Biodiversity, biogeography and nature conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea

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by  Telnov, Dmitry.

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Biodiversity, Biogeography
and Nature Conservation
in WALLACEA and NEW GUINEA
Volume III
Dmitry Telnov (executive editor),
Maxwell V.L. Barclay & Olivier S.G. Pauwels
2017
THIS VOLUME TO BE CITED AS FOLLOWS:
Telnov D., Barclay M.V.L. & Pauwels O.S.G. (eds) 2017. Biodiversity, biogeography and nature conser¬
vation in Waiiacea and New Guinea. Volume III. The Entomological Society of Latvia, Riga: 658 pp, 172
pis.
SEPARATE ARTICLES TO BE CITED AS FOLLOWS:
Shea G.M. 2017. The identity of Lygosoma (Hlnulla) mlsolense Vogt, 1928 (Squamata: Scincidae): 21-25,
pi. 1. In: Telnov D., Barclay M.V.L. & Pauwels O.S.G. (eds) Biodiversity, biogeography and nature conserva¬
tion in Waiiacea and New Guinea. Volume III. The Entomological Society of Latvia, Riga: 658 pp, 172 pis.
ISBN of the volume III: 978-9984-9768-8-4
ISSN of the series: 2255-9728
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(Department of Life Sciences, the Natural History Museum, London) and OLIVIER S.G. PAUWELS (Depart¬
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Title page photo: Mount Mutis in West Timor (photo: L. Wagner, 2016; published with permission)
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Contents
Foreword: . 6
Editorial. 7
Acknowledgements. 8
SECTION ONE: BOTANY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
POCS, Tamas & WEI, Yu-Mei: Bryophytes from the Fiji Islands, VIII. The genus Lejeunea Libert (1820)
(Jungermanniopsida) . 9
SECTION TWO: VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY
SFIEA, Glenn M.: The identity of Lygosoma (HInulla) misolense Vogt, 1928 (Squamata: Scincidae) . 21
SFIEA, Glenn M.: Generic allocation of the enigmatic scincid lizard Lygosoma Inconspicuum F. Muller, 1895
(Squamata: Scincidae) from Sulawesi . 27
SFIEA, Glenn M.: A new species oi Sphenomorphus (Squamata: Scincidae) from the Doberai Peninsula of New Guinea,
with a redescription oi Sphenomorphus consobrinus (Peters et Doria, 1878) . 35
SECTION THREE: INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY. ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
BORDONI, Arnaldo: Xantholinini of the Australasian Region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), X. New species
and new records from New Guinea and Australia.49
CFIEROT, Frederic, GORCZYCA, Jacek, SCFIWARTZ, Michael D. & DEMOL, Thierry: The Bryocorinae, Cylapinae,
Deraeocorinae and Mirinae (Insecta: Fleteroptera: Miridae) from Baiteta Forest, Papua New Guinea, with
a discussion of their feeding habits and a list of species of the country.55
GAVRILOV-ZIMIN, Ilya A.: Taxonomic and faunistic notes on scale insects (Flomoptera: Coccinea) of Bali, Flores
and New Guinea (Indonesia) .137
GREKE, Kristine: Taxonomic review of Diplommatinidae (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoroidea) from Wallacea
and the Papuan Region .151
FIAVA, Jirf: Contribution to the knowledge of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) from the Maluku Islands (Indonesia), part 2.
