The Newsletter of the International Society of Hymenopterists

Volume 5, Issue 2 — 10 September 2014

HamuliThe Newsletter of the International Society of Hymenopterists

In this issue...

Greeting from the new president (Whitfield) … 1

ISH and That (Heraty) … 2

Swiss Hymenoptera Course (Baur) … 2

HYM Course (Kula et al.) … 4

Some thoughts (Agosti) … 4

Announcements … 6

Hymenoptera in the Übersee- Museum (Lohrmann) … 6 Machu Picchu, near Cusco, Peru, site of the 8th International Congress of Hymenopterists. Parasitoid Symposium (Polaszek) … 8 Greetings from your both through our photographic archives of New President after hymenopterists and through our Society’s Collecting in Kosñipata Valley the Spectacular Cusco Archivist position. (Heraty) … 9 Congress What a spectacular success the Cusco meeting was, due to fantastic local orga- ISH Business Minutes By: Jim Whitfield, Department of Entomol- nizers (see message from my predecessor (Krogmann et al.) … 10 ogy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Cham- John Heraty!), and of course due to major paign, IL, USA efforts from the other ISH officers who had Postgrad Corner (Kittel) … 12 a longer effort to help organize the confer- Hi everyone! I just wanted to introduce ence than I did. Kudos to all! Noyes Research Medal myself to those of you who were not able Among the highlights for me (besides (Heraty) … 13 to make it to the Cusco Congress. I work the great talks and posters): the day-long on a wide diversity of biological top- excursion to many sites including Saqsay- Hamuli Update (Deans) … 14 ics (systematics, ecology, genomics), all waman, the banquet with its local music related to microgastrine braconid wasps and dancing, and the local interesting Author’s Instructions … 14 worldwide, so I have a strong interest foods, crafts and markets. John Heraty has in seeing the Society both continue to uploaded a lot of photos to Flickr further Membership Information … 14 internationalize (the Cusco conference documenting all this. After the meetings, I was a great example of this trend) but headed to Machu Picchu, with its spectac- also to expand beyond its current strong ular ruins (see above) and scenery. Despite taxonomic focus. As I mentioned in a the effort to get to the Congress from cen- previous Hamuli post, I also am interested tral Illinois (4 flights in each direction, and in us preserving our history more vividly, on the way back trains and vans as well), it

1 Hamuli (ISSN 2224-2791) is published by the International Society Greetings ... Continued ISH and That of Hymenopterists. By: John Heraty, University of California, Contact: Andrew R. Deans Riverside, USA Department of Entomology Pennsylvania State University 501 ASI Bldg This is the last column from me in the University Park, PA ISH and That category. Largely this is to 16802 USA. comment on the excellent meeting in Fax: +1 814 865 3048 Ph: +1 814 865 1895 Cusco, Peru. This was the first congress [email protected] of Hymenopterists in Central or South America (and hopefully not the last). We President: had over 160 participants, from 28 differ- James B. Whitfield [email protected] ent countries represented. The largest con- tingents were from Brazil (51), U.S.A. (22), Treasurer: and Peru (18). Travel awards were made to Craig Brabant six students, two of which (Crystal McE- [email protected] wen, University of Maryland, and Erica Secretary: Tucker, University of Kentucky) also won Lars Krogmann presentation and poster awards. The first- [email protected] place award winners were Antônio Freire Webmaster/Archivist: de Carvalho (Univ. Federal de São Carlos) Katja Seltmann Jim, during a 6:00 am on hike up Machu Picchu and Miles Zhang (University of Manitoba). [email protected] Mountain, above the archaeological site. Of course, just being there was a great experience for everyone. There were 77 Editor, Hamuli: Andrew R. Deans was all well worth it. presentations, 76 posters, one wild kick-off [email protected] Soon we will be considering the loca- reception (more than enough Pisco-Sours tions for the next Congress in 2018 – for everyone!), and a great banquet with Associate Editors: Cusco will be a hard act to follow, but I’m live music and even some dancing. Local Robert Longair István Mikó sure it will be very exciting to look forward arrangements were handled by Frank to as well. • Azorsa, Erick Yabar, Lidia Sulca, and a Art Director: host of wonderful volunteers. Our meet- Nick Sloff See more: ing was a financial success because of the Articles appearing herein should not be help from our meeting sponsors (Bioquip, considered published for the purposes https://flic.kr/s/aHsjZX3hji (Congress) Bugdorms, CSIRO publishing, Entosphinx, of zoological nomenclature.. Find us on https://flic.kr/s/aHsjZXZoJy (Wayqecha) Pensoft and Princeton University Press). the Web: https://flic.kr/ps/2UnMob (Society) One of the main benefits of the meeting http://hymenopterists.org

