CHRYSOMELA newsletter Dedicated to information about the Chrysomelidae

Report No. 44 December 2004

6th International Symposium on Chrysomelidae Koenig Museum, Bonn, Germany May 7 2004

Participants in the great exhibition hall. From left to right: Eva Sprecher-Übersax, David Furth, Jaap Winkelman, Horst Kippenberg, Wolfram Freund, Helmut Bolz, Jürgen Gross, Thomas Wagner, Susanne Düngelhoef, Lasse Hubweber, Maurizio Biondi, Michael Schmitt, Károly Vig, Jolanta Swietojanska, Lech Borowiec, Matthias Schoeller, Mauro Daccordi (nearly hidden), Elisabeth Geiser, Gudrun Fuss, Ron Beenen, Fredric Vencl, Pierre Jolivet (Photo: Mme. P. Jolivet).

(See Story page 4) INSIDE THIS ISSUE The Editor's Page 2- Editor’s Page Caroline Chaboo, (USA) 2- Australian Museum News 2- Resarch Activities & Interests 3- In Memoriam—Dieter Erber Welcome to Chrysomela, December 2004! In this issue we have 5- Catching Up With Michael Cox much news to report. This was a very busy year of meetings where 6- Survey of Pilbara Region chrysomelidologists had the opportunity to meet and share their latest 7- 6th ISC 2004, Bonn research. News of these meetings as well as other interesting articles 9-In Memoriam—Everard Britton are enclosed. 9- 8th ECE (2006), Izmir Thank you to all of you who contributed articles, photos and 9- 23rd ICE (2008), Durban short stories! There is no Chrysomela without these important and 10- In Memoriam—Michio Chûjô informative stories. As always, if you have comments and corrections 10- In Memoriam—Stephan to this issue please let me know. Due to corrections in the July issue, Iablokoff-Khnzorian 11- Leaf Beetle Genomics the final web version should be cited as ‘Chrysomela 43.2’. 13- Colaspis. . .Maecolaspis. . . I personally wish each of you a Happy Holiday season and a Metaxyonycha. . . chrysomelid beetle-filled 2005!! 14- Poorly known Cryptocephalinae 15- Clip Cages (Las Jaulitas) 16- 22nd ICE 2004, Brisbane Australian Museum News 21- ESA (2005), Ft. Lauderdale Chris Reid (Australia) 22- Travels in OZ 23- ATBC (2005), Uberlandia Professor Peter McQuillan, Trachytetra. This is a flightless 23- Insect Collecting on Mount Do University of Tasmania, Ho- New Zealand alticine, allied to 25- Xavier Montrouzier bart, passed through the Aus- Trachyaphthona, but the Tas- 27- Parasitoids of Cassidinae tralian Museum recently, with manian species are new, not 28- Research Activities & a small number of odd beetles introduced. An interesting co- Interests (cont.) in tow. One was a weird coc- nundrum. 29- Recent Chrysomelid Literature cinellid, apparently mimick- My thanks to Adam Slipinski 32- Email List ing the chrysomeline Calomela for determiningthe coccinellid 33- Snail Mail maculicolis, while others in- and to Peter for dropping in. 35- CHRYSOMELA Questionnaire cluded a new genus for Australia:

Research Activities and Interests Andrzej Bienkowski (Mos- specimens, primarily from Africa, Chrysomelidae (except Alticinae) cow, Russia) continues to work on China, India, and Indochina. and has asian Chrysomelidae the genus Chrysolina worldwide, Igor K. Lopatin (Minsk, (except Alticinae) to exchange. with revisions of some Chrysolina Byelorussia) continues Jesús Gómez-Zurita subgenera completed. Revisions research on the systematics (Murcia, Spain) has been working of Anopachys and Pleurosticha of Cryptocephalinae and on molecular phylogenetics and were recently published, a revi- Galerucinae of Central and systematics, molecular taxonomy sion of Arctolina is in press, and East Asia. A revision of and evolution, phylogeography revisions of Allohypericia and Chrysomelidae (except Alticinae) and population genetics during Sibiriella are in preparation. He of Central Asia is in preparation. the last eight years, and more wishes to borrow Chrysolina He is willing to identify of asian (cont. on page 28)

The Newsletter CHRYSOMELA–Founded 1979– is distrubuted semiannually, usually in June and December by the American Museum of Natural History, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, Central Park West @ 79th St., New York, NY 10024. E-mail: [email protected]; telephone: (212) 769-5616. This newsletter is sent to students of the Chrysomelidae to encourage the exchange of ideas and to disseminate information on these insects. Editor: Caroline Chaboo, New York. Advisors: Brian D. Farrell, Cambridge; Dave Furth, Washington; R. Wills Flowers, Tallahassee; Elizabeth Grobbelaar, Pretoria; Pierre Jolivet, Paris; Alex Konstantinov, Washington; Chris Reid, Sydney; Ed Riley, College Station; Al Samuelson, Honolulu and Terry N. Seeno, Sacramento.

2 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 In Memoriam Dieter Erber 1933-2004

Dieter Erber (Fig. 1), one of the leading experts Since the 1980s, Erber became increasingly in- on Clytrinae and Cryptocephalinae, died after a terested in the fauna of the island of Madeira and the short bout with cancer on 28 February, 2004. Di- neighbouring Selvagem islands. It was a pleasure to eter was born 24 February, 1933, in Langensalza hear him report on that topic since he was so re- (Thüringen, Germany). He went to school and markably fond of it. He regularly attended the annu- graduated (Abitur) in al meetings of Central Kassel in 1954. The European coleopterists same year, he entered at Weinstadt -Beutels- the teacher training bach (near Suttgart, college of Darmstadt- Germany), and he co- Jugenheim. By this operated in the project time, he has already on the Faunis-tics developed a focus on of Central European biology. From 1957 Chrysomelidae. All of to 1962, he worked us who met him there as a teacher at sev- and on other occa- eral schools, until he sions were impressed received a position as by his youthful ap- a scientific assistant pearance. Thus, in at the Seminar for 1995 we were more Didactics of Biology than surprised to at the Justus-Liebig- learn that he retired. Universität, Giessen. His death came as a From then on, he great shock to us, and also studied sciences we shall preserve his at the Giessen uni- memory as long as we versity, and received are able to think of his doctoral degree leaf beetles. (Dr.rer.nat.) in 1967. He is survived His doctoral thesis by his wife Erna and was on the formation and function of the Kot-presse three children and their families, to whom we ex- of Clytrinae and Cryptocephalinae from Central press our deep sympathy. Europe, published in 1968 (Zeitschrift für Mor- phologie der Tiere 62: 245-306). In 1970, he was Acknowledgement. appointed a lecturer at the Seminar for Didactics of I am grateful to Dieter Erber’s son Klaus Erber Biology (later: Institute for Didactics of Biology), for providing me with biographical data, a list of in 1971 senior lecturer, and retired in 1995. Dieter’s publications, and a portrait photograph.

Publications of Dieter Erber

Erber, D. 1968. Bau, Funktion und Bildung der Erber, D. 1969. Beitrag zur Entwickl-ungsbiologie Kotpresse mitteleuropäischer Clytrinen und Cryp- mitteleuropäischer Clytrinen und Cryptocephalinen tocephalinen. Zeitschrift für Morphologie der Tiere (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Zoologische Jahrbücher 62: 245-306. Systematik 96: S. 453–477. 3 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 Erber, D. 1972. Einige neue Fundorte für Chio- new cavernicolous carabid beetle from Madeira. Boca- nea lutescens (Dipt., Tipulidae) in Hessen. Entomol. giana 140: 1-12. Zeitschrift 82: 169-175. Erber, D. 1990. New and little known Coleoptera Erber, D. 1979. Untersuchungen zur Biozönose from Madeira. Results of excursions to Madeira in the und Nekrozönose in Kannenpfl-anzen auf Sumatra. years 1986-1990. Boletim do Museu Municipal do Archiv für Hydrobiologie 87(1): 37-48. Funchal 42(223): 147-181. Erber, D. 1979 (1980). Erstnachweis der Passali- Erber, D. & Hinterseher, W. 1990. Additional dae Aulacocyclus bicuspis Kaup für Nepal. Entomol. notes to the knowledge of the Madeira Beetles. Bole- Blätter 75: 180-181. tim do Museu Municipal do Funchal 42(222): 141- Erber, D. & Mengel, M. 1981. Blattkäfer (Col., 146. Chrysomelidae) im oberen Ederseegebiet. Hessische Erber, D. & Hinterseher, W. 1992. Atheta pseu- Faunistische Briefe 1(3): 49-58. dolaticollis n. sp. a new species from the Atlantic Erber, D. 1983. Faunistik der hessischen Kole- Islands and an additional description of Atheta ma- opteren. 11. Beitrag: Familie Chrysomelidae, I. Un- derense Likovsky, 1963 (Col: Staphylinidae). Bocag. terfamilie Clytrinae. Mitteilungen des internationalen 158: 1-9. entomolo-gischen Vereins 7(3/4): 70-100. Erber, D. & Medvedev, L. N. 1993. The larva of Erber, D. 1984. Wiederfund von Chrysomela Chrysolina fragariae (Wollaston, 1854). Bocagiana fragariae Woll. 1854 auf Madeira. Bocagiana 73: 1-9. 166: 1-5. Erber, D. 1984. Chrysomela fragrariae Woll. auf Erber, D. & Aguiar, F. 1996. New Coleoptera for Madeira wiederentdec-kt (Chrys.). Entomol. Blätter Madeira. Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal 48: 80(1): 63. 41-62. Erber, D. 1984. Liste der im Ederseegebiet nach- Erber, D. & L. Medvedev. 1999. Zur Taxono- gewiesenen Blattkäfer. Berichte der Ökologischen mie der Gattung Smaragdina Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Forschungs-station der Universität Giessen 5: 49-50. Chrysomelidae: Clytrinae), mit Beschreibungen neuer Erber, D. 1986. The Chrysomelidae of Madeira. Taxa aus Asien. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal 38(174): Serie A (Biologie) 601:1-10. 43-69. Erber, D. & Hinterseher, W. 2000. Revision Erber, D. & Fried, H. 1986. Faunistik der hes- der Gattung Spaericus (Col., Ptinidae) der Lauri-Ma- sischen Koleopteren. 14. Beitrag: Familie Coccinel- karonesischen Region (Azoren, Madeira, Selvagens, lidae I, Unterfamilie Coccinellinae: Hippodamiini, Kanaran) einschließlich Nordafrika und europäischen Coccinellini, Psylloborini. Mitteilungen des internatio- Festlandes. Coleoptera 4:153-282. nalen entomologischen Vereins 10(3/4): 49-143. Erber, D. & Medvedev, L. N. 2002. Untersuchun- Erber, D. & Wheater, C. P. 1987. The Coleoptera gen zur Taxonomie afrikanischer Megalopodinae mit of the Selvagem Islands, including a Catalogue of Beschreibungen einer neuen Gattung und fünf neuer the specimens in the Museu Municipal do Funchal. Arten (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Entomologica Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal 39(193): Basiliensia 24: 97-121. 156-187. Erber, D. & Medvedev, L. N. 2002. New and Erber, D. 1988. Biology of Camptosomata Cly- poorly known Clytrinae from Southern Africa. Part 1. trinae - Cryptocephalinae - Chlamisinae - Lamproso- Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, matinae. Pp. 513-552 in: Jolivet, P., Petitpierre, E. & Zoologische Reihe 78: 197-206. Hsiao, T.H. (eds.): Biology of Chrysomelidae. Kluwer Medvedev, L. N. & Erber, D. 2003. New species Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. of Afrotropical Clytrinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), Erber, D. & Hinterseher, W. 1988. Contribution with remarks on several known species. Annals of the to the knowledge of the Madeira Beetles. Boletim do Transvaal Museum 40: 73–90. Museu Municipal do Funchal 40(202):139-214. Erber, D. & Medvedev, L. N. 2004. New Erber, D. & Wheater, C. P. 1988. Additional and poorly known Clytrinae from Southern Africa notes on the coleopterous fauna of the Selvagem (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Part 2. Mitteilungen Islands. Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal aus dem Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Zoologische 40(207): 249-251. Reihe 80(1): 77-88. Erber, D. 1990. Thalassophilus pieperi n. sp., a -Michael Schmitt (Germany) 4 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 Catching Up With Michael Cox

