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R. P. LANE (Department of Entomology), British Museum (Natural History), London SW7 the Diptera of Lundy Have Been Poorly Studied in the Past
Swallow 3 Spotted Flytcatcher 28 *Jackdaw I Pied Flycatcher 5 Blue Tit I Dunnock 2 Wren 2 Meadow Pipit 10 Song Thrush 7 Pied Wagtail 4 Redwing 4 Woodchat Shrike 1 Blackbird 60 Red-backed Shrike 1 Stonechat 2 Starling 15 Redstart 7 Greenfinch 5 Black Redstart I Goldfinch 1 Robin I9 Linnet 8 Grasshopper Warbler 2 Chaffinch 47 Reed Warbler 1 House Sparrow 16 Sedge Warbler 14 *Jackdaw is new to the Lundy ringing list. RECOVERIES OF RINGED BIRDS Guillemot GM I9384 ringed 5.6.67 adult found dead Eastbourne 4.12.76. Guillemot GP 95566 ringed 29.6.73 pullus found dead Woolacombe, Devon 8.6.77 Starling XA 92903 ringed 20.8.76 found dead Werl, West Holtun, West Germany 7.10.77 Willow Warbler 836473 ringed 14.4.77 controlled Portland, Dorset 19.8.77 Linnet KC09559 ringed 20.9.76 controlled St Agnes, Scilly 20.4.77 RINGED STRANGERS ON LUNDY Manx Shearwater F.S 92490 ringed 4.9.74 pullus Skokholm, dead Lundy s. Light 13.5.77 Blackbird 3250.062 ringed 8.9.75 FG Eksel, Belgium, dead Lundy 16.1.77 Willow Warbler 993.086 ringed 19.4.76 adult Calf of Man controlled Lundy 6.4.77 THE DIPTERA (TWO-WINGED FLffiS) OF LUNDY ISLAND R. P. LANE (Department of Entomology), British Museum (Natural History), London SW7 The Diptera of Lundy have been poorly studied in the past. Therefore, it is hoped that the production of an annotated checklist, giving an indication of the habits and general distribution of the species recorded will encourage other entomologists to take an interest in the Diptera of Lundy. -
ABSTRACT Hill, Hilary Nan. Phylogenetic Utility of Two New Nuclear Genes, Opsin and CAD, Within the Stiletto Flies (Diptera: Th
ABSTRACT Hill, Hilary Nan. Phylogenetic Utility of Two New Nuclear Genes, Opsin and CAD, within the stiletto flies (Diptera: Therevidae) (Under the direction of Brian M. Wiegmann). A need for multiple phylogenetic markers to reconstruct evolutionary relationships is increasingly apparent within both the Therevidae and insect systematics as a whole, especially markers that can accommodate the immense species diversity that arose during the Mesozoic (~65-250mya). Phylogenetic trees are often best reconstructed using datasets from distinct sources and from character sets that have been under different selective pressures. Many recent insect systematics studies use various combinations of markers from multiple genomes, morphology, and biogeography. Nuclear genes, particularly protein-encoding genes that are highly conserved and low copy-number, are increasingly attractive as phylogenetic markers, and there is a recent concerted effort to find and increase access to new nuclear genes. Chapter one of this study investigates the phylogenetic utility of opsin, a new multiple copy nuclear protein- encoding gene in the dipteran family Therevidae. The present analyses of nucleotide sequence data of opsin reconstructed a therevid phylogeny that is partially concordant with previous classifications which demonstrates that opsin may have some limited utility as a phylogenetic marker within the Therevidae and closely related Diptera, but also shows that opsin may be better used in combination with other molecular markers or morphological data sets. Phylogenetic analyses of opsin at multiple levels within insects supports these results, but also reveals the significant obstacles in technical manipulation of the gene and in the interpretaion of ortholog/paralog relationships. In the second chapter two new nuclear, protein-encoding genes, opsin and CAD, in combination with EF-1α and 28S rDNA, are applied to reconstruct evolutionary relationships among the major lineages of Therevidae for which previous molecular evidence has been insufficient. -
1 U of Ill Urbana-Champaign PEET
