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Lista De Plantas Hospedantes De Ptinidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) De Chile
www.biotaxa.org/rce. ISSN 0718-8994 (online) Revista Chilena de Entomología (2020) 46 (2): 333-344. Artículo Científico Lista de plantas hospedantes de Ptinidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) de Chile List of host plants of Ptinidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) from Chile Alfredo Lüer1 1Panguilemo N° 261, Quilicura, Santiago, Chile. E-mail: [email protected] ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub: 2FC25622-B93B-4E6E-85ED-555EB2DA2C51 https://doi.org/10.35249/rche.46.2.20.26 Resumen. A partir de antecedentes publicados y la revisión de colecciones entomológicas nacionales, se entrega una lista de plantas hospedantes de Ptinidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) presentes en Chile. Para la mayoría de las especies en estado larval se constatan hábitos polífagos y la madera muerta resulta ser el sustrato más utilizado. Palabras clave: Larva, madera muerta, nuevos registros, polifagia. Abstract. A list of host plants of Ptinidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) present in Chile is provided, based on the published information and the review of national entomological collections. For most species in the larval stage, polyphagous habits are confirmed and dead wood turns to be the most used substrate. Key words: Dead wood, larva, new records, polyphagy. Introducción La familia Ptinidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) está compuesta a nivel mundial por cerca de 2.900 especies agrupadas en 259 géneros (Zahradník y Háva 2014), siendo las regiones templadas las que presentan la mayor cantidad de especies descritas (Philips y Bell 2010). En Chile, este taxón esta representado por 36 géneros y 110 especies, distribuidas en territorio continental e insular (Pic 1950; Hatch 1933; Blackwelder 1945; White 1974, 1979, 1980; Español 1989, 1995; González 1989; Español y Blas 1991; Barriga et al. -
Species at Risk on Department of Defense Installations
Species at Risk on Department of Defense Installations Revised Report and Documentation Prepared for: Department of Defense U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Submitted by: January 2004 Species at Risk on Department of Defense Installations: Revised Report and Documentation CONTENTS 1.0 Executive Summary..........................................................................................iii 2.0 Introduction – Project Description................................................................. 1 3.0 Methods ................................................................................................................ 3 3.1 NatureServe Data................................................................................................ 3 3.2 DOD Installations............................................................................................... 5 3.3 Species at Risk .................................................................................................... 6 4.0 Results................................................................................................................... 8 4.1 Nationwide Assessment of Species at Risk on DOD Installations..................... 8 4.2 Assessment of Species at Risk by Military Service.......................................... 13 4.3 Assessment of Species at Risk on Installations ................................................ 15 5.0 Conclusion and Management Recommendations.................................... 22 6.0 Future Directions............................................................................................. -
A Review of Phylogenetic Hypotheses Regarding Aphodiinae (Coleoptera; Scarabaeidae)
