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Odonatological Abstract Service published by the INTERNATIONAL DRAGONFLY FUND (IDF) in cooperation with the WORLDWIDE DRAGONFLY ASSOCIATION (WDA) Editors: Dr. Martin Lindeboom, Landhausstr. 10, D-72074 Tübingen, Germany. Tel. ++49 (0)7071 552928; E-mail: Lindeboom @aol.com and Martin Schorr, Schulstr. 7B D-54314 Zerf, Germany. Tel. ++49 (0)6587 1025; E-mail: [email protected] Published in Rheinfelden, Germany and printed in Tübingen, Germany. ISSN 1438-0269 1997 species.] Address: ÖKON, Dechbettener Str. 9, D- 93049 Regensburg, Germany 2665. 2659. Harauchi, Y.; Joh, Y. (1997): Emergence Akaishi, S. (1997): Dragonflies of process of Epiophlebia superstes in laboratory. Bull. of Asahikawacity. Bulletin of the Hokkaido Odonatological the Hokkaido Odonatological Society 9: 8-9. (in Society 9: 3-6. (in Japanese). [Japan; 32 odonate Japanese). [This is a detailed (photo) documentation of species are documented.] Address: not stated in the emergence of E. superstes.] Address: not stated in English English 2660. Anzai, M. (1997): A record of Aeshna mixta 2666. Hiratuka, K. (1997): Two dragonfly species new soneharai in Kamikawa District. Bulletin of the Hokkaido to Shiribeshi District . Bulletin of the Hokkaido Odonatological Society 9: 2. (in Japanese). [Japan; Odonatological Society 9: 1. (in Japanese). [Japan; August 1, 1991, A. mixta sonehara was observed along Coenagrion terue (Asahina 1949), Copera annulata with additional six odonate species listed.] Address: not (Selys 1863)] Address: Hiratsuka, K., 2-20-113, Honcho stated in English 2 jo-9, Higashi-ku, Sapporo City, 065-0042, Japan 2661. Beckemeyer, R. (1997): Some Nebraska 2667. Hirose, Y. (1997): A record of Coenagrion Odonata specimens in the University of Nebraska - ecornutum representing its southern limit. Bulletin of the Lincoln Insect Collection. Argia 9(4): 7. (in English). [A Hokkaido Odonatological Society 9: 10. (in Japanese). preliminarly browsing in the insect collection of Univ. of Address: not stated in English Nebraska, Lincoln Insect Collection resulted in 9 Anisoptera. Zygoptera are waiting for a detailed survey 2668. Hori, S. (1997): Aeschnophlebia longistigma of the collection.] Address: Beckemeyer, R.J., 957 recorded from Lake Utona. Bulletin of the Hokkaido Perry Ave., Wichita, KS 67203-3141, USA. E-mail: Odonatological Society 9: 24. (in Japanese). [Japan; [email protected] female, 16-VIII-1995] Address: not stated in English 2662. Cole, J. (1997): The second coming of Argia 2669. Naraoka, H. (1997): Reproductive behavior of lacrimans. Argia 9(4): 10-11. (in English). [Argia Sympecma paedisca paedisca (Odonata, Lestidae). lacrimans was confirmed for the second time in USA. At New Entomologist 46(1/2): 20-25. (in Jap., with English the same locality (Garden Canyon, near Fort summary (English translation of Naoya Ishizawa in Huachuca, Arizona) A. tonto was also recorded. In the Digest of Japanese odonatological Short paper the additional species from the collecting trip in Communications 7, 1998)). ["The reproductive July 1997 are documented.] Address: Cole, J., 7926 behaviour was studied at a small pond in Shiura village, Ramsgate Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90045, USA Kita-gun. Aomori pref., N Japan, from May to Aug. 2663. 1996. Hibernated adults appeared at the pond from mid Donnelly, T.W. (1997): Somatochlora May, and a few adults remained until early August. brevicincta in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia!. Argia Reproductive behaviour was observed on fine and 9(4): 5. (in English). [Report on some e-mail news warm days from late May to mid July (peak during the about new discovered localities or specimen of the rare first half of June). Male seized the female without S. brevicincta.] Address: Donnelly, T., 2091 Partridge courtship and display, immediately after he found her. Lane, Binghamton, NY 13903, USA. E-mail: Sperm transfer (x=60.8 s) was carried out just after the tdonnel@binghamton. edu tandem was formed at a perching site. Copulation was 2664. Foeckler, F.; Schmidt, H.; Deichner, O. (1997): observed between 7:30 and 14:30 h with the peak from Naturschutzfachliche Analyse und Bewertung der 9:00 to 10:00 h and it was divided into 3 stages; the Auswirkungen von Fischteichen auf die Gewässerfauna characteristic pumping was seen at each stage. von Flußperlmuschelbächen Nordostbayerns. Zschr. Copulation lasted 15 min 47 s on average (stage 1: 14 Ökol. u. Naturschutz 6: 111-123. (in German with Eng- min, 42 s, I[: 93.4 s. III: 10.3 s). Sperm displacement lish summary). [Eutrophication caused by water body was recognized by comparing the volumes of 9s sperm effluents degrades the water quality of pearlmussel storage organ collected at precopula. copula and brooks in Bavaria, Germany. Measures to improve the postcopula. Tandem oviposition took place soon after water quality are discussed. Odonata dwelling the water copulation in the leaves of Phragmites communis, bodies are listed along with other macrozoobenthic above the water, during 8:00-16:00 h, with the peak Odonat. Abstr. Service 11 (March 2003) - page 1 from 10:00 to 12:00 h; interspecific tandem was Enallagma damselfly larvae (Odonata, Zygoptera) on recorded in 3 cases." (Author)] Address: Naraoka, H., the basis of chemical cues. Journal of Chemical 36-71, Aza Motoizumi, Fukunoda, Itayanagi-machi, Ecology 23(1) : 137-151. (in English). ["We studied two Kita-gun, Aomori, 038-36, JA populations of damselfly larvae (Enallagma boreale): one population cooccurred with a predatory fish 2670. O'Brien, M. (1997): Somatochlora tenebrosa not (northern pike, Esox lucius); the other did not. in Michigan. Argia 9(4): 9-10. (in English). [S. tenebrosa Damselflies that cooccurred with pike adopted turned out to be S. hineana, but the locality data of the antipredator behavior (reduced activity) in response to specimen are quite obscure.] Address: O'Brien, M., chemical stimuli from injured conspecifics, and to Insect Division, Museum of Zoology, University of chemical stimuli from pike, relative to a distilled water Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079, USA. E-mail: control. Damselflies from an area where pike do not mfobrien @umich.edu occur responded only to chemical stimuli from injured conspecifics. In a second set of experiments, we 2671. O'Brien, M. (1997): Stylurus spiniceps finally conditioned pike-naive damselflies to recognize and verified for Michigan (Odonata: Gomphidae). Argia 9(4): respond to chemical stimuli from pike with antipredator 8-9. (in English). [On 20 July 1997, Stylurus spiniceps, behavior. Damselfly larvae that were previously prior only known from a little bit obscure literature data, unresponsive to pike stimuli learned to recognize pike was veryfied from a Michigan locality (Huron River).] stimuli after a single exposure to stimuli from pike and Address: O'Brien, M., Insect Division, Museum of injured damselflies or pike and injured fathead minnows Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109- (Pimephales promelas). The response to injured 1079, USA. E-mail: [email protected] fathead minnows was not a general response to injured 2672. Ohkubo, K. (1997): Notes on two species of the fish because damselfly larvae did not respond to dragonflies of Chichi-jima Island, Ogasawara in 1996. chemical stimuli from injured swordtails (Xiphophorus Aeschna 34: 37-38. (in Japanes). [Japan; Boninagrion helleri), an allopatric fish. Taken together, these data ezoin, Hemicordulia ogasawarensis.] Address: not suggest a flexible learning program that allows stated in English damselfly larvae to rapidly acquire the ability to recognize local predation risk based on chemical stimuli 2673. Ozono, A. (1997): Re-discovery of Macromia from predators, conspecifics, and heterospecific daimoji OKUMURA from Osaka Prefecture. Aeschna members of their