Entomologist's Monthly Magazine - Vol. 151, No. 3, 2015
Published: 7/31/2015
Article Details for this issue
A second European record for Nephrotoma ferruginea (Fabricius, 1805), a potential insect pest, with other Iberian records of Nephrotoma species (Diptera: Tipulidae)
By: E.G. HANCOCK, C. QUIRCE & M.A. MARCOS-GARCÍA
Page: 149–153
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
The circumstances of finding a North American species of cranefly, Nephrotoma ferruginea
(Fabricius, 1805) (Diptera: Tipulidae), in Spain are recounted and records of some other species
of Nephrotoma from mainland Spain and Portugal are presented.
BOOK REVIEW:‘PLANET OF THE BUGS: EVOLUTION AND THE RISE OF INSECTS’, by SCOTT RICHARD SHAW
By: PETER C. BARNARD
Page: 154
Type: Book Review
A new Peruvian cerioidine flower fly (Diptera: Syrphidae)
By: F. CHRISTIAN THOMPSON & NIGEL WYATT
Page: 155–160
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
A new species, Ceriana (Polybiomyia) bolivari (Cerioidini, Eristalinae, Syrphidae), is
described and illustrated from Peru. A key to species in the genus Polybiomyia is given.
A new genus of scuttle fly (Diptera: Phoridae, Metopininae) from Malaysia
By: R.H.L. DISNEY
Page: 161–164
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Erinacephora viklundi gen. n., sp. n. is described from females collected in Sabah, Malaysia.
A new Dermatohomoeus Hlisnikovský, 1963 (Coleoptera: Leiodidae, Leiodinae) from China
By: ZDENĚK ŠVEC & JONATHAN COOTER
Page: 165–167
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Dermatohomoeus bidentatus sp. n. from China is described and distinguished from similar
species.
What is Priomerus Macquart? A 180 year old mystery resolved (Diptera: Syrphidae)
By: F.C. THOMPSON
Page: 168
Type: Short Notes
Further records of Megaselia rondani (Diptera: Phoridae), including two new species, from the crowns of ancient pollarded trees in England
By: R.H.L. DISNEY & A. RUSSELL-SMITH
Page: 169–175
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Further records of Phoridae trapped in the crowns of ancient pollarded trees in the south of
England are presented including the first records from a sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) tree.
Megaselia hatfieldensis Disney sp. n. and M. sornectergata Disney sp. n. are described and
figured.
New county records for some species of Hemiptera-Heteroptera from Homefield Wood, Buckinghamshire
By: R.P. RYAN
Page: 176
Type: Short Notes
Further new or little known species of Platygastrinae (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) from the Holarctic region
By: BUHL, P.N.
Page: 177–184
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Two new platygastrid species are described from the U.S.A. and two from Sweden (one of
which also occurs in Finland). The relationships of two subgenera of Platygaster, Isorhombus and
Austroplatygaster, are discussed, as are the relations between species of the genus Prosynopeas.
The variation and nomenclature of several species are discussed, and some new geographic
records of rare species are provided.
BOOK REVIEWS: ‘THE BRACONID AND ICHNEUMONID PARASITOID WASPS: BIOLOGY, SYSTEMATICS, EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY’ by DONALD L.J. QUICKE.
By: MARK R. SHAW
Page: 185-187
BOOK REVIEW: ‘BRITAIN’S HOVERFLIES: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HOVERFLIES OF BRITAIN’, by STUART BALL and ROGER MORRIS
By: N.P. WYATT
Page: 187-188
Type: Book Review
Population dynamics of a suburban garden’s social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) over 30 years in Leicester, England
By: MICHAEL ARCHER
Page: 189–195
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Social wasp population dynamics in a suburban garden are analysed over a 30-year period.
Aprostocetus dauci Graham, 1987 (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) new to the British Isles
By: M.T. JENNINGS
Page: 196
Type: Short Notes
New Species of Pararhaphidoglossa von Schulthess (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Eumeninae): V
By: M. COOPER
Page: 197–214
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Eight new species of potter wasp in the Neotropical genus Pararhaphidoglossa are described
and notes on some previously described species are presented.
OBITUARY: DAVID RIDLEY NASH (1942–2014)
By: TONY DRANE & MARTIN COLLIER/CLARE & COLIN JOHNSON
Page: 215-223
Type: Obituary
Leiodes cinnamomea (Panzer, 1793) (Coleoptera: Leiodinae) new to the Levantine Middle East
By: J. COOTER
Page: 224-225
Type: Short Notes
Records of Torymus eadyi Graham & Gijswijt, 1998 (Hymenoptera: Torymidae) from Kent, U.K.
By: M.T. JENNINGS
Page: 225
Type: Short Notes
Calocoris alpestris (Meyer-Dür) (Hemiptera: Miridae) associated with Ramsons Allium ursinum L. (Alliaceae)
By: K.N.A. ALEXANDER
Page: 226
Type: Short Notes