STATE OF KNOWLEDGE OF DUNG BEETLE PHYLOGENY - a review of phylogenetic hypotheses regarding Aphodiinae (Coleoptera; Scarabaeidae) Mattias Forshage 2002 Examensarbete i biologi 20 p, Ht 2002 Department of Systematic Zoology, Evolutionary Biology Center, Uppsala University Supervisor Fredrik Ronquist Abstract: As a preparation for proper phylogenetic analysis of groups within the coprophagous clade of Scarabaeidae, an overview is presented of all the proposed suprageneric taxa in Aphodiinae. The current knowledge of the affiliations of each group is discussed based on available information on their morphology, biology, biogeography and paleontology, as well as their classification history. With this as a background an attempt is made to estimate the validity of each taxon from a cladistic perspective, suggest possibilities and point out the most important questions for further research in clarifying the phylogeny of the group. The introductory part A) is not a scientific paper but an introduction into the subject intended for the seminar along with a polemic against a fraction of the presently most active workers in the field: Dellacasa, Bordat and Dellacasa. The main part B) is the discussion of all proposed suprageneric taxa in the subfamily from a cladistic viewpoint. The current classification is found to be quite messy and unfortunately a large part of the many recent attempts to revise higher-level classification within the group do not seem to be improvements from a phylogenetic viewpoint. Most recently proposed tribes (as well as -
Broad Beach Dunes\6 March 08 Biological Assessment 30732
Biological Resources Assessment 30732 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, California Prepared By: Robert A. Hamilton Daniel S. Cooper Wayne R. Ferren Cristina P. Sandoval, Ph. D. Prepared For: Malibu Bay Company 23705 West Malibu Road, Suite D-2 Malibu, CA 90265 Attention: David Reznick March 6, 2008 Table of Contents Executive Summary .................................. ....................... iii Introduction ....................................... ..........................1 Methods ............................................ ........................2 Site Visits ........................................ .....................3 Results............................................ ..........................5 Analysis of Historical Aerial Imagery . .......................5 Current Ecological Communities/Geomorphological Features ...............7 Wildlife Observations.............................. ....................11 Special Status Species ............................. ...........................12 Species Observed On or Flying Over the Project Site .......................12 Species Potentially Occurring On or Near the Project Site ...................14 Recommendations for Delineating a Dune ESHA on the Project Site ...............16 Recommendations for Preserving and Enhancing the Biological Integrity of Preserved Areas .............................................. ..................17 Summary and Conclusion ............................. .......................22 i Figures 1 Regional Location ................................ .....................1 -
(Arachnida: Araneae) of the Floodplain Forests of the Main Amazon River Channel
ARTÍCULO: A contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae) of the floodplain forests of the main Amazon River channel Felipe N. A. A. Rego, Eduardo M. Venticinque, Antonio D. Brescovit, Cristina A. Rheims & Ana L. K. M. Albernaz Abstract: ARTÍCULO: We collected spiders during an expedition along 3000 km of the floodplains of the Brazilian part of the main channel of the Amazon River and identified them A contribution to the knowledge of to family, genus and species / morphospecies level whenever possible. More the spider fauna (Arachnida: Ara- than half of the collected species represented new records. The percentage of neae) of the floodplain forests of the singletons (35.6%) and doubletons (17.4%), the lack of overlapping between main Amazon River channel the data obtained in this study and that of the literature, and the under sampling Felipe N. A. A. Rego emphasizes the need for more inventories in the Amazon River floodplain and Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Univer- a more complete set of sampling methods, such as canopy fogging and pitfall sidade de Brasília, 70919-970, Brasí- trapping. Therefore, knowledge on the fauna of the Amazon floodplains will lia, DF, Brazil. [email protected] remain an enormous challenge, regarding the still superficial collecting efforts, Eduardo M. Venticinque the lack of long-term samplings, taxonomic knowledge and capacity. Wildlife Conser. Soc., Rua dos Jato- Key words: Arachnida, Araneae, spiders, inventory, Amazon River, várzea, Amazo- bás, 274, Coroado 3, 69085-000 and nia. INPA, 69011-970, C.P. 478, Manaus, AM, Brazil. [email protected] A. D. -
