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Agrion 19(1) - January 2015 AGRION NEWSLETTER of the WORLDWIDE DRAGONFLY ASSOCIATION Agrion 19(1) - January 2015 AGRION NEWSLETTER OF THE WORLDWIDE DRAGONFLY ASSOCIATION PATRON: Professor Edward O. Wilson FRS, FRSE Volume 19, Number 1 January 2015 Secretary: Dr. Jessica I. Ware, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, 206 Boyden Hall, Rutgers University, 195 University Avenue, Newark, NJ 07102, USA. Email: [email protected]. Editors: Keith D.P. Wilson. 18 Chatsworth Road, Brighton, BN1 5DB, UK. Email: [email protected]. Graham T. Reels. 31 St Anne’s Close, Badger Farm, Winchester, SO22 4LQ, Hants, UK. Email: [email protected]. ISSN 1476-2552 Agrion 19(1) - January 2015 AGRION NEWSLETTER OF THE WORLDWIDE DRAGONFLY ASSOCIATION AGRION is the Worldwide Dragonfly Association’s (WDA’s) newsletter, published twice a year, in January and July. The WDA aims to advance public education and awareness by the promotion of the study and conservation of dragonflies (Odonata) and their natural habitats in all parts of the world. AGRION covers all aspects of WDA’s activities; it communicates facts and knowledge related to the study and conservation of dragonflies and is a forum for news and information exchange for members. AGRION is freely available for downloading from the WDA website at http://worlddragonfly.org/?page_id=125. WDA is a Registered Charity (Not-for-Profit Organization), Charity No. 1066039/0. ________________________________________________________________________________ Editor’s notes Keith Wilson [[email protected]] Conference News The 2015 International Congress of Odonatology will be held at La Plata City, 60 km south of Buenos Aires, Argentina in association with the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Museo de La Plata and Instituto de Limnología. The Congress venue is the ‘Salon Cultural’ of the Seguros Rivadavia Company (7th Avenue and 46th Street). The congress will be held between 15th and 20th November 2015. The post congress tour will be in Patagonia from November 21st; in this tour we will visit Bariloche City (Rio Negro Province) and San Martin de los Andes City (Neuquen Province) visiting two beautiful National Parks: Lanin and Nahuel Huapi, hoping to find several of the patagonic endemics. For Congress enquiries contact Javier Muzón [[email protected]]. Enquiries for funding support should be addressed to Dr. Vincent Kalkman, Dorpsstraat 84, 2343BB Oegstgeest, The Netherlands. E-mail: [[email protected]]. A web site has been established for the Congress at: [http:// ico2015-argentina.com.ar/congress/] and a Registration Form can be down loaded from: [http://ico2015- argentina.com.ar/registration/]. The Third European Congress on Odonatology (ECOO 2014) was held in Montpellier, France, 7-10 July, 2014. The abstracts of the presentations given at the Congress are available to download at: [http://odonates.pnaopie. fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ECOO2014_ABSTRACT-BOOK.pdf]. A short account of the Congress is provided on pages 6-7. At the Congress Magnus Billquist invited participants to attend the Fourth European Congress on Odonatology (ECOO 2016) to be held in Sweden. The Fourth Balkan Odonatological Meeting (BOOM) Meeting was held in Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 1-8 August, 2014. An account of this meeting is provided on pages 4-5. The Fifth Balkan Odonatological Meeting (BOOM 2015) will be held in summer 2015 in Macedonia. More information will be announced in the spring of 2015 (see page 5). Agrion Regional Representatives As mentioned in the last edition of Agrion, Graham and I are appointing Regional Representatives, to help gather regional-based odonatological news and information of potential interest to WDA members. Seven Agrion Regional Representatives have been appointed, covering South America, Africa, Western Europe, North Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia. We are hoping to appoint additional Regional Representatives to cover North America, Middle East and Australia. If any member would be interested in taking on the role for any of these three regions we would be very pleased to hear from you. North America: Vacant South America: Dr. Javier Muzon [[email protected]] ________________________________________________________________________________ Cover photo: Macromia illinoiensis (Walsh, 1862) nymph, from Vilas County, Wisconsin, USA; photo taken using ‘stacked image technique’. Photo credit: Dennis Johnson. According to Dennis: ‘The photo is a composite of 32 photo images shot at different focus levels and assembled using a computer stacking program (Zerene Stacker) to take only the parts of the 32 images that are in focus to make the final completely in-focus image.’ Futher examples of stacked photo images are provided in the article titled: ‘Nematode parasitization of macromiids in northern U.S. lakes’, see Figures 2 and 3, pages 8 and 9. 2 Agrion 19(1) - January 2015 Africa: Dr. John P. Simaika [[email protected]] Western Europe: Geert De Knijf [[email protected]] Middle East: Vacant North Asia: Dr. Elena Malikova [[email protected]] East Asia : J.H. Natsume [[email protected]] South Asia (India): Dr. K.A. Subramanian [[email protected]] Southeast Asia: Dr. Rory Dow [[email protected]] Australasia: Vacant WDA website The WDA web site can be accessed at [http://worlddragonfly.org/]. The site contains general information about dragonflies and the Society including, the composition of its WDA Board of Trustees, details of its WDA Conservation and Research Grants, WDA meetings and publications. WDA membership application forms can be completed at [http://worlddragonfly.org/?page_id=14] or downloaded for completion and submission to WDA Secretary at [http://worlddragonfly.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/membership_application_form.pdf]. The WDA webmasters’ email and address contacts are: Rhainer Guillermo Ferreira [rhainerguillermo@yahoo. com.br], Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Federal University of Grand Dourados, 79.804- 970, Dourados, MS, Brazil and Christopher Hassall [[email protected]], School of Biology, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 3JT, UK. Facebook and Twitter WDA is now on Facebook and Twitter. The WDA Facebook website can be found at the link: [https://www. facebook.com/WorldwideDragonflyAssociation] and the WDA Twitter website may be found at the link: [https://twitter.com/WorldDragonfly]. Zootaxa Festchrift to Angelo Machado Angelo Pinto has informed our WDA Secretary Jessica Ware that the deadline for the Festschrift in honour of Angelo B. M. Machado’s 80th birthday is now February 20, 2015. A link to the manuscripts already submitted is provided here: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aVJfEcVA9AkCtsU5qGHjDc8kCwSvJTg1w6LY67 1HTTQ/edit?usp=sharing]. Next issue of AGRION For the next issue of AGRION, to be published at the beginning of July 2015, please send your contributions to Keith Wilson [[email protected]] or Graham Reels [[email protected]]. All articles, information and news items related to dragonflies or of interest to WDA members are most welcome and will be considered for publication. Please send all text and figure captions in a Word file by email, preferably, or on a disk by post. Please do not include artwork with the text but provide a separate file or files in soft copy form, ideally in a compressed format (e.g. ‘jpeg’ or ‘gif’), or as files on disk if sent by post. If you have an odonate photo illustrating any rarely observed aspect of dragonfly biology, or an unusual species, or simply a stunning dragonfly shot, please submit it for consideration for publication on the front cover of AGRION. AGRION CONTENTS Editor’s notes 2 The Fourth Balkan Odonatological Meeting (BOOM) 2014 4 Third European Congress on Odonatology (ECOO), Montpellier, France, 7-10 July 2014 6 Nematode parasitization of macromiids in northern U.S. lakes 8 Unusual perching behaviour of male Euphaea decorata Selys 1853 10 Odonata of Rinshinomori Park, Tokyo, part 2:Final results of observation record of 2014 11 Dragonflies of North America, 3rd Edition Errata 14 The German Atlas of Dragonflies 15 The Dragonflies and Damselflies of Eastern Africa: Handbook for all Odonata from Sudan to Zimbabwe 16 Dragonfly fauna of Sri Lanka: distribution and biology, with threat status of its endemics 17 3 Agrion 19(1) - January 2015 The Fourth Balkan Odonatological Meeting (BOOM) 2014 Dejan Kulijer [[email protected]] For the fourth year in a row, the Balkan Odonatological Meeting (BOOM) gathered European odonatologists, primarily from the Balkans, in one of the Balkan countries. The annual BOOM Meeting has quickly become an established venue in which dragonfly lovers - professional and amateur - can meet, exchange their ideas, present their research and work together investigating dragonflies in one of the least known regions of Europe. The Balkan Odonatological Meeting represents a regional research and educational programme developed and lead by young researchers and students from the west Balkan area with the main goal of researching and protecting the dragonflies and freshwater habitats of the region. The Meeting combines field studies, lectures and workshops on dragonflies, and is a perfect place to gain knowledge and experience on dragonflies and to enhance regional cooperation. It is also a chance for all participants to get to know the natural beauty and still largely undisturbed nature of this part of Europe. The BOOM is especially oriented towards young researchers and students from the Balkans with an interest in odonatology. 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