Coleoptera and Lepidoptera discovered in nests of the Oriental Stork, Ciconia boyciana Swinhoe, in Japan

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  • コウノトリの巣から発見された鞘翅目と鱗翅目昆虫
  • コウノトリ ノ ス カラ ハッケン サレタ ショウシモク ト リンシモク コンチュウ

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Two scarabeid beetles, Anthracophora rusticola Burmeister and Protaetia brevitarsis (Lewis), and two lepidopteran species, Niditinea baryspilas (Meyrick) (Tineidae) and Orthopygia glaucinalis (Linnaeus) (Pyralidae), were recorded in five nests of the Oriental Stork, Ciconia boyciana Swinhoe, in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. This is the first report of insect fauna in Oriental Stork nests, with the first records of P. brevitarsis from bird nests and of0. glaucinalis from bird nests in Japan. The larvae of the scarabaeids and the tineid probably fed on plant matters (e.g. decaying twigs and leaves) and animal matters (e.g. remnants of food, bird feces, and pellets) in the nests, and the pyralid fed on plant matters. Eighty-four earthen cocoons of A. rusticola and 153 of P. brevitarsis were discovered in a single nest, confirming that the scarabaeids were closely associated with the stork nests.

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