查看更多>>摘要：Insects in communal nests of the monk parakeet, Myiopsitta monachus [Aves: Psittacidae] were studied in Argentina (provinces of Chaco, Catamarca, La Rioja, Cordoba, Santa Fe, San Juan, San Luis, La Pampa, and Buenos Aires). A total of 176 species of insects (8 orders, 48 families) was represented by 106,556 specimens. Hemiptera was represented by 58,915 exx. (52.3%); followed by Coleoptera, 46,764 exx. (43.8%). The insects are discriminated by functional guilds and the time of residence inside the nests. Other dead insects and arthropods, inquiline insects, and birds also found in the nests are also provided.
查看更多>>摘要：Twenty years ago, a new buprestid genus and species, Oaxacanthaxia viridis Bellamy 1991 was described for specimens collected by Jim Cope during the summer of 1989 in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico (Bellamy 1991). The summer following thatpublication (1992), a group of 10 buprestiphiles from Australia, Czech Republic, Germany, the United States and Russia combined forces to collect in southern Mexico (Guerrerro and Oaxaca), hoping to find, among many other taxa, O. viridis. That quest was partly successful (only one female specimen collected by Dave Verity), but completely unexpectedly Ted MacRae, Gayle Nelson and Dave Verity collected a second species of Oaxacanthaxia, which was described as O. nigroaenea by Nelson & MacRae (1994).iTwelve years later, Niehuis & Gottwald (2006) described a new species from Nicaragua: O. vandenberghei, named for Manfred Niehuis' nephew Eric van den Berghe, who had lived and collected for several years in Nicaragua. Most recently Hornburg & Gottwald (2008) described O. aenea from Venezuela, greatly expanding the range of the genus.
查看更多>>摘要：The costaemaculella species group of Agonopterix is reviewed.' Six species are recognized: A. costaemaculella (Christoph, 1882), A. leptopa (Diakonoff, 1952), A. burmana Lvovsky, 1998, stat. rev., A. likiangella sp. nov., A. ventrangulata sp. nov. andA. hoenei sp. nov. Agonopterix burmana and A. leptopa, previously known only from Myan-mar (Burma), are newly recorded from China. Images of the adults and illustration of the genitalia are provided, along with a key to the species of the costaemaculella group.
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