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Lepidoptera of North America 5
Lepidoptera of North America 5. Contributions to the Knowledge of Southern West Virginia Lepidoptera Contributions of the C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity Colorado State University Lepidoptera of North America 5. Contributions to the Knowledge of Southern West Virginia Lepidoptera by Valerio Albu, 1411 E. Sweetbriar Drive Fresno, CA 93720 and Eric Metzler, 1241 Kildale Square North Columbus, OH 43229 April 30, 2004 Contributions of the C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity Colorado State University Cover illustration: Blueberry Sphinx (Paonias astylus (Drury)], an eastern endemic. Photo by Valeriu Albu. ISBN 1084-8819 This publication and others in the series may be ordered from the C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Abstract A list of 1531 species ofLepidoptera is presented, collected over 15 years (1988 to 2002), in eleven southern West Virginia counties. A variety of collecting methods was used, including netting, light attracting, light trapping and pheromone trapping. The specimens were identified by the currently available pictorial sources and determination keys. Many were also sent to specialists for confirmation or identification. The majority of the data was from Kanawha County, reflecting the area of more intensive sampling effort by the senior author. This imbalance of data between Kanawha County and other counties should even out with further sampling of the area. Key Words: Appalachian Mountains, -
Classical Biological Control of Arthropods in Australia
Classical Biological Contents Control of Arthropods Arthropod index in Australia General index List of targets D.F. Waterhouse D.P.A. Sands CSIRo Entomology Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research Canberra 2001 Back Forward Contents Arthropod index General index List of targets The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) was established in June 1982 by an Act of the Australian Parliament. Its primary mandate is to help identify agricultural problems in developing countries and to commission collaborative research between Australian and developing country researchers in fields where Australia has special competence. Where trade names are used this constitutes neither endorsement of nor discrimination against any product by the Centre. ACIAR MONOGRAPH SERIES This peer-reviewed series contains the results of original research supported by ACIAR, or material deemed relevant to ACIAR’s research objectives. The series is distributed internationally, with an emphasis on the Third World. © Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, GPO Box 1571, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia Waterhouse, D.F. and Sands, D.P.A. 2001. Classical biological control of arthropods in Australia. ACIAR Monograph No. 77, 560 pages. ISBN 0 642 45709 3 (print) ISBN 0 642 45710 7 (electronic) Published in association with CSIRO Entomology (Canberra) and CSIRO Publishing (Melbourne) Scientific editing by Dr Mary Webb, Arawang Editorial, Canberra Design and typesetting by ClarusDesign, Canberra Printed by Brown Prior Anderson, Melbourne Cover: An ichneumonid parasitoid Megarhyssa nortoni ovipositing on a larva of sirex wood wasp, Sirex noctilio. Back Forward Contents Arthropod index General index Foreword List of targets WHEN THE CSIR Division of Economic Entomology, now Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Entomology, was established in 1928, classical biological control was given as one of its core activities. -
Studies of the Laboulbeniomycetes: Diversity, Evolution, and Patterns of Speciation
Studies of the Laboulbeniomycetes: Diversity, Evolution, and Patterns of Speciation The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citable link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:40049989 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#LAA ! STUDIES OF THE LABOULBENIOMYCETES: DIVERSITY, EVOLUTION, AND PATTERNS OF SPECIATION A dissertation presented by DANNY HAELEWATERS to THE DEPARTMENT OF ORGANISMIC AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the subject of Biology HARVARD UNIVERSITY Cambridge, Massachusetts April 2018 ! ! © 2018 – Danny Haelewaters All rights reserved. ! ! Dissertation Advisor: Professor Donald H. Pfister Danny Haelewaters STUDIES OF THE LABOULBENIOMYCETES: DIVERSITY, EVOLUTION, AND PATTERNS OF SPECIATION ABSTRACT CHAPTER 1: Laboulbeniales is one of the most morphologically and ecologically distinct orders of Ascomycota. These microscopic fungi are characterized by an ectoparasitic lifestyle on arthropods, determinate growth, lack of asexual state, high species richness and intractability to culture. DNA extraction and PCR amplification have proven difficult for multiple reasons. DNA isolation techniques and commercially available kits are tested enabling efficient and rapid genetic analysis of Laboulbeniales fungi. Success rates for the different techniques on different taxa are presented and discussed in the light of difficulties with micromanipulation, preservation techniques and negative results. CHAPTER 2: The class Laboulbeniomycetes comprises biotrophic parasites associated with arthropods and fungi. -