2 ISH and That ... Continued the framework of a lecture at the Institute and thus does not require the installation of Ecology and Evolution, University of of special software (if needed, Xper2, an was a big increase in our Society member- Berne (Switzerland), the course is open to earlier, java based version is available that ship. We have a strong and healthy Society, everybody interested in the subject. There- can be installed on all platforms). Xper3 is but we ultimately need more members. fore, I usually have a couple of partici- free but has about the same functionality This translates directly to what we can do pants from other institutions (e.g., natural as, e.g., the Lucid software. as a Society, including making a greater history museums and CABI Delémont in The new, electronic Xper3 key proved number of travel awards. We are two years Switzerland), in addition to 8–10 regular to be a great improvement with respect away from our next big meeting at the students. The course is normally held in to the earlier paper version of the key, International Congress of Entomology late summer; this year it took place from although it is essentially based on the same meeting in Orlando. Hopefully we can ride August 25th till 29th. character matrix. Identification success the wave and support more students going The aim is to give an overview on the di- was much higher and the students needed to another superb meeting! versity, systematics, and biology of parasit- only about half the time for identifying the ic wasps with a special focus on morphol- same sample of specimens. I thus can only Sincerely, ogy and identification. Thus, at the end of recommend the use of Xper3. The key used the course, participants should be able to in the course can be accessed using the fol- recognize the European families with the lowing link http://bit.ly/1AaMVmH help of keys. On an excursion day the students are intro- - ISH Past-President duced to collecting using the Noyes sweep net, Malaise traps and yellow pan traps. The next day the collected material is mounted, either directly pinned or glued on cards. The course is supplemented by talks of external lecturers, this year for instance by Tim Participants of the parasitic Hymenoptera course from August 25–29, Haye (CABI, Delé- 2014. Photo taken on the excursion day in Leuk, Valais (Switzerland). mont, Switzerland) Front row, from left to right: Jannic Odermatt, Thomas Obrist, Louis on biocontrol and Sutter, Dennis Quach, Lukas Lischer; back row: Marc Neumann by Marc Neumann (co-lecturer), Debora Unternährer, Katrin Luder, Sandro Meyer, Tina International representation at the 8th ICH. (Walterswil, Swit- Dancau, Timea Szikora. Countries represented above: Argentina, zerland) on com- Australia, Austria, Brazil. Bulgaria, Canada, munity ecology. Students are furthermore China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, introduced to digital stack imaging using Georgia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, the Keyence photo microscope. Finally, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Peru, Romania, Russian they are expected to give a small presenta- Federation, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, tion of some individual work, such as the USA, United Kingdom, Venezuela. identification of specimens at the genus or species level, investigation of a complex of sibling species, construction of a simple identification key, etc. Parasitic Hymenoptera In the first two years, I used a simpli- course in Switzerland fied version of the key of Goulet & Huber (1993) Hymenoptera of the World: An By: Hannes Baur, Natural History Museum Identification Guide to Families, restricted Bern, Bernastrasse 15, 3005 Bern, Switzer- to European taxa. However, for this year land. a new key has been furnished using the Xper3 software (http://www.xper3.fr/). Female of Monodontomerus sp., taken on the In the past three years I have given a This software allows the construction of Keyence digital microscope by Timea Szikora one-week block course on parasitic Hy- multi-access (interactive) identification during the parasitic Hymenoptera course. menoptera. Although taking place within tools. The program runs in a web browser

3 HYM Course News tion. Katherine Nesheim (The Ohio State improve access to content and make our University) and Ben Smith (National Park knowledge much more widely accessible, By: Robert R. Kula, Matthew L. Buffington, Service) were recognized for their excellent not least for our colleagues who are not af- Michael W. Gates, John T. Lill, James P. performances on the post-course assess- filiated to a scientific institution with their Pitts, and David B. Wahl ment. extensive subscriptions to publications. Plans are underway to offer HYM Many of those colleagues are where most The fifth offering of HYM Course was Course in Argentina in March of 2015. The of the natural diversity is. held at the Eagle Hill Institute near Steu- course will be advertised broadly, includ- Journal of Hymenoptera Research: Lyubo ben, Maine. HYM Course is an expanded ing on the parahym listserv. Please contact Penev’s report on the development of the version of the Parasitic Hymenoptera Michael Gates ([email protected]. Journal of Hymenoptera Research presented Training Session that was offered for over gov) for information about the next offer- at the Cusco meeting has been very con- 20 years starting in 1980. The course con- ing of the course, Also, people interested vincing and promising, from the figures sisted of 19 participants from three coun- in HYM Course can check for announce- presented as well as from the participants’ tries. Instructors were Matthew Buffington ments on the course website: comments in the corridor afterwards. Now, (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, http://hymcourse.org/ • we should be watching the really interesting developments taking place in Pensoft’s next generation journal, the Biodiversity Data Journal. This publishes in a new and very efficient way, using a form and pull-down menu-based authoring system. Tabulated data such as observation records can be imported as XLS files. Its structure will maintain almost all of the structured data that we have on our computers. It also allows us to link to external resources, such as Zoobank for names, DOIs for bibliographic data or links to digital records of specimens. In the near future, we will be able to insert structured character data. The BDJ preserves structured data so that the information can be easily reused after publication. As we become familiar with this model, we may wish to move the current JHR format into this more advanced James Pitts teaches the next generation of hymenopterists. model. An associated bibliographic tool, Refindit, will find citations and pull in bib- USDA-ARS-SEL), Michael Gates (SEL), Some thoughts after the liographic data including DOIs that allow Robert Kula (SEL), John Lill (The George Cusco meeting articles to link quickly to digital copies of Washington University), James Pitts (Utah the references. State University), and David Wahl (Ameri- By: Donat Agosti, Plazi, Bern, Switzerland Open Access. Without doubt, Open Ac- can Entomological Institute). The course cess is the best strategy for a free and effi- covered classification, identification, and We hymenopterists must be doing cient exchange of data. It is a way by which natural history for the entire order. HYM something right if we are regarded at the we can support all colleagues from around Course welcomed a new instructor in International Diptera Congress as ex- the world especially those who work out- 2014. John Lill, of The George Washing- emplars for best practices in taxonomic side major institutions and in the South. ton University, provided instruction in cyber-infrastructure (anonymous dipterist, Support for initiatives like the Bouchout parasitoid ecology and behavior. Thus, in litt.). Looking at this as one of the hy- Declaration on Open Biodiversity Knowl- students in HYM Course 2014 received an menopterists involved, I take this as a sign edge Management help us to explain to unprecedented breadth of information on that we are on the right track, but we also funding agencies, that we, the scientists, wasps, bees, and ants. In addition to new know that there is still quite a long way to do want Open Access and commit to it. It content on parasitoid ecology and behav- go before we have an adequate cyberinfra- shows that our organizations support this ior, James Whitfield (University of Illinois) structure that serves us well. If we do this effort by building up an infrastructure that was a guest lecturer during the Braconidae right, it will also be open to anyone else will allow long-term preservation of digital portion of the course and delivered an out- and this will result in much wider outreach content, the maintenance of persistent standing lecture on integrative approaches with much greater impact. identifiers and tools to actually find out for systematics research on Braconidae. The following thoughts are not ex- content more efficiently. Every signature The course concluded with a banquet din- haustive but reflect my own interests in gives this young initiative more weight! ner and awards ceremony where partici- publication-related topics. I make a few Access to legacy literature. Most of us pants were given a certificate of comple- suggestions that, with little effort, will have on our computer drives a folder with