U of Ill Urbana-Champaign PEET: A World Monograph of the Therevidae (Insecta: Diptera) Participant Individuals: CoPrincipal Investigator(s) : David K Yeates; Brian M Wiegmann Senior personnel(s) : Donald Webb; Gail E Kampmeier Post-doc(s) : Kevin C Holston Graduate student(s) : Martin Hauser Post-doc(s) : Mark A Metz Undergraduate student(s) : Amanda Buck; Melissa Calvillo Other -- specify(s) : Kristin Algmin Graduate student(s) : Hilary Hill Post-doc(s) : Shaun L Winterton Technician, programmer(s) : Brian Cassel Other -- specify(s) : Jeffrey Thorne Post-doc(s) : Christine Lambkin Other -- specify(s) : Ann C Rast Senior personnel(s) : Steve Gaimari Other -- specify(s) : Beryl Reid Technician, programmer(s) : Joanna Hamilton Undergraduate student(s) : Claire Montgomery; Heather Lanford High school student(s) : Kate Marlin Undergraduate student(s) : Dmitri Svistula Other -- specify(s) : Bradley Metz; Erica Leslie Technician, programmer(s) : Jacqueline Recsei; J. Marie Metz Other -- specify(s) : Malcolm Fyfe; David Ferguson; Jennifer Campbell; Scott Fernsler Undergraduate student(s) : Sarah Mathey; Rebekah Kunkel; Henry Patton; Emilia Schroer Technician, programmer(s) : Graham Teakle Undergraduate student(s) : David Carlisle; Klara Kim High school student(s) : Sara Sligar Undergraduate student(s) : Emmalyn Gennis Other -- specify(s) : Iris R Vargas; Nicholas P Henry Partner Organizations: Illinois Natural History Survey: Financial Support; Facilities; Collaborative Research Schlinger Foundation: Financial Support; In-kind Support; Collaborative Research 1 The Schlinger Foundation has been a strong and continuing partner of the therevid PEET project, providing funds for personnel (students, scientific illustrator, data loggers, curatorial assistant) and expeditions, including the purchase of supplies, to gather unknown and important taxa from targeted areas around the world. -
ROBBER-FLIES and EMPIDS ROBBER-FLIES Asilidae. Very
ROBBER-FLIES and EMPIDS Asilus ROBBER-FLIES Asilidae. Very bristly predatory flies that head from front generally chase and catch other insects in mid-air. Most species sit in wait and dart out when likely prey appears. The prey is then sucked dry with the stout proboscis, which projects horizontally or obliquely forward. There is a deep groove between the eyes in both sexes, the eyes never touching even in males. A 'beard' on the face protects eyes from struggling prey. Legs are sturdy and have 2 pads at most. Wings folded flat over body at rest. Larvae eat some dead vegetable matter, but most are at least partly predatory and some feed mainly on beetle and fly grubs in the soil. Asilus with prey As Asi/us crabroniformis. An unmistakable fly - one of the largest in B - inhabiting open country 7-10. A very strong flier. Breeds in cow pats and other dung. Dasypogon diadema. First 2 long veins both reach wing margin: wing membrane ribbed. Front tibia has curved spine at tip. Male more uniformly black, with dark wings. 6-8 in scrubby places, especially coastal dunes. S. ;., Leptogaster cylindrica. Feet without pads. Hind femur yellow. 3rd antennal segment ends in bristle. One of the slimmest robber-flies, it resembles a crane-fly in flight. It hunts in grassy places, flying slowly and plucking aphids from the grasses. 5-8. A L. guttiventris is similar but has reddish hind femur. 85 Dioctria atricapi/la. First 2 long veins reach margin. Beard rather sparse and, as in all Oioctria species, the antennae spring from a prominence high on the head. -
Zootaxa, New Species of Metatrichia Coquillett (Diptera
Zootaxa 2094: 42–51 (2009) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ Article ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2009 · Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) New species of Metatrichia Coquillett (Diptera: Scenopinidae) from Australia and Venezuela SHAUN L. WINTERTON1 & NORMAN E. WOODLEY2 1Entomology, Queensland Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries, 80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, Australia, and School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:37F5AC48-EC3A-47ED-902B-2BD1467CCA72 E-mail: [email protected] 2Systematic Entomology Laboratory-ARS-USDA, ℅National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P O Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA. E-mail: [email protected] urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:2EA42EC4-BF86-4EEB-B97F-63C3C5A15298 Abstract Two new species of the cosmopolitan genus Metatrichia Coquillett are described. Metatrichia dhimurru sp. nov. is described from Arnhem Land (Northern Territory), Australia and represents the third species of the genus to be described from the Australasian region. Metatrichia venezuelensis sp. nov. from Venezuela is the third extant species of the genus to be described from the New World. Key words: Metatrichia, Asiloidea, Therevoid clade, Scenopinidae Introduction Scenopinidae (window flies) are a small family (ca. 420 species in 24 genera) of asiloid flies distributed on all continents except Antarctica. This family is closely related to Therevidae (stiletto flies) based on the characteristic secondarily segmented larval abdomen. Scenopinids are typically very small insects, frequently less than 5 mm in total body length. Adults are known to feed at flowers and honey dew, while larvae are predators in sandy soils and leaf litter, although larvae of some species have been reared from wood boring beetle galleries, bird nests and small mammal burrows (Kelsey 1969). -
