A Revision of the Genus Campichoeta Macquart (Diptera: Diastatidae)

1962 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. McAlpine
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
Common Species ◽  
Palaearctic Species ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Southwestern United States ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Common

Examination of material of the genus Campichoeta Macq. (= Thryptocheta Rond.) from both the Old and the New Worlds, follawing clarification of the identities of most of the Palaearctic species by Basden and Collin (1958), revealed significant new information on the taxonomy of the genus. It showed that the common species in North America, heretofore called Thryptocheta micans Hendel (1911), is the same as Campichoeta griseola (Zett.) (1855) known from a single collection apparently made by Boheman in central Sweden about 1852. Also, it showed that an undescribed species occurs in southwestern United States.

Dipteran Pests: Families Tipulidae and Chloropidae

2020 ◽  
pp. 299-316
Author(s):  
Patricia J. Vittum
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
North America ◽  
Northeastern United States ◽  
Limited Distribution ◽  
Crane Flies ◽  
The Family ◽  
Athletic Fields ◽  
The Common ◽  
Considerable Damage

This chapter describes two invasive crane fly species which are pests of turfgrass, particularly in the northwestern and northeastern United States, as well as southern British Columbia and the metropolitan Toronto area in Canada. The European crane fly and the common or marsh crane fly, order Diptera, family Tipulidae, subfamily Tipulinae, have elongated maxillary palpi that distinguish members of this subfamily from other subfamilies. Larvae of invasive crane flies are sometimes called leatherjackets, in part because the pupae are leathery in appearance. Invasive crane flies have a relatively limited distribution in North America, but can cause considerable damage on golf courses, lawns, athletic fields, and sod farms, as well as forage fields and hayfields. The chapter also looks at the frit fly, which belongs to the family Chloropidae.

Two new genera of Nearctic Chamaemyiidae (Diptera: Lauxanioidea) associated with Cinara aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) on Pinus

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4852 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-82
Author(s):  
STEPHEN D. GAIMARI
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
Pinus Ponderosa ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Immature Stages ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Southwestern United States ◽  
The Third

Two new genera of Chamaemyiidae (Diptera: Lauxanioidea) are described and illustrated, including: Chamaethrix gen. nov. (type species Chamaethrix necopina sp. nov.), possibly a predator of Cinara ponderosae (Williams) on Pinus ponderosa in the southwestern United States; and Vitaleucopis gen. nov. (type species Vitaleucopis nidolkah sp. nov.; other included species Vitaleucopis astonea (McAlpine), comb. nov., and Vitaleucopis scopulus sp. nov.), predators of Cinara aphids and possibly adelgids on Pinaceae in western North America. Immature stages are discussed or described and illustrated for some taxa, including the eggs of Chamaethrix necopina and Vitaleucopis nidolkah; and the third instars and puparia of Vitaleucopis nidolkah. 

The Liriomyza (Diptera: Schizophora: Agromyzidae) of Canada & Alaska

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4234 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
OWEN LONSDALE
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
Palaearctic Species ◽  
New Host ◽  
First Time

The Liriomyza (Diptera: Agromyzidae) of Canada and Alaska is revised, with species keyed and illustrated, and new host and geographic records provided. Eighty one species are recognized, including 24 new to science: L. agrios, L. albispina, L. anatolis, L. aphila, L. apilaca, L. aquapolis, L. arenarium, L. atrassimilis, L. bicolumbis, L. charada, L. cracentis, L. elevaster, L. emaciata, L. fumeola, L. gibsoni, L. griffithsi, L. hilairensis, L. limopsis, L. mesocanadensis, L. pilicornis, L. pistilla, L. rigaudensis, L. taraxanox, L. taraxanuda, L. tryssos. Ten species known from the United States are recorded as new to Canada: L. artemisiae Spencer, L. assimilis (Malloch), L. baccharidis Spencer, L. helianthi Spencer, L. merga Lonsdale, L. minor Spencer, L. sabaziae Spencer, L. temperata Spencer, L. violivora (Spencer) and L. virgo (Zetterstedt). Palaearctic species new to North America include L. wachtli Hendel and L. flaveola (Fallén); while the latter species has been recorded in North America before, all previous records represent misidentifications. Hosts are recorded for the first time for L. balcanicoides Sehgal, L. minor Spencer, L. orilliensis Spencer and L. socialis Spencer. Galiomyza Spencer syn. nov. is included as a junior synonym of Liriomyza Mik, resulting in six new combinations. 

