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New Records Of Lace Bugs From West Virginia (Hemiptera: Tingidae), Laura Torres-Miller

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New West Virginia state records for 13 species of Tingidae are reported. Collection localities and hosts, when known, are also recorded.

A New Species Of Moranida Mansell From Venezuela (Neuroptera: Nemopteridae), Robert B. Miller, Lionel A. Stange

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Mansell (1983) described two new species and genera of Crocinae from Peru and Bolivia bringing the total number of South American species of this subfamily to five species. However, all five species occur well south of the equator. Recently the authors discovered a sixth species in northern Venezuela greatly extending the northern range of the family in South America. This new species belongs to the genus Moranida Mansell. Both adults and larvae were found and are described here with a key to the species of Crocinae of South America. We also found and reared Moranida peruviensis Mansell from Lambayeque, Peru, …

Book Review: Larvas De Coleoptera Do Brasil By Cleide Costa, Sergio A. Vanin, And Sonia A. Casari-Chan, P. Jolivet

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This is a remarkable new book which is certainly well above all that has been done up to now in this field. Moreover, it deals with a fauna on which we have very few biological data. One hundred nine beetle families are reviewed, from the curious Micromalthidae to the Curculionidae. Mrs. Costa showed me the proofs of the book in 1987 in Sao Paulo, and I had the opportunity then to admire the good quality and even perfection of the drawings.

Book Review: Biologie Des Coleopteres By Renaud Paulian, P. Jolivet

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This entirely new book is the first on the biology of beetles since Crowson's book, published in 1981 by Academic Press. This new work in some ways completes Crowson's, but in no way is it a useless repetition. The two books together give a good idea of the biology of this enormous order, here comprising more than 200 families. Paulian's classification is slightly, but not fundamentally, different from Crowson's. There are excellent chapters on endogeous, caverniculous, aquatic, coprophagous, termitophilous, and myrmecophilous beetles. Termitophilous beetles have already been treated well in Termitologia by Grasse (1986, Masson, Paris). Paulian is a well-known …

A Revision Of The Genus Octotoma (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Hispinae), C. L. Staines Jr.

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The New World species of Octotoma are revised and keys, diagnoses, and descriptions are provided for the nine known species. The authorship of the genus belongs to Chevrolat rather than Dejean. Octotoma intermedia, from Mexico, is described as new.

Volume 3, No. 1, March 1989 Contents

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VOLUME 3, NO. 1, MARCH 1989 Contents

The Center For Systematic Entomology

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The Center for Systematic Entomology, Inc., a non-profit scientific and educational foundation, international in scope, was formed April 2, 1986, chartered in the State of Florida. Its purposes are to seek financing and encourage other support for systematic entomology and to stimulate cooperation and coordination among interested agencies and individuals. Goals of the Center are pursued by a 9- member Board of Directors supported by the membership. The center strives to serve as a leadership organization for insect systematics.

Identification And Nesting Sites Of North American Species Of Dolichoderus Lund (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Clifford Johnson

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The identification of North American Dolichoderus species by-way-of existing keys is unnecessarily arbitrary and misdeterminations are likely between D. mariae and D. pustulatus, the latter species showing most morphological variation over its range. Diagnoses for the four described species and an undescribed form with a revised key and figures are given to aid entomologists working without identified voucher specimens. Nest data for species other than D. pustulatus in the Coastal Plain revealed below-ground nests or structures immediately at the ground sui-face. Colonies of D. pustulatus in Florida and southern Georgia have arboreal nests in the cavities of smaller limbs …

Revision Of The Genus Dimarella Banks (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae), Robert B. Miller, Lionel A. Stange

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A taxonomic study of the new world genus Dimarella has led to the recognition of 17 species, 9 of which are newly described. Three subgenera are recognized, one of which is described as new. Larvae are described for 11 species and biological data are given. Keys to adults and larvae are provided as well as photographs of larvae and taxonomic drawings. Distribution is summarized in maps.