Description of four new species of Orphinus Motschulsky, 1858 . 317
JACQUOT, Philippe: Revision of the genus Apros/ctus Pascoe, 1866 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Strongylurini),
with description of a new genus and fourteen new species .323
KALASFIIAN, Mark Yu.: A new subgenus and three new species of Endelus Deyrolle, 1864 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
from Indonesia and the Philippines, with a review of the Endelus baker! Kerremans, 1914 species group .349
KALNINS, Martins: Arglolestes spungisl sp. nov. (Odonata: Argiolestidae) from New Guinea.357
KAZANTSEV, Sergey V. & TELNOV, Dmitry: A mimetic assemblage of net-winged beetles (Coleoptera: Lycidae)
from West Papua.363
KAZANTSEV, Sergey V.: New Metriorrhynchine taxa from New Guinea (Coleoptera: Lycidae) . 371
KIREJTSFIUK, Alexander: New sap beetles of the subfamily Epuraeinae (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) from
Indonesian New Guinea and taxonomic notes.403
LOBL, Ivan & OGAWA, Ryo: A new species oi Scaphlsoma Leach, 1815 from New Guinea and a new replacement
name (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scaphidiinae).415
MEDVEDEV, Lev N.: New leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from New Guinea.419
PARK, Kyu-Tek: Checklist of the family Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) in New Guinea, with
description of two new species .427
ROCS, Peter: Peculiarities of the butterfly fauna of South-East Sulawesi .435
TELNOV, Dmitry: Ne\N Australobolbus FI. Flowden et J. Cooper, 1977 (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae: Bolboceratinae),
with a key to Papuan species.459
TELNOV, Dmitry: Papuan Charlochllus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae), with description of
C. tamarau sp. nov.463
TELNOV, Dmitry: New records and new species of Macratriinae from the Papuan Region (Coleoptera: Anthicidae), 2 ...
.467
TFIEISCFIINGER, Gunther & RICFIARDS, Stephen J.: Insular odonates in Melanesia: a new species of damselfly
from Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (Zygoptera: Platystictidae) and comments on Nososticta manuscola
Theischinger et Richards .495
THOMPSON, Christian F., MENGUAL, Ximo, YOUNG, Andrew D. & SKEVINGTON, Jeffrey H.: Flower flies (Diptera:
Syrphidae) of Philippines, Solomon Islands, Wallacea and New Guinea .501
TUMBRINCK, Josef & SKEJO, Josip: Taxonomic and biogeographic revision of the New Guinean genus Ophlotettlx
Walker, 1871 (Tetrigidae: Metrodorinae: Ophiotettigini trib. nov.), with the descriptions of 33 new species.525
VITALI, Francesco: Taxonomic notes on Acalolepta mixta (Hope, 1841) and Acalolepta vastator (Newman, 1847)
(Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) .581
de VOS, Rob: The Cyana Walker, 1854 species of New Guinea, with description of a new subgenus, eight
new species and one new subspecies (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini) .587
WEIGEL, Andreas & SKALE, Andre: Systematics, taxonomy, and faunistics of Apomecynini of the Oriental and
Australian Region (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae), part 7.613
ZILLI , Alberto, BROU, Vernon A., KLEM, Crystal & ZASPEL, Jennifer: The Eudocima Billberg, 1820 of the Australian
Region (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Calpinae).631
Index to new taxa described in this volume .656
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Foreword
George W. Beccaloni
Director of the A.R. Wallace Correspondence Project, London, United Kingdom; [email protected]
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) made an immense contribution to our understanding of the biodi¬
versity and biogeography of Wallacea, New Guinea and indeed the rest of the World. Not only did he indepen¬
dently discover the process of evolution by natural selection, publishing the idea together with Charles Darwin
in 1858, but he is regarded as the founding father of evolutionary biogeography thanks to his many seminal
The Geographical Distribution of Animals Island Life.
publications on the subject, including his books and
Wallace also made a huge contribution towards documenting the animal fauna of what he called The
Malay Archipelago (Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and East Timor). He spent nearly 8 years in the region
from 1854 to 1862, collecting specimens of insects, birds and other animals for his private collection, selling
the “duplicates” to collectors and museums in order to fund his trip. Wallace collected specimens from Pen¬
insular Malaysia across to New Guinea, visiting every important island in the archipelago at least once, and
clocking-up about 14000 miles of travel. During his trip he collected an astonishing total of nearly 126000
animal specimens: about 110000 insects, 7500 shells, 8050 bird skins, and 410 mammals and reptiles. They
ranged from Orangutans to Birds of Paradise, from land snails to cockroaches, from Birdwing butterflies to tiny
parasitic wasps. Remarkably, most of them arrived in England in good condition, an impressive achievement
considering the difficult conditions under which he was working, and the complex logistics of shipping fragile
specimens back from the remote wild corners of the Malay Archipelago.