A new species of Deltaspis Audinet-Serville (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae) from Mexico

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4247 (2) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
BRYAN K. EYA
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Southwestern United States ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Shared Character

As currently defined, the genus Deltaspis Audinet-Serville, 1834, contains 16 species ranging in distribution from the southwestern United States to eastern Mexico. However, the generic distinction between Deltaspis and its closely allied genera, such as Crossidius LeConte, 1851 and Muscidora Thomson, 1864, is in need of clarification. According to Audinet-Serville, Deltaspis is so named due to its distinctive triangular scutellum (i.e., Δετα, delta, ασπιζ écusson), which is actually a commonly shared character of all these genera. Members of the tribe Trachyderini Dupont (1836), which includes the above genera, also have mandibles with an emarginate-truncate apex with the edge chisel-like or bifid. This modification of mouthpart appears to be for consumption of pollen and/or petals from composite flowers visited by the adult beetles (Krenn et al., 2005; Beierl & Barchet-Beierl, 1999). Other genera from this tribe with this modification of mandibles from North America, and mostly from Mexico, include: Chemsakiella Monné, 2006, Giesbertia Chemsak & Linsley, 1984, Hoegea Bates, 1885, Neocrossidius Chemsak, 1959, Paroxoplus Chemsak, 1959, Plionoma Casey, 1912, Schizax LeConte, 1873, and Tylosis LeConte, 1850. The remainder of Trachyderini genera have unmodified or simple mandibles with apex acute. 

Stegomastodon Associated With Mammuthus in Arizona During the Quaternary

1986 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cary T. Madden
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Southwestern United States

The gomphothere, Stegomastodon, is the most morphologically progressive non-elephant proboscidean in North America. Prior to the appearance of mammoths during the earliest Pleistocene, stegomastodonts held niches later occupied by those elephants. Two proboscidean specimens from near Taylor, Arizona, show that elephant-like Stegomastodon coexisted with Mammuthus in the southwestern United States during the Quaternary. Other associations of Stegomastodon and Mammuthus are known from the early and middle Pleistocene of Texas and the early Pleistocene of Nebraska. The mammoth from the Taylor locality is the oldest known from Arizona.

Keratella armadura (Rotifera: Brachionidae), a new rotifer from a Michigan bog lake

1990 ◽  
Vol 68 (11) ◽  
pp. 2306-2309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard S. Stemberger
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Geographic Range ◽  
The Body ◽  
Dorsal Plate ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Keratella Cochlearis ◽  
Posterior Spine ◽  
The Common ◽  
Lower Peninsula

The rotifer Keratella armadura n.sp. is described from a shallow alkaline bog lake from Michigan's lower peninsula. The facet pattern of the dorsal plate is similar to that of the common North American phenotype of Keratella cochlearis and K. taurocephala. The rigid, thickened lorica, long recurving posterior spine, and constriction of the body near the base of the anterior spines is distinctive from known congenors. The species was abundant (> 300 individuals/L) within a well-defined habitat, and appears to have a narrow geographic range. Keratella armadura occurred in spring and summer months and was absent from fall and winter collections. This restricted distribution, if common among rotifers, suggests that many undescribed species still exist in Michigan and in North America.

