A N N A L E S Z O O L O G I C I (Warszawa), 2010, 60(3): 305-307 A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS ISOMIRA MULSANT, 1856 FROM CYPRUS (INSECTA: COLEOPTERA: TENEBRIONIDAE) FABIEN SOLDATI1, * and JEAN-MICHEL LEMAIRE2 1O.N.F., Laboratoire National d'Entomologie Forestière, 2 rue Charles Péguy, 11500 Quillan, France; e-mail: [email protected] 2Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, 60, boulevard Risso, 06300 Nice, France; e-mail: [email protected] *Corresponding author Abstract.— A new species of the genus Isomira Mulsant, 1856, I. aliquoi sp. nov., is described from the island of Cyprus. It is compared to all its relatives of the Eastern Mediterranean Basin. Key words.— Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Alleculinae, Isomira aliquoi, new species, Cyprus. INTRODUCTION MATERIAL AND METHODS Isomira Mulsant, 1856 is a widely distributed Studied material genus within the Palaearctic region, from Morocco to Japan, with about 71 species into 6 subgenera (Novak Voucher specimens have been taken from the fol- and Pettersson 2008). Most of the species occur in lowing collections: Mediterranean Europe and the Caucasus. The genus – Institutional collection: Muséum d’Histoire Natu- Isomira has been relatively well studied compared to relle, Nice (France); most of genera of Alleculinae. – Private collections: Hervé Brustel, Clermont-le-Fort Seidlitz (1896) has been the first to revise the whole (France); Manfred Egger, Wattens (Austria); Jean- genus. After him, some comparatively recent mono- Michel Lemaire, Nice (France). graphs deal with various regions of the Palaearctic area: Hölzel (1958) for Isomira of Central Europe, Preparation of specimens Weise (1974) for European and Mediterranean species, Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1976) for Caucasian species and Specimens have been cleaned before identification, Dubrovina (1982) for Isomira of the former USSR. in order to be able to study cuticle and pilosity of Some taxonomic papers complete these significant pronotum and elytra accurately. These have been sod- works: Bonadona (1979) and Bouyon (2002). den for 24 hours in a solution of 5% detergent and 95 % None Isomira had been recorded from Cyprus yet. water and cleaned with a supple paint-brush. The study of numerous specimens from several locali- Male genitalia (aedeagus) have been extracted from ties of this island reveals that the genus is at least rep- the last abdominal segment, cleaned with a solution of resented in Cyprus by a vicariant new species detergent and water (see above) and glued on a small described below. white card, dorsal or lateral side visible. PL ISSN 0003-4541 © Fundacja Natura optima dux doi: 10.3161/000345410X535299 A N N A L E S Z O O L O G I C I (Warszawa), 2010, 60(3): 309-318 STICHOLOTIS RUFICEPS WEISE: NEW SYNONYMIES AND DESCRIPTION OF ITS MATURE LARVA (COLEOPTERA: COCCINELLIDAE: STICHOLOTIDINI) HERMES E. ESCALONA1, 2 and ADAM ŚLIPIŃSKI2 1Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola “Francisco Fernández Yépez” (MIZA), Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad Central de Venezuela; e-mail: [email protected] 2CSIRO Entomology, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia; e-mail: [email protected] Abstract.— The adult and larval stages of a scale insect predator, Sticholotis ruficeps Weise, 1902 are described and illustrated. Sticholotis madagassa Weise, 1909 and Mesopilo soufrierensis Duverger, 2001 are synonyms of S. ruficeps (new synonyms). S. ruficeps has been used in biocontrol programs against various scale insects and it is here recorded from USA (Hawaii), Guadeloupe, Madagascar, Mascarene and Mauritius (Réunion Islands), Singapore, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Australia (Christmas and Cocos- Keeling Islands) and Cook Islands. Key words.— biological control, Coccinellidae, Hemiptera, introduced species, larvae, scale insects, Sticholotidini, taxonomy. INTRODUCTION According to Leeper (1976) this species (misidentified as S. punctata Crotch, 1874) was introduced to Hawaii The ladybird genus Sticholotis Crotch, 1874 origi- from China and Japan, where it was established feed- nally described from Japan, is the largest genus of ing on Eriococcus araucariae Maskell, 1879 (Erioc- Sticholotidini with about 70 described and many more cocidae, Hemiptera) and Pinnaspis buxi (Bouche, undescribed species, mostly occurring in the Orient- 1851) (Diaspididae, Hemiptera). al Region (Miyatake 1994). The genus lacks a mod- Chazeau et al. (1974) redescribed Sticholotis ern taxonomical revision, and most of the species madagassa Weise, 1909 and since then it was record- are known only from the original descriptions, mostly ed as a predator of the sugarcane scale Aulacaspis from the late 19th century. Ślipiński (2004, 2007) tegalensis (Zehntner, 1898) (Diaspididae, Hemiptera) redescribed the genus and revised the Austral- in Mauritius (Réunion Islands) and Tanzania (Williams ian species; recent further descriptions of regional and Greathead 1990). Recently it was suggested Sticholotis species were provided by Poorani (Poorani 2002) that S. madagassa could be a junior and Booth (2006) and Tomaszewska and Łączyński synonym of S. transversa (Motschulsky, 1866) from (in press). India. Sticholotis ruficeps Weise, 1902 was described This species, recorded as S. ruficeps or S. mada- from Malaysia and redescribed and illustrated by Bie- gassa, has been used in biocontrol of scale insects like lawski (1960) based on the type series. Later Chapin Melanaspis glomerata Green (Diaspididae, Hemi- (1965), Pang and Mao (1979) and Hoang (1982) record- ptera) in India (Singh 2004, Birthal and Sharma ed its broader distribution in Asia and the Pacific. 2004), the pineapple mealybug Dysmicoccus spp. PL ISSN 0003-4541 © Fundacja Natura optima dux doi: 10.3161/000345410X535307 A N N A L E S Z O O L O G I C I (Warszawa), 2010, 60(3): 319-324 TWO NEW SPECIES OF CHUJOCHILUS SASAJI, 2005 (COLEOPTERA: COCCINELLIDAE) FROM CHINA XING-MIN WANG1, 2 and SHUN-XIANG REN2, * 1Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; E-mail: [email protected] 2Engineering Research Center of Biological Control, Ministry of Education, College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China; E-mail: [email protected] *Corresponding author Abstract.— The genus Chujochilus Sasaji from China is reviewed. The following two species are described as new to science: C. sagittatus sp. nov. and C. parisensis sp. nov. A diagnosis of the genus and a key to known species are provided. Key words.— Coleoptera, Coccinellidae, Chilocorinae, Chujochilus, new species, China. INTRODUCTION MATERIALS AND METHODS The genus Chujochilus (Coccinellidae: Chilocorini) The specimens examined were collected from Chi- was erected by Sasaji (2005) with Exochomus isensis na. All materials were preserved in 85% ethanol. Exter- Kamiya, 1966 from Honshu, Japan as the type-species. nal morphology was observed with a dissecting stereo- E. isensis was originally described by Kamiya as scope (Zeiss Stemi 2000-cs). The measurements made a new species of the genus Exochomus Redtenbacher, with an ocular micrometer are as follows: Length from 1843 and was subsequently transferred to the genus apical margin of clypeus to apex of elytra (TL); width Arawana Leng, 1908 by the same author, as Sasaji across both elytra at widest part (TW); height at high- (1971). Kovář (1995) argued that A. isensis was sepa- est elytral part (TH); head width at widest part (HW); rable from the Nearctic species of Arawana at the pronotal length at longest part (PL); pronotal width at generic level by comparing the form of pronotum, the widest part (PW); elytral length along suture, including first visible abdominal sternum, cuticular structures scutellum (EL); elytral width across both elytra at and other characters of the American representatives widest part (EW). Male and female genitalia were dis- of the genus Arawana, but he did not give the detailed sected, cleared in 10% solution of KOH by boiling for treatment of this problem and did not take any actions several minutes, and examined with an Olympus BX51 to recognize them as separate. Sasaji (2005) adopted compound microscope. Kovář’s opinion and erected a new monotypic genus for Images were photographed with digital cameras isensis: Chujochilus. This genus is distinguished (Qimagin 5.0 RTV and Coolsnap-Procf & CRI Micro* from Arawana by 9-segmented antennae and lacking Color), connected to the dissecting microscope. The finger-like processes at the parameres of the tegmen. software Image-Pro Plus 5.1 was used to capture The genus Chujochilus was monotypic until re- images from both cameras, and photos were cleaned cently. In this paper two new species, collected by the up and laid out in plates with Adobe Photoshop CS 8.0. authors from China are described. A diagnosis of the Type specimens designated in the present paper genus and a key to the known species are also given. are deposited at the Department of Entomology, South PL ISSN 0003-4541 © Fundacja Natura optima dux doi: 10.3161/000345410X535316 A N N A L E S Z O O L O G I C I (Warszawa), 2010, 60(3): 325-336 NEW AND LITTLE KNOWN SPECIES OF THE TRIBE MEGAPENTHINI GURJEVA, 1973 (COLEOPTERA: ELATERIDAE) FROM SULAWESI RAINER SCHIMMEL1 and DARIUSZ TARNAWSKI2 1Wiesenstraße 6, D-66957 Vinningen, Germany; e-mail: [email protected] 2Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, Zoological Institute, University of Wrocław, Przybyszewskiego 63-77, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland; e-mail: [email protected] Abstract.— Eight new species of the tribe