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Descri ption of oviparous females and alate ma les of Macrosiphum dzhibladzeae Barjadze, 2010 (Hemiptera: Aphididae) from Georgia Sh alva Bar jadze*a, Isil Özdemirb & Nana Gratiashvilia aInstitute of Zoology, Ilia State University, Giorgi Tsereteli 3, 0162, Tbilisi, Georgia; bPlant Protection Central Research Institute Gayret Mahallesi, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bulvari, No.: 66, P.K.49 06172, Yenimahalle/Ankara, Turkey Summary. The hitherto unknown oviparous females and alate males of M. dzhibladzeae Barjadze, 2010, living on Euphorbia macroceras Fish. & Mey. and Euphorbia sp. (Euphorbiaceae), are described from resort Bakhmaro (Chokhatauri district, Guria region, Western Georgia). The life cycle of this species is established. Apterous and alate viviparous females and oviparous females of M. dzhibladzeae are compared to the same morphs of morphologically similar M. meixneri Börner, 1950. A key is provided to Euphorbia-feeding Macrosiphum spp. based on males. Keywords: aphid; male; ovipara; description; Euphorbia; Palaearctic Divers ity and distribution of Chironomidae (Insecta: Dipter a) of the Ou ed Charef basin, North -Eastern Algeria Kar ima Zerguine*a,b, Zinette Bensakhrib, Dalila Bendjeddoub,c & Omar Khaladia aFaculté des Sciences de la Nature et de la Vie, et des Sciences de la Terre et de l’Univers, Département d’Écologie et génie de l’Environnement, Université 8 mai 1945, Guelma, Algérie; bLaboratoire Biologie, Eau et Environnement, Université 8 mai 1945, Guelma, Algérie; cFaculté des Sciences de la Nature et de la Vie et des Sciences de la Terre et de l’Univers, Département de Biologie,Université 8 mai 1945, Guelma, Algérie Summary. As part of the study of the Chironomidae fauna in lotic waters of North-Eastern Algeria, nine sampling stations in the Oued Charef basin were visited monthly during a study cycle. This work collected 7615 specimens forming a list of 75 species divided into four subfamilies. For North Africa, 23 species are reported for the first time, including six species of Tanypodinae ( Paramerina vaillanti, P. berkana, Procladius lugens, Thienemannimyia zousfana, Trissopelopia longimana, Trissopelopia sp. and Zavrelimyia berberi), eight species of Chironominae (Cladotanytarsus vanderwulpi, Cryptochironomus obreptans, C. supplicans, Cryptotendipes usmaensis, Polypedilum sordens, Micropsectra fallax, M. contracta and Tanytarsus sylvaticus), and nine species of Orthocladinae (Cricotopus tibialis, Chaetocladius insolitus, C. piger, Tokunagaia rectangularis, Heterotrissocladius subpilosus, Limnophyes gurgicola, Nanocladius bicolor, Rheotanytarsus distinctissimus and Smittia sp.). In Algeria, 34 species are reported for the first time: seven Tanypodinae, 15 Chironominae and 12 Orthocladinae. In addition to the species reported as new for North Africa, the following ones can be added: Macropelopia nebulosa, Harnischia curtilamellatus, Microtendipes chloris, M. confinis, Polypedilum convictum, Stictochironomus sp., Paratanytarsus dissimilis, Cricotopus fuscus, C. trifascia and Pseudosmittia sp. This study has highlighted factors that control the distribution of the Chironomidae depending on characteristics of each site and the study season. The results have shown that the occurrence and diversity of chironomid species in these streams are significantly influenced by conductivity, temperature, current velocity and the type of substratum, while altitude had no significant effect on chironomid occurrence and distribution. The Motomura analysis and the ecological indices comparison have shown that the sampled stations are widely different. Despite the extreme environmental conditions undergone by streams of this area (eutrophication, high temperatures, drought in summer and water abstraction), Oued Chaniour was the richest and most balanced community, comprising 40 mostly stenotopic species, which require undisturbed conditions. Keywords: freshwater; biodiversity; checklist Four new species of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) from Brazil and updated identifi cation keys Fr ancisco E. de L. Nasc imento* & Antonio Santos-Silva Departamento de Entomologia, Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Caixa Postal 42.494, 04218-970, Brazil Summary. Four new species of longhorn beetles are described from Brazil: Coleoxestia diamantina n. sp. (Cerambycinae, Cerambycini), from Bahia; Mirador bravoi n. sp. (Cerambycinae, Ectenessini), from Bahia; Compsibidion antonietae n. sp. (Cerambycinae, Neoibidionini), from Goiás, Bahia and São Paulo; and Amphicnaeia quadrifasciata n. sp. (Lamiinae, Apomecynini) from Bahia. Coleoxestia diamantina and Compsibidion antonietae are included in previous keys Keywords: Northeast Brazil; South America; taxonomy Inven taire des moustique s (Dipter a : Cu licidae) des îles du sud-ouest de l’ océan Indien, Mada gascar excepté — Une revue critique Ph ilippe Boussès , Gilber t Le Goff & Vincent Rob ert* UMR MIVEGEC (Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs: Écologie, Génétique et Évolution), IRD, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France Summary. Inventory of the mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of the islands of southwestern Indian Ocean, Madagascar excluded – A C ri ti ca l R ev ie w. The biodiversity of mosquitoes in the islands of southwestern Indian Ocean is the concern of numerous publications. Here, we propose a synthetic inventory and the analysis of the mosquito diversity, based on the