A Second Irish Record of Chorisops nagatomii Rozkosny, 1979 (Diptera: Stratiomyiidae)Author(s): Robert NashSource: The Irish Naturalists' Journal, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Oct., 1989), p. 153Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25539419 .

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Ir. Nat. J. Vol. 23 No. 41989 153

A SECOND IRISH RECORD OF CHORISOPS NAGATOMII ROZKOSNY, 1979 (DIPTERA STRATIOMYIIDAE).

Speight, M. C. D. (1981 Ir. Nat. J. 20: 327-329) recorded the first Chorisops nagatomii from Ireland. On 24 August 1988 I collected a single male in the Nursery Garden at Seaforde Estate, Co

Down (J4043). In the nursery, long, 3m high greenhouses made of plastic sheeting on hoops are used to protect sensitive garden plants. These function as traps and yield a rich harvest of flying insects.

Male Chorisops hover in rapidly moving swarms under trees often beyond reach of the net and most records nowadays come from Malaise traps. Females are far less common in collections than males:

presumably they have retiring habits. These circumstances may explain why there are no previous records of either C. nagatomii or the more common C. tibialis (Meigen, 1820) from the north of Ireland. However it is much more likely that the genus, which is southerly in Britain and Europe, is

only found in isolated warmer localities in the north. C. tibialis is known from eastern parts of Ireland from Carlow to Louth and C. nagatomii from Co Dublin. A number of insects of central to south

European distribution which occur in southerly, and sometimes also coast locations only, are found in the coastal parts of S Down which is very mild, hence the nurseries and botanic gardens situated there.

The specimen, numbered Mrl 13173, is in the Ulster Museum collection.

Department of Botany and Zoology, Ulster Museum, Belfast BT9 5AB ROBERT NASH

THE MUSK BEETLE AROMIA MOSCHATA (L.) (COLEOPTERA:CERAMBYCIDAE) IN CO DOWN

On 11 August 1988 I bagged several pieces of insect-bored trunk which had become detached from an old willow by the lake on Seaforde Estate, Co Down (J4043). On 2 February 1989 a single female musk beetle A. moschata emerged. Excepting one record from Co Down (near Belfast)

(Haliday, A. H., 1885 Notes on Irish Coleoptera. Rep. Proc. Belf, Nat, Fid Club. Appendix 7) and

one from Clonbrock, Co Galway, all previous Irish records of this beetle have been from the

south-west especially in the Killarney and Glengarriff districts. The musk beetle is a large, handsome

insect, metallic green, copper or blue in colouration (the Seaforde specimen is blue). There is a

coloured plate in Linssen (E.F. 1959 Beetles of the British Isles: Plate 34.1. Warne, London) who

reports that the beetle is widely spread in Europe and the whole of the British Isles, being local though by no means uncommon. The specimen, numbered Mrl 13172, is in the Ulster Museum collection.

Department of Botany and Zoology, Ulster Museum, Belfast BT9 5AB ROBERT NASH

EXTENSION IN RANGE OF THE CARNATION TORTRIX CACOECIMORPHA PRONUBANA

(HUBNER) (LEPIDOPTERA: TORTICIDAE)

Several tortix larvae were found feeding on the leaves of cherry laurel Prunus laurocerasus L. cv

'Otto Luyken' in a garden in Cabinteely, Co Dublin (022) in May 1989, and a specimen was given to

Dr P. Brennan of University College, Dublin. It pupated and a female emerged which was determined

as Cacoecimorpha pronubana (Hubner), a species first recorded in Ireland (from Cork city) in 1987

(Bond, K.G.M. 1988 Ir. Nat. J. 22:454). The Dublin record would seem to indicate that the species is

now well established in Ireland. It is a polyphagous pest of fruit and ornamental plants, including

Prunus, in continental Europe and southern England (Carter, DJ. 1984 Pest Lepidoptera of Europe.

W. Junk, Dordrecht), and it is likely that it was imported into Ireland on ornamental plants. The

specimen has been deposited in the National Museum of Ireland.

Department of Zoology, University College, Cork K.G.M. BOND

Department of Agricultural Zoology, University College, Dublin L A. GOOD

DRYMONIA RUFICORNIS HUFNAGEL (LEPIDOPTERA: N0TOD0NTIDAE) IN

FERMANAGH

On the night of 28-29 May 1989, 7 somewhat worn specimens of the lunar marbled brown moth

Drymonia ruficornis Hufnagel were caught in a Robinson light trap at Crom Castle Estate,

Newtownbutler, Co Fermanagh (H359246). This appears to be a new county record for Fermanagh

as no mention is made of the species in Donovan (C. 1936 A catalogue of the Macrolepidoptera of

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