Michael Cox (United Kingdom)

Fig. 1. (Front row, crouching) Iam Smith, Andy Mc’Cutcheon, Peter Holdforth, Ben Mc’Cutcheon. (Back row, standing) John Cox, Clare Cox, Ann Mariee, Amie, Michael Cox, Marianne, Wendy Mc’Cutcheon, Marie-Anne, Stacey Mc’Cutcheon, Ronald David Cox (Mike’s father). At the end of September 1999, at the age of 50, gardening, but I have no regrets. I took early retirement from C.A.B. International In- I was lucky that my hobby of Entomology was stitute of Entomology, based in the Natural History also my career for many years, but Entomology is Museum, London. I had worked for the institute for still in my blood and “once an Entomologist, al- over 20 years from October 1974 to November 1976 ways an Entomologist”. Although not in full-time and July 1979 until retirement. The intervening pe- employment, I still go into the museum one day a riod of three years, culminating in the Iranian Revo- week. I was appointed a Museum Associate in 1999 lution of 1979 and the overthrow of the Shah (which and still carry out identifications of beetle adults and I had nothing to do with!), I spent in the Zoology larvae for the Department of Entomology. Recently, Department of Tehran University, Iran. My duties I received some interesting forensic specimens included the supervision of M.Sc. research in Ento- which had been removed from a human corpse, and mology and my own research on the insect fauna of with these provided an insight into the time since two south Caspian marshes. death. Many people believe that life begins at forty, At present, I have two major projects but for me it started considerably later. During underway. Since 1980, I have co-ordinated the September 2001, I met Marianne Manners, who National Recording Scheme for the seed and leaf also works in the museum, as a guide. We married beetles. Now, with over 250, 000 records to the 290 on 19 June 2004 at St Giles and All Saints Church, or so species, a provisional atlas is to be published Orsett, Essex, and I instantly gained a lovely family by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (formerly of a wife, a son, three daughters, one grandson and the Biological Records Centre) at Monks Wood, two granddaughters. I now run an allotment where I Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. The atlas will provide grow vegetables, but also keep fit. My plot also pro- up to date maps as well as species accounts includ- vides an abundance of beetles, including nationally ing habitats, distribution nationally and globally, notable species. Some of the time I used to spend threat status, and biological information. An accom- on research is now taken up with family pursuits and panying CD with the complete, unedited text will 5 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 give full host plant lists, egg morphometrics and which originated in the 1970’s. To future proof this references to parasitoids and predators etc. work against changes at the subfamily level, the key The other project involves the completion for will run only to amilies. Many up to date references publication as a Royal Entomological Society Hand- have been added and the text updated. book, the MS of the larvae of British beetles

Survey of Pilbara Region, Northwest Australia

Chris Reid (Australia)

Figure: Scott Lassau on the summit of Mount Mehany,1253m, highest point in Western Australia

In partnership with Rio Tinto, the Australian Its the early days, but the first samples have Museum is involved in a survey of the Pilbara turned up a new genus of alticine, two new region of Western Australia, a mere 10,000km2 species of Leasia, a second species of the hitherto of semidesert with scattered permanent springs, monotypic chrysomeline Philhydronopa and about mountains etc, which goes under water when 80 species altogether, perhaps only 5 of which cyclones come through. The region is already are named. Thanks to Rio Tinto for funding and well-known for its endemic vertebrates and huge logistical support and the staff of the exCentre for diversity of plants (c150 spp of Acacia)but is poorly Biodiversity and Conservation Research for their surveyed for inverts. contributions.

6 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 6th International Symposium on Chrysomelidae, Bonn, 2004 Michael Schmitt (Germany) On May 7, 2004, the 6th leaf beetle symposium Tropical biology symposium before and became was held at Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und interested through the titles and abstracts of the Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany), as a papers of our symposium that had been printed in satellite event of the 5th International Symposium on the general symposium programme. Tropical Biology, which ran from May 2- 6. The fourteen papers presented were: The first five symposia of this series were Ron Beenen, Translocation in leaf beetles organised by David G. Furth, all in conjunction with (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae); Maurizio Biondi International Congresses of Entomology (Hamburg & Paola d’Alessandro, Distributional patterns 1984, Vancouver 1988, Beijing 1992, Florence and areas of endemism for Chaetocnema 1996, Iguaçu 2000). After the 5th one, David Furth species in the Afrotropical region (Coleoptera: asked me to take over organisation of subsequent Chrysomelidae); Lech Borowiec, A new WWW ones, and I agreed, initially to arrange the 6th but project – Chrysomelidae of Europe and the with the option to manage some more (but most Mediterraneansubregion: checklist iconography; probably not five, as David did). Susanne Düngelhoef, Functional morphology of When it was clear that the 22nd International copulation in three species of Chrysomelidae; David Congress of Entomology would be held in Brisbane, G. Furth, The current status of knowledge for the David and I contacted the local organisers in order Alticinae of Mexico; Elisabeth Geiser, Frozen to ensure that our 6th Chrysomelidae symposium chrysomelids from Alpine glaciers – witnesses of would be included in the programme. However, the postglacial resettlement; Jürgen Gross, Striking the congress organisers decided to omit such differences in behaviour and ecology between specialised, small meetings in their schedule, some populations of Chrysomela lapponica and and instead suggested transforming our proposal their impact on the pioneering of a new host-plant; into a more comprehensive symposium on, e.g., Lasse Hubweber, Parameres – similarities and the evolution of the Phytophaga. Although this differences in Chrysomelid-ae and Cerambycidae; might have been a rewarding enterprise, it would Pierre Jolivet, Gondwanian eumolpines and have changed the character of our Chrysomelidae spilopyrines (Chrysomelidae); Michael Schmitt & symposium dramatically. Therefore, David and I Sigrun Bopp, Leaf beetles suffer from feeding on looked for an alternative and thought it would be fern leaves; Matthias Schoeller, The Afrotropical an agreeable solution to organise our symposium genera of Cryptocephalini (Chrysomelidae: within the frame of the 2nd International Congress Cryptocephalinae); Fredric V. Vencl, The evolution of Coleopterology, which was to be held in of diet breadth in Panamanian tortoise beetles Prague in 2003. The organisers of this congress (Chrysomelidae: Hispinae) and the effectiveness of enthusiastically agreed to include our symposium in larval shield defenses; Károly Vig, Leaf beetles their schedule, however the congress was cancelled in the canopies of deciduous trees in Europe. What in March, 2003. After a quick electronic poll I do they do there? (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae); decided to organise the Chrysomelidae symposium Thomas Wagner, News on Afrotropical in conjunction with the symposium on Tropical Galerucinae: Taxonomy, electronic type catalogue Biology in May, 2004, which I was organising and phylogeny. anyway, so all the necessary infrastructure was at On Friday evening May 7th, we had a joint our disposal without additional effort. dinner at a cosy brew-pub near the outskirts of The symposium which was attended by 22 Bonn (Figs 2-5) where the landlord gave a short chrysomelid workers from 9 countries (or 10, if introduction to beer brewing. In addition, we we accept Fredric Vencl as representing Panama) had, of course, informal and hopefully interesting (Fig. 1), plus some 10 guests who had attended the (cont. on page 9) 7 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 Figure 2. Our spiritus rector, Pierre Jolivet. Figure 3. Informal discussions at the brew-pub, from left to right: Jolanta Swietojanska, Lech Borowiec, Eva Sprecher- Übersax (out of focus), Horst Kippenberg, Mauro Daccordi. Figure 4. The Italian delegation (from left): Mauro Daccordi and Maurizio Biondi. Figure 5. Transcontinental encounter: Fredric Vencl, Jolanta Swietojanska, and Yannett Hernadez (of Panama). Figure 6. This photo is shaky, due to the lousy weather we had on our excursion (from left): Jolanta, Lech, David, Thomas, Thorben, Lasse. Figure 7. David G. Furth, to whom the chrysomelid workers owe a great deal for organising the first five international symposia and editing their proceedings (Photos 2-7: M. Schmitt).

