First descriptions of immatures for Megistops (Boheman) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae) in a new host-plant family, with notes on life history and redescription of M. vandepolli Duvivier

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1615 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-68
Author(s):  
ADELITA M. LINZMEIER ◽  
CIBELE S. RIBEIRO-COSTA ◽  
LUCIANO De A. MOURA
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
Wing Venation ◽  
Plant Family ◽  
Leaf Miners ◽  
New Host ◽  
Mature Larva ◽  
New Family ◽  
Phylogenetic Studies ◽  
First Time

The adult of Megistops vandepolli Duvivier is redescribed and previously undescribed features such as mouth parts, wing venation and genitalia are included. Egg, mature larva and pupa are described and illustrated for the first time providing data for future phylogenetic studies in Galerucinae. Megistops vandepolli is found in Buddleja stachyoides Cham. & Schltdl (Buddlejaceae); their larvae are leaf-miners and the pupation occurs in soil. Additional comments on its life history are also presented and discussed. The genus Megistops (Boheman) is added to this list of Alticini leaf-miners and a new family of host-plant is recorded for it.

scholarly journals The immature stages of Elachista zonulae (Sruoga, 1992) (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae)

2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Baran
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
Leaf Blade ◽  
Food Plant ◽  
Young Larva ◽  
Immature Stages ◽  
New Host ◽  
Mature Larva ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time

The morphology of larva and pupa, as well as larval mines of Elachista zonulae (Sruoga, 1992) are described and illustrated for the first time. Carex firma Host is reported as a new host plant ofthe species; previously only Carex sempervirens Vill. was known to be host plant of E. zonulae. Some information on life history of this elachistid moth is also provided. The mature larva is 4.5—5.5 mm long. Pupation takes place usually at base of leaf blade of the food plant. The species is univoltine and hibernates as young larva.

Four new species of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) from China and Japan, and description of the pupal morphology of the genera Corythoxestis, Eumetriochroa, Guttigera, and Metriochroa

Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3619 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHIGEKI KOBAYASHI ◽  
GUO-HUA HUANG ◽  
AKIHIRO NAKAMURA ◽  
TOSHIYA HIROWATARI
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
New Species ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
Host Plants ◽  
Female Adult ◽  
New Host ◽  
Leaf Mining ◽  
Fatsia Japonica ◽  
China And Japan ◽  
First Time

Four new leaf mining Oecophyllembiinae (Gracillariidae) species are described from Chinaand Japan: Metriochroa sym-plocosella sp. nov. (host plants: Symplocos anomala, S. sumuntia, Symplocaceae) from China, Guttigera schefflerella sp. nov. (host plant: Schefflera octophylla, Araliaceae), Eumetriochroa araliella sp. nov. (host plants: Dendropanax trifidus, Evodiopanax innovans, Eleutherococcus sciadophylloides and Fatsia japonica, Araliaceae) and Corythoxestis tricalysiel-la sp. nov. (host plant: Tricalysia dubia, Rubiaceae) from Japan. Corythoxestis sunosei (Kumata, 1998) is recorded from new host plants: Adina pilulifera and Mussaenda parviflora, Rubiaceae, from Japan. The female adult and pupal morphol-ogies, life history and host plant of the genus Guttigera are described for the first time. Pupae of seven species of four genera: Corythoxestis, Eumetriochroa, Guttigera, and Metriochroa, are described for the first time. We provide morpho-logical diagnostic differences between species and genera of Oecophyllembiinae and Phyllocnistis. Our preliminary data suggest that Oecophyllembiinae species have three valuable pupal diagnostic characters: 1) cocoon cutter with unique lat-eral processes or setae on the clypeus, 2) tergal spines with only a pair of dorsal setae, and 3) cremaster with more than two pairs of caudal processes, while Phyllocnistis species possess 1) cocoon cutter without lateral processes or setae on clypeus, 2) tergal spines with a pair of dorsal setae and dorsal hooks, and 3) cremaster with only a pair of caudal processes.

