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Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1997—Part 2: Notes 43 P-0244 HAWAI‘I: East slope of Mauna Loa, Kïpuka Ki Weather Station, 1220 m, pitfall trap, 10–12.iv.1972, J. Jacobi P-0257 HAWAI‘I: East slope of Mauna Loa, 1280–1341 m, pitfall trap, 8–10.v.1972, J. Jacobi P-0268 HAWAI‘I: East slope of Mauna Loa, 1890 m, pitfall trap, 5–7.vi.1972, J. Jacobi P-0269 HAWAI‘I: East slope of Mauna Loa, 1585 m, pitfall trap, 5–7.vi.1972, J. Jacobi P-0271 HAWAI‘I: East slope of Mauna Loa, 1280–1341 m, pitfall trap, 5–7.vi.1972, J. Jacobi P-0281 HAWAI‘I: East slope of Mauna Loa, 1981 m, pitfall trap, 10–12.vii.1972, J. Jacobi P-0284 HAWAI‘I: East slope of Mauna Loa, 1585 m, pitfall trap, 10–12.vii.1972, J. Jacobi P-0286 HAWAI‘I: East slope of Mauna Loa, Kïpuka Ki Weather Station, 1220 m, pitfall trap, 10–12.vii.1971, J. Jacobi P-0291 HAWAI‘I: East slope of Mauna Loa, Kilauea Forest Reserve, 1646 m, pitfall trap, 10–12.vii.1972 J. Jacobi P-0294 HAWAI‘I: East slope of Mauna Loa, 1981 m, pitfall trap, 14–16.viii.1972, J. Jacobi P-0300 HAWAI‘I: East slope of Mauna Loa, Kilauea Forest Reserve, 1646 m, pitfall trap, J. Jacobi P-0307 HAWAI‘I: East slope of Mauna Loa, 1981 m, pitfall trap, 17–19.ix.1972, J. Jacobi P-0313 HAWAI‘I: East slope of Mauna Loa, Kilauea Forest Reserve, 1646 m, pitfall trap, 17–19.x.1972, J. -
Succession of Coleoptera on Freshly Killed
Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Master's Theses Graduate School 2008 Succession of Coleoptera on freshly killed loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) and southern red oak (Quercus falcata Michaux) in Louisiana Stephanie Gil Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses Part of the Entomology Commons Recommended Citation Gil, Stephanie, "Succession of Coleoptera on freshly killed loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) and southern red oak (Quercus falcata Michaux) in Louisiana" (2008). LSU Master's Theses. 1067. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/1067 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Master's Theses by an authorized graduate school editor of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SUCCESSIO OF COLEOPTERA O FRESHLY KILLED LOBLOLLY PIE (PIUS TAEDA L.) AD SOUTHER RED OAK ( QUERCUS FALCATA MICHAUX) I LOUISIAA A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in The Department of Entomology by Stephanie Gil B. S. University of New Orleans, 2002 B. A. University of New Orleans, 2002 May 2008 DEDICATIO This thesis is dedicated to my parents who have sacrificed all to give me and my siblings a proper education. I am indebted to my entire family for the moral support and prayers throughout my years of education. My mother and Aunt Gloria will have several extra free hours a week now that I am graduating. -
Coleoptera Species of Forensic Importance from Brazil: an Updated List
G Model RBE-49; No. of Pages 11 ARTICLE IN PRESS Revista Brasileira de Entomologia xxx (2015) xxx–xxx REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE Entomologia A Journal on Insect Diversity and Evolution w ww.rbentomologia.com Systematics, Morphology and Biogeography Coleoptera species of forensic importance from Brazil: an updated list a,∗ a b Lúcia Massutti de Almeida , Rodrigo César Corrêa , Paschoal Coelho Grossi a Laboratório de Sistemática e Bioecologia de Coleoptera, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil b Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: A list of the Coleoptera of importance from Brazil, based on published records was compiled. The checklist Received 21 May 2015 contains 345 species of 16 families allocated to 16 states of the country. In addition, three species of two Accepted 14 August 2015 families are registered for the first time. The fauna of Coleoptera of forensic importance is still not entirely Available online xxx known and future collection efforts and taxonomic reviews could increase the number of known species Associate Editor: Rodrigo Krüger considerably in the near future. © 2015 Published by Elsevier Editora Ltda. on behalf of Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia. This is an Keywords: Beetles open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license Cleridae (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Dermestidae Forensic entomology Silphidae Introduction behaviour are needed before their importance can be fully under- stood (see Midgley et al., 2010). The diversity of Coleoptera and The development of forensic entomology in Brazil was well the lack of taxonomic studies have direct effect in how the beetles reported by Pujol-Luz et al. -
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. -
Coleoptera: Histeridae: Abraeinae) from Brazil