8 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 6th Int. Sym. on Chrysomelidae,. . . (cont. from page 7) In Memoriam encounters and discussions. On Saturday May 8th, an excursion to a former military training area near Everard Britton Koblenz (ca. 65 km south of Bonn) was organised 1912-2004 by Thomas Wagner. Unfortunately, the weather was Britton was born in Cardiff, Wales. He joined so unpleasant (Fig. 6) that our group of 10 – Lech in 1935 the British Museum (Natural History) in Borowiec, Susanne Düngelhoef, David Furth, Gaby London and became a specialist of Melolonthinae Hoebart (a guest from Austria), Lasse Hubweber, but also he had a deep knowledge of all Coleoptera. Thorben Kölkebeck (a student of Thomas Wagner), He authored the Coleoptera chapter in the first Michael Schmitt, Matthias Schoeller, Jolanta edition of “Insects of Australia” and co-authored Swietojanska, and Thomas Wagner - decided to the book “Australian Beetles” with John Lawrence. retreat as soon as possible to a restaurant in the His key was the first one to the families and impressive fortress (named Ehrenbreitstein) of subfamilies (e.g. of chrysomelids) of Australian Koblenz, where we had lunch together. Thereafter, Coleoptera (1970). He collected in southwest our group split, some headed for train connections, Arabia, New Zealand, Hawaii, and Yemen, and others for home, and one party ended up in our visited Australia, later migrated there in 1964. home (Fig. 7) for a closing session with coffee and He retired in 1977, but still continued studying cake. beetles. Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Chrysomelidae will be published as a Special Issue of Bonner zoologische Beiträge in 2005, in either volume 53 or 54, depending on the Announcement final length of manuscripts. The leaf beetle workers’ community of the world is characterised by intensive communication, reliable personal relations and a high degree of co- operation and desire for regular meetings. And this is definitively the merit of two colleagues, to whom I wish to express our sincere thanks: Pierre Jolivet, who managed to (co-)edit a series of six volumes on the biology of leaf beetles, containing hundreds of contributions from dozens of authors, thus providing an invaluable source of comprehensive information on our subjects. The other colleague is David G. Furth, who initiated the series of international symposia on leaf beetles, starting with a symposium on flea beetles in 1980 in München (Germany) and who tirelessly made efforts to bring the leaf beetle workers of the world together every four years. This has made our small portion of science more intense, more effective, and more human than any other I am aware of. We all thank you, Pierre and David.

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9 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 In Memoriam Michio Chûjô 1908-2004

Chujô was a specialist of Chrysomelidae and Chûjô was the one who propagated the legend Erotylidae and he studied mostly the fauna on of the presence of Timarcha tenebricosa in Japan. I Taiwan (formerly Formosa). His papers on Chryso- remember him showing me his paper, in Japanese, melidae are numerous and a list of his entomologi- where he asked the question: Is Timarcha in Japan? cal publications (1930-1972) was printed on his Historically speaking, the Timarcha tenebricosa retirement by Kagawa University. According to supposedly found in Hakodate, Hokkaido, in 1874, Kunio Suzuki, a nice photo of him was published by Baly, in Japan, surely results from mislabelling. in 1982 in Japan. I saw his beetle collections in the Timarcha kawakamii Matsumura from Sakkaline Agricultural Entomology lab, Taipei in 1957 and in is only Chrysolina nikolskyi Jacobson, but recent 1970. He published many papers on taxonomy and findings in Honshu (Haruo Takizawa) may make the phylogeny of Chrysomelidae and had some personal legend come true. It could be an accidental intro- ideas about the classification of Chrysomelidae. His duction, similar to its introduction in Canary Islands work in taxonomy is extremely important for Japan, in hay. Taiwan and South East Asia. Chûjô was one of the great chrysomelidolo- In Shikoku he showed me his last book on gists. He lived to be 96 years old, to see the age of Erotylidae of Japan, with his own color illustrations. computers, of cladistics and molecular biology. He When my wife and I visited his home in Shikoku is survived by his wife and children. Dr. Michitaka island in December 1970, he received us warmly. It Chûjô, his elder son, is now a retired specialist of was very cold then and we all spent evenings sitting Tenebrionidae. around the Japanese stove in his living room, with It was a pleasure to have Chûjô write the preface blankets over our knees, discussing leaf-beetles. of our 1988 book “Biology of Chrysomelidae”. -Pierre Jolivet (France)

In Memoriam Stephan Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1904-1995

Iablokoff was born in Russia and emigrated right: they feed on Vaccinium, but also on various with his family in France in 1928. He was profes- Rubiaceae, including Galium and Asperula, as all sionally a construction engineer. He moved to the other species of Metallotimarcha. Metallotim- at the botanical garden and the local Museum in archa, as Americanotimarcha, is entirely nocturnal Erivan in 1947; there he described more than 200 all over his distribution area. That was confirmed beetles and studied their phylogeny. He wrote later on for T. hummeli and for T. metallica. Dur- several papers on Chrysomelidae, including one ing his long exile in communist Armenia, he was on genitalia. I remember the discussion we had able to visit France, just once in 1982, when he about the food-plants of Timarcha hummeli in the brought his manuscript on the Coccinellidae to Caucasus, pretending that they were not any Eri- P. P. Grassé. The book was printed a few months caceae, where he found the beetle. We were both later. -Pierre Jolivet (France)

10 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 The Dawning of Leaf-Beetle Genomics Jesús Gómez-Zurita (Spain) Insects have made one of their most notable full genome characterization include the Dipteran contributions to the development of Genetics vector of human malaria, the mosquito Anopheles thanks to a small but very manageable dipteran, gambiae, but also the Lepidopteran silkworm, Bom- the famous Drosophila melanogaster. The success byx mori, and the Coleopteran Tribolium castaneum of this contribution has been so remarkable that it flour beetle. is not even possible to think of fruit flies as insects Coleoptera, an amazingly large group of organ- anymore, but as models of genetic research. Due isms, diverse in species numbers, and also in their to the incredible wealth of genetic knowledge on biology, is certainly modestly appreciated regarding

this single organism, the investigation of the inher- to the investment of research efforts in untangling itance material made its important leap forward the mysteries of their plasticity, which must neces- from the study of genes and their regulation to the sarily stem from a genomic root. Even when every analysis of the organization, interaction and mo- bit of Drosophila DNA has been sequenced, Beetle lecular structure of genomes, it followed naturally Genomics is still in a birth phase. Our achievements that the selected model to represent the most evolu- in this field are even now constricted by reasons tionarily successful lineage of animals, the insects, other than purely intellectual or for the progress of would also be Drosophila. The rapid development a general theory of Genomes and their evolution. It of molecular genetic and genomic techniques and is the study of economically important organisms their routine use in this and other model organisms, and their applied angle that still rules most of the allowed timidly first, but soon with strong entity, to molecular genetics and particularly genomic re- expand their application to other organisms. search in beetles. Beetles of economic importance Nowadays, Genomics and Molecular Genetics usually implies agricultural or stored products are common approaches to the study of a broad pests. range of organisms, including models and others Leaf and seed beetles have an important focus justified mainly bytheir connection to public health in Molecular Genetics and even Genomic studies, issues. In the case of insects, the initiatives for particularly because of their notable impact in the 11 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 agriculture of developed countries, mainly as pests western corn rootworm and Mexican bean wee- and potential biological control agents of invasive vil. (iii) Finally, research dealing with the study weeds in certain regions, The body of available of the insect resistance and defence mechanisms genomic information for the Chrysomelidae and the development of biopesticides, usually (including bruchids), partic-ularly in terms of targeting the regulation of genes and enzymes characterized genes involved in physiological or whose disruption or deregulation can result in a metabolic processes interesting from the per- worst performance and eventual disappearance spective of pest management, is already quite of a beetle pest (e.g., insect chitinases or acetyl- important. cholinesterase, among others). The first characterized nuclear gene in Chrys- Apart from the study of individual genes and omelidae actually corresponded to a transposable their regulation, there have been a few attempts genomic element of at broader analyses the mariner family that of the Chrysomeli- was described in the dae genome by using galerucine Cerotoma cDNA libraries (col- trifurcata (Forster) lections of clones, (Robertson, 1993). This each containing the was followed shortly mature copy of a after by the character- gene expressed in ization of a diapause the studied organ- protein in Leptinotarsa ism). These have been decemlineata (Say) (de made available for Kort and Koopmansc- Timarcha balearica hap, 1994). Since these (GenBank Acc. Nos. pioneering studies, the AJ537611-AJ538039; information that has Figure 2. The author collecting in Theodorides et al., Cuenca, Spain. been generated and de- 2002; Gómez-Zurita posited in genetic databases includes ca. 55 dif- et al., 2004) and Callosobruchus maculatus ferent nuclear genes. These have been obtained (CB377223-CB377725, CK594665-CK594758; for just eight chrysomelids and bruchids, usually Pedra et al., 2003; Moon et al., 2004). Another but not necessarily representing important eco- important branch in Genomics that has used nomical threats: Diabrotica virgifera LeConte, leaf beetles as target organisms is Mitogenom- Gastrophysa atrocyanea Motschulsky, L. decem- ics, the sequencing and comparative analysis of lineata, Phaedon cochleariae (Fabricius), Timar- mitochondrial genomes. The single chrysomelid cha balearica Gory, Acanthoscelides obtectus mtDNA genome that has been fully sequenced to (Say), Callosobruchus maculatus (Fabricius), and date belongs to Crioceris duodecimpunctata Lin- Zabrotes subfasciatus (Boheman). naeus (Stewart and Beckenbach, 2003). The focus of genomic and molecular genetic We are certainly in the dawning of leaf beetle studies in Chrysomelidae has been directed to Genomics. Very little has been done so far given three main types of research: (i) Studies carried the complexity and diversity of the leaf beetle out mainly in the Colorado potato beetle and di- genomes. However, we have a hotstart. The eco- rected to development and related physiological nomical importance of some leaf beetles has al- processes, including the study of genes for dia- lowed for an initial exploration of their genomes. pause proteins, genes regulating the metabolism But the progressive implantation of more acces- of juvenile hormone, molting and metamorpho- sible and less expensive molecular techniques in sis, etc. (ii) Investigations on the genes involved our labs, will surely allow for similar or broader in phytophagy, mainly glycoside hydrolases and studies in other species with different levels of cysteine and aspartic proteinases, whose structure economic “impact”. Who knows, maybe one day and regulation has been studied mainly in the we will have our own Chrysomelid Genome Proj- 12 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 ect to keep expanding our knowledge about these Pedra, J.H.F., Brandt, A., Westerman, fascinating beasts. R., Lobo, N., Li, H.M., Romero-Severson, J., References: Murdock, L.L., Pittendrigh, B.R. 2003. Tran- de Kort, C.A.D., Koopmanschap, A.B. scriptome analysis of the cowpea weevil bruchid: 1994. Nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequence identification of putative proteinases and alpha- of a cDNA clone encoding diapause protein 1, an amylases associated with food breakdown. Insect amylphorin-type storage hexamer of the Colorado Mol. Biol. 12 (4): 405-412. potato beetle. J. Insect Physiol. 40: 527-535. Robertson, H.M. 1993. The mariner trans- Gómez-Zurita, J., Kopliku, F., Theodor- posable element is widespread in insects. Nature ides, K., Vogler, A.P. 2004. Resources for a phy- 362 (6417), 241-245. logenomic approach in leaf beetle (Coleoptera) Stewart,J.B., Beckenbach, A.T. 2003. systematics. In: P. Jolivet, J.A. Santiago-Blay & M. Phylogenetic and genomic analysis of the complete Schmitt (eds.), New Developments in the Biology mitochondrial DNA sequence of the spotted as- of Chrysomelidae, pp. 19-35. SPB Academic Pub- paragus beetle Crioceris duodecimpunctata. Mol. lishing bv, The Hague. Phylogenet. Evol. 26(3): 513-526. Moon, J., Salzman, R.A., Ahn, J.-E., Koi- Theodorides, K., de Riva, A., Gómez-Zuri- wa, H., Zhu-Salzman, K. 2004. Transcriptional ta, J., Foster, P.G., Vogler, A.P. 2002. Comparison regulation in cowpea bruchid guts during adapta- of EST libraries from seven beetle species: towards tion to a plant defence protease inhibitor. Insect a framework for phylogenomics of the Coleoptera. Mol. Biol. 13 (3): 283-291. Insect Mol. Biol. 11: 467-475.

