Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea, Volume 4

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Language: English

This series focuses on the entomological biodiversity, biogeography and conservation of one of the richest and scientifically most interesting areas of the earth – the islands of Wallacea and New Guinea. The intention is for the books to appear in regular succession. This publication series offers a new discussion platform for biologists of various disciplines from around the world, with a focus on the Indo-Australian transitional zone. This fourth volume contains 28 scientific papers (see table of contents for more details).

With four chapters on molluscs, combined with the malacological contributions in the previous volumes, the series already counts among the major contributions to the knowledge of the terrestrial snails of the Wallacean Region. Most chapters of the present new volume unsurprisingly deal with arthropods, which represent the vast majority and the most poorly known animals. Newly discovered invertebrates described here include, among other little natural treasures, a predatory aquatic bug from the Cyclops Mountains, a non-spiky species in an otherwise spiky millipede genus from Wau, and a new snail from Waigeo Island, a giant of its kind. Several chapters are dedicated to vertebrates, including one on the conservation of a recently described tarsier, and the diagnoses of a new frog and of a new skink species. In total three dozens of new taxa are here brought to light and enrich the already highly diverse, still vastly understudied, Wallacean biodiversity.

Contents

Editorial   6
Foreword: Wallacea – A hotspot of snake diversity / O'Shea, Mark   7
Acknowledgements   18

Section One: Vertebrate Zoology and Ecology
RICHARDS, Stephen J., TJATURADI, Burhan, KREY, Keliopas &  DONNELLAN, Stephen C.: A new stream-dwelling frog of the genus Litoria Tschudi, 1838 (Anura: Pelodryadidae) from Salawati Island, Indonesia   19
RÖSLER, Herbert & GAULKE, Maren: On the biology of Ernstkeller’s cave gecko, Gekko ernstkelleri Rösler, Siler, Brown, Demegillo et Gaulke, 2006 (Squamata: Gekkonidae), with emphasis on reproductive biology   35
SHEA, Glenn M. & ALLISON, Allen: A new species of Sphenomorphus (Squamata: Scincidae) from Mount Kaindi, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea   49

Section Two: Invertebrate Zoology and Ecology
BALLERIO, Alberto: First contribution to the knowledge of the Ceratocanthinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Hybosoridae) from the Solomon Islands, with descriptions of five new species   61
BORDONI, Arnaldo: New data on the Oriental Xantholinini, 49. A new genus, species and records from the Philippines and Indonesia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)   75
DRUMONT, Alain, KOMIYA, Ziro & WEIGEL, Andreas: Catypnes marazziorum sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Prioninae) from Papua New Guinea   83
GOLOVATCH, Sergei I., AKKARI, Nesrine, GOUD, Jeroen & TELNOV, Dmitry: Review of the Papuan millipede genus Acanthiulus Gervais, 1844 (Diplopoda: Spirobolida: Pachybolidae)   91
GOLOVATCH, Sergei I.: A new species of the genus Acanthiulus Gervais, 1844 (Diplopoda: Spirobolida: Pachybolidae) from Papua New Guinea   107
GREĶE, Kristine: New species and records of the Papuan Diplommatinidae (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoroidea)   111
GREĶE, Kristine & SLAPCINSKY, John: New Taheitia H. et A. Adams, 1863, with revisional notes on the Papuan Truncatellidae (Caenogastropoda: Truncatelloidea)   135
GREĶE, Kristine, TELNOV, Dmitry, KAGAINIS, Uģis & TELNOV, Edwin: The possible functional role of periostracal processes in Japonia saetigera (van Benthem Jutting, 1958) (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae) based on SEM micrograph analysis and numerical calculations   185
HÁVA, Jiří: Orphinus (Orphinus) terminalis (Sharp in Blackburn & Sharp, 1885) (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) from the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu   199
HÁVA, Jiří: A new synonym in the genus Orphinus Motschulsky, 1858 (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) from Papua New Guinea   201
INGRISCH, Sigfrid: New species and records of Tettigoniidae Krauss, 1902 from the Papuan Region (Orthoptera)   203
KALASHIAN, Mark Y.: A new species of Endelus Deyrolle, 1864 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia, with description of Endelus (Hexagonodelus) subgen. nov.    215
KALNIŅŠ, Mārtiņš: Contribution to the knowledge of dragonies (Odonata) from the Raja Ampat (Indonesia), with notes on their ecology   221
KALNIŅŠ, Mārtiņš: Contribution to the knowledge of aquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Wallacea and New Guinea, with ecological notes   239
KAZANTSEV, Sergey V.: New Plateros Bourgeois, 1879 from New Guinea and the Moluccas, with a checklist of species of the region (Coleoptera: Lycidae)   245
KAZANTSEV, Sergey V.: New metriorrhynchine species (Coleoptera: Lycidae) from Sulawesi   253
LÖBL, Ivan: Contribution to the knowledge of the Scaphisomatini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scaphidiinae) of Mindanao, Philippines   265
OWEN, Ifor L. & BORAY, Joseph C.: Distribution of Orientogalba viridis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) (Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae), the snail intermediate host of Fasciola hepatica Linnaeus, 1758, in Papua New Guinea   273
OWEN, Ifor L.: A brief review of animal parasites recorded in Western Province, Papua New Guinea   281
TELNOV, Dmitry & POLHEMUS, Dan A.: A new Tanycricos La Rivers, 1971 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Naucoridae) from the Cyclops Mountains, New Guinea, with a key to species   329
WEIGEL, Andreas & SKALE, Andrè: On the taxonomy, synonymy and faunistics of the Apomecynini of the Asian-Australian region (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae). Part 8   345
YOKOI, Yaheita: Taxonomic notes on the tribe Callidiopini Lacordaire, 1869 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) and some other taxa of the Papuan Region, mainly from the Solomon Islands, with descriptions of five new species   363
ZIDEK, Jiri: Revision of Philacelota Heller, 1900 and Engertia Dalla Torre, 1912, with description of a new genus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)   397
ZILLI, Alberto, de VOS, Rob & EDWARDS, Edward D.: The torsilinea-species group (subg. Mocrendes Nye, 1975) of the genus Platyja Hübner, [1823] (Lepidoptera: Erebidae), with descriptions of four new species   413

Section Three: Nature Conservation
BIENKOWSKI, Lara S., STEPHAN, Robin S., KIRSCHEY, Tom & SARYANTHI, Ria: Population density of Tarsius supriatnai along a forest degradation gradient in Popayato-Paguat landscape (Gorontalo Province, Sulawesi)   431

Index to new taxa described in this volume   443

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