Brachypterous Research Articles

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT SEGREGATION OF BUSHCRICKETS (ORTHOPTERA: TETTIGONIIDAE) IN ISRAEL

ABSTRACT Long-horned bushcrickets (Tettigoniidae) have been studied intensively in Israel for four decades. Forty-two species belonging to twenty-two genera have been recorded. This article reviews their biology and analyzes the geographical distribution and the species associations with plant communities of the five phytogeographical provinces represented in Israel. The majority of the species are associated with the Mediterranean and Irano-Turanian flora, with a few species each associated with the Tragacant, Saharo-Sindian, and Ethiopian flora. A high proportion (about 50%) of endemism, associated with a high proportion of brachypterous species, was found in the first three groups but not in the last two groups. Despite a general association with specific plant communities, no distinct relation between species distribution and precipitation levels was found. However, within the Mediterranean and Irano—Turanian groups, there is a distinct segregation of species with similar morphology between bush-fores...

Systematic revision of the New World Olixon Cameron with descriptions of O. melinsula sp. n. and the hitherto unknown female of O. bicolor (Hymenoptera, Rhopalosomatidae)

The New World species of the brachypterous wasp genus Olixon Cameron are revised and five species are recognized: Olixon atlanticum Fernandez & Sarmiento-M., O. banksii (Brues), O. bicolor Roig Alsina & Martinez, O. melinsula sp. n. and O. testaceum Cameron. The new species and the previously unknown female of O. bicolor are described. An identification key and a distribution map for the New World Olixon are provided. The genus Olixon is more widely distributed throughout the New World than previously thought and here newly recorded from Belize, Bolivia, Canada, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela. (© 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

A new brachypterous leafhopper of the tribe Malmaemichungiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Bathysmatophorinae), representing the first record of the tribe from China

The rare brachypterous leafhopper genus Malmaemichungia Kwon is revised with the description and illustration of a new species, Malmaemichungia qinlingensis sp. nov., from the Qinling Mountains, central China. The new species represents a substantial extension of the known range of the tribe Malmaemichungiini, all other species of which are recorded from South Korea. The taxonomic position and biogeography and habitats of Malmaemichungiini and the closely related Bathysmatophorini are discussed. Bathysmatophorinae is here treated as a separate subfamily for the first time (new status) and includes the nominotypical tribe and Malmaemichungiini.

Amitermes floridensis, a New Species and First Record of a Higher Termite in the Eastern United States (Isoptera: Termitidae: Termitinae)

Alates, soldiers, workers, and brachypterous nymphs of Amitermes floridensis n. sp. from St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.A., are described for the first time. Distribution records, biological notes, and significance of A. floridensis are reported.

TWO DIMORPHIC PHILOTARSIDAE (PSOCOPTERA) FROM AUSTRALIA

AbstractBoth sexes are described of two species of Philotarsidae (Haplophallus bundoorensis sp. n. and Aaroniella pallida sp. n.) collected in Victoria. Females of both are brachypterous and males macropterous.

A brachypterous Cercopid from the Ruwenzori range, representing a new genus and species (Homoptera: Cercopoidea)

SynopsisA new genus and a new species are erected to accommodate a brachypterous Hybos‐cartine Cercopid collected at over 10,000 feet in the Ruwenzori range, Uganda, and its affinities are discussed.