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Thoughts ... Continued everybody read your article, we deliver a With new extra steps such as these, our huge service to the community because we community would not only be ahead of the digital copies of the relevant taxonomic provide access to all the cited work. If you pack, but we are a huge step closer to being (and other) publications dating back to the are interested in getting involved, you can able to study our animals more efficiently. 18th century. It takes a substantial amount contact either Pensoft or Plazi for advice. It will save the next generation a huge of research time to find, copy, and scan The use of persistent identifiers for as amount of time to decipher its unstruc- these publications, and to add them to many as possible digital objects will assure tured content to make it available for open specialised databases. All of our colleagues that we have a mechanism to form links knowledge management. This element have also to find those publications, or ask from publications to the data on which complements and will integrate with all the colleagues for digital copies. A different they are based. For example, all the ant other fantastic new tools, such as digital approach would be to build together an specimens at the California Academy of imaging, ontologies and genomics, to more open Biodiversity Literature Repository Sciences can now easily be linked through quickly describe the still widely undiscov- (BLR), an environment that can con- the CAS’ commitment that maintain stable ered diversity of hymenopterans. tinually improve, and avoid the need of and resolvable identifiers (URLs). With Find out more: everyone having to repeat the same work. such identifiers (e.g., http://www.antweb. The publications can be placed in the BLR, org/specimen/casent0101073), no-one Biodiversity Data Journal a public repository – with the necessary needs to painstakingly search for the speci- http://biodiversitydatajournal.com/ access controls to avoid copyright-related men CASENT0101073 that was cited in problems - with a long term commit- the materials examined section. Because Bouchout Declaration: ment for its maintenance. An example of of this identifier, users have a direct link http://bouchoutdeclaration.org this is Zenodo at CERN in Switzerland. to the cited specimen. Since the content in Here, each publications gets a DOI that JHR is published in XML, machines could Journal of Hymenoptera Research: can be attached to the cited references in even read and understand these lines and http://www.pensoft.net/journals/jhr future publications. If published in JHR, thus open up new opportunities for text at the moment you publish, not only can mining. Refindit: http://refindit.org •

5 Call for Archivist Position Hymenoptera at the on the history of entomology in Bremen). Übersee-Museum Bremen More or less recently, major extensions We are soliciting applications – getting to know the have been added essentially by Herbert for an Archivist for the Inter- pleasures and pain of a Hohmann (e.g. from Papua New Guinea, national Society of Hymenop- curator Costa Rica, Canary Islands) and Helmut terists. A 1–2 page application Riemann (Northwest Germany). Both of letter should be sent to the ISH By: Volker Lohrmann, Übersee-Museum them served the collection/museum for Executive ([email protected]. Bremen, Bahnhofsplatz 13, 28195 Bremen, many years and I am glad that they keep edu, [email protected]). Germany visiting the museum once a week and pass The letter should include 1) a on their knowledge and experience. Today brief statement of the candi- Welcome to the club! Now you’ll get to the collection holds about 600,000 insects date’s perspective on their goals know the pleasures and pain of a curator: including about 100,000 Hymenoptera and of the position and why they You’ve lots and lots of interesting (often is housed in a nice new air-conditioned are suited for the position, 2) old) material and no one wants to see it. building. a long term plan for storage I would like to take the opportunity to of materials (electronic and in – Colleague, upon my employment as a advertise our entomological collection. print), 3) a brief (one-page) curator Thanks to a preliminary database compiled curriculum vita. Applications by my predecessor H. Hohmann (and will be accepted until January Well, that was a start! But I should begin colleagues) I am able to provide a short 1, 2015, with announcements a little earlier. It was about the same time summary of the Hymenoptera collec- made by February 1, 2015. last year, when I was packing the stuff tion. The taxonomic backbone, however, in Berlin preparing my move to Bremen was adopted at that time from Brues et al. where I was to follow in the footsteps of (1954), so the taxonomy of some groups is the well-known melittologist Johann Di- certainly outdated. Call for 2018 ISH Congress etrich Alfken (1862–1945) becoming the • Ampulicidae (23 specimens, 2 species) Location curator for the entomological collection at • Anacharitidae (4 specimens, 3 species) the Übersee-Museum Bremen (UMB). Ar- • Andrenidae (5688 specimens, 130 spe- The ISH executive has devel- riving here I soon had to find out, as some cies) oped a set of new guidelines of you will certainly know, that Alfkens • Anthophoridae (3263 specimens, 282 and deadlines for future ISH collection did not remain at the UMB species) congresses. A 1–2 page propos- but was transferred to the Museum für • Apidae (1804 specimens, 106 species) al will be due January 1, 2015 Naturkunde Berlin – quite unfortunate. • Argidae (237 specimens, 17 species) to President and President- However, the UMB insect collection • Aspiceridae (2 specimens, 2 species) Elect ([email protected], has a tradition of about 200 years with the • Astatidae (129 specimens, 11 species) [email protected]). Pro- oldest parts dating back in the early half • Belytidae (1 specimen, 1 species) posals should include a brief of the 19th century. The most significant • Bethylidae (17 specimens, 4 species) outline of reasons for location collection from these early days still kept at • Braconidae (134 specimens, 98 species) (reasons for location: unique UMB is that of the merchant Adam Hein- • Cephidae (58 specimens, 8 species) location or long overdue, ac- rich Norwich (1771–1851) which com- • Ceraphronidae (6 specimens, 4 species) cess to a unique membership, prises over 4000 species of insects from • Chalcididae (6 specimens, 4 species) location appeal, identification around the world (Hohmann 1980; this • Charipidae (1 specimen, 1 species) of a team of local organizers publication provides valuable information • Chrysididae (1366 specimens, 132 and support network, potential venue, potential registration and meeting costs, and opportunities for fieldwork. All points are to be addressed. Proposals will be evaluated by the Executive Committee and requests for successful bidders to be returned by February 1, 2015. Successful bids would be required to submit a more complete bid by May 30, 2015 that would include more details on the hotels, room charges, registration estimates and a Historic building of the UMB (a part of the Berlin Wall on the left) (Photo: M. Haase, © Übersee- (see next page) Museum Bremen).