Zootaxa 3175: 63–68 (2012) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ Article ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2012 · Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) New species and key of Aeletes Horn (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Abraeinae) from Brazil FERNANDO W. T. LEIVAS1,3, KLEBER M. MISE1, LÚCIA M. ALMEIDA1, BRUNA P. MACARI1 & YVES GOMY2 1Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa-Postal 19020, 81531-980 Curitiba-PR, Brasil. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] 2Boulevard Victor Hugo, 58000, Nevers, France. E-mail: [email protected] 3Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract A new species of abraeine histerid, Aeletes (s. str.) nicolasi sp. nov. is described and illustrated from Paraná State, Brazil. An identification key is provided to the known Brazilian species of Aeletes. Ecological data are provided for the new spe- cies and for the genus, being the first record of Aeletes in carrion. Key words: Acritini, decaying organic matter, forensic entomology, histerid beetle, Paraná Resumo Uma nova espécie de Abraeinae, Aeletes (s. str.) nicolasi sp. nov. é descrita e ilustrada do Paraná, Brasil. Uma chave de identificação para as espécies brasileiras conhecidas de Aeletes é fornecida. São incluídos dados ecológicos para a espécie e o gênero, sendo o primeiro registro de Aeletes em carcaça. Palavras chave: Acritini, entomologia forense, histerídeo, matéria orgânica em decomposição, Paraná Introduction The species of the tribes Acritini and Abraeini (Abraeinae) are minute histerids with a wide geographic distribu- tion. They occur in decaying organic matter (such as plant detritus, litter, tree cavities, under bark, external debris of ants, in and under decaying seaweed, etc.) and usually prey on small invertebrates such as minute insects, mites and probably nematodes (Mazur 1997; 2005). -
Diptera, Empidoidea) 263 Doi: 10.3897/Zookeys.365.6070 Research Article Launched to Accelerate Biodiversity Research
A peer-reviewed open-access journal ZooKeys 365: 263–278 (2013) DNA barcoding of Hybotidae (Diptera, Empidoidea) 263 doi: 10.3897/zookeys.365.6070 RESEARCH ARTICLE www.zookeys.org Launched to accelerate biodiversity research Using DNA barcodes for assessing diversity in the family Hybotidae (Diptera, Empidoidea) Zoltán T. Nagy1, Gontran Sonet1, Jonas Mortelmans2, Camille Vandewynkel3, Patrick Grootaert2 1 Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, OD Taxonomy and Phylogeny (JEMU), Rue Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium 2 Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, OD Taxonomy and Phylogeny (Ento- mology), Rue Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium 3 Laboratoire des Sciences de l’eau et environnement, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Avenue Albert Thomas, 23, 87060 Limoges, France Corresponding author: Zoltán T. Nagy ([email protected]) Academic editor: K. Jordaens | Received 7 August 2013 | Accepted 27 November 2013 | Published 30 December 2013 Citation: Nagy ZT, Sonet G, Mortelmans J, Vandewynkel C, Grootaert P (2013) Using DNA barcodes for assessing diversity in the family Hybotidae (Diptera, Empidoidea). In: Nagy ZT, Backeljau T, De Meyer M, Jordaens K (Eds) DNA barcoding: a practical tool for fundamental and applied biodiversity research. ZooKeys 365: 263–278. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.365.6070 Abstract Empidoidea is one of the largest extant lineages of flies, but phylogenetic relationships among species of this group are poorly investigated and global diversity remains scarcely assessed. In this context, one of the most enigmatic empidoid families is Hybotidae. Within the framework of a pilot study, we barcoded 339 specimens of Old World hybotids belonging to 164 species and 22 genera (plus two Empis as outgroups) and attempted to evaluate whether patterns of intra- and interspecific divergences match the current tax- onomy. -
Pu'u Wa'awa'a Biological Assessment
PU‘U WA‘AWA‘A BIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT PU‘U WA‘AWA‘A, NORTH KONA, HAWAII Prepared by: Jon G. Giffin Forestry & Wildlife Manager August 2003 STATE OF HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES DIVISION OF FORESTRY AND WILDLIFE TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE ................................................................................................................................. i TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................. ii GENERAL SETTING...................................................................................................................1 Introduction..........................................................................................................................1 Land Use Practices...............................................................................................................1 Geology..................................................................................................................................3 Lava Flows............................................................................................................................5 Lava Tubes ...........................................................................................................................5 Cinder Cones ........................................................................................................................7 Soils .......................................................................................................................................9 -
