Entomologist's Monthly Magazine - Vol. 154, No. 3, 2018
Published: 7/27/2018
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By: IAN JOHNSON
Page: 159
Type: Editorial
On three species of Chrysis cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) recently added to the British list
By: MICHAEL ARCHER
Page: 160
Type: Short Notes
A new species of the cleptoparasitic orchid bee genus Exaerete from northern Venezuela (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
By: MICHAEL S. ENGEL
Page: 161–175
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
A new species of the cleptoparasitic orchid bee genus Exaerete Hoffmannsegg (Apinae: Euglossini) is described and figured from a series of males collected in the coastal region of Aragua, Venezuela. Exaerete fallaciosa, sp. n., is most similar to E. trochanterica (Friese) and E.
kimseyae Oliveira but differs in males by a unique combination of features including the shape, sculpturing, and setation of the labrum, tegula, mesoscutellum, mesobasitarsus, and male terminalia. A new key to the species is provided and the frontalis species-group segregated into subgenus Hybomelissa, subgen. n.
The hitherto unknown flightless female of Puliciphora calix Carles-Tolrá (Diptera: Phoridae) from France
By: R. HENRY L. DISNEY
Page: 176–178
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
The female of Puliciphora calix Carles-Tolrá is described.
Studies of Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) in the Spirit Collection of the Natural History Museum, London 2: New species and records from P. Hammond’s visit to New Zealand in 1983–84
By: MICHAEL DARBY
Page: 179–196
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Some 2,000 Ptiliidae collected in the North and South Islands of New Zealand in 1983/1984 by Peter Hammond of the Natural History Museum, London, are determined to 34 species, four of which are new to the country. As there are very few previous records, most from the Auckland district of North Island, the Hammond collection provides much new distributional data. The three new species: Nellosana insperatus sp. n., Notoptenidium flavum sp. n., and Notoptenidium johnsoni sp. n., are described and figured; the genus Ptiliodes is moved from Acrotrichinae to Ptiliinae, and Ptenidium formicetorum Kraatz recorded as a new introduction. Information is provided to aid separation of the new species from those previously recorded.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction’ by Michael J. Ryan.
By: ANDREW WAKEHAM-DAWSON
Page: 197–198
Type: Book Review
A new species of Rhaphitelus Walker, 1834, (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) with notes on other species in the genus
By: R.R. ASKEW & D. MIFSUD
Page: 199–206
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Rhaphitelus mathildae sp. n. is described from Malta and compared to the three previously known species in the genus. A key to the four known species of Rhaphitelus is provided together with notes on their biology and distribution.
Recent additions to the Chyromyidae of Morocco with description of a new species of Gymnochiromyia Hendel (Diptera: Acalyptrata)
By: MARTIN J. EBEJER
Page: 207–212
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
The following species of Chyromyidae are new records for Morocco: Chyromya robusta Hendel, Aphaniosoma approximatum Becker, A. quadrinotatum (Becker) and A. rufum Frey. Gymnochiromyia tschirnhausi is described as a new species. The total number of Chyromyidae species known from Morocco is 24.
First record of Eucalyptus leaf gall wasp, Ophelimus maskelli (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), an invasive pest of Eucalyptus spp., in the Canary Islands
By: C. MALUMPHY
Page: 213–216
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
The Eucalyptus leaf gall wasp, Ophelimus maskelli (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), an invasive pest of Eucalyptus spp., which has been rapidly increasing its geographical distribution, is recorded for the first time in the Canary Islands.
OBITUARY: Kenneth George Valentine Smith (1929–2017)
By: ADRIAN C. PONT
Page: 217–232
Type: Obituary