Changes in the Insect Fauna of a Deteriorating Riverine Sand Dune
., CHANGES IN THE INSECT FAUNA OF A DETERIORATING RIVERINE SAND DUNE COMMUNITY DURING 50 YEARS OF HUMAN EXPLOITATION J. A. Powell Department of Entomological Sciences University of California, Berkeley May , 1983 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 HISTORY OF EXPLOITATION 4 HISTORY OF ENTOMOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS 7 INSECT FAUNA 10 Methods 10 ErRs s~lected for compar"ltive "lnBlysis 13 Bio1o~ica1 isl!lnd si~e 14 Inventory of sp~cies 14 Endemism 18 Extinctions 19 Species restricted to one of the two refu~e parcels 25 Possible recently colonized species 27 INSECT ASSOCIATES OF ERYSIMUM AND OENOTHERA 29 Poll i n!ltor<'l 29 Predqt,.n·s 32 SUMMARY 35 RECOm1ENDATIONS FOR RECOVERY ~4NAGEMENT 37 ACKNOWT.. EDGMENTS 42 LITERATURE CITED 44 APPENDICES 1. T'lbles 1-8 49 2. St::ttns of 15 Antioch Insects Listed in Notice of 75 Review by the U.S. Fish "l.nd Wildlife Service INTRODUCTION The sand dune formation east of Antioch, Contra Costa County, California, comprised the largest riverine dune system in California. Biogeographically, this formation was unique because it supported a northern extension of plants and animals of desert, rather than coastal, affinities. Geologists believe that the dunes were relicts of the most recent glaciation of the Sierra Nevada, probably originating 10,000 to 25,000 years ago, with the sand derived from the supratidal floodplain of the combined Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers. The ice age climate in the area is thought to have been cold but arid. Presumably summertime winds sweeping through the Carquinez Strait across the glacial-age floodplains would have picked up the fine-grained sand and redeposited it to the east and southeast, thus creating the dune fields of eastern Contra Costa County. -
Bromeliads As Biodiversity Amplifiers and Habitat Segregation of Spider Communities in a Neotropical Rainforest
2010. The Journal of Arachnology 38:270–279 Bromeliads as biodiversity amplifiers and habitat segregation of spider communities in a Neotropical rainforest Thiago Gonc¸alves-Souza1, Antonio D. Brescovit2, Denise de C. Rossa-Feres1,andGustavo Q. Romero1,3: 1Departamento de Zoologia e Botaˆnica, IBILCE, Universidade Estadual Paulista, UNESP, Rua Cristo´va˜o Colombo 2265, CEP 15054- 000, Sa˜o Jose´ do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil; 2Instituto Butanta˜, Laborato´rio de Artro´podes Pec¸onhentos, Avenida Vital Brazil 1500, CEP 05503-900, Sa˜o Paulo, SP, Brazil Abstract. Although bromeliads can be important in the organization of invertebrate communities in Neotropical forests, few studies support this assumption. Bromeliads possess a three-dimensional architecture and rosette grouped leaves that provide associated animals with a good place for foraging, reproduction and egg laying, as well as shelter against desiccation and natural enemies. We collected spiders from an area of the Atlantic Rainforest, southeastern Brazil, through manual inspection in bromeliads, beating trays in herbaceous+shrubby vegetation and pitfall traps in the soil, to test if: 1) species subsets that make up the Neotropical forest spider community are compartmentalized into different habitat types (i.e., bromeliads, vegetation and ground), and 2) bromeliads are important elements that structure spider communities because they generate different patterns of abundance distributions and species composition, and thus amplify spider beta diversity. Subsets of spider species were compartmentalized into three habitat types. The presence of bromeliads represented 41% of the increase in total spider richness, and contributed most to explaining the high beta diversity values among habitats. Patterns of abundance distribution of the spider community differed among habitats. -
Surveying for Terrestrial Arthropods (Insects and Relatives) Occurring Within the Kahului Airport Environs, Maui, Hawai‘I: Synthesis Report
