by the Manchester Museum of a collection of over two thousand specimens of micro-Lepidoptera in exchange for a single individual of the Manchester Moth
Euclemensia woodiella, found only once in Britain in 1829. The donation covered about 80 per cent of the species known at the time in the groups represented. The origin of the Manchester Moth is considered and the composition of the Museum’s comprehensive collection of British micro-Lepidoptera is briefly outlined.
Pontia glauconome Klug, 1829 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae, Pierinae): a preliminary note on the species’ first recorded presence in Turkey
By: EDDIE JOHN, ONAT BAŞBAY & ERDEM SEVEN
Page: 64
Type: Short Notes
BOOK REVIEW: Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland, third edition, by Paul Waring & Martin Townsend
By: IAN MASTERS
Page: 65-66
Type: Book Review
BOOK REVIEW: Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, volume 3, updated (second) edition, Scarabaeoidea-Scirtoidea-Dascilloidea-Buprestoidea-Byrrhoidea, edited by Ivan Löbl & Daniel Löbl
By: P. F. WHITEHEAD
Page: 67-68
Type: Book Review
BOOK REVIEW: World Catalogue of Insects, volume 15. Conopidae (Diptera), by Jens-Hermann Stuke
By: DAVID CLEMENTS
Page: 68-69
Type: Book Review
BOOK REVIEW: Les Procris de France, French Forester Moths (Lepidoptera, Zygaenidae, Procridinae & Chalcosiinae), by Eric Drouet
By: ADRIAN SPALDING
Page: 70
Type: Book Review