Francisco Serna- Prof. PhD
- Professor at National University of Colombia
Francisco Serna
- Prof. PhD
- Professor at National University of Colombia
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January 2001 - present
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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A new species of the genus Neotropiconyttus Kirkaldy, 1909 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae: Harpactorini) is described and illustrated. Neotropiconyttus armandoi Gamboa & Gil-Santana, sp. nov. represents the first record of the genus for the Province of Napo in Colombia, and the first description of a male individual in the genus...
A new species of Uscanoidea Girault (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae), Uscanoidea ricoi Viggiani, Gamboa & Pérez-Benavides, sp. nov. , is described and illustrated. The species is a solitary egg parasitoid of Monalonion dissimulatum Distant (Hemiptera: Miridae), the main insect pest on cocoa crops. An identification key for the described Uscanoidea...
Longino and Snelling (2002); m-w: Merrian-Webster dictionary; S-A: Schultz and Alonso (2000); SN: Snodgrass (1935); TB:Torre-Bueno Glossary (Nichols 1989); WI: Wilson (2003.). The symbol ^ indicates information provided by D. Agosti (personal communication); the symbol ĩ ndicates close to; i.e.: abbreviate Latin id est (that is); e.g.
Gargaphia paula Drake, 1939 is recorded for the first time for Colombia in two extreme localities, one in the northern region of the country and the other in the southeast. Moreover, it was found on Calopogonium mucunoides Desv. (Fabaceae), a new host plant recorded for the species.
Los picudos de la subfamilia Dryophthorinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), comúnmente llamados ‘picudos de las palmas’, son insectos de importancia económica en plantaciones de palmas, musáceas, pastos, cultivos alimenticios (anuales y perennes) y granos almacenados. En este trabajo se presenta el listado de las especies de Dryophthorinae de Colombia...
Abstract Communication in science requires standardized terminology with concepts unified that facilitate the processing and exploration of information in any knowledge domain. The morphology is not the exception; however, it has challenged problems, called “the linguistic problem of the morphology”, which is related to the processing of morphologi...
Eccritotarsini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae) is a group of predominantly phytophagous true bugs, with 650 known species described in 112 genera worldwide. It is the most specious tribe within the subfamily, which is distributed primarily in the Neotropics. Previous studies of Eccritotarsini in Colombia recorded 13 genera and 30 spe...
More than half of whiteflies (Aleyrodidae) species are distributed in the tropics. In Colombia, the taxonomic survey of this group has been neglected for almost three decades. This situation causes limitations in the study of basic and applied entomology for these sap-sucking insects, which are of considerable importance in agriculture as they affe...
Reseña de la Enciclopedia de Plagas de Insectos Escama.
Cacao (Theobroma cacao) and copoazú (T. grandiflorum) agroecosystems represent a common source of income or many small-scale farmers in the Colombian Amazon basin. Most of these systems are set in low disturbance environments; they are considered biodiversity-friendly ecosystems inhabited by several groups of insects. In this study, we carried out...
Se documenta información asociada a diferentes géneros y especies de la familia Melolonthidae recolectados entre 1940 y 2018 en diferentes zonas de Colombia. Todos los registros se encuentran actualmente depositados en el museo entomológico UNAB, de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Bogotá. Se listan 4102...
Ants, an ecologically successful and numerically dominant group of animals, play key ecological roles as soil engineers, predators, nutrient recyclers, and regulators of plant growth and reproduction in most terrestrial ecosystems. Further, ants are widely used as bioindicators of the ecological impact of land use. We gathered information of ant sp...
Arthropod taxonomic collections are per se reference systems for understanding the natural and agricultural entomodiversity. The Corporación Colombiana para
la Investigación Agropecuaria (Agrosavia), shares the information associated with its collections among the scientific community and farmers. In order to generate an informative catalog on spec...