Surveying for Terrestrial Arthropods (Insects and Relatives) Occurring within the Kahului Airport Environs, Maui, Hawai‘i: Synthesis Report Prepared by Francis G. Howarth, David J. Preston, and Richard Pyle Honolulu, Hawaii January 2012 Surveying for Terrestrial Arthropods (Insects and Relatives) Occurring within the Kahului Airport Environs, Maui, Hawai‘i: Synthesis Report Francis G. Howarth, David J. Preston, and Richard Pyle Hawaii Biological Survey Bishop Museum Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96817 USA Prepared for EKNA Services Inc. 615 Pi‘ikoi Street, Suite 300 Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96814 and State of Hawaii, Department of Transportation, Airports Division Bishop Museum Technical Report 58 Honolulu, Hawaii January 2012 Bishop Museum Press 1525 Bernice Street Honolulu, Hawai‘i Copyright 2012 Bishop Museum All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America ISSN 1085-455X Contribution No. 2012 001 to the Hawaii Biological Survey COVER Adult male Hawaiian long-horned wood-borer, Plagithmysus kahului, on its host plant Chenopodium oahuense. This species is endemic to lowland Maui and was discovered during the arthropod surveys. Photograph by Forest and Kim Starr, Makawao, Maui. Used with permission. Hawaii Biological Report on Monitoring Arthropods within Kahului Airport Environs, Synthesis TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents …………….......................................................……………...........……………..…..….i. Executive Summary …….....................................................…………………...........……………..…..….1 Introduction ..................................................................………………………...........……………..…..….4 -
Key to the British Genera of Family Scarabaeidae
Key to the British genera of family Scarabaeidae Source Material This key is a composite from various sources including: Krell & Fery (1992) Die Käfer Mitteleuropas, Vol. 13, Supplement 2: 200-243). Joy (1932) A Practical Handbook of British Beetles Schmidt (1922) Coleoptera. Aphodiinae. Das Tierreich. 45 Arved Lompe’s online keys at http://www.coleo-net.de/coleo/texte/scarabaeidae.htm Have I got a beetle from family Scarabaeidae? Look for the following combination of features. Terminology Image Credits Unless otherwise attributed, the illustrations in this key are reproduced from the Iconographia Coleopterorum Poloniae, with permission kindly granted by Lech Borowiec. Creative Commons. © Mike Hackston (2016) Checklist from the Checklist of Beetles of the British Isles, 2012 edition, edited by A. G. Duff, (available from www.coleopterist.org.uk/checklist.htm). Subfamily AEGIALIINAE Subfamily MELOLONTHINAE Aegialia Latreille, 1807 Hoplia Illiger, 1803 arenaria (Fabricius, 1787) philanthus (Füessly, 1775) insularis Pittino, 2006 Melolontha Fabricius, 1775 rufa (Fabricius, 1792) hippocastani Fabricius, 1801 Subfamily APHODIINAE melolontha (Linnaeus, 1758) Aphodius Illiger, 1798 Polyphylla Harris, 1842 Euheptaulacus Dellacasa, G., 1983 fullo (Linnaeus, 1758) sus (Herbst, 1783) Amphimallon Latreille, 1825 villosus (Gyllenhal, 1806) ochraceum (Knoch, 1801) Heptaulacus Mulsant, 1842 solstitiale (Linnaeus, 1758) testudinarius (Fabricius, 1775) Omaloplia Schönherr, 1817 Oxyomus Dejean, 1833 ruricola (Fabricius, 1775) sylvestris (Scopoli, 1763) -
Arquivos Entomolóxicos, 18: 137-148
ISSN: 1989-6581 Viñolas (2017) www.aegaweb.com/arquivos_entomoloxicos ARQUIVOS ENTOMOLÓXICOS, 18: 137-148 ARTIGO / ARTÍCULO / ARTICLE Nueva aportación al conocimiento de los Ptinidae (Coleoptera) de la Península Ibérica e Islas Canarias, con la descripción de un nuevo Stagetus Wollaston, 1861 de Navarra. Amador Viñolas Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona. Laboratori de Natura. Coŀlecció d’Artròpodes. Passeig Picasso, s/n. E-08003 Barcelona. e-mail: [email protected] Resumen: Se describe una nueva especie de Dorcatominae del género Stagetus Wollaston, 1861 de Iriso (Navarra), muy bien caracterizada por la conformación del lóbulo medio del edeago y por diferentes caracteres externos. Se da una nueva cita para la Península Ibérica del Ernobiinae Ernobius nigrinus (Sturm, 1837), de la misma localidad que la especie anterior. Se cita por primera vez el Ernobiinae Ozognathus cornutus (LeConte, 1859) de las Islas Canarias. De todas