Colaspis...Maecolaspis...Metaxyonycha... Whatever: an old solution to a persistent problem Wills Flowers (USA) The subfamily Eumolpinae is riddled with Entomologist) that is probably not widely available taxonomic pitfalls and problems, a condition noted in tropical countries. Another reason may lie in the by Martin Jacoby and Chris Reid, workers widely “feud” between Bechyné and the late Doris Blake, separated in time and space. While many of these who from her platform as chrysomelid specialist pitfalls stem from the nature of a very speciose at the Smithsonian ignored rather than tried to tropical insect group, some are more easily avoided correct or discuss areas of disagreement between and have been due to poor communication in the them. Blake, surely aware of Brown’s paper, past among eumolpine workers. subsequently published several important papers on One of the most frequent confusions in Colaspis without once mentioning Bechyné’s use internationally, especially by Neotropical students of of Maecolaspis. As a result, there are in effect two Eumolpinae, is over the genus Maecolaspis Bechyné taxonomic systems for Neotropical Chrysomelidae, 1950. This is a synonym of Colaspis Fabricius with North Americans following the Smithsonian, 1801. This is not exactly a harmless mix-up because and everyone else following Bechyné. I hope that Bechyné used the name Colaspis for what is actually we can put the “Colaspis” problem behind us and Metaxyonycha. get on to some of the real issues in Eumolpinae This error was pointed out and fixed by W.J. systematics. Brown (1961). However, Brown’s correction has evidently not been well disseminated among Reference: the international community of chrysomelids workers. One reason is that it appeared as Brown, W.J. 1961. Notes on North Amer- a very short item buried in a paper on North ican Chrysomelidae. Canadian Entomologist 93: American Chrysomelidae, in a journal (Canadian 967-977.

13 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 Poorly Known Genera of Cryptocephalinae: Heptarthrius Suffrian, 1866 and Achaenops Suffrian, 1857 Matthias Schöller (Germany) Some genera of Cryptocephalinae are still poorly collection of the museum in 1945. The descriptions known. Eduard Suffrian (1805-1876) revised the of Suffrian are very detailed, however, the German world species of Cryptocephalini, and some genera used in these days is not always easy to understand, were not studied since that time. Three genera of the even for native speakers. In two other collections, I subtribe Monachina Clavareau of Cryptocephalini was able to find a couple of Cryptocephalinae from are of Neotropical distribution, namely Lexiphanes South Africa which fit the description ofA. dorsalis. Gistl (= Monachus Chevrolat, 1837), Stegnocephala All margins of the pronotum are even, i. e. the basal Baly and Heptarthrius. The genus margin lacks a row of teeth. There Heptarthrius was described based on is only one other Afrotropical genus one single male specimen from Ven- of Cryptocephalini with an even ezuela, i.e. by monotypy. Recently, I basal margin, Acolastus Gerstaecker. had the opportunity to study a second Achaenops differs from Acolastus species from Brazil, H. triangulum and Clytrini e. g. by the transverse (Fig. 1), collected from Echinochloa prosternal process. Some species of crassipes H.B.K. (HITCH) (Gramine- Achaenops show a marked sexual di- ae = Poaceae) in a seasonal várzea or morphism, the clypeus is modified in whitewater floodplain with the help males or the mandibles are asymmet- of an emergence trap by Prof. J. Adis ric and large. The colour ranges from (Schöller, 2004). The position of orange via black to metallic blue. Figure. 1: Heptarthrius triangulum Heptarthrius within the Monachina Schöller, 2004, male Currently I am revising the genus, was confirmed. The central groove two species which were described of the prosternum, the shape of the antennae and the in Achaenops have to be transferred, some species large size were found to be characters suitable to were described in Cryptocephalus, others are unde- distinguish Heptarthrius from other genera within scribed; there are at least 22 species of Achaenops. the Monachina. Genitalia were studied for the first They are endemic to South Africa. Interestingly, the time, membraneous lobes within the known host plants are Protea spp. orificium of the aedeagus are over- lapping partly the apical part. The Literature central groove of the prosternum can be found in Heptarthrius only within Clavareau, C. H. 1913. Cryp- the Monachina, but is common in the tocephalinae. In: Junk, W. & Schen- Pachybrachina. kling, S. (eds.) Coleopterorum The genus Achaenops was de- Catalogus 53: 85–209. scribed by monotypy, too. Clavareau Schöller, M. 2004. A new spe- (1913) erected the tribe Achaenopini cies in the formerly monotypic genus for this genus, no more genera were Heptarthrius Suffrian (Chrysomeli- added to this tribe. The description dae: Cryptocephalinae). Amazoniana of the generic type species A. dorsa- 18 (1/2): 145-149. lis (Fig. 2) was based on a series of Figure. 2: Achaenops dorsalis Suffrian, E. 1857. Zur Kenntniss specimens located in the collection Suffrian, 1857, male der afrikanischen Cryptocephalen. of the museum Hamburg, Germany. I Linnaea Entomologica 11: 57-260. was looking for types in Hamburg but was not able Suffrian, E. 1866. Zur Kenntniss der südameri- to find them, consequently they were destroyed dur- kanischen Cryptocephalen. Linnaea Entomologica ing World War II together with almost the complete 16: 1-488.

14 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 Clip Cages or "Las Jaulitas": an Inexpensive and Simple Device for Conducting Controlled Host-Plant Feeding Experiments Jorge A. Santiago-Blay (USA) and Angeles Blay-Sálomons (Puerto Rico) Several years ago, author JASB conducted setting varies, depending on the glue). Once the glue aphid-parasitoid experiments using laboratory facili- is set, make sure that the bottom of the cage and ties generously provided by Thomas Mittler (Uni- the piece of sturdy paper leave no space for experi- versity of California, Berkeley). Mittler’s laboratory mental herbivores to escape. If needed, bend either had many little gadgets of which the clip cages, or both legs until such a seal is produced. described below, caught the attention of JASB. Shortly thereafter, and with the help of María Esther Arroyo Sánchez, we built a plethora of clip cages, affectionately called by us, “las jaulitas” (Spanish for little cages). JASB has used the “jaulitas” to conduct thousands of host-plant herbivore feeding experiments using Monoxia leaf beetles (Chryso- melidae: Galerucinae) and potential host plants, Figure. 1. Partially built clip cage. Note the bent apex on mostly members of the plant families Asteraceae (or the upper leg of the hair clip. Compositae) and Chenopodiaceae. A step-by-step The clip cages are inexpensive (each estimated protocol to construct the cages (including approxi- to cost less than US$ 0.30 when materials are pur- mate costs materials per cage) follows. We suggest chased as they are sold and cut by users to desired running control tests on the glue and other materials size) and they are rapidly built from relatively easy used for the construction of the cages before doing to obtain and safe materials. We constructed several experiments en masse. hundred of them in one or two afternoons. As long Step 1. Bend the apical (about 5 mm) portion as cages are glued with non-water soluble adhesives from the upper leg of a hair clip (cost US$ 0.25) to and they are not drenched during plant watering form an angle of approximately 90° (Fig. 1). (causing the hair clips to rust or the sturdy pieces of Step 2. Glue a piece of soft foam (cost < US$ paper to bend or decay), cages need minimal repair. 0.01 for a piece 15 x 15 x 5 mm large) to the lower Insects are inserted in the cage and leaves are leg of a hair clip (Figure 1). Numerous non-water placed in between the bottom of the cage and the soluble glues (cost US$ < 0.01) are available. sturdy piece of paper. With practice, this can be Step 3. Insert a piece of sturdy paper (cost < done so rapidly that insects rarely escape. The cages US$ 0.01) between the foam and the upper leg of the are light enough that they can be attached to a leaf clip (Figure 1). apparently causing minimum (or no) damage to the Step 4. Cut a piece of clear tubing (e.g. vinyl tubing, approximately 10 mm high; 13 mm outer diameter, 11 mm inner diameter; cost US$ 0.02) and glue a clear fabric (cost, < 0.01 US dollar) to one of its ends. The clear tubing and glued fabric form the cage. An orifice on one wall, which can be cov- ered with a cork (cost US$ 0.15) to introduce more insects, is optional, was not used in the final design, and it has not been included in the estimated costs Figure 2. Completed clip cage. Note the tight seal created by (Fig. 2). the bottom of the cage and the sturdy paper. Step 5. Glue the tubing to the bent upper leg of leaf allowing host-plant feeding experiments using the hair clip (Fig. 2). Use scrap material to keep the unexcised leaves with a measurable exposed leaf legs open while the glue sets firmly (time for glue surface area to be conducted. 15 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 International Congress of Entomology Brisbane, Australia, 16-21 August 2004

