在非洲进口木材中截获的长蠹科害虫的分类

报道了近年来从非洲进口木材检疫中截获的长蠹科 1 4种害虫 ,并分别对细齿叉尾长蠹Xylionadustus、多齿叉尾长蠹X .plurispinis、毛额奸狡长蠹Apatefemoralis、大角胸长蠹Bostrychoplitesmegaceros、长缘缝棘长蠹Xyloperthodesdiscedens、三胝双棘长蠹Sinoxylonsenegalense、红角双棘长蠹S .ruficorne、褐斑木长蠹Xylodectesornatus、多毛碎木长蠹Xyloperthacrinitarsis、棕异翅长蠹Heterobostrychusbrunneus等重要长蠹成虫的主要形态特征进行了描述 ,编制了分种检索表。     

瘤长蠹属一新种(鞘翅目,长蠹科)

Pertyl832报道,将瘤长蠹属Dysides定为新属,只有暗瘤长蠹Dysides obscurus一种,Lesne(1921)将成虫背面观可见头部的Dysides和Apoleon属列入长蠹科Bostrichidae内,建立瘤长蠹亚科Dysidinae。本文介绍l新种尖瘤长蠹郎Dysides spineus sp．nov．的形态特征及列出该属2种的检索表。属的特征其中触角10节,末节长条形,前胸背板顶后有4颗大瘤突横向排列,其中两侧瘤较大(上述论文末提及)。     

Free flight capacity determination in a sustained flight tunnel: effects of age and sexual state on the flight duration of Prostephanus truncatus

Abstract. . Adult Prostephanus truncatus (Horn) (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) steering anemotactically upwind to a pheromone source in a wind tunnel, respond normally to, and alter their ground speed according to the direction and speed of, the movement of ground patterns beneath them. By manipulating this optomotor reaction component of their behaviour, studies were conducted on their flight duration. The results show a great deal of individual variation in flight duration, and the general data on single flights were skewed towards short flights. Pre-reproductive and inter-reproductive male and female beetles flew significantly longer than older beetles that had passed their peak of reproduction. There was no significant difference in the flight duration of male and female beetles at any age. The overall results suggest mat younger P. truncatus are capable of long-distance flights, and support the proposition that flight could be important in the spread of the beetle.     

Origin and evolution of fungus farming in wood-boring Coleoptera – a palaeontological perspective

Insect–fungus mutualism is one of the better-studied symbiotic interactions in nature. Ambrosia fungi are an ecological assemblage of unrelated fungi that are cultivated by ambrosia beetles in their galleries as obligate food for larvae. Despite recently increased research interest, it remains unclear which ecological factors facilitated the origin of fungus farming, and how it transformed into a symbiotic relationship with obligate dependency. It is clear from phylogenetic analyses that this symbiosis evolved independently many times in several beetle and fungus lineages. However, there is a mismatch between palaeontological and phylogenetic data. Herein we review, for the first time, the ambrosia system from a palaeontological perspective. Although largely ignored, families such as Lymexylidae and Bostrichidae should be included in the list of ambrosia beetles because some of their species cultivate ambrosia fungi. The estimated origin for some groups of ambrosia fungi during the Cretaceous concurs with a known high diversity of Lymexylidae and Bostrichidae at that time. Although potentially older, the greatest radiation of various ambrosia beetle lineages occurred in the weevil subfamilies Scolytinae and Platypodinae during the Eocene. In this review we explore the evolutionary relationship between ambrosia beetles, fungi and their host trees, which is likely to have persisted for longer than previously supposed.     

Factors influencing response of flying Prostephanus truncatus to its male-produced aggregation pheromone

Abstract. The effects of age, sex, mating status, pre-exposure to pheromone, resource (diet) quality, and starvation on the response of Prostephanus truncatus (Horn) (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) to its male-produced aggregation pheromone were investigated.Age was an important factor determining the level of response to pheromone: young adults were more responsive than older adults.The suitability of the resource in which P.truncatus is present affected its dispersal tendency, but not its sensitivity to pheromone per se. Sex, mating status, brief prior exposure to pheromone, and starvation did not influence the response of the larger grain borer to pheromone.The orientation behaviour of the beetle is described, and it is proposed that the pheromone primarily functions as a 'suitable resource location and colonization signal'.