The Insect Fauna Associated with Horehound (Marrubium Vulgare L
Plant Protection Quarterly Vol.15(1) 2000 21 belonging to eight orders were found feeding on the plant (Figure 2, Table 2). The insect fauna associated with horehound The insects included 12 polyphagous spe- (Marrubium vulgare L.) in western Mediterranean cies (44%), 8 oligophagous species (30%) and 7 monophagous species (26%). At the Europe and Morocco: potential for biological control larval stage, there were five root-feeding in Australia species (22%), one stem-boring species (4%), nine leaf-feeding species (39%), eight flower, ovary or seed feeding species A Jean-Louis Sagliocco , Keith Turnbull Research Institute, Victorian (34%). Based on adult feeding behaviour Department of Natural Resources and Environment, CRC for Weed there was one root-boring species (74%), Management Systems, PO Box 48, Frankston, Victoria 3199, Australia. six leaf-feeding species (40%) and eight A Previous address: CSIRO European Laboratory, Campus International de species feeding on flowers or ovaries or Baillarguet, 34980 Montferrier sur Lez, Cedex, France. seeds (53%). Wheeleria spilodactylus (Curtis) Summary were preserved. Immature stages were (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) Marrubium vulgare L. (Lamiaceae) was kept with fresh plant material until the Wheeleria spilodactylus was abundant at surveyed in western Mediterranean Eu- adult stage for identification. Insects most sites in France and Spain, and had rope and Morocco to identify the phy- were observed either in the field or the been recorded feeding on M. vulgare tophagous insect fauna associated with laboratory to confirm that they fed on the (Gielis 1996) and Ballota nigra (Bigot and this weed and to select species having plant. Insects were sent to museum spe- Picard 1983). -
KEYS Tú the ETHIOPIAJ.'F TACHINIDAE-III MACQUARTIINAE by the Late F
313 KEYS Tú THE ETHIOPIAJ.'f TACHINIDAE-III MACQUARTIINAE BY The late F. 1. VAN ENIDEN Commonwealth Institute of Entomology (Accepted 12th May, 1959) (With 11 figures in the text) CüNTENTS , Page Introduction 313 Abhreviations 314 Deñnition of the subfamily Macquartiinae 315 Biology of tha Ethiopian Macquartiinae 315 Key ta the tribes of Ethiopian Macquartiinae 317 Key ta tbe sub-tribes of Echinornyini 320 l. :Macqaartiini 320 2. Wagneriini 332 3. Campyiochaetini 350 4. Helocerini 353 5. Nemoraeini 358 6. Acemyini 368 7. Gennariini 371 8. Thelairini 372 9. Minthoini 377 10. Leskiini 384 11. Echinornyini 402 a. Ernestiina 402 b. Linnaernyina. 407 c. Echinomyina 467 References 486 [The present report was completed by DI' van Ernden with the exception of Olle descrip tion, of the figures (to which, however, he had made reference in the appropriate places) and of the section dealing with the biology of the group. The biological data have kindly been summarised by DI' S. V. Peris, of the Instituto de Edafología, Madrid, and the bibliographical references at the end of the paper were provided to support this parto It had been van Emden's intention to inelude a paragraph of thanks in the íntro• duction. This was not completed, but acknowledgments of help received are given at varíous places in the text, and on his behalí thanks are bere tendered to the authoritie" of the British Museum for the facilities which they have so kindly afforded. The present annotator is responsible fol' the deseription of J.l1arshallornyia and its single species, for the text figures and for following the original orthography of the generie names Acemya, Linnaemya and Echinornya. -
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: A
University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Armand R. Maggenti Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology Parasitology, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of September 2005 Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: A Mary Ann Basinger Maggenti University of California-Davis Armand R. Maggenti University of California, Davis Scott Lyell Gardner University of Nebraska - Lincoln, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/onlinedictinvertzoology Part of the Zoology Commons Maggenti, Mary Ann Basinger; Maggenti, Armand R.; and Gardner, Scott Lyell, "Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: A" (2005). Armand R. Maggenti Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. 16. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/onlinedictinvertzoology/16 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Parasitology, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Armand R. Maggenti Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology 2 abdominal filament see cercus A abdominal ganglia (ARTHRO) Ganglia of the ventral nerve cord that innervate the abdomen, each giving off a pair of principal nerves to the muscles of the segment; located between the alimentary canal and the large ventral mus- cles. abactinal a. [L. ab, from; Gr. aktis, ray] (ECHINOD) Of or per- taining to the area of the body without tube feet that nor- abdominal process (ARTHRO: Crustacea) In Branchiopoda, mally does not include the madreporite; not situated on the fingerlike projections on the dorsal surface of the abdomen. ambulacral area; abambulacral. abactinally adv. abdominal somite (ARTHRO: Crustacea) Any single division of abambulacral see abactinal the body between the thorax and telson; a pleomere; a pleonite. -