Chris Reid (Australia) The Congress appeared to be held in a giant beetle Altica litigate[sic]; Carnegie, Waterson, Cant aircraft hanger, which worked well, all posters, & Price (State Forests of New South Wales): in- seminars and sessions being held under the one roof. sect damage in young eucalypt plantations in New What follows is an uncritical description of bits South Wales; Dalin, Bjorkman & Kindvall (Swed- relevant to Chrysomela readers. ish University of Agricultural Sciences): population At the Congress there were 121 papers with the variability of leaf beetles in managed and natural word Coleoptera in the abstract, 26 with Chryso- willow stands; Delate, DeWitt, Kennicker & Lang melidae, 13 with Cerambycidae and 18 with Curcu- (Iowa State University): organic pest management lionidae. However, searching the CD of abstracts in the US grain belt: challenges and perspectives of with words or phrases like ‘bruchine, bruchid, pea an increasing trend; Elek, Allen & Matsuki (Forestry weevil, seed beetle, chrysomelid, leaf beetle, flea Tasmania): Success is an alternative to Dominex beetle’ revealed a total of 50 papers involving the for managing leaf beetles in eucalypt plantations; Chrysomelidae. And there were undoubtedly many Erwin & Aschero (Smithsonian Institution): canopy more. beetles of the western Amazon Basin: â-diversity in This reviewer was present at the Phytophaga time and space; Fox (University of Kentucky): hu- systematics symposium (Thursday afternoon), the man-induced changes in organism distributions and informal meeting that evening and the poster ses- the evolution of insect diets; Gaolach (Washington sions, but missed all other chrysomelid papers. In State University): dirty cropping and insect com- his defence, the vast majority of these concern munity structure: can relaxed weed control benefit agriculture or forestry, and there were a lot of other pest control in Brassicaceae crops; Gonzalez-Me- interesting things going on. However, the authors gias, Gomez & Sanchez Pinero (Universidad de and titles of all non-symposium papers mention- Granada): spatial population structure of Timarcha ing Chrysomelidae are given here, as they show the lugens: the importance of spatial autocorrelation; great range of current research on chrysomelids and Harada, Yamashita & Miyashita (Kochi University): the sort of work available to newcomers in the field effects of coexistence with a water lily Trapa na- (to save space, initials have been deleted and only tans on embryonic development, larval growth and the institution of the first presenter is given): Allen, oviposition process of a water strider, Gerris nepal- Elek & Matsuki (University of Tasmania): man- ensis [predation of Galerucella]; Hayashi & Oh- aging leaf-beetles in eucalypt plantations: non-target gushi (Kyoto University): effects of two genetically impacts, biocontrol and natural enemy recolonisa- controlled chemotypes on the community structure tion; Bradshaw, Rice & Hill (Iowa State University): of herbivorous insects; Hilker & Rostas (Freie Uni- efficacy of a pyrethroid and a systemic seed-treated versitat Berlin): diseased interactions: how ‘hidden insecticide to manage a pest and a pathogen; Breu- players’ like pathogens mediate interactions between ker, de Jong, Victoir, Vrieling & Brakefield (Univer- plants and herbivorous insects; Ishihara, Matsuoka, sity of Manchester): the effect of a resistance gene Sakamoto, Ujiie & Hesaka (Osaka Womens Univer- on developmental stability and fitness in a flea- isty): indirect effect of a lace bug and disturbance on beetle, Phyllotreta nemorum; Bull, Pickup, Bonsall a chrysomelid beetle via host willow quality; Ishii & Hassell (Imperial College London): persistence & Shimada (University of Tokyo): [a] parasitoid’s time of apparent competition in a host-parasitoid switching predation enhances persistence in two- microcosm is increased by metapopulation struc- host one-parasitoid experimental system; Kagata, ture; Cabrera, Reinert & McKenney (Texas A&M Nakamura & Ohgushi (Kyoto University): bottom- University): resistance cultivars and species of the up cascade in a tri-trophic system: different impacts woody ornamental Lagerstroemia spp., to the flea of host-plant regeneration by cutting , on perfor-