Mango: A new host plant for the lycaeinid Anthene lycaenina lycaenina (R. Felder, 1868)

ENTOMON ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-238
Author(s):  
J. Nayanathara ◽  
R. Narayana
Keyword(s):  
Host Plant ◽  
New Host ◽  
First Time

Anthene lycaenina lycaenina (R. Felder, 1868) is reported on mango for the first time.

scholarly journals Life History of Oxybelus variegatus Wesmael, 1852 (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) with a Description of the Mature Larva

Insects ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Piotr Olszewski ◽  
Petr Bogusch ◽  
Krzysztof Szpila
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Mature Larva ◽  
Digger Wasp ◽  
Comprehensive Information ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
Delia Platura

The first comprehensive information on the bionomics of the digger wasp Oxybelus variegatus Wesmael, 1852 is presented. Females nested in small aggregations in crevices between paving stones of a frequently used pedestrian pathway in lowland agricultural wasteland. Nests were dug in the ground using mandibles, legs and abdomen. The nest consists of a main burrow with one or, rarely, two cells. The mature larva is described for the first time. The egg stage lasts for about two days before the larva hatches. The female provisioned each cell with an average of 11 paralysed male flies of Delia platura (Meigen, 1826) (Diptera: Anthomyiidae). Numerous females of dipteran kleptoparasites were observed in the nesting area of O. variegatus. However, only a few nests were infested by larvae of Senotainia conica (Fallen, 1810).

New species of leaf-mining Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) from the Neotropical and Ando-Patagonian regions, with new data on host plants

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4272 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JONAS R. STONIS ◽  
ANDRIUS REMEIKIS ◽  
ARŪNAS DIŠKUS ◽  
NICK MEGORAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Host Plants ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Leaf Miners ◽  
New Host ◽  
British Virgin Islands ◽  
Leaf Mining ◽  
Plant Data ◽  
First Time

The paper treats fifteen species of leaf-mining pygmy moths (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Nepticulidae) discovered in the Neotropics (British Virgin Islands, Belize, Costa Rica, Venezuela, and Ecuador), and Ando-Patagonian region (Argentina and Chile). Except for two species, all belong to Stigmella Schrank. Twelve species are new, and are named and described in the current paper: Stigmella apicibrunella Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov.; S. decora Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov.; S. unicaudata Remeikis & Stonis, sp. nov.; S. sanmartini Remeikis & Stonis, sp. nov.; S. patula Remeikis & Stonis, sp. nov.; S. torosa Remeikis & Stonis, sp. nov.; S. monstrata Remeikis & Stonis, sp. nov.; S. huahumi Remeikis & Stonis, sp. nov.; S. venezuelica Remeikis & Stonis, sp. nov.; S. virginica Remeikis & Stonis, sp. nov.; Fomoria miranda Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov.; and Hesperolyra robinsoni Stonis, sp. n. Newly discovered variation of male genitalia of the Andean Stigmella rudis Puplesis & Robinson, 2000 is briefly discussed, and the formerly poorly understood Stigmella hylomaga (Meyrick, 1931) is redescribed and documented with photographs for the first time. We also present more photographs and add some addtional information on Stigmella gallicola van Nieukerken & Nishida, a recently described gall-maker from Costa Rica.The paper also provides new host-plant data: some of the described (or redescribed) species are reported for the first time as leaf-miners on plants belonging to Euphorbiaceae (Acalypha padifolia Kunth), Salicaceae (Azara microphylla Hook. f.), Fabaceae (Inga spectabilis (Vahl) Willd. or I. edulis Mart.), Rhamnaceae (Colletia spinosissima J. F. Gmel.), Geraniaceae or Vivianiaceae (Rhynchotheca spinosa Ruiz & Pav.), and Asteraceae (Mutisia decurrens Cav.). All species treated in the paper are illustrated with photographs of the adults and genitalia, a distribution map, and also photographs of the leaf-mines and host plants when available.

Updated contribution to the knowledge of Tetranychoidea (Acari: Tetranychidae, Tenuipalpidae) from Syria with reinstatement of genus Nuciforaella Vacante

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 529
Author(s):  
Mahran Zeity ◽  
Nagappa Srinivasa
Keyword(s):  
Host Plant ◽  
Immature Stages ◽  
New Host ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Time

Sixteen species of Tetranychoidea, 11 Tetranychidae and 5 Tenuipalpidae are reported in this study. Seven of them are recorded for the first time from Syria: Bryobia gigas, Oligonychus afrasiaticus, O. coniferarum, O. pratensis, Cenopalpus rubusi, Tenuipalpus cupressoides and T. punicae. New host plant records are also reported. Reinstatement of the genus Nuciforaella Vacante is discussed in this study. Detailed descriptions of immature stages and female of Nuciforaella nikitensis are given. A key to the known species of the family Tetranychidae from Syria is provided.

