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[email protected] Published in Rheinfelden, Germany and printed in Trier, Germany. ISSN 1438-0269 1997 discussed.] Address: Donnelly, T., 2091 Partridge Lane, Binghamton, NY 13903, USA. E-mail: tdonnel@bing- hamton.edu 6842. Clark, T.E.; Samways, M.J. (1997): Sampling 6844. Forbes, M.; Leung, B.; Schalk, G. (1997): Fluctu- arthropod diversity for urban ecological landscaping in a ating asymmetry in Coenagrion resolutum (Hagen) in species-rich southern hemisphere botanic garden. relation to age and male pairing success (Zygoptera: Journal of insect conservation 1: 221-234. (in English). Coenagrionidae). Odonatologica 26(1): 9-16. (in Eng- ["Arthropods were sampled using pitfall traps, sticky lish). ["Recent evidence suggests that fluctuating asym- traps, sweep netting, Malaise traps and visual sampling metry (FA) of characters may index either stress during at a national botanic garden, KwaZulu-Natal, South Afri- development of organisms, or be related to fitness of in- ca, where the taxonomic impediment is great. The aims dividuals following development. The Authors tested were to compare two sites, one of native vegetation and whether wing FA of C. resolutum was related to dam- the other of mainly exotic plants, to determine the pos- selfly age and to male pairing success.