El objetivo de este trabajo es reconocer taxonómicamente las hormigas que se distribuyen en el departamento del Atlántico, Colombia, localizado en la región Caribe. Este trabajo es el resultado de la suma de una serie de estudios de ecología y de recolección de hormigas, que se iniciaron en el año 2000. Los especímenes provienen de 13 de los 23 mun...
We present the first record of Macrosoma tipulata Hübner, 1818 in Colombia as a species of agricultural importance in copoazu. Two individuals in immature state and one adult were collected in the department of Caquetá, Florencia municipality, associated with the crops of copoazu Theobroma grandiflorum (Willd. ex Spreng.) K. Schum (Malvaceae). Addi...
Livestock production extension in Amazon has caused deforestation and soil degradation, with negative consequences on diversity and environmental services. Recently, rubber crops have been established in deteriorated soils of the Colombian Amazon as an option to restore hectares of unproductive degraded pastures. Bioindicator insects, such as termi...
Los áfidos son insectos importantes en la agronomía por alimentarse de la savia de plantas cultivadas. Sus daños pueden generar pérdidas económicas y llegar a ser letales para las plantas, debido las enfermedades que se desarrollan por los virus que ellos transmiten. A pesar de esta importancia, los inventarios taxonómicos en Colombia son aún incip...
A new species of Brethesiamyia (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) is described from Colombia, which represents the first record of the genus for the country. We described the species based on male, female, pupa, larva of third instar and gall morphology, which the larva induces on leaves of Myrcia sp. (Myrtaceae) from the foothills situated at the connection...
Las hormigas depredadoras pueden ser controladores biológicos. Por ejemplo, en varios estudios se propone que las hormigas del género Ectatomma son potenciales controladores naturales en diferentes cultivos y regiones del país. Mediante la identificación taxonómica de las hormigas conservadas en el Museo entomológico UNAB y en la Colección Taxonómi...
Objetivo.
Presentar a la comunidad científica una revisión de literatura sobre la taxonomía de las chinches verdaderas del género Monalonion Herrich-Schaeffer, 1850.
Metodología.
Se revisaron en total 55 fuentes bibliográficas, entre las que se encuentran 41 artículos científicos, ocho libros, cuatro capítulos de libro, una tesis doctoral y un cat...
Las moscas del género Anastrepha, se consideran plagas de gran importancia económica, no solo por el daño directo que causan a la producción de fruta sino, también, por las restricciones de cuarentena impuestas a los países exportadores de fruta. Por lo tanto, preparar descripciones y generar herramientas de identificación taxonómica, que permitan...
The non-leaf-cutting fungus-growing ants deposited in two entomological collections in Colombia were curated and identified to assess their diversity in the country. We examined 680 specimens, identifying 41 species belonging to seven genera, bringing the total of fungus-growing ant species known from Colombia to 85. The following species are new r...
Abstract. Acquisition of local and global biodiversity knowledge demands immediate and long-term efforts, both tutoring new generations of taxonomists and establishing, maintaining and improving research collections. Through biodiversity studies, the entomological museum “Universidad Nacional Agronomía Bogotá” (Bogotá, Colombia) has been developed...
La CTNI es la colección de referencia de la Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (Agrosavia). En este trabajo, se tuvo como objetivo identificar hasta nivel de genero y/o especie, los especímenes de la subfamilia Arctiinae de Erebidae que se encuentran depositadas en la Colección y que en su gran mayoría hacen parte de las de las po...
La CTNI es la colección de referencia de la Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (Agrosavia). En este trabajo, se tuvo como objetivo identificar hasta nivel de genero y/o especie, los especímenes de la subfamilia Arctiinae de Erebidae que se encuentran depositadas en la Colección y que en su gran mayoría hacen parte de las de las po...
A survey of the ‘Symphyta’ of Colombia is conducted, based on information from literature as well as on examination of over 2,000 specimens from the major Colombian entomological collections. A total of 127 species are recorded from Colombia, representing six families: Argidae (48 species), Tenthredinidae (37) Pergidae (37), Xiphydriidae (3 species...