Muscidae (Insecta: Diptera) of Latin America and the Caribbean: Geographic Distribution and Check-List by Country
Zootaxa 3650 (1): 001–147 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ Monograph ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2013 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3650.1.1 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E9059441-5893-41E4-9134-D4AD7AEB78FE ZOOTAXA 3650 Muscidae (Insecta: Diptera) of Latin America and the Caribbean: geographic distribution and check-list by country PETER LÖWENBERG-NETO1 & CLAUDIO J. B. DE CARVALHO2 1Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana, C.P. 2064, CEP 85867-970, Foz do Iguaçu, PR, Brasil. E-mail: [email protected] 2Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, C.P. 19020, CEP 81.531–980, Curitiba, PR, Brasil. E-mail: [email protected] Magnolia Press Auckland, New Zealand Accepted by S. Nihei: 14 Mar. 2013; published: 14 May 2013 PETER LÖWENBERG-NETO & CLAUDIO J. B. DE CARVALHO Muscidae (Insecta: Diptera) of Latin America and the Caribbean: geographic distribution and check-list by country (Zootaxa 3650) 147 pp.; 30 cm. 14 May 2013 ISBN 978-1-77557-156-8 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-77557-157-5 (Online edition) FIRST PUBLISHED IN 2013 BY Magnolia Press P.O. Box 41-383 Auckland 1346 New Zealand e-mail: [email protected] http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ © 2013 Magnolia Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, transmitted or disseminated, in any form, or by any means, without prior written permission from the publisher, to whom all requests to reproduce copyright material should be directed in writing. This authorization does not extend to any other kind of copying, by any means, in any form, and for any purpose other than private research use. -
Alysiinae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Fauna of New Zealand 58, 95 Pp
EDITORIAL BOARD REPRESENTATIVES OF L ANDCARE RESEARCH Dr D. Choquenot Landcare Research Private Bag 92170, Auckland, New Zealand Dr R. J. B. Hoare Landcare Research Private Bag 92170, Auckland, New Zealand REPRESENTATIVE OF U NIVERSITIES Dr R.M. Emberson c/- Bio-Protection and Ecology Division P.O. Box 84, Lincoln University, New Zealand REPRESENTATIVE OF MUSEUMS Mr R.L. Palma Natural Environment Department Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa P.O. Box 467, Wellington, New Zealand REPRESENTATIVE OF O VERSEAS I NSTITUTIONS Dr M. J. Fletcher Director of the Collections NSW Agricultural Scientific Collections Unit Forest Road, Orange NSW 2800, Australia * * * SERIES EDITOR Dr T. K. Crosby Landcare Research Private Bag 92170, Auckland, New Zealand Fauna of New Zealand Ko te Aitanga Pepeke o Aotearoa Number / Nama 58 Alysiinae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Braconidae) J. A. Berry Landcare Research, Private Bag 92170, Auckland, New Zealand Present address: Policy and Risk Directorate, MAF Biosecurity New Zealand 25 The Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand [email protected] Manaaki W h e n u a P R E S S Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand 2007 4 Berry (2007): Alysiinae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Braconidae) Copyright © Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd 2007 No part of this work covered by copyright may be reproduced or copied in any form or by any means (graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping information retrieval systems, or otherwise) without the written permission of the publisher. Cataloguing in publication Berry, J. A. (Jocelyn Asha) Alysiinae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Braconidae) / J. A. Berry – Lincoln, N.Z. : Manaaki Whenua Press, Landcare Research, 2007. -
Biology and Control of Araecerus Levipennis Jordan ( Coleoptera: Anthribidae )X