Book Review: Insect Spiracular Systems By T. B. Nikam And V. V. Khole., V. K. Gupta

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The authors and the publisher are to be complimented for the production of this book summarizing the various aspects of the morphology, development and physiology of the insect spiracular systems. Emphasis has been given to those aspects of the insect spiracular systems that have received scant attention so far, like functional morphology and ecophysiological considerations. The role of spiraculo-trachial system thermoregulation has been explained and integrated with the role of haemolymph circulation. The biophysical aspects have been fully explained and integrated with morpho-physiological aspects.

Scientific Note: Corrections And Clarifications To Endrödi’S The Dynastinae Of The World (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), Brett C. Ratcliffe

University of Nebraska State Museum: Entomology Papers

The Dynastinae of the World by the late Sebo Endrodi was published in 1985. This long-awaited book condensed into one English language volume Endrodi's series of 22 principal papers on the entire subfamily Dynastinae. Judging from conversations and correspondence with colleagues, the book has been very well received. . .as well it should have been for it will provide a framework for all future studies on the Dynastinae.

A Synopsis Of The American Goliathini With Description Of A New Neoscelis From Mexico (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae), Miguel E. Moron, Brett C. Ratcliffe

University of Nebraska State Museum: Entomology Papers

The two formerly monobasic genera of American Goliathini, Ischnoscelis and Neoscelis, are reviewed. Neoscelis longiclava Moron and Ratcliffe is described as new from Jalisco state in Mexico. A key and illustrations are provided to all taxa.

A Synopsis Of The Genus Areoda (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae), Brett C. Ratcliffe, Mary Liz Jameson

University of Nebraska State Museum: Entomology Papers

The three species in the genus Areoda are reviewed for the first time. The genus is characterized, a key to species is provided, each species is described, spatial and temporal distributions are given, and the biogeography is discussed. We consider their distribution to be isolated and relictual in the Atlantic coastal forests of southeastern Brazil.

Diversity Of Coprophagous Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera) In Grazed Versus Ungrazed Sandhills Prairie In Western Nebraska, Mary Liz Jameson

University of Nebraska State Museum: Entomology Papers

Baited pitfall traps were used to compare the dung-feeding Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera) of a grazed versus an ungrazed sandhills prairie in western Nebraska. Traps yielded 14,832 coprophagous Scarabaeidae over a 4-week sampling period in 1987. Canthon ebenus (Say), C. pilurarius (L.), Onthophagous hecate Panzer, and O. pennsylvanicus Harold were the dominant species on both prairies. The Shannon-Wiener diversity index indicated that diversity was slightly higher on the grazed site, whereas the Margalef diversity index showed the diversities to be nearly the same. Activity and foraging by scarabs (as measured by trapping success) were found to be most closely correlated with temperature …

Scientific Note: A Case Of Gynandromorphy In Golofa Tersander Burmeister (Coleoptra: Scarabaeidae), Brett C. Ratcliffe

University of Nebraska State Museum: Entomology Papers

Golofa tersander is a sexually dimorphic species with males possessing a long, slender horn arising from the frons, a distinct pronotal tubercle anteriorly, a strongly convex pygidium, and an apically emarginate last sternite. Females, on the other hand, have only a tubercle on the frons, lack a pronotal tubercle, possess a relatively flat pygidium, and the last sternite is entire apically. Both of the specimens described here exhibit all of these external male character states just mentioned.

A New Species Of Pelidnota (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) From Panama, Brett C. Ratcliffe, Mary Liz Jameson

University of Nebraska State Museum: Entomology Papers

Pelidnota hirsutiphallica new species, is described as new from Colon and Bocas del Toro provinces in Panama. It is incorporated into the most recent key to the genus and distinguished from its congeners.

Residual Toxicity Of Some Fluoroaliphatic Sulfones To The Red Imported Fire Ant, C. S. Lofgren, W. A. Banks, R. K. Vander Meer, D. F. Williams

Entomology Papers from Other Sources

Thirty-six fluoroaliphatic sulfones were tested to determine their residual toxicity to Solenopsis invicta Buren in soil. Six of the compounds gave >90% kill of the ants after they were exposed for 4 days at 10 ppm. When tested at 1.0 ppm, only one compound, AI3-10841, gave appreciable mortality. This compound was tested at 10 ppm in soil held outdoors under ambient summer conditions. Mortality 8 days following initial exposure to samples of this soil was 100% for 12 weeks and 91 to 100% from 20 to 36 weeks.

