CHRYSOMELA newsletter Dedicated to information about the Chrysomelidae Report No. 53 November 2011 Inside This Issue ECE Leaf Beetle Symposium 2- Editor’s page, submissions Budapest, Hungary, 2010 2- New Italian journal international meetings 3- ECE Leaf beetle symposium 5- Visit to Paris museum 7- In memoriam - Sandro Ruffo 9- Chrysomelid questionnaire 10- Padre Moure and young scientists 10- In Memoriam - Renato Contin Marinoni 11- Memories of Padre Moure 12- Research on Chrysomelidae volume 3 12 - Beutelsbach meeting, Germany 2010 13- First visit to USNM 14- Spawn of Wilcox: Shawn Clark 16- Central European chryso meeting 17- New Literature 19- New journal announcement 23- E-mail list Fig. 1. The chrysomelid group meets for fine dining on Research Activities Hungarian cuisine, European Congress of Entomology (story, page 3) Jose Lencina (Spain), Universidad de Murcia, is studying systematics and biogeography of Chrysomelidae and the Iberian Peninsula fauna. Visit to Paris Museum Matteo Montagna (Italy) completed his degree in AgroEnvironmental Science, University of Milan (2010; Mentors Davide Sassi and Renato Regalin) and is seeking Ph.D. positions. He studies taxonomy, biogeography and molecular systematics of Coleoptera, particularly Chrysomelidae. Current works include an ecological study of Chrysomelidae around lakes in the Alta Brianza (Como/ Lecco, Lombardia), the taxonomy of Italian’s species of Galeruca, a Cerambycidae catalogue of Val Camonica, and molecular techniques in Prof. Bandi’s lab, Milan. Ghazala Rizvi (Pakistan) studies chrysomelid beetles associated with fruit trees in Pakistan, including Azad Kashmir (northern areas). He is paraticularly interested in Galerucinae, but writes widely on many things including mangroves and ants. Haruki Suenaga (Japan), a student in the Entomo- logical Laboratory, Ehime Univ, is studying the taxonomy Fig. 2. From left to right: Hélène Perrin, Wills of Chrysomelidae. He is also interested in the morphol- Flowers, Manuel Pescador (story, page 5). ogy and phylogenetics of Cassidinae larvae. The Editor’s Page International Date Book Dear Chrysomelid Colleagues: 2011 Entomological Society of America I hope you enjoy reading these pages that reflect the annual meeting, Reno, Nevada year of activities of our chrysomelid community. I thank 2012 our Brazilian, German, and U.S. colleagues for major Aug International Congress of Entomology, S. Korea: contributions that ensure we have a newsletter. 8th International Symposium on Chrysomelidae The ECE meeting was great fun for me personally to Oct Central European Chrysomelid group meet so many colleagues that I knew only through Nov Entomological Society of America correspondence. I will look forward to meeting many more annual meeting, Knoxville, Tennesee of you at the ICE meeting in South Korea next summer. 2013 This issue contains several memorials of great Oct Central European Chrysomelid group colleagues and teachers who have passed away in the Nov Entomological Society of America last year. We must welcome new workers, like Marianna, annual meeting, Austin, Texas Choru, and Yoko who are taking up chrysomelids. We 2014 wish them long careers to leave their own distinct mark on this field. Aug European Congress of Entomology, York, UK Thanks to Michael Schmitt for editing the mailing Oct Central European Chrysomelid group list. If some colleagues are missing, it is because their Nov Entomological Society of America last e-mail address did not work, and they have not annual meeting, Portland, Oregon offered current addresses. Please alert them to contact me. 