6 species) business plan for the meeting, • Perilampidae (3 specimens, 1 species) post-congress activities such • Philanthidae (1067 specimens, 34 spe- as collecting trips, and con- cies) gress activities such as visits • Platygasteridae (4 specimens, 3 species) to nearby natural areas and • Pompilidae (2093 specimens, 104 spe- tourist locations, archeological cies) or historical sites, etc. The suc- • Proctotrupidae (4 specimens, 3 species) cessful bid will be evaluated by • Pteromalidae (16 specimens, 10 spe- the Executive Committee and cies) announced by July 1, 2015. • Sapygidae (62 specimens, 4 species) • Scelionidae (6 specimens, 5 species) Call for Student Representa- • Scoliidae (483 specimens, 40 species) tive Position The new curator at UMB (Photo: M. Haase, © • Siricidae (73 specimens, 5 species) Übersee-Museum Bremen). • Sphecidae (829 specimens, 71 species) We are calling for applications • Tenthredinidae (2433 specimens, 321 for the student and early career species) species) representative for the Interna- • Cimbicidae (53 specimens, 9 species) • Tiphiidae (138 specimens, 6 species) tional Society of Hymenopter- • Cleonymidae (7 specimens, 4 species) • Torymidae (41 specimens, 24 species) ists. Send a 1–2 page cover • Cleptidae (73 specimens, 6 species) • Trigonalidae (7 specimens, 1 species) letter with your background • Colletidae (1601 specimens, 57 species) • Vespidae (2809 specimens, 203 species) and goals for this position, a • Crabronidae (4226 specimens, 98 spe- • Xiphydriidae (1 specimen, 1 species) brief vita, and supporting letter cies) from your supervisor to the • Cynipidae (908 specimen, 26 species) ISH Executive (jwhitfie@life. • Diapriidae (9 specimens, 7 species) illinois.edu, a.polaszek@nhm. • Dryinidae (9 specimens, 7 species) ac.uk). You must be either a • Embolemidae (1 specimen, 1 species) postgrad student or an early • Eumenidae (1742 specimen, 201 spe- career researcher (postdoc). cies) Applications will be accepted • Eurytomidae (18 specimens, 4 species) until the end of September • Evaniidae (2 specimens, 1 species) 2014, with announcements • Figitidae (8 specimens, 5 species) made by October 1, 2014. The • Formicidae (1554 specimens, 38 spe- new representative will take cies) over during the ESA meeting • Gasteruptionidae (132 specimens, 17 in Portland, Oregon. species) • Halictidae (6605 specimens, 245 spe- Graduate Assistantship cies) • Heloridae (2 specimens, 2 species) A reference collection as part of the permanent The Deans Lab at the Frost • Ichneumonidae (10216 specimens, exhibition (Photo: M. Haase, © Übersee- Entomological Museum at 1435 species) Museum Bremen). Penn State is soliciting applica- • Larridae (1019 specimens, 58 species) tions for a PhD-level graduate • Leucospididae (1 specimen, 1 species) Beside these ~56,000 catalogued speci- assistantship. The success- • Masaridae (57 specimens, 9 species) mens there are still ten thousands of wasps ful candidate will work on • Megachilidae (1177 specimens, 198 in alcohol (e.g. from Northwest Germany Ceraphronoidea systematics, as species) and expeditions to Papua New Guinea part of a 4-year, U.S. NSF-fund- • Melittidae (188 specimens, 13 species) and Costa Rica) waiting for preparation ed project. More information • Methocidae (26 specimens, 1 species) and identification – Microhymenoptera in can be found at the following • Miscogasteridae (4 specimens, 2 spe- particular. If you are interested in getting websites: cies) further information on the collection, • Mutillidae (219 specimens, 39 species) visiting our museum, requesting a loan, http://deanslab.org (lab) • Myrmosidae (84 specimens, 2 species) or finding a place to deposit your (para-) • Myzinidae (12 specimens, 1 species) types and other material please drop me a https://sites.psu.edu/frost/ • Nyssonidae (1036 specimens, 45 spe- short line. (Frost Entomological Museum) cies) The most recent news, though about • Ormyridae (2 specimens, 1 species) odonates, might serve as a motivation for http://ento.psu.edu/ (Penn • Pamphiliidae (78 specimens, 10 spe- the study of “old museum specimens”: A State Entomology) cies) visiting scientist discovered in our collec- • Pemphredonidae (2036 specimens, 49 tion a series of odonates donated to the

