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Species Composition and Diversity of Insects of the Kogyae Strict Nature Reserve in Ghana
Open Journal of Ecology, 2014, 4, 1061-1079 Published Online December 2014 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/oje http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oje.2014.417087 Species Composition and Diversity of Insects of the Kogyae Strict Nature Reserve in Ghana Rosina Kyerematen1,2*, Erasmus Henaku Owusu1, Daniel Acquah-Lamptey1, Roger Sigismund Anderson2, Yaa Ntiamoa-Baidu1,3 1Department of Animal Biology and Conservation Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana 2African Regional Postgraduate Programme in Insect Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana 3Centre for African Wetlands, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana Email: *[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Received 6 September 2014; revised 9 November 2014; accepted 21 November 2014 Copyright © 2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract Kogyae Strict Nature Reserve, the only one in Ghana, was established to promote scientific re- search, particularly on how nature revitalizes itself after major disasters, and also to check the southward drift of the savannah grassland. This study presents the first comprehensive inventory of species composition and diversity of insects of the Reserve. Insects were surveyed between September 2011 and June 2012 to capture the end of the rainy season, the dry season and the peak of the wet season. Samples were taken from two sites within the Reserve, Dagomba and Oku using various sampling techniques including pitfall traps, malaise traps and sweep nets. Insect com- munities were characterized in terms of, 1) species richness estimators, 2) species richness, 3) Shannon-Weiner Index of Diversity, 4) Pielou’s evenness and 5) Bray-Curtis similarity. -
Phylogeny, Classification and Taxonomy of European Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata): a Review
See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/257796270 Phylogeny, classification and taxonomy of European dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata): a review ARTICLE in ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION · SEPTEMBER 2012 Impact Factor: 3.37 · DOI: 10.1007/s13127-012-0080-8 CITATIONS DOWNLOADS VIEWS 16 83 281 2 AUTHORS: Kd Dijkstra Vincent J. Kalkman Naturalis Biodiversity Center Naturalis Biodiversity Center 58 PUBLICATIONS 708 CITATIONS 74 PUBLICATIONS 581 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE SEE PROFILE Available from: Kd Dijkstra Retrieved on: 13 September 2015 Org Divers Evol (2012) 12:209–227 DOI 10.1007/s13127-012-0080-8 REVIEW Phylogeny, classification and taxonomy of European dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata): a review K.-D. B. Dijkstra & V. J. Kalkman Received: 28 October 2011 /Accepted: 20 February 2012 /Published online: 28 March 2012 # Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik 2012 Abstract Although Europe is the cradle of dragonfly sys- with his countless contributions laid the very fundament of tematics and despite great progress in the last 2 decades, odonatology. More than 700 of the currently nearly 5,700 many issues in naming its species and understanding their recognised species bear his names, a figure followed only evolutionary history remain unresolved. Given the public distantly by another European, Lieftinck, with just over 500 interest, conservation importance and scientific relevance of species. Despite the head start, many issues in naming Odonata, it is time that remaining questions on the species’ European dragonflies and understanding their history remain status, names and affinities are settled. We review the ex- unresolved. Only after 170 years a thorough Ukrainian mor- tensive but fragmentary literature on the phylogeny, classi- phologist noticed that “Brachythemis leucosticta” as found fication and taxonomy of European Odonata, providing north of the Mediterranean Sea was not what Burmeister summary phylogenies for well-studied groups and an eco- (1839) named as such from South Africa. -
Critical Species of Odonata in Eastern Africa