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Submission Deadlines: approximately May 1 for the June issue; approximately November 1 for the December issue Italian Journal Alert In the event of too few submissions, issues will be Giornale Italiano di Entomologia is new and has a BLOG: consolidated into a single annual publication. http://giornaleitalianodientomologia.blogspot.com The Newsletter CHRYSOMELA-Founded 1979-is published semiannully, usually in June and December. It is hosted by the Division of Entomology, 1501 Crestline Drive, Suite 140, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA, 66049-2811. E-mail: [email protected]. This newsletter is sent to students of Chrysomelidae to encourage the exchange of ideas and to disseminate information on these insects. Editor: Caroline S. Chaboo, Lawrence. Advisors: David Furth, Washington; Vivian Flinte, Rio de Janeiro; R. Wills Flowers, Tallahassee; Elizabeth Grobbelaar, Pretoria; Pierre Jolivet, Paris; Alex Konstantinov, Washington; Michael Schmitt, Greifswald; and Terry N. Seeno, Sacramento. 2 CHRYSOMELA 53, 2011 The Leaf Beetle Symposium of Budapest, Hungary, in 2010 Theo Michael Schmitt (Greifswald) From August 22 to 27, by Mark K. Schutze (Fig. 5), 2010, the 9th European co-authored by Anthony R. Congress of Entomology was Clarke (Brisbane, Australia) on held in Budapest, Hungary, in “A converse Bergmann cline the Europa Congress Center in an Australian eucalypt (Fig.1), on the Buda side of pest: Paropsis atomaria the city, about 5 km east of Olivier”. In this species, the river Danube. On Mon- smaller adults are found at day, a one-day symposium on lower latitudes, which the Chrysomelidae was organized authors interpret as an by Károly Vig and Michael adaptation to season length. Schmitt. Eduard Petitpierre 1 The second part of the (Fig.2) from Mallorca session was opened (Spain) gave the first talk by Gerd Gäde (Fig. 6, on “Cytogenetics, Cape Town, South cytotaxonomy and Africa) with his talk chromosomal evolution on “Peptides of the of chrysomelinae adipokinetic hor- revisited”, in a way a mone family in summary of his scientific Chrysomeloidea”, in activities over the past 2 5 which it turned out 40 years, as he was that the chemical going to retire the same structure of these year. He was followed peptides differs by Caroline Chaboo between (Fig. 3, Lawrence, Cerambycidae and Kansas, U.S.A.) who Chrysomelidae, so spoke about “The that possibly a natural history and phylogenetic signal evolution of can be detected in subsociality and 3 6 the distribution of defensive fecal con- 4 7 these compounds structions in leaf among the taxa. Yoko beetles”. Her talk was Matsumura (Fig. 7), spiced with spectacular coauthored by photographs of beetles, Kazunori Yoshizawa especially tortoise leaf (Hokkaido Univer- beetles, in the field. sity, Japan) dis- Next was Pierre Jolivet cussed the “Evolu- (Fig. 4, Paris, France), tionary origin of the whose presentation elongated genitalia “Reflexions on Fig. 1. Venue of the European Congress of Entomology; Fig. 2. in the leaf beetle cycloalexy among Eduard Petitpierre; Fig. 3. Caroline Chaboo; Fig. 4. Pierre Jolivet; subfamily Chrysomelidae” was Fig. 5. Mark K. Schutze; Fig. 6. Gerd Gäde; and Fig. 7. Yoko Criocerinae”, co-authored by Krishna Matsumura. reaching the K. Verma (Borsi, India). conclusion that an From this lecture we elongation of certain parts of the genitalia evolved three learned that in quite a times independently within this subfamily. Michael Schmitt 3 number of species feeding of the larvae is not just an (Greifswald, Germany), jointly with Thomas Rönn (Bonn, individual uptake of food, but rather a socially organized Germany), reported on 13 “Types of geographical distribu- behaviour. The last talk before the coffee break was given tion of leaf beetles in Central Europe”. The round of leaf 3 CHRYSOMELA 53, 2011 Continued from previous page Budapest, where nearly all of the day’s speakers plus some beetle talks was closed by Károly Vig’s (Fig. 8, most welcome guests met for a great Hungarian meal in a Szombathely, Hungary) lecture on “Károly Sajó’s pioneer- wonderful