NOTES ON BUTTERFLIES, WITH DIRECTIONS FOR BREEDING THEM FROM THE EGG

1884 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 81-89
Author(s):  
W. H. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Old Age ◽  
North American ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The United States ◽  
Common Species ◽  
Larval Stages ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common

I am asked to write for the Can. Ent. a paper on breeding butterflies, and on taking observations of the larval stages, and I comply with pleasure, hoping that what I shall say may be the means of inducing some collectors to cultivate this field. There are many local collections of butterflies in Canada and the United States, and a few general North American collections, more or less complete. But their owners are mostly satisfied with mere collecting and accumulating specimens of the imago. Very few know anything of the larval and other stages of the butterflies, unless of some of the common species. And where anything is known, very little is given to the world. Some collectors, however, have also been breeders of butterflies, sphinges and moths on a large scale. As for example, our friends, John Akhurst and Professor Julius E. Meyer, of Brooklyn, each of whom could fill a good-sized volume, if they would relate one half of what they know on these subjects. Such an one was the late William Newman, of Philadelphia, who lived to a good old age, and had spent his spare hours for many years in collecting and breeding lepidoptera. But none of these gentlemen have published a line that I am aware of, and the entomological world is not much the wiser for their private experience. So that practically here is a great field almost unworked.

North American species of Diamphidaxona (Acari: Hydrachnida: Hygrobatidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1279 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
IAN M. SMITH ◽  
DAVID R. COOK
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
North American Species ◽  
Southwestern United States ◽  
Species Groups

Members of the genus Diamphidaxona Cook, 1963 are found from southeastern Canada to Argentina, with greatest diversity of species and species groups in the southwestern United States and Mexico. In this paper the three species of Diamphidaxona previously known from North America, D. pallida Cook, D. dolichosoma Cook and D. imamurai Cook, are redescribed. Eleven new species, including D. arizonica sp. nov., D. brevitarsa sp. nov., D. californica sp. nov., D. cavecreekensis sp. nov., D. chihuahua sp. nov., D. chiricahua sp. nov., D. cramerae sp. nov., D. neomexicana sp. nov., D. parvacetabula sp. nov., D. platysoma sp. nov. and D. sabinalensis sp. nov., are also described. North American species are allocated to two subgenera, the nominate subgenus and Diamphidaxonella subgen. nov., for which diagnoses are provided. New distributional data and a key for all North American species are presented.

UROMYCES STRIATUS SCHROET. IN ONTARIO

1962 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 491-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Parmelee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
Pisum Sativum ◽  
Spore Morphology ◽  
Common Occurrence ◽  
Alternate Hosts ◽  
The Common ◽  
Euphorbia Cyparissias

Large stands of Euphorbia cyparissias L. in Ontario supporting aecia of Uromyces striatus Schroet. presented an opportunity for the author to study this stage of the rust hitherto little known in North America since its discovery here in 1947. The mycelium was found to be systemic and perennial and the aeciospores capable of infecting many species of Medicago and some yellow-flowered species of Trifolium. Pisum sativum was just slightly susceptible. Both diploid and tetraploid nuclear conditions of E. cyparissias have been found rusted and E. esula, long suspected as a host in Europe, has also been found rusted and the connection to Leguminosae shown by inoculation. Specimens resulting from inoculations (109) and from field collections from Canada (33), United States (18), and Europe (13) were identical in spore morphology. This, plus susceptibility of Leguminosae from Europe to the inoculum from Ontario, supports the suggestion that the rust was introduced to North America from Europe. It is further suggested that U. striatus was introduced on either or both alternate hosts independently. The common occurrence of telia is recorded and the fungus is redescribed.

scholarly journals Niche Breadth and Overlap of Sphagnum Species in Costa Rica

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-127
Author(s):  
Cyrus B. McQueen
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
Niche Breadth ◽  
Niche Overlap ◽  
Common Species ◽  
The Common ◽  
Sphagnum Magellanicum

Niche breadth and overlap values of Sphagnum species in Costa Rica are similar to those reported for Sphagnum-dominated peatlands in North America. Sphagnum magellanicum Brid. and S. sparsum Hampe have the broadest niche breadth of the common species in Costa Rica. Although S. sancto-josephense Crum & Crosby has a relatively narrow niche breadth, it is one of the most common species along with S. magellancium and S. sparsum in the Sphagnum habitats of Costa Rica. Niche overlap is high among species with the exception of S. platyphyllum (Braithw.) Warnst. which is found in habitats that are rich in iron. The pH, conductivity, and concentrations of Ca, Fe, Mg, Mn, Na, K, and P of Sphagnum habitats in Costa Rica are similar to those reported for páramo habitats in South America.

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