Article

Article name SAPROXYLIC DIPTERA (INSECTA) OF THE LAZOVSKY STATE NATURE RESERVE (RUSSIA)
Authors

Nina P. Krivosheina, Dr.Sc., Chief Researcher of the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of RAS (119071, 33 Leninsky prospect, Moscow, Russia); e-mail: dipteranina@rambler.ru
Maria G. Krivosheina, Dr.Sc., Senior Researcher of the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of RAS (119071, 33 Leninsky prospect, Moscow, Russia); e-mail: kriv2260@rambler.ru

Reference to article

Krivosheina N.P., Krivosheina M.G. 2019. Saproxylic Diptera (Insecta) of the Lazovsky State Nature Reserve (Russia). Nature Conservation Research 4(3): 78–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.24189/ncr.2019.052

Section Research articles
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.24189/ncr.2019.052
Abstract

New original data on the ecology of 18 saproxylic Diptera species were obtained as a result of research of xylobionts in the Lazovsky State Nature Reserve (Russia). Ten species were registered for the first time from this territory. The material was acquired by the collecting of immature individuals in nature with consequent rearing in the laboratory. The species determination was based on the emerged imagos. Similar data on the same Diptera species collected in State Nature Reserve «Khingansky», State Nature Reserve «Ussuriyskii», State Nature Reserve «Kedrovaya Pad» and State Nature Reserve «Bolshekhekhtsirskiy» were used for comparison. The type of larval food was determined from specific observations in nature and under laboratory conditions. Related species complexes were described according to notes from field diaries. Literature data as well as results of original investigations were summarised to analyse insect confinement to various tree species in the territories of the State Nature Reserve «Khingansky», State Nature Reserve «Ussuriyskii», State Nature Reserve «Kedrovaya Pad» and State Nature Reserve «Bolshekhekhtsirskiy». We found that the largest number of investigated Diptera species was collected from Populus suaveolens and Maackia amurensis. Since the larvae of xylobiont dipterans inhabit the passages of other insects, the majority of larvae of investigated species proved to be sapronecrophages. The study of the saproxylic Diptera biology in combination with other insects allows us to identify the species-bioindicators of the tree stand damage in a forest. The ability to diagnose the presence of several serious forest pests such as Hylecoetus dermestoides (Coleoptera, Lymexylonidae) by the presence of saproxylic Diptera species (e.g. Libnotes longistigma (Limoniidae), Pseudoseioptera demonstrans (Ulidiidae) and Lenitovena pteropleuralis (Tephritidae)) has been discussed for the first time. The results of the present study can be used for further monitoring activities of the insect diversity in the Lazovsky State Nature Reserve, State Nature Reserve «Khingansky», State Nature Reserve «Ussuriyskii», State Nature Reserve «Kedrovaya Pad» and State Nature Reserve «Bolshekhehtsirsky» and in forests of neighbouring countries.

Keywords

bioindication, community, distribution of flies among tree species, Russian Far East, new faunistic records, wood destroying insect

Artice information

Received: 20.03.2019. Revised: 15.07.2019. Accepted: 19.07.2019.