Wallace kept about 18% of the specimens that he and his assistants collected, which by the end of his trip
amounted to 3000 bird skins of about a 1000 species, at least 20000 beetles and butterflies of about 7000
species, plus some vertebrates and land-shells. When he returned to England he used these to gain insights
into evolutionary and biogeographic processes, and published 21 scientific articles in which he described
295 new species: 120 butterflies, 70 beetles and 105 birds. At least 4700 other species were described in
about 350 additional publications by leading amateur and professional naturalists based on specimens from
Wallace’s private collection and the duplicates his agent Samuel Stevens had sold. About 250 of these were
wallacii wallacei.
named after him, usually as or
Wallace’s best known zoological discoveries from the region are perhaps Rajah Brooke’s Birdwing But¬
(Trogonoptera brookiana) (Ornithoptera croesus)
terfly from Borneo, Wallace’s Golden Birdwing Butterfly from
{Semioptera wallacei)
Bacan Island, Indonesia and Wallace’s Standard-Wing Bird of Paradise from the same
Rhacophorus nigropalmatus)
island. He also discovered the world’s first gliding frog (Wallace’s Flying Frog, in
Chalicodoma pluto),
Borneo, and the world’s largest bee (Wallace’s Giant Bee, on Bacan Island. He collected
a total of 212 new bird species (naming about half of them himself), so given that around 10000 bird species
are known, this means that he was responsible for discovering 2% of the entire World bird fauna. Not only that,
but he was the first Westerner to observe and document the spectacular mating displays (leks) of male Birds
of Paradise, and he was probably the first European to eat one (he frequently ate birds after skinning them
because he was often short of food).
The bulk of the specimens which Wallace collected are now in the collections of London’s Natural History
Museum and the Oxford University Museum, although many other museums in the U.K., Europe, the U.S.A. and
Australia also have Wallace material.
This book, the third in the series, continues the monumental task of documenting and naming the organ¬
isms found in New Guinea and adjacent regions. Wallace would have thoroughly approved of this endeavour.
As he wrote in his 1863 paper “On the physical geography of the Malay Archipelago”: “It is for such inquiries
that the modern naturalist collects his materials; it is for this that he still wants to add to the apparently
boundless treasures of our national museums, and will never rest satisfied as long as the native country, the
geographical distribution, and the amount of variation of any living thing remains imperfectly known. He looks
upon every species of animal and plant now living as the individual letters which go to make up one of the
volumes of our earth’s history; and, as a few lost letters may make a sentence unintelligible, so the extinction
of numerous forms of life which the progress of cultivation invariably entails will necessarily obscure this invalu¬
able record of the past”.
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Editorial
The Wallacea island group has always fascinated biologists, naturalists and travelers. Its complicate geo¬
logical history and the immense variety of its landscapes make of it an incredibly rich area in terms of biodi¬
versity, with an impressive proportion of endemics. However, it remains poorly studied to date, and it is still an
El Dorado for biologists in search of new species discoveries, and a fantastic laboratory to study evolutionary
processes and insularity.
Studying this amazing biodiversity and how it evolved and lives does not only serve intellectual curiosity
and scientific purposes. Like most tropical forests, those of Wallacea are increasingly threatened by human
developments, and, as natural habitats degradation progresses, conservation measures are becoming urgent
in a number of places and for more and more species. Explaining why these tropical forests and other biotopes
should be preserved requires to know in the first place what species depend on them for their survival.