16 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 mance of a leaf beetle and its natural enemy; Ker- sequences of plant-mediated indirect effects; Rice goat, Delobel, Fediere, Le Ru & Silvain (IRD-PGE): (Iowa State University): biotechnology and maize host-specificity and evolution of the genusBruchid - pests: historical farmer perceptions and adoption ius s.l. (Coleoptera: Bruchidae); Kim & Sapping- of transgenic maize in integrated production; San- ton (Iowa State University): genetic structuring of nino, Piro & Contiero (Istituto Sperimentale per il western corn rootworm populations in the US based Tabacco, Scafati): field performance of thiacloprid on microsatellite loci analysis; Knutson, DeLoach, against the tobacco flea beetleEpithrix [sic] hirtipen- Carruthers, Tracey, Bean, Dudley, Eberts, Kazmer, nis (Melsheimer); Santisteban (Universidad Nacio- Knight, Milbrath & Thompson (Texas A&M Uni- nal Agraria la Molina): computerised checklist and versity): potential for biological control of Tamarix database on Peruvian Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera): spp. in the United States; Leksono, Nakagoshi, Na- Alticinae and Galerucinae; Scott, Symington, Clark, kamura & Koji (Hiroshima University): the use of Jensen, Philogene & Arnason (University of Ot- water pan trap to tawa): novel estimate beetle activity from abundance Piper (Piper- and vertical aceae) plant distribution in secondary mosaic habitat compounds in Kanazawa, against Japan; Lin, insecticide- Horng & Chen resistant and (National Tai- susceptible wan University): insect pests characterisa- of the home tion of bruchid and garden; resistance in the Seeman & mungbean va- Nahrung riety VC6089A (Queensland and the resis- Museum): tance-associated female-bi- protein VrD1; ased parasit- Lopez, Soria, ism and the Maistrello & importance The author collecting in Robertson, NSW, Australia (Photo: C. N. Duckett) Ocete (Universita of host-genera- di Medena e Reg- tion overlap in a sexually-transmitted parasite of gio Emilia): effects of spurge flax (Daphne gnidium beetles; Setoyama & Shimada (University of To- L., Thymelaeaceae) extracts on the development kyo): the decision-making system of the egg-laying and mortality of the elm leaf beetle (Coleoptera: behaviour of the seed beetle Callosobruchus macu- Chrysomelidae); Moeser & Vidal (Georg-August latus: an artificial neural networks model; de Sousa- University Goettingen): above and below ground Majer, Turner, Hardie & Higgins (Curtin University nutritional ecology of the invasive maize pest Di- of Technology): heat stress breaks down the protec- abrotica virgifera virgifera (Chrysomelidae, Gale- tive role of genetically engineered peas against the rucinae) in Europe; Morris, Smyth, Franke, Foster, pea weevil (Bruchus pisorum); Sujazov (Moscow Hoffmann & Roelofs (North Dakota State Univer- State University): Coleoptera in [the] agrolandscape sity): isolation and characterisation of a putative of Kuban-Azov lowland; Tallamy (University of aggregation pheromone component for the striped Delaware): male coercion, cryptic female choice, or cucumber beetle, Acalymma vittatum (F.) (Coleop- both? A case study from spotted cucumber beetles era: Chrysomelidae); Ohgushi (Kyoto University): [the answer was both]; Utsumi & Ohgushi (Kyoto indirect interaction webs of insect herbivores: con- University): shoot sprouting of three willow spe- 17 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 cies, in response to damage by a stem-boring insect, letic Chrysomelidae and failed to find strong support affects insect herbivores at different intensities; for any tradional or recently proposed combina- Wiedenmann, Post, Helm, Voegtlin & Jeffords (Uni- tion of taxa. 18S looked particularly conservative versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne): program at this rank. When nucleotides and morphological for biological control of purple loosetrife in Illinois, data were combined results were similar to Fig. 46, USA; Yang, Fushing & Horng (National Taiwan Reid 1995, whether using parsimony or bayes and University): the effects of dynamic experience of re- maximum likelihood for the molecular data. Most source heterogeneity on oviposition behaviour of the significantly there was no support for pairing of ei- seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus (F.); Yoder ther Criocerinae and Cassidinae or Galerucinae and & Gillespie (Texas A&M University): perl scripted Synetinae, and there was support for the subfamily manipulation, output & description of insect RNA status of Spilopyrinae. There was a suspicion that multiple-sequence alignments; Yokoyama & Miller the results were driven by morphology, especially as (USDA-ARS): discovery of exotic pests and quaran- the molecular samples are very small per subfamily. tine treatments to prevent disruption of commodity By comparison, the vastly bigger Curculionoi- shipments. In summary, plenty of research on com- dea are in more of a mess. The next two presenta- munities, herbivory, natural pesticides, behaviour tions were by people with suspiciously long noses and Callosobruchus maculatus. and setal fringes but, since weevils are the sister For beetle systematists there was an informal taxon to the Cerambycoidea + Chrysomeloidea, the dinner on Tuesday night, organised by Geoff Mon- information is of interest. Lyal, Marvaldi, Barclay, teith (Queensland Museum) and Caroline Chaboo Anderson, Oberprieler & Vogler (Natural History (American Museum of Natural History), which went Museum, London): review of morphological and very well. molecular evidence on the phylogeny of Curcu- On top of all this was Thursday’s Phytophaga lionoidea. Chris noted two unresolved issues: (i) de- Symposium. First a confession. I was one of the termination of phylogenetic relatioships; (ii) names scheduled speakers, but was unable to complete the and numbers of family rank taxa. Phylogenetic work required in time. Perhaps fortunately, my co- studies by Kuschel (1995), Farrell (1998), Marvaldi presenter, Elizabeth Grobelaar, was unable to come & Morrone (2000), Lyal et al (2000), Oberprieler to the conference. Rolf Oberprieler introduced the sym- (2000), Kuschel & Leschen (2000) & Marvaldi posium and dedicated it to the late Elwood Zimmerman. (2002) were compared. These studies included The Symposium kicked off with a series of larval and adult morphology and the 18S nucleotide. heavy duty papers on systematics: There was little agreement between them, except: (i) Duckett, Gillespie, Reid, Duran & Kjer (Smith- one or more of Belidae, Anthribidae and Nemonych- sonian Institution): phylogeny of Chrysomelidae idae is sister to all other taxa; (ii) platypodines and based on two molecular markers & morphological scolytines are buried in the Curculionidae; (iii) 18S characters. Catherine pointed out that: (i) subfa- wasn’t crash-hot. So data from all except Marval- milial phylogeny still unresolved eg Reid 1995 vs di’s studies were combined, resulting in 219 mor- Farrell 1998 vs Reid 2000, as exemplified bySy - phological characters plus those from 18S, covering neta, taxa with bifid setae etc; (ii) comparison of 140 species. The combined data produced >7000 molecular and morphological analyses premature trees and therefore little resolution, some exceptions because few taxa sampled for molecules. In this being: (i) Nemonychidae and Anthribidae sister study, 2 nucleotide genes, 18S and 28S-D2, were taxa, sister to all others; (ii) Belidae sister to remain- compared with the morphological data from Reid der; (iii) Platypodinae and Scolytinae sister taxa, sis- 2000, including representation of all chrysomelid, ter to Cossoninae. The problems noted are equally orsodacnid and megalopodid subfamilies, except applicable to large analyses of chrysomelids: (i) Zeugophorinae. The molecular survey included different combinations of taxa in different studies; Sagrinae and Spilopyrinae for the first time [NB. (ii) monophyly of terminal taxa not established; (iii) since this talk Farrell & Sequeira have published an taxon sample small; (iv) morphological characters analysis including these taxa]. poorly defined; (v) larvae unknown for many taxa; The nucleotides failed to find a monophy- (vi) suitability of characters varies across taxa; (vii) 18 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 sequence alignment problems; (viii) 18S inadequate. as almost all multisampled genera were recovered These weevil workers appealed for community as monophyletic. 6 shifts were found from woody co-operation to: select and provide key species for to herbaceous hosts and in all shifts there was an analysis, devise a ‘character bank’, increase char- increase in taxon diversity. Two explanations were acter sampling, delineate monophyletic subunits, canvassed: (i) diversity of hosts represents a di- focus on problematic taxa. versity of niches; (ii) increased specialisation on The next paper did exactly that, focussing on herbaceous hosts. Geoff argued for (i) by lack of the brentoid complex. Alonso-Zarazaga, Sforzi & evidence for (ii). Wanat (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Ma- The symposium returned briefly to weevils. drid): an overview of the phylogeny of the brentoid Marvaldi, Lyal, Oberprieler, Anderson & Brad- complex. For the ignorant I note that the brentoids bury (Natural History Museum, London): phy- include or have included such diverse organisms as logeny of the Oxycoryninae s. l. and evolution of Apion, Brentus, Car, Eurynchus, Nanophyes and plant-weevil interactions. Oxycorynines are belid Rhynolaccus. Miguel gave a convincing argument weevils, with 14 genera and 220 species (including for the characters used in this study. The group was Aglycyderines). Adriana’s talk, delivered by Chris, analysed using morphology plus 208 informative compared the classification of the tribe Oxycorynini bp of 16S rRNA and 170 informative bp from 6 mt with larval hosts (adults were described as lacking DNA genes for 64 taxa. 18S information was re- phyletic tracking, whereas larvae showed tissue jected as too conservative. A single tree was found fidelity). but with low bootstrap values for most branches. 20 taxa and 106 morphological characters were Perhaps most controversially, the ‘brentoids’ were analysed and the host families and feeding strategies presented as a grade rather than a clade, and Carinae mapped on the resulting tree. The results indicated were placed within Nanophyidae. The team con- two independent shifts from male gymnosperm cluded that labral fusion and loss of legs has hap- cones to angiosperm fruiting bodies. pened several times (as in chrysomeloids). A second subfamily of Chrysomelidae was given After this profusion of unfamiliar taxa there was the works. Chaboo (American Museum of Natural a welcome return to the Chrysomelidae. History): towards an evolutionary history of tortoise Morse (University of Massachusetts): phyloge- and leaf-mining beetles: systematics, major events netic and ecological diversification in the bruchine and diversity (Cassidinae s. lat.). Caroline began seed beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Geoff’s this beautifully illustrated talk by noting that while excellent study applied the question “Why are there monophyly for the Cassidinae is well-supported so many species of phytophagous insects?” to the by head and leg characters, there is no consensus bruchines. From early days bruchine diversity has of their position within the Chrysomelidae. The been explained by co-evolution, but curiously a phy- animals are highly diverse in morphology and life logeny for the group was lacking. Geoff set out to history and the tribal classification is unresolved. provide this and test macroevolutionary hypotheses/ Furthermore, Caroline noted that biological infor- statements, such as Jansen (1969): bruchines show mation is only available for 350 of 5650 species. adaptive radiation on legumes. In particular, the A new analysis of morphological characters was question was posed: did shifts from woody to herba- presented, resolving traditional hispines as a grade ceous plants increase diversification? with traditional cassidines deeply embedded and The c.2000 species of Bruchinae are obligate oddities such as Imatidium close to the latter. The seed predators, with 35 known host families. The genus Arescus was sister to all other taxa. The tradi- phylogeny was sought using two genes, 1250bp tional internal classification was shown to be in need of CO1 and 850bp of 28S, and exemplars of most of revision; of the 23 tribes represented by more traditionally recognised generic groups, a total of 87 than one genus only 13 were recovered as mono- species representing 33 genera. Sagrinae were used phyletic. The proposed phylogeny was then used as the outgroup. The results were identical using to determine evolutionary change in four morpho- both bayesian and parsimony analysis. logical and behavioural traits. Heads were shown The exemplar method was considered successful to have changed in 5 ways and the thoracic venter 19 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 to have become more compacted. 5 larval feeding trends in derelomine flower weevils: from associa- strategies or guilds were defined, based on differ- tions to homology. In short, Nico found no co-evo- ent plant structures: leaf-mining, stem-mining, leaf lution in a study of 155 characters and 115 taxa of tubes, bract pools, external feeding (including leaf Derelomini, but protection of seeds by plants was rolls and shelters). Larval faecal shield construction correlated with attack methods by the weevils. He was described in all its intricacies and it was noted also concluded that: (i) selective taxon analysis is that there seemed to be correlation between morpho- useful; (ii) systematics complements other co-evolu- logical change in the apex of the abdomen, shield tionary disciplines; (iii) host-plant associations can structure and larval behaviour. Having convinced be treated as homology statements. everybody that cassidines were wrapped up, Caro- The last paper was a summary statement on the line then pleaded for more research on taxa, charac- systematics of Phytophaga, delivered by the tag ters and biology. team of Catherine Duckett and Rolf Oberprieler. We then delved further into the innards of the Marvaldi, Duckett, Oberprieler, Lyal, Reid, Kjer & weevils...... Oberprieler (CSIRO Entomology): Gillespie (Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de phylogeny and evolution of the Brachycerinae s. Zonas Aridas): phylogeny of the Coleoptera Phy- lat. Rolf presented a phylogeny of Brachycerinae, tophaga. Catherine, on behalf of Adriana, started by suggesting that the taxon is sister to the Erirhininae pointing out the biggest problem - that there are at s. str. and this pair, together with Dryophthorines least 130,000 species so any approach is exemplar and Tanysphyrines, may be sister to all other cur- sampling. Two questions were posed: (i) are Phy- culionids. Virtually all of the taxa involved feed on tophaga monophyletic? (ii) what is the sister-group? monocots and there appears to be an evolutionary Using morphological information available match (with Bremer 2000). from Kuschel 1995, Reid 1995, plus 2,300 bps of The last chrysomelid paper was another visit to 18S and 28S nucleotides [plus the assumption that Cassidinae, by a different team and using molecules. selected subfamilies and families were monophy- Windsor, Duran, Keller, Gillespie, Vencl & Duckett letic], a combined analysis was performed using (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute): contrasts other Cucujiformia as the outgroup. Belids were in the host-plant and molecular phylogenetic rela- sister to other weevils, scolytines and platypodines tionships of cassidine and hispine beetles. Don not- deeply buried in Curculionidae, and Chrysomelidae ed approximately five feeding strategies among New were recovered as a monophyletic group, sister to World Cassidinae (leaf miners, rolled-leaf scrapers (Orsodacnidae + (Megalopodidae + Cerambycoi- and 3 external feeders distinguished by defences: dea)). Nucleotides only, with parsimony or bayesian piled head-shields, faecal shields and maternal care) analysis, pulled out chrysomeloids as monophyletic. and the apparent correspondence with established The results were considered biased by the molecular tribes. data. To test whether tribal classification did match Sampling of outgroup taxa was perhaps inad- feeding strategies, a phylogeny was generated from equate to answer the two questions posed. analysis of 1500bps from three genes (D2, 12S & Rolf then stood up and speculated about what it CO1), for 122 ingroup taxa representing 24 tribes. all meant in terms of weevil evolution, in particular Bayesian analysis provided a single tree with a origins of the rostrum, mycophagy, endophytic lar- grade of hispines and deeply embedded cassidines, vae, scape, angiosperms. He then compared feeding but there were many differences from the morpho- strategies in the two groups, weevils and chrysom- logical phylogeny provided by Caroline. Mapping eloids. traits on the tree showed multiple origins for leaf- To further phytophagan systematics research, the mining and dorsal shields but a single origin for following suggestions/requests were made: maternal care. • update & expand morphological character This was followed by a nice theoretical approach and taxon matrix, esp for weevils to co-evolution, albeit on weevils. weevil paper • include more cucujiform taxa and characters looked at a single tribe, the Derelomini. Franz & • expand gene sampling de Melo Valente (Cornell University): evolutionary • look at molecular clock approach 20 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 • resolve subfamilies of weevils material of sweetpotato weevils. • review fossil record (vi) Nico Franz showed a fascinating film of • review biogeography Curculio mating behaviour on staminodes of Cy- Having a sense of losing the wood in the trees, clanthaceae. Weevil pollination may be ancestral we all went off for a well-earned beer to return an in these plants. Something resembling Monolepta hour later for an informal meeting of enthusiasts was feeding in the background. The film reminded chaired by Nico Franz. There were 7 items on the Pierre that we should be looking for larvae of Aula- agenda: coscelis in cycad seeds and perhaps Orsodacne in (i) Follow-on from Symposium. Camilla My- gymnosperm seeds. ers (CSIRO Publishing) reminded participants that The meeting was declared closed and we all all symposium papers would be published in Inver- scrambled for the nearest bar. tebrate Systematics. Rolf and Catherine noted that a For those like me interested in more than Phy- similar symposium in the Durban ICE (2008) should tophaga the Congress was a feast of interesting involve cerambycidists, otherwise the Phytophagan subjects and presentations*. It was well-organised symposium seemed to work. It was also suggested and well-attended and the Congress Chairman, that specimens be more freely available between Myron Zalucki, and committee should be congratu- researchers, material should be systematically col- lated for their efforts. Mention should also be made lected for DNA and summary information be pre- of the kind hospitality of Geoff Monteith and Chris sented on the web. Burwell (Queensland Museum), who fielded be- (ii) Miguel and Chris Lyal advertised the re- tween them approximately 120 visitors to the rich cently launched weevil names web database (http: and well curated museum collections. It was also a //wtaxa.csic.es), established by grants from GBIF, wonderful gathering of old friends and a chance to which has 70,000 names, all references & pdf meet in the flesh some correspondents, like Pierre. copies available. (I mentioned our own similar Hopefully the next meeting in Durban will be just as chrysomelid database for New South Wales: http: good. //www.faunanet.gov.au/MNLIndex.cfm). Another [*e.g., beetles and islands, fossil beetles, the weevil project, WINOW, aims to establish a wee- effects of invasives in various places, hotspots, vil ‘character bank’. John Lawrence thought there monorchism, fogging beetles, saproxylic beetles, might be problems with terminology if this was acoustic mimicry, beetle genitalia, a new beetle fam- expanded to other groups. ily and plenty of methods and theory]. (iii) Caroline Chaboo introduced herself as new editor of Chrysomela and acknowledged the great job done by her predecessor, Terry Seeno. Caroline Meeting Announcement noted that the web version of Chrysomela had no Entomological Society of America size limitation. Miguel proposed that cerambycid workers be included, an idea that met with general approval. (iv) Pierre Jolivet gave a short account of the newly discovered egg and larva of Eupales, a rela- tively plesiomorphic eumolpine. The larva feeds on Cornaceae and is typical of Eumolpinae, eg lack- ing stemmata. Chris Reid suggested this strength- ened the association with Syneta, rejected by Pierre because “the Syneta wing is not eumolpine”. This reporter forebore to argue further, but merely notes that by the same logic Pachnephorus is not a eumol- pine, Cucujopsis not a palophagine and Macroplea not a donaciine. (v) An appeal was made by Anne Howden for www.entsoc.org 21 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 Travels in OZ

