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Odontofroggatia galili Wiebes, 1980 from Malta(Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Agaonidae)

Gabriella LO VERDE1 & Francesco PORCELLI2

ABSTRACT. Odontofroggatia galiliOdontofroggatia

Ficus microcarpa

KEY WORDS.

INTRODUCTION

FicusFicus microcarpa

F. microcarpa Eupristina verticillata Odontofroggatia galili LO VERDE et al LO VERDE et al Walkerella microcarpae Philotripesis emeryi LO VERDE et al

Josephiella microcarpae LO VERDE E. verticillata

F. microcarpa DOMINA & MAZZOLA,

TRAVESET

F microcarpa

Odontofroggatia galili

Odontofroggatia galili Wiebes, 1980

Taxonomic notes: OdontofroggatiaOdontofroggatia

Ficus microcarpa F. prasinicarpa ISHII WIEBE

FENG & HUANG

O. galiliO quinifuniculus

O. ishii O. gajimaruO. ishii, O. gajimaru O quinifuniculus

O. corneri O. corneri

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1Florusstraße 5, D 53225 Bonn, Germany. E-mail: [email protected] 2 .

New records of Tineidae from the Maltese Islands including description of a new species Eudarcia melitensis sp. n.

(Lepidoptera)

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ABSTRACT. Eudarcia melitensis

Eudarcia derrai, Proterospastis autochthones, Phereoeca lodli Tinea messalina

E. derrai

KEY WORDS. Eudarcia melitensis

INTRODUCTION

GAEDIKE, SAMMUT,

PARENTI

MATERIAL AND METHODS

Eudarcia


1 C/ Río Oca, 19. CP. 09240 Briviesca (Burgos), Spain. E-mail: [email protected] Departamento de Biología y Geología, I.E.S. Trassierra, Córdoba, Spain. E-mail: [email protected] Junior College, University of Malta, Biology Department, Msida MSD 1020, Malta. E-mail: [email protected]

New records of terrestrial bugs from the Maltese Islands with an updated list of Maltese Heteroptera

(Insecta: Hemiptera)

David CUESTA SEGURA1, Manuel BAENA RUÍZ2 & David MIFSUD3

ABSTRACT. Thirty-four species of Heteroptera were found from the Maltese islands during a sampling period of a week in April of 2009. Of these, seven represent new records for this territory and include the seed bugs Artheneis foveolata, Emblethis duplicatus, Engistus boops boops and Oxycarenus hyalinipennis and the plant bugs Megalodactylus macularubra, Mimocoris sp. and Phytocoris sp. The integration of the records from the last Catalogue of Maltese Heteroptera, the Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaeartic Region and the present data raised the heteroptera known from the Maltese islands to 223 species accommodated in 161 genera and 26 families.

KEY WORDS. Malta, true bugs, new records, updated list.

INTRODUCTION

Probably the earliest mention of Maltese Heteroptera was due to DALLAS (1852), who recorded four species from Malta, as clearly indicated in Schembri’s catalogue of Maltese Heteroptera (1993) which includes most citations relevant to Maltese Heteroptera. The number of Heteroptera species for Malta increased slowly, and more than a hundred years later, TAMANINI (1966) recorded 67 species belonging to 16 families. DE LUCCA (1969) added some further species and RIEGER (1986) provided information on 35 additional new records for Malta. SCHEMBRI (1993) also described the major Maltese habitat types and provided additional new records, listing a total of 209 taxa (refer to discussion) accommodated in 23 families. He included also a biogeographical analysis for the group. Two years later, CARAPEZZA (1995) reviewed the heteroptera of the Sicilian Channel Islands, incorporating a list of species for all islands, including the Maltese ones. In total he recorded 197 species (seven of them doubtful) from the Maltese Islands, corrected the often outdated nomenclature of SCHEMBRI (1993) and made various comments on previously reported species for Malta.

species have been synonymized or have changed taxonomic status. An example of this is the revision of the genus Sciocoris by PÉRICART (2002), where a couple of species recorded by SCHEMBRI (1993), such as S. helferi and S. ribauti, are considered as one species whereas, was synonymized with S. pallens. In addition, new records of Heteroptera from the Maltese Islands have

(AUKEMA & RIEGER, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2006), which data is incorporated in the web site “www.faunaeur.org” and can be consulted by country. None of these changes in the knowledge of


1 Avia-GIS, Zoersel, Belgium / Institute of Parasitology, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 266a, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland. E-mail: [email protected] Research Associate, International Environment Institute, University of Malta, Msida, Malta. E-mail: [email protected] NRW Institute of Health and Work (LIGA.NRW), Muenster, Germany / Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany. E-mail: [email protected] Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, Roma, Italy. E-mail: [email protected] Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Unit, Department of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Msida, Malta. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] ECDC, Stockholm, Sweden. E-mail: [email protected]*Corresponding author

Mosquitoes in Malta: Preliminary entomological investigation and risk assessment for vector-borne diseases

(Diptera: Culicidae)

