Revision of the bark beetles belonging to the genus Pseudohylesinus Swaine /

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A revision of the North American species of buprestid beetles belonging to the tribe Chrysobothrini ...

Contribution from Bureau of entomology and plant quarantine.

Probable evolution and morphological variation in South American Disonychine flea beetles (Coleoptera: chrysomelidae) and their amaranthaceous hosts /

Issued June 1979.

Classification of the Dermestidae (larder, hide, and carpet beetles) based on larval characters : with a key to the North American genera /

Contribution from Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine.

A revision of the North American species of beetles belonging to the family Bostrichidae /

Contribution from Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine.

A revision of the New World species of powder-post beetles belonging to the family Lyctidae /

Selected references: p. 46-55.

Protect your pines from bark beetles.

"This publication was prepared by H. Eugene Ostmark and Calvin L. Massey ..."--P. 19.

Distinguishing immatures of insect associates of southern pine bark beetles /

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Coffee Berry Borer Joins Bark Beetles in Coffee Klatch

Unanswered key questions in bark beetle-plant interactions concern host finding in species attacking angiosperms in tropical zones and whether management strategies based on chemical signaling used for their conifer-attacking temperate relatives may also be applied in the tropics. We hypothesized that there should be a common link in chemical signaling mediating host location by these Scolytids. Using laboratory behavioral assays and chemical analysis we demonstrate that the yellow-orange exocarp stage of coffee berries, which attracts the coffee berry borer, releases relatively high amounts of volatiles including conophthorin, chalcogran, frontalin and sulcatone that are typically associated with Scolytinae chemical ecology. The green stage of the berry produces a much less complex bouquet containing small amounts of conophthorin but no other compounds known as bark beetle semiochemicals. In behavioral assays, the coffee berry borer was attracted to the spiroacetals conophthorin and chalcogran, but avoided the monoterpenes verbenone and a-pinene, demonstrating that, as in their conifer-attacking relatives in temperate zones, the use of host and non-host volatiles is also critical in host finding by tropical species. We speculate that microorganisms formed a common basis for the establishment of crucial chemical signals comprising inter-and intraspecific communication systems in both temperate-and tropical-occurring bark beetles attacking gymnosperms and angiosperms.

Is the human population a large-scale indicator of the species richness of ground beetles?

Aim Positive regional correlations between biodiversity and human population have been detected for several taxonomic groups and geographical regions. Such correlations could have important conservation implications and have been mainly attributed to ecological factors, with little testing for an artefactual explanation: more populated regions may show higher biodiversity because they are more thoroughly surveyed. We tested the hypothesis that the correlation between people and herptile diversity in Europe is influenced by survey effort

Description of Coctilelater minimus sp. nov. (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Agrypninae)

Coctilelater minimus from Brazil (Pará) is described and illustrated. This new species is mainly characterized by small size and coloration pattern.

Metapyrophorus pharolim a new genus and species of Pyrophorini (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Agrypninae)

Metapyrophorus, a new monotypic genus, is erected based on M. pharolim, new species from Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela. The genus is characterized mainly by its pair of convex pronotal bioluminescent organs, equidistant between the median line and the lateral margin.