Eric Smith (USA) The first stop was to go with my guide to talk with the tribal elder to receive permission to collect on the aboriginal land belonging to her tribe. This accomplished, it was off to the boonies. Since it was the winter season, I had resigned myself to the

Fig. 3 fact that I would probably be collecting mostly ants Fig. 1 and termites, and maybe a few chrysomelids. I was able to collect some seven species of termites in After attending the XXII International Congress four genera. The termite mound pictured (Figs. 1-2) of Entomology in Brisbane, Australia (August 15- was made by the grass-feeding termite, Nasuitermes 21), I headed north by jet along the eastern coast to triodiae; these reach up to about 18 feet (6 m) tall. Cairns. From Cairns, I continued northwest by jet For many species of termites, there is an ant spe- to Nhulunbuy, a small town of about 4,000 inhabit- cies associated with or physically sharing part of the ants, which is located on the northeastern shore of termite mound. the Gove Peninsula; part of the Northern Territory’s One day we stopped to eat lunch on a deserted beach on the Arafura Sea, on this picturesque sand dune several miles north of Nhulunbuy (Fig. 3). Growing on this sand dune was the the purple-flow- ered morning glory Ipomea pescapri (Fig. 4).

Fig. 2 northward extension of the Australian continent. Base camp for my two-day adventure was the Walk- about Lodge. My beast of burden was a 4-wheel drive diesel Toyota Landcruiser. Fig. 4 22 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 Fig. 5 Fig. 6 Closer examination revealed numerous adults beetle collected at light, and two flea beetles col- (Fig. 5), larvae (Fig. 6), and pupae of the tortoise lected sweeping. I later found out from Catherine beetle Aspidimorpha deusta (Fabricius). Duckett that I should have been pulling up clumps Other chrysomelids collected consisted of sev- of grass and examining the soil contact area where eral Colaspis-like beetles collected at light, one flea many chrysomelids overwinter.

Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) Annual Meeting, July 2005. Brazil, Flavia Nogueira de Sá (Brazil)

This meeting will be held in a very nice city, meeting. Our objectives are to discuss new ideas Uberlandia, in the heart of Brazil. Uberlandia is and prospective from most recent studies on tropical surrounded by Cerrado (Savanah-like vegetation) Chrysomelidae and planning directions for future and the Chrysomelidae fauna there is poorly known. investigations. You are all welcome! Those who Dr. Lenice Medeiros, Dr. Margarete Macêdo and I are interested in coming and participating, please are applying to organize a special symposium on contact me. For more details about the meeting Chrysomelidae Ecology and Biology during the check . Insect collecting in Mont Do, New Caledonia Christian Mille (New Caledonia) and Pierre Jolivet (France)

New Caledonia is an archipelago of inhabited This explains a high endemic character of the Flora islands, 1 500 km East of Australian East Coast and (76 %) and the known Fauna which is around 4,500 2 000 from the North Coast of New Zealand, near species, but suspected to hold 5,000 to 20,000 more the Tropic of Capricorn. The main island, so called species (Richier de Forges et al., 1998). Grande Terre is 400 km long and 50 km broad. Gymnosperma are well represented in New This land is known to have been a part of the super- Caledonia with 43 endemic species on 44 present. continent Gondwana, 30 million years ago before the Among these, the genus Araucaria is well creation of the New Caledonian Basin, separating diversified with 13 species out of 19 known in from New Zealand (Sanmartín & Ronquist, 2004). (cont. next page)

23 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 The trip was done at the end of December 2004 and unfortunately during Exceptionally dry weather. Many dead insects were found under the stones and only alive ones were obtained By beating the trees and found over the plants. Carnivorous plants and orchids were rather common on the plateau. The collected insects are actually under study and further trips are planned during the wet season. It seems that the chrysomelid fauna in New Caledonia is much richer than expected previously.

Mt. Do, New Caledonia (Photo: Mayon Jolivet). the world (Richier de Forges et al., 1998). All the present species are endemic. We beat one day long, the low branches of Araucaria laubenfelsii Corbasson on Mont Do between 900 and 1,000 m high. We collected many species of beetles still under study.

Many Thasycles species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumol- pinae) were found especially this one that is able to hide under the scales of Araucaria leaves.

References: Sanmartín Isabel and Frederik Ronquist, 2004. Southern Hemisphere Biogeography inferred by Event- based Models: Plant versus Animal Patterns. Systematic Biology, 53 (2):216-243. Richier de Forges Bertrand, Tanguy Jaffré et Jean Chazeau, 1998. La Nouvelle Calédonie, vestige du continent de Gondwana. Courrier de View of the West Coast from the top of Mont Do (Christian MILLE) l’environnement de l’INRA, Sauve qui peut ! n°10, http: //www.inra.fr/Internet/Produits/dpenv/richies10.htm

View from the Plateau from the top of Mont Do The authors collecting on Mt. Do. (Christian Mille) (Mayon Jolivet)

24 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 Xavier Montrouzier (1820-1897) A Pioneer of Neo Caledonian Entomology Pierre Jolivet (France)

Xavier Montrouzier (above), the first Neo Cale- tory stop-over before reaching the main island. donian entomologist, was born near Montpellier, Afterwards, he worked in Balade, and then in Lifu, France, in 1820. After high school, in Montpellier in the Loyalty archipelago, for 9 months. In 1859, and Paris, he began studying medicine and sciences he was sent to Canala, where he just escaped from at the Sorbonne, but decided to abandon this career, another spear thrown by a native. He collected in- and become a missionary priest, like his brothers. tensively there, especially insects, shells and plants, On his way to Melanesia, he ended up staying five and described many beetles by himself or with the months in Sydney before he could find a boat for help of other entomologists. After a long stay on the New Caledonia. Before his departure from France, Art island (Belep archipelago), he was promoted he had been selected by Arago as a correspondent in 1872 as chaplain for the convicts deported after for the Academy of Sciences, Paris, and so spent the the uprising of the Commune in Paris in 1870. He time in Botany Bay, Australia, collecting and study- went there reluctantly for what was probably the ing plants. most difficult part of his career, due to the hostil- He had the oportunity to collect in Balade, a ity of his charges. During his last 25 years, Mon- Mission town in the North-East of New-Caledonia trouzier, relentlessly continued studies in and around main island (then of the Solomon islands), where the capital. Mountainous areas were omitted and he was speared by a native. Wood pieces remained it probably in such areas that new records of leaf in the wound for three months, but he survived beetles and other insects may be expected. Xavier (without the help of the antibiotics). From 1851 to Montrouzier described hundred of insects, mostly 1853, Montrouzier remained in Sydney, working beetles, and also many plants of New-Caledonia. We with William John Macleay (1820-1891), a famous can well imagine how difficult it must have been in Australian naturalist and entomologist. In 1853, that period, without any reliable postal system. Un- Montrouzier returned to New Caledonia, after a stay fortunately most of Montrouzier’s types are either in Vanikoro (Vuanatu, ex New Hebrides), an obliga- being destroyed or dispersed from the insect collec-

25 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 tions in Lyon, Montpellier, and Paris. (Baly and Monros), Honolulu ( Gressitt) and Dres- Xavier Montrouzier died on May 16, 1897 in den (Heller), but Montrouzier and Perroud types Saint-Louis, ten kilometers from Noumea (then have disappeared in Lyon, and practically in Paris. named Port-de-France), in the Mont-Dore, where Reid recently (2004) has found a new genus of he was buried. Many species bear his name, e.g., Chrysomelinae, collected by Geoffrey Monteith, on Papilio montrouzieri. This the mountains, probably re- beautiful butterfly should be lated to a New Zealand genus. easy to rear in the butterfly From the actual data, we can house planned for construction roughly estimate 34 genera and in Noumea and could honor the 69 species of Chrysomelidae life and work of this pioneer of as existing in New Caledonia New Caledonian entomology. and in the surrounding islands. Chrysomelidae of New There may be at least twice as Caledonia are only poorly many, mostly among the Hispi- known and, due to errors in nae, primarily from palm and naming genera, synonymies are Pandanaceae rolled leaves, in expected. The fauna, as in New mountainous areas. The Cas- Zealand, is dysharmonious, as sidinae, Hispinae, Sagrinae, some groups did not reach the and Criocerinae are absent in island or are actually extinct. New Zealand. As in New-Zea- As in many islands, and in land also, the taxonomy of the Australia, where they are rare, genera and species has to be Clytrinae and Donaciinae are missing, but 9 (or 10 if completely restudied. It is easier in New Zealand we accept the Spilopyrinae as a subfamily) subfami- where all the types were kept in collections. As lies are represented: Criocerinae, Cryptocephalinae, already mentioned, nothing is left in Paris Museum Lamprosomatinae, Eumolpinae, Chrysomelinae, from Montrouzier leaf-beetle types. Few Chrysome- Galerucinae, Alticinae, Hispinae and Cassidinae. lidae have been introduced in the main island, but Sagrinae, abundant in Australia, mostly the archaïc most of the species are endemic. The leaf-beetle re- gondwanian genera, are totally absent there, as in lationships are with Australia and New Guinea, and, New Zealand. Of course, several subfamilies are for certain forms, with New Zealand. Bohumiljania relatively rich in species: Eumolpinae, Galerucinae, is related, as also other beetle genera in that part of Alticinae and Hispinae. Bohumiljania caledonica is the world, with Chilean and Argentinian eumolpines a primitive relic, surviving due to the subantarctic and spilopyrines. Nothofagus forests of the Cretaceous, extending in the past from Patagonia to New Zealand and New Caledonia, through Australia and the Antarctica. Its nearest relatives are in Chile: Hornius and Stenome- la. It is surviving in New Caledonia, on Syzygium (Myrtaceae). I have worked on a provisional draft of a catalogue of the Chrysomelidae of the island and have noted that some chrysomelid groups, like the alticines, galerucines or the eumolpines, have to be completely restudied. Unfortunately, Montrouzier types, together with those described with Perroud, are either being destroyed or dispersed in Lyon and Montpellier. Most work has to be done mostly from available descriptions. Some insect specimens survive in Brussels (Fauvel and Chapuis), London

26 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 Parasitoids of Cassidinae Chris Burwell (Australia)

Figure 1. An adult Cassida diomma on a leaf of its foodplant Ipomoea indica in Brisbane.