Francis SCHAFFNER1*, Paul GATT2, Sabine MALL3, Michele MAROLI4, Gianfranco SPITERI5, Tanya MELILLO5 & Hervé ZELLER6

ABSTRACT. At the request of Malta’s Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Unit (IDCU), the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) organized an expert mission in Malta in 2009 to provide support for a vector-borne disease (VBD) risk assessment. As these diseases are clearly related to the presence of competent and

determine the presence and relative abundance of potential vectors, and to assess the risk of transmission of mosquito-borne diseases. From April 6th to May 1st, 2009, a total of 114 among 513 investigated putative larval habitat units contained mosquito immature

larval habitats. Also, 1,150 female mosquitoes were caught with dry-ice baited light traps. Seven species among the nine known to occur in Malta at the time of the study were observed and Culex theileri . The most commonly encountered species were Culiseta longiareolata and Culex pipiens. Culex hortensis was only found on the island of Gozo. The mosquitoes of the Mariae complex have been

Aedes zammitii but all except four of the specimens collected showed morphological characters corresponding to Aedes mariae. Neither Anopheles spp. nor Aedes albopictus were found despite the investigation of suitable larval habitats and the use of CO2-baited light traps and a few ovitraps. However, these species are known to be more abundant during the summer months and further investigations are

mosquito-related risk of disease for humans in Malta is discussed and West Nile fever appears to be the most probable mosquito-borne disease that could appear in Malta. The

Aedes albopictus after this study was completed further strengthens the need to survey both chikungunya and dengue infections.

KEY WORDS. Mosquito, Vector, Mosquito-borne disease, Arbovirus, Culex theileri.


The Curculionoidea of the Maltese Islands(Central Mediterranean)

(Coleoptera)

David MIFSUD1 & Enzo COLONNELLI2

ABSTRACT. The Curculionoidea of the families Anthribidae, Rhynchitidae, Apionidae, Nanophyidae, Brachyceridae, Curculionidae, Erirhinidae, Raymondionymidae, Dryophthoridae and Scolytidae from the Maltese islands are reviewed. A total of 182 species are included, of which the following 51 species represent new records for this archipelago: Araecerus fasciculatus and Noxius curtirostris in Anthribidae; Protapion interjectum and Taeniapion rufulum in Apionidae; Corimalia centromaculata and C. tamarisci in Nanophyidae; Amaurorhinus bewickianus, A. sp. nr. paganettii, Brachypera fallax, B. lunata, B. zoilus, Ceutorhynchus leprieuri, Charagmus gressorius, Coniatus tamarisci, Coniocleonus pseudobliquus, Conorhynchus brevirostris, Cosmobaris alboseriata, C. scolopacea, Derelomus chamaeropis, Echinodera sp. nr. variegata, Hypera sp. nr. tenuirostris, Hypurus bertrandi, Larinus scolymi, Leptolepurus meridionalis, Limobius mixtus, Lixus brevirostris, L. punctiventris, L. vilis, Naupactus cervinus, Otiorhynchus armatus, O. liguricus, Rhamphus oxyacanthae, Rhinusa antirrhini, R. herbarum, R. moroderi, Sharpia rubida, Sibinia femoralis, Smicronyx albosquamosus, S. brevicornis, S. , , Styphloderes exsculptus, Trichosirocalus centrimacula, Tychius argentatus, T. bicolor, T. pauperculus and T. pusillus in Curculionidae; Sitophilus zeamais and Sphenophorus parumpunctatus

Dactylotrypes longicollis and Scolytus ensifer in Scolytidae. Of the above mentioned new records, Araecerus fasciculatus and Naupactus cervinus represent established alien species in Malta whereas the records of Otiorhynchus armatus and O. liguricus are based on material intercepted with plant material

Limobius mixtus, Brachypera fallax, B. parvithorax, and Tychius pauperculus are not present in Italy, and for the last three species, Malta represents their only European location. Due to the availability of historical material, a number of published records

Acalles ptinoides should refer to Echinodera sp. nr. variegata; Ceratapion penetrans to C. onopordi; Limobius borealis to L. mixtus; Rhamphus pulicarius to R. oxyacanthae; Sibinia attalica to S. femoralis; Sitona striatellus (= S. tibialis) to S. lineatus; both Sphenophorus abbreviatus and S. piceus to S. parumpunctatus; Trichosirocalus troglodytes to T. centrimacula. The record of Barypeithes mollicomusincorrect and must have been due to a mistaken locality datum. The record of Hypera pastinacae is also incorrect and in part, material of this species was actually collected from Corfu and not Malta. The record of Phyllobius crassior refers to a Siberian species. Revised synonymies include: Asproparthenis maculicollis (Chevrolat, 1873), stat. rev. [= Bothynoderes andreae Colonnelli, 1991, syn. rev.], Eremobaris

1 Junior College, Department of Biology, University of Malta, Msida MSD 1252, MALTA. E-mail: [email protected] via delle Giunchiglie, 56, 00176 Rome, ITALY. E-mail: [email protected]

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