Bulletin 277
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION MUSEUM O F NATURAL HISTORY UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 277 A Revision of the Scenopinidae (Diptera) of the World L. P. KELSEY University of Delaware SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION PRESS CITY OF WASHINGTON 1969 Publications of the United States National Museum The scientific publications of the United States National Museum include two series, Proceedings of the United States National Museum and United States National Museum Bulletin. In these series are published original articles and monographs dealing with the collections and work of the Museum and setting forth newly acquired facts in the fields of anthropology, biology, geology, history, and technology. Copies of each publication are distributed to libraries and scientific organizations and to specialists and others interested in the various subjects. The Proceedings, begun in 1878, are intended for the publication, in separate form, of shorter papers. These are gathered in volumes, octavo in size, with the publication date of each paper recorded in the table of contents of the volume. In the Bulletin series, the first of which was issued in 1875, appear longer, separate publications consisting of monographs (occasionally in several parts) and volumes in which are collected works on related subjects. Bulletins are either octavo or quarto in size, depending on the needs of the presentation. Since 1902, papers relating to the botanical collections of the Museum have been published in the Bulletin series under the heading Contributions from the United States National Her- barium. This work forms number 277 of the Bulletin series. Frank A. Taylor Director, United States National Museum U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1969 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. -
Diptera): a Life History, Molecular, Morphological
The evolutionary biotogy of Conopidae (Diptera): A life history, molecular, morphological, systematic, and taxonomic approach Joel Francis Gibson B.ScHon., University of Guelph, 1999 M.Sc, Iowa State University, 2002 B.Ed., Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto, 2003 A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Biology Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario © 2011 Joel Francis Gibson Library and Archives Bibliotheque et 1*1 Canada Archives Canada Published Heritage Direction du Branch Patrimoine de Pedition 395 Wellington Street 395, rue Wellington Ottawa ON K1A 0N4 Ottawa ON K1A 0N4 Canada Canada Your Tile Votre r&ference ISBN: 978-0-494-83217-2 Our file Notre reference ISBN: 978-0-494-83217-2 NOTICE: AVIS: The author has granted a non L'auteur a accorde une licence non exclusive exclusive license allowing Library and permettant a la Bibliotheque et Archives Archives Canada to reproduce, Canada de reproduire, publier, archiver, publish, archive, preserve, conserve, sauvegarder, conserver, transmettre au public communicate to the public by par telecommunication ou par I'lnternet, preter, telecommunication or on the Internet, distribuer et vendre des theses partout dans le loan, distribute and sell theses monde, a des fins commerciales ou autres, sur worldwide, for commercial or non support microforme, papier, electronique et/ou commercial purposes, in microform, autres formats. paper, electronic and/or any other formats. The author retains copyright L'auteur conserve la propriete du droit d'auteur ownership and moral rights in this et des droits moraux qui protege cette these. -
Zootaxa, Alloxytropus Bezzi (Diptera: Scenopinidae)
