查看更多>>摘要：A phylogeny is presented for the Elateridae, inferred from parsimony and Bayesian analyses of 175 adult morphological characters. Analyses using non gap-weighted morphological data yielded results compatible with each other and some published classifications, while gap-weighted parsimony analysis did not. Bayesian posterior probabilities for the monophyly of the Elateridae and the elaterid subfamilies Athoinae (sensu Dolin 1975), Cardiophorinae (including Exoeolus Broun), Denticollinae (sensu Stibick 1979a), Elaterinae (sensu Stibick 1979a), Hypnoidinae (sensu Stibick 1976) and Lissominae (sensu Calder et al. 1993) were less than 0.05. The bioluminescent genus Pyrophorus was found to be an apical member of the mostly non-bioluminescent Agrypninae, supporting the hypothesis of at least one independent origin of bioluminescence in the Elateridae. The closest relatives to the Cardiophorinae minus Exoeolus were found in the Negastriinae. The subfamilies Cardiophorinae + Negastriinae + Tropihypnus Reitter together rendered the Hypnoidinae (or the tribe Hypnoidini of Denticollinae) paraphyletic. Lesnelater madagascariensis Fleutiaux (the type species of Lesnelater Fleutiaux) is synonymised under the type species of Pachyelater Lesne: P. madagascariensis (Lesne) so that Lesnelater is a new synonym of Pachyelater. The genus Exoeolus Broun is transferred from the Cardiophorinae to the Hemiopinae; the fossil genus Crioraphes Iablokoff-Khnzorian is transferred to the Elaterinae incertae sedis; the fossil genera Pseudocardiophorites Dolin, and Protocardiophorus Dolin are transferred to Elateroidea incertae sedis. Dolin's (1976) hypothesis of a Jurassic origin of the Cardiophorinae was not supported by fossil evidence.
查看更多>>摘要：A new genus and micropterous species of Thripinae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), Yaothrips shii gen. & sp. n., are described and illustrated from Tibet, western China. The relationship of this genus with other genera of Thripinae is discussed, particularly because of a pair of dorso-apical setae on the first antennal segment.
查看更多>>摘要：New distribution records are provided for the following 16 taxa of Gyrinidae on New Guinea, some of which have not been documented since their original type series were collected in the late 1800s or early 1900s: Porrorhynchus (Rhomborhynchus) depressus depressus Regimbart; Porrorhynchus (Rhomborhynchus) depressus misoolensis Ochs new combination; Dineutus (Rhombodineutus) pectoralis pectoralis Regimbart; Dineutus (Rhombodineutus) pectoralis biakensis Brinck; Dineutus (Rhombodineutus) pectoralis monticola Ochs; Dineutus (Rhombodineutus) heurni Zimmerman; Dineutus (Rhombodineutus) silenus Brinck; Dineutus (Rhombodineutus) sinuaticollis Zimmerman; Dineutus (Rhombodineutus) virescens Ochs; Dineutus (Rhombodineutus) chalybeus Zimmerman; Dineutus (Rhombodineutus) helleri stueberi Ochs; Dineutus (Rhombodineutus) tetracanthus tetracanthus Regimbart; Dineutus (Merodineutus) archboldianus Ochs; Dineutus (Merodineutus) loriae Regimbart; Dineutus (Merodineutus) macrochirus Regimbart; and Dineutus (Spinosodineutes) neohollandicus Ochs. New distribution records are also provided for Dineutus (Dineutus) regimbarti regimbarti Regimbart from East Timor. The type-locality of Dineutus (Rhombodineutus) chalybeus is constrained to Yule Island, on the Gulf of Papua. Updated distribution maps are provided for all the New Guinea species above, a table is included summarizing currently documented ranges of elevation and water temperature for all species treated, and a checklist of all species of Gyrinidae currently known from New Guinea and nearby islands is provided, with species assigned to putative areas of freshwater endemism within the island.
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