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2016
Journal article
A European record of the Nearctic species Nephrotoma saturalis wulpiana (Bergroth, 1888) (Dipter: Tipulidae) in Portugal
The circumstances of finding a second North American species of cranefly, Nephrotoma saturalis (Loew, 1863), in the Iberian Peninsula are given. The specimens are of the subspecies wulpiana (Bergroth, 1888), whose known distribution is in western North America.Hancock, E Geoffrey ; Kramer, J ; Lyszkowski, Richard M
North American species, Diptera, Nephrotoma, and Iberian Peninsula
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2015
Journal article
Diverse mechanisms of feeding and movement in Cyclorrhaphan larvae (Diptera)
Direct observation, filmed behaviour and morphological analysis were used to investigate mechanisms of larval feeding and movement in 20 species of Cyclorrhapha (Diptera). Feeding mechanisms refer to techniques of gathering food close to the pharynx entrance prior to sucking it in. A total of 12 mechanisms were recorded. Contrasting mechanisms...Rotheray, Graham E ; Lyszkowski, Richard M
larval head, locomotion, head skeleton, feeding mode, and performance
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2015
Journal article
Nematocera flies recorded in Serra do Courel, northwest Spain, May 2012 (Diptera: Anisopodidae, Blepharoceridae, Cylindrotomidae, Limoniidae, Pediciidae, Tipulidae and Trichoceridae) including descriptions of two new species of Limoniidae
During May 2012 Diptera were sampled in the Serro do Courel area of Lugo Province, Galicia, northwest Spain. The authors of this paper, members of the Malloch Society (see website) are active in attempting to understand the detailed ecology of flies. Much of this work is through targeting larval stages... -
2014
Journal article
The syrphids of Serra do Courel, Northern Spain and description of a new Cheilosia Meigen species (Diptera: Syrphidae)
The syrphids (Syrphidae) of Serra do Courel, a mountainous locality of just over 20,000ha at the west end of the Cantabrian Mountains, northern Spain are poorly known. The Scottish based, Malloch Society visited the locality in May 2012 and collected a total of 462 specimens of 98 syrphid species and... -
2014
Journal article
A new Australian genus and five new species of Rogadinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), one reared as a gregarious endoparasitoid of an unidentified limacodid (Lepidoptera)
Teresirogas Quicke & Shaw gen. nov. (type species T. australicolorus Quicke & Shaw sp. nov.) is described and illustrated, based on a series recently reared gregariously from a cocooned mummy of an unidentified species of Limacodidae collected under loose Eucalyptus bark in New South Wales, Australia. Older reared and unreared...Quicke, Donald L J ; Shaw, Mark R ; Van Achterberg, Cornelis ; Bland, K P ; Butcher, Buntika A …
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2012
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2012
Journal article
Syrphidae (Diptera) from the Greek island of Lesvos, with description of two new species
The results of the hoverfly (Syrphidae) collection by the ‘Malloch Society’ on the Greek island of Lesvos are presented. Fieldwork took place from February to March 2006 and from May to June 2010. An account of 66 species from 28 genera is provided including two species new to science, five... -
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A second British specimen of Coleocentrus Excivator (Poda) (Hymenoptera:Ichneumonidae, Acaenitinae) from Scotland
A second British specimen of the spectacular ichneumonid. Coleocentrus Excivator is recorded from Tomich, Inverness-shire, some 80 km NNW from the site at which the first was found 34 years previously. The species is illustrated and notes are given to facilitate identification. Some indications of host and biology are tentatively...Shaw, Mark R ; Lyszkowski, Richard M