available literature. A comprehensive annotated checklist of mosquito species has been recently published on Madagascar; this is the reason why this land is excluded from our work. Studied area encompasses 28 tropical islands in the southern hemisphere: 4 islands in the Comoros archipelago, 5 Scattered Islands (îles Éparses), 5 in Mascarene, 11 in the Seychelles and 3 in the Chagos archipelago. In total, the mosquito list presents 73 valid species, of which 10 are Anophelinae and 63 Culicinae. The number of species that are distributed in these islands only is 19, i.e. 26%, which is a remarkable level for endemism. The richness in mosquito species in these islands is analysed through several aspects including geography, local speciation and natural or human dissemination. This updated inventory increases by 33% the number of known species by regard to the previous inventory published by Julvez & Mouchet in 1994. The historical responsibility of humans in the introduction of new mosquito species in these islands is strongly documented. For instance, the species with the highest distribution among islands are Aedes aegypti, Ae. albopictus and Culex quinquefasciatus. The islands belong to the afrotropical biogeographic area and, logically, the majority (63%) of mosquito species present phylogenetic affinities with continental Africa and/or Madagascar; interestingly, the number of species present in these islands and in Madagascar but absent in continental Africa is higher than the number of species present in these islands and in continental Africa but absent in Madagascar (respectively 12 and 2 species). Thanks to valuable increase in the sampling effort, our knowledge of the culicidian fauna is increasing in these islands that constitute indisputably hotspots of biodiversity Keywords: biodiversity; faunistics; endemism; distribution; origin of populations Phylo genetic biogeography and classifi cation of the Drosophila montium species group (Diptera: Drosophilidae) Am ir Yassi n* Institut Systématique Évolution Biodiversité (ISYEB), Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, MNHN, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 50, 75005 Paris, France Summary. The Drosophila montium group is the largest clade of the subgenus Sophophora consisting of 94 palaeotropical species, whose phylogenetic relationships remain unclear. Here, I used a recent tree inferred from three nuclear genes and one mitochondrial gene for almost half of the species to reconstruct the historical biogeography of the group and propose a comprehensive classification for the totality of its species. The group originated in South-East Asia nearly 20 million years ago (mya), and dispersed to Africa in the Late Miocene. A second northward expansion into East Asia took place in the Pliocene. Based on morphological (male abdominal pigmentation and genitalia) and chorological traits congruent with the molecular tree, I divide the montium group into seven subgroups: parvula, montium, punjabiensis, serrata, kikkawai, seguyi and orosa. The polyphyletic status of some of the previously defined complexes (auraria, jambulina, serrata, kikkawai and nikananu) is also resolved. Keywords: ancestral state reconstruction; dispersal; morphological grafting; abdominal pigmentation; genitalia The genus Apsiphortica from China with DNA barcoding information (Diptera: Drosophilidae) Lu Gong & Hong wei Che n* Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Tianhe, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510642, PR China Summary. Two new species of the genus Apsiphortica are described from China: A. orthophallos n. sp. and A. sinuatipenis n. sp. Species delimitations are improved by integrating morphological and DNA barcoding information. The intra- and interspecific pairwise p-distances (proportional distance) are summarized for five Apsiphortica species from China. Furthermore, nucleotide sites with fixed status in the alignment of the COI sequences (639 nucleotide sites in length) are used as “pure” molecular diagnostic characters to delineate the five species. A key to all the Chinese species of the genus Apsiphortica is provided. Keywords: DNA barcoding; drosophilid; new species; Oriental region; taxonomy Up date on the praying mantises (Insecta: Mantodea) of South-East Vietnam Evg eny Shcherbak ov*a & Leonid Anisyutkinb aDepartment of Entomology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia; bZoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Emb. 1, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia Summary. A report of Mantodea species collected in South-East Vietnam (provinces Dong Nai, Binh Phuoc and Lam Dong) is presented. New for Vietnam are the subfamily Phyllothelyinae, the tribe Anaxarchini of the subfamily Hymenopodinae and the species Leptomantella lactea (Saussure, 1870), Tropidomantis gressitti Tinkham, 1937, Amantis bolivari Giglio-Tos, 1915, Anaxarcha graminea Stål, 1877, Creobroter nebulosa Zheng, 1988, Phyllothelys breve (Wang, 1993), Ceratocrania macra Westwood, 1889, Ceratomantis saussuri Wood-Mason, 1876 and Theopompa tosta Stål, 1877, as well as five additional species whose precise identifications are less certain. Eighteen species are new for the South-East region and seven are new for the provinces sampled. The fauna of Vietnam now contains 69 species of Mantodea, 40 of which occur in the South-East region. Morphological, taxonomical and identification details for selected species are discussed and illustrated. Keywords: Faunistics; morphology; Oriental region