Entomologist's Monthly Magazine - Vol. 150, No. 1, 2014
Published: 3/28/2014
Article Details for this issue
EDITORIAL: 150 years of The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine: an appreciation of the First Series (1864–1889)
By: ANDREW WAKEHAM-DAWSON
Page: 1-4
Type: Editorial
SHORT NOTES: First record of Nanorhathymus acutiventris (Friese) from Limón Province, Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
By: MICHAEL S. ENGEL
Page: 4
Type: Short Notes
SHORT NOTE: Agnocoris reclairei (Wagner) (Hemiptera: Miridae) new to Watsonian Berkshire
By: R.P. RYAN
Page: 5
Type: Short Notes
SHORT NOTE: Adelphocoris ticinensis (Meyer-Dür) (Hemiptera: Miridae) new to Oxfordshire and Berkshire
By: R.P. RYAN
Page: 5
Type: Short Notes
SHORT NOTE: A second French record of Megischus anomalipes (Förster, 1855) (Hymenoptera: Stephanidae)
By: MARK R. SHAW
Page: 6
Type: Short Notes
SHORT NOTE: Zorochros flavipes (Aubé) (Coleoptera: Elateridae): not a British Insect
By: J. COOTER
Page: 6
Type: Short Notes
PARANTHOMYZA NITID (DIPTERA: ANTHOMYZIDAE): LIFE HISTORY IN SCOTLAND
By: G.E. ROTHERAY, K.B. BLAND & E.G. HANCOCK
Page: 7-18
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Based on 65 field-caught, 30 reared adults and three published records, the anthomyzid
Paranthomyza nitida (Meigen, 1838) is widespread in Scotland. However difficulties in
capturing adults probably under-estimate natural abundance and may also explain a femalebiased
sex ratio. Two new foodplants are reported for the saprophagous larva: decaying
stems of Angelica sylvestris L. (Apiaceae) and Campanula latifolia L. (Campanulaceae),
and a previously known foodplant, Silene dioica (L.) Clairv. (Caryophyllaceae) is
confirmed. Voltinism and other aspects of the biology of P. nitida are discussed. The third
stage larva and puparium are described. They are distinguished from the few other
anthomyzids known in their early stages by the shape of the mandible and the pattern of
spicules on the dorsum of the abdomen. The arrangement of spiracular processes on the
anterior spiracle is typical of the Cyclorrhapha, forming a fan shape.
POPULATION DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL WASPS (HYMENOPTERA: VESPIDAE) IN THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY’S GARDEN AT WISLEY, SURREY
By: MICHAEL ARCHER & ANDREW HALSTEAD
Page: 19-26
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
The combined number of five species of social wasp nests that were destroyed by horticulturalists and recorded by Fox Wilson (Old Wisley Dataset) for 25 years (1921-1946) and the separate numbers of similarly destroyed nests of eight species recorded by Halstead (New Wisley Dataset) for 32 years (1977-2008) are presented. The general pattern of alternating wasp-abundant and wasp-scarce years (a 'zigzag' pattern) was analysed with the autocorrelation function. Correlograms for the Old Wisley Dataset and Fox Wilson's five species combined from the New Wisley Dataset showed a significant negative 1-year lag followed by a non-significant 2-year lag. This pattern indicates that an endogenous factor (or factors) is regulating the populations of the social wasps. Possible endogenous mechanisms are suggested. The effect of habitat changes in the Wisley garden may be related to changes in the population dynamics of the social wasps.
NOTES ON BRITISH AND IRISH WEEVILS (COLEOPTERA: CURCULIONOIDEA) AND NOMENCLATURAL CHANGES FOLLOWING THE ‘PALAEARCTIC CATALOGUE’ (2013)
By: M.G. MORRIS
Page: 27-38
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Corrections to the names of species of Curculionoidea erroneously reported as occurring
in Britain or Ireland in the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera (2013) are detailed. The
names of species known to occur in Britain and Ireland, and which appear in British and
Irish faunal lists, but which are omitted from the Catalogue are also detailed. Changes,
mainly in genus-group and species-group names of British and Irish Curculionoidea are
listed, and compared with the treatment in recent checklists.
TWO NEW SPECIES OF ZETHUS FABRICIUS IN THE COERULEOPENNIS GROUP (HYMENOPTERA: VESPIDAE, EUMENINAE)
By: M. COOPER
Page: 39-42
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Two new species of Zethus Fabricius (Z. broadi sp. n. and Z. ibicui sp. n.) solitary wasps
in the Neotropical coeruleopennis group are described. Some new records for the group are
presented.
CHAENOTETRASTICHUS SEMIFLAVUS (GIRAULT) (HYMENOPTERA: EULOPHIDAE, TETRASTICHINAE), A GENUS AND SPECIES NEW TO BRITAIN
By: R.R. ASKEW & T.F. MARSHALL
Page: 43-45
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Chaenotetrastichus semiflavus (Girault), a genus and species new to Britain, has been
reared as a gregarious parasitoid in cocoons of Auplopus carbonarius (Scopoli)
(Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) found in Buckinghamshire. The male of C. semiflavus is
described, and previous records of C. semiflavus and C. grangeri (Erdös), the two species
presently assigned to Chaenotetrastichus, are reviewed.
BOOK REVIEW: THE FRIT FLIES (CHLOROPIDAE, DIPTERA) OF FENNOSCANDIA AND DENMARk
By: C. MARTIN DRAKE
Page: 47-48
Type: Book Review
FOUR NEW SPECIES OF PLATYGASTRIDAE (HYMENOPTERA: PLATYGASTROIDEA) FROM INDIA
By: K. VEENAKUMARI, PETER N. BUHL, PRASHANTH MOHANRAJ & F.R. KHAN
Page: 49-60
Type: Paper
Synopsis:
Two new species of Amitus: A. kiefferi and A. sikkimensis and two new species of
Synopeas: S. dohertyi and S. aitkeni are described from India. In addition, A. aleurolobi
Mani is re-described.
SHORT NOTE: An Irish adult of the caddisfly Beraeodes minutus (Linnaeus, 1761) (Trichoptera: Beraeidae)
By: J.P. O’CONNOR
Page: 61-62
Type: Short Notes
SHORT NOTE: Two genera and species of Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) new to Britain
By: R.R. ASKEW
Page: 62-63
Type: Short Notes
SHORT NOTE: Calocoris alpestris (Meyer-Dür) (Hemiptera: Miridae) associated with Allium ursinum L. (Alliaceae)
By: R.P. RYAN
Page: 63
Type: Short Notes
SHORT NOTE: The Geranium Bug, Corizus hyoscyami (Linnaeus) (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae), breeding in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
By: R.P. RYAN
Page: 63-64
Type: Short Notes
SHORT NOTE: Some records of noteworthy Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
By: R.P. RYAN
Page: 64
Type: Short Notes
OBITUARY: ROBERT ‘BOB’ STEPHEN GEORGE F.L.S., F.R.E.S. (1921–2013)
By: EDITORS
Page: 65-68
Type: Obituary