Pheromone Delivery System: Western Corn Rootworm (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Pheromone Encapsulation In A Starch Borate Matrix, Lance J. Meinke, Z. B. Mayo, Thomas J. Weissling

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

Western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte, sex pheromone, racemic 8-methyl-2-decyl-propanoate (MDP) was successfully encapsulated in a starch borate (5B) matrix creating a controlled release granular formulation. The release rate of MDP from starch borate granules was attractive to male D. virgifera at high and low D. virgifera population levels in field corn. Male D. virgifera were attracted to the 5B-MDP granules throughout the growing season, but efficacy declined during the period of peak female D. virgifera emergence and corn pollination. The 5B-MDP delivery system was as effective as a septa-MDP delivery system, and 5B-MDP formulations had a shelf life …

Colony Survivorship In Pogonomyrmex Occidentalis, Western Harvester Ant, In Western Nebraska, Kathleen H. Keeler

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Little is known about the life span of individual ant colonies (Keeler, 1981), even though the dynamics of some species, such as harvester ants, are crucial to the structure of plant and animal communities (e.g., Brown et al., 1979). This note reports the results of 10 years of observations on a population of harvester ants.

Fifty-six mounds of Pogonomyrmex occidentalis Cresson (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), western harvester ant, were permanently marked with aluminum tags in August 1977. The site, about 1 ha just south of the University of Nebraska's Cedar Point Biological Station, Keith Co., Nebraska, was within a pasture subject to …

A Plant Root Warmer For Studying Phytophagous Insect Development And Fecundity At Temperatures Below Host Plant Tolerance, D. H. Akey, G. D. Butler, J. W. Radin

Entomology Papers from Other Sources

A simple root-warming device maintains the plants' roots at a higher temperature than that at which the rest of the plant is held. This permits the host plant to retain turgor, not wilt, and therefore remain suitable for and attractive to phytophagous insects. The technique was demonstrated in a development and fecundity test using the cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover, reared on cotton seedlings, Gossypium hirsutum L., at foliar temperatures of 10.0 and 12.5°C. Root temperatures were held at 20°C. The device was also tested at a foliar temperature of 7.5°C in an additional fecundity test. In a control test, …

Geographical Variation In Responses To Photoperiod And Temperature By Leptinotarsa Decemlineata (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) During And After Dormancy, Maurice J. Tauber, Catherine A. Tauber, John J. Obrycki, Brian Gollands, Robert J. Wright

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

The intensity of diapause has a distinct seasonal pattern in the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say). During August, temperature and photoperiod only slightly affected the very intense diapause in field populations. By summer's end, diapause intensity diminishes, but photoperiod and temperature maintain diapause. Subsequently, the beetles lose their responsiveness to photoperiod at high temperatures (approximately 200c), but at low temperatures (18-15°C) the beetles remain photoperiodically sensitive after emerging from the soil and initiating oviposition in the spring. Mated females that overwinter can lay fertile eggs without mating in the spring. Populations from climatically different areas in New York state …

Book Review: Glyphipterigidae Auctorum Sensu Lato, J. B. Heppner

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This is another volume in the extensive series planned on Palearctic Microlepidoptera (including Pyralidae). The expertise of Dr. Diakonoff, particularly in Tortricidae, provides a welcome coverage for the included species. This is especially true for the previously conglomerated assortment of species placed in Glyphipterigidae by E. Meyrick and the fact that until recently this classification was followed by most works on the Palearctic fauna. The previous concept of Glyphipterigidae has been considerably altered in the past decade; where Meyrick had over 1,200 species worldwide in one family, we now have four separate families and part of a fifth family for …

Book Review: Evolutionary Biology Of Orthopteroid Insects, Thomas J. Walker

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This volume is the proceedings of an international conference on the evolution and phylogeny of Orthopteroidea, held in Siena, Italy, January 1986. The occasion for the conference was the 90th birthday of Dr. Felice Capra, of the Museo di Storia Nutrale di Genova. The proceedings consist of 53 papers, in English, ranging in length from 111 pages (Baccetti) to less than one page of text (Carlberg). Their subject matter is similarly diverse - as one would expect if more than 50 orthopterists were invited to give papers at a conference of this title.

