查看更多>>摘要：Emphytopsis Wei & Nie, 1998 of Allantinae, Tenthredinidae is revised. Seven species are described as new: Emphytopsis nigricornis Wei & Xu, sp. nov., E. quadrata Wei & Xu, sp. nov., E. unimaculata Wei, sp. nov., E. zhongi Wei & Niu, sp. nov., E. Hi Wei, sp. nov. from China, E. shinoharai Wei & Niu, sp. nov. and E. flatoserrula Wei, sp. nov. from Japan. E. nigromaculata (Takeuchi, 1952) new combination is transferred from Taxonus Hartig. A key to the species of the genus is presented. Emphytopsis punctata Wei & Nie, 1998 and E. nigromaculata (Takeuchi) are redescribed. The previously unknown male of E. punctata is described.
查看更多>>摘要：Liophloeothrips Priesner is a small genus of leaf-feeding Phlaeothripidae that is related to the widespread genera Gynai-kothrips and Liothrips. A key is presented to distinguish these three genera, together with a key to, and review of, the 13 species now recognized in Liophloeothrips from India. Liophloeothrips acaciae sp. n. is described from Karnataka State, collected from the dry flowers, leaves and bark of Acacia auriculiformis. Liophloeothrips tenebrosus Ananthakrishnan & Jagadish is placed asa new synonym of L. pavettae Ananthakrishnan & Jagadish. A lectotype is designated for Liophloeothrips cecidii Ananthakrishnan 1964.
查看更多>>摘要：The three Chinese species of the tropiduchid genus Epora Walker are revised, including one new species, E. biprolata sp. nov. from Hainan Province, China. Morphological description or diagnoses and illustrations for Chinese Epora and an identificationkey for all nine species worldwide are provided. The tropiduchid genus Epora was established by Walker (1857) to accommodate a single species, E. subtilis Walker from Borneo. Up to now eight species have been reported worldwide, all restricted to the Oriental Region (Walker 1857, Distant 1906, 1912, 1916, Pierce 1909, Melichar 1915, Baker 1927, Metcalf 1954, Fennah 1970, 1978, Chou & Wang 1985, Qin & Men 2010), including two species from south China, E. hainanensis Chou & Wang and E. bilemisca Qin & Men. In this paper, another new species, E. biprolata sp. nov. is described from Hainan, China and diagnoses and illustrations for Chinese Epora are provided. A key to the known species in Epora is given.
查看更多>>摘要：A new species, Eogyropsylla sedzimiri sp. nov. from Eocene Baltic amber is described. Illustrations of head, thorax, fore-wing, hind wing, antennae, legs and female terminalia are given. A key to the species of the fossil genus Eogyropsylla Klimaszewski, 1993 is also provided. The psyllids, or jumping plant-lice, are a group of small sap-sucking sternorrhynchous Hemiptera. The extant representatives of Psylloidea comprise 3000-3500 described species (Burckhardt et al. 2005; Ouvrard et al. 2008). Psyllids have a worldwide distribution—from arctic and subarctic parts of Alaska (Hodkinson 1978; Hodkinson & MacLean 1980a), Chukotka and Northeast Russia (Hodkinson MacLean 1980b), to the hot zones of South America (Burckhardt 1987 a, b, 1988), Africa (Hollis 1984) and Australia (Hollis 2004), but they exhibit greatest diversity in tropical regions. Most psyllids are monophagous, having only one host plant, or oligophagous, with a few, closely-related host-plants, and only a few are polyphagous (Ossiannilsson 1992).
查看更多>>摘要：A new species, Buprestis (Knulliobuprestis) aurora, is described from localities in the Mexican state of Veracruz and discussed in relation to B. catoxantha Gory, 1840. The following species of Buprestis are transferred to the subgenus Knulliobupresti
查看更多>>摘要：The Fannia lepida-group is reviewed. Fannia immutica Collin is recorded for the first time in China. A key to males of the four known species is provided. Fannia lepida (Wiedemann), F. grahami Chillcott, and F. immutica Collin are rede-scribed and themale terminalia illustrated. Fannia grahami remained unrecorded since its 1961 original description.
查看更多>>摘要：In 1828, the English entomologist and clergyman William Kirby described Scarabaeus femoralis using material from the collection of another English entomologist and clergyman, Frederick William Hope. The holotype of Scarabaeus femoralis Kirby, 1828 (Fig. 1) is in the Hope Entomological Collections, Oxford University Museum of Natural History (hereafter referred to as OUMNH). The genus Pachylomera was subsequently erected for this species widespread in central and southern Africa. The purpose of this note is to demonstrate, under the rules of the International Code on Zoological Nomenclature (1999), that Griffith & Pidgeon (1831) should be credited with the authorship of the genus-group name Pachylomera.
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