7 Übersee-Museum ... Continued Parasitoid Systematics and Biology Symposium tat de Ciències Biològiques, Universitat de museum in 1875 by Baron Michel Edmond València. Spain. de Sélys Longchamps (1813–1900). The By: Andy Polaszek, Natural History Mu- provenance of the specimens was tracked seum, London, U.K. Building a database to assist identifica- based on the characteristic hand writing tion of synanthropic flies’ parasitoids using on the labels. Not only that series com- A half-day symposium entitled “Para- molecular and morphological data (Hyme- prises forgotten type specimens of nine sitoid Systematics and Biology” took place noptera: Chalcidoidea, Diaprioidea) species which have never been labeled as on Tuesday, 5th August 2014 as part of the Lucian Fusu, Ovidiu A. Popovici, Dascălu such but also some specimens collected 10th European Congress of Entomology M. Magdalena, Mircea D. Mitroiu by Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) and in York, U.K. The symposium was co- Faculty of Biology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892) (Seehau- organised and chaired by Lucian Fusu (Al University of Iasi, Romania sen 2014). At least someone wants to see I. Cuza University, Iasi, Romania) and An- that (old) museum stuff and I am glad that drew Polaszek (Natural History Museum, Instar-related development of Cales noacki, it was worth it. London). The following speakers presented a parasitoid of the whitefly Aleurothrixus Finally, this note was inspired by a simi- these papers (speaker underlined): floccosus lar article by Andy Deans providing a short overview of the Hymenoptera at the Frost Entomological Museum (Deans 2013). So why not take the chance to introduce some more collections in the next issues of Hamuli which are not so well known like the “big five”?! •

Left to right: Noel Mata-Casanova, Dan Gerling, Mar Ferrer-Suay, Lucian Fusu, Helmut Fritz van Emden, Andrew Polaszek, Ilari Sääksjärvi & Miriam Gurpegui.

Plenary paper: 15 years of studying Ama- Dan Gerling Department of Zoology, Tel zonian ichneumonids – how new tropical Aviv University, Israel studies affect the “anomalous” latitudinal diversity gradient of the family Morphological and molecular taxonomic Gosh! 1, 2 … 4 ocelli!!! What a weird wasp!!! Ilari E. Sääksjärvi, Zoological Museum, revision of Megaphragma (Hym: Tricho- (Photo: M. Haase, © Übersee-Museum University of Turku, Finland grammatidae) – among the world’s smallest Bremen). insects Presentation of the Interactive Charipinae Andrew Polaszek, Gennaro Viggiani, Lu- Worldwide Database (Hymenoptera: Cyni- cian Fusu References: poidea: Figitidae). Dept of Life Sciences, Natural History 1. Brues CT, Melander AL, Carpenter Mar Ferrer-Suay1*, Jesús Selfa2 & Juli Museum London, UK; Dipartimento di FM (1954) Classification of insects. Pujade-Villar1 Agraria Università degli Studi di Napoli Bulletin of the Museum of Compara- 1 Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de “Federico II”, Portici, ITALY; Faculty of Bi- tive Zoology 108. Biologia, Departament de Biologia Ani- ology, Al. I. Cuza University, Iasi, Romania 2. Deans A (2013) Hymenoptera at the mal. 2 Universitat de València, Facultat Frost Entomological Museum. Hamuli de Ciències Biològiques, Departament de Does the aphid parasitoid Aphidius cole- 4 (2): 22-23. Zoologia. Campus de Burjassot-Paterna. mani ‘immunise’ its progeny against the 3. Hohmann H (1980) Zur Geschichte toxic plant allelochemicals that they are der Entomologie in Bremen. Jahrbuch Current knowledge of the subfamily likely to encounter in their aphid host? der Wittheit zu Bremen 24: 121-152. Anacharitinae (Hymenoptera: Figitidae) in Helmut van Emden1, Sophia Douloumpa- 4. Seehausen M (2014) Forgotten Europe ka1, Panos Vamvatsikos2 and Jim Hardie2 duplicates from the Odonata collec- Noel Mata-Casanova1, Jesús Selfa2 and 1School of Biological Sciences, University tion of Edmond de Selys Longchamps Juli Pujade-Villar1. of Reading, UK rediscovered at the Übersee-Museum 1. Departament de Biologia Animal, Fac- 2Department of Life Sciences, Imperial Bremen (Germany). International ultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, College London, UK • Dragonfly Fund - Report 70: 1-15. Spain. 2. Departament de Zoologia, Facul-

8 After-Congress Collecting and planidia (active first-instar larvae), but were everywhere again. Now, back to the in the Kosñipata Valley no ant host (actually, virtually no ants at ants. Peanut-butter baits worked well on all). Of real interest as well was the finding the ground and we found our first slow By: John Heraty, University of California, of patches of extrafloral nectaries at the Pheidole coming to the night baits. We Riverside, USA bases of the leaves, which were similar to then tried some of the ant ‘tricks’ learned the EFN found on desert willow, a plant as- from the ant-course involving tracking Following the 8th Congress of the sociated with Orasema simulatrix in North trails with ground-up Keebler (https:// International Society of Hymenopterists America (cf. Carey et al. JHR 27: 47–65). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keebler_Company) in Cusco, Peru, we spent five days at the Also, the Myrcinaceae literature mentions pecan sandie cookies and some UV-flo- Wayqecha Biological Station (13° 10’ 38”S, the potential use of extrafloral nectaries by rescent powder. Eventually we got the ants 71° 36’ 16”W). The station is nestled into the plant to divert the ants’ attention away to “take the bait” and started narrowing in the hillside at about 2900m at the upper from the flowers, preventing their interfer- on the colony entrances, but the colonies reaches of the Kosñipata (or Cosñipata) ence with beneficial pollinators. Sounds were nestled in the dense ground thatch. River. The elevation of the station prop- great, but on that first Peru trip we did We skulked out a few sites and tried gently erty ranges from 2200 to 3700 m, and not find any potential hosts (Pheidole), or clearing the thatch to locate nest entrance, according to Wikipedia: “includes several in fact, any ants at all on the Myrsine. We but this just made the ants disappear. Andean ecosystems, such as montane tried tracking the ants with peanut butter Almost by accident, we ripped up some forests, elfin forests, montane scrub and baits both during the day and at night, but thatch at the base of a Myrsine plant, and high-Andean grassland (puna)”. A more no luck. lo and behold, not just Pheidole brood, general characterization would be high- Fast forward to July 2014 after the but also the first eucharitid pupa! A bit