A survey of the ‘Symphyta’ of Colombia is conducted, based on information from literature as well as on examination of over 2,000 specimens from the major Colombian entomological collections. A total of 127 species are recorded from Colombia, representing six families: Argidae (48 species), Tenthredinidae (37) Pergidae (37), Xiphydriidae (3 species...
Ants live in a wide variety of habitats, including anthropic systems, such as crops, and livestock production systems. While interacting with other species in agroecosystems,
ants can produce either damages or benefits of economic impact. Moreover, there are an important number of promising ant species for the development of pest management strateg...
Las hormigas del género Procryptocerus se pueden reconocer fácilmente por una ligera o notable protrusión del clípeo, formando un naso; por la posición lateral del ojo, por debajo del escrobo antenal y por el vértex deflexo hacia atrás en la mayoría de las especies. En Colombia se conocen 18 especies, aunque hay varias sin describir.
La morfología es la base fundamental sobre la cual se desarrolla la taxonomía. El objetivo de este capítulo es ofrecer un glosario en español y un léxico español-inglés de más de 400 términos utilizados en los trabajos de taxonomía de hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Dibujos e imágenes en microscopía electrónica de barrido y en microscopía óptic...
Pheidole is viewed as the most common genus of Formicidae. It is considered being megadiverse on the grounds that it encompasses approximately 900 species described, and 1500 expected. These ants are distinguished for being dimorphic, rarely trimorphic. The antenna is composed of eleven or twelve segments, including an antennal
clava with three to,...
The entomological museum of Universidad Nacional, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Bogota, (UNAB) Colombia, conserves several arthropod collections. These collections are considered of great interest to several agricultural and silvicultural pro-duction systems in the eastern Andes and the nearby Amazon region (Caqueta and Putumayo provinces) of t...
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Los insectos escama asociados a raíces son de interés económico en cultivos como el café. Aunque existen desarrollos notables en el conocimiento sobre la taxonomía alfa de tales insectos, se requiere más información sobre su diversidad. El objetivo de este trabajo fue actualizar la lista de especies de insectos escama huéspedes en raíces de café en...
Colombia is a country with a high diversity of ants; however, several new taxa are still being reported for
the country. Forty seven new records for the country are registered here, all in the subfamily Myrmicinae: one new species record for the genera Adelomyrmex, Allomerus, Kempfidris, Megalomyrmex, Octostruma and Tranopelta; two
for Rogeria; f...
Participación V Congreso Colombiano de Zoología
The addition of the Nagoya Protocol, which entered into force on 12 October 2014, to the Convention on Biological Diversity, established the ground rules how nations access, cooperate and share the benefits that come from sustainable utilization of genetic resources of living organisms [1]. This protocol changed the way biodiversity researchers wor...
Morphology of seventh and eighth abdominal segments of male, genitalia, wing venation, and some external characters were analyzed on 165 specimens, which represent 31 species of Caloptilia and eight genera of related taxa. To record the major morphology variability of the adult of Caloptilia, were employed species from different biogeographic regio...
Jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Psylloidea) are a group of phloem-feeding insects with nearly 4000 described species. Previous records from Colombia comprise 19 genera of all eight known families. The revision of material deposited in six Colombian and three foreign museums yielded another nine genera that constitute new country reco...
De las 150 familias de Diptera, la mayoría comprende especies con estado larval de vida libre. De las aproximadamente 150.000 especies descritas en Diptera, alrededor de 16.000 son parasitoides, y de estas, más de 8.000 pertenecen a una sola familia, Tachinidae. Pese a la importancia que estos insectos representan como controladores biológicos en p...
Rhagoletis jamaicensis Foote, 1981 and an undetermined species of the psalida group, are recorded for the first time in Colombia. The morphological variations of the Colombian specimens of these species and of other species closely related are discussed.