--- Guardians of the watershed. Global status of dragonflies: critical species, threat and conservation --- Critical species of Odonata in eastern Africa Viola Clausnitzer Liebenauer Stra~e 180, D-0611 0 Halle/Saale, Germany. <violacl®gmx.de> Key words: Odonata, dragonfly, IUCN, critical species, conservation, eastern Africa. ABSTRACT From eastern Africa, ranging from Somalia and Ethiopia south to Mozambique and Zimbabwe and west to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and Botswana, ca 500 species of Odonata are known. Comments on species and sites of conserva tion concern are given as well as recommendations for future research and conservation activities. Due to the rapid and ongoing destruction of forests, especially of coastal, Guineo-Congolian and Eastern Arc forests, species confined to these habitats are the most threatened. REGIONAL DEFINITION Eastern Africa is not a fixed political or geographical description for a specific area. Here the term is used for the region comprising the Rift Valley from Ethiopia south ward to Mozambique and northern Botswana and westward to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and eastern Angola. The neighbouring regions are covered to the south by Sam ways (2004 ), to the southwest by Suhling et al. (2004 ), to the west by Dijkstra & Vick (2004) and to the north by Jodicke et al. (2004). As biogeo graphy and faunistic distributions do not follow political borders, there may be overlaps with neighbouring regions. The area considered here covers some of the most important centres for endemism and regions of high biodiversity in Africa, namely forested mountain chains along the Albertine Rift and the Eastern Arc and coastal forests (e.g. -
A Review of the Taxonomy of African Odonata - Finding Ways to Better Identification and Biogeographic Insight
Cimbebasia 18: 191-206, 2003 191 A review of the taxonomy of African Odonata - finding ways to better identification and biogeographic insight Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra Gortestraat 11, NL-2311 MS Leiden, The Netherlands: e-mail: [email protected] The taxonomy of the approximately 850 species of sub-Saharan African Odonata is relatively well-known, probably due to the impoverished nature of the fauna as compared to that of other tropical regions. The need for revisions, study of higher classification, comprehension of (often clinal, environmentally induced) variability and knowledge of larvae, phylogeny and biogeogra- phy are stressed. Taxonomic priorities are discussed for each family. Supportive activities include the production of identification manuals for a broader public, the accumulation of supplemen- tary material and the conservation of existing collections. A list of genera with estimated num- bers of species, taxonomic status and references is provided, as well as a list of important regional works. INTRODUCTION biogeography. The first priority for the taxonomy of African Odonata is, therefore, revisions. Although not as well studied as the Holarctic and Australasian Region’s faunas, knowledge of the REVISIONS & REVIEWS taxonomy of African Odonata is well ahead of those of the Oriental and Neotropic Regions. The It is hardly an exaggeration to say that all genera main reason is that the African fauna is relatively require at least some study. Elliot Pinhey tackled impoverished, harbouring only about 60% of the many problems, as can be seen from the nume- number of species found in each of the two other rous referrals to his work in the Appendix. -
The Classification and Diversity of Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata)*
Zootaxa 3703 (1): 036–045 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ Correspondence ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2013 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.9 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9F5D2E03-6ABE-4425-9713-99888C0C8690 The classification and diversity of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata)* KLAAS-DOUWE B. DIJKSTRA1, GÜNTER BECHLY2, SETH M. BYBEE3, RORY A. DOW1, HENRI J. DUMONT4, GÜNTHER FLECK5, ROSSER W. GARRISON6, MATTI HÄMÄLÄINEN1, VINCENT J. KALKMAN1, HARUKI KARUBE7, MICHAEL L. MAY8, ALBERT G. ORR9, DENNIS R. PAULSON10, ANDREW C. REHN11, GÜNTHER THEISCHINGER12, JOHN W.H. TRUEMAN13, JAN VAN TOL1, NATALIA VON ELLENRIEDER6 & JESSICA WARE14 1Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, PO Box 9517, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] 2Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany. E-mail: [email protected] 3Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, 401 WIDB, Provo, UT. 84602 USA. E-mail: [email protected] 4Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. E-mail: [email protected] 5France. E-mail: [email protected] 6Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, California Department of Food & Agriculture, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832- 1448, USA. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] 7Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, 499 Iryuda, Odawara, Kanagawa, 250-0031 Japan. E-mail: [email protected] 8Department of Entomology, Rutgers University, Blake Hall, 93 Lipman Drive, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA. -