Welcome to the cloud forest: Orasema systematists (Judith & Jason) with Misael, Judith, and Jason digging Pheidole brood from under a Myrsine. Myrsine. elevation cloud forest. The steep terrain congress. Our ‘eucharitid team’ consisted more ripping and we had two ant colonies, around the station and close vicinity of of Judith Herreid, Jason Mottern and plenty of brood and all of the eucharitid Manu National Park make this an ideal myself, all from UCR, and Misael Garate immature stages. Not bad for the first day collecting habitat. Of course, we were there (undergrad from Universidad Nacional of the trip. Sweet success - almost. for one primary reason—to collect the host de San Antonio Abad del Cusco). Moral Now on to the ant-plant association, of a new species of Orasema (Euchariti- support was provided by the Brits (Natalie and the real reason why I am writing this dae). On an earlier expedition in 2011 to Day-Sky, Gavin Broad and Andy Polas- article. We need some help and advice. the same station, we were able to collect zek), the Canadians (Barb Sharanowski, We have the ant host. We know where the these veritable monster Orasema (~4 mm) Miles Zhang, Patrick Piekarski), and the Orasema are laying their eggs (in punc- with patterned wings, and associate them Estonian (Marko Prous). We crossed the tures over the lower leaf surface). Females with the host plant Myrsine (Myrsinaceae), high Andes and the 4500 m pass into oviposit only into two plants, likely two which is a small tree-like shrub. On the the Kosñipata Valley with ease (no snow species of Myrsine. The common Myrsine previous trip in December, we noted that except in the distant mountain peaks). had numerous extrafloral nectaries (EFN) the leaves of virtually every Myrsine plant After a quick lunch with the hym crew at the base of each leaf, whereas the other from 2400 m to 3400 m were covered with headed to the Villa Carmen Biological species had only two large fluid-filled EFN egg punctures. Females deposit single eggs Station (300 m) and unpacking, we hit the at the base of the leaf. Living planidia that into egg punctures formed in the lower Perdiz trail for some afternoon collecting. had emerged were found at the base of leaf surface using their enlarged oviposi- It took all of about 15 minutes to collect the leaf near the EFN, but never toward tors, and oviposit in irregular parallel rows the first Orasema, removing the stress over the apex of the leaf and never far down on along the leaf. On that first trip, we were whether we could collect the same wasps the leaf stalk or plant stem. The planidia able to find lots of adults, egg punctures in the Andean winter. Egg punctures are not very active and making their way

9 Dr John Noyes, NHM London, will receive wasp genus Alophophion (Hymenop- the Distinguished Research Medal Award tera: Ichneumonidae: Ophioninae)” on the basis of his outstanding research • Candice Owen (Rhodes Univer- career: sity): “Wingless wasps in the water • John Noyes has published 90 articles -What?!?” and 10 monographs on Encyrtidae and Mymaridae 8th International Congress of Hy- Orasema (Eucharitidae) female on Myrsine; • He has published 3 books on Costa menopterists: 160+ participants from 28 photo courtesy of Steve Marshall. Rican Encyrtidae (1,662 pages). countries attended in the meeting. Presi- • He described about 1⁄4 of almost 4,000 dent Heraty thanked the local organiz- Kosñipata ... Continued species and 493 genera of Encyrtidae. ing committee, chaired by Frank Azorza • He developed the Universal Chalci- and Dr Erick Yabar, the members of the to the ground is not a likely option. Our doidea Database (>35,000 references). scientific committee chaired by Marcel problem is that we never found a single ant • He designed the “Noyes” sweep Hermes and Angélico Asenjo, the editor of on the plants. We peanut butter-baited the net – the standard net for collecting the conference book. Thanks are also due shrub canopy and swept the Myrsine, but microhymenoptera. to Lidia Sulca Garro and all volunteers for no ants. I think we got the odd Campono- • He added 400,000 mounted and taking care of the local organization. Eight tus, but never Pheidole. Pheidole were labelled specimens of Chalcidoidea to sponsors provided financial support (Bio- common on the ground peanut butter the NHM collection. quip, Bugdorm, CSIRO, Entomological baits, but non-existent above. The Pheidole It is planned to have the award ceremo- Society of America, Entosphinx, Pensoft were most active during the day, and less ny at the upcoming ISH business meet- and Princeton University Press). so at night, which is likely an adaptation to ing during the ESA meeting in Portland, Call for proposals for the next ISH the cold nighttime temperatures, but still, Oregon (16 Nov 2014). congress: The ISH executive has developed never on the plants going after the EFN. a set of new guidelines and deadlines for Seasonality would not seem to be a factor, Student travel award recipients: 19 sub- future ISH congresses: since the Orasema and the presence and missions for the ISH travel awards to Peru • announcement to membership by activity of the planidia was the same in De- were received. Six students were selected as email and through Hamuli cember (summer) and July (winter). What winners of the ISH travel awards: • 1-2 page proposal due January 1 fol- would make the Pheidole ‘choose’ to enter 1st prizes (1000 US$ plus registration lowing the congress to President and the Myrsine canopy and interact with the waiver): President-Elect (next proposals due EFN and the associated waiting planidia? • Rebecca Kittel (University of Ad- January 1, 2015) If anyone has any ideas to pass along, or is elaide): “Phylogenetics and biogeog- • proposals to include a brief outline of just looking for a great research question raphy of chelonine wasps (Hymenop- reasons for location (reasons for loca- to answer in the mountains of Peru, we tera: Braconidae) based on a fossil tion: unique location or long overdue, would be glad to hear from you! calibrated multigene analysis” access to a unique membership, loca- This research was sponsored in part by • Petr Jansta (Charles University, tion appeal, identification of a team of NSF DEB 1257733 grant to JMH. • Prague): “Molecular phylogeny and local organizers and support network, evolution of the family Torymidae potential venue, potential registration (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) - are and meeting costs, and opportuni- ISH Business Meeting Torymidae really monophyletic?” ties for fieldwork. All points are to be Minutes addressed. 2nd prizes (500 US$ plus registration • proposals will be evaluated by the By: Lars Krogmann, Staatliches Museum waiver): Executive Committee and requests for für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, German, with • Crystal McEwen (University of Mary- successful bidders to be returned by budget tables by Craig Brabant, University land): “Progress in the revision of February. of Wisconsin, USA Disholcaspis Dalla Torre and Kieffer” • successful bids would be required to • Bernardo Santos (American Museum submit a more complete bid by May These are the minutes of the ISH Busi- of Natural History): “On the road to a 30 that would include more details on ness meeting 8th International Congress of total evidence phylogeny of cryptine the hotels, room charges, registration Hymenopterists, Cusco, Peru July 25, 2014. wasps (Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae)” estimates and a business plan for the 64 members were in attendance. • Erika Tucker (University of Ken- meeting, post-congress activities such tucky): “An updated phylogenetic as collecting trips, and congress activi- 1. President report (John Heraty). analysis of Cremnops (Hymenoptera: ties such as visits to nearby natural ar- Braconidae) incorporating the mini- eas and tourist locations, archeological Election results ISH president: Dr barcode region of COI” or historical sites, etc. Andrew Polaszek, NHM London, has been • the successful bid will be evaluated elected as the incoming president. 3rd prizes (registration waiver): by the Executive Committee and an- • Mabel Alvarado (University of Kan- nounced by July 1 of the same year. Distinguished research medal results: sas): “Revision of the South American