Similarly to the first two volumes of the series “Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in
Wallacea and New Guinea”, the present one demonstrates how incredibly diverse and underestimated the bio¬
diversity of this archipelago is. Thanks to the hard work of Dmitry Telnov who dedicates a large part of his time
- and personal resources - to this series, this new, third volume sees the day. It is a compilation of the efforts
of numerous biologists from a large variety of countries, each of them possessing unique scientific skills, but
all sharing a deep passion and respect for the natural wonders of our Planet. Their work reveals here numer¬
ous newtaxa, belonging to biological groups as varied as bryophytes, snails, damselflies, pygmy grasshoppers,
net-winged beetles, skinks, etc.
Many of them are relatively small, and wouldn’t be noticed in the field by non-experts, but, as Dmitry likes
to say, “The most beautiful things on Earth are not things”: they are live beings, large or small. And each of
them, to the most apparently insignificant by its size, is an opportunity of wonder, of hope and of surprise, and
a good reason to peacefully battle to preserve the environment in which they live in order to ensure their future
and ours.
Olivier S.G. Pauwels
Curator (Recent Vertebrates Collections)
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Brussels, Belgium; [email protected]
Beetles collected in
the Malay Archipelago
by A.R. Wallace. This
drawer is from his pri¬
vate insect collection,
now in London’s Natural
History Museum (photo
© Natural History Mu¬ yf^Tj
seum, London).
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Acknowledgements
Like the previous volumes, this new work took more than two years to compile and produce, and was
brought to fruition through the support of numerous generous people - our family members, friends
We would express our deep gratitude
and colleagues. to them as well as their institutions!
Members and Board of the Entomological Society of Latvia, Riga (http://leb.daba.lv: https://facebook.
com/LatviiasEntomologiiasBiedriba)
Dr.
George W. BECCALONI, and D/rector of the Wallace Correspondence Project, London, United Kingdom
Matthias HARTMANN, M.Sc. and D/rector of the Natural History Museum, Erfurt, Germany
Christoph NEUMANN, Dr. (Freiburg, Germany)
M.Sc.
Andrey SHKARUPIN, (Riga, Latvia) - altruistic supporter of biodiversity research in Papua
Laszio WAGNER (Budapest, Hungary) (http://east-indonesia.info)
M.Sc.,
The family Telnov - Kristine GREKE, Edwin TELNOV and Alisa TELNOVA (Dzidrinas, Latvia) - for their
support and understanding
All the friendly (and not very friendly) and welcoming people of the Moluccas, Raja Ampat, New Guinea
and Sulawesi who shared their amazing islands, cultures, even homes with us, and provided all other
assistance during our frequent visits
All the other persons, including all the authors, who friendly contributed to this volume
we take this opportunity to thank aii our competent anonymous
All papers are peer reviewed, so
referees and consuitants!
referees who decided not to remain anonymous are acknowiedged
Those in person: Gottfried BE-
HOUNEK (Grafing, Germany), Diego L. CARPINTERO (Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum,
Buenos Aires, Argentina), Alan Charles CASSIDY (Maidenhead, United Kingdom), Norbert DELAHAYE
(Plaisir, France), Dirk GASSMANN (Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany),
L. Lee GRISMER (La Sierra University, Riverside, U.S.A.), Eric JIROUX (Paris, France), Vincent J. KALK-
MAN (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands), John F. LAWRENCE (CSIRO, Canberra,
Australia), Darren J. MANN (Oxford University Museum of Natural History, United Kingdom), Daniele
MATILE-FERRERO (Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France), Aurelien MIRALLES (Centre
d’Ecologie fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Montpellier, France), Guillaume de ROUGEMONT (Oxford Univer¬
sity Museum of Natural History, United Kingdom), Wolfgang SPEIDEL (The Bavarian State Collection
of Zoology, Munich, Germany), Ming Kai TAN (Department of Biological Sciences, National University
of Singapore), Gunther THEISCHINGER (Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water,
New South Wales, Sydney, Australia), Francesco VITALI (National Museum of Natural History, Luxem¬
bourg), Gillian W. WATSON (California Department of Food and Agriculture, U.S.A.), Luc WILLEMSE
(Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands), Alberto ZILLI (The Natural History Museum,
London, United Kingdom).
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