Zootaxa 1155: 41–50 (2006) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ ZOOTAXA 1155 Copyright © 2006 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) A new species of Alloxytropus Bezzi (Diptera: Scenopinidae: Prora- tinae) from Israel SHAUN L. WINTERTON & PETER H. KERR California Department of Food & Agriculture, Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sac- ramento, California 95832-1448, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract A new species of proratine window fly, Alloxytropus elias sp. nov., is described and figured from Israel. A key to species of Alloxytropus Bezzi is included. Key words: Systematics, Scenopinidae, Alloxytropus, Israel Introduction Scenopinidae are a cosmopolitan group of very small, dark flies (body size rarely greater than 5.0 mm) closely related to asiloid families Therevidae and Apsilocephalidae (Yeates & Wiegmann 2005). The family is divided into three subfamilies, Scenopininae, Caenotinae and Proratinae, although most window flies are placed in the subfamily Scenopininae with the rest being divided unevenly between Caenotinae and Proratinae. Caenotinae comprises a single genus, Caenotus Cole, with five species from the southwestern United States and Mexico (Cole 1923, Melander 1950, Nagatomi et al. 1994, Metz 2003). The subfamily Proratinae contains five genera: Prorates Melander, Caenotoides Hall and Acaenotus Nagatomi & Yanagida from North America, Jackhallia Nagatomi & Liu from Argentina and Alloxytropus Bezzi from the Palaearctic region (Melander 1906, Bezzi 1925, Hall 1972, Nagatomi et al. 1994). Recently an additional proratine-like genus, Cyrtosathe Winterton & Metz, was described from Namibia, representing a possibly intermediate taxon between the existing subfamilies (Winterton & Metz 2005). Prorates was originally described by Melander (1906) in Empididae and later placed in the subfamily Heterotropinae (Bombyliidae) (Melander 1928). -
Diptera: Platystomatidae)
© Copyright Australian Museum, 2001 Records of the Australian Museum (2001) Vol. 53: 113–199. ISSN 0067–1975 Review of the Australasian Genera of Signal Flies (Diptera: Platystomatidae) DAVID K. MCALPINE Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney NSW 2010, Australia ABSTRACT. The distribution patterns of platystomatid genera in the 12 recognized provinces of the Australasian Region are recorded. Notes are provided on biology and behaviour, including parasitism by fungi and strepsipterans, and mimicry of other insects and spiders. Means of separation from other acalyptrate families are provided. A key to Australasian genera is given. The subfamily Angitulinae is placed in synonymy of Platystomatinae. The subfamily classification is briefly discussed. The following new genera are described: Aetha, Bama, Eumeka, Hysma, Par, Phlyax, Signa, Tarfa, Terzia, Tomeus. Gonga and Polimen are new subgenera of Naupoda and Bama respectively. The genus Lasioxiria Hendel is a new synonym of Atopognathus Bigot. Chaetostichia Enderlein is a new synonym of Scholastes Loew. Eopiara Frey, described as a subgenus of Piara Loew, is raised to generic status. The genera Angituloides Hendel and Giraffomyia Sharp are reduced to subgenera of Angitula Walker. The following new species are described: Aetha cowanae, Bama (Polimen) shinonagai, Eumeka hendeli, Hysma lacteum, Paryphodes hospes, Signa mouldsi, Tarfa bowleyae, Terzia saigusai, Tomeus wyliei, Zealandortalis gregi. Lule speiseri de Meijere, 1914 is a new synonym of Phasiamya metallica Walker, 1849. New generic -
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Contents, Volume 11 (2000) Clayhills,T.: On the occurrence of the genus Hyperaspis Wahlberg, N.: Comparative descriptions of the immature (Col. Coccinellidae) in Fenno-Scandian countries ... stages and ecology of five Finnish melitaeine butter ........................................................................ 109-112 fly species (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) ... 167-174 Dubatolov, V. V. & Kosterin, 0. E.: Nemoral species of Vikberg, V. V.: A re-evaluation of five European species Lepidoptera (Insecta) in Siberia: a novel view on of Spilomena with a key to European species and their history and the timing of their range disjunc- relevance to the fauna of North Europe, especially tions ................................................................ 141-166 Finland (Hymenoptera: Pemphredonidae) ..... 