prey guild." (Authors)] Address: 34: 24. (in Japanes). Address: not stated in English Wisenden, B.D., Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan 112 Science Place, Saskatoon, 2674. Paulson, D. (1997): New odonata records for Saskatchewan, Canada, S7N 5E2, Canada Idaho. Argia 9(4): 8. (in English). [Idaho, USA; August 1997; Stylurus olivaceus, Sympetrum madidum, 2680. Wudkevich, K.; Wisenden, B.D.; Chivers, D.P.; Pantala flavescens] Address: Paulson, D.R., Slater Smith, J.F. (1997): Reactions of Gammarus lacustris to Museum, Univ. of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 98416, chemical stimuli from natural predators and injured USA. E-mail: [email protected] conspecifics. Journal of Chemical Ecology 23(4) : 1163- 1171. (in English). ["We exposed the freshwater 2675. Paulson, D. (1997): New odonata records for amphipod G. lacustris, to chemical stimuli from injured Maine and New Hampshire. Argia 9(4): 7. (in English). conspecifics and to chemical stimuli from two types of [New county records from a collection Netta Smith natural predators: dragonfly larvae (Aeshna eremita) made in 1997 in Maine and New Hampshire, USA are and northern pike (Esox Indus). Exposure to all three documented,] Address: Paulson, D.R., Slater Museum, stimuli caused G. lacustris to reduce significantly its Univ. of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 98416, USA. E- level of activity relative to activity recorded in response mail: [email protected] to a distilled water control. The similarity in responses to chemicals associated with predators and to injured 2676. Sato, M. (1997): Phenology of Sympetrum conspecifics suggests the presence of an alarm frequens in Obihirocity. Bulletin of the Hokkaido pheromone within the body tissues of G. lacustris. In Odonatological Society 9: 16-19. (in Japanese).
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    BOL. MUS. BIOL. MELLO LEITÃO (N. SÉR.) 33:19-24. JANEIRO DE 2014 19 Behavioural and biological notes on Crabronidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) and new geographic records to the Espírito Santo State (Southeast Brazil) Sandor Christiano Buys1* ABSTRACT: The following species of crabronid wasps are added to the list of Hymenoptera of Espírito Santo State: Stictia maccus (Handlirsch, 1895), Hoplisoides vespoides (F. Smith, 1873), Trachypus fulvipennis (Tachenberg, 1875), Trachypus romandi (Saussure, 1854). Notes on nesting behaviour of H. vespoides, S. maccus and T. fulvipennis in the Biological Station of Santa Lúcia (city of Santa Teresa) are presented. Hoplisoides vespoides used as prey Umbonia spinosa (Fabricius, 1775) (Hemiptera: Membracidae) and T. fuvipennis used as prey three species of stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponinae): Plebeia remota (Holmberg, 1903), Partamona aff. cupira (Smith, 1863), Schwarziana quadripunctata (Lepeletier, 1836). Key-words: Trachypus, Stictia, Hoplisoides, Meliponinae bee, solitary wasps, Atlantic Forest. RESUMO: Notas biológicas e comportamentais sobre Crabronidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) e novos registros geográficos para o Estado do Espírito Santo (Sudeste do Brasil). As seguintes espécies de vespas crabronídeas são adicionadas à lista de Hymenoptera do Estado do Espírito Santo: Stictia maccus (Handlirsch, 1895), Hoplisoides vespoides (F. Smith, 1873), Trachypus fulvipennis (Tachenberg, 1875), Trachypus romandi (Saussure, 1854). Notas sobre comportamento de nidificação de Hoplisoides vespoides, S. maccus e T. fulvipennis na Estação Biológica de Santa Lúcia (Santa Teresa) são apresentadas. Hoplisoides vespoides usou como presa Umbonia spinosa (Fabricius, 1775) (Hemiptera: Membracidae) e T. fuvipennis usou como presa três espécies de abelhas meliponíneas (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponinae): Plebeia remota (Holmberg, 1903), Partamona aff. cupira (Smith, 1863), Schwarziana quadripunctata (Lepeletier, 1836).