10 Minutes ... Continued strategy might be necessary to gain interest Occasional special issues in JHR: in the future. • These could be on special topics (may Discussion: There is a brief discus- be “non-systematics“ topics to attract sion concerning the length of the ISH 4. Treasurers Report (on behalf of potential members from fields that are presidency (2 years). This means that the Craig Brabant): not well covered by ISH, yet). president who handles the applications • A “Young Taxonomist‘s Issue“ for for the upcoming ISH congress will not student members (may be our student be in charge during the congress. It also representative Rebecca could help becomes clear during the discussion that editing?). also in the future a rotation of continents • Review article about the history of will be preferred. ISH • Should also outline the mission of the 2. Editor’s Report (on behalf of Stefan society and the advantages of being a Schmidt) member. • Could be a task for the new archivist. Journal statistics: • Submissions, rejections, and number ISH Branding: We should link more of published articles remained more activities that already exist in our society or less stable since move to Pensoft in (e.g., Hymenoptera course, workshops) to 2011 ISH. • Initially 4, then 6 issues per year, including 1 special issue (monograph) ISH topics: We should try to attract ISH in 2013 members from fields, that are not well rep- • 6 issues expected in 2014, including 1 resented: e.g., pollination, ecology, social special issue insects. Or do we want to be a “systemat- • Manuscript turnover time from sub- ics-only” society? mission to publication decreased from 25 weeks in 2011 to about 17 weeks The balance of ISH will be around in 2014, mainly due to shorter time $6,500 USD by the end of 2014. See slides between submission and acceptance of business meeting for details on income • Submissions, rejections, and number and expenses https://ishare.ucr.edu/xytho- of published articles remained stable swfs/webui/_xy-4465811_1-t_O6jnXdrp since move to Pensoft in 2011 • Number of published pages has been Renewing: Members that have not and is still increasing renewed, now regularly receive individual • Number of colour plates increased reminders from the secretary. May be en- dramatically (no additional costs) able automatic renewals with PayPal. Pensoft about to launch a new edito- rial system Among other improve- Blog: The Blog is now open for every- ments, authors may suggest reviewers one. Members can become contributors or during the submission process send content to ISH officers.

Discussion: A discount for publication Membership listserver: From now on we costs of student papers would be desirable. will maintain 2 types of lists: The layout of the journal artificially inflates • One list that comprises only the cur- the page numbers. Pensoft seems to object 5. Secretary’s report (Lars Krogmann) rent members (i.e. those that have to a larger page format. The 5 year contract renewed). with Pensoft ends in 2016. The new ISH The number of ISH members show a • One list that comprises also the list of executive under incoming president Jim very positive trend. In 2014 ISH has 285 members that have not renewed for Whitfield will prepare a document with members (191 regular, 73 student, 12 life). the current year. suggestions to send to Lyubomir Penev. This is a plus of 98 members. The reasons • Only current members will receive for the membership increase are the ISH hamuli. Past members will still receive 3. Endowment Report (Jim Woolley) congress and probably also the increase of renewal reminders. reminder letters. However, 13% of former The total of the ISH endowment funds ISH members (36 in total) have still not Sponsorship: Should ISH sponsor meet- is $70,130.21 USD ($70,130.21 savings, renewed for 2014. ings such as ECN? $15,364.68 time account). Currently A few suggestions from the webmas- the endowment funds do not create any ter, treasurer and secretary are put up for 6. Student and Young professional’s interest rate. A slightly less risk-conserved discussion: report (Rebecca Kittel)

11 8th International Congress of Hymenopterists. Photo (and Photoshopping) by Petr Janšta.