138 Proceedings, Hawaiian Entomological Society Biology and Control of Araecerus levipennis Jordan ( Coleoptera: Anthribidae )x Martin Sherman and Minoru Tamashiro2 UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION HONOLULU, HAWAII (Presented at the meeting of December 12, 1953) Koa haole, Leucaenaglauca (L.) Bentham, is a leguminous plant introduced into Hawaii prior to 1888 (Takahashi and Ripperton, 1949). Because of its high protein content, it is a valuable forage crop and many ranches have spread its seed over rangeland. In addition to this important use, it is of some value as a raw material in the manufacture of Hawaiian seed jewelry. During 1954 a small beetle, previously unknown in Hawaii, was found to be damaging a large percentage of the seed of koa haole (Ford and Chilson, 1955; Sherman, 1955). Specimens were sent to the U.S. National Museum and were identified as Araecerus sp., evidently simulatus Gyllenhal. However, additional specimens sent to Dr. H. E. Karl Jordan were identified by him as Araecerus levipennis Jordan. This species was described from the Philippines and Cochin China (Jordan, 1924). In a letter to Dr. D. Elmo Hardy of the University of Hawaii3 Dr. Jordan wrote, "It is a near relative of Araecerus simulatus Gyllenh. 1833 (Java), which is a species of very wide distribution in the Oriental Region and varying much in size and pattern. .. Araecerus levipennis differs from the four other species of Araecerus known from the Hawaiian Islands in the following combination of distinctions: club of antennae almost sym metrical; upper side pale tawny (ochraceous) with diffuse grey spots, im pressed stripes, and their punctures distinct only at sides and bases, absent dorsally from before middle to apex of elytra, which gives the elytra a smooth appearance; legs pale testaceous, tibia without dark markings; anterior tibia of o71 hairy on underside, without teeth; sutural area sometimes dark (as happens also in A. -
Zootaxa, Empidoidea (Diptera)
ZOOTAXA 1180 The morphology, higher-level phylogeny and classification of the Empidoidea (Diptera) BRADLEY J. SINCLAIR & JEFFREY M. CUMMING Magnolia Press Auckland, New Zealand BRADLEY J. SINCLAIR & JEFFREY M. CUMMING The morphology, higher-level phylogeny and classification of the Empidoidea (Diptera) (Zootaxa 1180) 172 pp.; 30 cm. 21 Apr. 2006 ISBN 1-877407-79-8 (paperback) ISBN 1-877407-80-1 (Online edition) FIRST PUBLISHED IN 2006 BY Magnolia Press P.O. Box 41383 Auckland 1030 New Zealand e-mail: [email protected] http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ © 2006 Magnolia Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, transmitted or disseminated, in any form, or by any means, without prior written permission from the publisher, to whom all requests to reproduce copyright material should be directed in writing. This authorization does not extend to any other kind of copying, by any means, in any form, and for any purpose other than private research use. ISSN 1175-5326 (Print edition) ISSN 1175-5334 (Online edition) Zootaxa 1180: 1–172 (2006) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ ZOOTAXA 1180 Copyright © 2006 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) The morphology, higher-level phylogeny and classification of the Empidoidea (Diptera) BRADLEY J. SINCLAIR1 & JEFFREY M. CUMMING2 1 Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany. E-mail: [email protected] 2 Invertebrate Biodiversity, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, C.E.F., Ottawa, ON, Canada -
Temporal Lags and Overlap in the Diversification of Weevils and Flowering Plants
Temporal lags and overlap in the diversification of weevils and flowering plants Duane D. McKennaa,1, Andrea S. Sequeirab, Adriana E. Marvaldic, and Brian D. Farrella aDepartment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; bDepartment of Biological Sciences, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02481; and cInstituto Argentino de Investigaciones de Zonas Aridas, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Te´cnicas, C.C. 507, 5500 Mendoza, Argentina Edited by May R. Berenbaum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, and approved March 3, 2009 (received for review October 22, 2008) The extraordinary diversity of herbivorous beetles is usually at- tributed to coevolution with angiosperms. However, the degree and nature of contemporaneity in beetle and angiosperm diversi- fication remain unclear. Here we present a large-scale molecular phylogeny for weevils (herbivorous beetles in the superfamily Curculionoidea), one of the most diverse lineages of insects, based on Ϸ8 kilobases of DNA sequence data from a worldwide sample including all families and subfamilies. Estimated divergence times derived from the combined molecular and fossil data indicate diversification into most families occurred on gymnosperms in the Jurassic, beginning Ϸ166 Ma. Subsequent colonization of early crown-group angiosperms occurred during the Early Cretaceous, but this alone evidently did not lead to an immediate and ma- jor diversification event in weevils. Comparative trends in weevil diversification and angiosperm dominance reveal that massive EVOLUTION diversification began in the mid-Cretaceous (ca. 112.0 to 93.5 Ma), when angiosperms first rose to widespread floristic dominance. These and other evidence suggest a deep and complex history of coevolution between weevils and angiosperms, including codiver- sification, resource tracking, and sequential evolution.