Journal
ZOOLOGY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Volume 56, Issue -, Pages 67-84Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2012.10648943
Keywords
Cephidae; Tenthredinidae; new records; new species; new combination; new status; new host
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- Government of Canada through Genome Canada
- Ontario Genomics Institute
- Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding (University of Guelph)
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Four species of Hymenoptera Symphyta are recorded for the first time in Cyprus: one Cephidae, Calameuta pygmaea (Poda, 1761), and three Tenthredinidae; Euura atra (indite, 1807), Heterarthrus vagans (Fallen, 1808) and Pristiphora calliprina sp. n. The genus Periclista is also newly recorded, but the species remains unidentified. Identifications of three species previously recorded in Cyprus are revised: Calameuta nigricarpus (Andre, 1881) comb. nov. (from Cephus) (= Calameuta filiformis: misidentification), Allantus ariadne sp. n. (= Allantus laticinctus: misidentification), Strongylogaster cypria Benson, 1954 stat. tIOV. (= S. multifasciata: misidentification). Alnus orientalis is a new hostplant record for Heterarthrus vagans. Of the 43 species of Symphyta now recorded in Cyprus, six are at present only known from there: Allantus ariadne, Calameuta festiva, Heterarthrus cypricus, Macrophya aphrodite, Pristiphora calliprina and Pristiphora schedli. Rather than being endemic to Cyprus, most of these species may also occur in the relatively poorly investigated neighbouring mainland eastern Mediterranean countries such as Lebanon, Syria and Israel.
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