Description of the mature larva of Gonioctena pseudogobanzi Kippenberg, 2001 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae) and key to the larvae of the subgenus Spartoxena

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1745 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
ANDRÉS BASELGA
Keyword(s):  
Host Plant ◽  
Mature Larva ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Southeastern Spain ◽  
Tarsal Claw ◽  
Identification Of Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
Claw Shape

Mature larva of Gonioctena (Spartoxena) pseudogobanzi Kippenberg, 2001 is described and illustrated for the first time, based on specimens collected on Genista umbellata (L’Hér.) Dum. Cours. [Fabaceae] in southeastern Spain. Diagnostic characters for the identification of species within the subgenus Sparoxena Motschulsky, 1860 are number of dorsal tubercles of abdominal segments, shape of tarsal claw, shape of labrum and disposition of microtrichia of epipharynx. A key to known larvae of subgenus Spartoxena is provided, along with figures illustrating the diagnostic characters. Notes on the distribution and host plant of G. pseudogobanzi are included.

Comparative larval morphology of Platydracus and Staphylinus (Staphylinidae: Staphylinini: Staphylinina) with notes on their biology and redescription of the pupa of Staphylinus

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3580 (1) ◽  
pp. 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
EWA PIETRYKOWSKA-TUDRUJ ◽  
BERNARD STANIEC
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Larval Morphology ◽  
Mature Larva ◽  
Larval Instars ◽  
History Data ◽  
Generic Status ◽  
Life History Data ◽  
Laboratory Conditions ◽  
First Time

The mature larva of Platydracus latebricola (Gravenhorst, 1806) is described for the first time and the larva and pupa of Staphylinus erythropterus Linné, 1758 are redescribed. Illustrations of structural features are provided. The combination of characters that allow for distinguishing the known mature larvae of Platydracus, and larvae and pupae of Staphylinus from closely related genera within tribe Staphylinini are given. The mature larvae of Platydracus and Staphylinus are compared and the generic status of the former is confirmed. Life history data under laboratory conditions of S. erythropterus are provided. Two larval instars in this species, a state unique within the tribe Staphylinini was reported.

scholarly journals European species of the aphid genus Eulachnus Del Guercio, 1909 (Hemiptera: Aphididae: Lachninae): revision and molecular phylogeny

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4356 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARIUSZ KANTURSKI ◽  
ŁUKASZ KAJTOCH ◽  
KARINA WIECZOREK
Keyword(s):  
Integrative Taxonomy ◽  
Biological Traits ◽  
Pinus Cembra ◽  
New Host ◽  
European Species ◽  
New Synonyms ◽  
Phylogenetic Studies ◽  
Viviparous Female ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

The aphid genus Eulachnus in Europe is revised to include 12 species, using an integrative taxonomy approach, based on morphometric, molecular and biological traits. Fundatrix, apterous and alate viviparous female of a new species–Eulachnus stekolshchikovi Kanturski sp. nov. are described. Neotypes are designated for E. agilis, E. brevipilosus and E. nigricola. Lectotypes are designated for E. alticola, E. cembrae, E. rileyi and E. tuberculostemmatus. New synonyms are proposed: E. abameleki syn. nov. (= Cinara pini), E. cretaceus syn. nov. (= E. agilis), E. tauricus syn. nov. (= E. rileyi), E. pallidus syn. nov. (= E. tuberculostemmatus). Eulachnus mingazzinii (near Cinara piniphila) and E. nigrofasciatus (near C. brauni) are regarded as incertae sedis. Full species status is given for E. garganicus stat. nov. and E. ibericus stat. nov. Apterous viviparous female of E. cembrae; apterous and alate viviparous females of remaining species are redescribed. Sexual morphs of E. agilis, E. alticola, E. cembrae, E. intermedius, E. nigricola, E. rileyi and oviparous female of E. tuberculostemmatus are fully redescribed and figured for the first time. Fundatrices of E. agilis, E. brevipilosus, E. cembrae, E. rileyi and E. tuberculostemmatus, sexuales of E. brevipilosus and the alate male of E. tuberculostemmatus are described and figured. A new host plant–Pinus cembra for E. brevipilosus is reported, and this species is recorded for the first time from Czech Republic. Eulachnus tuberculostemmatus is reported for the first time from Croatia. Phylogenetic studies, based on the COI and ITS2 molecular markers, are provided to visualize and discuss the relationships within the European species. COI barcodes are provided for seven species. 

scholarly journals First record of the early immature stages of the White Four-ring Ypthima ceylonica (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), and a note on a new host plant from India

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 17722-17730
Author(s):  
Hari Theivaprakasham ◽  
Hari Ramanasaran ◽  
Appavu Pavendhan
Keyword(s):  
Host Plant ◽  
Cynodon Dactylon ◽  
First Record ◽  
Immature Stages ◽  
Larval Morphology ◽  
New Host ◽  
First Time

Documentation of the early immature stages (egg, larva, chrysalis) of the White Four-ring (Ypthima ceylonica Hewitson, 1865), including larval morphology and behaviour, is described for the first time from India.  A new host plant (Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.) is also reported for this butterfly.

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