Developing an Odonate-Based Index for Monitoring Freshwater Ecosystems in Rwanda: Towards Linking Policy to Practice Through Integrated and Adaptive Management
Antioch University AURA - Antioch University Repository and Archive Student & Alumni Scholarship, including Dissertations & Theses Dissertations & Theses 2020 Developing an Odonate-Based Index for Monitoring Freshwater Ecosystems in Rwanda: Towards Linking Policy to Practice through Integrated and Adaptive Management Erasme Uyizeye Follow this and additional works at: https://aura.antioch.edu/etds Part of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Commons, Entomology Commons, and the Environmental Sciences Commons Department of Environmental Studies DISSERTATION COMMITTEE PAGE The undersigned have examined the dissertation entitled: Developing an Odonate-Based Index for Monitoring Freshwater Ecosystems in Rwanda: Towards Linking Policy to Practice through Integrated and Adaptive Management, presented by Erasme Uyizeye, candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, and hereby certify that it is accepted*. Committee Chair: Beth A. Kaplin, Ph.D. Antioch University New England, USA Committee member: Lisabeth Willey, Ph.D. Antioch University New England, USA Committee member: Viola Clausnitzer, Ph.D. Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz, Germany. Defense Date: April 17th, 2020. Date Approved by all Committee Members: April 30th, 2020. Date Deposited: April 30th, 2020. *Signatures are on file with the Registrar’s Office at Antioch University New England. Developing an Odonate-Based Index for Monitoring Freshwater Ecosystems in Rwanda: Towards Linking Policy to Practice through Integrated and Adaptive Management By Erasme Uyizeye A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in Environmental Studies at Antioch University New England Keene, New Hampshire 2020 ii © 2020 by Erasme Uyizeye All rights reserve iii Dedication I dedicate this dissertation to my daughter who was born in the midst of this doctoral journey, my wife who has stayed by my side, my father for his words of encouragement (1956-1993) & my mother for her unwavering support and love. -
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Demise and rise : the biogeography and taxonomy of the Odonata of tropical Africa Dijkstra, K.D.B. Citation Dijkstra, K. D. B. (2007, May 16). Demise and rise : the biogeography and taxonomy of the Odonata of tropical Africa. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/11969 Version: Corrected Publisher’s Version Licence agreement concerning inclusion of doctoral thesis in License: the Institutional Repository of the University of Leiden Downloaded from: https://hdl.handle.net/1887/11969 Note: To cite this publication please use the final published version (if applicable). Demise and rise the biogeography and taxonomy of the Odonata of tropical Africa Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra Dijkstra, K.-D.B. 2007 Demise and rise: the biogeography and taxonomy of the Odonata of tropical Africa PhD Th esis, Leiden University Front cover photos: Gomphidia gamblesi (above) and Kintampo Falls, Ghana, by K.-D. B. Dijkstra Back cover photo: the author in Ankasa, Ghana, by Eric F. Th omassen Lay-out: Guido O. Keijl Printed by Finesse Druk, Heerhugowaard Demise and rise the biogeography and taxonomy of the Odonata of tropical Africa Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden, op gezag van de Rector Magnifi cus prof. mr. P.F. van der Heijden, volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties, te verdedigen op woensdag 16 mei 2007, klokke 13.45 uur. door Klaas-Douwe Benediktus Dijkstra geboren te Kampen in 1975 Promotiecommissie Promotor: Prof. dr. E. Gittenberger (Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Naturalis; Universiteit Leiden) Co-promotor: Dr. V. Clausnitzer (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Duitsland) Referent: Dr. M.L. May (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Verenigde Staten) Overige leden: Prof. -
Insecta: Odonata: Libellulidae)