I have a lapsed interest in the biology of of species of Aspidimorpha, Cassida and other cassidines (recently rekindled by a visit by the genera in Australia, Africa and southern Asia. editor to the Queensland Museum Female wasps are able to oviposit during the ICE in Brisbane) that within all larval stages, from the stems from my taxonomic work on first to the fifth instars. The wasp the Australian species of Pediobius larvae develop gregariously and wasps (Chalcidoidea: Eulophidae). emerge from the pupal stage of the Pediobius is a large cosmo- beetles. Pediobius aspidomorphae politan genus of small wasps that is easily cultured in the laboratory are known to attack a very diverse and would be an ideal experimental range of hosts. One species, Pedio- subject to test the efficacy of cas- The author at work bius aspidomorphae, is a specialist sidine larval shields in deterring parasitoid of cassidines, attacking the larvae attacks by parasitoids.

Figure 2. A fifth instar larva ofC. diomma. When at Figure 3. The chalcidoid Pediobius aspidimorphae parasitiz- rest, the caudal shield is directed posteriorly and lies inga larva of C. diomma. close to the leaf surface.

27 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 Research Activities . . . Chrysomelinae and Eumolpinae, will and phylogenetic and biogeographic (cont. from page 2) be most appreciated too. research. He would like to borrow or recently on genomic evolution of Helen Nahrung (Queensland exchange Afrotropical flea beetles. leaf beetles at different divergence University of Technology, Austra- Jan Bezdek (Mendel University levels and for different taxonomic lia) conducted PhD research on the of Agriculture and Forestry, Czech groups. He has other broad inter- reproductive ecology of Chrysoph- Republic) is interested in Galeruci- ests like the study of biogeographic tharta agricola, a eucalypt leaf nae from SE Asia and is currently re- patterns, traditional taxonomy and beetle (Paropsina) that is a pest of vising the African genus Apophylia. systematics, and faunistic studies hardwood plantations in Tasmania. Geovan Henrique Corrêa in general. He is currently devoted Currently working on sexually-trans- works in a research group focused on to the study of the evolution and mitted mites on paropsine beetles in a preliminary survey of toxic plants genetic/evolutionary consequences Queensland with her partner Owen of cattle interest in the region of of asexuality in the Nearctic genus Seeman, including a general survey Ponta Grossa, Castro e Carambeí PR Calligrapha as well as to the study of paropsine species, and an inten- - Brazil. Their interest is in iden- of chromosome evolution in Timar- sive study this summer on Paropsis tifying toxic plants and associated cha. The first area of research is atomaria and Chrysophtharta cloeila insects, with potential for bological done in collaboration with Alfried to assess the effects the mites may control. Geovan is working with the Vogler (NHM, London, UK) and have on their hosts, including pos- chrysomeline Phaedon confine Klug, Dan Funk (Vanderbilt Univ., Ten- sible mating system effects. She has 1829 which has great potential as a nessee, USA), and the second with previously worked on 2 chrysomelid biological control of Senecio brasil- José Galián (Univ. Murcia, Murcia, species, Alagoasa parana and Chari- iensis Less. Spain). His interests are not re- dotis pygmaea, as biocontrol agents Flávia Nogueira de Sá (Brazil) stricted to specific geographic areas against Lantana in Queensland. finished her Ph.D. on chemical or to specific chrysomelid groups, Owen Seeman (Queensland Mu- defenses of two species of and encompass some challenging seum, Australia) conducts research Cassidinae beetles, in April, 2004 evolutionary questions. His Spanish on mites associated with beetles, (see overview in Chrysomela no. origin makes him more familiar with mainly the mite-groups Mesostigma- 43). Next February, she will begin the Iberian and European fauna in ta and Prostigmata. He has a special working at the Federal University, general, and under the influence of interest in the family Podapolipidae, Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), the chrysomelidist Eduard Petitpierre a group of sexually-transmitted mites Brazil, as a professor of Plant (Univ. Balearic Islands, Mallorca, that live beneath the elytra of many Ecology. She intends to continue Spain), he has a particular devotion beetles, including the Chrysomeli- her studies on fecal shields of to the Chrysomelinae. He is inter- dae. He and Helen Nahrung are cur- Chrysomelidae and will also start a ested in any old and recent literature rently examining the systematics and new project to evaluate the impact on Chrysomelinae as well as reprints ecology of Australian Podapolipidae of Chrysomelidae herbivory on on molecular genetic and phylo- that live under the elytra of paropsine their host plants. Her projects genetic studies in leaf beetles. He beetles. He would like to borrow (or will continue to be conducted at would appreciate samples preserved accept donations of) any specimens the Atlantic Forest, now in the in absolute ethanol for molecular of podapolipid mites. These inter- southernmost State of Brazil. studies, particularly specimens of the esting mites have a rather unappeal- genus Calligrapha and the related ing appearance, often being tiny (< 1⁄2 genus Zygogramma from Western mm) creamy-coloured creatures that and Southern US, and from Central stick their eggs onto the host with a and South America. Among the US white cement-like substance. So far, taxa, he is particularly interested in all chrysomelid-associated podapo- C. amelia, C. cephalanti, C. flori- lipids live under the elytra, but they dana, C. incisa, C. lunata, C. pnirsa, may also occur in the genital tract, as C. praecelsis, C. sigmoidea, C. they do in the Carabidae. sylvia, and C. verrucosa. Generally Maurizio Biondi (University any species will be useful, since his of L’Aquila, Italy) is interested in sampling is limited. Any other leaf Systematics, Ecology and Bioge- beetles preserved in ethanol, mainly ography of Afrotropical Flea Beetles

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29 CHRYSOMELA 44, December 2004 436 pp. Medvedev, L. N. and D. Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Lopatin, I. 2003. New Erber. 2002. Untersuchungen zur “Giacomo Doria”, Genoa. Part 3. species of leaf-beetles from Taxonomie afrikanischer Megalo- Annali Mus.Stor.Nat. 94: 249-264 South-East Asia (Coleoptera, podinae mit Beschreibungen einer Medvedev, L. N. and D. Er- Chrysomelidae). Euroasian En. J. neuen Gattung und funf neuer. ber. 2003. New species of Afro- 2 (4): 301-304. Entomologica Basiliensia 24: 97- tropical Clytrinae with new data Lopatin, I. 2003. A new 121. on several new species.Annals of genus and its two new species Medvedev, L. N. 2002. New Transvaal Museum v.40:73-90. of leaf-beetles from Vietnam and poorly known Chrysomeli- Medvedev, L. N. and A. Mo- (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: dae, (Coleoptera) from northern seyko. 2002 (2003). A revision of Galerucinae). Genus 14 (1): 103- India. Entomologica Basiliensia Phytorus Jacoby, 1884 (Chryso- 107. 24: 245-253. melidae: Eumolpinae). Russ.Ento Lopatin, I. and L. Fried- Medvedev, L. N. and A. Kat- mol.Journ.11(4): 401-407. man. 2003. Gonioctena israelita beh-Bader. 2002. New species of Medvedev, L. N. 2003. New sp.n., a new species of leaf-bee- Smaragdina Chevrolat, 1837 from taxa of Chrysomelidae from tles from Israel (Coleoptera, Jordan (Coleoptera, Chrysome- Afrotropical and Oriental regions. Chrysomelidae). Zoosyst. Ross. lidae). Entomologica Basiliensia Spixiana B. 10, . 26, 2: 149-153. 11: 343-345. 24: 255-258. Medvedev, L. N. and F. Lopatin, I., Chikatunov, V., Medvedev, L. N. and F. Kantner. 2003. Description of Pavlicek, T. 2003. Catalogue of Kantner. 2002. Some new a new species of Cheilotoma the beetles (Coleoptera) in Israel and poorly known Clytrinae Chevrolat, 1837 (Coleoptera: and adjacent areas: 3. Chrysome- (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) of Chrysomelidae) from Turkey. lidae except Alticinae). Zoology the Old World. Entomologica Entomologische Zeitschrift, 2003, in the Middle East 28: 87-112. Basiliensia 24: 259-269. v.113, n.9:268-269. Lopatin, I. and O. Nestero- Medvedev, L. N. and M. Medvedev, L. N. and D. Er- va. 2004. Biology and ecology of Scholler. 2002. The larva of Mac- ber. 2003. Studies concerning the the mountainous genera Oreomela rolenes dentipes Olivier (Chryso- taxonomy of Diapericera Lacor- Jacobson, Xenomela Weise and melidae, Clytrinae), with a key to daire, 1848 with a description of Crosita Motschulsky (Coleoptera, the larvae of the palearctic genera two new species ( Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Chrysomelinae). of clytrine leaf beetles. Entomo- Chrysomelidae ). Entomologica Pp. 415-421. New Development logical Blatter, 2002, 98, Heft 1: Basiliensia, 2003, 25:261-273. in the Biology of Chrysomelidae. 15-20. Medvedev, L. N. 2003. To- SPB Acad. Publ. M. Scholler. 2002. Revi- wards knowledge of the Indian Medvedev, L. N. and sion of the genus Podagricomela Clytrinae (Coleoptera, Chrysome- J.Bezdek. 2002. Two new Ori- Heikertinger, 1924 (Coleoptera: lidae ). Entomologica Basiliensia ental genera of Galerucinae Chrysomelidae: Alticinae). 25:275-291 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) Russ.Entomol.Journ 11(2): 209- Medvedev, L. N. 2003. A Entom. Zeitschr., 112, n.1. 214. contribution to knowledge of Medvedev, L. N. 2002, A Medvedev, L. N. and D. the genus Colasposoma Laporte, new apterous genus of Galeruci- Erber. 2002. New and poorly 1833 ( Chrysomelidae, Eumolpi- nae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) known Clytrinae from South- nae ). Entomologica Basiliensia from Sulawesi.Russ. Entom ern Africa. Part 1 (Insecta, 25:293-305 Journ. 11(1): 3-4. Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Medvedev, L. N. and D. Medvedev, L. N. 2002. New Mitt.Mus.Nat.kd.Berl., Zool. Erber. 2003. A revision of the and poorly known Chrysomelidae Reihe 78 (2): 197-206. genus Barybaena Lacordaire, from the Philippines (Insecta, Medvedev, L. N. 2002. 1848 .Entomologica Basiliensia Coleoptera). Spixiana 25 (1): Jacoby‘s types of Chrysomelidae 25:243-259. 59-67. (Coleoptera) from Burma in the Medvedev, L. N. 2003. Leaf

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