Stephen W. Taber Associate Professor of Biology Appointed to SVSU in 2004 Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin M.S. Texas Tech University B.S. Texas A&M University
ARTICLES Taber, S.W. (2011). A new species of Boletina Staeger fungus gnat (Diptera: Mycetophilidae). Southwestern Entomologist, 36(3), 335-349. A new species of Boletina Staeger fungus gnat was discovered in western Michigan. Adult males and females were collected in early spring in a Malaise trap in a paper birch, red maple, black cherry woods adjacent to black ash swamp and cattail marsh. The late March collection date is the earliest reported from the eastern United States for any species of the genus according to the literature examined. Boletina Michigana Taber will sometimes key out to Boletina Obscura Johannsen using keys based upon non-genitalic morphology, but male terminalia indicate a specific difference instead. Taber, S.W. (2011). Two parasites of the Green Lacewing Chrysopa chi Fitch (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). Southwestern Entomologist, 36(1), 91102. One insect species parasitizing adults of the green lacewing Chrysopa chi Fitch and the cocoon of a second species were encountered in western Michigan. Adult females of the ectoparasitic ceratopogonid midge Forcipomyia eques (Johannsen) were found attached to the forewings of two adult hosts but the cocoon of the endoparasitic species remains unidentified. It appears to be the work of a new species or a described species not yet known to parasitize chrysopids because the cocoon is different from the only such specimen known for the euphorine braconid Chrysopophthorus Americanus Mason, the only U.S. insect suspected as an internal parasite of adult chrysopids. The braconid is rarely encountered but known from Arizona and presumably occurs in other
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