ÂNGELO PARISE PINTO Análise cladística de Sympetrinae Tillyard, 1917 com ênfase no grupo de armadura femoral especializada: os gêneros de ‘Erythemismorpha’ (Insecta: Odonata: Libellulidae) São Paulo 2013 Ângelo Parise Pinto ii Ângelo Parise Pinto Análise cladística de Sympetrinae Tillyard, 1917 com ênfase no grupo de armadura femoral especializada: os gêneros de ‘Erythemismorpha’ (Insecta: Odonata: Libellulidae) A cladistics analysis of Sympetrinae Tillyard, 1917 with an emphasis in the group of specialized femoral armature: the genera of ‘Erythemismorpha’ (Insecta: Odonata: Libellulidae) **Exemplar corrigido, original encontra-se depositado na biblioteca do Instituto de Biociências da USP** Tese apresentada ao Instituto de Biociências da Universidade de São Paulo, para a obtenção de Título de Doutor em Ciências Biológicas, na Área de Zoologia. Orientador: prof. Dr. Carlos José Einicker Lamas Coorientador: prof. Dr. Alcimar do Lago Carvalho São Paulo 2013 Ângelo Parise Pinto iii Pinto, Ângelo Parise Análise cladística de Sympetrinae Tillyard, 1917 com ênfase no grupo de armadura femoral especializada: os gêneros de ‘Erythemismorpha’ (Insecta: Odonata: Libellulidae) 187 p. Tese (Doutorado) - Instituto de Biociências da Universidade de São Paulo. Departamento de Zoologia. 1. Erythemismorpha 2. Cladística 3. Homoplasia I. Universidade de São Paulo. Instituto de Biociências. Departamento de Zoologia. **Exemplar corrigido, original encontra-se depositado na biblioteca do Instituto de Biociências da USP** Comissão Julgadora: Prof. Dr. Mário César Cardoso de Pinna Prof. Dr. Marcelo Duarte da Silva Prof. Dr. Pablo Pessacq Prof. Dr. Taran Grant Prof. Dr. Carlos José Einicker Lamas Orientador Capa: Erythemis mithroides (Brauer in Therese, 1900). Therese, Prinzessin von Bayern. (1900). Von Ihrer königl. hoheit der Prinzessin Therese von Bayer auf einer reise in SüdAmerika gesammelte insekten. -
(Burmeister) Reproductive Biology of the Calopterygidae, Particularly In
I, 1985 Odonalologica 14 (3): 251-256 September Oviposition by Phaon iridipennis(Burmeister) in Kenya (Zygoptera: Calopterygidae) P.L. Miller Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom Received and Accepted January 21, 1985 Territorial behaviour and courtship are briefly described. During oviposition, much of which occurs without male guarding, females make slits in the stems of dereilema. The slits contain Cyperus are up to 40 mm longand eggs packed in a single file of I slit at a density egg per 0.44 mm. Heavy parasitism of the eggs in one was discovered. INTRODUCTION There is much interest in the reproductive biology of the Calopterygidae, particularly in species from America (JOHNSON, 1962; WAAGE, 1973, 1978, 1984), Europe (BUCHHOLTZ, 1951, 1955;ZAHNER, 1960; HEYMER, 1973) and Asia (KUMAR & PRASAD, 1977; HIGASHI & UEDA, 1982; MIYAKAWA, 1982; NOMAKUCH1 et al„ 1984). Not only have calopterygids been used in numerous studies of territorial behaviour, courtship and male first animals in which guarding, but they were also the sperm competition by However, little sperm removal with the penis was demonstrated(WAAGE, 1979). is known about African members of the family, although some such as Umma Most members of the spp., are as beautifully winged as any calopterygid. family oviposit on vegetation at the water surface or below it by making a series of separate incisions into leaves or stems, into each of which one egg is normally placed (e.g. ROBERT, 1958). In contrast, female Phaon iridipennis are shown here to oviposit into plants above the water surface by making long slits in the which of stems, into they place a tightly packed row eggs. -
THE STATUS and DISTRIBUTION of Freshwater Biodiversity in Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands Hotspot
THE THE STATUs aNd dISTRIBUtION OF STAT U Freshwater biodIversIty in MadagasCar s a N aNd the INdIaN OCeaN IslaNds hOtspOt d d I STR Edited by Laura Máiz-Tomé, Catherine Sayer and William Darwall IUCN Freshwater Biodiversity Unit, Global Species Programme IBU t ION OF F OF ION RESHWATER N ds a BIO I N d I ar ar VERS d C N I TY IN IN sla Madagas I N C ar a ar N ea d the I the d d the I the d C N N d Madagas a O I a N O C ea N I sla N IUCN h ds Rue Mauverney 28 CH-1196 Gland O Switzerland tsp Tel: + 41 22 999 0000 Fax: + 41 22 999 0015 O www.iucn.org/redlist t the IUCN red list of threatened speciestM www.iucnredlist.org THE STATUS AND DISTRIBUTION OF freshwater biodiversity in Madagascar and the Indian Ocean islands hotspot Edited by Laura