The full text of the article
References

Beeson C.F.C. 1961. The ecology and control of the forest insects of India and neighbouring countries. Part I. The ecology of forest insects. Dehra Dun: Vasant Press. 467 p.
de Jong Y., Verbeek M., Michelsen V., Bjørn P.P., Los W., Steeman F., Bailly N., Basire C., Chylarecki P., Stloukal E., Hagedorn G., Wetzel F.T., Glöckler F., Kroupa A., Korb G., Hoffmann A., Häuser C., Kohlbecker A., Müller A., Güntsch A., Stoev P., Penev L. 2014. Fauna Europaea – all European animal species on the web. Biodiversity Data Journal 2(1): e4034. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e4034
Ferrar P. 1987. A guide to the breeding habits and immature stages of Diptera Cyclorrhapha. Vol. 1. Leiden-Copenhagen: E.J. Brill. 478 p. (Seris Entomonograph. Vol. 8).
Galinskaya T.V., Ovtshinnikova O.G. 2014. Tephritoidea (Diptera) of the Ussuri Nature Reserve and adjacent territories. Russian Entomological Journal 23(2): 139–145. DOI: 10.15298/rusentj.23.2.06
Hardy D.E. 1974. The fruit flies of the Philippines (Diptera: Thephritidae). Pacific Insects. Monograph 32: 1–266.
Hennig W. 1937. Milichiidae et Carnidae. In: E. Lindner (Ed.): Die Fliegen der palaearktischen Region. Vol. 6(1). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung. P. 1–91.
Hickin N. 1975. The insect factor in wood decay. London: Associated Business programs. 383 p.
Kharitonova N.Z. 1972. Entomophagous insects on the bark beetles of conifers. Moscow: Lesnaya promyshlennost. 128 p. [In Russian]
Krivosheina M.G. 2003. To biology of flower flies of the genus Temnostoma (Diptera, Syrphidae) with description of larvae in four species. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 82(1): 44–51. [In Russian]
Krivosheina M.G., Krivosheina N.P. 1996. The species from the genus Rainieria Rondani (Diptera, Micropezidae) of Russia including the description of a new species. Studia Dipterologica 3(1): 97–100.
Krivosheina N.P. 1972. Some new data on the systematics and biology of the dipterous family Xylomyidae in the USSR. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 51(1): 69–78. [In Russian]
Krivosheina N.P. 1973. New data on chameleon flies of the subfamily Pachygasterinae (Diptera, Stratiomyidae) of the Soviet Union. Entomological Review 52(1):178–194. [In Russian]
Krivosheina N.P. 1981. New palaearctic species of the genus Strongylophthalmyia Hell. (Diptera, Strongylophthalmyiidae). Entomological Review 90(1): 183–186.
Krivosheina N.P. 1982. An unusual medium for breeding of fruit flies (Diptera, Trypetidae). Nauchnye Doklady Vysshey Shkoly. Biologicheskie Nauki 2: 29–33. [In Russian]
Krivosheina N.P. 1999. Xylophilous flies of the genera Macroceromys and Xylomya (Diptera, Xylomyidae) from the fauna of Russia and adjacent countries. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 78(2): 202–216. [In Russian]
Krivosheina N.P. 2004. Morphology of species of the genus Temnostoma from apiforme and vespiforme groups. Report 2. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 83(1): 75–92 [In Russian]
Krivosheina N.P. 2016a. Necrosaprophagous insects in saproxylic communities: larvae of genus Solva (Diptera, Xylomyidae). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 95(1): 67–79. DOI: 10.7868/S0044513416010074 [In Russian]
Krivosheina N.P. 2016b. Xylobiont flies of the genus Xylomya Rondani, 1861 (Diptera, Xylomyidae) from Russia. Entomological Review 96(2): 240–254. DOI: 10.1134/S0013873816020111
Krivosheina N.P. 2018. Habitat Associations of the Larvae of the Genus Sphegina Meigen, 1822 (Diptera, Syrphidae) with Xylobiont Insects. Entomological Review 98(6): 709–713. DOI: 10.1134/S0013873818060076
Krivosheina N.P. 2019. Morpho-ecological characteristics of immature stages of xylobiont species of the genus Phaonia Robineau-Desvoidy 1830 (Muscidae, Diptera) inhabiting tree holes and sap aggregations. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 98(2): 163–174. DOI: 10.1134/S0044513419020107
Krivosheina N.P., Kovalev W.G. 1972. New data on flies of the genera Seioptera Kirby and Pseudoseioptera Stack. (Diptera, Otitidae). Bulletin of Siberian Branch of RAS: Biology 5(1): 81–86. [In Russian]
Krivosheina N.P., Krivosheina M.G. 1997. Revision of Palaearctic species of the genus Pseudotephritis Johnson (Diptera, Otitidae). Entomological Review 76(3): 671–679. [In Russian]