We register the species Heteroschema rugosopunctata for the first time as a parasitoid of pupae of the fly of the pigeon pea Melanagromyza obtusa (March, 1914) (Diptera: Agromyzidae). In this study, we first offer the nomenclatural history of the genus Heteroschema Gahan and then provide our finds. In September 2014 and March 2016, we conducted two...
We report the willow sawfly, Nematus oligospilus Forster for the first time from
Colombia and northern South America. Two specimens were found at two collections in the country.
We also describe some anatomical features of the first and second valvulae of its ovipositor.
The willow sawfly, Nematus oligospilus Förster, has recently been recorded from Colombia. Natural populations
were searched for in Bogotá City, where one of the host plants, Salix humboldtiana, grows as an
ornamental tree. Larvae and cocoons were found, which thrive on the leaves of this plant. Parthenogenetic
reproduction of this sawfly was confir...
Melanagromyza obtusa (Diptera: Agromyzidae) is recorded for the first time in Colombia. Distribution of this species is mainly Asiatic although it has been recently reported in Florida (The United States of America), the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Panama, and Peru. In countries such as India, Indonesia (Java) and Malaysia, it is recogn...
The aphids Takecallis taiwana (Takahashi, 1926) and T. arun-dinariae (Essig, 1917) were collected from two locations in the Department of Cundinamarca (Colombia) and one location within 90 km of the city of Bogota on plants of the Phyllostachys sp. (Poaceae: Bambusoideae). This represents the first record of these species from the northern half of...
Oozetetes lucidus sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae) is described from Colombia, South America, and through macrophotography compared with all described species in the bucheri species-group of Oozetetes De Santis. An illustrated key modified from Gibson (2004) is provided to distinguish females of the six described species of this group.
RESUMEN Melanagromyza obtusa (Diptera: Agromyzidae) is recorded for the first time in Colombia. Distribution of this species is mainly Asiatic although it has been recently reported in Florida (The United States of America), the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Panama, and Peru. In countries such as India, Indonesia (Java) and Malaysia, it i...
RESUMEN Melanagromyza obtusa (Diptera: Agromyzidae) is recorded for the first time in Colombia. Distribution of this species is mainly Asiatic although it has been recently reported in Florida (The United States of America), the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Panama, and Peru. In countries such as India, Indonesia (Java) and Malaysia, it i...
RESUMEN Melanagromyza obtusa (Diptera: Agromyzidae) is recorded for the first time in Colombia. Distribution of this species is mainly Asiatic although it has been recently reported in Florida (The United States of America), the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Panama, and Peru. In countries such as India, Indonesia (Java) and Malaysia, it i...
UNAB consists of several collections that seek to represent the insects of agricultural and forestry significance from the variousregions of Colombia, especially the mountainous zone. In order to contribute to knowledge on the Diptera diversity of Colombia found in agricultural ecosystems, the present study looked at the Micropezidae contained in t...
The gall-forming aphid Tetraneura fusiformis is recorded for the first time for Northern South America. Its identity is clarified, and descriptions of this species and that of T. nigriabdomi-nalis, with which it is commonly confused, are offered. The association of this sap sucking insect with the ant Linepithema angulatum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)...
We present a synopsis of the leaf cutting ants (Acromyrmex and Atta) of Colombia.
Currently, we report two genera and twelve species for the country, including:
Acromyrmex aspersus (Smith F., 1858) = Acromyrmex aspersus fuhrmanni
Forel, 1914 N. Syn.; Acromyrmex coronatus (Fabricius, 1804); Acromyrmex
hystrix (Latreille, 1802); Acromyrmex landolti F...
Clase Collembola (Lubbock 1873) la constituyen hexápodos que miden entre 0.25 mm y 10 mm de longitud. Esta clase se diferencia por la presencia del tubo ventral en el primer segmento abdominal. La mayoría de especies cuentan con un órgano saltador (fúrcula) en el cuarto segmento abdominal (Figura 1A). Dentro de los Collembola se pueden distinguir c...