Book Review: Life Sciences Organizations And Agencies Directory, J. B. Heppner

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This is a new directory of scientific organizations and related agencies from Gale Research, a publisher of several other directories of research facilities and other organizations. The present contribution covers both U.S. and foreign organizations, including virtually all nations. It complements the directories Gale Research has published on medical, technological, and earth sciences organizations.

Promatsumura, Replacement Name For Procloeon Matsumura, 1931 (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) With Designation Of Type-Species, Michael D. Hubbard

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Promatsumura is proposed as a replacement name for the taxonomically unavailable generic name Procloeon Matsumura, 1931, and Procloeon nipponicum Matsumura is designated as the type-species.

Zoogeography, Ecology, And Systematics Of The Genus Rhagovelia Mayr (Heteroptera: Veliidae) In Borneo, Celebes, And The Moluccas, John T. Polhemus, Dan A. Polhemus

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The genus Rhagovelia is revised for the region comprising Borneo, Celebes, and the Moluccas. Redescriptions are given for species previously described from the area, and 26 new species are described. Figures of the dorsal habitus and key characters are provided for all species, accompanied by a key to species and distribution maps. Species occurring in the region are divided into eight monophyletic intrageneric species groups, some of which also contain members outside the region, based primarily on wing venation, thoracic morphology, and genitalia. A zoogeographic analysis is presented based on the distribution of these groups within the Malay Archipelago and …

A Checklist Of The Ants Of Wyoming (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), G. C. Wheeler, Jeanette Wheeler

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The history of myrmrecology in Wyoming began when Fore1 described a new species, obscuripes in the genus Formica from Green River in 1886, four years before Wyoming Territory became a state. There was a long hiatus until 1932 when Cole cited ten records for Pogonomyrmex occidentalis. Since then a dozen authors have published one to many records each.

During the summers of 1957, 1958, 1961, 1963, 1964,1965 and 1966, while we were still at the University of North Dakota (Grand Forks), we made a dozen field trips into Wyoming to observe and collect ants in 12 of the 23 …

Department Of Entomology Newsletter - No. 5, Part 1, 1988, George R. Manglitz

Hexapod Herald and Other Entomology Department Newsletters

When the last Newsletter was published in 1976 (No.4), it was assumed that it would be followed by another In 4 or 5 years. And indeed, considerable effort has been expended on the production of No.5. However, for various very good reasons No.5, although close to publication several times, aborted several times. Now largely because this is the centennial year of our Department, we feel that we can wait no longer. Because of that fact, the format of this Newsletter will be slightly different from those in the past. We have the "news" that you furnished about yourselves 5 or …

A Review Of Minilimosina (Svarciella) Rohacek, With Descriptions Of Fourteen New Species (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae), J. Rohacek, S. A. Marshall

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A worldwide review of Minilimosina (Svarciella) Rohicek 1983, comprising 27 species, is provided, with data about the primary types, published descriptions and figures, synonyms and distribution including new records. A key to Svarciella species is presented and 14 new species are described and illustrated: M. floreni (Sweden), M. aterga, M. fanta, M. furculipexa, M. brachyptera, M. amphicuspa (all Nepal), M. triplex, M. comigera (both Malaysia), M. concinna, M. hastata (both Philippines), M. spinifera (Papua New Guinea), M. flagrella (Bismarck Is.), M. xanthosceles (Ecuador) and M. xestops (USA: Florida). M. furculisterna (Deeming 1969) is redescribed, including the previously undescribed female, and …

Preimaginal Development And Reproductive Responses To Temperature In Two Populations Of The Colorado Potato Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), Catherine A. Tauber, Maurice J. Tauber, Brian Gollands, Robert J. Wright, John J. Obrycki

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

The pattern of geographical differences in two populations of the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say), suggests that preimaginal developmental responses and imaginal reproductive responses to temperature are under different selective pressures. Immatures from the warm, coastal (Long Island) area developed slightly slower, had slightly higher thermal thresholds for development, and suffered more mortality at low temperature than immatures from cooler, Upstate New York. However, more females from the Long Island population oviposited fertile eggs at lower temperatures than females from the upstate population. The data suggest that early planting dates and/or bivoltinism in the warm coastal area cause significant …