35-55 Gourov, A.V.: Hylobius species (Coleoptera: Curculioni Vikberg, V. & Koponen, M.: On the taxonomy of Seleu dae) from Siberia and the distribution patterns of cus Holmgren and the European species of Phrudi- adults feeding in Scots pine stands .................. 57-66 nae (Hymenoptera: lchneumonidae) ......... 195-228 Gupta, S., Gupta, A. & Meyer-Rochow, V. B.: Post-em bryonic development of the lateral eye of Cloeon sp. Brief Reports (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) as revealed by scanning electron microscopy .............. ............................ 89-96 Jansson, A. 2000: Interesting collection of Corixidae (Het- Haitlinger, R. 2000: Mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Eryth eroptera) from a fish pond .......................... 183-184 raeidae, Trombidiidae) new to the fauna of Norway, Jussila, R. : Dyspetes praerogator (Thomson, 1883), a new Finland, Russia, Latvia and Lithuania, with a descrip- species and genus to Finland and Denmark (Hym., tion of Podothrombium roari n. sp ............ 187-193 Ichneumonidae, Tryphoninae ................................ 8 8 Kozlov, M. V., Jalava, J. & Shutova, E.: New Records of Jussila, R.: Netelia arabs (Strand) new to Israel and N. -
Zootaxa, Pupal Cases of Nearctic Robber Flies (Diptera: Asilidae)
ZOOTAXA 1868 Pupal cases of Nearctic robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) D. STEVE DENNIS, JEFFREY K. BARNES & LLOYD KNUTSON Magnolia Press Auckland, New Zealand D. STEVE DENNIS, JEFFREY K. BARNES & LLOYD KNUTSON Pupal cases of Nearctic robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) (Zootaxa 1868) 98 pp.; 30 cm. 3 Sept. 2008 ISBN 978-1-86977-265-9 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-86977-266-6 (Online edition) FIRST PUBLISHED IN 2008 BY Magnolia Press P.O. Box 41-383 Auckland 1346 New Zealand e-mail: [email protected] http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ © 2008 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) 2 · Zootaxa 1868 © 2008 Magnolia Press DENNIS ET AL. Zootaxa 1868: 1–98 (2008) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2008 · Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) Pupal cases of Nearctic robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) D. STEVE DENNIS1, JEFFREY K. BARNES2,4 & LLOYD KNUTSON3 11105 Myrtle Wood Drive, St. Augustine, Florida 32086, USA; e-mail: [email protected] 2University of Arkansas, Department of Entomology, 319 Agriculture Building, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA; e-mail: jbar- [email protected] 3Systematic Entomology Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. -
Diptera) from Transcaucasia Первые Находки Двух Видов Из Семейства Tephritidae И Одного Вида Из Семейства Platystomatidae (Diptera) Для Закавказья
ZOOSYSTEMATICA ROSSICA ISSN 2410-0226 Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg ▪ https://www.zin.ru/journals/zsr/ [ onl ine] 0320-9180 Vol. 29(1): 155–161 ▪ Published online 30 June 2020 ▪ DOI 10.31610/zsr/2020.29.1.155 [ print] RESEARCH ARTICLE First records of two species of Tephritidae and one species of Platystomatidae (Diptera) from Transcaucasia Первые находки двух видов из семейства Tephritidae и одного вида из семейства Platystomatidae (Diptera) для Закавказья D.A. Evstigneev & N.V. Glukhova Д.А. Евстигнеев, Н.В. Глухова Dmitry A. Evstigneev, Ulyanovsk Institute of Civil Aviation, 8/8 Mozhaysky Str., Ulyanovsk 432071, Russia. E-mail: [email protected] Natalia V. Glukhova, I.N. Ulyanov State Pedagogical University of Ulyanovsk, 4 Lenin Sq., Ulyanovsk 432700, Russia. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract. Two species of Tephritidae, Tephritis conyzifoliae Merz, 1992 and Tephritomyia lauta (Loew, 1869), and one species of Platystomatidae, Platystoma dimidiatum Hendel, 1913, are recorded for the first time from Armenia and Transcaucasia at large. The larvae of T. conyzifoliae develop in two species of Crepis, C. pannonica (Jacq.) K. Koch and C. ciliata C. Koch. The latter species is recorded for the first time as a host plant of T. conyzifoliae. Tephritomyia lauta were reared from Echinops sp. The morphologi cal details of all three species of flies are illustrated in colour photos, as well as the host plants of the two species of tephritids. Резюме. Два вида мух из семейства Tephritidae (Tephritis conyzifoliae Merz, 1992 и Tephritomyia lauta (Loew, 1869)) и один вид из семейства Platystomatidae (Platystoma dimidiatum Hendel, 1913) впервые приводятся для Армении и Закавказья в целом.