Minutes ... Continued ISH members at: the Braconid Manual and having Spanish http://www.flickr.com/photos/hy- and English PDF versions that are OCR Tasks: organization of student meetings menopterists/ readable and comprise hyperlinks. at conferences. Future: poll what students A list of recently passed ISH members want, e.g. webinars/ online meetings The ISH website becomes increasingly will be published in Hamuli. The following Who wants to be the next Student rep? popular with hits from most countries of will be included: Dr Fred Gess, Dr Alan Interested students should send one page the world. The website should get a new Hook, Dr Klaus Horstmann, Dr Charles motivation letter, including goals, CV, look and should be part of a professional Porter. and supporting letter from supervisor by management site (groupspaces). The costs August 31, executive Members will make a would be $19.99/month. It is agreed to John Heraty will stay as Past President decision by October, position will com- have the website managed by groupspaces. in the ISH executive and welcomes Jim mence in November (during ESA). Whitfield as current ISH president. Jim 8. New business Whitfield thanks John for his great presi- 7. Webmaster report (Katja Seltmann) dency, which included the organization of ISH should have an archivist position, the successful Cusco meeting, and closes Photos of this and previous ISH con- which will be advertised by the executive. the ISH business meeting. • gresses can be uploaded and shared among Barbara Sharanowski suggests digitizing

Postgrad corner

By: Rebecca Kittel, University of Adelaide, South Australia

During the registration on the first night of the ISH conference in Cusco, Peru, about 15 students gathered for a small get- together. This time, it was easier to choose a spot (compared to the inaugural student meeting in Austin, Texas), and we settled in the bar area of the conference venue. Photo of braconid team (back row, left to right): Dave Karlsson, Julia Stigenberg, Miles Zhang, After a short introduction we talked about Mike Sharkey, Erika Tucker, Andrew Polaszek, Eduardo Shimbori. (front row, left to right) Lidia how to make the most of a conference, as Sulca, Alejandro Zaldívar-Riverón, Sian de Souza Gadelha, Barbara Sharanowski, Rebecca Kittel, it was the first conference for some of the Jim Whitfield, Silvia Gutierrez., Carolina da Silva e Souza. students. Many shared their experiences with previous conferences and described

12 Postgrad ... Continued what to expect. It was also a great opportunity to network with the colleagues-to- be and talk about ants, bees, and wasps. I hope there will be more of these meetings coming in the future! But this will be part of the next student rep, as I will be step- ping down from my student rep position. I am looking forward to many applications and to meet my successor. This student meeting was kindly supported by the ISH, which should motivate my successor and other student members to organise more meetings. Unfortunately (or fortunately) at the end of the student meeting, everyone was so busy networking and deciding on dinner plans, that we missed a chance to take a hymenopterists-in-training group photo. But the postgrads were not the only people geeking out during the conference, everyone else was as well. Thus, workers on most major taxa had exclusive dinners, like the ichneumonid, the chalcidoid, the aculeate, or the braconid people. Cheers to Dr. John S. Noyes, Natural History Museum, London, England future collaboration! • well illustrated, and he was one of the first reach, he is also a superb teacher and a leg- to use digital imaging in his publications to endary collector. Several of us have spent Dr. John S. Noyes Awarded better illustrate the taxa. Not one to ignore many hours with him in the field collecting the 2014 Distinguished new technologies, John demonstrated in parasitoids. He is always ready to help out, Research Medal 2003 the possibility of extracting DNA coach and offer constructive opinions on from the smallest known insects non-de- how to sort, collect, and curate insects. He By: John Heraty, University of California, structively, leaving the insect intact so that is proud of his specialized screen-sweep Riverside, USA the primary voucher could be directly card net, and he was able to amalgamate all of or slide-mounted. his experience and thoughts in a seminal John Noyes has been awarded the 2014 Beyond his revisionary and descriptive paper in 1982. Although his opportunities Distinguished Research Medal from the studies, John has invested an incredible to direct graduate students have been lim- International Society of Hymenopterists. amount of time and effort into the Univer- ited, no graduate program in chalcidology This medal is awarded every 2–4 years by sal Chalcidoidea Database. What began as is complete without a pilgrimage to work the Society to a scientist that has made a card catalog at the Natural History Mu- with John in London. He is a true educator outstanding contributions to research on seum became a lifetime obsession. In 1998, in the classic sense. Hymenoptera, over a lifetime of work. he published a CD-ROM version of the The Society congratulates John on his Over his career, John has published more database, which is based on over 35,000 outstanding and productive career! • than 90 publications. Of these, 10 are references. An updated version of this was monographic treatments of Encyrtidae and published in 2002 and then almost imme- Mymaridae of greater than 50 pages. Three diately after that, an on-line web version. of his books on Costa Rican Encyrtidae Summarizing all of the taxonomic, host (2000, 2004 and 2010) alone total 1662 and geographic data for Chalcidoidea, this pages! Over his career, John has almost single achievement makes available all of single-handedly put the systematics of this information to researchers worldwide. Encyrtidae on a solid foundation, includ- It has quite literally transformed the field ing keys to genera for most areas of the of Chalcidology. Beyond these accomplish- world. Recently he has turned to a series ments, John is making strides in single- of monographs on the Encyrtidae of Costa handedly making high-resolution PDFs Rica that are a milestone in the study of of all of the relevant literature. Incredibly, tropical biodiversity. John has described all of this information is being made freely about one quarter of the almost 4000 spe- available. Encyrtid ovipositing. Photo by Gail Hampshire cies and 493 genera now used in Encyrti- While the above accomplishments attest (CC BY 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/mCABfk dae! John’s publications are meticulous and to John’s contributions to research and out-

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