Parasitism of Adult Pentatomidae by Tachinidae in Soybean in the North Central Region of the United Statespheylan
University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Faculty Publications: Department of Entomology Entomology, Department of 2020 Parasitism of Adult Pentatomidae by Tachinidae in Soybean in the North Central Region of the United StatesPheylan Pheylan A. Anderson University of Minnesota, St. Paul Daniela T. Pezzini University of Minnesota, St. Paul Nádia M. Bueno University of Minnesota, St. Paul Christina D. DiFonzo Michigan State University, East Lansing Deborah L. Deborah University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/entomologyfacpub Part of the Entomology Commons Anderson, Pheylan A.; Pezzini, Daniela T.; Bueno, Nádia M.; DiFonzo, Christina D.; Deborah, Deborah L.; Hunt, Thomas E.; Knodel, Janet J.; Krupke, Christian H.; McCornack, Brian P.; Philips, Christopher R.; Varenhorst, Adam J.; Wright, Robert J.; and Koch, Robert L., "Parasitism of Adult Pentatomidae by Tachinidae in Soybean in the North Central Region of the United StatesPheylan" (2020). Faculty Publications: Department of Entomology. 862. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/entomologyfacpub/862 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Entomology, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications: Department of Entomology by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Authors Pheylan A. Anderson, Daniela T. Pezzini, Nádia -
Insects Associated with Fruits of the Oleaceae (Asteridae, Lamiales) in Kenya, with Special Reference to the Tephritidae (Diptera)
D. Elmo Hardy Memorial Volume. Contributions to the Systematics and 135 Evolution of Diptera. Edited by N.L. Evenhuis & K.Y. Kaneshiro. Bishop Museum Bulletin in Entomology 12: 135–164 (2004). Insects associated with fruits of the Oleaceae (Asteridae, Lamiales) in Kenya, with special reference to the Tephritidae (Diptera) ROBERT S. COPELAND Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843 USA, and International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Box 30772, Nairobi, Kenya; email: [email protected] IAN M. WHITE Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK; e-mail: [email protected] MILLICENT OKUMU, PERIS MACHERA International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Box 30772, Nairobi, Kenya. ROBERT A. WHARTON Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843 USA; e-mail: [email protected] Abstract Collections of fruits from indigenous species of Oleaceae were made in Kenya between 1999 and 2003. Members of the four Kenyan genera were sampled in coastal and highland forest habitats, and at altitudes from sea level to 2979 m. Schrebera alata, whose fruit is a woody capsule, produced Lepidoptera only, as did the fleshy fruits of Jasminum species. Tephritid fruit flies were reared only from fruits of the oleaceous subtribe Oleinae, including Olea and Chionanthus. Four tephritid species were reared from Olea. The olive fly, Bactrocera oleae, was found exclusively in fruits of O. europaea ssp. cuspidata, a close relative of the commercial olive, Olea europaea ssp. europaea. Olive fly was reared from 90% (n = 21) of samples of this species, on both sides of the Rift Valley and at elevations to 2801 m. -
Robertsomyia an Aberrant New Genus of Phytalmiini from Papua New Guinea (Tephritidae: Diptera)1
Vol. 24, Nos. 2 & 3, October 15,1983 227 Robertsomyia an Aberrant New Genus of Phytalmiini from Papua New Guinea (Tephritidae: Diptera)1 D. ELMO HARDY2 ABSTRACT A remarkable new genus and species, Robertsomyia paradoxa, is described from Papua New Guinea and the Characteristics of the tribe Phytalmiini are discussed. A strange species of fly on hand has the general fades of Phytalmiini, especially Sessilina MeAlpine and Schneider, but some of its features are so unusual that it does not conform with the presently accepted concepts of the family Tephritidae. It fits here by having 2 breaks in costa; 2nd antennal segment with a dorsal cleft; female with 7th tergum and sternum fused laterally forming ovipositor sheath and male genitalia having the tephritid characteristics. It departs drastically from the typical family concepts by lacking all head and body bristles, including lack of apicoventral spines on middle tibiae; vein Sc straight, not upcurved at apex; wing base very narrow, with anal cell greatly reduced and alula lacking; cell Cu not lobed, last section of vein Cu vertical or but slightly oblique; wing veins bare and no costal bristles at end of vein Sc. McAlpine and Schneider (1978) reviewed the Tribe and defined its characteristics as follows: "Flies of slender habitus; outer vertical bristles reduced or absent; one incurved lower fronto-orbital bristle and one upper reclinate fronto-orbital, both rather weak (sometimes a hair-like vestige of second upper fronto-orbital); arista plumose to pectinate, with a dorsal, an anterior, -
Foraging Ecology of Equatorial Afrotropical Stingless Bees: Habitat Selection and Competition for Resources