El áfido Sipha flava (Hemiptera: Aphididae), se encontró en pasto kikuyo, Pennisetum clandestinum, en el norte de la Sabana de Bogotá y en el área urbana de Manizales. Se evaluó el daño ocasionado por su alimentación y las características de las colonias. El amarillamiento de la hoja presentó un valor máximo de 31,3 %/m². Las colonias de S. flava p...
Aphids are succivorous, polyphagous insects that attack an important number of crops. Damages are of economic importance and may be lethal to plants since aphids are adapted to transmit different viruses, while sucking sap juices. Aphids live in symbiotic association with ants. Ants protect and move them from one place to another, and receive honey...
Aphids are succivorous, polyphagous insects that attack an important number of crops. Damages are of economic importance and may be lethal to plants since aphids are adapted to transmit different viruses, while sucking sap juices. Aphids live in symbiotic association with ants. Ants protect and move them from one place to another, and receive honey...
Ripersiella kelloggi Ehrhon and Cockerell (Hemiptera: Rhizoecidae) is herein reported from Colombia
and the Neotropical region for the fi rst time. The species is redescribed and illustrated. The cephalic plate and
genitalia of R. kelloggi are herein described for the fi rst time.
Siricidae are important wood-boring insects largely distributed in the North- ern Hemisphere and include 10 genera and about 120 world species. In the Western Hemisphere, they are native to North America south to Guatemala and the Dominican Republic. None is endemic to South America; however, during the past half century three species have been int...
Resumen Los áfidos son insectos polífagos succívoros y se alimentan de una importante cantidad de cultivos. Los daños son de importancia económica y pueden ser letales para las plantas, ya que los áfidos están adaptados para transmitir diferentes virus cuando chupan la savia. Viven también en asociación simbiótica con hormigas. Estas, a su vez, los...
Antioquia is a state (department) of Colombia, located in the
northwestern Andes of South America. Geologically, the northwestern
region of the Western Range in Antioquia and Chocó
includes the fault resulting from the connection between the
Isthmus of Panamá and South America. The Occidental and
Central cordilleras in Colombia are characterized by...
En este trabajo se desarrolló el ciclo de vida de F. antioquina con el objetivo de reconocer y diferenciar cada instar ninfal, de acuerdo con sus características morfológicas. Asimismo, se buscó conocer el tiempo que tardan las ninfas en cambiar de
instar. Para la cría de F. antioquiana, en el campus universitario se colectaron 583 especímenes en...
Eupalamides cyparissias amazonensis and an intermediate phenotype of two ssp. of Duboisvalia simulans are reported for the first time from Colombia based on the discovery of one specimen each present in two collections of the country. Besides their relevance for increasing the geographical distribution of both taxa, additional information is provid...
Adistemia watsoni (Coleoptera: Latridiidae) is recorded for the first time in Colombia. Two populations of this species were found in Bogotá (Colombia) in a public library and in rotten logs in the field.
In order to decipher biodiversity, we need to maintain and improve the descriptive scope by pursuing the fundamental ontology and conceptual foundations. Descriptive morphology is currently the clearest avenue to conceiving, understanding and conceptually conveying species as units of evolution and ecology (Serna and Mackay 2010; Wheeler 2008 and r...
Morphology is the most direct approach biologists have to recognize uniqueness of insect species as compared to close relatives. Ants of the genus Procryptocerus possess important morphologic characters yet have not been explored for use in a taxonomic revision. The genus is characterized by the protrusion of the clypeus forming a broad nasus and a...
Se identifican las especies de nóctuidos de importancia económica en cultivos de flores ornamentales para exportación en Colombia. El estudio incluyó 15 fincas cultivadoras de flores, localizadas en los dos departamentos con mayor producción de flores del país; Cundinamarca, municipios de Bogotá, Bojacá, Chía, Cota, El Rosal, Facatativá, Funza, Mad...