Máiz-Tomé, Catherine Sayer and William Darwall IUCN Freshwater Biodiversity Unit, Global Species Programme The designation of geographical entities in this book, and the presentation of the material, do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of IUCN concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect those of IUCN, or other participating organisations. This publication has been made possible by funding from The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund. Published by: IUCN Cambridge, UK in collaboration with IUCN Gland, Switzerland Copyright: © 2018 IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Reproduction of this publication for educational or other non-commercial purposes is authorised without prior written permission from the copyright holder provided the source is fully acknowledged. -
The Evolution of Wing Shape in Ornamented-Winged Damselflies
Evol Biol (2013) 40:300–309 DOI 10.1007/s11692-012-9214-3 RESEARCH ARTICLE The Evolution of Wing Shape in Ornamented-Winged Damselflies (Calopterygidae, Odonata) David Outomuro • Dean C. Adams • Frank Johansson Received: 27 September 2012 / Accepted: 28 November 2012 / Published online: 13 December 2012 Ó Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012 Abstract Flight has conferred an extraordinary advan- sexual displays might be an important driver of speciation tage to some groups of animals. Wing shape is directly due to important pre-copulatory selective pressures. related to flight performance and evolves in response to multiple selective pressures. In some species, wings have Keywords Geometric morphometrics Á Phylogeny Á ornaments such as pigmented patches that are sexually Sexual signaling Á Wing pigmentation selected. Since organisms with pigmented wings need to display the ornament while flying in an optimal way, we might expect a correlative evolution between the wing Introduction ornament and wing shape. We examined males from 36 taxa of calopterygid damselflies that differ in wing pig- Flight is a key adaptation in animals and wing shape is an mentation, which is used in sexual displays. We used essential part of flight performance. The evolution of wing geometric morphometrics and phylogenetic comparative shape, while constrained by aerodynamic limitations, is approaches to analyse whether wing shape and wing pig- also influenced by selection operating on other aspects of mentation show correlated evolution. We found that wing organismal performance, including migration, dispersal, pigmentation is associated with certain wing shapes that foraging, predator avoidance, specific-gender strategies as probably increase the quality of the signal: wings being well as sexual selection (e.g. -
IDF-Report 92 (2016)
IDF International Dragonfly Fund - Report Journal of the International Dragonfly Fund 1-132 Matti Hämäläinen Catalogue of individuals commemorated in the scientific names of extant dragonflies, including lists of all available eponymous species- group and genus-group names – Revised edition Published 09.02.2016 92 ISSN 1435-3393 The International Dragonfly Fund (IDF) is a scientific society founded in 1996 for the impro- vement of odonatological knowledge and the protection of species. Internet: http://www.dragonflyfund.org/ This series intends to publish studies promoted by IDF and to facilitate cost-efficient and ra- pid dissemination of odonatological data.. Editorial Work: Martin Schorr Layout: Martin Schorr IDF-home page: Holger Hunger Indexed: Zoological Record, Thomson Reuters, UK Printing: Colour Connection GmbH, Frankfurt Impressum: Publisher: International Dragonfly Fund e.V., Schulstr. 7B, 54314 Zerf, Germany. E-mail: [email protected] and Verlag Natur in Buch und Kunst, Dieter Prestel, Beiert 11a, 53809 Ruppichteroth, Germany (Bestelladresse für das Druckwerk). E-mail: [email protected] Responsible editor: Martin Schorr Cover picture: Calopteryx virgo (left) and Calopteryx splendens (right), Finland Photographer: Sami Karjalainen Published 09.02.2016 Catalogue of individuals commemorated in the scientific names of extant dragonflies, including lists of all available eponymous species-group and genus-group names – Revised edition Matti Hämäläinen Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Abstract A catalogue of 1290 persons commemorated in the scientific names of extant dra- gonflies (Odonata) is presented together with brief biographical information for each entry, typically the full name and year of birth and death (in case of a deceased person).