las especies tratadas se compaña el habitus y representación gráfica del edeago, más las antenas del macho de dos de ellas y el abdomen y último artejo de los palpos maxilares y labiales de la especie nueva. También se comenta su biología y distribución. Palabras clave: Coleoptera, Ptinidae, nuevos registros, Stagetus recaldei n. sp., Islas Canarias, Navarra, Península Ibérica. Abstract: New contribution to the knowledge of the Ptinidae (Coleoptera) of the Iberian Peninsula and Canary Islands, with the description of a new Stagetus Wollaston, 1861 from Navarre. A new species of Dorcatominae within the genus Stagetus Wollaston, 1861 from Iriso (Navarre) is described, very well characterized by the structure of the middle lobe of the aedeagus and by different external characters. -
1 | Page Atlas of Yorkshire Coleoptera Part 6
Atlas of Yorkshire Coleoptera part 6 - Scarabaeoidea (Geotrupidae, Trogidae, Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae) Introduction This is Part 6 of the Atlas and covers the Scarabaeoidea, to include the Lucanidae, Trogidae, Bolboceratidae, Geotrupidae, and Scarabiidae. 101 species of Scarabaeoidea are known from Britain, of the roughly 35000 or so described worldwide taxa. Many species are fossorial and habitats range from dung and plant roots in the Scarabaeidae and Geotrupidae, rotting wood in the case of the Lucanidae , and carrion and dung in Trogidae. Please refer to the work of Freude, Harde and Lohse 8:266ff for the mid-European species, this publication covering most of the British species, and also the works of Jessop (1986), Britton (1956) and Joy (1932) for habitat requirements and distributions of the British species, although Britton and Joy are now much out of date. The Scarabaeoidea is a rather poorly worked group in Yorkshire, and many species appear to be very scarce, especially of Aphodius, owing to the lack of fieldwork, with no records received for many species for many years. Each species in the database is considered and in each case a distribution map representing records on the database (at April 2016) is presented. The number of records on the database for each species is given in the account in the form (a,b,c,d,e) where a to e are the number of records from VC61 to VC65 respectively. These figures include undated records (see comment on undated records in the paragraph below on mapping). As a recorder, I shall continue to use the vice-county recording system, as the county is thereby divided up into manageable, roughly equal, areas for recording purposes. -
Phylogeny and Classification of Cucujoidea and the Recognition of A
Systematic Entomology (2015), 40, 745–778 DOI: 10.1111/syen.12138 Phylogeny and classification of Cucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia) JAMES A. ROBERTSON1,2,ADAM SL´ I P I NS´ K I3, MATTHEW MOULTON4, FLOYD W. SHOCKLEY5, ADRIANO GIORGI6, NATHAN P. LORD4, DUANE D. MCKENNA7, WIOLETTA TOMASZEWSKA8, JUANITA FORRESTER9, KELLY B. MILLER10, MICHAEL F. WHITING4 andJOSEPH V. MCHUGH2 1Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A., 2Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, U.S.A., 3Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, 4Department of Biology and M. L. Bean Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, U.S.A., 5Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, U.S.A., 6Faculdade de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Altamira, Brasil, 7Department of Biological Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, U.S.A., 8Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland, 9Chattahoochee Technical College, Canton, GA, U.S.A. and 10Department of Biology and Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A. Abstract. A large-scale phylogenetic study is presented for Cucujoidea (Coleoptera), a diverse superfamily of beetles that historically has been taxonomically difficult. This study is the most comprehensive analysis of cucujoid taxa to date, with DNA sequence data sampled from eight genes (four nuclear, four mitochondrial) for 384 coleopteran taxa, including exemplars of 35 (of 37) families and 289 genera of Cucujoidea. Maximum-likelihood analyses of these data present many significant relationships, some proposed previously and some novel.