Foraging ecology of equatorial Afrotropical stingless bees: habitat selection and competition for resources PhD thesis By Robert Kajobe Department of Behavioural Biology Faculty of Science, Utrecht University P.O. Box 80.086, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands Promotor: Prof. Dr. J.J. Bolhuis Promotor: Prof. Dr. Jan A.R.A.M. van Hooff Co-promotor: Dr. Marinus J. Sommeijer Department of Behavioural Biology Faculty of Science, Utrecht University Contents Preface……………………………………………………………………..3 Chapter 1 Introduction………………………………………………………………..6 Chapter 2 General methodology: study sites and bee species………………….…..13 Chapter 3 Nesting biology of equatorial Afrotropical stingless bees (Apidae; Meliponini) in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda Robert Kajobe Submitted to Journal of Apiculture Research…........................................16 Chapter 4 Honey-making bee colony abundance and predation by apes and humans in a Uganda forest reserve. Robert Kajobe and David W. Roubik Biotropica (38) 2:1-9 (2006).….................................................................39 Chapter 5 Temporal resource partitioning and climatological influences on colony flight and foraging of stingless bees (Apidae; Meliponini) in Ugandan tropical forests Robert Kajobe and Carlos M. Echazarreta African Journal of Ecology 43, 267-275 (2005)…………...…………….63 Chapter 6 Pollen foraging by Apis mellifera and stingless bees Meliponula bocandei and Meliponula nebulata in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Robert Kajobe Article published online in African Journal -
View the PDF File of the Tachinid Times, Issue 12
The Tachinid Times ISSUE 12 February 1999 Jim O’Hara, editor Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Biological Resources Program Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre C.E.F., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A 0C6 Correspondence: [email protected] The Tachinid Times began in 1988 when personal Evolution of Egg Structure in Tachinidae (by S.P. computers were gaining in popularity, yet before the Gaponov) advent of e-mail and the World Wide Web. A newsletter Using a scanning electron microscope I investigated distributed through the mail seemed like a useful the egg structure of 114 species of Tachinidae. The endeavour to foster greater awareness about the work of research was focused on the peculiarities of the egg others among researchers interested in the Tachinidae. surface and the structure of the aeropylar area. Data on Now, eleven years later, despite the speed and the method of egg-laying, the structure of the female convenience of e-mail and other advanced modes of reproductive system and the host range were also taken communication, this newsletter still seems to hold a place into consideration. Since any kind of adaptation is a in the distribution of news about the Tachinidae. If there result of evolution and every stage of ontogenesis, is sufficient interest - and submissions - over the course including the egg stage, is adapted to some specific of the next year, then another issue will appear in environmental conditions, each stage of ontogenesis February of the new millennium. As always, please send evolved more or less independently. The development of me your news for inclusion in the newsletter before the provisionary devices (coenogenetic adaptations) and their end of next January. -
Insect Egg Size and Shape Evolve with Ecology but Not Developmental Rate Samuel H
ARTICLE https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1302-4 Insect egg size and shape evolve with ecology but not developmental rate Samuel H. Church1,4*, Seth Donoughe1,3,4, Bruno A. S. de Medeiros1 & Cassandra G. Extavour1,2* Over the course of evolution, organism size has diversified markedly. Changes in size are thought to have occurred because of developmental, morphological and/or ecological pressures. To perform phylogenetic tests of the potential effects of these pressures, here we generated a dataset of more than ten thousand descriptions of insect eggs, and combined these with genetic and life-history datasets. We show that, across eight orders of magnitude of variation in egg volume, the relationship between size and shape itself evolves, such that previously predicted global patterns of scaling do not adequately explain the diversity in egg shapes. We show that egg size is not correlated with developmental rate and that, for many insects, egg size is not correlated with adult body size. Instead, we find that the evolution of parasitoidism and aquatic oviposition help to explain the diversification in the size and shape of insect eggs. Our study suggests that where eggs are laid, rather than universal allometric constants, underlies the evolution of insect egg size and shape. Size is a fundamental factor in many biological processes. The size of an 526 families and every currently described extant hexapod order24 organism may affect interactions both with other organisms and with (Fig. 1a and Supplementary Fig. 1). We combined this dataset with the environment1,2, it scales with features of morphology and physi- backbone hexapod phylogenies25,26 that we enriched to include taxa ology3, and larger animals often have higher fitness4.