Krivosheina N.P., Krivosheina M.G. 2000. New data on rare xylophagous flies of the genus Xylophagus (Diptera, Xylophagidae). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 79(10): 1216–1228. [In Russian]
Krivosheina N.P., Krivosheina M.G. 2011. Key to terrestrial crane-fly larvae (Diptera, Limoniidae, Pediciidae) of Russia. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press Ltd. 294 p. [In Russian]
Krivoheina N.P., Krivosheina M.G. 2015. Keys to larvae of the Lower Brachycera (Diptera). Moscow: KMK Scientific Press Ltd. 384 p. [In Russian]
Krivosheina N.P., Krivosheina M.G. 2017. Biology and immature morphology of the stiletto flies Dialineura lehri Zaitzev, 1977 and Pandivirilia sapponensis (Matsumura, 1916) (Diptera, Therevidae). Far East Entomologist 343: 9–14.
Krivosheina N.P., Mamaev B.M. 1967. Key to larvae of Diptera – inhabitants of wood. Moscow: Nauka. 367 p. [In Russian]
Lehr P.A. (Ed.). 1992. Key to the insects of the Far East of the USSR. Vol. III. Coleoptera. Part 2. Leningrad: Nauka. 704 p. [In Russian]
Lehr P.A. (Ed.). 1999–2006. Key to the insects of Russian Far East. Vol. 6. Diptera and Siphonaptera. Parts 1–4. Vladivostok: Dalnauka. 664 p., 640 p., 657 p., 935 p. [In Russian]
Lukin V.V. 2011. The distribution of the saproxylic beetles in managed forests of the main forest-forming species. In: Actual problems of protection and sustainable use of the animal world diversity: Materials of international conference of Zoology (Kishinev, 13–14 October 2011). Kishinev: Institute of Zoology ASM. P. 120–122.
Lindeman G.W. 1993. Relationships among xylophagous insects and deciduous trees in dry conditions. Moscow: Nauka. 206 p. [In Russian]
Mamaev B.M. 1977. The Biology of the insects – destroyers of wood. In: Results of science and technology. Entomology. Vol. 3. Moscow. 214 p. [In Russian]
Mamaev B.M., Krivosheina N.P., Pototskaya V.A. 1977. Key to the larvae of the predatory insects – entomophages of the pests of trunk. Moscow: Nauka. 392 p. [In Russian]
Oboña J., Dominiak P. 2014. Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in tree hole habitats in Slovakia. Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies 43(1): 61–65. DOI: 10.2478/s13545-014-0118-y
Oboña J., Starý J. 2013. Description of the larva and pupa of Nasiternella regia Riedel, 1914 (Diptera: Pediciidae) from Slovakia, with notes on ecology and behavior. Biologia 68(2): 345–350. DOI: 10.2478/s11756-013-0149-7
Palm T. 1959. Die Holz- und Rinden-Käfer der Sud- und Mittelschwedischen Laubbäume. Opuscula Entomologica 16: 1–373.
Polevoi A., Ruokolainen A., Shorohova E. 2018. Eleven remarkable Diptera species, emerged from fallen aspens in Kivach Nature Reserve, Russian Karelia. Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e22175. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.6.e22175
Red Data Book of the Leningrad region. St.-Petersburg: Papirus, 2018. 559 p. [In Russian]
Schimitschek E. 1952. Forstentomologische Studien in Urwald Rotwald. Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Entomologie 34: 178–215, 514–542.
Schimitschek E. 1953. Forstentomologische Studien in Urwald Rotwald. Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Entomologie 35: 1–54.
Speight M.C.D. 2003. Identification of priorities in conservation of European saproxylis syrphids (Diptera: Syrphidae). In: II International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Biodiversity and Conservation. Alicante, Spain P. 19–20.
Speight M.C.D. 2014. Species accounts of European Syrphidae (Diptera). In: Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae. 78. Dublin: Syrph the Net publications. 321 p.
Storozhenko S.Yu. (Ed.). 2009. Insects of Lazovsky Nature Reserve. Vladivostok: Dalnauka. 463 p. [In Russian]
Systema Dipterorum. 2019. The Biosystematic Database of World Diptera. Verion 2.3. Available from http://sd.zoobank.org
The Plant List. 2013. Version 1.1. Available from http://www.theplantlist.org/
Ulyshen M.D. 2018. Chapter 5. Saproxylic Diptera. In: Ulyshen M.D. (Ed.): Saproxylic Insects. Zoological Monograph 1. P. 167–192. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75937-1_5
Wolton R., Luff M. 2016. Observations on the Diptera and other insects frequenting sap exudations on an oak tree in Devon, south-west England. Dipterists Digest 23: 119–136.