The noctuid species of economic importance in ornamental flower crops of Colombia are identified. The study included 15 flower-cultivating farms located in the two departments with the largest production of flowers in the country: Cundinamarca, municipalities of Bogotá, Chía, Cota, El Rosal, Facatativá, Funza, Madrid, Sopó, and Tocancipá; and Antio...
The strigatus species complex is defined as those workers and females of Cyphomyrmex in which the preocular carina extends back to the vertex, delimiting the lateral margin of a depressed concave scrobe. The mandibles have 6 or more teeth and there is a single medial pronotal tubercle. The complex was previously reported only in South America, espe...
Peridroma saucia is an harmful pest of flowers cut for exportation from Colombia . Its integrated management requires basic local information about its biology. In the present work its life cycle on Alstroemeria spp was followed under two different temperature (°C) and relative humidity (RH) environments: the conditions 23,.72 ºC and 82,93 % HR wer...
Copitarsia decolora is a pest in cut flowers for exportation. Its management requires basic and local information about its biology. In the present study we followed its life cycle on plants of Astromelia under two different temperature (ºC) and relative humidity (RH) environments: conditions of 23,72 ºC and 82,93 % RH were controlled in a phitotro...
The present study included a theoretical review of the morphology and taxonomy of the genus Anastrepha. This study supports taxonomic recognition of Anastrepha groups of species and species from the genus in the Cundinamarca department (Colombia). Nine collections kept at different universities and research institutions in this department were thus...
Este artículo inicia con una introducción sobre la morfología y la taxonomía del género Anas- trepha, para apoyar el reconocimiento taxonómico de los grupos de especies y las especies de este género en Cundinamarca. A tal fin se examinaron nueve co- lecciones en distintas instituciones universitarias y de investigación en este departamento. Para id...
This review article attempts to summarize the majority of the information obtained from basic studies of the Coccoidea group, with emphasis on Pseudococcidae, in Colombia . Thirtyfour publications (23 international and 11 Colombian) on the scales and mealy bugs of Colombia were reviewed. In total, Colombia has 216 species of scales, lice and mealy...
Collembola are very small, insect-like, wingless arthropods which are very common in a wide range of different habitats. They are one of the better represented hexapod groups on earth. They are very important due to their influence on the structure of some soils. Many species live in the canopy of tropical forests, some dispersing spores within dec...
La tribu Stegomyrmecini es exclusivamente neotropical y contiene a Stegomyrmex Emery como único género (Diniz 1990). Es una de las tribus enigmáticas de la subfamilia Myrmicinae, por sus cualidades morfológicas, por el desconocimiento de su biología y por su ubicación filogenética incierta en la subfamilia. Se ha sugerido que podría estar relaciona...
El picudo de los cítricos, Compsus n. sp.. es una especie no descrita que causa serios problemas a los citricultores en Colombia. Con el fin de proporcionar información básica que permitiera establecer su identidad se procedió a obtener información descriptiva y morfométrica de la anatomía externa y Denitalia de los adultos. Adicionalmente, para fa...
The leaf-cutting ant Atta cephalotes (L.) is one of most important crop pests in Colombia. Lycopersicon esculentum Miller tomato leaf extracts were chemically fractioned for testing phago-inhibition activity. Five extracts were tried out on an Atta cephalotes leaf-cutting ants laboratory colony. Removing grease with hexane and partition with dichlo...
Las hormigas arrieras o cortadoras de hojas constituyen una plaga agrícola de gran importancia en Colombia y otros países causando graves pérdidas económicas; aunque se han realizado numerosos intentos para el control de estas hormigas, existe aún desconocimiento en aspectos básicos sobre su biología como la relación con el hongo mutualista del cua...
Resumen: El presente estudio se llevó a cabo en los predios de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Núcleo El Volador, Se-de Medellín-Colombia. El objetivo principal era conocer la composición y riqueza de la mirmecofauna asociada a algunas es-pecies de árboles de este campus universitario. Se utilizaron seis métodos de captura y se realizó un dise...
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